Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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>f' WADE HAMPTON. Warm Tribute from an Eminent Northi^u Editor. AN INTERESTING PERSONAL. "Ho Wan Iteureil in (Ii?> School Thai Knew Only Obedience to the Sovereignty ol" The rccmt death of Wade Hampt on of South Carolina, removes one of the notable characters of the last halfIn the tierce sectional discussions whieh were precipitated for some years before the civil war Hampton took no part. While he loved the South and had all the pride of its noblest blood, lie was not an agitator, and earnestly and sincerely deplored secessions and civil war. lie was reared in the school that knew only obedience to the sovereignty of the State. The pride of the South Carolinian had taught him that his was the noblest and grandest of all the Commonwealths an empire by courtesy called a State. The sovereignty of the State had been taught in his mother's lap, in every school he entered, from every pulpit from which lie heard a minister of the Gospel, and the great statesmen, such as Calhoun. Mol>uftle and Jlayne, had advocated it sincerely and ably, lie saw the imposing walls and pillars of the Columbia Capitol slowly growing up year after year to Fie completed in the greatest splendor as the future Capitol of the Southern Republic, if thesectional issue should ever lead to the dismemberment of the I'nion, and lie little dreamed that this magnltieent structure would within his lifetime he hastily and rudely completed for a meeting in which ids own slaves would be Ills lawmakers: but even when this bitter humiliation came to him lie had the courage to Ik?w to the inevitable, and only one year after the war had ended lie pleaded the cause of the negro, saying: "As a slave he was faithful to us; as a free man let us treat him as a friend: deal with Idni frankly, justly and kindly."' Had the Southern men generally shared the broad and sensible views of Hampton the problem of reconstruction would have been an easy one and the South would have been spared unspeakable ^ C?? 1 ?? . r VI ?w1 ouu^uu^ aim ouiiuu. HIS WAU KKCOItD. When war came ii is needless to say that Hampton was one of the first to olfer ills services, and he volunteered as a private, but before the company he had joined had been organized he was appealed to f?y many hundreds to accept the command of a special brigade, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and to be known as the "Hampton Legion." lie commanded the Legion at hull Hun, the first battle of the war, and there, as in all the subsequent battles In which it was engaged. it bore a distinguished part. In the battle, of Seven l'lnes. on the Peninsula,. Hampton's command lost nearly half Its members in killed, wounded and missing, and Hampton was severely wounded. After the i ^Peninsula campaign Hampton was promoted and assigned to a brigade of 4 cavalry under Stuart, and in nearly ever}' important raid made by the Confederate cavalry with Lee's army during the war Hampton had an important part. He was regarded as one of the best cavalry olliccrs for detached service, and was second in command with Stuart when flic most audacious raid of the war was made thr-uigh Mercersburg and Chainbcrsburg and around MeClcllan's army soon after, the battle of Antietam. At the battle , of Gettysburg Hampton received three wounds, and the majority of the ollicers of his command were either killed or wounded. Perhaps tiie most im-1 portant special service he rendered as a 'cavalry commander was when he , checked Sheridan at Trevillian's Station. in 1861, and broke up Hunter's campaign in the valley by preventing the junction of Sheridan and Hunter at Lynchburg. He was made lieutenant general and commander <>t Lee's cavalry In August, and lie made a number of successful raids, capturing many prisoners and at one tini" some twentyfour hundred beef cattle from the; Union army. In one of these raids his son a gallant ollicer under him. was killed in action. THE nUUXINO OK CO El UUIA. When Johnson organized his army in North Carolina to oppose the advance of Sherman northward from' Soutli Carolina Hampton was assigned to that amry to command the cavalry. He was in possession of his'home city of Columbia, the Capital "t the State, when Sherman advanced upon it. and retreated northward as Sherman's army entered. Before retiring he tired a considerable amount of cotton that was stored in the outskirts <a' ttm i-itv 1 and this nave some color ot plausihilimmk ^ _ # ty to the charge t hat lie was responsible for the burning of Columbia. A somewhat heated controversy occurred between Hampton and Sherman after the war as to who was responsible for I the destruction of the beautiful Capital of the Palmetto State, but the weight of testimony certainly acquitted Hampton. IJe surrendered with Johnson's army to Sherman in North Carolina and returned to his h >me ; with the hope of gathering up some remnant of his broken fortune. Prom the day that the war ended no ex pros- ! I sion of bitterness 01 resent ment ever i came from Wade Hampton. < ?n the , contrary, lie not only earnestly urged the restoration of peace and fraterna- , brotherhood, hut was one of the few | | men in the South who appreciated the fact that the negro was n >t only a freeman, but a citizen, and was erdi tied to be treated and respected as ' such. at CJt.\miu;i:siiL uo, lHti'2. f My first acquaintance with llamp- I ton was in October. l-o'.J. when Stuart 1 made Ills celebrated raid around Mc- i Clellan's army, then in Maryland. I I was then on dut> at llarrisburg, as < assistant Adjutant General of the < United States, hut always spent one t or two days wit h Sunday at my home i at Chambersburg. When I arrived at < the Chambersburg depot on one of my \ home visits for a brief rest 1 was sum- | moned by the telegraph operator to r his private ottice. He liad just reeeiv- i cd several dispatches from Mercers- ( bur#stating t hat a < .'on federatecavalry 1, force was then in possession of I bat o town and was moving in the direction u of Chambersburg. It was startling ti intelligence, indeed, and it. seemed t incredible that it Confederate force b would attempt to raid Chambersburg. ii only an hour's distance from lingers- s town, where there was a large Union c force, with ample time and equipment p to bring It to any point in the Cumber- 1 land ' alley. I waited for an hour I and was advised of the progress of the \ Cot .federate force an It moved steadily t toward Chambcrsburg. l telegraph- i ed to the 1'niou commander at. (lagers- : town, not knowing; who he was. stat- s ing the facts and suggesting as a i matter of precaution that a small j' force of infantry and artillery thoiikFi be hurried to the defence oi the town, j i In charity 1 will not give the name of t the Union commander, who answered ;? that the suggestion of a Confederate > t force entering Chambersburg was too J absurd to be considered. Half an hour 11 later the advancing Confederates had i \ reached Chambersburg turnpike, and 1 were moving directly upon us and only t ten miles distant. I then repeated an f appeal to the Union commander at c Hagcrstown. stating the facts and urg- , ( ing him to send a force to intercept t tiie enemy, as there was yet ample i time to do so, but the only reply was i an inthvrlion that military com- t inanders had no time to waste on I lunatics. Finding it impossible to get ! ':inv ri'lief from Mie I'nioii arm v. :i? ?i 1 could not hopefully communicate t with any officer beyond Ilagerstown, i I went to my office and sat down to I await events and accept the situation ; as philosophically as possible. t KIKST MEETING WITH HAMPTON. ' Soon after dark several Confederates * ! appeared at the western part of the town with a white rug tied on a stick, * and announced to the lirst citizens they met that they bore a flag to truce ' from Hie Confederate army and desir- j ed to he conducted to the Cnion commander of the town. As there were ^ no troops in Chambersburg they were so informed, and they asked to be con- * ducted to some citizens of the town with whom they could communicate * the wishes of their commander. They 1 i were brought to my office, where they j courteously announced that they were I l?y orders of their commander to ask t for the surrender of the,city. 1 told i j them that there were no troops to op- .s pose them, and that there was nothing | to hinder them from entering Cham- : liersburg whenever they chose to do 1 so. but as this lirst invasion of the t enemy naturally produced the wildest a consternation in the community I said t to tlie hearers of the truce that I : wished to know what assurance of 1 safety could be given to the people. 1 s asked who their commander was and j was told that his name could not bejt given. I then asked where lie was a 'and that information was also refused, a il then inquired whether they could t I take me to their commander and as- \ sure my safe return. They said they 1 would, and. accompanied by Col. :> Thomas It. Kennedy, then a prominent \ lawyer of tlie town and now president < of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, t we mounted horses and rode to the a front. It was pitch dark, and when r we had ridden out beyond the suburbs t we were finally halted with the in for t mation that we were now in the pre- 1 since of the Confederate commander, s It was only barely possible to see that a a body of men were in front of us. but t ' what they looked like we could form 1 no conception. When we stopped an i officer rode up to us and announced r that he was Hen. Hampton, command- t ing part of the Confederate force, and <i that lie desired to know whether tliey v could i-nler (fhumlwrnUtiirtr Wn iwnf. ed him that there was no force to s oppose hint, and that we desired t simply to learn from him what assur- t aneo could Ite driven to quiet the poo- li pic of the town when the Confederates h entered, lie promptly answered that v they made no war upon private citi- t y.ens and non-combatants; that the people should be advised to remain in their homes, as they would not he dis- I turbed, and that no property would he taken from any one except such as t was needed by the army, lie then p directed Mr. Kennedy and myself to t lead his forces into Chambcrsburg, and p in a very short time the town was ,> practically tilled with them. The pco-; d pie were at once assured that they ? had nothing to appreheirl and there j 01 was no tendency to panic. < A I'EKSONAL INCIDENT. v t In crossing the Centre square a (j short time after Hampton's force had ,| entered I was familiarly slapped on p the shoulder. and, turning around, a recognized Hugh Logan, then a cap- ?jtain in the Confederate army and the a guide of tlie raid, as he had heen born i) and grown up on t he South Mountain, ; fj in Franklin County, and 1 had once a, successfully defended him wh?n j jj charged with kidnapping, lie was fj( one of the rugged mountaineers whose n fidelity is equally rugged, and he in- ^,| formed me that 1 was one of a tiumher of citizens of Franklin County j.; wliose names had heen selected and h} given to (Jen. St uart. \\ ho commanded | al the raid, to he taken as prisoners to ] ft Kiehmond to lie held as hostages for p I'ope's arrest of civilians in Virginia. w i told liim that i had met Hampton, 'p although lie did not ask my name. rc and had his assurance that otlicers \ wouid lie paroled, and that 1 was an j ja army otlicer. He answered in a char- ()j acteristic, terse manner: "Well, (,f Hampton's a gentleman, and if you c| arc taken and get to him he'll dis- fa charge you. hut .leb (Stuart) wants ?n you damn liad." Sevc'i citizens hud Sj licen arrested and were taken to Lib- p,, by, one of whom died before his re- ,.( lease. 1 asked Logan what bethought (|; it best tlistt. I should do, to which lie f(1 answered: "(Jo out to your home, nj. We're in a hell of a hurry and you j w probably won't lie disturbed, hut it j pC you arc taken I'll put you out tumor- ! row night." If 1 had been taken ho i would have fulfilled his promise, even | lit the peril of his life. 1 went to my ! home on a farm some distance out- I side the town, and found my ten horses I had already been conscripted into the i 'n L'onfederate army. 1 was not disturh- j th Ml, and thus escaped nn unpleasant of journey to Libhv prison and the ne-11? essity of an appeal to (Jen. llampLo for my discharge. ob K|T|lSK?Jt KNT MKKTINOS. I did not again meet Hampton tin- a. til after his ellfct ion to the (iovernor- jj( ship in I XT <* . At our first meeting jj, .ve had a pleasant evening, recalling j,, die interest ing incidents of t he ('hamicrshurg raid. From then until the f|( asl few yea! I met him many times ro( it Washington and wis always de- yi. ighted to enjoy his genial and kindly |n. ompanionship. lie had been a canlidate for (iovernor immediately after ..w lie war and before the Congressional -pj eeonst met ion of the South, but was | lefealed by (iovernor < )rr. In 1S70. vlien the people were goaded to des-. leration by the licentious carpet-bag :< ia ule ol the State, Hampton was forced inj uto t he campaign for (iovernor against 11* iovernor Chamberlain, who was great-1 wi y the best of all tin- carpet-baggers ha f the State, and who would have! Hi uade reputable Republican govern-1 del ncnt had it Ikm ii |Kissibl . The con- j slit est was one of unusual desperation. \ wa nit with all 11 io power and machinery lew ii the bunds of the State authorities, lee ustaincd by the army and by a state sits onstabulary that permeated every tor reel net, Hampton was elected by he , Ft I majority. A State return board lm C ? . v .. : rt South ilffbllna had tf*4? authority i .u reviitf UK' returns uiid It, hodilv ! hi'ew out i be coUtitles of Kd^etlcld ! itid Laurens, the lirst of which pave ? 1,000 IVmocrntic majority and the!?' second 1.10th by which II returned:!.! najoril.v for Chamber lain of a.l'i:!. > l'he Senators and Representatives' dccted oil the Democratic ticket in! ,hose counties were refused admission ,o their stats and the result was the >i ionization of two Leplslatures and ,he inauguration of two (governors. <*? Chamberlain had the advantage of icing in possession, and 1 doubt vheteher Hampton rendered more leiolc service in the Hume of battle nan iic uiu hi restraining his friends rum resorting to violence, when the lection fraud was perpetrated, and hiving the corrupt carpet-baggers to rom the State; but he held his peo >le steadily to law and order, feeling (.M iksured that in time the right would riutnph. President Hayes's assurance iSo lad been given tliat tlic Democratic ' State ottleers of Louisiana, Florida -j-j ind Soutli Carolina would Ik* given (j(l ,heir places as they were undoubtedly 1)(, 'lccted, and after several conferences U| ictween iKitli the disputing parties ind tlie President,, notice was linaliy jlt, fiven tliat tlie Federal troops would ()1 ic withdrawn from Columbia, and tliat )m. it, once ended the contest. Chamber- S(1 ain quietly gave up the oiliccof Ciov- ^>u ;rnor, and the Democratic State and Legislative ottleers were admitted to L|, heir seats without further dispute. [laving assured honest government in | lis State, his friends naturally tieiired to confer upon liim the highest lonors within their gift, and lie was w, ioon thereafter chosen Fnitcd States (|, Senator practically witliout a contest, ind at tlie end of Ids first term was 'e-clectcd in like manner. jn HAMPTON IN TilK SENATE. sll During his twelve years' service in vc lie Senate ho was always one of the wt nost conservative and patriotic of Southern lawmakers. He exhausted tli lis elTort to suppress section strife, ou Sot only by cxaraplt*, but by every de- la iverance he ever made, lie pleaded for an die suppression of sectional bitterness tli ind the restoration of fraternal rela- ou ions lietween tlie North and tlie sli South, lie was one of tlie most de- an ightfui of all the Senators to meet in (k-ial intercourse, and his mugniticcnt e(T ihysique, soldierly bearing and lion- So si face commanded the admiration of oil ill who came within the range of his lit acquaintance. At the end of ids ns welve years' service in the Senate he mi vak overwhelmed by tlie agrarian of 'opulist element tiiat, Swept tlie coi South. He could have no sympathy vitli those who would destroy the de Joveriimcnt credit that is tlie life of on lie Republic, and he had none of the ha rts of the demagogue to pacify tlie ni< ilasses by promising them impossihili- ht ics. He could have retained his posl- N< Ion in tlie Senate until his death if lh le had joined in tlie tempest of pas- on ion. hut lie was honest in all thini/s. an .ml he Imwed to it, preferring to mainain liis convictions, his integrity anil dc lis pa trial ic manhood to continuance ti< n otllce. President Cleveland recog- t i i li/.cd I lampton's claim upon the conn- hi: ry by appointing him as commissioner ly !' Pacific Kail ways, where he served on kith his usual fidelity until a change t administration deposed him: and en< ince then lie has quietly lived among he people who so devotedly and cull usiastically cheered liim throughout no lis long career, and finally when lie ea lad faced the storms of 81 winters he N< ras borne to his final resting place hy ert he profoundly sorrowing multitude. fci A. K. McClurc. ?f A position IliirliiK the MonthuI'Muy. wll The Southern Itailroad, the Atlan- l,K ic Coast Line and the Plant System ar ave arranged to continue the sale of he cheap Tuesday tickets to the Kx- u' osition. as sold during the month of!1'" ipril. 011 every Tuesday and Thurs- f1' ay during the month of May. This M1'1 ill enable all who have not yet visitrl the Kx position to do so during its ('a' losing month, and those who have isitcd it, to again take advantage of lie low rate offered, as many will un- la'( oubtediy do. There lias been a great i''V eal said through the columns of the ' w" apers in regard to the Kxposition, wo ud its many attractive features. here is one however that has been ''V Imost entirely ignored or overlooked vv" y all cor respondents, and proha'ly | c^' 0111 the fact that its location is such i''Is i not to attract general attention. ?f efercnce is made to the Crass Car- jan( n of the II. S. Agricultural Depart- *>a icnt, which consists of four acres of j ( round, and is located just cast of the, rec icanipment of the Marine Corps. 0111 very farmer who visits the Kxposi- a'e on. should visit this Garden. Here re to be found growing over fifty dif- ' rent species of forage crops suitable u'a >r our Southern suns, as well as *l,.r heat, rye, and liarlcyof many kinds. 'a' lie seeds of the different forage crops k'o\ t'erred to have been gathered from sea friea, Kgypt, China, Ireland, Scotnd. Kngland. Australia, and many | 'l>a' her countrios. The representative '-'I" mi- .rxgneuu urai i?epartmcni in!'"" large of flic Harden. is a practical 1,-1 nncr. and can Vive the visitor full .n formation regarding each and every V1 tecics of the crop, and it can he said I',111 i every farmer, it lie can spare time to *S|' une down, even if lie only spends one as'' ly ill the Kxposition. let him care- ^hc Illy study these forage crops, get a son .1 of such as he wants to use, and lie ol ' ill lie ten times repaid for t he ex use of the trip, and for the time he . ay think he is losing from his farm. ami Knocks it Man llutvn. veil A dispatch from Washington savs 'l,lv pen ere was a lively and exciting scene s.,jj t he corridor of one of the lioteis in do i at city in which Senator McLaurin anil South Carolina ligured. The sena- ing r was sitting in the dining room on i th a gentleman when lie became I lie rati ject of some oll'ensi ve attention I ifti a man whose name the senator .sivt Fuses to disclose and who. the sena- wit or says, was under the influence of Mr. |Uor at the time. Shortly alter this on I e senator and his friend left the din- t he g room and went to the cigar stand, din liilc standing there the man who had i wit llowed t he senator from the dining his Min approached him, whereupon Mr. ride -Laurin knocked him down. The pie ill's friends came to his assistance d ended the scene by hustling him ray. The senator was not struck. lere were 110 arrests. get A Narrow ksrupfl from llcath. O'li Kd Ituruelt, a young man of Maeon, was i., had a narrow escape from serious froi lury and perhaps death Wednesday, met ' was leaning out of the second story , *ho ndow of a store when he lost his ' spoi lanec and fell out headforemost, i voh s body made a half turn in the <5ui went and he struek upon tils right ove udder on the awning over the tloor- ! eret y and liouudcd olT. lie made a reat nplcte somersault and landed on his )iel| t on the stone sidewalk and did not ilain the slightest injury. Spccta- wer s who saw Iturnctt fall thought i tlor would strike upon his head and : miu ak Ids neck. 1 diet . ?? WE ARE NOT LAZY i Teast That Is What a Boston Writer Says l IN ONE OF HIS HOME PAPERS. ? Micro!*' KmiiiijiIch Cited tiy llini | in AiiNwer to tli?* Conclusion* ot* a n.ili-ll IViuiev 1 a lilner. ,t "Uncle Dudley" writes in the I Ins- 1 n Sunday Globe as follows: Mr. Gilliert Parker, the Anglo- ' inadian novelist and member of the ' -itish Parliament, lately visited our < nit hern States, and lie says the eli- i ate of that region made him lazy. lis may he true, although Mr. Parker es not assure us that lie always has en free from "that tired feeling" ider other skies. When, however, lie attributes what terms "the heavy footed progress ' the South" to the climate, he goos yond his personal experience and i rays into a vast field of general disssion and investigation. He 1 i t ton a handy and familiar reason for ' e difference in conditions North and , nth, hut this explanation is not so ' sy as it loofcs to the multitude of | inds which hastily adopt it. Indeed, is one very dilticult to maintain ten confronted with all the evidence at can be arrayed against it. Is it really true l hat theclim.it ' of e South is enervating? In this, as all matters, if wt seek the truth we ould not generalize. "They say"' is ry unscientific and a i?*?st untrustirtliy witness. It" we ought not to talk about things at we don't know anything alnnitwo j' glit to he equally scrupulous not to1' Ik about people that we don't know !. ythlng alMHit. The niimite we do { at we substitute our iiiiagiuation for! r knowledge and are adrift on a J oreless. unlighted sea of prejudice ,r d ignorance. If, therefore, we wish to see what ect the Southern climate has on the uthern people we should not rush : 1 into snap judgments on millions of iniun beings aUsolutely unknown to:' , but should confine our inquiry to m who have come within the range our observation, either by personal rj iitact or on the pages of history. For instance, all of us know a good al about George Washington, for c Southerner. His nature seems to vc been quite as vigorous as that of jst Northern men. It is easy to -j lagine how if lie had been of the >rth. his biographers would round | eir periods with tributes to the rig-: jus elements that had formed his i stere character. I \ Aside from the immortal enmman-j t r-in-chief. the Southern contrihu- i in to the rank and file of the eon-' p lcntal army lias not liecn markeil by ] story for any lack of energy. Surethe most Southern of all the tight- 1 , for the independence. Marion, ol ;i nth Carolina, did not impress t he j * emy as a noticeably indolent per- a Patrick Henry, the Southerner, was t less fiery in his advocacy of Ameri- i.. " | ?i n rights than James Otis, tbe;(. irthcrner. Thomas Jefferson's en- ; ties apparently could not have. suT- !M ed much Impairment hy the climate ' the South? 11 lolin Marshall is another Southerner h 10 showed himself equal to require- p ;nts of an extremely strenuous life, p nan with such a superabundance of ,_r srgy that he is unanimously credited ^ th having infused more vigor into i constitution of tlir United Stales' '' in any other man who ever applied ,l nself to that document, the father '' which, by the way. .lames Madison | 1 not he cited as an example of the ( t elTeet ??r the Sout liern climate, lolui C. Calhoun seems not to have ,j m handicapped by his South Csro- f, a origin in his intellectual combats j Lh Northern statesmen. Nothing uld he easier for one accustomed to ; conventional view of the two seclis of the country and mucipiaiuted j ' lithe biographical facts than to a (lit Calhoun, ascetically siniph in la life, to the puritan Commonwealth V the North and Webster, convivjal |, 1 lax in his private relations, to flic : ,j Lmclto State. (( Joining down to the comparatively : cut times of l he civil war the South- ' i armies showed themselves qui to as ,r rt and hardy as their enemis could ire them to he. : g< 'lie tinancial ability and the median- c 1 ingenuity with which the agricul- a a I population or the South main- ti ned for four years the Confederate -p ,'eminent, with its great forces on j and land, properly belong among marvi Is of history. < Certainly t lie j tiers which t hat lougstruggle devel(1 on the Sout hern side eau not he 1 Hi 11ted to as illustrations of the d.de- , ions inllueiiec of their native clime. , vigor of mind and sternness of char- ; er Jefferson Davis, Hie Mississip-j n, well might pass for a. product of | j w Kngland. No latitute would he (j( anied to own Hubert K. Lee, while militant piety of Stonewall .lack- 'l. would make liinidhe pernnial boast S11 forefather Day oratory had lie not a! n a son of the South. n< u the universal fondness fur gener-1 Ik ation we like to chalk off the world I its swarm of humanity into o >n- ,n ....I- J: vi11 null-Ill vi.SHHIS. 1 IHS HI UK*. VVC (|( c no trouble. when anything hap-j is, of accounting for it to our own ! isfnetion, at least. All we need to ''' is to glance at our pocket charts!"' I say, 'Ah. that Is the result of liv- w on one side of a river rather than c*h the other, or on a mountain side I ed Iter than Cavalier antecedents." t is such a simple and coinprehen- ,|. formula that no one likes to he ^ liout It, and it is no wonder that . (JiltH-rl Parker carried it with him " liis Southern journey. It was just tiling for the occasion. In his 1 r latlc indolence he was enabled by it, ev hout mental exert ion, to solve to fei own satisfaction one of t he threat ra ilea of existence, namely why pyo- so arc not all alike. in liilicit liy l-'rtiit (Oimch. ; if four New York 'longsl tore men ' |o; ) went into the Lucania's liold tol,,x out her cargo of fruit Paniel ;rien was lirst. When the hatch ^ i taken olf an enormous rush of gas j' n decayed fruit swept over tin '" i, and three of them retreated. 1^] nting for O'Brien to follow. No re- l'ii use was received, arid three men I ee intcered to go to O'Brien's aid. I ta tnysacks dipped in water were put j slt r their heads and tliey were low- t(j I Into the hold. They had hardly : ,.,j shed the low deck when a cry for ' i came up. The chain was hoisted 1 in and two of the would-he rescuers e brought up in a fainting condl- ]0, i. O'hricn, who liad lieen over 1f? jn, iut.es among the deadly fumes, is I witliout recovering consciousness, er j I A .(Jem. The Charleston Exposition lias doi t good work in hrinpinp t?> h/id ai public atteut Ir>!? many gems of til*.1 ru in! ere-.t. old hooks. iel!cs historical ai thcrw isc: and I lie various collect ioi have Urn of unexpc -led import uii In I hose w ho have seeing eyes. Noi >f I hem arc more worthy of preserv lion than the lines we give Im-Io' They were found, pasted upon a rouj. itoard.at the tomb oft Jen. Albert Si ley Johnston, in New Orlean Ijefore I lis remains were removed Llieir iinul resting place in Texas. Tl intlior is unknown, luit a more lieaul rnl tribute has not Ijeen written. >iio containing less exaggerat ion i rhpcrbole. This will not detract fro lieir value wit It those who admire 11 (real soldier long since passed into tit: dear light which preventcth all mi inderst a tiding. behind this stone is laid for a seast Alhrrt Sidney Johntson, A General of the Confederate State.' Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, < )n t he <>t it day of A pril. A. 1>. 1802. \ man tried in many high otliccs at critical enterprises, And found faithful in all. lis life was one long sacrifice of into est to conscience, And that life on a woeful Sabbath Did lie yield as a holocaust to his eon try's need. S'ot wholly understood was he while 1 lived. tut in death his greatnes stands en fessed 111 a people's tears. Resolute, moderate, clear of envy, Vet not wanting in that liner ami tion. Which makes men great and pure. In his honor -impregnable, in his simplicity subJitnc. No country e'er had a better son. No cause a nobler champion. No people a I wilder defender, No principle a purer victim, I'liaii the dead soldier who sleeps her l'lic cause for which lie perished? lost, Hie people for whom lie fought a crushed. The hopes in wiiieii lie trusted arc shattered, The llag he loved, guides no more tl charging lines, lint his fame, ('unsigned to that time, iVhieh, happily, is not so much Hi tomb of virtue as its shrine, shall in years to coine, tire modes wort h to noble ends. In honor the great Captaia rests: A bereaved people mourn him; riiree ('oiniuonwealt lis proudly claii him, \nd history shall cherish him anion those choice spirits. A ho holding t heir consciences umiii: ed with blame, Have been in all conjunct tires, True to themselves, t heir count ry, an their God." Only Two Weeks >I??re. The Soul It Carolina Inter-State an Vest Indian Kxposition will have In wo more weeks of st irring existence torn of the far-seeing enterprise of ew patriotic men, nursed to maturit y their unceasing toil and self sacr ice. in l he face of a thousand obstacle* nd in spite of doubt and criticism t hose familiar with its broad scop nd minute detail, its architectura randeur and its infinite variety-t \hibits, its scant treasury and it bundant achievement in all tha (institutes an Kxposit ion. it is tli navel or l in- industrial history of ou ountry. Kven its projectors dreame iot of so groat an achievement. The, uilded far better than they knew.hu rogressed step hy step to t he com let ion of what is undoubtedly tin real est Kxpo.slt ion t he Sout h has eve iiown.aiulconsidered from the stand oint of money invested and result ecotnplished. tlie greatest the work as ever seen. The proof iseasy. In; i-\\ days t his threat exponent of indie i iai progress will pa--.-* into hist ory, t It xhihits will lie scattered to the fou uartersof the eailh.'and the tieauti ill huiIdioms removed. Those \\h ave not seen it should not miss th pport unity of their lives, those wh ave. should see it again. It can no e seen loo often. Remaining week re full of special "days," conspicuou mi>ng them Odd Fellows 1 lay. May l: f est Indian Hay, May hi. and las ut not least "Wagoner Day." May esignated in honor of the President ij lie Company, wiio hy his unfaulteriui a! and liberality has given fruit ioi > l he plans of his company. Ever, outh Carolina, every man who loves; Hid pat riot ic eit i/.en should lie on t h ^position grounds on "Wagnff Day.' nd show at least some faint recogni on of the work one man has done lie railroads have made the lowes Ues for '"Wagoner Day" that ha i or been made on any occasion, am 1 can afford the small expense o tending t he exposit ion. The < Yunipaeker Mill. The whole spirit and purpose of rep 'sentat ive Cruinpacker who seems ti the champion of the bill to cu iwii the Smith's representation it ingress is to stir the embers of sec onal hate and to create t rouble. W? e glad to note that this marplot, i: >t becoming the hero lie expected U -. 11 is encouraging to note that enthe Republicans having acleai ajority in both houses of Congress, i not-appreciate his efforts to stii ct ional hate and create discord. Tin ut look, which is an exponent of cur lit thought representative of tin hole count r.v, has a very sensible art i e on this subject. The Outlook i? litetl by I >r. Lynman Abbott, who i10 of the foremost thinkers of t 111? iy, and who reasons on public ques (ms without prejudice. The Out ok says: "It will mark a revival ol if most unstatcsmanlikc and (lisas ous legislat ion which the country ha* er known: it will revive sectionai eling in its worst form, deepen tlx ce antagonism and postpone the lotion of the race problem. It i> ipossible to solve the problem by ^islalion; that truth thccoiuitry has irned as the result of the bitterest pericnce. Very much more is to be itined by recognizin the extreme llit.-iilites of the situat ion and by ap;i 1 iiiK to tlie fair-minded southern hitesthan attempting to force poll's upon them which they will not aept. and which only confirm their angonisms." The day has passed when eh legislation as the Crumpacker 11 can be pushed through Congress, if business interest of the North II not stand it. A New York doctor says that aftei iK research he lifts discovered t hat digestion makes people tell lies. That interesting. There must lie a powful lot of indigestion in the land. ? V ' 4 ' V I I I .. / SOMK HOT SHOT IK' Kl R, Fired Info the IV-pnblic vm b/ tfiiv' l,s tor E H. Tillm .:i< ie ie l" IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. iv. fli il- ll?* Shown I'ii tin* lljrprficHo)' ill' (litis, ](( lltipiiblicatiH in Tlit-ir Treat* ':e incut of the Ni-jjro "n lii,l ilic Philippine*!. (i' Discussion of llic Philippine Dill in lt} the Dnited .States senat e took a sensaltt tional turn a^raiti Wednesday, Senator is- McCorinas of Maryland referinjr to tiie alleged cruelties of American soldiers III in I lie Pllili l ll.il low ..nrnnltiuotul.ini. K. t' lm v"-*' vtttwtvivo ? uiv/ii IIU I deeply deplored -told of some of the cruelties which had occurcd on Iwth sides during the Civil war. Neitlicr 1(l side, he held, was to he held responsible for those regrettable occurrences as neither side approved of them, r- Referring to elections in the south McComas said that the senators from South Carolina and Mississippi cried "* out against the small percentage of voters in the early elections in the K Philippines. After discussing the a_ election methods in the States referred to he said: "We behold senators from the two States where there is less popular liberty than in any others, >i- shouting loudest for constitutional liberty on the other side of the globe." These remarks drew a sensational reply from Senator Tillman. He charged that McComas had passed over with complacency the "outrages and iniquities and barbarities" which <' had been, he said, "committed by 's American soldiers." He declared that when tlit? light had been turned ui. in " full upon the Philippine situation tne American people would see to it next November that tlie majority in one u* branch of congress would not. he "committed to this infamous policy. If 1 can have my way," he-declared, "you shall not pass this hill until full light 10 has been turned on tiie Philippine t situation." He declared that it was no longer possible to sneer away the responsibility for the cruilties and Infamies comu mi tied by the American soldiers in the Philippines. Referring to the situate t ion of the colored people in the south. Senator Tillman declared the senators from those States were prepared to meet any legislation which might lie , brought into congress upon that question. lie. discussed the situation in the south during and subsequent to ; the Civil war and declared that if it , '' had Ih'Oti known prior to the conelu- j it sion of the war that in the south the \ reins.of government were to he turned ( ;i over to tiie negroes there would have , v been inaugurated a guerrilla warfare _ in t he swamps of the south that would have been kept up indefinitely. As licjdiscussed the qiiesLon, he said ? lie was scarcely aide to control himself when lie recalled the indignities and i! humiliations to which the (teoplc of I ?f his State were subjected during the I n reconstruction period, from ISd^ to I l 1ST(>. in his own State, lie said, there I ,, were 200,000 more negroes titan whites |' r i ami in .Mississippi there were .'500,000 j (l more colored than wliitc people. In l order to maintain their self respect the i v whites, he declared, were obliged to i ' take the reins of government in the l ' south by w hatever means they could ( l' using the shotgun as one of the means. ? r lleferring to the inauguration of white * |. supremacy In South Carolina he said t s the whites had secured a majority of /. :5.i?oo. It might just as easily have t lieen, lie said. .Tt.ooo or 00,000. They '' simply got such a majority as was necessary. ? He referred to the outrages in the > v Philippines and then said he had t i- heaI'd only of the application of "sand \ o cure" in'the south, lie thought the a t. sand cure as described was mild. t 0 "When." lie declared, "we get ready \ 1 to put a negro's face in the sand, we 1 , put his body there too." lie insisted t s tliat the Kepublieans' eontention was t s that the negroes of the.south were tit- j \ S: . m vein in this country, but that the 1 Filipinos were not titled to govern t !. tliemseles in the Philippines. In the ,p I "lilted Slates he maintained, a serious ,r problem confronted the government? ~ t he negro problem and we might bet- .1 ter try to solve that than to hunt for r j trouble in the PldHppines. "Through- t 1 | out the south;" he. said, "there is a s horror hanging over every household 1 i for this awful fear of rapine. And yet J <i i- you turn your back upon it and march j . to east. where you murder and butcher j i t and torture the poor Filipinos. And t s you are doing all this in the name of s I Cliristanity and humanity ami liberty. |. j i can see the liypoerisy oo/.ing out of; you sill over." (Laughter.) |y "As Confedarates." the senator said. a | "we cannot think it right to go into j . the Plillippines and desolate the - : islands with lire and sword." Advert-' 1 > ing further along to the situation in ' 1 jtiie south. M i. Till ilia n asserted. "Wejr , will not submit to negro domination ! n and the sooner you understand that y the better." lie urged that discussion I I of the southern race question should j p > cease. "Vou are taunting us," said !;i ' he, "about our treatment of the ne- j groes of t he soot h. hoping at t lie same j H time that we will not interfere with; , your ganv of deviltry in the Philip- , pines. We hope you will help us of I , , the south to get rid of the t lireat of ne-1 s gro dominut ion which hangs over us ^ like the sword of Datnoeles. Lynch- e illtrsi will 1 n no ??c lr*??.r ..... . ..? ?ii.n *?.-? n'lik, f?r? tnw |l liends rape our wives and daughters." j, * While Tillman was speaking mauy of (j( * the Democratic, senators left the . ehamher. his audienec on the lloor be ing largely on the Republican side. |- I.ohI Hotll l.egs. Over In Augusta last Wednesday a ( paVty of seven negro men were shoot- '-x . ing eraps under a freight ear in the n< Georgia railroad yard and thinking' fr there was no danger of interruption al ' paid no attrition to the switch en- t| '? gine which was working in the yard. 1 When they had been there for some ^ ; time the engine coupled onto one end j of the string of ears and took them otT, , eutting otT twit h legs of one of the erap shooters. The ambulance was sum- 01 inoned and the negro taken to the Lamar hospital where his name was 1 given as Henry Owens. The hospital ., authorities could not say whether the | mam will recover or not as they will |ol have to wait several hours to see how ai he stands t he shock. ! h< it A Strange Case. A st range case is that of Mrs. Mary jM Elvira Gillespie, who at the age of X4 j lias just been admitted to a hospital . in Denver. She Is the mother of thirtyseven children, including fifteen sets , of twins, but all have drifted away i from her and she knows not the ad- tx I dress of one of them. ol \ (The World's Greater for ail lormi of fever take JOHNSON'S times better than quinine and does In a do In 10 dajs. It's splendid cures are In i me-te by quinine. COSTS 50 CENTS A l>i*c? 111 ? 'I Willi, t t | Sometvhorc unions " lny dreau s a ^tir<len lies. Replete with charm itud full of . strange delight. v J And through these veiling shadows t wo loved eyes Are poised like t win gray stars aliore a night. And sometimes Fancy leads ine there with <)ne To cull the flowers of remembered days, And wander side by side and on and on Along the mystery of its fragrant ways. 1 Oh, there the heartsease that 1 long ] for grows. ( And Hope's forget-me-nots and pan- , sies bloom. And Love's resplendent, hundred-! etilled rose Burns like a scarlet censer through ( the gloom. ' I Alld llinrn ........... I I- - ...... . i.v ir j r?v/u I id W.MII 1 II III UIKl I1CW And liken captive bird freed from lis bars, ? And Mown upon the wings of son# into i A shadow land of twilight and twin ! i st a rs. . There lies a garden wrought < f won- < droits t hemes. 1 Full sweet with Mowers of delight- , some thought . F pon the myst ic liorderlnnd of dreams. Within the secret province ol' my heart. A Singular Incblnnt. . A special from Washington says: 1 ' "The death of Representative Salmon seems peculiarly sad," said Rep- j reselltative Rellnny today, who fH.cu-1 ' picfl a seat near to that of the New 1 Jersey congressman. "A few days! ' ago Representative Gilbert inade a speech in eulogy of the late Representative Stokes, of South Carolina, ' the speaker standing just in front of my desk. After Mr. Gilbert had eon-1 eluded Mr. Salmon seemed effected by | ' tlie talk, complimented Mr. Gilbert, j and expressed the hope that Mr. Gil- f bert could say that much of him when he died. It, seems a singular coinci- j dent that Mr. Gilbert now lias this op- ^ portunity. Student* lliiriit to Death. i Two lives were lost in a tire which 1 destroyed the Hums University school i near Cliarlottsviilc, Va., early Wed- ' nesday. The dead are J. C. Knox of 1 Richmond, Ya., and Agncw McXcal 1 iff Albermarle, Ya., lxffh students. | Their lKidies were found in their 1 rooms. The origin of the tire is tin- ' known, hut it ' * supposed to have been 1 Incendiary or tno result of lightning ' 1 striking the building. The hostler on 1 the place discovered t he llames and I 1 immediately gave the alarm. Some of ' the students escaped by jumping from 1 the windows, and one of tiie teachers. Mr. Shelby, was painfully injured in scaping the same way. I y , t Industrial lain cation. ! ^ "If the state ha." the right to tax r '.lie people to educate the children of! t he state," says President C. E Yaw- l .er of tlie Miller school, "then it surey should use tlie money in that way j .vhieh will givfftlie stat,e the best re- c ults. It should educate our children toward what tliey have to do in life, mt away from it. There is no deny-j ng tlie fact that, our present scholas-j 5c education tends to draw our eliil- 11 iron away from industrial pursuits. 1 Surely the object of public education v ihould be to enable our children to he- '' :onie good. useful, honest, loval citi-! " ;ens, and oi^uip them for life-work 1 hat lies l>ef<>re them." ii Killed ina lluminway. A dispatch from Florence to The t ' itate says Mrs. I>. .1. It rock, wife ol \ he Coast Line agent at Effingham, ' *" vas thrown from a buggy Friday ' ifternoon an 1 killed. Mrs. Itrock was ll cturning home from Florence driving vhat was supposed to be a gcntk j ? lorse which became frightened and lashed away. Mrs. I'rock died 20 ninnies after the accident. She was v vithin four miles of her home. Mrs. 0 troek was a popular young woman in i! he Effingham community. n V A Maril-Iloarteil ilusltaml. Mrs. Carl Wiessner, of Uoboken. N. ^ L, some days ago applied for a warant for the arrest of tier husband on ' he charge of non-support, it being pecial in her complaint that whereas lie aforesaid Carl was the recipient if the munificent weekly stipend of | t>4. yet lie stubbornly refused to! >urchase a $4.!>8 bonnet for his wife, ' hereby forcing this worthy person to [' pend a wretched Easter. , Tin-: Youth's Companion tells of a' j, dilng man who failed to pass an exinitiation for a government [losition. s le had influence, in the wa\ of a sena- t. or. who took him to Secretary Long n see if any thing could !>e done to rente his grades and get him in. "It's p( o use." said Secretary Long: "tbar ' T ottng man has failed three times.! ? ?ook at his lingers: that yellow stain idicates that lie is a cigarette smoker y nd as such would never do the work squired of him." ; I The Atlanta Journal says. "One of' ho differences lietween General Jake | ()i mithand the late William Tecum sell lierman is that the former especially ^ xcepted women and children in his I* rogram of terroism." How aliout t he ; ii year old Ixiysthat Gen. Smith or-1 F1 nrr.fl L-ill.wl Tl,n?, I.... v. * * naiiiw. i I IV 4 v m V 11!^ reeious lilt le difference between Klierlan and Smith. Kach of thorn is a isgrace to the profession of a soldier. Ic (rKottoiA has queer polit ies. Keeent' lieeause a paper over there would i)t support a certain candidate his lends went to the olllce in the iisenceof tin- editor and hauled away ic type and press and started anot her ' iper in an adjourning town to boom I icir favorite. After this Georgia ipers ought to let South Carolina lit ies alone, and st raightenout t heir an. Wiikn Mr. Hryan in IH'.mj, in accord j illi the sentiment of his party as ex- J ressod in the Chicago platform made government hv injunction" an issue the campaign he was denounced as ; a anarchist. Yet the Itenuhlican Dtisc of representatives |>asso<( an ant i- Ft ijunct ion nill which seeks to remedy jj le evils against which Mr. Hryan was ich "a dangerous agitator." su L An Alalsima Congressman proposes j;r > take licprescntati\e Crumpacker lid several other HepiihlicanCongress- * len who hare neverbeen in the South* i own to his stateon an educational I lur, where they canstudx the "ward [ t he nation" at short range. it Fever Medicine.] | CHILI. AND PBVKR TONIC. It Is 100 V ilnile day what slow quinine cannot I striking contrast to the feeble cures K IF IT CURES. I HnmnRNBHHBBV CRISIS IN GERMANY. ' -"ifNow Going Through Saddest Economic Experience in Its Historj. Wfll-Groiiiird Pride of Her Bnstaesa N? in Her Kriiulallou for Conin r relit I Houor Haa Sutlers* Ttironiib Dliicrurofnl "roo'.i. Gennacy is undoubtedly going through its saddest economic exuerience since the empire was foundt'Vh says tlie Berlin correspondent of the New Y'ork .lournal of Commerce. lMie well-grounded pride with which Liermnn business men have hitherto :*ontcinplxited their excellent reputation abroad, for commercial houor has mlTcrcd a most severe blow. The Krankfurter /eitung admits in a re;mt r.Kirl.t i review that in no similar pt iiod of business depression in ii'riuauy have so many cases of "dis?ri?celul frauds and common swiiidi.11ur been exposed. However, it is felt Itcre that the sensational cliarii-tcr of many of the disasters of the fjast year have given foreign observ:> an exaggerated imjirvsoion of the ? itate of things prevailing in Uernuiiv; not only that these disasters ia\e created n false view as to the ? ivrrage of German business intcgri3. but that they have magnified unlul.v the proportiona of the Germun ri.sis as seen from abroad. It is minted out that (.Jermany has a totul if about 5,50<> joint stoelc companies, ind that the number of companies hat have tailed or gotten into tinan*in 1 difficulties constitute but a sjight iroportion of the whole. Still the 1011 rse views the situation very pes;i mi.sticully. Besides the many anavorable factors in the situation . elf, additional uncertainty come* Irom the tariff agitation. Business nen ?io not kuow what will be their .-ondition under the new tariff law vliieh goes into effect January, 1904. The grcnt crisis in ?he German iron ndu.'t ry. for exam; e, is chiefly due ii the fact that all consumers of iig iron committed the vast folly at he height of the boom of placing f ontraets for Iron for several years n adxanee. and at the high prices hen prevailing. Many of the capialists that have recently gotten hemsslres into financial difficulties rough! on these difficulties by exessive expansion. After the present crisis is over an nteresting chapter can be written ipon the intimate relations of tlie " erii.an hanks with industrial capialists. The jaunty confidence with vhich alt foreign criticisms of the ystem was dismissed here up to a ear ago lias certainlv iriven. nlaes o a more reticent attitude among Inanciers, and they are now much J uore willing to admit the dangers of he system. LONE VOYAGERS SEEN. j aptnln Andrtn-a and Hla llrlda Art M llfbttd ?>u tb? Ostat in Tktlr I SinnM noat. fl An Incoming steamer rig passed the Dark Secret, the lit- I le canvas-covered folding-boat in I .hieh t'npt. William Andrews and his | .ride ;:irtcd f.ir h honeymoon trip I cross the Atlantic three dava ago. 'lie little craft was reported to lie inking fair headway, though poundtig a good deal owing to lying so ow on the water. The Dark Secret s 14 feet in length and sits dangertrdy deep in tlv:- water ns the reult of the store> which have been .J lacked in every nook of the boat and er 300 pounds of lead ballast. ("apt. Andrews means to hold his nurse toward the V/.ore islands. He pects that with ordinary fair leather he will make thein in eight it'i'kl. He counts on the Dark Send making ten miles an hour. He i alone in the belief that she will lake that time. Half the speed is hat is given her by many authori.-*s owing to the light sails carried nd the peculiar build of the Dark eeret. Three or four months may e necessary to make a successful aurney. Capt. Andrews has achieved much n voyages in small boats. He sailed ho dory Nautilus, a 15-foot boat, rom Roston to the Paris exposition i 1S7S. On this trip he was accomnnied by his brother Walter. The J ovagc lasted 45 days. He was B2 I nvs alone on the ocean in the boat I inrlc Secret, *5 feet long, in 1888. ] e sailed 34 days alone in the r*-'~ is-cove.retl folding-boat pv~-otom hip, a 131-foot craft, ?- 1898, and OoO miles alone in 1C Dover, t 12>ot boat of the style, in 1809. A New fork dispatch says the blue ainf oyster bed? have been ruined, he chance for the man who can ake the bogus blue point, says the hicago Record-Herald, has arrived. _ HE YOUNGBLOOD | IIMDrS PHMDAMV 95 v !t: i v V. s w w ivn x I IIUOLIETA. (TA _ KKICK AND VVOUKS, " ' OUTn Auousta, s. c. oors, Susli, Blinds and Guilder's Hardware, coring, Siding, Ceiling and Inside Finishing Lumber in GEORGIA FINE All correspondence given prompt atntion. .1 uly 2-ly 1 The World's Greatest ^3 Curc for Malaria. A ftwjj For all form* of MulnrKl pot?on ( t .J, '** > John?oii*? Chili mil Pete: , ' 'i??c. A taint of Malaria', peine:', f K>j r.g In your Mood nio?.n?n>i?ry ami Wmjrn raflura. Hicod mod it I no* can't ..or* * \I* uri*. poiKopinii TU* " r 't l? JOHNSON a *oni{ ? fe| ? !? s# ( !? Jt ?l (arcs. ! iD ADC V <-'uro(' in to davs. 'ttUriii Would Ih? glad to have names of all Ifering with dropsy. O. E. COL- . I'M DUOrsh M El >1C1 N E CO., 312Lowndes Building, Atlanta. Ga. <riWIVi 1 of rrfurmn* ? jmi. n poomnr. Book m fl| Hon.? In ?in.?T-t wui I Mr It Addroaa h*F 1 k* WOi^OV M.O.il.r.U.V I