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be _ei ab i____ TIII-WEEKLY__ EION'WINNSBIORO. S. C. S ATrURDA Y, JANUARY 4. 18' IVOL. 2 O 4 WASHINGTON ALLSTON. --o .BRiNrScrN OF TIMl GRHAT. EST AMT ERICAN ARTIST. A Sketch of the Life of a Nativo gou'h Carolinian Wi-o A -i ved Fam-) fo. Himself and Did Honor to His State. ( Boston Letter io S m P'noiwo (Aill.I Until within two yoars a.go there ptood, in a condition of tumblo .down odecay, yet rich in rocoliltions and historic associations, an old liouse with an annex, on a goo.ly piece of land at the cornor of M.tgazine and Auburn streetst in that part of classic Cambridge called Cain bridgeport. A fine block of brick houses, known as "Allston Terrace," stands on the sito of tie dwelling hQuse and studio of Washington Allston, who "w.is one of the high est products of American civiliza tion and E'ropean culture coin binod." Hq was th intit uto friend of Samner and Irv'mg, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Taorwald.se and WOst, Longfello,v and C:nning, aud many others. of thi foremost mn16 of his aga. I his last volume of "Artist Bioprap!iies," Mr. Sweet sar pleastntly givos the inw.ardness of the life of V shin-ton Allston, 'ne of the fo%v famous artists America h t produced. One cain >t cinvorse wit'i any of the first ftmilies of (Iinbi iJ:a withou boing remninlu- in som way of the life of Alls:on in C.unbridre. Birn ,on a long, narrow strip of land, in the district of Waccam,w, in South Ctrolinp, Allston came of a 'wealtihy baronial family. Toe Allston chil dren all distinguish0d themselves. Among others, J'.)Saph B. Allston, of Baltimore, and lace of the Con federate army, a gentleman faimnnis for his ringing war poetry, is a grand-nephew of the artist; and Govern r Jo eph Alinton, of Sont I WO Carohina, who married Tnoudo-iia, i('ughter of Aaron Burr, was thi V1n of the pain tvr's gre It-uni.e, Col. Wi. Allston. Washinvon Allston was born on the B.oik. Green domain, twenky-two u:!os above Georgetown, in 1779. A fUor coming to 0ambridge, a f tvorit' resort of the youn CJ uolinian was the mansion of Judge Fr%nis D.n., tile Clief Justice of M ks ichu iotts and ex-111inister to lsila. Tho l >use was iit. tel on "D) .oil HI'l." His house Was aim>.st a h> -11 to muany of tio sta lents at the col lgo (which Allston atteadl at this time), especially thosu from the Southern and Middle S,,ttjs. Among his classm ttes waro L nnnel 19.aw, a profonnl juri'; Josupn 8. Buckmninster, a colebrate Unitarian divine and shoar, and Timothy Flint, famous for his writings about the Misiissippi Valley and the far West. While in Europe Mr. AIl]t m, painted between forty and fift piictLures, of which by far the greater number have disappeared. The choicost of his works after returning to America are now possesso I in) Boston-some in tihe Museum of Fine Arts, and others in the hands of the Dana and other elder families. But wvith all his talent, both as a painter and a poet, Aliston illusItratedl tile MIsTAKES OF AN AnTIST. If he had devoted to his profession all the time which was wasted on dilettante diversions, and had avoided that colossal rock of offence, the "Blolshazazr's Feast," he might have gathered about him the flower of American youth, and fonadeil a new and noble school of WVestern art, prolific in illustrious wvorks, and adding a Florentine or Venetian elegance to the martial glories of the Republic. Herein be failed, through lack of victory--compelling effort,.and left but as many pictures as could 1ill a large drawing%room, while Amuerican art still remains without a head, and becomes an appanage of Paris. His magical coloring attracted much attention. Even in R'ome, Italian artists call him the American Titian. His marvelous carnations were never oven imitated. In his "American Notes," Dickens says that " Wash-~ ing Allston, the painter (who wrote 'Monaidi'), is a fine specimen of ' glorious old genius," Grat tans, in his ."Oivilized America," -calls * Allston "the foremost of American painters." Yttitis aslingular faot that the present generation of the city of Cambridge is hantly oon-. .acious of the fact tht tlhis sapse a century. Allston, lik Cme h ad his faults. M k 161f%d% of this, he had a violent dislike to President Jackson, and onfo do elined to paint a bittle in whi-i he commanded, in terms almost of anger. Governor Hinilton, of South Carolina, inducud G3vornor Everett, of MasFw ichuet, to attempt his good olices in softening the obdurate painfer, but in vain. Governor R. F. W. Allston sover-d tiies aSkeI his famous kiusmil to paint lim a picture. but tho on!y answer would he, "R,bott, I must p) fint for monloy," asM if the( i,ltu. of takin moue.- from a i eliLt.v w0 :t?3 qnite out of the rtt tell oft p-Issiility. The now wing of the Art Mu.isumn, erected in 1878, contains the so-called Allston room, devote1 to some of the great artist's pictures, and to others by the same artist loaned by their owners and the Anthonmain. All-iton n ireied- a Miss Ann. Clhanning, a gr ind daughter of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Inlopendenlco. In 1830, the master married again. His second wife was a cousin of the first, and her father was, Francis D.mt, the Cief Justiro -of M ;ssa chusctt,i, who m Lrricd Miss Eliza, both EHllery ; and one of zi r brom ers was Ric!i ird H. D in L, the poet, and the oldest faiumus pot now living in th- ioantry. A TRAP FOR TiU U.w.RY -How IT Is WORKED.-NOt long agI we coi nonte.1 upon and w trio I tie po spie a.oin.it buin entrappe.l by a ciren lar puiportin,g to be is-ued by "1. P. Joi..4 & Co., d -de 1e in di:unon1, W ithos a jewelry, 868 Broawlw y, New Yj k, copi,s of Which h.!ve been iuaied to large numbers of people in this section of North 0 Lrolin L. This i-cul u recites that the send ,rs a oi t io ag:nts of a lotery wi.ch tie circular describas. "I enc.oe you a ticket, whiu-il is go()o I for any onle of the drawings, with ta ns under stan. ling. that I wili arralge it so that you w.1l draw a large piiz.3, if you Vill agr(o to act as agent for the sale of tickets. I am su thi:tt if a large priz. was drawn in your State an- shown around, th &t thiousluils of tickets cou.d be sold." The New York Sun expose this steal, fully and effectually. It shows that when the person ad dressed responds to the letter he receives a ticket, and suoct:y there.ifter notification that his ticket 1h ts lrawn a wac1'' au ch i worth $303, Wiic) will ' 3 B siped ulponl receipt of $3, willo-1 i- n0cs S.try tO [) Ly GXP a_41. H*4 iS C.i C Lt inl thi in i.-Lt ,. If ' m l is s11S iCi M-s Al I WAt I t u g >> i 4.3m (. 0. D., a-i I so W.UO.1, iu r0!eiV,2 the following: "DE.\R SiR-Your let'er of-- - instant recevel. I send no goo.ls C. O. D. Y m are entiLle;l to the prize upm .h p.vinant of $3 as stated. If tao amount is not re ceived in fift-en d tys ymaur wA,tch and ciin will be do I-tir i 1 ,)rfoi,3 an.l pat wit'i the uneLi no i prizos." ff, however, h vir .1 .ly sn Is tli $3 ask I fi.e, he cit'ir never hears fro,n it as eini or recsivos- a watch worth its enect weight in brass.- (hmarloute Obser~ver. NARaOW EsCAPA Fato)M FI i. Notwithstanding several d .ys have elapsed since its occurrouce, we deem it proper to refer to the fact, if for no other purpose than to record an act of her~ois:n on the part of a colored firem-mn. About 10 o'clock, a. mn., on the 19th nltimno, the roof of the court-house was discovered to be on fiee, it having been ignited by sparks from one of the chimneys of the buildling. The alarm wals given an.l the fire comnpanies wvere promptly on hand, though before their arrival a lad deor had been raised against the wall. This ladder Jacked soveral feet of reaching the omaves of roof, but nothing daunted,. Isaac Wright, a member of the colored fire company, asc6nded to the top - most round, and grasping the shingles, sprang to the roof, when the work of subdui ng the flames, which had miade but little headway, was an easy task, The act of Isaac was witnessed with breathless anxie ty, when it was known by every one present that the least mischance would dash him to the groUnd. But for his daring, the court house mnight have been destroyed, anid a serions conflagration of other buildings also :resulted. It wonid be an act af simple justice for the Couny Oommaisioners to bmake a substantial recognition of . .saac'sa bravery.--YorkvoWe Enaquirer. Comprehensive-A. egapiuys of settless, ian ialg their new town, oalledl it Dictionary, .because, as they said,. "that's the Tonly place where pe4, pgoApetity aid happl* ness ar found. OBNAron TrmuanAN, The Attompt Making to Run 'ita for Governor of Ohio as a St.p to the 0 Pe-l.e.lncy. WX9IHNGTO, December 29.-It is i soid that Senator ' Thurm-in, soon i after the reassembling of Congress, will make a spoeoh on the finances, tAking the oune course he (lid in < Ohio ond advocating the replacing i of national b:uk notes with green- i bmcks i-nd prohibititig the fartheor I iss e f ' o a , th I)part. o' tleanks. Ar. ISwit Says n conversation tlit t if Mr- Tirium in itikes s.t-h a Npccii h will IAWO in the I >U!i" by speaking in favoe,of the b inks. Hie says that if the Domocrats comn mit themselves to th TlurmAn idea L and it becomAs a part of their prin ciples. thon he shall feel compell ed t to bid g o 1 by to the Democratic I party. He says he does not intend .to make but one speech more in n Congress and that speeci will be in a fivor of mnaintaining the present 8 national bank system. He says that c it is the best th-tt ever was devised a and th it it ought to be perpetuated. I In answer to a question as to wheth- f er he li.d any interesk in any nation. N al bonk, beanswored that he did not n o vii a dollar's worth of stock in c any b ink and never was intoreAted in c, one further tm .n as a depositor or 3 borrower. He said he could speak c: without exciting the charge that 3 he was improperly interested. As p for Thurm i, his friends were a lit.- e tie too quick in denying the fact a that thoy inten-1-d tb try to put C him in the field for Governor of P hio. Tie te - pt is being ma:de V ove. y day, but ihus far the Senator b dooiind-i to conment, but his friends p wi.l contin ie t eir efforts. Taey t n0w .:y openly that if he resigns ir i tha SenAe, mnakes the canvass 'I ) (ovta ir -n. I is elected, it. u w 11 a c tro nwm the nominition f r % Pra,de . in the next Nation.d Con- e ea1iol, vn I thIZV si-i a coarse is 6 th3 oly t:ing that will secure such t action beyond peradventure. The N 011hiepublicans are now' talkingn about Oineral Garfield as the Re- a publican candidate. 'With Thur- t -nan on one si.le an I G%riel on the r oier the campaign vould be one of a the most remarkable and exciting b that ovor (,oerre-I in any state. L U ,rfield woolil be much stroiger a tha: C,ir.s 3Postar, as the latter is t not much of a spakor, wlil the 0 f'meur is one of the strongest pub- t im speakers in the country. The b P osident thinks that Garfield n woaid be. tie stronger candid,ite, a aid he is, -therefore, in favor of himi t as againsf. Foster or anybody else. r Garfield, however, before he was 3 thought of as a candidate, express- E ed himself favorable t0 Foster, but r in too :xigency of Thurman's noni- s nation it woul1d be necessary for the ' strongest ROpUbliCaI to be nomina- t ted, and Foiter wonl.l have ,to give . w.y. G rele't dis:riet is so Iuch attclied to bim that he could, no doubt, return to Congress after serving a term a, Governor. THmE ELEcTRIo SwreH. -An elec.. tic swvitch signal has been invented whmich promises to be very effectual. By an ingenions piece or mechanism a danger signal is displayed exactly sitmilar to the section signal, if a swvitch is not locked. No matter ~ whether it be closed or not, it must be looked, else tihe train will be brougvht to a standstill if orders. are followved aind the signal is ob served. Spring are used, andi all is conniected with the batte?y, and if tihe switch is not looked is thrown off a handle, which breaks the cir cnit and at tihe same time, by a wire, shuts it, so that no magnetism can remain in the magnet of the sig~nal. Thme spring throws the' circuit breaker out of connection,' likewise showing tihe danger signal.1 By using this simple co:ivne there can be no accidents 'from a: Imisplaced switch. Only one cell of" batteries is used on a section of a mile and no .local batteries. The' exeneby this method of signalling' is very ariiall, costing very little, indeed, after it has been established. I"Punctuality is the Hinge of Business." In families where Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is kept, there I, is nevet a case of absence from! school or business on ace ount of: coughs, coldd or sore throat. Price 26 cents. Thousands of tramps have arrive ed in the South, to, go into winter quarters, and aroaiid Atlanta, Ga., no householdei- resp'onds to a oalJ at the door at night, without a shot Bun in his hand, by dtkj@s i ito t.e. g? ass an aue, . WHAT BBSU M 2ZION lB4NB, The farmers of South' Carolina, Mud the townsfolk too, do not vw.ays realize what resumption no ins. They see that the price of yhat they have to sell goes steadily lown, and that in wages for daily vork there is a decline. But they lo not always pause to note the 'elative difference, as it can be seen n th# following quotations for the ,ew Year's days of 1878 and 1879: 1879. 1878. 'lear rib sideq, per 1b, 4 A 8a9 shoultiers.-.-.-....*..Aa4 6 a7 aartI--------- - - - 61a74 O 'orn, per bu'41h, sackel - 0a7 92475 hagar, yellow C, per lb - 77) 7ja8 H,asseo, . H., per gal. 24a32 2831 folasses, N. 0., per gal. 34a45 45a5 ;o1roe, Aio, per lb - . 9al6 17a2i a4t, per saok. . - . 8 Ma9 85l 1) tiee, per lb - - - - Ga6 5ja5 tLour, tjuper, per bbl 3.50a.4.75 5 00a 60 The decline here shown is re iarkable. It is more than the verage decline in the price of the outhern staples. And this view is onfirmed when we look to other rticles than more bread and meat. rown sheetings, in the year, have illen from 12J to 15 per cent,, ,oollen goods 15 per cent., ready. uide clothing 20 per cent., bleached ttons 15 per cent., shoes 10 per ant., agricultural implements 25 to 0 per cent. Besides this, the de line in the price of butter is from 0 cents a pound to 20 cents a ounl. poultry (iresse.1) from 20 ants to 17 cents, eggs from 30 cents dozen to 25 cents. These are Iarleston prices, not Northern rices, and if* they teach anything in i world they teach that money can j made on cotton at ten cents a ound, and that we can live in the .wns on the prices now ruling. There is one thing to remember 'o get the benefit of low prices we mat work in the old-fashioned rays. It will not do to live in the xpectation of selling cotton at fteen cents, when it is probable hat the selling price will be nine. Ve must practise hard-fisted econo iy and keep the crib full. Bread nd meat first, and cotton last I Do his. and South Carolina will grow ich, for the statistics before us how that we can live as cheaply as efore the war. Pri-its that sold efore the war for ten cents a yard oil at five to six. In bleached cot ons the purchasing power of a bale f raw cotton is greater than before he war, and is greater than ever efore. A pound of raw cotton will ow buy as much goods as two and half pounds of cotton would buy hirty years ago. Hard-pan and esunption are at the bottom of it. Ve sell eheaper,but we buy eheaper. louth Carolina can live and grow ich. The State can rise more urely than any new State can rise. hese are the conditions : Econo ay, hard work and hard money 1 Vews and (Courier. DIG LA WYR'W FEU. There are lawyers and lawyers. Vhen Daniel ~Webster and Rufus Jboate were alive, neither of these minent representatives of the green iag had the audacity to exact a fee uinning into the tens of thousands. ndeed, Mr. Webster thought he ras on the road to fortune when he eceived $5,000 for a single case, ,Ithough it was not uncommon for aimi to take a retainer of $1,000. tufus. Choate got $6,000 for defend ng Professor Webster, the Cam ~ridge "gentleman of great prop irty," who murdered Parkman in ide the walls of the Medical Col ege, on North Grove street. ~robably the Massachusetts law ers who are receiving the largest ees about this time are the Hon. 3aleb Cushing and General B. F. )utler. Both these men have big >rains and their ideas are large ; no nonsense about these men. Mr. Jushing last year received a fee bmounting in the aggregate to 100,000 for.some work he did for Cnhan gentleman, and ho expects o realize as much more from the am. source in the eonrse of the ext twelve months. The basis of ~his plethorickness is located in the sland of Cuba, and pertains to some istates that were sequestered by the Ipanish Government In the early part of the insurrectionary perio. r. Cushing is estimated as worth p2,000,000. General Butler's $145,000 fee in the Farragut prize oases came hon-. istly, it appear., but, he happened to uave brains -enough to. Maake the haul. A few days ago the General net the Boston City Hall' agog by a bill whIeh he sent in~ for servib,es rendered as.counsel In the tbatter ~dain eurredl y the)st~ WM - d xneidegtdt'4v *wai~ 6f' 8 udbury River 5 Ben, who Is Interested in a mill located on the borders of Concord River, got the idea Into his head that perhaps much of the Sudbury River water that the thirsty Bos tonians would drink might be neeesw sary to run the machinery of his cartridge factory on the Concord River, (which is supplied in part from a spur of the Sudbury stream), and so he accordingly placed himo self in a position to get damages. It was expected that the diversion of water would cost the city mil-, lions of dollars, but the total bill will be about half a million. The cases for damages were referred to a commission, but the city appealed from their award by advice of Gene, ral Butler, who, it appears, had managed to act as special attorney for the city in the matter. After some controversy. the city agreed to settle with the claimanto, having in the outasnt settled with the General for $50,000. And now judge of the feelings of the city upon having received from Butler a little bill of $25,000 for professional services. The city paid the General $5,000 as a retainer. General Butler does not spend his time in fooling.-. Boston Letter. riw 0. 0. AND 4, R4xJ%QoAD. The report of the President of the 0. C. & A. R. R. reveals the fact that the earnings of that road fell short of meeting the interest due on the bonded debt of the com pany by about $3,032, which, with the interest due on the foating debt, $13,500 interest to the city of Augtsta, by contract $7,000, and taxation $16,300, exhibits a ded, piency of some $44,013 in meeting current expenses. Yet in tha face of such facts, the bon h .hive ad-, vanced from $75 to $85, which een only be explained on. the ground that the road will be better man. aged since it has passed into the bands of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. There Is a strong convietion that the road will now be run in the interest of the stockholders, and not made subser. vient to the interest of the officers and thait of other roads, as when under the control of the Wilming. ton and Columbia Railroad Com pany. This belief is strengthened by the fact that the last three months show increased earnings of about $33,000 over the correspond ing dates of the last year. The expenditures were lessened under the rigid rules adopted, about $21, 000, which it is condently believed will be further reduced the incoming year. Yet it must be admitted that the salary of the President should have been reduced from $4,000 to at least $3,000, the amount given to the President be'ore the war, especially as all the expenses of living are reduced to the ante-war prices. Railroads ought to be run on the most economic principles, as though they were private and individual interest, but the mis-. fortune is the salaries of most of the high officials are too exorbitant, They feel as though the coi-poration must pay them high salaries, and the se&le of pruning, if adopted, must begin with the day laborer, A reduction should be made fromn the President down to the day laborer, as all salaries have been too high under former inflated prices. The salaries paid to railroad offieiale should -be graduated on a scale in accordance with 'salaries paid in other pursuits of lhfe. There peed be no fear of the resignation of any one unless the reduction should be reduced below the average wages of other occepations, We do not intend any- reflection on Col. Palmer, the President, as he undoul te1ly managed the road well, conside ri ig the diffiqulties in the way of his independent management,. The bonded of the company is about $2,500,000, which at 7 per cent. will require about $176,000 net earnings, which the road can be made easily to yield, and thus secure the bonds as a safe invest. ment beyond a doubt,-Bouthe, Home. In 1877 there were 8,140. .iale. and 522 female. drowne4 in inland waters in England , and Wales, 1,428 lives bdng. lost in rivers and running watevt'87 ild qanals ,and r602 inlks f ,