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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. l. m. grist's sons, Pubii.her.,} % 4amilS !N>Wt: 4or #???? ? ?f political, gonial, ^grieultural and O'onuarrria! Jntcresis of Hi? |fopl<. j ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKV"ILLEr& C., "TITESD"AY,SEPTEMBER'36, lT)tE N"Q. 77. 4? i| A DAR 4? 4* 4 By ETTA 4 CHAPTER IX. A I mat Cmm lri? fi raw I nr. U'? Oiarv. April 1st. "L'homme propose, et Dleu dispose,' saith the proverb, and after an ab< sence of six years, here I am back ir this hateful Massachusetts capital, s< full to me of wretched associations anc memories?the city which I ardentlj hoped to never see again. I was obliged to sell the last of m> Jewels to pay for the journey frorr New Orleans?my beloved jewels, the trophies of so many past triumphs! Il made my heart bleed to part wit! them, but one must have money. It ii now two wretched years since mj miseries began, and during that perioc I have not paid Hannah Johnson s dollar of wages, yet she stays on with me, not so much from love, I fear, af a hope of future reward when I shal have conquered the unkind fate thai now overwhelms me. But shall I conquer it? We have secured a boarding place In an obscure corner of the city, where the afflictions are vile food and suspicious people. To be poor and fastidious at one and the same time is sadly inconvenient. Words cannot ex press tne aDnorrence wnicn i nave iui poverty in all its forms, and since ] have tasted luxury and ease my repugnance to my old state of privatior has increased an hundredfold. Verily, I cannot go on longer like this? something must be done. Today I sent Hannah Johnson ou1 for a carriage, and we drove to thai West End house where I once lived and quarreled with poor, dear Robert ' There," I said to myself, "I shall surely hear news of the child." As I entered the street a daggei seemed to pierce my heart. The house was gone?the march of moderr improvement had swept it out of existence. Workmen were busy removing debris from the spot where it once stood. My former landlady and hei servant Martha?where were they? Consternation seized me. I plied the workmen with vain questions. 1 limped about the vicinity, striving tc gain some information concerning the last occupants of the house; but it was useless. Baffled, disappointed, 1 let Hannah Johnson lift me, at last into the carriage, and when we were shut in together I sobbed and cried bitterly. "I have come a long and tiresome Journey. I have sold my last articit of value to learn the fate of tht child," I said, "and this is the result. "The landlady and her maid art gone?Heaven only knows where. Tht workmen say that the house was vacant for months before its destruction You had better leave me, Hannah, foi it is plain that, sooner or later, ] must cast myself on public charity." "Don't get down-hearted, ma'am,' answered Hannah; "there are plenty of children In the world, and you car buy one anywhere for a couple of dollars." Hannah is Bnglish by birth?it was in Ehigland that I first secured hei services?oh, those glad, gay nights al Covent Garden! But I must not thin! of the past or I shall go mad. She is very shrewd and daring, but now sh? hints at something too dangerous t< think about. I am ready to curse myself for my own short-sighted folly Why did I ever leave the child? Why did I not take her with me when ] shook the dust of this city from my feet six years ago? Why did I no consider that I might one day neet her?that she would always be a power in my hands to wield against th< Grey locks? Alas! I could not thei foresee my widowhood, and the mis fortunes that awaited me in the future. I left the child at the last gasp? I am sure she must have died?th< doctor assured me she had not ? L'llillK'C VII IIIC, J VI, U..UV. p. cumstances, I dare not make a singh movement against poor Robert's rela tives. Meanwhile they roll in luxurj while I starve. Thursday. For a whole week I have been seek ing information concerning my forme) landlady, but finding it not. The the atre where I used to dance has a nev manager, and even were the old oni still there he would know nothing o what 1 wish to discover. I must movi cautiously. Not for worlds would have any of my former associate! know of my presence in the city?leas of all the errand which brings me here Even Hannah begins to feel discour aged, especially as we are obliged, a this wretched place, to pay ou board in advance. "It seems, ma'am," she said to nv this morning, "as if we'd brought ui against a blank wall, with no openinj in it." She grows restive. If her hope o future reward suffers an eclipse, I an sure she will leave me to my fate. Saturday. I set forth with Hannah for a con stitutional. It will never no inr me u fall ill here, and so increase my al ready numberless perplexities. "You're just breaking down with th< disappointment, ma'am," says Hannah and 1 think she is right. I draggei myself as far as the Common, am there, on a mall which chanced to b nearly deserted, I fell, exhausted am exasperated, upon a seat. "Hannah," I cried, "with my miser able infirmity it is impossible for m to walk through life, and who is t furnish the carriage in which I mus ride?" "The Oreylocks of Blackport, ma' am." answered Hannah. Her words plunged me into mournful reverie, from which I wa at length aroused by the sound of foot steps approaching on the gravel, looked up to see a perambulator, pro pelled by a maid, coming along th mall toward the spot where 1 sat. An other child was trundling a hoop b the side of the servant, whose draggle appearance, even at a distance, struci me as something strangely familial * K DEED It * W. PIERCE . * * Nearer she drew, and a second look made assurance doubly sure. "Eureka!" I almost screamed; "It Is ?#<*? V?r* t mat ma. " Yes, my lodging hoise girl in that role of nursery-maid, which I myself 1 had first thrust upon her! As she > reached the seat whereon I sat I arose 1 and touched her shoulder. The stupid r creature had not seen me. "Martha," I said, making a gesture r toward the infant she was propelling, i and whose tow head was hanging at an } acute angle over the side of the pert ambulator, "where is my baby? whati ever did you do with it?" s I never saw such a frightened creatr ture! Of course she recognized me? I I have not lost all my good looks? l and she flung up her hands with a cry. i "Oh, goodness, gracious me! Now 3 it's come your turn, ma'am! Ain't I I ever going to hear the last of that i baby?" And then suddenly she gath ered courage and faced me defiantly. "You took it away yourself," she said. "You know you did, and that's what I told 'em all, and not one of 'em doubted my word." I felt a curious shock. "Martha, who would have thought you so shrewd? Come and sit down on this bench and unburden your mind to me." She obeyed like an automaton. "Tell me everything," I insisted. And she did. The simple creature held nothing back. When I had drained her stupid head of >very bit of lnt formation which it contained; when 1 I had learned all that I wanted to know. I I arose with a laugh, a joyous laugh, . that came straight from my heart. I "Martha, you are as wise as an owl," said I; "of course it was I who took my child! Did you, did anybody, i think it possible for me to leave her i behind me when I went away? I only wished, just now, to frighten you a lit tie for your old carelessness?be > thankful that I let you off so easily. And now, go in peace, M^iha. You have done me a good service. " 'The gods that live forever [ Are on our side today." ' I see the finger of fate in this meet ' ing, Martha; adieu!" I left her staring blankly, not comt prehending a word of this farewell, > and limped off with Hannah. ' "It was my husband who carried ' away the child," I said to my companion. "Whatever did he do with it?" she i answered. "Cannot you guess? He went down to Blackport that same night, but he 5 did not take the baby with him. Why? i Because it had died some time be twlxt its removal from the lodging house and his departure from the city." I "What a mind you have, ma'am!" cried Hannah, admiringly. "Now observe. He did not speak to the Greylocks of his child's death, 1 otherwise they would never have sent a messenger to fetch us to Blackport after the discovery of Robert's body. ? According iu mat Ilia, uic man called at the lodging house was par1 tieular to say that Godfrey Greylock : wished him to escort both me and the J child back to Greylock Woods. The 1 messenger returned with news that I > had fled and taken my baby with me. In all probability the story has never been contradicted." r "Well, ma'am," she said, breathless1 ly. r We looked at each other. 1 "Godfrey Greylock is one of the ^ richest men in the state, and he is " absolutely without an heir," I answeri ed. 1 I went back to my wretched board" ing house place. "Now for the first bold stroke for fortune and position!" I cried, and, " seizing pen and paper, I wrote the following lines to Miss Pamela Greylock at Greylock Woods, Blackport: "Broken-hearted, weary of life, full " of unspeakable regret and yearning r for him who once loved me, and who sacrificed everything to that love?I mean my husband and your nephew? I write to beg you, his favorite rela live, the one who, he often assured r me. was a mother to him in his moth. erless boyhood, to give me some account of his last interview with you ' on the night of his suicide. Did he 3 speak of me? did he speak of his litf tie innocent child, and was it in terms e of endearment? If you have the ~ heart of a woman, grant me the con1 solatlon of knowing that his last s words were concerning us. t "Iris Greylock. Wednesday, tl-it* fnllnwlnc letter from t Miss Pamela Oreylook. r "In the conversation which he had with his father on the night of his e death, my unhappy nephew declined to l> speak of you in any way. His child ? he barely mentioned. As he was rushing from the house I asked him to tell f me something concerning her. He ret plied that he had no time. There were no words of endearment. "My nephew was my idol, and to the - fate of his child I cannot feign an in5 difference which I do not feel. Neith er do I believe that the sins of others should be visited upon her. At the p time of her father's death it was said i. that she was very ill. Did she recov1 er? Is she well? Is she like my unJ fortune nephew? Understand that I e ask these questions upon my own restl ponsibility. and without the knowledge or consent of my brother, who is - at present abroad, and who would see verel.v censure me for so doing." o I clasped my hands in an excess of t delight. Who would have thought that poor, dear Robert could have - snown sucn uiscreuon 1 it inai lasi nmversation with his father? Of course a this severe, high-horn Miss Pamela s detests my very name. She believes - all the evil things that have been I said against me. Kvery word of her - letter is meant to repel and wither her e nephew's widow. She does not yet - know the person with whom she has y to deal. Out of the few possessions J that remain to me I look a two-yeark old newspaper ami clipped from it the P. following paragraph: "We are sorry to hear that Mademoiselle Sylphide, the charming and piquant danseuse, met with a severe accident at the Metropolitan theatre last night. She fell through a trap door on the stage, and sustained a compound fracture of the leg and other injuries so serious that it is feared she will never again delight the public with her wonderful dancing." This slip of paper I inclosed In a second letter, running in this wise, and addressed as the previous one had been, to Miss Grey lock: "My child recovered entirely from the illness of her infancy. She is strong and well, and the image of her lamented father. In her I find my sole consolation for the past, my only hope for the future. Two years ago, as you 111 ' ? ?? nau'QnonPr Will see irum an mciuovu .... paragraph a great misfortune overwhelmed me. I was supporting myself and my darling in comfort?yea, luxury, by my art, when the carelessness of a stage carpenter deprived me in a moment of fame and fortune?ended forever my career of triumph. Had it not been for my darling I should have prayed to die. As it was, I endured great bodily suffering?the money 1 possessed melted away. I parted with my jewels, my valuables of all kinds, and now, at the end of four-and-twenty months, I find starvation staring me in the face, and the doors of a workhouse looming up before my child. I ask you, what is to become of Robert Greylock's daughter, since I, her crippled, helpless mother, have no longer the power to provide for her?" May 10th. Today I was made the happy recipient of a check for three hundred dollars?"to be used for Robert's child"? and a cold little note from Miss Greylock, in which she hints at a just retribution overtaking the sinner in the midst of her evil career, and declines further correspondence with me until she receives the permission of Godfrey Greylock, who is expected home from abroad at an early day. When he arrives she will call his attention to the needy state of his only grandchild. Three hundred dollars will relieve me of immediate embarrassment, and also provide me with the weeds of decorous widowhood. I have never worn mourning for Robert, but now, six years after his demise, I must rush into crape and bombazine. Hannah has ordered a carriage, and this morning we are going shopping. I expect trouble with Godfrey Greylock. He is prejudiced; he is adamantine; he has no sentiment, like his spinster sister, but I shall conquer him In the end?I have sworn it, and 1 Will Kt*ep JIIJ ?v?v,. (To Be Continued.) LEGION OF HONOR. The Order That Was Found By the Great Napoleon. France owes the Legion of Honor to Napoleon. All orders of chivalry had been abolished by the revolution and had left a gap which it was not easy to 1111. "They are mere geegaws," said Monge, the chemist, whc had taught thy revolutionists how to make gunpowder out of plaster of paris. "Geegaws, if you will," the first consul answered, "but people like them. Let us approach the question frankly. All men are enamored of decorations, the French more than any. They positively hunger for them, and they have always done so." This was at Malmaison in 1802. In May be conseil d'etat was invited to consider the project of the institution of the Legion of Honor. It was ridiculed by many, notably by Moreau, who as victor of Hohenlinden was bitterly jealous of the victor of Marengo. At a dinner party he sent for his cook and said to him in the presence of his guests: "Michel, I am pleased with your dinner. You have indeed distinguished yourself. I will award you a saucepan of honor." Mme. de Stael was also satirical upon the subject. "Ah, one of the decorated?" she used to ask each guest who was shown into her saloon. But Napoleon had gauged human nature correctly. His Legion of Honor did meet a felt want, and it was definitely inaugurated on July 14, 1804. Among the eminent men of science and men of letters on whom it was then bestowed were included Laplace, the mathematician: Lalande, the astronomer: Cuvier, the naturalist, and Legouve, the poet. The most notable name omitted was that of Bernardin de St. Pierre, just then in disgrace for championing Mme. de Stael, whom Napoleon had banished, but he got the decoration later on the entreaty of Queen Hortense. After Napoleon's downfall the ques ,.< oimm-ooclnir the T,eeinn of Hon or arose. Chateaubriand, whom Napoleon had not decorated, strongly urged its abolition. So did Puzzo di Borgo. Marshals Victor, Marmont and Macdonald opposed. After debate it was decided to recognize and retain the order, not on any high moral or patriotic grounds, but because Louis XVIII. could not afford to make himself more unpopular than he was already by stripping people of their decorations. Chateaubriand and Lamartine consented to accept the red ribbon. but it was also conferred upon a great number of worthless personages and so brought into contempt. There have been many Legion of Honor scandals since those days, but one of them surpasses all the others in magnitude. This is. of course, the Wilson scandal, the history of which, through intricate, is worth reading. The trouble may be said to have begun on the day on which Mile. Aliee <Irevy fell in love with an opera singer who need not be mentioned here. He wanted to marry her, and she wanted to marry him, and the papers were beginning to couple the two names in a manner most embarrassing to the president of the republic. The president. however, sent the opera singer about his business and found his daughter another husband, not a very good husband, but the best husband he could procure on the spur of the moment. His choice fell upon M. Daniel Wilson, who had long been one of M. (Srevy's political supporters and was a financier of some mark. No sooner was M. Wilson established at the Elysee than he proceeded to enrich himself by various means. Among other things he founded a paper called Le Monlteur de l'Exposition I'niverselle, which really covered a traffic in decorations. The whole story came out in a state trial toward the end of 1SX7. It was proved that Wilson had made a regular practice of selling the Heginn c?i Honor, or, minor. of inviting people who wanted it to bribe him to use his influence to obtain it for them. His overtures were presented through his jackals, (Jenerals d'Audian and Cafferel and Mines. Limousin and Katajud. and the whole party had to stand in the dock together. Wilson was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, a fine of 3,(hmi francs ami five years' deprivation of civil rights. He appealed, and the court of cassation annulled the judgment. The accused, said the judges, was obviously guilty of everything that he was charged with, hut as his offenses were not anticipated by any punitive law he could not he punished. So he retired to the country and tried to live down his bad name, as he ultimately got himself elected conseiller general one must suppose that he succeeded in this object.?Pall Mall C!ay.ette. RED SHIRT REVOLUTION. Clear, Concise, Correct Story of Exciting Events. AS TOLD BY ONE WHO WAS THERE. There Have Been a Number of Arti cles Purporting to uive tne i rue Origin of the Red Shirt Movement; But This Is Close to the Facts. The fallowing remarkably clear and comprehensive sketch of the Red Shirt movement, has been prepared for the press, by Mr. D. S. Henderson of Aiken: Having been invited by Col. J. G. Mobley, the commandant of the Red Shirt survivors, to attend a reunion in Columbia on the 27th and 28th of September, inasmuch as court engagements prevent my attending, I ask you to publish a few recollections of the events leading up to that movement, the occasion and its results. I was intimately connected with it, and can speak from memory and experience. The Reconstruction Era. In 1868 the national Democratic convention, which met in New York, nominated as standard bearer Horatio Seymour and Franklin P. Blair; the Republicans nominated U. S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. A tremendous mass meeting was held In Charleston on Meeting street In front of the Charleston hotel to ratify the Democratic nominations. As a college student, at the College of Charleston, I attended that meeting. James B. Campbell, the great lawyer, presided. The chief speaker was Gen. Wade Hampton. He made a memorable enunciation, that at New York he induced the convention to put in the platform the words: "The Reconstruction acts are unconstitutional, revolutionary and void." Grant was elected. These reconstruction acts, which were not declared constitutional by the supreme court of the United States until in 1878, were enforced on the state of South Carolina with a mailed hand. Sickles. Canby and Ruger, with drawn bayonets and martial tread, allowed the bummers and stragglers from the invading armies to paralyze every industry and hope of white supremacy. Notwithstanding the fact that Gov. Orr, on the platform of the constitutional convention of 1868, in Charleston, had warned the members, with prophetic glance, that if universal suffrage was given the negroes they would be relegated within less than twenty years, these deceivers who had swarmed into the state enacted the same as law. Hampton had retired to his plantation in Mississippi. The white leaders advised the people to remain from the polls, because they alleged the reconstruction act would not stand, and soon the state government was in the hands of the "black and tan." In the gubernatorial race of 1870, Carpenter and Butler made a campaign against R. K. Scott, a noted carpetbagger, but the spirit of the whites was not in it; they trusted Butler but had no faith in the pyrotechnics of Judge Carpenter. T o A iban In 1 CT9 Finrina , 1S73, 1874 and 1875 1 attended each t year taxpayers' conventions, which t convened in Columbia. s They were presided over mostly by c that peerless son of Charleston, Wil- J liam Denison Porter. c They were solemn, secret affairs, t held in Irvings' hall uptown, and s Parker hall downtown, with closed ? doors. I Addresses were issued to the peo- t pie, powerful and forceful, praying f. them to keep in heart; addresses to i congress and to the president, pro- a testing against the condition of pub- j lie affairs in the state, brought about t by Radical extravagance and misrule, t The people listened, waited, bore and \ forebore, suffered and grew stronger 1 from suffering. t In 1874, after Moses' administration s of plunder. Chamberlain was nominat- s ed by the Radicals. A bolting set of j that party nominated Judge Greene of c Sumter for governor, and a San Dom- j ingo negro, named Martin Delaney, for t lieutenant governor. t The white people (though some im- t provements were made at the polls in \ November) took no interest in the ( election of this mongrel ticket, and c riinmherlnin \vn? elected. The robber 1 legislature of 1875 cleaned out some i pood judges and elected the negro bri- j gaud from Beaufort, W. J. Whipper, to the Charleston circuit, R. B. Carpenter to the Fifth circuit, and a numbskull, named P. L. Wiggin, from Beaufort, to the Second circuit. Chamberlain, apparently in earnest, refused to commission Whipper, but the people felt that he was surrounded by such a corrupt crowd that he could not be trusted, and they began to arouse themselves. The Rise of the White Tide. The spring of 1876 came in, in all ? of its pregnancy. Full of disgust at . past efforts to conciliate, full of hu- j puliation at the infamous orgies of the c brigands of the Palmetto state, who ? had heaped disgrace on her name and , ruined her credit at home and abroad; ? full of the belief that if something was ? not done the real sons of the sacred ] soil of the great commonwealth, which had done so much for the honor of freedom, would have to take thely household gods and goods and go elsewhere; early In the spring conferences were held, with a view of a slraightout white man's fight for a white man's governmentIt was a presidential year, and prominent Democrats within and without the state took the position that a determined effort here to disrupt the carpetbag government would lead to disorders which would he used against the growing tide in favor of Democratic success ill the Union. Friends of Mr. Tilden were sent here to stop the movement, but the swell was on, and it kept growing bigger and bigger. It was no man's movement; it was the long-suffering people's which called for leadership and relief. General Gary. Early in the spring flen. Martin Witherspooti Gary of Edgefield wrote to and received a reply from Gen. (afterward senator) George of Mississippi. I saw the reply. It gave fully the Mississippi plan of action to redeem the state, and to send conster nation to the vampires of the government then in the state; and Cien. Gary should be given full credit for systematizing this plan and for adapting it to the environments of the occasion. He had the courage of his convictions; and obstructed all efforts at compromise and stood firmly for a stralghtout fight. Hamburg. A call had been promulgated for a Democratic state convention In August. The delegates were being elected all over the state and (as is the case in all great movements) an unexpected, unplanned event happened, which intensified the occasion and gave vigor to the straightout movement. The old town of Hamburg, just opposite Augusta on the Savannah river, had become the seat of misrule ana oaa government, its master was Prince R. Rivers, formerly a slave of i Beaufort family, a coal black, a member of the legislature and major genera! of militia. During the first week in July, the local militia company blocked the highway running frokn the town and two young white iltlzens of prominence, one of whom is now living and a highly respected citizen, J. Henry Getzen, passing the place of blockade, became entangled with the militia company. They were nrought before Rivers as magistrate, :o be tried for interfering with the lompany. They issued a cross-warrant tgainst the members of the company 'or obstructing the highway. On the :rial day, the friends of both parties ippeared armed; difficulties arose, and ;hat night a battle was fought in the jtreets of Hamburg between the whites ind blacks, which set tne state on fire. Gen. M. C. Butler, then an attorney it Edgefield, being called to defend :he two young men, was present at :he trial and took part in the fight; ind with Col. A. P. Butler, afterwards i senator from Aiken county, were the eaders of the whites in the battle. At the instance of Gov. Chamberain. warrants were issued for several mndred white men, among them Gen. 3utler and Col. Butler, for complicity n this matter, charging murder and iot. It meant in truth the arrest of he entire community. The notorious tVilllam Stone, the attorney general, tnd the equally notorious David T. Sorbin, the district attorney of the itate, were employed by Gov. Chamjerlain to enforce these arrests and esist bail. However, the spirit of liberty was in he air. The Radical officials were actually ifraid to make any arrests and the illeged violators of the law to the lumber of 300 or 400, headed by their :ounsel, Gen. Gary. D. S. Henderson ind G. W. Croft, rode into Aiken and Hied the court house for the bail learing. Corbln and Stone insisted hat no bail should be granted, but hat noble judge, John J. Maher of 3arnwell (than whom was no purer >r nobler man) granted bail. This gearing stirred up the whole of west rn Carolina and its echoes went hroughout the state. Among the irisoners bailed was B. R. Tillman of topers. He did his full share In the ighting at Hamburg and in the cam>aign, which followed. Origin of the Red Shirts. No matter what may be said to the :ontrary, it was at this time, when hese men gathered around Aiken on he Kalmai Heights between Aiken md Graniteville to consult with their :ounsel and get ready to march Into Viken, that the Red Shirt idea was rlginated. At this time Senator Moron of Ohio, was waving the bloody ihlrt against the south in the United states senate at Washington. George 3. Tillman and A. P. Butler consulted ogether and thought it would be a 'nnd idea to have the Sweet Water saber club, most of them then under irrest, to ride through the streets of Viken with stained shirts in derision of he waving of the bloody shirt of Moron. The Idea was taken up by those vho had charge of Democracy in Alien. The ladies of the town headed >y Miss Ada Chafee, made long homeipun shirts and assisted the men to itafn them with Venetian red and tokeberries, and thus clothed this ompany, the afternoon before the bail jroceedings, rode up and down through he streets of Aiken to the horror of he negro population. It may be so, hat afterwards at Anderson and GoldMile and elsewhere in the state, red lannel shirts were worn, but the idea >riginated right here and it is provable )>* men who took part, who are living low, and by the columns of the local lapers. The August Convention. The Democratic state convention met it Columbia on the 15th day of Aufust. Previous thereto, on the 12th lay of August, at Edgefield, there was i tremendous meeting in which Butler ind Gary and Sheppard attacked Chamberlain and defeated him, which, n connection with the Hamburg affair, itirred the state to the bottom. The light before the sitting of the contention those of us who favored the itraightout movement, gathered in the mrlor of the Wheeler house, lately mown as Wright's hotel, at the corner >f Plain and Main streets and it was i notable gathering; young and old nen were there; not only from the lp-eountry, but from the low-country md middle-country alike. Gen. W. W. rlarllee of Marion was chosen as our andidate for chairman of the conven ion. Venerable, determined and ab'e, le was the right man for the pla^e. *s was said of him by the prints of he day, "His nose, like the movenent, was red-hot and straightout." When the convention convened in he hall of the house of representa:lves the next day, we got to work vithout ceremony and bickering. The Irst test was made on the election of he president. Oen. Harllee was nomnated by the straightouts; Col. C. H. >imonton of Charleston, that high and espected citizen, by the conserva:ives. Harllee was elected by 12 or 14 najority. His speech was a clarion ?all to duty to redeem the state. Promptly we went into secret session, :he doors being closed. A resolution ivas put forward to go into nominations for state officers and to recoin nend to the counties to do likewise all llong the Hue. No compromisedraightout names of Democrats. The leliate was on; calm, dignified and arreaching. Many speeches were nade on both sides. To my recollecion, the best for the straightouts was nade by Major William L. DePass of Jamden; and the best on the other side by Gen. James Conner of Charleston. In the heat of debate. Gen. Butler said, referring to the election of Whipper to the Charleston judgeship, that if he came to Edgefield court, he would be flung out of the windows of the court house. Gen. Conner replied, that while that would be rightful treatment, It would be violation of 'aw and would bring Federal intervention. Gen. Butler spiritedly retorted, "If we stand together now, instead of Carpenter Judge in the Fifth circuit, re would have Kershaw or Toumans; and instead of Whipper in Charleston, we would have Pressley or Porter, a' prediction which really came true. Thel heat of the day and the stuffy, close hall was terrible. The debate was closed and the roll called and the straightout resolution was adopted by practically the same vote that elected the president. The doors were opened and the crowds rushed in. They were peeping through the closed doors during the debate, and were mostly Radicals. Butler Nominate* Hampton. Well up to the front, on the right hand side where the Edgefield and Aiken delegations were sitting could be seen M. C. Butler and M. W. Gary standing, earnestly talking together. The writer heard Gary say to Butler. "Now is the time for you to nominate Hampton," but Butler Insisted that Gary should do It. The bald eagle contended that it was Butler's duty, and we lifted him up on to a chair, and in that attitude he placed the name of Wade Hampton of Richland county in nomination for governor. His voice was like a silver cornet, his words were forceful and potent. Robert Aldrich of Barnwell, an original straightout (now jhe able Judge of the Second district), on behalf of the straightouts seconded the nomination of Gen. Hampton. Across the aisle that gailant son of Charleston, James Conner, who in the secret session had led the forces of compromise and conciliation, arose to second the nomination of Hampton. ' Short and compact in stature, with his broad determined head, he seemed ten feet tall. He and his people were not sulkers f _ iL _ *UA.. AM1.. + V. A. in me camp; uiey uiuy icaicu mc movement was premature, but as the 1 majority thought different, come weal, come woe, they were in for the fight without counting the cost, and he pledged his life and his all for the struggle, and the clank of Conner's crutch, as he ripped out his earnest ' words, told the convention he meant , what he said. i Unity, union and massive determi- . nation had come to the convention. It j was nearly 5 o'clock. Hampton, who had stood apart, and up to this time had not opened his mouth except to vote for the stralghtout movement, ( arose in the back of the hall. Tall, rather slim (then), neatly dressed, quiet and cool, and unassuming, he strode to the front, held up his hand ( and said in substance, that before the vote was taken, he wished to ask the | members not to consider him person- ] ally, as he did not want the nomination; to think well before acting; that there were others whose names would do more good, but that if they said he must lead, that for the sake of the ' old state, he would do so. He left the 1 hall. In a few moments the unani- < mous nomination was made. History I had a bright page written on the wall 1 for a radicalism, carpetbagism and ' scalawagism; It was in the air, mere 1 tekel, upharsln. < The radical leaders had crowded in > the corridors during the secret ses- ' sion. Nash, Elliott, Cordoza, and the I sleek Tim Hurley, rushed in and felt the density of the atmosphere. > No night session was held, but there was no sleep in the city on the Congaree that night. Two forces were at ' work, without attracting attention, i away up yonder in cotton town, a I < torch light procession was formed; long and sinuous it was. As It passed 1 down Main street and came to the l government building, its oriflame was recognized in the person of that knight, ( Col. Alexander Cheves Haskell. He 1 rode a coal black steed and wore an < immaculate white suit with a black I slouch hat. The crowd cried In praise and enthusiasm; an impromptu ros- i trum was erected on the state house I grounds (without permission for erecting it), right under the window of Gov. Chamberlain's executive offices 1 (it was said he was in there during < the meeting), and such a meeting and < such portent, cool, determined, defiant speeches! Theodore G. Barker of 1 Charleston, George D. Tillman of Edgefield, and others, set the pace of the coming campaign. In the hotels, the leaders of the delegates held cau- 1 cuses how best to mold the ticket so ' as to arouse the people to the fight. When the convention met the next morning all was unity and fierce de- i termination. Sucl) a ticket has never since and will never again be put be- ( fore our people. Hampton and Simpson Conner and Hagood, Simms and I Leaphart. Moise and Thompson, all gone (but not forgotten, I hope), and the fight was on to the death. We want ( home. Then came meetings at Newberry, led by Wvatt Aiken and James Lipscomb; at Abbeville led by Samuel ( McGowan and James S. Cothran; at ( Midway led by G. D. Tillman, Gilmore ( Simms and Fred Gantt; and the blood | began to boil in earnest. The dele- | pates had spoken, it was the people's time now to act. ( The Campaign. , Those were not the days of electri- j city, or telephones, of fast trains, of night messapes, and of automobiles, ( but the elbow to elbow touch was felt; < the heart to heart message of the An- | glo-Saxon was sent from Caesar's < Head to the Battery; from the tawney ( Savannah to the red washed Pee Dee, < whic h produced an uprising, the like of , which will never lie again as witness- , ed in South Carolina. i The merchants had to buy extra In- | voices of red flannel to clothe the | marching patriots. Every county, ev- | ery town, every township, every hamlet, became a red hot bed of patriotism j and enthusiasm. It was no class or caste light; the rich and poor alike | vied with each other to do something. ( The stalwart and young rode and j showed their power; the old encour- i aged them and gave their money. The great silent power was the love and < devotion of the women to the cause. | They joined it not for show and dis- | play, not simply to be glorious and | wear ribbons (they did that fully be- i cause they were not afraid to show | their colors), but to work for the cause. | When the boys would arise before daybreak for long journeys, breakfast was ready, lunches would be added to the outfits, and when the big outpourings took place at the court house, they came In droves to add to the occasion and serve meals to the men. It was not simply the ladles of the towns and cities, but all the rural districts as well, who took part In the fight. All in all It was a revolt against tyranny, the like of which had never been seen before; a tyranny sanctioned by law to humiliate the proud people who had attempted to do what they thought to be right, a humiliation deeper dyed than the aftermath of the French rev oiiuion; me placing in power or people, not of the same race, but slaves, who were not prepared to know the proper use of a ballot; the act being done not for the sake of the slave, but for the aggrandizement of his political masters, and the proud Saxon race rose like his ancestors In the early days and threw the yoke off of the Norman master; like the colonies in 1776 threw off the shackles of the Royalist Invaders who followed them into a free country to keep them downtrodden. This revolution was not because of racial antipathy to the negro as such, but a revolt against the efforts of the politicians at Washington to humiliate the white people of South Carolina by elevating the negro above them. The legal rights of the negro is recognized and enforced by the people of the south, but social equality by them will never be tolerated. And so the popular feeling bubbled up as Hampton passed from the upcountry to the low-country; from the highlands to the lowlands, adown the Grampian hills. It was like a Scot tisn ngnt in wnicn an classes were united and taking part; the McDonalds and the McGregors alike. When the red banner was waved below Columbia, the uprising was as great in Anderson as in Newberry. Business was suspended, homes abandoned, occupations given up for the time being; lawyers closed their offices and led; preachers prayed but Joined the procession; merchants sold their goods cheaper to the people and gave their money; fanners and mechanics and artisans left their occupations and were in the saddle. A!! were in it and to stay to the end, for it meant liberty or death. A paraphrase of the colonial lines truly expresses the Red Shirt determination: "They left the plowshares In the mold, The flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn half garnered on the plain; And mustered In their red shirt dress, For wrongs, to seek a stern redress. To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, To perish, or o'ercome their foe." When Hampton reached Blackville In Barnwell county he was met by a cohort of Red Shirts from all the surrounding counties, headed by that peerless ciuzeri, junnson na^uuu, uuu they tramped with him across that great country almost to the sea. The spirit of that procession is spoken of unto today, as the greatest event of aid Barnwell county. Gordon Comes. From across the Savannah came that peerless southerner, John B. Gordon. He was the best stump orator I ever heard. At White Point Garden in Charleston, Gordon, before an immense crowd, in scathing terms, arraigned Chamberlain as a Daniel come to Judgment. At Coumbla, at Aiken and elsewhere he quickened and aroused the flres of patriotism as he knew well how to do; and went home to return again after the election, by wise counsel, to assist in guiding the sequel to full fruition. The Result and How It Came About. The day of the election in November was beautiful, but active. Though martial law had been declared hydrant in Edgefield, Aiken and Barnwell, because of the EUenton riot, and perhaps in other counties, the determined white men came home in their Red Shirts and tramped the land. The old saying, "all coons look alike" had helped the negroes to repeat without fear of detection. Red shirts on men made them all alike, and the whites had been good students from sheer necessity. Under the Radical regime, there was no registration of voters and the managers were allowed three days before the boxes were turned over to the county canvassers for counting the votes. On this occasion, determined white men, armed to the teeth, accompanied the boxes and camped with them until the votes were counted. It is true that a great many negroes voluntarily voted the Hampton ticket; numerous names could be given; for example, Billie Rose, the body servant of Maxcy Gregg, in Columbia; Henry Toole, in Rock Hill; Tom Watson, In Ridge Spring; Tom Hayne, in Aiken; Caesar Chisolm, in Colleton, and Democrat Riley, in Charleston. Hampton was elected, but Chamberlain and his men died hard. Aftermath. It would take volumes to tell of the Immediate sequel and its trials. The leathering of determined, anxious tired men in Columbia, bent on enforcing their victory; the supreme control and cool management of Hampton under trials without number; the dual houses In session; the desertion of the sinking ship of Radicalism by the rats; the forbearance and splendid record af the Wallace house; the legal fight. In the courts, conducted by Col. Youmans and Gen. Conner. The gathering of the investigating committee from congress, seeking for evidence to sustain Chamberlain, and |K" furnish for our side the evidence of the right; the quartering if the United States soldiers in the state house and their efforts by show if arms to intimidate our people; the dragging of the Ellenton prisoners into the United States court at Charleston" and an attempt thereby to expose the movement of the Democrats In the campaign. These and other subjects would take volumes to tell them and they are left for another time, or for other pens. Finally Hayes was Inaugurated; Hampton was recognized; amnesty was granted Federal and state prisoners, and the people began Lo settle down to peace. So it was. The Red Shirt, Hampton, flary, Butler revolution was a record breaking epoch, making a turning point In the restless history of the errand old state. It brought about her rehabiliment and disenthrallment and gave peace and honest, efficient and good government to a long-suffering people, and should be commemorated by the younger generation. When In these times of peace and plenty the hungry for office quarrel In the Democratic primaries to the unrest of the advancing, progressive masses, let that event be pointed to with pride as one In which love of country and liberty was the ruling Idea. D. S. Henderson. Aiken, September 21, 1911. THE POWER OF HUMAN VISION. Ths Simple Eye of Man and the Compound Eye of the Fly. A specialist has claimed that he can with the unaided eye distinguish lines ruled In glass that are only one flfty-thousandeth of an Inch apart, but Le Conte has limited the power of the eye to distinguish lines to one onethousandth of an inch. To show how immensely superior is the sense of sight in defining single things one can try the sense of touch In comparison with it. The two points of a pair of compasses placed three Inches apart on the least sensitive parts of the body will be felt as a single prick. With the aid of the mlscroscope the human eye can discern objects whose diameter is only about one one-hundred-and-eight-thousandth of a inch. It has been said that the eye of a fly can distinguish an object one five-millionth of an Inch in diameter. What we designate as the eye of a fly is really a compound eye made up of numerous lenses. Of these the common house fly has something like four thousand in the two eyes. The structures of these lenses are well known, the optical part of each consisting of two lenses, which combined, form a double convex lens. That each lens acta aa a aeparaie eye can be eaally proved by detaching the whole of the front of the compound eye, and by manipulation with a mlcroacope it ia not difficult to examine a photograph or other object through it. When thia is done a distinct image is seen in each lens. Carpenter has shown that each lens reflects but a small portion of the image looked at and that it requires the combined action of the 4,000 lenses of the fly to produce the same effect as that seen by the one human eye. The human eye is therefore a more perfect optical instrument than the eye of the fly. Scientists who have given considerable attention to the investigation of compound eyes have formed no opinion that would lead to the conclusion that their power of vision with respect to small objects exceeds that of the simple eyes of the higher animals. The images of objects formed in the separate lenses composing the compound eye are proportionally small, and the question whether insects can see smaller objects than animals furnished with single eyes is not a question of obtlcs. but of the sensitiveness of the optic nerve and consequently a matter of mere conjecture.?Harper's Weekly. "Another Explanation."?The Yorkville Enquirer offers this as an explanation for the course of Judge Jones: "Don't let the idea that the mere desire to secure the honor of this high office figures; because there are few men who would hold the governorship to be higher than the chief Justiceship. Behind it all there Is a reason that seems to be more practical. From the nature and character of Bleaseism, as it is commonly understood, no one would think that the leaders of it would be content to stop with control of the executive department alone. Certainly in the light of the very serious spat between the governor and 1 "* loot wlnlar nn nne ran tuici juoiac mov ..v doubt that If the governor's star grows brighter, the star of the chief justice would become more dim. The general assembly to be chosen next summer will elect a successor to the man who succeeds Judge Jones, and had Judge Jones remained in the office, and should the legislature to be elected next summer be a Blease legislature, it is quite certain that Judge Jones would not have been his own successor. That a man of Judge Jones' experience and perception could see this Is too plain for anything, and in this view of the case it would certainly be monumental Idiocy for the judge to remain inactive and perish miserably like a fox in a hole rather than come out in the open and make the fight of his life like the man that he is. The Enquirer may be correct, but it strikes us that the above is farfetched. Judge Jones is not fighting to save his place on the supreme bench, his place in the hearts of his countrymen, or to prove his ability as a politician. The consequences of continued growth of the present dominant influences in South Carolina would, in the judgment of many, be very much greater than the overthrow of a chief justice and other officials.? Spartanburg Herald. Still Talking of Impeachment.?The following is the substance of an Atlanta story that was originally published in the Augusta Chronicle some days ago; but which has since been reproduced in several South Carolina papers: Developments of a sensational character out of which may come impeachment proceedings against Governor Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, at the next session of the general assembly of that state, are expected In Atlanta In the next few days. The developments In this city center about Hon. Thomas B. Felder, whom Governor Blease vainly attempted to have extradited to South Carolina recently to answer charges gTowing out of the dispensary scandal In that state. Recently J. F. Lyon, attorney general of South Carolina, was In Atlanta in close conference with Mr. Felder, and two other prominent South Carolinians have also been closeted with him recently, credit the report that Governor Blease may be made the object of impeachment proceedings, those who are said to be "on the inside" say that this is now almost a certainty, and that the proceedings will be taken up when the South Carolina legislature meets. The Demise of Bailey.?"In the senate Bailey was once a recognized leader, owing to his ability and his thorough knowledge of constitutional law. He wafe never recognized officially as the minority floor leader of the senate, because Senator Money of Mississippi had been selected in caucus. When Money retired from the senate Senator Martin of Virginia succeeded to the leadership. This hurt Bailey's pride, as he supposed that he would succeed to the leadershio of the minority of the upper branch. Shortly afterward, John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, came to the senate, succeeding Senator Money. Mr. Williams is an able parliamentarian, a lawyer of unquestioned ability, and a student. He crossed swords with Bailey many times in debates and has gradually collected around him those senators who were formerly warm supporters of Senator Bailey. "So at the close of the last regular session of congress Bailey was left out in the cold, his party domination in the senate at an end and with the prospect of a hard fight for re-election, he made up his mind to resign." Washington Dispatch.