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RS. m TI-WEEKLY EDIT~j~ WINNSBORIO. S. c.. 'rait IIsi-mY A 7.1Q' IVA~~ ~ A PL ENDID T19IB UTE. Heroism of the Southern People in War and in Pestilence [wLondon 8landard.3 The younger among us cannot perhaps romembir the koon warm sympathy with which the English of 1861-65 witnessed the heroic struggle maintained by their South., ern kinsmen against six-fold odds of numbers, and odds of position, resources, vantage ground, simply incalculable. Even those who, from sympathy with the Northern States, were mfavorable to the cause 9f a great nation revolting against a real tyranny could not but feel proud of our near kinship with that incomarable soldiery-so desig nated by their enemies-which, on fifty battlufields, maintained a con test such as no other race has ever in modern times maintained, and at last, when all hope was gone, held for six months, with forty-five thousand men against one hundred and fifty thousand, a slender line of earthworks thirty miles in length; who marched out 28,000 strong, and after six days' retreat in front of a countless cavalry and over whohning artillery and infantry pressing them on all sides, sur rendered at last but 8,000 bayonets and sabres. It is this people, tihe Ilower and pride of the great Eng lish race, on whom a more terrible, 1 more merciless, enemy has now fallen. There can be now no I division of sympathy, as there is no I passion to excite and keep up the i courage needed for the occision. Yet the n.en anld wolmen of tho I Suth are true to the old tradition. Her youth volunteer to serve and 4 die in the streets of plague- stricken f cities, as readily as they went forth, r boys and gray-haired men, to meet the threatened surprise of Peters- I burg-as they volunteered to ] charge again and again the cannon- c crowned hills of Gettysburg, and to - enrich with their blood, and honor t with the name of a new victory, a every field around Ritiliveb-'I rpl -:- I sisters, wives, mothers and daugh- t ters are doing and suffering now as r they suffered from famine, disease, c incessant anxiety an( alirm a throughout the four years of the N civil war. There may be among c the various nations of the Aryan f lamily one or two who would claim 0 that they could have - furnished N troops like those which followt d i Lee and Johnston, Stuart and I Stonewall Jackson ; but we doubt whether there be one race beside I our own that could send forth its children by hundreds to face in I town desolated by the yellow fever I the horror of a nurse's life and-- the imminent terror of a martyr's I death. Too iron OR HIM. As Confederate war reminiscences are the order of the day, here is one too good to lie buried. The hero of the joko we will call Jim. He was attached to Rosser's Cavalry, in Stuart's command. Jim was noted for his strong antipathy to shot and shell, and a peculiar way he had of avoiding too close a corn munion with the same, but at last all plans failed to keep him out of a "row," and he, with his comrades, under a lieutenant, was detailed to support a battery that composed a e portion of the rear guard. The enemy kept pressing so close, in fact, as to endanger the retreating forces, and the troops covering the A retreat had orders to keep the enemy in check, for a given period, at all hazards, and the order wvas obeyed, to the letter, though under a galling fire. Our friend Jim grew desperate. He stuck behind trees that appeared to his excited * vision no larger than ram-rods. He then tried lying down. In fact, he placed himself in every position that his genius could invent, but the "hiss' of the bullet hunted him still. At last, in despair, he called to his commanding officer : "Lieu tenant, let's fall back 1" "I can not do it, Jim," replied the officer. "WVell, ITll be drat if we don't get. cleaned up if we stay here I" "My orders, Jim, are to hold this place andl support that battery of guns,"1 pointing to the ai'tillery close by,. "If we fall back, the enemy will rush in and - capture the guns," Just at that time a well directed bullet impressed Jim with the fact that a change of base ,became nec essary. Jim found another appar en tly proteetivo spot, and, . as lie recovered his mind, he sang out:l "Oh I Lieutenant I what do you think them ore cannons cost ?" "iI don't krow, Jiin ; I sieppo-se $1,000." "WVell," saidjdim, "lots, take- np a collection anch pay: .for. th6 di-d ,uns. and let '.the -Yqankoien have THE TAM2MANY IOCXETY. A friend, for himself, and others, asks us to toll him somewhat of the origin of the Tammany Society, reference to which constantly occurs in New York political news. The origin of the Tammany So ciety is traced to tle rebel army of the revolution which, needing a patron saint to fight under-St. George remaining with the British selected for canonization a mighty Indian brave, a Sachem who had been known in life as Tamanend. St. Tamanend did not sound well, so Washington's soldiers for the sake of euphony inscribed St Tan many upon their banners, and they selected the twelfth of May, which tradition said was the saint's birth. day, for appropriate celebration. On that day in each year a wigwam was erected, a pole crowned with a liberty.-cap, and bearing a tomahawk, wampum and other Indian parapher nalia, was planted in the earth ; and wound this after the representative f the great Sachem, who was per wonified by a comrade duly accoutred iand painted for the occasion, had unerged from the wigwam, to which e u1gain retired, and delivered a 'talk" full of exhortations to love of iberty and courage in battle, they Li danced, with feathers in their taps; and bucks' tails dangling down >ehind. The pratice spread through >nt the army; St. Tammany and iis natal day were both adopted ; 'orts were christened with his name; mnd the 12th of May was regularly !oinmemoratod until, shortly before lhe last war with Ureat Britain, by )rdor of the then Secretary of War, jeneral Deaiborn, the festival was orbidden, as tending to debauchery nong the troops. "Nor was St. Tammany's early )opularity confined to the army. 3atriotic poets sang his praise, and ivilian societies bearing his name prang up in any localities. Par icularly was this the case in Phila-. Lelphia and other Penns'lvania ivity. There was a procession of ,en, women and children, all decked >ut with bucks' tails and other fores4 dornionts, to a grove, where the vigwam and liberty-pole had been rected, and where, after an address rom St. Taninimy's representative, nd sometimes a collation, the time vas spent in garmes and dances on he green. At one timo it appeared ikely that St. Taimiany's Day would ,xcel the 4th of July in popular -egard." The Tammany Society, however, vhich still exists, has been in exis once since 1789, beginning with the ,overnment and having continued hrough nearly three generations of nen, at all times exercising large nfluence on New York politics, and requently on National politics. It vas known first as the "Columbian 3rder," but as its founder sui .ounded Columbus, whose reprosen ,ative figured as the "Great Fa iher," with a dozen Indian Sachems, >r Ctonselors; a Sagamoro, or Mahster of Ceremonies ; a Wiskinkie, r Doorkeeper, &c., &c., the people wYho had liked St. Tammany as much is the soldiers did, supposed it to eo one of the many St. Tammany Societies scattered through the land and so called it. As the name wvas popular its founders threw Dolumbus over, adopted the Indian Dihief as their, divinity, and in 1805, iixteen years after its establishment it was incorporated as the "Tamw many Society, or Columnbian Or der." [ts charter describes it as simply a sharitable institution, and in its earlier days it did make provision for destitute patriots, their widows or orphans. But it has been a po itical power from the first, organ ized to~ that end by Aaron Burr, a great leader of the oldtime New York Democracy. Colonel Burr was not a member of the society, but directed its organization through William Mooney, who was its, frst Grand Sachem, and for yeai-as after stood behind the scenes and moved the machinery that conti oIled the people. Fierce fight has been and now is made against Tammany's in. fluence by various rival organiza, tions among the New York city Democrats, but it4s power is unbro.. ken and likely to remain so, The society may have done many things, as its lees say, that were ill done. But it has done good in its day. In the second year of its ex istence it was of essential service to the government, having saved the country from a bloody war. The Creek Indians, on the Sotithwester frontler, had grown -trou 1.esome, and the governvmot, then just en-. tering on its work with a heavy debt and an' imnoverished people, 'was induced to visit New York, tlen the seat of the Federal government, that a talk might be had with the President. The result of the con ference, it was supposed, would greatly depend on the first impres, sion produced on th minds of the savages, and their entertainment afterward. Luckily the Tammany Societv )ad an abuindant Supply of paint and feathers, apd Washington hit upon the happy. expedient of engaging it to do the agreeable to the tawny visitors. Accordingly, when the Indian embassy reached the city, it wsis conducted to the Tammany Wigwam, where all the members of the society were waiting to receive it with painted faces and full aboriginal outfit. The Creeks were delighted with their rception; and as during their stay the Tain many members retained their Indian dress, and devoted themselves ex . clusively to their entertainment, the result was a very satisfactory treaty, and the preservation of the peace. Raleigh Observer. ON TUESDAY TIE POLLS WILL OPEN AT SIX A. M., AND OLOSE AT SIX, P. A. I HIISTORIC NORTH 0AROLINA. The Raleigh Observer, in noticing a new child's history of North Caro lina, says : There is no State richer in inci cidents that do honor to its people f than North Carolina, and we regret I to say none seemingly more indiffer- It out to them. Most true, and almost.] as criminal as it is true we think, is < it that North Carolinians have been satisfied to live on from generation . to generation. without making any c anduring record of their noble deeds. v Take for example the brilliant cam-- f paign that culminated in the battle s Af Moore's ("reek on the 27th of February, 1776. Who in the State e :r out of it beyond the fmw who are 3nrious in such lore knows anything t >f that splendid achievement ? It t *dfui iin:' " ,' af Cor t t well planned and bravely fought a battle, in the defeat and rout of the Royalists and the capture of all their stores. baggage, ammunition, t arms, and the greater part of the, troops. And all this was no hap- t hazard affair, but the fruit of thirty a days marching and manouvreing between Fayetteville and Wilming- I ton, a campaign in which artiller3, f cavalry and infantry were used, and r in which the troops engaged wore f drawn, as far west as from Greens- I boro, and as far e;st as from 1 Newbern. It would astonish most people to be told that as long as six< months before the National Decla- I ration of Independence, North Carolina was so far advanced in her preparation for the coming Rovolu tion as to be able single-handed and j alone to conduct such a campaign as ( that which ended in the groat vic tory of Moore's Crok, but it is true for all that. Every child knows about Bunker Hill and Lexington, I however. T HE RADICALs MEAN MISCHIEF. THEY ABE WORKING SECRETLY AND WE nE LIEVE THEY WILL YET PUT OUT A TICEET. T HE INDIANA JcroRY.-The recent election in Indiana has been some what overlooked in the eagerness to examine the result of the election in Ohio, on the same day ; but an Indiana Republican, writing to the Cincinnati Gazette, makes a very intelligible summary of it as follows: "That we have been ingloriously de feated there is no doubt. I6tis the grandest Democratic victory achiev-. ed in Indiana since the existence of the Itepublican party. The increas ed majority in the State is- in itself great, but not until we add to that the loss of four Congressional Dis.' tricts-and gain of but one-the loss of three of the State Senatorial Districts and thirteen of the Repre se.ntative Districts, are we able to estimate the extent of our defeat, and it seems to one member of the party, at least, that we had best look the truth squarely in the face." ON TUESDAY THE POLLS wILLt OPEN AT SIX, A. M., AND CLOSE AT SIX, P. Ii. ALMOST A MATCH FoR JUDGEu MAoKEY, -Away back in the early history of Georgia, when the laws were-admin istered wvith dispatch and with com paratively little ceremony, one of,the commonwealth's noted sons, Walter T. Colquitt, at the time which we write a Superior Court Judge, con-d demned a man to be hung, then preached' a sermon, reviewed the militia, ,nwried two couples'at night, and then conducted with considera ble unction a rousing prayer meeting ...a114n naay. -Who can trab out A BrIL FEAST. A tall woman, having a troubled countonence, took the easy-chair and led off with: S"Mr. Joy, peoplo are getting mar. ried every day." "Is that possible, madam?" "Yes, sir. My daughter Enielino is to be married next week." "Well, that hIe'ts all ! Do you know, madam, I never even dretun ed of such a thing ? She loves the feller, of course, and of course you will give them your blossings ?" "Y-e-s, though I think she could have done better. However, they fell together, and 'twasn't no use to talk to her. The more I talked the more sot she was, and finally I gave in.' "And did you want me to happen in like and happen to see Erneline like, and happen to advance ten thousand reasons why she should break off the engagement and wait For some prince or duke to come ilong 7" "No, sir. The marriage is all iettled on, and what worries me iow is the supper they want to got 1p. It's got to come out of my >ocket, but Emneline wants to rush n the extravagantest manner. Wero rou ever at a bridal feast?" "Ever I Why I've beon to five mtndred of 'em !" "Well, then, I'd like your opinion a to what I shall provide, I've ,ot my ideas about it, and if you .gree I'll go ahead, Emlino or no P,mcline. It's going to cost me nough, anyhow." "Well," slowly responded Bijah. fter a no.iiont's thought, "I'd put n a clean table-cloth, of course, nd I'd scour up the knivom and arks, and borrow all the spoons ud dishes I could." "Yes-that's the way I should t0." "Then, I'd have a big bouquet at lie head of the table, two more in be contre and one at thin fnin boy are a great deal cheaper than weet cako." "That's the plan exactly "Some folks are just mean enough o turn a bridal party away lin r'y," reuimed the old man, "but hat isn't my style. Sweet cako Ud poppermint candy and ice eroam re well enough for consumptivos, >ut after a person has hung around or three or four hours to soo a arriago go oir lho's apt to feel a oneness. Now. if it was me, the M11ndat.ion of the bridal feast should io meat and 'tat,rs." "Just what I told Emolino I" ex laimed the woman, rubbing her kands in a delighted way. "Yes, meat and 'taters. I'd have rood, solid pork, fried rather hard, Lanked by breakfast bacon and ham. Phen I'd have baked 'taters warmod >ver. "I told her so-I told her so!" )xclained the excited mother. "Then, I'd have a plate of summer iquash at tho head of the table, and , plate of winter squash at the foot. P~he edges of the plates can be >rnamenited with slices of onions >laced half an inch apart." "I hadn't thought of that, but I'll uave 'em-have. 'em, or bust the wedding I" "Well, then, the side-dishes may sonsist of-of-let's see ? Buck wheat pancakes are awful nico, nadam, for one thing. A pickled pig's foot, placed on a plate by itself nid half hidden under stalks of 3elery, looks romantic and tastes irst rate. Then cut your' pumpkin pie up in-small pieces and serve it with sweet cake. Then-' "But isn't that about. enough ?" nervously inquired the woman. "All but some more onions, rnadam. There's where they make a groat mistake at bridal feasts. The guest who comes with his mouth watering for more onions goes away a disappointed and crushed man. I'd havn 'em raw, stewed, baked aad. hashed up. Those who don't like. 'em wQn't touch 'em ; those who hanker for them will bless you." "I think I'll do it-in fact, know I will," replied the woman. "It's me who is running this bridal feast and if Emeline doesn't like it she can be married out out on the oornmons WVell, Mr. Joy, I'm a thousand times obliged, and you are hereby invited, to attend'-the feast." "I'll conme. Don't forget the onione-.don't go back o i the 'taters and tbe solids. And now may all the blessings on earth attend you and yours, and if you get stuck for onions I can send you over a peck any minute. Good. bye-have 'em cooicd in all styles-,-so long-yum!"'. .-..eroit Free Pres. ON Tumarua . 'oLLB Wun oi'aw V X'F 1.40 Awe .11 ,_y a.~ The Eightoonth Tinfantry, United States Army, has boon ordored to move Westward to look out for the Indians. This regiiont Ias served for some years in the department of the South, mostly in this State and Georgia, and for a long time the greator portion of the command was on ditky in Colurnbia, where the officers and Inen gained the respeot of tho citizens gonorally. TiE RADICALS MEAN MIscuIEF. THEY ARE WORKINO SECRETLY, AND WE DELIEV4 THEY WILL YET PUT OUT A TIOKET. The latost outrago on tho part of a Southern Democratic execntive has been committed by the governor of Florida. Ie has actually issued an order directing the collectors to take only a part of the taxes that havo been aissessod, because the col. lection of tho entire amount would yield more than the administration of the govornment roquiros. It would be well enouigh for the farmors to rom inber that the lie law expiros by lituitation on January 1, 1879. It is not likely that the law will be re-onactod, and dur farmers should set about preparing for the change by putting in a heavy crop of wleat amd oats. An old lawyer says that whenever a witnoss under cross-oxamination, takes to frequent spitting 1h0 is ly ing, and takes to ex)etoration just to gain time to think. Otherwise witnessos rarely spit whilo giving testimony. A. B. 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