Gold Hill Daily News

Gen. Sherman's Guide.

Gen. Sherman had with him in his Georgia campaign, one of the best and most reliable scouts or guides in the south-west—an old man, a native Georgian, and a wealthy planter and slaveholder at that. It would not be proper of course, to mention his name, but he is well known to all who were in the habit of visiting head-quarters a year ago. When the war broke out he denounced the Southern leaders, and in consequence of his Union sentiments was compelled to leave his home, near Macon, between two days. His neighbors missed him and suspecting, rightly, that he had gone off to join the Yankees, they followed so closely that he was obliged to hide in the mountains in the northern part of the State for several weeks. They have since organized all kinds of raids for no other object than to catch this one man.

After being in the service some time he volunteered his services to General Buell, but that officer didn't need much Southern "guidance." Next he received a position as volunteer aid to Gen. Rosecrans, to whom he was of great service in the campaign terminating at Chattanooga. He has been with Gen. Sherman since last June. There is not a highway or a by-way in the interior of Georgia with which he is unacquainted, and scarcely a town or village in which he is not known.

He used to say that with a brigade of cavalry, he could find cotton and niggers enough within a hundred miles of Atlanta to liquidate the National debt. He is one of the few rich men of the South who have remained faithful to the Union cause when they knew that to do so was to lose their property, their homes and their comfort. On his present trip he carries with him a black list of those who took pleasure in prosecuting him four years ago. He thinks that he will make it more than even with them before he gets through.