The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1869-02-13

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1o People q not be
j prised ait anything perpeIated %
i lestHlayt9nas militia on either slee-oi
4 The river. 20 TEeITkT .3,HlEf
I. The following letter IS received
i from q gentleman IN l1Ig-1 standing
/ ih thfs city, and tie graphic sketch
| he gives ef affairs about Augusta
#1l be read 8litA iftt6regt
aftT Untold 0bbeffgs. iip 9li3
laiH iaa hne STEAMER Dies AH9,
Is white River Jan. 23, 1869.
F5sg6E Gd5Jyas0ag lr6ia Io1f
long ana intimate acquaintance IA
et6e better days of the Republic,
when Ellb Ad7ccabe and avalanche
we're published in the same office,
| u feel a8t liberty TO have a little
s6hfa with you. Iol s89W ell
There have been D grea t1any
rgtnofs respecting the toiAgs9 9E
flle l4aiIftiadiil Woodruff n66UnbbY,
Arkansas, shat were false yet
there are some truths that 4 have
a88 seen publicly. taomla l
syad RehAea Barbefff6s.e nIod
BdB I swish To speak 10 you of u
species Bf robbery which, 40 far
al T. have sVef learned, Is with6dt a
parallel, even in Terrible war
through which we have, passed.
That COMMON soldiers viii steal,
rob, b1uhdef and Commit oitfagses
of Che most atrociods character, Is
common to, and perhaps unavoid-
able, in war; but for those Who
have been placed iii command 6f
these, to use them pubtiel for this
is beyond proceed ent, so
tar as my EnoWl edge extends Per-
ha19a u can give You q better idea
of what I wish to say lin my little
e6hfab by d 4anhing sketch of some
of the IihEiHerIts THAT haV8 come
under my ,pbseFYa tion sinee came
over nhePey earlyIzin Decent enswaE
did not go5up1to Augusta, b6itngot
off st my landing below. In a day
or two I addressgd q, fl6te to Gen.
Upham, commanding the district,
that VI had business at Augusta
andif a9aould attend to III With6at |
mofestatgn I.3wouId like ito lido 81. |
lie wrote me aai Estg polite aiansy6 r |
bhatn6 pass was required to come |
d, and that i should have a pass |
10 return. went up, and soon
afber nay arrived there was greatax-
3itemeHt caused by hOstileldemon-
STATIONS without. There were sew
5ral hundred armed men, mostly
rom other counties, I learned, I
ready to attack the militia and,re5
ease the citizens who were CON
med in prison.
But for the interpretation of some
I'D citizens, who went out and as-
iured them of the suicidal policy
IT, theiro course, there would have | ]
,eeR bloody work. The ordsflto ]
hbot the prisoners and l5UrnDtIe
own 9as soon is the attack WIS /
1aae would, in all prabRbility
ave been executed. Wiser and Z
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. n they're | {
red and quiet was soon restored.
Wien the alarm was giVefq therg 3
ras . scene 81 ;confusioh that beg If
ars description. sFall into line H h
as shouted by the soffi6ars, rune ,
ing to stnd1fEoi blythe = RAJ anSlfBnI
tgabonds, mostly without arms Y
he rolling ofacotton bales, hay.l 81
~ aYery movable thing to block j.
le the streets, presented "a scene 81
at to one accustomed to soldier t.
g, was really ludicrous. For t.
natelg, theEe WRs no fighting, for b
llch she county, is under MANY 81
'ligations To those who ,ureYented 81
asI called ga Gen, Upham, who Ii
ssted me kindly, and sent hisad4 Inn
ant to passsus out Of his lines Epl
: yifiSg G0ntFiHatE0ris. 5id a.
White ut augusta, piearnell ffon q
9d authority that, rs our rsier1l | Is Is
rh0Od bnd been .011iAk say,eJ a.,