Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-22

from Los Angeles, CAL, to Mazatlan, Mexi-
co, is nearer to Ell Paso than any part of the
Texas gulf coast.
THE STATE OF FRANKLIN.
The existence of a Territory named after
the Father of his Country, and the PROPOSE
tion to give another Territory the name of
Lincoln, recalls the fact, possibly not known
to many living readers, that an inchoate
state once bore the name of the most emil
nent American of the pre-revolutionary Pc
riod, and with the exception of Washing
ton, the most eminent Of the revolution
itself. The historian of the State of Frank
lin (or Frankland), DIR. j. G. NJ. Ramsay,
died short time since in Knoxville, Tenn,
at the age of 81. He inherited the papers
of his father who was clerk of the Wash
ington district of this now forgotten State,
and also came into possession Of those of
Colonel Sewer, the only Governor the State
ever had, and by Governor Blount who was
the Creek war and the war of 1912. DR..
Ramsay's book was published in 1858, and
covered the history of that portion of the
country which now forms the State Of Ten
nessee from 1869 to 1900.
Much of Dr. Ramsay's book-indeed
about two thirds of it's occupied with
the history of the rise and fall of this re-
dOubtable State. 1t consisted of the coun-
ties of Washington, Greene and Sullivan in
North Carolina, now forming the western
portion of the State of Tennessee. These
counties were ceded by the former State to
the general government in April, 1884.
just one hundred years ago. Butthe noun
taineers who inhabited the region feared
anarchy for two years, during which time
they would have no authority or Organi-
zation for repelling Indian attacks, though
the cession reserved sovereignty and juris-
diction over them until the general govern
ment should act upon the matter. Accord
ingly the three counties appointed deputies
who met and organized an independent
State, and Sewer, the hero of Kings
Mountain, was chosen Governor. There
was division of opinion as to whether the
State should be called Franklin or Frank
land, but Ramsay says the former name was
ultimately adopted. Before the organiza-
tion was complete North Carolina repealed
the act Of cession, and Gov. Sewer himself
independence, but nevertheless accepted
the executive Office when his advice was
rejected. a rather vigorous discussion en-
sued between himself and the Governor of
North Carolina, who called upon the people
of the new commonwealth to return to their
allegiance. The State was never recognized
outside of it's own boundary, and the dele
gate who was sent to Congress received no
attention from that body, and after nearly
four years Of disturbed existence on account
of the contention of rival governments and
the presence of rival courts in the same
counties, it surrendered it's existence on the
1st of March, 1888. Gov. Sewer was cap
tured by the North Carolina authorities
and threatened to be shot, but he lived to
be reinstated in his old place as commander
of the militia of all the western counties
and finally to become the first member of
Congress from the valley of the Mississippi.
1t is to be regretted that the name was not
preserved and transferred to some more
permanent and substantial commonwealth.
THE HEAVENLY SHEPHERD.-Deep in
the midnight that preceded the festival of
spring, at which the two first sons of the
human race were to bring thank-offering
to the Creator, their mother saw in deep
sleep a Wondrous dream. The white roses
which her younger son had planted around
his altar were changed to blood stained
roses, and more fully blown, such as she
had never before seen. She tried to pluck
them, but they withered beneath her touch.
Upon the altar whereon milk alone was
the principal offering, now lay a bleeding
lamb. Voices of lamentation were heard
around, and amid them one voice of de-
spair, till at last all died away into tones of
melody such as she had never heard before.
And a beautiful plain lay before her
more beautiful even than the Paradise of
her youth, and upon it wandered, in the
likeness of her son, shepherd clad in
white. The red roses were in his hair, and
in his hand he held harp, from which
those tones of melody came forth. lie
turned atfectionately towards her-began to
approach and vanished. With him vanish
ed the dream.
And as the mother awoke she saw the
day dawn red and blood-like and she went
forth with a heavy heart to the festival
of the thank-offering.
The brothers brought their offering, and
their parents returned homeWard. But at
evening their younger son came not back.
Full of anxiety, the mother sought for him,
and found only his scattered and mournful
herd. He, himself lay all bloody by the
altar; the roses were stained with his blood
and the agoniZing voice of Cain rang loud
from neighboring cavern.
Senseess she sank upon the corpse of her
son, and a second time the vision appeared
to her. The shepherd whom she saw in that
new paradise, was her son. The red roses
were in his hair; sweet tones resounded
her, "Look upward to the stars in heaven,
my weeping mother, look upward. Behold
yon glittering chariot there; it bears us to
other plains, to more beautious Paradise,
than thou in Eden saWest; where the blood
stained rose of innocence more fully blooms
and sighs are changed to sounds Of melody"
The vision disappeared; and Eve arose
with new strength from the pallid corpse of
her son. And on the morrow, when she
had bedewed him with her tears, and crown
ed him with the roses of the altar his
father and mother buried him by the altar
of his God, in the light of the beauteous day
his grave, and gazed toward heaven, up
ward to the high moving chariot of stars,
and sought their shepherd there.
NEED OF ECoNOMY.-One of the hardest
lessons in life for young people to learn is
to practice economy. 1t is harder duty
for a young man to accumulate and save
his first $1,000 than his next $4,000. A
man can be economical without being mean,
and it is one of his most solemn duties to
lay sufficient in his days of strength and
who are or may be dependent upon him in
his days of sickness or misfortune. EX-
travagance is one of the greatest evils of the
present age. 1t is underminding and over
turning the loftiest and best principles that
should be retained and held sacred in So
ciety. 1t is annually sending thousands of
young men and women to ruin and misfor-
tune.
Cultivate, then, sober and industrious
habits, acquire the art of putting little
aside every day and for your future neces-
sites; avoid all unnecessary and foolish
expenditures. Spend your time only in
such manner as shall bring you profit and