The Weekly Journal, 1865-08-18

Siicvinan s icporc ascribing me orjgwj ?.u iuo tire in Columbia, S. to Gen Hampton's cominund as n falsehood. Gen. .11. says : '*' ' I ? would be difficult, it* n?*t. impossible," to ex- : prossf.in an equal numner of falsrhoo'ds than are contained in the above extracts. There is not one word of truth in all tliftt has been quoted, except the Statement that "Get). Haiup-. ion commaiKlod the Ctmf. derate muguard of cava'ry." I did not order anv cotton "moved into.the street and fired.*' On tbe contrary, my first acton taking ommaiid of the cavalry ?to which 1 was'assigned ordy the night' before the evacuation ol Columbia ? was to i']>-1 resent to Gen; Beauregard the danger to the town of firing the cotton in tbe streets. (Jpou this representation he authorized me to give orders that no cottou in the town should ' fired, which order was strictly carried out. 'T? feft the city after the head of Sherman's cCl- ? uiiin entered it, and 1 nsserj, what.Ycnn^V? proved i>y thousands, that not oDQ^bd^^/-<cot:

everlasting same. I am vour obedient servatrf, WADE J! AMITON, Lieut. Gen.. j Ho?; General Buckner Lost j Ills Fortune." ' '/When General Buckricr, of Kentucky, \ya-i a i captain in the regular r.ruy Buckner murnqd j Miss Kinsburv, an heiress, who owned an iai-; rnensc landed estate in Chicago, valued at rfjore j than a. million of dollars. Jt was.unimproved, i however, and did not yield an income, Buck- j nor finally placed it under thesupervoifon^fGen'. Burnsidt', who. with judicious mjinslgetnilrti, soon, caused it to pay handsomely;' When the war broke out. it was uncertain on which side Buckner would servc< '?le otierfcl a high position hyCur. Lincoln, abd also by Jefferson JDavis, and ? natty'chose to cast his'f'u tnuc with tne.Bcuth. ' Hut befqragiowg''-sot? to pretmrve was wade ofctf. to the brother of Mrs. Buckner, in which they bad full conlidence. A little,inter, and Kinshurv, the brother, en ento - to ento red the Federal army, and was wounded in ! the bait I cot' Fredericksburg. While lying or: j

;i wife. The advertiser replied, directing tne writer to\s neighboring asylum for, idiots? the same youth, not at all abashed, whose name in John Morris, speaks of himself as follows: . _ "I am eighteen years old, have a good set teeth, and'believe in Andy- Johnson, the Star spangled banner; and the 4th of July.' I have taken up a state lot, cleared up eighteen acre* last year, and seeded ten of it down. My buckwheat, looks firstrate, and the oats and potatoes are bully. I bave got niDe'shecp, one two year old bull and two heifers, besides a house and barn. I want to got mapped;.- I want to buy bread and butter, bOopskirts and waterfalls for some person of the Temale persuasion during my life. Thai's -.What's the .matter with me. But I don't knoJw heir to dc ' it." / ; 1 ' Uncle Sam's Doctrine.?Bring forth "the ... / . fatted calf and kill it; for this my. Union was sundered, but is united again; and these my peoplo were lost, but are uow found. . , . There is more jcy in my heart.in onejerfing nvnv liinftfv and mn(i

destruction of Columbiaand for the many other atrocities committed by his army. lie declares .-that'the fires set by my order consumed the eity. I have shown how false is this statement; but oven if it were true, how does he clear h iinself of the guilt of burning private dwellings outside of the city limits? Early in the alter-. ( noon of the day lie entered Columbia, my house, which was two miles from the eity, was fired, soon after the bouses of Mr Trenholm, \ General Lovel, Mrs. Stark, Dr. Wallace. Mr.' Arthur, Mr.Loratta and Mrs. English, all in the same vicinity, shared the same fate. General Sherman cannot deny that these houses were burned by his men, nor can he deny that he destroyed, in part, or in whole ihe villages of Barnwell, Graham, Bamberg, Buford's Bridge, Orangeburg, Lexiogtoo, Alston, l'omana, Winsboro, Blackstocks, Society Hill, Camden and Cheraw. Does not the fate of

borne by empty spleen, wnen sncn results arc involved. The prompt action of the Government at Richmond has made its purpose too plain to be mistaken. It will be heeded throughout the South, and will tell greatly, we , believe, in bringing its people up to their high rank of duty, so that thev will practically attest their loyalty by choosing loyal men to represent ill era.?J'. Y. Times, Hth insL Amnkstr Oaths?It is said that the clc-rks of the Department of State at Washington are nearly overwhelmed " with the amnesty oaths which conic nouiing in by the bushel from all parts of the States lately in rebellion. Two boxes containing over seven thousand were received from Georgia a ii \v days ug'>, and two' others containing''about twice, us many arrived { about the same time from Richmond, Ya. "Our am y ?wrre terribly in Flanders "

burn Columbia! I ch? not wonder t::is.' . !iou!d s'tlioii.tii escape the infamy. which, like the lcj)'iosy ?if Ceh:ei, shall cleave nntw Lira and nu*o his seed i'oteyev, for fho ?:tu:i.-?i n" of this dark deed. Kor aui I m:i pri.-ed that lie should naturally seek to . escape by taking1 relugc bchinil a ia-sckbod. J bit he shall not with impunity make 1110 the scapegoat for bis sins. Wherever lie has taken his army iu th> j State.' women have Wn insulted or ontraged, j old men have been'hung to extort, irom 1 beiu i l-idtleu treasure. The fruits of the earth have ; been destroyed, leaving starvation where plenty ! once icighed and the dwellings of rich and j poor alike have been laid iu ashes. For these i deeds history will brand !.im as a robber and j incendiary, and will deservedIv "daum liim to . j

Ujrf f?jrS'~t>n tire \\i?unTTt/?k pussieN^'JT of "Hby ' city, IJis assertion to the* contrary is false, and lie knows it to be so. A distinguished citizen of this State?whose name. were I at liberty to give it, would be a sufficient voucher even at tbe North, for the truth of any state riieut made by him?lius given to the public a minute history of the destruction of the city. (Jen. Hampton then recites the story of t.hc pillage and attrooious conduct of Sherman's men in Cblumbia, and concludes his letter as follows: "But enough of this atrocity, the recital of which makes humanity shudder, the heart grow sick. Surely enough has been quoted 4 from the narrative of "these horrors to .prove that Gen. Sherman alone is responsible for the