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*A PRESENTIMENT (?)
» UMD OFFICER WITH * *18,000
CHASED BY THE BENDERS.
Semlafooracra of tha Bwlj »«n oo tht
Manual Lsnds-A IiTflni Bid*—TOO Nome
iu gendert TooO-Oom* C»ar*ct#r-
UIM of Tkooo IfoUd Baraks**.
Iron, the Ksr.uu City Timed.
Fifteen year* ano I held an important gov-
Amount office, that of recelvor of pnbllc raon-
ng for the Oe*go Jand diitrict in douthern
Ximm. Tho office, when I took charge, was
lord ted At Neodetha, ■ little backwoods country
town of shoot 800 Inhabitants, eltuatcd nt tlio
confluence of th* Eall dsd Vordlgrls river*, »ur-
nanded by the thickeet growth of wolnnt,
ook, Hickory end other timber found auy-
where In Knode*. Southern Ken*»*, end at-
nedellr tho Osage nnd Cherokee neufoal lend*,
were originally nettled by, I think, e little the
toughest type of people that ever jumped »
-l-i... itole government timber or fought for
thoir home* egdinst "giant monopolies" or the
United Stated government.
Jly offleo won hut fifteen mlln from uie
elaughter pen of tho Bender butchers, which
Is leented about the aamedidtonce from tho late
celebrated Belle murder cue. The Bender
butchery was still more unsccouutablo, and
poMihly more fiendish and brutal. Their mur
ders have been kept up for years, and from tho
deaths, not lom than thirty known, but proba
bly much larger, they could havo reeel vod Inrt
Mnall pins, as individual parties in thorn days
traveling over the country usually had tat
Yf V liSle money. By making a haul of the
writer hereof lu a dingle trip with the govern
ment money in his poaaeaalon they could have
made greater gains than from all tho murder*
committed by them. And this Is one of the
mysteries of my life, It seem* to me, that I
renld travel unattended over that country
without a house, a shanty, a sign or vestlgo
•f civilisation for miles, with thousands of
dollars on my person, and yet not be mo
lested by those bandits and cot-throat* who
mnst havo known tho object of my mission,
that I are* minimi by tho government to msko
throe tripe periodically, and thnt I made them
regularly nnd promptly, frequently leaving
before daylight and traveling formllro through
the muddiest roads and darkest roads that a
lonely traveler ever passed. It Illustrate* tho
aid adage In different phrase that a man des
tined to he kicked todenth by a mule will not
hr butchered by a Bi nder. Tho Bender., tho
•Id nun, hla wife, hia eon John nnd hla .laugh
ter Kate. located In a little clapboarded shanty
fifteen mllro mst of Nendeaha. Their hovel
was la one of the meat desolate and deserted
and Ued-enrrcd place* I luva ever witnessed.
It wee In n little cramped,
t-OM-TIPATKI, VOWAWtC SOARKKD VALI.BY.
one of the very fhw similar ones that can
ha found In Kansas Tho sloping slilea of
the range of hllli that form the vulley
were barren and desolate. Shelving rocks
projected from the frowning abysmal cliffs,
affording fine hiding nieces and a suroiefugo
far the accursed of Ood and the legitimate
children of thin Tho gram growsatiuu d nnd
the vegetation, aurh e* there to, look* parched
sad starving, and hungry for a fertile *oh nnd
welcome showers, Tho Bender piece was on
the direct road from Osage Mission to Independ
ence, Kan. It wea kept by tho Benders or-
teulhly as a little wayside inn. Here the
Bender* lived In promiscuous* nnd common
beastly lust amt by brutal murder. A little
mouldy cheeee and a few crackers and a email
amount of flyepecked beer in dirty glasses
•domed the rickety ehelvcs of tho front room
that waa built clear out and into the rood.
There were hut two small rooms to the house
aside from the cellar, the temporary hiding
•lace of the victima.
a if in wssEaw?iss? ! %»»
this curtain or screen snt otic of the quarto of
Rend*, generally Kato Wonder, with two amall,
sharp hammers in hand (thoy arc uow In pos-
■sarion of lion. l*vroy !>fck, then trustee of
tko township and now member of tho city
council of tenons): bcnealli the trap door In
the cellar stood John Wender. tho old man
with batcher knife In hand, ready to cut tho
throats and finish the victim* a* they were
tumbled down through the trap door stunned
nnd skull broken by Kate or ilio old woman by
Means of the claw hummers. in tho darkness
of night they were token ont and hurieu abont
two feet deep In tho one acre of ground, upon
which was plsnted a few applo tree*, the
ground ostensibly used for cultivation, but nil*
wired and growing up with woods and
Mkh vegetation as naturally clung with
tenacity to its tengh alkaline soil.
When tho discovery Knd flight of
the Benders took place this ground whs
ploughed ami fifteen bodies discovered in va-
rions parts of the garden. Personal oxamina
tion at tho time convinced iuo tluituiauy more
bodies still exist in that plnnu
uow DlmviVKMKO.
Tho Dendora were diftcoverrd by Colonel A.
II. York, a noted Ksnout politician, aud atnto
senator at the time, aud architect of the down*
flail of Senator Pomeroy, who organised a party
It search for hia brother, Di. York, who, it had
Won ftuapirioned, had b«<ou foully denlt with
In hia flip on horu U. k from Fort Scott to
independence. Tho (kilonel York party, soiuo
■oveuty in number, on horseback, started out
from Independence and ifcanioil the woods and
•rairira In search of t)r. York. Coming to tho
Bender place their auspicious were a routed and
the colonel waa convinced thatall wan not right
about the premises, llefove ho eouhl complete
his invratigatious the Ucndere fled thecomitry.
WHKUK TIIKY WENT.
Iforr nnd diU'urent storiea havo been told of
their fate probable, speculative end conjectural
than that of any bandits and batchers who
•ver existed. Persons have related in print
with scrupulous accuracy and greatminntonoss
of detail particulars of their being hung by a
mob. Personally 1 know of months and even
years being spent by detectives to discover the
Whereabouts of these Heads, Portico in all
parts of tho country have been arnstod for obi
man Bender and John, but falling to lie identi-
fled by persons living in the vicinity of the
Bcadrt*, have been released. In tho face of
Colonel York’s fO,UOO oiler to any party or
parties engaged In the hanging would be only
too proud i f the deed and anxious to estab
lish the fact, tho stories of their being
summarily dUpatclud ran at once nnd for
ever be clawed as incredulous myths. I was
not propiiaily acquainted with the Bender*,
though*! have seen Kato and perhaps the
whole family in Parsons, iu an early day, ami
it is my owu belief that they took the railroad
to tome point in the Indiau territory, perhaps
Yinlta, aud thence struck for Mexico, alter re-
mnining for a time among various Indian
tribes. Their devilish ingenuity in devUiug
meact of escape was only equaled by their
fiendish and brutal malignity in the cominiss-
iea of their crimes. That they took tho care
nt Thayer, Kan., and purchased tickets for
Chaaute is quite eortaln, and may be consider**!
almost an rftablishod fact. Aficnlftied to the
fanes at the Bender place had starved to death
before it was discovered the occupants bad fled,
as little did they amociatn with the few
mattered settlers living npon the broad, wiki
M»d in that httle homeless valley ef
death, Tho team that brought them to Thayer
was loft hitched just on the outskirts of the
little village and waa not discovered till late iu
the evening of tho departure ef the morning
train, when it woo taken poresorion of bv the
police authorities. Tho mangy, whitting dog,
fit companion for its master, but showing aff.v-
tioM for brutes lower than its own dwarfed and
mcasley nature, larked and begged to be taken
•a tho train with its owner*, but Anally re
turned with dejected spirit* to the deserted
wagon. That th«y should have re. ei vod warn
ing aid thus bo able to escape days before the
final drncuucnt of their devilish deeds
confirm* the Very plausible theory tint the
Bendoro occupied one of s chain of post* held
by a thoroughly orjmntred land of horee thieves
and mmderers extending from Texas and per-
haps tho bonier ©f Mexico through tho Indian
fltrrltery, Kaaret, Nebnuka and on to Mon*
t4»a and ev. n to British America. Otherwise
isWtres iorvudible th. y should have made their
forapn and thru id so soon havo boon informed of
the UPpidcts that had keen nroustd
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•gainst them. At t'lisnute they could
go northwest by way of
Junction City or south to Parsons and then
take the. Missouri, Kansas and Texas for tho
Indian t« rritory and Texas. On the day they
should have been there I distinctly remember
having cal fed the attention ofC. B. Fessenden,
ticket agent at Parsons, to tho fact that a party
resembling the Bender party had como down
on the Neosho Volley road from Channte and
peemed bewildered, not knowing exac tly where
they wanted to go to, bnt apparently wished to
go south. I shall always think this party was
the Benders. „ . ...
But It is not of the escape of the Benders that
I care uow to write, hut of
MV OWN ESCAPE.
On one occasion, in driving aerosi tho prai
ries from Indcjiondcnce to l'arsonx, a distance
of thirty miles (tho land offic e at that time be
ing nt Independence, having moved from
Neodcsha), Hon. Are Jtairgrove, formerly aud
itor of the state, accompanied me. He said no
hod traveled the Osage mission and Imlepond-
epee roads frequently, and that this rente, go
ing by the Bender place, wis a much hotter
rotil to go to Parsons than the one I traveled.
He insisted on my going that way. I persisted
in my old route. J told him when I took a
trail I generally followed it; that I knew tho
Mound valley route (about five miles south of
the rend by tho Bender place) and should keep
It. I bnd occasion not long thereafter to verify,
us J shall always believe, the good fortuae of
persisting in my mulish obstinacy.
CHASM* BY THU ItSNDKM.
It whs nhot, sultry afternoon that I started
out late to make wy thirty miles across tho
prairies to Parsons I had a tittle upward of
$12,000 in currency in my poakets of govern
ment funds on my way to mako luy weekly
deposits. I drove n powerful roadster—General
Grant— that I lmd taken with mo down to tho
routhrtn country from Lawrence, llo was a
noble Least, and Lord how ho would mako a
buggy spin over tho clear-level, hard-beaten
prairie roads with a small man behind him
giving him free rein. Toward eveniug. though
the- tun had not yet set and was still r* bl/wing
l ull of fire at my back, and was casting reflect
ed brilliancy upon the bronzed eastern sky in
front, I hud a strango fooling c-omo
over me. Away to tho right throo or four
tuilcs untied the little town of Mount Valley,
containing perhaps 100 inhabitants; to tho left
hut a short distance from my pathway was a
little c ountry graveyard with a few graves, un*
fi nerd, with an occasional slab of rough, native
sandstone rock to mark where n pioneer settlor
was sleeping his last slocn. It was not tho
hnrmlfNi and iuoflfensivolittlo village; It waa not
the- small country graveyard that caused strange
feelings to oome over mo. 1 am not afraid of
I mveyards iu tho day time, especially country
grave yards containing hut a dozen or so par
ties that I know are thoroughly dead; but
I OtBUFfiBL Qt'BRK ,
just then, and it was not after the disclosures
of tho horrid butcheries by tho Bender bandit*,
but a few days previous thereto, pcrhapia
week or ten days. 1 looked around; as far as
I could see there wan only a wide expanse of
waving prairie grore thut arose nnd swelled
like ocean billows lastly and leisurely atirred
by the noiseless summer evening breeze. No
sign of animal life appeared as far as the eye
could diMX-ra. In tho clear and cloudicsi at
mosphere an object of tho hizo of a mau on
hoiacl«ck or a footman could bo readily seen
for miles. And yet for the flrst tlom in all
those lonely trips 1 felt oppressed aud
was impressed that soiuo danger was im
pending. 1 looked hack, but could sen
no ono on my pathway. The sun descending I
lowered the top of my carriage that I could
have » freer aud less obtrusive view in the. roar
and tho wincst thing of all, no 1 shall always bo-
lit vc I gavo tho good General Grant free rein.
1 didn't whip liim, it waa nuuecereary, and I
hadn't the heart to raise a whip to eo nobio a
I leant, but I just let him go for eighteen miles,
my eyes constantly peering into the distance,
especially to my back, os tho darkness grew
more visible and quoer objects might bo con
jured up and their existence coqjocturcd on
the tenantlcM aud housolcss prai
rie. For eighteen miles tho noble
nninml spun tho prairies; no HtUo
hill cheeked his onward, rapid puco. As he
neared Parsons bis activity increased, nnd
thongh 1 knew ho wss foaming and pintlug
and that his sides were covered with the white
sweet of a noble endeavor to take hia master
through some fate 1 knew not what, I lot the
panting Watt go. Though I feared tho results
of such a drive on a warm, snltry uight, for
the breeze went down with tho descending sun,
and the air bccamo stifliug aud suffocating. I
gave him loose it in. It was lip. iu. when I
arrived at Parson*. Tho good General Grant
was put in his atoll hut tho next nmrnieg ho
eould not l>c rotten ont. I rent for a veterina
rian. He said b * had been driven his last big
drive. He took eight quart/of blood from him,
hut it was no uses the horeo was hopelessly
foundered.
If there is anything In presentiment it eatuo
lust then mi.d at the right time. I didn’t want ,
to sec any Benders, waa not looking for them,
didn't know they had on existence at that
time os bandit* and butchers, but have lover
since believed ! was chased by them. 1 told
mv Impreosioua next day to my bondsmen that
1 believed there were evil spirits somewhere
along that homeless and honsele« and tcii int-
!cf*H track called a road from Independent to
rmtons. They expressly forbid iny ever ink
ing that trip again alone with any govenuhent
money! iu my poastvaion. I made tho trips af
terward by rail, though tho route waa loucii
more roundabout and less romantic.
Bo Pgr.VALr.NT and Fatal has Consumption
become, that U is now everywhere dreaded as
the scourge of humanity; and yet. In their for
mative Magee, all Pulmonary Complaints may
be readily relieved and controlled by resorting
promptly to Dr. J). Jayne’s Expectorant, a cura
tive specially adapted to soothe and strengthen
the lirouehtal tubes, allay inflammation, and
lec«cn and remove all obstractiona. It isa cer
tain remedy for Asthma, and also tor Coughs
aud Colds. _
Twenty years ago, Mark Twoiu, who la now
worth tl.500,000. was working tor 125 a week oo a
theatrical paper printed for flros distribution in 8an
Francisco, aud Bret Ifarie waa making a Uvlng
writing "Condensed Natela" for the Gotten Era at
the rate of |5 a column.
* A leading member of the Legal rroScmloo of New
York City. CBARLK* CARROL LEKDd, 1» Broad-
way, gays: "Lkbtg C*> Osea Bret Tonic
•treagtkeacdmj wife as no other tonic has over
done, and It u, very agreeable to take-'
will reconstruct ike mod shattered aud snfaMficd.
re Invigorate tht aged and tuflrm. and make aickly
children and infanta blooming and healtny.
Tun carriage built for tho triumphal entry
—which never took place—of the Comte do Cham
bred Into Paris I« now the atste carriage of the
queen of Greece, ehtpatt IWW for it.
Stand Not Vpoa the Order at Your Going.
But go at once and buy a bottle of the fragrant
bOZOBOKT. You will MW regret it. It not
only beautifies and preserve* the tecUj and
mists decay, but leaves the mouth cool, and
the breath as fragrant as a rose.
How the Confederates Left Nashville.
Written for The constitution.
"If yon bad been around just after the rout
at Nashville," raid an old soldier yesterday,
"yen would havo thought thcro were ten
thournnd eleplianta loose in the country. Tho
ground was covered with snow, and, as yon
may imagine, t he air wss eager and nipping. The
routed tonfcdciatcs put out down the anow-
covered pikes, making for Corinth, and thence
to Mobile, 240 miles distant. We were clothed
with nothing but shirts and breeches,
comparatively few owning old hats,
and only here and there a
fortunate man with a pair of shoe*. The hair-
Waived and half-frozen men wrapped their
feet in old sacks aud any sort of rags they
could get until the tracks they mado were
great round holes in the snow, like the tracks
of elephants, flencral Lotvetr—Ood hie* his
soul—t rii d to do something for us. llo hail
seme shoemakers, awl at uight would make the
soldiers report at his headquarters, where the
shoc-^hop would be located. Green hides—notan
hour oil the cows' backs—were used for shoe-
making. A soldier would plant his foot on the
hairy tide of the hide and tho bhoe-msker
would cut out a round plcco of skin, tht it In
various directions and with a coarse twine
gather up tho ends and literally sew the foot
up in tho raw-hide with tho skin side inward.
Tho shoes were good for about
twenty-four hours’ us® and then thoy
would draw onr feet and wo would
huve to cast them aside and go back to the
bagging. When I got to Mobilo with n
lot of tli® fellows, we took quarters in a ware
house. Theodore Hamilton was playing “Tho
Wife,” at the Mobile theater, and I scuffled
around and got a ticket I went to the theater
harchended and barefooted, and in my suirt
sleeves. I sat in the pit—they cleared a placo
for me alwut twenty feet all around. I thought
it was the host show I ever saw. After tho
performance an old man carried me home with
him and gave me a long-tailed coat, a hat aud
a pair of shoes. When I got hack to tlio ware
house the hoys tore the tails off the coat, hut
she was n double-breasted fellow, and I stack to
her. I looked like a jaybird with his tail
pulled out.”
Hunger the Host Sauce.
"I seldom talk about the war,” said tlic union
soldier, "but I think about it some
times. Whenever I Jookoutof the window and
see old Kennesaw mountain, I think of the l»e*t
dinner 1 ever ate. For months and months
we had been living on hardtack and sow belly.
About the time we reached Marietta a crowd of
us camo upon an old, deserted house and found
seme Irish potatoes and onions. Wo stewed
tho potatoes and feasted. Never since
have 1 tasted such a dinner. Ton thousand
times havo I thought of it. I think of it every
time I fee a restaurant, and every tune I see a
specially fine spread. For twenty yeara I hare
been hmintod by the memory of that dinner,
where Irish potato.* took the place of hard
tack nnd fat mc*t£
A Cmvard’* Monument.
A ‘monument to a coward!
Yes, thnt Is It.
fhio of Sherman's men, who wda *0 well
pinned when he rsmo herrabont twenty year*
11,0 that he decided to Imsle permanently,
rays that In Drown county. Indiana, before the
war, there was n great big lubberly fellow,
nemed John Crittenden, who was regarded in
Frlioe) ns the biggest coward in tho state.
Anyliedy eould run ever John
Crittenden. When the war broke ouk tho
ruwnrd joined on artillery company. At Uarts-
villc, Tennessee, Morgan’* cavalry charged tho
better, to which John t'rittendfin belonged,
end when the order waa glvon to retreat, the
reward alone stood by tho guns, and, While
In the act of loading, a sabre
thrust ended his life, llis body was
sent to his home, nud a great funeral took place.
Tho coward had become the hore, and a monu
ment was c rected to murk his renting placo and
tell the story of how he died, •
General Gls.lrten’s Grit, ^ ,
Ilrigsiller-Clcneral Gladden, of Month Cairo-
line, hsd hla left arm shattered by a lull oh tho
Hist day of tho fight at Shiloh. The staff sur
geon hastily performed the amputation on tho
field, and the bravo offlcor mounted his homo
ami continued to command. Monday ho was
again in tho saddle. Tuesday ha was still in
(cnimand. Wednesday a second amputatipn,
near tho shoulder, was necessary, and General
Dragg sent an ablo to General Gladden to ask
If he would not bo relieved;
•'Glvo General Uiagg my compUmcnta,” ho
■aid, "and ssy that General Gladden will only
give np ids command to go Into his coffin."
Against all remonstrances, ho continued to
sit in his chair receiving dispatehoe and giving
directions. In tho afternoon lockjaw seised
him uud ho died.
Tho Story ot Kora McCarty.
Lot me tell you of Nora Hcfortey, tho Jen
nie Deun of the west ■
She lived in tlwlnterlorof Missouri—a pretty,
black-eyed girl—a wild mountain rose. p. .
Her father was old and feeble and hcr.only
brother wss Isnte and sickly. .
The federal* cumo into her neighborhood nod
forced her old father to take the o*lh.»nda
few doys later a party of hluo coats carried the
lame hrothor te> .Leavenworth city.
Kern was away when tho outrage, was com-
milted. She. returned Just before night, and
when the tremhliug and grief-stricken old m iu
recited the facts, kcr Wood tailed with Indigna
tion. The mists were falling, and night, ilask
aud dreary, was closing ill, Imt she ordered her
horse rc saddled, put on a thick surtout, tailed
a sush around her wuist aud atuek * pair ef
ivory.luinellcd pistols into her bosom.
The post was many miles distant, hut she
bravely started after the soldiers, gallupitig
over bills aud threugh marshes to the head-
ei metiers of the fodenels. At last a sentry called
t—
Who goett thereV ’
•’Xo matter, - ' nuawerotl the girl, “I w*»t to
see (’clone) l’riace. your commanding officer
aud instantly, too!" , . .
hit tick by the imperious tone and awed by
tho presence of the fair girl, tho gtutd ,oou-
due-ted Nora into the fortifications and to the
quarters of the colonel. J
She demanded tho release of her brother,
which waa refused, with tk*statement that lie
was detained for treasonable connection with
the enemy. . . „ . . ! AL
The officer «lso asked Nora to leave the
€ "" j am a rebel »nd n traitor too, if too wish;"
answered the glrhdofiantly, ‘hnt when I knv.
this rent my brother sball go wiUt me.
she quickly drew oue of the ivory-handled
pbrelsand leveled it »t tho officer.
•'Older his release! ’ she.amd firmly.
“Quick!” . ..
Tlw soldier a*w the flashing eyes and the
'^He'gavVthe order, the hoy wa* brought out
end took Nora - * left unn and the pair march
i«l away to the girls hone, where Nom
rprang into the saddle, the boy climbed op hr
hi ?Vonei Princeand*??* men didn't trouble
Kora IlcOertey'* brother any more.
A Indy Who Was n Blockade Knnuer.
From th* Athene, tin., Dnnuer-Watehman.
A lady from one of the upper counties wood
threugh Alhoa* Saturday, and areporter laarm-
^ekTdctthX TESt&X».•
in. large quantities of geode f-rtb* —thorn
people at once went In searehof her. Hefosnd
thetaiy Stopping at her brothers house, and
made Inowu hi* business.
1 he Isdy blockade manor la .a
livi d lu Georgia tafore tho war. She m trriod
end wild to Mtataitpi jnjttatore wsr awsde-
tbred and aattled lu Detato county, below
M, me his. DeSoU) baa always hmnnotad fee
Uiee .no ef the rkbert bn» akklient counties
In the whole smith. Cut ton was tho principal
V re duet of the county, and Memphis the nsar-
est trading point; hcucc all tho cotton wss ear-
ritd to that city, a* there were no nulroad* then
through the reuntry. . .
“Tho war nmoon simI toon aftrr theflrsi iun
wns « <•',’ said the lady blpckader, “my ho*-
hand took sick sud died, and Uft me alone with
a larse nnu.be.r ef i.eoroea and a big cotton
riep to culiivsto. I did Ml dmpalr. tat went
W .neik and had -tbs .alien cultivated and
gathered. About this time the yankemcip-
tnrtd M< mphis and came down into Desoto
and took of nil my negroes. I concluded that
it vu best for me toeome kick to Georgia ana
make my home with my father. So leaving all
my cotton packed up under the gin house, l
ieftfor the old red hills of Georgia. After be
ing at homo for several months. ! heard that
cotton was woitii $1 ptr pound in Memphis
in greenbacks, and I informed my
father that I Intended to return to Mlntoippi
and run the blockade Into Memphis with the
cotton, and bring out things fur the family awl
the southern soldiers. My father tried to per
suade me not to undertake it, a« I might get
Into trouble from both sides, os th3 confeder
ates would arrest mo for carrying cotton Into
Memphis, and the yankees would send me to
some of the northern prisons for bringing con
traband goods to the south. I did not heed his
warnings, and two weeks later found me in De-
fcoto county, Mias., with n pair of oxen hitched
to a wagon and two bales of cotton on it ready,
with a crowd of other ladies, to run the block
ade. It was a perilous undertaking, as General
N. B. Forrest, with his gallant command, was
making frequent raids aronud Memphis, and
any one caught rmuggling in cotton was ar
rested and had their property confiscated. This
did not deter me, and together with a party of
nice ladies, who could have counted their
wealth by tho millions before the war, started
with a littlo boy seated on ton of tho wagon
driving. Our flrst trip we made without meet
ing any of General Forrest’s or General Van-
dorn’a command, and Sifviy arrived at the pick
et posts of tho yankees. They did not inter
fere, as they wore only too anxlons to get all
the cotton they could. Arriving in Memphis
wereadily sold our cotton for $1 per pound, and
I found, after settling, that 1 hod oyerin
greenbacks. Wo did not know much about tho
money or its value, bnt found that $1 would
buy a*great deal more in Memphis than tho
confederate money in tho south. I purchased
a large lot of goods and medicines that I know
the southern soldiers needed, and concealed
them about my person, or covered them up in
the wagon. I bought a splendid pair of cavalry
boots for my brother, who was then in the con
federate service, hnt the trouble with me was
how to get them through tho ynnkec lines, as I
knew they were contraband aud would hecou-
titrated. I pot the boot* on over my shoes, and
brought thcro through without being deteetod.
Alter our party hat) bought all they could, wo
htarted with our wagons well filled and tho lit
tle drivers, together with ourselves, well loaded
with tilings contraband. Our only fear now
was tho ysnkee pickets, as they would not let
us carry anything out if they could help U.
Major Morgan was in front, and I was feaaful
we would sll be arrested nud sent to a northern
prison. The outer picket post was reached, aud
we were halted. I saw at a glance that the
officer in command wore a Masonic pin nnd I
knew ho must be a Mason. I had taken the
ladies* degree in Masonry, and at once made
myself known to him, and it served me well.
Tho officer in command passed the whole party
through without even examining our wagons.
Our flrst trip was very successful, and turued
out not only profitable to ourselves, but did a
great deal of good for tho confederacy- I ran
the blockade after my first trip several times
and disposed of all my cotton at a big price and
brought large quantities of things needed by
the confederate government through tho
yankee lines. I had a great many narrow
rreapea while running tho blockade, but 1 al
ways managed to como out safe, and am now
willing to live a quiet life for the bataoceof
my days.”
GEORGIA RATTLE FIELDS.
A Renullful and Interesting Publication by
the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
"There has been laid on tho table of tho rail
road reporter, with the compliments of the Western
aud Atlantic railroad company, what Is by all odds
the prettiest and most attractive piece of advertis
ing matter which wc have seen in quite a long
time. It is called the "Battlefields Folder” of tho
Western and Atlantic railroad.
The ontxldc design Is tasteftilly illuminated, and
represents the battle of Kennesaw Mountain. There
are alto portraits of Generals Johuston aud Sher
man: Folk and McPherson, over there, confederate
and United States flags are tastefally draped, and a
laurel wreath Is entwined around the four. The
matter Includes, tint, a synoptical Account of the
Atlanta campaign between Ctaittanoovr. end At
lanta. Then follows a short description iu detail
of each of tho eighty battles or minor conflicts
which took placo on or near tho line of tho West
ern and Atlantic railroad between Chattanooga and
Atlanta. There arc nine mans which clearly de
fine tho campaign,and numerous beautiful illustra-
tienH. Among these the moat striking arc those of
a cavalryman cutting tho telegraph wires abovo
Rcrnca. at the time of McPherson’s raid through
Snake (*cck gap, and tho connecting of tho broken
ends by Mrs. Bnchmtn and Miss Carrie films. This
act, on tho part of tbofce two ladies, enabled tho
garrison at Kctaca to give notice to General John-
ron of McPherson’s attackjmd the reinforcements
that he sent down that night saved the town from
..... .nri olwi Minfuloralil ffirtnv 1ID111 DIXClIUll
'TtamoJt’rtiiklnostatistic*!fostmosor tbopuli-
Mention are the official reports of tho expcuditura
at artillery and uuall arms ammunition by tho
federal army during the Atiauta campaign* After
the flames the following statements will prove in-
"’“•fivo tho *» ton lilting record thnt Shsrman’s
army , during the month of June, 1M1, for iustance,
Arcwst JoimKm’sarmy about..<,000 round* of ar
tillery ammunltlfn and about 7,200,000 rojmds of
Sufarnry ammunition; or, In other words, thero
was during that mouth au average of one round of
artillery ammunition broil at every soldier In
Johnson's army, betides 101 rounds of infantry am-
'"jofinslpn’s tosses (mm June (th,to Juljr -ilh,which
covered practically the above period, were: killed.
4Wi; wounded, S.l’Hl; total, !»,04.H. This shows thst
lhO federal army flrod about 14 rounds of artillery
ammunition and 1,826 rounds of Infantry ammuni
tion for every confederate soldier who was hit—a
remarkable an amarlng exhibit of the prudonco
and almost wonderful care which Johuvtou took of
bUtnen°sndita pretcufiun which his (solus sc-
cured lor them In tho face of the most aggrcmlve
eSErtsof a skillfully led army of veteran American
roldlerr. whose numbers nearly doubled those of
hla own. and who, by day aud by night, week alter
week, maintained upou the aHifederato army a
pitiless, uuceoaiMr, bamming fire of arUlicry and
m Jn k Europoan warn it waa formerly estimated that
there were 100 rounds of ammunition expended for
(vviiitnun who was struck. The Arocrioau rifle-
SJcnduring the revolutionary war branred-aud
JumewkatexeuMbly-thot they hits mau for every
“15“Sta^talcitwtttra"hst “kS f
the masterly ability of him who may be styled,
3S3k?
fnfamrv mnmunlttou^than wm the same army dur-
inff Jufv in which occurred the desperate and
rumnk afaitUlSy ammunition and about 430
made in relievlngJoboston; aadprove Hood*
iSSSJS
U, 4taSi?o U WE2Si ihcreturaj’ouchrec
2'SSnnu >nGuta•fflutstsjtauit
tatf,reS?SiibSifc5»re«fcmtc« Who fcerf rant
feuirht them at every turn, at well as of the won-
derSfpSSera ofemhiranre and
tiSorJohniton’s men fhwx ccr*>* commander
^Th*y < sfio^nffirale moreetoquenfij Uiw tori;
and cannon resounded day ami night a loin? the
wlnla line starring from six to ten uit*ml lint
••U was really a cootinuoua Utltje. Uitiar t.*om the
letbdayof June to the 3*1 of July. „ .
n*M taslaoa lgcor fro® tJgneoiUfamph Hooker,
ot the federal army, giving hia opinion yf General
Jchr ston’s cen ,, u«’tor the Atlanta campaign, front
'.saysaKas »•
Rocit pars to near Atlanta, Ga., embracing the
himself too
weaktooope with our army with any prospeet^ of
tnc^ess and It became hi* problem to weaken the
vition army by drawing it from its base ofopera-
lions and Mjeslng cjpp*jrlnuifies in the m®* u “® 0
5S.*fiTnWh.7^SSlw..h<»S , VuJ
^SsJSBS0ttȣSK
f op makinrn Ntaud were selected with tue ut
m, *1 Mien city and skill, and his defenses were
thrown up ,nd strengthened with the exercise of
rasrvetons Inmtmity and Ju.tKment._ „
This wss the esse near Dslton, Besses, csstti ib.
New nope chttrch, Kennes»w ntotiotsli 1 , IVac !i
tree creek, sud otherpolnts which Ido not now
"couSderlng thst Johnston’s army, was on the rc-
ueat, I think It remsrlrahle that wo fenud uo dc-
terters, no strap*!era, no latuiketa or knapsacks,
and no matcruu of war. Johnston’s troops *1*)
covered and protected the citizens living In tire
vast district In which we were operating, in carrjr-
ingoffall their pronert)* from ns. In fact.lt waa
the cleanest ana best conducted retreat, on was
remarked by every one, which wo had seen or
re \Vherever we went we encountered a formidable
line of battle which all commauders were inclined
to. respect;! know that this wav my feeling, and
other officers In commnud of armies and corns ap
peared to feel os I did. Indeed, this retreat was
m> masterly that I regard it as a usefal Icwon for
study for all peisons who may hereafter elect for
* * • One of the prominent wswnun» w wo
confederacy ascribe* the misfortunes of the ‘‘Lost
Cause" to the relief of General Johnston; 1 do not
think this, but It certainly contributed materially
to hasten Its collapse.” ,
The publication abounds in quotations from
official reports of the battles, by federal and con
federate commanders, and a most every statement
which is liable to serious criticism by cither side
is backed up by the array reports of that side. The
work Is one which shows very deep resoaroli, and
will no donbt prov e of decided interest to all who
secure copies. , , -
Mr. Joteph M. Brown, general passenger arent of
the Western and Atlantic railroad, is the author or
this Interesting publication. He dcserrci great
credit for It, ns well for Its intrinsic nrerlt as for
having had the enterprise to forestall the Century
Magazine.
HUMOR OF THE PRESS,
The kid looked out in the snowy fields,
That glistened in the night,
And called his mother to him there
To see the won’drous sight.
“Ob, mamms, look!” he said, and rigbed,
And shook his golden head;
"How will the angels sleep tonight,
The sheets are off their bed?"
—Washington Critic.
‘Troy, pardon me, msdsra!” exclaimed u
mnn u fin hsd insdvertently «ivom in the pretence
Ufa tally. ’’Don't mention It, dr,’’ she replied
sweetly; "I am raorried.”—Pitrelmtg Dispatch.
THE COTTON 3IAIUCET8.
CONSTITUTION OFFICE,
ATUirea, January 8, US7.
New York-Colton steady. Spots, mlddliugSMfic.
Net receipts fot 1 days tales, sgnliist S>,0S9
bales astycar; exports 17,2T1 bales; last year 13,011
hales; stock 1,M6,SS1 hales; last year l.Wl.TVS talcs.
Below we give tho opening and closing quota
tions of cotton futures tn New York today:
Opened. Closed.
January. Era#
February.. 0.6.T® 0.M
I'nrcli ag....-
August l&W?|i0>09
Closed steady; sales M,fi00 bales.
Local—Cotton very quiet; ralddUngs a lM6»*jfc.
NEW YORK. January S-The total risible sup
ply of cotton for the world Is 3.2T7,Md bales, of
which 2.S11,700 bales are American, against 8,110,130
bales and 2,WJbSt bales rerpectlrely tast year. Re
ceipts at sll interior towns loo,203 tales. Re
ceipts from plantations 130,7 )1 bales. Crop In sight
4,800,770 talcs.
b'ESVI YORK, January T-The foUowIng Is the
comparative cotton statement for the week ending
Kc'receipts *t sll United fitates ports.
Bszno time last year
showing *n Increase™.—
Total receipts.
gamo time last year ——
Phowlng an Increaae .....
Ezporia for tho week.
200,001
too,on
iso.wo
l'fi.’-n
38ltO
game tlmo last year.
Showing an Increase....
Total expOTts to date
Same time tast year. a ’15?’
Showing an increase - »••• “7.SM
Flock at all United States ports t.MO.On
Fame time tast year. - -.1,10 .430
Showing * drcresie. w.sjj
Block et Interior town*. - ” 1 ml '
game time last year.
Showing a decrease. -
Stock at Liverpool -...,
Bern- time lost year........
Showing an Increaae £S-SS
American cotton efloat for Urest Britain 90,000
Same tlmo tast year.
Showing an increase 71,000
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of thirty Chinese firemen nnd coal heavers
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day, and to gelu breath of freah air ho wcut
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taring flesh filled the room with odor. Then
be wss thrown like s sack of wheat into the
corner of the room, where, after gasping for
breath for a moment, he died. On the snip's
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the spelling markets Allthrough the session there
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and the price remained closely around SAX* for
Hay delivery, but generally a sbado under that
figure. It was estimated that tho visible supply
would disclose au increase of hilly a half million
bushels. Toward the close there was a moderate
feeling and tho market closed at SSJie, the lowed
point of tho day.
I-Tactically nothing was done In corn today. A
great bulk of the cum told was around
hut fell off Ho near the elate.
34era pork did much less thsu yesterday In the
wey ofttuctustlons, but the situation was Improved
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no very laijscIquantlUes were sold at thla figure. A
recovery put the market hack to I12.WH-
The following waa tho rang* of the leading na
tures In Chicago toaay;
Wbxxt— Highest.
January..— 7**i
February.™........— Try
March 7»j;
Hay.
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