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j6nX W. SWINDELLS ri'BLISUER.
DARLING
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JMisines Merinos Irish Poplins
JAPANESE PLAIDS
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WHITE GOODS OF ALL KINDS
Consisting In part of
Check Striped and plain Cambric
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- " Lwin
Mull Linen Lawn and Cambric
Table Linene Napkin Towelle Doyle
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inches wide.
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MUIinsry Goods of all kinds.
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The Confederacy.
ITS DYINQ nOCRS AND STRUOOIES.
It is eaid by Colcridgo that no roan
thrown to tho eurfuco of affairs ev-
cr succeeded in simultaneously gain-
ing distinction and affection unless
he- possessed somothing of an epi-
ceno nature that is to say a mixture j
of masculine and feminino qualities.
Without claiming for General Lee in
tho highestsenseof tho title "groat"
it is impossible to deny that his
memory will bo cherished by thoso
who in the crisis of his threeyoars'
trial stood and suffered by his side
as an exceptionally dear and prec-
ious possession. Fow soldiers if
asked whether they would rather
have served under Loo on tho ono
hand or under Cromwell Frederick
tho Great Marlborough or Napo-
loon on tho other would hositato to
prefer tho four famous gonorals to
the discomfited Confederate. 'Yet
it is doubtful whether any of tho
four after they had passed away
and had ceasod to communicate tho
electric shock of their presence and
contact an eye voice; charactor and
influence to others poBsessod such
a hold on the affections and esteem
as were inspirod by Robert E. Lee.
The truth seems to bo that tho
greatest men are necessarily and in-
tensely selfish. All great men are
monsters says a German proverb
and it may I think bo conceded that
when a man is playing a conspic-
uous rolo in life and is generally
loved he is not in the world's high-
est sense groat. lie is probably
something better. He tins the
thoughtfulness about others the un-
obtrusivencss .'nd renunciation of
self the truthfulness purity mod-
esty charity gentleness which can-
not long bo unnoticed by those
around him and which lay firm hold
upon their hearts. But to be great
to fill a verv largo space in tho
world's eyeduringa man's few brief
years upon earth he must throw
modesty and unobtrusiveness over-
board; he must be grasping aggres-
sive discreetly greedy of praise
covetous of a larfro share of honor
judiciously envious; must know how
rivals
10 unaenuine iruuuiesumu
without being found out and help
useful friends without being sup-
planted. Heartily agreeing with
Coloridge that whore distinction and
affection have been won coincidently
there must bo tho opicono dement
In their winner I venture to doubt
whether man's affection is ever won
by the greatest or in other words
whether in the greatest any of the
woman is to be found. The men
who are brave from tendernoss are
braver than tho men who are brave
frVnm nrido. But tho men who. to
enoourage or spare others are gratu-jfodorate outer works. These two
itously brave are not selfish enough detached forts which wore of course
to be creat. The calm judgment of; designed to cover each other wcro
posterity especially if assisted by ;
the pen of Mr. Carlj-le (who is said
to hold that Washington stands too
high and who if I am rirhtly in
formed contemplates lowering his
pcdcBtal) will I think reverse the
verdict of Mr. Everett's well known
lecture and will pronounce that
Washington was not greater than
Peter or Frederic or Marlborough
as Mr. Everett contends but simply
more estimable
The exceeding lovcablcness of Loo
became moro patent as your con-
sciousness that as a politician he
lacked vigor and and self-assertion
became more irresistablo. This
lovcablcness was based upon a nov-cr-tiring
unselfishness a contagious
endurance of hardship and danger
a shrinking modesty an abounding
tenderness. The child and tho
young girl who had never seen him
before ran to him instinctively as
to a friend. His look spoke of hon-
esty directness kindliness courago.
His smile was irresistably winning.
But the stuff which made Cromwell
Napoleon William the Silent great-
er as politicians than as soldiers
was lacking in Lee. All that there
was of true and brave in tho people
whom he so nearly made a nation
called on him by signs that he who
ran might read to put Congress
aside to control the press to bo Dic-
tator indeed; and yet he would not !
Nevertheless in the belief that there
is no more powerful stimulant to a
noble ambition than the study of
such a character as Lee's. I desire
to throw my stone upon the cairn
by gathering together a few notes
for the general accuracy of which I
entirely vouch exhibiting the main
features of the eventful six days
which intervened between the evac-
uation of the Confederate lines
around Petersburg and Richmond
on the night of April 2nd and the
surrender of Lee't army on the night
of April the 9th.
In order rightly to understand
these six days it should be premis-
ed that the Federal cavalry massed
under General Sheridan numbering
about 15000 sabres splendidly
equipped and convertible by their
able commander into a body of mil-j
ittry horr???m epen r-'VTj Ai-
DALLAS DALLAS COUNTY TEXAS JANUARY 13 18G0.
trian or French mbrtur might hayo
looked with disdain moveu u.-
ward down tho valley ot irgmia
between tho 1st and 10th of last
March and encountered a scratch
Confederate army of about 3000
men under Gen. Early nt Waynes-
boro. (Jen. Early distrustful of his
men who wcro equally distrustful
of him planted them with their
backs to a deep river in order to
mako retreat impossible. The re-
sult is oasily foreseen. Gen. Sheri-
dan bagged two-thirds of his ene-
my's force and most of his enemy's
artillery. Swooping rapidly on-
ward towards tho James River bo-
twoon Richmond and Lynchburg
Gen. Sheridan found himself con-
frnntnd hv ft swollon stream. Ho
fell back rounded the left wing of
Lee's armv crossed the Pamunkey
River at the White House (where
ho rccruitod his strength by picking
1200 fresh horses which awaited
him there) and upon tho 25th of
March joined Gen. Grant in tho lines
boforo Potorsburg. To Sheridan's
untiring and sagacious activity in
tho subsequent operations moro
than to the agency of any other man
is due the completeness of tho Fed-
eral triumph the seemingly inex-
plicable collapse of the Confederacy.
It was not long before Grant's
accession of strength was felt by
Lee.
Upon tho evening of Saturday
April 1 Gen. Longstreot who had
long defended Richmond by com-
manding tho Confederate forces to
the north of Jamos River received
information from Lee that Grant
had detached Sheridan's cavalry and
two corps of infantry (about 25000
men all.) to act against tho South-
sido Railroad. Before communicat-
ing with Longstreet Leo had dis-
patched Pickett's and Bushrod John-
son's divisions; Huger's battalion of
artillery and Fitzhuffh Loe's divis
ion of cavalry (in all about 27000
men.) Leo had so weakened ins
lines before Petersburg that there
was but one Confederate left to ev-
ery fifty yards.
Under these circumstances Leo
called upon Lonrstreet for men.
Hut at dawn upon tho 2nd of April
before Longstreet had time to obey
Loo's ordors Grant descried from his
wooden tower of observation the
weakness of tho Confederate linos.
Immediately he threw a heavy col-
umn consisting I believe chiofly
of Gibbon's Corps upon the weak-
cstspot. The Federals carried with
very slightloss.thoontireline thin-
ly held by Heth's Division of Con-
federates and bulged inward until
they struck two of the detached
forts whereof a string or system ran
bohind tho whole length of theCon-
namea runs uregg unu AieMiiuor
Tho officer in command of Fort
Alexander which was farthest away
from the on-coming Federals deem-
ed it more important to save his
guns than to try and help Ft. Gregg.
Receiving no assistanco from its
twin-brother Fort Gregg manned
by Harris's Mississippi Brigade
numbering 250 undaunted men
breasted intrepidly tho tido of its
multitudinous assailants. Thrco
times Gibbon's Corps surged up
and around the work three times
with dreadful carnage they were
driven back. I am told that it was
subsequently admitted by Gen. Gib-
bon that in carrying Fort Gregg he
lost from five to six hundred men; or
in other words that each Mississip-
pian inside the works struck down
at least two assailants. When at
last the work was carried there re-
mained out of its 250 defendants
but 30 survivors. In those nino
memorable April days there was no
episode more glorious to the Con-
federate arms than the heroic self-
immolation of the Mississippians in
Fort Gregg to gain time for their
comrades.
Fort Gregg fell about seven o'clock
on the morning of the 2nd. After a
dolay of two or threo hours the
Federals sweptonward In the direc-
tion of Petersburg taking the Con-
frederate lines en revert. At this
moment Longstreet accompanied
by Benning's Brigade of Field's Di-
vision about 170 bayonets strong
met the on-pouring flood and check
ed it long enough to enable fresh
troops to hurrr up in his rear and
to form a fresh line in front of Peters-;
burg. Simultaneously in an attempt
of Heth's Division to republish
their lines Gen. A- P. Hill (who
commanded the corps to which
Heth's Division belonged) loot alife
which for nearly fouryears.he badun-
flinchinely exposed in nearly a hun-!
dred of his country's battles. About !
the same moment was def patched
the memorable telegram whkh sur-1
nrlwd Pari in phnrrh. and an-'
J j
nonncedthatthelartdayofthathe-
roie resistance which made Kicb-
mond the most notable of beleag-
uered cities had at length arrived.
The 4ely pnrcifH hv the obMi-
nato defciiso of Fort Gregg and by
Longstreot's bold handling of Ben-
ning's Brlgado.savcd Petersburg un-
til tho tobacco and cotton stored in
that city could be burned and until
leisurely preparation for its evacu-
ation could bo made.
It is remarkable that no further
onslaught was made by tho Federals
during tho day or tho evening al-
though tho flames springing up in
many parts of tho town must havo
told their own tale. At nightfall on
tho 2nd all tho Confederate troops
ubout 4000 streng which remained
under tho command of Gen. Ewell
starvation fatigue sleeplessness
misery unintortnitted for fivo or
six days and culminating in hopelessness?
Yet thero wero not wanting oc-
casional episodes which recalled
somcof theold pride of former mem-
ories and rominded men that this
hunted famished crowd was still tho
same army that had won two Bull
Runs which had twlco (in pursuit
ofa fatal policy) trodden its enomy's
soil and had written Fredericks-
burg Chancollorsvillo and a dozen
other clorious names upon its ban
ners. On tho 6th. a largo body of
Federal cavalry having got ahead
of Lee's army and occupied Rice's
Station was attacked by some Con-
federate horseman under Gen. Ros-
scr who drove them off capturing
680 prisoners. On the 7th a heavy
attack was raado upon Mahone's Di-
vision and the prowess of this ao-
tive Confederate Goneral so fre-
quently exhibitod during the last
twelve months of tho war was main-
tained to the end inasmuch as a
Federal brigade getting entangled
in a ravine was surrounded by Ma-
hone's men and disappeared. On
tho evening of the 7th General
Gregg with six or seven thousand
Federal cavalry made a desperate
attempt to capture all tho wagon
trains. Ho was gallantly met by
two thousand horsemen under Fitz-
hugh Lee and defeated. Gregg him-
self was captured.
Through these gloomy days as
an offset to tho countless Confede
rates captured while foraging by tho
Federals numerous Federal prison-
ers were taken by the Confederates
and bceomoparticipants of a hunger
and suffering of which they had no
previous conception. I may as woll
mention now that as the surrender
becamo moro inovitable Generals
Fitzhugh Loe and Rosser with about
two thousand Confederate cavalry
tacitly determined not to bo includ-
ed in it and started off towards
Lynchburg. On their road thoy
fell in with a Federal supply train
and burned 8C0 wagons. The scanty
and partial ration which after the
surrender were issued on tho night
of tho 9th to the starving Confede-
rates by their captors were apolo-
gized for by tho Federals on the
ground of destruction of thoso 860
wagons by Fitzhugh Leo.
The reader will havo gathered
that when General Lee found his
depots along tho Danville Road de-
stroyed by Sheridan had no altern-
ative but to make for Lynchburg.
He still hopod to get rations and to
turn suddenly upon Grant whose
army was dispersed into many col-
umns. The fatigue of the pursuit
though unaggravatod' by famino
beginning to tell upon the pursuers.
But in pressing for Lynchburg Loo
found himself in a dangerous pre-
dicament. He was on a strip of
land not more than seven er eight
miles broad between the James and
Appomattox Rivers. On the after-
noon of the 7th Leo's situation
seemed so unpromising that Grant
for tho first time sent to propobo
surrender. Lee at once replied that
his circumstances did not seem such
to him as to justify his cntortaining
such a proposal. On the morning
of the 8th Grant renewed his solic-
itations. Lee did not decline but
debated the matter calling a coun-
cil of war in the evening. No de-
termination was arrived on the 8th
and at midnight the usual dreary
retreat was resumed. The springs
of energy and will unstrung by
long want of food had run down in
the men like the machinery of a
broken clock. Hitherto the retreat
had been covered by Longstreet and
Gordon alternatively but now the
Federal force which had get ahead
of Lee and was obstructing his re-
treat had become so considerable
that Gordon was thrown out with
2.000 men in front while the "old
bull dog" Longstreet whoso pluck
neither hunger nor fatigue nor de-
pression could abate or subdue still
covered the rear.
At daybreak on the 9th a courier
. ' v .
from Gordon announced to iice mat
a large body of Federal cavalry (in
other words Sheridan's army) was
across the road at Appomattox
Court House. At the same moment
a heavy force of infantry
under
Grant was pushing Longstret vig-
oronf.lv in the rear. Between Lone-
street and Gordon were the remain-
iriz wacons and cliricring to them
thousand of iinarmedand faiuinhed
stragglers too weak to carry their
muskets. Lee sent orders to Gor-
don to cut his way through raute
qit'il coutr. Presently came another
courier from Gordon announcing
that tho enemy was driving him
back. Leo had nt this moment less
than JIO.OOO men with muskets in
their hand. Tho fatal moment had
indisputably come. Hastily don-
ning his best uniform and buckling
on his sword which it was nover
his fashion to wear General Leo
turned sadly to the rear to Beck tho
final intcrviow with Gen. Grant.
Thcro is no passage of history in
this heart breaking war which will
for years to come bo moro honora-
bly mentioned and gratefully ro-
mcmbered than tho Uemoanor on
tho 9th of April 1865 of General
Grant toward Gen. Leo. I do not
so much nlludo to tho facility with
which honorablo terms wero accord-
ed to tho Confederates us to tho
boaring of General Grant and tho
officers about him towards Goneral
Lee. The Intorviow was brief.
Thrco commissioners upon either
sido wero immediately appointed.
Tho agreement to which theso six
commissioners acceded is known.
In tho meantimo immediately
after that General Leo was seen
riding to the rear dressed more gai-
ly than usual and begirt with his
sword tho rumor of immediate sur-
render flew like wildfiro through tho
Confederates. It might bo imag-
ined that an army which had drawn
its last regular rations on the 1st of
April and harrasscd incossantly
by night and day had been
marching and fighting until tho
morning of tho 9th would have
wclcomod anything like a termina-
tion of its sufferings let it come in
what form it might. Lot those who
to the North of James River fell
back from thoir lines and passed
through the bewildered streets of
Richmond traversing before day-
break tho bridges over tho James
River which wero so soon to be giv-
en to the flames. About eight on
tho night of the same 2nd tho Con-
federate troops a'so commonccd
leaving Petersburg thoir retreat be-
ing covered by Field's Division un-
der Longstreet. Pursuit thord was
none. It is probablo that alroady
Grant was bending all his energies
to get around and cut off Leo's re-
treat. Tho Petersburg section of
tho Confederate troops full of vigor
and eclat. crossed to the north side
of the Appomatox River on a pon-
toon bridge and made sixteen miles
during the first night of tho retreat.
It would be difficult to conceive
anything brighter or moro hopeful
than the tone of Gen. Lee's spirits
on tho morning of the 3d. "I havo
got my array safe out of its breast
works" ho said "andin order to fol-
low mo my enemy must abandon
his lines and can derive no further
benefit from his railroads or from
the James River." Thero can bo
little doubt that Loe's design was to
recruit his army with rations which
he hoped to find in abundance at
Amelia Court House and to fall in
detail upon the Federals who break-
ing up into bodies of one and two
corps wero scattering all over tho
country with a view to a vigorous
pursuit. Two days' rations at
Amelia Court House for 40000 men
would possibly have made a great
difference in the immediate though
as I believe none in tho ultimate
history of tho Continent of North
America.
Thero is littlo satisfaction in
dwelling in detail upon the five sub-
sequent days for which a parallol
must bo sought on the banks of tho
Boresina or in other similar pas-
sages of military anguish. It is
hardly necessary to stato that at
Amelia Court House Leo found not
a ration. I shall not pause now to
distribute blame or to investigate
who was at fault. All that I have
to state is that tho fault was not
Lee's whose orders on this subject
for a fortnight past had been urgent
and precise. It became necessary
for Leo to break nearly half his ar-
my up into foraging parties to get
foed. The country through which
ho was passing was a tract of strag-
gling woods and pino barrens with
occasional little patches of clearings.
The foraging parties had to go so
far a-ficld in quest of food that they
were taken prisoners by wholesale.
In the face of such sufferings as they
left behind it cannot he wondered
at if some of tho poor fellows court-
ed capture.
Thope foragers who returned to
Lee brought littlo or nothing with
them. The suffering of the men
from the pangs of hunger has not
been approached in the military an-
nals of the past fifty years. But the
sufferings of the mules and horses
must have been even keener for the
men assuaged their cravings by
plucking the buds and twigs of trees
just shooting in the early bpnng
whereas the grass has not ye starv-
ed fr"tn its Winter s'cep. and f-jrA
VOL. XIII NO.
si the tin
ihappv quadrupeds there
. As early as the morning
was none. As earlv
of tho 4th Lee sent off half his ur
tillory toward tho railroad to relievo
the famished horses. Tho artillery
making slow progress thanks to tho
exhaustion ol tho hores was cap-
tured by tho Federals on tho 8lli
but not until General Lindsey Walk
er had buried many of his guns
which were of course subsequently
exhumed (seventy of them at ono '
haul) by tho'r captors.
It is easy to sco that tho locomo-
tionofan army in such a plight
must have been slower and slower j
Tho retreat was conducted in tho fol- j
lowin fashion i ihrcnen wun ineir rausKcis in uieir
About midnight the Confederates ' Hands and they wero followed by
slipped out their hastv works which about 180.00 unarmed stragglers
they had thrown up "and held tho ; who claimed to be included m the
previous dnv and fell back until 10 i capitulation. Each Confederate sol-
or 12 o'clock tho noxt morning. j Mor was furnished with a printed
Then they halted and immediately for of parole which was filled up
threw up breastworks for thoir pro- !' by his own officers nnd a
tection during tho day. It was not : duplicate furnished to a designated
long boforo tho wolves wero again l edcra ofhecr. By the evening of
on their heels and from their earth tho 12th tho paroles were generally
works tho Confederates exchanged a : distributed atid tho disbundodj men
heavy firo with their pursuers began to scatter through tho coun-
throughout tho day. Delayed with j try. Hardly ono of them had a
tho necessity of guarding an nn.u-M'fvng of money. Some of them
nition train from thirtv-tivotoforty; h"d from 1200 to 1500 miles to
miles in lenjrth. enfeebled by hun-
gcr and sleeplessness the retreating
army was only able to mako ten
miles each night. The delay ena-
bled tho active Sheridan to get ahead
with his cavalry and to destroy tho
depots of provisions along tho rail-
road betwoeti Burkcvillo and Dan-
ville. Upon tho 5th many of the
horses and mules ceased to struggle.
It becamo necessary to burn hun-
dreds of wagons. At intervals the
enonw's cavalry dashed in nnd
crTumLr i hn intjivinnifi hm niniimrinn
k tho interminable
train hero and there capturing and
burning dozens upon dozens of wag -
ons. Toward evening of the 5th
and all day on the Cth hundreds of
men dropped from exhaustion and
thousands let drop their muskets
from inability to cam- them ai)V
fartlior "
' Tho scenes of the 5th fith 7th
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bo annrehended in its vivid reality
only by men who aro familiar with
the harrowintr details of war. . Be
hind and on either flank an ubiq-
uitous and increasingly adventu-
rous enemy every mud hole and
every riso in tho road choked with
blazing wagons the air filled with
the deafening reports of amunition
exploding and shells bursting when
touched by tho flames dense col-
umns of smoke ascending to heaven
from the burning and exploding ve-
hicles exhausted men and worn
out mules and horses lying down
sido by side gaunt famino glaring
hopelessly from sunken lack-lustre
eyes dead men dead mules dead
horses everywhere death many
times welcomed as God's blessing in
disguise who can wonder if many
hearts tried in tho fiery furnace of
four years unparallcllcd suffering
and never hitherto found wanting
should havo quailed in prcsonce of
idly imagino that tho finer feelings
aro the prerogative of what aro
callod tho "upper classes" learn from
this nnd similar scenes to appreci-
ate "common men." As tho great
Confederate captain rode back from
his interview with General Grant
the news of the surrender acquired
shape and consistency nnd could no
longer be denied. Tho effect on the
worn and battered troops some of
whom had fought since April 1861
and sparco. survivors of the hcta-
combs of fallen comrades) had pass-
ed unscathed through 6ueh hurri-
canes of shots as within four years
no other men had ever experienced
passes mortal description.
Whole lines of battle rushed up
to
their-beloved old chief and
chokingwith emotion broke ranks I
aim siruggicu rm.u (landing erect as it dashed awav
wring him once more by the hand. under aoBi10xVcr 0f hullets. shook his
Men who had fought throughout the gwordat tie cnoiny with hi9 lefk
war nnd knew what tho agony and j )and Juf.t at this m0lncrt the or-
humiliation of that moment must j dcr como ellftrp an j cIcari from th0
bo to him Btrovo with a refinement Fedcrai ineSi ' Ceaso firing at that
of unselfishness and tenderness oftjccr -. slRh a spectacle of ardent
which he alone could fully apprcci- j drew a spontaneous shout of
ate to lighten his burden and miti-
guie iiib jutiii. iv itu ivuis jiwuiiiij
down both cheeks Gen. Leo at
length commanded voice enough to
say "Men we have fought through
tho war together. I have done the
best that I can for you." Not an
eye that looked on that scene was
dry. Nor was this the emotion of
sickly sentimentalists but of rough
and rugged men familiar with hard-
ships danger and death in a thous-
and shapes mastered by sympathy
and feeling for another which they
never experienced on their own ac-
count. I know of no other passage
of military history 60 touching un-
less in spite of the "melo-draraalic
coloring which French historians
have loved to shed over the scene it
can be found in the Adicuxde Fon-
tainblcau. It remains for roo briefly to no-
tice the last parade of an army
whT'-f the trj.ioiu Ki'! 1e rl
H.-WHOLE NUMBER 012.
I with prido so long as tho Euglish
t'ngii" i spoken. In pursuance of
an arrangement oi the six commis
sioners tho Confederate army
marched by divisions on tho morn-
ing of April the 12th to a spot on
the Appomattox Court House whem
they blacked arms nnd deposited
accoutrements. Upon this solemn
occasion Major General Gibbon rep-
resented tho United States authori-
ties. With. tho. samo exaltod and
conspicuous delicacy which ho had
exhibited throughout these- closing
scenes Gen. Grant was not again
visible ajftcr his final interview with
Gen. Leo. About 7800 Confederates
i travel over acountry trio scanty rail.
roads ot which wero utterly anni-.
hilatod. Many an interesting diary
of tho adventures of theso individu-
als as they journeyed frani Eastern
; irgnua to Western 'j. exits or pos-
' sibly to Mexico may well have been
j written. It is to be hoped that ono
or two such will vet be given to tho
world.
Shortly after noon on tho 12th
Gen. Lee escorted by a guard of
honor of Federal cavalry mounted
his horso for tho last time and starfc-
r. I f-
ea 0I '"cnmonu. vn
1 1 c road he arrived about evening at
I the headquarters of his "old war
horse Gch. Longstreet and tho
j last and saddest of their many inter
j vtowj took place lhero are scenes
i which arc too sacred and affecting
i even or description oven though
I the pen were guided by a Macauley
: or a Uollman. If ever thero were
two genuino simple minded men up-
on earth to whom anything melo
dramatic or theatrical is utterly ab-
horrent they are tho men of whom
I am now writing. I closo this
brief chroniclo with tho remark
that in proportion to tho reader's
estimate of tho sustained heroism
with which Lee and Longstreet for
four j-ears bore up and stood erect
under such a burden as never yet
was laid upon man will bo his ap-
preciation of tho circumstances and
omotions under which their parting
intcrviow took placo.
FRANCIS LAWLEYt
Ceark Firi.no at that Officer.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail
dwelling upon the fact that South-
erners generally prefer soldiers to
represent them in Congress and elsc-
whero says :
"To vote for such men is not to
hurl defiance at tho conqueror but
rather to exercise the privilege of
complimenting gallant men without
a thought whether it may or may
not please tho conqueror. Thc truo
i conqueror is not oniy devoid oi
jealousy but is willing to share his
meal and couch with the vanquish-
ed. He has learned to honor his
prisoner from the electric sympathy
which is always genoratcd by bul-
lets and bayonents.
"At RichMountalnagallant South
Carolinian in command ofa section
of artillery had fought his guns
well until he had not men enough
left to work them. Our lines wero
broken and tho enemy was dashing
upon them. A shell dismounted. ono
of his pieces killed his horse under-
nt.il cl.nf l..A.I liia i-I irl. firm .
fllf r.llni
mou)t1 h'u rcmainillg gu( ttnd
cvon from mortal
foe! As it was men so n win do
hereafter. When the fanAtics of the
North abuse the men who consider-
ed it their duty to oliey the mendate
of their State an universal shout
will come from tho true Union men
of the North "Cease firing at that
officer !"
A young lady explained to a prin-
ter the other day the distinction be-
tween printing and publishing and
at the conclusion of herremarks by-
way of illustration ehe said !
"You may print a kiss on my
cheek but you must not publish it"
The steamer Wamadee on her
last trip from Shreveport to Jeffer-
son with a valuable cargo of mer-
chandise struck a snag about a mil
above the former place and sunk.
Boatsndcsrrroatotallc. No in-
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