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Newspaper Page Text10 to Do Wo Dig Our Graves ? We must eat or we cannot live. (This we all know. But do we all know that we die by eating? It is 'said we dig our graves with our teeth. How foo'ish. this sounds ‘Yet it is fearfully true. We arc ter rifted at the approach of the cholera and yellow fever, jet there is a dis ease Constantly at out doors and in our houses far more dangerous and destructive. Most people have in tjheir own stomaci s a poison, more .slow, but quite as fatal as the germs <4 those maladies which sweep men jinto eternity by thousands without (Warning in the times of great cpi jtlemics. But it is a mercy that, if we are watchful, we can tell when we are threatened. The following are among the symptoms, yet they ,do not always ncccs arily appear in the same order, nor arc they always the same in different cases. There is a dull and sleepy feeling; a bad taste in the mouth, especially in the morning; the appetite is change; able, sometimes poor and again i seems as though the patient could not cat enough, and occasionally no appetite at all; dullness and slug gishiir o the mind; no ambition to study or work; more or less head a die and heaviness in the head d zziness on rising to the feet < r moving suddenly; furred anil coal cd tongue; a sense of a load on the stomach that nothing iemoves; hot and dry skin at times; yellow tinge in the eyes; scanty and high-colored mine; sour taste in the mouth, fre cpicntlv attended by palpitation of the heart; impaired vision, with spots that seem to be swimming in the air before the eyes; a cough with a grjenish.colored expecto ration; poor nights’ rest; a sticky slime about the teeth and gums; hands and feet cold and clammy; irritable temper and bowels bound up and costive. This disease has puzzled the physicians and still puz zlcs them, ’t is the commonest o ailments and yet the most compli cated and mysterious. Sometime 'it is treated as consumption, som s limes as liver complaint, and thc s again as malaria and even heart di ease. But its real nature is that o constipation and dyspepsia. It arises in the digestive organs and soon affects all the others through the corrupted and poisoned blood Often the whole body includin the nervous system —is literally starved, even when there is no emaciation to tell the sad story. Expet iencc has shown that there is but one remedy that can certainly ♦ure this disease in all its, stages, namely, Shaker Extract of Roots or MotherSeigel’s Curative Syrup. It never fails, but, nevertheless,no time should be lost in trying other so called remedies, for they will do no good, (let this great vegetable preparation (discovered by a vener able nurse whose name is a house hold word in Germany) and be sure to get the genuine article. I.IVKN UP BY BCVEX DOCTORS. Shaker Extract of Roots or Sei gel s Syrup has raised me to good health alter seven doctors had given rne up to die with consumption. So writes R. E. Grace, Kirkmanville Todd county, Ky. nr tiK.iiin op rr jot in time.- “I hod been about given up to die with dyspepsia when I fust saw ithe advertisement of Shaker Extract ( of Roots or SeigcTs Syrup. After [Using four bottles 1 was able to at Send to my business as w ell as ever. I know of several cases of chills and lever that have been cured by it." So writes Mr. Thos. I’ullum, of Taylor, Geneva county, Ala. WOKIU TEN DOI.I.AIS A Bjlll.k Mt. Thomas I’. Evans, of the firm of Evans & Bro., Merchants, Horn town. Accomack Co., Va„ writes that he had been sick with digestive disorders for many years and had tried many physicians and medicines without benefit, lie began to use {Shaker Ext t act of Roots orSeigtTs Syrup about the Ist of Jan. ISS7, and was so much better in three weeks that he considered himsel practically a well man. He adds “I have at this time one bottle on band, and if I could not gel any more I would not t ike a ten dollar bill for it." All druggists, or address A White. Limited. s.;Warren St.N.Y w’..y ;<» col u r m i.oln r— ■ ■ Qa” 6.000.000 people use O.M.FERRYACO. I yffipi ft'« ad: '(Jto N» tho L‘>" x uarßCs*t Stcclamen /atfk* x'JW •’» world. £ zsn**&SL'X-r r;d ****** cos ■ :il«*<r*!«»d, l'<M><>rt». P ' *W‘ rs v ' lb ” ' *’ r,e *’ l A WU A L I; ■ ’\x For I3KB Vl? bv >uaUrdFRE( • ■ F?\ ■O. r 5 \\' *• MOB CUM-nn. r-.» 'V • '' •P -■•' .. *X_ " 'f** ’ ■ *ry pcp‘. n V .irj; . ■ 4 ••3-t »IL.I .-■ <••>■• »W Ilhw.r x t>EEo;» , .i^ni.. it. -<i >iWr » M n lillj A. co. •/.S 4 * ll.UUl.Mkt>. X»nir Thl ►».]<.. , , A VISIT TO THE SHAFT Where So Many ZtffHcted Are Cured. Athens, Ga., ?!arch J cit’. - Who in Georgia, haft not heard of tho wonderful well of ;r;r it \ that has b re 'tr'y < ( e. veloped and that is disturbing tho doHors and puzzling the.scientists <.f the founti > ? You have heard of it. of course, but do you know whftt it is, wL< ro it is, an 1 what it looks like? In order to solve these questions for hhn .elf and for the people, a Constiii tion corres pondent left Athens a few days ago, equipped with a a lound trip ticket to Hilhnan. I ron fts . that I had listened to the current stories of the wuiid'T'. of tin* well with broad incietju lity. Aim! ro.v 11 at the jtt.tice or injus tice of that inriedulit . wits to be settled, my doubt increased.. Soon tiring of the familiar scones that seemed to hurry past the win lows in a panoramic race, my ticket attractc <1 my attention and my skepthism was revived. Why. thought I, call* it Hillman? Is it not a well, a shaft, an excavation in fee earth? I learned afterwards that the name only applies to the railroad station, and that it is given in honor of Mr. Jlillnmn, the original ov.ncrof the land on which the shaft Was discovered. My speculations were disturbed Ly the change of otmi at Barnett, and I soon found myself on board the Washington branch, which connects Washington with the main line. Captain W. H. Anthony, one of the most affable and efiicient ofli-cr.s that ever pulled a bell cord, qas charge «>f the train be tween these points, and makes six trips daily. He is an enthusi:. t on the subject of the cb < - tric shaft, and from him I heard some remark able lories of its ] owcr and efficacy, lie, bet tor than anyone else, ran notice the effect of the eloi tricity on pathiitH, as ho carries them all to and from the et .lion. The captain says he always feel* like the keeper of a hospital on the down trip, when lie is surrounded by pa tient-<m pillows. <<»ik ami stretchers, all en route to th<* well and all despondent. On the r turn tiip he likens himself to the leader of a Fourth of July picnic, with his pa sengers chattering and laughing, congratulating one another, ami trying the actively of their newly restored intiMivs. At Hillman a conveyance meets : 11 trains to carry vi ilors to the hotel. Tl.c cislam 0 is only a Jew hundred yards, through a b .‘dutiful grove, ami those who can do so generally pre hr to walk. The first impression of the place is a pleas' nt one. Rising gently from all sides, and covered with a thick giov. th of Georgia pines is th:- electric mound, and di ectly on its summit stands the hotel, f rom here can bo obtained a view that < annot be excelled, even by I ulhilah, for natural beauty and gran deur. The surrounding country is undulating and broken, but jud at the ba-e of the mound there lies an < xpan •• oi perhaps a hundred acres, as level as a billiard table. Here it is proposed to erect a mile race track and accom modations for a large number of horses. The track can b- made with a hundred dollars worth of grading, and will be one of the finest in the south. This will be used for training purposes l»y the largest, stables of tho north ami west, and here will be trained for the spring and fall races some of the finest horses n llio turf. On the opposite side of the mourn) a pavilion is being erected. Near it will bo built anotln r large hotel, and these owo buildings will be used by tourists ami pleasure stokers. The present hotel Hands some distance off, where the invalid guests cannot be disturbed by the noise of the dance nor the gaily which is inseparable from the summer hotel. Major B. F. Brown, formerly of the Plant ers, of Augusta, has charge of the hotel and is general manager of the company. The build ing, as it now stands, contains forty-eight rooms, all of which are large, commodious and well furnished. The menu is particularly elaborate and :s well served. 1 was enjoying an excellent supper with Colonel James A. Benson, president of the company, when the con versa don turned on tho merits oi the shaft. The colonel is iniatuated with the place, and be ieves in it only us ho does in Michael Da vin. 1 was helping myself to another roll— for tli.it clei ti lin'd water gives one a womhous appetite—when the colonel began relating the divers cures effected at the shaft. One in stance after another was given where the' elec tricity had accomplished wonders, ami 1 noted every instance. “Well, sir, ’’said the colonel, and hi; blue eyes twinkled as lie nulled out bis wat 'b. “Notice its action, please.” I took the v a ch, heard its inelalli • pa I pita: ion, followed the swift wheels in their revolutions, am)com pared it with my Waterbury and found them both accurately together; everything about it was in perfect order. “Now,” continued the colonel, “ 1 brought that clock from the old country with me. It once laid for nine days in the bottom of Lake Killavney, was afterwards t rushed in a railway accident, and has been baked in two stores that were burned to the ground. Os course it stopped* 1 took it to some of the best jewelers m the state ; all said it w.ls ruined beyond repair, and could never work again, ha t week I came up to Hillman and happened to have that watch in my pin ket. I went down into the shaft for a few minutes and experienced a slight shock. Af ter ii was over I thought 1 heard a peculiar t eking in luy vest. 1 pulled out this watch, und. would \ou believe it. sir, the old thing was goiny like a wind-mill, and it ha. n't va ried a . I'cond since!” The waiter gasped, the butter turned pale, and I dropped my roll and looked al the colonel. For the first time in m\ life I doubted him. lam frank to say it now; I double I him. S.nee then 1 have seen the shaft, haw felt its mysterious influence and have been converted. I am readv t » believe »'ven the watch story, and I begin to think that I wronged the c loml in doubting him. and if 1 ever see him again I mean to tell him so. But, seriously. Ivv t con verted by my visit to the shall. Before mak ing the descent l. like everybody else who has heard ot the place, didn’t know whether it was a hog-vvallovv or a palace, a house or holo in the ground. The well proper is anything but a well. At the foot of the mound, u tow rods from the hotel, and reached by a winding and ph'turesque footpath, stands a well constructed building I'be roof at the nar slants until it tuuches the hill.dde. while tlio front of the house ri os peibaps thirty feet. The vi itor oilers thwdoor from the level of the ground, am) limbs himself in a couifoitable room about lolly loot square. Hero are toilet rooms, set tees, and the visitors’ register. Stairvvav s lead down into a kind of basement, easv of access. There are three of these stairways. Descend ing one. we lind ourselves in a peculiar looking chamber, the sire of an ordinary bedroom, or somewhat smaller. I'his is one of the electric cbmuberH. Thret sides are compo ed of the solid rock n which the shaft was sunk, and on oue side the original surface of the electric boulder s s<. n. The door is natural e.ud;. and settees are plicedaround the chamber. Here w<> find pa tients in various degrees of convalescence, loading, conversing or gazing m rayl contem plation i non the wonderful rock. A large sk.v light above lets in a flood of light, and tiie chamber is a- comfortable and well ventilated as a parlor. A force pump stands in one cor ner. and a slight effort brings up a stream of erv tai vv .ter. w hich 1 understand i>ossesses great medicinul properties. 1 placed my hand against the well, as 1 saw others doing, and contrary to my expectations, expelienced quite a dUtim ’ shock, whi< h vy a times during my stay in the chamber. 1 then placed the icruie of mv cane in a nich in the wall and grasped the head tinnly. After a tew seconds cia| sod I felt a peculiar tingling in the hand I used, which sensation gradaall.v ex tomled to tin' whole arm. 1 then In'came liriuly convinced of the presence of electricity inthoshalft. The feeling i> » that one when hohlin-tho poles o; a bat tery . and the naction is very similar. There are three chnmbi s similar to the one dc iK'ribed, each p‘.s.-essing the same properties, and separat-d trom the oil.ms bv ’ utit'ons. rhe i residing ..enuw of the place is an ebl darky . who del gh-.s in the name the patients have given him, that of Dr. George. He ma nipulates the pumps, and a-1 ministers to the W . ot tie v 'tors to the a .'. a:.'. v. as the medium th it v.tgb which the c * atc qualities wore diseoven-d. The old m ~ro wa- mining for metals, ami < .uld wi ll bn* ..tti? on a • and r.wk'd h^mVvcs'w'ith 1 •' n / \\ft ‘d’ e nu' few days tl<-' uld 1 Low >. ..: ;h*.» :• d up. hi* pain d ! >saw’» are I and bo w.»* a wcl. mva a-.: i>. H.. : , . : ■ Mutuliou he Rh while dig. :'.he ah.l THE WEEKLY COKSTIILTION, ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. MARCH G. 1888. poke of it to his employer, the owner of the haft. Mr. Hillman tiled the experiment on several of the neighbors who were afflicted with muscular and nervous diseases and all were cured. He then organized the company which now controls the Electric health resort, os it is now called, lir. George likes to talk of the wonderful cures it has effected. ‘‘Why, boss,” said he, *'no more'n a mont’ ago dey wuz an ,ole nigger ’Oman come here fruni XVasliington. She v.az so porely dat dev jes’ nachelly had to tote her here. She couldn’t move her mouf, an’ wuz in misery all de time. We put her in dar in the sliaf’and jes’laid her on de grouii'. In two .lays dat’oman g‘rt up fruni dar j.as well an’ peart as I is, an’ went back to Wash ington. 51 arse Frank tole me yesterday dat w’en she got home she went to New Hope church, cussed do preacher, kicked a ] ani l outin' <!<■ new organ, licked two of de deacons and broke up de mcctin’. Yes, siree, bo>s, I dene seed dis shai’ tried.” Before leaving the shaft I f. lt the warm clasp of hands that had been stiff, cold and motiopless with rheumatism for years. Some attribute the cures to the strong mineral waters of the resort, others to electrical influences, and others even to miraculous intervention. The most popular belief is that the minerals which abound in the rock hold metals in sclv tion which form a voltaic pile and establish an electric current. Professors White and t'har bonnier, with other scientists, will leave Ath ens in a few days to investigate the phenom ena. Other parties are leaving here daily for the resort, some for health and Others' for pleasure. Little river, near Hillman, is well stocked with fish of all kinds, and the woods abound in game. I counted no less than nine squirrels hi one>tree during one of my rambles at the mound. Many wealthy northerners are now visiting the resort, and the crowd increases daily. The day is not far distant when the tide of tourists shall be turned to this part of Georgia, and the latent resources of the coun try shall be developed. And in the accom plishment of this eml the wonderful resort will bo no unimportant factor. When yon feel depressed don’t dose yourself with mean bitters. Hodges' Sarsaparilla reno vates and invigorates the system, and cures all diseases arising from au impure state of tho blood. 81 per bottle, six bottles for 85. I’angum P.oot Med. Co., Nashville, Tenn. At wholesale by A. G. Candler & Co., Atlan ta, Ga., and I>. W. Curry, Home. Retail at Jacobs’ Pharmacy, Atlanta, Ga. « A Warning to Subscribers. We learn that a Mr. W. A. Mallory has been going through the country taking subscriptions to Tun Conshth tios'. which be has never sent into this oilicc. Mr. Mallory is now said lobe under arrest in Buena Vista, Ga. There is but one rule to be observed on this point. You should not subscribe to The Cox-TrrvrioN except through some one that you know personally to be reliable and honest, We do not send traveling agents out for The Weekly Constitution. We have over ten thousand local agents, and t yto select a good man in every local community through whom subscriptions nicy be sent, bo not give your money to any stranger. Subscribe direct to this ofllce, or through some trusted neighbor. Marte a Cannon of Himself. From the Kansas C.ty Times. Tolbert Rollins, a prominent citizen of Perry county, Ark., whose mind bad fbr-sometime been unbalanced, and who had marie several unsuccess tui attempts to kill himself, last uig'.rt was left atone in hts room for ale v minutes, when, securing a Husk of powder, be emptied the contents into his mouth and placed a lighted match toil. 1h; ex plosion tore away a purlieu of his face, iufl’ciiug a wound from which lie cannot recover. The correct way, is to buy goods from the manufacturer. Tho Elkhart Carriage anil Harness Co. of Elkhart. Indiana, have no agents. They make first-class goods, ship any whore, privilege to examine. See advertise ment. ———— • —... Anxious Fears. From the Now York Sun. “I feel so tirod every night, John,” said a farmer’s wife, »ss..o took up her darning ufier the day ’s work was done. “My bones ache, and I have fits of dlzzinos* no appetite; and I’ui worried, too, about llw heifer, John. When I wrts feuding tho stock tonight she acted very strangely, and re fused to eat. I'm airaid she's going to “Yes.” said John, with an anxious look upon his face, “I’m worried about that heifer myself.” A woman who is weak, nervous and sleep less, and who has cold hands and feet, cannot feel and act like a well person. Carter’s Iron Pills equalize the circulation, remove nervous ness and give strength and rest. The /Answered Prayer. BY ONE OP THE CONSJITVHON 3 POETS. In a dark and dingy otlice—in a crowded dusty town, Where the grim old leather law books seemed to v. our a sullen frown ; At a dusty table, covered by full manv a claim and deed, Sat two men with grim, cold features—deeply marked with lines of greed. ’Twas a lawyer and a broker—met to settle on a way To make the client's debtors settle at an early day. But, just now a soft expression flitted o’er the law yer’s face It ico’red >Caiv.<’ly incongruous in that grim and dusty place. Said he. ‘ I’ll not press that claim—you can do to suit yourself: 1 wish you’d let the matter drop-I d not touch the dirty pelf.’’ “tfow is that?” the broker asked him, “can’t you sell the fellow out? You know lie has a homestead—it will meet the bill no doubt.’’ ‘ Ye.-, the lawyer answered softly—and a tear stood in his eye. ‘ But before I’d turn him from his home; I tell you. man, I’d die!” •You’re HUt hearted. ’ sneered the client—“He has begged too han), I see.” ■ Yes, he begged,” the lawyer answered—“but he begged his God—not me. "You ko I thought I’d notify him that ’twas time to meet the hill: My Laid heart wasn’t softened when I heard his wife was ill— So I found the place quite easy for rd passed it once or twice. A little white frame building a yard swept clean and nice. I stepiK'd across the ix>rtico—peeped through tho open floor; The ight which met my eyes, dear man, brought back the days of yore. On the l»e i an aged woman, lay with pil lows high— The light of love drawn from above, beamed from lur honest eyv. “It reminded mo of mother, who's been dead these many years 1 don’t go for tender hearted, but mveyes were wet with tear'; But the picture isn’t finished, for there beside the bed Knelt a man—tho frosts of manv rears had gath ered on bis liead— And while yet I hesitated, standing on the From the old man s lips n prayer fell iu accent. «w.et lari Ivw. Such a )>:«•• er I 1 don't remember havlne ever heard it» like And each word a k<s.n edged sword, on my heart seemed to strike. '•For he prayed for yon and I. sir 1 I d hare said it wa«u t so. Had another told moot it, but what I vo hoard I know. He prayed tied * l icking on u- who weregoimr to t ike lus home, Whatever was Go t » holy will-he prayel God let it come. It swept rue back across ;the years u> childhood's happy day, Wh<» .otln r used to sing to me of Klod's myster ious way.' So w'w o th. prayer was ti’.ushe'.l, I left without a wool. I will not p-.e-s that claim I ta\ mv rei-ons you have heard.' ’ The broker sat in silence, to lus brow hi- hand was prest; A stru le hm I was goi ug 0: , wit'-.ln bis ragged "I wish you lia to't told mo—"he slowly sai l— •■lt'» n> ma talkin', lawyer— let the c-M man keep 1 need tho money badiy: bat it's no use now to t <dm was nu t' Tr.e ’awyer smiled in Joy as he asked him • s'mll I •Met tn answer to a prayer -In a mesic: s way.* ’ WHO BURNT COLUJI BIA? General Sherman or Wade Hampton? For The Constitution: Tho coarse, vulgar attack which General Sherman has recently made upon the chivalric soldier, and hightoned gentleman, General > Wade Hampton—charging him with the burn i ing of Columbia, and using about him bxliings | gate that only recoils on its author—reopens a question that has been several times settled, i and gives occasion for placing on record once more tlie proofs that W.T. Sherman was guilty of the burning of Columbia, and has tried to . shirk the responsibility of the infamous act by i a series of falsehoods absolutely unparalleled in all history. It is a curious moral phenomena that Slier man should desire to shirk the responsibility i of burning Columbia. He burned Atlanta I and Rome, and gloried in “making, Georgia ! howl,” as he “smashed things generally to tlie i sea.” He disolated South Carolina in a man l ner thus described by a committee of citizens "I Columbia, appointed to take the sworn affl ! davits of the most trustworthy and reliable eye witnesses: “Foreighty miles along the route of his army, through the most highly improved and cultivated region of the state, according to the testimony of in telligent and respectable witnesses, the habitations ot but two white persons remained. As he advanced the villages of Hardies Ville, Grahamville.lGilhon ville, MePheisonvihe, Barnwell, Blackville, Mid way, Orangeburg and Lexington were successively devoted to the flames, Indignities and outrages were perpetrated upon the persons of the inhabitants, the implements of agriculture were broken, dwellings, barns, mills, ana gin-houses were consumed, provis ions ol every description appropriate l or destroyed, b uses and mules carried away, and sheep, cattle ami hogs were either taken for actu.il use or shot down and left behind. Tne like devastation marked tl>e progress of tlie invading army from Columbia tlirough this state to its uoriiiern frontier, and tlie towns of Winnsboro, Camden and Cheraw d from like visitation by lire, if a single town or vil lage or hamlet within tlieir line of march escaped altogether the torch of the invaders the committee have not been informed of the exception. Tne line of General Sherman’s march from his entering the ten itory of the state up to Columbia, and from Co lumbia to the North Carolina border, was one cou tinuous track of i'r ■. The devastation and min thus inflicted were but the execution and plan of General Sherman for the subjugation of the confederate states.” General Sherman has been, however, unfor tunate in not sticking to one version of the af fair, but in giving first one and then another explanation of the burning of Columbia as might suit his purpose at the time. 1. The night of the fire ami the next day General Sherinan admitted to the mayor, to Rev. J. Loonier Porter, and to others who testify to the fact under oath [see report of the committee, Southern Historical Society Papers, volume viii., pp. 1202-214 J that his men did burn the city, but claimed that they did it under the influence of liquor, which they found in the stores and residences. 2. In his official report of the event itself iu 1865, General Sherman says: “And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent, but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint cotton and tinder.” 3. In a letter to the Washington Chronicle, in 1873, lie says: “I reiterate that no matter what his (General Hampton's) orders were, the ineiiof his army, either his rear-guard or his strugglers, did apply the tire, and that this was a sufficient cause for all else that fol lowed.” 4. In h’.t memoirs, published in 1875, he says [volume 2, page 287 J: “Many of the people thought that this fire was deliberately planned and executed. This is not true. It was acci dental, and in my judgment began with the cotton which General Hampton’s men had set fire to on leaving tho city (whether by his orders or not is not material), which fire was partially subdued early in the day by our men; but when night came, the high wind fanned it again into full blaze, carried it against the frame houses, which caught like tffider, and soon spread beyond our control. In my offi cial report of this con fl aeration, I distinctly charged it to General NV ade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was, in my opin ion, a braggart, and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina.” Could a man possibly write himself to lower depths of infa my than this unblushing confession of Sher man in his own book that he deliberately made in his official report a false charge against Wade Hampton in order “to shake the faith of his people in him'?” If it is.equaled in all history, I am not aware of it. 5. General Sherman's latest utterance again, in the coarsest language, charges General Hampton with burning Columbia. Now, the proof Is overwhelming that all of those statements of G eneral Sherman are false, and that he was guilty of allowing his mon to burn Columbia without using any effort to prevent the diabolical outrage, even if he did not himself order or instigate it. The following letter from General Wade Hampton settles the question with all who know his high sense of honor and the moral impossibility of his making statements which ho cannot prove: Wn.n Woods. Miss., April 21, 1806.—T0 Hon. Keverdy Johnson, United states Senate: Sir—A few days ago I saw in the published proceedings of con grass that a petition from Benjamin Kawles, of Co liimbln, South Carolina, asking compensation for the destruction of his bouse by tlie federal army in February, Inca, had been presented to thesenate, aeconipaiiled by « letter from Major-General Sher man. In this letter General JSherman uses the following language: ■ "I'b.e citizens of i 'olunibia set fire to thousands of bales of cotton rolled into streets, and which were bnruing before we entered Columbia. I, myself, was iu Hie city as early as 9 o'clock, and I saw these fires, and Knew that efforts were made to extinguish them, but a high and strong wind kept them alive. "I gave no orders for theluming of your City, but, on ttie contrary, the conflagration resulted from tho great imprudence of cutting the cotton bates, whereby the contents were spread to Hie wind, so that it became an impossibility to arrest tlie fire. “I saw in your Columbia newspaper the printed order of General Wade Hampton, that on the ap proach of Uie yankeo army all the cotton should thus be burned, and from what I saw myself I have no hesitation in saying that he was the cause ol the destruction of your city.” This same charge, niiule against me by General Sherman, having been brought before the senate of the I nite l States, I am naturally most solicitous to vindicato myself before the’ same tribunal. But my state lias no ropresentative in that body. Those who should be her con constitutional representatives ahd exponents there are debarred the right of entrance into those liailp. There are none who have the right to speak for the s attli: none to 1 artieipate in the legislation which govetni her; none to impose the taxes she is called upon to pay, and n me to vindicate her sbns from misrepresentation, injustice or slander. I inlet these circumstances I appeal to you, in the confident hope you will use every effort to see that jitslico is done in this matter. I deny, emphatically, that any cotton was fired in Columbia by ray order. I deny that the citizens “set lire to thousands of bales rolled out into the streets ” I deny that any cotton was on fire when the federal troops entered the city. I most respet tftilly ask of congress to appoint a committee, charged with the duty of ascertaining and reporting all the facts connected with tl:e destruction of Columbia, and thus fixing upon the proper author of that enormous crime the infamy liencblv deserves. lam willing to submit the rase to any honest tribunal. Before any such I pledge myself to prove that I gave a positive order, by direction of General Beauregard, that no cotton should I e fired: that not one bale was on tire when G< neral Sherman's trmps took possession of the city; that he promised protection to tlie city, ami thiit. in spite ot ills solemn promise, lie burned the city to the ground, deliberately, systematically and atrociously. I, therefore, moat earnestly request that congress may take prompt and efficient rm a<- ures to investigate this matter ffilly. Not only is tins due to themselves and to the reputation of the United States army, but iilms to justice and to truth. Tr.utiug that you will pardon me for troubling you, 1 am, Very respectfully, Year ob .Hout servant, VVape Hampton. On the reading of tho above letter in the senate, Mr. John Sherman denounced Hamp ton tiski “most impudent rebel”—others {com mented on the same line. Mr. Conners said i that “a min who would attempt to destroy tlio government ot the United States would certainly not hesitate to bum a city,” and the I committee ot investigation asked by the gal lant Hampton was summarily refused by i General Slicrnian’s friends. They did not dare I to go into a fair investigation. And now for the proofs of General Sher man's guilt. As secretary of the S, utliern Historical «o --; piety for tifuen y ears and editor of fourteen volumes of S. H. S paners. 1 had occasion to publish these proofs in detail, and any one do -1 siring to see them in full can find them in th ' e volumes. I cun, of course, only give ; them here in brief outline. 1. General Sherman avowed his purpose of des toy rogUoluuibia long beforehe|reauheJ the city. This is proved by a number of witnesses, but the following extracts from the official records settles it beyond all peradventure: On page 287, of volume first, of the “supple mental report of the joint committee on the conduct of the war,” published officially by the government, are these words, in a dispatch dated December IS, 1564, from Major-General 11. NV. Halleck, in Washington, to General Slieruian. then in Savannah: “Should you capture Charleston I hope that by some acci dent the place may be destroyed, and if a little salt should be sown upon its site it may prevent the growth of fu ture crop., of -nullification and secession." Are not the animus and the intention of these words perfectly clear ? That they were understood nnd cordially concurred in by the' officer to whom they were addressed is appar ent from General Sherman's reply to them, which, dated. December 21, ISSii-L contains these words: “I will bear in mind your hint as to Charleston, and don't think salt will be necessary. NVhen I move, the Fifteenth corps Will be on the right of the light wing, and their position will bring them naturally into Charleston first: and if you have watched the history of that corps, yon will have remarked that they generally do tlieir work up pretty well. The truth is, the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her. * * * ’ I look upon Columbia as quite as bad as Charleston.” Genet a Shermen here fully indorses the suggestion for tho destruction of Charleston, and is careful to add, “I look upon Columbia as quite as bad as Charleston.” 2. General Sherman marched into Columbia the very corps (Howard’s, fifteenth, corps) which ho saitr would destroy a city. He got firt 1 possession of the city at 9 o’clock in the morning, and at 9 o’clock that night fires broke out simultaneously in different parts of the city. 3. In his testimony before the “mixed claims commission” General Sherman said that lijs -men were under perfect discipline, and he could have restrained them, but that while iie feared they would burn Columbia he would not restrain them to their ranks to save every city in South Carolina. 4. In the presenco of Governor Orr and sev eral other witnesses, in the governor’s oilice in Columbia in 1847, General O. O. Howard said to General Hampton that General Sherman knew perfectly well that he (Hampton) did not burn Columbia; that no one was authorized to say that “our troops did not set fire to it, for I saw them do it myself.” Governor Orr testified concerning the conver sation : “General Howard said, in substance, that the city was burned by United States troops; that he saw them fire many houses.” Colonel Kennedy, of the skirmish line, which 5. EntercdColumbia at SJo’cloCk that morning and one of General Sherman’s favorite wit nesses testifies as follows: “I cannot, for my life, see how Wade Hampton and Beauregard are so positive that Sherman’s soldiers first set fire to the cotton, for not one was near it when the fire first started, and certainly neither Hampton nor Beauregard were with in gunshot of either the cotton or the state house.” This “swift witness” proves too much for his chief, who was trying to connect Hampton with the burning of the cotto.n. But Colonel Stone, who received the surren der of the city from the mayor as early as 10 o’clock, testifies in the most emphatic manner that the fire did not begin until 9 o'clock that night, and that then: “All at once fifteen or twenty flames, from as many different places along the river, shot up, and in ten minutes the fate of Columbia was sealed.” 6. Adjutant Byers, in his “What I Saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons,” says of the scenes of that fearful night: “The boys, too, were Spreading tlie conflagration by firing the city •in a hundred places.” As General Sherman witnessed these scenes he doubtless rejoiced in tlie thought that his prophecy to Halleck had been fulfilled, and that the Fifteen corps had “done tlieir work up pretty well.” .7. Mr. NVhitelaw Reid in his “Ohio in the NVar,” says of the burning of Columbia: “It was the most monstrous barbarity of the bar barous march,” and few calm students of the facts will doubt his statement. 8. Colonel Stoney in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, says that during that day he “had in timation. that tho union officers released by us from the city prisons had formed a society, to which had been added many members from our soldiers and the negroes, the object of which society was to burn Columbia.” And yet neither lie, nor Sherman, nor Howard, nor anyone »n authority took any stops wliater to prevent what they knew was impending. 9. General Sherman suppresses, in his offi cial report, all his correspondence between the 16th and 21st February, 1865, and there is thus left very strong presumptive proof that his letters and orders of those dates con tained matter at variance with his subsequent statement concerning the burning of Colum bia. 10. The testimony of Captain Rawlins Lowndes, Hampton’s A. A.G., that so far from issuing orders to burn the cotton (as Sherman asserts) Hampton sought authority from Gen eral Beauregard and issued orders that the cotton should not be burned, and the state ments of General M. C. Butler and other con federates who were tho last to leave Columbia, as the federal advance came in, that no cotton was fired or was burning when Sherman’s army entered the city, are perfectly conclusive on these points. “The pure and gifted chancellor, J. B. Car roll, who, as chairman of the committee ap pointed to investigate this whole question wrote the report, based on a very large amoun, of unimpeachable testimony, has an able and exhaustive statement of the case [see S. H. S. papers, vol. VII. pp. 202-214] which, beyond all question, fixed the responsibility of the burning of Columbia on General Sherman, and adduced in proof facts which cannot be de nied. I have space for only tho following brief extract, wflich will servo to show the character of the report: That Columbia was burned by the soldiers of General Sherman, th it the vast majority of the in cendiaries were sober, that for hours they we:e seen with combustibles firing house after house, without any affectation of concealment, and without the slightest check from their officer, is established by proof full to repletion, and ive.irisonie from its very superfluity. After the destruction of the town his officersand men openly approved of its burning and exulted in it. “I saw,” deposes the mayor, “very few drunken soldiers that night; many who ai> lieared to sympathise with out people told mo that the fate and doom of Columbia had been common talk around their camp-tires ever sine.’ they left Savannah.” It was said by numbers of the soldiers that the order had been given to burn down tlie city. There is strong evidence that such an order was actually issued in relation, to the house of General John A Frcston. It seems that General Sherman does not pro pose to let this question rest —tliat having ut terly failed in his attempt to injure Hampton “with his people,” and having his malignant nature constantly axoused by seeing the gal lant South Carolinian occupy the highest posts within the gift of his devoted people, lie means to reiterate his base slander until, possibly, lie may persuade himself and his brother John to believe it. Well! let him continue his course. The his torian of the future will rank this alongside of the slander he uttered against President Davis, and for which be received so merciless an excoriation at the bands of the confederate chief, and in which he pillories Sherman for all time by say ing: “I have in this vindication, not of myself only, but also of the people who honored me with the highest official position in their gift, been compelled to grout, together instances of repeated falsehoods, deliberately spoken and written bv General Shorman—the Blair-Bost slander of myself, tho defamation of the char acter of General Albert Sidney Johnston, the disparagement of the military fame of General Grant, mid the shameful and corrupt charge against General Hampton.'’ .T. NN'm. Joses. Atlanta. Ga., March Ist, 1888. <■ There are many forms of nervous debility in men, that yield to the use of Carter’s Iron Pills. 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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, March 06, 1888, Page 10, Image 10