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• v~ ~mr~ vou XXV. - BARNWELL SOUTH’CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY J6, IQ q2. BIH ARP IS AGAINST WAS. lie Says the Spanish War pis graced Annals of American His tory- Atlanta Conatitution. Not counting the great civil war of- ^elma for big stealing and put him in factory Shirting htd out in the country fot two years, and as soon as we dared it was brought home and my wife could exchange a few yards at a lime fo/ potatoes and chickens; and how about these times the Confederate de tectives arrested a quartermaster io forty years ago, this last year of 1001 was the most bloody and disastrous of any iu my recollection. Over 40,000 .«f our soldiers died in the Philippines —most of them in hospital. That’s of liltle consequence, of course, to the government, but it brought myriads of sighs and tears to mothers and wives and children. The Spanish war, and what has grown out of it, has eternally disgraced the annals of the nation’s history. And it keeps on and will keep on, no doubt, bringiug misery and ruin in its train.- Some preachers say it is the work of the Lord. 1 dou’l b lieve it. “Offenses must neids come, but woe uulo them by whom Ahey come.” Besides all this, the year was full of disasters on laud and sea. Ex plosions in the mines, railroad wrecks, boiler* bursting, fires, floods, murders, suicides, husbands killing wives and children, lovers killing sweethearts, and every other devilish thing. Every day’s dispa'chea record something new and horr\bJe, and we are getting so ac customed to it that it hardly dislurbs or surprises us. We, too, are getting hardened to blood and bloody deeds. This unconcern always follows io the wake of war.- After the battle of Malvern hill I re member heanog one soldier bet an other that he could walk across the ridge and step on a dead man at every step. He tried it for a hundred yard* and won. Soldiers who had been kind and gentle at home became hardened to the eight of blood and death. After watched ami waited for her Imj to •ome borne. I»at be never' came, ami •he died etili wondering how bo wa* killed and where be was bundd. But few of hie comrades were left, and they were widely scattered. The records were mu kept or were lost to the war Out of lii.UOO blined at Y'lcksbarg lees than J,1*KJ have name* u|tnn their grave*, eo it ia at Salisbury and r'red- ericksbarg and ail the other*. Of the Fedkrai* and Confederates ‘■•O per cent of all lb* dead are unknown and sleep in unmarked and unrecorded graves. Am) thi* is war ami as *•coeral Sher man said, M War ia bed ” There is enough unwritten grief to fill an 6?*aa. and many a broken hearted mother let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on bar pallid cheek* ami turn her hair to gray before its lime. And vet we keep oa lighting ami railing for more troops—not for de fense or liberty, imt for cooqoe*!. It w a war of aggression upon a people who never did ua barm and beg to be let atone The eigbt million negroes h«re at home give us great cnueeru, but the government wants ten million* more to mid to the perplexity of the problem. Ob! the shame of it the pity of it. It w the same old oocbne Uan story. “Man’s inbumanily t» man makes countless thousands mourn.” Bat I didn’t suit to write an elegy oh the year that has gone. It is pleasanter to wish alt a happy new year and to hope fora better one. A supcrMitioue friend say* that it will he better be cause HurJ is divisilde, but I'.Nil was not. The times seem prosperous and new industries ate conlinually being pi tuled ail over the South. 'War’a'ways bring* activity in its train. More iron ami •biiMi and men of war, more —-‘■ins t —m ir r ~~i - "•**weseam«s*«i ju-amt*. i bilhing AtidTixMl fi.r’ilic *..Mu r fs Mu ihc.slv^ jail, and he wasodesperably scared and wanted to get out and run away, and there wasn’t a lawyer iu Selma, for General Mdrgan and Geqeral Pettui and Dawson and all the rest were in the army, and a friend of mine advised him to seifd for me, and he did, aqd I went down there in an old buggy, for there was no railroad running then and I iulerviewed him in»jtil and agreed to get him out for # 10,000, and it was deposited, with my friend and l did get him out on a habeas corpus and a straw bond, and he ran away and is running yet, I reckon, and how a little steam boat came np from Mobile with some blockade goods and I bought two pounds of opium for $5,000 and fifty pair of cotton cards on the leaf with out backs or handles for $100 a pair, and that took the rest of, the money, ami the captain gave me two pounds of coffee and as much sugar, and I put the opium in one side- of a little old the State legislature or in Congress, Judge O’Neall, in hit biography of lloliert Stark (Revolutionary soldier, afterwards Speaker of the,. House of Bepresenjtatives and State solicitor), furnishes an interesting episode in Gen. Tucker’s career. Iu 1814 the war was pending be tween the United Stales and Great Britain aud Tucker was colonel of a regiment of the 2d brigade of State militia. Under the orders of the Gov- erner companies of infantry, cavalry and art illery were ordered to rendezvous at Newberry and Col. Tucker put in command They were mustered into service by .Brigade Major Thomas Wright on the 1st, 2d and 3d of March, 1814. Robert Wood and baruuel Can non were the majors, and Capt; Wil liam Irby, a holdier of’76, was adju tant. On the 4th-they took up their march to Pocotahgo through Lexing ton, Oraugeburg and Barnwell and, ar- riving at Pocotaligo, were ordered to relieve Col. Carter’s regiment. Says O’Neall, who was a soldier of the regi ment: “On the way down, the regi- mept, below Barnwell, %rgKii to meet the discharged soldiers of Col. Car ter’s regiment, to the relief of which we were marching. Those first met ' “l hsteTnfcire rviranV for*~thr v numnw , conlenied people than for sll the pomp rustv valise and the cards in the olher'Hjad been discbaiged on account side and returned home and formed a of sickness. They were the most partnership with Bob Hargrove, who ri|ualid, emanated creatures, and were hail half a b..x of cheap tobacco, ami j hardly able to walk. They depicted we o|>ened a store and t a»k in a third i u> the soldiers of Col. Tuckar’s regi- partuer, which was my wife, who sent tuenl the unnecessary hardships to down Xwa Ih>1U of the shirting, and we which Cot. Youngblood, who had ob- went to trading for something to live j tained (be command in place of Col. on - | Carter, had auhj cted them. As We assessed the cards nl #20(1 a pair might have been expected, it created a ft#ling of indignation which could and the opium at #10 in gold for an ounce and the shirting at #2 a yard. It was a kind of liepartroeul store. B clerked on one side ami 1 on the other. We didn’t take ('onf«deraUMiione. for anythitnr. fee it wor»e every day, but we texebanged things-*4n<| «ro sold the opium to the" t w who needed it for gold they ha>l hoi away, l Mil store wa« a sensation, Mr It wes the only «*ne in town that bail a s'nck of go<»ds. All the others were emniy. Io April, I'*•5, a rotnpanv of Mue c<miU came down in the night ami the next m •ru ing we wer# all *ur|iM**d to see them. Mr. Lincoln was kidod tw » dayg tie- fore. So it Wasfumorrd,but wr didn't bellev v e it. I»r. King wa« a great big red headed man and said wLal he please* I. so he rods up to the c* mi pans •ml said: “('appen, is iberv *ny truth in the rv|M»rt that ole Abe Unco'.n is den.ir’ The raptaoi replied gmittv* ** sir, he’s dea«l and hunrd *’ " Well, I thought if he was deal it was lueiy that they would bin hint,'' •aid King, and he pul spurs to his horse and gil'opcd down the street to tell us the news. Tl#«- ca|*tam aaol afu rw.irds he came very nearing order- log Ut* men to ah<M>t mm And so we ta<k-d over llie ol*l war time* and the gastd ia*ly and our other guests listened and Isughcd and won drr#*l until lied time. Bil.l. Aki*. not be allayed." Seeing this stale of thing' John Toubs, of Edgefield, who belonged to (’apt. Caldwell’s troop of cavalry, sai*l to Coi. Ticker: “The dav yon give up the romraupd of soar regiment 1 will shoot you.” (They mo«t ha ~* been a gay aet of iark*)~ At INicoUligu the tegiaent was met by Ca|>i. Henj|<nin Fraaier, of E*|ge- field, and he said to Col. Tucker: ** You are marching right iuio h—1. Ye-lerday an Older waa published re quiring a detail of two companies to throw up ^Ictede pool on I’ort Uosal island, un-b-r the dire<ti*Ni of Co). Youngbbiod. The objoct is thus by rompau e« to * y«mr ■'omaMn«l fn>m you.” I The ordi r l.< . ..||*( • II. <• III. tele de | pont (an enrthnork to protocta bridge) . was |Mil*li*h« d to i o|. Tucker's regi-I iii- iil. A i >unt il of every ofiicer «»f j the n ginirut waa bel l and they unaoi-1 m-wiaiy vots-d to i.Mobey tbia order, | ami fmoi dav to day the work wee j THE LBM80N OF 8TBADFA8TNBSS. “ To Be Bight in More Important Than to be Sncceaafnl ” ■ P-ned. On the 5th of April the,, a . . | ,r is found iu the fact that no one rbarge#!, and the ( iov. I regiment wa« disci lion. William J. Brvun spoke at the Jack on Day banquet in WooaUr, Ohio, In which he m ule an eloquent appeal to the Democratic party to stand by its principles. His subject was “Steadfastness,” and he said in part: “Among the traits of character which distinguished Andrew Jackson no trait was more prominent or more helpful to his country than his stead fastness. When he believed u thing he believed il. NV here duly led be fol lowed without questioning. When he decided that anything ought to be don6 he did it and no power could overawe bira. He did not have in his veins a single drop of “anything to wiu” blood. When Nicbol is Biddle declared that through the national bank he could make and unmake Congresses Jackson replied that that was moic power than any one man ought to have iu this couutry, and be then l>egan his war against Biddle and bis bank, which re sulted in the overthrow of that great financier and the inautulion which he so autocratically, controlled Others were afraid that Bi-ldU’s ii-tlu nee, if antagonize*!, w.tul i defeat the Dem cralic psrty, but Juckion saw in it a menace to bis country, ami he did not stop In consider what effect an attack on the bank would have on himaeif or bis party, and we revere hii name and celebiate bis day. “ Benton, in reviewing J tekson's work, said that, as Cicrni overthrew the conspiracy of CaUline and saved Home, so Jackson overthrew ibe hank and saved America. We shall obseive this day io vain if we do not gath«-r from the life of Jackson inspiration and cm -ptragrinem for 1% work wba b lies before ui. To day the Ikemorralic party nerds to leai n I rum the hero ol New (irlraas the leaeou of siMudfast- nee*, it oer«l* to learn from him not only that to he right ts more important it an to be autccaaful, but that io be right is the bysl w/iy to insure surtees. »• A party muat have pnocipl •• or it can have do claim up* n public enuli * dencr, and how can it rommemt it* priaci| le« belter than by alanding by | mem’/ Who will have- faith iw the • creed of a party if the party •tan*i • j ready to barter away ita erred in eg- I ehuwge f«*e-4h* pwMwtae . pwtTnwe^v 1 A halting, vactiiatiug e**uree n*K only fail* to invite recruits, but It niicnate* and drives away veterans. “ Another raaaoO for stea>ifa*lneee an i ll already conferred upon the world a benefit that cannot be uiuasured by moneys. Their valor has brought greater security to all the republics of the earth; ihe bodies of ilieii dead Lave built :t bulwark behind which the friends of liberty will light for cen turies. The fact that England ha# been compelied to employ more than 200,000 soldiers to subjugate less than 25,000 meu in arms—the fact that England has expended more than $1,000 per Boer—the per capita wealth of the United states—and has neither been able to purchase them nor kill them—these facts are immeasurably valuable to people everywhere who want free government for themselves aml’are content that otheis thould en joy it al-io. “ So the.Democratic party, wluther in power or out of power, is serving mankind when it Bunds steadfastly for constitutional government and in sists that that government ►had be ad ministered according Ur Ihe Ji ffersoman maxim, ‘equal rights to all and special privileges to none.’ ” FHB GOOD ROADS PROBLBM «rn#»r the State ordered C‘*d • rrr*ie«l and ( •■art-mutmlled digging and eonstrocting the |M#ot. He was rhargnl with en< r of •lilulrd Willie, A brain Tucker for not tele de dieobedi- order* and the following coo* Ibe ('null' t'oi. Adam Me- C«4. Evan Benb «w. Major Blending, Major Joa Mickle GENERAL STARLING TUCKER A Prominent Figure in the Early Year* of the Nineteenth Cen tury 1 lie Liurrti* cor rr*|x>iidi ul of the C barleslow-Sunday News yonfnhule* the toilowmg ra« y I real sk rtch, in which is given fart* and incidents re lating to the life of. Gen. Starling fucker, who left no dcaceudaot*, but whoac name is sii'l honored in tb** county where he lived: lien. Surltnc Tu. k- r w.»* a i*n> in. and Maj#rB<nuioe It-lrinson, .laiae* DilleU, Ju*lg« Advocate. Solicitor Rotrert Sin k and O'Neall, just admit- led, 1MI4, to the Bar, riefemUd er. Ha waa convict'*1 of dieobeilence of onlrr* and *rntenrcd to be sns- pen<b*l Ir an his romm'nd for ten months. O'Neall aaye il.ere were fourteen charge*—“Moat of them were not proved.” Then vays O'Neall: “ Imleed, the whole affair ma*le Hur ling Tucker subeequeully the brigadier of the loth brrgade, maj*ir general bf the.Mh dlvisi<>n and a member of Con- gres*.” Tucker never. refus'd to until the attempt is made what oh- ' •laclee ctuitage can overcome. The . Iiold ao*I fear leas Lriump where the ! timid fail. The vieUNi** whi« h live and light us on to noble deed* are the victories anatctied from the jeers of de feat by intrepid epnita who preferred death to retreat “ There la a jindoun ■ philoa-q»hy a* well aa a relignat* truth in the word*: * He that aavelh bia life shall I <•* It ' Tm k- i Tb ® lb * 1 b ** 00 higher |rtirpo** FChi.rv Promiski# a'Ui vi:tx.. Admiral Schley visited the White House a few days ago, and made a n quest of President Itooscvell to en tertain and consider an appeal for a reversal of the action of S«c r etarv Iiongaud a disapproval of the majority judgment of the court of inquiry. The interview was sattafaclory, the Presi dent granting the Admiral’s rrquc«l. Messrs. Raynor and Teague, councel for Scbky, will as*i*t Admiral Schley in preparation of the ap|>eai. - The interview wiMi the Presid -lit was arrange*! tu advance and Admiral S*'bley left the White House in a sat isfied state of mind, ite ha* l*een given full uppurluoily- to present the c.tae from hi* stamljKtint and to ac quaint lli<> Prr-i.lent with many de- tails hf yvhtch the litter routd have any knowledge. Whil# Schb-y w< ubl no make *lat< m* nt r« ganlitig the mail* r ruaM-d, it ia under* 1*mhI that brought to the Presoleat'a alteniMto many allege*! injuetue* and diarrep- aurie* of the ll•aJorlty report, of the court of inquiry. Sibley's interview with the Presi dent was the result of his del* rmin.i- ll<>u Io rxhau-t eveiy mean* iu his power to ovtrtum the ju-lgno n which has hern mid*-red agamsi him. Hi* new app* al will bring out *oitM new facts which have an iwpitlatil irg upon the eontru'erey not any die- hr Ik pa* l. lor u to save its own life will die cause it deserves to die. if nerd be, the take of a great eau«e will live cause ii deserve* to live. “ Who save that the money p #wer is o«nni|M>trnt and that the Democratic party must compromise with it or sur render to it? Not until human nature is entirely changed can the financier* be entrusted with the guardianship of the producers of Wealth; n- l until greed , i-l ■ aa tin- m ' 1| ' 1 tnT lU&i •*.Tvr an*l circumstaqce of war. 1 have more regard for an uneducated h .nest man than for an educated neb one, who made bis money by quest! >u- able schemes. My good old friend John Jenk'us is dead. He hauled wood tur me mauy years aud gave an honest coni. On bis last btd be sent for his brother Jack aud whispered, “Jack, I m gwine to die, they say, aud I’m williu’ to go ; but 1 owe Bob Pertiller a do'lar aud a half, aud it bothers me mightily.” “Never miud, John,” said Jack, “I’ll pay Bob that money when I go io town for the Cufiin. Now, just turn over and die a.* easy as you can.” And he did. He was a Hard Shelled Baptist. The other night we had a good lady visitor from the North, and when sttlf said something about Ihis horrid old Philippine war, ibo conversation drifted to the hardships aud sufferings caused by ovr civil war, and, just to • k oT T cl*##«d. -ITT* h >me w«i mar L*nf«»ni** • station, in this county, among the no ble hills of the Eu >re«, and there lie bis remains among the jxople he so strenuously aud patriotically served hi the days of our couuuy's yofith. An intelligent friend of the writer has re cently visited the spot on Ihe oil homestead where re|MMe hi' remains and sends us a copy of the inscription on the stone which maik' his resting pi ice. "A granite wall twelve by fif teen feet encloses this spot and within vhe enclosure is a monumont with the following inscription: “ In memory of Gen. Stall ug Tucker, who departed this life ihe third day of January, 1834, iu the 64th year of his age. He was beloved in life and mourned in death foe private worth ami public useful ness as a man and a citizen^the hon est repreaenta ive of his country for twenty-eight years in tic Legislature of South Can Ima and in the Congres# of the United States. 11 is ft leads in Lauieus district have caused this mou- amuse and entertain her, my wife ami ument to be erected to bis memory I related how when we got back to Rome with our half-dozen little child- leu we all had to sleep on the lloor, fot 'who long survived him: “Sacred to we bad no furniture, and we had no flour or coffee or sugar, and there was none to be had, fqr what dttle there was was kept hidden and couldn’t be bought with Confederate money; and how our corn meal was nearly all goue, and there wasu’t but dne cow iu the county, and she was kept bid in a cane- brake, and how I borrowed a horse and rode twelve miles and bought her for #3,000 in Confederate money and drove her home In' the night and kept her in the b.irn, and she gave just enough milk to keep our baby from peiishing; and bow 1 bought ten bush els of com away down the river at #150 a bmlicl and goy good old Rowland Bry ant to keep it hid for me at bis home six miles from town, and once u week he look a bushel to mill and had it ground and brought it to town hid under the seat of hU buggy; and how the scouts and outlaws robbed every body who had anything, and these out laws were a company of cavalry made np of thieves and deserters from oar hnU a< f; I worth.” On the obverse side, to. his wife, the memory of Ijavinin Tucker,’ who departed this life July 16, 1855, in the 86ib year of her age.” The burial place is near what is still known as Tucker’s Mill, now standing about a century old, and now the property of Capt J. VV. Lanford. L’he writer has endeavored to learn something of the nativity and early history of Gen. Tucker," but without .avail. It is most probable,-however, that as he was 65 years old at the tune of his death in 1834—his family nnlst haye been Virginians—and that he waib.ro on the Eooree during the IU volution. Ge|j. Tucker left no children and we.-arc, uiotr advised of any «oiUleral relatives of die-'name, ihe •Higgins family, of which Mr. James Higgins is a member, being c unacted through either his wife or a sister of Gen. Tucker. The memory of G n. Tucker is still fresh and greei with the many descendants of bis neighbors, and hit name ia alill vener- aied and honored among them Im rr~ While ** A. PMI clmcbarg.'d, having lakrli marefr St NeWWrry Msr;h4. 1 He could not have done otherwise, every dlth-er iu the regiment suppoit- ! ing him, and,* reaching home, he was elccled-brigadier, then major general ; (ooe-half the Slate j, and afterward* to Congress. For tiKy years the writer ha* heard tien. Ttickcr spoken of by such men ! a* John Linford, deceased, his neigh bor, and others, aud ever with the highest respect for his noble qualities and tnanhojd. Discipline must pre vail, hut unless the health of the sol dier is regarded as by soldiers like Hnmplon and Kershaw, who were no “ carpel knights,” there dRll be uo men to fight on the day of battle ex cept such scarecrows as the men of Carter’s regiment met on their march to Pocotaligo. Tucker may have been technically at fault, but sometimes it is right to dis obey orders. A French detail of five hundred men was made and a colonel ordered to take a certain point. The cotonci suggested reduction to a hun dred. Asked for his reason he said: ‘AH will be killed, not a man will re turn; a hundred are enough lo sacri fice.” The order was revoked. The regiment was composed, not Of volunteers as ordinary understood, but the companies volunteered in their organized capacity. They were from Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Abbe ville and other counties. The New berry company was an artillery organ! zation ana O’Neall was a private in that company. On their return O'Neall 'was made captain and ran against Col. Tucker for major general and was defeated. He says of this that he got what he deserved. The brigade major, Thos. Wright, who had the “ mustering in,!’ was of this, county, and afterwards brigadier general and Lieutenant Governor oi' the State. Ilia family are in this county. The adjutant, Jamea Irby was father of the late James U. Irby and grandfather of the late Senator Irby. Many of the regiment were af terwards prominent in the State. Gen. Gillim, a coua n of John C. Calboan, i»M4 Um- JEdgsfield isnoy, or th. ni-.Ui- whtch will be fair to any «A<* els#*. A U»p fan be balance 1 uj.<M) tb* point only when it is in rapid motion, and -o the great financial structure oraiftied iy*\Vall street for the >•< netii of Wall street will stand upright ouly so long as it can he kepi whirling; the collaps#- will come when the *p« **l is slackened “ Who says that we cannot afford lo measu-e slt-englh with the great mono- wiies which now arrogantly assume to control the domain of politics us w#li the field of industry? Not until we can gather good fruil from an evil tree, and ti^s from thistles, can we expect a private monopoly to bring foith public blessings. The water that bus been poured into the stocks of our great cor- po atious has for the most pari been drawn from the agncuDoral regions and the drought th.it is fure to follow will teach the farmer (lie meaning of the trust system. “ Must we abandon the self-evident troth that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed? Must we accept impelialim us an accomplished fact and join in the shout for blood and conquest? - Uur Republic rests upon solid rock, anil while ils principles are revealed it cannot be overthrow from' wi bin or from wilhout, but if all partie% joiued together to erect an empire upon American soil they would build upon the nand and the edifice could not eudure. It is a law divine in its origin, irrisistible m its force and eter nsl in its duration, that wrong-doing ultimately destroys the wrong-doer, and no nation < r combination of nations is slro g enough to evaije or resist retrib utive justice. “ But suppose— what no one should assume, and what no one can prove— that steadfast adherence to Democratic Ni# ARaora Bil l. |'a»«m# thi >1 *K - Tt##* Ni« aratfiia canal It'll i-c«l lh« II t*(ise of U* l.rvarulalivaa •ni Thursday, ttih last , by prsc.irally a un luitnou* v 4*. (July lw«# a## m- hrra out #«f Jlu vnt«**l against II. Mraar*. Flct.hcr, ICrptiM-can, <#l Mio^ nr**Ha, ami laMsilrr, li# > tn*s*rai, of Virginia, w*rr the Iwo v*4mg in thr nrgaiivr. The «.p|*#Miii«Mt u# *••<11 mil- utig tb** govt-rtmirnl In Ib#* NManagua roots alirmplrd l<> errtirv aai# ii*l>n* nl* l* 1 Indgr Wilh I be l‘re*ldenl the di*c ra il tnarv |M.wrr in pu cha*e an*I t-omplale the I'anatna canal. If it con 11 be pur- < b*** <1 for $40,IMk|,linil. The Itsl came tb*- fir*! Vnta, whan the ailvocalra <•( an alternative inula p‘>lle«l BrJ against ITO v*4e*. Al aach »ii*-**-a3|ng vqla Iheir Mranglb <luin*ik«l until Hr. I an- non. ol llliu«4«, anti* r whoea |ea«lar- •liip the light a as made, waa unable lo grt the ay#** and noaa no a motion lo recox mil. All other amendment* faded a id the bill |MOUMd exactly a* it canm fr 'in IIk eonimilUc None id the vote* prnritir T wxvq'nti'y an wm itnwi bib was a MoiurJ vo # b. '1 he Ucbale, s^h-Ii |>t#H:«<l«ail the tak ing’of the final vote wa* made m< mor •M • by a clanh between Mr Hepburn, the author of t te h II, and Mr. Cannon, chairman of the appr< priulions com miilce. tin several previous occasion* they hate measured swonfs prer cansl legislation. Two year* ago a similar bill was passed by a vote of 224 lo 36 Mayor Tolly Favors Federal Aid as Suggested la GreeirviUe The following interesting letter from Mayor Tolly of AndcrkSn, deserves the aiteulion of the citizens of this S ate : ‘ ‘ • To the Editor of The News and CourierI have read with some in. lerest a recent article iu your paper from Dr. D. A. J. B II, of Farksville, concerning the G<x d Roads Conven tion held in Grcenvil'e, aud I would like to add some words of my own. I regard the convention held in Greenville aa having been in many re spects the most important held in thia Stale within recent years. It waa im portant, not so much in point of imme diate vUible-iesults, but on account of i's aims and t>urp<»ses and the ultimate good that will bu accomplished, and on account of ihe representative class of men who were in attendance. The Im portance, the necessity, of good roads cannot be over-estimated, but has too long been underestimated by the peo ple «»f the State, and H is hopeful and encouraging to see such an awakened and widespread interest being taken io the subject. U is veiy gratifying lo see at Greenville such men as Gen. M. C. Duller, the Hon. A T. Smyth, of Charleston, Mr. F. H. Hyatt,of Colum bia ; Ex-Governor Mauldin and Solici tor Ansel, of Greenville ; the Hon. D. C. Heyward, <•) Waltarboro; Congress man A. C. Intimer, and many county supervisor* and municipal officer* from different pans of the Stats—men of all cla»aes of political opinion* and of all walk* of life- met together for a com mon purpose, i say It wa* an eocour- mg *ign and grraA and lasting gend ta Im'UikI to rorae out ontL I think one of the moat important a*li<>ri<r of (ha ('oBVemion waa the adoption of a leardntioti a*kmg our *cuat#M* and U*’prtaealauvea in Coo- or#-.* to wors for Federal appropria tions f«*r the improvement of publi#- highways on the same plan that ap- prupriatioaa Dow mad* fur u#* im provement of rivers and barbo s. It *'atia*4 !•* itaaird that go.*l public highways are as neersaarj to the wel fare and growth ol theouDlry aa tm prwvt-d nver* ai#*l hartx.r*. and (bat a vastly greater number of petqda will t#e I <r lie filed thereby. It may ba argue*l by soma that It w*aild " i ' /rial an uiMlertakiog for II.*- gov* i nib# ut to g«# into the baaluuua of improving lb« puldic roads. Her* am some fa* is that will romplataiy aiuwrr this ubjertMMi ; When it was first prop i*ed, #.>mr leu or fifteen years ago. I*, give lbs people of lb* country free mad dvli*ery such aa enj 'y**l by the people of ibe tilir* ihe idea waa Lug tied to aooru. It waa «laclarad that it w- u d bankrupt the government. Yet lb« rural mail tbrlivrry •yatem la going mt > operaliua all over Iba coun try, and wherever It baa bean Irtw! it ba* been found to W#Nk sue- tu ifuliy. There ia Iml slight in- rn-arc in the coat over the old syetam nt having many u/fiutry poatofilcas, with ibe star r.Kiie mall riders, and in s*>me iasea the coat ia aveo lasa aad the M-nire ia vastly impiovod. Iu An«Lr*on (l*4iniy there am now aoma. thing like tareniy daily rural mail routes. Them is no farmer in the coUb- try who bves further than two miles fro a a daily de lively route and be coo have his mail delivered wherever ba |.lac*>« bia box, while the majority of the farmers have iheir mail deliver*#) every day al Iheir do >r*. 1 have not ibwui**..' i« inrw si li»l the town OF WA8HINGT0N. OeotRl* Has the Oldeat Namesake of the Father of Bia Country. Miss E. F. Andrews contribotea the ^17! w? ,1 “ w " hi ^ a Altb ujh our town is the oldest namesake of •« the fadier of hia coaiw «• aware that 1‘resideot IFasbington one* made a vbit to Ibis, the first born ot wLh?n U ?° U * p, 3 eu I ° r geographical Washingtons—Washingtons big and Washingtons little, WsshingtoMiural, uiban and territorial, that have since done more or less honor to the name. Yet, such is the fact; the great founder of the republic once spent a night in our town, and there are |»eople etui living in our midst that have seen and Liked with the veriLblo colonial dame that entertained him. It 'was in the year 1790, when Washington made bis great tour of the Southern States, embracing Richmond, Charleston aad Savannah, returning by AugutL and ibe interior towns of ihe Carolina* and Virginu. Our little Washington was on thegrsit highway between Richmond and AngnaL. and thus lay along ibe route the praaident bad so carefully mapped oat for him- s# If that be never faded to arrive at each place where he proposed to halt on the very day he had died There was living here at that time a Colonel Alltaon, who had followed the tida of *migra:tcn that flowed from Virginia, like m. many of oar early selUer** Ha waa a brave Rcvo'ulionary officer, a member of to aahiogtoo’t staff, and a peraoual friend nod so, when the great general was passing through (i. orgta, what more natural I baa that b« •boolil arrange to stop el Washing u town aud span*I a night wtlh A' old fiiead? C«4» id Alltagp lived In a two story freoe homy ynla a prateouous build lag for Ihufiu lima* -that used lo stand lived buck of wham Wtmd’s livery now i*, and waa burned <M#wa in the greet fir* of INM the! da*troved the the Kp'eeopal church end many other buiUii jga oa that block. The writer r# members it aa e dileptdeted eld •it sci urn that eaad to be pototed eel, in ta* day* of her youth, a* the otdeei house tu towa. Ttiie fact gave * *. certain inter eat find aaosned te rre stitule ite only dwttacUoa, as the dr- # umstaocee that it hod ooco eh* lv ao illustrious a gweet •lent of the republic enough, to have passed euum'y out af eoougu, io nava paased enure'y out m miad. The old hotsae gradually went from bod to won*, and aa the writer last n An Emiili.m ok* Lho my.—The famou* Liberty Ixsll, under the wort of Mayor A*hhri<lgc mid a delegation from the 1‘hiladelpbia city couitcil, arrived in Cbarle*U»n on Thur!*«li»y morning from Suvannult, Ga. It was met at the station by the mayor and hoard of aldermen of Charleston, and president ami director* of the Exposi tion company and a detachment of re gulars fiom the artillery post, and companteH of marines from the camp at the Expedition, with a regiment of nuliiia drawn'up at the atation when the train beating the bell rolled in. As the bell was lifted from Ihe fiat cat, a ffllutc of thirteen guns was fired. The bell w;i8 placid (Ai a decorated truck which had been prepared to con vey it to the Exposition, but after placing, it was found ibal the truck would not bear the weight and the hell had to be replaced on the car ami taken to the Exposition ground by rail. In the auditorium at the grounds Mayor Smythe extended a formal wel come to Ahe hell and its escort and MaVor Ashbridge responded. Several brief addresses were made and patriotic airs were sung by 2,000 school chil dren. The hell was priced in the Phil adelphia bin ding at the cunclusion of the exercises in the auditorium and the building was forin;dly confidcdTo the custody of the Exposition company. £ principles woul I result iu tepeaUd de feat, is there-any reason why we should A lump of tallow dipped in sulphur abandon those principles and adopt and rubbed on the bodies of trees is others, or have none at all? Thoee! recommended by Mr. M. W. Hubbard, who prefer prison fare or a servile sub- a Missouri orchardist of note, as a ject’s lot to the dnugera of the battle- cheap and safe preventive of' barking field may condemn the Boers for con- ibe trees by rabbits and their pertora- tiuoing what some describe as a bope- tion by borsrs. He lak»a a lump of leu struggle for" indejio'pdenc#:, but tallow in one hand and a sma'l box of those who can mcasuie the mighty in- the sulphur and rubs the trees from fluence of great deed' know that the the ground as high as br’er tabbit can atnnij 11 — 1 1 — lK - n hut the -ysietn t* pm< (t* aliy self Uitung ami that the free delivery sys- Tcm, instead' of bring a burden, la it-ally if anything a saving over the old method I do not believe that Federal appro priations for public road improvements sill prove at nil burdensome, but that 'n will be the wisest possible expendi ture of m ney. In addition te the good it will do in developing the iifterior of tbe country it will distribute some of the government appropriations among a class of people who have never te- ccived any of the benefit! of it and wheie il will do the moat good. A small appropriation could he made for Federal lo.idbuildmg say jo each coun ty, and this, supplemented by State ami county and pouibly even town ship aid, would in a short time give to the people of this country such * sys- lom of public highways as the world has never seen. I was greatly impressed with this scheme when it was proposed at Green ville .and .1 have thought about it, a great deai since. The more I think about il the more hi artily in favor of it do I become. I believe il willgneet with the approval of any man who will give it consideration. I hope The News ami Courier and the other papers of the State will take up the question and agitate it, and I want to see our Sen ators and Representatives in Congress comply with the resolution adopted at Greenville. I hope there will be a large alien, dance at the meeting of the Good Roads Convention which is tb be held in Charleston on February 3. Every ode who* was at Greenville should go to Charleston and so many more as can po-aibly do so. Tbe question of good r >ads vitally coacerns the whole. SLte and if we wi I continue the good work commenced at Greenville much practical g->od can be accomplished. G. F. Tolly b idal prene it by General ‘ aiMl just befora her death she preeeoted thia aet, six cap* and sancen, together wiili tliecoionel’scer iflcaL of member ship in the Cincinnaii, to Mie. Alexan- d* r. As the china had been need oa her table at the time of Washingtoa’s visit il is certain that he had drunk fr .in one of the cape, bat as there wee m> mark by which that particular cup could be identified, hero-worshiping tea drinkers who ured any of the six could flatter themselves with the pos sibility that they were drinking after Wanbington. Two cupa and saucer* of this set are still in existence, one in the possession of General E. P. Alex ander, tbe other of Mrs. Cooper Pope, of this plsce. The caps are wilhout handles and of the shallow bowl shape familiar in old china, whUe tbe saucers are very deep, as it was tbe correct thing in those days to poor tea or coffee into Un saucer and drink from it, and 1 have no doubt but Washington took his that war. What a treasure one of these old relics would be to the Daugh ters of tbe Revelation. Ex-Henator Peffer, of Kansas, is compiling a topical index of the pro ceedings of Congress from the first session down to the prescut time, which be wants to sell to the govern ment. He has got as far as 1861 and ■axpacllAo flatab the work in two years. Jt bet* it was inhabited by who swarmed within the dingy <>l.l anil* *• thick as the popalattoa of a New Ymk UaeoMni. Colonel Al iwm wa* asm of Ihe origi nal Lauder* **f the Order of the da- cinueU, end hie certificate of member ship, •igueti with Washington’* ento- 'graith, ia now in tb* pn**e—ion of Captain J. 11. Aiesaadar, of II* Lfi a widow who lived te a *.■*, end a wm, Robert, who we fii*t bus ham! of Mr*. Barnett, the m*»i her oar honored ciUsaa*, Dr. Freak Willieandlhe Host. Home*) Barnett. Mrs. Altmoo, who** n Mlea anas* w*s McRae, wa* very food oi the Irak Mrs. Attain Alexander, and Mr*. Alexander's daughter, Mrs. Clifford Hall, rcmembci* when a very Utile girl having Mam times accompanied brr mother on her visits to the aged iff. The steamer Argyle passed through unique experience recently, when orly rail ja off the coast of Mexico. The sea had been exceptionally smooth for sqme time, when suddenly it be came thick with earth of a reddish color, and was agitated as if some great submarine lire were heating it to the boiling point. No damage was done to the vessel, and five minutes later the sea was smooth again. The ennse of the disturbance was a subma rine earthquake. I’or the first time in a period oT twenty-live years Chief Justice Re iver waa absent from the session of the supreme court this week having been detained al home by sickness in his family. Dr. A. C. Berger, of Greensboro, N. C.. a pillar uf the church nod F.p- worth league leader; seeks to join the Kn gbu of Pythian. They ini and find he loss more wives I .*SsJSL*HSSt.