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Newspaper Page TextVol. L. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1869. No. 42. R- Jsd.. O S. Iwl E & SO isr, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Terji> —S -j,00 per aunuin, in Advance. yertisixg—Per square *f ten lines, each l5 artioo. iji 1 >>J. Merchants and others foiali ' aJ auts j ver ^ 23, twenty-live per cent. off. legal advertising. Ur Unary'a. —Citationsfor letters olad- B l 'istration,guardianship ,&e $3 00 ]{jin‘Stead notiee 2 00 ^ ,plicationtorletters of dism’n fromadm’n 5 00 \jjlicationfor lettersofdism’nofguard’n 3 50 Vppliitationfor leave to sell Land 5 00 V.jtice to Debtors and Creditors 3 00 ^ of Land, per square of ten lines 5 00 Sale of personal, per sq., ten days 1 50 Sieri/s — Each levy of ten lines, or less.. 2 50 Mortgage sales of ten lines or less f> 00 i- ,* Collector’s sales, per sq, (2 months) 5 00 .^/...•--Foreclosure ofmortgage and oth- c er monthly’s, per square 1 00 j. 5tr ay notices, thirty days 3 00 Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries.tfcc*.exceeding six lines,to becharged as transient advertising. ; -gr riles of Laud, by Administrators, Execu- , irj ,,r Guardians, are required by law,to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the af- t . rI1 )j!i, atthe Court-house in the county in which he property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must be vven iulike manner 10 days previous to salesday. Notices to debtors and creditors of, an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be publish®*! for two months. Cautions for letters of Administration, Guar- uDuship, &c., must be published 30days—fordis- mijdon from Administration, monthly six months ; yr dismission trom guardianship, 40 days. gules for foreclosure of Mortgages must he published monthly for four months—for estabhsh- * . lost papers, for the full spaceof three months— : ,r 0 npelling titles from Executors or Adminis trators, where bond has been given by the de base 1. the full space of three months. Charge, jil 0J par square of ten lines for each insertion. Publications will always be continued accord i. 1 t to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwisa ordered. Schedule of Macon & Augusta 11. K. Leaves Camak, daily, at 12.30 P. M. Milledgeville 6.30 A.M. Arrives at Milledgeville 4.20 P.M. “ Camak 9.00 A.M. Passengers leaving Augusta or Atlanta on Day Passenger Train of Georgia Railroad will make tlose connection at Camakfor intermediate points mihe above road, and also for Macon, & c. Pas- lauurersleaviug Milledgeville at 5.30, A. M.,reach A that a and Augusta same day,and w'l! make ilose connections at either place for principal points! n adjoining States^ GenM Supt . Augusta, January 7,1868 4 SOI TII-WESTERN R. R. CO. OFFICE, MACON,GA.,Mar«h24th, 1668 Columbus Train—Daily. Leave Macon - k a M Arrive at Columbus v Af Leave Columbus Arrive at Macon -~ 6 ’ 40 1 * Eu/aula Train—Daily. , 8.00 A. M. Arrive at Eufaula L‘„ n , ‘ »» ' Leave Eufaula _ n „' Arrive at Macon 4 - a0 F M / Connecting with Albany Tramat Smithville Leave u n* P M* Arrive at Albany \ Leave Albany - nn f* Arrive at Smithville 11.00 A. Connecting with Fart Gaines Train at Cuthbcrt. Leave Cutl.bert f-■*' 4 ’ “• Arrive at Fort Games ;?* 4 i l If- rj- Leave Fort Gaines 7.05 A. M. Arrive at Cuthbert 9.0o A. M. Connecting with Central Railroad and Macon & Western Railroad Trains at Macon, and Mont gomery A, West Point Trains at Columbus. g 4 VIRGIL POWERS, Engineer & Superintendent. Schedule of the Georgia Railroad. I \N VND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 29th tJ 1868, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad will run as follows: DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. (Daily, Sundays excepted.) Leave Augusta at “ Atlanta at V‘U) P M Arrive at Augusta r ,n T* \f “ at Atlanta ...6.10 P. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. * Leave Augusta at 45 p'm’ - Atlanta at *lfP. M. Arrive at Augusta f ’ ’ •• Atlanta BERZELIA PASSENGER TKA^N. Leave Augusta at ■ • ’ “ Berzeliaat Arrive at Augusta \T‘ “ at Berzelia f' * , Passengers for Milledgeville,Washington and Ithens.Ga., must take Day Passenger 1 ram from iugusta and Atlanta. ... a 1 Passengersfor West Point, Montgomery, Sel- na, Mobile and New Orleans must leave Augusta >n Night Passenger Tram at o.4t>P. M., to make dose connections. . „ , T Passengers for Nashville,Corinth,Grand June- ion Memphis. Louisville and at. Louis can take ither train and make close connections. Through Tickets and Baggage checkedthrough a the above places. ., ... , , Pullman’s Palace SleepingCars on all Night ■assengerTrains^ coLE)Geu , 1Super . ut , dt Augusta,March 26,1868 4 , l L iltLcuita &L fUfest JdPaint HAIL !Ft-<3-5LX>. Day Pass nger Train —Outward Leave Atlanta ,.' Arrive at West Point----*- —- Day Passenger Train—Inward. Leave West Point J P M Arrive at Atlanta — 6.. Sight Freight and passenger—Outward. Leave Atlauta Vo p’ Vi Arrive at West Point 11.40 P M. Sight Freight and Passenger Train—Inward, Leave West Point 4 “* Arrive at Atlanta 11 •” u A ' al * ^Ilcukj-C. af~ chaciide.. OFFICE SOUTH CAROLINA R. R. CO., I Augusta, Ga.-, March 25,1868. O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 29th March, 1868. the Mai and Passenger Trains of tins will leave and arrive at through Centra Depot,Georgia Railroad, as follows: Morning Mail and Passenger Train t'or Charleston, connecting Train for Columbia, South Carolina, Charlotte Road, and Wnming- ton and Manchester Railroad. .... Leave Central Depot at A -M- Arrive atCentral Depot -- 3.30 r. M.. ATight Passenger Sf Accommodation Train ForCharleston, connecting with Train for Co lumbia,and withGreenville andColumbiaRa:l- road: Leave Central Depot at 3.50 P. M. Arrive atCentral Depotat 7.00 A. M. H. T. PEAKE, ■ • General Superintendent PERNS BROTHERS. 44 Third Street, Macon, Georgia. MI aruifsiotTirers or Saddles, Harness, Collars &e. AND Wholesale and Retail Dealers IN Saddlery, Hardware, Tools die- Harness. Skirting, Lace, Sole, Upper, Belting, Patent and Enameled Leather, Enameled Cloths, Calf and Lining Skins. Our Saddles, Harness &c., are of our own Man ufacture ; aud we refer to those who have used our work, concerning its merits. To Manufacturers, we would say : Our stock of Leather and other Goods in our line, is Large, and we aim to please in Price as well as Quality. We offer a great variety of Whips, from which the most fastidious cannot fail to make a selec tion. As also, Horse and Saddle Blankets, Bng- gy Mats, &c. ‘’Our Patent Adjustable Plough Back band, commends itself to the Planter, by its being adapted to large or small animals, and obviating the necessity of moving it to the loins, when shai- low ploughing is desired. We buy Hides, Furs, Wax, Wool, Moss and Tallow. September 28, 1869 29 3m A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE In Ivlilled.g’eville fou D ESIRING to change my residence, I offer for sale my HOUSE and LOT, situated near the Executive Mansion, and in the highest and most healthy and pleasant part ot Milledge ville. The house is on a one acre lot, and con tains five rooms and a front Piazza and a back Veranda, with a Kitchen, Servants’ House, and all other necessary out buildings, together with a tine well of water. The front yard is well im proved with choice flowers and shrubbery. The same will be sold low for cash, if immediate ap plication is made to PETERSON THWEATT. Millledgeville, Sept. 26, 1869 39 4t Frost, Bla-ok <Bz> Co., Wholesale & Retail Manufacturers of & Dealers in FISST CLASS Furniture OF EVERY VARIETY. G9 BOWERY, near Canal St., N. Y. Furnished at the Shortest Notice. All goods purchased of our house guaranteed as represented. R. W. Frost. Jas. Black. Geo. Snyder. September 21. 1869 3 a 3m Dr. Gr. ‘W’. JOISTES, iJtcsjcienl Qlentlsi. ALL DENTAL opera tions performed with skill and care. Artificial teeth [inserted in all styles known to the profession. Old cases, not comforta bly worn, can be made so. Old Gold Plates fakenin partpaymentfor Den tal operations. FIT Office, East. Rooms Darien Bank building. ! Milledgeville Oct. 13, 1668. 41 tf i Sealed. Proposals. 1 Office of Treasurer and Stewart of the ) Georgia State Lunatic Asylum, > Near Milledgeville, Ga., Oet’r 4, 1859. ^ S EALED PROPOSALS will be received at. this Office from now until the 15th instant at 12 o’clock, M , to furnish said Lunatic Asylum with three hundred (300) pounds of good mer chantable BEEF—hind aud fore quarters propor- tiohaBly—every day; to be delivered at the Asy lum by "the hour of 9 o’clock, A. M. The contract to commence oiMhe 16th day ot October, ] ~09and continue until the Iti'.ii day of January, 1870- A bond of three thousand dollars will be required for faithful compliance with the contract, and every bidder must present the names of Lis security with his Lid. M. R. BELL, Treasurer & Steward S L. A. October 5, 1869 4 ^ -1 _ LOOK after vour WILD LANDS. gomerv,—will find it to their interest to send their numbers to the undersigned who, tor a small fee, will, if desired, make examination of lands in person and report as to value, &.C.. Special attention given to buying and selling lands on commission. REFERENCES. GEORGE H. HAZLEHURST, Pres't Maeon and Brunswick Railroad, Macon, Ga. Rev. J. W BURKE, Macon, Ga. WALTER T MoARTHUR. Jacksonville, Telfair county, G*. JalySO, 18W 3m? JVare ! THE Subscriber is selling Tin-Ware at old prices. 1 am selling<>ut niy pres ent stock at old prices. Come and see for yourselves. JOSEPH STALEY. Milledgeville, Oct. 5, 1869 40 3t Stoves! Stoves!! J UST received, a lot of fine COOKING- STOVES and Cooking Stove FUR NITURE, which I will sell out cheap for cash, r5~ A few more of those Patent CHURN DASHERS left. Milledgeville, Oct. 5,1869 JOSEPH STALEY. 40 3t, ARLINGTON IIMial fiff Insurance COMPANY. RICHMOND, VA. I^ 51 Persons desiring to insure their lives wil call upon R. M. ORME, Jr.,Ag t. Milledgeville, May 19, 1868 20 tt irPTSTOVALL, WAKEHOUSE AND stpanimissiarL ^/(LcYchant, Jackson Street, AUGUSTA. GA., C ONTINUES to give his personal attention to the storage and sale of COTTON and other produce. Orders for Plantation and Family Supplies promptly and carefully tilled. Vfr* He is prepared to make liberal CASH AD- j were punished VANCES on ail consignments. ! - 1 - July 27, 1869 30 3m fpstaliLLslied 1 $3 (f. THE “FINDLAY IRON WORKS," Macon, 0-c'i- 7 Are again in full and successful opera- tiun with an increased stock of Machinery periment trial, inclining forward, with aud Patterns. : UUI bending the knees, and faithfully _ r,. r, 1 Aiai. lendeavor io touch his toes, further bteam Engines, Circular baw Alms, , ... . .. ’ 0 1 words will fie superfluous. It was our loi to stand up, daily,and [From the Constitution ] Prison Life in Camp Douglas. ITle Punishments—The “Horse." “John Morgan’s mule’ was ihe name facetiously bestowed upon a favorite instrument of Yankee torture. It was an immense trestle, a thin scantling set high in air upon four legs. It stood sixteen leet hi height, just the proper elevation to afford the rider an unim peded prospect over the summit oflhe parapet as well a3 the fullest benefit of the tresh breezes from the lake. As the beast was ridden by night as often as by day, and as the luckiest cava liers were the most frequently taken from their bunks haliess and bootless, in shirl and drawers, and mounted in lhat ghostly guise, these “scouts,” as they were eaileJ, were always suffi ciently disagreeable. But when the mer cury sank below the notch at zero,and the pit Hess north wind swept in, keen and biting fiom the frozen lake, the punishment became inhuman torture. The pathological reader may judge to what degree each sudden transition and extreme exposure would contribute to the aggregate mortality. The “Barrel Shirt” and “ Reaching for Rations." Among other punishments for small offenses, were those as the “barrel shirt” and “reaching lor rations.” The first was severe chiefly in its humilia tion, consisting simply in being com pelled lo perambulate camp with head and arms projecting through three holes cut conveniently in an empty flour bar rel. Reaching for rations was almost as severe, though not as fatal as the “horse.” Any number of candidates, from a single one to several hundred, imultaneously. When the squad was of considerable size, the I men were drawn up in two ranks, at 1 open order, and forced to bow forward | and downward, without bending the | knee joints, until the fingers touched j the toes, or approached as near to them las the conformation of the man would ■allow. A book descriptive of the pro cess would convey but an imperfect idea of its intense cruelty ; but if the reader will stand up and make an ex- Mill & Gin Gearing, Horse Powers,— specially adapted lo driving Cotton Gins,—Store Fronts, Railing, <fcc., &c.; in fact, every description of Machinery and Castings made to order. Off’All kinds of Machinery repaired, Sole manufacturers at Maeon lor the celebrated UTLEY COTTON PRESS. QY" All work warranted, and. Prices as low as the lowest. Send for Circular. R. FINDLAY’S SONS. Macon, August 24, 1869 34 3m L. J. GUILMARTIN. •JOHN FLANNERY. L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO. COTTON FACTORS AND General Commission Merchants Bay Street, Savannah, Cva? thus “reach lor rations,” in squads and regiments. We reached faithfully, lo the utmost capacity of sinew’ and mus cle, ior there were ready weapons near and the men who bore them were ea ger for a pretext to spill our traitorous blood. That was no time to try lo “play old sojer.” Resistance was mad ness,for we were helplessly at the mercy of men to whom the life of a rebel was of no accounta bility—who even sought occasion to shed our blood. Let .3 single instance, in illustration, seive for many which could be given if space admitted. One day a guard, failing to find foul words enough to fill the measure of abuse which he wished to heap upon a sullen prisoner, made good the defi ciency by aiming an energetic kick.— The prisoner instinctively threw out iiis arm lo ward the stroke, and the Yankee was thrown down by the sheer torce of his own intercepted efl’oit. He arose, drew his pistol, and shot the ill- fated man, killing him in his tracks. There is an ancient maxim to the 'tout passage, a direct channel was opened up into the dungeon, and thro’ this channel the vitiating gasses were constantly pouring and poisoning the life-blood of the men compelled to breathe and live in an atmosphere so pent up and polluted. Hence, it was, that the dungeon w’as the terrible synonym of dread, and that a summons thither w r as like an order of execution. The barrel shirt, reaching for rations, standing in line,the horse, the ball and chain, and other mild forms of punishment, were set apart foi a thousand sins, too various and trivial for mention. More Horrors—Freezing to Death First and gravest, because most fre quently incurred, was the penalty of the law requiring that every prisoner should be in his bunk at sunset, and lie there without rising up, or so much as whispering to a bunk mate, until the bugle call at sunrise. In that high lat itude, when the sun reaches the winter solstice, from sun to sun is about four teen hours. Yet, to form even a faint conceplion of the pitiless suffering of those long, weary nights, other vital circumstances must be borne clearly in mind. First, the riggers of a North ern winter fell upon men unused to such severity. Even the guards were often taken off", because in short reliefs of fifteen minutes they sank down upon the beat, to die there if not borne n and revived by powerful restoratives. It was riot uncommon to see the mer cury sink down to twenty-eight, thirty and even thirty-two degrees below the zero, and at such times the camp was safer under the guardianship of ihe dread frost-king, than it could have been by any human vigilance. Some hardy spirits braved the ter rors once, scaling the deserted para- To the Second Ken-1 pets one hitler night, and next day incident varying the j some bodies were found frozen stark and stiff! within gunshot of the camp. Now, at such times as this, there were i purport lhat a rogue must be caught Agents for Bradley s Super Phosphate oj j (j (; f ore j ie can |j e hanged ; but that say ing went into an adage before the Yankees guarded rebel prisoners. That a perpetrator of a crime must be known Lime. Bagging, Rope an] lion Ties always on hand. Usual Facilities Extended to Customers. August 17,1869 33 6iu . THE SOlTliERN IXSLR.nCt AND Trust Company. CAPITAL, SAVANNAH, HENRY BRIGHAM, President. m J L. Villalonga, E. Lovell, J. M. Cooper, J. R. Johnson, A Wilbur. A. H. Champion, George L. Cope, J.G. Mills, Henry Brigham, John Cunningham. September 7, 1669 GEORGIA. THOS. H. PALMER. Secretary. DIRECTORS : J. W Lathrop, F. W. Sims, W. H. Tison, T. M. Norwood, John D. Hoplsins, W. E. Jackson, Augusta, E C. Grannis, Macon, D. F. Wilcox, Columbus, J.G- L. Martin. Eufaula. before punishment can be inflicted,may have been a solid axiom of olden jus tice, but the age is progressive, and Northern ideas are the meteoric lumin aries destined lo flood the benighted world with the effulgent brightness of reform. The authorities of Camp Douglas weie far in advance of the era that permitted a principle so fallacious to pass into a proverb. They punish ed for offenses without regartl to the discovery oflhe offenders. It was the policy of Herod the King, revived. He slaughtered the male infants of Beth lehem and all its coast, to encompass the death of one ; and the officials of our prison punished innocent men by hundreds at a time, to achieve the pun ishment of a single culprit whom they could noL detect. The innocent were put io the torture by hundreds to extort confession. The authorities resorted to this at first, in the belief that they could thus bend courageous spirits to an infamous pur pose—torture the rebels into baseness and treachery toward each other. And when the dastardly persecution deve! oped the existence in the breast of those rough, ragged soldiers, of a principle including the Discounting of Notes and Bills. Ke-I that WOUid have Stricken shame IlllO ceiving Deposits, buying :md selling Exchange, j persecutors possessing one latent Spark and making Gollections. . ■ ■ . R . j of manly feeling, the discovery, instead He relers by permission to the National KanK o’ 111 of the Republic. New York, aiid to the Merchant* ot putting baseness to the blush, was ;ib .if Banking' Agency. R L. HUNTER, Agent of the .Southern Iu- • snr.ince and Trust Company ot Savannah, j has opened an Office in the Second Story of the j Wahzfelder building, over Joseph's More, where, J besides taking fire risks, he will do a general i BA-iC-yiKlIIhTG- BUSINESS, i National Bank of Savannah. Milledgeville, Sept. 7, 1869 36 tf _A_ <r e 11 c v • H AVING established a REAL ESTATE A- GENCY for CENTRAL GEORGIA, with headquarters at the Globe Hotel, Augusta, Ga., I solicit all persons having property lor sale in Baldwin Clousty, to call at the Law Office of Messrs. Kenan & Kenan, my authorized ageuts at Milledgeville, giving a full description, that, their property may be specified in the advertise ments now being prepared for the Northern press. DF* Send promptly. Correspondents now tall for several first class places. J. HOWARD BROWN, Augusta. Georgia. September 7,1869 3G Out welcomed as a new and grand auxilia- j iy in the detective system. They | hoped to make the rebels faithless to i each other, but the sole success was Nho wonderful development, that when jauy given number were brought up to the mark fur torture, if the culprit was amofrg them, he would invariably step out and surrender himself to punish- menl. From first to last, in all that prison, there was not found a man sufficiently ignoble to shield himself behind the fi- delit} 7 of his comrades, although it was a thoroughly established principle that those comrades would suffer to the last 'extremity before they would betray.— Sometimes the guards erred in hauling in the net, taking the innocent without the culprit. Then much suffering was inevitable, for the authorities construed the • non-confession into a concerted purpose to break down the monstrous system, and the punishment was made accordingly severe. Other Vile Punishments. Reaching for rations,standing in line for hours in burning sun and biting cold, suspension by the thumbs, and the horse, were the usual forms of tor ture resorted to on these occasions.— Let room he taken for two instances, only of the hundreds that can be es tablished by evidence piled mouatain high. At roll-call one morning, it was discovered lhat the men of the Second Kentucky cavalry, in performing their ablutions, had spilled a few basins of water on the sand. It did no harm for it was midsummer, when a flood would have sunk readily into ihe arid earth ; but it was an infringment of a paltry, Lvrannizing law, and the whole regi ment paid the penalty by standing in line motionless, without breakfast,from sunrise until past meridian, under a sun so powerful that a number sank down overpowered, and were borne off lo the barracks. Under such an ordeai, all were forbidden to shift position, anti the weakest were not allowed to lean upon a stronger comrade for support. At another time, the same regiment was assembled in groups on the sun ny side of the regimental barrack. It was in winter, and the first sunshine, after a storm. The keeper of the gar rison colors took occasion to run the bunting up to dry. When the flag reached about half mast, the halliards parted, and the stars and stripes went sailing down to leeward, like a kite without a string, tucky, if was an wearisome monotony, exactly as the mere upstarting of a rabbit has been to lagged out soldiers a thousand times over, and in the same common, react ing impulse, the whole regiment start ed up and gave a rousing cheer. But by the officers of the garrison, it was construed as an indignity to the “old flag.” Captain Gaffney came down in wrath, cqrsed the regiment in vilest terms as a set of cowards—boasted lhat his single company could “whip them all ! As a tangible token to the ehivalric prowess to be found in that samecompanv, he drew Lis pistol and struck one oflhe helpless men heavily on the head with it. After more abuse the regiment was marched into the the Federal square and forced to stand in line lor hours, beneath the outraged banner of a glorious nation. Giaceful- ly and proudly the broad folds rustled above men who had full often swept them from the red front of battle, anil trampled them in the dust of many a rushing onset. Stringent orders were given to the guards to shoot the first man that mov ed from the position of a soldier. A man moved and a guard fired. With their usual unskillfulness the Yankee missed his man ; but the bullet tore through the files, killing two unoffend ing men, and desperately wounding the third. From that red sand, the blood of murdered men cried out into the ear of a just, avenging God; and in the dark tangles of the “Wilder ness,” and at the “Mine” in front of Petersburg, the bolts of vengence fell. In the Northern details of these battles we read how Gaffney’s regiment was half destroyed and finally annihilated ; how the Colonel was shot while run ning from his post, and how Captain Hooker DeLand was stripped of his shoulder-straps, on open parade, and sentenced to the Dry Tortugas for fla grant cowardice in the face of the ad vancing enemy. Such were the men who outraged defenseless prisoners. Suspension by Thumbs was also a severe form of punishment. There are enough men living who will testify that the cords were strong and well stretched bytheie bodies. This and the dungeon were reserved for grave transgressions, such as holding “treasonable” communication with friends by bribery or stratagem, and attempting to escape ; for the Yankees visited this last with severest punish ment, although the commandant him self, in a printed order, once inadver tently admitted that to escape, if possi ble, was the soldierly duly of the pris oner of war. The Dungeon. When the prison was partitioned, the “While Oak Dungeon” was fenced outside the boundaries of Little Dixie. But a new one was immediately built inside, hard by the gale. It was a low. square, solid slructure, without light or ventilation, save what was supplied by two small openings, about six inches across each wav. These openings were diamond shaped, and with grim soldierly humor, the men christened the thing the “duce of diamonds.” The deliberate diabolism of this institution can not be comprehended without some unpleasant details. As has been said, it was unventilated, except by two small openings six ifiches across. These were provided with lock shut ters, so that the narrow cell could be wholly shut in from heaven’s pure air and blessed light at option of the keep ers. But this was only the initial step in an inhuman plan of torture. The dungeon was buifi directly ovpr the sewer, which drained offthe excretion bf twelve thousand men, anti from that Being comparatively near to home and friends, he enjoyed many advantages foreign to the lot of the great mass of his companions, and by fair use of his good fortune, he was in possession of six heavy blankets. The guards were forbidden to molest the surgeons quar ters, or he would not have remained so rich amid so much poverty. Bet theffe were several surgeons who did not have blankets enough to keep iliem warm by night ; these built them a bunk near the stove, and took watch by turns, silting up through the night in reliefs of two to keep the stove red hot, so that the remainder could double the blankets and sleep the sleep of rest. A stove red hot all night,necessarily raised the temperature of our quarters high above that oflhe tireless barracks, and yet on the night before lite arrival of the Nashville squad, the writer and his bunk-mate had shivered under six blankets—even gotten up to warm by the glowing stove. Now, when the writer saw the men of his own regi ment and company—men who had stood shoulder to shoulder with us all in many a trying hour—who hail even broken the last crust with him upon the hungry march—when lie saw these men turned into the cold barracks with a single blanket, he dared not lie down beneath the six again, lor he knew such selfishness would strike a secret shame into his heart that would burn there forever. He gave a pair to each, and then shivering in a warmed room un der two heavy mackinaws, he was brought into a belter realization of what must be the tenfold misery around. SIDNEY H A R RING TON. A. Preacher s Stratagem It is said lhat at one time, w ben Lo renzo Dow preached under a large spruce pine in South Carolina, lie an nounced another appointment to preach in the same place on that day twelve months. The year passed, and Lo- huudreds in the prison who possessed ! renzo was entering the neighborhood no more than a single blanket, audj^*® evening previous to his appoint- many, even, who had not so much as 1 ment, he overtook a colored boy who one. This fact is well known to every ! was blowing a long tin horn, and could one oftbe twelve thousaiid men con- 1 3en( ^ a M 331 w ‘'h rise and swell and ca dence which waked the echoes of the distant hills. Calling aside the blower, Dow said to him : “What is your name “My name? Gabriel, sir, eplied lave you been to fined there. Nor was this all. At the bugle call at sunset, all fires were extinguished. And, even this was not enough to fill the measure of barbarity. While men were freezing to death in their bunks, ! ihe boy. on every biller night, General J. B. 1 “Well, Gabrie Sweet, commanding, ordered that not Church Hill?” man should have straw who did riot “Yes, massa, I’sc been dar manv furnish made up ti- king to contain it. Unless he would furnish a^tick ! Who was it, among us, lo whom the poor bounty of a bed of straw was a stern life necessity ; who, indeed, but those very men who could not obtain money lo buy ticking ? a big spruce Those who could get money could purchase not ticking only, but blankets also—us many as they wouid be allowed to keep—the straw- was not indespensible to them. But to the many.to whom hard, soldierly fortune denied the means of purchasing a blanket, or even a yard of ticking, a bed of straw was really a life necessity- And these were the men doomed to lie fourteen terrible hours on the cold.hard board, many with but one, and some without even a single blanket. To them, that general order was the wan ton mockery of a malignant fiend. But even this was not the climax of official Inhumanity Let not the read er close the ear in charitable unbelief time.” “Do you remember pine on that hill ?” “Oh, yes, massa, I know dat pine.” “Did you know that Lorenzo Dow had an appointment to preach under that tree to-morrow?” “Oh,- yes, massa, everybody knows dat.” “Well, Gabriel, I am Lorenzo Dow, and if you’ll take your horn and go to morrow morning and climb up inio that pine tree, and hide among tiie branches before the people begin to gather, and wait there till I call your name, and then blow such a blast with your horn as I heard you blow a min ute ago, I’ll give you a dollar. Will you do it, Gabriel ?” “Yes, massa, I takes dat dollar.” Gabriel, like Zacheus, was hid away in the tree-top in fine time. An im mense concourse, of all sizes and col ors, assembled at the appointed hour. that the heart of man is capable of such jand Dow preached on the judgment ot monstrocity, tor this is a narative 01 j ihe last day. By his power of des- simple truth, and there are thousands cription he wrought the multitude up upon thousands living who will swear 10 l ^ ie opening of the resurrection, of to every word. Twelve thousand men j the grand assize, atthe call of the trum- will swear that it was all even j P et peals which were to awake the as it is written. And when the the prisoners taken in Hood’s battle, at Nashville, reached tfie prison gate in December weather—cold enough to freeze scores of the poor fellpws so se verely, that their feel and limbs were afterwards amputated—they ‘were nations “Then,” said he, “suppose, rnv friends, lhat we should hear at this moment the sound of Gabriel’s trum pet.” Sure enough, that moment the trump ol Gabriel sounded. The women stripped at lhat gate to a single blanket | shrieked and many fainted, the men and turned in to nurse their frozen J sprang up and looked aghast; some limbs in strawless beds. From those having blankets all were taken except one, aud those having none were turn ed in without a shred of covering. iiiis was the official act of a general officer of the army of a nation whose philanthropic horror overflowed in ex ecration of the South, because, in the almost tropical climate of Southern Georgia, the Federal prisoners were not provided with close shelter. Go ran, others fell and called for mercy ; and all fell for a time that the judg ment was set and thq books were o- pened. Dow stood and watched the driving storm till the fright abated, and some one discovered the colored angel who bad caused the alarm, qui etly perched upon a limb of an old spruce, and wauled to get him down and whip him, and then resumed his theme, saying, “I forbid all persons tell the story to the soldier—to men j touching that boy up there. If a col- roofs in tenfold harder | wed boy with a tin horn can frighten climates; but do not named in the hear-j V° u almost out of your wits, what will mg oflhe men who writhed their froz- i you do when you shall hear the arch- en limbs on strawless boards—no cov- j angel ? How will ye be able to stand ering because their blankets had been :, i the great day oflhe wrath of God ?” taken trom them at the gate—no beds, because they were so poor they could not buy a tick. Don’t speak Lite idie words where they are, lest they shall say what they would have given to ex change liie Christian hospitality of a Northern prison, tbe agony of eold, the weary night* the blighted limb quiver ing beneath tiiti surgeon’s knife—such tokens of humanity as ihesc for even a lifetime of exposure to the warm rain and open air of Georgia. When the Nashville prisoners came in, stripped of their last hope of com fort, the writer greeted, for the first lime in many months, two men of his own regiment and company—one of them of his own old mess. The bar rack he occupied was that allotted to the prison surgeons,the paradise of Lit tle Dixie, inasmuch as it was the onlv building, except the suttler’s, in which fires were allowed lo burn all night.— He made a very effective application. [Independent Democrat. When Ishrnael Pasha was recently in Paris, he noticed that one of his abi de camps had bought an overcoat, the style of which pleased him very much. “Where did you buy that overcoat?” said the ruler of Egypt to the aid-de camp. “At Dusentoy’s Rue de la Paix,” replied the latter. The Vice roy sent lor M. Dusentoy. Make me some overcoats like this,” said Ishma- el Pacha to the merchant tailor. “Yes, your royal highness,” replied Dusen toy, “how many ?” “Hundred and for ty-four,” said Ishmael Pasha. “1 be lieve 1 will wear them that long, and you know I can never wear an over coat more than twenty-four hours.” The hundred and forty-four overcoats were made, and the Viceroy had to pay twenty thousand francs for them.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, October 19, 1869, Image 1