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THE GREAT LEAUER. Outline of the Career of South Cavc lina's Noblest Son. LIEUT. GEN. WADE HAMPTONi. Scian ofa Famaily or Men Noted r Their Courage. Some 1faci tients of an Event lul Lire. Lieut. . Wade pt i n was born in (ha rlest a &t a M)t - I. In ilasel street. witbin i he kial o the chimes of old Saint 3ichaei'. he first saw the light. His great grand father came from Virginia to the colony of South Carolina prior to the Revolution and settled in Spartanburg district, where he and most of the family were murdered by Indians in 1i75. Several of the sons including Gen. Iampton's grand father were away at the time and escaped the massacre. and aM served in the War for Independoixe. Wade 1am pton. the deceased general's grand father. was in Washington's cavalry. and was lieutenant colonel at the battle (if Eutaw. The swish of Col. 1ampton's sword was always heard in the charge. In the war of I1l2 this soldier was a general. le was one of the first cot-. ton planters and acquired much land in Mississippi and Louisiana as well as South Carolina. Col. Wade lamp ton. the dead chiefs father, was a planter with large estates, and he loved blooded stock. He had a pri vate race track at his beautiful home near Columbia, burned by Sherman. Col. Hampton was a warri..r also. le served on Gen. Jackson's staff at the battle of New Orleans and bore news to Washington, riding one horse the i entire distance to Columbia, at the rate of 72 miles a day. The deceased general learned to ride, shoot and "speak the truth at Millwood, and received rare training. His mother was a 3iss Fitzsimons. Gen. Hampton was educated at the South Carolina university from which he graduated in the class of 11536. le then studied law, but with no inten tion of practicing: however. Prior to the war the young man's planting in terests in Mississippi consumed much of his time and he usually spent his winters there. The last crop before the war raised on this place was 5,000 bales. The command of the great number of overseers and laborers gave him good schooling for what he was soon to devote his attention-the com mand of soldiers. When the State seceded Hampton obeyed the call to arms quickly. going in as a private, but soon raising the Hampton Legion composed of six com panies of infantry, four troops of cav alry and one battery of artillery. le commanded this organization with conspicuous gallantry at Bull Run. where he received a wound in the head. Such a command was hardly fitted for' good service. The different arms of the service were separated, "and each became the progenitor of a famous body of its kind." It was corps elite. Of its original members two became lieutenant generals--Hampton and Stepnen D. Lee; one a major general, Butler, and three brigadier generals Connor, Gray and Logan. At Seven Pines Hampton was again wounded in the foot, his 'troops distinguishing themselves. On July 28, 1862. Hlamp ton was made a brigadier general of cavalry and his command was known as the Hampton Legion. It was com posed of South Carolinians, North Carolinians and Virginians. At its head Hampton rode in Stuart's famous raid in August, 1862, round Pope's flank and rear. He made the Federal general date his correspondence from '"Headquarters in the Saddle." Gen. Hampton was always successful in de tached service. His work was dash ing in the M1aryland and Pennsylvania campaigns 1862-63, and full of inci dents. The story of Hampton's meet ing with Col3IcClure of Chambersburg is one of the best of the campaign in that section. At Gettysburg Gen.; Bampton. was thrice wounded in the momentous struggle. About half the men were wounde.l in this battle. In June 1863 at Brandy Station. Gcn. Hampton's younger brother. Lt. Col.; Frank Hampton, was killed. Gen. B'ut ler lost his leg here also. ''On another part of the field," says the historian. "Gen. H ampton was that day performing brilliant service in many a charge. One of these a mounted charge against a Federal brigade, was said to have been the most hotly contested and magniti cent horse encounter of the war. but Hampton's star lighted the path and his saber cleft the way to victory. A's the general dashed to the head of his command to lead them on this occasion1 his eyes 'snapping fire.' as the men used to say, he threw off his overcoat to leave his sword arm free and flung it to his son, Prestcn, acting orderly a1 mere boy, who was afterwards killed at Burgess' 3M111," who threw it away< saying he didn't come to carry coats but to fight. At Gettysburg Gen.1 Hampton was severely injured, though< after receiving his wound he, in hand to-hand conflict cleft the skull of his adversary with his saber. In A'ugust < 1863 he was made a major general and then soon follosved the magni ficent< campaign of Virginia, where Hamp- 1 ton won his fame as a general. Hamp ton broke up Federal plans with the move at Trevillians' Station, and in 23 days captured 3,000 prisoners and1 much war material with a loss of only 719 men. In August 1864 Ihampton was made commander of Lee's cavalry with the rank of lieutenant general. In September he struck the rear of the Federal army at City Point and] brought away 400 prisoners and about 2,500 beeves. It is impossible here to tell of the many brilliant battles conducted by~ Gen. Hampton. The story would till volumes, Hie concluded his serv ice be before the war ended by taking chargec of Johnson's cavalry and didi tine serv ice in harrasssing and retarding '-her man's army. Gen Lee's famous order commending Gen. Hampton's cavalry, issued oni Feb. 28. 1863, concluded with this paragraph: "In announcing these achievements,i the commanding general takes speciali pleasure in adverting to th~e promp't ness of the oficers in striking a succs ful blow whenever tihe opportunity of fered, and the endumrance and gall"antry with which t he men have ahvays sup ported their commanders. These deeds, give assurance of viglianee. act ivit y and fortitude and of the performance of still more brilliant act ions in the com ing campaign. IH. E. Lec. "Genera!." Historian Wells in his volume relat-r i; to en. mmanptn give m strikingr uistanct? o is ul rae ad niental a1san' v s; E'arly wn ie morning ol \1arch 1.1. 1 ~>' John onl's army 1s . -"ing th Cae Capt Fear i ye' at layel evi!. North C~arolinat. in:r rtillr vnd wagon ra ins :! ne rl t t e id ,rIsIn I il1! e valry wr acro 'her ;est scouts ll 4g Sci byI- title - ii -1 lo()d6 un and tod '1iin 'th It enem ;I '' cmpan y\ "itl' :; i '4niI \*I,,*a a ' even1 eteaIn rmy .m'Id itis aV.ly n-:a ard. i t would .t.It.. T1h cavalrl woull ! eW t :1 fr'iom cOveriug the r rnt aid the bridge across 1he river which it was ess.ntial to burn after the crossing was cominpleted, if left in tact. would afford the Federals ile opportunity of swift, pursuit. Not a moment was to I)e lost. The cavalry leader must be able to both think ard act with the rapiditv of a hash of lightning,. and that ameton did I this occasion.l ie realizd that an ounce of . penin s wrh a pund of cure in War 'aS well as i: disease anui Ihat one ma' . -- in the iek of fathusand : w minuteslater. So call in I t ii. scut ani two miemhers of his sta to fo1ow him and picking un three vrivat's fro:n Company K. F *urh . '. . C. G2arieston .igiht Dra oons) * and also one man said to be 'rom Wheeler's command - ' the general dashed around the corner and rave the order. *Charge.' His seven followers-there were no others in the charge-obeyed with alacrity and all, the general leading, fiung themselves upon the Federals. who were drawn up in the street. These tired a volley with their carbines but by that time the Confederates had struck them and confused by the suddenness of the at attack, the fierce assaults and the powder smoke they (lid not realize the small number of their assailants. So thev tried to wheel about to run. but among them were pistol balls at close quarters. and the back and thrust of sabres. Less than a hundred Yards down the street. was a turn at right angles to the left into the byroad by which they had entered the town and by which they were endeavoring now to escape. h ere they oecame jammed together in confusion, all organization lost and their pursuers cut and thrust like devils incarnate, as the fugatives probably thought. Eleven Federals were killed and 12 captured and the rest, many of them wounded, fled in wild panic carrying consternation to their friends with excited tales of hun dreds of men in buckrani. as the best will do in such circumstances." The only Confederate casualty was the kill ing of a tine mare. Thus was the cross ing of the river secured to the Con federates. Hampton had grasped the situation and solved the problem. After the close of the war Gen. Hampton resumed his cotton planting operations but was not generally suc cessful. lie spent a good portion of bis time looking after his M1ississippi plantation and this gave rise to the charge, made by his political enemies some years later. that he was an alien. Jst here it may be well to tell how it was that Gen. Hampton came to head the movement that led to the re demption of South Carolina from Radi cal rule. In December, 1875, he came to the distinguished South Carolinian who! was at the head of the white incipient organization, lie was then on his way to MIississippi. Hie asked what was going to be done and asked specitically could the people of the State be arous ed to do anything. Hie was answered 'yes,' that they had determined to made a straight'>ut tight and win or die. Hie said, "Tha.t is the only hope for the State." He was thien asked: If we nominate you will you lead the fight?" "On that platform," he. answered. "I will make the tight to a finish, not for the otlice but for the principe." Gen. Hampton went on. to his Mississippi plantation and in the meantime Col. Hoyt's paper In the up-country and t few others began to help the white leaders. The State convention w'as called for May. but Chamberlain's Fusionists were so strong that all that could be clone was to adjourn the convention without ac tion. The lFusionists contended in that convention that Hampton was a usionist. G:en. Hlampton came back to Suth Carolina in Ju ne andi went to is home in the sadhills. When he ot bac'k he was in bad health and it looked as if there was but little hope for the State. He was sent to the mountains to get his health back again md the convention was post poned un ti August. Early in J1uly he went to Walhalla and OiT in the mountains. Early in August a letter was sent him rging him to come to Coiumbia and ye present in person at the convention. [Ie was off' in the mountains hunting ut he got here the night before the onvention and the next day was on he floor. A fter a hard tight his nom-1 nation was won and then mcn who~ ad been lighting the white leaders l1day came over that night. while mthusasm prevailed in Columbia. en. Hampton returned to the moun ains and opened the campaign at An lersn. The leader referred 1to above tated yesterday that he had made the treatest and grandest campaign ever ondcted. lHe cornected his tight *ithih the bojunds ofperfect law and irder andI on all occasions displayed le wisdom of a Solomon. Friday was tihe anniversary of the lay upon which D)aniel Hi. C'hamber ai turned over to Wade H ampton he State capitol at Columbia, and it s a coincidence that he should have lied upon the anniver'sary of the very lay that he witntessed the fruition of 1s eforts to reclaim his State. The 'ollowing dIoIumtllCts inl regard to this natter will he of especial intcrest: Hearling that ',1r. Chlam erliai n was vlling to yield the possession (If the ,xecutive olice in~ the State house. overor llampton addressed him the olowing note: St ate of South1 Carolina. E-xecut ive' ChambeIr. Si: Havineg learned! t hat youl now >ro''os I to iCV t t ro me! the exIcu - tr belonging to1t h e e'xecut ive. ofliee low~ inyxour possess'ion1. I bieg to inflorm ou that I w'ii ll n ai~IJ! p oper nelr to 'eeeie the -a tune at anyc iour you may n ticte as moSt a' nVeenint tavou'se'lf. xcamver res'el1 rfuly\tl your bedlet evant Wadite litlamtonl. . on1. . . iChonherian ..o this M\r.( Charlain promp'tly eled as follows:. "'tate of South Ca: ia Colmbtia. ". C. A pril 10. 1"'. inir: lleplying' to 'yiou l not f tis .ate. 1 lmv\e'O say I hat myX pivaaute see etary' i . met' 'VC ( s I I. o iter iSy mayIliti I I cut ive ()lica. for the purpose in licat ed in your note. Very respectfully ). H. ('haib overnor 0 ~o1 South ( T1" imn. Waie lal:upi on. .\ 'wn minlis h, t*rIe1 'I lie tIroolps a Tit- S1:1e 1hiouse were brLugt A "t\ - I."'1 iestryiit Iv at the gover (I,, idr rcsumed his pl:ce n the oks. ( 'l. iBlack stood liv. .s he lirst stroke of the clock so"unded the order was given, "Atten t ion, guard: carry arms: right shoulder iris: twos right. mnarch." The sound if heavy a nd heavier footfalls resound ed ai6lg the corridors and before the bhll had reached the fifth stroke of i the twelve the last ile had crossed the threshold. A number of the negro constables, evidently acintg under per emptory and urgent orders. instantly sprang. to tle heavy doors and slammed them with a bang. in the face of the crowd within, and in the immediate rea r of t he last tile of the soldiers with out. who are hardly out of the way of the closing panels. A heavy bar dropped into its brackets, and the inili tary occupation of the State is ended. much to the relief of the citizens and the military as w'l. On Wednesday. at seven minutes to 12 in.. Mr. Manning. private secretary of the governor, presented himself at the executive (lice and was politely met by Mr. b:ibett, of whom he re quested the surrender of the governor's otlice in the name of. Governor Iamp ton. Mr. Babbett replied thit he was ordered by (overnor Chamberlin to make the transfer at 12 precisely, and would do so when that hour arrived. As the first stroke of noon was heard, :3lr. Babbett handed over the seal and keys of the otfice, accompaning the ac tion with the usual verbal formula. And Governor Hampton was in posses sion of the otlice. A few minutes more were spent in explaining the details of books, papers, etc., and both gentle men retired from the premises, leaving the ollice locked. as it will remain until the key is turned to admit Governor Ilampion himself. le will probably take possession in person tomorrow. A few idlers were present about the building. but only one or two gentle men were allowed to be present at the ceremony its witnesses.-News and Courier, April 1-. WEATHER AND CROPS. The General Backwardness of the Season Saves the Crops. The second weekly bulletin of the season of the condition of the weather and crops in South Carolina was issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau. It is as follows: The early part of the week ending Monday, April 14. was unseasonably cold, with heavy frost and thin ice in exposed places to within about 30 miles of the coast, on the 9th. The close of the week had about normal temperature. Light frosts occurred in the northwestern portions on the 1Cth and 11lt.h. The frosts of the week nip ped some corn, yellowed some oats, probably injured peaches slightly in places. but otherwise did no material damage, owing to the backwardness of the season. On the 7th, there was a beneficial rain that covered the entire State, and ranged in amounts from one-third to over an inch. In places it was ac companied by hail. There was a snow lurry in Newberry county on the 8th. The sunshine was about normal. High winds prevailed on the 8th and 9th. The week was generally favorable for farm work, and rapid progress was made in preparing lands for spring planting, except on bottom lands, which are still too wet to plow. In the southeastern and east central counties corn planting is nearly fin shed and much is up to poor stands, while some has been replanted. Birds and cut worms have injured stands. In the central counties upland corn planting is well under way, while over the western it has only begun. Not much cotton has been planted anywhere, searcely any in tihe western portoans of the State, but over the eastern portions the bulk of the crop will be planted during the present Rice is being planted, in all the re gions w here grown, under favorable conditions. Tobaicco plants are plentiful but small: transplanting will not begin for some t ime. Truzk had favorable weather, the rainfall having been particularly ben licial along the coast. Wheat is generally pronmising, al though small, with, however, numer >us ex:-eptions, where the crop is poor. ats are exceedingly variable in condi ion, with only a fewv localities, where the ro~(p is enti rely satisfactory. Gardens are backward. Pastures ifford grazing over thle eastern por is of tile State only. Fruits are late in blooming, and the :aijority of correspondents regard it1 is safe to date, but in Lexington coun :- and a few other localities peaches are been materially injured but not Ill killed. Massacred by Kiurds. News has been received of massacre > Turks and Kurds of three hundred hristians at Diabeckir, Kurdestan. band of roving armenians recently I tppeared near the town. The au :horities sent Abraham Pacha. at thei lad of the Kurdish regulars, to dis- 1 erse thecm. The regulars pursued thea \renians some distance, attacking m Armentian village en route. Fin uly Abraham and his party were orced back. Jlust as they reached thei own, seeking reinforcements, the Ar nenians opened tire. Ileavy fighting sted for some time. The Kurds, en aged at not being able to force tihe irmenians back. turned into the 1 jlristianl quarter of the town and :iled unmercifully. Many Turks and 'urds were also killed.f Two Negroes Suicides. Ner(os do not often commnit sui d but two made away with them elves in this State las: week. On e onday night Eugene Code commit ed sulicide in Columbia. Coie has 9 Lttemted suicide several timnes he ore and this time an overdose of laud- r num produced thleapparently desired ~ 'esut. The other case was that of a mJohnson in Charleston on Wed- r osda g morning. .Johnsron had been c rinking heavily for several weeks. C le came honme eariy Wednesday morn- r n' and said to his wife: "Im as ik as a duos: I believe Ill blow my I rains o~ut.' And he did. Raising is revolver t a his head. he pulled the a rigger-then he fell across his bedndly sll SOME WAR HI8TORY. & Federal Officer's Tribtte to Gen. Micah Jenkins of the CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY. A Graphic Description of* the Ilattle of the Wilterness Where That Gallant Soldier Gave Up His Lille. Mr. T. I,. Lackie, (f Detroit. Mich., whu was an oflcer in the famous Sixteenth Michigan regiment, writes to the Atlanta -Journal a cor rection of the statement going the rounds that Gen. 3Micah Jenkins was killed at Gettysburg, and gives in detail the circumstances connected with his death in the battle (if the Wilderness on the th of May. 1si;4. to which is added aglowing tribute to Gen. Jenkins from the pen of this gallant Federal officer: The circums::ances connected with the death of that very distinguished oflicer were as follows: All day the 5th and until about 10 a. m. the 6th. General A. P. Hill's corps had been contending against vastly superior numbers of Federal troops. On the fatal morning of the 5th Ilancock had advanced his corps on Hils posi tion, and forced the latter almost back to his artillery line badly broken and worn out by incessant fighting. Disaster to the Confederate army seemed assured. General Lee was with the artillery and directing the re-formation of the broken lines. le had sent for his old war horse (Long street) and was anxiously waiting his coming-always reliable and on hand at the right moment, he is seen com ing down the Orange plank road, his magnificent men on the couble-quick, resistless as the ocean tide! Gregg's Texans are deployed into line and immediately advance with that never to be forgotten yell. The immortal Lee springs to the front to lead them: they halt. ie must go back or there will be no advance of Texans. A bronzed-faced demon of the battle front gently takes the bridle rein and turns the head of his charger, Lee sorrowfully rides over to Longstreet: on goes the Texans. Loud rour the cannon with shotted breath, and more awful the yells of battle (lemons. The Texans strike HaIcock's exult ant advance; the shock is tremend ous: neither line recoils; but the tangl ed forests tremble, and the tangled haired Texans and the veterans of Hancock settle themse:ves down to the science of butchering one another. The slaughter on both sides is awful. Bepning's and Law's brigades come to the aid of Gregg and take a hand in the work that is on; wit h a yell the whole line charges. The Feneral line is forced back, but Wad.worth comes to the aid of Hancock; the tide of bat tle ebbs and liows. Tladsworth is killed; Longstreet strikes the Federal left 11ank: rolls it up ia a confused mass toward the plank and back on the Brook road. Everything now in dicated a complete victory for the Confederates. General Longstreet rode forward to prepare and take ad vantage of the opportunity to inflict a decisive blow on Grant's army. With that end in view Jenkin's fresh brigade is moved forward to the plank road. Supplemented by JKershaw's brigade. General Longstreet moved forward to reconnoiter the situation, accom panied by General Jenkins. Mahone's men seeing a movement in their front and by the indistinct view obtained >wing to the density of the forest mis ook them for the enemy and tired. illing the gallent Jenkins and wound ing Longstreet. a most lamentable istake. As a Federal soldier I know that it will not be expected of me within the scope of an article intended for the lose call department, to write a bio graphical slietch of so distinguishedan fficer as General Micah Jenkins, wot. [ fitted for the work~which I am nay. Yet the temptation is so great to see something more, that I venture a rief retrospective view of that hero's war record, and under my own observa :ion. As colonel of the regiment esignated, the Palmetto Sharp Shoot rs of South Carolina, we joined him it the battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, as the Federals have it. in the ottest part of that field, near the Eenry house, and down the slope. where so many of the Hampton Legi n tell, and where valiant deeds and ood generalship crowned the young lon ederacy with victory and everlast ng fame. To Beauregard, .Jackson, ee, Bartow and Kirby Smith, the atter a citizen of Connecticut, under eneral Magruder, we find the gallant olonel Jenkins within the defenses of forktown. After the evacuation of that strong iold Jenkins' regiment, with others, iovered the retreat and facing about et Williamsburg met the overwhelm ng advance of the enemy, inrlicting errible loss in his ranks and checking is advance until the Confederate rmy and subsistence trains are at a ;afe distance, and proper line of de 'ence established. At West Point d other places his regiment had ought the hard battle of the rear ~uard until the army was safe on the outh side of the Chickahominy river. is regiment having suffered untold uardships and severe losses in men mnd officers, for which he received just ecognition for his gallant and meri orious conduct in face of an over helming enemy. Next we find him at the battle of even Pines or Fair Oaks. with his ~alant regiment and one other driv ng before him a whole Federal divi ion. gaining a good position, held the attle field and iniciting a loss on the nemy about equal to the nnmber of en in his regiment, only abandoning ds position when the army was with rawn to the former defences of Rich ond, in the dark hours of the Con ederacy which followed the battle of even Pines. when Johnston's vague lans and operations puzzled and co~n used the President. A new star appeared on the Confed rate horizon. It illuminated the hole American continent. Its ref ul ent rays penetrated the remotest ounds of the Old World. That mag iicent and glowing or) personified in he wonderful Robert E. Lee gave new .fe to the Confederacy, vigor and swif t ess of mnovement. Plans were speedily )nsummated; hostile guns must not over the capital: the siege must be ised, the enemy beaten to cover. ackson in the valley receives a mes ie, his foot cavalry arc put in 1mo ion. ie beats Banks and Shields' own the valley as with a flail. Con teriation is in their path. One takes' across the Potomac. Tile great flail er returns and brushes Fremont out of his path. drops back a few foot-sore Spartans as pickets for Fremont to gape at until his (Jackson's) return. Lee crosses the Chickahominy at 31eadow Ridge and dri.ves the enemy te its vmmoni center about Grape %ine Bridge and Woodbury bridge. The Seven Days' battle is on. The secon(d dav. .iune 27. 1862. Longstreet strikes t he enemy's left and Jackson the right flank. The battle rages all the afternoon. Tlie enemy hold their groundl. Late in the evening Lee makes the linal effort to count that day's victory his own. The Texan brigade under Hood are huried like a thunderbolt against the left center. Colonel Micah .Jenkins with his vali ant Palmetto regiment and one other against the extreme left. The left center is broken and shattered into fragments. .Jenkins fires one volley and charges with cold steel. The enemy is broken. slaughtered, and the survivors driven into the swamps of the Chickahominy-and only the sheltering wings of night saved us from complete annihilation. The writer's regiment, one of the most kugnitioent regiments in the army, 12companies, 1,140 men, was almost a total wreck and Jenkins held our beautiful banner. Col. James A. Hoyt, editor of The Greenville Mountaineer, then an officer in Col. Jenkins' regiment. has told the story correctly in the Confederate Veteran. Lee is victor. McClellan is on the retreat to the James river. The siege of Richmond raised. The 5th of the battle days, June 30th, Jenkins takes the advance of the battle at Frazer Farm. Beats back the enemy. Holds the battle ground. He has command ed I. I. Anderson's brigade in both battles. His regimental loss is severe, himself severely wounded. The Palmetto regiment alone sustaining a loss of 375 and no prisoners reported. After a march of over two hundred miles on half rations, we tind General Jenkins again on the old battle ground of Bull Run, or Manassas No. 2, on Longstreet's right. Porters' Federal corps left, this time he fights Maxcy Greeg, old enemies of Gaines Mills. Jenkins' brigade has some desperate fighting and again himself severely wounded, and brigade loss about 450. le is one of the otticers mentioned in Gen. Longstreet's report of this battle for extraordinary bravery and unex celled heroism. His brigade, now in command of Col onel Joseph Walker, of the Palmetto Sharp Shooters, advances into Mary land and goes into action in the battle of South Mountain, sustaining a loss of 20, then back to Sharpesburg, or Antietam. Their field of operation was not far from Gen. Lee's head quarters, becoming desperately en gaged and drove the enemy at every point, losing 208 officers and men, holding their battle ground and crown ing their wounded Jenkins with glory and sustaining the proud record of the old brigade. Thus Lee had beaten McClellan's army off the Peninsula, destroyed the grand army of the man whose head quar:ers were in the saddle, and had fought the combined armies of Antie tam to standstill. This is the most bloody and desperate of the ages. The only mark of victory to be credited to either was their battlefields. During the Gettysburg campaign the gallant Jenkins, being assigned to the deparment of North Carolina, performing valuable service also around Richmond, Peterburg, and the Black Water, he very urgently re quested in his many applications to the department commander and the authorities in iiichmond to be per mitted to share the battlefields of Lee's army along with the divisions with whom he had been so long, and often in bloody conflict in defense of is cherished rights and glorious Stars and :)ars, but alas, his wish was only gran ted when Lee and Grant met in the Wilderness on the Orange Plank road, that fatal 6th of May, 1864. Al though his cause and mine was at war, I loved him none the less. He was noble and brave, and such as he gave a world-wide glory to the Ameri an field embattled. The spirit of such men do not sleep with the tene ment of clay, but lives again in great deeds. The newer generations of the Southland will have their Lees and Jenkins, but nowhere else on this con vex world. It would be sad indeed were we only to tind them in dusty ad time worn volumes and on cold :nutilated stone. It is pleasing to note the presence of the distinguished offi er of whom my feeble pen has writ en personified in young Major Micahl enkins. the hero of Santiago, one vhose daring deeds have won the ap laudits of the Western 1Remisphere. T. R. Lackie, 467 \inewood Ave., Detroit, Mich. Late a lieutenant 16th Mich. Vet. Vol. Infantry. Postponed Again. The B. B. Evans case, which was to, ave been tried in Columbia last week as been continued until next term of ourt. on motion of George Johnstone, ttorney for defendant. Mr. John stone presented an affidavit setting ~orth1 that a most important witness, the defendant's brother, was in Wat rbry. Conn., where his wife was langerously ill, on account of the leathi of her mother, and that it vould be impossible for him to be at the trial last week. Next week Mr. ohstone had an important engage nent elsewhere. The affidavits also stated that Mr. Johnstone had hoped 1 o have the witness here Wednesday. ut the above stated facts prevented it. Solicitor Thurmnond announced< that the state was ready to try the 1 se. Judge Buchanan granted a! ontinuance of the case on the grounds< ;et out in the afidavit. Blown to Atoms. 1 Gunnery Lieut. James H1. hlourne, Eieut. Miller and nine blue jackets sere instantly killed Wednesday by :he bursting of a 12-inch gun on hoard :he British firstclass battleship Mars'. luring gun practice off Berehaven. n addition, several men were injured y the explosion. The breach of the run blew out after it had twice missed ire. The bodies of the two men who( sere sighting the gun were scattered o pieces and blown overboard. Dickens Was Right. ii Charles Dickens, on a dinner given t a notable agricultural occasion,t :ook the position that "the field it )aid the farmer best to cultivate wasr he one within the fence of his own kul."~ What Dickens said was a'E erious truth, though comparatively ' ew at the time he saId It were able '3 rom insIght to accept it as such. c Yow it is generally allowed in all civ- t ized countries. A Popular Choir. Of fouirteen young men and women vho sang in the Zion German Evan- d ~elical Lutheran church on the Hlud- 'i n county boulevard in Greenville. N. a .less than a year ago, the sixth d ouple will be married this week and f he seventh omnlear em nagerl 1f MORE REVELATIONS. War r. thme Philippines and How it 1, Waged. The secretary of war has placed in the hands of the senate committee an Philippines a large number of >rders. circulars and reports bearing upon the conduct of military affairs in the unpacitied provinces of the Philip pines. On December 24th last Capt W. E. Aver. adjutant general of the Sixth brigade, issued a circular to tlhe sta tion commanders in Samar in which the conviction was expressed that the wealthy classes or 'pudientes" among the natives were, while professing friendship toward the Americans, more responsible than any others for the continuance of hostilities. Under such conditions, he said. the only ourse to pursue, would be one that "would create in the minds of all burning desire or longing so intense, ;o personal, so real that it will impel them to join hands with the Ameri mns in the accomplishment of that end." In announcing the policy of the brigade he said it would be from this time on to "wage war in the sharpest and most decisive manner possible." Giving instructions for the carrying Dut of this order, he said young officers were to be given great latitude for this conduct in harrassing the enemy and that natives, and especially those )f wealth and influence were to be re garded with suspicion, adding: "Every native, whether in arms or living in these pueblos or barrios will be re garded and treated as an enemy until lie has conclusively shown that he is a friend." Suspected persons should be appre ended and if there was not sufficient evidence to convict they should be held as a military necessity. This direction was made especially applicable . to priests of whom Capt. Ayer said that their profession would "not be sffi cient to protect them.' In February, 1902. Gen. Smith, the brigadier commander in Samar, an nbunced that he was convinced oppo sition had been crumbled away and counseled a softening of the rigors of war saving a "watchfulness and kind liness henceforth must go hand in hand." In December, 1901, Gen. J. E. Bell issued a circular saying: "Whenever prisoners are unarmed or defenseless Americans or natives friendly to the United States govern ment or murdered or assinated for political reasons, and this fact can be established it is his purpose to execute a prisoner of war under the authority contained in sections 59 and 148. This prisoner of war will be selected by lot from among the officers or prominent citizens held as prisoners of war, and will be chosen when practicable from those who belong to the town where the murder or assissination occurred." Several orders were issued by Gen. Bell against permitting any monopoly of food products and extortion in prices. Instructions were given to make ex ceptions to all persons who had demon strated loyalty. "Theile lives, families and propertly will not only be given protection, so far as practicable, against insurgents, but will be care fully respected by our troops." Especial warning is given against' looting. Cheap Mlail Boxes. Senator Tillman last week offered an amendment to the postofice ap propriations bill that is a long step toward the perfecting of the rural free delivery. This amendment pro ;ides for the purchase by the United States of locked iron mail boxes in wholesale quanities and their sale to - the farmers on the rural free delivery routes at government cost. Under the present laws and regulations of the postotfice department the patronsf of the rural free delivery are forced to' purchase these boxes from one of four teen firms named by the department at a cost of from one to three dollars each, or else get no delivery. This arbitrary regulation gave the manu facturers of the boxes specified by thel postoffice department a chance to form! a combine and fleece the public. by :harging exorbitant prices. Senator Tillman's amendment, which was adopted, protects the farmer against extortion by this box combine by limit ing the price of the boxes to fifty cents each. Senator Tillman said in offer ing this ainendment that it was to prevent the farmers from being rob Ded under the law which compels them to purchase these boxes. The post >ftice appropriation bill has gone to a ~onference of the house and senate ~ommit tees and it is not known what his conference committee will do in egard to amendment. Should they trike it out the bill will have to go >efore the house again and then to he senate where Senator Tillman is >repared to make a vigorous tight for ~he amendmeut. This Is a Good One. A dispatch from St. Joseph Mo.. ays in the stomach of a steer laughtered in a packing house there va found a diamond brooch worth ~500 that was lost by Miss Margaret larroll. mf Baltimore, Md., two years tgo. The steer was grown on the >lains near Dodge City, Kan. Miss larroll happened to be detained for a ew hours at Kinsley. Kan.. thirty niles from Doudge City while traveling vith a party of' friends in a private ar. Miss Carroll had taken a fancy o a baby en the train, and she had it vith her in the observation end or the ar. She bought the child a toy bal oon to which the baby playfully at ached the wonman's diamond brooch. i gust of wind caused the baloon to' vrench the pin from its fasteing and t was carried ofi. disappearing in the estern sky. A reward wvas offered or the recovery of tihe ornament, but here was no trace of it until it was aken from the stomac~h of the steer. War in C'hina. A courier who arrived at Canton. hi na. Wednesday, reported that over .000 Impcriaiist soldiers, sent by Irshal Su against the rebels wecre mbushed in a narrow' dell and all rere killed or caiptured.The. SituaL ion in the reiomus~ dist rts of ogthern China is increasing alairm agly. The viceroy of Catnton has~ tele raphed to Peking. urgimng the im 1ediate forwairding of re-enforce ients. Lack of news from G eneral la and Marshal Su is taken to ii ite that the -rebels have surrounded i Imperial troops and cut otT comn inication with them. Fountd D~ead. Four persons were f'cund dead Tues ay night in the house of Esther Kohni iNew York. They were Esther' Kohn, widow. aged 50. ai son aged 2. a ughter aged 17 and the daughter's -iend aged 16. They had Le'n suf watrd by ilumin-ating gs THE LAST SAD RITES. The i;remain ofIhe 1.amented beto i. L.aid ti o .!.t. The mortal remains.of th ilu.i ,. deaii were !aid to) rest (n,;ndI afternoon in the presence of thou sands of pehple. The State says: Wade ilanipton is gathered unto his fathers. H is sacred dust was consign ed to the grave Sunday, and just as the sun was sinking the buglerssound ed taps over the soldier's grave. They huried him under the spreading branches (if a mannoth live oak which stands firn and unawed by any storms as Wade Hampton stood in the rnidst of turmoil; it stands green and flourishing in all seasons. and as did he appear more beauti flul and sy nimetrical in character when tried by ad versity. Its boughs droop in benedie tion over Lis grave. just as he but a few months ago gave a blessing to hundreds of Is old comrades who gathered under his uplifted hands, as he stood upon the portico of his cot tage on Senate street. It was in that cot tage that his soul took its liight to the God who gave it. and it was a hap py ending to his grand career. to his unselfish life, that be should pass away in the house which represented the love.adm i ration and loyalr-y of the wotnen of South Carolina. He cudur ed to the end withoutmurmur, know ing that these just and critical cen sors were proud to be South Caro linians because Wade Hampton was their ideal soldier and gentleman. But it is needless now to pay fur ther tribute to the man who in life needed it not. It is to tell of his obsequies that the chronicle of today must be devoted. The capital of the State yesterday saw such a funeral tribute to a man as has perhaps never been given in South Carolina history. It was an outpouring of the people. not only of Columbia, but from all points of the State. No attempt was made by any to make the obsequies of Wade Hampton other than simple. In deference to his own wishes, the desires of the people for a State funer a! for the State's illustrious dead was disregarded. The most significant feature of yesterday's outpouring therefore was the very naturalness of it, showing beyond expression the love that the people had for the grand old man who was no more. No finer spectacle has ever been witnessed in South Carolina. Men who knew stated that the funeral of Grant did not compare with that of Hampton; that the obsequies of Calhoun were overshadowed. Many conservative men who know how to estimate crowds said yesterday afternoon that there must have been at least 20,000 people about the residence and the church and along the line of march. And that vast multitude of people were bowed with sorrow -that was not feigned. Each man and woman realized that they were paying a just tribute to a great man, and the faces that watched the solemn passing of the funeral cortege were marked with mourning. Walking in that procession were such men as the aged scholar and sol dier, Dr. James Woodrow, supported by younger veterans, and walking with the noble women of the State were such as the venerable Woodrow's saintly wife. At the church was a veteran who has not been out of his room for three years; when he heard Hampton was dead he said "take me to Columbia and let me go to the fun eral. He had to be carried to the church. The world of meaning be hind s'uch incidents as these is obvi ous. From the first sound of the muttled drum yesterday afternoon to the blowing of the soldier's requiem upon the bugles the people bowed their uncovered heads. The crowd was unwieldly, but it was good natur-; ed and kind to itself. Mlr. Lever Wins. Congressman Lever is now secure' in his seat. We learn from a dispatch to the News and Courier that in the contested election case of Representa tive Lever.Committee on Elections No 1 has decided to make a unanimous report in favor of the contestee, Mr. Lever, and has ordered all expenses ofi the case paid. This is the old election case of Dantzler vs Stokes, which was pending at the time of Dr. Stokes' death. Representative Lever, as Dr. Stokes' successor, became contestee in the case. The contestant, A. D. Dantzler, is a negro from Orauge burg, who contested the election on the ground that the election laws of' South Corolina were unconstitutional. There is no doubt that the report of the committee will be adopted by the llouse, though it will probably not be submitted for some time yet. W~e are glad to know that the case has been prietically decided, and that Mr. Lever will have no more trouble about the place he so worthily fills. Passing Away. The Columbia State says the pen sion clerk is busy making out the re vised pension rolls for the further ation of the State board of pensions: nxt week. It was announced Thurs ay that while there would be a con iderable increase in the total numa er of pensioners on this year's rolls, he increase will not be as large as was xpected. 3Many names have been rpped by the State board from the sts sent in. and there are about 250 hat will be taken off by reason of the eth of the pensioners. This is a uch larger annual death rate than Las heretofore been prevailing. and hows in- cold figures how rapidly hose who helped to fight the south's attles are passing away. Can't Be Removed. Judge Buchanan has declined to tranmt the petition for the removal of. he case brought by the State against he Virginia-Carolina Chemical com any for violation of the State anti rust act from the State to the United ~tates court, and other moves of in erest in the now famous proceeding rie expected in short order. The case as heard by Judge Buchanan in Col imbia on Thursday. Bearing Fruit. The Wnshington correspondent of he Columbia State says because of in ormtion gained on his Charleston :rip President Rloosevelt will renomi late Miss MIaggie M1. Moore to the ostomeie at Yorkvilie, S. C. Missi Iore was originally appointed by ~resident Cleveland in 1S93. She was mt endorsed by the State IRepublican achinte. Five at a Birth. Isaiah IRhodes. of Bailey's Gap, .ster county, N. Y., annnounced edesday that his daughter. Mrs. amnes M1eCowan, aged 28. of Tucker's orners. a hamlet in Ulster county, ecently gave birth to tive children, 1 girls, and that all are doing well. .Irs. McCowan's other children are at n anrd a pair of twins. The Wail of a Boodler. Senator Depcw. (f New York, makest: st:ab at tiw S:thl by introduc a an ar rint' in the United .a ;t. Sa h- to I!i: rlul t ion passed : rew weeks ago by the House of Re present:0 iv s altoring the manner of clb0,sing senatuos. making their elec tion dependent upon popular vote in future. The amendment, which pro vides that "tie qualiications of citi zens entitled to vote for United States senators and representatives in con gress shall be uniform in all the states, anI congress shall have power to en force this article by appropriate legis hition and provide for the registration Of citizens entitled to vote,the conduct cf such elect ions and the.certificatiOn ot the result." is intended, of course, to give the United States government the right to supervise the elections in all the Southern States and to abolish all the restrictions these States have put on the negro vote. This amend ment practically kills the measure, as the South would never agree to its adoption, and if it is included in the original bill every Southern Senator would be compelled to vote against it in defence of his sectior. The late Gov. Altgeld, in speakng of Senator Depew, said "he first at tracted attention many years ago as a lobbyist at Albany. where he, for a long time, was engaged in the higbly honorable business of putting meta phorical collars on the New York legislators, so that, to the public, they appeared to belong to the Vanderbilts and the New York Central railroad. According to reports, this business was reduced to such a science that whenever the New York Central rail road wished to buy a legislator they did not even stop to negotiate with him, but simply put him on the scales and weighed him. A train of slime and corruption was stretched across the state' of New York city, by way of Albany, to Buffalo, polluting legisla tive halls and even filling courts of justice with odor. This wasthebeginn ing of that flood of corruption whid is today washing the foundations from under the whole governmental fabric. No man could be a dealer in this prosy without soiling his fingers, 7 and I am told that since that timeMr. Depew has never been seen without gloves. "He made of all this a stepping) stone to greatness. He wrapped the Stars and Stripes about him. He be came a red, white and blue orator-he changed his calendar so asto make the Fourth of July embrace 365 days, leaving but six hours for the remain der of the year, and then he started for the white house. Subsequejitly the Vanderbilts, finding him to. be a-. great convenience, made him president, of New York Central rallroadand-paid him a salary of $50,000 a year. The old railroad men smiled at the Idea, but they had not yet learned thahone of the most imiportant features of the modern railroading is to construct a railroad near courthouses and operate a line through state capitoisa In the art of engineering money out ot the.. public and into the pockets of private individuals he has no superior. And it looks as if his career will compel the American people to adopt an eleventh commandment reading as follows: 'Go thou and do evil, that thou mayest live on the- fat of the land, and that tihy sleekness nmay..be the wonder of men."'" This is a good picture of this man who pretends to be so jealous of the purity of the bal lot. PIANOS AT WHITE HOUSE. Two lNew Instruments Seearei o the President's Large Family. Two magnificent concert grand pianos were carried into the white house the other day and placed in the blue and green parlors. The reason for the two is that there never was but one piano in the white house, and this had to be moved from room to room until it had become time-worn and1 almost beyond repair. The two instrutnents placed as they now are will obviate this trouble. Some plea sant musicals will be add e d to the brilliant season at the white h c;use and famous musicians who visit. Washington will play and _sing for the prcsident and his friends. This is a delicate compliment to artists,-and: one that will be appreciated by them. Fo.rmerly those who were shown ther honor by President and Mrs. Mc~in Icy fourd only a fairly good instru ment, andI this had to be carried from! the private part of the house to the lpubliceparlors. This trouble is now obviated. It was Mrs. Cleveland's habit t'o keet, the piano in the reception end of the- uppe-r hail, where she also had he~r desk, books and other womanly requisites for a homey corner. President and Mrs. Roosevelt are both fond of music, and the children are students in the art. Miss Alice Rloosevelt is said to play effectively. Trhis gives a new zest to the white house life, as aside from President Mc'Kinley's love of ballads and old fa mailiar soligs and Mrs. Cleveland's love of music, there has been but .little: music in the white house in years. Magnitcent Interior Deeorations. Further particulars are published in - regard to the possible erection of the mammoth building in the Strand, says. the London correspondent of theNe York Tribune. Frederic B. Esler, the New York promoter of the scheme,. says that the sum of S1.000 has been set aside in the estimates for decorat thze interior of the dome by the reaest artists of the day. The ~trct ure will be kinown. as at present let erininedl. as the Victorian building,. and if the authorities approve the !yndicate's proposals building opera dion. will be started about January. A Poor Remedy. Rev. Samuel Krell, pastor of the dIethodist church at Lacona, Iowa, vho served two years in the Philip >ines as a private soldier, committed uicide Wednesday being despondent. ver his inability to secure a large at onrawe to hisc hurch meetings.