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VOLUME XXIV. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1U86^ ~ ' " NUMBER 44.
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AX EXQUISITE BALIA3)
The very beautifal verses, subjected, were
-writien by Mr. Joseph Brennan, one of tlie
most gifted y?ung Irishmen^ that ever plunged
imto so abortive a revoln'ion as was that of
1848 ? Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Come to me darling. I'm lonely without thee,
? ?;__ ? ?J > ?'ma T'm HnntTitr?rr oVinnf
A/ivy tliUO Wiu initio uuit: x in uirminu^
thee.
Night time and day time in dreams I beholdtime:
Unwelcome the waking that c< ases to fold tliee:
Oome to me my darl tig. my sorrows to lighten:
orne in thy beauty t? bless and to lighten;
Tome in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly.
Cnme iu thy lovingtiess, queenly and holy.
I
Swallows .-dull fl t round the desolate ruin,
"Telling of Spring and its joyous renewing:
At.d thoughts ofthv iove and itsinanifest irtasure,
Are circling my heart with the promise of pleasure;
Oh ! spring of my spirit! Oh, May of my bosom,
Shine out on my soul till it burgeon and blossom
The waste of my life has a rare root within it, *
And thy fondness alone to the sunlight can |
win it.
Figure which moves like a song through the
even,
Features lit up with a reflex ot heaven,
Eyes like the skies of poor Erin, our mother.
Where sunshine and shadows are chasing each
oilier;
Smiles coming seldom, hut childlike and simple,
A nd opening their eyes from the heart of u
dimple,
Oli! tlianks to the Saviour that even the seenting
Is leli t?> the exile to brighten his dreaming
You h..\v lx-en glad when you knew I was
Afhlelird?
l?ear,^Re you sad to hear that I am saddened. !
Our li arts ever answer in tune and in time,
"love,
>.3 octave to octave, or rhyme until rhyme,
love,
I -cannot smile, but your cheeks will he glowing;
' You cannot weep. hu< niv tears will be flowine:
".You will not linger when I shall have died,
love;
And I could not live without you wy my side,
love.
r 'nme to tnc (hirlititr. ere I die of my sorrow,
iRiso en my gloom like the son of to-morrow,
Strong, swift nnd strong n? the' words which I
spenk, love;
With as jig at ymir lip, and a smile on your
cluck, love
-Como. lor niy heart in your absence is drean i
Haste, for my spirit is sickened nnd wearv;
Come to the arms which alone shall caress thee;
Coim- to the hear which is throbbing to press
thee. *
An Interesting Story of
the War?Facts Stranger
thanJPiction.
There are now living in Cincinnati
a family, the history of which tonus
(something so romantic as to constitute a
most interesting story:
In the Summer of 1859, Charles
Geroux became a graduate of a college
in the Southern part of this State. Ho
^ was the descendant of an aristocratic
family who lived in Louisiana, and, to
be brief, he was then a full embodiment
of the "chivalry," just having entered
his majority. While attending college,
lio bod fnrmorl tliA nemmintance oi
-"v ?X
Clara G , who attended a college
-for young ladies in this city, which acquaintance
ripened into attachment and
love, and, just before the breaking oul
of the rebellion, they were married, and
removed South. Miss G was ar
..orphan, possessed of a considerable
property, which was held in trust h$
her uncle, a Southern minister who had
raised her from infancy, and person-ally
superintended her education. In
addition to the endowments of a colle;giat&
education, she was possessed of c
t strong cnaracter, Doraering aunosi or
the masculine, but tempered with r
; sweetness and mildness not often com.bined
in the same person. She was q.t
.once'handsome and womanly.
Within a year after their marriag<
and settlement in-the South, came th(
fierce, wild blast of war from Sumter'i
parapet, and there was none mor(
xeady to enter the deadly fray thai
Charles Geroux. His political tutor*
-were practical secessionists, and he entered
upon tho war wkh a fervor and
zeal to command the admiration of hit
Jrien(Is. and which secured him a ma
jor's commission. ' His wife opposed
his mad scheme with all the power of
a woman's, eloquence, but to no avail.
She openly espoused the cause of the
Union, and steadfastly refused to cooperate
with her new friends and neighbors
Notwithstanding her love for the
old flag, and open Unionist, her husband
loved her,.and, while her husband
was at home, the neighbors respected
her. Geroux invested hll his ready
property, which included his wife's
fortune, in Confederate bonds, placed
them in her hands, gave her a kiss for n
stort farewell, assuring her that the
war would soon bo over, and, marching
at the head of a victorious column of
his country's defenders, she would be
proud to welcome him. After his departure,
her treatment by his relatives
and neighbors became almost intolerable
because of her hatred of secession.
After txVo years of service in the
Uonlederatc army, lie was captureu a
Erisoner by the victorious Sherman in
is march to Atlanta, and sent to Camp
Douglas.
This was good news to his wife, who
could no longer endure the persecutions
6he received at the South, and she reI
solved to make her way North and reI
join him in his prison home, and ff she
could not secure his pardon, ty at least
stay near him. Her Confederate bonds
were worthless, and she was penniless;
she made her way to the Mississippi
River, and took passage on the ill-fated
steamer Sultana for the North; she
sold some jewelry for money sufficient
to carry her to Chicago. Arriving at
Memphis, her child was taken very
ill, and by the advice of the captain of
the Sultana, she remained there to secure
medical aid lor the cliild. Within
[ twenty-four hours thereafter, the boiler
| of the Sultana exploded, and 1,^00 lives
J were lost.
Geroux fared ill at ease in Camp
Douglas, and made many strategenis
to escape. lie finally sncceded in
bribing a raw sentinel to let him pass;
and to avoid pursuit a resort to deception
became necessary. A comrade of
his was on the point of death. His
mess dressed the dead soldier in tho
Major's uniform, and conveyed him to
tile dead-house, and gave his uarnc ns
"Major Charles Geroux, Third Louisiana
Regiment, Confederate States
Army." The next morning the body
wasjtahen uway and buried, and the
rank, name, regiment , and place of burial,
were duly recorded in the register
in Camp Douglas dead by C. II. Jordan,
the undertaker ibr the Government
ut Chicago*. That night Geroux
escaped. His absence created no inquiry,
as ho was reported dead. For
the purpose of avoiding public roads
and conveyances, ho took a horse from
a pasture near Camp Douglas, belonging
to J. L. llandcock, formerly President
of the Board of Trade of Chicago,
and by avoiding public roads as much
as possible, roached Momence tho* next
day. His actions excited susnicior^
and ho was arrested on suspicion of
uottitif* ti+olrvii tlie mid -vviir lndrrftil
| ) O
j ill the Kankakee jail. He was taken
1 out on a writ of habeas corpus, and no
proof being found to hold hira, he was
discharged.
| Coming thenco to this city, bo obi
tained a situation in a wholesale gro!
eery house.
After the usual dolays in passing let:
ters through the lines, he learned that.
! his two brothers were killed in the batj
tie of the Wilderness, that his father's
estate had been confiscated to the United
States Government, and his father
had voluntarily exiled himself to Mexi
ico. Of his wife and child, the only
information was that they had sought
to get North, and took passage on the
Sultana, since which they had not been
heard of, and no doubt remained that
they had perished. His true position
had been studiously concealed, and he
lavoided his former acquaintances.
'' Shortly after he received this intellii
gence from the South, Sherman had
, started on his grand march from AtI
i ?j r? j. i.:_ A
lanca, u.im urraui uiuisuuizeu ins gruuu.
'! anny .before Petersburg, and the Coni
federate States vanished almost as a
;. vision. During the past summer, Ger'
oux returned to the' ^uth, and was
1 fully confirmed in the information he
L had received about his family, and that
' his real estate had also been confiscn
ted. He gave his wife and child up as
, lost, and returned to Cincinnati.
After his wife and child had remained
in Memphis, and escapad the disaster
of the Sultana, she started for
1 Chicago, and reached Camp Douglas.
1 Impatient at the delay, she hastened
1 there with expectations high to meet
him who was dearer to her' than life.
' | The reader can picture to himself the
41 agony of this sad wife. A stranger,
destitute of money, carrying in her
^ arms a weakly child not yet recovered
5, from severe illness, and she herself worn
5 j out with fatigue and anxiety, when she
^ learned that her husband- was dead,
' I There was no doubt of his death; the
|' registry kept at Camp Douglas showed
it, and the grave was pointed out to
* j her,which bore this- inscription on a
jihio board:
/
"Major George Geroux,
Third Louisiana Infantry* '
The same grave this day is. neatly
sodded over, and at its head grows a
rose-bush.' ! '? ;
Broken-hearted and bowed down
with grief, she wended her way on foot
to the great city of Chicago?not knowing
why she went. A stranger among
strangers,, yith no one to aid or pity
her, save the good God, who, in her
utmost heart, she believed had forsaken
her.
She was taken in and cared for by .
the Sisters of Charity until she could
hear from friends in Ohio, from whom'
she had recieved no intelligence for the
past four veaj-s. A letter was received
stating that immediately after the war
her uncle had died, and that soon after,
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Jus widow naci removed to xroquuis
County, Illinois, to live with her married
son. Mrs. Geroux was supplied
with money to enable her to find her
friends in Iroquois County, where she
has since resided.
Geroux returned to his situation at
Cincinnati, and was sent by his firm to
collect a debt due in Iroquois County.
While there, he sought out the attorney
who had him discharged on the
habeas corpus to leant the whereabouts
of the horse that did such good service,
and to secure his assistance in collecting
his debt. Ho soon made himself
known, and while they were discussing
about the stolen horse, a lady and child
entered tho same office. Thero was a
momentary pause,a and husband and
wife were in each other's arms. We
shall not attempt to describe the scone
I which followed. The husband found a
i wife and child whom he firmly believed
j to bo de?d, and the wife found a
I husband* over whose gravo sho had i
I shed bitter tears of woe.
Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same
attorney to find out about her hus.
band's confiscated property, and to ap- j
jily to tiie Government to nuvo nxs
property restored to her.
Cincinnati Commercial
How Joe Won the Pencil, j
Juo B is unquestionably the !
handsomest married man of Cincinua- j
ti. Joo sports bosidua uovoroi.
| other creature comforts. "Well, lie and
I wilb, Harry and George and their |
I wives all boarded at the same house, j
A day or two ago, while they were at J
the tabic luxuriating on detached por- j
tions of boiled turkey, with oysters, the
J conversation' turned on Christian names
j Mrs. Ilarrv contended tluit she could
name more distinguished individuals j
| that bore the name of Harry than any j
! gentleman could of his own name, coni
eluding by offering a gold pencil as a
j wager against a suitable equivalent if
; she should win.
fPl... /i-nno/1 ATvc 7-Tnrinr
.Lilt; U1U1 guuillicuvcu Aiue*
started otf with "Harry of tlio West,"
adding a dozen others*
George now gathered up on
"Washington, Lord George of France,
(So.
"Now John what have you to say ?"
aslced the cliurniing Mrs. Harry.
"Oh, I can give yon a hundred. The
, .two Adams, sLord John Russel, John)
' Tyler, John, John?bring me somo water,
John!"
i "Stop, stop! you can't win. Mr.
Joseph, its your turn now," continued
the laughing little woman.
Now, if ever a bashful man lived, it
is friend Joe. lie .dare not look up.
He had been racking his brain for an
answer, but to no purpose?and in des-'
pair he inade one grand effort, and raising
his head, replied:
"My dear madam, I havo lost. I
cannot think of any very distinguished |
man who bore the name of Joseph, except
the gentleman that we read about
in the saered Sripture ?he who was
such a favorite of Mrs. Potiphar?but
I I will not offer him, for I think that he
was one of the biggest fools that I ever
' did hear of.
' "Here's the pencil," said Sirs. Harry
tossing it over to himt as she and the
: other ladies scudded out of the door.
Masonry.
It numbers to-day within its secret
pale more adult males than all the re
ligious organizations on the face of the
earth. It is as wide-spread as humanity,
as universal as human language.
The Jew, before the alter, on the sacred
mount?the Perse, in his adoration of j
the sun?the Musselmau bowing to the '
east in prayer?the Greek, before the
6hrineof his divinity?the Christian,
in devout faith at the foot of the cross,
all alike know anil understand its mystic
language. Kings, princes and po- [
tentates of the earth havo beheld with
awe its hieroglyphic light, and have
been proud to wear its mystic emblems.
It is more powerful than kingdoms,
principalities and powers, and in ages
to come will be a blessing to unnumbered
millions.
Young ladies should never object to
being kissed by an editor; they should
make every allowance for the freedom
1 of the press.
Prentice on Brownlow. i
Brownlow, the enfant terrible
of Tennessee politics; the "bad
old man" who deals in diabolical
expletives and consigns his opponents
to a place not particularly
cool: the modern Draco who
writes his laws in the ,))lood of
hunted down, persecuted 'rebels;'
the archetype of a Southern
"Union man," and the most notable
defender of the "flag we love"
south of the line; the iconoclast
who spurns the idols lie whilom
worshipped, and who takes Cuflee
under his wing with a parental
devotion in his new condition of
freedom?Brownlow, Rumpty,
Roaring, Ruthless, Rash, Ridiculous
Brownlow, has met his match
at last.
In the course of his varied and
chequered career the redoubtable
defender of the faith iisTennesscc
has had ithe misfortune to
run afoul of the Editor of the
Louisville Journal. We avow a
profound ignorance as to the
cause that led the Tennessee
p.Trson to pit his powers against
the' Kentucky writer. It is
enough to know that the direful
conjunction has occurred and, as
a consequence, the former has
come out of the confli</t shorn of
every vestige of the bravery with
which he went into it, and so
pitiable, melancholy and wretched
an object of commiseralion
that the laugh upon the hps of
the looker-on is changed into a.
ghastly stare of horror at what
nAi^Airtci fhit* liArtAof man
AUJ1UU1JO, VI L11XO iivuv/oi JiicxAi.
Did we not have the evidences
before us we could scarcely conccivcratTills
late day, llrnTTth'is
stalwart and blatant-champion of
negro cinancipation should ever
have threatened to "extinguish
the last abolition foothold (meaning
jNew England) on the continent
of America." And were
ve not fortified by the same testimony
to the fact he would scout
%/
with derision the assertion that
lie ever announced to the pious
workers in the vineyard of freedom
that thev were "infamous
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i villains, arm "Willi uiu vcn^eaucu
| of an infuriated foe we will be
upon you in the North, at the
hour of midnight, and as long as
a lucifer match can be found we
will burn up your substance." J
Thus Brownlow, in a letter,
mitten in Mav. 1S60. and ad.
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: dressed to the Rev. Mr. Pryne,?
j r, letter which the Editor of the
Louisville Journal has resurrected
in a most, untoward moment for
the faithful, aud wherewith, in
ther controversy, he deals the
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vriter a destructive and disheartening
blow. We submit that the
resuscitation of language like the
following, penned by Brownlow
only six years ago, is most calamitous
at this time when all
good men of his and Mr. B. F.
Butler's class are so diligently
seekiug to atone for their errors :
"Face to face, knife to knife,
steel to steel, and pike to pike,
ve would meet you, and as we
ivould cause you to bleed at every
pore, we would make you regret
in the bitter agonies of death,
that you had ever felt any concern
for the African race.
"Sir, if the fanatical, wicked,
and infernal course pursued by
you and your unprincipled associates
is continued, the result
will be as I Tiave said, and you
or your children will live to see
it. Pale-faced poverty and dismay
are staring' some of your
manufacturers and operatives in
the face. We are sending our
orders to England and France for
goods, and driving your hell-deserving
freedom shriekers into
the holding of Union meetings,
and making these against their
wills curse all agitators of the
slavery question, and resolve
i
'that John Brown and his murder-,
ous" associates got only justice'
when hung at Charlestown!?
CaiTy oh your war if you choose
death rather than life, and we
will stain every swamp in the
South with yours and our own
blood, and with the vengeance of
an infuriated foe we will be upon
you in the North, at the hour of
midnight, and as long as a lucifer
match can be found we will burn
up your substance." ,
Having thus, by the introduction
of this damnable evidence,
prepared the victim for the sacric
- - xi.. t?j:x xl. ? T *,,.7
lice, me JLUiiur ui me uuurmw
proceeds to offer him up.
published," says the Louisville
Editor, "the infernal language
that we have cited, when, perhaps,
no other man in the world
would have defiled his mouth or
paper with it to save his neck
from the hangman's halter. He
showed himself a walking volcano,
with snow upon his peak and
all hell in his bosom."
The Editor then proceeds, truly,
to say, that it is "most cxtrar
ordinary and disgraceful" that the
people of Tennessee, knowing
this man as they did, should
have elected him Governor.?
Waxing warm with the sacrifice,
taking a merciless delight-in the
contortions of the unfortunate
victim, and becoming savage with
the smell of the writhing wretch's
blood, the Journal thus finishes
the miserable man:
"Xo other State was ever afflicted
and disgraced and cursed
with such an unmitigated and
immitigable, stich an unredeem"ed
and irredeemable blackguard
as her Chief Magistrate. He as
a narodv. a caricature, a broad
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burlesque ou all possible governors.
They say there is tire in
him, but it is hell fire, every particle
of it.. Though he is but a
single swine, there are as many
devils in him as there were in
the whole herd that "ran violently
down a steep place into the
sea.'* His heart is nothing but
a hissing knot of vipers, rattlesnakes,
cobra and cotton mouths.
He never argued a question in
his life, approaching no subject
but with fierce, bitter, coarse,
low and vulgar objurgations. His
tongue should be bored through
and through with his own steel
I pen, heated red hot.
* "This man, as we have said,
calls himself a clergyman. He
holds forth in pulpits. He preaches,.^prays
and exhorts, draws
down his face, drops the corners
of his mouth, and undertakes to
look sanctimonious. And yet he
seems always trying in his pulpit
discourses to see under how thin
a disguise he can venture to curse
and swear, and blaspheme. He
can't offer up a prayer in the
house of God without telling the
Lord what an infernal scoundrel,
damned tlfcef, or cursed vagabond,
this, that or the o'ther
neighbor is. From his youth up
to his old age he has had no personal
controversies without attacking
the wives, fathers, mothers,
grandfathers, grandmothers,
brothers, sisters, children, uncles,
onn + o ond nonlinnrc r\P liio nnnn
CiUlil/Q ft KJ VI Jiio vwyynents".
For an outsider, as we confess
ourself to be, to attempt to add
to the rigor of the above," would
be useless and futile. This dissection,
by. a master hand, of
Brownlow's many infirmities wilt
stand a Sphinx of literature, unparalleled
and not to be paralleled.
The only doubt that will be
left in the mind of the reader of
the foregoing extracts will be as
to which of the two deserves the
palm for a peculiar use of the
English language. That doubt,
it is true, might be solved by a 1
perusal of Brownlow's rejoinder :
i
to what we have given; but so
far the Journal has doubled hjm * *
up and has left him gasping,
telcss and in thejpangs of threatdissolutioi).
If Brownlow
should, ever recover himself, however,
wc pity the editor of the
Journal?-Ny Y. News.
The^Sea Island Negroes.
Tho negro colonies founded by Gen.
Sherman on the Sea islands of South
Carolina are thus1 describedjby a correspondent
of thepsew York I Evening
Pout:
The appeals that have been made
through out the [ country and * in^Con*
gress, th at the negroes should not be
ousted from the lands which they occupy
by virtue of General Sherman's or* $
der, they have either been made in ignorance
or are disingenuous. That
order, which was a military measure,
providing for the temporary disposition '
of the throng of negroesfwho had joined
liis column during the "marclfto.the
sea," lias been taken advantage of to
seouro possession to the occupants of
the abandoned lunds upon the Port ,/ .
Royal Islands? all of whom are not
black, and who had taken possession
while Sherman was fighting the Confederates
years ago upon the fcanks of
the Mississij>pi. I have taken some
trouble to get at the facts of this matter, >
and I find that there are but few nec
groes occupying lands south of the Savannah
River. Many of them former- v
ly belonged on the places. In the
rear of the city of Sevannah there are
several localities where these people
have herded together. They live on
fish, oysters ana rice, and their clothing
is the remnant of what hung to
them before the war. Many of their
villages are not within- the influence of
the agents of the Bureau; and the
1 1? u J
primitive style in wmcn iney live w ouiu
arouse tlio sympathies, if jit did not
shock tho sensibilities, of thojihilanthropic
South and North, f
"You have a'ijpard job of it," I said
to.a party of three negroes atjwork
"upon a patch of grouAd on one of the
sen island plantations. The surface of
the earth where they were digging was
filled and tangled with grass and weeds,"
which in the four years of 'quiet had
obtained possession of the soil. A
short distance from the spot several
very good cabins had been built, vrhilo
near the road a number of men were
engaged in repairing a gate?work that
two men could have accomplished better
than six. One of them to whom I
addressed the above quesiion ' paused
from bis work, leaning upon his big
twelve-inch hoc, while ho wiped tho
nersniration from liis forehead with his
clirty sleeve.
"Ah. massa, dat am a solemn fact;
dat ar groun' am tougher nor a pine
knot."
"Why don't you use a plow ? You
would accomplish much more."
"Der ain't such a ting on de islan',
nor a mule, nor nothin but those'
hands." , '
"Well if you ijork hard with them
you may be ablo to buy a mule and
plow by and by. How many colored
people are there on this plantation ?"
"Nigh goin' on ffer sixty, sah."
"How many acres of cotton have you
put in here ?"
"Forty or a hundred, sail."
"There is some difference between
forty and one hundred. But you aro
mistaken; in this field there oan't be
more than five acres, at the outsido."
"Yes, sah!" was the answer. 1
In the doorway of one of the cabins
a stout negro, surrounded by several
half naked childred, was "mashing,"
as he termed it, some corn in a wooden
mortar. i
"Where /lid you get that com ?" I
asked. '
"In Sabannah, sail. Toted it all the
irnvrlnwn Vim-O mirrK+v K+tTa aaivn
" " * UlUO Willy
6ah, for tho fisli' and 'isters wc toto
dar."
"I should think so. What do you
have to cat besides the l3sh and oysters
and tho corn?"
"Nothing, sah; all! sometimes mighty
little o? dat."
The above Icon versaliou will give you
an idea of the condition and prospects
of a settlement oi* these freed people,
who are an example of those who are
best situated for raising a crop and taking
euro of themselves.
Applicatious are now ponding for tlis
pardon of 86 ox-membors of tho Southern
Congress, 132 graduates of West
Point who served in the Southern army,
127 Southern Generals, including
Bragg, Longstreot, Beauregard, and
several flf tho Lees. Also, 32 prominent
Southern Officials, and 116 cxTJnited
States Senators who held positions
in the Southern service.
> -O ?
Why are young ladies at the ^breaking
up of a party like arrows ? Because
they can't go off without a beau, and
?? * i?l a paver till thev get one.