Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ASPIRIN y Name "Bayer" on Genuine Beware! Unices you see the name Bayer" on package or on tablets you ro not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for tw? years and proved nafo by million 't Aspirin only as told in the Bayer for ('olds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Eur ache, Toothache, Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tabletn of Aspirin cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin j the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture > of Monnfli<Af;n?/.;j?*? -* ??--~v??vnn.tuci?M3r ui o&iicyncacuL MARION A. WRIGHT Attorney at Law. CONWAY, s. c. Office in Spivey Building WILLIAM fcUGENE KimG, VI . Physician aud Burgoo * AYNOH,. ... S. i. DR. J. D. VHOMAK Physician anu burgeon bUttib. b. U. DR. 6.!. LEWIS DENTAL SURGEON Ofk? Ow Nortaa Drag Coa^fty conway; s. c. D. A. SPiVEY & CO. W. B. King, Sccty. BONDS AND INSURANCE ?Office in? 1 PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK BUILDING HARRELSON & HARRELSON At tor neya - at - Law Practice both in the State and Federal Courts. .. .? MULLINS, ? ? B. 0 / " : H. H. WDODWARa Attmey aid CMUUclltr al U? CONWAY 8 " IL kL hCAfcttOltOUtiu Attoraej at U?, CONWAY. 0. C. r T. B. LEWIS, Attj. and Oonscellor at Lt? C3NWAY. - - S> G i , J. M. JOHNSON, CIVIL ENGINEER MARION, S. C. My Engineering and Surveying office will be open during my ab sence, and prepared to take care of any work as usual. Addre?? mil communications a* hereto (ore. S. C. DUSENBURY Attorney-at-Law Spivey Building ' CONWAY, ? S. 0. c c II n i II vnim Iotnu hll luun REPAIR WORK j BLACKSMITHING ! SAW HAMMERING ACETYLENE WELDING j AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING ; . ?TO?. I CONWAY IRON WORKS i Milton Pittman, (Lessee). \ 4|22|20?tf. IJ. I. ALLEIU, Jr Attorney-at-Law Office in Bank of Loris Bld?r 1 LORIS, SC. I F. J. SULLIVAN & CO CERTIFIED ' ( PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS (Ut.) J Telephone So. 796. ( Murchison Bank Bid* WILMINGTON, N. C. I' IWI,IIPI1' 11111 " LIFE IN THE CAN IN THE An English Clergyman's Imf Was 68 Years A His C The following article gives several < historical facts concerning the coastal i section, especially Charleston, Georgetown and Horry counties, and many i old residents of Conway will no doubt remember these facts, and will find this very interesting. Through the courtesy of Mr. F. R. Shull of Decatur, 111., the Charleston LiLrary Society has come into possession of a- book little konwn heictoforc apparently, but of great interest to South Carolinians. Its title is, "An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862." The author,1the Kcv. William Windham Malet, was a brother of Mrs. Plowtlen C. J. Weston, whose husbands was one of the most distinguished citizens of the Georgetown section, a ma>:-. of great public spirit, and a wellknown figure in his day. Book lover and students in South Carolina history will place him as the compiler of a volume of "Documents Connected With South . Carolina," which he had printed in London at his ow < expense, in very handsome fashion in 1856. the edition be'ng limited to i 121 copies. He gave the Charleston library its fifteenth century manuscript copy of Horace. Mr. Malet's visit to the South in 1862 grew out of the fact that three of Mrs. Weston's nearest and dearest relatives in England had died and "a<s no letters could reach her it was determined that one of her family should convey to her the sad tiding and comfort her in her distress." Mr. iNTtllot \V!LS ono of llio r Knorl ivli rnnr. who kept a diary of the things which he had learned or thought about during the day, and after his return to England he was persuaded to print this book which is based on his diary and which was published in London by Richard Bentley, New BurlingtOfc street, "Publishers in ordinary to Her Majesty," In 180.ri. The author's personality is pleasantly in evidence* , on every page and it is an exception-1 ally readable picture of South Carolina and the South in wartime which he gives in a manner which is tile more acceptable because the style Is so ingenuous. He first came to Washington, armed with letter.* which assured him passpoits from the federal government through the ~ .. 1.? vyiiiwii miuo, aim yl 11 ludi i y lit: r?ut ceeded in getting himself transported to Charleston on a vessel which was "bound for New OrleanM but touched at Charleston and put him ashore under the British flag. He was in South Carolina throughout the summer and fall of 1862, spending most of his time in Horry county at Conwavboro, where his sister was refugeoing, in Columbia, at WInnsboro, where the Westons had a plantation, in the monntainb where he visited Flat Rock, and In a visit to the seat of the Confederate government at Richmond. Meetings With Stanton and Lincoln. Mr. Malet, despite his credentials with which he had armed himself) before, leavingc England, had quite a time getting a pass from Secretary of War Stanton at Washington. Bu?; had no trouble whatever in seeing Mr. Stanton. "I was ushered into his open room, without any announcement," he says, "and was not aware that the gentleman who was standing at a high desk was the farfamed official till, in reply to my self-introduction, and mention' of my business, he said, 'I cannot give yon a pass, Mr. Malet, to go to Sou Ii Carolina at present; I will give you one v/hen Charleston is taken, and that will be very soon.' In answer to my irequest that he wouid be so kind as to inform me when that event took place he said, 'You wili I see it in the papers.' The office was full of gentlemen apparently connected with the military and con tract departments, who were crowding around the desk; one of them' nnrirvo vor 1 ntiYiftii'S "fnt' ah ! answer to his application, and the Secretary put on a hat, as if abom bo retire, when the importunate applicant said, 'You have got my hat.' The Secretary said, 'I wish I had your head.' The reply was, 'I would not change places with you, though.', I record this merely to show the utter absence of ail formality In, the American officials." The next day Mr. Malet found a friend who got Mr. Stanton to give him a pass. He met President Lincoln twice, having no more trouble' seeing* Mr. Lincoln than he had had j in walking into Mr. Stanton's room.j, Mr. Lincoln he liked very much. Thej, President told him that when em-1 ployed as a lawyer to settle the1^ French claim in Illinois he had met i with Mr. Malet's name. He got out a map and poured over it with Mr. Malet, pointing out to him facts :>f interest. He also "lamented the Dcurrence of the war, observing that if he could have forseen it he would not have accepted the office yf President." Witnessed Removal of St. Michael's , Bells. i Mr. Malet attended service in St. | Michael's Chuivh on June 11, 1862, l St. Barnabas Day, and after the sor- ; /ice was astonished to see the bells 1 jeing removed from the tower, and < >n inquiry the cause was told they I kvere about to be sent to Columbia j o bo melted into cannon. Later he I aw them there and many othe? ; hurch bells also, though better ma- < Serial foV the manufacture of can- i rcon had boon diVcovorH in the mean I Lime. When Mr. Malet was In j Charleston tea cost two pounds Eng- 1 lisli monoy and coTfoo and salt were j <onally h'irh. Tho "totx' want of ice was Vnore than anything | i OLINAS | 1 SUMMER OF 1863 >ressions of the South As It kgo, As Told In >iairy. else," he thought "as the heat of summer was setting in." Leaving- Charleston Air. Malet went by the N. E. Railway to Florence. "I had heard much of the trouble caused by the paper money which is current in the Confederates States," he says, "but having fifty dollars in gold I was not sorry to got ninetytwo and a half dollars in neat paper no.tes of various value." It took him until eleven o'clock to get from Charleston to Fair Bluff on the Lumber River in North Carolina, enroute to Conv:ayboro. lie went at vj farm house at Fair Bluff thero being no hotel. A paragraph iron-, the book at this point follows: "At 7:30 in the morning the miil stage bugj>*y was ready to take mts to ConwayLoro, S. C., a foity mile * drive through a country thickly v/ooded and studded here anl theie with farms. In the fields the wome-.: were plowing, for their husbands l ad all gone to the army; othe women were anxiously wait?ng f r letters at the vaiious post office". I !"u(i been told in the North that i was only the rich planters who raised a cry for secession, but thes-.women were from small properties,! where no negroes were kept and | ( nil 'urvnilll ilmf tKnii- lnioVmn/lc I . r.v J 1UI I VVy\| UIKiV/ HIV II IIU^UUllV.1^ and sons should never come home till the rights of the Scuth were gained and independence secured." Conditions at Conwayboro Arrived at Conwayboro, Mr. Malet {rives a very entertaining account of tho conditions which he found there. "Here," he wiitcs. "wc-s an English lady with her little maid, both from the peaceful vale of Taunton, dwelling among her own people, the sable descendants of Canaan, as safely a> if in their native land, protected by country police?yea, safe'r?for they slept with their doors and windows, unbolted, ard did not fed afraid." \ The food around Conwayboro' delighted Mr. Malet immensely, especially the peaches, "which beat any wallfruit I ever saw in England." "Every house," he write*, "was full; many refugees from the coast above Georgetown, fifty miles distant, having obtained lodgings. The house 1 came to is on a bluff, looking over a 'branch' of the Waccamaw river. The negroes' huts formed quite a little hamlet of itself, the number of souls being forty; these buildings beincf ready, besides stabling, etc., for four horses, and about fifty acres of land, made it conven ient for Mrs. W?\s purpose, whose plantation, too, was within a drive, about forty-two miles down the river. wliere 350 negroes used to be employed; but a fresh estate of 800 acres was just bought about 300 miles inland, to which 150 were removed by rail. Never did I see ii happier set than these negroes. For six months had this lady been left with chem alone. Her husband's regiment had been ordered to the Mississippi, about 1,000 miles west. Tn this army the officers are all elected; ?he men of each company choose the lieutenants and captains, and th^ j captains choose the elder officers from Ihemselves, the colonel appointing his adjutant. This gentleman had procured Enfield rifles from England for 120 men of his regiment, the Tenth South Carolina, before the fMjeen's proclamation came out, and cloth for their clothing, but he himself served for several months as a private. He has since refused promotion beyond captain. All his ambi tion is with his company, which is raid to be a pattern of dicinline and dash?indeed, the whole regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Manigault is Gen. Bragg's 'pet legiment\ The negro servants watched for tidings from their master by the tri-weekly mails as anxiously a* their mistress. This gentleman, and some other masters, deemed it the b-^st policy to be open with their negroes and let them know the veal causo of the war, and that probably j I A 1 ? ? ' " irc .\nontionists would try and induce thom to desert. On the 33ti1 December this Mr. W appointed a special prayer and fast-day at his plantation church, and afte: service addressed the negroes, previous to leaving- fo>r the House of Representatives, of which he was* a member (elected for George Town.) Not only the women, but the men wept: they said they would never leave him?they loved their 'massa:' and not one of them has left. Lately two Southern gentlemen, on their way t> Ceorge Town, met one of them, and pretending to be Yankees to try the man, asked him if he woidd go with them to thr- Unite States fleet, and be free. He asked how he cvvM leave his master and mistress? No! he would never do that!' Fifteen negroes were bring ing up a 'flat' (i. -e., a riv?r barge) loa'i :?f lict to Conwayboro; e^> route they heard of the approach of s .me Ytmlree gunboats, when they ran the flat ud a creek till fhnx* ? ?? .. clear away, and then continued their ? course. They declared they would i have swamped the flat and it^ car go, if the Yankees had discovered it. and would themselves have taken tc ; the swamps, where no white mar ? coul follow them. Three bundled barrels of rice were thus brought in * and sold oy Mrs. "W , at the j boro' for eleven and a half dollars < u barrel (the half-dollar going fot J L'Cin nission) retail to the inhabitants; the usual price before the war < being sixteen to eighteen dollar4?, und four to six dollars a cwt.; Co-* 1 this boon the neghborhood was most i grateful." Liked the Southern People. The more Mr. Malet saw of the people with whom iic was brought m touch arouitil C:iiv.ayb. r??\ the better he likeo them. A month alter lis arrival le writes: "Some ladies and gentlemen tailed, all handsome, all cheerful: noat carnage ami horcs. Tae features and iiguies of both sexes in ti eso paits of the world are remarkable for correctness and beauty; there ii< olten a want of colour in the cheek, no doubt arising from the heat o these latitudes, but the eyes ate very brilliant, and the mouths are not slow to utter the thoughts of the minds which those oyej seem to reflect. The ladies ere aware of their influence; yet without any pride or affectation, but . with peifcvt g >od brcedirg, do they accept ?.he great deference, almost homage, which is always pa.u tiiem oy ine strongai sex in the South." The dovotion of the men of the South to the women is referee! to by Mr. Malet repeatedly. t He notes that on the railways there were "especial cars for ladies, into which their gentlemen friends are admitted," and adds: "Whatever their station may be, everyone is called a gentlemen or lady, and the very name, however rousrh the exterior, ;eems to engender politeness." Mr. Mnlet ('.id not discover the class distinctions which he had been led to expect. A Happy Coincidence. The book i.; filled with interesting notes about the life along the eoasr and about tho people with whom iVir. Malet was thrown, the Emanuels, the Rosas, the Moigans and others; of encounters with the Federals whose boats were lying off the coast to attack the gunpowder and salt works, etc. When ho left Conwayboro' and went to Columbia and Winnsboro and Flat Rock and Richmond he met rcores of interesting p?ople, about whom he sets down his impressions and who: o talk he reproduces. Paul H. Hayne, the poet, who was a Confederate colonel in Columbia at the time, he liked very much and he reproduces a number of Ha?yn A>s 1 oems, manuscript copies of which n i i * ? uiK pot t gave mm. in Columbia nc had a room at Mrs. McMahon's boarding hou: e "but ho stayed a good deal with the H:v. r. Shand, recto iof Trinity church, and v.lvcn he went back to Coumbia iater he visited Mr. Shand again. When the book clinic to ihe Library a few days ago the Rev. Robert Wison was in the Library at the time. Miss Fitzsimnions after glancing through it tooK the hook over to Dr. Wilson telling him that she thought he mieht find it of interest. In a- little while he came to the desk, saying that he certainly had Found it of interest for he was staying at Mr. ShanTs when Mr. Malet visited there and remembered him as if it were yesterday. "Like Old Vandyke Pictures." After Mr. Malet had made several trips to Fairfield County and after his return from Richmond where p.moncr others he saw quite a bit o( Mr. Miles of Charleston he returned to Winnsboro and on September 4 writes: "The more I see of this people the more convinced I am of the supe riority of race; so calm, so polite Men. Wnmfin nrwl T con feet in face and figure, like the oh Vandyke pictures; and I say the tru< Carolina blood is here. They arc kind and friendly, too, towards the negroes, who are respectful withoui slavish fear; indeed, I hear it ofter remarked that they are more respctful than they were bofo"o the war. Old Jack, the negro watchman when I visited at Fair Bluff, said he was quite content: ^e wa? <ir all night, but slept all day. As foi iipy negroes going to the Yankees, he said it was a11 follv: t'ev ?-houVl stay at home and be quiet, and look for home in the life to come." At Winnsboro he visite ' the Bacots and few tHngs impressed him more than the fr.-3t that up to that time Charleston from the close of the Revolution had had only two postmasters. Mr. Bacot's father, who had been appointed by President Washington, and Mr. Huger, who had succeeded him and who was then still holding the office. In the mountains Mr. Malet had very interesting talks with Mr. Baring. who had come to Charles4on In 1792, and who when Mr. Malet saw him was ninety years of ago but still hale and hearty; and with JudgeKing who told him many things of interest about the mountains . Mr. Malet thought a visit to Iho mountain country of North Carolina around Flat Rock "would well repay a trip from England." On this point he waxes eloquent: "Fancy a lino of fine steamers from Southampton, 'otf to Charleston,' via the Azores, no icebergs in the way; no 'Newfoundland fogs;' no frowning 'Cape Ra<re,' or 'Sable Island' breakers?a charming steam and sail of about seven days! Charleston to Greenville one day, and then the RIlIP T-?wlcrn u'ifli itu ?m*i/ln'?Pnl -1! .. . v . . IV. ?Y V# I IVIVI I LI I *. I lmate and beautiful scenery." Tolls How to Cook Kice. ? There are scores of other passage* from Mr. Malet's hook which might he enjoyed, but space is not available. He enjoyed his stay and ho formed a very real affection for the people of the. South. He liked their ways and about the only thing he found to criticise was their way of cooking rice. He could not understand why it was with rice the staple food of this section the East Indian mode of cooking it had not "superseded the insipid long-boil-mash operation. " In the hope that he might in some measure improve on i the South's cooking in this matter, ;\nd thus enhance the value of one ->f the most nutritious of grain*', he' transcribes in his book the East1 Indian recipe, with which this account of his volume may well close: "Jnto a saucepan of two quarts of water, when boiling, throw a tablespoonful of salt, then throw in on" pint of rice after it has been well washed with cold water; let it boil twenty minutes; throw it out 011 to a colander, anil strain off the water-, when the water is \v?!l drained oft put the rice back into ihe same i PASTIME Program for Week Corr TUESDAY LI LA IN "RUSTLING WEDNESDAY MARY PI< "POLLY. THURSDAY "ADVENTURE "YOU ARE I FRIDAY WILLIAM "HELL'S 1 ' C A TI TO A x/ WESTERN ai i COMING?J anuary 31* 1 duction, "Why Cha PAMETTO Palmetto College offers thor< Secretarial, Typewriting, Bo< kindred branches. A scholj es you a membership in oui , I ment. We receive more calls || oil At'iiow ? ?~n?~? i? 11 vrvxx^x v/uxicgus in xne [ old established business coll< ual instruction. New equips 5 Day and Night school. Pos: complete the prescribed cou: ~ lege in less than half the ti 1 school. Our student body re south and as far east as Pen ? Palmetto College is known e Address Box 6 , t (Mothei i > or Box 173, Orangeburg, S.' Charleston, S. C. ! Palmetti \ 8i5 tf. The school that's ' I i We pay your railroad fare t i A monumt for your ! | iTPf^jHERH io no <# ll^ B ^11 sion of vonr 1 I ueu dead ? moth< brothers, cousins?t eternal stone of rare I am the direct mill the largest monumental m and can offer you a select J ?i?na at a wide range in p | H. D. CRAWFOl ! 2; no Representing saucepan dried by the^ fire, and let it stand near the fire so roe minutes, or till required to be dished up." THEATRE I jmencing January 24th: I LEE I , A BRIDE" I CXFORD I \NNA" I ?n?*wr? ! i WMira?r?^ LS OF RUTH" 8 PINCHED" I S. HART I n HINGES" | nd COMEDY 1 >t, Cecil DeMille's Pro- 1 nge Your Wife?" 1 COLLEGE ) courses in Stenography, >kkeeping, Accounting and \rship in Palmetto College giv: Free Employment Departi for trained executives than South. We furnish all the *ges with teachers . Individnaent. Experienced teachers, itions guaranteed. You can rse of study in Palmetto Col- i me required in any other I presents every state in the | ivsyivania. The reason is | very where. 5, Varnville, S. C. J r School) 0., or 57 Wentworth St., College known everywhere. o Palmetto College. I ?nt loved ones more fitting expre3~ ovc to those honored ?rs, sisters, fathers, hnn n mnnnm/?n+ ^ ' ..,v>ik?tiviiu vy t beauty. represent A ivc of one of anufacturers in the South, ion of many beautiful de" rice. RD, Aynor, S. C. ; the Roberts Marble Co.