The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-19

|isw guard aaa Aelp tAamsaivea Many oa Itka pasoled msa soisesea h GresAahoro. iA tha hope ef sAAsing the miliions of Ispecie which they snppcssd to hs some where thee. "l have fought fonr years. said tall daSk. eyed Georgian, "loss health, home. everything this old ragged usiform is everything own in the wosld and lll take all 1 can tote, gold oT grub"
 At last train was ordered south. and as many as could sque<ss into the ~resched box-ca's got a ride ss tar As Charlotte vile. Just bef,re we lest Iamor was cuneot that Mosby had shot President Lincoln this was the 6rN news ol the assassin alton. Charlottesville was swarm ing with men, some leaving as fast as others came all stopping loHg enough to 1 get Tations, Ut which there seemed no lack any where Where were all these great stores of provisions whiIa Lees army was stArvipgi i Oa~ard ,ain no loi'eT'ng now. On yard, from daylight until too dark to see the cross tieS- Thea down in q fence corner to sleep and up and O. again through North Carolina iato Abbeville. s C, where the railroad stopped, and a few yards from the end stood wAai ap- peared ,o oe the same baggage car had seen in D snville, and in it was stored the same pr. cious cargo. The car was in charge of N .jsr Steele, and although osiy a single sentinel was oo gu ard, stlll 1t was evident tha, there vas some anxiety, for two or three times in as many days a cordon ot cavalry suddenly eacircled the car, and the precious kegs wsre hastily loaded on six wagons and moved rapidly away, only to return again In the same mysterious manner,
 l delayed awhile at this place, feeling sure that either our own men eg the Fed. erals would seass this mooey. Mir Davts and his cabine, were here with a guard et Marmaduke's cavalry, . detach neat of a aval dudes, and a heterogeneous mas of volunteers Several of tho latter men told me that there would be a scramble for the money as soon as 1t became coz ,ain that 1t could not be saved from cap ture and q part of it did go that way
 The night before they lsf to march into the hands ot tue Federals, the spec c guard was suddenly increased to about fifty men. At about nine o'clock. while taking to ana nt them. tail man oa horseback camo down the street rom the town, and, being challenged. informed the sentry that he was General BreCkin- ridge secretary of war.
 "Ah. general said the sentry, also q keniuckian. there's no Cor f-desacy now. and no war department, and my orders are rict"
 "Well, call Major Steele, then"
 This being done, they both er,ered the car, lighted a candle, and rem .ined some time.
 That night Breckinrid ge lsft MT. D wis party, made hts way to FioTda. and cs i. capsd from the country. P Der ,min lett at about the same time, believe, and next moruinG tho goveTnment had dis appeared cavalry, marines. specie, and all much to the disappointment of a number of men in Abbeulle and the vii. tago above, who wexs discussing.the pro- priety ot taking possession of the treas urs. And indeed there was oaly one thing which had prevsated it--respec, and sympathy tor the hunted Confederate pTss'de:.t.
 Oa again, souihward, 1 went, rested and refreshed nov with one party, now wilh another, until falling in with group of wounded mea one oa them on cTutches
 remained with them curyisR their traps, uatil they wese provided for. Tas negroes 90 far seemed to be working, an d. though eager for news, very Teticeot them selves. They knew nothing of their free dom, except through vasse rumoss, which they discreditea. ! crossed the SavAnna h r,ver one eve0ipg at dark, and for the 6rst time in four years was again under the dominioa Of ,he stars Asd stripes The U aion troops held Augusta, sad had established a parole office and posted mo- tices proclaiming as outlaws those sound witoout a peIole.
 From th's city the railroad was open 10 Atlanta How 1t escaped the general de struciion Is a mystery, for, from R ch- mond to Mobile, the cavalry of both armies had swarmed over the country, cutting railroad lines wherever they touched them, destroying bridges and tres,ies. ca to Atlanta, or what had been Atlanta, for it was dead fores, oi toppling chimneys set amid desolate ruins From here we were on the tramp again but the stream Of m en had grown thinner as they dropped of here and there on the way.
 After many weary miles we reached Montg omesy at last, and found a ste ,m. boat ready to carry us to Mobile. A Fed. erai officer gave rations to all applicants another gave transportation tickets to Mobile several of 'Aem were boarding at the hotel paying $50 a day. Confeder ate money. The steamboat was crowded as she started down the river. The negroes here had learned that they were free, and every landing place was crowded with the poor creatures, with their little bundles of household goods, begg,n the captain 10 take them away. Daring the darkest days of the war the negro had worked with faithful industry for the unprotected ones at home, for which the sou,hefn people casnot be too grateful