The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-14

her pen il defence of her husband against
his slanderers. Having received from an
"ex-soldier," who hal served under the
General, copies of sumo of the yarns of
the Louisville, Ky, Courier Journal she
wrote a letter in answer to them, the other
day, and it is nov published. The yarns
were as follows:
SHERMAN AS AN INCENDIARY.
There are many facts connected with
his march through Georgia which Sherman
failed to record in lis book. One was the
burning of the Eatonton factory. small
cotton mill, from which two hundred wo-
men and children wholly subsisted. When
the Federal troops captured it detail was
made to apply the torch, but upon its ap-
proach the poor women so piteously begged
that they turned away and left A second
and third detail succumbed to the entreat-
les of the factory women and girls, who
truthfully told them that it was the only
way in the wide world they had to get their
bread and clothing. Sherman heard of it,
and never was hyena more furious on the
smell of blood.
Mounting his horse he rode to the fac
tory, when the women made the same ap-
peal to him, to which he, as he had done in
hundreds of other instances, listened, not
as man who had heart, but as demon
who glories in human misery. When they
had finished, he made a sort of stump speech
interlarded with blasphemy, and its con-
clusion directed in person the torch to be
applied, which was done, and the factory
in half an hour was pile of ashes. In
stead of his protecting these women he was
personally cognizant of their then and
there being robbed of the last mouthful of
provisions they had in their humble homes,
and such articles of common jewelry as
that people have, torn from their fingers,
pockets and drawers.
THE CURSE OF CATHOLIC SISTER UpoN
SHERMAN.
1t is well known that Mrs. Sherman has
been doing everything in her power since
the war to help the Catholic church in the
south. There was Catholic fair in Au-
gusta, last winter, to which she made some
valuable contributions, accompanied by a
pathetic letter. Knowing the vindictive
tiger she has for husband, and that he
would now blast the South if he had the
power, these acts of Mrs. Sherman were
thought strangely of. But there was scene
and an act on the night of the burning OF
Columbia which rises like a ghostly, infer
nal apparition before the soul of this lady,
and no doubt fills her with an awful dread
of what will be the eternity of her husband.
1t was this: There was Catholic mon
astery in Columbia, place no less sacred
TO all members of that religious faith than
heaven itself. To it the plate and jewels
CT every Catholic Church of Charleston
and every other one in the State, the holy
images and every other holy thing con
nec,ed with the worship had been sent. No
one knew what was there better than Sher.
man. He had been told Of 1t by many
priests, by Sisters of Mercy, by hundreds
of members of the church, before and aftel
he entered South Carolina, they all think
ing that no modern warrior would for 9
moment think of touching them. Wher
he rode into the city he was asked for {
guard to protect the sacred building, ant
his answer was an oath, and his riding di
rectly to the spot to superintend the burn
ing of the monastery in person. Wher
the lurid glare of the flames shot high int(
the heavens, and whilst Sherman was sit
ting upon his horse in front watching then
with grim, demoniac satisfaction, the lady
superioress collected the inmates who hat
fled from the burning monastery, marched
to the front, and there, with uplifted hands
in which was held cross, pronounced ant
called upon heaven to pronounce a curse
upon him.
MRS. suERMAS's LETTER.
Below is Mrs. Sherman's letter:
MY DEAR SIR; The General is absent
but have seen your letter, and the article
enclosed from a paper which has been con
sidercd respectable. The General has nj
intention TO answer anything which ha
been put forth in spirit of malice, envy
anger or resentment, regarding his Mem
ors. You may say for me. however, tina
the most "ghas.ly apparition" which "rise
before my souP-the one which "flls mi
with the greatest horror"-is the 'awfu
dread" Of the fate of those Especially
they be Catholics) who indulge in suel
baseless ISLANDERS and spread forth sucl
malicious falsehoods.
My knowledge of General Sherman
character is thorough. Every year of hi
life, since he was nine years old, hav
associated with him or corresponded witt
him, and have known his sentiments well
Could the natural virtues and heart ire
from malice, resentment or injustice, sc
cure heaven to a man, need not ask 70
HIM the supernatural gift of faith.
The Courier Journal says he perpetrate
an enormity in himself applying the tore
TO factory, during which time he was ais
guilty of blasphemy. / say General Sher
man never was guilty of blasphemy or pro
family, and the men of the Courier .Jourha
knew when they published that article tina
he had never applied the torch to q build
ing. How shameful to SANDER Religion
by accusing her of deliberately calling dow
curse upon man.
When the convent of the Ursuline nun
at Columbia, c., was reported to be j
danger of burning, General Sherman sen
my brother, General Charles Ewing. of hi
staff, and commissary officer, Major J
w. Comyn, both Catholics, with order
and authority to do all that could be don
for the Sisters and for those under the
charge. They executed the orders vii
zeal and great kindness, and under COZ
tinued instructions from General Sherma
they assigned to them goodly snare
wants until the army left the place. Curse
which are called down will not fall upo
General Sherman, and he is too good
wish that they may rest upon those who II
woke them.