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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, NOVEMBER 1, 1883.
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BY MATTIE C. SEWARD.
“ My happiness is wrecked.”
There are those who need our helping;
Those who listen for our song;
Only souls that have been tortured
Know the bitterness of wrong.
So, my heart, we'll gladly help them
Bear their burdens, you and I,
And we’ll not stand back like cowards,
While the world is running by.
There is sunshine waiting for us,
All we lived for is not lost;
Hopes we cherished still are living,
And are neither shrived nor crossed.
Though for many a kindly impulse
We’ve been wounded, we’ll not cry;
But still strive to do our duty.
So we will, heart, you and It
Ah I for us the hills grow greenly
"Over there,"
And though fate has served us meanly,
We can bear.
And we’ll trudge it, you and I,
Heart, to where those new lands lie,
Striving, as the days go by—
Cheerily!
There’s a new life waiting for us;
Days of peace and nights of rest;
See, there’s Hopei Bhe beckons to us;
Come, heart, we will do our best
To outlive our care and sorrow,
To forget the bitter past,
In the new life which is coming,
Only happy thoughts shall last.
Far beyond the hill’s green beauty,
Brighter than the sunset’s glow,
Is a home of fadeless beauty
For us, heart, where we may go,
When our mission here is ended,
And we’ve done our Father’s will,
Heart! He knows our griefs and sorrows,
And o’er us is watching still.
Helps us now to bear our burdens;
By the hand will hold us fast,
Safo through all will guide us homeward,
Give us rest and peace at last.
. !»♦•»«
THE DeSAUSSURES.
A Historical Romance.
BY B. F. SAWYKR.
CHAPTER XI.
The extraordinary unanimity of the
vote was as much a matter of surprise to
the men as it was to the officers. From
the moment it was decided to run a
ticket of their own its success was con
fidently expected, but no one looked for
the overwhelming triumph that came.
Perhaps had the canvass been less skill
fully managed a less gratifying result
might have followed. The profound seere-
sy with which the opposition ticket had
been put forward at the latest moment
had by keeping the caucus candidates
ignorant of the movement, prevented
them from putting forth any efforts to
defeat it. So little thought had been
given the matter that even the little sop
of the noncommissioned staff appoint
ments were not doled out. Captain
Chatham holding them in reserve as his
own special prerogatives. In fact, so
well assured of his election had that
officer been that he had ordered his uni
form and written home for his horses,
with a groom to be forwarded him at
once. Equally as sanguine had been
the others—Captain Horton and Lieut.
Hudson—and no conciliatory arts being
deemed necessary to propitiate the men,
none were offered. To the credit, how
ever, of both these officers, the vote was
not confined exclusively to the officers,
both gentlemen carried the solid vote of
their respective companies—a compli
ment that greatly mitigated the chagrin
of the defeat, if it did not compensate
for its surprise. But, poor Chatham,
no such salve to his wounded vanity arm
bruised ambition was his—notone single
vote of the one hundred and two privates
who, ns his friends and neighbors had so
signally honored him but the week be
fore, was cast for him. His was a piteous
case. Ignominiously beaten, and lieaten
too by the man to whom he had owed so
much, and, yet, had so ungenerously
treated—by the man whom, in his heart,
he hated as a rival—all his proud dreams
of distinction and speedy promotion
vanished in that thin summer air, and
to add to this the ignominious chastise
ment so unexpectedly administered by
Captain Norris, it was enough to blacken
hiB face with anger and to fill his soul
with bitterness unspeakable as he sat in
the gloomy solitude of his tent listening
to the glad shouts that hailed the tri
umph of his rival.
Bluff soldier as Shirly was and as little
cause as he hud to incline his sympathies,
he could not help from pitying him, and
with a friendly effort visited him.
“Is there anything, Captain, I can
do? ” he asked kindly.
“ Nothing—but to gloat over my hu
miliation,” answered the other.
“It was not to do that I came,” said
the Lieutenant. “ But I see you are dis
tressed. I shall not disturb you,” he
added, turning away.
“ If you please; I had rather be alone.
You take command of the company to
day. I am not quite well; tomorrow I
shall be all right, and then by the eternal
I shall begin to pay the ungrateful dogs
for their days work,” replied the
Captain.
Appreciating the man’s condition the
Lieutenant withdrew and rejoined Lieut.
Holstin and Baukright in his own tent.
The officers’ quarters were in a row, the
tents of each company touching. Noth
ing but the walls of canvass to break the
sound there was but little privacy of
conversation afforded. What was spoken
in one, unless in a cautious whisper,
could be heard in the other. It did not
much improve the Captain's humor to
listen to the conversation that followed.
“ I am sorry for Chatham,” said Shir
ly as be entered; “ the poor fellow seems
dreadfully cut up.”
“ Yes; it is a sad blow to his vanity
as well as to his ambition. I too feel for
bim,” answered Holstin. “But tell us,
Dave, how did it happen? ” he asked.
“ What; this soldier ticket business ?”
“Yes!”
“I pledge my honor, Wilse, I knew
nothing in the world about it until I saw
the pos:ers, and the men began to vote.
I was as much surprised as Captain
Chatham himself; but why do y >u ask
me ? you do not suspect me of having
anything to do with it?” answered and
asked Shirly in the same breath.
“As you would have nothing to do
with the caucus, I supposed that, per
haps, you were in the confidence of the
others,” exclaimed Holstin.
“No; I had nothing whatever to do
with it. I did not attend the caucus as
you know, because I did not approve it.
I thought the men ought to have had a
representation, and besides I saw it was
a foregone purpose Chatham was to be
nominated, ana I did not intend to vote
for him I had no business there,” an
swered Shirly.
“ That was precisely my position,’
said Baukright. “But yonder goes Frank,
let’s call him in and ask him. He will
tell us all aboutit. “Hello, DeSaussure ?”
he called, stepping to the front.
The young man heard the call and
came to them.
“ Come in Frank, or Colonel I sup
pose we will have to call you. Egad,
though, what are you going to do with
your breeches ? I shall be sorry to see
you lay them aside, the legs so elegantly
become you. Get you a pair of silk stock
ings, Frank, and wear the old continent
al uniform, a la George Washington,”
said Holstin, offering his hand in honest
friendship.
“Oh. never fear, I hope I shall not
get too big for my breeches,” responded
the unfledged Colonel, as cordially
shaking the friendly hand.
“Frank, old boy, give me a shake.
Egad, this is the proudest day of my life.
I do congratulate you, old fellow,” said
Shirly, grasping his hand and attesting
by a grip like a viqe the sincerity of his
good wishes.
“And I, too, most heartily,” said
Baukright, shaking his hand.
“Thank you, gentlemen. I do thank
you and appreciate your good wishes,
and if I do feel a gladness in my good
fortune it is because it places me in a
losition where I can the better serve my
friends. You must help me, boys, all of
you,” he added with a friendly appeal.
“You may depend upon us to the
death,” answered Shirly soberly.
“That you may,” responded the
others in a breath.
“But tell us, Frank,—no, Colonel—
boys, it must be Colonel from now on,
he has been lieutennnting us all the
while, and now we will pay him back—
tell us Colonel how this thing happened.
Egad, it comes like a streak of greased
lightning. How did you manage it?”
asked Shirly.
“ Oh, it struck me about as hard as
any of you,” began the Colonel.
“ Yes; thats the kind of lightning we
should like to be struck by,” interrupted
Holstin.
“ Well, I hope that we all may live to
see you so stricken,” replied DeSaussure.
“ But until then, gentlemen, until we are
all so distinguished, let us put aside,
here among ourselves, all this stilted
ceremony of titles. I want none of your
Colonel, Shirly. Let it be plain Frank
and Dave, and Wils and Jake between
us. Only on duty will we stand on such
stiffness,” he prut sted.
“Very well, Frank then, that sounds
better anyway, thats the name I last
licked you by—don’t you know, at old
Hudson’s? ” said Shirly.
“Certainly; you put it on too thick,
Dave for me ever to forget it, and espe
cially as I found out afterwards that you
were in the right. I believe, Dave, that
was the only thrashing that I ever
“ toted,” laughed DeSaussure.
“And I am sure it is the only one you
ever deserved,” smilingly replied the
other. “ But tell us what we want to
know, is how you managed this thing so
nicely. We had no idea you wanted
such a thing or we would have backed
you teeth and toe nail.”
“ Well, I will tell you, gentlemen, in
all sincerity, and I trust you know me
too well to think it affectation, it was no
management of my own. I had, as you
thought no idea of such a thing, and did
not know anything about it until this
morning a delegation came to me and
told me what had been done, that dis
satisfied with the action of the officer’
caucus in sitting under closed doors and
without any regard to their wishes, to
say nothing of the interest of the pri
vates, and still more dissatisfied with the
nomination for colonel, they, the privates
of each company had held meetings last
night and each man had pledged him
self to vote for me for colonel and asked
me to run. I was as much astonished
at the communication as you yourselves
could have been to-day when the men
began to vote. It so surprised me that I
at first thought it a joke and was so treat
ing it, when I was told that they were in
earnest, and again asked to accept the
honor. I reflected a moment and then I
thought of all that had happened since
we left home, and I concluded I would
do it. I told them I would run but
should tell Captain Chatham. They said
they would perform that duty themselves
but they would do so in their own time,
and begged me not to interfere with their
programme, as the affair had to be man
aged very delicately, the officers were all
on the other side and they had all the
power in their own hands.”
"Good sense, too, Egad, they served
us right,” interrupted Holstin.
“Of course, under the circumstances
I could not do any thine,” continued
DeSaussure, “ but leave it in their hands,
and, especially, as they assured me that
to save further trouble, I should not be
expected to take any part whatever in
the matter. I suggested the demoraliz
ing effect of a scramble for the place,
but they answered there could be no
scramble, they knew their men and could
rely upon them, but even if there had to
be a scramble it was worth scrambling
for. The men had heard of Captain
Chatham’s conduct at Columbia, and
they would never serve under him if
elected. They even pointed at these
very breeches as an argument against
him, and I tell you what’s a fact, boys,
it is not a verv satisfying thought, but I
do owe this honor all to my grotesque
breeches. For I am certain that had it
not been for the hostility to Captain
Chatham they would have acquiesced in
the action of the caucus, unjust as it was
and made no other nomination. The
whole disgraceful scene at Columbia was
witnessed by Company A, and reported
withadozen extravagant embellishments.
Why, do you know that we are known
all over camp as the Mulligan Guards?
Even the negroes in the village cry out
as one of us passes: * Hi, Jake, yar goes
one o’ dem Mulligin fellers’!”
“Yes; I know that,” laughingly ac
quiesced Baukright.
“ But how about the others: Hudson
and Horton?” asked Holstin.
“Nothing was said against them
do not think that they have any objec
tion to it, in fact, they both got the en
tire vote of their companies, which
shows there could be no objection by
those who knew them best; but Captain
Norris is immensely popular with his
company and with our boys, and they
thought they would make a clean sweep
of it. I am glad of it, for while I do not
know Captain Horton, I do like Captain
Norris, and think that he will make a
capital officer. As for Lawson, I am
sure you will like him; his extreme
youth is all that one can object to. He
was a cadet at West Point and resigned
and came home and volunteered as a
private. This speaks well for him. He
is a gentleman beside.”
Lawson, Lawson,” reflectively mur-
mered Shirly, “I wonder if he belongs
to the Lawsons of Edgefield? ”
“ Of course, Company K is from Edge-
field,” replied DeSaussure.
Well, he is of good stock—game to
the backbone,” said Shirly. “ He will
do!”
“Yes; I think he will do,” smilingly
answered DeSaussure. “ In fact, gen
tlemen, with all due deference to the ex
cellent judgment of the officer’s caucus,
I think the privates have made a most
excellent selection all around.”
“ I think so too. Colonel included,”
replied Shirly, with another hearty
shake of DeSaussure’s hand. “ But
when will you take command, Frank? ”
“Oh, I do not know. I have just re
ceived official notice from Captain Norris
of my election, with the request that I
take command instanter. I should like
however, to wait a day or two. I have
to send for my horses and my sword ”
answered the other. ’
“And a uniform,” answered Bauk
right.
“ Oh, I don’t particularly care for that
I am inclined to think the boys would
like it all the better were I to stick to
the Mulligans,” he answered with a
smile. “ With a stripe down the legs, a
pair of boots to begin where the breech
es leave off, a little twist on the should
ers and the stars, I could make out de
cently enough. My sash can accommo
date the unfortunate difference between
my pants and my jacket. At any rate
until I can get a better uniform for the
boys, I shall wear the same.”
“Will you order new ones for the
company?” asked Holstin.*
“No; but I shall allow them to order
them for themselves,” he answered.
“ That is right. I can see the poor fel
lows are mortified with their present ap
pearance, lightly as they try to make of
it,” said Shirly.
“ I should like to see Capt. Chatham.
I wonder if he is in his quarters?” said
DeSaussure.
“ Not now, Frank, if I were you,’’ said
Shirly.
“ Why not? I wish to assure him of
my wish to be friendly. I have no ill
feeling in the world against him,” re
plied DeSaussure.
“ But he is in a bad humor this even
ing. Let it alone until he sleeps over
the matter. He would take it now as an
insult,” protested Shirly.
“Very well, perhaps you are right,
but in the meantime, I must beg you all
three to use your kind offices in reconcil
ing his good opinions. I do most earn
estly desire the friendly co-operation of
every man in the regiment, said the
young man.
“Yes; it is best, and we will do all
we can,” all then readily answered.
“Now, gentlemen, if you will excuse
me, I will go. I had started to see.Capt.
Norris,” said DeSaussure, bowing him
self out.
“ Captain Norris, I received your com
munication and have the honor to report
in obedience to your request,” he said,
saluting the Captain.
“Ah, Colonel DeSaussure, permit me
to compliment you,” said the other, ris
ing and extending his hand.
“ Thank you, and I have the pleasure
of congratulating you,” returned the
young officer accepting the friendly
hand.
“If it be a matter of congratulation,
certainly,” replied Norris.
'' I requested you to come that I might
turn over the command of the regiment
to you,” he continued.
'' I am hardly prepared for the assump
tion on so short a notice. Is it not pre
mature. I beg your pardon, but does
the order for the election contemplate
such a speedy installation of the officers
elected?” he asked.
“ Here is the order. I should have
had it read to the command publicly, but
we have much yet to learn, Colonel,”
said the Captain, handing DeSaussure
the order. It was dated:
Head Quarters Military Post,!
Columbia, S. C., June S, 1801. $
Special Order No. 120.]
In obedience to instructions from the Secre-
ta y of War it is hereby ordered:
1 That the ten companies of South Carolina
volunteers now in camp of instruction at Fort
Mill, to-wit: the commands of Captain W. B
Norris, Captain Oscar Chatham, Captain Henry
Jaekson, Captain Thos. 1*. Green, Cuptain Louis
Whittle, Captain Jacob Fulman, Captain Robert
Mitchell, Captain John Bates, Captain Reuben
Iiorton and Captain Edward Lee, be organized
into a regiment by the election of held otlicers,
to-wit: A Colonel, a Lieutenant Colonel and
Major.
2 The election shall be held in said camp of
instruction a poll therefor being opened in each
company above designated; the commissioned
olliccrs ol each company superintending and
managing the same. The vote shall be viva
voce. Each officer, non-commissioned officer
and private in said commands shall be entitled
to one vote and only one. The polls shall be
opened at 10 a. m., on Saturday the 10th Instant
and continue open until 2 pm, of the same
day. The votes of each company so cast shall
be counted, tabulated, sealed by the inspection
managers of each company and return thereof
be made to the senior cuptain commanding the
cump, and by him shall be opened at the hourof
3 p m , in the presence of one commissioned
officer from each company and by him counted,
tabulated and declared.
3. The officer receiving the highest number of
votes for Colonel shall be declared Colonel com
mandant of the regiment The officer receiving
the highest number of votes for Lieutenant Col.
shall be declared Lieutenant Colonel of the
regiment; and the officer receiving the highest
number of votes for Major shall be declared
Major of said regiment
4. The officer so declared elected Colonel of
the regiment shall be immediately theria.ter
d of ‘ ‘
notiliei
mundiug and shall, as soon as practical, report
to the Captain commanding and signifying his
acceptance of the command, at once assume
command of said regiment The officer so
declared elected Lieutenant Colonel shall in like
manner be notified of his election and upon his
acceptance of the same shall report at once_ f«>r
duty to the Colonel commanding The officer
so declared elected Major shall in like manner
also be notified of his election and upon his ac
ceptance of the same shall report at once for
duty to the Colonel commanding ,
5. The Colonel may appoint his regimental
staff, which shall consist of an Adjutant, with
rank of Lieutenant; one A. A. Quartermaster,
with rank of Lieutenant; one A. A. Commissary,
with rank of Lieutenant; one sergaut-major,
with rank of sergeant; one drum-major, with
rank of sergeant.
his election by the Captain com-
ractlcal, report