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J. H R. OO, ErOR. (Editorial C4rrespondenee.} NEW Yong 'Sept, 8th, Ig DEAR MEs8ENGER? This isa bu. sy world of ours. Not too busy, however, to stop by the way side for awhile, in order to pen a few linesto one of the many ob jects of our affection. The Mzs EERwoa has just been perused. It was traly a message, gladly wel comed trokn our dear Southern home, while we are far away in the North. We came for sight seeing, but the MEsSENGER was received with a delight which makes us fully realize the interest that we feel in it, whether we are at the place of its publication, or hundreds of miles therefrom, where the bustle aiil hurricane of life is greatest. Well, perhaps ourf readers will not object to reading something of Air trip North. We left Easley on Wednesday afternoon the 6th instant, in coM )aDY with Mr. W. M. Hagood, who annually'pays some of the North ern cities a visit. Coming with one so fully acquainted with these cities, we could have nothing les than enjoyment. Coming in the capacity that lie does, the oppor tunity of seeing in much part all, is nieely afforded us. At Spartan burg we were joined by other friends which made our visit all the more pleasant. On-board the train it was our pleasure to, meet the highly cultured: Congressman, Mr. Jno. J. Hemphill, of the 5th district; a man entertaining and agreeable in the extreme; one re abiing the responsibility of the high position which he holds and unot ulnappreciati ve of its great hon ors. .Ability is depicted uxpon his countenance, and accommodattion, and geniality are manifest in his ma~nners. We reached the Grand Central Hotel the following af ternoon, af ter our departure, at about six o)'clo~ck. We are. comfdortably quiarter'ed :there,. surr'ound1ed and well-lookied rafter by friends and acquaint cs many of whom work to our enjoyument. We shkall1 never fiorget Messrs. Poe, Fgstert ..Mc~%Ahaa (the brother of our goo~ citizens, T.. H. &.ET A..McMah an), Herrings, Farrow,.Mauldin, Gage, Ligon, Harrison, Maxwell and Jor. dan.; T'he interest .*Jbey evinced wdl live in gur memor es long af ter our trip has been counted ss one of "the things that wer'e/" We have "been on tlie.go" ever since our arrival. There is always something to do and see. Fri-ay was spent, in looking at one or two of the great wholesale hiouses and in. yisiting. It ha beepi our pleas ure, to meet. while here, Col. Jno H. Evins, the able Congressman from the Fourth S. C, District, and his entertaining and charming a.. ter,. 9SS .amie. Col. Evins i in fe lyq e Jtlgi ' itin some rgriniq and oher placs. I t~ his tip, and we w portilim, well. Sat, ay, t invitation of Mr. Charles D. Far row, of Union, S. C., we went ove on Long Island to -the Race .an,( from there to Manhattan Beach whdre thousandal of people'had'%i sembled to listen to fine mubio ant to witness the inest Ore works ih America It woulkt take, a pe more facile than our& to graphical ly describe these latter scenes. Th "Bnrning of Pekin" compose( the fire works.' Thousands of vim itors'thronged to.see it. Sight were offered to us such as were new er seen before. It is almost wort] the trip to New York, to, see themu The ingenuity with which they ar< gotten up will surely challeng comparison with that of any rae of people which inhabits this Globe We returned to the city about 1: o'clock. About the midnight hou we retired. Sunday morning foun< us ready to enjoy the scenes of th day. We learned that Dr. Tal mage would preach in the Brook lyn Tabernacle.. Joining Mr. an( Mrs. Ligon. ~fron Auiderson,. w proceeded to make our way int the presence of this great divine A congregation ol 3,000.or mor has assembled to hear this won derful man. We suggest to ou readers. the idea of procuring th "Atlanta Constitution," which ih a Sunday or two will contain thi extraordinarily fine ditcourse, al though his subject was that of or dinary Women and Men. 0! tha our people could have heard it. I perhaps would have done our ac complished Southern girls good He remarked that people educate, the girls in Music,Astronony, &c. but then they were not educate unless they were educated i dough. Let Willie R., Mac B. and others of our town, take warn ing when they go to make their se lection. Let them select those wh< can fill the ordinary as well as th extr'aorInmary spheres of life. From the Tabernacle we visite< Greenwood Cemetery, the "City o the Dead." liever in our life be fore has our eyes caught sight o such a scene. Hundreds of acre are emlployed1 in the intermnento thpse who pass away in the grea 'ities of N. Y. .and. Brooklyn. Oi an average. sixty are buriesd a Greenwood'-insa dayv. Now thinl of' thousands of graves carefulli car e fior, uponm which stands con spicuously, a. elegant monument r'earing their lofty; heads towar< Heaven, or upon which 'are firmula fixed the slabs that mark the d~ partme of' thoseahose-~souls hav taken flight.. After visiting this W rettuned to New York. Sunda' night we went to. the "Church o the Strangers,"~ where we hear the very reputable D)r. Deems.. H is one of the most, if not the moset popular preachers in New York flis sermnon was fine. We shool his hand because it was our pleas ure to welcome him at Spartanburg once during our cQllege dmys. Glad you al4 are getting klopi so nicely. Shall visit soon one o two of the large printing mate.. s e li p ints and erhaps will b I make a t r ov our pap x ' bV overtax n E ythe '1mig *6xm "Keowee Courie,!Written by W, H. D. Gaillard, with informatio. foliowing, kindly furnished us by 'Squire J.1 G,, which; will be of t some interest to a great many of our reader.: Ocome. Rendiniseepces. 1 Emrtona KOWEEs. (ouRIu--Des I . Sirs: In your issue of Antut 28th, giv ing the early history of Cdet Coim tv. you say you have been 14)ld that the. - rat licensed physician who setiled. hi Pickenm District wa Dr. Robert ax. well, who livedi on .eaverdamu aiid enmmeneed prctice In 1848. Dr. Maxwell commenced breticing Onl Beaverdam in the fall of 1811, but. he was not the first licensed physician who lived and practiced in that. Dis I triet. Dr. ,John Robnson moved from r Greeinville And settled at O'd Pickeisi 4 ville in 1823,'bfore the District of Pen dietou was divided. and lived there at. 3 ter it was divided, he hving mnoved to - Pendleton jn .1828, where hle lived a - few years ild moved back to Piekpus Sville. where he lived and praCtild iII 1 1835. 1 know, hAvIng stayed at his hon*e, in tht year. Yon are no doubt aware that Pick- 1 ensville was once the Cowrt House of 0 WashinlgltonI County. which coistedI . of Penldieton and Greenville. That. r was before 1800, as the first eomuts uf ter Wasihington County was divided was held Pendletou and Greenville in i 180f. Another ineident was that nearly all . thc storeit at Pickensville were burned and the merchanit )6Tost nearly all of I t heir good,. and a lottery was gotten I 11p for their relief, I send you a ticket. t for said lottery as soinething euiriots. - [The following is a copy of tihe lottery ticket:) CH ARITA BLE RELIEF LOTTERY (By authority of the State of Sont b .Carolina.) No. 4860. Thts Ticket will entitle the ho)-: der to such prize as may be drawn: :agaiimt its )irmber, in a lottery to: .be trwi at Pendleton Court bonse: 3 S. C., for the relief .of shuferers by: :tire at Pickensville, S. C., if de-: :manded wit hin 12 months a fter the:' :drawing~ is completed, subject to a: :deduction) of lifteen) per' cemt.: -: Prize paRyable sixty days after the: drlawinig is thnished!. fJA MES (.. GR IFFIN, Manager.: .PBNDLETON, S. C., 1817. { L do (1not think thast the merchants ev er got any benefit fromt the same, 1 (do not write this to be pnublished, but you can, if you wI.,b, make such ex Stracts as yon desire. Yours very3 respectfully, W.IH. D.4GA11LA RD. H e alludes to Dr. John Robin I S0op as being the first practicing Sphysician that settled in Pickens Coumnty. Mr. Gaillardi is cotrect. Sin his statament, and siinoe Dr,. Robinson as thie first physician in the County, and an early settler of' the same, sorne of our older cit ~izens who may have known D~r. Robinson, would -relish a short sketcltof his life, &c. He wasa - nativs of Virginia, bornedt and rais- t ed in the County in which the fIrst and second battles of Manassas,in r the late war, was fought. His I mother was buried at the '*Mudley" )r "Stone Chure nej that bat d A a Sg eon in the 8 Agny fit 12. Some et the close 6t the war he AOied t the tkIiAjWSal village of areenville, S. C., and entered up n the praotice of his profession, wiAh wis isdccessful. About the aine mentioned by Mr., Qaillard, ie cam to. P1ikens and bo4ght i,600 apres of land. from Jack Archerl, incluIg. Old YPike4is rille,' which survey includes the preater portion of our now beautiti ul-and thriving -town o di.asley., le built and lived,in the house in >ld ! Pickensville, in .whbich Mr. klfred Neal now lives, - and settled lown at that place, and commen red the practice of his profession. kbout this time he married the laughter of Gen. Blassingame , of 4reenville County. He raised inite a large aifiy ofchildren, Mr. W.-W. Robinson, one of our pree (t old an I esteEme3d citizens, be-. ng a son, andMrs. James R Ha.. rood and Mrs. W. F. Holeombe, eing two of his daughters. He was the grand.father of the Edi. 'or of the MESSENoEJR. In the luel fought in.1832 between Hon. 3. F. Perry, of Greenville, and Wr. Bynuin, Dr. Robinson was sur ,eon to Mr. Bynum, and assisted n burying him, he )eiug tilled by Perry. lie lived twice t old Pickensville' and finally left here some time prior to the year 1841, (the year in which he died), md went to old Pendleton'. He vas buried in a church yard near' >1 Pendleton, the same in Wvhich' kIr. Bynum was buried. He had the reputation of being n his day and time, a first clas* >hysician and a true gentleman of e~ olden time. There are some tradition in our sounty conifrmning the burning of. >ld Pickensville, as stated in Mr.s a aillard's letter, and it is said ftha t hat part of the. town burnt exten. led from Mrs. Oat's residence lown in the direction of Mr. Nealt louse. insuranee .tkense. ExECUTIVE DEP'r'N'r Off1ce of CmtolrGnrl [ ertify, That ifessrs. Jludgenis &; Bowen,, of tasley, Agenits of TilF JRESCENT F1JRE INS. CO., Inc(r >OratedI by the state of Lornisiana, hs ompl1ied with the regniisitions~ of the et of the General Assembly entitle d 'An Aet to reguae the Ageneles of Iasurance~ Compnies not in orporated the State of Soiuth Carolina,'" andr. hyereby 11cense thie said Messrs. Hud.. enhs 4 fowen, Agents aifores~aid, to ake ik anbd tranisact all busines~s of nann)ftnee* in tbis Stade, fu the (?ounty 4f Pkckens, for and~. ini behralf of sanI Ulnh1pany. Expirea March, 311at, 1885p. WY. EC. S oNy, Spt. 12 2t.. Cointollcr G,.tt