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P THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE. VOL E BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 1901 NO. 11 f| li&N. K. fci. LKK. General Rosaer's Estimate cf the Great Commander. HE DEFEATED CEN GRANT. The Great Confederate L*ad*r Merely Played With Gens McCleilar, Burnside Pope and Hoi ker. Gen. Thomas L Rosser, of "Hugby," Albcrmarle Co., V* , has beon engaged in writing and publishing a series of papers on the war botween the States, and his concluding article is as fol lows: "Tho wLdom of General Leo's invasion (f Pennsylvania in 1803 has often been questioned by military mon as well as statesmen, but when you remember that at that time Grant held General Pembcrton by the throat, at Vicksburg, and the hope of tho ultimate success of the Southern Confed eracy was faint and flickering, you will agree that the situation called for dos perate aolion. "General Leo had gained an ea<-y t violory over General Hooker at Chank cellortville in early May, and having a I low (stimato of his military ability, he S felt that a viotory over him north of the P Potomao was not beyond tho bound of reasonable hope, or even probability, and the prospect was too tempting to be disregarded. Leo had lost his lieutenant. Stonowall Jackson, and while Longstrcot was with him, neither Kwell nor Hill, who had recently been promoted from major to lieutenant general, had ever commanded a oorps in a battlo, and while Lee must have felt some anxiety, if not misgivings concerning them, ho had confidence in his superb array and resolved to take the move, not as Na poleon marched on Moscow in 1812 but as Scipio (Afrioanu-) went to Carthage in 201 B. C , in order to loose the hold on Virginia of the inwdiog army, and at the same time strike a blow wbioh would awaken an eoho to be heaid in Europe and through diplomacy, end the war in favor of tho Southern Confederacy. * General Lee planned to give battle as near the range of South Mountain b he oould, so that in the event of dis aster, ss was the ease, he uould drop haok through the rarrow mountain passes in which he could resist the enemy and avert pursuit. Had General Lee declircd battle on the 2d of July at OottyBburg. as Gen vised him. > Washington, his army would aouotless have been destroyed before he oould have reaohed a safe refuvo in the mountains or recroBStd the l'otomao at the nearest ford, which wai west of tho mountain. Thsrofore, Le acted wisely in fighting where he did, and the only mistakes he made wero tactieal, not strategie, as shown in my previous letter Had General Lee died at Gettysburg, ho would not have ranked in history as a great general. His victories over McClellan, Pope, Burnsidoand Hooker would havo been aaoribod to the genius of Stonewall Jackson, who participated so gloriously in all of them, for wo all remember that in tho winter of 18til 'J General Lee did not acquit himself with credit in his campaign against Rosecrans in West Virginia, and the failuro it Qettyburg with the daDgcr ous halt a Falling Water and Williams port, waiting for a freshet to run out of the Potomac so that be might paei his army over it, oooasioDcd very un favorablo comment from uany of ou highest officers. General Leo was doubtless a grca general, but his great military talen did not shine out fully in all its radi ant splondor until he mot General U 3. Grant in tho Wildernoss in th spring of 1864 General Leo had merely played wit McClellan, Popo, Burr.sideand llo^ke ?taking great liberty with them am violating every maxim of war in hi campaigns against them?such, for in stance, as going of! after Pope and leav ing McClellan and his fino army on th James within a day's ma'ch of Kiol mond, and in leaving Hooker in Jun< 1862, with an army doublo his own i number at Fredericksburg, and inarol ing around him to Cu'pepcr?libertii which poor Hood mictook for stratcg" and in trying to imitate them left tf m*,\ nrion tn Shrrman. which he t oopted, and marched upon Atlanti ar the sea, while ho, poor fellow, wui d featcd at Franklin, Tonn., and Ind be relieved of his oommand by Gcncr Joe Johnston. Leo docs not appear to have gott< strictly down to business until bo w oonfrontsd by Grant in the Wildcrnc in the spring of 1864 General Grant was grcatlv sarpris when General Los permitted him, u molested, to oross the 11a; idan on t 4th of May, 1864, with an army of 15 000 men and a train of 4,000 wagons. Seeing nothing of Leo or his arm Grant believed that he had fled, and ho had to do was to pnrsue, ovcrhi and destroy him Ho little undcrsto his great advorcary. Leo was thoroup ly informed as to every naovo Gn made, and when Grant begun, on t morning of the 5th of May, to uno his great army, which lay in many fo around Germania Ford, and serpo like, extend its fiery and bristling h< through the dark jungles of I Wilderness, Leo, who was hold ? # PA AAA . his little Army or uu,uuu men mm: And well in han d on his flank, fell u| him with tho fury of a oyolone, bo ing him at evory point, and oompelli him to rcoall his advanocd oorps and prepare and fight the two-days' batl of the Wilderness in whioh Gem Lso and his little army most sigm triumphed. General Grant now saw that in game of skillful manoouvering he not a match for General Leo, and fi ing that he eould not drivo him ou his path, he begun a series of tho ir remarkable taotioal evolutions ever < l^^^jdoyed on a battlefield. (J rant's army was so much largor than Lee's tbat he could easily ocvsr Lee's cntiro front, which ho did, but fearing Loo's superiority in generali ship, bo enlrcnohod himself with as much oaro and caution as if he were tho defensive, instead of tho offonsivo leader. Holding a continuous cntronohod lino all along Leo's front, and pressing with a constant strain at every point, ho hoped to bo ablo to slip his reserves from tho roar and extond tbcm to Loo's right s) as to got in between him and Richmond and cut him off from his supplies.. Bat as ho pursued this "earth-worm like" rnovemcntof extending his head, and drawing up his tail, Lee kept paco with him, and wherever tho head of bis army appcarc d, Lee was thcro to strike it. Thus Grant edged along, and fought all tho ray to Cold Harbor, where ou the 1st of June, he found hitmclf at a point whence he wou'd oither have to force Lee's lines, or give up the ory of "Oa to Riohmond" which had boon tho rofrain of tho Army of the Potomac for the past thirty days. At Cold Harbor, Leo occupied mo position wbioh McClcllan held on the ? in ci .June. and U rant tho po sition which Leo held at tho name time, and from which he attacked and drove McClellan. Hero Grant made many unsuccessful assaults on Lee, and finally despairing of success gave up the job and entrenched in Lcc's front. To lcavo Cold Harbor with Lee in possession of it was to turn away from Richmond; to persist in assaulting Lee was humau butchery without compensatory punishment of Lcc?therefore ho gave up the assault, ordered up siege trains and too* up MoClcllan's methods of z:g zig approaches as his only hopo of dislodging Lcc and his little half starved and half olad army. But ho was so far from his baso of navigable water that he soon gavo thesicgo up Grant, in his Meinoris, pigo 27t?, Vol, 11, says: "1 havo always re grcttcd that the assault at Cold Harbor was made." His losses hero wcro so very heavy is tho reason of his regret, no donbt. Grant had been outgeneraled by Lee at every turn, and leaving Cold Harbor he resumed his "orab like" side movement, which enabled him to reach Petersburg, wber? he found Lee confronting him as usual, and whore he was compelled to rcBort to the zig zag nuthod of apprr.aoh and mining, with the hope of making a breach in Leo's lines, but failing early in tho spring of 18b'f> he resumed his "crablike, earthworm" movement by tho 11 ?nk, and pressed on to Five Forks, where ho sue oeeded in breaking tho last line over whioh Lee oould gather supplies for his aimy, and thus by destroying the kitohen ho starved tho great and im mortal army whioh with- all his mighty host he could not whip. OM T n luuuimtj U. ivcmcr. fVilled His Children. i Jaoob Dearborn Marr, a farmer liv- I three children, Alice M., | aged l.i, Kdwin, aged 1) aud Ilcien, aged 7, with an axe shortly after the family had risen from the dinnor t^ofaT Thursday. Mr. Marr haH baun despondent for 6omo time, but his aotious were not tuih as to mako his wife believo that he had any serious trouble to brood over. The eldest daughter was washing dishes at tho sink when her father went by her to tho thod and got an axe. lie oamo back into tho kitohon and struck tho girl a single blow on the head, killing her. Mrs. Marr saw this and ran soreaming to the house of her husband's father, Samuel Marr. The husband, apparently, walked upstairs > to where tho youugcr children woro ' playing and dealt each a single blow with tho axe handle, u'iiingthcm both. , When Mr. Mair, Sr., oamo in, tho younger Marr was washing his hands at the sink. He wat asked why ho had ^ done tho deed and ho said: "I don't \ know.' Later in tho day he was plaoed under arrost and taken to Watcrville r A Valuable Bed. t A story which reads like a fairy tale of ola ociues from Soio, N. Y., whero Miss Clarissa Stuu^ue, a manhating e spinstci and nonogenarian, died last isnnlr Miaa Snrtuim livfld a'l alrtno r arid beyond owning the hovel in which ^ hhe resided was thought to possess nothing but her pot cat, an animal of unusual strength and size. Cornered , by several dogs this cat had become c badly iijured somo inoaths ago when ( he was lescucd by K ifus Spraguc, a country lat and distant relative, and ^ carried to his mistress. iMiss Spraguo ( was profute in her thanks and told the boy that when she died she would make him her heir and leave him the u' bed sho slept upon. Kufus olaimed hit prized Thursday and was about to fin )(j the straw tick when he was amazed t( c find it stuff :d full of gold coin. A oare ful search was made and moro thai 11,000 in go'd was found. on Beggars Waiting. A dispatoh says th arrival of Mr and Mrs. Carnegie, at Southampton c(j Kogland, is awaited by delegations froc 11 various clymosnary institutions wh want ohcoka. These include rrprcsen j10 tatives of oities socking librarios, an ' agents of a variety of institutions dc siring aid. Hartley collcgo, Southamy ton, a teohnioal institution, has adepu iu| tation of t>0 awaiting the Steamer's ai j rival. Tho local msnagcr of the Amei ^ ioan line, who bad important letter ' . and telegrams from all parts of th int , . -i ~ t ? .U- _u: l ??!_ Kingdom I or IIIO |HlllBUHiiU|'ini, no/ ' jl tho envelopes iodic.Vo that they ai ljH from all sorts and onditions of pcopl nl f/om uni varsity presidents to mend :ad caDtB Growing liapidly. ted Tho produotion of tobaono in tl on United States is now about 7-5,000.0( at- pounds, of which about half is eonsuc ing ed in this country. Tho crop has near 1 to doubled sicoo 1870. It was first taxi tics for rovenuo purposes in 1878. Sin< tral 1870 the revenue from tho tax has n illy fallen below $25,000,000 Annually. 1 1000 it was *f>0,000 000. Sinao it w the h'st imposed, in 1808, it has paid r was venues among to about *1,'200,000,00 0O|. Tho tobacoo and ootton farmers do n t of tfJt so muoh oonsideralion from t tost Government as tho protected manuft 3m- turcrs, but thoy make a groat deal ma money for it. A PATHETIC STORY < Another Unexoectod Effect of th< Pension Act STORY OF A WORTHY WIOOA Of a Dead Confederate Hero Abou to Be Debarred of Her Pension Pittance by its Provisions. Wbilo this State is uDablc to give needy Confederate veterans and widowi of veterans any largo pensions, it i< doing tho bett it oau to aid them. Af in all pension systems, abases crept it aud tho department found itsolf peyini pensions to many who wtro really not in need, until the Confederate veterans organisation took tho matter up and got the new aot passed. This was designed to throw every posBiblo safeguard and is working well. Several very ex ocptional and unexpeeted results of the new act have, however, ariecn. The The oaso of tho Byrd orphans has al ready been mentioned, and Tho State has received several subscriptions toward paying tho amount of the pension which cannot be allowed. Another case even moro notoworthv developed Wednesday. There can be no doubt that Mrs. Amanda Rochester of Anderson oounty is tho widow of a gal lant fellow who gave up his life for the Confederacy, and that sho is sadly in need of tho pittance allowed, yet tho law requires that she must have ocrtili oates fmm living witnesses to her hus band's sorvioe and death. She oannot obtain these. Vet she has written evidenoe, and has presented that which is really stronger than any othor evidence oould bo. And it is up to tho Stato board at its coming meeting to decide whether tho letter of the act must bo obeyed, shutting off tho pension, or whether it can bo allowed on tho evidence furnished. Tho beard returned Mrs. Rochester's application when it first oamo in. The following was rooeived on Wednesday in consequence. Andrrson, S. 0 , Maroh 18, l'JOl. Dear Sir : Kxouso mo for returning Mrs. Amanda J\ Rochester's petition for pension, and papers oonnected therewith, and especially calling your attention to aimonton'a affidavit, and nspeoially to the letter of Lieut. W-H. Bartloss Jr., dated Juno 20th, Ufl^i&oonneotion with Judge Simon^S>cr beg to call your atten njlB0 faot that a paper 37 years * Wid agent in this oas;>y tn? poor widow perao'hally vgRgS^M^atcreat in her oa9 cf ^^^^ga^Hpsband, whose u^^nory she has "y ^or 'on.i:^^idowhood. It <^am B7oT?rtrflI? that aj]^ oourt would sustain her claim under the law with the testimony of Judgo Simonton an 1 the letter of the lieutenant, now dead, and the other proofs sulmiitod. I enolose affidavit of B. A. Mo Calister, an offioor, but who is an ap plioant himself, and his testimony rulec out, but I send it anyway. I was colonel of tho Fourteenth Soutl Carolina Volunteers, and my long ser vice endears mo to tho poor, who sacri tieed so muoh, but to nono more thai tho worthy women. Very truly yours, 'Joseph N. Brown. Tho affidavits referred to read as fol lows : Stato of South Carolina, Charleston County. Before mo personally appcarc Charles II. Simonton, who, being du' sworn, says that ho was colonel oon manding Twen'y-fifth regiment, Sout Carolina Volunteers. Confederate State of America, from 18H2 to tho end t the war. That ho knew Williai A. Rochester, who was a private in C( II of his rogiment. That said Williai A Roohestor was killed in batt whilst serving with his company in charge at Swift Creek, near Poiorshuri Va. That the lettor attached to tin potition of Mrs. Amanda Rooheste signed by W. II. Bartlcss, Jr., lici tenant commanding Co H, is aKcnuii letter, as ho well knows tho handwritii cf Mr. Bartless. That the said W. 1 Bartle6s Jr., was at the date <f sa I lnttnr in c.rkmnitnd of naid nomtianv i i osptain, W. 11. Soabrook, having bc< i killed. That Rochester and his joe rades in that company vcro galla ) men, the company having been alrnr ) annihilated by casualties in action di > ing the war. That ho does not km - Mrs. Amanda Rochester, but that > believes her to be the widow of I dead comrade. (Signed) Charles H. Simonton. State of Soutl Carolina, County Anderson. l'ersonally appeared B. A. Mo; n i8ter, who, being duly sworn, says tl 0 ho has known Mrs. Amanda Kochos j ovor sinoo her ohildhood, ho being most her ago. That she was a M 1 Howard beforo her marriage. Thate ' married William A. Hochestcr, who [ is said by affidavit of Judge Simont and his lieutenant, was killed n r" Petersburg, Va , in 1861, and that i 8 has remained a widow ever since, ? 0 has continued a resident of the St 8 all tho time. That the petition sigi I" oy ner is nuo ana me.ugn poor, sno 0 a lady of high character and haa hat struggle for a living ever since tho w B. A. MoAliater Tho lettor from tho front at tho ti to of the death of tho husband roads H) follows: n- Tronohoa Twenty fifth S. C. V., 1 ly good's Brigado. :d Near Potorsbrg. Va , io Juno 20, 18t! l ot Mrs. Amanda Rochester. In Dear Madam: Your favor of the 2 as just at hand. I am truly sorry to e- form you that tho account of your 1 0. band's death is correct. Ho fell, s ot through the body, in a ohargo upon he onemy's linos at Swift orcek, i io- Petersburg, Va., whero ho is i >re buried. It affords mo pleasure to say to that ho wan a good soldier. I nevci * knew him to shirk in the timo of dam ?cr. Oar company has lost many good and bravo men, but none better than b he I rcgrot his 'oss very muoh. He died in a glorioui oanse, and Lis nann will be handed down to posterity as ono of those martyrs who fell in tho cause of freedom and all that man holds dear f on earth. Very respootfully, W. H. B*rt!osn, Jr., t Co. H. 25th 8 0. V. 1' 8 Cjrpl, Hechestor i9 duo pay from October 1st, 186J, to May 7th, 1864, and some little money for commutation of lost things. Tho exact amount I cannot now send, as my company papers arc away; will, however, do so as soon as practicable. lie had 5 nothing with him when ho was killed, * his keepsakes and other things having a hpnn iirotriAiiolo 1 y j .v ?udi. a no omiui Tho Old Veterans. The Columbia Sla*c says if tho slato ? reunion of Confederate veterans in that ! city in May is nut a success it will not be the fault of thoBO who have boon [ placed <nohargoof the arrangements for the various features of the entrtainmcnt. Neither will it ho the 1 fault of tho railroads. The dosircd cent a uiiio rate has keen secured and the committee on transportation ( feels that tho greater part of the work has keen done oven before it oould have a meeting. Chairman Uichtdson of the southern Fasscngor asiooia'ion has issued bis circular ur der ca'e of Atlanta March 15, anccucoirg ' a rate of one cent per mile in each direction to Columbia, S. C., and return from all poin s in the State of South Carolina; also from Charlotte and intermediate pcints in North Carolina, and from Savannah, Macon, Atlanta and intermediate points in Georgia, acc unt of occasion above specified: The following round trip rates on this basis will govern front the junctional points named: From. Kate. Abbeville $2 10 Allendale 1 55 Anderson 2.55 Athens, Ga 3 45 Atlanta, Ga I 90 Augusta, Ga 1.70 B acksburg 2 45 Calhoun Falls 2.45 Camden 05 Carlisle 1 05 Catawba Junction 1.60 Charleston 2 60 Charlotte, N C 2.10 Cher aw 1 75 Chester 1 25 Clinton 1 JO Denmark .. 1 05 Elbcrton, Ga 2.80 Fairfax 1 55 Grconvillo 2 25 Greenwood 1.70 Lancaster 1 45 Laurens 1 50 Maoon, Ga 415 Madison, Ga 3.75 Milledgcville Ga 3 50 -2 ^ ngcburg . . Fmcnrity 70 Hot* 11 ill '/7t\t!\ 100 Savannah, Ga 2.85 Spartanburg 1 85 Sumter 85 i Tennillo, Ga 3 40 I Ycmassce 2.10 k orkvillo 1.70 Tho tickets will bo restricted to oon tinuous passage in each direction and aro to bo sold on May 8 and 9 from L points within tho State of South Carolina, and on May 8from points in North i Carolina and Goargia with final limit . of May 13, inolusivo. The rate pro. mulgated applies to the Sotthern rail! way, tho plant system, the A. C. L, tho Central of Georgia, the Charleston, and Western Carolina, and tho Georgia railroad. Tho Seaboard will no doubt meet tho rates of the association lines Lepers are Many. Marino hospital Surgeon Worry, <iua rantino officer for tho Philippines, ha; j sent an official report of tho leprosy it the Philippines. Ho said: 'Lsprosj ( is widely prevalent over tho entiri j, archipelago, but the greatest tuubo H of oases exist in Luzon and the South em islands. It is quite prevalent ii ( Cebu, tho number of lepers being esti } mated at 2,000. Total number of case n in the it-lands is estimated at 20,000 |e The cases in Manila and surrouudin, ,t country arc isolated in a hospital un * der the auspices of tho Manila board o hcvlili. Tliero is aLo a lopcr hospita at Cebu. An atlompt at scgrcgatio ' and isolation of the lepers has boc made by tho army officials and sovcra , months ago orders wero issued dircctin j' that a hospital in each district bo so ;<1 aside for tho isolation of all lepert tin ^ could bo apprehended and tho guard c ,n military was detailed recently to carr ^ out tho order for a leper colony, intoi . tion being to deport all oases of lepei "l - - l . . ? I ; ,?i, ^ ^ lO U118 pnuo iur ?UU nu?. ir tion'" Ends a Useful Life. I? A dispatch from Yorkvillo to T1 ' State fays our community was groat shocked Tuesday morning, 19th inst at tho announcement of the death la night of Col. JoOn It. Ashe, preside of tho Yorkvillo ootton mills. (Jc Asho has been overworking himself r oontly in tho interests of his mill, at 181 tho strain has boon groat on him. Du l':r ing tho .light his wifo missod him fro a'~ tho room, and becoming alarmed call IHfl tho neighbors, and search was made f . him. His body was found in a well 11 the yard. At a meeting of the sloe on holders and directors of tho mill tl 0ftr evening Mr. P. M. Crimes, the popul ? superintended was oleotcd tcmpora in" president. Upon examination of t mill's affairs it was found to bo entirt 1C. solvent and able to meet ev? ry ob IS <m _:n : gaiion. i nt-ru win uu uu niuju'iug, the mill, and under tho managomooi ar' President Grimes success is assured. Wolves and Sparrows Sutler m9 Tho wolf hunters and the sparr shooters of northern Illinois have ji [ja. closed a very prosperous season. LeoS uolson, a Winnebago county boy, 1 made a record of 3,-115 sparrows I whioh ho rccoived from the com treasurer $09.22. Joseph Gallisdorf a lad of tho samo oounty, killed 2,-1 jn_ birds, for which lie was paid $18 m1. cash. Nearly 40 000 sparrows hi (10t been killed this season by the boys t)l0 Stephenson county, whioh is a big ]oar creaso ovor tho business of last year. now Dcoombcr tho county paid be tint amounting to $152 10; in-January $2( you *n ^obru*ry $122.10; total $782 rour dead heroes 1 t i Preparations for the Uuvelling and Dedication of the I CHICK AM AUG A MONUMENT. Tha Monument is Worthy of the Immortal Heroes Whose Gallantry end Death it Commemorates. After m\ny years of waiting South Carolina is at last going to do a small but derived honor to tho gallant soldiery that b?ttlcd po bravely for tho Southern camo at Chickamauga. State after State has erected monuments to its bravo soldiers on this his'orio battletb Id, acd now South Carolina is o >n to crcct an imposing monument. Many StateB have a dozen or more magnificent monuments, uiaoy aro thcro to regi- , aunts, but South Carolina is to have ouo largo monument to its toldicry that struggled so nobly on Chiskamauga's field. Gevcrucr MoSwccncy, Gen. Floyd, Major C. K. Henderson and Capt. J. Harvey Wilson is tho commistion in charge of tho erection of the monument. ' Gen. Walker, who served with dis- 1 tir.oiion in the bloody battle, has de- ' voted a g eat deal of time to the ar rangemcct and has kindly prepared the following elaborato programo of the exercises: For the convenience of Veterans, Sots, tho Stato volunteer troops and all citizens attending tho Southern, H tilway has made special airangcments and this route will bo the tflioial route. They will anr.cunce dates of leaving various points and ra'cs. This e ffioial tr*in will bo run down to I.ytlc Station, near tho battlefield, and about half a mile from tho site of the South Cirolina monument. Tho distance can be easily walked, but arraogemen's will bo made for hacks to carry over such visitors as prefer rid ing acd paying. At tho station the prooctsion will bo joined by Gen. .). W. Carutsb, ohief marshal. 1. Bred. 'J. South Carolina volunteers. State troops, UDdcr command of an effioer to by designated, by Adjt. Gen. Floyd. 3. Sods of Confeccrato Veterans, under command of Walter H. Hunt. 4. Veterans of South Carolina Division II. C. V. . 5. Visiting Veterans 6. Distinguished guests in carriages. 7. Visitors. Tho column will maroh by the road skirting along tho southern has? of Sni^dgrass Range. As they strike the V^tteloo House they will see a large barker, marked 10th and 19ih South J Miuiiii nny^ugg iiyj^ ioC.uVri.u'. p&Mt. Gathered under and around the battle scarred fl?g of tho lOlh South Carolina regiment, whioh led them to victory on tho heights above, will be the visiting veterans of that oommand. The proeeBsion will salute and uncover as it paeses tho group of heroes. ) Further on is a similar marker mark ed 24th South Carolina regiment and Culpepper's battery, fought about one mile to the northeast of this point, and near it the flags and the men of those gallant oommands. Further on, as tho road to tho South * Carolina monument leaves the main road, will be found another walker to > the immortal men of Kershaw's brigade, > marked "Kershaw's brigade, 2d, 3d, > 7th, Sth and 15tb South Carolina regi ments and .James's South Carolina battalion, fought for tivo hours on Snodgraas Range above this point." Tho battle flags and heroes of Kershaw * will bo saluted. > The procession now arrivee on tho 1 ground sacred to tbe valor and the 3 worth of South Carolina's sons, for it r was that over whioh Kershaw swept as - he drove tho enemy baok to thoir last 3 stand on tho ridgo. Arriving at tho monument, tho b veterans will press to the front, the State volunteer troops saluting, g Tho park commissioners will havo erected a large stage and sufficient seatf ing capacity for tho veterans and visi>1 tors. Governor McSwconey, Governor Q of tho State and chairman of tho oomn mission, will preside, d Tho meeting will bo opcnol with g prayer by tho Rev. Dr. J. H. Thornt well, chaplaiu general, South Carolina >t Division, U. 0 V. >f G .-n. C. I. Walker, one who won disy tinction on this and other battlefields, i- now the beloved commander of tho rs South Carolina Division, U. C. V., and i- who has taken a dcop interest in and materially aided in the aoocuiplishment oi the memorial about to bo dedicated, and a leading member of tbc oommisho sun, will then deliver the historical ly address. ? Addresses will then bo mado by the Ml II 14 U I I - _ J?? , t ?i, ? u nun. 1' O. UUUUUIOUU, XJ i 1110 uvunto, Qt and Col. J. Harvey Wiloon, of the '' House of Kcprcrentativcs, through the c. liberality of whioh bodies South Caro 1(* lina has dono juitico to her heroic sons ir An address will then bo mado bj ai General, now tho beloved Bishop El , lison Capers, who sorvod on this battle Hold with his well known gallantry 10 Bishop Capers's address will lead up t< . the unveiling, whioh will bo dono bj ,'19 four young ladies, representing eaol 'ar one of tho four South Carolina com ,ry uiand i engaged in tho battlo. Fo 'IC Kers.iaw'-. brigade, Miss Klberta Bland >[y a granddaughter of tho distinguishet Col. rC'bert Bland, who gavo up hii ?| life lighting with Kershaw on Bnod grass Kango. I* or 1(1 h and 1'Jth Smilll Cf.rolim regiments, Miss Ads O.'io Walker, i granddaughter of (ion. (J. 1. Walker, off 1 or tho 21th South Carolina regi list tnent, Miss Mario Oul'ro, grandnieo am of Col. C. II. Sleveos, who gallantl as led tho 24th South Carolina rogimon for in tho battlo, and also tho grandnieo ity of Lieut. Col. Kllison Capers, who su< or, coedcd Col. Stovons to tho command c 110 tho regiment and was also badly wound .20 cd in tho battlo. kV* For Culpepper's battery, Miss Ah tho ribbon* aro pulled tho cov< in* will fall and show ono of tho ham somcst monuments in tho paik. It Lj>s bt lit of South Carolina granite, a I T.* oioblcm of tho horoio stand mado t ;),>* tho South Carolinians on this hold?c ( I J I either aide ia bronze statue, original, and made especially for this work, on one Bide an infantryman and an artilleryman on tho other. South Carolina had no oavalry in this battle. Crowning the whole is a bronze palmetto of exquisite workmanship, surpassing in truthfulness to nature tho wonderful bronze palmetto at tho State llouso. On tho front of the upper stono is the shield of South Carolina in bronze. Tho inscriptions are as follows : On tho front, oomposod by Bishop Capers, with grand simplicity : To her Faithful SonB atChioamauga, South Carolina Ereots this Monument to Commemorate tho Valor They Proved and tho Lives They Gave on this Battlefield. Oa the baok : Kershaw's brigade, 21 South Carolina regiment, 3d South Carolina rrgimont, 7th South Carolina rcgimeut, 8th South Carolina regiment, 15th South Carolina regiment, James's 31 South Carolioa battalion : Killed, 65 ; wounded, 438: missing, 1. Of Manigault's brigido, 10th South Carolina regimont, llhh South Caro lina regiment, consolidated : Killed. 26; moitally wounded, 40 ; wounded, 171). Gist's brigade, 24*.h South Carolina regiment. Killed, 43 ; wounded, 114; missing, 12. Culpepper's battery, wounded, 14 1 ho total height of tbe monument is 33 feet. The work was done by the Stewart Stone Company, Columbia, 3. C , and rtfleots the highest credit on their tasto and skill. As soon as the monument is unveilod Governor MeSweeney will turn it over to tbe park commission and it will be reoeived by Gen. Ilenry V. Bovnton, the Chairman. The ceremonies having ended the arowd will disperse over tho battlefield to study and admire it. Tbe Official trains will return to Chattanooga in theafternoon, and after timo for supp<r, etc, tho VeteranB for Memphis will speed on their way, reaching that poitt early on tho morning of the28ih of May. Tho oth< r visitors will take the irain for North Carolina. Around tho monument is a 12 foot j'roular pavement of cem nt faocd with granitoid. Tho markers for South Carolina troops iro plaocd on tho battlefield as follows. Kershaws brigade?Oa tho sloro of 3nodgrass Haoge, one ftr etch of tho regiments. For 10th and 19th South Carolina regiments tho po*ition in general dur ng theafternoon is shown by the guns )f Dent's battery on the orest of the ridge. Advanoing from this point, they nado repeated ohargea on the enemy, ind the point of farthest advanoe is ihown by the Soath Carolina marker. For the 24th South Carolina regiment .he marker is plaoed on Kelly's farm, acar the "Bloody Angle," and near the Shell monument to their brigade commander Colquitt. ?W"> p">~ . It is hoped that Gen. Gorion, oam- I mander of the United Confederate Vet- | erans, on his way to Memphis will be able to stop over and take part in the oeremonies. Governor A.. C. Candler, of Georgia, has been most pressingly invited and writes that himself and staff will be present "unless providentially hindered. The oommsssion had to fix the day for the unvoiling to take it on the way to the Memphis Reunion. At the olose of these reunions the Veterans scatter and it would bo hard to get thom together for any ceremony returning. The reunions usually oommenoe on Wednesday, but this year it begins on Tuesday, which neoeBsitated the seleotion of Monday. This foroed tho common cement of tho movement in Chiokamauga on Snndsy. While it will not prevent tho groat mass of Veterans and visitors leaving home on that day, thore are many who havo conscientious scruples against traveling on Sunday. Tho unveiling of a monument is held as holy an objoot as one could have, and would oertainly exouee all such. But the commission asked fcr and have secured the dato of selling tickets to commence Saturday, so any one oan reaoh Chattanooga from South Carolina before Sunday. The battle flag around whiah the Vegetans of tho 10th and 19ih South Cato lina regiments will assemble is the worn and tattered flag of the 10th South Carolina rogimcnt. Lt was saved from surrender almost providentially. At tho I /N t ItAniAnwilla fhn 1(1) h SahI K Carolina regiment, then commanded by Capt. K. Z. Harlce, penetrated the enemy's lino, bnt roinforoemonts coming up, the lino was reformed and Capt. llarloe, Sergt. Albert A. Myers, bearing tho flag, and about twenty men, half ol tho regiment, so reduced was it, were out off; they took to tho swamp and hid until night. Sergt. Myers throw away the staff and put the flag undoi his olothing. The party made their way through tho swamp and got baok t< the Confederate lines. The remnanti of tho 10th and lD.h South Carolini rogimonts wero subsequently oonsolida 1 tol into Walker's South Carolina bat talion, and so surrendered. Whon Col ' Walker returned from wounded fur 1 lough he oould learn nothing of the lOtl rrgimont's flag that of the 19ih Soutl Carolina being used asthe battalion ool ' ors and at the surrender properly surren dered it as the flag of tho battalion. A Col. Walker rodo out of oamp on th way home Capt. Harlco handed him > package, giving it with express stipula ' tion that it should not be opened unti 1 ho reached home When ho reaohei home he opened it and found it the fla r of the 10th South Carolina regiment He hastreasured it most sacredly eve ' sinoe. The upper half of the flag staff is 9 piooo of tho dig staff of Fort Sumtei ' whioh was used by Major Andorson do ing tho attaok on the fort of April, I8ti fc I# ?aa fliwen ?A Pnl .1 ASAIiK W A. I k P T th k fathor of Col. 0. I. Walker, by Goi a Beauregard. Altogether tho flag staff is a most hi v torioally valuable memento. It was prosposed to first lay the oo 0 ncrstono of the monument before tfa ' dedioation, but the elaborate Mason ^ oeromonies would have taken too muc 1 time from the limited time availabl so this fuootion had to be reluotant disponed with. The monument has " oorner-stone and in it will bo deposi ir odi 1. Col D.okert's valuable sketoh J8 Korshaw's brigade, 11 2. Coi C. I. Walker's sketoh >y ?n [continued on page four, j "MEN OF THE TIME." Very Valuable Work Undertaken by Editor Oarliogton. Mr. J. C. Garlington, editor of tho Spartanburg Herald, has undertaken to prepare and publish a htndsomo volume that will bo of inoaloulable valuo to many classes of South Carolinians. No library of tho period will be complote without it. It is to be entitled "Men of the Times," aod is to be a "blographioal onoyolopedia of contemporaneous South Carolina leaders." Tho scopo of tho volume will inoludo South Carolina authors, arohitcots, artists, agriculturalists, bankers, composers, divines, dootor, engineers, educators, investor, journalists, jurists, manufacturers, mincrtlogit ts, philan thropists, poets, politicians, statesmen, travelers and warriors. There is now no work of tho kiud latter than MoCradv'* in?n? M?? the Carolinas ' and what Mr. Garlington is doing shonld have bccu undertaken long ago. Mr. GArlington is being congratulated by those who have so often found it neoossary to turn to the MoCrady volume on having undertaken tho work. Tho bock is to be gotton up ia handsome ^tyle, very email type and halftone portrait] being used. It will contain about 600 pages. In his prospectus Mr. Garlington saye: "It will be beautifully bound in eloth and is designed to be a book that will adorn any library. Its Boopo is to bo a comprehonsivo compendium of contemporaneous biographies. Aoourate i ketches of the men who have been foromos in developing South Carolina during the closing years of the nino teenth century are given. "In order to iasure aocuraey, and to include only those whoso achievements entitle them to a place in a biograph ioal encyclopedia, committees have been sclcotcd to pass on tho names of such men as are presented. Those com mittces are composed of the rooognized leaders in their various lines. "This book is a very expensive pub lication, but it is believed its importance jistifies the j ublisber in making it a work of art as woll at a biographical onoyolopedia of tbo men who are now making South Carolina, in many lines, foremost of tho southern States. "This book is not like numerous publications that are offered from time to time, where any man who pays his money or subscribes to the book oan be written up. It is neoeasary to known in advance how many copies will be taken, so as to be able to contraot with the printer, but biographical sketohes are not dependent on subscriptions. "The book ia designed to be r?.pre senative of the best ultot in every line?an oneojclopedia?giving biographical sketches of those South Carolinians who have done something in world. It is not a oatch-penny advertising scheme. Those who are en titled to rey resentation in this biographioal encyclopedia will be given such iUU UUV VU?> ?<> .? r. .. ..-.V . a 'write-up.'" The price to all purchasers will be |5 a volume. MARYLAND IN LIHE. The Election Law Disfrrnchising the Illiterate Passes. The new election law has passed the Maryland Legislature. It will disfranehiso fifty thousand illiterate voters. The final passage of the bill was marked by the utter absenoe af anything of a sensational oharaoter. In the senate but one protest was entered which oamo inthoformof a speech from Senator Dodson, Key ublioan, who characterized the entire proceedings as a blot upon the fair names and honor of the State. The final vote was 11 to 14, a striot party division. In a quarter of an hour after passsing the senate the bill was before the house whero its consideration was immediately begun. One by one the senate's amendments wero taken up and concurred in without division. Then it was yut upon its final passage with no attempt at delay upon the part of the minority, except a motion to allow them one hour to consider the amendments. Tbis was promptly voted down, and the bill wa9 passed by a vote of 511 to 28, the Democrats having six votes more than the majority required by the constitution. Five Democrats, Buckey and Lamin of Frederick, Keys of Ceoil, Pattison of DoroLester, and Garner of St. Mary's voted with the llopublicans. The most important ohango in existing methods accomplished by tho enactment of the new law lies in depriv, ing illiterate voters of the assistance ol ballot clerks in preparing their ballots ) Under the previous practice these I clerks accompanied such voters int< r the booths and marked their ballots foi r them, or showed them how to do it The Democrats claim t iat this praotioi . utterly destroyed the seorooy of the bal } lot aii i made it possible for corruption ists to learn through signals from thi ballot elcrks whether bargains mad with corrupt voters had been earriet out. Tho arrangement of the names 01 the ballots has been altered so that th candidate for eaoh office are groupe* instoad of koing arranged in groups aj cording to tho party they represent Party emblems are abolished and othe R changes mado which make tho new la' c very nearly similar to that in cxisteno a in Massachusetts. The t ffeot of tho law is, of course II largely a matter of cor]:oture, and on j upon which the party leaders widel differ. Tho Democrats expeot that i , will disfranchise about 32,000 negroe "r and perhaps 16 000 white voters wh % oannot read or write. Of these, it i r olaimcd, all the negroes and about S ^ per cent, of tho whiles vote the Kopi [ blican ticket. With thcro out of tl j way the State will be safely Domoori , tio for maDy years to oome, and tl immediate result will the eleotion of Democratic State legislature next fa B" and of a Democrat to suooed Unit< r States Senator Wellington in 1902. !? Fourteen Perishod. 1, Tho steamer Chemnitz of thoGe e man-Australian Steamship oompai I' and the British steamer Tay collidi a Thursday night in the Flushing Koa t stead. The Tay sank and only thr of her orew were saved. The Tay hi 0f put into the Flushing Roadstead owi to the prevailing storm. Fourtoon pi 0f sons perished, including tho wives ? two sailor* who b yarded the vossol oi farewell visit. I A SAD STORY. I An Insane Womtn Murders Her fl Six Children. M ATTEMPTED HER OWN LIFE But Failed, and Then Talks fl Rationally About Her Awful Deed. She Assigns No Reason. Mr a L'zsie Naramore, of Coldbrook, H Mass., wLilo in a fit of insanity Thura- | aay muernoon, killed her six ohildren V at ber home, a farm house half a milo from the villago, and then tried to Uko 9 her own lifo. The ohildren ranged from 1 ten years to a babe of ten months and 1 their lives wore taken by the mother I with au axo and a club. She laid the 1 blood-drenohcd bodies on the beds, two 1 on one bed and the other four on a bed ' in aaothcr room and then attempted to take her own life by cutting her Kg throat with a razor. When disoovercd she was in the bed on whioh the bodies of four ohildren were lying. Although she cut a deep gash in her throat and suffered the loss of much blood, it is believed she will recover. Frank Naramore, the husband and father, left his home at the usual hour Thursday morning to go to work at a sawmill and at that time his wife did not attraot his attention by acting ? strangely. I It is supposod the crime was oommit- 1 ted shortly after noon, the disoovery J being made by George Thrasher, an I employe of a grcoery store, who visited 40 j the Naramore house about 2:45 o'oleok for the purpose of delivering grooeriea 0 that had previously beon ordered by ! i Mrs. Naramore. He was unable to get J in the house by thed>or and he looked I in a window and noticed blood on the fl floor, while Mrs. Naramore was lying on I a bed. Ho was surprised also in the absence of the ohildren, whom he was I accustomed to see playing in or about B the home. He returned to the village | and told of what he had seen. I A party was made up and a baaty 1 visit was made to the Naramore house. 1 An entrance was effected without delay 1 and the mutilated bodies of the six children in two beds were found. Mrs. Naramore was removed to the village j hotel and the attending physioiana wen ' confident she would survive. 1 During the evening a number of 1 neighbors of tho family bsw and talked I with Mrs. Naramore and to them sbs i told how she killed her six ohildren. j At the time tho party of villagers found Mrs. Ns-amore she aaked hew she did the o.t.;d, and she said that H she took tho lives in four differouJ^ ~ roomsi and a) fast she killed three girls,"R r B in ' oldest, while t?**' dUi >' juJh, he, Chester. Be-"' J y?i? oif age, from eight year t, gas of \N being the bai., fro and Lena ranged^M^^^-^B Mrs. Naramore ten months, L?ena mate friends that ane-^|__ . and then followed witnTne five eaoh timo taking the next eldest. Five were killed by being struok on u? head with the baok of an axe while lit- V tie Lena was killed with a olub. She says she fully expected the gash in her W throat would oausc her death and when her husdand returned at night he would i find all of tho bodies in the two beds. She appeared rational and displayed J signs of sorrow for tho deed she had I committed, although she is unable to * give any roasoon for killing the children. When Mr. Naramore reaohed the house he was prostrated with grief by the loss of his family. Eaoh of tho ohildren -had evi4[^HHflfc^SHH^H received several blows as thsir were torribly bruised and blood way 8ottered in all parts of the rooms. Mrs. Naramore had evidently made prepara- ^Hj tions for the deed, as the doors were all looked and barred with stioks of jj wood. At about 9 o'olook Mrs. Naramore experienced a change for the worso and it is believed that she will not live I ' through the night. Her husband ha* ' been in the hotel, but ho has not made ^ , any request to sue her since his arrival. Farmers Asked to Meet. llarvio Jordan, president of the | Southern Cotton Growers' Protective _ association has issuid a call from Atlanta, Ua., to tho ootton. producers, of ! the southern States, asking them to ' meet at ihc ouoty scat of every ooun- , r ty in the south on Saturday, April 6, for tho purpose of adopting some plan B toourtail the aoreago of tho ootton orop for tho season of 1991 and 1992. President Jordan urges immediate action by the farmers before the seed for tho j next crop are placed in the ground. He Q claims that the planters will not be able to meet their obligations assumed , j for guano, mules and other farming * materials with the prios of cotton at six cents, whioh he confidently pre'r diets will result from a largo aoreage. w e An Experiment. ( Minnesota is to t**/ a combination ^ high liconso local option dispensary 1 schemo. The propaaed law leaves the * six counties containing cities of the )B ''lO.OUOor over," olass under the operation of the present high license law. a It provides that in all the other ooanm'( tics tke (question of liooese or no license r hall be deoided by popular vote. It ^ pro v id fa further that town liquor dispensaries shall bo established in noin iioense counties upon the petition of two-thirds of the voters?the liquor to . be sold in paokages (half pint or larger) ' i and not to be drunk on the premises. All the dispensary profits aro to go to the oounty treasuries. Want to Entertain Them. irjy Governor MoSweeney lias reosived a cd letter from Mr. T. C. Thompson, of d- Chattanooga, asking aim when he and ee his paity would arrive in Chattanooga id to dedicate Confederate monument, ng how many would be in the party and how i If- long they would remain in Chattanooga. A of The South Carolinians who live in \ \ Chattanooga wish to extend courtesies xgag to the South Carolina party. flpij