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Waiting for the Dawn.
BY IRENE INGE COLLIER,
CHAPTER IV.
the decisive interview.
Wax lights in glittering candalebra shone over
the party of young people assembled in Mr.
Farman’s pretty parlor. The windows were
open, the lace curtains looped back to let the
cool, perfumed air into the room. Outside,
the ’shrubberies and walks were bathed in
moonlight. The occupants of the room were
Krouped adversely to Eugene’s plan of a private
interview with Eloise. Miss Carroll was there,
fresh and rosy as if the day's exercise had had
no fatigue for her. She and Sam Farman, Car
rie and Fred formed a group a little apart from
where Eugene Bertram sat beside Anna at a ta
ble strewed with sketches, most of them by El-
o se—and where Miss Ennis, pale, but very
lovely, sat leaning her white arm in the low em
brasure of the window with Sydney Farman at
her side. .
The conversation was general in a measure,
only Eugene uttered some low spoken sentences
now and then to Anna, bending his graceful
head close to hers.
For sometime, Eloise could not catch his eye.
Then his look told her nothing. It was impas
sive, almost cold, and her heart was chilled with
misgivings. It was an effort to join in the gay
talk that passed from lip to lip—light repartee
and playful teasing jokes upon Carrie,'Sue and
Eloise for having been a party to a monopoly,
Anna asserting that it was too bad, when they
should, like her, have made themselves gener
ally agreeable.
• Why, I even fished,’ she said.
‘ But what did you catch. Miss Anna ?’
‘A fish; never mind its size. Did any one of
you do anything so useful ?'
'Yes,' said Sam, ‘ Miss Sue and Carrie both
fished—and caught—not minnows like yours,
Anna.’
‘ Indeed ! what was the size of the catch ?’
• I can answer for Miss Susie—six feet lack
ing a very few inches, was the size of her catch,’
looking at himself in the glass as he stood at
the back of Sue’s chair.
• You have insinuated that Carrie and I were
fishers of men,’ said Sue, ‘ but what of Eloise?
Did she catch no fish ?’
‘ She had hers already impaled on her hook.
At least, so I thought, but—’
He glanced over at Bertram’s self composed,
uncommunicative face; saw him lean to speak
to Anna with a look cf admiration into her fair
face. Then his glance wandered to Eloise and
Sydney. How pale she was, and what a look of
sadness on her face. She was speaking of the
Catholic faith to Sam. Turning the leaves of
Keat’s poems and commenting upcn St. Agnes’
Eve had led to the remarks on the papal faith.
Sydney had said: ‘You have many supersti
tions connected with the holidays of your relig
ion.’ And she had answered him ‘Yes, but
they are most cf them beautiful and comforting.
I love the Catholic religion because its mem
bers stand so staunchly by each other and are
so kind and charitable. I do not admire its ex
clusiveness, nor do I believe that the priests are
the only ones worthy to afficiate in sacred rites
—to perform the ceremony of baptism for in
stance, or to marry a couple. Marriage perform
ed by a minister of any other denomination is
equally legal.’
‘Some of the Catholic hymns are very beauti
ful.’
‘Yes, those of Mary, the blessed Mother, es
pecially. I always thought the idea of the Ma
donna's intercession was one particularly com
forting to women.’
‘Speaking of songs,’ said Sam who had been
listening, ‘ we have had none to-night. Come
Miss Sut.’
‘ The wren sings not in presence of the night
ingale,’ she answered signing with her hand to
wards Eloise.
‘ Will the nightingale not favor us in return
for the compliment?’ Sam asked turning to El
oise. The others began also to importune her.
It was in vain she asked to be excused. Her
voice was so gentle, her smile so sVeet when
she plead headuche and weariness that they
thoughtlessly disregarded the plea her pale
cheeks should have confirmed. She went to
the piano, looking at Eugene as she passed—a
significant look that he replied to by a slight
glance of comprehension while he continued
his conversation with Anna.
Seating herself at the fine instrument, she
said: Twill sing only on condition that you
help me. Come, here is ‘Spted Away;’ now
for a full chorus.’
‘She played the prelude. Sidney and Car
rie began to sing with her. Presently Eugene
came up and added his rich bass, making a
fine quartette. When it was finished, Carrie put
‘The Tempest of the Heart'before her she sang
it, accompanied by Sidney. She shook her head,
as he put before her, ‘Enani, Fly With Me.’
‘I am not equal to that,’ she said.
‘Oh pray, Miss Eloise,’he insisted, and El
oise began the song. It had always excited
her, now she was carried away by her emotion.
Sbe thought of but one, sang but for one. Her
eyes rested on Eugene, he felt the power of their
dark, sad look, though his own were bent
to the floor and he would not raise them. Sud
denly, her voice faltered, her hands fell heav
ily on the keys, she turned deadly pale and
shivered. Carrie came to her quickly, the
others gathered around.
‘It is only a little faintness,’ she said, at last,
almost gaspingly. The £fresh air will revive
me better than anything, I will go out on the
piazza a moment.’
Instantly Sidney was at her side, but Eu
gene stood there also; his features expressed
much concern at her evident indisposition.
She took his arm with a slight bow of thanks
to Sidney, and went out upon the cool piazza
where the moonlight struggled through cluster
ing vine-leaves.
‘Will not some of you follow my example?’
she said, as she left the room. ‘Moon-light is
so much lovelier than even the light of waxen
tapes.’
Sam and Sue followed them out, and Sam
proposed that they should stroll through the
lovely moonlit grounds; and they at once step
ped down from the piazza and were soon thread
ing the winding walks in diffierent directions
and lost to sight in the mazes of shrubbery
and vines. Sidney went into his mother’s room
and began to talk to her o/Eloise and of Eugene.
‘Can they be lovers?' he asked with so much
feeling in his tone that his mother at odco
guessed his secret.
‘I can’t think he is worthy of her, though
every one thinks him such a model. He is
cold and prudent, I know, and he gets into no
scrapes. He has not heart enough to suit that
sweet girl. She is all sensitiveness and gen
tleness.’
Meantime, shut in by the shadows of a rose
arbor and seated in a rustic seat, Eugene was
talking to Eloise and chiding her for her sad
looks to-night. ‘I am afraid, my love, every one
noticed and wondered at your heart-broken,
distrait air.’
‘I cannot help it Eugene. I am unhappy and
I am not skilled in disguising my feelings.’
•I am sorry that you cannot call up strength
of mind to set aside this shadow of care that
I may be so unfortunate as to have given you
cause for. 1 cannot reveal that secret, at least
not now, but it shall be done, and soon!’
‘Eugene, I hope you are sincere. Tell me now
bow shall I meet my brother when he comes ?
I have never kept a secret from'him. He has
been father, mother, brother and all to me; '
must confide in him.’
‘It may be best you should not meet him. You
are in a very nervous, excitable state. A little
rest and quiet will do you good. Listen, I have
a villa on the Florida coast, as I have told you.
Go there and rest and recruit; I have a house
keeper and servants on the place. I will arrange
that every comfort and attention shall be yours.
This confining life you haye been leading is
telling upon you.’
‘It is not the confinement, it is the weight of
secrecy and suspense. If you ’
‘Do not again ask me to do what I must re
fuse, positively and absolutely, but in all love
and gentleness dearest girl. And let us talk of
this trip to Florida. Will you go ?’
‘Yes,’ she said after a pause, ‘It is better so.
My absence and immurement will make you feel
safe. You fear now that your secret will escape
me. I will go, but no one must know where I
am gone; I will steal away like a guilty thing—
leave friends, false and true ones, behind me,
and conceal all trace of my flight Will that
satisfy you ?’
‘I only wish to please you,’ he answered cold
ly. ‘You need not go unless you wish. If you
really wish to leave here and to keep your de
parture a secret you can do so readily and soon.
The stage leaves here at night after twelve I be
lieve. I will come for you as if to take you home,
and we can leave here at ten, say, and wait on the
roadside until the stage comes.’
How systematically he arranged it all! She
shuddered to think what power this man had
over her. He was so cold, so strong of will, so
indomitable, and yet so calm. She olasped her
hands in nervous agitation.
‘How cruel you are Eugene! Yes, I feel that I
must leave all who love me. Oh God ! help me
to bear what lies before me.’
‘Silly child !’ he said; taking her handB and
holding them fast, ‘You are in the tragics again;
will you never belike an ordinary mortal, my ro
mantic darling. Nobody compells you to this,
you can remain if you wish, at least till yon are
willing to oblige me. Say, decide, what you
will do. I hoar voices: Farman and Miss Car-
roll are ooming this way.’
She stood irresolute under the starlight. Prompt-
decision, firmness cf character was what this
girl lacked. This want was an offset to all her
accomplishments, all her amiability and sweet
ness. Proud and pure, she yet had not the nec
essary decisiveness to meet the trying ordeals of
life.
Eugene went with her to the house, but it was
getting late and he did not go in. Sydney Far
man was going to ride to town to his office in
which he often slept, and he accompanied Eu
gene. As the two drove along under the mid-
nignt moon, with the stillness and shadows, Syd
ney bef.au to speak of Eloise.
‘ I tell you Bertram,’ he said, ‘Miss Ennis is a
divine creature, sings like an angel, graceful
and dignified, handsome and fascinating.’
• You are quite an enthusiast.’
‘Not a bit too much so. I would be the hap
piest man on earth if that woman loved me—oh
—I would ask no more after I gained her love.’
‘If I were you I would attempt to win her.’
‘ I must feel my way. I have the nerve to try
if I felt assured.’
• Faint heart never won fair lady. I never
heard a more honest confession. Do you really
feel what you profess ?’
‘ Never moie in earnest, and every word is
truth itself,’ answered Sid Farnam.
‘Why you ought to try her.’ How his heart
throbbed ! If another man were to sue for her
hand, how wretchedly he would feel, but then
she had not the position that Anna Farnam held,
and from a mercenary point Anna would be
more attractive than Eloise.
He asked himself then why try to retain her
love, what good would it avail him.
1 1 am going' to tell Miss Eloise* Ennis the.
first opportunity; hope her good genius may
promp! her to say yes. Look here Bertram what
makes her so sad ? You are her friend and have
been with her most all to-day and then to-night.’
‘Lookout Sid you will upset the buggy,’ try
ing to avoid the question from Sidney.
• I wish there was a little danger of shaking
that answer out of you. Tell me what makes her
act so strangely ?’
‘I do not know. All she told me was her
brother had written he was coming and would
take her back to New York with him.’
‘If I can succeed in gaining her consent, he
nor anyone will take her against her wishes.
She shall be my wife.’
‘Yet you say you feel timid about approach
ing Eloise on the subject?’ Sid did not notice
he left off the Miss.
‘I wanted to see if I was in your way and if
you do not like her a little better than you re
marks indicate, I know I am not in your way.’
‘ In my way ! why, old fellow, you know you
are not. You know whom I like. You must
stir around; if you don’t, I maybe near kin in
the future.’
‘Paradise is open then for me, and woe to
anyone who dare trespass upon my ground. I
have a good character.’
‘That is true Sid; everyone knows you are
more than worthy of Eloise.’
‘ Everyone likes her I believe, and no one
can slander me, surely. Yet I am quite un
worthy cf the priceless gem.’
‘ Soin6 persons might object to your exclusive
ness. I know a lady here who rather dislikes
your constant attention to Eloise.’
• I do not visit anyone but Miss Ennis; in fact,
I spend a delightful hour or two with her, often.
She sings for me and chats merrily, and I really
eDjoy my evenings. I have but little leisure
time and after studying all day it is a recreation
for me.’
‘ That is just it Sid. You ought to visit more
among the other young girls; they will be
jealous.’
I don’t care for the rest. She is the only—
Pshaw ! Eugene you are laughing at me. You
have never loved—are phlegmatic and cold in
your nature.’
‘You wrong me Sid, but I presume you will
soon see the error. My heart is thickly encrust
ed with the duplicity I see in woman, but I feel
it wearing the scars that lovely eyes have left
there.’
‘ You are not affectionate in your disposition ?’
‘ Yes very.’
‘I never thought that; your worldliness has
taught you to conceal it.’
‘ You wrong mo very much. I have seen a
great many lovely women and even loved, but
got over that long ago; though I never forgave
the woman that wronged me. There are two blue
eyes whose smiles I hope to win.’
‘ I trust you may, if you will only let my two
blacks ones alone.
‘I promise.’
‘Here we are at my office. Eugene come in
and stay with me to-night,’ throwing him the
reins as he sprang out.
‘Not to-night, I have some business to attend
to, as late as it is.’
‘Will you go out in the morning and bring
the ladies into church ?’
‘I will be out in the evening. Good-night.’
‘Good-night. Bertrau, it is after one; we
have driven slowly.’
Sid entered his office quietly smoking a cigar
and was soon asleep dreaming of Eloise as his
wife; that her hands were his own to kiss as he
had so often longed to do.
Eugene drove on whistling an opera air;
put his horse away, not waking his groom,
lighted his lamp and a cigar, and drew up his
table covered with pens ink and papers; saw all
was safe for the night from intrt» u ers; and sat
down to write four letters of importance. One
to his banker in Florida, telling him that Ocean
View was to be inhabited by a cousin, who was
in delicate health from close confinement, and
he wished to allow her use of any amount she
might wish, and check on him. Another letter
he wrote to Dr. Theus, an old chum of his, plac
ing Eloise in his charge, and yet another note
to the agent of his property, telling him to send
a carriage for Eloise every day after a certain
time, nntil she came. He sealed the letters
and walked the floor, felt sad and really lonely.
‘Would to God she knew all I want to tell her,
bat all confidence would be lost in me if I did,
and, although I do not love her as I should, still
she knows my secret, and for that I must be pol
itic, or she will tell all.’
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Battles Around Atlanta
Ninth Paper.
Johnston Reviews Sherman.
BY SIDNEY HERBERT.
Note.—The ‘Eighth Paper’of this series ap
peared in the Sunny South of April i3th, and
the ‘Tenth Paper’ on thej27th of that month.
By some oversight there\ was an error in the
numbering, and the present article is pnt in
to fill the vacancy. A portrait and biographi
cal sketch of Lieut. Gen. Joseph Wheeler will
comprise the ‘Eleventh Paper’ of the series,
whioh will be the next in order.
The articles already published in this series
have given all the matter to be found in Sher
man’s ‘Memoirs' and Johnston’s 'Narrative' that
has to do with the battles fought around Atlan
ta. Gen. Hood’s book has not yet been pub
lished, so that his views remain to be given
hereafter.
In addition to the above I have also given
much original matter, gathered from various
sources, bearing upon the subject. Lieut. Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, the great Confederate cavalry
commander, who was always in the front in a
defense and in the rear on a retreat, contribu
ted a valuable collection of orders, telegraphs
and reports, all of which have added largely to
the making of a complete record of the cam
paign.
Gen Johnston, it appears, is not fully sat
isfied with Gen. Sherman’s statements as pub
lished in his ‘MemoirsJ and has corrected some
of them in an article contributed to the ‘Annals
of the War,’ in the Philadelphia Weekly Times.
I shall copy, however, only such paragraphs as
refer to the operations of the two armies in the
vicinity of Atlanta.
A STUBBORN RETREAT.
During the month of June, 1864, after the
death of Lieut. Gen. Polk, on Pine Mount, the
movement of Johnston’s army continued in the
direction of Atlanta. Of the operations up to
June 23d Gen. Johnston says: ‘The Federal
army had gained no ground by fighting, unless
the driving in of a few skirmishers can be call
ed so. The Southern army was never, during
this part of the campaign, driven from a posi
tion by fighting or the fear of it; only by dan
ger to its communications by the extension of
the strongly intrenched lines which the ene
my’s greatly superior numbers enabled him to
make and man. The positions gained on the
21st near the south end of Kenesaw and on a
hill near, were outside of our position—not
occupied by onr line,'fend if at all, only by pick
ets, and Gen. Sherman was deceived by reports
of efforts to retake fl.hem and night attacks,
hits for one received. According to the reports
of General Sherman's subordinates they gave
but two; one on equal ground would have made
one effective shot to the enemy’s fifteen—which
is incredible. The more so, because a fire so
utterly ineffective could not have repnlsed or
checked in seventy days of such close and con
tinual fighting as General Sherman describes—
veteran American soldiers snehas his. We had,
too, direct proof of the inaccuracy of these re
ports. After the action of June 27 (pages GO-61)
we counted 1,000 dead of the army of the Cum
berland lying before two of Hardee’s Divisions,
very near, some against our breastworks. The
calculated proportion of wounded to killed is
five to one; this would indicate a loss of G,000
there. But the officers of that army reported 1,-
580 killed, wounded, and missing (see page 223
above report)—less than two per cent, of the 60,-
000 men of that army. The dead belonged to
the first and second lines, and we coaid see seven
exposed to onr maskets and cannon, so that
many others must have been killed. In like
manner, on the 27th of May, we repelled an as
sault by four divisions and counted 700 dead
within thirty paces of onr line. As five or six
lines immediately behind these dead were ex
posed to our shot there must have been consider
able additional loss. Yet Federal officers report
ed but 1,400 as the entire loss, when it could not
have been so little as 4,000. General Sherman
does not allude to this action. In the engage
ment two days before (referred to on page 44)
we had a much greater force engaged longer,
and therefore must have inflicted a much great
er loss. In the three actions at least 2,500 Fed
eral soldiers must have been killed, as many as,
according to Federal officers, were killed in all
the fighting in ten weeks described by General
Sherman—of which that in these three actions
was not a fourth part.’
which werenecer m.J
Cenfederate troops vN
by our troops,
■'e so incessantli!
If the
beaten,
it is unaccountable te\t they were permitted to
remain before four weeks, and then
shifted their ground c'nly to avoid losing their
communications. The attack on Hooker and
Schofield on the 22d! was made against orders
by Gen. Hood with ytevenson's Division, su p-
ported by Hindman's. It was defeated by in-
treariched artillery. But the troops held the
ground they gained long enough to remove
their dead and wounded. On the 25th an at
tack like this was made on Stevenson’s Divi
sion by the troops that had repulsed it on the
22d, and they were repelled with as heavy a
loss as they inflicted then. But this affair es
caped Gen. Sherman’s notice.’
THAT DECISIVE CONFLICT
Of the terrible battle of June 27th, which
proved so fatal to the Federals, Gen. Johnston
says, referring to Gen. Sherman’s account.
‘The description of the attack cn the Confeder
ate army on the 27th of June, prepared from
the 23th, and the statement of the Federal loss,
contrast strangely. About 9 a. si. of the day
appointed the troops moved to the assault, and
all along our lines for ten miles a furious fire of
artil’ery and musketry was kept up. At all
points the enemy met us with determined cour
age, and in great force. * * * By 11.30 the
assanlt was over, a«^a had failed.’ The state
ment of loss was 2,500 killed and wounded.
According to this, an army of Americans inured
to war was defeated by a loss of but two aDd a
half per cent. It is incredible. General Sher
man’s subordinates must have imposed upon
him. It is equally incredible that another ar
my of Armerican veterans, as completely pro
tected as men using arms can be, could strike
but two and a half per cent, of men exposed to
their muskets and cannon, in seven lines at least,
two hours and a half. The writer has seen
American soldiers, not inured to war, win a field
with a loss ten times greater proportionally.
Page 70: The Confederates are accused of burn
ing their pontoon bridges after crossing the
Chattahoochee. They did not commit that fol
ly. On the 17th it was reported that the Fed
eral army was on the southeast bank of the
Chattahoochee, from Roswell to Powers’ ferry.
That night General Hood was placed in com
mand of the Southern army by telegraph. On
the 18th, at his urgent request, Johnston form
ed the troops on the high ground overlooking
the valley of Peachtree creek from tne south, to
meet the advance of the Federal forces reported
that morning by General Wheeler. General
Sherman’s returns, on pages 24 and 13G, show
V ‘ duty May 1; 112,819
^s. Those of the South-
present for duty May 1;
58,502 June 6, and 53,275 July 1. 1-1,200 infan
try and artillery and 7,000 cavalry were receiv
ed in six detachments, coming at different
times—all in May. General Sherman points
out these additions to our forces, but says noth
ing of the reinforcements he received—except
the arrival of the Seventeenth Corps (9,000 men)
June 8. His reported losses in May, corrected,
by General Thomas’ (on page 5, report of Com
mittee on Conduct tot' the War, supplementary
part 1), and the difference between the May and
June returns above, show that he received
above 25,000 men in May alone. According to
the table on page 133, before July 18 the Feder
al army lost in killed and wounded about 21,-
000 men, of whom about 2,500 were killed. The
Southern army lost in the same time 9,972 kill
ed and wounded, of whom 1.288 were killed.
The Southern officers believed that the Federal
losses compared with theirs about as five to one.
And circumstances justify that belief.’
Marksmanship of Confederate Soldiers.
‘Except on three occasions,’ says Gen. John
ston, ‘the Southern troops fought in their in-
trenchments, exposing scarcely a thirtieth of
their persons, while their adversaries were fully
exposed on open ground. Therefore, with equal
marksmanship they would have given thirty
98,797 men present
June 1, and 106,07C
ern army show 12,
SHERMAN S L0SS68 ESTIMATED.
Gen. Johnston thus discusses the losses cf
of Gen. Sherman’s army in the Dalton-Atlanta
campaign: ‘The reports made to Gen. Sherman
charge his troops indirectly with being ohecked,
repulsed—intimidated by such losses as ordi
nary troops would have disregarded. This is
incredible to those who, like the writer, have
often witnessed the vigorous and persistent
courage of American soldiers, the best of whom
were not superior to Gen. Sherman’s. But the
testimony of 10,036 graves in the Union ceme
tery at Marietta of soldiers killed south of the
Etowah, is conclusive. About 2,000 of them fell
in the action about Atlanta. But at least as
many were killed north of the Etowah and bur
ied at Chattanooga. As the towns and villages
in the route of the Federal army were burned
there could have been no hospitals, and, there
fore, few deaths by sickness south of Dalton.
These proofs show that the estimate on page 357.
‘Johnston’s Narative,’ which Gen. Sherman pro
nounces erroneous, is not much so, to say the
least. On page 18 Gen. Sherman claims to have
taken 3,215 prisoners in May, because he had
captured 12.983 in the four and a half months
ending September 15. We had no loss by cap
ture in May, and only a little more than two
hundred up to July 18; the marches and results
of the fighting in that time did not enable the
eDeiny to make prisoners. His successes and
prisoners were subsequent. On page 19 Gen.
Sherman claims that the strength of the couutry
by mountains, streams and forests gave his ene
my to make a fair offset to his numerical supe
riority. Between Dalton and Atlanta one sees
but two semblances of mountains—Rocky Face,
which covered the march by which he ‘flanked’
Dalton, and Kenesaw, less than two miles long.
The country was no more unfavorable for the
ollensive than the Wilderness, or that on which
Lee and McClellan fought near Richmond, or
that between Amelia and Appomatax Court
house.’ >
shekman’s plan discussed.
‘General Sherman,’ says Johnston, ‘certainly
executed his plan of operations with great per
severance, skill and resolution. But it is a
question if that plan was the best. The resuds
obtained, compared with those attainable, indi
cate that it was not. At Dalton only the South
ern left flank was covered by Rocky Face, not
its front, and an attack in front wonld have
been on ground as favorable to the Federal army
as its general could have hoped to find. With
odds of near ten to four, he might well have
thought the ‘breaking up of Johnston’s army’
attainable there. It' defeated, Atlanta, its place
of refuge, was one hundred miles off, with three
rivers intervening, while the Federal army, if
unsuccessful, had a secure refuge in Chattanooga
which was easily reached. At liesaca the Fed
eral general had a still better opportunity, for
the two armies met there without intrenchments
between them, the Federals having a line of
retreat from its centre directly to the rear, while
the Southern troops, formed near and parallel
to the road to Atlanta, would have been driven
from that road by defeat, and, consequently de
stroyed. Battle at either place, whatever the
result, wonld not have cost a fourth of the
number of men actually lost. And success
would have ended the campaign and decided the
war. On page 39 Gen. Sherman*>ays: ‘ Of courstj
it was to my interest to bring him to battle as
soon as possible.’ His overwhelming numbers
ought to have made it possible at any time. The
flanking operations forced the Southern army
back to Atlanta, but could do no more . There
it was safe in intrenchments much stronger
than any it had previously occupied, aud too
extensive to be invested. And three railroads
met there, either one capable of supplying the
army . So it could have mantained itself there
indefinitely, and so won the campaign with lit
tle more loss. This is no after thought, but was
expressed to General Hood when he took com
mand . The Federal march to Jonesboro’ caus
ed, but did not compel, the abandonment
of Atlanta . For if the Southern troops had re
mained in the place, the enemy would in a few
days have been forced to return to his railroad.
And beside, Atlanta could have been suffi
ciently supplied from Macon through Augusta;
but at Jonesboro’ the federal troops could not
be fed. This mode of gaining Atlanta made
the acquisition of no great value. For the cam
paign continued, and General Sherman was oc
cupied by General Hood until late in October,
when he commenced the disastrous expedition
into Tennessee, which left the former without
an antagonist.’
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 12, 1878.
JentistrY
In view of & general reduction having
been made in the various branches of
business, as well as in the cost of liv
ing and in the price of labor of almost
every conceivable enterprise, we have
concluded to make public a corres
ponding reduction, from former prices,
in the following operations in our own
business:
GOLD FILLINGS, that have here
tofore been made at $5.00, will be re
duced to $250; those formerly $3.00,
to $1.50, and those at $2.00, to ONE
DOLLAR. We can say that fully
eight out of ten of all fillings made,
CAN BE DONE OF GOLD for this
amount — the work being as good
in all respects as if we received five
dollars per filling; thus you see these
teeth may be saved for the amount or
dinarily charged taf extracting them.
We are now making sets of teeth,
using the best makes of artificial teeth,
for from $5 to $10.
■ ■ We have recently perfected a plate
material which we think is far supe
rior to anything that has yet been
given to the public, and which, when
used, will be found the great want sup
plied.
We REFIT poorly constructed and
badly fitting sets of teeth, so that they
are comfortable and serviceable, for a
very small amount.
Such persons as may doubt that
really good operations can be done at
the figures we state, (and there are
parties who, hoping to receive twice or
three times our charges for the same
work, will help them to doubt) we par
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Among our patrons we have such men
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Maj. Campbell Wallace, Prof. William
Henry Peck, Dr. J. M. Johnson, Hon,
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H. Martin, and hosts of others to whom
we can refer.
Persons not living in the city, de
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vices, should write us and make en
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or immediately upon arriving here,
otherwise they may he disappointed,
as we work almost altogether by ap
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Having office and residence connect
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visiting or employing us.
m, CRENSHAW, Dentist.
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