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125
The “Rebel Prison Pen” at Ander-
sonrille, Ga.
It is the duty of every lover of jus
tice, when he sees a gross and inju
rious calumny put into circulation
which he is able to refute from direct
knowledge, to challenge it at once,
and more especially if it is aimed at
his own people, and meant to be used
to their injury. It is true that in
those regions for which calnmnies are
prepared they are too generally pre
ferred to the truth, even wheu the
truth is ofiered; hut the duty of af
firming the truth is no less stringent'
on those who are able to affirm it.
It is with this view that the following
paper is written to correct certain
statements which recently appeared
in Appleton's Journal, professing to
relate facts gleaned during a trip 'to
Andersonville, Ga., concerning the
Confederate military prison there and
the treatment of Federal prisoners.
Instead of reviewing the article in de
tail, I will merely take up, one by
one, tho principal false statements.'
THtt WATEB THE PRISONERS DRANK.
It was my fortune to be stationed
at Ancersonville almost from the first
establishment of the prison until the
removal to Millen, Ga., or Camp Law-
ton, and I unhesitatingly pronounce
the statement that “the prisoners had
to drink the water that convoyed the
offal of three camps and two large
bakeries off before it. reached them”
utterly false. The guards drank of
the same water that qnenched the
prisoners’ thirst, cooked their food
with the same water, the same large
stream or creek flowing through the
encampment of guards and stockade,
or prisoD-pen as the Northern writers
sneeringly call it. The camps of the
guards all faced the stream, while
their sinks were far off in the rear,
and orders were most strict not to
muddy the stream, much less defile it
in any way. As to the offal of the ba
keries, these being presided over by
prisoners on parole, and who did the
cooking for the entire prison, I do
not believe they, would pollute the
water their brother prisoners had to
drink. As rapidly as they could the
prisoners dug wells; in all-some two
hundred were dug, and purer, sweet
er, cold water I never drank. Being
on the staff of Captain "Wirz, I had
free access to the prison at all times
day or night, and whenever I wished
to quench my thirst, I went inside
the prison and drank frem one of
these wells.
THAT PROVIDENTIAL SPRING SO-CALLED.
That “providential, spring” is an
impious myth, I have been in the
prison thousand times and never be
fore. heard it so called, except on
reading the Herald’s account of the
anniversary of the Fultou Street
Prayer Meeting, when some pharisa
ically pious old brother recited a long
rigmarole about this same “providen
tial spring,” and said it wa's planted
there in direct answer to prayer. The
gist of this spring title is that when
the'prisoners’sickness and suffering
suffering from thirst was at its great
est, all at once this spring burst forth
in direct answer to prayer. Was there
ever such blasphemy? If such was
the case, why does the spring still ex
ist after it has answered its purpose?
Do those rocks of Horeb struck by
Moses to slake "the children of Israel’s
thirst still exist, and at this late day
the water gush forth? It isfall a cock-
and-bull story, and' unlike' Sternes,
one of the poorest I ever heard.
TWO FEDERAL AND THREE TCTVnCT. PROV
IDENTIAL SPRINGS.
If my recollection serves me right,
there was yet another of these same
“providential springs” inside the
stockade, and that Providence who
sends the rain alike on the just and
unjust gave unto the'wicked and un
godly Rebels three of these ‘‘providen
tial springs” and I ain sure he did
not plant ours in answer to prayer,
for we bad just as leave drank the
Iranch water.
SEASON WHY THERE WERE NO BARRACKS.
The Confederate Government has
always been harshly, assailed for its
want of humanity in hot having bar
racks to house the prisoners from the
sun andrains. A more senseless hue
and cry was never heard. How was it
possible to saw timber into planks
without saw-mills? There vere two
water-power'mills -distant three and
six miles respectively, but such rude
primitive affairs undeserving the
name. The nearest steam saw-mill
was twenty-three miles distant- (near
Smithvillej, the next at Reynolds,
obont fifty miles distant;: but the
great bulk of lumber used, fully two-
thirds/was brought from Gordon, a
distance of eighty miles. Even if
these mills had had the capacity to sup
ply the necessary amount of lumber,
it would still have been impossible to
them. Nearly every building in the
encampment was built of rough logs
and covered . with clap-boards split
from the tree and held to their places
by poles. The force of these state
ments is readily appreciated by every
inteliigent and unprejudiced mind.—
Besides, is it customary for any na
tion in time of war to treat their pris
oners in a more humane manner than
their own soldiers in the field? The
inquiry becomes pertinent when we
reflect that during the last two years
of the war there was not a tent of any
description to be found in any of the
armies of the Confederacy save such as
were captured from the Federals.
HOW THE STOCKADE WAS BUILT.
The stockade was built by the ne
groes belonging to the neighboring
farms, either hired or pressed into Sunth depends very largely, and with
placed on exhibition for preservation
as truth this fabrication of partisan
hate. No Andersonville prisoner,
unless he were lost to all sense of
honor and shame, could make such a
statement as that the rations were
no more than the specimens shown.
WHY. THE PRISONERS WERE FED ON CORN
BREAD. ’
It has been charged as a crying
shame upon the Confederacy by igno
rant humanitarians that the South
might at least have given the pris
oners wheat bread occasionally; that
they rarely ate corn bread in their
own land, and that the bread we is
sued was made of meal so coarse and
unsifted that it caused dysentery,
thereby largely increasing the mortal
ity-. It is well known how that the
service by the Confederate author
ities to cut down the immense pine
trees growing on .the ground intended
for the stockade; and these same
trees were then entinto proper lengths
and hewn on the spot, then planted
in a ditch dug four feet deep to re
ceive them. In this manner was the
stockade made. Before it was com
pleted the prisoners were forwarded
in great numbers, and it being impos
sible to keep them, in the cars, we had
to put them in the completed .end of
the stockade and double the guard,
our whole force kept ever ready day
and night for the slightest alarm; for
at first we only had the. shattered
remnants of two regiments, the 26th
of Alabama and the 55th of Georgia,
numbering in all some three hundred
and fifty men. This constituted- the
guard. In about ten days thereafter
my regiment, 1st Georgia Reserves,
composed of youngboys and old men,
(I was not sixteen) just organized,
were sent to take the'place of the 26th
Alabama and 55th Georgia, so they
could be sent to the front for duty.
In a few days after our arrival the 2d,
3d and 4th Georgia Reserves, all com
posed of lads and hoary headed men,
for we were reduced to the strait of
“robbing the cradle and the grave for
men to make soldiers,” joined us rap
idly as they could be organized. The
author of “Jaunt in the South” says:
“When the stockade was occupied in
.1864, there was npt a tree nor a blade
of grass within it. Its reddish sand
was entirely barren, and not the smal
lest particle of green showed itself.—
But now the surface is covered com
pletely with underbrush; a ricli
growth of bushes, trees and plants
has covered the entire area, and where
before there was a dreary desert there
is now a wild and luxurious garden.”
I have before said the ground was
covered with a pine forest, and the
trees were utilized to build the stock
ade. Any one who has traveled south
of Macon, Ga., knows the piae is
abundant, ard in fact almost the only
tree. In these forests the ground is
covered with wire grass and other
grass peculiar to them.
WHY ANDERSONVILLE WAS SELECTED.
The main reasons, for locating the
prison at Audersohville after its first
being thought the most secure placb
in the Confederacy from the Yankee
cavalry raids, was the abundance of
water and timber, wherewith to con
struct the prison rapidly, and its be
ing the very heart of the grain grow
ing section of the South, which would
make it less inconvenient to supply
with provisions such a vast multi
tude.
have provided barracks for the pris
oners, as all the available engines of
all the railroads in the Confederacy
were taxed to their utmost capacity
in transporting-supplies for the army
in the field and to the prisons. But
few even of the officers of the guard
had shanties, and these few were built
of slabs and sheeting, which every one
knows is the refuse of the mills.—
And even though there was no lack of
umber, when we remember that there
was but one solitary manufactory of
cut nails in the limits of the Confed
eracy, certainly no blame could be at-
MALICIOUS EXHIBITION IN OHIO STATS
CAPITOL.
In the summer of 1867 I set out. for
New York, being resolved to live no
longer in the Soiith where negroes
were being- placed over us by Yankee
bayonets, andin their vernacular, “de
bottom rail was agittin’on de top er
de fence.” I,travelled very leisurely
and stopped in every city of any note
on my route, and kept eyes and ears
wide open to drink in everything. I
visited the Ohio State. Capitol at Col
umbus,-and in the mitsenm of carios
ities were some small paper boxes
carefully preserved in a glass case,' con
taining what purported to he the ex
act quality ana quantity of ration is
sued per diem.;: at Andersonville. In
one box was about' a pint of coaarse
unbolted meal, and in another about
one table-spoonful of rice, and still
another box with about two table
spoons of blaok peas; and in a tiny
little box was about one-eighth of a
tea-spoonful of salt. Underneath it
is all explained, and says among oth
er things: “When rice was given the
peas were withheld, but when they
had no rice this kind of peas were
given instead.” It is needless to say
how my blood boiled at this atrocious,
malicious and damnably false exhibi
tion. No wonder the hatred of .the
North is kept alive, and ..the bloody
chasm continually widened by such
wicked and uncharitable displays as
this in one of the largest and most en-
lighteffied States in the Union.
A SAY GUARANTEED using our
WELL AUGER i DRILL iu g«od
ofK>WA^IWICAN^WAftAKOTA j tac hed to the authorities for not fur-
(fUkfubu, Y.5&I3, Et, Ini*, IM.% ; Dishing more comfor table quarters for
HATTONS TO GUARDS AND PRISONERS THE
I was for three months a clerk in
the commissary department at Ander
sonville, audit was my business to
weigh ont rations to tne guards and
prisoners alike, and I solemnly assert
that the prisoners got ounce for ounce
and pound for ponnd of just the same
quantity and quality of food a» did
the guards. The State authorities of
Ohio ought to blush at thus traduc
ing and slandering a fallen foe,- and
never m the first instance' to hare
shame I confess it, on the West for
‘her bread and bacon, and the cotton
belt proper makes but little preten
sion of raising wheat, for the climate,
it is said, is.unsuited; so that the re
gion round about Andersonville, be
ing in the very heart of the cotton-
growiug section of Georgia, such a
thing as feeding prisoners on floor
was impossible, and the little flour
that was obtained as tithes (one-tenth
of all the crops raised was required
by our Government) was devoted en
tirely to :'the use of the hospital. Not
only . was this true of the territory im
mediately surrounding Andersonville,.'
but of the whole South. Our armies
were unsupplied with flour, and per
haps not one family in fifty through
out the whole land enjeyed that luxu
ry. The guards ate the same bread,
or rather meal; the bread eaten by
the prisoners beiDg baked by regular
bakers (prisoners detailed for that
purpose), while , the guards did their
own cooking. The meal, however,
was the same, and both were unsifted
and in truth very coarse. I ate the
unsifted meal always.
THE DEAD LINE.
Another cry of holy horror is raised
every time the “Dead Line” is men
tioned, as if this dead-line was prima.
facie evidence that the Southerners
were as barbarous, and cruel a race as
ever blotted the face of the earth.—
The civilized North, however, had the
same barbarous dead-line in their
prisons, andin fact originated the de
vice. It was a necessity with ns, for
we never had at one time more than
1200 to 1500 guards in the foot* regi
ments fit for duty, and we had the
keeping at one time of nearly 40,000
prisoners. By a concerted plan of
onslaught they, .could at any time have
scaled the walls, captured the guards,
and with the weapons of their keepers
overrun the entire country, which, all
south of Dalton, Ga., (100 miles north
of Atlanta), was left wholly unpro
tected save,by gray-haired old men
and young boys; and the women,
children and negroes, who were the
only hope for the making of crops for
our armies, would have been helpless
ly at their mercy. This dead-line
was clearly defined and consisted of
stakes driven into the ground twenty
feet from the walls of the stockade,
and on these stakes was a three-inch
strip of plank nailed all around the
inside of the prison. They were all
notified that a'step beyond this line
was not prudent, and they were not
so unwise as to venture beyond that
limit.
BURIAL OF DEAD PRISONERS.
Speaking of the number and burial
of the dead, the writer of the afore
said • - Jaunt” says: “The authorities
a; the Stockade who had charge of
the interment of the Federal dead,
did their work rudely * * * dig
ging pits and burying them in;” then
he goes on: “It- is hard to comprehend
the true value of the number 14,000;
its magnitude eludes yon. Fourteen
thousand men-form a great mob, or a
great army, or a great town, Here
you have 14,000 men lying silently in
a few acres. Within these bounds
men have suffered as greatly as have
any since the world began.” In re
ply to this I would merely say, the
burial was the work of prisoners pa
roled especially for the purpose, both
the ^hauling ' of the bodies to the
ground, the digging of the graves and
even the records of the names were
all done by paroled prisoners. Books
and a tent were provided solely for
the latter purpose. Owing to the
weakness of the guard, paroled pris
oners were employed for this duly,
as we could spare no men for the pur
pose;-and if the work was rudely or
carelessly done, the blame rests with
them. As compensation they were
given doable rations and almost entire
freedom. As to the number of dead
we admit that it is great, but statis
tics show that more Southern soldiers
died in Northern prisons than North
ern soldiers in Southern prisons, In
vain have Northern writers tried to
disprove this fact. •’ j
MORTALITY NO GREATEB AMONG PRISO
NERS THAN GUABD.
Great as was the mortality among
the prisoners, it was no greater in
proportion to the number than that
of the guard, which is fnDy attested
by the reports of the surgeon in
charge. Besides, it is well known to
every soul that can or does read, that
the Confederacy, through thehr agent,
Judge Onld, made frequent and tire
less efforts to- get the United States
Government,- through their agent,
General Butler, to exchange. But
so, tiie Federal authorities would not
hear to it; but acting on the avowed
and promulgated idea that the South,
being blockaded, could not recruit
her armies from foreign lands, while
to the North the whole of Europe
was opened, they cruelly determined
not to exchange, so as to detain our
soldiers from again fighting them,
well knowing even then we had made
our last conscription (17 to 50 years)
and when those we had were killed
up or in prison, we would of course
be overpowered. This was their cold
blooded, brutal policy; and closely
did they stick to it, even till were al
most literally wiped out, while the
men they had fighting ns were in the
most part hired substitutes, drafted
men and foreign hirelings.
PRINCIPAL OAUSB OF MORTALITY.
Farther, as to the mortality among
the prisoners, let it be remembered
that a majority of the deaths caused
in our prisons was for want of proper
medicines, which we did not have and
could not get, except by blockade-
running. Had the Federal Govern
ment any of the milk of human kind
ness in its composition, it would havo
acceded to our earnest request to take
cotton in e'change for drugs t> ad
minister their own dying soldiers.—
Their immense manufactories were
lying idle for the want of cotton, while
we had it but could not use it. But
*S these self-same drags and medi
cines would also be applied-to the re
lief of our own sick soldiers, they de
termined it would be to their advan
tage to let all die alike, knowing that
that the South could get no more
men to supply the places of the sick
and dying, and those they had im
prisoned, and so refnsed all overtures.
After using every effort and exhaust
ing every argument to get an ex
change, we proposed—as we had no
ined bines and could get none, except
what we accidentally ran in through
the blockade from Europe, (they being
declared contraband and always con
fiscated -whenever captured by the
blockade fleet) we proposed to turn,
over to them all their sick, without
requiring man for man, but giving
them absolutely up, if the Unite!
States would ' only send vessels for
transporting them. This was done at
Camp Lawton (Millen, Ga.), after the
prism was removed from Anderson
ville for greater security.
EXTRACTS FROM AN OFFICER’S-DIARY.
From the private journal of a Con
federate officer high in command, both
at Andersonvile and other Southern
prisons, I glean the annexed facts,
the first bearing directly upon the
foregoing: “At one time an order
came to Camp Lawton to prepare
2000 men for exchange. The order
from Richmond was to select first the
wounded, next the oldest prisoners
and sickly, filling up with healthy
men according to date. This party
went first to Savannah, as arranged,
but by some mistake the ships were
at Charleston, and the poor wretches
had to be taken there; and every one
who knew the Southern railroads in
those days, and the difficulty or rath
er impossibility to procure food for
such a crowd along the road, will know
what those poor fellows suffered. At
Charleston they were refused, the
commissioner declaring that he was
not going to exchange able-bodied
men for such specimens of humanity.
(The term used was mote brutal)—
Finding him obdurate, Colonel Ord
requested him to take them, without
exchange. This he refused with a
sneering laugh, and the crowd was
ordered back. Never did the writer
of this witness Such woe-begone coun
tenances, in.which misery and hope
lessness were mare strongly painted,
than shown by these poor fellows on
their return. And the curses leveled
against the rulers who thus treated
the defenders of their country were
fearful, although certainly well de
served. As the stockade gate closed
upon them the surgeou in charge said
to the.writer: “Poor fellows! the
world bias closed, upon more than half
Of them; their disappointment will be
their death-knell.” TTis words proved
true. "Who murdered these men?-—
Let history answei the question.
CLOTHING FOB PRISONERS.
Again I extract from the aforesaid
journal: The. Northerners talk much
of the cruelty of the South to Federal
prisoners. At one time the unfortu
nate prisoners were almost without
clothing, indeed some hardly, had as
much as common decency required.
The South could not provide them,
not being able to clothe their own
men An application was made to
Seward. The reply was that ‘the
Federal Government did not snpply
clothing to prisoners of war.’ Luck
ily for the poor fellows, a society in
New York took the matter in hand,
and several bales of clothing and ca
ses of shoes were forwarded to Rich
mond, and divided -in proportion to
numbers, among the prisoners.
barbarous nature that they were pro*
hibited with disgust by Confederate
officers, who substituted milder and
more humane ones; and yet the for
mer were in common practice in the
Federal armies, as testified by all the
prisoners.
BLOOD-HOUNDS.
Among the numerous lies invented
by Northerners, and actually still be
lieved by some parties to this day,
was the stoiy that the Confederates
used to hunt and worry prisoners with
bloodhounds. Now it is well known
that the breed of bloodhounds is pear
ly extinct in the South, and tho large
packs of those dogs allnded to by wri
ters on the subject existed only in
their imaginations, the prolific brains
of penny-a-liners, whose vile and ly
ing compositions now abound in many
so-called respectable New York papers;
no public man is safe from their fero
cious attacks. Among the various
specimens of this dog allnded to by
the above named gentty, was the fa
mous bloodhound of the Libby Pris-
The writer has-often] seen this
formidable animal, which certainly in
his youth .must havo been as fine a
specimen of the kind as coaid be met
anywhere, but unfortunately for the
thrilling portion of the accounts of his
doings at the time of the war. the
poor beast, worn ont with old age
with haidly a tooth in his head, wan
dered about a harmless, inoffensive
creature. He was the property of
the Commandant of Libby, who kept
him because he was a pet dog of his
father’s, and there the brute lived a
pensioner in his old age. As to his
worrying men, he could not, had he
even tried, have worried a child.—
The other prisons haj none, not even
even as pensioners. Among the rec
ords history gives ns of using those
dogs to hunt men, it is stated that du
ring the Florida war a number of
bloodhounds were imported by the
Federal Government from Cuba to
hunt the Indians out of Everglades,
and that numbers of the natives were
-worried to death By the ferocions
heists. The writer does not deny
that when a prisoner got out of the
stockade trjing to esca pe, if no due
could be obtuined of his whereabouts,
a few mongrel or half-breed fox
hounds were used to track him, but
the worrying was all done in the cor
respondent’s own brain. However, it
suited the times aud made the article
sell. The only complaint made is
that this vile and malicious lie is
still, if not believed, repeated by
some who use it for party purposes,
and thus help to keep up the bad
feeling between the North and the
South.
BESPON8IBILIRY FOB THE GREAT MORTAL -
ITT.
So never shake your gory locks or
point your guilty finger at the South
for the dead who died in Southern
prisons. History, with impartial pen
will place the guilt and censure of the
damning deed at the door of the in-
sulter of defenceless women, the plun
der of New Orleans, and the murdei-
of -Mrs. Surratt, or as' he is admiring
ly called by his worshippers, “the
great Secretary,” Edwin M. Stanton
and their backers, the members ot the
United States Congress. History will
also declare Captain "Wirz to. have
been as foully and wilfully murdered
ers as Mr (. Surratt. Thongharudepio
ers fane man. he was never guilty of
heartless cruelty while I was under
him, a period of over three months,
until the prisoners’ removal to Camp
Lawton. The day will come when his
memory will be fully vindicated; now
the attempt is vain.
I will add that this article has' not
been written either for fame or money
It has been prepared amid the pres
sure ofbusiness engagements and at
necessarily detached intervals, and is
prompted solely by .a sense of duty
to vindicate the cause of truth and
the claims of an outraged people.—
L. M. JPabk in Southern Magazine.
CRUELTY TO PRISONERS.
A great deal has been said of the
cruelty to the prisoners inside the
stockade. This so-called cruelty was
inflicted by their own saen. In every
prison a police and a chief, all from
the prisoners, was appointed to keep
order, see to the enforcement of the
regulations, and inquire into all of--
, reporting through their chief
t» the Commandant. The
Acknowledgements.
Attorney-General Williams made a
clear breast of it'before the committee
on Expenditures in the Department
of Justice. He admitted that a re
cent Examination disclosed great, ex-
travigauce in the contingent expendi
tures of his department. He proposes
to do better in the future. The fa
mous Iandaulet—which he admitted
hod been nsed both for the official and
social uses of himself and family—Las
been sold and the proceeds covered
into the Tieasury. It is understood
stood ' in Washington that Judge
Wright bought the Iandaulet for §1,-
600, with a view to exhibit it in the
f .11 campaign of Ohio, Indiana and
other States.
Festival of the Plow.
In most Buddhist countries the Fes
tival .of the Plow is held annually,
with, great honor, all classes, from the
monarch down, paying reverence to
this symbol of the dignity of labor.
In Saim, on these occasions, a King
of the Husbandman is chosen, who
represents the highest authority, and
is made tbe centre of various singular
rites. During his brief sovereignty,
he receives for his perquisite all feres
paid for violating tbe law against do'
*g work on that festsi day.
$13 a Year*
The weekly paper printed in the
meats, such as were used in the Fed-! city M Mexico iu- English on Sundays
eral army, were ordered infected by J is thirteen dollars a year—-just a quar-
these men, and some were of such a ter of a- dollar a- week,-
Dried Greens.
There are old people in tbe.mountnihs
of Kentucky who have never seen a
grain of tea or coffee in all their lives.
Not long since I heard a zelous Sun
day school missionary for the moun
tain districts of Kentucky, preaching
about the destitutions in that region
enforce his remarks with the follow
ing incident: A yonng theological
student from somewhere down East
who knew far more of hooks than hu
man nature, as Dr. Beecher used to
say, and withal a very delicate and
nervous body to whom tea was an in
dispensable beverage, came to the
mountains of Kentucky to improve his
health, and do good at the same time
to those poor plain people. By way
of precaution he brought his tea with
him a two-pound canister. He put
up for the nigl>t at a plain log cabin
worn with the labors of the day, and
no tea. To his hostess: “Madam,
can’t yon make me a cup of tea in the
morning.”
“Oh yes; I can cook anything that
is cooked.” The young man liadned
her his canister, and ascended a stick-
ladder to his bed in tbe loft. “Next
morning,” said the preacher, “they
kept waiting for him to come down,
and he kept waiting for them to invite
him down; for he did' not know
whether the ladies below were all up
and dressed; but if he had had any
common sense,” added the preacher
by way of parenthesis, “he could have
peeped through the cracks and seen
for himself. Bnt at last he ventured
down; and wliat was his horror when
he saw four or five little white headed
mountaineers rolling the empty tea-
canister over the floor, In the mean
time the good ladv of the house
came in, her cap strings streaming in
the wind, end with her best smile on.
“ I was not certain about them dried
greens you give me last night, but I
went to the smoke housejand cut a pence
of middling and pnt them altogether in
the pot, and when they began to nn-
kirl I knowed I was right.” The loss
of all his gun-powder in one night put
an end to that “Summraers cham
paign.”
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Imaginative Medicine.
Charms, amulets, talismans, and
philacteries all belong to the list of
articles which produce imaginative
cures; seeing that the person who
trust to them believe in some good
obtainable from them, in purse or in
person, in health or in welfare: and if
the good does come, more assnredly
the imagination is the channel through
which it approaches. Two or three
years ago, at a town in Worcester
shire, after the inquest on the body
of a man drowned in the Severn, a wo
man applied to the chief constable for
permission to draw the hand of her son
eight or nine years of age, nine times
across the dead man’s throat; in order
to bring about the removal of a wen
from tbe boys neck. In nnotber’in-
stance, in the same county, this was
actualty done with faial results; for
the man had died of typhoid fever,
which was in this way communicated
to several living persona. A ring
made of tlie hinges of the coffin, and a
rusty old sword hung by the bedside
are (in some districts) charms against
the cramp: headache is removed by
the halter that has hung a criminal,
and also by a snuff made from .moss
that has grown on a human skull in’ a
graveyard. A dead man’s hand, and
especially the hand of a man who had
been cut down while hanging, dispels
tumors. Warts may be removed bj
a bit of stolen, beef; the drips of a gal
lows worn in a little bag aronnd tbe
neck, will cure the agrie;_a stone with
ahole.init, suspended at the bed's
head, will prevent nightmare. Many
verses are known, which if repeated
aloud, are credited , with cur
ing cramp, bums, and other, bodily
troubles. When.you have the whoop-
ing-congb, apply for a remedy to the
first person you meet riding a. piebald
horse—a ceremony that Dr. Lettsom,
the physician was fated more than
once to become acquainted with.—All
(he Year Around.
Segro Presiding.
A late Washington dispatch says:
“There was little done in either
House to-day outside of routine busi
ness. When the House went into
Committee of the whole , on the In
dian appropriation bill, speaker
Blaine called Mr.- Rainey of South
Carolina to the chair, This is the
first time, in the history of the govern
ment that a colored man ever occu
pied the Speaker’s chair in the House
Representatives. A number of white
members on the floor were speaking
in favor of civil rights for the In
dians.
Postage Increase*
The agregate amount of postage
stamps issued by the Post Office De
partment during the past ten months
of the present fiscal year was §20,872,-
278 09} an- increase of §3,u03-,806- 41,
over the previous corresponding ten
months. Exclusive of §1,579,926' of
ficial stamps-the increase amounts- to
nearly eight per eent.
' »
^ The Crusade:
The women’s- temperance crusade
has broken out in'a mild form ita Cali
fornia. In the West it has died out.
Whether it has done good or harm- it
it too early yet to judge. That no
permanent effect was produced by the j
crusade- i self is certain.. /,
YOUNG MEN.
W HO wish to obtain a thorough Pract/--
cal Business Education, and prepare'
themselves for the duties of Actual Business
Life, under the instruction and advice of
Experienced Accountants, should attend
A STANDARD INSTITUTION,.
AND LEADING
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CONDUCTED ON.
ACTUAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLE.
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combining every know focility for impart-'
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shortest possible time, and at the least ex-'
pense. Stndents received for Telegraphy.
No vacation. Stndents admitted at any
time. Circulars containing Terms, etc.
mailed on application. Address
B. F. MOORE, A. \L
Feb. 28. 1871. V
Superior Court.
At the approaching May Term of
this Court the dockets will be called?
in the following order:
1st. COMMON LAW DOCKET*-
2d. APPEAL DOCEBT.
3rd. EQUITY DOCKET.
4th. CLAIM DOCKET.
5th. CERTIORARI DOCKET.
CRIMINAL & MOTION DOCKETS’
to be called as may suit the Court:
The Clerk will have the foregoing-
published in The Houston Home Jour-'
xal each week ’till the next term of-
tbis Conrt. B. Hill,
March 6,1874 Judge,-
A true extract from the'minutes.
D. JEL Culler, Clerk.
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Of double the strength of any other'
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I have recently perfected a new method of 1
packing my Potash or Lye, aud am now'
packing it only in BALLS, the coating of'
which will saponify, and does hot injure
tbe Soap. It is packed in boxes containing
24 and 48 lb. Balls, and in noother way.—
Dir ctkms m English and German, forma-
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accompanying each package
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