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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY JANUARY 19 1886 11! STORIES OF THE WAR. Which .Never Fall to Interest the Reader, Whether Old or Yoong. A BLOODY BATTLE. Twelve Thousand Hen Killed in Fort/ Minute*. From the Philadelphia Times. Captain James A. Graham, of the Twenty, seventh North Carolina, give* a description of a terrible charge made by his two confederate brigades at Bristoe station that was, perhaps, the bloodiest of the war. The confederates had been chasing the federals all day, and were suddenly brought up against a corps of troops that were hidden behind a hill. Bat we let Captain Graham.tell the story: It was a beautiful October day, but it was destined to bo the day when more men were killed and more blood shed in a few minutes than waa ever known before, Tills assertion seems strong, bnt I venture it, for I have never read in history of as many as 1,200 men lost on one side, where only two brigades were en gaged, in less than forty minutes. The con federates lost that many that day. My own brigade, Cooke’s lost just 700 and Kirkland 560. The battle did not last exceeding forty minutes after the first gun was fired. ABBIVAL NEAR BRISTOE. After leaving Greenwich (or Grocnage) and pursuing the rapid march, of which I spoke above, for some hours wo reached tho vicinity of Bristoe. On the top of tho high red hill I noticed the head of our brigade turning to the right into a cedar thicket As I passed General John B. JDooke I said to him: ‘•Well, general, you are going to givo us a rest now.” His re ply waa: “Not yet, Jimmie; there Is about > division of yankees over here just beyond tho railroad: we’ll catch them and then rest” Kirkland, immediately in oar rear, filed *°. the left and formod line, brigade, with ours, com posed tho line of battle. Little did we think then thero was death in the pot In a short while the command “Forward!" was given and wo advanced through the cedar thicket and adonso forest of oaks for about 500 or 600 yards, when we came to a beautiftit little valley,through which ran a little branch. General L P. Hill, our corps commander, was almost immediately in our rear, General Harry Heth, our division commander, was a little to our left and rear, so that he could sec both brigade* and his whole line. Before us, as Hill supposod—and, in fact, all of us, at that time, had tho same, idea—was only one division of the fodoral aimy. That was tho resr guard, which we had been pursuing all day and thought wo could easily whip, but wo “coanted without our host.” Warren, with his corps, wss then mov- in* up tho railroad from Catteli’s station, pur- iued fay Early and Ewell, and happened Jt then to hare reached a point immediately front of u» t where tho railroad embankment formed n perfect breaatwork. There waa a lit tle hill between ua and them whon wo ate in tho little valley ao that wo could m them. TDK BATTLE BEOtTlt. Bnt wo aoon felt them. I waa atanding near General Cooke when a courier from Coneral Heth came with the menage: “General Cooke, General Heth eayx General HU1 ordera you to advance.” Almoatat the anme time a courier came from Colonel E. D. Hall, Forty-aixth North Carolina (oar right regiment) nnd In formed General Cooke that wo were flanked on tho right. The courier from General Heth wm lent hack with the Information that wo wero flanked and asked that our right he tupported before we were made to advance, and Colonel Hell w.l ordered to throw out two companies away to hia right and feel tho enemy. The two ooarlen came again, almost timnltaneouily, to Get Cooke. The one from General Heth mm “General Cooke, General Hath lays Get Hill lays advance.” The one from Colonel Hall reported that he (Colonel Hall) had thrown out ilea as directed and that they the two com] wero enemy >ly driven in and that the offered to go to General HU1 for Cooke. Direct ly niter he started a courier came direct from Hill to Cooke with the memage: “General Cooke General HIU aaya advance at onoo.” [I waa atanding within fifteen feet of General Cooke and heard all these message* given and received.] Upon this message Cooke, with a * " i shoulders that ho had, I’ll take my peculiar shrug of the a ' ‘ “Well, ' remarked: men in and if they outflank me I'll flue my men abont and cut my way out. Forward, men!” ADVENCINO UP THE BILL. As wo advanced np tho llttlo hill a rabbit - . , Ono had. nodoabt, been made a thousand time* before -“Go it, ■Holly Cotton Tall.' If I had no more reputation than yon I’d run too.” 11 log up the llttlo hill we came to a skirt __ pino* on its top, and as wo passed through thorn the work of death began. To tho left of Kirkland, on a high round hill, had bean posted Graham’s North Carolina bat tery and Virginia battery, of Poagne’a battalion. As we emerged from the piaea we conld see on the opposite aide of tho railroad two tents being pitched and a lot of wagons apparently going into park. “Boom” went n cannon from Graham’s battery. The shell struck one of the tents, and, as was after wards reported to ns, killed n lieutenant colo- nel and major, who were preparing to mat therein. Immediately all was confusion on that aide, and all the [forces that wo could too, wagons and all, harried away. We had atlll teen no enemy in onr Immedi ate front, but wo soon found that they wero thero and ready for us. We thought we had' the “hire now.” Jnat as we passed the skirt of pines Are was opened on ns by skirmishers beyond tho railroad and from two or throe bat teries In the woods st the top of tho opposite hUl. We etill taw no enemy behind the rail- load, but soon they opened on ns with telling effect. It was a gentle elope from the pines to tho railroad, and as the enemy wero firing bill their bullets told well. FALL or COOKE AND OIUfXB. command of the brigade then dovolvodon Colonel E. D. Hall, of the Forty-aixth North Carolina, and Lieutenant Colonel Whitfield took command of our regiment. The Twenty* seventh having boon always drilled In the quick-step was a little in advance, and had halted for the others. As Colonel Hell came op, Coloael Whitfield told him he would loom every man he had if ho kept them then, and suggested a charge. Colonel Hall said: "Well, charger” and down the hill we started. Where we had halted bnt for an Instant the line waa plainly marked by dead and wounded men. Ten of my own company lay there. Tho balance of the brigade immediately Joined In the charge, as did Kirkland also. By this time the firing woe becoming still more deadly. Men were tailing at every step. Half way down the hull was wounded andstarted back. As I neared the top of the hill, I turned and saw my regiment actually slaughtered by one vor They bad then reached within thirty or yards of the railroad. The regiment *L to me jnat to melt away at one*. Jut than I glanced to the left and saw a pert of the Eleventh North Carolina dashing over the railroad embankment The yankec* were too strong for them, and they never cam* back until they were paroled and exchanged. DISASTROUS COEIEQUESCn OF THE FIOJTT. Bnt the fight waa diaaatrooa to the confoder- ate*. We had to &11 back np that fttal hill. The Twenty-eeventh had ao protection of any kind. The ground was smooth and eyan and it seemed aaif every man moat bo ab<A but wo wero protected to a great extent by the gallant Fifteenth North Carolina, wh* ~ J their able colonel (afterwards era!,) William McBae, by companies, as though drill, and ponied their fire upon the .. thus making a part of them, at least, keep their heads and mneket bands below tho top of tho embankment. The Fifteenth had some protection by nnevennea in the ground thin passed over, as well aa by some trees and £S bushes along their line. We bad none, except their protecting fire.” Colonel John Eaten Cooke aaya: “The fault of fighting two brigades against one whole corps and a division of auotherwas . rwnebodr. but not with Cooke or Kirk- land. They only obeyed the order* to ad vance, and, as I have shown In tho caao ol Cooke, protested against being rushed into the slaughter pen withont aome support. They, under order* like “The Six Hundred,” rushed “right Into tho jaws of death." LXn’STACTr DIBSfFXOVAL OF THE SLAUGHTER. Well might General Lee, the noble old Bo- map, ray: •'Well, well, general, bury these poor soldiers and let ua say no more about It” I havo heard it said—and the northern papers so atated a few days after the fight—that the federal loss was only thirty-five. I do not know how this is, whether true or not. But Just think of it! A loos of thirty-five on ono sido ogainst 1,260 on the other, the thirty-five ont of more titan a corps and the 1,260 out of two brigades, and all in less than forty mlnntoa. In deed, we did “go intothe jaws of death.” Iftho 35 be correct, then I lost more out of my own company than the whole of Hancock’s and Warren’s troops did. I entered the fight with 65 men and olficera and lost 43, every odicer being wonnded. The Twenty-seventh North Carolina regiment hod 418 and lost 280. Of 33 ofllccrs only 3 escaped unhurt. ALWAYS BOXETUINO LUDICROUS. Bnt, while we might dwell longer on tho tad K t of this scene, thero is always something icroua to happen even in anch a battle. Jnat before leaving Gordonavillo, Vs., on tho 8th or lith of October, new clothes had been issued to our brigade. Our men wore their old clothes on the march to Bristow aud had them on at the fight. When wo were compelled to retreat np the hill under tho doadly fire Private J. H, Lathinghousc, of company H, Twenty-seventh North Carolina, finding lilt knapsack too heavy and fearing he would have to throw it away and lose his now clothes, stopped about halfway np the hill, threw off hia knapaack, opened It, jerked off bit old clothes, donned hit new ones and then continued hia trot up tho hill. It is tho only instance of which I havo over heard of a man changing his clothes under flro; but clothes wero very good things to have in our army at that date. AXOTHEB INCIDENT OF THAT FIGHT. Sergeant Fleming, alto of company H, was shot through the right shoulder and did not know it until next morning, whon ho com- E ltined of hit gun having kicked terribly and Is shoulder being very tore. Major Webb railed bis attention to n hole in hia coat, and on pulling it off bo found s bullet bole through bit right shoulder. Happily it bit no bone. Gdailam, N. C. A Captain's Escape from Prison. Captain Woodruff, of the old First Alabama regiment, thus tells tho story of his esetpo from Johnson’s Island: “Johnson's Island la in Lake Erie, some two or three miles off tho city of Sandusky. It la a low, sandy island with llttlo patches of scrub by timber, and a few well mounted guns could command it* entiro extent. For Its se curity from attack it was happily choaen, the only possible danger being from a naval attack from the Canadian tide. It waa pleasant enough in summer, bnt tho cold winds had a fair swoop at it in tho winter and made it aa bleak ns the shores of Green land, and with onr loose jointed, Irani quarters, •cant fuel, and still scantier clothing, wo hod a hard time to keep from freezing. Many a night havo I, with my comrades, bad to trot around tho room in a circle to keep from actual freez ing. The horronof. Licutcnznt Greely’s arctic expedition may bo more tragic, bu they could not exceed the winter, howovcr.we endured in slow, uneessing torture—both of hunger and cold. I was raptured at Island No. 10, In tho Mis- stsslppl river, and spent the summer and win ter then, bnt the dread of the next winter was so great on my mind that I resolved to escape or low my lira In the attempt. I hid much rather have died than endure another winter In that prison. "Boots came over every day from 8andusky snd with them fhtlgue parties, with seavenger carts to clean np the quarters. The Idea oc curred to me that If I could got a uniform and fall in with ono of the parties I could get out, and acting upon this I went to work to get a bine blouse nnd trousers. I had a few dol lars In (liver and found no trouble In prevail lug upon a Jolly good tutored Irish tcamstci to let me have a cast off salt of his. Carefully concesllngmy treasure I waited a few weeks COOlT been a born Jehu. No one noticed or Inter fered, and I drove on the boat with tho rest and waa ferried over to the city. Aa soon as I landed I requested ono of my new com rades to drivo for mo until could stop at a shop to get some tobacco. It took me some little time to get that tobacco, and when Ifstepped on thejitreet the carts were all gone snd I was alone. Yes, alone, thero in that city I felt as mnch slons as If I hadstood In the centre of Solum. I had no time, how ever, to moralise npon my aolltndo nnd dodg ing Into tho blindest alleys I could find, 1 made tracks for the country. It was In October nnd the leaves wero crimson with tho autumn dyes and still thick enough npon the little notches of wood lend to effort > covert should I with to hide. And tome how a fear came to me that there would be danger In traveling by day, and as then was n splendid moon at night, I did make for a woody covert, end hid myself until night. I had spent ell the little money 1 bad except s dollar In stiver quarters, and when night began to feel hungry. I wss afraid to show my self, however, snd trudged on all that night, passing through two considerable towns with out lntorrnptlon. At daylight I hid again, taking shelter nndar n shock of corn in a field. Shocking an ear of com I made my breakfast snd then slept soundly until snndown, whon peering cautiously out I found tho coast eloar, snd stripping another ear of the corn I com menced my supper mud my tramp st tho same time. I made n good trip that night, walking at least thirty miles, feeling my heart growing lighter at each step that widened the distance between me and the prison. My stomach, how ever,began to crave n more substantial food than the raw corn, and I waa too hungry to sleep. I took refligo in a llttlo clamp of enclosed wood, and from it 1 noticed a hum houso near by. Tho household to consist of a man and hia wife, with* half doaen little shock-headed urchin*. I watched the nun fbiteh np bit wagon, and loading It from a bm of potatoes, he drove off. I was deapenlely hungry, and resolved to make n venture for my breakfast. I waited nntll tho man was well array, and then I walked boldly np to the gate and hailed. The lady came to the door, sad I stepped In, confronting her with at bold a free aa possible. I thought it beat to tell the troth, so I told her that I was an escaped prisoner from Johnson’s island, nnd that I ms starving for something to sat. It mi the lint time she had ever stood free to bee with a live rebel, snd it mss study to watch the play of her countenance ns fear, pity, or patriotism alternately worked anon It “I will pay yon for my breakhst,’’ I raid, offering her the dollar. I watched her keen ly end I eaw her begin to melt her lips twitch ed a little and her eys-lmahea began to moist en, and I knew, then, that I was eaft. “Keep your money,” she raid. “Coma In and in can have breakfast, bnt I cannot take your oner.** “ God bless that wsmin, her voice, the first woman's voice I had heard in eighteen months, was low end strangely sweet-to me. “Well she gave me my break bit,* royal break bat, and It nude her eyea open to see me eat. As aoon as I had finished she said I bad batter that her husband would soon be hack and ... waa a bitter partisan and WMld have me hunted down and raptured. She then nude JJaHttiawaltetof bliculta with a chunk of toUed bam and give mo a Pint ink «/wlila- ide m* good bye. I thought _ Good Samaritan and have bleated that woman ever since. I doubled hW y pit/, ind making a detour to itoid tho >ibead t : •sed the ing a - I traveled on. The n^tdar after Ohio river and began to feel at home, and pushing across the mountains West Virginia I made my way to Staunton without danger or hindrance. I should like to visit that lady though. The best that 1 havo in my houso would not be too good for her.' , How He Mined III* Dreakfhut. It was the morning after Hragg’s retreat from the battlefield of Murfreesboro, were bivouacked at Wartrnce, a little villago at tho junction of the Louisvillo and Naah< ville and the Shelbyvillo branch railroads, I was hungry enough to eat a horse’s hoof fried in tar, and os soon I could relieve myself from duty I set out have breakfast, a convenient darkey pointed ont a tavern, some hundred yards away, and I made a bee line for it. It waa an old fashion village inn, with an open ball running through and an L attached to tho rear, with a wide piazza all around. I entered tho nail and rapped both right and left but could get no unswer. I then stop out to the L in the direction of tho Icitcl and commenced rapping again. At tho sccoud door came a hospitable response, “Como lu," and in I stepped, when lo, what a sight for modest man. There I stood in tho presence two of the finest looking ladies I over s iw, making their toilets. Both were in tlio n l vert kind of robes dc nuits—ono standing at tho dreasing rase combing her magnificent hair; the other was sitting facing me, with her shapely foot elevated at an anglo of thirty-two degrees, drawing on her stocking. Never, if I live a thousand years, will I for get tho crimson consternation that filled her face as, too badly shocked to lower her foot, site cried ont: “Good Lord! it's a man! Shut the door, Tom; shut tho door.” Tom was a little imp of a brother, and it would have been amusing to anyone else, to have heard this little scamp chuckle a he banged the door, not in my faco, bnt on my back, shutting me in instead ol out. His misrbeivious chuckle,however,seemod to recall me to a sense of my position, and with out trying io excuse myself, I jerked tho door open and tumbled out. I did not liuut an further for breakfast. In truth I didn’t thiu! any moro about breakfast that day.” Foraging During the War. From the Fslrburn, <:*.. News. In the winter of 1864 tho Colquitt brigado was encamped near Wilmington, N. C. Ra tions being scarce the bovs would occasionally go ont foraging, nnd would bring into camp and sell anything they could buy to thoso who remained in camp. Upon a certain night, complaint having been made to tho general commanding, a guard was placed on tho public roads leading to the camps, and all who wore found with anything were placed in tho “bull pen.” The writer, with bis command, was placed on duty In camp to guard those “pulled in,” and hr morning bad quito a squad in tho pen. At sunrlso they were marched to tho general’s headquarters, each man carrying his load of potatoes. Arriving there the command was halted and the general came out on tho porch, and surveying the mon, addressed them in no flattering terms, after which he ordered the potatoes emptioT into a pile, then for each man to fill his h sack, which was done in fine style, while the poor follows who had carried them for many mllca looked on with a wistful, hopeless gaze, that none but they could express. They wero then allowed to go to camp, and all returned ho poor follows could only look on still, GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON. Incidents Connected With the Confederate Leader's Death. Major Dudley M. Haydon. I had been the bearer of several orders dur ing the day, and In the intervals had not much to do but witness the scenes hourly shifting before mo. One of the principal duties of a staff olllcer y* to bear orders and rally troops; but our troops were so eager to strike the enemy on that day that my time was not much occupied that way; consequently, I was, with slight Intervals, by the side ot General Johnston during tho morning up to tho time of tho charge. Feeling a little neglected, I said to him: “You keep all of your staff on the wing, flying to and fro on their bones; why do you retain me by your side? I want more to do.” He replied: “You will find plenty ofwork to do ^In less than forty minutes a messenger came dashing up to him and said that Breckinridge — sorely pressed and wanted help. He turned at c and said tome: "Your chanoe has come. Go as fast as you can and tell General Bowen to move np am prepare for action.” rrttrton.Ithlnk.hodrec'' an order just before to select tho ground. - . . , geld as a reserve. r cover, where thev had been awaiting orders all the morning. Bo soon as 1 delivered the order Bowen gave the word, and 1 shall never forget the quick glanee or delight is fkce and an the oncers and men of tho brigado, which was one of the best drilled of the wboie army. As thi dour path was strewed wUh inded. Brcckinri ‘ army. As they moved _ strewed with the dead i ridge had suffered a repulse. Hhclls were bursting, cannon .booming, and volley after volley of artillery and infentnr were all * L “'ering at tho same time. General Johnston dashing up almost before Bowen's troops jen aligned, and stopped his horse on the crest of the Hill that Preston had selected. Gov ernor Harris and myself were the only me of bis staff at that moment by Ms Brecklr - " ment, a Tennea doing my utmost to rally incm ana gci mei General Johnston did not answer hlm,bm suddenly to Governor Harris, saying: “I— hear that, governor?” and repeated Breckinridge's words to him Harris galloped forward, after say ing: "I will see what I can da” Breckinridge fol lowed, but returned In a few moments and said again: "General Johnston, I cannot get my men to make the charge.” To which he replied: "Then I will help you.’* , . ' It waa then General Johnston bowed to him and redo instantly into Bowen's lines, not many paces off, and motioned with his right hand for a Ing to bo made. 1 followed him and stop] the side or Bowen, in position Immediately hia brigade. The general then turned to the left and rode up and down the line, returning near tho spot where he entered It. Hero he halted and saluted. On one of bis fingers hung a bright tin cun. which had been banded him by Preston during the morning, and which hsd served him for drinking water os we crossed tho ravines.., I was within twenty paces of him, and according to my recollection theso were his words: "Men ofTuxaaand Arkansas, the enemy is stubborn.. I want you now to show General Beauregard and General Bragg, what you can do with your bayonets and your toothpicks. I Will lead you. Forward!” The men went In with *C,teg around to sec if all the men were ad vancing m the Are, I saw about one hundred fine looking troops crouching along the line of a fence, and, rialng up to them, found thst they wero a K t of the regiment that Governor Harris hod at* pted to nuly and could not put them into the fight. To them 1 appealed, but to no purpose. * T these incidents happened. I am sure, within ty minutes. Putting spurs to my home I gal- da few yards and was met by Preston, who me be had Just placed Rutledge in position ‘ ravine, and bu battery was delivering a fire through the disordered and retreat- _ i of the enemy. aaksd me: “llowMtoe hauls.going on, snd .. Is Johnston! 1 ' Jnat then Colonel Theo-lor. O’Hara approached na with rad face, and said: “1 Dear Oeneral Johnston If mortally, wounded, “here ran I rate anrgeonr' Wehorricdly rodo the direction of the bill on which the charge ix made. A fow moments brought nz to whore * chief we* lying In a reclining position, »np- cled In the sms ot Governor Harm. A mime 11 had tom off part of tho zoic of his foot, from which the blood wai oozing. Ho ws* deathly pate, though bit eyea were open, but without Inter. Heston lined Mm In bUtnu, opened np- R ly bit clothing, but could find no wounds on a tody. Ba thro exclaimed with grant emotion, and loudly called out: -Johnston, don't you know me!" Noreapona* followed,,and Praafou crlsd, iSSiKsarm bfss battlefield, and being alao on my knees and near er hi. farad, I poured a ftw tabfctpoonfol* down hia throat but be could not ewallow, and it flowed aver bis chin. la putting my band t (bat 10a heart had Preston i ''anguithTcV«hraniT"MyJuixl! myOodT Hay- don, lx It art** A moment after, recovering hia self command, he drew out.his note book of the battle snd read to tbore of thesuff whowmatsnd- tng around, this dUpatcb, which be naked nor Harris (o bear Instantly lo vStoS.'tsasrS’iW: 'iw.n «»**».* andprocurean ambulance. You,gentlemen.will uKdrannoif.wMwurejring’be tabs’ahoveetre radalenear byrand we laid the Kami's body It, and btlm we lifted the botfy I jerked my ■■up, and, casting his eyes to I sash from ray waist and covered his face, shielding It from the rays of the sun. We took the body to the very spot that we had left in the morning, some two miles in the rear over ground that hod been so stubbornly contested. Tho spot where Johnston fell was near the utmost boundary to whic h the confederates drove the fed eral army that duy. Fighting lu the District of Columbia* Editors Constitution: I see In Tub Con • iiTTWON of the 8th Inst., a communication from J. M. Smith in reply to an article in the weekly of December tho £!d, claiming that "General l'hil Cook had tho honor of leading tho only confederate forces that fought in-thc District of Columbia." I am satlcflcd Mr. Smith's accounts of the fighting Is correct, and that Gordon’s battalion of sharpshoot ers went as near Washington city os any other con- federate troops (Infantry) at that time. I was in command of the battalion of sharpshooters, and as Mr. B. nald, ono of my command, Wm. D. Hay, was wounded while engaged with the enemy and loft with a family on tho plko rood leading to Washing ton. We could distinctly see the domes and spires of churches and oilier buildings from where we were engaged with the skirmishers of federal forces on the left of the pike, about ouo or one and a half miles from the Blair house, whereGeneral Gordon’s division bad halted. I have not the least doubt that if any of the confederate force* fought ft District of Columbia at that engagement, the tallon of thar)»hootcrs of Gordon's division has the right of claiming and shoring tho honor with Gcu- eral Cook and lit* men. Wm. Kaioler. Dawion, Ga., January 10th, 1886. TRAPPING A YANKEE SPY, PUR8UIT OF A TRUANT WIFE. Her Husband Find* Her by Threatening to Shoot Those who Aid cd Her Iu Escaping Sauk Rapid®, Minn., January 17.—There was an abrupt termination to a wedding that was to have come off a few nights sgo owing to the sudden appearance of the husband of the wonld-bc-biide. The lady Is the daughter of Joseph Ware. Six years since her mother died snd the father removed to Illinois with bis daughter, who was a blonde with a pretty face snd agreeable manners. She hod many admire is and finally accented one of them and tho wedding-day was set. But visiting st an uncle’s before tho fixed, she thero met a Samuel Stein, of New It/ an Ex-Rebel. From the Detroit Free Press. In the winter of 1801, when Johnston’s ermy lay at Dalton in winter quarters, I mado two or three excursions In tho direction of Chattanoo ga. picking up more or less valuable information, and wfih resting after one of these raids when tho incident I am abont to relate occurred. That Yankee spies were penetrating our camps was a well known fact. Two or three had boon arrested, but it was only two or three out of a dozen, and orders had been issued to all regimental officers to be vigilant and alert in seeking to detect the presence of strangers. All tho scouts had, as a matter of course, received the same Instructions, but for a week nothing resulted from this combined watchfulness. One afternoon, while sitting In tho quarters of an old frleud belonging to a brigado band, a crowd gathered outside, and I heard the music of a Addle. HtcppingVotbedoorlsaw a German about forty years of age In the center of a circlo of soldlors seated on a cracker box and playing the flddlo in a r udo sort of way as U entirely unmiudftil of their presenco. The man was in citizen's clothes, and for what seemod a vory good reason. His right arm had been amputated at tho elbow. I looked him over closely os ho sat there, eyes half closed and keeping timo with his foot, and I could not say that 1 had ever seen him before. "Give us a song, Dutchy!” cried a dozen men in chorus after ho had played for a spell, and he at once complied. Tho first verso ran as follows: "Oh! doin' you see my falling tears? Oh! doan' you know dat I vhas sad? Dot vhlleyou laugh und merry vhas, No home I haf to make mo glad.” He had not yet finished it when I wo* trying hard to remember where and when I had heard it bo- fore. Ills voire was soft and plalntlvo, and tho air of the song wm ono to captlvato a soldier. They crowded closer and wero silent while he sang tho second verse: ‘•Nopody vhalts to welcome me, Nopody cares which way I go; 1 vhalks alone, adown life’* path, My happiness vhM turned to woe.” I wm struggling like a prisoner to break his bonds. Years ago I hod heard that song, and had not heard it since. It wm in vain I cudgeled my brain, but Just when I wm In despair I happened to notice how ho wm holding and playing tho Addle. His right arm wm gone, m I have told you, but with the stump he wm holding the bow by a sim ple contrivance and with his left hand he was fin gering the strings. Indeed, tho soldiers were re marking on the novelty or It. 1 hod not watched him thirty tcconds when memory camo to my old. In the summer of 18591 made a trip to a water ing place in Wisconsin—a bridal tour. Oflo* even ing, m my wills and I sat on the porch of the* hotel this man came along, having a little girl with him, and m ho played that fiddle and sang sho Joined in the chorus and accompanied him on a banjo. This was one of the songs he song thst evening— ssvtn or eight verses to It—and It wm so sad snd plaintive that ws paid him to repeat it two or three times. Now, I oottlfi not ray that ho waa not * confed erate, but tho foot that ho waa not in ourunifonn, snd that I had aeon him ao for north, waa to route a suspicion. As aoon u he had fiui ton, he otic ml for raloftom hit pack,,' thread, nradlM, pencils and other smsll wa . did a rnahlnt bnzlneat for half an hour. Ho could havo sold everything right there, but he suddenly packed up end moved away, even when a dozen etutomcn had money In their hand.. This action teemed queer, if not suspicious, and I followed the men. In half an hour I was certain that h* waa * H>y and had been making an estimate of our strength. Without entirely losing the sight or tho man, I communicated my suspicions to tho offleer-ofthe- day, and the result waa an arrest. The man did not even change countenance when he found him- sclfbetween the bayonets,but marched off as If such affairs were down on hit programme. Upon reaching tho guard honao he calmly rob- milted to a thorough search of hit person, and pack. Tbla lasted a frill hour, but we made no dis covery of importance. Tho man denied that he nt ever north of the Ohio river, and claimed New Orleans as hit residence. He learned tho long from n vagabond mttalclan who visited that city, and had sung It In hundreds of confederate camps since the war. There was absolutely no evidence agalnat him, and be would have been act at liberty bed I not entreated the officer to give me until next dey to look np something to confirm my aue- plcion*. I at once mounted my horse and rode through all the adjacent campe, and I found that the man had visited every one of them. Ho had certainly taken In nwhole corps in hia rounds, and waa beard of among Infontry, artillery, cavalry ind even the hospitals, As a poddlar bo would havo done this, but aa a spy he would have dono tho tame thing. All the evidence that I could get was that bo had appeared, played hit fiddle, sung hia Magi android bis notions, claiming to aome to be wiling on commlwton fortbe sutler, and looUtere that he waa In business for hlmwlf. I returned to headquarter* clean dono up and mad at myself for having mado inch a mesa of 1L Tho man was all right and I was all wrong, went to the guard houso to ask him a few further questions, and It seemed to me that my sudden entrance rather confined him. While I qua*- Honed I also watched, and prewntly I observed that he seemed to have a very large oubl of tobacco in hit cheek, blind you, I was looking foe trtffoe, and 1 no sooner noticed thclfocll havo mentioned than I watched to we him expectorate, and aoon realized that he waa not doing ao. This wasn’t at all natural, and 1 began at hia head to look him over. When I came downto the third button on hia blouse there was no button there. AUthe others were In place, but this one wu missing. The man waa talkative and even Jovial, and by and by I left him with the remirk that I would go aud report to the officer nnd harojilmeetatliberty. I stepped ont, walked around hr fifteen minute* and then reentered the guard bo use. The third button on hie blouse was now In place, end the quid ol tobacco no longer; bulged out hit chock. When ordered to "peel” his coat he hesitated for Instant and I raw him change countenance, but off It came end I carried It to.headquartera. Every button on that blouse waa not only * hol low cylinder, made to screw together, hut each caelty wu filled with proobjlo convict him as a ‘ i He had wockad an entire corps, and ha had number of men, pieces of artillery, condition _ arms, end whatever elw might be asked for. It mnat have taken him two weeks to secure each frill and explicit Information. When be eat brought before General _l foil that the Jig wee up. There wet* Me own notes to confront him. He refused to utter one single word, and seemed to ban mad* op Ms mind to pay the penalty without f Inching. It was brief work to try, convict and condemn him, but was never executed, on the night before Ma execution he died on his Manketa. He waste the foil vigor of yeanland health, having* beaitympo- Ht*. and bit death burnt remained a mystery. There wu no wound of any sort on the body, and of the five surgeons summoned to Investigate all were certain that b* did not, ttkepolaop of any sort. After playing on hit fiddle for half an hour ' lay down on the blankets with the .remark that su his laat night to sleep- A guard era within feet of Mm and sew him apparently foil into* sweet slumber, hut two houn later he was dead. "The way of the transgreseor is hard.” Be wiw and buy Dr. Bull’* Cough Byrop In time Next Week's Constitution will be the bam aver lened-rlch and Interesting. Han’t rates It. finbacrlba st one*. he bad a bank account several thous.nu then her affianced, he wu accepted Instead of the Illinois boy. When her fhthcr learned the stato cf aflUra ho ordered hia daughter home. Stein was with her, bnt when he itepped off tho can Mr. Ware, father of tho young Indy, with cocked pistol, ordered him to move on or there would bo n funeral Instead of a wedding. Stein's brother was there, how- ever, with a pistol in each hand. A short parley was held, and tho into parent gave his consent, nnd shortly afterwards Stein and Lottie wero married. A few month! after her marriage she expressed a desire to visit her relatives at Sank Banlds, nnd tho Indnlgent husband consented. After a whllo she cessed to write, and as he could get no roaponao to lit* letter* he wrote to a citizen hen-, who in formed him that sho hod reported that ho wu dead and that sho wu to be married soon. To satisfy himself tho brother who had boon of ao mnrb service wont on nnd aoon found out tho situation of aflhin and apprised hia mar ried brother of the timo set for tho wedding, and nt noon of that day the husbandanpeared, much to the discomfiture of bis wire. Tho husband, on tho evening of his arrival, con cluded it waa beat to toko his wifo away from the place wbereho came to near losing her, and he went to a neighboring town. Next day tho husband canto back for ids tranks. Ills wife at once hired a fleet team, and with one of hor admirers at the reins they were miles away up tho river when ho returned with tho trank. The husband then awaited the return of the tram, and he called on tho driver, who wits fully persuaded by tho production of a six* shooter to take him where he hod loft tho Hoe ing wife. After finding his wife, nnd on her promlso lo rotam with him on the early train, the husband and the young man retired to gether to get n short rest. Abont! four o'clock in tho morning a man walked Into tho room with a lantern In ono hand and a revol ver In the other, and u they opened their ayes he told them to llo atill and thon ho stood guard over them until tho trail! hod passed which boro away tha truant wife. Tho hus band continued thesrarchaud finally overtook his wife In tho northern part of tho state, and they an now on their way to Illinois. The llog nnd Hominy Crop. CniCAtio, January 10.—Tho Times of this morning give* reports from neuly 500 points u to tho crop ofcorn and hoga In tho northwest. Hap pen that the yield of com has been overestimated and Its quality ranked too high. Ohio aud In diana ftnneis have raid moro freely than thoso jrobable that receipts at tho chief paekfngpoln lor the remainder of the aeuonwiU bolcastha that lut year. An Undoubted massing. About thirty years ago, a prominent physi cian by the noma ot Dr. William Hall discov ered, or produced after long experimental re search, (remedy for disease* of the throat, chut and lunge, which woe of such wonderful efficacy that It aoon gained a wide reputation In this country. Tho namo of tho medlolnp le Vlt. WM. HALL'S BALSAM-FOB THE LUNGS, and may ho ufoly rolled on at a ipeedy and positive ouro for coughs, colds ore throat, etc. Doctor—I’m ’ftald, Mr*. Brown, dla yah chile It dieted with Membranous Croup, and de prognosti cations all accm to prognoctlrateTn tureefitmt. nofiwtdaTdepoahlam£brainwal^fonM? 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