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I IY .1' 1 , I , 1 VOL. ~.-NPICKENS, S. C., THRSDAY, JAN UARY 2, 18 2,>9.- ONE DOLLAR A YEA1./' The Christmas Fiddle There's sonlothin' in a fIddle's so somOhow shakes ant' thrills My soul with swootor music than th Or the wild notes o' the mookin'bi spring Is In her prim o , 4 But bo~to all oro 'tnrion they playi'' Christmas timo. When tho cabin fires aro blazin' tin' t houl berries red rPith lorai -Lal sp)rays O' inistiotoo aro lit1ligill, .'overh ead, Win a follor's eyes arO chasi' o' the Clini Plos o' the girls, An' he's lost his way forever in the tanigle 0' their eurls. Thou I like to hoar the (lddl ln' its overy tuno Is sweet; There's a twinkle in illy eyos thent un 11 fidget In mly fe ot; Whon they rango the girls aroun' no I r tlo danoi' soon to bo. Its' a It Iloluiti sonsoin V III', very utlo' When 1.0c old-timo llor who Ilnt heiail thit d Sing For ay sty wint'r- iii suiInet tiio, ili Lay by his coat atn' strike a note, it.'s " ltrth ront, har' th6 door!" For I know that trouble's coin' oin thirt cabin's sandy floor! When I hoar that: " Swing yotir pari irs ! I fool my pusos bounl! AIy arns Jost fillol' sweet iess fit' t lit ':)Olli t goi' round I AUi(l, " Ladlos to the cenfter !" iI' - liantls rounl I thrills nto L rough, Foragirl's hamtl's miiglit' tentlenr iIi the 1,rowi, broad pal im o' you. Tho heavy hall may patter ont the shingled roof abovo; Tto snow niay beat the songbtlnis front the windy nesuts they love; The cows rntty 1nas tite clover on ie h 111 1< Ir ain' the l, lint in Joy I'in rollin' over wholi the . Ilille sitgs to me 1 Biut it's always swoeter, sweeter whilwn tho holly's htitgin' Iigh Ant' the Christias liultptr to ligitted i tho windows o' the sky; Ant' I think if I was (it 'i I worlal . ill be foolin' primne As the livollesttungol flyin',withi exlliihitt maS tiib I -PFrank 1'. ManhmIM.4 BILL, XRP AND HIS WIFE. QUIET I4M1E]S tT TiE OlD 11031P STEA). The Children atlo ticatterel atid Gone -The German Cpera Malikes Hita Tired and Sleepy. Half a chicken-half \a dozen bis cuits, a little hominy and m',totr and a small pot of coffee. It has been t\bout forty years since wife anId [ sat d own to as little as that. Of ceotrso it is enough for its, and more than eno 1gh, but It looks so stingy ; olly two <>f 1s now, except when we send ol anid bor row a grandchild-our home daugh tors and the little orphan have gono to I 'lor ida for the winter. My wife says she hears the rats galloping in their ro oms upstairs every night. They I -ave found out that the girls have i )me. My wife wasn't sure that rats in Iado the racket, and so about nidnil iht, when deep sleep falloth upon a a. an, but not upon a woman, she aroused me and asked what it was. Being pre na turely deaf on rats, I couldn't b car anything; but to satisfy her I took..the candle and went upstaiirs in my I toc turnal garments and lIuntetd all o vert the rooms and closets and under the beds, and found nothing, of course. I didn't expect to find -anything. Sh a is just lonsoeo and sad, that's all, f md she didn't like to hear me snor ng while she was ruminating about Ie scattered children. All of the ten ha,-"iv.1, is at last, and by and by old Fa - - --jb will separatO u1s too. Of coursew could go and live with so rmo of the married children, and ti 'ey would be glad to have us ; but I no 'ero saw an old couple that liked to g ivO V up their home and fireside. The i b its of forty years 'ire har d to be broken. Half a chicken is enough, I mit even that is a sign that we are alone -- we two. I didn't feel like saying gr- Ie over such a stingy mteal. "' W hy didn't you cook it all, Aunt Aria," s aid 1.i Cos it'll be bctter for supperu si r," she said. But we send rot' a grart id child now every day ot' two uamli sw aip them ai'ound, and they are al wia yr glad to conmc. My wifes gr'eatt it pleasut'e now is patting the grat d children. She says she is nearly bltn d, but .I see hot' sowing on somthtii ig every day--fixing up somenthing o' thelir Christmas gifts. A child wit h - out a gt'andmnothei does riot have it share of happines. [Invery gran d motheir is a Eugene Field, thlouglh thi ey can't make poems of their foolingsi. was talking about Field the eot' dii .5 to my ft'iend Ferrtis in George Adtan -'s ofIlce, and he said ho used to set ty~ 'e> with Field for The St. Louis Tinwc s, and the boys alwaiys had a aood Lini: 0 in ieffling with h int. "' W h as that ' said L~ " Well,'' sri id he, "we dli i a~ throw dice for' the cigalrs, biut vi I threw em quads." "Wha~t's thitt " said f. " Well," said he, " typ)(i'5o . ting is counted byv the ems. It is a quad piece, and thoroe are three littl (t nicks on the Phan~rk, and jilling wve . a played by taking tip a handful <>3fa quads at i'andom and th rowing then I down upon the table, and the one wvh u showed up the fewest nicks lost th g wager. I remember that Ficht wa - t generally the unlucky~ boy, amnd hadL t> pay the cigars. There wori sevenit us who generally spent .our loisni'a time together after our' nimit'i wivel. was done. Tre was Heirou Huff anm Iv Fatty Smith and Dumimy Ed wardsu.ami I the Monk and Betsy Heyd and Gon3 and myself. Butsiy was a boy, Non of us were bad or wIld, and Gene wa C as amiable as he wias unlucky. Ther< was more in him than we knew then and I always felt a pride in havin' been one of his companions. Yoh know that Charlcy Lewis was another' type-setter and took his pen name o '1 M Quad ' while on The DetroIt Fre * Press. Setting type is a good school si for a boy. He is obliged to learn lit- d erature whether he wants to or not, F and there Is many a one who hias made S his Jprk besides Ben Franklin and d Eug 'a'd." * ''t.the 'quad ?" said b Latin word and te 6'We were paid not st Iems, but by the t} f. It took t wo e's'or di ean em." Ic " aid I (when I feel very a y Angelina, like the1 " Angelina, my deari, you like to go to Atlanta and . i Samrosch opera? You haven't nt an opera since I took you to h4 Sontag and Steffanoni and Max a etzek in New. York In 1853. ,Just tu \kof it--that was iot'ty-two years i -.3 l. too much money," said Id I. "Two dollars for the balcony. Suppose " Siegfried." lit to go," said she. tands fine music and never has hot, an opera on the stage." That settled I had hearid it hinted around I t my wifo would like to go, but wo dn't ask me-so I had to ask her. W ave been. Veni, vidi. uudi-and I an atistied. Four hours on 'a hard wo seat will satisfy any voteran-even the angels were mak ing music. It vas all German to me I heard Jeon. Lind Ping once and that was mus '. I understood that and I was ch ruied. It thrilled me and filled me with unutterable rap Lure and all I could do was to weep with emotion. But this German bus aoss tired mu wfully and I slept right good at tine. I can sloop bolt upright Lad never . ove. When the music was soft and i weot 1 enjoyed it, but I couldn't een t'iything hardly. Slog frl-d was ineuding an old broken ,word and I ti kud that old-time black iinith shop, mut there was a tall we mian in froAt of me with a big black strielh fooith, - in her hat and she bobhed it atr ind so I didn't even see the anvil unt in two. It's an outrage. Tho lady bel )itnl me had no such ob stacles. Thowe iare n: feathers on my head. The , link of the hammer atd Lnd tie sere$4.0h of the ile were good ),nd tihe m1, i'e chimed with both do lightfully. S ikgfried is a good black imith and oulht to follow the trade in mny opinion. I wish they would sing in English. I'll bot there were not Len in a huum1 ired of that audience who who underst' od a word that was sung. They go the -e because it is considered the thing to do. It is fashionable. Of 31ourse tihr. was sweet music and so bhere is in a e inrch or in the parlor itr in a nit istrel show and it don't :lrag along for hours. Siegfried had 1.o kill a dra gon and it took him a half .in hour. It, wias a drag on sure 3nouigh. I could have killed him in a minute wit i that magio sword. But he birds d id sing most sweetly and Lhat lady t hat was hidden up in the brees-ah, t hat was delicious. I liked that. The d runms and horns all hushed ror that. St Lunetinmes when the whole >rehestra w, s in full blast fiddling and flowinig ani druin beating for dear ifo aad sto >petl all of a sudden it iciareti me. I thiought something had >IIIAted Or h! boiler had collapsed or ;he air br :e coime uncoupled. The mudderines-3 aiways awaked me and meo I juni pod ,o my wife noticed it Lnd asked what was the matter. I old ler IIi td a slight palpitation and vas threat aned with heart failure, vhich I aIL 1. At times it seemed to no the mus cins wore trying to drown ho voice ( f that woman that Slog ried found Lsleep or dead in the woods Lnd sang i her to life again, but they .ouldn't (o it. I never heard such a ,loco in my life, but . was sorry that he was la mo. S), couldn't walk at ill hardly. I My w ac says she was just angled up i n her shroud or maybe she ad'been de ad so long she had lost the ise of her -extremities. She was the tar -one o 11 the great singers of the vorld they say, but she couldn't do ustice to imirself with all those horns a dIow ing. ISiegfried had found her sleep in 4hmo woods reclining on a niossy banl, and as he had never >ofore seen a woinan he thought she vas an ang< l and wanted to wake her ilt was aft 'aid. For a long time he iptoad and 3circ'ed and at lat von tired to t( uch hcr and his plaintive olce scoi ed to pleadI with her to wake, but she didn't By and b: he got holder and leaning ver presse .1 his lips to hers and drew tack as if he had .omnmitted the un ardlonable sin. Well, of course, that raked hier- of comrse it did ; and after biehad comin to herself' she looked lov ugly towar him and began ro sing nd oh, si oh notes. I don't know hamt she said andi I dlon't care, ut there i vas love in it-lots of love uid he eau ght the malady and sang ack ad he r andi just such melody I ever heard . It took him too long to ~ako her ul ., though. I think I would ave wvaked her in half the time. But all o pcra's have ani end some 'here, aund ihis one linally close:1 just ai time for' s to lose our train and we ad to wait i":'rly three hours for the ext one. ' his vexed mne and I con idered mys oil the injured pers')n, but dlidn't comn platin -no I never complain. ly iife ant i daughter say that it was rand, and as I went there to please bom it Is a) ii right with me. I~t was and, gloe my and peculiar. They ad read I the opoera before and new what ;(the singing was about, and boy told me.,e how Tannhauser and Lo ongrin w< 3re composed nearly fifty ears ago atmlad were introduced in Paris nid Viennal. and nobody liked them, nd they \dwent dead and slept for airty year 's until Liszt took hold of temn and received them out of his reat regari1 d for Wag ncr. H~e educat dI the mu- sical wvorld utp to Wagner's ~andard a id now they are played by mo week n B-'sireuth, the greatest musical ce ntor in the world. By the cok is m ant that it takes a whole 'cek to go( through one opera, for It is ot cut or a- bridged like it is over' here. 'ho compa; y will play all thte morn ing andi hi ive a res tor' dinuner and mntinuo in the af ternoon and ag ain at Ight and ti he next daty and so on until ioewholo tA hing is finished. Merciful schers-wv nat would become of me if 1 ad to endt~ ire the like of that BrIr. ARP. -Trho Syi 'aboard Air Line has given xty days ( 2otice of its intended with eawal fr< >mn the Southern -States reight Aft sociation. Vice President b. Johns sa tys that the Seaboard with 'aws beet tuse the organization has )t been co; mpletod, in that a new ar tration c'4 mmittee has been elected ind there s a- deadlock over the mat r. Hoe . eclares that some of the rongor 11 es are not disposed to treat eo weak I - lInes fairly. The with 'awal of ho Seaboard will be apt to ad to a r'~ te war,. ft is a ~. mom mon fact, but not gen ally rom4 embored, that a cock will it crow il 1(18ss he can throw bucok his lad. If ms cock is shut overnight in low cool~ where he cannot stretch ok hIs nc k, there will be no crowing the mo~ 'nling until the bird is re sed. - NOT A DISSENTING VOICE. The Senate Passes the Bill Reioving Confedierate Disabilities. The United States Senate ongagod in a work of reconciliation on Christ mas Eve by passing the bill removing disabilities of Confederate soldiers. The proceedings were as follows: Mr. Hill (Dom.) of Now York asked the Senate to take up and pass the bill introduced by him last week to repeal the statute which prohibits ex Con federate officers who had previously been commissioned officers in the United States army or navy from hold ing positions in the army or navy. Mr. Sherman (Rep.) of Ohio declared himself as heartily In favot- of the bill, but thought that it should take the ordinary course and be referred to the committee on.military altairs. Mr. Hill argued that the bill was a simple one, and needed no considera tion by a committee. He thought it would be a good thing, just betoro Christmas, to make this presont to the old Confederate officers who had far merly held commissions in the United States army. Mr. Chandler (Rep.) of New Hamp shire favored the bill and declared that it ought to be passed and pa,sed to-day, It was simple in its character. As the Senate had, the other day, unanimously, without distinction of party, come to the support of a Demo cratic President when he announced national principles In relation to Vene zuela, so he hoped, that to-day with out delay, without criticism, without amendment, freely and generously, this bill might be passed by the af firmative votes of every Senator. Mr. Gray (Dem.) of Delaware, while favoring the bill, agreed with Mr. Sherman that it should be referred to a committee in the regular way. Mr. Hawley (Rep.) of Connecticut, while favoring the bill, justifiod the act which is now proposed to repeal. It was propor legislation at the time it was passed, but that timo had now passed away. Mr. Daniel (Dom.) of Virginia favor e'd the bill and presented resolutions of the Virginia Legislature favoring its passage and the President's nies sage. He said that when the Confe derato soldiers laid down their arms, they laid them down and' were done fighting. The disagrecablo memories of the war were obliterated, and ever since the men of the South and of the North ioere one veople with a common country. It should not be forgotten, he said, as to the young men who had been educated at West Point and Au napolis, that the expenses of those in stitutions had been contributed to pto portionably by their own States. Mr. Sherman submitted the motion to refor the bill to the committee on military affairs. Mr. Voorhees (Dem.) of Indiana was inclined to favor the motion to refor. He attached no great importance to the bill now except as an expression of nationality, brotherhood and total re conciliation. He called attention to the fact, however, that Confederate ofilcers of the highest rank who had resigned their commissions in the Union army, Longstreet, Jo .ohnston, Maury and others, had been con firmed by the Senate for many important positions. Mr. Platt (Rep.) of Connecticut ex plained that his objection to the bill last week was merely to a technical point, not as to its merits, for he favor ed it. But yet, he said, newspapers in the South had taken occasion to laud Mr. Hiil, to condemn him (Mr. Piatt) as wanting in every attribute of pat riotisin and to apply all sorts of epith ots to him, being careful to send him a marked copy of each paper (laughter). He had examined the bill and was satisfied that it was now in proper form, and that is would effectuate the purpiose which its author had in view and he was so full of forgiveness this morning-the day before Christmas that he was wil~ing to join the Senator froeml New York in [presenting tis Christmas gift to those oflicers w- ho had fought in the Coafederate armuy and who lie was surc would recjoice. to fight in the army of the whole of 2e countr-y if the opportunity preseW. d itself, of which he bolievco there '-as no p~rospect at pesent. Mr-. Allen (Rip.) of Nebraska ox pressed his belief that the bill wen~id not have been heard of i~f war had .,ot been threatened, and if Proi-d-'t Cleveland had not been " twibting mne British lion's tail." lie hoped, un' - everi, that the motion to refer woul bec withdriawn and that the bill wouh. be paissc.d at Once. Mr. Hill said he hadf not suppon"d that the bill would have occasione-d such a long debate. E-very Senuwr had hear:1l tne bill read ; every Senator understood; yet for diversified reas-'ms, no Senator wishe d It to pass imnmedi ately. It would have to be r-eferried w~ a committee wh ich know abll abouti it, but which would have to take wmoei time to consier it. Why, he asked, go through those useh-ss formns? i~e had laborecd uander- tho idea that if last week the Senate coul afford to taike un and pass tho Venez'uelani coim nis sion ill , involving coifnieqe.-e oIf peace or war-, without action by a comn mittoe, it wouIld not si.ruple to pass this little bill and to give to those old Co~nfddorates that Christmas presclent. He thought that the spoectacio was 01ne of str-aining at a gnat andl swallowingr a camel. H~e remembored that the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Sherman, had moved to refor- that bill1 to tihe comI mittee on foreign relations ; but hi had not pressed that m:>tion noi- voted for it himself. As to Mr-. Platt's re forence to newspaper articles lauding him (Mr-. Hill) lie said that he wouldl like to have seen some of those coim plinmentary notices, as he saw few such in print nowadays. (Laughte-.) After further disciussior, a vote wvas taken on Mr. Shaermani's motion to refer the bill, and the result was: Yeas 8, nays 30--less than a quor-um. A subseqent roll call showed the presence of 47 Senators-over a quoru m --and then Mr. Sherman withdrew the motion to refer and the bill was r-od a third tim ndnssed. - -The story is told of a canny Scot, who having recently lost his wife, wits receiving the commiseration of at f rien d. "You have a grreat trial, Mr. Camp bell." " Yes, sir, you may well say that," wais the reply. And then pauls ing, with a shake of his head : " Not onl was it a great trial, but let meW tell, a matter of verra considerableI expense." FORT SUMTER TO BIE MANNED. Tihe War Department Will Repial the Historic Fort. and liild4 Bat tories on Sullivan's liland. Special to The News and (Courier. Fort Sumtor Is to be relabilitttet and armed for the protection of th city of Charleston. That old fortres that played such an important part it the opening of the war for Southetr independence Is again to be fitted witi ton-inch rifles and be equipped for the defence of Charleston harbor. Th< project has been under considoratiou at tho war department for some tin past, but the question was brought di rectly to the attontion of the Secretary of War, Gen. Miles, tihe commanding general of I he army, and Gen. Craig hill, the chief of ni0nors, by Repro sen tative 1lliott, wiho ropresen ts the Charleston District. Cen. Miles ht recently been South, anid is heartily In favor of the restoration of the old forti, flioation to a warlike condition. It it rot known whether the renovation 01 F'irt Sunter is due to the threatened con Ilct with Great Britain, but the proposition mots with tie cordial en dorsoment, of all of the ofilcors named. 'ITli-re is oinething liko $75,000 avail able for the fortifications in Charlesto hao-her, and the Secretary of War Ie willing that. the money should be ox p)ended upoen Fort Sumter, and a land battery on Sullivan's Island, In tbc ane harbor. Since the close of thle war Fort Sum ter has been almost deserted by the Govornlment troops. Por many years past an ordnance sertgeant has lived there its a sort of watcher of the rapid ly decaying government property. Tiime has made but little impression Upon its stout walls, but the eloments havO played havoc with thne intOrior And the, exposed portions of the struc Lure. It is estimated that the fort can be placed In good condition and 'made quite formidable without the expendi ture of a large sum of money. The principal outlay will be for guns. It is a remarkable coincidence that Port Sumter, the fi-st fortification to ligure in the late war, is now the first point of defence to get realy to resist rorcign invasion. Even if there should be no occasion for conflict, it is con tendeid that Port Suinter should be re itored to its normal condition, and maintained with the same care and fi delity that iscm ployed upon the forti lications 'in New York harbor. Repre 3entatie Elliott was highly gratilled At the success of his visit to the war lepartment. and he proposes to push the matter to an early settlement. While at the war departmcht Col. Elliott met Capt. Abbot, who is ir oharge of the river and harbor Im provements in and around Charleston. Capt. Abbot also agrees with his su. periom that the forti fications in Char leston harbor should be roabilitated, in addition to equipping and arming Fort Sunter it is also proposed to built three batteries on Stllivan's Island foi guns and mortars. The work on Suil livan's Island has been delayed by thc dilliculty it) fixing the pr c for the property needed, but it is understood that Capt-. Abbot expects to have th< matter' adjusted so that work may commence without fui-ther delay. As to sending tt'oops to Sullivan's Isiand. Gen. Miles says he is filly in sympathy with such a proposition, and be will dt all in his power to have the new bat.tir ics garrisoned without delay. Upor examination of the subject it was as: -ortained that there are now on Sulli van's Island buildings belonging to the fovernment, which may be u-sed as guarters for the troops. The site for me of the new batteries is quito near Fort. Moultrie, and the other two are ;o be located according to the judgment if the chief of engineers. All of these >IIt.i.ories will be armed with ten-imnch '11.--s. Sonmc timo ago Col. E-ll iott asked the secr-etar-y of Wart foi- a r-epor-t on the >rojc~t ciontemp Ilating the imtlprove benit of navigation between Chnarleston ~uid B~eaufor-t by means of a cut thr-oughn ~Nnwick.- 1sland. The l'prosed imn r:oelnmenot was recormmendled sever-al s ago :out it was not priovided for Jac..,use ')n the lar-ge cost involved. M.G Abbo: has just submitted his re )Jort on ta~ ,)r'oject, which he says can ), comploted at .a greally r'educod i'ue' asn connan'ed with tine origiunal i~tbasatch. on- firom $25,000 to $45,000 Snl from forty-five feet to nine - et cr2 "0 cut boiween the points i.ttt.ed. i- '.kedl by Capt. Abbot's re r'- Col. ILIllott il 'prossC8 the mnatter ) i'e'0 th, r-iver- and hnar-bor- commit k-.ARIL k COTTON FAUTOI ES, l'lno Plioneeri Was the llun. Factory in. Spamrl tnbuirg Ctouihy--Somie Iacts Abonut. tl hluth Iers. la~j Wmu. IlIsy ini Carolina Spartant. .\lr. lEhistr :-l have been called on or inforo..ation witih r-egard to the pionheer tinufactunrer-s of cotton in South Caootnai. Tine first factor-y for npminninig t.oitton thnat I ever- hear-d of was5 whant, was sometimes called tine B3urnat IFactut'y. It was in operation befro 18l6. At, that time Weaver, Ghos prloprietor of the factory, wyas on 4;gagd itn Ia lawsuit with Mc 1owell, of that-los teon.- ic lowellI dieci that year mnd his executor- cat-ied 01n thte suit indc gained it. W he n theo factot-y was burnot,, I dot inoh know. Weavert after wat-ds hud t a factot-y on one of tine pr-ongs of Al1((Icddio'yger, in Grocnville Cdounnty. Thie [fills muinst haLve comoi to Spar tan burg atbout 1817 or 'I8. Nilajor lb-nry canto witin thne Hills atid was for- sometime engatgedl with them in spininig cotton Onl Tygstr. lie qumit the bunsinmess andc wa~s aL lawyer- ini full pracithico as ear-ly ais 1822. Whlen the Rev. Thomas i utch intgs cameit to whamt, is niow cal led I'eilhamn, I do Inot, know. Ihis wan the first factoi-y I ever- saw. I t'ecolilect sctoingf it, as early as 1822. Mir. ii utchingn opetrated t~he factor-y to somec timte neait I1830, he took into parttnertsh)ip) J1osiiah Ktlgor'o, who had plenty of capuitoti, and thbey made it at success. It might, Ni r. ~d itor-, be of s01me in. tet-est to some of youtr t'eader 8 to knowi how the famctor-y was operated.- I heart Kilgor-e say that it took'$20,000l a yeao to b~uy the cottoin. Thtat, would p)ay foi 500 hales, which number' Is now spmt at l'olzer- in five days. To tiurn thia twenty thousand dollars back Into eashn they would have to tr-anspor' thoir thr-eadl by wagons to Westeri North Carolina, Eiast 'l'ennessee amnd l go-eat qiuantity to th~e lower- partt of tin State. 'They bhnmenr1d a. nantityon their thread in East Tennessee for flax thread. They sold ilax thread to the r shoe makers and had a large amount woven in the country looms, paying a skein of cotton thread for weaving a yard of cloth. Pelham, Mr. Editor, is about sixty yards inside the Green ville line. When Mr. Hutchings sold his factory on Enoree he built another at a piaco now called Batesville, on a largo creek a short distance from what is now Batesville. He was running , that factory in 1833. The precise time he sold it, I do not know, but he was running another at a place now called Arlington in 1837. In this factor3 Simpson Bobo and D. W. Mooro woro concernod in soei way. Most of the capitar that built the factory belonged to tuoso Imnc. A lawsuit in tquity resultod in Mr. lutchings losing his case and t-.i factory in soe way foil into 1). W. Moore's hands. Mr. Butch inge then quite the factory bubinobs and wout to preaching in Charleston and :tvan'h with great success. I know of hi imying some of his former debts with anoney he received for preac.hing at those places. Not, far frorm 1837 Mr. Vardry McBee built a fact..y on Reedy River, not ,ar f Or .-villi. This was a brick building and was the best house that had unen pit up for cotton factories in the State. I think it was about 1837 that Dr. Bivings came to Spartanburg and originated what was then called Bivingsvilie. That was the most ex tensive exterprieC in the manufacture of cotton that, had been originated in the State. From some cause a lawbuit sprung up, much to the injury of all parties concern in it. Some time about, '40 or '47 Dr. Bivings cane to M idale TYger and built a factory, then called Craw fordsville, now cailed Fair mont and operated it to the ond of the Con federate war. At what time Valivy Falls commenced business, I do not, know ; it was running during the war. Simpson & Downs once had a factory on Rabun's creek, Laurens County. It was said ,that it was not at financial success. I believe that it was burned. They were both lawyers. Both were afterwards' candidates for Congress. Simpson succeeded ; Downs failed. There was once a small factory on a prong of Roedy River, in Greenville County. A man by the name of Horry was concerned in it. I saw a small factory on a big crook two or throu miles below old Pendleton. It is well know that there was a large cotton factory near Columbia. on Saluda river, several years before the Cofifederat war. Nicholas Vicolo Van Patton, after going three timos to England purchasing machinery for parties at the North, came to what was then known as Cantrell's shoals on Unorce and put up a cotton factory. Vani'atton was said to be the best mechanic in the world. A fter a short timo he piled up his machinery and went to work the third of a century rying to establish perpetual motion, spending thousands of dollars without success. There arc few places, Mr. Editor, so well adapted to manufacturing pur poses as Cantrell's, or VanPatton shoals. The entire fall is said to be fifty feet. The river approaches the fall in a horse shoo shape making a poninsula of fifteen or twenty acres. By making a solid dam, the peninsula could be made a water reservoir which, by tunneling on both sides of the river tapping the reservoir, two addi tional falls could be secured. By nak iug the dam high enough to catch the night and Sunday flow of water six factories, each as largo as I'oihan, could be operated. . Vaupluse, in 10dgefleld County, has been a cotton mnanufacturinar establish ment for more than half a century. I believe it is the only concern in this State that ever was attomnpted to be operatedi by elave or negro labor. The experiment signally failed. The negroes robbed the factory and burnt it, or attemup:,Od to burn it and were hanged. When a Northern member' of Cougresa t.old Mcluflle to build a facta'' y, pu't hiis negroes to work in it atnd t ti:, benefit of it protectIve taiLff,) le r~ ed by relating the Vau elusoi maticir and showed that the thievish ano treacherous character of theo neg~roes matde them unfit for manu-* facturinig p)urpos0es. A QfJxs'roN INJ TiluOf.o(Y.-LF. K. Van Tarssei. 'a local missionary in Ui ster, icontri Lwers to the Kingston Free man u..c artiele from wvhich we take the follo.-!, su y :'" As I passed th rough Hiasbrounck. I saw a church in an un linisia d cond ii~ion, anrd inquired what church it way. I learned that, it was Mr. Hlamilton's. TIhis loads mne to speak of this second Robert Collycer, a blacksmiith and a piroachler. One day it miniaitor of the Methodist Episcopal denomni nation caine to have hiis horse shod by Mr. Hamilton. Knowing his Bamptst, prolvities, ho thought to joke him. Said ho, 4 Is this a Baptist shop ?" "'It is, si-," said M r. [lamil ton. " Well, I want Methodist shoes put on my horse." "' All right, sir." The sturdy blacksmith, with a smile, wont to work, turned, calked and fitted tho shoes, then laid them down and 'waitedI saying, "' Will tatke some time to cool, sir; you will have to wiait a little." " Why dlon't you dip thomn into the tub?" said the Methodist man. "Oh, that would make them Baptist shoes, sir I" said Mr. Hatuilton. .The joke hitd gone far enouigh by this time, andI the Methodist brother replied, "Oh, well, dIp them atnyway ; I'm in a hurry." So the Methodist, horse wore Bapt1tist slhoes one tigne, atnd was no worse for it. -Gulanit wars discovered by Colum bus In J498. Dutch settlements were founded in 1180. In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh landed hn the country to search for gold. British Guiana has an arcam estimated at 99,9)25 sqjuare miles. In 1851 the popuilation wats about 148,000. Tbco English made no pecrmnont settlements in its early history. After various changes Eng land made an ari'tngomont with the Nethelands hm 614'b which they re gainedl P.-. ' oi of the territory, which I noe e-alled Britin-iG uiangi. 'rhey ' I '- )3.i(yd unda+ . 5 sion 'nce~ tat, dlate. L o Englad. 1i Isik'iny value is a.' three-fourths the 'value of all other I produicts. Rum /imes next. TO MEET TIHE EMEROENOY. The Iepmblicans Report Bond and Tariff Bills fbr the Itelior of the Treasury. The Demoorats wanted the ways and Means cOUinitto to postpone action on the tarit and bond bills, but the Republicans ordered them to be ro ported by strict party vote. All the members of the committee, exco pt Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Mr. McLaarin, of South Carolina, wero in attondaice. The 0 1ssion lasted two and a half hour8. The Democrats mado a generid protest against both measures. The tariff bill was first considered. As eacth section was read Mr. Turnor, of Georgria, mov.d to striko it out,, teo Doinocrats voting in the ailirmtitve ant the iopub' icanis in opposition. Mr. McMillin, of Tenl uiosset, then ontored an earnost pleo for more timo in Which01 to consider both bills. .1R argued that this ?ieing at holiday the departments wero loed; that it would be Impossible to ts euro from the troasum y dopartmnont )-.fore Thut -day the data i. :essary to sup port the De mo-atic contention. and closed w ith a u1-:1in that furthc. re consid:eration of .ho measure in com Initteo bU postpX.,cd two days. This motion .its defeatted, ai1 was also his motion for' twenty-four i 1--urs' delay. After toius, discussion, 't'r It while, beeameo ?.enrmwal. The D -.mo crats Coll t.iidedm ;.nat t,!e treasurm' now contailed a cIs ith'nce of $17(i0, 000; thaIt this 'A' me ;'ile to 111e, .ny deficinq)(tc' witV h mi i;glht aris,- for sove.ral your11s ;thai, the receip~ts b-' '01. the c0os' of the lincal year would .*qual expOnuitures, and14 that nt tariff -gis lationi was nocessa'y. To this Chtirmat; Dingl-y respoiled with at "01'norni 11140laim1 r. 1l0 stLteed that $70.00,000 if tilttilw it, wae., in greuibacks, which la nt, notbeen r Ceived as revenuties, but which Vwere redeeme3 d Witlh gold, an1d 1tt, the'v be longed priactically to ti redmi>t ion fund. They wer ia part, really. of tio cash balanco, and oug ht, not to ho used for current expenses. He showed that the greenbacks wore used as all ".undless chain" to draw gold from the Treasury, and approved tihe poi icy of the Secretary in looking thomn up. The )UrposO of the tariif bill, Mr. Dingley continued, was to furnish the money needed for the expuises of the Government without trenching oin the gold reserve, or the groenmbacks which had been redeemed in gold. le ad - mitted that in offering those revenuo mesures the Republicans have waived, for the mnoment, their protoc tion principles and they made this con cession, hoping that the IP-esident would be equally unsellish inl putting his own objections huhind iim. NI r. Dingley insisted that the bill was not intcnded as a party iieasir e. I , was, lhe explained, non-partisan ill charate ter, and he hoped that', it would poll the full vote of Congress, in order to savO the Cre'it of the governmuient, which, aceording to the President's message, and dicloiures made in pri vate by Secrcet'ary Carlisle, was in great danger. The condition of the Treasury, lie insisted, demanded pwompt, action. Every day's delay added to the ombamrassimont of thbe admin istratiol. Inismuch as 0no re vision of the tariff WIaS attempted in the measure lin (iestion no discussion in committee at, this time was necos sary. Tho li'Rpublicins, ho'sitd, Iin coil clusIon, had takn the tarilf law of 189-1 a1s I basis, and, according to the importations for that year. the now bill would add $40,000,000 annually to the revenues. Of this sum $12,000,000 would he derived from dutis onl rmv wool, 1-,00,00tlm (on manufacttures of wool anti $l1,00,000 add itiolnal from the, horizonstal inecast oin 1te rtomiln ig schmeduiles, except, sugar, whIiichi was not changed, anud lumber, the tduty on which wotuldh he (i0 pors cenit. of the McKinley ti'rilff rate. TPhe first and only blreak in the Dom ocratic colui mn w us the motion of Mr. Turner (D.'m. of Gat.) to strike tl the second sectiton if th) b)ond( bil liau thiorizing the Wisuance of $50,00'0,000 certi ficattes of inIdtetd ness. On this motion Mr'. Tarisniey (I )em. of Mo.) Votod1 with tho Rtepubl icans and the amnendmont was lost. Tre'~luon Mtr. McM ill in ( l)om. of To~nn. ) ofered ani a mendmient that the certifittts islm-d should be subjoct to taxiation ias areO tihe gr'oiibacks an:1 other mon~feys, h)*t tlihisamendmi~iient was also rej.eted, thU Hepublicans vot.ing against It. T1HIC OPidNiNG. O'll Ia1TIMOIli. Vai.plerbilIta lIscaut Iiul Honso ani Urounitis Near' Asheville. George W. Vanderbilt, the, youinget membher of the gresat Now Yor'k family of imilllonair'es, formally 0op0ned( his country home near' Ashev ille on Ch r ist mnas Day. All immmoindiaite mlembeis of the Vanderbilt family flow in this country wore guests oIf " Bliltmoro Hlouse." Among them were Mrs. Wil 11am Hi. Vanderbhilt, mnotheir of the ownier (If 13i1 tmmoiro ; Mr's. lroimley, hiS aunt ; M rs. Kissatm, M iss Kissm, Mr. amnd Mi's. L". W. Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mr's. W Suwar'd Webb, anti their diaughtomr and son, Cornelius Vander ilt and family, W. K. Vaniderbilt, W. 1). Sloane aud1 family and1( others. All of these persons traveled in their own private ears, and brought with thorn an army of servants. IFor two weeks previouls G. WV. Van derbilt had persontaly dimrocted ia corps oIf carvteis, .iointerss, decor'ator's and florists In giving the finishing touches to the great mansion, and1( it stands to day, in connectioni with its surr'ounding parkmi and outlying hulntinig and fishing presoerves, the mo5(st vatluabtlle ras well as the most extenivoi~ privato p~ropierty in America. 'Tho house tract eon tains 8,0010 acres, upomn which seventy-five miles of unrivatlled dirivoways hatvo alre'ady been construtletd, wVhi le t inO hunting pioserves embrace ..T,'000 acres, in which is included 3'~ Mount, Pisgah, one of the .mtit prominent peak oe n Ashouvird plateau, which boasets th. hsitibest poimnt cast of the~ Rocky.)iountai s. I ~itwo week p~rovIsionS0f all kinds 'dav(e been arrmiving in carloads, confoc I ti ons in hundred pound packages, me, fish, fowls of all sorts, froz'on ,cats in carloadls, all giving intima tonl as to the bountiful good cheer I lhich is to be dispensedl. At 110o'clock a Chrlatmas treo was given all em ployes on the estate. numbering be tween 300'and 500. Barrols of M8iste toe and wagon loads of holly and get't loads of packages wore pu ,into this feature, and the banquet 'hall was crowded with eager, happy faops for more than two hours. After the Chrvi-timas tree a bountiful dinher was sproad. W nic the company now at Biltmore is made up exchsively of members of the Vandlerbilt family, the fosivities will broaden towards the close of the week, when a larire company of, Mr. Vanderbilt's New York friend s will b his guests for perhaps ten day,4. Th. time will be spent in coaching part 'is, hunting parties, fox chasing, quat. shooting and fish ing. A TuinUTi.: TO, ROBERT 0. WIN '1HIROP.-At the liatst muuting of tbe trusteos of the Poabody educational fund a committee was appointed to draw up a tribute to the menoryof the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. That conmitto consisted of Chi f Justice Molvillo W. Pullor, the iHon. William 'A. Courtenay, of South Carolina, and the Hon. Joseip H. Choate, of Now York. Charles E. . Wingate writes fron Boston to th 3 Now York Critic: " I have just soen a copy of that trib Uto, aid quoto -ono strong paragraph. Judging by its style, I should .4ay that .he memorial was written by Mr. Choate. After speaking of the warm oiersonal friendship of Mr. Peabody, ic founderof the trust, with Mr. Win thirop, illustravtod by the appointment ,.f the latter iii one of the original trus ees and permanent president, thO trib uto says: " His lofty character, his Lmuteous hearing, his uniform kind ness in all his doalings with the trus Loes over whom ho presided, endeared hill) to each member of the trust as a wari personal friend, and the light sniciit his expetrie'nce and kniwledge ,:iml upon oveVy qiestion that atrose r* d.-I i ibe'rlationt) a WLys llado the task f hi. aLss'viat,-' an easy one. We felt tiat hat-ver r. i. Win throp approved, IL'ur the study and refloction which he insisted upon giving to overy measure pr. 'jected, must of course be right. It was a very great thing for an institu Lion like this to bo presided over by sic a man, who for a quarter of a cen try was willing to give to its continual ser vice the best powers with which lie was endowed." Tilis Cowr OF HAD ROADS.-The office of road inquiry of the Depart ment of Agriculture has completed an interosting investigation relating to the us of the coinmmon roads of the United States. Returns have been received fromi about 1,200 counties, showing the averago longth of haul froI farims to markets o" shipping points to be 12 miles ; the average weight of load for two horses, 2,002 oiunds ; and the average cost per ton per mile 25 cents, or $2 for the entire haul. E4timnating the fari products at 219.824,227 tons in weight and mak 'ig estitmates on other articlev carried over the public roads, it is calculated that the aggregate ex penso of this tranlspu rtation in the Untted States is $0-lih,-il4,U165 por annum. Reports have been asiced from the United States consuls abroad of the expens of haul ing where the roads are googl, so as to rondlor possible a calculation which will show how much of this large out lay is (le to bad roads. The estimate is ventured, however, upon informa tion in the oilo of road inqury, count ing tho loss of time in reaching imarkets, the enforced idloness and the wear and tear to live stock and hauling machinory caused by poor roads, that tlwo-tli'rdp of the cost might be oaved by an improvouent of the roads. A D)ISMAI li'AIIuUE.-One of the mlost ateusilug stories of tile day treats Of, mlistaken phlilanthropy. At a cer tain army post thoere was a senltry on dutty neatr tile hospital. The surgeon was preparing to go to bed inside wheni he was annltoyed and alarmed aL tufe sentr'y's coughing. His expe rienced car toldl hull that the man had a severuo bronchial afiliction, needing a strong remedy. HeI debated awhile with himself, and then going into the dispensing room, comlpounde~d a powerful mlixture. This he took outside to the sentry with in structions to swtallow it immediately. ilhO matn refused. Trhe surgeon in listed and finally commanded the man to take tile medicine; which ho did, withi much grumbling. Then the kvorthy surgeonl went to bed, pleased bo heatr no more coughling. Next mlornin g to is surprise the 3otmmadding oillicer' sent for hitm and said that the sentry had cornplained, declaritng thlat tile sur'geon had forced hlimf to swallow somnethitng he thought was poison. An investigationl follow 5(d andl revealed1 the fact that while the surgeon was mixing the medicine the coughing sentry had been relieved and consequently tile r'emedy had been given to tile wrong man. TiliE RUSSIAN LOAN.---The story of Russ ia's proffe red loan of $40,000,000 in gold to tile United Stattes has been confirmed withl tile exception that the details of the ofTer are somewhat changed. It is still the sensation of financial and diplomatic circles and has inot only limprtoved tile tone of Ametrican mtarkets, but possibly pro ventedl any furtherct raid on the gold reserve. It is not expected, however, that tile Unted States will accept the offer, whichl was made cighteen s tmonths ago, and declined at that time, although the gold, it is understood, is still at the disposal of th is counti'y. It is considered more thlan likely tho gold will be obtain~ed from l~a'ian hankers inlstond~ of from .itrf~ Isnglish. sout'ces. This is tile muhst natural con elusion fotr theo tenson that pending the Veneguela~n trouble, i~resident (Clovelmpt wouldi not care to enter into a Nrw armiangelment with British capi talists fo; a now su~ply of gold. The attttido, of Russia toward the United States has always been of a most friendly chaeacter. As the offer' was long before the Venezuelan trouble, that could not be said to have any bearing u pon tile loan. --It is said that during one of Mr. Moody's mneetin gs a worker approached a young man with the question, " Are you .a Christian ?" Trhe young man iooked up, smiling good-naturedly as the cr.ie,"Oh o i moeo