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I ME XLVS1.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1866.
NUMBER 29.
OOK
0.71 ME & SON,
j oK g AND proprietors.
00 per annum, in Advance.
: , t ]^ of BLANKS, in common use,
,.i v ou hand ; special forms printed ;
•ind JOB PRINTING done neatly,
.j as cheap as can be afforded at the
(>i rK
\ GANTT tenders his professional
„ j is citizens of Milledgeville and
iie<“ that oi the late Dr. Port.
H ;,; 10 'tf
-c\_ r j7_A-3L.13I X<.TN r S office is
Bomb's old Hotel, where lio can be
liours when not otherwise engaged,
lie, May. 1, IcGG 1« J~t
-» * it\vrt s'*
i\u i iuL.
’ LOCKHART, tenders his profes-
-rviecs to the citizens of Milledgeville
e,„ ,ia! at ten tion paid to SURGERY
versified forms, ile will be found at
u n it professionally absent, at Judge
^ residence one mile from the State
tpm
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The Footsteps of Decay.
The following is a translation from an ancient
States. At twenty-three. Melancthon
wrote the Loci Communes, which passed
through fifty editions within his lifetime.
At thirty-three lie wrote the Augsburg
Spanish poem, says the Edinburg heticic, is sur- | Confession. At twenty nine, Ursinus wrote
passed by nothing with which we are acquainted in the lleidelburg Catechism. Zwingli wrote
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![SE of entertainment.
j)i;, JOHN GANTT, occupying the
i itl . residence of Dr. Fort, in Alilledge-
M would respectfully inform tbe pub-
,ljv. tliat his house is now open for the
•, , j transient custom.
/•.■j rwiiie. April 3. 1<~>66 14 tf
37. lire IG WEluXi,
Attomey-at-Law,^
MlLLLDG.Lv 1LLE, GEORGIA.
"• Jffviilc. March 13, 1866 1 I tf
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I'ABiMNi
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Tactfully inform the citizens of
y that I am prepared to do all
.'.abiiiet Work. Will feel thankful for
s i:i the way of mending old furniture, or
ev ,-. Give me a call, and 1 will promise
liutii in price and work done.
ROUT. N. ADAMS.
„.vilie Mav 8. 1866 18 tf
i>jjOi!NE‘S OPTICAL DEPOT.
:;:’o n r: o a n street,
A U G U S T A, G A.
nr.milv oiTosm: plasters’ hotel.
Specially and SSxsiusively Optical.
H jc-Jid:) known, in Optical Science.
p.TILNTS treat, d by mail to superior Glass'
e- ijy sending one glass out of their old 8pee-
..ind stiiiia" the best distances or number oi
■i‘tb from the eyes at which they saw comforta
rtoread with the "IJ glasses—length of time
•v have been used without change, and a ^ate
ri.tas tu general health.
i'I shares and color inserted so as to defy
detection even by experts.
Arjusta, March HO, 1866 12 .tf
Wool Carding.
TIE MILLEDGEVILLE MANUFACTUR-
[ Company will continue, as heretofore, to
rI WOOL into ROLLS, or manufacture it in-
Tlie.ir jimchinerv has been placed in the
. M. WAffZFELDER, Fres't.
Mi'.'iLiigeville, May 23, 1866 22 lot
ill!, Wilke ifrnii. iFLinr
,/, sale cy Retail Dealers £ Importers of
GL ASS A QUEENS WARE,
>, SlcEvovhs old Stand, opposite
use, Macoii 7 G-a.
■ on hand « ful! and complete Stork of
DINNER and TEA Sots,
White, Flowered and Gilt.
TL DINNER and TEA SETS—White.
• A Chamber .Sets—[Main & Ornamented.
—Titcliers, Stands, Dishes, Butters-, Gob-
s, Champagne Wine and Tumbleis.
RED GLASS in TEA SETS and by the
VR TUMBLERS and FIXTURES,
i and FRUIT JARS—Quart 4 gallon, 3
lrtsand gallons—plain and fancy,
ling FRUIT JARS, half gallon,
lot of Queen's Lava Rock and Yellow
IPIcitecL Ware,
ing of Castors, Baskets, Butters, Forks,
Spoons, Strainers, &c.
1 "li’ch we will sell as low as can be bought
Filers solicited and promptly filled when
'aiiicd by the cash, or shipped C. O. IA,
the Spanish language, except the‘ Ode of Lot
Do Leon.”
O ! let the soul its slumbers break—
Arouse its senses, and wake
To see how soon
Lite, in its glories, glides away,
And the stern footsteps of decay
Come stealing on.
And while we view the rolling tide,
Down w hich our Mowing minutes glide
Away so fast,
Let us the present hour employ,
And deem each future .dream a joy
Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the mind,
No happier let us hope to find
To-morrow than to-day;
Our golden dreams of yore were bright,
Like them the present shall delight—
Like them decay.
Our lives like hastening streams must be,
That into one engulphing sea
Are doomed to fall—
'The sea of death, whose waves roll on
O’er king and kingdom, crown and throne
And swallow ail.
Alike the river’s lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivuiet’s glide,
To that sad wave !
Death levels poverty and pride,
And rich and poor sleep side by side
Within the grave.
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Our birth is but the starting-place;
Life is the running of the race,
And death the goal;
There all our glittering to3’s are brought—
. That path alone, of all unsought
Is found of all.
See, then, how poor and little worth
Are ail those glittering toys of earth
That lure us here;
Dreams of a sleep that death must break;
Alas! before it bids us wake
We disappear.
Long ere the damp of death can blight
The cheek’s pure glow otred and w hite
Has passed away;
Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair—
Age came and laid his fnger there,
And where are they !
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved so light and gay,
The hearts’ blithe tone ?
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And joy grows wearisotn, and woe !
When age comes on
«B1“
mu.
A “Strange” Preacher.—Ilis name
was Strange. Many will think his conduct
was strange also. lie was a zealous
preacher and a sweet singer. Nothing
gave him so much pleasure as to go about
the country preaching and singing. A
gentleman w’ell off in world’s good, desir
ing to make him and his family comfort'
able iu their declining years, generously
presented him with a title-deed for three
hundred and twenty acres of laud. Strange
accepted the donation with thankfulness,
and went on his way preaching and sing-
ing as he went. But after a few months
lie returned, and requested his generous
friend to take the title-deed. Surprised
at the reauest, the gentlemen inquired :
“Is there any flaw in it?”
“Not the slightest.”
“Is not the land good?”
“First rate,”
“Isn’t it healthy ?”
“Y*es.”
“Why, then, do you wish me to take it
hack ? It will be a comfortable home for
you wdien you grow old, and something for
your wife and children, if you should be
taken away.”
“Why, I’ll tell you. Ever since, I’ve
lost my enjoyment fur singing. 1 can’t
sing my favorite hymn with a good con
science any longer.”
“ What is that ?”
“'I’ll is :
‘No foot of land do I possess,
Nor cottage in the wilderness,
A poor wayfaring man.
I dwell iu tents below,
Or gladly wander to and fro,
Till 1 my Canaan gain.
Yonder’s my house and portion fair,
My treasures and my heart are there,
And my abiding home.’ ”
“There !” said Strange, “I’d rather sing
that hymn than own America. I’ll trust
the Lord to take care of my wife and chil
dren.”
lie continued singing and preaching,
and the Lord, said the preacher, did take
care of him and his children after him.
[ Merry’s Magazine.
T
IE attenti on of DEALERS & PLANTERS
w respectfully called to my stock of
SADDLES, HARNESS
AND
^cldlery Groocls,
COMPRISING
^sorted SADDLES,
8&ts “ Double &. Single HARNESS
l -ets “ Carriage &, Team COLLARS,
■Sides Harness, B.idle, Sole, Upper, Band,
' lla "'s and*String.s LEATHER. As well as
-ADDLERY HARDWARE of all kinds,
“Tracing Ultts, Stirrups, Buckles, Rings,
purs, Webbings, Whips, Saddle Trees,
&c &,c &c.,
8e e me when in want of any goods in
iiV. 1 ^ be ruy aim to please my patrons
particular.
Grders by mail faithfully executed.
V() G . mdllXD.
n A renne, beticecn Mulberry and Cherry Sts.,
, ^^COJST, GKA--
tMl 17 > 1^66 3m IG
his chief works before forty, and died at
forty six.
At the disruption ofLeipsic, Luther was
thirty-five ; at the Diet ol Worms, thirty-
seven. And and at twenty seven, Calvin
wrote the Institutes. Moses sent young
men to spy out the land of Canaan, and
Joshua sent young men ns spies to Jericho.
Saul, David and Solomon achieved their
greatest works before they reached mid
die life. John the Baptist and the apos-
ties did their leading life work as young
men, and Jesus Christ finished his labors
and endured his sufferings as a young man.
Not a decrepid w orn-out life, but the warm
blood of manhood's morning did He shed
upon the cross for the world’s redemption.
j German Messenger.
Marrying for Show.—To the question
often asked young men as to why they do
not marry, we sometimes Irear the reply,
“I am not able to support a wife.” In one
case iu three, perhaps, this many be so ;
but as a general thing, the true reply
would be, “I am not able to support the
style in which I think my wife ought to
live.” In this again we see a false view
of marriage—a looking to an appearance
in the world, instead of a union with a lov'
ing woman for her own sake. There are
very few men of industrious habits who
can not maintain a wife, if they were will
ing to live economically, and without re
ference to the opiuiou of the world. The
great evil is, they arc not willing to begin
life humble, to retire together into obscure
position, and together work their way in
the world, by industry in his calling, and
she by dispensing with prudence the mon
ey he earns. But the}’ must stand out and
attract the attention of others by their fine
houses and fine clothes.
Special Correspondence of the Picayune.
Emigration lo Brazil.
Rio he Janeiro, June 2, 1S66.
I beg leave, as an American citizen, to
insert a few lines in your columns, with
regard to American Emigration to this
country—Brazil. Much has been said
with regard to the great resources and
beautiful scenery which is all very true;
but as lor its fertility for agriculture and
general farming purposes, more can be rais
ed on one acre of good land in the States
than ten of the best here and the same
proportion in regard to labor—cue man
can accomplish more in the States than
ten here, for I have traveled some five or
six months iu the country, for the sole pur- j
pose of exploring and examining the couYi- J
try, as a Southern emigration agent, and J
I have examined many hundred different
plantations, and find that the soil is better
adapted to the culture of coffe than any
other crop, and the best crops of coffee that
they raise, are raised on the side of the
mountains, where it is impracticable to use
agricultural implements, and can only be j
cultivated with the hoe. Coffee is set out
in plants, like our fruit trees, and it takes
three years before the tree begins to bear,
and tbe fourth year, an average crop may
be realized, but is as uncertain as our cotton
crop in the States, and leaves the planter
about the same profit as cotton from 10 to j
12 cents* per pound. There are some pro- j
viuces iti the empire adapted to the sugar
cane, but not for cotton, and never so much
can be raised to tbe acre as there can be
in the sugar-growing States of the South, j
As for the climate, this is no place for |
Americans who are consumptive and rheu- |
matic ; th'ey live here but a short time.— j
During my s‘:ry liere, (some eight months,) |
out ot some twenty families that have
come out here, a quarter of them have died
— the general average—and most of those j
that were left, were sent home by charity,
(subscriptions of a lew true Americans - who
are here.) Those who had any property,
expended it iu these worthless lands, and
were reduced to poverty ; and inasmuch
as 1 have witnessed this with my own
eves, 1 feel it my duty, as an American
citizen and a lover ol the American people,
to expose and publish certain parties—hea
vy English, German, Brazilian and Jew-
isli merchants—who have formed a society
or company with a large capital, and who
style themselves the “EmigrationfSociety,”
to deceive and induce Southern people to
emigrate to a country, represented as a
paradise, which has proved worse than a
hell (if there can be such a thing) to most
of those who have come here as emigrants,
being cut off from all good society and
morality, and arc obliged to associate
with a mongrel race, Indian, negro and
Portugues, speaking a different language
from their own. In short, American emi
gration should for the* present, be discour
aged : at least until the country affords
different inducements, and this society,
who are exiled from America, mostly, ought
to be published, and their true designs ex
posed, lor they are base, barefaced lies on
the very face of them, and gotten up for
their pockets, and not the good of the eun
igrants, which they pretend. There are
agents on their way to the States, on the
steamer tliat will bare this, sent out by
and hope, as an American citizen, emi
gration will be discouraged. I will be
responsible for all that I have stated, nud
more too when I have a chance.
I have been hurrying my mail for the
steamer which sails very soon.
Uncle Sam receives some queer notes.—
Among them we quote a report made^ by a
postmaster of F- . Illinois:
“T co ills. July 9 1857
Mr james Bukanin president of the Uni
ted States Deer sir Been required by the
instructions of the post office to report
quarterly i now herewith f’ooifiil that pleas-
in dooty by reportin as follows : I he har
vests has been goin on'peerty and most of
the nabors have got their cuttin dun wheat
is hardly a average crop on rollin lands
corn is yallerish and wont turn out morn
ten or bushels to the aker the helth of the
community is only tolerable ineesils and
cholery hav broke out about 2 ami a hall ( „„„ ,
miles from here their is a powerful awak- | t ^j g soc j e ty to iuduco emigiation, and are
eniu on the subjec of religun in the potts , j, ave h0 a head.
naborhood miss nancy smith a near nabor ; j shall be home soon and will call at
had twins day before yesterday one °f j y 0ae office and give further information-—
them is a poor scraggy thing and wont ^ am ., Inau yq years old, and came out
liv half its day this is about all i have to j iere to explore the country, and see the
report the present quarter giv my lespecls ; c j ialices f or emigration, and have uo object
to mrs Bukanin and subscribe myself. i j n deceiving my people. A true state of
yoors trooly i a ff a t r8 should be known, and not have
Abijah Jenkins ^ ; Americans come out here, and be reduced
p. in. at 1 c °* j to pauperism, which is the c.tse iu most all
| instances. Dr. Blue is the only one on
Young Men.— How many great 1 “ eu Ljjj s own settlement,” and is a laughing
performed their greatest achievements be., j ^cro. He is in a state of starvation,
foie forty. Alexander the Gieat < let a : ^ have "iveu you some true facts of what
thirty-three. Napoleon had achieve a ^ have seen, and will vouch for them.—
iiis great victories at thirty five. V y asl, ~ j •'x'liet.e «geuts ought to be foiled in their
ington was twenty seven when lie covered infamous designs, and hope the Pickayuue
the retreat ot the British army undei rai - j ^ *|,e means of doing so. lama
dock, and not forty-five in 1776. At thu y* g out h er „ soldier, was in tbe Mexican and
three Jefferson wrote the Declaration o y 0 j ar j c j a warH> au d one of tiie pioneers of
Independence. At thirty, Hamilton lie p- ; , This I subject to your dictation,
ed toframe the Constitution of the United, A J
From the Hamilton (Ohio) Democrat
The Truth at Last.
Who is responsible for the burning of Columbia,
S. C.?—Sherman’s Charge Against Wade Hamp
ton Refuted by a Federal Participant.
What I saw and heard at Columbia on the
1 Q>th, \lth, IS//* ajid 19 th of Deb. 1865.
On the 16th of February the army of
General Sherman met on the right bank ot
tbe Congaree river, opposite Columbia. In
uniting, the right came into position on the
left. The bridge over the Congaree and
those over the Saluda and Broad rivers,
which unite and form the former about one
mile above Columbia had been burned.—
(The latter streams are about as large, and
the former perhaps twice as large as the Mi
ami at this point.) To facilitate the cross
ing and to get into proper position, the ar
my of the Cumberland marched, by the
left flank,to a position about live miles,and
the 15th army corps (arm}* of the Tennes-.
see) up to the Saluda about one mile from
its conjunction with the Broad.
Wishing for a good “excuse.”
Next morning iu company with the same
officer, 1 started to visit the ruins. On our i
way we met crowds of soldiers, who were i
•yelling, singing, waving gold watches, I
handfuls of gold, jewelry’, and rolls of rebel j
shinplasters in the* air, and boasting of
having burnt the town. One was stag- |
gering under the weight of a huge basket
filled with silver plate.
Tiie 17th Army Corps, Army of Ten
nessee, went into camp on the banks oi the
Congaree within less than one mile from
the centre of tiie town. From our camp the
whole city was in plain view. No troops,
save a few skirmishers along the river, or
citizens, couid be seen on tiie streets or
about the town. I had never seen so much
carelessness in exposing camps and troops,
in plain view of a place-occupied by rebels,
and remarked to a captain ot artillery that
they could make us scatter by opening a
battery on our camp, and tbe column ol
troops matching ou tbe road within mus
ket shot of the town. “So they could, aud
I hope they will fire at us. We wish for
a good excuse to blow tbe town to tbe dev
il, and will do so on tbe first provocation.
They know better, however, and will not
disturb our sleep to-night.” A few shots
were exchanged between tiie pickets of
tbe two armies acioss the Congaree and
Saluda. Near our camp, and close by. the
road on which the 25tli Army Corps 'was
marching, were the remains of Camp Sor~
gburn, where Federal officers had been kept
as prisoners of war.
Columbia foredoomed.
The f eeling of the Army of Tennessee is
well illustrated by a profane and fero
cious doggerel, which was sung by hun
dreds of the 15th Army Corns :
“Hail Columbia, happy land,
If I don’t burn you i’ll be d—d.”
This effusion was said to have been ut
tered by a Major General as he was cross
ing the Saluda. (It was. not Sherman.)
The doom of Columbia was decided at
Camp Sorghum, and neither Gen. Sher
man nor any other man could have saved
it froui severe treatment. The 15th Army
Corps crossed the Saluda with but little
opposition, and eucamped.ou the tongue of
laud between it and the Broad. Next
morning (17th) about 8 a. m., loud and re
peated explosions in tbe city were heard.
At 9 a. in. an extensive fire was seen in
the neighborhood of the Charlotte railroad
depot. From this to 11 a. m. cotton was
seen burning iu the streets. About this time
brisk skirmishing was heard to the north
of the city. Immediately a squad of sol
diers from the 13th Iowa sprung into two
small boats and paddled across the Con'-
garee. On landing they started for tbe
fetate House in order to have the honor ol
raising the flag of their regiment on the
building in advance of the 15th Army'
Corps. White flags were now seen ou
most of the houses and iu the hands of citi
zens on the streets.
The Jire to be seen when Sherman’s Army
entered.
Just then the bugles of our division soun- j
ded strike tents, and when we were iu a j
few minutes ou the route taken by the 15th
Army Corps. As the route was encumber |
ed with the trains of these troops, and some j
five miles in length, we did not reach Co- j
lumbia until about 8 p. m. As we march- j
ed through the town there was no sign oi j
appearance of lire anywhere. Crowds of !
intoxicated soldiers were in the streets cry- |
ing “Here’s your whisky ; here’s your to- |
bacco.”
The Carnival of Destruction begins. I
At 9 p. m. we reached our camp on the
plantation of ex-Gov. Adams, of slave trade j
revival notoriety. Scarcely had we gone i
to camp, when almost every other man ;
came with a box of Maderia wine on his j
shoulder, and a “high old time” was inau
gurated. *
It was reported that there were 10,000 |
bottles of tbe article iu the ex-Governor’s
house, and a still larger quality in that of I
Secretary Trenholm. As to the amount 1 j
cannot say, but there was enough obtained
from their houses to make more men iu our !
division drunk than I ever saw in two years |
before. About 10 p. m. fire began to
spread over the city, aud a noise from the
grand revel could be heard.
The Entire City in Ruins.
About midnight an intimate friend who
had been in the place from three o'clock in
the afternoon, returned to the regiment and |
reported as follows: “The whole city is in}
fames and the whole army is drunk.” The
place is swimming with Hqucr, brought
from Savannah, Charleston aud Wilming
ton by the blockade runners, and abandon
ed. The citizens in their fletire to please
the soldiers, deluged them with it, and men,
women and children were on the streets
handing Honors to every blue coat that
came along. The guards have been chang- j In the statement this extract contains,
ed three times already. As fast as they j that Gen. J. E. Johnston failed to obey
are changed they get drunk. “positive orders” or directions to attack
Plunder without Restraint. i General Grant at Vicksburg iu 1863, or
As wo passed by the Lunatic Asylum | or Gen. Sherman at Atlanta in 1864, there
we were surrounded by hundreds of men, a mistake caused, no doubt, by Dr. Cra-
women and children begging for protection.; veil having misapprehended Lis distin-
On the grounds attached to this building; guished patient, with whom, in his misfor-
wera thousands whom the fire had render- tunes, I know a«-e sympathizes more
ed houseless aud homeless, congregated at truly tiiau.Geii* Johnston. I venture to
I he only place of refuge left in that quarter tMake this correction in justice to a war-
of the city. Near bv, a crowd of soldiers worn veteran who has freely shed his
accompanied by a performer seated by a blood in defence of the Southern cause,
piano, were singing “Brown.” 1 :ini 7 who is too good a soldier to wilfully
On Main street, for. near one mile, there disregard an order of his military supei i-
was not a siugle house standing, and on a j ors *
space as large as this city there were not; Tiie only, approach to an order to attack
twenty. ! Gen. Grant iu 1863 was given in a tele-
Tlrrtitle Evidences tf their “Rage and | gram f rom the Secretary of War, and this
Date. i was modified and virtually revoked by a
The streets throughout this district were ! second telegraphic communication received
covered with the broken and burned re-1 tLe same day. TLe^jentleman who was
mains of furniture of every variety. Near ; at the time Secretary of AY ar of the Con
the State House a largo, bonfire of tobac-j federate StatWliad*t»%-«iach wisdom and
co. near two hundred feet long, fifty feet practical sense to give a “positive order”
wide and live high, was burning, and wast- j t° Gen. Johnson to attack with his army
ing its fragrance on the air. A number of j °f about 23,000 men Geu. Grant’s army
Jews were standing by. weeping and ex- : numbering some SO,000, covered, in a po-
elaiming; “Me poor, me starb, start), starb ; bition of great natural strength, by tbe un-
Your mens come in mine house, kicks me j fordable Big Black river, and by formida-
onf, set fire to mine house. Me carry | hie lines o! intrenchinents defended at all
mine topaccy out in the street. Your mens I points, by powerful artillery,
puts wood on him and burns all mine to-j Yu like manner no such orders were giv-
paccy.” Around- tbe new State House,; cn during Die Atlanta campaign, and the
however, were stronger evidences of the! disasters that befel the Army of Tennes-
rage and hate of the soldiers towards ev- j alter General Johnston was relieved
erything belonging to or connected with j
the Btate of South Carolina, than even |
the general appearance of the town. This J
building was unfinished. Most of the or- i
namental poition had not been removed i
from the boxes in which it had been |
brought there. * There were the remains of
fluted columns, capitals, entablatures, frei
zes aud cornices of the finest itilian mar
ble, iliac had ever been destroyed by fire, j
defaced by blows from muskets, and mash
ed by axes and hammers.
Monument to the Gallant Dead Desecrated.
Even the monument erected by tbe
State to the gallant dead of the palinentto
Regiment (1st South Carolina) iu the Mex
iean war, had not been spared. It con
sisted of four iron columns, resting on a
foundation of stone, and supporting an
iron platform surmounted by a Palmetto
tree of the same material, twenty feet high
and painted green, a true copy from ua-
ture. On brass panels, between tiie iron
columns below, were inscribed the names.
clearly demolish ate.i that they ought not
to have been given.
My position on General Johnston’s staff,
aud my relations to him, caused all his
correspondence with the authorities in
Richmond by mail, by telegraph, and by*
messengers, from January, 1863, to July,
1864, at which time lie was relieved, to
pass throughflfiiy hands. Any assertion I
have herein made I am fully prepared to
prove.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
BE X J A M INS. E WE LL.
From the Journal and Messenger.
Colton Crowing in Georgia.
Perhaps the most fearful experiment
that was ever made with the labor of any
countrj’, when considered as to its imme
diate results, prospective efficiency, or as
to the permanency of its products, is now
upon us. A change s* universal, so sud-
dcu the antagonism of races, the natural
effect of the elevation of the slaves, with-
residence, cause, and date of death of all
the dead of the regiment. One of the pan- j out a moment’s prelimary training, as well
els has been battered to pieces. j «« ‘ lje inexperience of their former mas
ters in the management of free labor, all
What was dune by Northern Democrats. \
At noon I returned to my regiment, eu- j
gaged in destroying the railroad near the j
city. Close at hand was a vacant build j
ing containing a line library belonging to j
the Rhett, Barnwell, Heywood, and Mid
dleton families, it was fired and burned j
in the presence, and without a word of re-1
monstrance, of an officer commanding a ■
brigade, who has since been a candidate
on the Democratic State ticket in a Wes
tern Slate.
Columbia in ruins.
On the 19th hundreds of men were en
gaged in destroying the last vistige of ev
erything that had been or could bo used
for military purposes. Houses that had
been used for that purpose were burned
and battered down under the superinten
dence oi Gen. Slier man. Fires repeatedly i combination of foPUmate circumstances
occurred where bouses were found to con ! may make individual cases occasionally
tain cotton* tar or turpentine. The guards j successful. These will be not the rule but
declared they were cases of “spontaneous j exceptions to it. My opinion, then, is that
pornlinstimi.” thu “heart of King G’otton j cotton growing, under the present system,
or no system at all, must soon languish and
mainly cease, as our people are to poor to
risk a succession of ruinous or doubtful ex
periments. The end of this year, I am
fearful, will find tbe South poorer than at
the beginning, witj^its energy greatly
paralyzed at the ur.relialTle labor of freed-
men as a general thing, the uncertainty of
its political future, and the burthens of tax
ation too heavy for its resources. It is my
candid opinion, after much reflection and
close observation, that there will not bo
combine-to make the experiment not only
one of embarrassment, but hazardous in
the extreme. Without time to adjust the
plantation to the new order of things, by
making settlements, removing buildings,
erecting new. ones, etc,, wo have boen pre
cipitated into all tiie* embarrassments that
cluster so thickly around it, at a moment
the most uupropitious from tbe pecuniary
exhaustion of five years’ war, with the la
bor of those five years totally lost. Under
such circumstances, it is but natural that
many errors should have been committed,
even by the most sagacious, by those pos
sessing tbe most self control, and with the
best capacity for the rnanagemement of
others. In the present status, the labor of
freedmen in the cultivation of cotton I re-
decide’d failure, although a
combustion,” the
becoming fired at the sight of the stars
and stripes.” At 5 p. m. the large
arsonel was blown up. The standing j
order on the march to the sea, to j
destroy government property “in a man
ner more devilish than can bo dreamed
of” was fully carried out. Next.morning
our brigade, the last of Sherman’s army,
left the ruins of what had been a city of
30,000 inhabitants. \
The Author.
A lady asked Geu. Sherman : “Why
did you burn our town, or allow your ar-j enough gathered in this State, of all the
my fo do so?” “I did not burn your : crops grown the preseut year, te subsist our
town, nor did my army. Your brothers, j people and employ the same Ji.auds and
sous, husbands and fathers set fire to ev- j teams another year. Art admit that it
ery city, town, and village, in the land j has been the most disastrous seasou ever
when they fired on Fort Sumter. That i known for planting but enough - has been
lire kiiyliod then and there by them lias i learned to satisfy even the most sanguine
been burning ever since, and reached your j that employing the usual number of hands
houses last night.” “Well were you not | as heretofore on the old plantation, and in
in command ol the army last night ?” I j working them in large gangs, will speedily
did not command my army last night, and j lead its proprietor to bankruptcy—that
cannot command my men when they are j unreliable labor upon badly worn lands,
drunk.” “Will you allow us to go to j without the means formerly used to im-
Cbarleston ?” “You have my full consent ; prove them, oi the_pecuniary ability to
to go wherever you wish but do not go | purchase them, must result in starvation.—
there. Jl my army should go there and it j It may not be too high a figure to estimate
may do so, they will not leave one stone | the waste and consumption of provisions
on another in that city.” j at one third more, and the labor fully one-
■— third less, than when slaves. Suppose,
Tiie YirJi.sIfur? tiinl Atlanta Campaigns.
Letter from Prof. Ewell.
The following letteiq from Prof. Ewell
appears in the Richmond Enquirer and i . .
^eutinel ” I es l ,ma te will bo that lie may average tea
then, that a hand that cultivated twenty-
five acres of land whgn a slave, will now
cultivate seventeen, or even twenty acres,
half in coru and half in cotton. A fair
Williamsburg*, June 25, 1S66.
Editor Entjutrer and Sentinel—
Gentlemen: In yourmaper of the 22d
inst., the following is published as an ex
tract from Dr. Craven’s diary : “Pember
ton made a splendid defence of Vicksburg,
bushels of corn per acre, which will make
100 bushels. The mule, perhaps, could
plough for two hands, and thereby yield
200 bushels of corn. The hands aud the
mule wiil consume 100 bushels; and te
raise the 600 pounds of pork to teed the
tw'o hands will require 60 bushels of corn.
and might have been relieved, if Hie officer ; at a moderate estimate, which leaves toihe
commanding the army sent to relieve him : owner of the land and niuie forty bushels
(Gen. Johnson) had not failed to obey the ! of corn. Suppose they make seven bales
positive orders to attack Gen. Grant, which I of cotton at 8100 per bale, and you give
Mr. Seddoii, then Secretary oi War, had j your bauds one-third, which would be S233
sent. If the same officer, who was upheld which would leave to tiie proprietor 8466
in command by the anti-administration | and fortj’ bushels of corn to cover the wear
part}’, had vigorously attacked Sherman j and tear of the plantation, teams, wagons,
at Atlanta, when directed, the fortunes of carts, farming implements, to support the
war would have been changed, and Sber*.! proprietor, to pay hi? taxes, etc. This es-
man hurled back to Nadivilie uver a ster-; timate is made upon the selection of the
ile and wasted country, his retreat little ! best hands and the best lands and mules,
less disastrous than Napoleon’s from Mos- the most propitious seasons, and will prove
cow. He did not do so, and was relieved far above an average crop iu this portion
— Gen. Hood, a true and spirited soldier, j of Georgia. This does not embrace the
taking Lis place—but the opportunity was additional one third for wastefulness over
tlic-n gone, and to this delay more than to ; former times. Iu truth, planting cottou
any other cause the Southern people will after the lands become worn, was a slow
attribute their overthrow, whenever histo- way to get rich when wo had slaves, for
vy comes to be truly written. [ the most certain addition to the value of