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THE GREAT LEADER, j > Outline of the Career of South Caro* 'j lina's Noblest Son, 1 i > LIEUT. GEN. WADE HAMPTON. 1 i Be Ian of u Family of Men Noted fur Their Cournjje, Some Incidents of an tOventful l.ife. , Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton was born in Charleston on March 28, lM*. In llasel street, within the sound of the chimes of old Saint Michaels, lie first saw the light. 11 is great grand father came from Virginia to the colony of South Carolina prior to the Revolution and settled in Spartanburg district, where he and most of the family were murdered by Indians in 1775. Several of the sons including Gen. Hampton's grand father were away at the time and escaped the! massacre, and all served in the War for Independence. Wade Hampton, the deceased general's grand father, was in Washington's cavalry, and was lieutenant colonel at the battle of Eutaw. The swish of Col. Hampton's sword was always heard in the charge. In the war of 1812 this soldier was a general. He was one of the lirst cotton planters and acquired much land in Mississippi and Louisiana as well as South Carolina. Col. Wade Hampton. the dead chief's father, was a planter with large estates, and lie loved blooded stock. He had a private race track at his beautiful home near Columbia, burned by Sherman. Col. Hampton was a warrior also. Ilej served on Gen. .Jackson's sta.f at the battle of New Orleans and bore news to Washington, riding one hotse tlie i entire distance to Columbia, at the) rate of 72 miles a day. The deceased general learned toy ride, shoot and "speak the truth" at Millwood, and received rare training. I His mother was a Miss Fit/simons.' Gen. Hampton was educated at the South Carolina university from which lie graduated in the class of isao. lie then studied law, hut with no intention of practicing: however. Prior to! the war the young man's planting in-1 terests In Mississippi consumed much * ?? of his time and lie usually spent his winters there. The last crop before the war raised on this place w as 5.000 bales. The command of the great number or overseers and laborers gave him good schooling for what lie was j, soon to devote his attention theeoin-! mand of soldiers. ;, When the State seceded Hampton! obeyed the call to arms quickly. going iu as a private, hut soon raising the Hampton Legion composed of six com- < panies of Infantry, four troops of cavalry and one battery of artillery. lie commanded this organization with , conspicuous gallantry at Hull Hun. , where he received a wound in the head. Such a command was hardly tit ted for good serylofe. The dilTcrent arms of , the Her'vice were separated, "and each , became the progenitor of a famous hf?my of its kind." It was corps elite, j AM its original members two became | lieutenant generals Hampton and ( Stepnen lXLfiCT one a major general, , Butler, and three brigadier generals Connor, Gray and Logan. At Seven Tines Hampton was again wounded in f the foot, liis troops distinguishing themselves. On July 28, 18(52. llamp- 1 ton was made a brigadier general of cavalry and his command was known ' as the Hampton Legion. It was composed of South Carolinians, Nortli Carolinians and Virginians. At its head Hampton rode in Stuart's famous ' raid in August, 18i>2, round Hope's tiank and rear, lie made the Federal . general date his correspondence from . "Headquarters in the Saddle." Gen. Hampton was always successful in dc- '. tached service. His work was dashing In the Maryland and Pennsylvania ! campaigns ld?52-u:t, and full of inci- ' dents. The story of Hampton's meet- J ing with Col McClure of Chumbcrsburg J is one of the best of the campaign in that section. At Gettysburg Geo. j Hampton was thrice wounded in the momentous struggle. About half the j men were wounded in this battle. In i June 18t?:i at Brandy Station, Gen. Hampton's younger brother. Lt. ( >]. Frank Hampton, was killed. Gen. Butler lost his leg here also. "On another part of the Held," says ? the historian. "Gen. Hampton was t that day performing brilliant service i in many a charge. < >tie of these a i mounted charge against a Federal a brigade, was said to have heen the t most hotly contested and magniti- A cent horse encounter of the war, but I Hampton's star lighted the path and u his sal>er cleft the way to victory. As I the general dashed to the head of bis I command to lead them on this occasion li his eyes 'snapping tire.' as tin* men c _ . _ used to say, he threw otT his overcoat t to leave his sword arm free and Hung ii it to hisson, l'resli n, acting orderly a Ii mere lH)y, wlio was afterwards killed a at Burgess' Mill," who threw it away e saying he didn't come to carry coats < but to fight. At Gettysburg (Jen. t; Hampton was severely injured, though d after receiving his wound lie, in hand to-hand conflict cleft the skull of his g adversary with his sahcr. In August n 18(53 lie was made a major general and \i then soon followed the magnificent < campaign of Virginia, whore (lamp- t ton won his fame as a general. Hampton broke tip Federal plans with the ,| move at Trevillians' Station, and in |. 23 days captured 3,(too prisoners ami n much war material with a loss of only p 719 men. In August IkoI Hampton |(| was made commander of Lee's cavalry ,| with the rank of lieutenant general, j, In September lie st ruck t lie rear of t lie p Federal army at City Point and ,, brought away lot) prisoners and about 2,500 beeves. It Is impossible here to tell of t Inmany brilliant battles conducted by Gen. Hampton. The story would liil ,. volumes. He concluded his service lie- |( before the war ended by taking charge of Johnson's cavalry and did line service in harrasssing arid retarding >in-i man's army. Gen Lee's famous order commending Gen. Hampton's cavalry, issued on t, Feb. 28, 18(53, concluded with this p< paragraph: "In announcing t hose achievements, ,, the commanding general takes speciuI ,, pleasure in adverting to the prompt ness of the officers in striking a success- S(, fill blow whenever the opportunity offered, and t he endurance and gallant r\ j with which the men have always supported their commanders. Tlu si'deeds > give assurance of vigilance, act i\ it y and fortitude and of (lie performance ol still more brilliant actions in the com ingcampaign. It. H. Lee, ( ieiicral." da Historian Wells in his volume relat-> r<. Ing to Cion. Hampton gives a .striking jdc I .* ' . 111?T5?ETO"*a nstance of his personal t)hi very uiid nentul acumen, lie says: ''Early on he morning of March U, 1805' Jolltion's army was crossing the Cape Fear Ivor at Faycttcvllle, North Carolina, rhe infantry, artillery ant I wagon rains had nearly ulTectod a crossing, while the cavalry were across. Sliernan's forces in parrellol columns were 1 pressing up. (Jen. Hampton was near ! the hotel in the town when one of his j licsf scouts. Ilugh Scott l?y name, gal- i loped up and told him that the enemy were close by in the parrellel streets, a company of them having come through a byroad that had not Ix'en picketed, and that more were behind them. The situation was critical. If the enemy succeeded in wedging inbetwecn the retreating army and its cavalry, the rear guard, it would entail disaster. Tiie cavalry would thus l>e eut oir from covering the retreat and the bridge across the river which it was essential to burn after the crossing was completed, if left in tact, would afford the Federals the opportunity of swift pursuit. Not a moment was to be lost. The cavalry leader must lie able to both think and act with I lie rapidity of a Hash of lightning, and that Hampton did on this occasion, lie realized that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in war as well as in disease and that one man's services in the nick of time may lie more valuable than that of a thousand a few minutes later. So calling to ili?' scout and two members of his staff to follow him and picking up three privates from Company K, Fourth S. C. ('. (Charleston Light Dragoons) v and also one man said to IW! from Wheeler's command * ~ the general dashed around the corner and gave tiie order. 'Charge.' His seven followers there were no others in the charge obeyed with alacrity and all. the general leading. Hung themselves upon the Federals, who were drawn up in tiie street. These lired a volley with their carbines but by that time the Confederates had struck them and confused by the suddenness of the atattack. the 'ierce assaults and the powder smoke they did not realize the small number of their assailants. So tlcy tried to wheel al?out to run. but among them were pistol halls at close quarters, and the hack and thrust of sabres. Less than a hundred yards down 11 lc street was a turn at right angles to tiie left into the byroad by which they had entered the town and by which they were endeavoring now to escape. Here tliev oceanic jammed together in confusion, all organization lost and their pursuers eut and thrust like devils incarnate, as the l'ugatives probably 1 bought. Kleven Federals were killed ami 12 captured and the rest, many of them wounded, lied in wilil panic carrying consternation to their friends with excited tal s of litinilivds of men in buckram, as the best will do in such circumstances.'' The uilv Confederate casualty was the killing of a tine mare. Thus was t he crossing of the river secured to the Conforlorn 11?< <1 itttnlitn lrnl ?. I t !*.? 1 f- ' " ? ' < situation and solved the problem. Alter the close of the war <ten. Hampton resumed his cotton planting operations hut was not generally successful. lie spent a g<unl portion of his time looking after his Mississippi plantation and I his gave rise to the d large, made by his political enemies some years later, that lie was an alien, lust here it may be well to tell how it was that <icn. Hampton came to head the movement that led to the re:1cm pt ion of South Carolina from ltadisil rule. In December. 187."?. lie came to the listiuguished South Carolinian who .vas at the head of the white ineipicnt irgani/.at ion. He was then on his way o Mississippi, lie asked what was joing to he done and asked speeilieally ould the people of t lie Stah hearous d to do anything, ile was answered yes." that they had determined to nadea straight >ut tight and win or lie. I le said. "That is t he only hope or the State." Ile was then asked: 'It we nominate you will you lead lie ti>jlitV" "On that platform." he inswercd. "I will make the tight to a inlsh, not for the odlco hut for the irineiple." (len. Hampton went on o tiis Mississippi plantation and in j he meantime C'l. Unit's paper in lie up-country and a few others began I o help the white leaders. The State J ^invention was called for May. but ! 'hamberlain's rusionists weie sol trong that all licit could be done was I o adj >11:11 t he convent ion w il hout ae-; ion. '1'lt 1'usionists contended in hat convention that Hampton was a 'unionist, tu n. Ilampton came hack o South Carolina in June and went to i lis liome in the vindhills. When he' :>>t hack he was in had health and It j nuked as if there was hut little hope ! or the State, lie was s lit to the : nountains t o get his health back again : lid the convention was post poned uni! August. Karh i:i July lie went to Valhalla and oil n Hi" mountains. < Oarly in August a letter was sent him rging him l i come to Columbia and I ? present in person at t he convention. < I" was off in the mountains limiting * lit lie got here Ml" night before the I invention and tlie next d.iv was on I he lloor. Alter a hard light his luminal ion was won and then men who ; ad been lighting tile white leaders I II flnv ? = .. ,.,.j ..ii , i i i.i i i iil; i 11 . willll' lit luisiii'in prevailed in ('ohnnhia. I > nil. iluinpt .1 re I urnel to the moun-1? ii ins and opened t he campaign at An- t eisuii. The leader referred to aliove j I bated yesterday that he had made til" ! rvat.est and grandest campaign ever! [inducted. 11 connected his light | ritluti tlie lioiinds < ! perfect law and rder and on ail occasions displayed I lie wisdom of a Solomon. !( Friday was the anniversary of the ay upon which Haniel II. Chamber- ?' tin turned over to Wade Hampton j t lie State capitol at < olnmhia, and it ' i a coincidence that he should have I ied upon t lie anniversa ry of Hie very ' j ay that lie witnessed the fruition of si is elTorts to reclaim his State. The ; ?i blowing documents in regard to this f latter will he of especial interest: ' i Hearing that Mr. ciiainherlain was ' illing to yield the possession of t he 1 seen live oltlee in the State house,:" overnor I lamptou addressed him the i J >1 lowin^ note: j ' State of Soul Ii ( aroliiia, Mveeiil i \ e Ch illlliei . ( oliiinhia. S. <A pi. In. is". Sir: I laving learned that you now impose to t urn over lo me the cxectl- |,. ve ehatnlii r. w it It t he records and pairs belonging to t lit* executive oltlee * >w illyour jmissessii>n. I lire, to inform hi that I wiI send a proper officer lo ' reive I he same til any hour you may a ulirate as most coinenient toyoinself. f I am very respectfully your obedient ;i rviint. Wade Hampton. (. i .om i nor. s; o. I Ion. H. II. ( hamhei lain. To this Mr. < 'hamherlahi promptly (| plied as follows: j . Stale of Sout h ( arolhia. j! Kxeeiit ive ('liamlx r, , < 'ohnnhia. S. ('.. April In. 1*77. Sir: IJcplying to you note of this '' lie, I ha ve to say t hat ny private sec-;'1 tary w ill meet such otticcr as you may t situate ai 1- meridian tomorrow, at [ a 0 ' _ ? I he exeeut Ive Office. fin' the ptfniose in- t dicated in vour note. 1 Very respectfully. 1). H. Chamberlain, Hovei tier uf Soul ii Carolina, t To Hon. Waile Hampton. News and Courier, April 11. ~" At ten minutes before 12 the troops! in the State house were brought to Attention." Thesentry :it the governors's door resumed his phiee in the ranks. Col. lilaok stood by. As the lirst stroke of the clock sounded the order was given, "Attention. guard: carry arms; right shoulder arms: twos right, march." The sound of heavy and heavier foothills resounded along the corridors and before the bell had reached the fifth stroke of the twelve the hist lile laid crossed the threshold. A number of the negro constables, evidently acintg under peremptory and urgent orders, instantly sprang to the heavy doors and slammed them with a bang, in the face of the crowd within, and in the Immediate rear of t ho last tile of the soldiers without, who are hardly out of the way of the closing panels. A heavy bar 1 dropped into its brackets, and the military occupation of the State is ended, much to the relief of the citizens and the military as well. (>u Wednesday, at seven minutes to | 12 m., Mr. Manning, private secretary of the governor, presented himself at the executive otlice a ad was politely ( met by Mr. fiabbett. of whom he requested the surrender of the governor's ( ollicc in the name of Coventor llamp- ( ton. Mr. Hahbett replied that he was ordered by (Jovcrnor Chambcrlin to make the transfer at 12 precisely, and would do so when that hour arrived. As t he first stroke of noon was heard, Mr. Habbett I landed over the seal and keys of t he office, aecompaning t he action with the usual verbal formula. And Governor Hampton was in possession of the office. A few minutes more were spent in explaining the details of hooks, papers, etc., and Injth gentle- , men retired from the premises, leaving ] the office locked, as it will remain until the key is turned to admit (Jovcrnor 1 lampion himself, lie will probably takc possession in person tomorrow. A few idlers were present a'xmt the building, hut only one or two gentlemen were allowed to he present at the ceremony as witnesses. News and Courier, April 12. WEATHER AND CROPS. The (ieuerul RackwunlncNH <>1* the Sen son Saves ili?" Crops. The second weekly bulletin of the ' season of the condition of the weather . and crops in South Carolina was issued ( last week by Director I latter of the < South Carolina section of the climate 1 and crop service of t he United States , weather bureau. It is as follows: The early part of the week ending \l,.l,,ln? \ ..-11 II - * 1 - - , * \ |H 11 11. VI.IS UIISLMMJllilUlV cold, with heavy frost and thin ice in , exposed places to within aljout do miles of the coast, on tire oth. The close of the week had about normal temperature. Light frosts occurred in the northwestern portions on the ltth and 11th. Tire frosts of the week nipperl some corn, yellowed some oats, probably injured peaches slijrhtlv in places, but otherwise did no material damage, owing to the backwardness of the season. < >11 the 7th, there was e beneficial rain that covered the entire State, and ranged in amounts from one-third to over an inch. in places it was accompanied by bail. There was a snow Hurry in Newberry county on the 8th. The sunshine was about normal. High winds prevailed on the 8th and srtli. The week was generally favorable for farm work, and rapid progress was ma le in preparing lands for spring planting, except on bottom lands, which are still too wet to plow. In the southeastern and cast central counties corn planting is nearly tinisbed and much is up to poor stands, wirlle some has been replanted. Birds and cut worms have injured stands. In tlie central counties upland corn planting is well under way, while over the western it has only begun. Not much cotton lias been planted anywhere, scarcely any in the western portions of 1 lie State, hut over the I eastern portions the hulk of the crop I will he planted during the present 1 week. ) Biee is being planted, in all the re-1 gious w here grown, under favorable I conditions. Tobacco plants are plentiful but j small: transplanting will not liegin for some t i me. Truck had favorable weather, the rainfall having been particularly lien- ! lieial along the coast. Wheat is generally promising, al- i though small, with, however, niinier-' lis exceptions, where t he crop is poor, j fats are exceedingly variable in condi- 1 ion. with only a few localities, where j lie crop is entirely satisfactory. (iurdcus are backward. Pastures j iITerd grazing over the eastern porions of the State only. I fruits arc late in blooming, and the najority of correspondents regard it I is NilIV to date, hut in Lexington conn- Ip y and a few other localities pearliest., uive been materially injured hut not s ill killed. 'r i o Massacred liy Kurds. News lets been received of massacre : g \ Turks and Kurds of three hundred j si 'liristians at Diaherklr, Kurdestan. h \ hand of roving armeniaus recently h ip pea red near the town. The au- a horiMes .ent Abraham Pacha, at the n i< ad of the Kurdish ieguln?s, to dis- ti ier.se them. The regulars pursued the w \nueiiians some distanee, attacking' hi Armenian village en route. Fin- S illy Abraham and his party were | g dreed hack. .Inst as they reached the I h own. seeking reinforcements. the Ar- si ueiiians opened tire. Heavy lighting h asted for some time. The Kurds, en- e aged at not being able to force the j n Wineniaiis hack, turned into the h hristiiin quarter of the town and j d illed uninereifully. Many Turks and I n Curds were also killed. ; f< I s< Two Ncgrocn Suicides. p Negroes do not often commit suiidc tint tvvo made away vvitli tlien.elves in this State List week. On A*1 >1outlay night Kugone Code commit-j w cd suicide in Columbia. Code has tt.empt.cd suicide several times he- ^ ore and this time an overdose of laud- " mini produced theapparcntly desired esult. The other case was that of '* am .lolinsoii in Charleston on Wedesday morning. Johnson had lieon ! rinking heavily for several weeks. |n le came home early Wed in sday morn- rI lg and said to his wife: "I'm as Ick as a dog: I lielleve 1 11 blow my s: rains out." And he did. liaising '' is revolver to his head, he pulled the ('* rigger then lie fell across his lied nd lay still. n I I ?V * some War history. \ "Federal Orfieer's Tribute to Geu. IdiCwh Jenkiiid ofihe _____ CONFEDERATE STATES AF.MY. ,\ ( rnplilo Roiicrlptioii ol* tlit* IJalllc of the Wlldernew Where That ( nlluiit Soldier CJnve I'p IIIn Idle. Mr. T. it. L.ickie, of Detroit, Mich., who was an otlicer in l lie famous Sixteenth Michigan regiment, writes to the Atlanta Journal a correction of the statement going t he rounds that Gen. Mlcah Jenkins was killed at Gettysburg, and gives in detail the circumstances connected with his death in the battle of the Wilderness on the Oth of May, 1804, to which is added allowing tribute to Gen. Jenkins from the pen of this gallant Federal otlicer: The circumstances connected with the death of that very distinguished otlicer were as follows: All day tlie 5th and until about 10 a. m. the Oth. General A. 1'; Hill's corps had been contend: ng against vastly superior numbers of Federal troops. On the fatal morning of the 5th Hancock ' had advanced Ids corps on Hill's position, and forced the latter almost back to his artillery line badly broken and worn out by incessant lighting. Disaster to the Confederate army seemed assured. General Lec was; with the artillery and directing the ! re-formation of the broken lines. He had sent for his old war horse (Longstreet) and was anxiously waiting his coming always reliable and on hand at the right moment, lie is seen coining down the Orange plank road, his magnificent men on the double-quick, resistless as tlie wean tide! Gregg's Tcxans are deployed into line and immediately advance with that never to be forgotten yell. The immortal Lee springs to the front to lead thoni: they halt, lie must go lta< k or there will be no advance of Tcxans. A bronzed-faced demon of the battle front gently takes the bridle rein and turns the head of his charger. Lee sorrowfully rides over to Longstrcet: an goes the Tcxans. Loud rour the cannon with shotted breath, and more awful the yells of battle demons. The Tcxans strike Hancock's exult ant advance; the shock :s tremendaus: neither line recoils: but the tangled forests tremble, and the tangledhaired Tcxans and the veterans of Hancock settle themselves down to the science of butchering one another. The slaughter on both sides is awful. Hcnning's and Law's brigades come t<> Hie aid of Gregg and take a hand in Lhe work thai is on: with a yell the ivholp lino oil') firoe fn?n 1 \ ' 1 I .. ...ax* vtiut^xo. iiv i riai nil iiiir is forced back. but Wadswortli comes to the aid of Hancock: tlic lide of batLlo eblxs and Hows. Wadswortli is billed: Loritf street strikes tlie Federal left Hank: rolls it up in a confused mass toward the. plank and hack on the 11 rock road. Everything now inlicated a complete victory for ilie Confederates. General Loiitfstrect rode forward to prepare and take advantage of the opportunity to inflict a lecisive blow on Grant's army. With that end in view Jenkin's fresh brigade is moved forward to the plank road. Supplemented by Kershaw's brigade, general Lon^strcet moved forward to reconnolter the situation, accompanied by General Jenkins. Muhone's men seeing a movement in their front md by the indistinct view obtained , wing to thedensity of the forest mis- ' took them for the enemy and tired, ' idling the salient Jenkins and woundng Lon^strcct, a most lamentable; nistako. Asa Federal soldier 1 know that i' I, vill not lie expected of me within the i cope of an article intended for the dose call depart inent, to write a bio- ' rraphical sketch of so dist ititfuishcdan i(fleer as General Micah Jenkins, wot. t lit tod for the work.which I am nay. Vet Hie temptation is so (treat to see;' iomcthinit more, that I venture a irief retrospective view of that hero's , var record, and under my own ohservaion. As colonel of the regiment!" lesipnatod, the l'almotto Sharp Shoot- ' rs of South Carolina, we joined him it the battle of Manassas, or Hull luii, as the Federals have it. in (lie lottest part of that lield, near the lenry liotise, and down the slope, vhere so many of the Hampton I.e>ri- 1 hi fell, and where \aliaut deeds and food generalship crowned theyounjt Confederacy with victory andcverlast- , lie fame. To Heauregard. Jackson, tec, Itartow and Kirhy Smith, the utter a citizen of Connecticut, under lencral Mapiruder, we lind the gallant , ' Colonel Jenkins within the defenses of I forktown. < Afler t lie evacuation of 11 nit st ron^r- : lold Jenkins' regiment. with others, i s overed the retreat and facing about f t Williamsburg met tlit? overwhelm- t ng advance of the enemy, inflicting < errible loss in liis ranks and checking 1 lis advance until the Confederate I < rmy and subsistence trains tire at a \ afe disttince, and proper line of dc- t ence established. At West Foint J nd other places his regiment had ' alight the hard battle of lie rear- * utird until the army was safe on the t outli side of the Chickahoniiuy river, I is regiment having sutTered untold i ardships tind severe losses in men t no Mincers, ior winch he received just > ecognition for his gallant and inori- c orious conduct in face of an over- s helming enemy. Next we lind liiin at the battle of; even 1'iiies or Fair Oaks, with his | allant regiment and one other dmlg lie fore him a whole Federal divi- ( ion, gaining a good position, held the ( attie Held and inlleitinga loss on the () nemy about equal to the nmnber of j icn in liis regiment, only abandoning , Is position \vhen tlie army was with- ? riiwn to the former defences of IJicli- ,j lotul, in the dark hours of the Con deracy which followed tlie l?attie of ( even Pines, when Johnston's vague lans and operations pu//led and eonjsed the President. A new star appeared on the Con fed- :> rate horizon. It illuminated the t hole American continent. Its refill- I mit rays penetrated the remotestU [Minds of the (>ld World. That mag- s Itiecnt and glowing orb personified in Sl ic wonderful Robert K. Lee gate new j fc to the Confederacy, vigor and swift f ess of movement. Plans were speedily ^ msummatcd; hostile guns must not " iver the capital: the siege must lie ilsed, the enemy tieaten to cover, ickson In the valley receives a mes- v ige, bis foot cavalry are put in moon. Me lieats Hanks and Shields s, iwn the valley as with a Hull. Con-1 j ernat ion is in thch/path. fine takes c, fuge in Ilarpci^/ Kerry; the other j \ I msf&w " ' ' i ? acr^s the Potomac. The great tlaller returns and brushes Fremont out ol Ids path, drops back a few foot-soro Spartans as pickets for Fremont to l a; e at until hi* (.Jackson's) return. Lee crosses the Clilekalioiiiiuy at Meadow Itidgn and.hires the enemy to its coiuiuou center sib.ill GrapeNine Bridge and Woodbury bridge. The Seven Days' battle is on. The second day, June 27, 1802. Longstreet strikes the enemy's left and Jackson the right flank. Thebattle rages all the afternoon. The enemy hold theh ground. Late in the evening Let makes t he final effort to count that day's .ictory Ids own. The Texan brigade under Hood are hurled like si thunderbolt against the left center. Colonel Micah Jenkins wit h his valiant Palmet to regiment and one otliei against the extreme left. The left center is broken and shattered inU fragments. Jenkins lires one volley and charges with cold steel. Tin enemy is broken, slaughtered, and the survivors driven into the swamps ol the Chickaliominy?and only the sheltering wings of night saved ut from complete annihilation. The writer's regiment, one of tin most inagniliccnt regiments in tin army, 12 companies, 1,140 men, was almost a total wreck and Jenkins held Our beautiful banner. Col. James A. lioyt, editor of The Greenville Mountaineer, then au oflieer in Col. Jenkins'regiment, has told the story correctly in the Confederate Veteran. Lee is victor. McClellan is on the retreat to tlie James river. The siege of Richmond raised. The 5th of t lie battle days. June 30th, Jenkins take> the advance of the battle at Frazei Farm. Heats back the enemy. Hold* the battle ground, lie lias commanded It. II. Anderson's brigade in both battles. Ilis regimental loss is severe, himself severely wounded. The ralmetto regiment alone sustaining ;i loss of 375 and no prisoners reported. After a march of over two hundred miles on half rations, we lind General Jenkins again on the old batt le ground of Hull' Hun, or Manassas No. 2, or Longstrcet's right. Porters' Federal corps left, this time he tights Maxcy Greeg. old enemies of Gaines Mills. Jenkins1 brigade has some desperate lighting and again himself severely wounded, and brigade loss about 450, He is one of the oilieers mentioned in Gen. Longstrcet's re|>ort of this halt k for extraordinary bravery and unexcelled heroism. His brigade, now in command of Colonel Joseph Walker, of the Pahneth Sharp Shooters, advances into Maryland and goes Into action in the battle of South Mountain, sustaining a lost of 20. then hack to Sharpesburg, oi Antietain. Their tield of operation was not far from Ger. Lee's headquarters, becoming desperately engaged and drove the enemy at every point, losing 20S officers and men, holding their battle ground and crowning their wounded Jenkins wit h glory and sustaining the proud record of the old brigade. Thus Lee had lieaten McClellan'f army oil the Peninsula, destroyed tlu grand army of the man whose headquarters were In the saddle, and had fought the combined armies of Antictain to standstill. This is the most bloody and desperate of the ages. The only mark of victory to be credited t< either was their battlefields. During the Gettysburg campaign the gallant Jenkins, being assigned L< the deparment of North Carolina, performing valuable service alst around Richmond, Peterburg. and 1 lie Black Water, he very urgently requested in his many applications tc the department commander and the authorities in Richmond to he permitted to share the battlefields of Lee's army along with the divisions wmi wnom lie nan been so long, and often In bloody eonllict in defense ?>f his cherished rights and glorious Stars and bars, hulnlas, Ids wish was only granted when Lee and < 1 rant met in the Wilderness on the Orange Blank road, that fatal tith of May, 1 s??4. Although 11is cause and mine was at war, I loved him none the less, lie was noble and lirave, and such as he gave a world-wide glory to the American field embattled. The spirit of such men do not sleep with the tone inent of clay, but lives again in great leeds. The newer generations of the Southland will have thuir Lees and lenkins, hut nowhere else on this convex world. It would be sad indeed iverc we on!\ to tinil them in dusty ind time worn volumes and on cold nutiiatcd stone. It is pleasing to note lie presence of tlie distinguished Otll er of whom my feeble pen has writen personified in young Major Mieali lenkins. tlie hero of Santiago, one vhosc daring deeds have won the apilaudits of the Western Hemisphere. T. It. Lackie, h>7 \ inewood Ave., Detroit. Mich. Late a lieutenant 1 tit 11 Mich. Vet. fol. Infantry. Postponed Again. The It. It. Kvans case, which was to invc been tried in Columbia last week ias been continued until next term of ourt, on motion oftleorge Johnstone, ittiorney for defendant. Mr. Johntone presented an allidavit setting brth that a most important witness, he defendant's brother, was in Wat rhury, Conn., where his wife was langerously ill, on account of the leathof her mother, and that it vould be impossible for him to be at he trial last week. Next week Mr. folinstonc had an Important engagonent elsewhere. The allidavits also tated tlmt Mr. Johnstone had hoped o have the witness here Wednesday, nit t he above stated facts prevented t. Solicitor Thurmond announced hat the state was ready to try the use. Judge Buchanan granted a ontinuance of the case on the grounds et out in tlie allidavit. Itlown lo Atoms. (illlllierv Lieut. James II Itunrn.. dent. Miller and nine blue jackets were instantly killed Wednesday by be burst In# of a l--iuchgun on noard he Itritish tirstelass battleship Mars, luring gun practice oil Iterchavcn. n addition, several men were injured >y the explosion. The breach of the on blew out after it bad twice missed ire. The bodies of the two men who were sighting the gun were scattered o pieces and blown overboard. IliekeiiM W at HIk'O. Charles Dickens, on a dinner given t a notable agricultural occasion, ook the position that "the Held it aid the farmer t>est to cultivate was he one within the fence of his own kull." What Dickens said was a erious truth, though comparatively j ew at the time he said It were able rom insight to accept It. as such, j sow it is generally allowed In all civil zed count rles. A Populnr Choir. (if fourteen young men and women .ho sang in the Zion German Kvanclieal Lutheran church on the lluddii county boulevard In Greenville, N. ., less than a year ago, the sixth ouple will l?e married this week and he seventh couple arc engaged. MORE REVELATIONS. v 1 Wni I1) lit** l'MI2p|>ln?**> Mini Hnxv li 1V if ;? ?!. The secretary of war has place " in the hands of tin-senate committee <>ii Philippines a large number of | orders, circulars and reports bearing I upon the conduct of military affairs in the unpadded provinces of tlic Philip. pi lies. , On December 21th last Capt. VV. E. , Aver, adjutant general of the Sixth t brigade, issued a circular to the sta I nun ?.?> uiiiiiiitTN in nainar 111 winch . i the conviction was ei pressed that the wealthy classes or "pudientes" unions , the natives were, while professing , friendship toward the Americans, - more responsible than any others for . the continuance ol'hostilities, ruder , such conditions, he said, the only > course to pursue, would be one that . "would create in the minds of all i burning desire or longing so Intense, so personal, so real that it will impel . them to join hands with the Ameri. cans in ttie accomplishment of that end." I In announcing the policy of the brigade he said it would be from this . time on to "wage war in the sharpest and most decisive manner possible." Giving instructions for the carrying out of this order, in said young officers . were to lie given grea* latitude for . this conduct in harrassing the enemy . and that natives, and especially those j of wealth and inlluence were to be re garded with suspicion, adding: "Every i native, whether in arms or living in these pueblos or barrios will be rci garded and treated as an enemy upl'.f he has conclusively shown that,h'e is a . friend." t Suspected persons should be apprehended and if there wr.s not sufficient I evidence toeonyjet/Yiey si. mid be held I as a military necessity. This direction I was niude especially applicable to , priests of whom Capt. Ayer said that I their profession would "not be stti. cient to protect them." in February, 1U02. Gen. Smith, the . brigadier commander in Sainar, anr nouneed that he.was convinced opposition had been crumbled away and i counseled a softening of the rigors of . I war saving a "watchfulness and kind. liness henceforth must go hand in hand." In December, I'.mi. Gen. .1. E. I'.cll , issued a circular saying: . I "Whenever prisoners are unarmed or ? defenseless Americans or natives , j friendly to the I'nited States govern-1 inent or murdered or assinated for , political reasons, and this fact can lie . established it is his purpose to execute . a prisoner of war under the uuthoiity contained in sections ">!> and 11^. This prisoner of war will be selected by lot .! from among the ollicers or prominent cit izens held as prisoners of war, and , will Ire chosen when practicable from those who belong to the town where ; i the murder or assissination occurred." . | Several orders were issued by Gen. . | Itell against permitting any monopoly [' of food products and extortion In . | prices. Instructions were given to make ex. cept ions to all persons who had demon, strated loyalty. "There lives, families and property will not onlv be irlven i protection, so far as practicable. , against insurgents, but. will be carefully respected by our troops." i Especial warning is given against . looting. Cheap Mail lloves. Senator Tillman last week oltered . an amendment to the postottice appropriations bill that is a long step ; I toward the perfecting of the rural ; free delivery. This amendment provides for the purchase by the t'nited i [States of locked iron mail boxes in wholesale cpianities and their sale to ; the farmers on the rural free delivery [routes at government cost, t'nder I the present laws and regulations of j the postottice depart merit the patrons , ] of the rural tree delivery are forced to j purchase these boxes from one of four| teen lirms named by the department at a cost of from one to three dollars each, or else get no delivery. This arbitrary regulation gave the manufacturers of the lmxes specified by the postottice department a chance to form |a combine and ileece the public hy I charging exorbitant prices. Senator 1 Tillman's amendment, which was [adopted, protects tire farmer against extortion by thisl?>x enmbiu by limiting the price of t lie boxes to lift v cents each. Senator Tillman said in otferjingthis amendment that it was to [prevent the farmers from being 10bi bed under t lie law which com pi Is them I to purchase these boxes. The postj otllee appropriation hill has gone to a conference of the house and senate (Committees and it is not known what 'this conference committee will do in | regard to amendment. Should they 'strike it out the hill will have to go [before the house again and then to ( the senate where Senator Tillman ; prepared to make a vigorous tight for t he amendment. ? This Is a l*on?l < >rie. A dispatch from St. Joseph Mo., j says in the stomach of a steer [slaughtered in a packing house there was found a diamond brooch worth *.->00 that w.is lost by Miss Margaret Carroll, of Baltimore, Md.. two years ago. The steer was grown on the plains near Lodge City, Kan. Miss Carroll happened to he detained for a few hours at Kinsley, Kan., thirty miles from Lodge City while traveling | with a party of friends in a private ear. Miss Carroll had taken a fane> to a ha by on the train, and she had it with her in the observation end of the ear. She bought the ehild a toy balloon to which the baby playfully attached the woman's diamond brooch. A gust of wind caused the ha I?ton to wrench the pin from its fustcing and it was carried oil. disappearing in the i western sky. A reward was offered i for the re -overy of the ornament. hut | there was no trace of it until it was taken from the stomach of the steer. \Var lii <'Itlllll. A courier who arrived at Canton, china. Wednesday, reported that our I l!,OUO Imperialist soldiers, sent by Marshal Su against the reliels, were ambushed in a narrow detlle and all were killed or captured. The situation in the rebellions districts of i Sogthern China is increasing alarmingly. The viceroj of Canton has telegraphed to Peking, urging the immediate forwarding of re-enforcements. Lack of news from tleneral Ma and Marshal Su is taken to indi- , cute that the rebels have surrounded I the Imperial troops and cut off communication wit I) them. Pound llead. Four persons were found dead Tuesday night in the house of Ksthev Kohn In New York. They were F.st her Kohn, a widow, aged .10. a son aged 211, a daughter aged IT and the daughter's fricyl aged l<>.' They had l>een suffocated by Illuminating gas. < / t 5.r *, Ml * ( The World's Greatest For all form* of fever take JOHNSON'S CH t tinea better than quinine and doea In a aim do in 10 daya. It's splendid cure* are in alrl made by quinine. COSTS 50 CENTS IP I _r^_n_JW r r.nr^^^nnJ^JTrun THE LAST SAD KITES. in; Tin* Itt'iiiuin oftI10 IdiimwiWtl Dcail ||( Ih I.aid l?> itt'kl. St : a The mortal remainsof tlu lllustrous . (lead were laid lo rest on Sunday afternoon in the presence of thousands of people. The State says: ti? W;uti? ll;imnl/m .? ? 11 1.:.. - - -r- ". ' khuivuh mail ins m fathers. 11 Is sacred dust was consign< ?! to the grave Sunday, and Justus Nl the suti was sinking the buglerssound- ' ' ed taps over the soldier's grave. They s*i hurled him under the spreading branches of a mammoth live oak which stands tirin and unawed by any storms as Wade Hampton stood 0 in tiie midst of turmoil; it stands I'd green and nourishing in ail seasons, of and as did heappcar more beautiful and otsymmetrical in character when tried hv , adversity. Itshoughsdroop in benedic- "' lion over his grave, just as lie hut a few months ago gave a blessing to j til Imndre;-. of 1 sis old comrailps wiiql-l11 gat here i under Ins uplifted hands "asj. ,, he stood upon the-portico of Ids cot- .'1' tage on Senate street. It was in that ' ,)U cottage that his soul took its liight to ic the Got^'.vho gave it. and it was a hap- til py-tinTing to his grand career, to his ! ;ip /i,'unscltish life, that lie sliouii pass; , away in t.iie house which represented j(Ml the love.admiration and loyalty of tiie w< women of South Carolina, Ilocudqr- in ed to the end without murmur, know| ing t hat these just and critical cen; ( ^ 1 sors were proud to be Soutli Care-1 ' j linians because Wade Hampton was 'r: | their ideal soldier and gentleman. j lol ' Hut it is needless now to pay fur-1 i()I i ther tribute to Hie mail who in life'. ; needed it not. it is to Veil of his , j obsequies that t lie chronicle of today ! j must be devoted. The capital of the I State yesterday saw such a funeral jap ! tribute to a man as has pel haps never' an , been given in Soutli Carolina history, i It was an outpouring of the people, , ' ' ! not only of Columbia, but from ail wa ' points of the State. No attempt was wl made by any to make the obsequies r,,; ' of Wade Hampton other than simple, j in deference to his own wishes, the desires of the people for a State ftmcr- 1,1 al for the State's illustrious dead was ' wi disregarded. The most signiticant! co 'feature of yesterday's out irouring | \ therefore was tiie very naturalness of it, showing lieyond expression the love tliat the people had for thejth grand old man who was no more. Not ju< liner spectacle has ever been witnessed j()1 in South Carolina. Men who knew j . stated thai the funeral of Grant did ,s not compare with that of Hampton: un that tli<' obsequies of Calhoun were ' N< overshadowed. Many conservative; , men who know how to estimate! ' crowds said yesterday afternoon that there must have been at least 20.000 , '>c J people about the residence and the J git j church and along t lie line of march. : | And that vast multitude of people s,( i were bowed with sorrow that was not 1 feigned. Each man and woman 's' ; realized that they were paying a just <"ai ! tribute to a great man, and the faees j ch; ' that watched the solemn passing of : tiie funeral cortege were marked with ^ , mourning. j 1 Walking in that procession were! such men as the aged scholar and sol- fot ; dier. I >r. James Woodrow, supported iq,( ' by younger veterans, and walking! with tlio oolite U'nmnii of 1 lie sit.itei | wore such as {lie venerable Wood row's ; saintly wife. At. the church wasajhii veteran who has not been out of his j oh ] room for tliree years: when ho heard (ju ; Hampton was dead lie said "take me . to Columbia and let me go to th fun-! 1 oral, lie had to 1h> carried to the,int church. The world of meaning be- rai hind such incidents as these is obvi- ;l I otis. From the tirst sound of the;' | muilied drum yesterday afternoon to j ar ; the blowing of the soldier's requiem P11 upon the bugles tlie people bowed int 'their uncovered heads. The crowd1 n i was unwieldly, but it was good natuv-1., ! od and kind to itself. ele r. I.ever Wins. I"1 i Congressman Lever is now secure in his seat. We learn from a dispatch lai , to the News and Courier that in the contested election case of K'prcsenta- ^ live Lever.Committee on Flections No | 1 lias decided to make a unanimous | ? l'eport in favor of the contestee. Mr. lot Lever, and has ordered all expi uses of the case paid. This is the old election ease <>f Haut'/.ler vs Stokes, which was ... pending at the time of l?r. Stokes' ... death, llepresentntive !.ever, as 1 >r. . Stokt s' successor, became cntestoe in ' ,l the ease. The contestant, A. I'. Hantzler, is a negro from Orange- '' j burg, who contested the election on 'ij llie ground that the elect ion laws ot ' South Coroliua were uncoust itulional. s"' There is no doubt that the report of thee unmittee will be adopted by Uie ; House, though it will probably not lie submitted for s one time yet. We 1 arc glad to know t,hat the case has v\'' been practically decided, and that P". Mr. Lever will have no in ore trouble ; su' about t be place he so worthily tills. ov< tei I'assing Away. ^ The Columbia State says the pension clerk is busy making out the re- , \ised pension rolls for the further j * action of the State hoard of pensions next week. It was announced Thill's- r. day that while there would be a con- Bg siderable increase in the total num- R her of pensioners on this year's rolls, K the increase wiil not I*' as large :us was K expected. .Many names have been R dropped by Hie State board from the re: lists sent in. and there are about S that will be taken off by reasonofthe E d*. ilh of the pensioners. Tliis is a H mueli larger annual dealli rate than R lias heretofore been prevailing, and jjp! shows in cold figures how rapidly H those who helped to tight thesouth's nanu s a re passing awav. ~~ Can't lie Kcmoveil. Tl Judge lluchanan lias declined to . grani the petition fur the removal of t he ease brought hy t lie State against the Virginia-Carolina Chemical com- q pan.v for violation of the State antitrust act from the State to the I'nited ' " States court, and other moves of in- i>o< tcrcst in the now famous proceeding are expected in sliort order. Tlie case was heard by Judge lluchanan in Col- j.|0 umbia on Thursday. ItcariiiK Fruit. The Washington correspondent of the Columbia State says liecause of information gained on his Charleston i 11 trip President Roosevelt will renomi- jyj M:ss Maggie M. Moore to the I) j.nstortit e ;it Yorkviile. S. C. Miss * Moore was originally appointed by V President Cleveland in 1 She was st'll not endorsed by the State Republican J?', machine. ' *' _i ' i in ' 1 Fever Medicine. 1 4 IU. AND PBVEIt TONIC. It U 100 I tie day what slow quinine cannot I king contract to the feeble cure* I IT CURES. 1 " ^ Tb* Wall of* UoMUtVt I Equator l p vv, i i New York, 1 kesa st that tli South by Introduc- ,.j| I an amendment in the United . * tc Senate to the resolution passed i. " m' .... wj un; iiiium; 01 ne* osentat 1 vcs altering the manner of 4-J| dosing senators, making their cleciii dcp< ndeut upon popular vote In ? . lure. The amendment, which proJes that "the qualifications of citi:is entitled-to vote for United States 1 tiacors and representatives in coness shall l?e uniform in all the states, V? d congress shall have power to eurce this article hv appropriate legisLion and provide for the registration citizens entitled to vote, the conduct such elections and the certification 1 he result." is intcndi d, of course, 1 give the United States government i c right to supervise the elections in 1 klhc Southern .State* and- to alxtHslT" " '^ j the restrictions these States have t hi the negro voir. This amend- ent practically kills rlie measure, as e Soutli would never agree to its A option, and ir it, is included lu the iginal bill every Southern Senator mid lie compelled to vote against it defence of his sect lor. The late Gov. Altgeld, in speaking a Senator Depew. sai l'"he first aticU'd attention in toy years ago as a iihyist at Albany, where lie. for a ig time, was engaged in the highly nornble business of putting meta- N J iri?al collars on the New York " risl ilors, s i that. to the public, they pearc<| to belong to the Vanderbilts d the New York Central railroad. J lending to reports, this business is reduced to such a science that lenvvnr the New York Central rail- -jJ id wished to bu > a legislator tliey did t even stop to negotiate with him, :t simply put him on the scales and -: ighed him. A train of slime and rrnption was stretched across the ite of New York* city, byway of hatiy, to IlufTalo. polluting legislate halls and even filling courts of dice with odor. This was thebeginnir af that iUkkI of corruption which today washing the foundations from der the wliole goveniuiental fabric, i man could be a dealer in this rosy without soiling his lingers, i! I am told that since that time Mr. pew has never been seen without ives. I' lie made of all this a stepping YJ me to greatness, lie wrapped the jj lis and St rinc< ulumi liliw n? me a rod. white and blue orator?he tinged his calendar so as to make the j urth of July embrace days, 1 ving but six liuurs for lhe"rS|^Sfiv r of the year, and then he started 1 the white house. Subsequently I e Yanderbills. tinding him to be a \*it convenience, made him president New York Central railroad and paid m n salary of * >0.000 a year. The i railroadmen smiled at the idea. t they had not yet learned that one the most important features of the - " Klern railroading is to construct a tlroad near courthouses and operate line through state capitols. In the -r. L of engineering money out of the blie and into the pockets of private lividualshe has no superior. And looks as if his career will compel e American people to adopt an venth commandment reading as lows: 4Go thou and do evil, that >u inayest live on the fat of the id. and that thy sleekness may be e wonder of men.' *' This is a good tare of this man who pretends to so jealous of the purity of the balFlve At a Birth. Isaiah llhodcs, of bailey's Cap, ster county. N. Y., anunounced dnesday that his daughter, Mrs. MH&fl mes McCowan, of Tucker's H 'iters, a hamlet in I'lster county, :ently gave i>irtii to five children, H gills, and that all are doing well. s. McCowan's other children area tand a pair of Uev. Samuel kroll, ivisti.r />f ii?<> ^^^^bb thodlst at La< ma, Iowa, H 10 served two years in the Philipas private soldier, committed fl cide Wednesday being despondent bSHHB large atnl: n-T to Ills church meetings. fl H '1 The World's Greatest ' ?? ????? - Cure for Malaria. A. For ?ii rorms <>r M ilnrlAt pc.i*oni.Hf take J<ihn?on*? i hill una Fever Tonic A taint uf M .L.tikI poiaoh'.ng in your hlor?! mt-xn* miner? *nj ! 'aHure Blood ruedlcinencAn't oti-e \i*.!?-'.* poikvnlnit The .ntkln:* 1 it.la . o- mso' * s tonic > 4 ? V-d?v I Sf C^ott V A gore*. Lcv^u ?cr :? v?rv3waa<g^ i ^ fin* ii.YQUNGOLOOO IM8ER COMPANY AuausTfi, an KICK AND WORKS, tiTii Auai sta. s. <'. ns. Sash, Blind-, and Builder's Hardware. oring, Siding. Coiling and Inside Finishing Lumber in -HEOKHIA PINK ,11 correspondence given prompt attlon. .July2-ly D AD v V ( ,!n ,l in ;<0 to ti<) days. Ten days treatment lwl U1 FRKK \ onkl l?o glad to have names of all "oring with dropsv. O. F. COLM PKOPSY M KIHCINE (X)., 312U.wndos Building, Atlanta, Ga. '