The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-07

insisted no one was SO we'll qualified
TO hold the money Of the deceased as
the "administrator Of the late lament
ed So we had to hold the money,
but we were not required to give any
bond on that account, and the auditor
OF the treasury never asked yone for
an accounting along that liue. Cen
ersl 7. I. Eckert, assistant sec retary
of war, loosely remarked that the
more man had Of that kind of money
the poorer ho was. So great had the
value Of the money deprecated in the
latter days Of the war that pair of
boots cost 500, and it required more
than that to pay a weeks board. 1t
was jokingly remarked that head of
q family needed market basket full
OF money to buy basket full of pro-
visions. This rise in the price of the
necessities of life caused the authori-
ties at Richmond to appoint commits
sioners to regulate the price of the
commodities used in daily life. In
the archives We often ran across lists
of prices established by these commits
sioncrs. Paper for writing or print
iDg was very scarce in many parts of
the South. Some of the official re-
turns made by officers to the govern
ment were written on wall paper, and
envelopes were often made OF the
same material. Paper for printing
bank notes was so scarce that they
used some times old paper of broken
or sL- pcndcd banks and printed new
billsof current banks on the reverse
side Of the suspended bauk and can
celled the old bills with stamp.
Very few Of the records of the Con-
fcderatc navy were captured. Per-
haps some of the missing papers of
the navy and State departments we're
accidentally burned at Richmond at
the time of the evacuation. There fell
lnto our hands much that related to
blockade running and correspondence
with agents in Europe. This CORE
spondence was preserved on account
of having been sent to Mr.. Seddon,
secretary Of war, and these letters
were kept at the Confederate war
Office.
When the Confederate forces were
driven out Of New Orleans, and after
wards from Baton Rouge they carried
away with item old records relating
to the time when Louisiana was a
Spanish, and afterwards French prov
ince. They also took with them the
records of the Supreme Court,of the
State. These records drifted about
from pillar to post in Louisiana and
Texas within the lines of General f.
K. Smith, and when he surrendered
to General Frank B. Heron of the
United States volunteer forces, these
records of the State of Louisiana went
with the other property and found
their way to Washington. Old, dusty
and crumblipg with age, the records,
written In Spanish and French over o
hundred years ago, were quaint and
interesting as study of bygone age.
They were in strange contrast with
the records which were the product of
the war. Old fashioned paper manu-
factured before any of the actors in
! the civil war we're born, tied together
with ribbons, which was the style in
the days of Spanish and French rule
when high officials of noble blood rep
resented their sovereigns beyond the
sea, an air of departed aristooracy
lowered over the papers. Stately and
digni6ed to the last degree were the
documents they handled and carefully
filed away for our respectful investi-
cation. We could almost imagine we
saw the knightly royal officers who
had written and signed them in their
royal masters name. The documents
survived to tell their story of the
kingly days on American soil long
after the hands which had written
them had orumbled to dust. The
documents were cared for and at o
later day when peace had fully come
they were restored to the State Of
Louisiana.
One Hans Double Dealing.
For obvious reasons I Withhold the
name, but for the sake Of convenience
| will call him Colonel T. He was of
Southern birth and education, but
lived in Northern State before the
war and when it began. He took q
prominent part in politics, and openly
and boldly proclaimed his sentiments