Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-02
Items ana Incidents of the Eyac-
uatiOu OF Charleston.


A correspondent of the Cincinnati COM
mercidL, with the forces at Charleston, fur
nishes that paper an account of the eyacua-
tion.and incidents connected Herewith, from
which we make the following extracts
LANDING OF GENERAL GiLLMoRE--nIs RE-
CEPTION.
The motley crowd of some hundred on
the pier to which the tugs were fastened.
seeing a handsome transport land with its
two large white stars on field ofblue, flying
at the jack staff, deserted the little crafts
and the Admiral, and rapidly made detour
to the pier at which we rode 4 lot of
urchins Ill worn out rebel jackets were the
skirmishers then negroes, of both sexes.
who rushed to shake hands with such of the
crew as were already ashore then ten or
fifteen stragglers, all Irish or German. from
the rebel army, who had hidden to fall into
our hands, and looked on without demon.
straton and, lastly, squad Of five young
ladies', OF German extraction, pretty-wcll
dressed for Charleston, twenty per cent. of
the hye being rosy, plump, good looking,
and all not IN the least afraid Of the Yam
KEGS. In all, General Gilmore committee
OF reception numbered barely one hundred
and was composed as have stated. Along
the whole line of piers not another soul was
visible, save "a few of our colored soldiers. -
The streets down which we could look were
deserted, not horse or vehicle in sight -
NO smoke arose from the chimneys, no
blinds were thrown open. But the piers
told the most eloquent tale of decay. They
were crazy, neglected and sorry tomb
stone to departed traffic On none of them
was there the slightest evidence that any
commerce had been carried ON there in the
memory Of man The piles were away. the
planking warped and dismantcd. and in
places removed altogether Even the rings
worn on the stanchions by the old-tine
cables were no longer visible. Around the
piles, and for Il short distance out in the bar-
Dor, foated clots Of hat.consumed cotton.
sent nearer shore by every impulse Of the
ilood-tide, and not at all detracting from the
aspect OF commercial ruin.
The utter nervcIessness Of the people who
remained, was for curious remarks.
They dld not appear to care pin about the
matter, and seemed so well prepared for it
that they took the approach Of our boats,
and the landing, as matter of course.
THE COTTON BURYING-EXpLosIoY OF THE
WILMINGTON DEPOT
The military authorities at Charleston had
strenuously onlcavored to rake all the cot
ton IN the city together at the yard adioining
the Wilmington depot, where, as | have
already said, it was fired at daybreak.
A dreadful calamity occurred at the vii
mlngton depot, in which quantity of com
mls3ary stores had been left and which a
motley crowd Of poor pcople--men, women
and children, were appropriating While
the depot was crowded by these pillagers,
quantity of powder in it was gnited in an
way, blowing the building to
pieces killing and wounding large number.
Some OF the citizens with whom conyersed.
estimated the number ut two or three hun
drcd, which possibly is exaggerated The
" lmington depot is in the upper part of
the city, and General Gilmore visit was so
brlef, hardly an hour in duration, that |
had no opportunity to visit the scene of
disaster.
EEVACUATGoN COMMENCED MONTH AGO. !
For Il month in reality, the process off
had been going on. Citizens
sent off their valuables and families, under
1ne prctcXt or another, always receiving !
with ylrtuous Indignation any hint that con |
lcctcd their departure with military crisis. |
lhey had been contemplating doing this and |
hat for two years they said, and shrank from
,he word rocdte as II it touched them on the |
aw-whlch 1t may have done Every body |
vas very rhetorical, but, singular to say, it |
vas very hard to get the flow of rhetoric .
plugged by the simulated process of biting |
artridges, which a number of drill -sergeapts
!.as ready to impart-loss Of teeth inmate
lal. Everybody who was rich, fell to put
ng his house in ordor, and, strange to re-
tie, found his neghbors on each side and
cross the way, doing the same thing, and
nth energy. 1t was coincidence. NOTHING
lorc. Evacuate ! Pooh, blow that. They
'ere only carrying out a long cherished
lesign.
APPEARANCE OF TIE CITY.
! walked down the pier into the streets,
nd glanced up and down them, my time
'elng too brief even for hurried stroll. -
he interior streets, like those on the quay,
re dead. Charleston is the deadest South |.
rn city | have ever seen since the rebel l.
on commenced. Savannah is Paris be-
idc it. Debris from shells lies in the streets
'herc 1t fell Every scar where a fragment
ad struck is as visible as the day on which
was made, The lower third of the city
Ias an infected district No one dared
lccp there, and even when the guns at Nor
is Island were silent, men walked with ac
clorated gait and their ears prickcd. The
amage to Atlanta from shells is inconsidcr,
bic beside that to Charleston.
Before leaving, the enemy fired several ar
enals workshops and store-houses, and
robably some twenty or thirty houses in all
ave all gone down, at the moment | close
his letter save in one place, the fire is out
nd there it is growing smaller fast.
WHAT WAS FOUND IN SUMTER.
Before we run far we pick up Captain
'ragg, just returned from an erramd that
Ill have II place in history, lie had found
! Sumter nine guns, four Columbads
nd live fine howitzcrS, an old, torn rebel
ag, and II cat with six kittens. His coxs- /,
ain attempted to bring away the maternal
1t, but she fought aud scratched and bit
} iurlouSly that he was glad to drop her be- I
're he reached the boat. She had evident
IA iondnesS for the place, which had more
harms for her than gilded retreat and to
ear, however, that this cat will be over.
'mc by some Yankee trick, and that her
rogeny are tenderly preserved as relics. -
Ike the bits of rope that choked some =,
onStrouS maleiactor, which would, if COM g.,
ned, give cIotheS-hne enough 60 hold the =
ash Of the largest hospital, so the origin T,
Sumter cats Will shortly be numerous,
I'd the original Sumter kittens multitudi n
)us.