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THE JEFFERSON I®- NEWS & FARMER,
Vol. 1.
TiHFj
Jefferson Hews & Parmer
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S. W. ROBERTS & BRO.
L 0 VIS FILL E CAHDS.
B.W. ckrswellC W. F. Dcimy.
Carswell <fc Denny,
4T'(OBKJS S AX LAW.
LOUISVILLE, - GEORGIA,
practice in all the Counties in the
VY Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Au
gusta Circuit Ali business entrusted to their
care w ill meet with prompt attention.
Nov, 3.27 ly
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ATTORNEY AT £ AW,
SWAINS BORO', GA.
Will practice in the Middle and Augusta
Circuits. All business entrusted to bis care
will meet with prompt attemu n.
Nov. 17th. 1671. 2 if,-
J G. CAIN j J. 11. POLIIILL.
CAIN a POLIIILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May "s 1871. 1 ly.
T. F. HARLOW
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Xiouisvillc, G- a.
Special attention given to reno
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES Ac , Ac.
Also Agent to* - the ii une Shuttle Sewing
Machine
May o, 1871. 1 Iyf;
DR. T R. POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of eon*
tinumg the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5, 1871. 1 lyr.
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11 NEW ST.,
New York.
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getting one ; but go directly to
n Tv FU L L EIITON
and bay either the
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o r
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IST. 13. KNAPP,
Wholesale vnd Retail Dealer in
Saddles, Bridles, Harness,
Rubber and Leather Belling and
Packing,
French anil American Calf Skins, Sole, Har
ness, Bridle, Rand and Patent Leather, Va
lises, Trunks, Carpet Bags, Whips aud Sad
dlery Ware.
At the Sign of the Golden Saddle, west end
Gibbons’ Building.
MarkeT SquiarE,
SAVANNAH, GA,
A large assortment on hand and for salo at
! the lowest prices. u eh 99 2m
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
'Hie Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved by mutual con
-Pill.
Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK, and
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are .done
aut bruized In setile the affairs of the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
aud sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July lSih, IS7I.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this dav
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
General
DRY GOODS
business In the City of Savannah
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock ot
s ‘ff a ip il m
AND
881 &00B§
AND
HOTI 0 H S .
Possessing facilities lo purchase
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
INDUCEMENTS
as will make itlheinterestof
BUYERS
to deal with us.
Thanking you for the kind favors
bestowed on the late firm, we re
spectfully solicit your patronage in
future. Alsu an early examination
ofour slock and prices.
Yours respectfully,
FRANK & ECKSTEIsY,
131 Broughton St
Parties desiring to send orders for
Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will
find them promptly attended to by
addressing
P. O. BOX 3S,
Savannah, Ga.
Auguat 18, ly. n
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FVr. m I In* Standard .uni Kxjtnss. #
INCIDENTS 0? THE WAR.
From an Unpublished Manuscript.
BY A LADY OK BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
One cool morning in October.
1804, 1 was silting bv lhe lire read
ing, when I heard horse leet rapidly
approaching. ] lan quickly to the
door, and here I hey came riding in
like a hurricane—a troop of Yankees
—all over the yard, snatching up
things here an I there wherever they
could find them. I had some bed
clothes out sunning. They carried
them all off, and quick as they had
come they were off again. 1 vainly
hoped that it was ail over, and I hat
no more would come, but soon after
dinner they began lo pass, and such
devastation and destinciion ii was
heart sickening lo sec. They had
killed all ofour hogs in iho Spring
but a few sows and pigs—these had,
by our kindly care and go xl man
agement, grown astonishingly, aud
we had hoped lo have some pork for
the approaching winter; hut, ala
tor our hopes! they were destined
lo disappointment. 'L’liis time they
must all go. They had left me hut
six liens, hut I had raised from them
a nice brood of young (owls. \Ye
had gathered in (odder and oats and
all the corn tliev Inul left, and had
made several barrels ot sorghum,
and had saved all the wheat we
could, an ! for tear they should hum
Barren a id Milnei’s mill, had had
our Hour barreled up and slowed
away. I fell now an inward deter
mination not to sil pii'-ivelv by and
see every thing destioye J as they had
done in the Spring, bui to make ev
cry effort in my power to preserve
yvtiat I could. So as soon as they
began to pass I yvein out to see it I
could intercept Gen. Kilp .trick, aud
obtain a guard w hill- his command
yvas passing.
I made inquiry after inquiry as a
squad would pass, until I almost
despaired, yvhen suddenly Charlie
came running out to ti Ii me that the
hous • yvas full of Yankees, that had
come up the hack yvay. 1 had la
ken the precaution lo fasten up the
house o:i the hack side, and thought
I would watch on the front; hut I
was completely frustrated, i found
they had broken in the hack doors
and windoyvs and yvere destroying
everything as fast as they could.
Just at my room door I met one
of them with a large knife, which he
had brought from the kitchen, in his
hand. I stepped up to him hastily,
and yvrenched it from his hand. In
his astonishment he loosed his grasp,
I suppose, before he hardly knew
yvhat he yvas doing.
“Noyv,” said I, “I will light every
one of you if you do not gel out, and
that quickly, aud ayvay as fast as
you cun.” 1 fell completely exas
perated, and determined to drive
them out, regardless of consequen
ces. Going into the other room I
found a right young boy, almost,
kneeling over a large trunk that it
had been their pleasure to pry into
in their raids, aud which contained
nothing hut my children’s nicest
clothing, none of which they had
worn for months. There they yvere
all scattered around him, and in one
hand he l*dd a number of volumes
of Abbott’s Histories that my hus
band had given Jimmy as a reyvard
of merit at school, several years ago.
I drew hack my knife and gave him
a heavy bloyv on his left arm, and
ordered him lo get up and leave.—
Quick as lightning he sprang up, and
pointing his gun directly at me syvore
he would shc>ot me. I defied him
lo do it, and told him, “so every
rogue out to he served.” He soon
quieted doyvn, and they all began to
leave.
Just then I looked and saw a ne
gro riding by witli my last pair of
turkeys, one hanging on each side of
his saddle. I yvas almost furious.—
They had only left me one hen in
the Spring, and she yvas selling at
the time yvas the reason why they
did not gel her. My sister had only
given me a mate for .it, and there
they went. I yvent out and made
an effort with my knife. 1 failed.—
The bloyv only tell on his horse.—
Just then a soldier, looking as ordi
nary as any of the others, and riding
a small black horse, came up and
asked me yvhat I yvas doing with that
knife.
Said 1, “I atn defending my prop
erly, sir! nobody else will do it for
me, or give me any assistance.” —
The next squad that passed or came
up I enquired again for Gen. Kil
patrick.
“Why,” said one of them, “lie
has just passed. He was riding a
small black horse, and 1 saw him
talking with-you just as I came up.”
Thus vanished aH my‘hope of hav
ing a guard for he had already
passed out of sight. So 1 must still
endure more. Upon tin exon .-.--i ig
my regret at mission It m. one of tin
men said to me, “Oil, you need not
grieve about it. Kilpann k woul l
not have given you agu nd. He i
just as mean as any of his mm. lie
winks at thei- meanness and encour
ages th>*m in n ”
1 found that they hud stripped in\
beds almost entirely. I hanliv
thought they had left me covering
enough for inv little one- during ill
winter months that were fist ap
preaching. A neighbor came in just
as we thought they were all n 1 n •• —
While wo were talking, an ollicei
returned with several men. He or
dered some of them to procure lin -
age and lhe others to kill some hogs.
Unfortunately Ibr us, it was jus!
about the time that Ben lid them in
the evening and they had all come
up, and there they yvere shoot ino and
killing. I tried lo remonstrate yvhth
them. I said to the officer :
“'(>u have taken nearly every
thing yve have ; your army destroyed
all they thought we had in the spring,
and now please let our hogs alone,
lor it you take them yve will lie ob
liged to suffer.”
“Well,” said Ire, “you ought not
to have encouraged the yvnr spirit.—
Where is your husband,-Madam j”
“It: the rebel army, sir," I replied.
“Well,” said he, “you must lake
the consequences. Hy the yvay,
madam,” said Ire, “you had better
go in while these men are shooting
at the hogs; you might get shot.”
I turned indignantly towards him
and said, “if I should', sir, I am at
home, yvhich is more than you or
your men are; hut yvhich you had
better he,” and turned off’. As I
came in, my neighbor said to me,
“Horeps a gourd I found just noyv.”
Only said I, “Where I put it.” —
'l'tien I told him how, alter L had
struck the Yankee with the knife, a
soldier stepped up to me and said,
“It is a shame, madam, (hr a set ol
men to serve a yvoman 113 tln-y are
serving you.” Said 1, “Weil, sir,
yvliose'bucket is that von have on
your arm ?”
“I bought it hack here from a la
dy, tna’arn,” he replied.
“1 hardly think so, sir,” I replied ;
“let me see.”
I drew it from him, and on the top
ot it yvas a towel yvith my name on
it.
“Whose towel is this?” I asked..
“Why,” said he “I did not know
that was in there.”
“But,” said I, “here is my gourd ;
how came this in here !’
He stammered out something as I
drew it, but still persisted the buck
et yvas iiis. The next day 1 askerl
one of the servants about the buck
et. She said it yvas tiers, and the
Yankee had gone yvith it before she
missed it.
Just then a soldier came rushing
in the back yvay with a small tub in
his hand. Said lie, “Take this,
madam, and go up sta’irs and get
me a feed of corn for m y horse.”
1 really do not think I ever fell so
indignant in rny life. 1 dreyv back
scornfully, giving him a withering
look. ‘lndeed, sir,’ said 1, do the
women feed horses in your country ?’
I never sayv any one so badly cut
down. He soon recovered himself,
and said, “My father has negroes,
and I have been used to them feed
ing my horse when at home.’
‘Well then,’ said 1, ‘you ought to
have staid there, for your father’s
niggers to have kept on feeding it ;
but I doubt very much whether you
ever sayv one before you came south
or not.” Ben was standing near,
and as he walked off’he said, “The
impudent dogs ! I love to hear you
take them down.’
As one rode off*yvith a patch-yvork
quilt, I lurned to another good look
ing, youthful soldier and said, ‘Please
ride on after, and over-lake that
man, and bring me back my quilt.’
He rode off hurriedly, and, greatly
to my surprise returned soon yvith
it. The servants then began to come
in one by one, and tell me yvhat they
had taken and carried off. My tea
set of china that yvas a bridal gilt
from a friend years ago, and that
heretofore had escaped them, served
lor Kilpatrick’s table, and was car
ried off yvith them. And ourrflilk cows
yvere all driven off before I kneyv
anything of it. Several limes be
fore they had attempted to drive
them off, but they yvould get ayvay
from them. Once before when they
camped near us, they had killed up
the young calves ; anti now 1 feared
the cmvs yvere really gone, and 1
kneyv my sick baby would suffer.—
They till lelt about dark, and I fell
relieved that they had gone, and
hoped lo spend a quiqt night, bnt
yvhich I did not.
Hare hope though clouds environ notv,
And gladness hides her face with scorn.
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.
Night came on, and we had had
supper, and my little ones "their
evening prayers had said; 1 ’ and were
now sleeping sweetly in their “little
beds,” all but my 9ick baby. I had
two of the serwmi wo nen i» tuinr
I in, anil fearing lest the Y uikr e- might
1 return, knowing thalihey werecamp
ing not far oil, we had caicthllv fas
tened ail of lie- doors and whidrnvs,
aud were sitting around tin fire will)
only a dim light ; yvlirn su hfenly
yve heard a noise, then the rattling
of rails, and I knew they had iv-
I turned and yvere thton ing up a pick
let fori. ()ii! lio.v 1 dreaded ii ; lor
noyv I knew that they would remain
lor many days, or it might ho yvt-eks,
near us, and 1 would he exposed l -
their taunts and in -nits.
It was not. long hf’lore 1 heard voi
ces directly under tnv window, and
a subdued yn.c • in gg. and to in: Id in.
I motioned to the .-orvanls to be per
fectly quiet. They begged and
pleaded and llin aieut and, but all in
vain, no one sin red or nti-w en and.
Alter bulling that yve did not or
would not hear them, they p tire.l
as noiselessly a . they had enme,
greatly to om pdii !.
Pretty son a alurward- others
catuc to the door aid oidored il
opened. I did no! say anything tor
a long while, Inn liunliy uiiabfr !o ig
er to resist llmir impnitnnitier, I
asked ihem wii i they yvanled. They
replied, “Meal and bread, and they
would have il " 1 kneyv l>v their
manner that they were afraid to
commit an outbreak, so ! let them
curse and threaten until they were
tired down; them they lelt of Unit
own accord, as I said no more to
them.
1 scarcely cLs and mv eves ii sleep
all through that long, dreary nicht.
My baby had been sick all through
the long snmiii. i mondis, and many
a time I had expected him to die and
have no one to bury him but serv
ants. L never saw the Y mines
daunted, or seem m have any spark
of humanity, but om e. On ■ day 1
yvas sitting bv the little bed watch
ing Harry, yvhn yvas just five years
old. He lay tossing in and hrium with
a burning fever, and on my lap lay
my baby, more dead than alive. I
heairl a noise in die hack yard, and
1 kneyv the Yankees yvere coming
up through the hack way.
1 heard Ben’s voice in expostula
tion. “1 tell you to keep out of
there; her children are dying now,
and you have m> business in there.”
On they came. I s;e perfectly ,-tdl,
not caring for them then. There were
three of them. They stalked right
up lo me before they halted, and
then stopped, motionless with sur
prise. They gazed lust at me, then
at the sick children; neither one of
us spoke. They turned abruptly,
and left the house without a yvortl.
They were ayved once.
Morning came at last, and yvith it
the trials and troubles that awaited
us. I had determined the evening
before lo go to Kilpatrick’s head
quarters, and intercede lor our milk
cows, but the excitement 1 had al
ready passed through left me entire
ly unfitted for the task. 1 had failed
in every effort, the day before, to
lake care 01, or lo preserve anyihihg
from them, so 1 determined to keep
my room and let them do their worst,
which certainly could not be more
than yvhat they had already done.
1 ordered the servants to leave my
room and the whale house in confu
sion, and not to arrange anything at
all, and had breakfast brought into
my room.
Just as the servant came in yvith
a plate of nice hot rolls, a Yankee
made his way in with her, an I look
ing wistlully at them said “he yvant
ed some bread.” I kneyv I could
have no more cooked that day, and
indeed I yvas surprised to see the
cook had served this up so nicely,
so I told him that “l had none to
give him, that that was cooked for
my little children, and I yvould not
deprive them of it so long as I could
help it.” He turned off quietly and
left, greatly to my surprise.
I noyv noticed that no more of the in
came in, although I could hearlhem
passing continually. Alter break
fast Charlie came in and said all of
our milk cows had come back home.
They had not guarded them suffi
ciently, and the faithful creatures
had broken ayvay from them, and
now were at home, and Mary, the
milkyvoman, yvas milking them.
I fell so thankful for this, tbr it
seemed that a kind Providence yvas
watching over us still. 1 knew it yve
could but retain our milk coyvs yve
would not suffer. We had sent off
several milk coyvs lo loyver Georgia,
yvith our other stock and servants,
but then an army rolled between,
and it might lie months, or years ev
en, In fore we could, if ever, get them
again. We bad only koptrli" oldest
and gentlest ones, and now they had
fully proved their fidelity. About
nine o’clock my neighbor came in to
see hoyv yve had been gelling alow*.
“You have not been out all tins
morning, have you ?” asked he.
1 told him, “no, I had concluded
to remain in my room all day, hoping
by this means not to see any more
Yankees.”
“Well,” said he, “1 have just been
No. 60
to the picket fort, and had a conver
sation with the officer, and he has
noticed that you have not been out
m day, and he requested me to cotne
in and say to you, that he has sta
tioned a guard in your yard, and
that a; long as he is here on duty
y»u shall be protected, and to fear
not 1 i it>.”
"1 was amused,” continued he,
“while I was conversing with him.
A soldier came up from their head-,
quartets, and said to him that Ger..
Kilpatrick had seal him over for
soa.e milk cows ; that all they had
taken the evening before had broken
I a way from them, and they had none,
and they knew not where to find
any.”
11c said the officer cursed him,
land told him with an oath to go back
to G< n. Kilpatrick and tell him he
| could not get any here, and turning
! to him, said he, "1 went, sir, into the
army to light it out, and no* to steal
; it out, as these men are doing, and
as long as 1 remaiu in this place,
j they shall not drive off a cow nor do
I any more stealing; that as for forage
land sueli things, I cannot prevent
i their taking that, but that otherwise
they shall have nothing.”
I regretted that 1 never learned
his name; he was a Kentuckian. His
kindness came when it was most
needed, and it was the most gratu
itous piece of kindness I ever re
ceived from a Yankee soldier. He
shielded me for a time from the
taunts and insults of a low bred set
ot men, and I shall always feel
grateful to him for it.
1 vv. nt out after a while, and found
a soldier standing at the hack door
with a musket on his shoulder. I
drew hack involuntarily. Hesawit,
and hast dy said : “I am only a guard,
madam; the captain has ordered,
me to keep the men away. Do not.
he alarmed or uneasy, you will not
he troubled any.more by them while
I am here to protect you, and I will
keep them all straight.” So they
did not trouble anything in the house
and yard that day. If they wanted
anything thgy would come and ask
politely (or it.
We had a little one-horse wagon
fixed up before they had ever come
in, thinking to have something to
haul our wood and do our milling in.
The first day they ever passed
through, they maliciously chopped
one wheel to pieces. We had man
aged to find an old buggy wheel that
filled it, and I felt secure of having
some way to get wood for the win
ter. But Charlie came in to tell me
they were fixing up now to carry it
off', and again I summoned courage
to go out and prevent them. I told
them they could not have it, but they
said it was just the idea, that they
needed it very much, and that if I
would let them take it they would
leave in its place a good, strong bug
gy, that I could have. I told them
that “I did not care a straw for their
buggy, that it was not theirs to give.”
“Oft, yes,” said one of them, “they
had bought and brought it from Ten
nessee, and that if I would only send
someone along with them, they
would send me a good, gentle mule
in the bargain." I did not send
though, and sure enough, in about
two weeks, the owner of the buggy,
not living more than fifteen mites
dislant, came for it.
One of them came in to borrow an
oven. I asked him if he would be
sure to return it. “Oh, yes, ma'am,”
said he, “I will be sure to bring it
back as soon as I get through my
cooking.” I sent him to the cook for
it. She followed him out with it,
very unwilling that he should take it
off’. “I know them,” said she, “they
have been in and cartiod off nearly
every thing. He came to me first,
and 1 would not let him have it, and
now you have loaned it to him, and
I never will see it again.”
1 told her he had promised rae
faithfully he would bring it back.
“You will see,” she said ; but sure
enough he did not bring it back.
The evening before, I looked out
and saw them leadingoff“old Crock
et,” our faithful old buggy horse. At
many as six times before, they had
started off* with him, and as many
as six times I had been at my post,
and saved him. I started out to the
gate, and Ben met me. Says be,
“Let them have him this time; only
this morning I found he had the
glanders, and he will be sure to die;
and if we keep him he will give it
to ‘Cripple,’ and we will lose him
tor)?” Ciocket and Cripple had serv
ed us faithfully all the summer; bad
finished up the work on tbe farm;
and now, though “my heart strings
round him clung,” yet 1 let him go
this time. They were expecting,
momentarily, a fight with the scouts.
They could see them half a mile apt
the road, continually crossing or
standing in it. My little boys wapid
run in, and out to the picket fort,
and once or twice the captain seat
me word that 1 had better napdhMto
in, as they knew not
i hey might have a skirmish. That
( Continued an fourth fag*)