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THE Ks THAT NEVER HATCH.
Merchant Traveller. .
There is a young man oa the corner.
Filled with life and strength and hope,
l ooking far beyond the present,
With the whole world In his scope.
Ic is pracptng at to-morrow,
That phantom none can catch;
To-day is lost, He's waiting
Kor the eggs that nerer hatch.
There's an old man over yonder'
With a worn and weary face,
With searching anxious features,
And weak, uncertain pace.
He is living In the future,
With no desire to catch
Tbe polden Sow. He's waiting
For the eggs that never hatch.
There's a world of men and women,
With their life's work yet undone,
Who are sitting, standing, moving
Beneath the same great sun;
Ever eager for the future,
But not content to snatch
The Present. They are waiting
For the eggs that will never hatch.
VOL. II.
RALEIGH, N. C,, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1885.
NO. 93.
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T.
The
Private HUtory of Campaign
tbaf Failed.
Mark Twain in December Century.
You have heard from a great many peo
ple who dm someining in me war; is u
not fair and right that you listen a little
moment to one who started out to do some
thing in it, but didn't ! Thousands en
tered the war. got just a taste of it, and
then stepped out again, permanently.
These, by their very numbers, are respect
able and are therefore entitled to a sort of
voice not a loud one, but a modest one;
not a boastful one, but an apologetic one.
They ought not to be allowed much space
among better people people who did
jomething I grant that; but they ought
at least to be allowed to state why they
didn't do anything, and also to explain
the process by which they didn't do any
thing. Surely this kind of light must have
;i sort of value.
Out West there was a good deal of con- j
fusion in men's minds during the first
months of the great trouble a good deal
of unsettled ness, of leaning first this way,
then that, then the other way. It was
hard for us to get our bearings. I call to
mind an instance of this. I was piloting
on the Mississippi when the news came
that South Carolina had gone out of the
Union on the 20th of December, 1860. My
pilot mate was a New Yorker. He was
trong for the Union; so was I. But he
would not' listen to me with any patience;
,mv loyalty was smirched, to his eye, be
cause "my father had owned slaves. I said,
in palliation of this dark fact, that I had
heard ruy father say, some years before he
died, that slavery was a great wrong, and
that he would free the solitary negro he
then owned if he could think it right to
five away the property of the family when
he was so straitened in means. My mate
retorted that a mere impulse was nothing
anybody could pretend to a good im
pulse; and went on decrying my Unionism
and libeling mv ancestry. A month later
tbe secession atmosphere had considerably j
thickened on the Lower Mississippi, and I '
to fun. There was nothing serious in life
to him. Aa far as he was concerned, this
military expedition of ours was simply a
holiday. I should aay that about half f
us looked pon it in the same way; not
consciously, perhaps, but unconsciously.
We did not think ; we were not capable .
if. , As for myself I wa'a full of unreason
ing joy to fee done with turning out of bed
at midnight and four, in the morning, for a
while; grateful to have a change, new
scenes, new occupations, a new interest.
In ray thoughts that was as far as I went ;
I did not go into the details; as a rule, one
aoesn t at twenty-four.
Another sample was Smith, the black
smith's apprentice. This vast donkey had
some pluck, of a slow And sluggish nature,
but a soft heart; at one time be would
knock a horse down for some imDrourietv.
and at another he would get homesick and
cry. However, he had one ultimate credit
to his account which some of us hadn't:
he stuck to the .war, and was killed in bat
tle at last.
Jo Bowers, another sample, was a huge,
good-natured, flax-headed lubber; lazy,
sentimental, full of harmless brag, a grum
bler by nature; an experienced, industri
ous, ambitious, and often quite picturesque
liar, and yet not a successful one, for he
had had no intelligent training, but was
allowed to come up just any way. This
life was serious enough to him, and seldom
satisfactory. But he was a good fellow,
anyway, and the boys all liked him. He
was made orderly sergeant; Stevens was
made corporal.
These samples will answer and they are
quite fair ones. Well, this herd of cattle
started for the war. What could you ex
pect of them? They did as well as they
knew how, but really what was justly, to
be expected of them? Nothing, I should
say. That is what they did.
We waited for a dark night, for caution
and secrecy were necessary; then, toward
midnight, we stole in couples and from
various directions to the Griffith place, be
yond the town; from that point we set out
together on foot. Hannibal -lies at the ex
treme southeastern corner of Marion Coun
ty, on the Mississippi River; our objective
point was the hamlet of New London, ten
miles away, in Ralls County.
The first hour was all fun, all idle non
sense and laughter. Bat that could not
be kept up. The steady trudging came to
be like work ; the play hud somehow oozed
out of it; the stillness of the" woods and
tbe sombrcness of the night began to
throw a depressing influence over the
spirits of the boys, and presently the talk
ing died out and each person shut himself
up in his own thoughts. During the last
half of the second hour nobody said a
word.
Now we approached a log farm-house
where, according to report, there was a
guard of five Union soldiers. Lyman call
ing its jaw s till you could see dow n to its J keg of powdtir in his arms, whilst the com
works. It whs m disagreeable animal, in roand were all mixed together, arms and
every way. If I. took it by the bridle and legs, on the muddy slope; and soe fell,
ried to lead it off the grounds, it would ! of course; -with the keg, and this started
sit down and brage back, and no one could
budge it. Howeyer, I was not entirely
destitute of military resources, and I did
Eresently manage to spoil this game ; for I
ad seen many a steamboat aground in my
time, and knew a trick or two which even
a grounded mule! would be obliged to re
spect. There was a well by the corn-crib;
so I substituted thirty fathom of rope for
the bridle, and fetched him home with the
windlass. .
I will anticipate here sufficiently to say
that we did learn to ride, after some days'
practice, but never well. We could not
learn to like our animals; they were not
choice ones, and most of them had annoy
ing peculiarities of one kind or another.
Stevens's horse would carry him, when he
was not noticing, .under the huge excres
cences which form on the trunks of oak
trees, and wipe him out of tbe saddle; in
this way Stevens got several bad hurts.
Sergeant Bowera's horse was very large and
tall, with slim, lbng legs, and looked like
a railroad bridge. His size enabled him
to reach all about, and as far as he wanted
to, with his head; so he was always biting
Bowers's legs. On the march, in the snn,
Bowers slept a good deal ; and as soon as
the horse recognized that he was asleep he
would reach around and bite him on the
leg. His legs were black and blue with
bites. This was the only thing that could
ever make him swear, but this always did :
whenever the horse bit him he always
swore, and of course Stevens, who laugh
ed at everything, laughed at this, and
would even get into such convulsions over
it as to lose his balance and fall off his
horse; and them Bowers, already irritated
by tbe pain of the horse-bite, would resent
the laughter with hard language, and there
the whole detachment down the hill in a
body, and they landed in the brook at the
bottom in a pile, and each that was under
most pulling the hair and scratching and
biting those that were on top of him; and
those that were being scratched and bitten
scratching and biting the rest in their turn,
and all saying they would die before they
would ever go to war again if they ever trot
out of this brook this time, and the invader
might rot for all they cared, and the coun
try along with him and all such talk as
that, which was dismal to hear and take
part in, in such smothered, low voices,
and such a grisly, dark place, and so wet,
and the enemy may be coming any mo
ment. The keg of powder was lost, and the
guns too; so the growling and complaining
continued straight along whilst the brig
ade pawed around the pasty hillside and
slopped around in the brook hunting for
these things; consequently we lost consid
erable time at this ; and then we heard a
sound, and held our breath and listened,
and it seemed to be the enemy coming,
though it could have been a cow, for it
had a cough like a cow ; but we did not
wait, but left a couple of guns behind and
struck out for Mason's again as briskly as
we conld scramble along in the dark. But
we got lost presently among the rugged
little ravines, and wasted a deal of time
finding the way again, so it was after nine
whon w rMphixi Miunn'i ntiln at last: and
then before we could open our mouths to
give the countersign, several dogs came
bounding over the fence, with great riot
and noise, and each of them took a soldier
by the slack of his trousers and began to
f back away with him. We could not shoot
the dogs without endangering the persons
would be a quarrel; so that horse made no j they were attached to; so we had to look
end of trouble and bad blood in the com
mand.
However, I will get back to where I was
our first afternoon in the sugar-camp.
The sugar-troughs came very handy as
horse-troughs, and wc had plenty of corn
to fill them with. I ordered Sergeant
Bowers to feed my mule; but he said that
if I reckoned bje went to war to be dry
nurse to a mulei it wouldn't take me very
longto find out my mistake. I believed
that this was insubordination, but I was
full of uncertainties about everything mil
itary, and so I let the thing pass, and went
and ordered Smith, the blacksmith's ap
prentice, to feed the mule; but he merely
gave me a large cold, sarcastic grin, such
as an ostensibly scven-yeur-old horse gives
you when you lift his lip and find he is
fourteen, and turned his back upon me. I
then went to the Captain, and asked if it
was not right4 and proper and military
for me to have an orderlv. He said it was,
on, helpless, at what was pernaps tne most
mortifying spectacle of the civil war.
There was light enough, and to spare, for
the- Masons had now run out on the porch
with candles in their hands. The old man
and his son came and undid the dogs with
out difficulty, all but Bowers's; but they
couldn't undo his dog; they didn't know
his combination ; he was of the bull kind,
and seemed to be set with a Tale time-
lock : but they got him loose at last with f
some scalding water, of which Bowers got
his share and returned thanks. Peterson
Dunlap afterwards made up a fine name for
this engagement, and also for the night
march which preceded it, but both have
long ago faded out of my memory.
Wc now went into the house, and they
began to ask us a world of questions,
whereby it presently came out that we did
not know anything concerning who or
what wc were running from; so the old
gentlemau made himself very frank, and
day, the women were busy and out of our
sight; there was no sound but the plaint
ive wailing of a spinning-wheel, forever
moaning out from some distant room,
the most lonesome sound in nature.a sound
steeped and sodden with homesickess and
the emptiness of life. The family went to
bed about dark every night, and as we
were not invited to intrude any new cus
toms, we naturally followed theirs. Those
nights wcie a. hundred years long to
youths accustomed to being up till twelve.
Wc lay awake and miserable , till that
hour every time, and grew old and de
crepit waiting through the still eternities
for the clock-strikes. This is no place for
town boys. So at last it was with some
thing very like joy that we received the
news that the enemy were on our track
again. With a new birth of the old war
rior spirit, we sprang to our places in line
of battle and fell back on Camp Ralls.
Captain Lyman had. taken a hint from
Mason's talk, and he now gave orders that
our camp should be guarded against sur
prises by the posting of pickets. I was
ordered to place a picket at the forks of
the road in Hyde's prairie. Night shut
down black and threatening. I told Ser
geant Bowers to go out to that place and
stay till midnight; ana, just as l was ex
pecting.he said he wouldn't do it. I tried
to get others to go, but allVcf used. Some
excused themselves on account of the
weather; but the rest were frank enough
to say that they would not go in any kind
of weather. This kind of thing sounds
odd now, and impossible, but there was
no surprise in it at the time. On tbe con
trary, it seemed a perfectly natural thing to
do. There were scores of little camps
scattered over Missouri where the same
thing was happening. These camps were
composed of young men who had been
born and reared to a sturdy independence,
and who did not know what it meant to
be ordered around by Tom, Dick and
Harry, whom they had known familiarly
all their lives, in the village or on the farm.
It is quite within the probabilities that
this same thing was happening all over the
South. James Red path recognized the jus
tice of this assumption, and furnished tbe
following instance in support of it. Dur
ing a short stay in East Tennessee be was
in a citizen colonel's tent one day, talking,
when a big private appeared ut the door,
and without salute or other circumlocu
tion said to the colonel :
" Say, Jim, I'm a-goin' home for a few
days." .
What for?"
ed a halt; and there, in the deep gloom of ! but as there was only one orderly in the said we were a curious breed of soldiers,
corps, it was but rigut mat nc
should have Bowers on his staff.
himself
Bowers
the overhanging branches, hu began to
liicnnr a lilon nf aA1l)t linOll that llOUSe.
which made the gloom more depressing said he would not serve on anybody's staff; j eminent coi
eforc. It was a crucial mo- and U anybody thought he coma mase j saoe-ieamer
and guessed we could be depended on to
end up the war in time, Igeeajise, no gov-
could stand tbe expeuse of tbe
than it was before.
ment; wo realized, with a cold suddenness,
that here was no jest wo were standiog
face to face with actual war. We were
equal to the occasion. In our respouse
there was no hesitation, no indecision:
wb said that if Lyman wanted to meddle
with those soldiers, he could go ahead and
do it; but if he waited for us to follow
we should cost it trying to
became a rebel ; so did he. Wc were to- j him, he would wait a long time.
setter in New Orleans, the 26th of Janu
ary, when Louisiana went out of the Union, j
He did his full share of the rebel shouting, j
but was bitterly opposed to letting me do
mine. He said that I came of bad stock j
of a father who had been willing to set j
slaves free. In the following summer he j
was piloting a Federal gun-boat and shout- j getting
mrr for the l.mon aoain. ana I wasia
Confederate army. I held his note for some
borrowed money. He was one of the most
upright men I ever knew; but be repudi
ated that note without hesitation, because
I was a rebel, and the son of a man who
owned slaves.
In that summerof 1841 the first wash
of the wave of war broke upon the shores
of Missouri. Our State was invaded by the
Union forces. They took possession of St.
Louis, Jefferson Barracks, and some other
points. The Governor, Claib Jackson,
issued his proclamation calling out fifty
thousand militia to repel the invader.
I was visiting in the small town where
mv boyhood had been spent Hannibal,
Marion county. SeTeral of us got together
in a secret place by night and formed our
selves into a military company. One Tom
Lyman, a young fellow of a good deal of
spirit, but of no military experience, was
made caotain: 1 was made second lieuten
ant. We had no first lieutenant; I do
uot know whv: it was long ago. There
were fifteen of us. By the advice of
;m innocent connected with the organi
zation, wc called ourselves the Marion
Rangers. I do not remember that any one
found fault with the name. I did not; I
t bought i t sounded quite well. The young
fellow who proposed this title was perhaps
a fair sample of the kind of stuff we were
made of. He was young, ignorant, good
natured, well-meaning, trivial, full of ro
mance, and given to reading chivalric
novels and singing forlorn love ditties. He
had some pathetic little nickel-plated aris
tocratic instincts, and detested nis name,
which was Dunlap; detested it, partly be
cause it was nearly as common in that re
gion as Smith, but mainly because it had a
plebeian sound to his ear. So he tried to
ennoble it bv writing it in this way:
.7 Unlajj. That contented his eye, but left
his ear unsatisfied, for people gave the new
name the same old pronunciation empha
sis on the front end of it. He then did the
bravest thing that can be imagined a
thing to make one shiver when one remem
bers how tbe world is given to resenting
liams and affectations; he began to write
f Un Lav. And he waited
patiently through the long storm of mud
that was flung at this work of art, and he
'had his reward at last; for he lived to sec
that name accepted, and the emphasis put
uere he wanted it, by people who had
known him all his life, and to whom the
tribe of Dunlaps had been as familiar as the
uiu and the sunshine for forty years. 8a
Mire of victory at last is the courage thSt
cau wait. He said he had found, by con
Milting some Ancient French chronicles,
i lit t the Bara4 wuh rightly and originally
vrittcn d'Un-Lap; and said that if it were
Manslated into English it would mean Pe
terson : Imp. Latin or Greek, he said, for
stone or rock, same as the French-pierre,
that is t say, Peter; ?, of or from; un, a
or one; hence, dUn Lap, of'orfrom a stone
r-r a Peter; that is to say, one who is the
-on of a stone, the son of a Feter Peter
sun. Our militia company was not learned,
and the explanation confused them ; so they
called him Peterson Dunlap. He proved
uselul to ms in his way; he named our
camps for us, and he generally struck a
name that; was "no slouch,'! as the boys
-aid. '
That, is one sample of us. Another was
Ed Stevens, son of the town jeweler trim
built, handsome, graceful, , neat as a cat;
bright, educated, but given overentirely
Lyman urged, pleaded, tried to shame
us, but it had no effect. Our course was
plain, our minds were made up: we would
flank tbe farm-house go out around. And
that is what we did.
We struck into the woods and entered
upon a rough time, stumbling over roots,
i- . -. . . ,
tangled in vines, ana torn ny
At last we reached an open place
in a safe region, and sat down, blown and
hot, to cool off and nurse our swatches
and bruises. Lyman was annoyed, but
the rest of us were cheerful; we had flank
ed the farm-house, we had made our first
military movement, and it was a success;
we had nothing to fret about, we were
feeling just the other way. Horse-play
and laughing began again; the expedition
was become a holiday frolic once more.
Then we had two more hours of dull
trudging and ultimate silence and depres
sion ; then, about dawn, we straggled into
New London, soiled, heel-blistered, fagged
with our little march, and all of us except
Stevens in a sour and raspy humor and
nrivatelv down on the war. We stacked
our shabby old shot-guns in Colonel Ralls's
barn, and then went in a body and break
fasted with .that veteran of the Mexican
war. Afterwards he took us to a distant
meadow, and there in the shade of a tree
we listened to an old-fashioned speech
from him, full of gunpowder and glory.full
of that adjective-piling, mixed metaphor,
and windy declamation which was regard
ed as eloquence in that ancient time and
that remote region ; ana tnen ne swore us
on the Bible to be faithful to the State of
Missouri and drive all invaders from her
soil, no matter whence they might come, or
under what flag they might march. This
mixed us considerably, and we could
not make out iust what service -we were
embarked in : but Cononel Ralls, tbe prac
ticed politician and phrase-juggler, was
not similarly in doubt; he knew quite
clearly that he had invested us in the cause
of the" Southern Confederacy. He closed
the solemnities by belting around me the
sword which his neighbor, Colonel Brown,
had worn at Buena Vista and Molino del
Rey; and he accompanied this act with
another impressive blast.
Then we formed in line of battle and
marched four miles to a shady and pleas
ant piece of woods on the border of the
far reaching expanses of a flowery prairie.
It was an enchanting region for war our
kind of war.
We pierced the forest about half a mile,
and took up a strong position, with some
low, rocky, and wooded hills behind us,
and a purling, limpid creek in front.
Straiirhtwav half the command were in
swimming, and the other half fishing. The
ass with the French name gave this posi
tion a romantic title, but it was too long,
so the boys shortened and simplified it to
Camp Ralls.
We occupied an old maple-sugar camp,
whose half-rotted troughs were still prop
ped against the trees. A long corn-crib
served for sleeping quarters forthe bat
talion. On our left, half a mile away, was
Mason's farm and house; and he was a
friend to the cause. Shortly after noon
the farmers began to arrive from several
directions, with mules and horses for our
use, and these they lent us for as long as
the war might last, which they judged
would be about three months. The ani
mals were of all sizes, all colors, and all
breeds. They were mainly young and
frisky, and nobody in the command could
stay on them long at a time; for we were
town boys, and ignorant of horsemanship.
The creature that fell to my share was a
very small mule, and yet so quick and.
active that it could throw me without dif
ficulty; and it did this, whenever I got pa
it. Then it would bray stretching .its
nbck out, laying its ears back, and spread-
him.let him try it. So, of course.the thing j follow us around. "Marion liangert! good
had to be dmped; there was no other : name, b'gosh!" said he. And wanted to
way. , know why we hadn't had a picket guard
Next, nobody would cook: it was con- j at the place where the road entered the
sidered a degradation; so we bad no ; prairie, and why we hadn't sent out a
dinner. We lazied the rest of the pleasant i scouting party to spy out the enemy and
afternoon awav, some dozing under the ( bring us an account of his strength, ana
trees, some smoking cob-pipes and talking j
sweethearts amd war, and some playing
games. By late supper time all hands were j
famished: and to meet the difficulty all ,
hands turned o, on an equal footing, and ,
gathered wood, built fires, and cooked the ,
meal. Afterwards everything was smooth
for a while; the trouble broke out between
the corporal and the sergeant, each claim
ing to rank' the other. Nobody knew
which was the higher office; so Lyman had
to settle the matter by making the rank
of both officers equal. The commander of
an ignorant ceew like that has many troubles
and vexatiomiwhich probably do not occur
in the regular army at alL' However,
with the song-singing and yarn-spinning
around the camp-fire, everything presently
became serene again; and by and by we
raked the corn down level in one end of
the crib, and went to bed .on it, tying a
horse to the door, so that he would neigh
if any one tried to get in.
We Lad some horsemanship drill every
forenoon; then, afternoons, we rode off
here and there in squads a few miles, and
visited the farmers' girls, and had a youth
ful good time, and got an honest good
dinner or supper, and then home again to
camp, happy and content.
For a time; life was idly delicious, it
was perfect;' there was nothing to mar it.
Then came some farmers with an alarm one
day. They said it was rumored that the
enemy were advancing in our direction,
from over Hyde's prairie. The result was
a sharp stir among us. and general con
sternation. It was a rude awakening from
our pleasant trance. The rumor was but
a rumor nothing definite about it; so in
the confusion, we did not know which
way to retreat. Lyman was for not retreat
ing at all, in these uncertain circumstances ;
but he found that if he tried to maintain
that attitude he would fare badly, for the
command were in no humor to put up with
insubordination. So he , yielded the
point and called a council of war- to con
sist of himself and the three other officers;
but the privates made such a fuss about
being left out, that we had to allow them
to be present. I mean we had to allow
them to remain, for they were already
present, and doing most of the talking too.
The question was, which way. to retreat;
but all were so flurried that nobody seem
ed to have even a guess to offer. Except
Lyman. He explained in a few calm
words, that inasmuch as the enemy were
approaching from over Hyde's prairie, our
course was simple : all we had to do was
not to retreat toward him ; any other direc
tion would answer our needs perfectly.
Everybody saw in k monent how true this
was, and how wise; so Lyman got a great
many compliments. It was now decided
that w&should fall back on Mason's farm.
It was after dark by this time, and as we
could not know how soon the enemy might
arrive, it did not seem best to try to take
the horses and things with us; 60 we only
took the guns and ammunition, and started
at once. The route was Very rough and
hilly and rocky, and presently the night
grew very black and rain began to fall ; so
we had a troublesome time of it, strug
gling and stumbling along in the dark;
and soon some person slipped and fell, and
then ttc next person behind stumbled over
him and fell, and so did the rest, one after
the other; and then Bowers came with the
When the movement was completed, each
man knew that he was not the only person
who had crept to the front wall and had
his eye at a crack between the logs. No,
we were all there; all there with our
hearts in our throats, and staring out to
ward the sugar-troughs where the forest
foot-path came through. It was late, and
there was a deep woodsy stillness every
where. There was a veiled moonlight,
which was only just strong enough to enable
us to mark the general shape of objects.
Presently muffled sound caught our ears,
and we recognized it as the hoof-beats of
a horse or horses. And right away a fig
ure appeared in the forest path; it could
have been made, out of smoke, its mass
had so little sharpness of outline. It was
a man on horseback ; and it seemed to me
that there were others behind him. I got
hold of a gun in the dark, and pushed it
through a crack between the logs, hardly
knowing what I was doing, I was so daz
ed with fright. Somebody said "Fire!''
I pulled the trigger. 1 seemed to see a
hund red flashes and hear a hundred reports,
then I saw the man fall down out of the
saddle. My first feeling was of surprised
gratification ; my first impulse was an ap-Drentice-sportsman's
impulse to run and
pick up his game. Somebody said hard
ly audibly, "Good we've got him.! wait
for the rest.'' But the rest did not come.
We waited- listened still no more came.
There was not a found, not a whisper of a
leaf; just perfect stillness; an uncanny
kind of stillness, which was all the more
uncanny on account of the damp, earthy,
late-night smells now rising and pervading
it. Then, wondering, we crept stealthily
out, and approached the man. When we
got to him the moon revealed him dis
tinctly. He was lying on his back,
with his arms abroad ; his mouth was open
and his chest heaviug with long gasps,and
his white shirt front was all splashed with
blood. The thought shot through me
that I was a murderer; that I had killed a
man a man who had never done me any
harm. That was the coldest sensation
that ever went through my marrow. I
was down by him in a moment, helplessly
stroking his forehead; and I would have
given anything then my own life
freely to make him again what he had
been five minutes before. All the boys
seemed to be feeling in the same way;
they hung over him, full of pitying inter
est, and tried all they could to help him,
and said all sorts of regretful things. They
had forgotten all about the enemy; they
thought only of this one forlorn unit of
" Well, I hain't b'en there for a right i the foe. Once my imagination persuaded
smart while, and I'd like to see how things i me that the dying man gave me a reproach
iscomin'ou." j ful look oul of his shadowy eyes, and it
" How long are you going to be gone?" j seemed to mc that I could rather he bad
"'Bout two weeks.'" i stabbed n. e than done that. He muttered
including myself, mounted and left on the
instant ; the others yielded to persuasion
and staid staid through the war.
An hour later wc met General Harris on
the road, with two or three people in his
company his staff, probably, but we
could not tell; none of them were in uni
form ; uniforms had not come into vogue
among us yet. Harris ordered us back;
but we told him there was a Union colonel
coming with a whole regiment in his wake,
and it looked as if there was going to be a
disturbance; so we had concluded to go
home. He raged a little, bu( it was of no
use; our minds were made up. We had
dme our share; had killed one man, exter
minated one army, such as it was; let him
go and kill the rest, and that would end
the war. I did not see that brisk young
general again until last year; then he was
wearing white hair and whiskers.
In time I came to know that Union col
onel whose coming frightened me out of
the war and crippled the Southern cause
to that extent General Grant. I came
within a few hours of seeing him when he
was as unknown as I was myself ; at a time
when anybody could have said, "Grant?
Ulysses S. Grant ? I do not remember
hearing the name before." It seems diffi
cult to realize that there was once a time
when such a remark could be rationally
made; but there uas. and I was within a
few miles of the place and the occasion
too, though proceeding in the other direction.
The thoughtful will not throw this war
paper of mine lightly aside as being value
less. It has this value: it is a not unfair
picture of what went on in many and many
a militia camp in the first months of the
rebellion, when the green recruits were
without discipline, without the steadying
and heartening influence of trained leaders;
when all their circumstances were new and
strange, and charged with exaggerated
terrors, and before the invaluable experi
ence of actual collision in the field had
turned them from rabbits into soldiers. If
this side of the picture of that early day
has not before been put into history, then
history has been to that degree incomplete,
for it had and has its rightful place there.
There was more Bull Run . material scat
tered through the early camps of this coun
try than exhibited itself at Bull Run. And
yet it learned its trade presently, and helped
to fight the great battles later. I could
have become a soldier myself, if I had
waited. I had got part of it learned ; I
knew more about retreating than the man
that invented retreating.
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"Well, don't be gone longer than that; and mumbled like a dreamer in his sleep, BALKIGH district N. H. D. wrxsos, p. e.
It was always my impression that that was
what the horse was there for, and I know that
tt was also tbe Impression of at least one other
of tbe command, for we talked about it at tbe
time, and admired the military Ingenuity of the
device; but when I was out West three years
ago I was told by Mr. A. G. Fuqna, a member
of bur company, that the horse was his, that
leaving bim tied at the door was a matter of
mere forgetf ulness, and that to attribute it to
intelligent invention was to give him quite too
much credit. . In support of his position, he
called my attention to the suggestive fact that
the artifice was not employed again. I bad not
thought of that before!
i V . .
so on. bctore jumping op anu siampe-nng
out of a strong position upon a mere vague
rumor and so on and so forth, till he made
us feel shabbier than the dogs had done,
not half so enthusiastically welcome. So
we went to bed shamed and low-spirited;
except Stevens. Soon Stevens began to
devise a garment for Bowers which, could
be made to automatically display his battle-scars
to the grateful, or conceal them
from tbe envious, according to his occa
sions; but Bowers was in no humor for this,
so there was a fight, and when it was over
Stevens bad some battle-scars of his own
to think aboB(.
Then wc got a little sleep. But after all
we had gone through, our activities were
not over for the night; for about two
o'clock in the morning we heard a shout
of warning from down the lane, accompa
nied by a chorus from all the dogs, and in
a moment everybody was up and flying
around to find out what the alarm was
about. The alarmist was a horseman who
gave notice that a detachment of Union
soldiers was on its way from Hannibal
with orders to capture and hang any bands
like ours which it could find, and said we
had no time to lose. Farmer Mason was
in a flurrv this time, himself. He hurried
us out of the house with all haste, and sent
one of his negroes with us to show us
where to hide ourselves and our tell-tale
guns among the ravines half a mile away
It was raining heavily.
We struck down the lane, then across
some rocky pasture-land which afforded
good advantages for stumbling; conse
quently wc were down in the mud most
of the time, and every time a man went
down ho blackguarded the war, and the
people that started it, and everybody con
nected with it, and gave himself the mas
ter dose of all 'for being so foolish as to go
into it. At last we reached the wooded
mouth of a ravine, and there we huddled
beneath the streaming trees, and sent the
negro back home. It was a dismal and
heart-breaking time. We were like to be
drowned with the rain, deafened with the
howling wind and the booming thunder,
and blinded by the lightning. It was in
deed a wild night. The drenching we
were getting was misery enough, but a
deeper misery still was the reflection
that the halter might end us before we
were a day older. A death of this shame
ful sort bad not occurred to us as being
among the possibilities of war. It took
the romance all out of the campaign, and
turned our dreams of glory into a repul
sive nightmare. As for doubting that so
barbarous an order had been given, not
one of us did that.
The long night wore itself out at last,
and then the negro came to us with the
news that tbe alarm had manifestly been a
false one, and that breakfast Would soon be
ready. Straightway we were light-hearted
again, and the world bright, and life
as full of hope and promise as ever for
we were young then. How long ago that
was! Twenty-four years.
The mongrel child of philology named
the night's refuge Camp Devastation,
and no soul objected. The Masons gave
us a Missouri country breakfast, in Mis-
sourian abundance, and we needed it: hot
biscuits: hot "wheat bread" prettily criss
crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot
com none: fried chicken; bacon, coilce,
pctfra milk, buttermilk, etc. ; and the
world mav bo confidently challenged to
furnish the equal to such ft breakfast as it
is cooked in the South., ,i
We staid several days at .Mason's; and
after all these, years the memory. of the
dullness, the stillness and Jifelessness of
that slumberous farm house still oppresses
my spirit as with a sense , of the presence
of death and mourning. sTbere was tooth
ing to do, nothing to thinte-'bout;: there
was no interest in iife.U! The male part of
tho household were away in the fields all
and get back sooner if you can.
That was all, and the citizen officer re
sumed his conversation where the private
had broken it off . This was in the first
months of the war.of course. The camps
in our part of Missouri were under Brigadier-General
Thomas II. Harris. He was
a townsman of ours, a first rate fellow, and
well liked; but wc had all familiarly
known bim as the sole and modest-salaried
operator in our telegraph office, where
he had to send about one dispatch a week
in ordinary times, and two when there
was a rush of business; consequently,
when he appeared in our midstonc day, on
the wing.and delivered a military command
of some sort, in a large military fashion,
nobody was surprised at the response
which he got from the assembled sol
diery: " Oh, now. what'il you take to don't.
Tom Harris! "
It was quite the natural thing. One
might justly imagine that we wcie hope
less material lor war. And so we seemed,
in our ignorant state ; but there were those
among us who afterward learned the grim
trade; learned to obey like machines; be
came valuable soldiers; fought all through
the war, and came out at the end with ex
cellent records. One of the very boys that
refused to go out on picket duty that night,
and called me an ass for thinking he would
expose himself to danger in such a fool
hardy way, had become distinguished for
intrepidity before he was a year older.
1 did secure my picket that night not
by authority, but by diplomacy. I got
Bowers to go, by agreeing to exchange
ranks with him for the time being, and go
along and stand the watch with him as
his subordinate. We staid out there a
couple of dreary hours in the pitchy dark
ness and the rain, with nothing to modify
the dreariness but Bowers's monotonous
growling at the war and the weather ; then
we began to nod, and presently found it
next to impossible to stay in the saddle;
so we gave up the tedious job. and went
back to the camp without waiting for the
relief guard. We rode into camp with
out interruption or objection from any
body, and the enemy could have done the
same, for there were no sentries. Every
body was asleep ; at midnight there was
nobody to send out another picket, so
none was sent. We never tried to estab
lish a watch at night again, as far as I re
member, but we generally kept a picket
out in the day time.
In that camp the whole command slept
on the corn in the big corn-crib; and there
was usually a general row before morning,
for the place was full of rats, and they
would scramble over the boys' bodies and
faces, annoying and irritating everybody ;
and now and then they would bite some
one's toe, and the person who owned the
toe would start up and magnify his Eng
lish and begin to throw corn in the dark
The ears were half as heavy as bricks, and
when thev struck they hurt. The persons
struck would respond, and inside of five
minutes everv man would be locked in a
death grip with his neighbor. There was
a grievous deal of blood shed in the corn
crib, but this was all that was spilt while
I was in the wnr. No, that is not quite
true. But for one circumstance it would
have been all. I will come to that now.
Our scares were frequent. Every few
days rumors would come that the enemy
were approaching. In these cases we al
ways fell back on some other camp of ours ;
we never staid where we were. But the
rumors always turned out to be false; so
at last even we began to grow indifferent
to them. One night a negro was sent to
our corn-crib with the same old warning:
the enemy was hovering in our neighbor
hood. We all said let him hover. We
resolved to stay still and be comfortable.
It was a fine warlike resolution, and uo
doubt we all felt the stir of it in our veins
for a moment. We had been having a
v
and
down now, and presently the fast-waning
fire of forced jokes and forced laughs
died out altogether, and the company be
came silent. Silent and nervous. And
soon uneasy worried apprehensive. We
had said we would stay, and we
were committed. We could have been
persuaded to go, but there was nobody
brave enough to sXiggest it. An almost
.noiseless movement presently began in the
dark, by a general but unvoiced impulse.
about his wife and his child ; and I thought
with a new despair, " This thing that I
have done does not end with him; it falls
upon them too, and they never did me any
harm, any more than he."
In a little while the man was dead. He
was killed in war; killed in fair and legit
imate war; killed in battle, as you may
say; and yet he was as sincerely mourned
by the opposing force as if he had been
their brother. The boys stood there a half
hour sorrowing over him, and recalling the
details of the tragedy, and wondering who
he might be, and if he were a spy, and
saying that if it were to do over again they
would not hurt him unless he attacked
them first. It soou came out that mine
was not the only shot fired ; there were five
others a division of the guilt which was
a grateful relief to me, since it in some de
gree lightened and diminished the burden
I was carrying. There were six shots fired
at once; but 1 was not in my right mind
at the time, and ray heated imagination
had magnified my one shot into a volley.
Tbe man was not in uniform, and was
not armed. He was a stranger in the
country ; that was all we ever found out
about him. The thought of him got to
preying upon me every night; I could not
get rid of it. I could not drive it away,
the taking of that unoffending life seemed
such a wanton thing. And it seemed an
epitome of war; that all war must be just
that the killing of strangers against whom
you feel no personal animosity; strangers
whom, in other circumstances, you would
help if you found them in trouble, and
who would help you if you needed it. My
campaign was spoiled. It seemed to me
that I was not rightly equipped for this
awful business; that war was intended for
men, and I for a child's nurse. I resolved
to retire from this avocation of sham sol
diership while I could save some remnant
of my self-respect. These morbid thoughts
clung to me against reason; for at bottom
I did not believe I had touched that man.
The law of probabilities decreed me guilt
less of his blood ; for in all my small expe
rience with guns I had never bit anything
I had tried to hit, and I knew I had done
my best to hit him. Yet there was no
solace in the thought. Against a diseased
imagination, demonstration goes for nothing.
The rest ol my war experience was oi a
piece with what I have already told of it.
We kept monotonously falling back upon
one camp or another, and eating up the
country. I marvel now at the patience of
the farmers and their families. They ought
to have shot us; on the contrary, they were
as hospitably kind and courteous to us as
if we had deserved it. In one of these
camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper
Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became
famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose
career bristled with desperate adventures.
The look and style of his comrades sug
gested that they had not come into the war
to play, and their deeds made good the
conjecture later. They were fine horsemen
and good revolver-shots ; but their favorite
arm was the lasso. Each had one at his
nommel. and could snatch a man out of
the saddle with it every time, on a full gal
loo. at any reasonable distance.
T . f
In another camp tne cniei was a nere
and nrofane old blacksmith of sixty, and
he had furnished his twenty recruits with
gigantic home-made bowie-knives, to be
swung with the two hands, like the
machetes of the Isthmus. It was a grisly
spectacle to see that earnest band practic
ing their murderous cuts and slashes under
the eve of that remorseless old ianatic.
The last camp which we fell back upon
was in a hollow near the village of Florida,
where I was born in Monroe county.
Here wo were warned, one day, that a
Union colonel was sweeping down on us
with a whole regiment at his heels. This
looked decidedly serious. Our boys went
apart and consulted ; then we went back
ery jolly time, that was full of horse-play and told the other companies present that
nd school-boy hilarity ; but that cooled the war was a disappointment to us and
we were going to disband, iney were
getting ready, themselves, to fall back on
some place or other, and were only wait
ing fr General Tom Harris, who was ex
pected to arrive at any moment; so iney
tried to persuade us to wait a little while,
but the majority of us said no, we were
accustomed to falling back, and didn't
need any of Tom Harris's help; we could
get along perfectly well without him and
save time too. So about half of our fifteen,
Raleigh, Edenton Street, W. C. Norman ;
Person Street, W. L. Cunninggim; Brook
lyn and Macedonia mission to be supplied
by J. F. Butt. . Cary, J. B. Martin; Rolcs
ville, Philip Greening ;Smithfield, Solomon
Pool; Clayton, A. IS. Wiley; lar ttivcr,
J. J. Ren'n; Youngsville, B. C. Allred;
Louisburg, Alpbeus"McCullen ; Oxford sta
tion, T. A. Boone; Oxford circuit, N. E.
Coltrane ; Henderson, J. D. Arnold ; Buck
horn, J. E. Thompson and I. W. Avent;
Earpsboro mission, D. A. Watkins; New
ton Grove mission, E. Pope and one to be
supplied; Raleigh Christian Adcoeate, F.
L. Reid.
CHABLOTTE DISTRICT T. W. GUTHRIE, P. E.
Charlotte, Tryon Street, W. M. Robey;
Charlotte, Church Street, J. B. Hurley;
Charlotte circuit. W. F. Coffin; Matthew's,
M. H. Hoyle, S. M. Davis, Sup.; Clear
Creek, F. B. McCall; Pineville, J. Ed
Thompson ; Pleasant Grove, Oliver Ryder ;
Monroe station, F. D. Swindell ; Monroe
circuit, T. S. Ellington; Wadesboro sta
tion, W. C. Gannon ; Wadesboro circuit,
R. S. Webb; Anson ville. M. H. Moore;
Lilesville, G. W. Hardison.
WILMINGTON DI8T. P. J. CAERAWAY, P. E.
Wilmington, Front Street, E. A. Yates;
Fifth Street, D. II. Tuttle. Topsail, Isaac
A. White; Duplin, A. G. Gantt; Magnolia,
W. A. Forbes; Clinton. J. T. Kendall and
R. L. Warlick; Cokesbury, J. L. Keen;
Bladen, C. P. Jerome; Elizabeth, Daniel
May ; Whiteville, J. M. Downum ; Carver's
Creek, S. R. Belk; Waccamaw, C. W.
Godwin; Smithfield, M. M. McFarland;
Brunswick, Thomas C. Lovin ; Onslow, to
be supplied by Z. Paris; Rocky Point High
School, J. C. Crisp.
FAYETTKVILLE DIST. 8. D. ADAJIS, P. E.
Fayetteville, J. T. Gibbe; Campbellton
mission, J. J. Grigg; Cumberland, W. 8.
Hales: Lumfcerton, J. T. Finlayson; Rob
eson, Jonathan Sandford ; Ashpole mission,
John A. Hornaday; Laurinburg, J. T.
Lyon; St. John's, L. E. Stacy ; Rocking
ham station.'J. H. Page; Rockingham cir
cuit. F. L. Townsend ; Manly mission, M.
A. Smith; Carthage, W. B. Doub; Jones
boro, W. Oscar Hightower; Cape Fear, W.
S. Chaflin; Lillington, .1. H. Hall.
STATE8VIM.E DISTRICT R. A. WILLIS, P. E. j
Statesville station, James II. Cordon, j
and James Wilson, Sup. ; Statesville cir
cuit, W. M. Bagby; Moorcsville, A. P.
Tyer; Iredell, George W. lvey; Kock
Spring, M. V. Bherrui; newton, v. m.
Gentry; Catawba, A. M. Lowe ; Alexander,
J. T. Abernethy ; Caldwell, Robert M. Tay
lor; Lenoir, J. C. Rowe; Wilkes, G. W.
Fisher, and E. J. Eudaily, up. ; uoanng
River mission, J. D . Uraven; iLiKin ana
Jonesville, J. M. Ashby ; Mt. Airy station,
W. H. Townsend ; Mt. Airy circuit, j. r.
Snow; Dobson, B. A. York; Yadkinville,
J. W. Puett; Oak Institute, J. U Tnplett,
principal.
NEWBERN DISTRICT J. T. HARRIS, P. E.
Ncwbern, L. W. Crawford; Goldsboro
station, L. S. Burkhead ; Goldsboro circuit,
J. F. Washburn; Wayne,,R. C. Beaman;
Mt. Olive, P. L. Groome; Kinston, N. M.
Jurney ; Snow Hill, P. L, Herman ; La
Grange, W. W. Rose; Lenoir mission, N.
A. Hooker ; Craven, W. J. Crowson ; Jones,
A TV Betts-. Morehead. C. W. Bvrd; Beau
fort. J. W. Jones: Carteret, to be supplied
bv W. H. Puckett; Neuse mission, to be
supplied by 8. F. Becton ; Pamlico, James
Mahonev: Straits mission, to be supplied
by E. D. Hoover ; Cove Sound mission, T.
J. Browning.
WARRENTON DISTRICT J. S. NELSON, P. E.
Warrenton, R. O. Burton; Warren, L.
J. Holden; Ridgeway, Jno. . Uole; Koa
noke, T. P. Bonner; Weldon and Halifax
station, W. B. North; Halifax circuit, T.
B. Reeks; Scotland Neck mission, J. G.
Nelson; Wilson station, J. R. Brooks; Wil
son mission, B. B. Holder; Nashville, Z.
T. Harrison; Edgecombe, A. R. Raven;
Central Institute for Young Ladies, J. M.
Rhodes, Principal.
WASHINGTON DIST. W. H. MOORE, P. E.
Washington, T. P. Ricaud, W. H. Call,
Sup. ; South Edgecombe, B. B. Culbreth;
Tarboro and Bethel, T. J. Gattis; William
ston, J. O. Guthrie; Greenville, F. A.
Bishop ; Pitt mission, R. B. Gilliam ; Swift
Creek mission, L. O. Wyche ; Aurora, to
be supplied; Bath, N. H. Guy ton; Ply
mouth. William k. ware: uoiumma, v.
Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteviu
Street, next to Market House.
ter; Fairfield, E.l. Pell; Swan Quarter,
to be supplied by William Lowe ; Hatteras
mission, J. Y. Pfegram ; Portsmouth and
Ocracoke, Valanee G. Rollins.
TRINITY COLLEGE blST. V. A. SIIARPE.P. E.
Randolph, F. I. Wood and C. O. Du
rant, J. F. Keejrans, Sup.; Thomasville
and High Point, iS. V. Hoyle; Davidson.
D. L. Earnhardt Lexington, J. E. Gay;
Abbott's Creek -f mission, S. D. Peeler;
Randleman, R. IF. Bumpass; Franklins
ville, D. A. Futiell; Deep River, W. F.
Cutchin T. C.i Moses, Sup.; Uwharrie,
G. B. Perry; Jackson Hill, to be supplied ;
Montgomery, J.fE. Woolley; Pekin, F.
M. Shambergerj Mount Gilead, M. W.
Boyles; Trinity College, Prof. J. F. Heit
man. Transferred J. B. Bobbitt to Baltimore
Conference ; James D. Forkner to Virginia
Conference, and appointed to Patrick cir
cuit; Hugh F. Wiley, to Holston Confer
ence, and appointed to Waynesvillo.
DURHAM DI8THICT W. 8. BLACK, P. K.
Durham statioh, W. 8. Creasy ; Durham
circuit, W. S. Dims; West and East End
mission, Amos Qregson ; Hillsboro, L. E.
Thompson ; Chapel Hill, R. B. John; Per
son, J. R. Griffith ; Leasburg, L. L. Nash ;
Alamance, L. L Johnson; Haw River, B.
R. Hall ; Pittsboro, R. T. N. Stephenson ;
Granville, J. E. Underwood; University
of North Carolina Prof. A. W. Mangum ;
Missionary to Cninn, Charles Jones Soon.
GREESSRORO DlSff. J..A. CCXNINGGIJt,P. E.
Greensboro. J,, E. Mann; Guilford, T.
H. Pegram; Eas Guilford, J. A. Bowles;
Pleasant Garden, John Tillet; Winston, J.
T. Bagwell; Forsyth, M. J. Hunt; Stokes,
J. R. Scroggs, tmd S. H. Helsabeck ; Madi
son, R. P. Troj; Ruffin, R. G. Barrett;
Rcidsville, D, if. Bruton; Yancey ville, J.
D. Buie and Mnjjoi T. Best; Kernersville,
J. C. Thomas.
SALISBURY DISTRICT W. H. ROBBITT, P. E.
Salisbury station. T. W. Smith ; Salis
bury circuit. Tj A Stone; Mocksville, G. f
F. Round; Rowan, H. M. Blair; Farming
ton, W. C. Wilabn; Concord station, Joseph
Wheeler; Concord circuit, W. L. Grissom;
Mount Pleasanlt, G. A. Oglesby; Albe
marle, P. F. Wl Stamey ; Stanly, Zebedee
Rush; Big Lick mission, J. A. Green; Mt.
Zion, J. W. North; Enochville, C. W.
Smith. t
SHELBY DISTRICT M. L. WOOD, P. E. 1
Shelby station, W. S. Rone; Shelby cir
cuit, M. D. Giles ; King's Mountain, J. W.
Wheeler; Dallas, J. M. Lumly; Gaston, J.
C. Hartsell; Isliand Mountain, J. R. Betts;
Lincoln ton, J. B. Bailey; South Fork; R.
M. Hoyle ; Hickory, J. E. Bristowe; Hap
py Home, J. B. Carpenter; Morganton,
G. W. Callahan; Table Rock, C. A. Gault;
McDowell, C. iG. ' Little; Double Shoals,
J. F. England Forest City, J. A. Lee;
RutherfordtonT. J. Daily; Antioch mis
sion, C. W. Kmg; Columbus mission, T.
H. Edwards, f
The next Conference will be held in
Reidsville, N. fC.
r Raleigh Christian Advocate.
Rev. J. B. Carpenter, Statistical Secre.
tary of the Conference submitted his sta
tistical report! for the past year, as fol
lows: Number of members 77,351, a gain of
2,468. . f
Number of (Sunday-schools 833. a gain
of twelve.
Number of fSunday-school scholars 45,-
040. r
Number of .parsonages 102, a gain of
four. f ,
Value of parsonages $140,910, a gain of
$11,045. i
Number of ichurches 867 1 2, a gain of
twenty-one. .
Value of churches $984,290, a gam of
$49,998.
Number of ; infants baptized 2,467.
Number of adults baptized 8,017.
THE METHODIST PROTESTANTS.
i : .
Conference Appointments.
Greensboro Workman.
The following is the list of appointments
of the late Methodist Protestant Conference
for the ensuing year:
President-4-T. J. Ogbnrn.
Mocksvillei circuit R. H. Wills.
Flat Rock .circuit C A. Pickens.
Haw Rive circuit J. W. Heath.
Winston circuit A. W. Lineberry; W.
G. Hamilton Sup'y.
Winston station W. F. Kennett.
Guilford circuit J. R. Ball.
Mecklenburg circuit To be supplied
with C. A. Plylcr.
Davidson (circuit F. M. Totten.
Halifax circuit S. W. Coe; Dr. A. C.
Harris, Sup-.
Cedar Falls circuit D. A. Hightill; .
C. Hammer; Sup'y.
Greensboro circuit T. F. McCulloch;
G. W. Bowiian, Sup'y.
Alamance circuit J. N. Garrett.
Randolph! circuit W. W. Amick.
Orange cfrcuit R. R. Michaux.
1 Ashboro circuit Jas. C. Deans.
Stanly circuit A. K. Scotten.
Monroe circuit H. D. Garman.
Pee Dee mission To be supplied with
W. H. Crowder.
Forsyth circuit Y . F. Dosier.
LaGrange mission W. E. Swain. .
Ivey circuit J. H. Moton. v
Surry cirfcuit W. M. Pike.
High Point circuit H. Lewellen.
Granville circuit W. C. Kennett.
North Granville circuit D. A. Fisher. .
Cleveland circuit J. E. Hartsell.
Catawba circuit I. I. York.
Littleton' circuit W. L. Harris.
Albemarie circuit W. T. Totten.
Tar River circuit E. L. Wood.
Buncombe circuit E. A. Wilson.
Pigeon River mission W. P. Martin.
Bellemoht mission W. F. HcDowell.
W. H. Wills, D. D. ; James Deans, A.
J Laughlin, Superannuated; J. 9. Dunn,
T. T. Feme, J. M. Baxley, M. E. Ham
mer, A. Cl Spillman, J. H. Totten, H. W.
Peeples, W. T. White, in the hands of the
Presidents
R. R. Banner, G. E. Hunt, W. H. Lewis,
without appointments at their own request.
C. F. Harris, D. D., Conference Evan
gelist, i .
S. Simpson, A. M., Professor in Western
Maryland College. ...
8. P. it Harris, transferred to the Ln
stationed List. -
J. L. Michaux, editor of the Vtnlrai
ProUdan. '
Next session of Conference to be held at
Enfield, Halifax county.
The President on Friday last suspended
Judge EJ. J. Dawn, of the District of Alas
ka, and i appointed Lafayette Dawson. of
missouri, in u jmbvv. -fi
ment in June last led to the writing of a
letter to? the President by one of the men
who had indorsed him, in which he was
declared to be wholly unfit for the place.
The letter and the President's reply were
widely quoted, and great curiosity was
manifested to learn the name of the Judge
referred to. Dawn has recently given the
I President an opportunity to get na omm
C. Brothers; Mattamuskeet, J. D.Carpen- by committing a aenous offeww in Oregon
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