The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-14
OBITUARY..

DIR, Peter Nj. Wallace. Of Spartanburg.
DR.. Peter M. Wallace. Of the spartanburs
Gazette, died at Spartanburg Courthouse June
6, 1869, aged about seventy two years.
The deceased was born in Charleston, s. G.,
about 1897. He was o grandson Of Abner
Nash, member of The Continental Congress,
and one Of the carrier Governors Of North Car
olina, after whom the City of Nashville was
named. The father Of DR.. Wallace held some
Office connected With the Customhouse. An
older brother OF the subject OF this notice
owned ship which was fitted out as prlva.
tecr when the war of 1912 began. His field OF
operations was along the coasts OF France and
French lady. whose parents required certified
copies OF the baptismal register, &c. The
father prepared the Necessary papers and sent
them by the deceased. then lad Of fifteen.
English vessels then around Charleston. and
reached France in safety. He found, however,
that bis brother wns married. and only few
days before had left to resume the command of
hisfvessel in the English Channel. Neither
tne ship nor Its captain was ever heard from
again
Young Wallace, unwilling to risk q return
home under the circumstances, sought en-
ploIment on a vessel engaged in the China
trade. He followed the seas for few years,
visiting China. East Indies, South America,
when Napoleon landed from Elba. He remcm-
bored Distinctly the enthusiasm Of the old so.-
diers, and the grief OF the wives and mothers,
when couriers brought the thrilling ntelli-
gence to tho town where he was at the time.
A few years after, his vessel stopped at St.
Helena for water and provisions. When the
fallen chief was prisoner there. With natural
curiosity, he asked leave of absence from his
ship to see the iLustrious exile. A permit
trQW an officer carried him through several
lines Of sentinels, but when in sight of the
house he was stopped by guard, who told
him that pass from the Governors hand was
pO a inn
in the hope to see the distingu shed prisoner
come out INTO the piazza or yald out was COM
PEELED to leave with his curiosity unsatished
On his return home he studied medicine.
Coming to upper Carolina in early MANHOOD,
he spent severa years teaching, and then prac-
tlced medicine for many years in the lower part
OF Spartanburg and in Union. About twenty
i've years ago he became editor OF the Spartan,
which had been started q short time before. In
MS hands it became a controlling up-countrv
paper. HIS career as editor embraced the ex-
ing and following. He was independent and
decided in his views, simple yet pointed and
forcible in his style, hayirg many of the quail
hcatlons OF '''good parasraphist.' After clos
in manufac .urne. but with less success than
followed his his effol ts as publisher. The fail
ure or hls plans in BUSINESS, with the eventtul
years which soon followed, advancing age and
declining health all these made their mark on
his spirits and energies, physical and mental.
In 1867 he resumed his duties In connection
with the press, but the editorial s'right hand"
had forgotten much Of s'lts cunning
1t was only at intervals that his pen moved
so as to remlud his readers of his younger
days. He struggled manfully against the in
roads OF age and disease on frame If unusual
tenaclty and vgor. About two weeks since, as
he passed from his Office, his feeble gait and
wasted appearance drew forth expressions Of
sympathy and uneasy forebodings from q
groupe Of friends as he passed them. physi-
c!an present said: s'Thts is probably the last
gentleman
streets" The sad prediction was literally true.
He went home. to die. His closing days were
spent under the roof of his only son, where
from the family and friends he received those
attentions and ministries which our nature
Graves in the critical hours when "heart and
flesh" are failing.
Thus has passed away one Of the older men
OF our community, and perhaps the Oldest edl-
tor in our State. HIS three score and ten years
have been an eventful period ID history. When
he came into the world John O. Calhoun and
William Lowndes were at school, Robert Y.
Hayne was playing IN the streets Of Charleston,
Petigru and Cheves had just been admitted to
practice before Burke, Bay and Grimke. John
Rutledge was then Chet-Justlce Of his county.
Hugh Rutledge, John Drayton, the Pinch neys.
Ind David Ramsay. were in their prime
These. with their cotemporaries, were labOrlng
together. by public and private influence, with
hand and tongue and pen, to add to the resOur-
ces, physical, intellectual and moral, Of the
State wnere Providence cast their lot.
"Oi Rise some other such
Or all that we have left is empty talk
OF old achievements, and despair of new"
Spartanburg. June IL.