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LJNO. .)()." ^ : UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MCKMBKR -?. I!MM. ^ ^ ^ ^ \ ' .; W .*iW / --- ?5 Qu/CKLY WE 1 People/sometimes dreac is singly because they the csstoms of busines; embc/rassment quick! thos? who deal at this to h?ve it so; we want easy and at home. Wm. fl. KIGHQLSfi? ? ?' : ' ?3?BMBWIiFWV.WVVU FORTY HOURS IN R DUNGEON. A Thrilling Story of the fc- Capture, Imprisonment and Treatment of a Confederate Soldier. tBy B. M. Hord, in "Confeder,e Veteran," reproduced in The MES by request of William enlace Chapter U. D. C. j (Continue'cTTrom last I Dart was the name of our post* J: , sutler. He was a kind-hearted I fellow, had made many friends among the prisoners before JohnJ son began his starving process I and stopped us from trading with I us, but now he was permitted to resume business with the recruits y in the "calf pen," and frequently numbers of us would gather along this space, as near the dead line as we dared get, to await the arrival of Dart's wagon with supplies for the recruits just to catch a glimpse and get a whiff of the odor of fresh bread, meats and pies as they passed from one gate to the other. Ah, the odo* of those pies! I will carry to my rv/1 ^lavc men uuwi. Dart had a dog that would sometimes follow his wagon into the prison. We were assembled one evening, "as usual, to smell the pies and things, when the front gate swung open and Dart drove in; the dog came in also. The best of us, man or beast, sometimes make mistakes. . Dart and his dog were not exceptions. In allowing the dog to follow him was Dart's mistake. The wagon stopped a moment in our midst . for the sentry to open the gate ' to the "calf pen;" the dog took I position midway beneath the R wagon?wise dog; a wink, a significant nod at the dog passsed Jtt between a halt dozen prisoners; two stepped around on the opposite side of the wagon, and unob'8 fA?erved- made a Pass at the dog; 'rathjlhe dog instinctively dodged to - J&nc other side?this was his mistaiw He didn't understand the advantage of a flank movement. In an instant a bony, brown hand had him by the back of his neck and another clutched his throat; he was tucked under the skirt of a long-tailed coat, and a moment later three men, walking closely together as if to conceal something from the crowd behind them, disappeared around the O corner of the nearest barrack. I wish to state emphatically that I did not catch Dart's dog, neither did I tack the skin to the big oak tree in the main avenue that was found there next morning with a note attached, requesting some one to "send in another dog," but I've always conscientiously felt I was indebted to Dart for the hind quarter of a dog. My bunk mate, Charlie Goodwin, however, had no conscientious scruples about it. He thought the fruit was overripe?that if it had been pulled greener, say in tne puppy stage, it would have been more palatable. But Charlie was a bit fastidious. Ife was head clerk in a confectionary establishment Memphis, Tenn., when / War began, accustomed to jflPr? bonbons, fancy candies, ^^HpCakes to ladies, and naturally /^KT taste had become more or '^less vitiated for the substantial \ of life. Having sampled the regular prison fare for more than ten months, with suoh side dishes as I could get, as our rations contracted the price of rats expanded until one could not be had for love or money, I determined to make another effort to relieve :ARS AWAY. j J to enter a bank; this | arc not familiar with | s. But this feeling of g y wears away with | bank; at least we try | every customer to feel | 3 8 S9M, Bankers. | : mm . ........ , j Uncle Sam of any further exr.ense on my account. I had been engaged in two unsuccessful at- , tempts to tunnel out, and I knew , a negro too well to trust him a ! bribe, for three comrades that J ! knew were shot and killed by the !: negro sentinels at night after the , villains had accepted cash bribes, ( so I denided 1 waiiIH moi/n i ? ? ? ?. ?f VUIVA 1 i lev CI IC j 1 attempt disguised as a Yankee. | Every morning afker roll call a ' detail or six prisoners from each j barrack was made to carry out i, the slop barrels through a little j' side gate, escorted by a Yankee j '.guard, empty the barrels in the ri^er, and return to the prison. , MyMtiea was, disguised in a Yan-' kee uniform, with a citizen's! suit underneath, to take charge , of a detail, march out with it, ( discard my uniform as soon as , possible when safely outside, and : in citizens clothes the greatest I danger would be past. The prison was constantly searched ( for contraband articles, especially .Yankee clothes.. I had managed to keep concealed a Yankee < blouse and cap, but had no pants, i no pisto\, attno scabbard, $hese . last werdtStenapessafy as "the pants, fowBSgraards ! qubfcid tolWHrpisfote wh#n Thay < rarr^in t hdUfrbritl Yan"?| ] keedSW^'wIref^Taptu^ed, which had not been taken from me, ; and the pistol and scabbard I : soon provided. A thick piece of ! I pine board furnished the material i nilt' of urVlinli T iwUitfl/iJ ?? ...^..-..1 I vmv nmvii 1 v? iiniicu ti );ouu , imitation handle of a pistol, i which I stained with ink and glazed over with a lead pencil to give it the appearance of steel. The scabbard I made from the knee flaps of my cavalry boots, a ! fine Yankee pair that my best j girl had smuggled out of Helena, Ark., for me under her hoop , skirt just before our fight there;!, but it was a month later before I , secured the pants. 1 was stand- ' ing one morning near the main entrance when a two-horse ; wagon, loaded with coal and driven by a green-looking Dutchman, came in. The driver's big blue Yankee overcoat was lying , back on the coal, and I determined to have it. While he was fumbling- in his pockets to find the ticket showing: the number of barrack that had made requisition for the fuel, I advanced ! and roughly asked what had de- 1 tained him, that I had been waiting an hour for the coal; taking his ticket and signing my seargeant's name to it, I mounted the ( wagon and directed him to my barrack, number twenty-four, on the far side of the prison. Throwing the coat on the wheel horse as I jumped down, I bade him wait and I would have his wagon unloaded. I went in, informed my sergeant, John Smith - John Rodgers was his real name, but he belonged to Quantrell's command, and had this been known his life would not have been worth a day's rations ?of my intentions, and asked | that he send out a detail to uir i load the coal. I then posted two | or three of my friends, and, while i the men were unloading the I wagon, they were attracting the driver's attention on the far side ! from me by urging him to buy ' trinkets they had made out of shell, bone, etc. Unobserved I jsnppea ine coai under my overcoat, carried it into my barrack, lifted up a loose plank in the door, dropped it underneath, and went back to watch developments. Of course the Dutchman missed his coat when he started to drive away, and appealed to the sergeant, who called up the men; all declared there was no coat on the wagon- in truth, they had not noticed it. Then the Dutchman got mad, and they \ began to come back at him with unbiblical language. Being in the midst of five or six thousand half-starved rebels, he curbed his tongue; but within twenty minutes after he drove out the! bugle sounded the assembly, and j the entire prison was searched, : though without results. Two! nights afterwards, when all was , quiet, the coat was ripped up,! washed in our cooking kettle. : wrung out dry as possible, the j pieces placed smoothly over the ; planks in the bottom of my bunk, j my oilcloth over them, my i blanket over that,.and my bunk ! mate and I slept On them for a | week (no patent for either washing or ironing on this p&rt was applied for). I took thc-m out at night and, rpping up an old pair of my pants, placed the pieces over the blue cloth on our kitchen table, cut out the pants with my pocket knife, and in thieeor four nignts hart them made. No slouch of a job was it, either, considering it was my first pair made without thimble or scissors, and much of the thread drawn from my old pants. All tne work had to be done secretly with a shaded light at night,, for the , prison was full of spies, hut ftt last I was ready for business. Next morriing at roll call my sergeant reported me sick; and when the Yankee sergeant came in to verify the report, he found me in my bunk with a blanket drawn close up under my chin, suffering from a severe chill (?), but a moment later when the bugle sounded break ranks 1 threw off the blanket, sprang out of my bunk in Yankee, uniform, the butt of my pistol showing bravely in the scabbard belted under my blouse- allwhich I expected to discary^ soon as I was at a safe distance outside, foj the citizen suit I. had on ^ivderjieath. Passing out the btfek door of our banrack as the rfi^h came in fhe f*onl, JLsotfV found a squad (six' three barrels) waiting ntf * a Federal guard to escort them out. Assuming authority, I ordered them to take up the barrels and move forward. We had to march to the far side of the prison, and when we arrived at the little side gate found all the scavenger force in line, the first squad standing at the edge of the dead line, the others extending back in the prison probably a hundred yards. Glancing from under the visor of my cap, I saw the officer of the day on the parapet directly over the gate, a negro sentinel on either sitle, watching the liiip fnvm Hp pnllafl mo ao T came up, asking if I was the last. Replying that I was, he ordered the guard below to open the gate, and we began to pass out. Up to this time it had been nothing but pure bluff on my part, but as we moved toward the dead line my nerve began to leave me. From the furtive glances I gave from time to time at the officer and sentinels I imagined they were giving me special attention, and the nearer I approached the greater became my fear that I had been betrayed or they had penetrated my disguise and were only waiting for me to step over the dead line to shoot. Had it been a dash or rush with other comrades, I could have taken my chance with the Knn/?lo Imf nnltr ai-*a of o 4 I ^ Munvii, win/ v/nijr uuc at a tunc could pass out of the narrow prate, and to be slowly moving up foot by foot to a line that I knew was certain death to cross, with j two negro guards watching1 mo; and anxious to shoot, sent a ting- j ling sensation downrriy back and a sharp pain in my jaws, as if I had bitten a sour pickle. A j dozen times I was tempted to spring behind a barrack before they could shoot, and give up the attempt, but it was too late now. I was within ten feet of the line, and the least wavering or false step would confirm their suspicions if tliov b:td ;mv nml rv>?\. tainly draw their fire; so, pulling myself together as; best I could, ] 1 stepped over with my men, j marched them out the gate, and j saw, for the first time in ten months outside of a prison wall, the broad Mississippi and the city of Davenport beyond. (Continued next week.) WHY ITALIAN COLONIES FAIL. Agriculturally, They are of LIHIe Benefit to the South. The recommendation recently made by the Italian commercial agent at Washington to the It'll- ! ian Emigration Commission that! colinization societies be formed | in order to check the massing ot' i Italians in American cities and | aid their transformation into' landed proprietors has caused the ] former ambassador to this conn j try, Baron Severio Fava, to break j silence as to previous efforts in ' this direction, and the causes oft their failure. The Nuova Anto- j logia (Rome) presents his ravelations and views in an artiel > I entitled "Italian Agricultural I Colonies in North America." Baron Fava says that voluminous records in the embassy at' Washington will show that ha I called attention to the need and proposed similar remedies as far back as J883. He deemed it necessary to establish a bureau for the protection of emigrants arriving in America, with a labor bureau attached. He intended to establish this by means of a fund of eight thousand dollars, offered by the banker Cantoni. with the use of certain premises; a legacy left by Mr. Massa. twelve hundred dollars allotted by Minister Crispi, and the formation of a society whose members should give gratuitous services and monthly dues. The leaders of the New York Italian colony, however, failed to give the promised aid, in spite of their having met twice with the ambassador to agree on terms. The ambassador, therefore, presented his wishes to the then Secretary of the Treasury, Carlisle, and gained his hearty assistance. He .gave the Jireeuse of a large hall on Ellis,all details had been" arranged, the bureau was placed in charge of Cavaliere Egisto Rossi, under the immediate direction of the ambassador. It cost J:he Italian Government $6,000 a year, even with the Massa legacy. It protected the emigrant from all kinds of extortion and exploitation, and guided him through the difficulties of first, experience in a strange land. The labor bureau was not founded because the Italian Government refused the necessary funds, and did not even authorize the acceptance of twelve hundred dollars yearly, offered by the American banker, Mr. Corbin, for this purpose. The success of the Italian bureau of protection had aroused j other countries, and Austria. 1 Hungary asked permission to es- j tablish a similar bureau, but was1 refused. Other demands were made, and when the Ellis Island buildings were destroyed by fire the regulation was made that, foreign bureaus might be established on Ellis Island, but not in the federal buildings, as the Ital- j ian office had been for six years. After mentioning the great success of the Irish, German, i Scandinavian, and Swiss labor1 uuieciuo III 1'icii.Jii^; Cin tr> UII land by taking advantage of the homestead laws, Baron Fava considers the question of whether Italian emigrants will lend themselves to such operations. The first condition must be that tlie emigrants go to America intending to remain. IIow many Italians have such intention, he asks. They are so sure to return to their native soil when they have accumulated a little that Americans call them "birds of passage." Under such conditions, what Italian-American or American capitalists would undertake to form Italian colonies? The Italians of the "colony" at Vineland, N. J., started a quarter of n /invitn m r /iK ! <i tcniiujr a^u kjy v/avaiiuiu oliuiii di Casale, founder of the Eco d' Italia, do not possess an inch of soil. The so-called colony at Asti, Cal., founded with bonds of small denomination mostly acquired by Italian-Swiss, had to be transformed into a capitalists' enterprise because the peasants refused to become partners and preferred receiving wages to be: coming landowners. Finally, the colony at Lodi, Cal., has been too recently founded by Mr. Ghigliera to predict results, es IF. Al. FARR, President. T I Merchants and Plai Successfully Doing Busi R is th('OI,l)KST Hunk in f U lltlK II OUI'ill'i III I ^'lll'lll '?? D H is 1!i:? oil' v N\TI< ?N A <. ? HI kits |?if<l ill vidctitls in M H I ays For it |if>r ocut. S R ffl is ilu-mily Hunk in I'ni y n M '"is liiii'trlur i't'ouf vuiil H w |>tt.V8 imirc tu.vi's tkuu \ y WE EARNESTLY SOL pecially as the peasants have required the stipulation that they may seek work elsewhere during the six months of slack work in vine culture. PROSPECT OF FUTURE COLONIZATION SOCIETIES. Certainly, there are among the Italian-Americans many who might, subscribe funds to coloni~?cieties, properly so caue't,- out who of them, after having gained a competence by hard work, is going to risk loss by founding societies based on the work of peasants who refuse peremptorily to discount the purchase of land with agricultural labor, but demand, instead, immediate pay? As for societies founded with exclusively American capital, facts speak louder than theories. II ? recounts the history of "Sunny Side," the cotton plantation of Mr. Corbin, on which he attempted to establish an ideal It dian colony, aided by the ambassador and Hon Emanuele Ruspole, then syndic of Rome. The plan iucluded a subdivided tract, with houses and complete outfits furnished, artesian wells, school, lioarary, church and savingsbank, narrow-gauge railway and co Ton press. After twenty years, ttye colonists we~~ be-, ?ome~-proprietary of thpir piots, > and the plantation buildings were to be common property of the whole colony. Fifty or sixty families were brought from Italy at the expense of Mr. Corbin. They went to work and were paid the wages agreed. All promised well. Trustworthy persons were sent by both Mr. Corbin and the ambassador to satisfy all just demands. Very soon, for no valid reason, after getting their pay, the colonists began to disband gradually, drawn by the fatal allurement of quick profit to the great cities. In the present state of things, Baron Fava thinks, it will not be, easy to found real colonization societies in this country, with either Italian or American capital. He thinks it possible that Brazil and Argentina, with climate, language, and customs more in harmony with those of Italy, might offer more encouragement of success for the proposed colonization societies. Review of Reviews. o Crowding Out Negroes. Referring to the movement of Italians to the South, the Minneapolis Journal, which tries to take a broad view of Southern conditions, shows how far astray good intentions may go when it says: "What will be the result of crowding the negro out of the agricultural-labor market by the introduction of a white laboring class? So far, it is said that the Italians on the plantations get along peaceably beside the negro and have little to do with them, but if the displacement develops into what the planters expect it will, and the negroes crowd excessively into the cities, there is no doubt that the negro question will afllict the Southern people in a still more acute form. There is danger, indeed, that a new l'a^i'jl w ill 11!i t?l\r velop between the Latin and negro races. In getting rid of negro labor on the plantations the South will have another race to deal with, which has a tendency to combination and a tendency to acquire land, and which may prove more intractable than the long-suffering negro." Indeed, the Journal answers its own proposition about "crowding the negro out of the agricultural ????' I MWMMMW?WMMR J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. g J? E % h iters National Bank, | ness at the "Old Stand." ''' I'nion, x ot $l<X),0m. liauU in 1 *iii?>11, g omit i ltf to V-IWSOO. ft! illtrrrst oil ili'pnslts, on insiH i ti cl 11v mi olticor, i t, mill . site with Time- Look, 1.1, tin; It:i:ikin Union oomblnod. Eft ICST YOUR BUSINESS. | labor market bv the introduction of the white laboring class," when it sneaks in the same editorial of the drift of negro labor to cities and towns, its growing inefficiency in agriculture and the losses in the cotton-picking season because of deficiency of workers; to the better work done by Italians, ihe economies practiced by them and their tendency to buy farms as rapidly as they are able. K there is any crowding out of the negroes from agriculture they alone are responsible for it. Thousands have undoubtedly left farms because of higher wages obtainable in railroad construction, mining, lumbering, cotton-seed manufacture and other industries, and other thousands have drifted to towns and cities under the spur of the natural instinct to live with the least exertion*. Instead of being crowded out the "longsuffering negro" has beeilun demand by whites who. for ?* <ra?_ oration or more, have, in the absence ol' anything bettfer^ been obliged to put up with^feor constantly tending to grtfflAe^tinefliciency under the infttfjimce of misguiding educatiorial^wiethods. The incoming to the,^outh of and purpose to becomdrL^d-owners at their earliest dTOortunitx^----,,-^,?,^N is a blearing. ITnles^xne iWve-^ ment of 6j?Southern ' cities and towns dn tlheir way to the North and West is not checked. their places in the field will be permanently tilled by whites, the more desirable because they will not be content to occupy for long the dependent status which satisfies the average negro. In 25 or 50 years, according to circumstances, there may come a time when the negroes in some localities may begin to feel the competition of the more thrifty and more ambitious new-comers. Whether the negroes will then be crowded out will depend entirely upon the negroes themselves. Growing GM Gracefully. No woman, whatever her age, should be blamed for wishing to look her best; indeed, I think she deserves blame if she does nnt There are few things which age a woman more than an indifference to her personal appearance, whether of body or raiment. The daintily and becomingly dressed mother, sister, sweetheart or wife, with pretty complexion and glossy hair, is accorded far more respect and admiration than is ever given to the one in ill-fitting black gowns, with frosty hair I and sallow complexion, and few things add move to the charms al' n t ^ 1: w ?>, iiuumii man <l leflinfj Ol "looking1 well" to her friends. As the years come, a woman should take more and more care of her "locks;" for her duties should grow less and loss onerous as her family cares grow fewer, and she should not scruple to employ &7v aids of (he toilet which she Hn Is benefit her. It is said that "happiness may depend upon the hade chosen for a dinner dress or the set of a hat," even though the hair may he tinged with grey: the woman past forty needs all (he help she can get from dress, and the one .past fifty needs it still more. jWhen "age" becomes an aeiknov/ledged fact, richness and elegance of material and plaini nessof cut and making should be jthe rule, and if rich material er.nnnt bo ntTnrilo/1 ir. ,.*:n , ww., i?iv.ic id nun j neatness and pood-fitting to be had, and becoming colors should always be regarded.?Let us "grow old gracefully."