Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-07-15
[From tho Lexington Dispatch
Col. VIM. Wallace.

Editors Di$patch:-As the term Of tho
offco for which the Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken
was elected to Congress expires on the 4th
of March next, aud convention to nominate
a acandidate ofill the Vacancy. will be held dur.
ing the present summer, tho friends Of the
honorable gentleman whose namo is at tho
head of this Communication, will respect
fully urge hfs nomination as ono qualified by
character, ability and experience to repre-.
resent tho Sd Congressional District in tho
47th Congress. Col. Wallace entorod
public life in early manhood and served for
thfee successive terms In the State Legis--
laturo before the war, of which body ho
was au actvo and useful member, Of broud
and liberal views, and an earnest advocate
Of the Blue Ridge lsailroad, which at that
timo was tho great question before tho
Legislature. IN politics he was Scccs-
sionist, advocating separate State action as
the only practicable means Of producing
cooperation for the formation of South
ern Confederacy, and when war ensued, ho
WAS among the first to volunteer aud the
last to surrender He commanded the I'd
South Carolina Regiment Of Infantry, and
":nged reputation for courage and capacity
! OF which any ono might be proud, having
on one occasion, when our centre was
| pierced at Second Cold Harbor and our
breastworks occupied by tho encmy, by a
bold dash with his single regiment suo-
oceded in re.establishing tho limo aud driv-
ing out nearly ten times his number. After
tho war he was elected III embcr of the
convention of 1865 and introduced reso-
iutiou which resulted ia tho dcputing OF
three of our most venerable and distin-
guishcd citizens, thc hohorabcs D. l..
Wardlaw, Thoma9 II. Dawkins and Alfred
Huger to inte.ccde on behalf of the pco-
pic of South Carolina with the Government
at Washington, for the release of President
Davis who was then iu prison, loaded with
chains and awaiting his trial for treason.
Col. Wallace was also member Of tho
first Legislature which met after the war,
and fnvorcd the extension Of the Stay Law
until the people could recover from the en-
barrnssmcnts incident to tho war and for
the same reason opposed the repeal Of the
Usury JIaws lie was unceasing and un-
1inching in his opposition to tho carpc:
bag government of tho State and was ac-
lively engaged during that dark period in
every effort to throw them off. In 1876
he was jealous advocate Of the ssraightout
policy and wrote to General Hampton, who
was then in Mississippi, requesting him to
head the movement, and in August Of that
year when the convention assembled, in q
caucus Of the straghtout party, nc urged
tho policy of putting on the ticket with
Hampton The leading Chamberlain Demo
Gratis, as tho ouly way to unite tho people
and save the State. at that convention,
Col. Wallace was appointed Presidential
eleotoT for the Sd Congressional District
and contributed by his earnest and eloquent
efforts on the stump TO fan the flames ol
patriotism. which scorchcd and blasted and
iiually drove from tho State the miscrcants
who had so long robbed our people and
desecrattH their temples Of justice aud their
legislative halls. LEXINGTON.
Tho reports of district officers of the
life saving service, received up to date show
that 200 disasters to vessels have occurred
within the scope Of Tho service during tho
year ending June 80, 1880. There were
| l,947 persons on board these vessels, of
whom l 1898 were saved and 8 lost. There
were snccored at the stations 415 ship
wrecked persons, to whom 1,O77 days Of
| relief in tho aggregate wcrc furnished.
The estimated value Of tho vessels involv-
ed in these disasters was S2,544,6O3, and
that of their cargocs Sl,1GS,010, making
tho total value of the property impcriled
S3,7l2,6l3. Of this amount S2,61I,533
was saved and 81 ,I0l ,0S0 lost. The nuns
Der of disasters involving the total loss of
vessels was 64.
Cumberland County, va, boasts of q