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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j Inbqjfitbntt Jfamilj fUtospapr: Jfor % ||roiitotion of fjje political, Social, ^griraltaral anb Commercial Interests of tjje Soutjr. TERMS?$2.50 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. "V"OL. 25. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1879. NO. 51. . - ? ... I i mi j* m/ ffiflgtapliical J>fcetch. COL. WILLIAM CAMPBELL. by rev. robert lathan. William Campbell was of pure Caledonian blood. About the close of the sixteenth century, during the latter years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, his ancestors emigrated from Scotland and settled in Ireland. At the foot of the heath-clad Grampian Hills, and in Ulster Province, they stood up, unflinchingly, for Christ's crown and covenants. Their descendants became a part of that noble people, which are known in ecclesiastical history, by the name of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. In 1726, John Campbell, the great grandfather of Col. William Campbell, came to America. He first settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. In this Scotch-Irish neighborhood, he remained for about four years. In 1730, he crossed the Susquehanna River __j Af/>tinf?inq and nermanentlv miu U1UD JLVIUgo tuuiauw?u., ? , w settled in what was, at that time, called Orange county, (now Augusta county) Virginia. When John Campbell came to America, he had five grown sons and five or six daughters; and one son, at least, was born in Pennsylvania. From this fact, we may infer that he was past the meridian of life. On emigrating from Pennsylvania to Virginia, only three of his sons accompanied him. The names of these were Patrick, Robert and David. It was the last who was born in Pennsylvania. Col. William Campbell was the son of Charles Campbell, who was the son of Patrick Campbell, the oldest son of John Campbell, who came to America in 1726. Charles Campbell died in Augusta county, Virginia, leaving one son, William, and four daughters. Elizabeth, his oldest daughter, married John Taylor; Jane, his second, married Thomas Tate; Margaret married her cousin, Col. Ar thur Campbell, and Arm, thp??Un*L-?ra-1 youngest daughter, married Richard Poston. When Charles Campbell died, the burden of the family devolved upon his son. For this arduous and responsible position, he was eminently qualified. Being an only son, great care had been taken in his education. He was, in his early youth, placed under the best instructors the country at that time afforded. He was not, as is too frequently the * case 10 ine present uay, put wamujmg cto?tthing and thereby prevented from acquiring a correct knowledge of any Ihing. Ou the contrary, he was given sufficient time to acquire a clear and practical knowledge of the English language, a thorough knowledge of several branches of mathematics, and a general knowledge of ancient and modem history. Some time after the death of Chaa. Campbell, and previous to the Revolutionary war, William Campbell, with his mother and sisters, migrated to the Valley of the Holston. In 1765, a number of individuals set out from Augusta county, Virgiuia, to explore the western wilderne^. The leading spirits in this expedition were John Campbell, oldest son of David Campbell, and Dr Thomas Walker. In this wild froutier region, John Campbell purchased a home for his father's family, near the head-waters of the Holston River. To this survey was given the name of "Royal Oak," and in the space of a few years the father and mother of John Campbell, with their sons, John, Arthur, James, David, Robert and Patrick, and their daughters Margaret, Mary, Martha, Sarah and Ann, removed. To this settlement, founded by his uncle David, William Campbell repaired with his mother and four sisters. In 1748, however, his father, Capt. Chas. Campbell, in company with Dr. Thomas Walker, Colonels Buchanan, Patton and Wood, explored this region. The range of mountains which the Indians called VVasioto, and the beautiful stream which Hows on the west of this range, which the natives called Sbawanee, they named in honor of the Duke of Cumberland, at that time Prime Miuister of ' rn, . J- _.:n n_j Jlingiand. me mountain range is sua caiieu Cumberland Mountains, and the stream is called Cumberland River. The military history of Col. Wra. Campbell began in 1774, when he wa3 about twenty-nine years old. In that year was fought the battle of Kanawha. A number of occurrences had taken place in the past which had alienated the Indians. These untutored men of the forest, were unable to distinguish between wrongs, and we may, in justice to them add, that the first white settlers of the American soil, in too many instances, seem to have acted on the erroneous principle that the Indian, because he was not blessed with European civilization, was possessed of no rights. In 1772, a treaty was made between Virginia and the Cherokees, by which a large tract of territory was granted to the State of Virginia. Proper steps were taken to have this land settled. The Watauga Association had been formed, ?and it was thought that all things would work peaceably. Alexander Cameron, a deputy agent for the British government residing among the Cherokees, ordered the white settlers of Watauga to move away. A number of Cherokees interceded for the white settlers, asking that they might be permitted to remain, provided they would make no farther encroachments. Some did N remain; but it was not long until they became uneasy and desired to obtain, from the Indians, a lease of the land which they occupied. This lease was grauteck for eight years. No doubt, the white inhabitants thought that eight years increase would be sufficient to give them a decided superiority over the natives of the forest. It was announced that on the day the Watauga treaty would be signed, that there would be a horse race. To see this race, a number of people had come from the neighboring set tleinents. Many maians were mere, utaiug part in the sports of the day. At the close of the day, an Indian was killed by some one; 110 one knew _hy whom. The cr^supposed clue to it was that some time previou^ ,' meu by the names of Carter and Parker, had opened a store in the region. This store was robbed, it was supposed, by the Cherokees. Of this, however, there was no certainty. It was conjectured that the Indian murdered on the day that the Watauga treaty was signed, was killed, by way of retaliation, for plundering the store of Carter^nd Parker. Be this as it may, it served toJ&rther estrange the Indians, and render^fhe existence of the white ^ titey^^^smoreltefarious. An outbreak of Inwas prevented, for B|^^^^Hb9&ss settlers were attacked lluono attempted totold his family to Kentucky. About five families joined him and at Powell's Valley, his party was strengthened by about forty hunters, all well armed. The company now consisted of about eighty persons. On the fifth of October, while passing a narrow defile, these bold pioneers were startled by the wild battle crj of Indians, concealed behind natural fortifications. On the unsuspecting emigrants thej poured a deadly fire. Six of Boone's men fell dead, and one was wounded. Boone's eldest son, a youth of about twenty years, was among the killed. These together with several other acts of bad faith on the part of both the white settlers and Indians, resulted in a great battle at Point Pleasant. The apparent immediate cause of the battle, was the fact that the authorities of Virginia had sent out a large corps of surveyors and woodmen, to locate and take possession of land in the wilderness of Kentucky. These locations were to be made under royal grants and military warrants. The Indians regarded this an invasion of their rights, and began the work of massacre, in detached parties, all along the frontier of Virginia. The Shawanese were the most hostile of all the tribes. Their warriors swarmed over the forest from the Alleghany River, to Sulivan county, Tennessee. One of them entered the camp of his people with the scalps of forty men, women and children, as a trophy of his reckless daring and merciless cruelties. Both the whites and Indians now began to prepare for war. There was no alternative. Both, by acts of cruelty done by the other, were driven to desperation. The blood of slaughtered friends cried for vengeance. The Governor of Virginia, in whom the people had little confidence, called out troops from various sections of the State. These troops were placed under the command of Colonel Andrew Lewis. The back-mountain men heard the cry of their afflicted countrymen, -ind hastened -to--the scene of Pleasant, at the mouth of the Kanawha, was named as the place of rendezvous. By the ninth of October, the greater part of the white troops had reached the.point of destination. They encamped in front of the Shawanese town. Two men, who had gone out along the banks of the Ohio, hunting deer, were surprised. One was killed and the other wounded. The next morning, James Robertson and Valentine Sevier, who had also gone out before day, on a hunting expedition, were fired upon. They rushed to the American camp, and reported that they sa\^a five acre plat of land literally covered with red men. Just at sunrise, the battle begau. The conflict lasted all day. Under cover of night, the Indians retreated, carrying with them the most of their killed and wounded. The loss sustained by the Virginians, was two colonels, six captains, three lieutenants, and sixty subalterns and privates killed ; and one hundred and forty wounded. In this battle, the most bloody and best contested in the records of Indian warfare, Coloml William Campbell commanded one of the companies, which constituted the regiment led bv Col. William Christian. In that fearful conflict he stood side by side with the Shelbys?father and son?and a number of others of the back mountain men who witnessed with him the defeat of British arms on King's Mountain, six years afterward. In 1775?the year after the battle of Point Pleasant?it became evident that a war betweeu Gieat Britain and her colonies in North America was inevitable. On the morning of the nineteenth of April, the battle of Lexington was fought This was the first act in the drama. The blood shed in that skirmish, between a few militia and British regulars, dissolved the tie which bound an affectionate child to a harsh and unsympathyzing mother. Neglect on the part of the mother, had begotten contempt in the mind of the child. The spirit of liberty was diffused throughout the whole land, from seaboard town to mountain hut. The sentiment of the American people was, "Give us liberty, or we will sacrifice our lives in defence of it." The martial drum and fife were heard in every settlement. The border communities were among the foremost in the strife. These bold pioneers had never received any British favors, and little if any, British sympathies; and now that the .conflict was actually begun, they resolved to ask for no British protection. This resolution they faithfully kept. . So soon as the back-mountain men heard of the battle of Lexington, they espoused the cause of the colonies. William Campbell xt__ Tr:????? ,?u?. was aiuung me lirai ui v ngium s suug nnu offered his services in defence of his country's rights. He received a captain's commission, and commanded a company in the first regiment raised in that grand old Stale that gave birth to George Washington and Chief Justice John Marshall. This commission he held for about one year, or until the latter part of 1776, when he resigned. The Indians, whose , vengeance had been slumbering for some j time, began now to threaten the border set! tlements with utter extermination. To this they were encouraged and incited by emissaries of the British government. William Campbell's family and friends were constantly exposed to the maddened rage of these infuriated red men of the forest. That he might assist in the defence of the homes ol his neighbors and kindred, he resigned his commission and returned home. His worth had already become known, and his neighbors, in appreciation of his merit, made him lieutenant colonel of the militia of Washing! ton county, and on the resignation of Evan Shelby, in 1777, he was made colonel of the regiment. When the news of the advance of General j Ferguson, into the western district of South Carolina, reached the border settlements oi j North Carolina and Virginia, Col. Campbell was preparing to march, by way of the Flow er Gap, into the Southern borders of his nativ< ! State. It was known that Lord Cornwallii I contemplated marching his forces through th< L^nnHriprn colonies, and after having crushet i these into submission, to form a junction witl : the norther^ portion of the British army | This junction etTeCted, it was confidently ex I pected that the rebellion would be at an enc . and the rebels exterminated. The plan wai ; wise, and upon its being frustrated hung the | destiny of the American colonies. Colonel | Campbell was aware of this, and, consequent I ly, he resolved to lead his bold riflemen for ward and throw them in front of the invader Hence, he at first cooperated with Shelby Sevier and others, when the attack upon Gen eral Ferguson was proposed. ' When, howev er, the plan was fully stated, he entered intc forces were imrae B4i i diately summoned, and with four hundred of as brave and as expert riflemen as ever 1 marched to meet a foe, he joined 8helby, Se' vier and McDowell at Scyamore Shoal, on the Watauga, on the twenty-fifth of SeptemI ber, 1780. After the battle of King's Mountain, Col. Campbell returned home; not, however, to ' remain idle. In January, 1781, Lord Cornwallis broke up his camp at Winnsboro; ; South Carolina, and made a second attempt ; to lead his forces through the two Carolinas. 1 Ten days after his Lordship left Winnsboro, i Tarleton was defeated by Morgan at the Cowi pens. The retreat of General Greene, before Cornwalli8, commenced in a few days. During that retreat?about a month before the ? ^ n.i i battle of Guilford Court nouse, v^oiouei Campbell, with a corps of back-mountain riflemen, joined the army of General Greene. As was eminently proper, he was attached to the legion commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lee. On the fifteenth of March, 1781, the battle of Guilford Court House was fought. The British claimed that they gained a victory. The only evidence they had of this, was the simple fact that they held the field of conflict, The loss on the part of the Americans, in killed and wounded, was about four hundred; while the British loss was more than five hundred. In the battle of Guilford Court House, Lee's Legion and Campbell's riflemen were posted on the left At the first cnset, the first American line, which was composed of North Carolina militia, broke and fled, although not a single man of their number had, as yet, been killed. This enabled the British to advance, comparatively, unraolestod, until they reached the second American line, which was composed of Virginians, commanded by Stevens and Lawson. This second American line nobly^did-its duty, until overpowered, when TT5"lsFt, under Lawson, wheeled and fled in confusion. During this whole time, the battle raged without intermission on the American left. Lee's legion and Campbell's riflemen were attacked, with great energy, by the British Seventy-First regiment, commanded by General Lesslie, the regiment of Bose and ?* n 1 1 the tirat battalion or guards, unaer nonou. The British centre and left still pressed forward and drove the Americans in their front from the field. To the Americans the day was now lost, but the troops under Lee and Campbell held their ground, and only retired, and that in comparatively good order, when the British cavalry was massed against them. In this contest, the courage of Colonel Campbell and his riflemen was most conspicuous. He was the last to leave the field, and, although wounded, retired with grim defiance pictured on his face. After the battle of Guilford Court House, Col. Campbell accompanied General Greene in his return into South Carolina. He took part in the battle of Hobkirk's Hill, and in. the assault of Ninety-Six, he led the attack on the left. As a token of regard and a reward of merit, the Legislature of Virginia, in 1781, promoted William Campbell to the rank of Brigadier-General, and ordered him to report to LaFayette, in Virginia. This officer gave him the command of a brigade. A short time previous to the siege ofYorktown, he took sick and returned to the house of a friend, where, after a short illness, he died in the latter part of the month of August in the thirtysixth year of his age. The following is the order of LaFayette on the occasion : "The General has no doubt that the army will unite with him in regretting General Campbell's death?an officer whose services must have endeared him to every citizen; and in particular to every American soldier. The glory which General Camnhftll has aoouired in the affairs of King's Mountain and (Juilford Court House, will do his memory everlasting honor and ensure him an high rank among the defenders of liberty in the American cause. The General wishes it had been possible for himself and the officers of the army to have paid those honors to which his rank, but particularly his merit, so highly entitle him. But bis great distance from the army, and our present situation, render it impossible. The Lieutenant of the county will assemble a corps of militia and pay military honors to the deceased General. General Stevens is requested to name a deputation of four field officers, who will immediately repair to Rocky Mills, and. in the name of the army, pay General Campbell their last respects. August 25th, 1781. LaFayette." After the battle of King's Mountain the Legislature of Virginia presented Col. Campbell with a horse, a sword and a pistol, and the Continental Congress passed the following resolution: "Resolved, That Congress entertains a high sense of the spirited and military conduct of Colonel Campbell, and the officers and privates of the militia under his command, displayed in the action of October 7th, in which a complete victory was obtained over superior numbers of the enemy, advantageously posted on King's Mountain, in the State of North Carolina (South Carolina) and this resolution be published by the commanding officer of the Southern army in General Orders." After the battle of Guilford Court House, Colonel Lee addressed the following note to Colonel Campbell: "Sir: I am very happy in informing you that the bravery of your battalion, displayed in the action of the 15th, is particularly noticed by the General. Henry Lke." March 17th, 1781. On account of the complete overthrow of Ferguson at King's Mountain, Lord Cornwallis threatened, that should Colonel Campbell ever fall into his hands, that he would have him instantly put to death. Colonel Campi bell resolved, so soon as he became apprised of this threat, that in the event Lord Corni wallis ever fell into his hands, that his fate should be that of Col. Ferguson. At the battle of Guilford, this would have been the case had not the militia fled. In person, Colonel Campbell was large and i well proportioned. He was fully six feet i high, with well developed muscles. His grandson, William C. Preston, is said to have [ borne a close resemblance to him: So much i so, that an old lady at whose house, on one f occasion, William C. Preston called for breakl fast, remarket!, after eyeing him for a consid . erable length of time, that he was very like i the man she dreaded most of all men on 3 earth. "Who is that?" inquired Mr. Pres} ton. "Colonel Campbell, the man that hung 1 my husband, at King's Mountain," was the i reply. In his manners, Colonel Campbell was grave nd dignified. In conversation, taciturn and 1 tou-ughtful; but as a writer, expressive and 3 elegant. A contemporary, in speaking of j him, sa^'s he was "dangerously brave." He I decided promptly and acted vigorously. At - the very blgiuning of the battle of King's - Mountain, h^ horse, a noble black, called . "Bald Face," became unmanageable. Colonel , Campbell was' furnished with a horse, by a relation; but when the battle was raging fiercest, he was 6Cen on foot, with his coat off* > and his shirt collar wide open, at the head of / The sword used by Colonel Campell at King's Mountain, and perhaps during the whole time of his military career, was a gift from his grand-father Colonel John Buchanan, and is now in the possession of General John S. Prestoli, of Columbia, South Carolina. Colonel William Campbell married Elizabeth Henry?sister of that prince of American Orators, Patrick Henry. They had two children?a son and a daughter. The son, Charles Henry, died in infancy. The daughter, Sarah Buchanan, married General Francis Preston, and became the mother of Senator William C., and Gen. John S. Preston of Columbia, South Carolina. With regard to the religious sentiments of Colonel William Campbell, we know nothing. It is possible he was a member of the Presbyterian Church. There is a tradition that two of the officers, besides Col. James WilHflma whn were f>nM,ped in the battle of King's Mountain, were elders in the Presbyterian Church. It may be that Col. Campbell was one of them. Be this as it may, it is certain that all those?both officers and privates?were of Scotch-Irish and Huguenot blood, and Presbyteriau sentiments. They were all the grandsons of those who had been persecuted on account of their religious sentiments. Morally, Colonel Campbell was temperate and free from vicious habits; by education and every instinct of his nature, a gentleman. Colonel Campbell was a man of wealth. In fact, it yas a characteristic of the ScotchIrish race to "gather gear by every wile that's justified by honor." Duncan Campbell, his ancestor, who came from Inverness, in Scotland, to Ireland, became the owner of a large estate in Ulster Province. His grand-father, Patrick Campbell, possessed a large landed estate near Staunton, Virginia. Hiu father, Charles Campbell, inherited a portion of this estate, and he acquired by his wife, Margaret Buchanan, a large fortune. At his death, Charles Campbell gave all the property he acquired by his wife to his daughters, and the paternal estate, together with what he had added to it, he gave to hisson William. This estate descended to his son-in-law, William Preston. "?hiistw?si is THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS t Twos the night before Christinas, when all through the bouse, Not a creature was stirrlug, r ot even a mouse; The stocking* were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug In their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma In her 'kerchief, and 1 In my cap, Hod just settled our brains Tor a long winter's nap; When out on the lawn there arose such a emitter, I nrose from my bed to see whnt was the matter Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the window and threw up the sa?h. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave the lustre of mid-dny to objects below; When, what to my wondering eyes should appear . But a miniature sleigh nnd eight tiny reindeer; With a little old driver, so lively and rguick, I knew In a moment It must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer! now, Vixen ! On, Comet! on, Cupid, on, Dunderand Blitzen ! To the top of the porch ! to the top of the wall! Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!" As leaves thnt before the hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky, 80 up to the housetop the coursers they flew, With a sleigh full of toys?and St. Nicholas, too! And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof. The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my hend nnd was turning around Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound! He wns dressed all in fur from his hend to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on bis hack, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes?how they twinkled ! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his noite like acherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow; And his beard on Ills chin was as white as the Bnow; The stump of a pipe he held tight In his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath ; He had a broad face, and a round little belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl of jelly, He wns chubby nnd plump; a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and n twist of his head, Soon gave me to know that I bad nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went rttnight to his work, And filled all the stockings, then lurned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside bis nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose, He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle ; But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight; "Mebrt Christmas to ai.l, and to all a good-night!" CHRISTMAs'cAROLS. It was Christmas Eve all over the world. In a thousand homes loving hearts, happy or sad. were filled with thoughts of kindness, and sympathy, and love. Busy hands were weaving offerings for the morrow, a:ad busy feet were hastening homeward to cheerful; waiting firesides. In a pleasant homestead a young girl of sixteen was busily engaged in adding the finishing touches to some dainty bit of workmanship. She formed a pretty picture herself, as she sat curled up in the deep window sill, where fire-light, brightning in twilight flashed its warm color over her shining hair and delicate cheek. Her soft, dark eyes shone with a. subdued but earnest light, and the lithe figure managed the dainty material of her work with a graceful and deft manipulation attractive to the beholder. The beholder was a gray-haired man, who occupied thegreat arm chair in the window corner of the fire place, and who leaned upon his cane and watched the pretty maiden, fair young Rosamond, at her work, and smiled to think how like she was to another Rosamond, he had known, and loved, and buried, in the years so long gone by. "Keep good watch, Grandpa," said the fresh young voice. "Don't let anybody scad along your side unbeknownst," as Biddy says; "I'm afraid Papa will steal a march on me. I would'nt have him to see this for a pretty. Isn't it a beauty ? Won't he be pleased with it? Come now, Grandie, dear, don't look so solemn and owlish. It's Christmas Eve. What are you thinking of so deeply?" The old man looked up and smiled. "I was thinking, Rosa, of how good and how pleasant it is to have Christmas come, and to have one day in all the year on which there is so much good will. I was thinking how all these love gifts that we make to each other, and all the kind feelings we have towards one another, go to form a precious lovegift to the Lord of Christmas. Indeed, the "peace on earth and good will to man" that prevails on Christmas Day, is the "Glory to God in the Highest." "That's beautiful, Grandpa, dear," exclaimed the girl. "Its a genuine Christmas Carol. I always did say that my Grandpa's fireside lectures were sermon and hymn all in one. Oh, dearie me, here comes Papa up the steps, with his arms full of bundles. Let me run." And gathering up her work Rosamond went from the room. At the same hour that Rosamond's papa ascended the steps of his beautiful home, another father entered the door of an humble cottage not far distant. He bore no Christmas bundles in his arms. His eyeii were sad and his manner dejected. Before the cheerful fire, whose ruddy blaze lit up the small, low room, a young girl was kneeling while she toasted slices of bread for the evening meal. "It's Christmas Eve, Papa," she said, with a lively nod of welcome. "Sloop down and give me a good, sweet kiss; this fire is toasting my cheeks as well as my slices. Mamma is putting Bud to bed. He went sound asleep on the rug and wouldn't wake up. Tea is all ready now. f wish Harry was here." May be it was the cheerful .ire warmth, or maybe the bright young face a id cheery tones of the little daughter that wrovght the charm ?I only know that the sad eyes brightened to a smile as the father looked lovingly into the upturned face of his child. The room was'cosy and comfortable, although the furniture was plain and the adornments of the simplest kind. The table was spread for tea, anvl the cloth and cups and saucers, and plates were speckless and shining, and laid Mk^th scrupulous nicety. The teapot simmer ed on the hearth, and within a smooth oval of hot ashes lay the mealy brown jackets that were to form the evening meal. The mother entered the room and greeted her husband with a smile. At the same moment a boyish voice was heard at the door, and a pair of stamping feet on the doorstep kept time to a sort of rude melody that the boy's voice sang to the words: "Now it is winter, and I am discontent, My coat is somewhat like an ugly rent, And all the snow from off the top of the house Came down into my bosom?squash-ker-souse." "Harry Minturn, you noisy youngster," exclaimed the girl, gayly, as she sprang to open /Inrti* "trrViTT TuVinrn kovavnii hppn ? You're covered with snow!" "I should say so," said the boy, shaking himself. "Dame Hickley's old slant roof avalanched just as I popped under the eaves?hence my eostchume. I don't care. It's Christmas Eve, and I've earned fifty cents carrying bundles, and have got two jobs for to morrow. We'll have a Christmas supper if we don't have plum-pudding and turkey dinner." "S?8b," interrupted his sister. "Get off your coat and come to tea. We've elegant roast potatoes aud toast." Somehow the brave cheery hoy, and the equally bright and brave sister made the homely room seem almost radiant, and the sad eyed father and patient mother sat down to the frugal meal with a Christmas carol of thankfulness in their hearts for the peace was theirs in the gift of their noble-hearted children. Tiue, they were poor and in sore trouble, but the trouble came not nigh them in the same manner that it had come to some of their neighbors. They had not ungrateful, rebellious children to wring their hearts with anguish. And they chose to praise God for the blessings He had given them, rather .than to repine for what He had denied them. "We must lose the cottage, Mildred," Mr. Minturn said to his wife when alone with her, "but we must not lose our trust in God. Let us sing a hymn of praise. Our home will be sold next week, but we can celebrate our last Christmas in the dear old place with a pleasant sound of carols, can't we ?" > on Rnoomrtnd wonf. from hfir errand- I father she sought her own room to put &y her little treasure. "A love gift to the Lord of Christmas," she repeated to herself. "That is beautiful? but I have no such gift. None of mine are meant for Him. I never think such good and holy thoughts of myself." She glanced over the army of presents she had with such interest prepared. "Something for every one who will be likely to give me something," she said aloud. "And I'd never a thought of any one else. Christ's birthday, and no gift for Christ." At the table Rosamond's father said: "I heard to-day that the Minturn cottage is to be sold next week under a mortgage. Minturn's been unfortunate lately?out of employment so long. It will go hard with him to lose his home. It won't bring over eight hundred dollars at auction, and the mortgage calls for three hundred more. The interest and costs will consume another hundred. He won't have much left." "What a pity," said Mrs. Gale; "such a good man, and such a nice family. Can't something be done?" "I don't seg what," said Mr. Gale. "He asked me to lend him four hundred dollars and take a mortgage, but I couldn't just now. It's too near the close of the year. I need the money in my business." "It's too bad. How sad they must be tonight. It quite spoils my Christmas." After tea Grandpa called Rosamond into thfl lihrarv. "Come, Rosie," he said, "what am I to do? It's too hard for our neighbor Minturn to lose his home this way. I could help him by making a little sacrifice." "Oh, do help him then," said Rosamond. "But if I do somebody must needs do without the Christmas present I intended to bestow." "Well, Grandpa, who would be so selfish as to care ?" "I am afraid my little Rosie will," said Grandpa. "My one gift is intended for her, and it is to cost four hundred dollars. I have selected it, and intend buying it to-night, and having it sent up in the morning?unless, indeed-" "Oh, Grandpa I a present for me to cost four hundred dollars! It is?it is a new piano? Oh, you dear, beautiful Grandpa. Just what I had so longed for. My old, worn-out hurdy-gurdy is a real trial to me." She had quite forgotten everything and everybody save the much wished for piano and the generous and doating grandpa. Suddenly she recollected. "Oh, Grandpa," she said, "I understand you now. Either I must give up, the piano or the Minturns must give up their home." She threw her arras around her grandfather's neck and hid her face, and the tears that would come upon his shoulder. It was a sharp struggle between self love and Christlove. The dear grandpa's words came to her mind?"a love-gift to the Lord of Christmas"?and she whispered, as she kissed the old man's silvery locks, "Dear Grandpa, we will not buy the piano. We will make a love-gift to the Lord instead.". "Rose of the world," murmured her grandfather fondly, "you make my heart sing for joy. No music that you could ever have drawn from the piano I had hoped to give f* tto mo misiVi /lolmlif QQ JVM U UUUiU HUTU J A\sk\A\j\A 111V OUVU UVlig w V tav does your sweet voice now, when it speaks in accents of unselfish love. It chimes in my heart a true Christmas Carol." "Then each has sung a carol to the other," , said the young girl, her face beaming with smiles, "only mine would never have been sung at all had not yours been sung first. Aren't we bappy, Grandie ? I feel almost as if it were my home that was saved." "We mustn't be selfish on Christmas Eve. Get me my coat. I'll go down and speak a good word to Minturn," said the good old man. Tears were in his eyes now. When Grandpa returned Rosamond was sitting at il?/v rtl/1 miAhA n n/1 +U A ?imi|n in nun ammnrv Q uic uiu piauu, ouu tuu miuiij ytcic oiuguig p Christmas Carol? "Chime, bells, ohime, Glory be to God aboveChrist has come to live and love, Chime, bells, chime." "The old hurdy-gurdy sounds splendidly to-night, Grandie, dear," cried the young girl. "Rose of the world," said grandpa, softly, "it is because of the love-gift." And the Christmas Carols chimed lovingly all the dreamful night, not only in the hearts of the dwellers in the abode of plenty, but in the grateful hearts of those who sang carols while yet in darkness, and to whom the Lord of Christmas has sent his servant with a promise of help in the time of trouble. "Glory be to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men." Mistletoe at Christmas-Tide.?The hanging of the mistletoe is a cause of much frolic and laughter in the house. It is the rule that whoever is passing under the mistletoe-bough must submit to being kissed then and there by whoever chooses to take that liberty. As a bough usually hangs from the centre of the ceiling, spreading over a large spaced it follows that there must be much dodging or much kissing; I am inclined to think that there are both. The origin of this use of the mistletoe is not known; but we do know that more than eighteen hundred years ago, when the glad stars sang together over the manger in Bethlehem, and wise men brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to a young child in the peasant mother's arms, England was a chill mist-covered island, inhabited only by savages, who wore garments of skins, and lived in huts of mud and stone. Among these savage Britons there were pagan priests called Druids. These priests were a mysterious folk, who lived in dense woods far a way from other men, and who, in the gloomy solitudes of the forest, performed strange secret ceremonies. The "sacred groves," as they were called, were of oak ; for the oak was a divine tree, according to the Druidical religion. Within these sacred groves, the priests, it is recorded in history, offered their sacrifices, and in some manner not known, they employed the mistletoe. But all mistletoe was not sacred to the Druids. They would have none but that ...U ftl. on/1 woo nnnriafioH VTIJ1U1I 1/lUlig bU bllO 11UUB auu n** w by the sap of the divine oak. To them, the apple-tree mistletoe, which modern England uses so freely in her holiday festivities, would be a worthless and common thing. When, in later centuries, England was taught the Christian religion by priests who went thither from Rome, the people, though professing a belief in Christ, retained many of their heathen rites and customs changed from their original meaning and purpose. At any rate from Druids has come the modern usage of the mistletoe-bough, strangely preserved in festivities which commemorate the birth of Him whose pure worship destroys all heathen superstition.?St. Nicholas. THE BABY'TSTOCKINGS. Hang up the Baby's stocking, Be sure that you don't forget; The df ar little dimpled darling, She never saw Christmas yet. But I've told her all abont it. And she opened her big blue eyes, And I'm sure she understood me, She looked so funny and wise 1 Dear! dear! what a tiny stocking; It doesn't take much to bold Such little pink toes as Baby's Away from the frost and cold ; But then for the Baby's Christmas, It would never do at all, Why, Santa Claus wouldn't be looking For anything half so small! I know what we'll do for the Baby! , I've thought of the nicest plan ; We'll borrow a stocking from Grandma, The longest that ever we can, And we'll hang it up in the corner, Just here by the chimney, so, And we'll write a letter to Santa, And fasten it on to the toe! Write: this is Baby's stocking. That hangs by the chimney nere; You never nave seen her, Santa, "Cak oVia a*i 1 tt anm a f Kiu trnot>? JL- Vi OUU VUIJ VUUtU VUW J I But she's just the blessedest Baby ! And now before you go, Please fill the stockings witb goodies, From the top clear down to the toe. CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS. No two nations, two families, or two persons have the same way of celebrating Christmas, or any other holiday. The Chinese have feasts which correspond to our Christmas. It is a popular festival devoted almost entirely to the amusement of children, and in offering sacriGces and paying homages to certain deities, male and female, who are supposed to take interest in the welfare of the young. Special honors are paid to the "8even Star Mother," or "Mother of the Measure," who is supposed to dwell among the Seven stars which form the dipper in the Great Bear constellation. This goddess is believed to have power to give children long years of life,%nd her favor is especially sought. The cakes they eat at this time must be round, like the moon; and the candies, of which they devour great quantities, are made into all sorts of queer shapes. This Chinese festival takes place early in October. The Christian idea of Christmas, with its love, charity and forbearance, is most fully realized in Sweden, where some of the pagan ceremonials are still indulged 'in. The courts are closed; old quarrels settled; old feuds forgotten; while on the Yule evening the shoes, great and small, of che entire.household are set close together in a row, that during the coming year the family may live together in peace and harmony. Isn't there sometning particularly pretty auu appropriate in that custom ? - In ancient Borne all walls of separation were broken down during the Satturnalia, or feast of Saturn, which corresponds with our Christmas holidays; and in Italy, at the present day, masters and servants not unfrequently meet, and are seated at a common Christmas-table. In the time of Queen Elizabeth the Christmas holidays lasted over a month; everybody made merry under the mistletoe bough, and fun and frolic raged furiously. The Germans have grafted many of their ancient religious observances upon their present mode of celebrating Christmas, and all their ceremonies are symbolical. They beat the fruit-trees, or shake crumbs about their roots, that the year may he fruitful, and are much given to processions in which* the Christ-child figures conspicuously. St. Nicholas is the Santa Claus of Holland ; in a certain part of Switzerland he has a wife who is known as St. Lucy. She distributes gifts to the girls, and he looks after the welfare of the boys. In many parts of Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, St. Nicholas still distributes his gifts on St Nicholas eve?the fifth of December?instead of on Christmas eve. In Belgium on the eve of the good bishop's voyage among the chimney tops, the cnildren polish their shoes, and filling them with hay, or oats, or carrots, for the saint's white horse, then put them on the table, or set them in the fire-places. The room is then carefully locked. Next morning it is opened in the presence of the assembled household, when, wonderful to relate! the furniture is found to be topsy-turvy; while the little shoes, instead of horses' fare, are filled with sweetmeats and toys for the good children, and with rods for the bad ones. In France, though New Year is generally observed rather than Christmas for the distribution of presents, it is the Christ-child who comes with an escort of angels loaded with books and toys with which to fill the little shoes so carefully arranged by the fireplace. In Poland, and elsewhere, it is believed that on Christmas night the heavens are opened, and the scene of Jacob's ladder re-enact* 1 - 1 i it. *? ea ; OUl ic is umy perumieu iv hid eaiuw iaj see it. Throughout northern Germany the tables are spread, and the lights left burning during the entire night that the Virgin Mary, and the angel who pass when everybody sleeps, may find something to eat. The Christmas tree is of German origin, and is the principal feature of the majority of the Christmas festivities in some parts of our own country* All our customs have been transplanted from tlie old world. The Bambino is the Santa Claus of Italy, and is a representation of the infant Saviour, being nothing more nor less than a large doll very richly dressed and cherished with exceeding care. The singing of Christmas carols is a very pretty custom still practiced, to some extent, in partAf England, Germany and Scotland; ana Americans visiting those cpuntries during the holiday season are particularly impressed with the sweetness of the songs that break the stillness of the wintry night, and regret that the custom is not more generally observed. * Our own Christmas-tree comes from Germany ; our Santa Claus from Holland; the Christmas stockings from Belgium or France; while the "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" were the old English greetings, shouted through the streets in the long, long ago. IpSttUftUMM gWMtlMJ. GENERAL JACKSON'S WIFE. ONE WIFE AND THREE MARRIAGES?HI8 DEVOTION TO HER MEMORY. Jackson was a young lawyer. He was on his way from Tennessee to some town in Kentucky to attend court He was passing through what is now either Warren or Barren county in the Green river country, which was then but thinly settled, and most of it covered with forest Approaching a lone cabin in the road, he heard the cries of a woman, which grew more and more distinct the nearer he approached the house. Spurring op the ani- / mal he was riding, he soon reached the c&bin, and, alighting from his horse, entered it to find a shoemaker beating bis wife with a great strap of leather. The sounds that he had heard proceeded from her throat Disregarding the old admonishment never to interfere between husband and wife, he caught the man's arm and compelled him to diseist from his diabolical pastime. Then half shoving him, half kicking him into the yard, he tola the fellow to clear out "You confounded scoundrel 1" he exclaimed; "leave the country immediately, and nev<ar let me hear of your showing your ugly face to this woman again. My name is Andrew Jackson ; I am a lawyer. I am going up here to court, but I will return to this place every day or two until I am sure that you are so far away that you can cause the lady no more disturbance. If she has no one else to protect her, I will do it" , The positive manner of the young advocate convinced the cowardly husband that his adversary meant what he said. 80 he took Jackson's advice and cleared out Jackson visited the woman, as be had avowed he would, and from becoming interested in her case became interested in her and she in him. In the course of a year he procured a decree of divorce for the woman from her husband, and then married her. The marriage was a quiet one and occurred near Nashville. The name of his wife's first husband was Roberts, and her own maiden name was Donaldson. Hopkins says that she was an illiterate, woman, but had a very kind heart, and was always a good, true, and worthy jvife of Jackson. Soon after the marriage, Jackson determined to emigrate'to what was then the Ter-? ritory of Mississippi. Here the report became current that he had not been married to iltA tHAVMAM Vftl^U It A HTAfl llltinA "T cue rvuiuau yyicu nuuui uc nao uviug. a* was married to her/' he said, "in Tennessee, in the presence of two witnesses, but if it will be any gratification to any of these people here to have us married again, I am willing." "And sure enough," said Mr.- Hopkins, "off be goes and is married again." Some time aftirward Mr. Jackson and hjr^^H^H wife went to Kentucky. There they found that Roberts, Mrs. Jackson's first husband, had been circulating the 'report that they never had been married. Being willing that all parties should be satisfied on this point, Jacason went off and procured another license and again was united in marriage with the woman he had rescued from the wrath of an. irate shoemaker. Thus, though he never had but one wife, General Jackson was thrice married. The knot so well tied never grew slack. Jackson always loved his wife. Mr. Hopkins tells us an incident illustrating his devotion to her. Hopkins remained over night at the General's house after the death of his wife. One morning he rose very early and started to walk toward the old family cemetery. He approached rather close to the grave of Mrs. Jackson, and was surpised to find the Gen-, eral himself kneeling over it. ' He retraced his footsteps as soon as possible, but not too soon for the quick eye of the old soldier to see him. Afterwards he spoke about the matter, and said that the act in which he,, Hopkins, had beheld him was no uncommon one. Every morning, he said, he went to the grave, for he thought that the proper place for him to conduct his religious devotion was by the remains of his wife, who had been so dear to Uiwft Ail/) wiKa UnJ OA nunnf on/) OA okt/)ini? O UiUly OUU T?UVJ UOU OU (MJU OU H faith in the graciousness of the Ruler of the Universe.?From the Denver Tribune. A ROMANCE IN CHESTER. It was our pleasure to-day to be a witness to the marriage of Mr. Frank N. Pooser of Benton, Alabama, and Miss Elate Curry, of this place. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. A. Trenholm at the .residence j A of the bride's mother, Mrs. M. J. Curry\ A .Jfj number of the friends and acquaintances, of the family were present and aunipp?Wtftef^ 4R est was manifested in thej^lll^^masmuch as it was airof romance that is rarely ever met In the usual proey matrimonial world. The happy couple^which a few hours ago assumed the happy , bans, although having been engaged for nine months, ^ had never seen each other, and never known 'the bliss that's in a mutual glance.' Thev became known to each other through Mrs. T. N. Bennett, of this place, who, while at West Springs last summer, more than a year ago, made the acquaintance of our hero, who was on the watch-tower for a partner. Mrs. B. gave the bride to him as his "sweetheart," but it was not until a month afterward that he began the correspondence which has been consummated under such happy circumstances. The couple, not knowing the name of each other, corresponded under assumed names. At the expiration of three months they agreed to unmask.* They then exchanged pictures, shortly after which a matrimonial proposition was accepted by Miss Curry. It was mutually understood, however, that the contract thus entered into was to be null and void, if, after meeting, either of them should be disappoint"?* AimAA^a^An roV*o4- AIIIAV +/V cu jlu tucil ca|a^muuu jyuab ifajv vbuu uugub w be. The result of their first meeting is better explained in the letter below than we could possibly do. The engagement existed some time, when finally the happy day was fixed. In the meantime, it was arranged that a friend of the groom should come to Chester and reconnoitre for him. On a favorable investigation, tKe following telegram was sent to the anxious lover in Alabama: "0. It." This set matters right, when the groom immediately left for Chester. The denonement we know. v A feature about, this romantic marriage is the fact that the ^mother of the bride was kept in complete darkness as to the correspondence and intentions o?her daughter until last Thursday morning, wheiidhe groom wrote a note to call upon his afiSanceB^or the first time. Immediately after the ceremony, the^groom sent the following letter to a'friend in ^Alabama, which we have been allowed the privvN. lege of copying: Chester, S. C., December 2. 1879. Dear Sir: Our meeting was the happiest that ever God bestowed his- blessings upon. Both hearts satisfied and overflowing with love for each other I And to crown this happiness, we were made man and wife this morning at half past 11 o'clock in the presence of many friends. The community did not know of the affair until my arrival. Of course it has created some sensation. I will return to Alabama about the 11th and hope to meet you and other friends to share me tne nappmess wuicu jb bo nvuiy uuu?, dear K Is more than I dared hope for, and that is found in lovely woman." Mr. Pooser and his young bride left for Orangeburg in this State, the home of his birth and the dwelling place of his parents, where they will remain a few days. We ioin the many friends of Mrs; Pooser at this place in wishing that the journey of this loving, trusting couple may be one long dream of I love, happiness and prosperity.?Bulletin*