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1 i i , V J il'ANAI,, s 21 column axr, -i. i r. ..,y ri'ft n M.mil.iy, at mi per lor six nioutbs. IN-livnvd i i'iij -m.. : . -s-s at 5o cents p-r month. . ,- TK V. NKW CKKKE JOURNAL a S3 lmn H.ijicr, i published every ThiirsJa j at 24X) ri annum. . ADYIT.TISIXQ BATES (UAlLYj-One inch out-day &U cents; one week, 2.00; one month (, t ,re months, $10.(0; six montlut, IIU.O0; 'K.'ive mimtlis, 10.00. Ai!KTtnitmtHlwidM head oft)tly itrmtfi ornts pvr line for fach insertion N. ikh'crtieipmiln vtilf He IiikiM between Lm :il niuiier tit an price.1 ' ' v No(ii,of Murriagrs orltrmli, not lo exceed tin liui'.iwill be liuwrtP fre. 'All additional mattor will be chargi d 10 cents ver : Payment.' fur transient ndYcrilxementA must be hiade.iu advance. Regular adrertisennirts will be collected promptly at the end of each month. ' " ' ', Communications containing news or a discus sion pi local mutter aro solicited." No coinuiuni catiori rltuet expert' to bs puWilied that contains objectionable ptM-sonaiities; vritlihotd the naie i the author ; or that will make more than oni toluam of this paper. ! -v ! THE JOURNAL. NEW BERNE, N. C.,' AUG. 10, 1SS2. Entered at (he Poet hlfice at New Berue, N C, as second-vlacs matter. -. Dishonest Officials- Tbe Star Koute trials tliat- have been bo long ju progi-ess in 'Wash ington have been a aliaine and dis grace o the natiou.: t Whether they are f'owiid guilty or not by the jury, ' publie'.dpiuion has long since given it verdicts against tliem, and the . virtue and intelligence' of the coun try foci the disgrace keenly. ;.'-' . ' 1 1 AS al .body, the officers of the Uttitd States, -high and low, are dOflbtlesS as intelligent, honest and .able,aS any equal number of-men in thS country. 1 But, -Unfortunate- 1 ly$there.iaxe, exceptions to this rule.; "There are- "black sheep" among 'them, aad'yery'i black ones, too, who have sought and obtained of fice tos ihe sake of tlie money they could make out of their positions. When the lawful gains of these men have not been ' 'as' rapid as they wished, they have not scru pled to stoop to fraud to increase their profits.,",! ' r ,? Wrong-doing by public officers is a double scandal. -- It - throws dis- credit pot, only nponjthe service ju i, which they are employed, but upon1 . the whole nation. , Vlien official is. i detected in evil practices, the lioBffft' men in the sanie ' service suffer to some extent, by 'being classed with the rascal. " -! l ' -Ifne could be sure that; wlien ever a case . of fraud by a public offfceH Was detected the guilty jiiah would always be punished as he1 deserved, that would be some con Rnlatfnny Sncli, however is not the fact. Oflicial dishonesty is, in" a certain sense, intrenched knavery.; The offender; may be, and usually is, dislodged; but- he fights at an advantage, and Boiuetiines wholly escapes the penalty of his , crime, aid even retains office.', ' There are several reasons for this. One is, that, nearly allofiicers get their positions and keep them by the use of influence,, and not solely by their own merits, j When they are attacked for dishonesty, the in fluence that has always befriended them comes to" their aid, and often it is very powerful. ' ' Dishonest officers, too, are very apt to make friends with the. .'mam mon of unrighteousness," .and that, too, comes to their rescue in the honr of need. . ; ;,'.''':.;.'. .-';,: A third reason is,' the great diffi culty of produciug absolute proof of wrong doing. , Government knaves are too shrewd to commit frauds openly. .If ,they are corrupt, - it they accept 'bribes,' it -they make unlawful profit out of contracts, they do jt al indirectly, or secretly so that the illicit, gains cannot eas ily hi traced to their hands. V "Even if they are turned out of office on what is to most minds lull proof of tueir guilt, many' persons in the community still believe them to be innocent. '""'T -" Z , f The difficulties, too, under which high officers, the superiors of those who are 'accused , of crime, some times labor, are many.. It does not follow that a man is guilty because lie is accused. That is something to be inquired into and decided by thf? evidence; Those officers, who are charged with the duty of in vestigating, perform their task un der a heavy responsibility. 'They are likely to be accused of "white washing," if they do not find enough proof to warrant them them in discharging the supposed rascal; and of injustice, if they do dis charge li in. We have no doubt that rascality is much less couimou in oflicial quarters than is usually supjosed. Tho least taint of it, however is a public disgrace) and good nieii should not tolerate it. 5 They shoud never rest contented until tho last trace: of it is erased. t y- "v-" BROTHER "JOHNNY." It was the third day of tho battle of tho Wilderness: -j)own to tho southeast of our brigade, t he thick pine woods enclosed the little open ing in front of us, and there were the "Johnnies" in foi-co under ',A. I". Hill.' It was one of the few op portunities where' artillery could bo used in that battle, and'' five.' bat-: teiies swept and raked that belt of woods with shell, grajiO and Klu'ap uel. ' Down went whole trees, top pling one : across another, : their trunks cut. sheer off. Still the Ctm federates stuck there, half bnricMl in branches and boughs. i Then the command "Charge!" was given, and 1 we went for that woody i belt what -was left of it- across the open stretch, at a head long run, and rushed into the thick brush. ;'-; v : '., ; (There we drew the eneiny's tircJ In our very laces came the smoke, so hot it fairly scorched. . , ': ; , ;( ,WO; had.no time to see who fell, but of the forty-seven men in my company, only twcnty-oiio reiortel that, night. . There were the boys in gray , right .under ' our '; noses, crouched on t he ground, with riilos aimed ; at us from over logs and from beside trees, and not an inch would they budge. Our lino went over them like an ocean breaker. I saw lmt two men run back Ironi us. On, we went with a loud hurrah, to carry and clear the woods. After )assing a hundretls yards through the densest of the pines, M'e came to a'. much, thinner giowth, with clumps ol ',-old dead grass. Here the ; reserves, of i tho Confederates and two or three batteries caught us on the tly shells,, rockets, and grajie, a terrific outburst from the left and in 'front,. almost in our very faces ,;".v ,r ;i ;.;'! i; With the first' explosion I was struck , by a fragnient of shell on the right leg above the knee; which whiried me round so violently that I fell.: iFora minute inv limb was numb. ' I sat up,' and put my hands On it. The bone was broken, and there was a white, gaping wound wherei the blood gathered rapidly. With the first -throbs of pain ; the crimson life-tide gushed outv ' i i: Such pain ! Jt is aii agony which none can know but the poor fellow who sees his good leg or arm lyiiigy a piece of shattered flesh, before his eyes, and feels the awful hurt of a well-nigh mortal wound, -while the blood gushes as if in a moment or two it would dram his heart.'' ;To savwuy iifaUjiuilul & ha.udfccrehicl'. qiiokly-AHd-4ightly around the leg above 1 lie wound. . . . . : For- nn instant' I writhed, then turned faint; so fiiint tliafc-1 but dimly remember the counter charge' of the Confederates,- and the wild yell with which they chased back our broken and routed line, leaping over me" where T lay, like eager bloodhounds. .-, : . ; . i: ...... ; , ui Following this I may, indeed, have lain in icoi usci ons for some minutes- for the next thing that J recall was the crackling, and smoke of the burning pine brush and grass close bjvi liaising myself a little, I saw that all out to the right it was blazing like' a iurn.vco. and the men "werei cmiiiihg JbkefcI through ?t lie smoKe. xiie shells liad set the woods on lire. '."'- ,';' ,' ' ;-, The roar arid : crackling gi-ew louder; and then the horrojof iny situation-biM-stupfutjivQ, t Suinnioii ing all fny strength, ! fried, forget ful of iny broken leg, tq get up ; but I fell back, tooAveak to even creep. Nearer still roared and flamed the frightful fire. ' I shouted1 and prayed heaven. , 1 envied even the poor fellows about me -who lay so still aud did stir.. ; - . v r At last I got upon my hands aiid one knee and tric(V to crawl, but sooir pitched forward on my " face; Just then three "Johnnies" came hurriedly, throughtho brush, stop ping for an instant, here and there, to go through the pockets of our dead as the custom was., "Hallo here!'' I heard. ' ''Dead, yon ?" and one of them gave, me a poke with his rifle-butt: I tried to raise my head. "Yes, that's hard; but got any greenbacks?" uv -( t- j , I shook my head; then, gather ing strength, I partly turned. Two of the. men had started on; the third stood in the smoke, regarding me for a moment Fresh from the charge, his face' and hands were smeared with powder-stains, and his clothes were torn. "For; mercy's ; sake," 1 : cried, 'drag me out of the . brush, or kill me I Don't let me roast! Tut a ball through me first!" - The fellow uttered an impatient oath. . Hut I saw real nitv in his face. , "Curse this bloody, hellish war !" ho exclaimed, and taking a step to wards me, he cocked hi.s riile. 1 shut my (yes, thinking that iu another moment I should lie out of pain, iu eternity, for those Iwys in butternut didn't often miss their man; '"-' But instead, I heard, after a mo ment,' bis gun. ilnng down. Then his arms' clutche(Vuiu;er.nii, Jind he took inc up clear of thc g.rauw(lwi screamed with pain. A'Wal,-1 don't blame yer for yell in'!" he said, as : he hal f-carried, half-dragged mc along. Then, after stopping to catch f. breath, he said, "1 reckon, Yank, 1'ds been, kiuder to yer to gin yer the bullet. Fer the doctoiw will ,lie. euttiu1 and hackiu' yer. .Not a mite o' chloro f'orin in our Svholo command, either, they say. And , ef yer do pull uirongn, - they'll, chuck, yer. inter some ol tliem blasted prison holes." "Shoot me, then, and have'done with it!"' 1 gasped, , for the tiro was close on ns. ' ' " ' ' ' !iUif. he lugged me on; and he wiis scarcely as heavy a mail "as myself. Every few rods ho had to 'stop; The flames seemed spreading1 iuimini us-, ami every moment or two a shell would tear through the woods and explode, scattering fire; and, w hizing fragmeiifs of iron everywhere.- 'Uii! t.ui ; lie. got me to a .stone wait which skirted the woods on ; one side, and lifted me over it. There was a field with short green grass on the other side. Here he put me down, part ly in the shade ot a, great ash. , ' l "Thar, Yank," he said, 'f.vei-out of the tire, anyhow. , Can't stay by yer, though. I must git my shooU in' iron back thar in fhe brush, of 'taint ournt up. , Hut I'll toll iVor what, Yank, I'll look round here to-night-i-ef I aint dead mys,el"loro that time, and we hold oil' liere." s "God bless you, Johnny!".'! ex claimed; "but just one'sip of water, if you've got it." - ;' ; 1 ' ; ' ' ; "Thundcration !" ; he muttered. '.'I haint got half a pint in my can, and don't expect to jret another fill-vp to-day V . -. u. (.,( ..t...!. u , J.ut ho jerked off 4 his: canteen, took one swallow, and then put it into my weak hands. "Thar, drinki you poor sullerin' cuss! Yer may keep i too. Hang on to it, ef ye can t ill I come round.' ' Fer tin war's scarcer than twenty-dollar, bills in our corps,".Vdurned sight !"!, ' I felt him prop my head no vitli soniethiii" it was his old. worn. yellow-gray coat. The 1 next mo ment lio was gone over the wall baclcinto the burning -woods, after IliS gull.! i-1.::f, I , : ..! i r I never ; saw him' ii'rainV The Confederates ' did not "hold on" there, as all know who have read the story of that terrific struggle. 1 My ieiriftp for it is quite the fashion with many df. our " brave stay-at-homes to say' that when Grant took the command, 'Leo was tlready beaten, and all wo had to do was to chase the Confederates to liichmond. i It is but an ill trib ute to the brave men we fought, W to poiirry or sixty niousiinrt or ohr brayo, fellows' r'who lio buried nt Wilderness, Spottsylvaiiia and Cold Harbor. . , ,. .. ..... , ,: ,f Our corps retook the ground. Later in tho day I. was found and taken ;to tho rear, . ,i ; , im -i Whether my; Johnny, by whose Christ-like nit v I was restiiied. snv. viyed the, succeeding battles of the campaign, or i.iot, I. do. not know,' Often since that day I ha ve thought that l might havo. .asked., his name and regiment, "but t was in no con dition to ihink' of tliat. .To me he was simply a "Joluiny" but none the less a brother:,iJ " " Z;1" , 1 He saved niy' life, save'd iiie ironi a horrible death,' and that, too, iii the brutal hurry and fury of baft lei when I honestly can not say that I should i have clone so much for "a Confederate lyingtherc in myplace. Only a soldier can 'really under stand it; if - n-i-.w,' -'' -::i' ' I might not, as t have said, res cued Johnny if he had been in iny llace, but alter that act, I should have done it at the risk of my life. That rough loy in butternut taught me a lesson of the true brotherhood of man, that has influenced all my lifo since. ,. -.,; .- JJad the war, continued after' I got well, I .might, have fought, on from principle, but I should never have fired another bullet in malice; and I always feci as if I. had a brother somewhere down South., . It will take more than any of the "bloody-shirt", ppliticianacau say, to make me forget .the boy in gray who lugged'nie out of the" burning woods at Wilderness. , - The' old battered "canteen" he left me I am still "hanging on to," an ho requested. If he is livinir to day; and "in:war' " is scarce with him, he can have it: and with it. too, whatever else 1 'ciiif give tliat! he may need more t han 1,' for per haps this little sketch -may lie the means by which I niay hear from liiui.'-tT0tft&Y Com naii ion.' ''-'' 'f-t 1 iriiilc loi Siilo. T I will keep conHtantly on Jiand at Munwoll & Ciabtrce's lot in Now Btrne a lot of first clasK hfiml-iundo brick. 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