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" ' ' *!' ' '/ 'V; . '? -V" " j. ' ,/ * *.? ?.*?' r ' * . ' V s v.. ..... ^ 2? 5jj ^ "* ~ ^ YOL. 3. ABBEVILLE. S.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19.1886. . NO. 3 Where the Flap was Furled. l { [Fnm Philadelphia Times.] Appomattox Courthouse, Va., a sleepy little village, doting its days away on ' the old stage road botween Richmond * and Lynchburg, seems to the Northern j traveler to have become tired of existence away back in the early part of the ( century and to have settled into a Kip ' Van Winkle sleep, from which it only * once awoKe, snaicen Dy toe inunacr ot ? cannon and the tread of armed men, only . to relapse into more profound slumber. 1 All unconscious of its world-wide fame 1 and tlie richness of its local history, the . little town is content with its own pecu- 1 liar life and calmly ignores the roar and ^ rush of the outside world. Once in a while a stray touiist comes this way. * but seldom does the old tavern door 1 open to admit a stranger. Its hinges 1 have accumulated rust for years and long y springs of grass grow between the c broken porch-steps. The whole town 8 wears the same passive air of sompolen- ( cy as when Generals Grant and Lee rode ^ through iti quiet streets to close, by a few strokes of the pen, the most bitterly n contested and bloody internecine contest c ever to swell the pages of history. 1 ? c THE HOAD TO APPOMATTOX. f This morning two tramps from the t borders of tho Keystone State found \ themselves at Appomattox Station, on ? the Norfolk and Western Railroad. ? After a walk of three miles through g sedge, field and thicket, forests and corn- f fields, they reached Appomattox Court \ _ j House. Upon the brow of a hill over- i looking the town a small graveyard i brings vividly back to memory the one a short but pregnant period of civil war ] which is inseparably connccted with the c place, for within its whitewashed fences i are eighteen graves in one long row, cuch t with a nameless white pino head-board , of simple design. These graves contain r tho dust of the Confederate soldiets killed ill the last skirmish on Saturday night and Sunday morning before Lee sent the flag of truce over the hills to Grant. A small whitewashed pine monument had been erected in the centre of the lot by some loyal friend of the dead, but even it is now overturned and lies prostrate before the row of mounds. * Tbo Court House, m tall, square red 1 briok building, resembling more the ( residence of a solid old Virginia farmer 1 than a public structure, stands within a 6 small square or "green" in tbo center of * the town. The old stage road coming c over the eastern bills deferentially turns c to on<jj side and passes around the Court * House in a semi-circle, to resume in front its onward course again. Just 1 north of the public building and across ' thn.road is th<* tavern, a crl->nm v.Ionlrincr t ~ strdcturo of andent architecture. A mass of matted ivy leaves cling to one damp wall, while near by the old-time wellsweep rears its mossy head. Very rarely does a guest inscribe his name in the musty register, or climb the creaking stairs with his tallow candle to seek repose. The county jail is southeast of the Court - Honse about twenty' yards away. Two small stores, one of which enjoys the additional dignity of being the postoffice, a blacksmith shop and ten or twelve dwellings*constitute the remainder of the town, which contains, by actual count, one hundred inhabitants. , The nearest church is two miles away. tionrtl /v /?f A 1-2?.J I a mw vi /i^|iuuiubiUA sec vtsrjf Jiiuu and hospitable, and without questioning I the intent and purposos of the stranger ' at their gates, reccive hira courteously, 1 minister to his wants quietly, unostenta- e tiously, but with a kind-heartedness be- 1 noath all that is genuine and cheering, A ' > number of j^ortherp,visitors stmy here 1 1n the' course of the year; ifk fact, -curi- 1 osity is the motive inducing strangers to 1 C<jme;at all, bat there is no cuolnuss in * the welcome of these people. The vete- ' ran who fought under Meade at Qettys- 1 burg and followed Hooker inlo the ' Wilderness finds here ono of Jackson's * "foot cavalry" ready to grasp his hand and share his huuible home with his late foe. * ft COLONEL PEER'S BTOBY. , A good roan here is Colonel G. T. ^ Pect-B, clerk of the county court, an t office ho has held uninterruptedly: Tor ^ eighteen years, and altogether for near- c ly a quarter of a century. Colonel Peers * is the only white man now living at t Appomattox Court House who was here c . at the timo of the RMprflnHo* rtnno.?i - ?--r- - ---- p???viVMVi?i 1 Lee. He i? the friend, counsellor and t 4 loader, of the little community, and his t kindly. blo?ejrei and flowingwhiteboard 11 give him a patriarchal appcarance. His office in the basement of the Court House is crowded with musty old paper?, many beaming date early in the last century tnd concerning the estates and fortunes >f many proud P. F. V's. Colonel Peers is probably better acquainted with the local events transpiring at the timo of Lee's surrender than any man in the South. With great kindness he pointed >ut the scenec of the memorable incilunts of the 8th and 9th of April. 1865. "1 remember well," he said, as, standn tr c& t. 1 "6 uiikm? vuui i uuuau green," ue gazcu houghtfully at tho woods skirting the western sky, as though catching again n memory's eye the glimmer of hostile janners through the trees?'*1 remem)er as though yesterday the day when he Army of Northern Virginia passed nto history. There were few men in \.ppoinattox that spring. Some were vith Lee around Richmond, others with roe Johnstou in the South, and others igain were sleeping on the fields Gettysburg, Antietatn and Chancellorship. There were anxious wires, brokenlearted widows and childless mothers imong us, and the few who remained :ould easily seo the dark clouds gatherng closer over the Confederacy. Lee, Iriven out of Richmond and uprooted rom Petesburg, was hurrying his weary roops toward the western mountains, nth the sleuth-hounds of Grant and iheridan rressing hard behind. On Saturday morning. April 8, a few stragglers reached Appomattox with the inbrmation that Lee was close at hand, ville terified country peoplo from the vest came in with the intelligence that jheridan had come up the railroad track ind m as across the road in Lee's frontin the afthernoon Lee arrived and en:amped on the brow of a hill about a nile from town. About half-way bewecn, through a fertile meadow, runs Appomattox Creek, crossing the road lear an old apple orchard." A COOKCIL OK WAK. "I wept into the Confederate camp hat night and learned frotu an officer hat a council of war had just been held ty General Lee and his generals, at vhjch it was decided that if Sheridan's :alvalry was tho only obstructions in 'ront an attempt would he mai^e early he next morning to cut through, but if )rd"s infantry should arrive during the light there would be nothing left but lurrender, Lee's pickets hail been hrown , through and about a mile west >f the town, and and a sharp encounter >ccurred about dusk between them and he 15th New York cavlary. The picket line fell back through the town, folVlAWil Vv TT V* #. ..... ? ? ? ' - * vncu ia?4iu uji uic oiiciujr, ana ll was n leading this pursuit that the command of the cavalry, Lieutenant Colo?el Qoot,. was killed in the centre of he village. This was the last life lost it Appomattox. On Sunday morning a >attery was planted in my yard one liunircd yards from the Courthouse, and an irtillery duel with the Federals began ?rom this battery the last shots were Ired by the Array of Northern Virginia, ibout 9 o'clock that Sunday morning rord WAR Hrnil trVl t Onrornl I.nn TT-Vi r> ? O"" w V,VMV"4* " Mv/ lad ridden up under one of the apple rees on the banks of the creek, that the nfantry was in his front several thouiand strong. According to the decision if the council the night before, he itnnediately sent forward from this point he flag of truce. Thi is was the only >art played in the closing drAraa of the rar by the famous "apple tree of the Appomattox." General Leo and General Grant never mot under its boughs ; n fact, the latter never got within two tundred yards of the apple tree. He tUmai.4i? ? - ?t- ?-*- ?*-- * - ? vuv imitsugu mu viungu huoui an uour iftor the flag of truco entered his lines, ind was met by General Leo on tho >row of the hill, half way betwoen tho own and the appl) orchard. Here tho wo chieftains conversed awhile, then umed and rode together into the own.'' TBS SURRENDER. "Meeting Mr. Wilmer McLean in ront of the Court Houso, General Loo Lsked him qrhere thoy oould do , some I'ritinor. and tho nnrtv worn McnTlfvil Kv ?> 7-.r I V " "J hat gentleman to his own house, vhere, in the parlor, tho artitles of capitulation were drawn up ind signed. An hour or so later Geniral Lee passed me on his return to tamp. He was alone, and rodo slowly .fid thoughtfully, his hood bowed ipon his breast, ss though in deep bought. He did not seem Repressed, >ut looked like one who, conscious of having done his best, had been compelled to submit to the inevitable, feeling at the same time the terrible importance of the step he had taken. After tie surrender both generals retired to their respective headpuarters, and, if I mistake not, neither carno to our ^lown again. Both, I think, left on",^Tuesday, uenerai urant leaving Ueneral tiibbon to complete the surronder and parole officers and men." During Colonel Peer's narrative he pointed out many points of interests The spot where the two groat leaders met is marked by a pile of stones, while nearly a mile up the road on the brow of the hill, stands the solitary poplar under which the Confederate commander stood while delivering his farewell address to his troops. The McLean house, where the arti 1 cles of surrender were signed, is.a long, comfortablo looking red brick dwelling with a porch running its entire length. Over the parlor door hangs a picture of the room, representing itwhen the articles of surrender were being signed. Mr. Wilraer McLean, who owned the house at the time, was a refugee from the first battlo of Manassas, bringing hit? family hore to escapo the horrors of war.' In 1869 the old place passed into the hands of Mr. N\ II. Ragnld, its present owner. His son, Mr. T. T. liagald, is a merchant and postmaster in the village. The only time when tho town awakes to any degree of life i3 on Court days. They are periods of groat interest to the Virginia farmers and people flock to the town from far and near. Two resident lawyers transact tho local Court business and the Judge of tho County Court is allowed to practice ueiore the Uircuit Court. A strong effort is being made to have the Court House and jail removed to Appomattox Stationv three miles distant. This place contains more inhabitans than its sister town and is growing as rapidly as the average interior Virginia town. Then several brands of whiskey are sold here. Th<> Country surroundAppomattox Court House is poor and uninviting and there is little to attrac^ strangers save its rich mine of historic interest. The Chester, Greenwood, und Abbeville Railroad. [From the Augusta Chroniclo.] New Yohk, Oct. II.? [Spccial.] ? Talking with -a gentleman to-day, who is prominently identified with railroad j i- * * ^ * ueveiopiuunt in ueorjria, I canght the cue to an enterprise which has about matured here, and which when generally known may create something of a sensation in railroad circles. The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk is of the Pennsylvania Central system*, and, as tho same indicates, extends from New York to Norfolk. Ya. The waterbreak in track, between Cape Charles and Norfolk, amounts only to slight inconvenience, the longest freight or passenger trains being rapidly lerried across without uncoupling. The ferry boats used in the service are the largest of the kind in th? wnrlil. This lino in i?o present length is of no special interest to the Chronicle readers, but.its south erly extension, as now contemplated and provided for, concerns everybody in Georgia. From Norfolk it will bo continued to Weldon, over the Seaboard and Roanoke track, either by purchaso*of, or traffic arrangements, with that line. From Weldon it will run on over sev erai lines, iorining a succession or links, now stretching between Woldon, N. 0., and Chester, 8. C. At Chester tiow work begins, which is to consist of an air lino between that point* and Athens, Georgia. For the construction of this contemplated new line tho capital is absolutely ready. No better guarantee of that can be given than the assurance that the Pennsylvania Central is behind the enterprise. Whatever that powerful cor poration espouses is perfectly protected against failure, if millions of raonevcan secure success, and in railroad>building, as with almost everything else, 4* money talks." This line, I am assured, is to be vigorously pushed through to Athens, and there to connect with the Covington and Macon' and by that alliance, secure to itself a liberal share pf the through business furnished by that section trib utary to the Covington and Macon. A WKLL QUOUNPBD PROBABILITY. Thus may be seen,, oven by this meagre forecast of coming ovente, the welt grounded probability that, in the near I future the great Pennsylvania Central will make its way into the very heart of Georgia, joining its links as it stretches its mighty chain through several Southern States, until its bold and far-reaching projection becomes a Southern system, more powerful and important than any now known in that section. Our people can woll afford to bid it welcome, for the management of all its vast property is notably characterized by efficient ser vice, surpassing enterprise and libera) policy. Capital is unquestionably inclining to the South now, and any scheme laid to that section, with fairly reasonable prospects to commend it, is promptly backed by all tbo money it needs. Everything here is so inflated, that uien of means are naturally looking to other fields for investment, and none is more inviting than the South. The mineral interests of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Are growing in development and importance every day, and if our people will only work conservatively in the projection of their enterprises, money will flow to them from here and other financial centcrs in absolutely prodigal abundance.* Tho very near future will certainly bring the South into independent affluence and unsurpassed prosperity, if she will oiily husband her resources, and be patient for magnificent results. The Triennial Convention. Chicago, October 12.?The House of Deputies of the Protestant Episcop.il Church began its sixth day's session this forenoon. Tho committee on canons submitted a report, recommending that no church edifice be consecrated whiie any debts rest upon it. Tho committee also ask that the question of the consecration of colored people to the Episcopacy be referred to the committee on tho constitution. After considerably discussion tho report wras placed on the calender. A messenger from the house of Bishops reported rhat the Ilishops had decided, tho House of Deputies concurring, hat thnrn ?a r*r\ a??a 1 akol-aln vto?v v?*vi v to ii v wijoiuuwivihii uaiauic to the consideration and adoption of the several additions and alterations in the Book of Common Pray- ' er proposed to the General Con vontion of 1883. A siinular report was presented on behalf of the joint commute on liturgical revision of the House of Deputies, lloferred to the committee constitutional amendments. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin, of New Jeasy, read the unanimous report of the joint committee on marriage and divorce appointed at the General Convention of 1883. It embodied a new canon which contained several stringgent modifications of the existing canon on marriage and divore. The proposed new canon provides that no marriage of any person under eighteen years of age shall be solemnized unless the parents or guardians be present; that the divorce can only bo recognized or granted on the ground of adultery, the guilty nerson being forbidden to marry during the lifetime of the person from whom he or she was divorced. The proposed canon forbids the remarriage of divorced persons under certain circumstances, and provides for penalties to be imposed npon the clergy for any non-observance of the strict lotter of the canon. Mr. J. Bancroft Davis, of Maryland presented a resolution providing for a : joint coinmitto of three Bishops, three ; clerical and three lay delegates, to consider the duty of the Church in work among the colored people of the United : States. Mr. Stozenburg, of Indiana, , offered an an\ondment requiring the committee so appointed to consider and report the the best praotible method of prosecuting the proposed work, and also to draft a canon to place to place the plan upon a permanent hasi?. Tho amendment also provided that the committee should submit to its reports, and that it be made the special order for next Monday. The resolution as amended was unanimously adopted. ] The Rev. B. A. Rogers, of Texas, of- < fered a resolution providing that the missionary jurisdiction of tho Church I be extended so as to includo work < among the colored peoplo of tho United 1 States. Laid on the table for futnre t roferonce. , The Rot. Mr. Cartstenson of Pitsburg. < offered a resolution providing for the 1 appointmont of a joint committed to re- j port some plan by whioh the work of | evangelists may be officially recognised, i Placofl on the calendar. ] Governor Richardson on Our State s , Government. 1< [From the News and Courier.] b fie did not proposo to say a word tl against any man or sot of men. lie had v been a farmer all his life,"and his family a had followed that profession for gonera- i tions and his sympathies were with them in their struggles. While he would not answer all the charges that had been made, he would nay something about that of corruption in the administration R ar Hio QtnfA T"~\.? - 1 VI Vitw v/miu uvv?:i UlIICllVi i HU JLfUIIlOcratic party liad accomplished more for j all the people in the last ten years than ^ any political party had ever done in the same length of time. In 1868 the Itadi- ^ ical debt of the State had run up to g $29,000,000. Governor Scott carried his treasurer and the great seal of the State s to New York and stamped the bonds as ^ they came from tho mills. They went down to ten cents on the dollar, and the v levy for Stato tax was 14 mills. All c this money was riotously wasted, and it is said that Governor Moses absorbed $500,000 in one year. Our Stato then ^ stood disgraced in the financial markets of the world. ^ Thus matters went on until 1876, p when the "sons of Revolutionary sires," who had fought under Morgan at Cow- . pens, rose in their manhood and hurled tho usurper from our State. When the Democrats came into power tho first thing was to appoint a Court to separate ? the fraudulent from the valid debt, and ^ after their verdicts passed through the k highest^Courts of the country the valid debt of the State w?s settled at six and a half million dollars. The State government has been fairly and economically administered. Ono of the chnrges is that there is great and wasteful ex- J travagance. He said that honor is the g best economy that a State ever exercised. No business can be carried on without raonc}'. The farmer will fail if he attempts to make a crop with impov- 1 erished stock and poor tools. The mer- ^ chant will suffer if he hires cheap, inefficient help. It is a wise economy to ^ pay a good price for a good article. So, in the administration of our Government, the question is whether there r have been any unnecessary expenses or not. v One of the special charges is that the ^ State levy is now $320,000 more than is 1 necessary. In 1878 the State levy was< e $300,000, because no levy was made that 1 year to pa)' interest on the bonds as they ^ were in the Courts. That matter was V settled, and the next year the lew was "8 twice that amount. Some additional expenses havo been incurred in the State Government. The amount is $92,000, and it goes for the South Carolina College, the Citadel Academy, the comple- a tion of the State House, and for the Lunatic Asylum; but as an offset to this ? increased expenditure wo have an increased royalty from tho phosphate mines, so that the burden of taxation is * really no heavier on the people than it was in past years before this increased n expenditure. Taking our State in all P its departments there is no extravagance and no waste. Then comparing it w,ith the cost of other State Governments, South Carolina ^ takes the lead in economical administra- ^ tion, with the exception, perhaps, of Al- ^ nbama. The tax per head in South Car- 8 olina is $1.83, in Georgia $2, in Louisiana e $4.67, in Pennsylvania $7, in New York ^ 111, in Massachusetts $13. " In conclusion, Co). Richardson said: w "Now in the administration of pnblio c' affairs I promise eccnomy when it will u do good, and will recommend retrench- w ment when it will promote the honor of ^ the State and the prosperity of the peo- a pin. But I want no one-horse Judge on ei tho bench to try my case. A 25-cent c man is not the proper persop to try one for his life. Farmers and iruirchanffi do h not want cheap men to manage their * affairs. A niggardly, ungenerous, self- <c< ish man is tho worst of all. With such T tin administration as We have had for the n last ten years the future is full of high- " est hopes. It is only by following the ^ Democratic banner that we will be able 1,1 to preserve all that we have acquired, and I exhort you men of Spartanburg to ^ be faithful to party, to principle, and to the highest honor of the State." b Gol. Richardson's speech was repeatidly cheered and applauded throughout. It-was one in which there was not' sin- 8< gie naoKwmra step iaxen. no savored a ^ progressive policy in all things, political, *, agricultural, industrial, and educational, ' tie opposed none of the established in- d titutions of the State, and perhaps the ave of the people for the past governlent of the State could not have been otter or more gratifyingly indicated han in tho rounds of applause with rhich thoy punctuated his manly and ble defence of tho past policies of tho )emocracy. Adrift In Mid-Ocean. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 11.?The Anhoria has arrived here in tow. The pasengers and crew are all well. The steatner Anchorla, Captain Small, eft Glasgow on the 18th of September, >ound for Now York. She had 700 souls n board, including passengers and crow. )n September 22, four days later, a trong gale sprang up and a heavy sea truck the ship, and in the lurch which he made the shaft of the propeller was >roken. At the time of the accident the ship ras in lat. 50.19 north asd long. 39 west. 1 J ?- ? * - - ? jiiu whs rucKonea 10 DC aoout 1,'ZUU niles west of Ireland. The shock occaioned by the breaking of the shaft hrew the ship on her side and strewed ;lassware and other articles over tho leeks. Many of tho passengers wore rightcncd, but upon officors assuring hem that there was no danger of siukng a panic was averted and order retored. Sails were set and the ship beame somewhat steadier, but tho rudder ;ear being useless she drifted about at he mercy of the waves from the 22d of Jeptcmber, to Wednesday, October Gth, ifforts in the meanwhile being mado laily to repair the broken shaft. On October 6 tho engineers effected cmporary repairs and the ship was once nore erot under control, but soon after vards the shaft broke again, this time >eyond all prospcct of repair. A conlultation was held by the officers and he exact position of the ship was ascerained. It was found that she was eighty niles off the coast of Newfoundland. Is provisions were running short, the"" irst officer and seven others volunteered o launch a boat and make for the coast. L'he first officer was instructed to secure he services of a steamer if the boat eachod St. John's. On Friday the ship made little headway, and the expected steamer did not ome on that day nor during the followng night. On Saturday at noon, howver, the glad cry of "land" rang through al ho ship. Another volunteer crew was luickly enlisted, consisting this time rbolly of passengers, who pulled oward shore. Both boats reached land afely, but the steamer which was sent o the Anchoria's relief did not find her, nd the lattnr had nearly reached port before she was seen and taken in tow by | *1 aIIi aw V > iiuiuui t vooci* There were two deaths and two births ^ n board during the voyage. 'a The State Campaign. [From the News and Courier.] Cuester, October 12.?The socond Mm looting of the State Democratic camaign was held here to-day, and was irgely attended by tho Democracy of -^j tio Fifth Congressional district. Owing v>|] a an indisposition, which prevented iin from speaking, there was no address -ora Col. Richardson, tho nominee for "-v^jj lovernor, a circumstance which caused ' ^3 cneral regret. Speeches were, howver, made by Messrs. Leitner and Bon- > ] am and Congressman Hemphill. It ^ us expected that Senator Hampton 'M rould be present, but having missod . m onnection he did not arrive at Chester yi ntil after close of the meeting. <He r*8, however, waited on at the train at hester.station and received with musio .'>! nd cheers. He spoke a few words of ncouragement and recognition to the ro-vd and wont pn to Columbia with M le State canvassers. It is possible that .;:a? e will address the mass meeting at 'lorence on Thursday next, but he will grtainly attend the meeting at Summerille. He stated to-day that he would )-jim ot be able to attend many of the meet- ';k9 i<cs announced for the State campaign, S ut would make an effort to speak at as |9 lany as possible of those whioh will be eld in the low country. Senator Hamp n will not remain long in the State, |H ut will spend Rome time in the West ofore the opening of Congress. 9 " vjH Baoklen's. Arnica Salve. 9 The Best Salve in the wotfd for Oats Brat- *j|H >8, Sores, Ulcers, Belt Rheum. Fever Sores. . etter, Chaped Hands, Chilblains Corns. *na \\ Skin Eruptions: and positively cures Pi!es, ^vflH r on pat required. It is guaranteed to' rivei-iaM 'Hatioq ft.*