The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-02

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CHESTER CoUNrY.-A correspondent
Of the Carolina Spartan who has lately |
visited Chester writes to that paper an
letter. We make the fol-
lowing extract:
Chester has two Narrow Gauge
Railroads which il is hoped, will large
ly promote her trade. One reaches
northward into North Carolina, the
other eastward to Lancaster. No
county in the State, perhaps, was i'm
proving more rapidly in all important
respects, when the civil war began,
than Chester. Measured by the sur
veyor's chain, she is small; but tried |
bv any other trst, she ranks among the
foremost in the Stale. In Nlill's Sta
tistics, in the chapter on Chester,
under the head of eminent men one |
only is mc,lliorr'd, Col. Lacy, some OIL
whose descendants VIC have in our own
county. Albert Gallain Brown, Unit
cd States Senator, from Mississippi, at
the opening of the war, was born in
Chester. There is one page in the ear
ly history. OF the county Of some inter-
est. The United States Government
selected a fine spot in the southeastern
corner for a military station. Bar
racks, Arsenal &C., were laid of and
Gen. Dearborn (Sccrctary Of War
from 1901 to 1909 came to inspect the
work. The Chicfof Engineer, Scnf,
lies there in Il small grove of trees he
planted, without II stone to mark tho
spot. When, q few years after, il was
proposed to found National Military
School, this spot was one Of several
from which a selection was made.
The reader, if in thoughtful mood,
may think what would have been the
result in this county and State, if the
National West Point School had been
located OH the Catawba River with all
tho prestige and patronage of govern
mont poured out on the happy spot.
These "ifs' Of history-how tantaliZ-
ing and unsatisfactory Just below
that same spot, at Rocky Mount Gan
old revolutionary battle ficld) Shcr-
man was delayed i'll 1865 by swollen
river. If somebody had been in his
rear, with sufficient force but as re-
marked above, these "ifs" of history
arc quito unsatisfactory.