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YORKVILLE, S. C.:~
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 28, 1879.
THE FEVER PLAGUE.
The total number of cases reported in Memphis
for the week ending last Saturday, is 148,
of whom 69 were whites and 79 colored.
There were 31 deaths during the week, and
from the outbreak of the disease, a total of
177.
A special dispatch of Friday from Memphis,
says that the developments of Thursday
iudicate an increase in crime, and also a tendency
to more boldnes^ than ever known before.
The dispatch says:
Depredations have become so numerous
and daring as to awaken considerable alarm.
Many anonymous letters have been sent to
the newspaper offices, but not published, containing
threats against citizens, and especially
against the city government officers, if certain
conditions are not complied with. One
of these letters, sent to the Appeal last
night, was signed "Many Colored Citizens."
The alarming aspect of affairs has caused
general preparations to meet the worst. Vigilance
committees are talked of. Minute men
are receiving daily accessions to their number,
and the police force is being strengthened by
the addition of amounted force for all night
duty. This branch of police had lively work
with a gang of six men who committed a robbery
on Trigg avenue Thursday night, finally
succeeding in capturing five of the number.
A white military company was organized yesterday.
The general sentiment is there will
be no occasion for their services, but should
there be, the law-abiding citizens are determined
to make examples not soon to be forgotten.
Meu who have proved themselves
mo?t effective in combatting these plague
visitations, will prove themselves equally so in
time of unprovoked trouble like that threatening
now.
A Memphis dispatch of Monday says that
thirty-four cases in all were reported on that
day?twenty whites and fourteen colored.
Eight deaths occurred on that day. The dispatch
also asserts that the fever has apparently
taken a fresh start, especially in the northern
portions of the city.
Nine new cases?five white and four colored?were
reported by the board of health
Tuesday morning. There were also six deaths
Monday night.
Two new cases have appeared at St. Louis,
and a few in New Orleans. In the latter city,
Gen. Hood's wife died on Monday, of yellow
fever, the disease developing only a short time
before her death.
THE PISTOL*IN MISSISSIPPI.
On Monday of last week, a tragedy occurred
in Yazoo City, Miss., in which Henry M.
Dixon was the victim, at the hands of James
H. Barksdale. Dixon was an independent
Democratic candidate for sheriff of YazotF
county, and Barksdale is the regularly nominated
Democratic candidate for chancery
clerk of the same county. The difficulty
originated, it is alleged, not on account of the
independency of Dixon, but because as a political
disturber and agitator he was obnox.
^ ious to the Democratic party, having brought,
especially in the campaign of 1875, ffuch
odium upon the party as the principal leader
and actor in what is known as the "shot
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gllll policy. 11 JS timiucu UJT UUI nouitib s
friend?, that the property holders ever denounced
this policy, so called, as being inimical
to their interests, and in a speech a few
days previous to the occurrence, Barksdale
denounced Dixon as an agitator, opposed to
law and order, and who, though a leader of
the bull dozers in 1875, was in this campaign
seeking to organize the negroes and array
them against the whites. This led to the difficulty
culminating in the death of Dixon.
Dixon was a reckless, fearless man, and
Barksdale well knew, when making the charges,
that they would be resented. The time
soon arrived, when the men met, and according
to Mississippi style., a rencountre was inevitable.
While the occurrence is deplorable
and to be regretted, in any view that can be
taken of it, we cannot see that sectional feeling
can by any possibility be correctly charged as
the origin of the trouble. It was neither native
versus carpet-bagger, nor Democrat versus
Republican ; but simply a crime growing out
of political local excitement, such as is likely to
occur during a heated campaign in any State
of the Union, North or South. It will, of
course, be daDgled before Northern voters in
the pending fall elections, as another instance
of Southern Democratic terrorism, and may
be the means of securing States to the Republicans,
which otherwise might have voted
Democratic.
Barksdale has been admitted to bail in the
sum of $15,000. He has heretofore borne an
excellent reputation, and prior to the present
campaign the two were on friendly terms.
Barksdale is a nephew of Hon. E. Barksdale,
a prominent Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate, editor of the Jackson
Clarion nod chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee. He was also a
nephew of General William Barksdale, a distinguished
Mississippian, who was killed whilst
commandiug a Confederate brigade during
the late war.
Dixon is spoken of as having been a boy of
14 when the war broke out, and was a student
at Georgetown college. He was induced to
run away and join the Southern army, but
was captured after four months' absence, and
remained neutral during the remainder of the
war. He married, at the age of 17, the
daughter of very wealthy Mississippi planter,
who died not long after this event, leaving
his large plantations in the Yazoo country to j
Mrs. Dixon. Young Dixon went there to j
live, and has been a resident of Mississippi for j
thirteen years. He kept aloof from politics
until 1872, when he organized a rifle club,!
and was made captain of the bull-dozers. I
His experience seems to have disgusted him (
finally, and in 1874 he left the club. The '
deceased was a son of the late Major Henry 1
Dixon, who was shot and killed in Alexan- \
drin nhnnt. the elnse of the war.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Some of the forward farmers in Abbeville
county have commenced picking cotton.
? Caterpillars are doing great damage to
cotton in Beaufort county.
? The Pickens Sentinel is authority for the
statement that Governor Simpson will decline
% to be a candidate for re-election.
? Jackson Wardlaw, colored, whose age the
Medium puts at one hundred and fourteen 1
years, died in Abbeville county last week.
? There are thirteen active working Divisions
of the Sods of Temperance iu Anderson
County.
? Board has been reduced to ten dollars a
month in Due West. A student can go
through Erskine College at a total yearly i
cost of $140, or for as little as $130 on the
mess plan.
? Mr. G. G. Newton, a well-known sign- ^
painter of Columbia, died in that city on \
Thursday last, aged sixty-ffine years. |
? Dr. David Lauderdale, an old citizen of
Winnsboro, died in that place on Thursday ^
last, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
? An Orangeburg farmer has twelve acres (
of cotton which, it is thought, will yield twenty
bales.
? The Court of General Sessions for Lan- v
caster county, will commence on the third (
Monday of September. Judge Wallace is t
expected to preside.
? It is understood that the South Carolina
Railroad proposes changing its line, so as to v
effect a saving of twenty-nine miles on the
two main connections from Charleston to Col- t
urabia and Augusta. , s
? The following changes have taken place t
in the legislature elected in 1878. Senator
Maurice, of Williamsburg, Representatives
: Hartszog, of Barnwell, and Jones, of Edge- e
[ field, have died, and Representative Green, of I
York, has resigned.
? Dr. Thomas E. Powe, father-in-law of t
Judge Mclver, and one of Cheraw's leadi<|g *
citizens, died on the 14th. Dr. Powe, previous
to the war, was one of the largest planters
along the Pee Dee, and was well known (
throughout the entire State. " .
? The friends of Dr. E. J. Meynardie will r
rejoice to learn that he is improving as rap- i
idly as the painful nature of his wounds will >
allow. On Monday he was well enough to be 1
removed from the Wheeler house to his own
residence.
? The names of several members of the Col- t
urabia bar have been mentioned in legal cir- *
cles in connection with filling the vacancy in
the office of Reporter of the Supreme Court ]
Reports, occasioned by the death of Mr. Rich- ^
ardson?among others, Mr. L. E. LeConte,
Col. McMaster and Trial Justice Fickling.
? The colored Baptists of this State have (
raised money enough to send a missionary to
Africa. The Rev. H. N. Bouey left this ]
country in April last, and is now laboring as I
a missionary in Monrovia. He writes very i
cheering accounts of the success of his labors '
there. '
? A number of the leading citizens of Lau- '
rens county, are agitating the question of extending
the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad
to Spartanburg. The plan is to run it 1
by way of Laurens to Spartanburg, at which
point it will connect with the Asheville road.
The people of Spartanburg and North Caro- j
lina have determined to finish the Asheville <
road, and this will insure an unbroken con- i
nection with the great Northwest. i
? The Spartan, of Wednesday of last week, *
mentions that the Spartanburg County Bpp (
tist Association met at Cedar Shoals Church j
on the previous Friday. There was a good
attendance of delegates, every church being
represented. The business was all transacted
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lli lYVU UDjfg, xxanuuiij pctnucu kill uu^iiuui ^
the meeting. The churches were generally ^
represented as in a prosperous condition. The
collection for church purposes exceed those of i
last year to the amount of $3,000. '
? The committee of the Monumental Asso ?
ciation of Newberry county, have awarded
the contract to build a monument to the *
Confederate dead of the county, to Messrs. !
Leavell & Speers, of Newberry. It is to be |
seventeen feet high, resting on a base of na- (
tive granite, upon which will be erected the .,
marble base, then the column. Upon the
sides of the sub-die the names of the commissioned
officers will be carved. On the die, s
those of the privates, flags, South Carolina's
coat of arms, cannons, cannon balls and oth- 1
er emblems of war will be carved. Around '
the whole will be an iron fence four feet in
height.
MERE-MENTION. ]
It is given out that ex-President Grant is J
on his homeward way, and that he will reach J
San Francisco about the 12th of September.
A late invention is a boot made of J
paper. It will last as long as the leather arti- j
cle, and is said to be equally effective in raising
a crop of corns and bunions. A black
snake, four feet long, was recently killed at
Oakington, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, s
with a head on each end. The snake could j
travel in either direction with equal facility.
Col. W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller i
General of the State of Georgia, is to be tried i
for misdemeanor in office by a court of im- <
peachinent. The drought still prevails in 1
Cuba, and the yellow fever in Havana. The ^
national debt is $2,296,564,204?an increase
of $6,086,354 during July. The past 1
six years are regarded as years of general de- (
pression, yet within that period about 7,000,- >
000 souls have been added to the population
of this country, and there have been constructed
11,563 miles of railroad. 'Cheering j
reports come from all parts of Tennessee in >'
regard to the corn crop. The stock law 1
has become so popular in Mecklenburg coun- c
ty, N. C., that it would require a revolution 1
to re-establish the old fence law. The
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last Congress made considerable headway
upon a bill to grant annual pensions to the l
veterans of the Mexican war. This bill did ;1
not become a law. It will, however, without !>
a doubt, be passed at the next session of
Congress The Baltimore Gazette figures 1
up thus: "The Republican party of Mary- ^
land consists of 50,000 negro voters, who vote j
the ticket on principle, and 20,000 white men t
who confine themselves exclusively to the
task of obtaining and holding the Federal
offices in t|je State. The Illinois State
Board of Agriculture places the wheat crop {
of that State at 42,041,262 bushels, valued at r
nearly $38,000,000. The Indiana wheat crop r\
is placed still higher, being estimated at r
55,000,000 bushels. Ex-Govl Hubbard, t
of Texas, estimates that the population of that '
State, under the new census, will reacli three (1
millions, and entitles the State, under the *
present ratio of representation, to twenty-two *
members of Congress, which exceeds that of j
any State at present, except Pennsylvania and \
New York. San Antonio, Texas, is af- i
flicted with small pox. Three of the d
mob, who murdered Standing, the Mormon, c
in Georgia, a short time ago, have been cap- c
tured and lodged in Whitfield (Ga.) jail.
The Postal Guide, just issued, shows that 1
the number of post-offices in the United States *'
has doubled since 1852, now numbering 41,000.
A new cotton, called worm proof, j
is reported in Texas, for which the discoverer
is negotiating with the agricultural depart- ]
raeut of the government at Washington for
his right, which, if effected, will then be made t
public. The Custer battle field is to be
made a national cemetery. The cotton ^
crops of the lower Arkansas river this season,
are said to be the finest that have been known
in that country for years. Senator M. j
C. Butler is at Newport, R. I. There
are 982 convicts in the Kentucky penitentia- v
ry. Twenty-two thousand persons attended
services at the Methodist camp meeting at p
Ocean Grove, N. J., on Sunday last. Old
Castle Thunder, a building in Richmond, a
used as a prison house during the war, was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday morning. I n
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
'rivate Boarding.
lerndon Brothers?Der Drummer,
i. F. Adickes & Sons?Dissolution.
^atimer & Hemphill?Our Mr. W. C. LatimerSalem
Jeans?Ladies' Hose?Wanted?Just
Arrived.
iunter <fc Oates?The Firm of Hunter & Oates?
Specialties?New Arrivals, ?ftc.
Hark Brothers?Confidential to Everybody.
RECENT DEATHS.
Mr. Govan Hopper, who lived about 2$ miles
vest of town, died of typhoid fever on Saturlay
last. .
On Sunday, Mr. William Thomas died of
lie same disease near Clover.
CAROLINA FAIR ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the Carolina Fair Association
vas held in Charlotte, bust Monday, for the
uirnose of electincr a board of directors. From
he Observer we learn that a full board, conisting
of thirty-three, was elected?among
hem Samuel E. White, of York county.
'rHE BEEF*MARKET.
The attention of our town readers is directd
to the advertisement of J. N. Roberts, proirietor
of the beef market in the Sadler buildng.
Mr. Roberts will furnish fresh meats on
liree days in each week, and will regularly
[ive notice in his advertisement of what he
vill furnish each day.
LARGE SNAKE.
Mr. P. 11. McAfee exhibited at our office the
ither day, the skin of a black snake, which was
bed by the serpent about the 12th of the
nonth. The skin measures 6 feet 2 inches in
ength. Mr. McAfee captured the snake,
vhicli frequented about his barn, and he now
las it alive.
YORK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
The next meeting of York Baptist Associa;ion
will be held with Berea Church, at Black's
station, commencing on Thursday next, the
1th day of September. Elder B. G. Covington
,vas chosen at the last meeting to preach the
ntroductory sermon, and Elder J. II. Edwards
die benevolent sermon.
FINE FLOOR.
Mr. S. W. Alexander, tbe miller at Cerro
jfordo Mills, on Allison Creek, north-east of
iTorkville, and about two miles west of Clay
Hill, has presented us with a liberal sample of
lour?the product of the mills of which he is
in charge. The sample furnished us is of fine
luality, and this mill, under the management
rf Mr. Alexander, has the reputation of making
a line turnout per bushel of grain.
JENKINS RIFLES.
The Jenkins Rifles were on parade last Thursday
afternoon, under command of Capt. R. II.
Grlenn, which was his first public appearance
with the company since he was chosen Captain.
In many eyes Captain Grlenn presents a familiar
appearance at the head of a company in
jray, having occupied that position in times
when military reviews and parades were not
indulged merely for diversion; and in justice
.0 him we must say that his step has lost none
)f its martial tread since the campaigns in
which his old Regiment?the Eighteenth South
Carolina?participated.
REVIVAL AT FORT MILL.
"We are informed by Elder B. G. Covington,
:hat an interesting revival in the Baptist
Dhurch at Fort Mill, including a part of last
week and the week before, resulted in the adlition
of eight persons to the church, who were
mptized on the evening of the 19th instant,
rhere is a great work of grace going on also
it Flint Hill Church, in Fort Mill township,
rhirty-three persons have been received for
japtism and more accessions to the church
ire expected. The meetings closed last Sunlay,
when the converts were baptized. Elder
Jovington is now attending Union Baptist
Church, three miles north of Yorkville, where
i protracted meeting is being conducted.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
\fptlinrlisf-. Enisnnml?Rev. T. E. Gilbert.
^astor.. Services at i0? A. M., and 8? P. M.
Sunday-school Missionary Society meets at 4j
?. M. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening
it 8 o'clock.
Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan
Pastor. There will be no services at this
ihurch next Sunday, in consequence of the
ihsence .of the pastor, who will attend the
neeting of Presbytery at Amity Church, near
Statesville, N. C.
Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. R. P.
fohnson, Rector. The Rector will visit Ches;er
next Sunday, and consequently there will
)e no services in this church 011 that day.
THE* JAIL.
On Saturday, two colored women were comnitted
to jail by Trial Justice Nunnery, of
smith's Turnout, charged with disturbing a
eligious meeting.
Anderson Watson, colored, was also comnitted
by trial Justice Lewis 011 the charge of
>etit larceny. On -Tuesday, the same Justice
committed Wesley Thomas, colored, charged
vitli petit larceny; and the same day, Joseph
Deal and John Simril, colored, were commited
by Trial J ustice Camp of Black's Station,
diarged with burglary and larceny.
Besides the above, there are two other prismers
in jail, who have been there several
veeks.
JOURNALISTIC.
The first number of the Hampton Guardian,
mblished at Hampton C. II., by M. B. Mc>weeney,
is on our table. Mr. McSweeney
mblishes a neat paper, which is edited with
sure and labor, and is well worthy the sup>ort
of the people of Hampton county.
The lkwnn is the title of an evening paper,
ecently commenced in Charleston by Julian
V. Selby & Son. The senior Mr. Selby was for
nany years publisher of the Columbia Pha>nix,
md is well known to the rgading public of the
itate.
TMir* V/>/\vn/ni ic fllQ fiflo nf Oil OVfih,
ns paper just commenced in Columbia, by C.
J. McJin.kin, editor. The Yeoman is an enertaining
sheet, well gotten up, and besides
he current news of the day, devotes full atention
to the local affairs of the city.
TI1E ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY.
Let the voters of York county bear in mind
hat the election to till the vacancy in the
louse of Representatives, occasioned by the
esignation of Mr. Green, will take place next
Tuesday. True, there is 110 opposition to the
egular nominee of the Democratic party, and
he election has created very little excitement
11 any respect, yet it is nevertheless the duty
if. the voters to exercise their right and priviege
at the ballot-box 011 that day. None
hould fail to attend the polls, 011 the suppoition
that their votes will not be needed. The
lomination could not have been ntbre worthily
>estowed than upon Mr. Deal, who proved
limself true to the best interests of his immeliate
constituents and the State in the hour
if their greatest peril, when menaced with a
lontinuation of bayonet rule; and it is due to
he nominating convention that their unaniiious
choice should receive a substantial vote
it the hands of his fellow-citizens.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss "Willie Ilare is visiting her relatives in
Sbenezer.
Miss Robbie Glenn is visiting friends in the
lethel neighborhood.
J. F. Wallace, Esq., and family, have reamed
from Glenn's Springs.
Miss Hattie West is visiting the family of
Jr. John Nichols in the country.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dobson have returned
ii .
1UI11 lllfir Visit tu .Ol Willi V/UlUlIihU
Miss Luella Smith left last Monthly for New
Snglaml, where she will remain for sometime.
S. 1\ Hamilton, Esq., of Chester, is here this
reek, engaged professionally.
Mrs. Griffith, of Greenville, is visiting her
arents here.
Dr. J. II. Foster, of Lancaster, is registered
t the Kawlinson House.
Mr. Joseph Ilerndon returned Tuesday
lorning from a visit to his brother in Cleve
land county, N. C., who has been afflicted
for some time with paralysis of the throat.
Miss Lee Allison is visiting J. W. Dobson's
family.
Mrs. T. M. Graham, of Chester, is visiting
Yorkville.
We regret to announce that Mrs. Beatty,
wife of the venerabl^ Col. W. C. Beatty, is
quite ill. f
Rev. A. A. James, of Jonesville, Union
county, was in Yorkville last week, on a visit
to his relatives.
Daniel A. James and J. E. Carroll are attending
the U. S. Circuit Court at Greenville
as witnesses.
W. C. Latimer, of the firm of Latimer &
Ilemphill, has gone North to make fall purchases
of croofls.
Miss Maggie Herndon, after a visit of several
weeks to friends and relatives in Virginia,
returned home last Friday.
Mrs. It. Frank Clark and little daughter
Mary, and Mrs. Frank E. Smith, are visiting
relatives in Gaston county, N. C.
We learn that Prof. Denck, the celebrated
pianist, of Columbia, will visit Yorkville soon,
for' the purpose of giving a series of concerts.
Mr. J. Alf. Carroll has been confined to his
bed for several days with severe indisposition ;
though we are pleased to learn that his condition
is improving.
We were pleased to receive a visit last Meek
from Mr.. Dewey F. Schorb, a printer in the
Columbia Presbyterian office. In 1809 and 70
Dewey was a bright lad, employed in the Enquirer
office, and this was his first visit to
Yorkville, since his removal to Columbia in
the latter year.
Col. W. H. Metts, who has l>een confined to
his room since the middle of last May, from
the effects of a surgical operation, was out
for the first time yesterday. We were plejised
to receive a call from him 011 his first walk up
the street, and are glad to record the fact that
he is in a fair way of recovery.
The following persons left here last Monday
afternoon to join the merchants' excursion
from Charlotte to Norfolk, via the Seaboard
Air-Line route : Dr. W. M. Walker, Jobn J.
Smith, W. II. Herndon, II. C. Strauss, James
Ilempnill, Frank E. Smith, T. B. McClain, It.
A. Parish, II. II. Beard, T. II. Glenn, J. G.
Wardlaw, John M. Hope, W. M. Allison.
CHANGE "OF FIRM.
By reference to their notice, published in
another column, it will be seen that the firm
of II. F. Adickes & Sons has been dissolved,
Mr. II. F. Adickes, Sen., retiring and being
succeeded l?y his sons?H. F. Adickes, Jr., in
the dry goods department, and Withers Adickes
assuming control of the grocery store.
These young gentlemen have been raised to
the business, and are merchants by intuition
as well as training. As the successors of an
old established house, they come before the
public not as strangers, but as men well known
in the community for their strict business
principles. The retiring member of the late
firm, is the oldest merchant in Yorkville. He
entered upon business here as a clerk in the
store of Robert Latta, in the year 1831, and
four years subsequently commenced business
for himself, in which he has been continuously
engaged ever since?a period of 44 years. In
his retirement from active business pursuits,
he carries with him the best wishes of a large
number of friends.
COUNTY OF YORK vs. JOHN L. WATSON.
James Hemphill, Esq., of Chester, to whom
was referred the above case, has made his
report as referee. The case was filed by the
plaintiff against the defendant, who was
formerly county treasurer of "York county, for
an account of his transactions in his office,
alleging that he had collected a large sum of
money on behalf of the plaintiff, which he had
failed to pay over.
The defendant made a general denial of this
charge, and also by way of additional defence,
alleged that part of the money collected
by him had been lost by the failure of the Citizens'
Savings Bank, in which he had deposited
it. In relation to the latter ground of defence,
the plaintiff replied that the defendant
is entitled to no benefit from it 011 two
grounds?first, that the defendant was liable
for the funds, and could not be discharged by
dei>ositing them in the bank; and second,
that even admitting that he was entitled to
shelter himself under this plea, he could not
do so in this case, as he brought 011 the failure
of the bank and the loss of the money by
his own improper and corrupt action. Aftef
reciting the above facts, the referee says:
Before proceeding further, I think it well to
dispose of this portion of the case. The
plaintiff's counsel contended witn iorce, ana
the production of high authorities, that the
defendant was absolutely responsible for the
funds collected by him, and could not be excused
by entrusting them to any person or institution,
however responsible at the time. I
considered, however, that the case of Twitty
vs. Houser, 7 Rich. N. S., 164, decides the
principle. The contest there was in regard to
the liability of an administrator who had deposited
the funds of the estate in the same
bank in which this defendant placed the funds
of the plaintiff. The court held that the administrator
was not liable for the money lost
by the insolvency of the bank. 1, therefore,
hold that the. loss of the deposit in the bank
should not fall on the defendant.
On the other question as to the alleged
corrupt and improper conduct of the defendant
having caused the bankruptcy of the bank,
and thereby occasioned the loss of the county's
money, I do not see sufficient grounds to sustain
the charge. There are some circumstances
detailed by the witnesses, on the part of
the plaintiff, which seem apparently suspicious,
but which were denied or explained by the defendant
and his witnesses. I hold that there
is not sufficient proof to make the defendant i
responsible for the loss sustained by the failure
of the Savings Bank.
In making up the account of the defendant
for the funds of the plaintiff, I have mainly
followed the statement furnished by the plaintiff
's counsel, which I have verified by the papers.
I have also taken the credits contained
in said statement, except that I have given the
defendant credit tor several items not allowed
by plaintiff's counsel. These items are the
sum of #971.80, which was allowed to the
treasurer as over charge by the auditor and
county commissioners, and which appears in
the report of the county commissioners of
November 1,1874. Also, the sum of $1,955.15,
county funds lost in the Citizens' Savings
Banks. Amount of deposit, $4,680.33; less
dividends received, $2,725.18, leaving balance
of $1,955.15, as above. Also, treasurer's commissions.
$3,553.88. leaving $731.08 more than
allowed by plaintiff's counsel. Also, the sum
of SI,814.78 in defendant's report of November
1, 1875, which was omitted. The first item is
allowed on the commissioners' report of 1874,
upon the evidence of Col. W. B. Allison, formerly
county commissioner and clerk of the
board, and of the defendant.
These two witnesses both swear positively
that the accounts were carefully and thoroughly
examined by the former county auditor, Mr.
Enloe, who is now dead, and by Col. Allison, j
and that upon this investigation they ascertained
that the defendant was justly entitled
to this credit. As to the allowance of the
second item of the lost deposit in the Citizens'
Savings Bank, I have already expressed
my opinion on that point.
On the item of commissions, I allowed the
defendant four per cent, on all his collections.
The auditor, in his final settlement, only allowed
him $'2,824.80. I could not see the
grounds for this amount.
On questions of fact, I find?
1. That the defendant, as treasurer of York
county, the plaintiff, collected the sum of j
$88,8<J7..!W.
2. That the interest account on money of j
said county, dei>osited by the defendant in the
Citizens' Savings Bank, was $1,058.02.
3. That he was overcharged the sum of
SU71.HU, as stated in tlie commissioners report
of 1874.
4. That of the funds of said plaintiff, he deposited
in the Citizens' Savings Bank, the sum
of $4,680.33, on which he received a dividend !
of $2,725.18, after the failure of the bank, I
leaving a balance of $1,955.15 uncollected and.
uncollectable.
5. That the defendant's term of office ex-1
pired March 1,1877.
On questions of law, I find?
1. That the defendant is not liable for the
loss of the county funds deposited by him in
the Citizens' Savings Bank.
2. That he was not bound to make good the ,
loss on account of any improper or corrupt,
conduct in instituting legal proceedings
against said bank.
3. That he is entitled to four per cent, commissions
on all the sums charged against him.
4. That he is bound for the iuterest account
in said bank of $1,058.92.
5. That he is responsible for the interest on
the balance in bis hands, from the expiration
of his term of office, March 1,1877.
I file herewith, as Exhibit A, a statement of
defendant's accounts, and find that there is
due from him to the plaintiff the sum of two
thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars
and thirty-three cents, with interest thereon
from the 1st day of March, 1877, for which
I recommend that judgment be entered up
against him. Respectfully submitted,
James Hemphill, Referee.
August 15, 1879.
The report will come up for a hearing upon
rAuepwuils at uic iical trim ul tur uitun
court for tins county, which commences on
the fourth Monday of October next.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Warren county levied no tax last veaa
nor this, and has in her treasury, $7,376.13.
? Five criminals, confined in the jail at
Hillsboro, made their escape one night last
week.
? The recent rains have been very destructive
in Cabarrus county. Several mill dams
were washed away, aind considerable damage
was done.
? The loss from the recent storm at Beaufort
is estimated at fully $150,000. The hotel
that was destroyed is to be rebuilt on the
same site before the next season opens.
? Senator Vance arrived at his home in
Charlotte last Saturday, aud will doubtless remain
for some time in the city, as he appears
in spvpral suite to he tried in the nemlin"
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terra of Mecklenburg Superior Court.
? At the fall terra of Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county, last Monday, Logan
Hoover, colored, charged with the murder of
a negro woman named Margaret Reid, was
convicted of manslaughter.
? The Greensboro Patriot says that Dr. R.
K.Gregory, of that town?who has already
taken out seventeen patents on useful inventions?is
now at work on a water wheel, by
which the same water is used over and ovei
again, and which, if it succeeds as he thinks
it will, will work a revolution in that line,
All the operator will then need is a cistern to
draw water from.
.? A citizen of Gaston informs the Charlotte
Observer that distilling in that county
has revived, and that corn is now selling al
86 cents per bushel. It will be seen that the
business has reached very considerable proportions
when it is stated that a careful estimate
of the amount of corn used in the county
daily by the distilleries, places it at 180 bushels,
Gaston county has long been known for
the quality of corn whiskey produced there;
it is becoming famous for the quantity made
within its borders.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, S. C., August 26, 1879.
This section has been visited lately with
heavy rains, and the farmers are becoming
somewhat alarmed in regard to the prospect of
saving fodder. Last Tuesday morning, before
daylight, there was a considerable storm
here, accompanied with heavy thunder and
vivid lightning. The family of H. C. Bra\fley,
Esq., of Carmel Hill, while seated at the
fknf m/trninrv folf a KflflOV
UrCU&lUOt lauiC) iiuav uiuiumg) awtv ?* uwm ?j
shock of electricity, stunning a daughter, and
for some time paralyzing a little boy in the
teg. .
A. G. Brice, Esq., visited Zion Church
(Presbyterian) near Lowrysville, on the 21st
instant, and addressed a Sunday-school anniversary
meeting. There was a picnic on the
occasion, and a most pleasant time was enjoyed
-by all tvho were present.
R. 0. Sams, District Deputy Grand Dictator,
organized a lodge of Knights of Honoi
at this place, with thirty charter members, on
Thursday evening last. The following officers
were elected: W. H. Witherow, P. D.:
E. T. Atkinson, D.; W. T. D. Cousar, V.
D.; R. M. Cross, A. D.; R. D. Alexander,
R.; John Mclver, T.; John F. Douglass, F,
R. ; J. W. Parker, G.; Rev. R. W. Sanders,
C.; George W. Culp, G.; J. 8mith Hardin, 8.;
Dr. John A. Watson, Medical Examiner,
Trustees, W. H. Witherow, W. H. McConnellj
Jesse H. Hardin.
Mr. Norri3 B. Alexander, white driving a
staple in the window sill of his office, had the
heavy sash to fall on his left hand, severing
the end of a finger. Several months ago, he
was unfortunate in losing the ends of two
fingers of the same hand with a cutting knife.
The Good Samaritans, a colored organization
of Columbia, passed through here on the
19th instant on an excursion to Charlotte.
President James H. Carlisle, of WofFord
College, and President J. L. Jones, of Columbia
Female College, passed through this place
on the 21st instant, en route to the meeting
of the District Conference at Salem Camp
Ground, in Lancaster county. It is mentioned
that President Carlisle will favor us with
a temperauce lecture on his return.
Capt. Miles H. Hunter returned last week
from a trip to the springs and mountains of
North Carolina.
I regret to state that the health of Mrs. J.
Harvey Smith, who is at King's Mountain,
I nnt imnrnrii Mrs R. \f flrnss left here
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on Monday to attend the invalid.
The street hands are filling up mud-holes
near the depot, and otherwise improving that
street.
Bennett & MofTatt have recently invented
a water-elevator*at their shops. By means of
a steam pipe, introduced into the well, water
is forced up into a tank above the ground.
The widow of James S. McLure, lately deceased,
has received the sura of $8,000, the
amount of insurance upon his life.
Mr. J. H. Colvin returned on the 24th
from a trip to the northern cities.
The colored brass bands of this place
having been reported a nuisance, the town
council have adopted au ordinance prohibiting
brass bands from practicing on the streets
after 10 o'clock, P. M.
Mrs. Mary M. Davis, wife of John B. Davis,
eight miles north-west of Chester, died
on yesterday morning, of inflammation of the
bowels. She was 74 years of age, and was,
for many years, a consistent member of the
M. E. Church.
Rev. J. D. McCullough, of Spartanburg,
officiated and administered the sacrament of
the Lord's Supper in the Protestant Episcopal
Church here last Sunday. Rev. R. P.
Johnson, Rector of the Church of the Good
Shepherd in Yorkville, will officiate here
next Sunday. Rev. Bishop W. B. Howe will
make his annual visit to St. Mark's congregation
at this place on the 10th and 11th of
September. He will be assisted by Rev. Mr.
Judd, of Columbia.
A number of our citizens left here yesterday
on a complimentary excursion to Norfolk,
Va., tendered by the merchants of that
city. Some will go on to Baltimore.
Bull Run Grange has passed resolutions
favoring the appointment of a public weigher
at this place, and appointed a committee
to confer with the town council on the sub
J8CC.
The Democratic Club at McAliley's Mill,
gave a barbecue last week near Mr. John
Simpson's, fifteen miles south-west of Chester,
for the colored Democrats who stood so nobly
by the Reform party in the last campaign.
The train on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad
passed over the new bridge across Fishing
creek, yesterday. After this week trains
will make regular trips to Fort Lawn.
Mr. W. S. Westbrook sold the first bale of
cotton of this year's growth, to-day. It was
classed as. middling, and brought 12} cents
per pound. Mr. Westbrook has sold the first
bale in this market every season for the past
six years. He is a thorough and practical
farmer. Chester.
From tlie Winnaboro Newi and Herald.
THE TWELFTH REGIMENT.
REUNION OF THE SURVIVORS OF THIRTY BA.TTLK8.
Wednesday, the 20th of August, was the eighteenth
anniversary of the organization of the 12th
Regiment. When the coll was made for volunteers
for the war, a prompt response was given by
South Carolina. Several Regiments were formed
at Lightwood Knot Springs. Of these the Twelfth
was the first to complete its organization. Its
history is well told in the address of Col. Jones.
neconiiy tue v airrieiu survivors urgamzeu a county
association, and invited the associations of other
counties to meet with them in a Regimental organization.
It was in furtherance of this end that
the meeting on Wednesday was held. The survivors
from other counties came in on Tuesday
night and Wedtiosday morning. The weather
was inclement, and several hard rains fell the
evening before, and on Wednesday. The processions,
however, took place "between showers."
At the familiar tap of the drum in the hands of
Mr. D. J. Carter, of Lancaster, the lino was formed
on Congress street, at Beaty's corner, in the following
order : Field and staff, Col. Cad. Jones
and the Rev. C. B. Butts, chaplain ; Company C,
Capt. J. R. Thomas; Company F, Corporal James
Gelston; Companies A and B, Sergt. R. G. Whitesides;
Company If, Corporal Wm. Brown ; Company
I, Sergt. W. B. Twitty. Companies E, G,
and K?the first from Lancaster and the two others
from Pickens?were not represented in the
procession. Between Companies C and A came
the battle flag, borne by Ensign W. J. Kimbrell,
the color-guard being Capt. J. A. Hinnant, Lient.
J. R. Boyles, Privafes G. S. Hinnant, W. J. Boyd,
John A. Robertson, J. R. Harvey ami J. 'B. Aflams.
Capt. Hinnant and Lieut. Bovies had each
lost a leg, Privates Hinnant and Bovd each an
armt Private Robertson a foot, and Private Harvey
was disabled in the leg. The Chief Marshal
wan Col. H. C. Davis, while Private S. W. Ruff
acted as adjutant. The procession inarched up
Congress street and halted in front of the courtbouse.
The two ranks faced each other. The
colors were borne between the ranks, the men, as
the color-guard passed, raising their bats and
cheering. The procession thon entered the court
house, marching to music from the Winnsboro
Cornet Band. The building was soon filled with
?bn bupvI vnr?. thnir invited truest* and the citizens
generally.
The meeting was called to order by Col. H. C.
Davis, the president of the Fairfield association,
' and the proceedings were opened with prayer by
the Rev. C. B. Betts, the former chaplain of the
Regiment.
' Col. Davis then spoke as follows :
col. davis' 8peech.
Fellow Members of the Fairfield Survivors1 Association
: We have much, very much, cause for
self-gratulation on this occasion, for the material
evidence here to-day gives us assurance of the
fulfillment of a hope we have so fondly cherished,
and the accomplishment of an object we have so
earnestly desired and worked for. This attendance
of our'regimental brothers from the other
, counties proclaims, Id notes unmistakable, and
makes assurance doubly sure, that we will this
I day perfect an organization which will certainly
secure annual reunion meetings hereafter of the
Survivors of the Twelfth Regiment, McGowan's
i Brigade. Now, my Fairfield associates, let me
kindly and respectfully suggest, as far as the
mellowing influences of time will aid, and as far
. as the truest affections of our nature will admit,
that you permit all griefs and sorrows, sacrea
memories of the past, to slumber in your hearts
; for a brie# time, and yield to the cheerfulness ol
this happy meeting. Fellow-Survivors of the
! Old Twelfth frotn the counties of York, of Lan.
caster, of Richland, I stand here the spokesman
of your brothers from Fairfield. In their behalf
' and in their name I give you and say to you a
- hearty welcome.
Col. Davis then reviewed the history of the
' Regiment at its organization; the selection of R.
G. M. Dun no van t as colonel, Dixon H. Barnes as
, lieutenant-colonel, and Cad. Jones as mqjor. He
' drew an amusing picture of the scene at Light
1 wood Knot. Then he detailed the metamorphosis
of up-countrymen into shrimp and oyster eaters
and alligator fishers.
He spoke as follows of the engagement at Hilton
Head and Bay Point, in the November following
:
We all remember that calm and serene November
morning. The sun, sublime in his auroral
glory, rose effulgent upon the liquid horizon,
. tingeing the sky above with lovely and inimitat
ble colorings. Afar off on the peaceful bosom of
the mighty deep could be seen the majestic ships
at their moorings, resting upon the undulating
swell, with "banners bathed in the purity of the
morning dew, and streamers listlessly floating in
the gentleness of the matutinal zephyr. All
nature seemed hushed in the loveliness of the
, scene. Only the heart of man was attuned in,
harmonious to the symphonies of that peaceful
morning, for the fierce passions of war were rife
i over the land.
i Later in the day we say a puff of smoke encircling
upwards from one of the vessels. The report
of the signal gun came booming o'er the
i waters. Seven men of war, moving in the pow;
erof their strength, with their decks cleared foraction,
port holes open, and ten, twelve and fifteen
inch Columbiads frowning therefrom, came
) steaming toward our earthbanks.
After they bad made three oblong, circling reconnoissances,
deliberately returning the rapid
and well aimed but harmless fire from the light,
' ineffectual pieces in the forts, they discovered that
the sea rear of Hilton Head was undefended,
with not a gun to command that side. In silent
and in almost contemptuous manner, five of the
' vessels, with the commodore's broad pennant
; flying at the foretop, sailed off to their former
mooring. The two smaller gunboats of the fleet
' anchored on the rear, and deliberately poured
i shot after shot into the fort, dismounting the
, guns and raking the interior. No gun replied
From that side,-for none could be brought to bear
' upon the vessels. The fort became a slaughter
! pen. The infantry could do nothing. Every
point-of the island was under the command of
the enemy's guns and subject to a raking fire
' from the twelve and fifteen-inch Columbiad shells.
Captain (afterward General) Elliott, who be,
came so distinguished for the noble, gallant and
, never-to be-overcome defence of Fort Sumter,
was in command at the Bay Point Fort. One of
' his guns burst, one was disabled, and the eighti
inch Columbiad dismounted from its own recoil.
, The opposite fort had been abandoned. He gave
a last discharge at the two gunboats, and, his
cheeks bathed in tears, he ordered his men to
leave.
After reciting the incidents of the retreat in the
mud and water. Col. Davis said that he would
leave the record of the command to be told by
the regular orator. He then said:
Comrades, it is usual, and custom has made it
obligatory upon a presiding officer, to introduce
1 to the audience the respective speakers of the day.
' But here it would be a work of supererogation
, on my part to introduce our orator to the survivors
of the Twelfth Regiment Although it is
true the old grinding mill of years has more
plentifully settled the coloring grist of age upon
nis hair, and inevitable time has more deeply
furrowed the wrinkles upon his brow, yet the
. characteristics which marked the man?the kindling
eye, the erect figure, the open candor, the
earnest manner, tho ringing voice and the gallant
bearing?with which we were once so familiar,
are so forcibly visible and present here to-day,
as to obliterate, in memory's eye, all-foot-prints
of gliding time, and make in him a comrade of
most easy recognition. I would as soon think
it necessary to introduce those old battle-scarred
veterans, who have left their legs and arms upon
the battle-field, and those whose blood enricnes
the soil of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
I would as soon deem it incumbent upon me to
introduce them to that battle-flag which bears
the marks of bo many different conflicts upon it,
and which they haveso often seen envelopea in the
smoke of battle, and so often illumined with the
flashing fire of the death-dealing Springfield?
then tbe insignia or nope ana victory, now me
emblem of a memory?then so dear, now so
sacred. Yes, old battle-scarred veterans, living
monument of the fierce grappling of battle, I
would as soon think of introducing von to it, as
to introduce to the Survivors of tbe Twelfth their
old commander, for we all- know. Col. Cad.
Jones.
Col. Jones was greeted with loud cheering.
When the applause had ceased, he spoke as follows
:
COL. JONES' ADDRESS.
Comrades of the Twelfth, and Fellow-Citizens :
I wish I had the power to express what I feel on
this occasion. I have it in. my heart?I wish I
had it on my tongue. My friend has done me
too much honor. I am fearful that I shall fall
short of his-flattering expectations. It is good to
be here. After a separation of fourteen years,
you meet to enjoy the fellowship of old soldiers.
As "boys in gray" you met at Lightwood Knot,
full of patriotic ardor and buoyant with hope.
As "boys in gray" you were comrades in arms;
and now, as veterans of thirty battle-fields, you
meet and are comrades still. Let us rejoice
that we behold this day?that we meet to renew
old acquaintance and give and receive a
soldier's salute. How many recollections crowd
upon us! Each face brings some new memory
of marches, of the bivouac, and the rude winterquarters
; mighty battles rise up before us?fields
strewn with the dead and dying?the impetnous
charge, the Rebel shout of victory! We will not
discuss here the causes that produced the war.
Carolina called to arms. That was our warrant,
and no son of hers will stop to ask the cause
when her honor and safety are imperiled. [Applause.]
1
The career of this Regiment might be recorded
with this single sentence?you were in the Army
of Northern Virginia; with it at the beginning,,
with it at the end. When our great captain determined
that further resistance was hopeless,
you were present for duty. In the four years of
war, you were engaged in thirty battles, lost in
wounded 5(30 men, and left upon the battle-field
160 dead. Here I might close. It was right to
fight, and you fought to the end. The occasion
does not require of me any detailed narrative of
battles; yet we must have our say?soldiers will
fight their battles over again. And as it's a prefrty
safe operation, I'll fight one or two over again
j? rr ...mIwa. i
I LU'Utty* [Linu^uiui.j
To begin wit^ In the fall of '61, we were orj
dered to Hilton Head and Bay Point, to support
! the fort. If the fort could have been cut into
convenient slices, the fleet might have taken it
j on board?guns, tneu and all?and dropped it in
' mid-ocean. [Laughter.] But for all that, the
: fort made a most gallant defence, and was abandoned
only when defence was no longer possible.
| It was crushed like an egg shell. We won no
I laurels there, unless it may be considered a distinction
to escape without capture. [Laughter.]
! Matters now assumed a serious character. MoI
Cleilan was marshalling his forces to move on
j Richmond. After a few months on tne coast and
I a brush with the enemy at Port Royal, we turned
oar faces to uhe Mother of States. "They that see
the ship leave the harbor, know little of the sea
she is to sail through." On the 27th of June, you
are up by times. With the rising sun Gregg is
in the saddle, and the brigade formed in line -of
battle near Mechanicsville. There is heavy work
before you. McCiellan, 60,000 strong, was intrenched
at Cold Harbor, in three lines, supported
by massed batteries. Heavy lines of skirmishers
had been thrown out on Powhite and
Beaver Dam; these dispute our advance; they
are driven back with slaughter. You now ap- ^
, proach the battle-held; artillery is playing from
I every hilltop; Hhells are bursting before yon and
j behind yon and in mid-heaven. You move into
foaitiori at the double quick. Crenshaw and Mciitosh
hold their Are as you pass. The order to
advance is made, and the struggle begins. Forty
thousand men oppose fifty thousand, and
strike them on their chosen ground. Who shall
describe that great conflict of American arms?
For five hours the battle rages; for five hours
tbe battle wavers. It is a wild scene! Shot ana
shell and ball explode and whistle. Volley after
volley tbin their rankn and our ranks. At last,
amid a verv tempest of tire, the Rebel shout goes
up?tbe held is ours?the capital is safe! [Applause.]
What a name you have contributed to
make for your country on that single battlefield !
The fights at Frazier's Farm and Malvern Hill
were undoubtedly important battles, and have
added to the renown of Southern arms; but it
was the victory of Cold Harbor that broke the
advancing columns of tbe enemy and hnrled
them back to their boats. Here fell Delaney,
with seventeen privates. These were the first of
the lioys in gray who gave their lives for their
country. We lost one hundred and twenty-one ?
wounded. Here Vallandigham, captain of Company
I, lost a leg, and Capt. Bookter, Capt. Miller
and Ce.pt. McMeekin were wounded. The
Brigade suffered heavily. Twenty-five hnndred
were carried into action. It lost eight hundred
and fifty-four, killed and wounded.
The battle of Second Manassas was scarcely less
important than Cold Harbor. The Federal forces
on the J'araes River were rapidly transferred to
the line of the Rappahannock, Pope in command.
He was 120,000 strong, with reinforcements coming
up. Hill's Division was turned over to Jackson,
and we were, therefore, a part of tbe great
flanker's command, and were soon made acquainted
with his manner of doing business. It
was important that Pope should be struck atoncer
before reinforcements arrived. Jackson undertook
to ilauk, while Longstreet engaged him in
front. On the 25th of August we started, and made
thirty-five miles that day. The next night, or -r
rather in the small hoars of the morning, the column
reached Manassas. Pope was flanked and
his supplies cut off. He must fight or starve.
Jackson's situation was no Decter. vvunzufuuu
men be was in Pope's rear; bnt Pope, with 120,000,
was in his rear. Jackson, it is true, bad Pope's
supplies ; but could he hold them? At the earliest
it would be two days before Longstreet con Id
come up. Meanwhile, Pope could crash him at a
blow. The situation was perilous. Nevertheless,
there was no trepidation. To manoeuvre is sometimes
better than to fight. Pope was outgeneraled.
He was bewildered. Late in the evening of
the second day, he attacked Early, who lost a leg,
but held his ground. The morning of the 29tn
dawned, and the unequal contest was renewed.
, Gregg wits placed on the extreme left, with instructions
to hold it at all hazards. Six times the
, enemy assaulted his position; six times the ene,
my was repulsed. At the third orfonrth assault,
I think about one o'clock, when the enemy was ,
pressing the Brigade at all points, and had forced 1
back Thomas on our right, it was the fortune of
, the Twelfth to be the first to break his lines and
hurl back the advancing foe. Tou drove him
i with greatslaughter; you pursued him Serosa the
road, and out of sight. Clyburn, then captain,
proposed that charge across the road, and led it.
This is not history, but it is truth. It was about
this time, that Hill sent to inqnire of Gregg if he
needed assistance. "Tell him," said the old hero,
"my ammunition is exhausted, but I will hold
my position with the bayonet" The renown of.
that day made the Ihme of the Brigade. Every
regiment and every man did all that men ana
regiments could do. There were eleven field offl- ,
cers in action ; seven of them were wounded, and
two?Col. Marshall and Lieutenant-Colonel Leadbetter?were
killed. The officers wounded were ' -%
Col. Barnes, Col. Edwards, Col. McGowan, Lieut. Col.
Farrow, Major Brockman, Major McCorkle
and Major McCrady, acting as Colonel of the 1st
Regiment. Lieut.-CoL Simpson and myself were
the only officers that escaped. I could almost
wish that I had received a wnack or two [laughter]
iust to be placed on that roll of honor. But then
Simpson would have no company. [Laughter.]
The casualties of the Division?six brigades?are
reported at 1500. Of this number, Gregg lost 618.
The Twelfth lost-24 killed and 125 wounded.
With the rising sun on the morning after this battle,
we were on the march, and at four o'clock
were in the fight at Ox Hill. Here, Buchanan,
adjutant ofthe Regiment, fell mortally wounded.
We lost only ten men wonnded. The next day
the campaign of Maryland commenced. It ended
in the surrender of Harper's Ferry. From the
cliffs of the Shenandoah, which yon had scaled
for the purpose of charging the enemy's batteries, f*.
you saw the white flag go up without the loss of a
man. It was reward enough for all the marches
you had made. This was on the 15th. We come
? l? ?V- ? .tpnnnl. nn lllA 17th it Sllfimfl
IIUW lAf blic UIWUJ ovi Uf|(|iv VM ?? ?..., a
burg. In this battle the Twelfth was conspicuous v
for its gallantry. By a rapid dasto.lt outranked itself,
and was in imminent danger of being surrounded.
It was recalled, and in a second charge
drove the enemy with great gallantry.
Here let me pause to pay a tribute to the memory
of one who was the first to lead you in battle,
jutd who gave bis life that day in the brilliant
charge to which I have just alluded. I need not
name him. As second in command, I was intimately
associated with him, and watched with
pride his military career. For cool, decisive conduct
in battle, for skillful handling of his command,
and for gallantry, no colonel in the Army
of Northern Virginia was the superior of Pixon
Barnes. [Applause.] He bad, in an eminent
degree, the confidence and affection of bis men.
These were at once bis invaluable possessions *
and bis eulogism. With the spirit of a hero un- ?
der fire, when off duty be was as tender as a woman.
There was one word he could never say to
officer or private: that word was, no. I b'ave
seen.him try it. He always failed. He fell as I
have described, shot through both knees, and
was taken to Charles town, where I saw him two
days before his death. He was excited and impatient.
When I saw him, I thought of the
wounded eagle biting against the bars of hiscsge.
In this engagement the Twelfth lost twenty killed
and eighty-two wounded. Here fell Captain
Erwin and Lieut. Black man. Capt. Miller, Capt.
Davis and Lieut. Kerr were wounded.
At the next battle, Fredericksburg, the Brigade
sustained its great loss. The fall of Greggit
was almost a sacrifice?sent a thrill throughhis
entire command. As the intelligence passed
along the lines, it was heard with sentiments of
profound regret by the whole Division. Conde
was Intrepid ; Marshall Nev was bravest of the
brave; Desaix, expiring in the arms of his comrades,
said, "I die with bnt one regret: I have
done too little for country." Comrades, Maxcy
Gregg, was as Intrepid, as brave, and as patriotic.
He would have led, and was fit to lead, the charge
of the six hundred at Balaklava. [Applause.]
At this battle the Brigade was on the second
line, and we lost only one killed and seven
wounded.
I have followed yon through only one campaign.
Yon followed the Southern croae through
four years. My connection with yon ceased after
Fredericksburg; but I have not been indifferent
to the fame of the "Old Twelfth." I recollect,
with pride, yonr heroic bravery in the charge at
Gettysburg, when four color-bearers?Kimbrell,
Davis, Huey, Rains?went down in ten minutes,
and a lieutenant, with syord in one hand and
yonr flag in the other, bore it through the murderous
fire and planted it on the heights above
the city. The charge of the Brigade that day
was not so renowned as Pickett's, bnt it was
scarcely less gallant and intrepid. Who has not
beard of your wild advance into the Wilderness,
where, with impetuous conrage you pushed ahead
nntil, losing connection with the Brigade and
almost surrounded by the enemy, yon faced
abont and fought back to the lines, with a. cap- *
tared brigadier and two hundred prisoners as
trophies of victory ! [Applause.]
In a single address it is not possible to follow
you through all yonr battles. Let me continue
the record of the dead and wounded. For these
details I am indebted to a very interesting his
torv of the Brigade, by iuieui. uaiaweu 01 iuw
14tb Regiment.
It is oar privilege and oar pride tojpcall here
to-day the memory of oar dead comrades. I
wish I had the name of every man. J would
call the roil. At Gettysburg we lost twenty killed,
and one hundred and five wounded. Here
fell Lieut. Poag. Capt. Hinnant, Capt. Moody,
Lieut. Boyles, Lieut. Watson, Lieut. Jenkins
and Lieut. Black were wounded. At the Wilderness
we lost sixteen killed, sixty-four wounded,
twenty-two missing. Here fell another Colonel
of the Twelfth, that prince of good fellows and
bold, fearless officers, John L. Miller. Here
also fell Lieut. McKnight and Lieut. Garvin.
Lieutenant-Colonel Bookter, Lient. Watson and
"Lieut. Beard were wounded. At the Bloody
Angle, Spottaylvania,. we lost28 killed, 38wonnaed
and 52 missing. Most of these latter were
afterwards found to be either killed or wounded.
At Jericho Ford the loss was twenty-two wounded.
Our brave m^jor commanding, and Lieutenant
Rives, were wounded. At the Weldon
Railroad, Lieut. N. R. Bookter fell, with two
killed and six wounded. At Fullers'f Mill and
Deep Bottom, three were killed, twenty-eight
wounded, thirteen missing. Here Lieut. Hinson,
Lieut. Hill and Lieut. Douglass were wounded.
At Jones' Farm, Lieut. Jones was wounded,
with two others killed and eighteen wounded. 4
Here fell another Colonel of your RegimentEdward
F. Bookter. He was the last officer of
the Regiment who gave his life for the cause.
In battle be was always among the first to advance.
I have never known a beaver man, a
truer friend, or a more dashing officer. When
he fell, a noble and big heart ceased to beat.
Richland may well be proud that he was a son of
the Capitol county.
The York companies have brought here to-day
the flag of the Twelfth. It was displayed at Columbia
in the procession of survivors?borne by
Lieut. Kimbrell, ensign of the old Regiment,
who had so often and so gallantly borne" U in the
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and is not mentioned by the reporters of that
day's proceedings. I know not wherefore. That
flag is not begrimed with smoke. But few of
the scars and badges of old war are upon it.
Hereby hangs a legend of the past. It is a tale
of honor, and should be history. It may be
briefly stated. The old flag was so torn with
shot and shell, at Gettysburg, at the Wilderness
and at the Bloody Angle, that it was no longer fit
for service?it was a mere rag of honor! It was
sent to Richmond for safe keeping, and it rests in
the ashes of the Soldiers' Home. A new flag was
?issued to the Regiment, and here it stands. It is