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BY
J. C. GALLAHER.
TUKHt OF *il )IS< RIPTION ■
TWO DOLLARS per Annum in Ailranoe.
A MARVELLOUS CURE.
BY Cl.kllA AtOUSTA.
For fourteen years anil upwards Mrs.
Maria Chesford had been an invalid. Her
sufferings had been intense. No person
on earth had ever endured one fortieth
part so much lut she had, if one could take
her word in evidence. Job, in the days
when liis boils were jnst coming ton head,
knew nothing, of pain, comparatively
speaking.
You never heard of any disease, aud
you will never hear of one which at some
time or other hail not alllioted Mrs. Ches
ford; ip fact, many of the uew diseases,
which puzzled medical men to account for,
Mrs, ('hesfurd originated, aud might
claim a patent for if only she would make
application.
Ofjtspurse she doctored. Every physi
cian for a circuit of forty miles around had ■
bee recalled to attend her at some time or I
other; aud if a uew quack was heard of
any where Mrs. Chesford was not content
until she had made trial of his skill.
But io good ever resulted from anything
of the kind. She was always dying, but
soraehojv she never accomplished it Aud
if voti arc an observant person, you have
doubtless noticed that people who are al
ways (lying live to be ninety at least.
Siclj, people—that is, people who are sick
all their lives, never die except from old
age: your well robust people die early.
Mr. Chesford was a martyr. The poor
man led a terrible life of it, thnngh he had
been in a measure hardened to it, and did
not mind it so very much. Ho was a tull>
lean, sandy-haired man, with a washed
out aspect generally. He had been so ac
customed to the thought of a death in the
family that he wore a funeral face contin
ually, and might have made his fortune in
some countries by hiring out to do ser
vice as chief mourner.
Sometimes his wife’s complaints grew so
clamorous that he had to get up in the
night and go for u doctor, who would
come wlicu he got ready, administer a
bread pfll or two, and take leave.
“David! David!” screamed Mrs. Ches
ford, one cold night in Fobuary, just as
Mr. Chesford had fulleu asleep and was
dreaming of finding a gold-mine. “Da
vid, 1 say! It’s at hand! The great change
is nigh! Oh, David! do stop that snoring
and w'ufec upl I do believe you’d lay
there fflt.l snore if the List trumpet was a
tooting! David! I say, David I”
“Umpli!” grunted Mr. Chesford, turn
ing ovcj on the other side. “Do try and
lay still# Miriab! I’m awful sleepy,” and
in a moment he was snoriug again,
a-veed!" cried she digging her
elbows into his ribs in a way not to he
borne. “I tell you I’m a dying I I’m
growiug cold now! My feet is like ice,
and if there was a light you’d see that my
finger nails have turned purple!”
“Eh? well go to sleep! you’ll lie better
in the morning,” said the unfeeling Da
vid.
“I- won’t go to sleepl I’m a dying!
David. 1 want to tell you my last wishes.
Lay me out in iny black silk dress, and
don’t let ’em put any eamfire on me! I
hate tqe smell of eamfire! And, David,
don’t. Java no cents put on my eyes; if
you must put on anything put on silver
dollars,, And now, David, I want to see
Aunt Jenkins. I bavo something to say
to her. Go as quick as you can or I shall
be dead before she gets here.”
David attempted to put her off with ex
cuses, but she would not be denied, ami
the poor man was under the neceaily of
doing her bidding, It was a biting cold
night, and Mr. Chesford was not in extra
ordinary good humor at being forced out
of a warm bed to breast tho chill north
easter. So when ho reached Mrs. Jenk
ins’ residence he gave a thundering rap on
the dour, as if that obstacle tojliis entrance
was in someway guilty of causing him
this unpleasant walk.
Jenkins’ folks wore timid, and lived
somewhat in fear of being robbed. Tom,
the oldest boy, kept a gnn loaded, and
kept likewise a fierce dog.
At the first sound of the rapping, Tige
rushed but, and seizing Mr. Chesford by
the leg upset him into a barrel of rain wa
ter justbelow the doorstop, and before ho
had finished swearing, and crawling on!
of his impromptu bath, Tom up with the
window and let fly the contents of the
gun. Fortuuately, Mr. Chesford was
down so low that the charge passed harm
lessly over him, and he hadn’t lime to
discharge a round volley of imprecations
at Tom before he could load again.
robbers! murdeii arson!”
serai in ed Mrs. Jenkins’.
“Do stop your noise!” said David more i
emphatically than politely—“l haiu’t no
robber, nor an arson! Nary one. I came
after you, Anut Jenkins —”
“Oh, well! you hold on until I get my I
petticoat and my false front on, and I’ll j
unbar the door.” So Mr. Chesford wait
ed, and presently Aunt Jenkins appeared. I
David explained that his wife thought she j
was dying, and that she wanted to see,
Aunt Jenkins.
“Ofa, is that all?” said Aunt Jenkins
placidly. I didn’t know but your cow bad
Jfot choked, or the pig was took with the
blind staggers. You come in and warm
yourself, and have a drink of cider. Ma
liuiril do well enough.”
Mr. Chesford was probably of her opin
ion, for he went in, and Mr. Jenkins got
.up, and" the two sat over the fire and talk
fabout the election, and the “tarual cold :
until day dawn. ' Then Aunt-
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Jenkins concluded she would go over and
| ‘'chirk Mariah up a little,” aud when they
| arrived at the house of death they found
j Mariah up aud dressed aud getting brouk
j fast.
But such a “blessing” as she gave them
j botht It was enough to convince any one
i that her lungs were sound.
In March, Fanny Barton, M r - Ches
| ford’s cousin, a wide-awake, rosy checked,
little, old maid, came to make them a
j visit. Of course, Mrs. Chesford was very
■ poorly, she always was when there was
j any one to listen to her complaints.
It did not hike Fanny long to under
stand the position of allairs iu the family,
j Mrs. Chesford had a series of ill turns, iu
i the course of the week she went through
; with yellow fever, measles, seorfula, small
! put, cholera morbus, neuralgia aud cou-
I jestion of the brain, to say nothing ol
j slight attacks of heart complaint, puourno
| uia and billions jaundice.
Oue day Fanny took Mr. Chesford aside
I and half an hour’s serious conversa
tion with him. At the close of the inter
view he looked almost elieerful, and Fanuy
was jubilant.
That evening when Mrs. Chesford set
up the customary cry that she was dying,
Fanny joined with her cordially, aud en
tered into the making of her will with
great evident relish. She also suggested
that tho sick woman should have her hair
crimped when she was laid out, aud that
she should be buried in a metalic coffin.
Mrs. Chesford looked very much discon
certed, hut did not explode, as Fanny
expected she would. She kept her teui-
per.
The next day she made another attempt
at dying. Fanny stood by the bedside
and asked Mr. Chesford a very audiblo
question about a board to lay her out ou;
and Mr. Chesford replied quite as audibly
that he had always calculated to use the
wood-shed door. He had it off from the
hinges two mouths, he said, for this very
purpose.
The dying woman looked daggers at him,
und uttered u groan which might have
been beard a quarter of a mile off.
Mr. Chesford put Ills arm around Fan
ny’s waist, and kissed her.
“Never mind, doar,” said he, “she’s
too far gone to notice anything. Her eyes
are set, now."
Mrs. Chesford sprang up in bed, and
shook her list at him.
“Set, inde<Al!” said she. “Sit! I’ll
learn you what set is if yon don’t ”
“Don’t exert yourself,” said Fanny,
“don’t! And don’t worry about tho chil
dren! I’ve promised David that 111 boa
mother to them when yon are gone.”
“Of course, I am sorry to lose you, Ma
riah," said Mr. Chesford, “but you are
such a great sufferer, it is wicked to want
you to live. And you uro getting old,
too.”
“Eh?” said Mrs. Chesford, sharply;
“old, eh? You want a young wife? do ye?
She’s every day as old as 1 am. ”
“She wanders,” said Fanny, pityingly.
“Poor soul! She’s almost gone! Hadn’t
you better step out David, und ask Mrs.
Hanscoml) to como over and help dress
the body.
"Ob, Fanny! my dearest girl! to think
I shall so soon he free!” cried Chesford,
raptnously, and then thou will bo mine!”
Mrs. Chesford bounded to the floor, and
snatching her gown from the footboard,
put herself inside it in a twinkling.
Seizing a bottle of smelling salts, which
happened to be the only weapon at baud,
Mrs. Chesford hurled it at the head of her
husband, ami so accurate was her aim that
the looking-glass on the opposite side of
the room was put out utterly.
“Darn the looking-glass!” cried the la
dy, “who kcers for a looking-glass? I’ll
laru you how to plot what you’re a-going
to do after I’m dead! I’ll laru you! you—
you —you!” und unable to express herself
in words.
Mrs. Chesford had recourse to the bot
tle again, aud wushes, liniments, ready re
lief, pain killer, and preparations innumer
able fo.lowed. ouch other in quick succes
sion, hurled iu the direction of the de
voted pair!
“You’re a-going to take keer of my
children, be you? You tnrn-np-uosed old
maid, yon! I’ll see you in Halifax fust.
And you’re a-guiug to lay roe out on the
wood-shed door, be you, Dave Chesford?
And you've kept it off the hiuges two
months a-purpose, have ve?”
“You said you was a going to die,” said
David, “and I thought it was best to be
prepared.”
“I ain’t a-going to die! I won’t, I
wouldn’t if anybody would give me a mill
ion! I’ll live iu spite of ye! And as for
yon, Fanny Barton, you may take your
things and leave this house, bag and bag
gage, or it’ll be the worse for ye!”
Henry Wilberforce Brown, Widower.
He was at the Central station last night,
in cell No. li. He wasn’t drunk, and he
looked so neat and clean that a reporter
was led to inquire why he was detained as
a prisoner. Henry Wilberforce Brown is
a widower, sixty-three years of age, and
lives iu Kent county, where he owns a
farm. He arrived here ou tire Sunday
night train f,,r the purpose of hunting a
wife, and early Monday morning he start
ed out. He didn’t intend to lose any time,
hut as soon as he found the light sort of a
woman meant to go to a justice, have the
knot tied, and start for home.
At the corner of Woodward and Jeffer
son avenues, he encountered a smart look
ing young girl, and he stopped her and
sai.l:
“Miss, xuy name is Henry Wilberforce
QUITMAN, (tA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1875.
llrowu. 1 lam the father of three children,
have horses, cows and a farm, aud I want
a wife. I like your appear ,”
She jumped away from him aud ran
across I lie street, and he decided that she
wouldn't make a good wife anyway. Ho
meandered up as far as Earned street be
fore he saw another face that suited him,
aud he halted the woman aud said:
“Lady, my name is Heury VVilberforce
Brown. lam the father of three children,
own a nice farm, have lots of money, and
I want to marry. You are a mighty hand
some woman, aud it you will say the word
we'll go and git ” •
“Sill" she said, as she stepped back;
“sir! you are a drunken old fool!”
“You wouldn’t suit me—too much tem
per!” ho replied, aud ho waved his hand
at her aud passed ou.
Ho was gazing at tiie city hall when n
portly female catuo sailing around the cor
ner of Michigan avenue, and the widower
took off' his hat, made a low bow, and as
she halted and wondered who he was, he
said:
“Madam, I am Henry YVilberforoo
j Blown. lam the father of three children,
I have horses, cows, and a farm, and I am
| looking for a wife.”
“Sirl” she gasped, retreating a little.
“Oh! no offense, madam!” he went on.
“I am looking for a wife, and perhaps you
can assist me. If so, I will send you a hull
lot of produce to pay for your trouble. 1
didn’t waut to marry you, because you are
too stout, aud I know that stout women
are often as lazy as tho day is long; but
perhaps you can toll mo of some nice lit
tie——”
“You old wretch!” she shrieked; “you
ought to be lashed to the bone with a raw
hide! If I could see a policeman (looking
around) I’d have you in jail in live min
utes. ”
Henry Willierforce Brown was some
what discouraged by Iris failures, but he
concluded that patience and perseverance
would bring him success before uoou, and
he walked around the Opera house block.
He carefully noted every passing female,
and it was half an hour before lie found
ono to suit. He thought he had, perhaps,
been too bold with tho others, and so when
he stopped this oue he inquired: “Miss,
you know lots of women in Detroit, don’t
you?”
“What!” she asked, iu amazement.
“This is nice weather to go on a bridal
tower!” he continued, giviug her a power
ful wink with his left eye.
Site ran into a store, supposing him
drunk or crazy, and, after a little reflec
tion be decided that the boldest way was
the best. He would state his business
frankly, aud then if they didn’t want to
marry him there would be no time lost.
He started for tho market, hut on Monroe
avenue he encountered another female,
whose face suited his idea, and ho walked
right up to her and said:
“Miss, I am the father of three farms,
and my name is Henry Wilberforce Brown.
I own children, several cows, aud I
want to ffinl a ”
“Police!” hlio screamed, striking at him
with her umbrella.
“Oh! no offense, madam; if you are en
gaged .”
“Po-leoou!” she shouted, fighting him
back.
“My name is Heury Wilboforce B ,”
lie was going on, when several men
grabbed him, and an officer came running
up and tore Iris coat-coUar and flopped him
around and walked him to tho station.
These, briefly told, are tho reasons why
Henry Wilberforce Brown, widower, oc
cupied cell No. G last night.
A Rich Scene in blew York.
Tho serenade to the king of the Sand
wich Islands to night brought out many
iudierouo incidents. The committee of
the board of alderman appointed to re
ceive King Kalakaua had become as drunk
as Toodles. While awaiting in Jersey
City the arrival of the train from Wash
ington, they adjourned to the benzine
shops near the Pennsylvania railroad
depot and took in a supply of Jersey
lightning to steady their nerves to receive
with becoming dignity tho copper-colored
potentate, whose presence was to shed
such a blaze of glory. At the Winsor
hotel to-night the Ninth regiment bund
put in an appearance shortly after!) o'clock
to serenade the king. An immense throng
had assembled in front of the hotel.
During tire playing of the first air the
king and suite appeared on the balcony.
Kulukaua’s features became like a newly
polished mahogany table. Ho seemed
pleased with himself and his surround
ings. Parties of female beauty clustered
iu the corridors of the hotel, iu the parlor
and on the balcony, and siied a lustre ou
the scene. Two brilliant calcium lights
illuminated the avenue for a quarter of a
mile. The first air over, old McCafferty,
chairman of the reception committee oi
the board of - aldermen, staggered to the
side of the king aud, leaning over the
balcony, swayed to and fro in a manner
which alarmed his friends for his safety,
and looked ominous for whataoevej life
insurance company he had a policy iu.
Alderman McCafferty, “a desciudeut of
kings and princes, be jabers,” spoke as
oilows: “Mr. chairman, aud numbers of
the boord of alderman.” [Laughter.]
A friend at his el ow—Damn it, Mac,
what the h—l are you talking about? Bay,
ladies and gentlemen.”
Alderman McCafferty, smiling a good
natured, alcoholic smile, aud giving a
plunge ahead against the life insurance
interest, taking the hint —Ladies and gen
tlemen: Allow me to introduce to you my
fri nil, King David—roaring laughter,
Kalakaua smiling amusedly, ‘while McCaf
ferty glared iu astonishment, and the ai
dcmianio friend at his elbow said, “H—l,
Mao, call him Calico.” McCafferty, who
had evidently been seeking information in
regard to the pronunciation of the poten
tate’s name, corrected himself in the fol
lowing fashion; [I mean Mr. Chairman—
that is, ladies and gentleman—to give his
majesty his full title.. Let me introduce
to yon King David Kalak-.i-a. [Hoars of
laughter.] As members of the common
council [Pause and laughter]—as citizens
of New York, yon will listen patiently to
wlmt the king has to say. He will now
address yon. Mr. Kalakaua, let mo intro
duce- you.
The crowd laughed and cheered, and
his majesty smiled and puffed his cigar.
He lmd no speech to make. He listened
to another air, and then retired to his own
rooms. The baud continued playing un
til after 10 o’clock. McCafferty and his
aldermanie friends adjourned to take a
drink.
Now is a good time to buy thermom
eters. They are lower now than they
have been since last i-p.ing^
IA BibleJCauvassor’a Talk witii a Fiddler.
A Bible cunvAH<r called iu a house on
Macouib street yesterday to see if bo
couldn’t sell a book. A small lame girl
opened the door in answer to his knock,
aud just as he entered a man sitting ou
the edge of a forlorn-looking bed raised a
fiddle to bis shoulder, and commenced
scraping out a tone.
“Have you a bibio in the house?” asked
the canvasser, as In* crossed tho room.
“Nary Bible/' answered the m.m; “and—
Old Dan Tucker
Drenmpt a dream!”
“Or a hymn book?” continued tho can
vasser.
“No, nary; and—
“lf you love nre, Mollie, darling,
Let your answer boa kiss.”
“1 am agent for the sale of this Bible,”
said tho canvasser, taking tho volume out
of bin satchel. *
“Couldn’t buy one cover, and-
Oh, darkies how mv heart grows weary,
Sighing for th.' old folks at home. ’
“I can soil you the book for a small
amount down and the balance iu weekly
payments. A great many—”
“Bibula are uil light, but I’ve got a sore
foot, and—
’Twas a cjilhT, still night,
And the moon’s pale light.”
“If you do not Care to road tho book
yourself you should not refuse your child
permission,” remarked the eanvassor.
“And the old woman’s up stairs, sick
with the fever, and
They took her oil to Georgia
To toil her life away.”
“But it seems hard lo think that you
are permitting yourself and family to jive
iu ignorance of religious—”
“Bibula is all light, and I’d encourage
’em if times wasu’t so blasted
Ha! ba! lm! yon aud me.
Little brown jug. don't 1 love iheo.”
“I have a smaller ediliou like this. You
can have that by paying 50 emits down aud
25 cents per week until puid up.”
“No use stranger,” replied the man;
“there luiiur nothing to do, money is tight,
and—
I’ve wandered this wild world
All over.”
“I wish you would cease that fiddling
and Binging for a moment, and let mo talk
to you,” said the agent.
“Bibula is all tight, you is all right,
and—
Oh! this world is sad and dreary,
Everywhere 1 roam!”
“Won’t you stop for just one mo
ment?”
“I’d like to oblige, but now’s my regu
lar time for fiddling aud singing, and—
Up iu a balloon, buys,
Up in a balloon,”
“Then I can’t sell you a Bible?”
“I)on t look as if you could, for
I’ve wandered through the vihago Tom,
I’ve sat beneath the tree.”
Aud the canvasser leit mo house iu de
spair.
LEE S SURRENDER.
Itid AUCOUIii tM !*’ itlovniUHlk AIVUIIU
Ajipumut l.o x Court lloutfc.
[ltemiuiHcencoß by lU v. J. W. Jouoh.]
The followiug tetter Luh been made
public for the first time in Mr. Jones’
reminiscencea of the lute war, says the Ad
vertiser: *
KilA.lt Aitumattox Court IToube, Va., I
A]nil 12, lbl&. j
liis Excellency Jefferson Davis:
Mr. President: It i with pain that 1
unnouno to your Exeelloncy the surrender
of the Army of Northern Virginia, The
uperafcioiiß which preceded this result wiU
be reported in lull. I will therefore now
only state, that upon arriving at Amelin
Court Hotiße upon the morning of the re
treat from the lines in front of Richmond
and Petersburg, and not finding the sup
plies ordered to be placed there, nearly
twenty-four hours were lost in endeavor
ing to collect in the country Buhsistcncc
for men and horses. This delay was fatal,
and could not be* retreived. The troops,
wearied by continued lighting and march
ing for several days and nights, obtaining
neither rest nor refreshment, and on mov
ing on the sth on the Kichn opd and Dan
ville Railroad, I found at Jetersvijlo the
enemy’s cavalry, and learned the approach
of his infantry and the g<-ut ml advance of
the army toward liorkeviile. This de
prived us of the use of the railroad, and
rendered it iuipiad icable to procure from
Danville the supplies ordered to meet us
at points of our march. Nothing could be
obtained from the adjacent country. Oui
route to the .Roanoke was fchereiore chang
ed, and tli3 march directed upon Farm,
▼die, where* supplies were ordered from
Lynchburg. The change of route threw
the troops over the road purs id by th<
artillery and wagon trains, west of tin
railroad, which impeded our advance and
embarrassed our movements.
On the morning of the (ith Gen. Long
street’s corps re :ehed 4r iiice , ►t itiou, on
the Lynchburg Railroad. It was followed
by the commands of Generalsf{. If. An
derson, Dwell and Gordon, with orders to
close upon it as fast as the progress of tin
trains would permit, or as they would be
directed, on roads further west. Gen.
Anderson, commanding Pickett 8 and !.
11. Johnson’s divisions, become dincoii
nected with Mahone’s division, forming
the rear of Longstreet. The enemy's ea\ -
airy penetrated the line of march through
the intervals thus left, and attacked the
wagon train moving toward Fumiviik*.
This caused serious delay in the march of 1
the centre and rear of the column, and eu-1
ablod the ererny to mass upon their think. J
After successive attacks, Anderson’s or
Ewell’s corps were captured or driven
from their position. The latter General,
with both of his division commanders,
Kerslmw and Custis Leo, and his Briga
dier, were taken prisoners.
Gordon, who all the morning, aided by
Gen. W. F. Lee’s cavalry, had checked
the advance of tho enemy on the road
from Amelia Spring.*, and protected the
trains, became exposed to bis combined
assaults, which be bravely resisted and
twice repulsed; but the cavalry having
been withdrawn to another part of the
hue of march, and the enemy massing
heavily on his front and both thinks, re
newed the attack about <3 p. m., and drove
him. from the field in much confusion.
The army continued its march during the
night, and every effort w m made to reor
ganize the divisions, which had been shut
tered by the day’s operations; but, the
m<*u being depressed by fatigue and hun
ger, many threw away their arms, while
others followed the wagon trains and em
barrassed their progress. On the morn
ing of the 7th rations were issued to the
troops ub they passed Fanuvilie, but the
| safety of tho trains requiring their remov
al upon the approach of the enemy, nil
could not be supplied.
Tho army reduced to two corps, under
liongaUeet and Gordon, moved steadily
on the rood to Appomattox Court House;
thence its march was ordered by Camp
bell Court House, through Pittsylvania
towards Danville. The roads were wretch
ed and the progress slow. By great effort
the head of the column reached Apponmt
j tux Court House on the evening of the 6th,
. aud the troops were halted to rest. The
j march Was ordered to la* resumed at one
a. m. on the fitli. Fit/. Lee with the oav
i alrv, supported by Gordon, was ordered
i thrive the enemy from his front, wheel
j to the left, and cover the passage of the
trains, while Longs!reel, who, from llice’s
! station, had formed the rear guard, should
I fume up and hold the position. Two bat
talions of artillery and the ammunition
wagons were directed to follow they army;
the lost of the artillery aud wagons to
move towards Lynchburg. In the early
: part of tho night the enemy attacked Wal
ker’s artillery train near Appomattox sta
j lion, ou tho Lynchburg ltniilruud, ami
1 were repulsed.
Shortly afterwards the cavalry dashed
j toward tiie Court House, til! halted bv our
lino. During the night there nore ill<lieu
fions of a large force massing on our left
and front, l’itz Lee was . rderod to us
certain its stivugt.h, and to suspend his
advance till daylight it necessary. About
5 a. m., on the 9th, with Gordon on his
left, he moved forward and opened the
way. A heavy force of the enemy was
discovered opposite Gordon’s right, which,
moving in the direction of Appomattox
Court, House, drove back the left of the
cavalry and threatened to cut off Gordon
from Lougstreet, lii.s cavalry at tho same
time threatening to envelop his left flank.
Gordon withdrew across the Appomattox
j river, and the cavalry advanced on the
| Lynchburg road and became neparaled
| from the army. Learning the condition
I of atVairs on the lines where I had gone,
i under the expectation of meeting Gen.
j Grant, to learn definitely the terms he
I proposed in a communication received
| from him on the Bth, in the event of the
surrender of the army, I required
pen si on of hostilities until these terms
could be arranged. In the interview which
occurred with (leu. Grunt, in compliance
with my request, terms having been agreed
on, I surrendered that portion oi the Army
of Northern Virginia which was on the
j lieid, with its arms, artillery, and wagon
trains, the officers and men to be paroled,
retaining their side arms and private ef
fects.
1, deemed this course tlm best under all
the circumstances by which we were sur
rounded. On the morning of the 9th, no
cording to the reports of the ordinance
oJKcers, there were 7.892 organized infant
ry with arms, with an average oi 7o rounds
of ammunition per mun. The artillery,
though ledllced to lid pieces, wit 1* 93
rounds of* ammuiiit ion, w.n anflicient.
These comprised all the supplies of ordi
nance that could be relied on in the Slate
lof Virginia. J have no accurate report, of
I’ i lie cavalry, but believe it. did not exceed
2,100 elleePvc men. The enemy was
more than five times via 1 number. If \v
eoiiul have forced our way one day longer
it would have been at a great, sacrifice o!
liie in tin* end, and 1 did not see how a
surrender could have la en avoided. \W
had no subsistence for man or horse, and
i* could not be gathered in the country.
The supplies ordered to l’amplin station
from Lynchburg could not reach me, and
'.lie men, deprived of food and sleep for
uiuny days, were worn out and exhausted.
With great respect,
lour obedient servant,
11. E. Lee, General.
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An Incident.
Home twenty live years ago there cnnic
to Crawfordvitie, Georgia, a poor irish
man, following tin. avocation of a ditcher.
Ha remained in Crawfordvillo for Home
years, during whirl, time ho married a
woman by whom ho Inal three children,
two hoi:a and a daughter. A few years
prior to the war tho ditcher left ostensibly
on a visit to Augusta, but to the sorrow of
his wife, and the consternation of the
village of which lie was a respected, al
liougli sometimes u rolickin citizen, lie
never returned. 'J oe newspapers were
tilled with “notices” ol Ids'departure, yet
not a word was ever heard from the wan
dering son of the Emerald Isle. A few
weeks ago, Hon. Alexa. del' Ji. Stephens
was notified through the Hlate Department
that they had notice of the death in
Buncos Ayres of and American citizen,
who had left him a legacy. Mr. .Stephens
called at the Department, whore ho was
received most kindly by .Secretary Fish,
who snowed him the will made by tin
American citizen, who proved to be no
other than the Irishman of Oriiwloi dvilie,
who hud left without a penny many years
before. A part only of the will in' tin
handwriting ol tho wanderer l publish.
Ihe first part dehcribea himself as naving
leit Crawford viilo at a certain date, et.
lie then goes onto say: “Through tin
Kindness of nil ulwisc .providence. I have
accumulated a small estate, which 1 be
queath to my wife and children, if th.-v
are living. J name little Ah ck .Stevens of
Georgia, (I use his own language) tie
noblest man Unit God ever made an mv
executor, and want my estate sold and the
proceeds paid over to him. He will carry
out my desires. If wife and children be
dead, or not to be found, 1 bequeathe all
[ have to Alexander H. Stevens.” This!
i the will. The American consul had
aid the estate which netted iff,'MO 4i.
gold. Mr. Stephens on being notified as
above went to find out tho whereabouts of
the los. ones. Ho found that the wife
died; that both the soils had been killed
in the rebel army, and here the search
.seemed lost. I'atiently and untiringly
Mr. Stephens labored, when a few weeks
ago he found the daughter, married to a
shoemaker in .Savannah, and tare mother
.01 live children.
He drew the money from tho United
States Treasury, and me other day sent it
to the pool- daughter of his old time
friend, the wandering exile. I gathered
these facts at the State Department to-day,
and recite them to show how truly grand
is the spectacle of a man’s life, whose
days have been so spent that lie has the
confidence of all -the high, the low, the
rum the poor. Such a man is Alexander
H. Btephens, of Georg a, tlm lost, of the
romans, whose name will be handed down
to posterity as a devoted friend, a pure,
statosuitt i and ail honest man. Who would
not sigh for such an epitaph, “when life’s
fitful fever is over?” —AUunUi HeruUL
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Domestic "cuutjv” is kept iu iainiJy jars.
THE INDIANS.
A BEARER OF HERALD DISPATCHES
CHASED FOR Hl® LIFE.
Nine Savages iii Pursuit- -Desperate Run
Through a Terrific Snowstorm.
Fort Sill. J. TANARUS., December 10, 1874.
ihe thrilling adventures of Lieutenant
Wet more in his ride to Camp Supply,
bearing dispalehes for the Herabl ami
General Miles, im the great heroic event of
the season, and is the talk of ah tho offi
cers and soldiers,
Accompanied by a servant, he left Gen
eral Miles’ headquarters on tho Washita
to carry dispatches to Camp Supply.
Reaching the Canadian river, he con
cluded to leave the train amt escort with
which he lmd been traveling and strike
for supply, accompanied only by In’s ser
vant. This was u very perilous under
taking, as the narrative will show.
Scarcely had Wetmore and Hamilton, fils
servant, left tho train before they saw
signs of the redskins. But they were both
full of pluck and anxious to reach their
destination; and, so, lunninttiui of the
dangertucy were in,
DBF rAN IL V GALLOPED ON
toward the north. Toward night, on the
17th, the two reached u uIiYUUI, Mimic
they determined lo cuni; , but ou louud
ing a point, came suddenly on a band ol
three redskius, who, on seeing the blue
coats, scattered through the brush like
leaves before si winter wind. Here was u
hazardous position for too two men, for
they well knew that the Indians they Imd
met were hut stragglers of a still larger
party iu the immediate neighborhood.
And so it proved. Retracing thou* steps,
they put spurs to their horses only tu ride
into the midst of a party of nine mounted
savages, who wore so completely taken by
surprise at ihe appearance of the soldier
boys that they merely turned ou their
horses and gave ono steady, prolonged
stare at the during intruders. But Wet
uiore uml his companion did not take the
introduction so coolly, Quickly wheeling
their horses, they started down tho slope
and out on tho sleety and frozen plume
with the speed of the wind.
TUKY WERE IN FOR IT NOW.
One look behind them revealed the sav
ages in full pursuit. But they had a good
start, The wind was blowing a gale from
the north went, and the piercing needles of
sleet drove straight into their laces with
blinding fury, but tin v could neither stop
nor change their course. On went the
fugitives and ou came tho bloodthirsty
pursuers, rt was a veritable
It ACE foil LIFE.
none of your dime novel fictions, but a
living, breuthiug, palpitating, exciting fact.
Nino hellh.mutts ot the frontier alter two
bluecouls and then Heulfes. This \wjh U.e
exact aitnntioii, and Wetmol'o and his
companion know it. They also knew that
their horses would not hold out long
against terrible tno storm ami
begun to devise ways and means to sell
their lives us dearly as possible. They
thought of making a stand it- the buffalo
willows, when the rememberaliee uf tlm
l terrible fate of Chapman and bis eumpan
lons made them dig in the spurs a little
deeper and seek a more favorable location.
At last it Was evident that they could go
no further, and something must be done.
The trail they we, e making on the sleety
surface told them there was no escape by
flight, so uusliuging their carbines they
dropped behind a small thicket and pre
paid! to “pass in their cheeks” us dearly
as possible, By this time. darimesH had
-et in and the storm of sleet and snow' was
.-a.png with unabated fury. Long and
, uxiously those two benumbed and he
,lighted men knelt ou the frozen crust and
waited for the appearance oi their savage
foes, but they cuuio not.
Either the redskins had been pelted
out of their purpose by the ter rifle storm,
or eise they hail come to tho conclusion
that the market price of two sculps would
not justify more than one or two twenty
mile heats ou a stiff and slippery prairie.
At all t-vunts they gave up the chase.
Lieutenant Wia,.and Hamilton staid
behind tno thicket a l night, narrowly es
caping freezing to death, aud ox peat ing
.■very moment that the whoops of the
savages would be heard and tie) crash of a
tomahawk put them out of their misery
and end the terrible, terrible suspeus.
WHEN MOIiNINO DAWNED
the savages lmd disappeared, but the be
lougutvd men w. r ) in another pickle. They
were lost in the prairie—lose as effectually
mid completely as though they were in
mid-oei an. Tile storm howled as fiereelv
ms it did during the night. By nothing
in the heavens above or the earth beneath
could the points of tho compass be deter
mined. Weary, frozen, hungry, and din-’
eouiugeil, the wanderers began to fee] lout
their miraculous escape of the night be
fore was only a putting off of the inevita
ble. Finally, seeing that they were com
pletely bewilder and. they struck lor the
nearest stream and lb.lowed it to the
uouth. It emptied into a larger one, and
ill us thesu men kept on until.
AL-TBK INN IJMKHABLE HAKDRHIPB,
they succeeded in striking the old trail,
fifty miles south of Camp Supply. F,.i ti
.ml s from flic post they met the cavalry
out. in search of them, and were escorted
to quarters, having I tarn nearly three days
without food, uud with their clothing fro
! zen light to tli ir bodies. It was
- \ MOST TIIIIIUJNO AKnjtXCITIMo ADVENTUW.
j told 11s it was by the bronzed lieutenant,
still clad ill his rough woolen shirt, cuv
■ Irv boots and punts, the stripes of winch
proclaimed tile wear and tear of the lace
through the umlerlinisli. It only wanted
the charm of the camp lire to finish the
word-picture of one of the rarest exciting
adventures of the Indian campaign.
Lieuteiniot. Wetmorc says his hands and
feet were badly frostbitten, but otherwise
lit; is in good health mid spirits. Hamil
ton, his companion in tli® adventure, lias
not yet arrived from the frontier, owing
!o his exhausted condition.
An lowa niau lias invented a ten bar
reled soot-gun. and the- f.tau of the small
siy who didn’t know it was loaded i
air! radiant with a hideous leer of satis
faction.
The city Government of Paris has 01-
ganized a service of 600 tumbrils for the
removal of suow from the streets. The
sum voted was 200,01.0. How many mil
lions would a snn.l.ir service add to our
expenees? I
ICSCELLANEUUJ ITEJ4S.
Tlu j- ti.ln- liio rM.j in Mias..,ai,, pi.
A friend indeed in one (vle is not in
hood.
Instead of wuitiog for a chance, mnkn
one.
Hotter run in old clothes than ron :
debt.
A imm sticks at nothing when ho tri< s
to sliili a ghost,.
A Chicago uwn hue invented a bar-ten
dor’s boil punch.
When it cnmtM to point lueo, all women
can 800 Ihe point.
Hpcnking of the round world, much can
lie nani on both aiden.
Forty Kentuckians rode two days to hi
a fox worth sixty cents.
I’eoplo wlm tinned never pay the fiddler.
It is those who get up the ball.
A Wisconsin mnu recently killed six
skunks in olio tiny. After intorviewiufcj
the Uist ono be hccnuio reckless und -'O
kept on.
When an old barn and a pig-sty bum. i
at Ashtabula, Ohio, the other day, “th
star-lit, heart ns were made to quivor above
Uie leaping, roaring flumes.”
“Wind, station do yon call this?” said
man, ns lie crawled out of the dt Inis 01 u
railroad smash up, “Devastation,” rc
piiod tho ui bane conductor.
A Curio man warns people not to trust
Ilia wife, and she retorts liy saying that
he’ll go without clothes all summer before
she’ll Lake in n nailing to rig him out
again.
Oats may bo good to souk the dampness,
.mt of wet hoots, but, how many i-St,. Hun is
men can afford to keep thirty bushel of
outs tm I land for that purpose.
The Duluth woui iu who put the kerb
won fan on tins stove-hearth while Klin
went out to trade with a peddler, is UuvV
keeping house iu a burn, kindly loaned
for tire occasion.
It is generally believed iu sotntf of tho
comities of Michigan that men will do
more plotting and planing to rob a hen
coop, than would no necessary to insure ..
successful bunk burglary.
An inebriate mnu, walking along the
■reel, ivg,nth it the nit'uu with sovereign
contempt;: “You needn’t feel so proud.”
lie said, “von are full only once amoutn
anl Ia n, r. night.”
A Milwaukee man bill in a public door
way and jumped out and kissed iris wile.
She didn't whoop mid yell, us he expected,
but replied: “Don’t bo so bold,
folks around here know hfttl”
NO. 30.
When a Peoria youth goes to spark a
girl jie find:; the old Indy iu one corner of
the room, the old man m another, und a
dog under tile melodeou, and lie i re
quired to speak up like an orator.
There is none of God’s creatures for
whom the recording angel reserves a
larger share of pitty tlnm the man con
demned to wrestle with the average bourd
ing-house sirloin.
This world would be a sandy desert of
loueson'eness if women were not privileged
to attend miction saleß amt pay more for
an old bureau than anew chamber set
would cost.
A clergyman at Kansas City said if
there was any one within hearing of biff
voice who would try to put a stop to Hun*
daydog fighting he’d like to huve’ent rise
up. A smalt boy and an old woman rose
up.
“I can’t say ns he Went to Houvtsn,” re
marked a Fort Scott citizen of a deceased
townsman, “but tie paid a bill ot eleven
years’ standing only the day before be
died, and you ean judge for yourself.”
The Manchester, N. H., Mirror
wittily says; “within a year wo have
know n nu apparently hopeless case of con
sumption cured by an appointment to a
probate judgeship), and we don’t know of
a disease which n Congressional nomina
tion would not enro. ”
Aver, the pil!-mnn, who was defeated
for Congress the other day, (manufactures
an excellent expectorant, lmt Ayer don’t
expect to rant in tho Forty-fourth Con
gress.
Texas would have been a splendid plm 0
for Micaw ber. When he sat down, wait
ing for something to turn up, the playful
nibble of a tarantula would have turned
11]) wlmt ho sat down ou in a tory lively
manner.
New York hoarders object to the pud
ding being mixed in a coal-scuttle, on tiro
'round that iu these hard times tho waste
of fuel consequent upon the pieces being
cooked with the pudding is a flagrant neg
lect of the poor.
Tho “blub” belongs to the very worst
class of talkative people, lias always got his
ears and eves open to see or hear a little,
then proceeds ou his errand to retail it to
his fellows, who magnify what may have
been a slight indiscretion to a heinous,
crime.
A Missourian wlio attended prayer
meeting with bis dnhrrliler f. It eoinoetlod
to rise np a. and r mark: ‘i wm tto ! e good
and go to Heaven, hut if those fellers
don’t stop winking at Mitrv there will he
a good deal-of prancing nrottud lierfc the
fust tiling they know 1 /’'
Kulak o a's o dd:
There comes a sound from Washington
Thai well may silence vulgar scoffing;.
It’s Knlatanu’s stern, deep tone:
“Take hirf.” says he; “that’jj Ihc
that’s c ughing.”
At this period of the year, a voice,
steals at oar.y morn through the key-hoi.)
of domestic chambers; “Mary Jane, uo
up and fix the fire;” and a prompt and
cheerful < cho responus. “I’ll see you
dodroftted first, and then I won’t you
old brute.” Buell are the celestial lo.L
--uiouies of domestic life.
A .Sacramento lawyer remarked to the
court: “It is my ccnuid opinion, Judge
you aie an old fool.” The Judge allowed
his iiiildly-bcuming eye to fail upon tin.
lawyer a brief moment, then in a voice
husky with suppressed emotion, said:
•It's my i-undid opinion that you ore
fine 1 $100.”
Ellen liuirabee, an Illinois farmer’s'
daughter, just missed being a heroine.
Seeing her father's burn on lire, she got a
pail of water, ran toward the blaze and--
fainted on the way. The barn was de
iti-oyed-, and her father, rating her inten
tions by the slow standard of her failure
wanned her shoulders with a stra),
He blushed a fiery red’
Her heart went pit-a-pat;
Bbe gently bung her head
And looked down at the mat.
He trembled ill liii speech;
He rose from where he sat,
And shouted with a sereei h,
“Your sitting, on. my hut l'
Yesterday, while sortie negro steamboat
men were racing paid oil', the clerk in
quired o' each one as he can e up to sign
the pay roll: “Will you write your name
or make an X?” Thu first one said he
could write Ins name, and the pen was
handed him. He looked id the pen, scru
tinized the pay in 1 and In situ led so long
fh.it the clerk poked him i )>. “Let's
it id thebaic .as -a i hived
I "k; now tin • ao*b
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