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WAR Si Gen. M. C. Bu Kditors Intelligencer: On reading' Gen. Butler's address, delivered be-I lore thc General Assembly in Memo rial Session Jan. 23, 190??, I wish to i correct some statements therciu, to wri t-he says : "lu thc spring of 18t?2 ibo Legion, j as u .separate organization, was broken . up. otc. Gen. Hampton's commission j as Colonel in thc Confederate anny was dated July 12, 180.1. Un thc 'J3rd of May, 18<"li, he was made Briga di'.r Genera! J assigned to the lem- I parar j command of an infantry bri- j g ade, composed of the Ham pion Le ,'jion-eight companies-thc M th and | 19th Ga., and 10th North Carolina legimcnts. Ile remained in command of the First Cavalry Brigade. Army of Northern Virginia," etc. Col. Wade Hampton, as I remem ber it, was in command of the afore said brigade, towit: Thc Hampton Legion, (7 companies) thc ll th and 10th Georgia, and tho (?th (not the ICtb) N. C., infantry at Fredericks burg, Va., the 5th day of April, 1802, when I joined that gallant band (Co. D, Hampton Legion,) and contiuued in command of thc same until the Seven Pines battle, where he was wounded in the foot or leg. A day or two after tho battle of Seven Fines the Hamptou Legion (7 companies, not 8,) was reorganized and Capt. M. W. Gary was elected Lieut. Colonel ind J. Harvey Dinglo Major and the L-gion was put in thc Texas (Hood's) Ligade, with thc 1st, 4th and 5th lexati and 18th Georgia regiments. After thc seven days battles around Richmond were fought, Capt. Pal mer's company from Charleston was addod to tho Legion, making thc 8th Co. ("H"). So you sec thal Geo. Hampton was NOT in command of the brigade as stated by Gen. Butler until the fall of 1862. The Hampton Le gion infantry, to my certain knowl ege, was in Hood's Texas brigade from and after a few days after the Seven Pines battle until about thc first of Nov., 1802, when tho Legion war- consolidated with thc remnant of the old 4th S. C., thrown into two companies ("I" and "K,") and put in Jenkins' brigado at Culpcppcr Court House. Gen. Butler not being in immediato touch with the infantry part of the Logion docs not remember it oorreotly, but hoing all this time with tho Legion myself I know tho above to be correct to thc best of my knowledge and recollection. Another thing I want to ask: Am I ono of the "Red Bones" of North western South Carolina? T see in tho Intelligencer something from Lewis Marshall, of Charleston, S. C., to the Washington Star, about a "peculiar peoplo" in the northwestern part of South Carolina-"tho most peculiar people in tho United States," known as "Red Bones," and that a company of them belonged to the Hampton Legion in the Confederate army, etc Now, Co. D, Hampton Legion, was the only company raised in thic part of the State, ond if we aro tho i:rcd hone, peculiar people" mentioned, we have been ignorant of this fact for a long time. Co. "D" was raised in Anderson, Piokens and Greenville Counties, and I suppose wo aro the "red bones" referred to, as we were the only company rpi. i d in the north western section of tho State. He says: "They aro very danish, mix very little with people not of their race, and in a manner aro quite , thrifty. I am of tho opinion that they are descendants of the Basques, ? of Southern France. They do not , Iftek courage, for a company of them , sotved in Hampton's Legion during , thc /?a?o Civil War, and boro them- , selves bcKvely at the first Manassas," and so on. JSow, if Company "D," i Hampton Legion, is not this "peculiar , red bone peoplo" who aro they? But tho only man in Co. D who had any French blood in him, to my knowl edge, was John J. Riley, and his father was Irish and bis mother was Frenoh. .Ho was named John Jerome -Irish,, and his brother Philip De Narrie--French. So you see, Mr. Editor, if we are this "red bone pe -onliar people" we want io know it; but one thing oertain the most of the company were of Scotch, Irish, German ?nd English descent. Very truly, Wm. F. Lee, Co. D, Hampton Legion. Postscript-About tho retreat from Yorktown, I wish to state that Hamp ton'o b. gade brought up the rear of Johnson's army from Yorktown to Williamsburg, with Hampton Legion .cavalry, commanded by Major, after wards den. M. C. Butler, immediately r?n i r*nt of the enemy. The cavalry mad a heavy skirmish with the ad vano6 guard of McClellan's army bei tween Yorktown and Williamsburg, in, whioh Bowalli Boggs, of the Brooks troops, (father of oar prosent Solioi tier Corrected. tor, .Julius K. Bogga,) was killed. The hattie ol' Williamsburg was fought on Sunday, 4th day of May, and the bat tle of West l'oint, or Kl th am's land ing, was fought by Hampton's and Hood's Texas brigade on the 7th day of May, and not vice versa, as (Jen. limier has .-tated it Gen. Butler stating that thc West I'oint battle was fought Grst. W. F. L. Piedmont. S. C., Keb. !?, 1003. firearm First Lied in Battle with Alexi ''There is a romantic side to wea pons of war," said au old army officer ? the other day. "The origin ot our purely American ann, the Colt revol ver, furnishes an instance that will illustrate this. It Bcctns perfectly | adapted to American frontier condi tions. lt has given its skillful wield ers victory on many a hard fought field. And this is why its rise and development should bc a part of our country's military history. "In the thirties we were enlarging our national boundaries in the South west. We could not consistently de velop in any other direction, for tho couutry to the Northwest was not very desirable. We were looking for a re gion that was especially adapted to Southern products, to bo cultivated by slave labor. The South was in the saddlo, and meaut to remain there if Southeru blood and valor could accom plish it. The young and thriving Re public of Texas was thc point toward which tin* attention cf the region Bouth of Mason and Piton's line was i turned. A handful of daring young Americans had wrested from Mexico a region five times the size of any State in the Union. It was then called the Republic of Texas. "Tho Stato of Tennesseo was pri marily responsible for this daring step. Gen. Sam Houston had gather ed togother a daring band of young men full of hot-Llooded courage. The blood of tho pioneers that took Ten nessee from tho most warlike Indian tribe on this continent was in them. For a long time it was an up-hill fight, j Not only the Mexicans, but the Co- j manches and Lipans-unequalled war riors and daring horsemen-harassed and raided the scattering frontier set tlements and towns along the Texas border until it really appeared as if the entire scheme of tho settlement of Texas must go down iu blood. "But thc men who started in to do this work were not of the quitting kind. They were of that Tory-hating, Indian-fighting stock that obstacles did not daunt nor dangers quail. And they set their teeth hard and swore they would stay. To guard their fron tier thoroughly and effectively they organized bands or companies of rang ers, under offioers who could not only fight Indians and Mexicans, but con trol and disciplino their own men. "Among the ablest of these com manders Col. Hays, better known as 'Jack' Hays, was inoontestibly the ablest. He was a born leader of men, just suoh men as were peopling that great Southwestern sootier. In stat ure he was about five feet eight and never weighed over 150 pounds. His hair was of a darkish brown, inolined co bo red, and his eyes were of several colors, according to his methods. In his hours of relaxation and among his friends they were of a dark gray, with a hue of hazel. In excitement, and especially in a fight, they were of a color indescribable. They simply seemed to blaze. "Some time in the later thirties Col. Hays was directed by tho Presi dent of Texas to go to New York and purchase suitable arms to equip his troom*. He had then about 150 men, but they were nut uniformly armed and lacked equipment suitable for a mounted command. They needed to be equipped alike and with the very best weapons available at that time. "So, in obedience to his orders and with a letter of credit on the treasurer of the Texan Republic, Hays took passage in a schooner that was bound for New York. He was a month in making the trip, for ho started in Sep tember, when the Gulf is usually stormy and the prevailing winds are fror\ the southwest and everywhere else. Thoy were blown into nearly every port from Galveston northward before they got in sight of the island of Manhattan. Col. Hays went the rounds of the firearms dealers of New York. It was not a diffioult under taking, for there were but four or five of thom. But he did not find any thing that he had not seen before in the way of firearms. "One day, however, a dealer said: ?There is a man living over in New Jersey at present who has juet in? ORIGIN OF REVOLVER. cans. \ I vented a pistol which 1 would like to have you see.' " 'What is there about it that inakeB it different from other pistols?' a*kcd Col. Hays. "?.Well, thia, for one thing. It shoots six times without reloading.' "Col. II ays's interest was imme diately aroused. 'Indeed, I'd like very much to see it,' said he. " 'Very well, then, I'll have him in here with it to-morrow about this time,' responded tho dealer. So the next day, about 1 or 2 o'clock, thc man came in. Ile was about .'<U years i old and chiefly a gunsmith by trade, 1 though bc did all sorts of work in fine ! s'eel. lie said he had just coucludcd j an order of sabres for officers of the regiment of dragoons just then being raised. ! " 'This is my pistol, colonel,' said he, opening a case and handing the i weapon to the Texas colonel, 'Thc instant I looked at it I said it was just what I wanted,' s:'.id Hays to his I brother, Gen. Harry Hays, of New Orleans. There was a sixty-foot gal lery in the rear of thc store for thc testing of arms. They took the mod I ern pistol, which was about like thc Colt's pocket arm of to-day in size, , calibre and weight, and thc expert fired all six barrels off in less than a minute. The penetration was good, as was the accuracy. " 'Now, I want a pistol of this pat tern, but with a longer cylinder, an eight-inch long barrel, taking a bullet of about fifty grains weight, made at soon as you can make it. I will ad rance you $50 on it now to enable you to purchase the material and have the barrels ribed. If the pistol shoot) as well as I think it will I will talk tc you about a contract for 100 of then and also about a rifle on tho sam? principle.' "In two weeks the pistol was readj to be tested. It shot very well, witl sufficient force to kill if it hit a mai at from 100 to 150 yards distance. A tho same time a rifle was constructs on thc same principle. It was abou 0.44 calibre, with a cylinder tha would contain about eighty grains o powder and carried a round and a oblong bullet. The arm came up t Hay s's expectation in all respecte He took the model to Texas with hil and subpiitted it to his Rangers When it had been thoroughly teste they ordered 100 of the pistols and 5 of tho rifles. The latter were so cor structcd that when the cylinder wa fired it could bo slipped - out, and ar other cylinder, already loaded, pu into the arm in one time and two nu tions; that is, in thirty seconds. "Shortly after the troop had bee armed with these new weapons the were tried in a sharp fight that settle the question of their superiority ov< those of their Indian and Mexican ai tagonists once and for all. Aboi 000 or 700 Mexicans and Comanol and Lipan Indians crossed over int Texas, under the leadership of Cai ales, a noted 'raider* from the otb side of the Rio Grande, and with herd of about a thousand head of fi beef cattle, and perhaps 500 head m|iles, were making their way bac into Chihuahua, where Canales had fine ranch and lived in princely styl He was one of the richest roon Northern Mexico and the able jt soldi in that section. "The 200 lancers with him eharg Hays's men fearlessly. Hays let the come on until they were in good, ea range, and then opened up on inc with his fifty rifles. After the iii volley Canales thought he had t Americans foul. 'Meuran las Ame canoa 1' he shouted, as he dashed the little band of intrepid Range; commanded by Ned Burleson, one Hays's most trusted lie ute nan Crash, crash, crash, went the rifles. " 'Por Dios, what oort of a rifle ha these devils of Americans,.' th shouted to one auother, as, leavi the stolen oattlo and about one-sii of their command dead or ba< wounded on tho ground in the har of the dreaded Americans, they stu out for (.be Rio Grande and the ot! aide. Hays had captured a prie and he sent him after his o om raj with orders to tell Canales to send escort and wagons enough to oa away all tho wounded that were a to be moved. It was soon repor all along the border that las Am oanos had a dreadful rifle, that t used by magio of some sort, wi would shoot as long as they wis without reloading. "Canales offered ? great rewatd one of these new guuB. Ho wi well eduoated man and reallied onoe that the Americans had s sort of arm that was not gener known, aud was vastly uuperio rapidity of fire and reloading to then in use. It was nearly two ye however, before he could get hands on one of them. Col. Sai Colt had pledged himself not to nieh his new arm to any but Ai oana and men who would not sufi to get into the wrong hands. "The United States amy, par larly f oe three mounted regin thee in service, tho 1st and 2nd meats of dragoons, and the Moe Rifles were equipped with Colt' volving pistols as soon as the ordi bureau of the war department < be persuaded to adopt them. It ..... ? ., ,'... 5*2. . 1?I;MM??' . curious feature of our ordnance office that it is always the very last of the military establishments to seo any merit in any invention that docs not emanate from some member of its corps. That used to be the invariable rule, but it has been a good deal modi fied in late years, with tho invention and adoption by other nations of war like instruments that wore American invention and plan. "The renown of tho famous Ameri can pistol soon spread all over Eu rope. Russia was the first country to give Colt a big order, and this it did sufficiently to take three years in its completion. "When the Crimean war began the English and French found, to their amazement, that the Russian Gunrd cavairy and some of thc picked mounted regiments of the linc were armed with a pistol aud carbine far excelling that in thc hands of tho allied armies of England, France and Turkey, and to-day, in spite of the multiplicity of inventions, nothing superior has ever been devised." Washington Post. Seren Years to dig Canal. Washington, February 7.-"With good luck wo ought to finish the Pana ma in seven years," said a high Gov ernment authority officially interested in tho enterprise yesterday. "The task may require as much as ten years for its completion. It depends large ly upon tho health of the laborers employed. An epidemic of bubonic plague or cholera might put us back a good deal. "Such a misfortune is exactly what we shall take most pains to avoid, however. Wo shall control every thing on the strip, whi?h will be in future, to all intents and purposes, a part of the United States; and our first care will be to fix matters as we waot them in a sanitary way. We shall clean up things just as we did in Cuba, establishing proper drainage, insuring plentiful supplies of pure water and making cleanliness compul sory in tho towns along the route of the canal. The French company has a fn\o hospita! that cost over a million dellars which will bs transferred tu us with the rest of its property. "We shall employ about 30,000 workmen on the canal as soon as we get things fairly started, and this army of laborers will bc drawn mainly from Jamaica and other West Indian islands. It has been urged that we might utilize a few thousands of our Southern negroes on the job, but such a plan would not be likely to work satisfactorily. Colored folks from the ootton States might suffer from the climate of the tropics and they are not accustomed to live as cheaply and simply as the darkies of the West Indies. "Probably the work will be given out to contractors, who will hire the requisite workmen at 50 or 60 oents a day, which is about what labor is worth at that part of the world. The contractors will give bonds to the is land governments to oare for the ne groes properly at the end of a specified time. The laborers will he fetched to the port of Colon by steamers, disem barked and assigned in gangs, under gang bosses, to various points along tho line of the canal. Work will be carried on in all parts of the diteh simultaneously ia order to bring the enterprise to completion as quickly as possible. it aaouiu ut) reauaou tuan nun lem presented by the Panama Canal is altogether different from that whioh would have demanded solution in Nicaragua. If the latter route had been chosen the work wo* id have had to begin with the clearing away of forests and the grubbing of stumps in short, the opening of a virgin traot of countryr with a multitude of diffi culties to bo overcome as a prelimi nary to the excavation of the dtitoh. At Panama on the other hand, every thing ie oleaned up;, the canal is al ready half dug-accurately speaking, about 30 per cent of the necessary digging has been accomplished-and wo have only to take up the task where the French people have left oil. "Weare thus- enabled a start at once and without the long delay which would have been unavoidable in Nicar agua. Even the maohinery and other apparatus-muoh of it, at all events ie oa hand. As yet it is impossible to say what the maohinery is worth; our experts did not take it into account in their estimate of the value of the Freneh company's property and all of : it will have to be overhauled and ox : amined. A great deal of it i* anti quated, undoubtedly, but muoh of it is good stuff. i "There are a great many locomo tives, nearly all of them brand new I think not less than forty-five or fifty-whioh are valuable assets and represent a lot of money. Then there is a great number of machines, such as steam shovels and dredges, for excavating and carriers for removing earth. There are thousands of dump oaraand miles and miles of .por tablo rail way traoke, whioh oan be pioked up from one placo and laid down off-hand in another. "Xerxes onoe employed a million soldiers in tho making of a canal, bu; those were days when digging was dons by hand with spado and pickaxe. In these modern times such work is ac complished by machinery. Steam shovels pick up the earth, which is conveyed by trolley carriers to cars and transported with the help of lo comotives .to convenient places, where it is dumped. Where rock has to be removed blasting is done, of course; but fortunately there is very little rock to be excavated along the Pana ma route. "Necessarily a great deal of expen sive machinery will have to be pur chased. Much of the apparatus now on band must go to the scrap heap to be replaced with the newest and most up-to-date machines. With Ameri can energy and unlimited funds be hind thc enterprise the digging of the canal will bo carried forward with great rapidity. It is even now in progress, in a sort of fashion, about 1,500 laborers in the employ of the French company ben. g engaged on the work. "The estimated cost of completing the ditch is $144,000,000. It will be forty-seven miles in length, though the isthmus is only forty miles wide, the route traversed being far from straight. Tho bottom width of the canal will be 150 feet, its width at the top varying with tho formation. Where it passes through rock, of course, its sides will bA steeper than where the banks are ot earth- The depth of the water will be 35 feet throughout, so as to allow for the pas sage of the largest freight - steamers, and there will be five twin locks built of solid masonary. "Theedeepest out to be mads will not be much over 300 feet above sea level at the highest point. By the h -lp of tho looks ships will be lifted up the requisite 90 feet on one side of the isthmus and lowered again to the level ol the ocean on the other side. The looks will be twins in order that, when one of them needs repairs navigation may not be inter rupted. "It is estimated that about 5,000,000 tons of freight will pass through the oanal during the drat year after it is opened and that there will be a steady increase in the trafila thereafter. Tolls will be low-not moro than Si a ton, I should say. Uncle Sam will not be anxious to make money out of the enterprise; and it is hardly necessary to say that everything about this great publie work will be done on a scale of liberality. Every modern improve ment will be introduced-even to the lighting of the ditch throughout its entire length with electricity furnish ed by water-power." Rene Bache. imagination Principally. Friends of Hugh McLaughlin, leader of the Kings oounty Democracy, are laughing over one of his practical jokes, says the New York Journal. The veteran had a sore throat recently and was using tablets composed of ill tasting drugs coated with sager. As semblyman MoKeowD came in and saw the tablets strewn about on McLaugh lin's desk. MoKeown reached for one and McLaughlin watched him chew it until his face paled. "What is the matter, John?" asked McLaughlin. "Have you been eating those poisonous gumdrops that I pre pared for the rats, in the auction rooms?" i "Were they poisonous, Mr Mac?" querVl MoKeown anxiously. "Sure," said McLaughlin. "You better get some medicine, and I ii tele phone for an ambulance." MoKeown rushed to a drugstore, got medicine, returned to the auction rooms and sat down to await the am bulance. He became so nervous over the delay in the arrival of tho ambu lance that McLaughlin, fearing' pros tration, revealed Ike joke. AQoart Iktyj. Now and agata there ia an Item in the? newspaper?, cacccming the birth .of at puny baby so sma'J that a quart cup holds it comfortably. If the article told, all the facta it "would probably tell also of a mother who in preakness and misery-' had looked forward to the baby's advent with Fhrinkxng and fear. 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