The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-02-24
CAMP ANECDOTES.

A correspondent of the Eutaw Wing and OBJ
server, writes thus from Fredericksburg:
young, stout, hearty young man in S. C..
regiment, went to Gen. Lee few days ago, for the
purpose of getting furlough, when the following
amusing incident took place:
Gen Lce-Sir, do you know the position of a
soldier
Soldier. Saluting the General) do, sir.
Gen Lee-Assume the position ofa so!oier. l
want to see ifyou can execute two or three orders
a. | live them
&5ilier-(Squaring himself, facing the Gene
r., cutting his heels tosether) | am in a posi-
tio Of soldier now sir
Zen. Lee Viewing him closely and scrutiniz
ina lis postion) said: About face, forward
narch!' (and never said haiti
The following amusing incident took place in
tie 9th Alabama regiment am told, with late
ly enrolled conscript and Gen. Rhodes:
The General was riding around his brigade, aud
came up with the conseript, who had taken his
gun in pieces for the purpose Of cleaning and rub
bi;g it up.
Gen Rhodes-"What are you doing, sir? What
are you, any how -
Conscript-'I ain sort of sentinel. What are
you anyhUw :"
Gen Rhodes-"I am sort of General"
ript-"Well General, fiji you will hold
c n. Rhodes.-"W ell, sir, you Eold a while,
and will show you sort of guarlhousc'
The last We heard of the couscript General
Rhodes had him in the guard house at his head
quarters.
STRANGE AND TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC IN TIE
NoRrHwEsr-The Northern papers tell Of
strange and terrible epidemic that has broken out
in Indiana, completely baffiing all Efforts of the
n
4 few hours. A paper thus describes the symp-
toms and progress of the disease
There arc no symptoms indicating its approach
The patient is attacked with chill, and thinks
he has an attack of the ague; but soon as the
chill is over the patient sinks into stu2or, from
v hich he rarely revives. The muscles are rigid
the pupil of the eye is nsensible to either light or
touch; the surface of the body is extremely tender
and sensitive; the head is drawn back; the jaws are
fixed, and the breath is drawn forcibly with hiss
ing sound as FLY great effort, through the closed
teeth; the patient is blind and deaf
In children the stupor is very liable to be brok-
en- by frequent commissions. During the stupor
large black spots many Of them raised up like
blisters) appear on the surface of the body and
limbs the patient usually dying in from two to
four hours. In some cases the patient fingers
along for days, in species of low typhoid fever,
accompanied by blindness, deafness, paralysis of
the extremltles, &c In some cases the patient re-
wives from the stupor, feeling we'll as to believe
himself couvalescent but, in the course Of an hour
two, is seized with terrible Geliriun ternina-
ting i'll stupor aud death.
This disease leaves the patient 10 a typhoid
fever, and very low, and liable to loss of sight or
hearing, and to paralysis, upon recovery.
COURSES FOR notwithstanding to the most
approved Confederate Almanacs, there will be
four eclipses during the present year:
l. An eclipse of the sum- on the 18th of May,
at II h. Is H., a m, invisible in America,
,. 4 total eclipse of the moon, on the lst day
of June, partially visible. 1t will begin at Il
II N 80 sec, p. The beginning of total
darkness will be at 5 h. "a NJ. 80 see T. H. and
the end of total darkness at h. 81 H. Is sec.
?. m.
g. An eclipse of the sun, on the 1th of Noyem-
Der at h. 36 m, q. M, invisible in America.
i. An eclipse of the moon, on the 25,h day of
November, visible and nearly total throughout
the continent of America. 1t will begin at h.
81 m, IA sec, a. ~. The Ecptic opposition 3
h. 43 NJ, u sec, and the end of the eclipse h.
Is M, 30 sec, a. M. The number of digits
.eeiipsed will be IL on the moons half limit
SOAP WANTED.