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Hall on Thursday evening of each week, in
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W. E. GAT EN ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
'WAYNESBURG, PA.
CjTOfhcb In N, Clark's building,
Afebli)'(ii;tf
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Main St., nearly opposite Wriyht House,
IS prepared to do stitched and pegged work,
from tho coarsest to tho llnest ," also, puis
up the latest stylo of Hoots and Shoes. Cob
bling donu on reasonable terms. May-Vim.
IV . EZ ,. n v P f"m a n,
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WORK made to order. In finest and best
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WATCHES AND JEWELRY.'
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KEEPS ON HANDS ALWAYS A choice
and. select assortment of watches and
jowolry, Kepahing douo at tho lowest rates.
op'. y
dewtTstry.
TEETH I TEETH I TEETH
DR. S. 8. Tatton informs the public that al
ter February 1st, I81H, ho will be at Waynes
Iburg, when his dental services will ho teudcr
ed to any and all making application.
IIo is now extracting teeth I'osirivm.v
without 1'ain, and Ills new ones in to peil'ec
lon, mid restores decayed ones to soundness.
He invites all who are suffering from diseased
teeth to como and have their aches relieved,
and their mou'.is tilled with gold.
January 20. 1rtU4d if
SADDLER AND HARNESS MAKER,
Main JStincarli opposite Wrijh. House,
. t, . 1 1' - , ..
4V'l.iY-mftile work ou iianu, nmi inr-.ng
socurod tlio services of two lhst-cV.j workr
men ho Is prcparcd,to cxecuVj alt orders in tho
.ncatHt'nd, best s'j lo. '. :' JIay3,(lm.
THIRST NO MORE!
. fj r.... i no,
"Toe" Turner's
,' I ) 'Vi ltAS JUt OI'KNHD A
UE,)y, SA LOON!!
Kocfi's Oond' "Rfo Wlilakny; llmnrties of nil
IndSiGip.Wino, Ale,&n. And has tbo where
Vlth to.put'Up-.Fumiy Drinks. tOull and see
him In tho brick part, of tho Adams Inn.
jiprjn m - :
, 7WJb.lJ3ls.ors
FOECEB TO -GHOW
On the Smoothest Face I
CHARLES HICKEY,
... ,M. 6," 'Campwit 8 Jiow,
MgMtW- WAtNEBBUHQ, PA.
Published by Ropiest.
"UNDER THE DAISIKS."
Fairs;ring comes on with her fragrant breath,
And thu flowers wnko from their sleep of
death ;
Opening the violet's dewy eves,
Over the mound where our dead one lies,
Under the daisies.
Only a year ago to-day,
Since they laid him down in the cold damp
clay ;
Away from the heart strings wrung with woe,
Away from tho eyes that loved him so,
Under the daisies.
Only a year on its pinions fleet ;
lint the Smile lias flown that made life sweet,
The strong, firm hand, tho determined brow,
And the brave, true heart me sleeping now
Under the daisies.
Alas ! for the eyes that grew so dim ;
The mother's heart that has bled for him,
Tho weary days, and tho watch she keeps,
'Till they bring him home dead ! All, ho
Bleeps
. Under tho daisies.
The sunbeams rest on the lovely mound,
And the light grass waves o'er the hallow
ed ground,
While tlie distant wavelets' foamy crest
Murmur a requiem us lie rests,
Ui.der the daisies.
Like the tinted shell of the ocean shore,
Our hearts sigh on for the hopes no more i
And the lips must smile, though aU'eclion cries
For the hurled love that calmly lies
Under Iho daisies.
God pity tho hearts that like ours are snro
For the facia dear that may como no more,
Thank God ! that they brought him home to
us,
That ills dear head lies 'mid his kindred dust
Under the daisi.s
0 war, with thy stern, relentless hand
Thou hast passed along o'er our peaceful
land,
Plucking the dearest from many a hearth,
Laying them down in the chilly earth
Under the daisies.
Under the daisies ! he is not there ;
.His pure soul lives in our Father's care ;
Uut we cherish all that is left below
The (ptict grave where the daisies grow.
Praying the links of riven chain
liy our Saviour's hand may be joined again,
And look, 'mid tears, 'to the lrnne on high,
Whole rodcuied souls m ;tt when our
bodies lie
Under the daisies.
MY LUCK" iTa"TL'NNEL.
I am an old minor. Not one of tho
iiow.a-dayn Wash, c and Nevada stripe,
but an ulil lni ty-iiiue California minor.
I have Ijei'ii I'liyag-cd in all descriptions
of mining transa lions, except tho new
tangled one of mining stock in compa-
plotivoi of rather forcibio character,
quite customary ami common in that ro
il'ion ami period, I raised myself to my
foet again, ami, picking up the bucket,
was about to retrace my steps to the
river, when my attention was attracted
by a folded paper, flii'uh had been plao-
ed under tho stone causing my fall
When niy foot tripped, tho stone was
overturned, and tho f.nper, folded in
lolter.form, lay exposed to view, Ueml-.
ing over, I picked it up, and proceeded
to examine it. It was written with
pencil, in characters very irregular and
stiflly formed, ns if made ly a person
with a wounded hand. The contenU
wcro as follows :
"If this letter should fall into tho
hands of any person, I wish to inform
thniu Uiat I have been attacked nml
mortally wounded by my two partners,
who wished to obtain my money. Fails
ing to discover it, after wounding mo,
they have fled, leaving me hero to die.
Whoever gets this letter will find, buried
in a ravine at tho foot of a 'blitzed' tree,
twenty five paces duo north of this, a
bag containing five thousand dollars in
gold dust. That it may prove moro
fortunate property to him than it has to
mo, is tho hope of Asimnw Indus."
I stood tor Bomo minutes after reading
tho letter liko one awakened from a
dream. I could not convince myself
that tho letter in my hand was a geinuno
document, and read it over and over
again, thiuking I might get some clue
from tho handwriting to the real author.
It might bo a trick got up by my part
ners, to raise a laugh at my expense
No i tho place whero it was found, and
tlio purely accidental discovery, render"
oil such a surmise very improbable. I
sat down on a log, and turned the mat
ter over and over in my mind for some
lime. At last I ot up, and paced oil'
tho required distance in the direction
mentioned in the letter, I camo to a
lat'L'u tree. Carefully examining it, I
discovered :t scar, clearly indicating that
tho tree had been ''blazed" at some re
mote period. This was ''eoufiiuintion
strong as proof of Holy Writ," and I
immediately, undertook to discover the I
locality ol the ravine, litre I was at
fault. Nothing of the kind was to bo
seen. To nil appor.inees, a slivam of
water never had passi.d in tho neighbor
hood ot tho tree. This was not encour
aging ; and I sat clown on tlio ground
and red the letter again, to seo it I had
not mistaken some of lis directions. No;
I was in the right place ; but where was
the rcvine '?
A tap on my shoulder aroused me
from my inedit. itions, und on looking
up, I saw my two pailners, who loudly
berated mo lor having neglected tho
preparation of their supper. As an ex
cuse, I showed them the letter, and de
tailed the manner of inv finding it. To
my surpriso they were as much excited
by its perusal as I had been, and wo all
looked around perscvoringly for the ra
vine, but without effect for Homo time.
At hist, Jack Neshilt, who had been a
miner since MS, said ;
'T think there luis been a ravine hero
but it has been tilled up by tho rains."
Ou close cxauiinnlicn we decided that
his supposition was correct, and niter
some consultation wo determined that
we would commence digging the next
morning,
Morning camo and we repaired to the
spot with pick and (shovel Jac k pro
posed that we should follow the course
of the ravine, which appeared to run in
to the body of the hill, rather than to
dig down, for. ns he said, we would be
more likely to find the bag in.lhe bed
ot the ravine, by following it up, than
by dinging down in any one place. The
result was, that m a lew days wo had
formed rjuito a cave in the side of the
hill.
We worked at this funnel for four
days without finding tho bag. On the
fourth day, Jack proposed that ho and
my other partner, Uill Jennings, should
carry tho dirt wo had excavated down
) the river, and wash it. leaving me to
ig in the tunnel. In that way, they
bought, we might at least make grub,"
, hile searching for the hidden money,
thought the idea foolish, but as they
id entered so eagerly into my views
;arding the buried bug ot dust, I made
0 objection to tlio plan, and dug away
ith ledcnibled energy. In fact, I had
iought so much about the object of our
arch, that I had become uUei ly regard-
ss of almost everything else. I had
"amt of it when sleeping, mused on it
when waking, and it had obtained com
plete control of my mind. Day after
day we worked I digging, my com
panions washing; ; yet, strange to say, I
did not become discouraged. They
said nothing about. the bag of gold dust t
and I asked them nothing about the re
suit of their washing tho excavated
dirt.
We had worked about three weeks,
and had forinad a tunnel extending
about fifteen feet into tho hill, when one
nfterroon, completely tired out I gat
down to rest in lha envo. I had only
intended to sit n lill'o while, brt fivo
minutes had not elapsed ei'o I was fast
asleep. I was awakened by a crash,
and found my feet and logs completely
covered by a mass of dirt and stones.
The front part ot'tho tunnel had fallen
in, and I was in a manner buried alive.
About ten Icct of tho tunnel remained
firm, and from my observation of its
tti'iicturo prior to tho accident, I was
convinced that I had no reason to ap
prehend nny danger in that quarter.
My partners had carried dirt enough to
tho river to keep them busy there foi the
rest of the day sol had nothing to
hope from their assistanco. Tho question
that fuse presented itself to my mind
was, how long can lifo bo sustained in
this confined stale T I had read, a dozen
times, statistics in relation to tho amount
of air consumed hourly by a human be
tugs lungs, but, nliko almost every body
elso, had merely wondered at the time
and then forgot tho figures. How
much I would havo given then to bo
able to recall them I The next thought
was, how can I he able to extricate my
self t This question was dillicult of so
lution. It went to work with shovel
and pick to clear away tho dirt that had
fallen, it was extremely likely that all
which I should bo uble to remove would
bo immediately replaced by that which
would lull from above. This wns pleas
ant 1 I rucked niy brain to devise some
means of liberating myself, but without
ell'ict. Leaning against tho wall in utter
despondency, 1 was about to throw my
sell on the ground and wait my fate,
when I observed quite a current ot wai
ter, on a small Fcale, was making its
way down tlio side of the cave. At first
I was alarmed, ns I thought it might
loosen the dirt abovo and bring doivu
another mass on my head. Tho next
moment, tho thought struck mo that it
might bo tutued to my advantage.
Why could I not so direct it that it
would wash away sullicient earth in its
progress to tho outlet of the civo to ad
mit the air, and perhaps maku an open
ing large enough to allow mo to crawl
out through it ? Even if I only suc
ceeded in making an air hole, it would
enable me to exist till my partners could
como to my assistance. Carefully ex
amining tho course of the water, I
succeeded in finding the spot where it
cntersd the cave, and to my great joy
ascertained that I could easily direct it,
by cutting a channel out of the sido ol
my prison to tho mass of earth that
blocked up tho cntranco to the tunnel
The air at this liino was quite close and
stilling, and I beenmo aware that what
ever was to bo done must be done quicly
or I should perish for want of oxygen.
Alter I had cut a channel for the water
to llow toward the entrance, I enlarged
tho opening by which the stream entered
the cave, and was delighted to observe
that, it flowed with redoubled force,
Taking my shovel, I pushed it through
the moistened earth as far as I was able
and then awaited further notion of the
water. In a few minutes I was enabled
to push it still f.uther, till at last it was
out of my reach. Then placing my
pu khandle against it, I pushed both ns
far as I could. With what eagerness
did I watch to see the first opening
made by tho water 1 At first I was
swallowed up by the earth, but I was
soon gratified by observing that it flow
ed in a steady stream in the direction in
which I had pushed tho pick and bhov
el.
In a few minutes 1 observed a f aim
glimmering in the distance, which might
bo an opening or the effect of an excited
imagination, I scarcely knew which.
Rut the doubt soon resolved itself into
certainty, and an opening nomo five
inches in diameter speedily disclosed
itself. Larger and larger, grew the
opeuhig ; lump after lump ol eaith wns
washed away by tho stream, till the
channel became largo enough for mo to
place my head in it imd halloo lustily for
assistance. Just as I was drawing my
head back, I caught sight of a buckskin
bag. Hastily seizing it, I found it was
the ono yo had been' in search ot, and
which, but tor tho accident, I would
never havo found.
Wishing to surprise my comrades I
concealed if,ai.d redoubled my eric. In a
lew minutes they camo running up the
hill, and soon liberated mo from my un
pleasant position.
"Well Ned," said ,acUVs ho shook
me by the hand, "I'm glad your safe,
old fellow the more so, as Rill and I
have been doeeh ing you a little. You
know wo hayo been trying all tho sum"
mer to get you to go into tho tunneling
operation, and you havo only laugh, d at
us 1"
"Yes," said I wondering what would
como next.
"Well, when you found that letter,
Rill and I mado up our minds to go into
tho job with you i not in tho hope ol
finding any bag but wo know you would
work twice ns hard with such on induce
ment, intending moanwhilo, to wash the
exeavntod dirt. This wo havo done, and
my boy, wo havo never inndo less than
threo hundred dollars any clay sinco wo
commenced."
"Theu you think tho bug a humbug.do
youl''
"Why, of cinirso," eniil ho.
"Well, I don't, and I lutond to go on
looking for it." '
"Now what's the uso of being foolish,"
quoth Rill Jennings. ; "Wo'vo got as
much dirt as wo can wobIi fur somo titno
and it pays. I can't seo the uso of con
tinuing such a wild goose chase as the
hunt for that bag."
'Re that as it may," said I, ' I intend
to follow it up."
Ihll and Jack conferred together a
while, and then the former said.
"Well. Ned, we might as well tell you
first ns last. I wro'.o that letter in or
der to get you to go into tunneling."
"And the 'blazed' tree," said I how
about that ? The 'blaze' is certainly two
years old."
Jack hesitated. "Why, you see,"
said he," wo found that tieo, and wrote
tho letter to suit it.
"Then what do you think ot this t"
asked I, showing them tho bag I had
found in tho cave.
Jack was nonplussed. On opening
tho bag, wo found about threo thousand
dollars. Jack never would own up,
but always insisted that tho varianco be
tween the stitemont in the letter and the
amount in tho bag was proof enough
that tho letter and it had no connection
with each other. 1 don't think so, how
ever, and I believe that Jack's assertion
of having written the letter was untruo.
Wo never could ascertain anything
about Mr, Iudus, so we divided the
money among us.
. . .
THE MEMPHIS MOT.
BUV.NIXG OF COLORED SCHOOL HOUS
ES AND CHURCHES.
BLACKS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.
WOMEN BURNT AL1VS.
INTERPOSITION OF THE MILITARY.
From the Memphis Post, May 4.
Tho riot was kept up all Wednesday
night. Crowds ot armed citizens wero
gathered at the corners. Many wero
half drunk. Tho great feat of tho roughs
was the burning ot tho colored school
houses, churches and homes. They seem
to have acted in concert, and to have
carried out a progratnmo which had been
previously arranged. This is shown by
tho clean sweep which was mado of every
building used for a colored school or
place of worship by tho colored people,
uut most strongly by the conduct of tho
rioters on tho burning of tho Collins
Chapel This colored church stands on
Washington street, and cost 7,000.
After getting this well under tho con
trol of the flames, tho leader ot the des
peradoes called upon them to "fall in,"
which was done in a style which would
have reflected credit upon any millitary
orgaiiizuion, and proceeded to a black
smith shop on Alabama streit, near Hull
Hun, which, as it belonged to a peaeoa
ble black man, was burned. Wu hayo
received tho names of quilo a number
who shared tho glories of this part ol
iho field, but whether they participated
insetting tho fires in oilier parts of tho
city wo do not know.
Loud and repeated threats woro mado
by the riutors that when they had des
troyed the colored school houses they
tvould kill tho teachers. Tho threats
wcro so violent, and the rioters having
shown themselves capable of any bru
tality, it was deemod prudent that they
should go North. They all left for Cairo
on the St. Louis packet. Many of the
officers ou duty hero sent their wives
awny ilh these ladies.
An attempt was made to burn Col
well's Hall, near the corner of tiayoso
and Third Streets, This hall, bo'ongs to
a wealthy and influential colored man,
from whom it takes its name, and is Iho
most frequently used by the colored poo
plo tor public meetings, Tho windows
aud doors wero broken down, and tho
chandeliers and light furnitura destroyed.
The scuts woro piled up together and
sot on firo. Somo whiles in tho neigh
borhood, however, succeeded in putting
it out beforo serious dtunago was done,
A hoiiHo near Mr- Rankin's school
house, which was bttrnud on Tuesday,
was fired during tho night. A oolorod
girl seventeen yoars of age. nauiod
Rachel Iliitohell, whohad beuu a soholar
of Mr, Rankin's was sick in this house,
and on running out ws knocked down,
shot, and thrown Into tho firo. Her
body lay in tho ashes yesterduy morning
burned to a crisp, except her head and
shoulders. Some ono hud kindly thrown
a shawl over ihls horrid spoctuolo.
(joi'onur Eriukson, on making Inquest
upon' tho body, found ' tho report truo I
that sho was shot beforo boim' thrown
into thu fire.
A grocery kept by an old colored man
in South Memphis was broken into and
robbed, and ho killed in ins bed. IIo
was to bo seon lying in bed in just the
posture iu which ho was killed yesterday
morning.
largo number of houses iu South
Memphis, occupied by the blacks, und
some iu other parts of the city, were
burned. No ill'nt was made to stiv
the flames. In one caso tour negroes
wove fastened up in n houso and the
house set ou fire.
A colored man'en Alabama street,
informs us that his house was broken
into and about two hundred dollars in
money taken, and he beaten over the
head, and tho same party broko into his
neighbor's house, killled him, looked
the wife and children in tho house, set it
on tire and burned it down.
A colored woman named Rhod.i
Jacobs, while lying in bed with her child
at her home m South Memphis, was shot
iu tho breast.
John Mason (colored) was shot in the
head whilo iu his houso iu tho same
neighborhood. Ills money was then
demanded of his wife. Sho replied that
they had none. The houso was then
searched, nr.d everything ot any value
taken, Indeed, robbing seoms to havo
been as much the object of tho rioters as
negro killing.' One negro was asked if
ho had any arms, and on his answering
that ho had not, a pistol was placed to
his head and his money demanded
Twenty-eight dollars was taken out of a
trunk broken into in tho house of Rocky
Pleasant, in South Memphis.
Wo heard tho particulars of tho rob
bing of from ten to twelve negroes, from
tho parties themselves. The sums taken
ran from tho most trifling up to threo
hundred dollars. Ono said ho was
ordered by n policeman on tho corner ot
Real and Du Soto to give up his money
and his weapons. A colored man living
in tho northern portion of tlio town,
says they entered his houso on pretense
of searching for arms, and killed his
mother an old colored woman in her
bod.
Two or three negroes wcro shot in
Chelsea.
Six or seven houses occupied by
negroes woro burned ou Echols street.
A building, now private property, but
formerly belonging to the Government,
was burned ou Gayosj, cast of Do Solo
street.
The grocery ut.il Causey strecti
belonging to a colored man, was entered
aii'l rubbed of half its contents.
Rob Church (colored ) was shot iu his
saloon, on Do Soto street.
A colored man named Cook, a porter
iu a store on Main street, was shot near
tho corner of Main and Exchange streets.
A colored boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out.
A shot was fired at a negro man who
was quietly looking through tho grating
in front of the billiard ealoou in the
Gayoso llouso. The bull missed him,
aud passed in close proximity to two of
the players.
Tho body of a negro, who had been
hot, lay in tho morning it the comer of
Hernando aud Ileal streets,
An attempt was made to fire every
Government building in town. In ono
that was burnod it is said that nu im
mouso amount ot Quartermaster's stores
wero destroyed.
Tho carnival of blood and firo oontiu.
ued tho whole night. The sky was
continually lit up, sometimes by one,
and again by four or fivo fires in differ
ent parts of the oity at a titno. Crowds
of armed rioters woro moving up and
down tho Btreets, firing, shooting and
tliroatenin negroes and Union men
Tho Pod was repeatedly threalonod wilh
violence Friends inform us that atone
tinio a orowd up Masii street, Boomed
to havo been fully decidod that tho
"damned Ynnkoo niggor-sympnthizing
rust" should bp wiped out, mid that they
wore tho onus to do it. Tho only cull wo
rooeivod, Uowovur from thoso lovers of a
free press, woro from two rufllans who
fired nt tho building, and ran with all
their might. No damage was dono.
Tho rioters scorned determined to ro
pent tho tragedy last night by attaoking
the teaohers of colored schools, the c6l
orod ministers and Yankees generally.
; Although the oity was generally quiet
tho assaults and robbery of negroes con
tinued. A oolorod .man named Louis
iieunolt, who had just comu on a boat
from Mound City, was asked on the
leveo whero he was from, He renlied
that ho was from Mound City. They
called him a "smoked Yankee," robbed
him ot his watch and money, broke his
arm, beat him over tho head and kicked
him off. ,
Robert Jones (colored) had just oorne
iu from the country, and was standing
ou the corner of Ileal and Causey streets
in tho f u'euoon. A man, appearing to
be a policemen, took his pistol and
twenty niuo dollars in money, and, as ha
turned to leave, llust a knife in hid
b ick, under tho shoulder blado. Anoth
er, standing by, known to bo .a pohoo
men, made no arrest of tho robber.
A colored man named Hob, who
works at Mr. Odell's livery stabler, was
stoned ns he was passing tho Engine
llouso near tho corner of Adams and
Main streets. IIo hastened to get out
of the way, but was shot in tho leg.
A negro was shot in the knee noar tho
corner of Howard's Row and the levee
This was dono by a well known Individ
ual for the sake of amusomont, and was
laughed at by the citizons who saw it:
A largo number of armed men from
the country arrived on tho morning
trains. They honed to have a hand in
putting down a great negro insurrection.
Very general quiet was however mains
tamed.
Yesterday morning found tho city
quietly dozing after the long night's ex
citement. South Memphis was nearly
destroyed. Dead bodies of negroes
wero found hero aud thero in tho streets. ,
Tho violenco during the night had been
altogether confined to tho whites. In
deed, it is said that firemen can be iden-.
titled who wero riding about town on
horses, belonging tho War Depart
ment, and who fired some of the houses.
It is reported that numbers of the police
joined tho rioters.
The following notice was published
iu the afternoon as the result of a moot
ing of a number of citizons ':
TO T1IK PUBLIC.
At a meeting of the citizens of Menu
phis, hold this day, W. B. Greenlaw was, -appointed
Chairman, and R. C. Brinkley
Secretary. Tho following resolutions
wero unanimously passed :
Ecsloved, That the Mayor of tho oity '
with the Sheriff of the county, together
with the Chairman of this meeting, bo
authorized to summon a force ot the citi
zens of sufficient number, to aot ia con
nection with tho military, placed at tho
disposal of the Mayor by Gbn. Stoneraan
which, togethor, shall oonBtituto a pa
trol for tho protection of the oity, to serve
such time as the Mayor, Sheriff and
Chairman of tho mooting shall direot. - -
Unsolved, That the Mayor bo request
ed to close all liquor saloons until! fur- .
ther orders.
licsolved, That tho Chairman, j. H.
MeMahon, S. r. Walker and R. 0. :
lirinkley, bo rcquestod to wait npon
Generall Stoneman aud inform him of i
tho proceedings of this meeting.
W. B. Gukeni.aw, Chairman. .
11. C. BitiNULEY, Soorotary.
Tho ubove proceedings have my cor.
dial aprobation, and are published for the
information of tho citizens.
John Pahk, Mayor.
Memphis, May 3, 18CJ6. '
Maj Gen. Stonoman, evidently salisfi- -ed
that a Memphis posso was a riot in
itself, sent the . following order to tbo
Mayor i
IIu'q'iis. Dept. 'of Tenn. "
Memphis, May 8, 1806. f' .
To the Mayor, City Council and all Civ
il Ofliccrs ot tho County of Shelby and
City of Memphis t
Gentlemen : Circumstanoes compel i
tho undersigned to interfere with tho
civil affnris of tho oity of Momplns. .
It is forbidded for nny person, with
out authority from these headquarters, to
assemble togcathor any posso, armed or
unarmed, white or colorod. This doea
not iiieludo tho polico fores of the oity,
aud will not as long au they can be rcli.
ed upon as preservers of the pcaco. .
I am, gentlemen, -Veryrosp'ly
Your .Obod't Sorv't, :
GitoiiGK StonhMan.
Maj. Gen. Commanding. :
The order of Gon. Stoneman gave
great satisfaction.
Tho 4th U. S. Regular Cavalry arriv.
ed lato in the afternoon, and a strong
patrol was placed in the oity. Thsre
were a few pistol shots in various parts
of tho oity, and moro especially frequent
ovor toward tho Charleston depot, but
thero was no fire nor disturbance.
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