to apologize, but a conceited idiot rolls the morsel under his tongue and chews it as a cow chews and swallows her cud. He feeds on his conceit."-"Bill Arp," in the Atlanta Constitution.

ADDENDA.

ADDENDUM A.

[Referred to on page 42.]

SHERMAN IN GEORGIA AND CAROLINA.

[Extract from Alexander H. Stephens's History of the Wai Between the States, Vol. II, pp. 510-511.]

Private houses were sacked, pillaged and then burnt; and after all family supplies were destroyed, or rendered unfit for use, helpless women and hungry children were left destitute alike of shelter and food. I know men-old men, non-combatants, men who had nothing to do with the war further than to indulge in that sympathy which nature prompted—who were seized by a licensed soldiery and put to brutal torture, to compel them to disclose and deliver up treasure that it was supposed they possessed. They were in many instances hung by the neck until life was nearly extinguished, and then cut down with the promise to desist if their demands were complied with, and threats to repeat the operation to death if they were not. Judge Hiram Warner, one of the most upright and unoffending, as well as one of the most distinguished citizens of Georgia, was the victim of an outrage of this sort. He had had nothing to do with the war; but it was supposed that he had

money, and that was what these "truly loyal" "Union Restorers," so-called, were most eager to secure. Instances of a similar character are numerous and notorious. In some cases, where parties resisted, their lives, as well as their purses, watches, and other articles of value, were taken!

[The following extracts are from a Pamphlet on The Destruction of Columbia, South Carolina, written and published in 1865, by the gifted and accomplished William Gilmore Simms, LL. D.]

The destruction of Atlanta, the pillaging and burning of other towns of Georgia, and the subsequent devastation along the march of the Federal army through Georgia, gave sufficient earnest of the treatment to be anticipated by South Carolina should the same commander be permitted to make a like progress in our State.

Half naked people cowered from the winter under bush-tents in the thickets, under the eaves of houses, under the railroad sheds, and in old cars left them along the route. All these repeated the same story of suffering, violence, poverty, and nakedness. Habitation after habitation, village after village-one sending up its signal flames to the other, presaging for it the same fate-lighted the winter and midnight sky with crimson horrors.

No language can describe, nor can any catalogue furnish an adequate detail of the wide-spread destruction of homes and property. Granaries were emptied, and where the grain was not carried off it was strewn to waste under the feet of the cavalry or consigned to the fire which consumed the dwelling. The negroes were robbed equally with the whites of food and clothing. The roads were covered with butchered cattle, hogs, mules, and the costliest furni

Valuable cabinets, rich pianos, were not only hewn to pieces, but bottles of ink, turpentine, oil, whatever could efface or destroy was employed to defile and ruin. Horses were ridden into the houses. People were forced from their beds to permit the search after hidden treasures.

Hardly had the troops reached the head of Main street (in Columbia), when the work of pillage was begun. Stores were broken open within the first hour after their arrival, and gold, silver, jewels and liquors eagerly sought. The authorities, officers, soldiers, all, seemed to consider it as a matter of course. And woe to him who carried a watch with gold chain pendant; or who wore a choice hat or overcoat, or boots or shoes. He was stripped in the twinkling of Purses shared the same fate.

an eye.

No one felt safe in his own dwelling; and, in the faith that General Sherman would respect the Con

vent and have it properly guarded, numbers of young ladies were confided to the care of the Mother Superior, and even trunks of clothes and treasures were sent thither, in full confidence that they would find safety. Vain illusions! The Irish Catholic troops, it appears, were not brought into the city at all; were kept on the other side of the river. But a few Catholics were among the corps which occupied the city, and of the conduct of these a favorable account is given. One of them rescued a silver goblet of the church, used as a drinking cup by a soldier, and restored it to the Rev. Dr. O'Connell. This priest, by the way, was severely handled by the soldiers. Such, also, was the fortune of the Rev. Mr. Shand, of Trinity (the Episcopal) church, who sought in vain to save a trunk containing the sacred vessels of his church. It was violently wrested from his keeping, and his struggle to save it only provoked the rougher usage.

In a number of cases the guards provided for the citizens were among the most active plunderers; were quick to betray their trusts, abandon their posts, and bring their comrades in to join in the general pillage. The most dexterous and adroit of these, it is the opinion of most persons, were chiefly Eastern men, or men of immediate Eastern origin.

But the reign of terror did not fairly begin till night. In some instances, where parties complained