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OLUME 1.
GREEXVILLE X a JANUARY 18, IS.Oo.
NUMBER 2.
KING-'B
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lOTTIXCiS.
Tiiekk are five Smiths in the
ower house of the Legislature.
And not one a blacksmith.
Kansas will probably sen 1 a
new man to the United States
Senate. Kansas is nothing, it
not rhanyiru.
East of the Mississippi.
Wakk county's grandjury
said ra tiling was gamuiinu: arid
maoV presentments against many
That grandjury is. about, rigdit course of his address he sa,'d :
too.
Oru Senator A. A. Forbes
iii kIh oiie mistake tuv other day.
lie moved to adjourn to a cer
fain rim.-. Tlie mistake was
thatlie did not make it sink dik.
A bill has
the Legislature to ajlow trust se
runty companies to bond offi
cers. The man Avbo cannot
bond at home had better
up.
LAST DAYS OF THE U S. A. ! ra V,ay ,TlV-v ut him at t,w ' at TreV had weet
jhead of thetahleahd we got plares j milk, buttermilk, curd;, etc., and six
at the foot; theypassed the fned , kinds of corn bread, but no meat
ajjwi iwuuc ui wis iiast vcminailQ '"viis, uauer rues, ioaming but- i e proceeded on o Aobeville
, 1U cijri,,,,,- wtni py u uiuing with ISreckmridge I met all
JtOCaptCIay. We called in ain. the Presidential Cabinet. Judge
I 1 hey replied : 'We are watting on ; Ueagan talked about the conditio,,
iav. i saw soineunng had 'ot the country, .bulah P Uer.it
to be done. I asked Cant. M ii r- ; nun :iml R
if 11 to stand by me. He agreed: , nyson and criticised the vem-s.
I lien l called a , young w6man and Breckinridge was r'oval lookin
andsiud ;- m, may have forgot- Benjamin was about 5 feet one incn
ten that Mr Clay had another grand- high, heavy and rotund ; he rode
son. His daughter .Harried a Mr. horse seventeen hands high, and
Murre.l. Here is Capt Murrell, her ; was a ridiculous figure, but when in
son, who is also a irrandson of fr Ina cifr mi,... t,.. , r. . -
p T . ry I r , : : I ' uc ijnuieu ooeirv vou
ot Lee s surrender i Clay, .hey turned and asked Mr. forgot hi appearance. M r. Mai lor v
.....cuansum, a. j " ic,4 11 ii, was irue. lie saul .ecretai v of the av wJa
At the niOtiliurr Hid f'.
...v,v..iQ U! UIL UUIliaU'I - j
ate Association , oi Kentucky the
l'eaiu-e was an address by Major W.
1) lvis. Who gave an account of
his lersonal relation with the last
command of the cUil war. In f!u
''The vs
came to us "at
early in April, 18f5. (Jen. Kciu.!
was in command of about L'.-iOU men,
j four brigades. Den. Duke's brigade
j was dismounted cavalry. .Onr
I horses had suffered so with toofreul
i -i i-l etc., that thev had bc-n sent un-
been introduced in ... 1 ;u,r' .
Caroii la. We were often, ordered
about as infantry, (ieii. Echols
had movtd forward, intending lo
unite with Lee at Danville." At
Christianshnrg came the news of
es surrender. It was a cohl l.-i7-
z'y aft rr.oon.1- We were ail greatlv
'r. nuis caneu a
eTmncil 1 war and stated that he
proposed to march to (i,en. .Ju .lolin
soti at lialeigh, X. C. He offered
us a. 1 the option to remain mi-
give
Sfxator Th:i LKit says that i
ii Populist had introduced the
Carlisle hill, it woicd have be n
considered the '"heighth of lu
u,a('.vv' Does the man make the
measure (
yes, and they gav us all we could
eat of thy best on the table.
"W'u marched toward Liin'olnton,
and found that Col. Napier wirtr
forty-live men and 215 horses had
lw?eu 1 riven ' away by Stoneman.
Oon. Echols had pased on to lial
eigh. We marched on to Charlotte,
M i iving there April 10 or 1?. John
ston and Bragg were negotiating.
We found '.Jefferson Davis and his
CabitK't with Dibrell and William's
brigades, the latter in command of
Col. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
We were the?e Jen or twelve 1ivk
such a figure as Benjamin and rode
a lare hoi sr. The soldiers often
guved them, calling on them to
'L'cme down ; 1 know you are up
thtxe.' Tljey also guyed" Bragg on
every occasjon. One day as we rest
ed m a road, Brag- and his staff
nule by, a Kentucky soldier
shouted . -Oh, (Jen. Btagg, Cun.
Bragg !' 'J'ho general and his staff
halted;' then the soldier asked;
(ieneral, w hat do you think of the
prospect f a war with Mexico ?
They laughed und rode on.
"At Abbeville we found if u-mo
, , - - - .. 0
and received the news of Lincoln's!110 use lo go anv fuither. The
a;Sassinatiou before we left. Uen.
Johnsiin telegraphed that his agree
ment with herinan had been sign-
Tiik pro-)ective H,e.'tion of
Thomas v arter, a Roman Catho
lic as U. S. Senator TrV)TTi"M()h
rana arouses the ire of the A P.
A. "America 'for' American-"
g;ood doctrine.
jwith im. The infantry deeded to j e i, but tlnV Andre.Iohnson, who
I remain. Cosby s and (Jdl ner's . bri ! snr.-eeded Linwln, had repu.'.iated
I Lr Hie concluded to iro to 'iVimH. S t '.,..,1 i. .. i .
i , v , , , . , , " I'? " i"iiruu I'nua nau oeiler
ami, vttHgn h ongaUes start -;
ed to go to do .Johnston.
Tin: fusion State Senate pro
mpt
a soldier accosie 1 me and
t n 'in 1 1 1 ii it It- , .
asked
Ferguson, the noted gueri il la, ,
playeU tlie part on our side thai
Tinker Dave Beatty did on the
Federal. I asked Champ Ferguson
how many men he had killed witn
his o.vn hand, and ho replied n.ne-ty-two
in all.
'The next mornine- we f.miui t '.
or tvvelye officers, with
and they went with
night a calamity occuri
vea's helore a neiM-o h:nl
"A rush w;s made lor the wagon
trains, from., which tl.e mules aim
horses were taken, and men rode on
mule and sore-backed horses with
I'Anui I. u- Iii-i.IJ.io 1
poses o violate all precedents , ,,)e1 l)lisull,rs C;lme j
and iguoi-e.its presiding othcer joined our party that moi m,?- V
in HiH :i i ii h n t itiHii t nf tli i'oi- ' ....... r..... i .
....... ii. v.,... luiuiwir im lucui oucurreo tome th;i!
mittees.x r5iicn a measure, like
most of its members, bears the
stamp of originality. '
,h i)(;K Kr-sKLL was in bad
shafts just alter the election.
He was so well pleaded with the
result, and so mad with himself
ti.at he didn't run for something;
that he 'didn't 'know what to do
Perhaps he foutfd out when he
got in the Senatorial race-
The Cape Rear river had its
up to date freshet in .1805, tl:e
biggest then known and called
'Sherman'"' freshet. It now
has one larger still and the Mes
senger says it is the "Populist"
fieshet. Let them claim every
thing. Axn now thev are talking
that President leveland may
call an extra session of Con
gress if this'one fails to pass a
uitabl tinancial measure. The
President will have lots of
his friends tthe Republican')
help in the next Coiigress.
leave. Davis proosed to tae the
-avalry across the Mississippi and
form a nucleus around which the
South' could rally and secure their
rights.
' There was a crowd of unattached
officers and men who decided to re
main and surrender. Davis wanted
tO put Gen. Bragg in command, but
tlie Kentucky officers went to Dayis
and said that Breckinridge "had not
resigned his major generalship to be
Secretary of War, and that thev
wanted him as their commander
Davis asMMitM
charge and did ine the henor to se
leer me as his adjutant Lreriral
We went with four or five del ke and
camp
in
bought
their men,
ub. That
ed. Two
appeared
; Ca,.t. Murrell said he
him I knew his owner
never gave him to Capt. .M n rivl 1 :
he may have bono lit him. The. ne
gro's name was Alfred, and lit was
invaluable. He was our cook, and
when chickens were .J5 each and
eggs $12 a dozen and pigs would not
bite, our table had all the delicacies.
Alfred did. his marketing at iiP'ht
lie was invaluable, ami when hedi?
officers told Dayis that the soldiers
would go with him as long as' ho
desired, but it' was useless to pro
long the war. He said he cculd es
cape unaided. Gen Duke, who was
at the conference, told mo that ho
i ever saw Davis so crestfallen.
After the conference I wa? sent to
tell the men they could disband,
that Davis did not- need them as an
escort, and each "man could strike
out tor. himself. The Kentucky and
Tennessee soldiers said they would
march home in a body. That night
four or live trains loaded with mon
ey and bullion mine from Charlotte
wPh some treasury agents. Gen.
D;ike with forty-five men was put
by Breckinridge to guard them.
The following mornir.f Duke
I'Jti. ; .i ..... lJ .. .
Breckiuridoe took i VUil u . ? 'Ven Iro'n eacn brigade be
i Tiirnuliui liit.- . . .i
"'"""" iiiii. n giruiu ior iho
cars ; this wsw done. A treasiirv
i agant was seen taking a bag of .gold
away, anu he wa brought hark-
the JSa-
his Cab-
net started for W
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issiesippi ini-
brip":ide (or-
i . : o - -
pr was on the banks of the iSavan- ,? Walt ai!.d s""-"-hah
Uever. ' 4' 1 here was 108,000 silver bullion
on hand. It came from the South
ein households, Who in the last four"
or fiye months of the Confederacy
sent their silver plate to be melted
and need t carry on the war. The
Farmers' or Planters' Bank at Dan.
Mile hud $200.0(10
destroyed all the records of the war i' irVay' Wa br0U'1
officesuve five or six boxes that is ne'went o" l lenna on
one rtason there is a lack of official vannah Ji,ver. Davis and I
k . ... Out Ct.ll ti.ll
coeuuients' in the publication of the .P, oia' lul ,
trebelliou records.' I greatlv regret i 1 ,e 1;iruso s
H.at destruction: The last destPuc- , and .X au-,lan's
hah Uever
"We marched about twelve miles
a day. Al Union Court House wt
foiuid Cul. Xapier with the 115
hones, and the command were oou
all moan ted. Forage vas very
Bc.uce on account oi Sherman's ra d
"We marched to StatesviUe v. i tlj -out
a square meal sine Alfred left
uapi- .uurreH went ahead to find
i on a
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Davis, the alt around
something to eat. I found hin
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porcn snrroumieu ov vomie women
II .. 1 1 1 I T- "TU.
lie u'-chuiieu aiH i vnt .. ,
e im!i. . . . i 1 U...1 U. - t . "uv
-windier, oi iimington, wno , 1Mr'11 eeu prepared. Just then
. heated the pe itentiary by the i Capt H-irry Clay, of (iiltner's ccm-
insiinity dodge, and was ?ent to
tliH asv'liim. escaped from that
place fast week, made his way
to llimmrtoii.
was rearrested
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turd taken hack to tlie asylnm
And thus justicje becomes a
mocke v.
I.ut a new crop of hay aa founu o,--' , "V'T . '"" own
; . . . ulu I e Uessee spfionl nm ' HB t,o
appealed we v as dismaved l iCsl T this for our hunnmrYireck
when Lee surrendered. " i fhe h(il Sa,d V ou ar Kentuck- nAa L-nmvinn m
iaii3 ; win uon t vou co homo hk-p i i , .
bur bovs ? : (Jo an.l decentlv surren T Th lo"feTr'- """
tfer. . Whv don't you do hit ? J S.fM, and had me
spoke ,nnot your .urn.' re , ,ed a ' ',1 U"'i' ,In 11 ,g"e
old Kontuekian. -You South Caro I Xra-, ""ckmndgc. said be
'eZ
... .. --'"""K womai. onPHpiooknl lib. hi, . .1
. . v. ij.o I'n-iiuc 011 ine
Wag 1 unit
, r-.. i"'i' ouu ds 1 1 ue game
took etyle of man, fnll-che.sted
1 VI
square-snouiderea, only 5 feet 8
each arm, and Capt- Murrell
doing likewise. I introduced Capt
Cla., and the woman asked: "Are
you lien ry Clav7s grandson 'Vm 4- 1 ' WUI' ,J leei
he rei ltd. niniwliatJv n : "'.6" l- orecKinnuge
klJt gameav lUOKIDg man 1
ver daw; l ate breakfast with him
young women left us and surround
to eet
Davis
over 4,ijou. rcn mau was
but thev only eot $25.
sent in hot haste tj inquire about
taking me . jianfiue liank money,
tut Hreckinriilge did not reply un
til the next day.
TO BE CONTINUED.