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,-r* -• ■Am in RBQION. THK Sk««ch Which Won • Gold Modnl—BntM-taiiilnc Review of ihe Oowntrjr end the People. mv,^ t —« tm iKa ■ ir i / PAiiOV written by M1m Mery Knrle Lylee. dnughter ot M»*. Wm. H. Lyle^ of "Columbln, which ceptured for the fair author the beautiful fold medal of fered by the Columbia chapter of the Daughter! of the Revolution for the beethiatorioal sketch presented ; Upper South Carolina 41 embraced," in the modern Dlatrlota Edyeflnld Greenville, Pickena, Newberry, I*ur- “ “ ' f. Fairfield. ard the militia waa d la beaded. The brillleat victory of Port Moultrie la Jane, 177*, which relieved Carolina for more than two ynara of the pree* of the Britiah, bed not the aame happy affect in cedartrr for the ep- oountry the oeaaatlon of, ho*allltlCe be* twoea the Whi^a and Torlea. “Other Statea,” aaya Simms, “know nothing of the horrora which were the com uhenoe of theae domeatlo feuda of the south.” The Torlea after their defeat Colonel Rlohardaou fled into the country of the Cberokeea, where they Incited the Indiana to riae agalnat the Whifa. They, therefore, began their massacrea upon the froatiera. The panic atrlcken inhabltante, unable to defend themselves, fled to the stockade forts which had been built for their protection in such emergencies. ■ A notable one of theae massacres waa that ofthe Hampton famttyrwhicbw \tver little i Union, Spartanburg, Fairfield, Cheater, Lancaster,, York and Rich land, is the clamic ground of the American Revolution.” That it waa a country of aurpaasing beauty and fertility U abundantly shown by the testimony of the writ- era of that period. Lord Cornwallis ■aid of Fairfield, a typical country: “I can conceive of no fairer region, taking into consideration ita fertile soil, mild cUmate r ita long drawn beau tiful Talleys and glorious high lands." The forests have been described as peculiarly grand and Imposing, and through their open depths could be seen dtretrhe* of the country for miles around. Extensive plains werp filled with waving masses of cane; gushing springs bubbled out from the sides of tbs hills; and flowers of every hueX blossomed In the green valleys and ornamented the tops of the mountains. Abundance of game was found In the woodlands, and the streams were filled •with fish of the choicest varieties. la this ndw and salubrious rs oar Fathers of the itovohttioa built their oablns, and were felling the primeval forests and cultivating the virgio soil. But, though nature was hare seen le her “ kindest prodi gality,'V and the simple wants of the pioneers were eesiiy supplied from her well filled store house, they found many dlBonltias aad dangers In the way of their advancement. The ooun try was already Inhabited by a race of Indiana, who would act tamely yield to strangers the possession of their rich pasture lands aad ideal hunting grounds. Step by stop the red men retarded the progress of the sei aad seb)eotod them for many long years to all the horrors of savage war fare. Wild beesU. disturbed la their native fastsimss, frequently prowled around the on bias of the pioneers, pre pared to eprtag upon the eawary oo- eepeats do sparsely nettled was the onus try, that there ooald be little ooo- sort of aatloa la eaaaa of danger but relied for safety upon the Of hisowa resource* aad the i of his good right arm Thee, to dearer aad laured to _ i of tbs soir earn ita win tha hard foagbt batilae ad out all SMBfearoial one ires by al -:Wr: curred in Spartanburg County, and to which General Hampton so eloquently referred in his speech at that county court house In 1870. General Williamson, having raised a fopce of three hundred men, proceeded to attack the savages, and captured a small body of them, among whom were thirteen white men, disguised as Indians. This seemed only to intensi fy the hatred of the Whigs and Tories. “They pursued each other," said Gen eral Gates, "like wild beasts.” Gener al Williamson came upon the main body of the Cherokees at Ocoonoree Creek, where he defeated them and laid waste their territory. The sav ages sued for peace and were com pelled to cede to South Carolina all their lands, now comprising the counties of Pickers, Oconee, Ander son and Greenville. The campaign of 1780 opened with South Carolina, after her long respite, as the principal theatre of hostilities. After the surrender of Charleston on May 12, General Clinton, determined to subdue the whole State, sent out three armies into the Interior; one under Colonel Cruger towards Ninety- Six ; another under Lord Cornwallis to Camden ; and a third under Colonel Brown to Augusta ; while the “Bloody Tarlelon " was ranging at large over the whole State. Hearing of the advance of Colonel Buford with four hundred Continent als, Colonel Tarleton with seven hun dred cavalry and mounted Infantry hastened to Intercept him et the Wsx- haw*. Negotiations for surrender failed ; and while they sought quarter, Tarleton fell upon the rebels with a fury equaled only to the eouals of la dles warfare and cut to pieces the whole com mead. “ Tarleton s guar- tor" Is to this day a proverb for whole sale cruelty As a result of tbeee combined disas- ■plrit of the Carolinians broken. Charleston bad fallen their oouetry wee overruo by an lavadlag arm y which they felt them selves pewerleee to oppose At this jd. vure. General CUetoa offered a perdoe to all who would take British protectioo The people geaeraMy, those of York accepted, took edvea tags of tbeee terms, aed General Clla- toe believing tke subjugation of the oouetry complete, sailed for New York, leavleg Lord Cornwallis in enm- Bet the British mode the fatal Is take of oalllag upoe those who bed their protection to take ep agateel their oouetry the i »•»! town. The , Oates displayed little ability Is , manag'-ini'ntiOf this battle: the militia, beisf placed in front, gave wqy before the .'barge of the British regulars, cresting * psnlc wbloh It was imix»»i hie to arrest. Among tbs klllss was tbs brave Baron Be Kalb, who had generously taken up arms In tha cau.ee of independence.* Own. Qatoe, haying lost almost half hie men bad aU nm baggage, fled into North*Carolioi Another disaster was sustai the Americans at Fishing Cirsk, where Sumter, encumbered with pris oners and baggage, was surprijwd and routed by Tarleton. Almost his entire command wore either killed or cap tured. Lord Cornwallis, seeing the rebel forces dispersed, proceeded to Charlotte, leaving Tarleton and Fergu- spn to overcome the Inhabitants of the “baclrcountry.** Ferguson- encamped on Kings’ Mountain, where be was at tacked with great .fury by a party of Whigs, collected for the purpose from the up-country and the* adjoining States of Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky, under the leadership of Cels. Campbell, Cleveland, Williams, Sevier and Shelby. The attack was made simultaneously, from the four sides of the mountain, the several di visions advancing under cover of the trees and delivenug their fire as they went. The action was short and de cisive, and the death of Ferguson was followed by a surrender of his force. But two hundred of them escaped, leaving behind them thirteen hundred comrades, killed, wounded and prison ers and fifteen hundred aland of arms. The gallant Col. Williams loit his life In this battle. His friend Col. Ham mond, went to his side when be fell, and received his dying command, “ Never give up the hill.” Gen. Gates, having exchanged bis "Northern laurels for Southern wil lows,” was recalled, and Gen. Greene was apuionted In his place. In Decem ber, be reached the Southern army which he himself decribed as a “ shadow without a substance.” The undaunted Sumter, after his defeat at Fishing Creek, bad collected a new corps of volunteers. W’itb this small force, and no Continental army in the State, be had kept the field for more than three months, and bad so harass ed the enemy that they could only move with caution and difficulty. He rated about Kooree, Broad and No Law. 1 saver oommlttod highway robbery but once in my life, and It shocked me exceedingly that I had It te do. When I joined the army at Winchester, Ye.,- in July, 18*1, General Bartow sent for me one morning and said he bad been made a brigadier and had completed ifilf excepting It brigade com mir- slary, and asked me to accept tbeXMel- tlon. I told him that I knew nothing about the duties of that office, but he and Dr. Miller and Major Ayer Insist ed -that I could soon learn, and so 1 bought me a horse and a pair of high top boots and some big brass spurt and gut ready for business. The blanks had not been printed, and I couldent -find * hook on that subject, "SO - F river, tryieg to I grandchildren, log for the how one morning a band of these cklled scouts came there and demand ed ^he keys of the smokehouse and •aid the army must be fed, and how ha tried to reaeon with them and told how many ha had to feed at home, and bow little meat he had, but they got rampant and said they would break down the door if he didnent surrender the keys. He kept three double-barrel shotguns well loaded, and when tHey* went round to the smokehouse he went up»t U«f j to a window and said a detar- mined voice; "Stop. Don’t you go any nearer to that door. If you do 1 will kill you. 1 am old and not afraid to die, but i will klllsomeof you before I do.” They saw the muzzle of the gun and and hour oa which she her last. by 8t. John the set sail aad aboa arrived at Syria. Whe* they reached Jerusalem the Virgin retired to Mount Zion, which was but a short diatanba from tha nalacee in which the princee of her blood hnd lived, and went to the house, as Is narrated by several writers, which had been sanctified by the descent of the Holy Ghost. Cuba l as ■■HH ‘Vi United Staton government will be cut down at least *1.000,000 ftotn the port >f Tunica alone during the next jear, s»j,» Collector Wilson of the Internal S TJ > br‘ After a brief consultation they retired. There was my wife and six children and two little orphacs and a score of little negroes, and these lawless men would have taken the last morsel away from them. Friends! sometime we abuse the law and the lawyers and the court, but after all the law of the land is the strongest bulwark of liberty and J ustice. Blackstone says that a man's muse is his castle, into which the king of England dares not enter with out permission, but we remember when vagabonds and thieves not only entered but drove the inmates out. Let us all sustain the law and the courts and leave them as a blessed heritage to our children. /; Bill Arp. THK VIRGIN MARY'S HOME. »rely this It was difficult for e . . helerogeauoev la character as that of the sp oowatry to arrive at uaaalmlly of op.l.on They bad M •ubstaetial for revolt agalaet Eaglaod to tv of ihitm wtrr •inc^rei attached, aad who had op to exerted herself to protect ity ; nelthee had they leollaatloe to espouse the quarrei their brother* on the coast, who allowed them small representation lo the assembly aad had treated their public men with but little respect. But, among men (rained to the ex- erclee of iBdependeeca of thought and aottoo, by lives of hardship In a new aad untried region, there were those who clearly perceived the danger* that lay In the principle of “taxation without representation.” There were many, too, among their number who had oome across the seas seeking country where the; might won God niter the dictates of their own consciences and where they might enjoy the right of every man to be a freeman. Men such as these were not to be lulled into security by the enjoy ment of a present prosperity. They .riot fort ag a snip T1 united with the patriot forces already collected and were known as Whigs. Among them no man exerted a wider influence than Gen. Andrew Pickens, the Revolutionary hero, " par excel lence,” of the up country. His courage and ability had been already displayed in the kar with the Cherokees, and these qualities, added to his modesty, greatly endeared him to his country men. Those among the inhabitants who adhered to the king were called Tories. They were, in many instances, men of honest convictions and sincere loyalty; it was their misfortune that the dis affected, the idle, and the vicious were drawn into their ranks by British emissaries. Fierce and bloody was the conflict waged between these two par- tlee. in Upper South Carolina during the Revolution. As South Carolina was the first to enter a protest against the tyranny of England, so the first real battle of the war, (the encounter at Lexington be ing considered as only a skirmish), was also fought within her borders between the Whigs and Tories. It occurred at Savage’s Plantation, near Ninety-Six, where General- Williamson, entrench ed with a party of about three hundred Whigs within a fort hurriedlv con structed of fence rails, was attacked by a force of nineteen hundred Tories underGeoersl Robinson. After severs! days’ fighting, In which neither side gained tha advantage, the comba tants agreed upon a parley, General WlUlameoa consenting to surrender the fort hot not bin men. Colooel Richard- who was has tea inn to the rsliaf ritha fores of ■sen, proceeded sga.n.t ;rawing and dispersing ibers,' Most ia prisoner* jail. This hie over ly drove Wbea it le Mat owl; agalaa* oiao their tws aad this without kve what *ee. with- • xoept as It will be how ■topeadous was the under taklag. bow marvelous the result. It wee at Uue try lag period that the woesee of the Stole, seeing the straits to which their hue beads aad brother* were reduced, performed so meay bo role deed* sad exhibited thoee quail ties of endurance, patience aed deep- lion which were afterword* emulated by their greaddeughtorv of the Con federacy. Space fella to speak le tall of the youthful aad darleg Emily Geiger, who carried a message from Geaeral Greene to General Sumter through n country Infested with To rise; of Dicey LaMstoo. who swam the id Tyger to warn her opei Tyger Hivere. Gen. Greene sent Gen. Morgan with n part of hie foroe to the relief of Niaety-Six. Lord Core wail Is, who bad returned to the State, dispatched Tarleton to overtake Mor- < ao, which be did at Cow pens. A eroe aad hard fought battle ensued la which the British were defeated, with a lose to the patriots of oaly twelve mett killed and sixty wounded. Never was n more •Ignal victory achieved, the defeat of Tarleloe destroyed the terror of M* name aad the friends of liberty took fresh courage. Coagree* preoeatod a gold medal u> Gea. Mor gen. ooe of silver each to Ueuteaaat Geo* rale Washing toe aad Howard, a|“C sword to Gea. Plekeae. aad promoted other* who greatly dlsUegulehed them- ffhlsaa. Lord Cornwallis, to recover the prlooser*, hastened to Intercept Mom gaa. but failed because of a rise la the Catawba River. Shortly afterwards Grease arrived aad took corn- of Morgas's army HeooaUaaed retreat aad eroeeed the Yedkla River Boc'oeely pursued by the British that he lest a part of hie baggage. Corswam* wm a eeooad time deterred from the pursait by a rise in the river, aed retreated tale N>rtb Carolina, bn wm la term punned by dident do anything for a few days. I dplent recede any rations nor issue any, for I was waiting for my commis sion and instructions and blank forms to come from Richmond. These had not come up to the time old Joe John ston made that all-night march to join Beauregard at Manassas. The day after our army forded the Shenandoah General Bartow’s brigade took a rest at Paris and after dinner began the march to Piedmont, a .station on the Manassas railroad'^ General Bartow said to me: “Major, I have sent Major Ayer on ahead to get corn and forage at Piedmont for the artillery horses and other horses of my command, and I am informed that most of the men have either eaten all the rations they started with orgot them wet in cross ing the rivqyCaad they must have something to eat when they get to Piedmont. You had better ride on ahead and secure rations for about 4,000 men. The regimental commis saries will not have auy. for their wag ons are several miles behind.” “Will I find supplies at Piedmont? ” said !. very innooentiyk.g “You must find them,” said be “This country is full of provisions, aod you<must purchase enough for 4,000 men —beef, beoon, flour, salt, coffee and so forth. The men must not suffer.” And he knit his brow and looked stern. With exceeding modMty 1 said : “General, I have no money to buy with, and maybe they will not sell on a credit. W^ettheo?" “My dear •ir,” said be, "this is war. ‘Inter arms leges silent.’ If they will not sell to you without the money, must ImpreM what you need, men must be fed.” I perceived that he wm desperately in earnest. *o I hurried oa to Piedmont and found Major Ayer with a pocket fall of Richmond bank*' money, baying (or lbet * M soanc*meale—that cora from a m>! .1 old V.rgieiu farmer. M i uuorieea la tbeir overteal There were two wagoo load* that had miaieSee baea haul- d bv two of the Aim *1 yoke* Mm Ute habitation just unearthed of fat <oa*o I ever eaw. 1 took the ^ i.pbeeu* must be realtor be regarded ■eJor Mlde aad told him my order* |m tke one the Virgle occupied. Tor t Tb*r« Ia aom# * Ary Aaa bAAi ia I YbiUbaa Imm oAciaily d<K:l arvd it i those • toe re," said be. , —bee put the *aeJ of tie approval, “Bat I bar# ao moaat,” aaU I* |ftdvl*aa U> haadiUU. oa Ihaa&aoua ’fhS SENATOR MORGAN ON CUBA. Strong Appeal Am* Help from the United States-* Warning ^tiven to Spain. The CffbAn question was revived in the Senate on the Kith inst. when Mr. Morgan,-* ! Alabama, -who-reported the original resolutions, spoke in favor of further and more decisive action towards the recognition of the Cubans as belligerent?. The Senator declared it to be the duty of Congress to adopt joint resolutions on belligerency which, unlike the previous concurrent resolu tions, would require the approval of the President and thus fix the responsi bility. At the close of Mr. Morgan’s speech, the Senate adopted, without division, the resolutions introduced by him, di recting tbe Committee on Foreign Re lations to inquire into tbe report on tbe treaty relations between tbe United States and Spain relating to tbe Aineri cans now under condemnation at Ha vana, also requesting the President to furnish tbe recent diplomatic corre spondence with Spain on the subject. The resolutions have uo reference to tbe recognition of belligerency, al though they served Mr. Morgan as a text for bis speech on that line. Mr. Morgan, in tbe course of his speech on tbe Cuban.situation, said tbe proximity of the island to our ahnrtu, our ttfunnmwutaJ with the Cubans, the American ownership of much property there, the actual residence of many Americans there, all combine to compel us to examine into the conditions existing in Cuba and to determine for ourselves whether a state of war existed. He spoke of the impatience of Ameri can people in witoemiug the painful oocurrrcnccs in Cuba, while our gov ernment measured tbe losses by dollars aod submitted claims for compensation for individual losses. A great civil revenue department^ if the order? are carried out by tbe Spanish authorities. Thousands of Cubans in Florida will be thrown out of employment if there “ ts no Cuban tobacco" to manufacture, and having both lug to do, these Cubans will go over to Cnba to fight for the independence of tbeir native land.' It is the gent-ral opinion that Generdi Wcyler has made a bad move in issu ing any such order. His object was, uo doubt, to throw the Cubans in this cooutry out of employment and thus reduce their ability to aid tbe cause of the InsurfpmtB tlnauclally, but while he may succeed in this, be will in reality have strengthened the Cuban army to a great exteut and brought the victory of the Gub.tns nearer. The House Where She Once Lived In Ephesus—Official Endorsement of the Discovery. New York Herald Tbe interesting news hM just come from Europe that some time since party of antiquarians, in digging over tbe ruins of tbe ancient city of Ephesus, In Asia Minor, came across the bouse in which the Virgin Mary lived after she bad left Jerusalem, aod before she went to Mount Zion, where* she died. • It wm well known that the Virgin had spent some years of her life in Ephesus aod tbe ambition of entique- riansbM been to find lhe ' b * blt * l ‘ un I conflict had been waged ia Cube si nee nfc oeooptofi. TW ■aaon»oartsot haa | u» laJ i u , h.^id, » 0 <j bed la- be* n made Mveral times that the p noe creiut . d #Uh ma * n i lude i *" u " ^ >» Valluaa, that there wm do foundation the tl.c have no mo i'% you lend me tome *1," uaid be. ' 1% w< Yon ?U*o* foe but v lad loti ve neighbor* try in her on» arm# or two nod Rev interior Ip MMSfdid- or lo ooliet Owing to tbe Use loyalist lead- met with little U of Guilford Court returned to tke ling pertieeae la •f oa April mrd lUwd deep rapid brothers of the approach of “Blood Bill” - * who dark Cueolngham; of Mr*. Dill rode sixty mile* through the iom to save Colooel Clarke and en, encamped at Cedar b from a surprise by tbe TotIm ; of Mr* Brattoe, "who would co: have her husband and his comrades owe to cowardly stratagem tbe victory they should gain In tbe field of battle;” of the lovely Mary Muagrove and the courageous Esther Gaston, whose gentle ministrations soothed the pains of the wounded and the dying: those nod many other noble deeds have been recorded In history ; some are preserv ed in family tradition ; others again are known only to that ever watchful Eve which takes note even of the fall of a sparrow. The most active of the partisan lead ers at this time were Pickens, Sumter and Marlon, the three great and choice spirits of the Revolutlbn. Ma rion operated from Camden to the sea- coast; Sumter from Camden to Ninety- Six; while Pickens traversed the country from Ninety-Six to Augusta- On the twelfth of July, Sumter at Williamson's Plantation in York County, engaged a detachment of British and Tories commanded by Cols. Huoh and Ferguson and completely routed them, killing both these officers. After an unsuccessfql attack upon the enemy’s poet at Rocky .Mount in Fair- field County, he moved on to Hanging Rock, where he defeated a large body of British and Tories. Col. Williams, another brave parti san, always on tbe alert to harass the enemy, attacked and defeated, on tbe eighteenth of August, a considerable body of British and Tories at Mus- grove's Mills on tbe Enoree* River. The notorious Cunninghams were of this neighborhood and In it were per petrated some of the most murderous acts of “Bloody Bill” Cunningham, the leader of the “ Bloody Soout.” It was here that he shot Major Caldwell la his wife’s pretence ; and it was here that he surprised Col. Hay with twenty men in oommabil of a block house. In compliance with the winhee of some of his men the women and children were spared, but tbe bonne wm fired by throwing heated irons upon it, and tbe men, after having surrendered themselves, were deliber ate! v massacred. In Jely, 1780, Gen. Gates, tbe hero of Saratoga, wm appointai to the ooamand of the Southern forces aad was approaching w’th an army from tbe Nortn. Be directed hie march to wards Oamdee, where the British na dir the command of Lord Cornwallis Oa Jnly »0, the if lu| lad iff Altar House, i/eo help of the slrugg South CeroiioM He Hobktrks Hill 17(11, be wm etteked by Lord lUwdoa For e while, victory seemsd to be oa the side of tbe Amerlcaee. but Lord Howdoa by a mMterly disposition of hi* *ee*M MmpeUed Gea. Greene to retreat He proceeded to Mealy-Six by way of Graaby, dlepatoblag Gee. Lee with n force to subdue that fort. After e brief ooofllot tbe garrison, consisting of four hundred men. *ur- rendered The term* of the capitula tion giving tbe enemy the privilege of carrying off tbeir bog gag e. were greei- nioed ef by Col. TbomM Tay- utber Carol leieso, who were tat seeing wagons, draw a by tbeir own ItorsM. and filled with the produce of tbeir own homes, driven awny before tbeir eyM. Gee. Lee’s excuM for this action wm that Lord Hawdoo was rapidly appronching to lbs relief of thn fort. On may 22. Greene took up his posi lion before Ninety-Six aod, after be- selgiug it for nearly a mouth, attempt ed to carry the place by assault, but wm beaten off with heavy Iom. He fell back before Lord Lawdoo, until tb* latter, weary of the hopeless chase, discontinued the pursuit and gradually withdrew his army into Charleston. Soon after this, the news of tbe sui^ render of Lord Cornwallis at York- low u reached South t^roiinn; and, on May 14, 1782, tbe British evacuated Charleston. The war was over ; the colonies were free ; our heroes laid down their arms and returned to their plow shares, re joicing that their struggle had not been in vain. The love of liberty and the inflexible devotion to duty that were displayed by these meu during the dark and gloomy period of the Revolution, have kept aglow the flame of patriotism up on tbe altar of their country. It was tbeir example that inspired such sous as Andrew Jackson, the hero of the battle of New Orleans; as John C. Calhoun, the apostle of State’s rights ; as our own loved martyrs of the Lost Cause, whose honored graves we still water with our tears and cover with tbe sweet emblems of immortality. But not only for themselves and for their children did our. worthy fore fathers gain the blessings of freedom. When, in the not distant future, the shadow of the Statue of Liberty shall fall upon .the shores of Cuba; and, when, in the progress, of the ages, Its reflection shall be cast upon all lands that are down-trodden and oppressed, then will history record, “Tbe Ra- tribts of tho American Revolution won a victory for the world.” Mary MuSorove.. ’ —It now looks as If the State of WMhlngton would eventually rival California as a gold producer. It has been comparatively a very short time since it was learned that gold in any quantiliM could, be found in ngton, and in fact, the fabulous pockets that have Been discovered lo other new field? appear to be wholly- wasting, out for good medium Trade ore there in no field equal to tha$ of northeast WMhlngton. There ia not a great deal of excitmeat, but stamp mills aad smelters am going up la un precedented Dumber*. - l me my tbe uses " M Septus* that old Ml elet* What then?” “ Get Captain Tewern detail end nrreet him If up penonahly." Hoi timidly approached aed proponed to buy hie dIdeal wish to sell them Held he wueideal take (ISO them Whea I finally ktm with thn general * furious at.J *»» wm hie f the test meet that the ccvmhiiog walls — dwelling foued lo the nsiM of aa« impress KphMU( oar* sheltered the mother of I the Redeemer This approval wm not should re- giv*»o hurriedly, but only after most 1 ousel us! ve wide see had been submiv- t° *!*•_ 7®* * ted to the i'ups that there oonld be no he woe t give nboot the mailer. It will be a diMppuietmeat to all la* *1 sane I tMMtod In eeoh mailers that no details reepectisg the habilellee acoompaay the os souses meet ef Its discovery cress until laO.UUO Spanish troops wore I the field*. Yet, upoe a denial of lb solf-evident facte mete lb* position of tbe United Siatet must not recognise i coeditioe of war os existing. Mr. Morgan said the flagrant coed I Hoes exletlog might escape the attea lion of thews le authority, yet It •bock the world that a diplomatic fallacy permits the assertion that n« ear exists This diplomatic fallacy L AAAiAlAAd bj li)A oIaIaI ttlAl the OttblMM hftVA AD fort*, when the* wiAA gcorrA* ship of the Cubes* kept them f onaoeatrmiieg lo fort*. It wm leveed also by the claim that the beM had ho fleet aad Bo m-s). V heQ It WA* AflfiifPAt thAt thftrtqy d be maielatsed oely by beevy art11 Entitled Tp a Vacation —“John, i think i ohcnld like lo vLit my old home in tbe East a month or two this summer.’’ “I dou't know. Marie, I'm af aidl can’t bpure the time fr< in imsir en,” “I’m not asking you to go. John. I cau make tbe trip irtjbeif without any trouble.” “You would get homesick, if you were to?tay away from home as long as that.” “I think now I ahould like to try it, anyhow.” “What L the matter with you, Maria? ’ irritab'v. “ Haven't I been a good husband ?’’ "I am Dot making any complaint about you, John, am I ? ” . “ Ain't 1 affectionate enough ? Hav en’t I always kissed you when U went sway from come in the morning and when I came back in _the evening every day Tor the last 25 years? ” “Yes, and you’ve had a chew of plug tobacco in your mouth eveny morning and evening for the last i*> years, too. I think 1 want a vacation, John." at oa/ hot pri be DA- ff*» r bo dared a dog. They e bock horns aed ill the first maa touch their oxea. Tbe old mo* stood guard while the aoe west hum* —half a mile away to get their gee*. "Aad yon don't oven propose to lot n men price hie own prrperty eor to pay a dollar for It. but you ell! g*ve n receipt for it that may darn A ay robber uweid do that If this lath* way tht Southern Goofed eracy ha# started out it ilvdadfiM a yobe lor ib# bouse wm u<>wa oe ^ oommoo la th be ooe-etorted etructsre. It will ba I felt m ureal, eg to ksov In what coed It? they ^os fiunJ snJ thsir I f^ttoin It to Its original shape. io It to Thws Kphosm time oa a morn th* Christian, that a stately tree tod to mark m from lb I than usual isle rest fu aad the probability I cathedral will yet n irgla f ber be north a !Vh»t if*. them CxoTi will huet wi I wish to God paying Wash in illy p deteble uaier vjkoa OIL In sixty day It won Id 1 ” Up to this time I had talead kladly aad nerseMiTslj but at iMt, whea I foued out he wm a Usloe sympathiser, 1 got fired up ia my te< l.-s, aad m th* Eighth Georgia marched np I got a detail of toe mtn aad had tho steer* drives away, aad os the old mao wm crying and waiting for hie eon with the guM I told him that If be would oome over to th* station 1 would give him a receipt that would be good at Hlchmood. He never cursed, for be be longed to the church, but he sold “Gol durn" and “dad burn” aad "diagoa- tion’ with greet emphMle. The steer* were soon turned over to some expert butcher* from the First Kentucky regiment, and by the time the young man and some of the neigh bors arrived with their guns and dogs tbe ill-fated brutes bad been killed aod flayed on tbe altar of tbeir coun try. In an hour’* time tbeir carcarse* were cut up into me** pieces end dis tributed and tbe camp fires lighted. At a store nearby I purchMed from a good Confederate some flour and crackers and.a thousand pounds of bacon. 1 bad no trouble with him, for he said the boys must be fed if it took everything be had. I invoked bis good offices to make peitoe with the old man and his son, and about dark they came to me and said they woul J take my receipt, but it was a gol durn cowardly piece of business. And it did look that way. I wonder how (bey got tbeir wagqns home. * But before long tbe good people of the valley got the bang of tbe business and surrendered at discretion. I never had much trouble with thoue who were on our side. One day I seised 400 barrels of flour in a merchant mill not far from Oronge Court House. The man was desper ately mad, but I bad beard that bis wife was a rebel to the core, and so I visited her and made a good impres sion, for I was right good looking then. She invited me to stay to supper, which I did, and I played with her babv and captured j?li tbe family ex cept her husbpojl. He was a suspect and was on botii sides of the war. I put a guard over the mill that night or he would . have hauled the flour away. It was hard-.on* those Virginia farmetp, for if one army dident take their substance the other would. For nearly four-years* they were between two tires, and remained true to tbeir great leaders. Wbat a blessing is law—the laws of the land and tbq .protection of the courts. Any law is better than no law. We old people remember when, toward the close of the war, this part of the country that bad been desolated by Sherman’s bummers wm infested oy so-called soout* who were mounted on stolen horses jaod pretended to be commissioned tos protect the women nn4 children and to get up supplian for ouf army. Every vagabond aad de serter jo:ned them aad thnv were* terror to the oM aad helpless. My wife eomellmee tolls tke children about her refugee Ufa, aad bow all the sput wb*r* the »• of the tetter days It wm from this 1*100* joorseyed to Monet Zina, where *b« died The body wm placed .i. » •< i ... « .i. U.c i i. . U semens, bat whoa, a few days later, the Apustise rolled tbe stose away ' root the door of the Mpnl'-hr*. the had The Senator declared toai feome cvsiwilto) ii by thsm* Am< aoe held at U a vase mere *» Suriowe thaa *a luffilag It w ■ret duty ot thl m jt' ** flft*** fi % mead that the military trial Americas cl Lee a# m tel Afrifil#. thl ffv e done. Ms sbov .* • 1*1 setaolde, dot day le a day u* m a peopt After me U s.tod Stele i Ml! te lions, u? n| 1 not there. Thence arose the tradition ef the aoeumptloe of th* VIrgla Into Heaven, e tradition that Titan transferred to ceavM and mad* oa* of lb* greatest creatloas of bis fcaiu*. Ephesus wm a very aaciuat city *o the west cqmi of Asia Minor. It wm partly oe n fertile plain Bear the mouth of the river Geyster aad partly on some hills that ruse gradually from It. It wm famed among the aacieale os the site of the Temple of Dli Tbe place wm an Important city ive and varied hM it that It i by tbe mylhl a uered I If ao •xtet commanded commerce. Tradition wm originally Inhabit* cal Amazon*. It wm early ooi by the Ionian*, tbe time, accoi ling to tradition, being tbe eleventh oentury U. C , and from that event deles the history of Epbesu* os a Greek posses sion. It figured in Church history also because it was at a general council of tbe Church held there in 4.‘ll that the heresy of Nestorius was condemned. The place will now figure further in church history owing to the discovery in it of tbe Virgip's habitation. Just wby the Virgin sought refuge in Ephesus the re ere several stories in tbe traditions that have come down to us from tbe dim past, but the one that seems to be most generally credited by writers is that is was due to persecu tions that broke out in Jerusalem. After the final scenes in tbe tragedy ot the Crucifixion had been enacted, Mary, accompanied by. Mary Magda lene and St. John the Evangelist, to whose care tbe Redeemer bad com mitted his mother, repaired to Jerusa lem. There they remained until tbe persecutions forced them to seek safety elsewhere, and they chose Ephesus. The Virgin’s flight into Ephesus, under tne protection of John, has been made tbe theme of many a famous painting, in which the Virgin is generally pictured with a halo about her bead walking beside John, whose demeanor is most leverential to hrr. So far as known, nothing has been handed down to us with regard to the sojourn of tbe Virgin at Ephesus, no details of her life there, or any in cidents of it. beyond tbe fact that it wasthe'o Mary Magdalene breathed her last. This statement is made by various Greek writers, and one of them, in describing a journey he made to Jerusalem, says he saw tbe tomb of Mary Magdalene |at Ephesus. There is also good authority for tbe state ment that the Einporor Leon removed the remains of Mary Magdalene from Ephesus to Constantinople in the year 880 and deposited them in the church of St. Lazarus. There are some writers who say that while the Virgin and Mary Mag dalene were living at Ephesus they used to sit on the shore* of tbe Icartan Sea and watch the Grecian galleys as they •■directed their course toward Syria, their birthplace. After Mary Magdaleno’n death the Virgin journey ed back to Syria to revisit the oious ex ! rented im W*yi#r ” islve evid | shooting oi With the laws of *er, i I of nations, would our ciusen* now 1 would forbid Spain | m Insurrection isle. Mr. Morgan said laoooclusloa : " It Is, therefore, the proper course for ! CoogreM to observe u> seed a joint resolution to tbe Rresidenl,declaring | that a state of public war exists In Cuba aod that the parties engaged 1 in that war are belligerents, to each of whom the laws of nations equally ap ply, If such is the oplaion of Congress. Thl# Isa duty of wise aod sincere pa triotism, although It may not be other- wise imperative for tbe reason that such a declaration is not a legislative act and is not, therefore, required to be sent to tbe President for his ap proval. Congress can waive tbatque*- tion, and should not raise it in a mat ter that docs not necessarily involve the statas of tbe constitutional dis tribution of tbe pq^nrs of our own government, whether it is in a state of war or peace, but only concerns a duty we owe to our own people in de- terming for ourselves whether a state of war or a condition of peace exists in Cuba. If the President, acting on the assumption that a declaration of the existence of war in Cuba, and a recog nition of tbe rights of tho parties en gaged in that war as belligerents. Falls within his exclusive constitutional power in conducting diplomatic inter course with foreign governments, should chobse to ignore tbe existence of such a war, Congress, after the al most unanimous expression of opinion on that subject, owed ft to tbe honor of the body to devolve the responsi bility upon the President. Under ex isting circumstances, some department of the government must become re sponsible to our own people, and to the judgment of mankind^for_continuing to permit the falsehood" tirfeiBain un rebuked, that peace prevails in Cuba and that war does noG exist there. Whether it is Congress or tbe Presi dent that denies tbe facts and repu diates tbe appeal to tbe sentiments of our people and tbe honorable duty of our government, there will be a great account to render in tbe end for tbe blood that patriots are shedding, every hour, in the cause of human liberty, that a word from Congress or tbe President would stop.” ‘ —A curious incident showing- how polyglot is the population of San Fran cisco took piac*. in a court there the other day. a.ut wm brought by O. R. IT. Wettirok to endeavor to recover certain mon*sy? of Eureka lodge qf Her man eons. laasmuuh'as the judge, tbe attorneys, the p.aiesLff, the defendant i scenes court, nil ep »ke Germae, It Wm decid- aad to | ad toceaducUhsaaee in that language. owteg is* la lb* >, the He sal or com pa arch for ' technical ao tecs * to dsbe atfi ** such tyr referred to the ooociu iaoe* of atrocities aad th< i aoe com bole# U- r rccugaiied m exietiag iminU .... 1. rMDTllI* . 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