The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-12-11
BILL ARpS ClIiT.
rnl Arp Talks about .l,c Late Unplca>nr,t-
ness.
.iNei..a Constitution.

One hundred dollars principaiandS20
interest, and still a running. y kind IL.
dy from Louisiana has sent me cDnied-
crate note dated August so, 1862 II is
promise 10 pay 500, with interest At } }
cents day. These bills were called
seven tlirties, because the interest on
them was $7.3O year. They Were print
ed on Tic best OF bank note paper. and
had John G. Calhoun's likeness on one
end and Miss Liberty on the other. Cal
houn was dead, and Miss Liberty died,
too, about 1865. The Kind lady who
sent me the bill wrote tha! she found it
among her fathers old papers, and, as my
name was on the back of il, she ser. it to
me. ! don't know whether endorsed it
or not, though ii does ool: like my sigma
lurc. don't know whether she holds me
responsible or not, though freely admit
that WAS one Of the felers who raised
the racket. Nevertheless, | will pay the
note according to contract when it falls
due, which is TO be six months after 4
treaty Of peace has been made between
the United States and the Confederate
States 1t has not been made yet, and
the note is not due, but it is drawing in
lcrest, and ought to be very valuable, for
the money kings do say that the longer a
note or bond has 10 run the more valuable
it is. This note mag run on forever, and
there is no telling how much it is worth.
This Confederate promise to pay reyives
many sad and sweet memories. They
were sought for with esgerness by those
who had a surplus Of common currency
and wanted TO invest it. Our folks did
not want any more negroes, nor any more
land, and SO they bought these interest
bearing notes, and hid them away. I
expect old Major G;i bought this one
from me. But the mart men. who did
not abound in patriotism, DID not want
any kind Of confederate money or bonds,
and so they invested in lands at enormous
prices y common farm, that was worth
81 800, would bring S25 900. ~ BIZ pile
of money will tempt most anybody,
whether The money is good or not. One
of our patriots, who had faith like grain
of mustard seed. sold his farm and stock
and negroes all in lump for S150,GG0 in
confederate money, and filed trunk
with it, and would take it nut and count
it once . month. Later on he pu! it in
bouds Of 81 600 each, antl he loved to
count them and look at the coupons and
figure up the interest, and long after the
war was over he believed that those bonds
would be good sume day, and be redeemed
with The cotton or the gold that he said
VAS over in England As the months
rolled on and the Yankees were closing
their anaconda coils around us, and faith
was weakened and hope was turning to
despair, our confederate money would
hardly buy anything. In the spring of
G5, it took 500 to buy load Of shucks,
or bushel of corn. and $3.50 to bny q
pair of cotton cards. I saw man pay
s. 900 fer pound of opium that had run
the blockade, and he sold it to the opium
eaters on the sly for $40 in gold and felt
rich. The money got so bad that il took
sigh. of it to carry Oh the limited com
merce of the country, ald so the govern
ment at Richmond kept on rolling it out
of the machines ard dident take time TO
count it, and Mr.. SIemminger couldn't
tell whether be had issued 300 millions or
5000 millions. As the war neared its
close the money business Was like school
BOYS playing tag. Nobody wanel 10 be
the last man caught with it. II was
played around fast, jus: like young folks
paF thimbie at a party. And al this
time The soldiers were paid off in the
same currency 4. 81 a month. Tha so
woulder! pay for a tin wineglass ha' full
OF red liquor. You see, the glass 'um
bers were nj! played ou', and the l;4ucr
men used tin cnes made of scraps. Ter.
penny nails were worth 81 q piece [
know a wealthy man who built = nice
fence in front of his house aid pinned
the palings Oil with pegs because heconld
not get nails. The soldiers saw lba. con.
fetierate money WAS even it 10 put up AS
All ante at q game CT seven up. y SO
bill dinnt make the game interesting.
They were ashamed to send their month
" pay home 70 their families. tari wcuid
not buy anytiing and would just be an
aggravati0n.
But the boys kept on fighting, ana the
home folks kept on suffering and dividing
until there wascnt anything left to divide,
fox Sherma,l had been along here and
made a wa- path fifty miles wide, !,
and gobblea up every horse and 'aue
and COW and sheep and chicken, and
shook his ramrod at the buzzards. When
my folks got home from rummageiug
there wasent but ore cew in tic county,
and she was hid out in q csneirakc, and
it tonk $4,000 in money ard ia CID exc
cution for $500, and thirty yards
of factory shirting to buy her.
After the w&r that execution was col:ct-
ed with all lis interest. and so the COW
seller lest his confederate n,on-y, but got
abaut $500 il. greenback5 far her an'l Size
wa-ent jersey, either. Ti!cs- an!e.Lei.
lunl debts were awful hard to pay alter
the war was oyrr-L kno" it by expert
erce. When tic war broke ont owed
about $4,000 and was mighty good 'ar il.
During The war wanted to pay it in
confederate money. but my frisnds would
not take It, ar; alter the fuss was 0:cF |
cpuldeat, AID ii took ne ten Years II set
rid of lie load always though; that
Coionel Fort was right, for lie said We
were all ruined, aud ought to wipe cut
the slate and buzz up the notes and .:
counts aid mortgages aud let everyba!y
BEGIN anew and star; even with the world.
For, was sorier Ike mysrIi---he owed
about is many as lie ,i,!enl owe, and had
nothing 10 pay with Just think oI 8
lhaasaut millions oi nuney "ipeti .st
il; Il month. Think o: l000o0J0 pcoa!e
without currency. When lhe coliaI.s
caE,a, had SIS in greenbacks, AMI was
mex. tc the riches, man in .c"n. B1l
Har@ruvr had 80, ;l;:d he s;rul;ei arnll,:,!
Ike !. iioat1tl bond holder, ana "p..A':.: a
s.crr an.i had hall !, boXa! rotten tobacco
az! -ix bilacl,s, 81 actory yarn and :',i'
b.i,s oi brn.in :hir.ilg a:,,l sanl:, ;lsgwalt
tu. his stack. T!c j.gs were ior sergl'lE
mn!a>-;.. suppose.
Blu! everybody wei! Is work ias
soldiers brought bacl; some cd war!i u;ii
afn,y a,ocI.. The refugees ,oa.. hc:::::l I.
re..;rn and ltoug'!; along .oi.e '...tie ,!i.'
li.:.,> an,l chickens ;.l ,i..s., ;.Ea oH' NIX
Ia Sheraar!'f belt ,s5'; >;,zf, ci! liz ~
grade, ,;.d ever slice tirli ;;hay ,las,' bec:
multiplying il, repleuishi;g II III ;,'tns
tt:ous l,l:.nner. Tie II. niori, .; t,,i: ,ya
ara !asiias away, i,r ma-! 81 ,Hei~ VIII
fought il are ;ia..d OK! father lime ha'
.meu.i.a;: or,.r TIE SRI. anal ~ are i.,;C!i