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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05
From Iibcrty.

weather with y large slice of Jaw
winter crumbled in. Mercury
sided down to three degrees above
zero, six degrees lower than it has
boon this winter:
Wheat and oats look sick and
the turnips, are badly frosted.
The town was full of people last
week after fertilizers, and trade
was pretty fair.
Tho cotton business was pretty
lively the last few days.
Mr.. Victor Hudgens, of Easley.
moved into j. S. O'Dell's house
last week, he is Railroad agont at
the Union Rock Quarry.
Mrs. J. d. Smith is quite sick.
Her mothor, Mrs. r. II. Ander-
son, of Anderson, is visiting her.
}. S. Wilson, was selling some
cotton tho other day and while
some of the hands wero working
with the cotton they did not forget
to smoke q little, and burned up
throo bales.
In tho "history" General Marion
wo find the following when dining
on potatoes with the British Of
ficer.
81 am IN love and my swoot-
hoart is liberty" Bo that hoaven-
ly nymph my champion, and those
woods shall have chums beyond
London and Paris in slavery.-To
have no proud monarch driving
over me with his gilt coaches; nor
his host of excisemen and tax
gatherers insulting and robbing;
but be my own muster, my own
prince and my own sovereign glo-
riously preserving my national
dignity, and pursueing my true
happiness; planting my vineyards,
and eating their luscious fruit;
sowing my fields, and rcaping the
golden grain; and seeing millions
of brothers all around me, equal
ly as froo and happy az myself.
This sir, is what I long for".
The officer replied, that both as
Il man and q Briton he must cor
tainly subscribe to this as hap
py state of things.
"Happy' quoth Marion, yes,
happy indeed, and I would rather
fight for such blessings for my
country and food on roots than
keep aloof, though wallowing in
all tho luxuries of Solomon. For
now sir, I walk the soil that gave
me birth, and eXult in the thought
that l am not unworthy of it.
look up in these venerable trees
around me and feel that I do not
dishonor ihcm. L think of my
own sacred rights, and rejoice that
| have not basely deserted them
And when l look forward TO the
long, long ages of posterlty,
glory in the thought that l am
fighting their battles. Tho chill
dron Of destino generations may
never hear my name; but still i
gladdens my heart to think tha
l. am now contcndlng for thei
freedom, with all its counties
blossings.' Well might the Brit
ish officer look despondent on hi
return to Georgetown. And s.
would our old tories tremble il
their boots had We fow Marion
now in tho United Statos. w
may turn up one somo of thes
fine days, and then for terror ane
diSmaY IN the gold bug camn. c..
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05

Richard B. Byars returned from North
Carolina Tuesday on his way home. Mr..
Byars reports Pennsylvania an excellent
territory and that Brevard is now hustling
to beat all sections as n summer resort and
with her new railroad she will certainly
push some OF her moro pretcntious rivals
MIR. Byars says hc had a fine trip.
The Union Meeting of the first division
of tho Twelve Mile Association, will be
held with Griffin church on the 9th Sunday
and Saturday before at 10 o'clock. Pro-
gram will be announced soon.
Saturday, 7th inst, is the regular day
for the meeting of Pickens Rifles. A full
attendance IS requested
Mr.. r. Lcnhardt was in town Tuesday
and made Il pleasant call at the JOURNAL
office.
Mr.. Adolphus Williams, OF Mica, paid
the JOURNAL n very pleasant call Tues
day.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05

Tho first American newspaper
was published at Boston in 1890.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05

For sale or trade, my place in
side tho corporate limits of the
town Of Pickens, containing two
and throe-quarter acres Of ground.
Two good dwellings on same and
necessary out buildings. Will sell
cheap for cash or trade for farm
Ing land; fine woll of water.
w. c., BRAMLETT.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05

/ was born near Edgefeld, S. G.
l havo invonted the bcst and
cheapest stock hltchor that was
evor lnvonted. Agents wanted.
Address w. p. Holly, Grocnvillc,
A La.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05
Mr.. EDITOR:
ri MarCf7 1899,

March 1909,
Right now is q good time to
begin q garden. We have all
the seeds you want and also
Irish potatoes and tools to work
them with. Don't forget these
things.
Potato Hooks, Rakcs, Spades,
Shovcls, Forks, and Whcelbar-
rows.
New Hats and Shoes.
New Spring Dress Goods.
Now clothing.
New everything,
Nice and bright.
Go in our furniture rooms and
look all about.
See the nice beds and bureaus
and pretty rockers.
Sit down and rest that tired
feeling.
Come everybody, h>J don't all
como at Cnco.
w. II. M -XuZZ.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05
From Mica.

Miss Emma Williams and Miss Nora
SIM Ii visited the family Of Mr. and Mrs,
T.. l.. Jones this week.
Mr.. John l.. L0opcr has very sick
chil relapse Of measles.
MIR. and Mrs. Adolphns Williams vs-
itcd their parentS, Mr.. and Mrs. s. NJ.
Loopcr this week.
j. Marion and j. j. Loopcr went to
Pickcns on business last week.
MIR. Eddie Singleton. of Westminster,
Oconcc, county, visited his uncle, John
l.. LoOpcr last week.
Joseph l.. Loopcr, while on a bird hunt
last week, found Il bird too close toNshoct
and killed it with the end of his gun.
Mr.. Fred Strickland, of Silver City, Ga.
after a pleasant visit TO relatives and
friends in this section returned home
last week for while, but will return to
this section again very soon. Judging
from the calls he made at one place lie is
very much smittcn on Il South Carolina
girl. Poor Fred, don't the time seem
long. UNCLE ABE.
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MCALlSTER g. BEATTIE.

G3 and G5 Main street, Grcrnvillc, $. c..
(NcNl door to National Bank
Telephone No. 81.
P.S. Hultcrick Patterns.
NuvS-9l.
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Boston. the patriarch of American paint
ers, and from his copies. without a master.
peeah 10 paint The sound OF a drum"
ne said, frequently called an Involuntary
tear TO my eye" As volunteer aid-de-camp
to Gen. Sullivan In Rhode Island he SAYS
sent my father c'Brother Jonathan'D a
descriptive letter. craving of the field
and the sword ! had captured-thus uniting
In one the correspondent. sketch artist and
soldier Gov. John Hancock. the political
na rtinet. whose example had cost Trum-
bull ms commission, called upon him when
Il sabled.
1t was a proud and consoling reflection"
ne says, tnat he who had been President
D. Congress at the time of my resignation.
urd who had both signed and forwarded
ne mscated commission which had driven
ne from the service had now witnessed
ny miiltary conduct, and seen that / was
not man to ask. but to earn distinction"
In 1850 he ventured to London to study
art under the battle painter, Benjamin
west, an American Quaker, and the first
10 paint his soldiery IN the clothes they
wore instead of Roman nakedness. The
Death of Wolfe, an American subject, by
an American artist. painted in London
only few years after the event created
an era in British art"
West began to sketch at the age Of
seven, and Joined an expedition to hunt for
the remains of Braddock's army. ard in
1I6O visited Rome with orders to execute
and, stopping in England on his return, re-
manned there for life. His battle scenes
from ReRulus to Wolf and Nelson, for
he lived to 1920. made 1t appear that war
was the natural line Of American illustra-
ton.
Trumbull Joined West when West was
only forty-two. Robert Fulton, who was
nine years younger than Trumbull, also
painted with West, and painted tie first
panorama ever seen in Paris. " hic1 gave
name to its place of exhibition, Passage des
Panoramas.
West, Fulton and Morse.
Fulton painted battle scenes, such as
Caesar crossing the Rubicon, and the sur
tender of Corvallis. but Trumpull had q
more ideal purpose and continued his ambi-
ton till he ornamented the dome of the
American Capitol and executed TIE intent
which makes him the antelope of our craft,
namely. to paint from life and knowledge
the whole galaxy Of the great men of the
revolution.
Entering Vests studio he was placed be-
side Gilbert Stuart, a pupil there at the
age of twenty-four. Trumbull was sooD
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TheMel Who Wrote ViVidlyhe Daily
HiSt0rYof the Great Civil War;
Their Trials and Achievements
Retold and Honor D0lGtO
Their Menofy---S Some
Interesting Ad-
dresses.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
GAPLAND, Md, October 16.-The monu-
ment or memorial to the army correspond
most original and striking centotaphs in
America and the only monument in the
world to the reporting of great wi.r, was
presented to its subscribers and invited
guests today
1t is also the only monument upon South
mountain, which is that long ridge running
from Virginia to New England, in sight
of Antictam and Gettysburg battlefelds,
and constituting the southeastern wall of
the great limestone valley of the middle
states, in which valley MartinSburg,
Hagerstown, Chambersburg, Harrisburg,
Reading and Easton. The Blue Ridge is
the southern counterpart of the South
mountain and begins in Maryland right OPP
posite the war correspondents memorial
and runs to Alabama. In Maryland the
Blue Ridge goes by the name of Elk Ridge
or Maryland Heights, and spans the Poto-
mae at Harper'S Ferry, three miles above
Weverton, where the South mountain cross
es that river.
These two ridges and several of their
spurs as we'll as the Catoctin mountain
nearer Washington. and the Sugar Loaf
mountain, still nearer ti1eHater. are all
III sight of the army correspondents me-
mortal dGd make a surprisingly lofty and
picturesque region, IN which the rival val
leyS of CatoCtIn and Pleasant valley lie on
either Size of the monument. 30 to 800
feet beneath 1t ard divided by what was
named Champions Gap in the war.
In Champions Gap was Part of the heavy
series of engagements in the mountain
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The passes called by the general name of
the battle of South mountain took place
September II. 1862. or only three days be-
fore tie battle of Antietam- The latter
battlefield lies out on the limestone plain,
west of South mountain and Its spurs.
In Champions Gap several hundred Inen
were killed and wounded AS it was only
eight miles from Harper's Ferry the Union
corps of General Franklin fired cannon the
evening they carried the gap hoping to
hear replies from Harpers Ferry, which
had however, surrendered that morning.
From the gap McClellaH's signal station
overlooking Antietam field Is only five
miles distant and IN plain viaw.
In 1884 at the close of the republican
party's long period in possession of the
government Mr.. George Alfred Townsend,
one of the army correspondents with Nc
Clellan, Pope and Grant, bought the land
In Champions Gap for a retreat and built
extensive stone residences and literary
offices there and built up also a railroad
station one mile below to the west and
macadamized the entrances to the gap,
which became busy mailing and crossing
place The villages OF Burkettsvilie,
Brownsville and Roh~ersville, numbering
1,G1 inhabitants. are beneath the gap.
The improvements On the mountain top
finally eliminated in a proposition to erect
a memorial there to the guild of war cor
respondents and artists. With very modes I
expectations the protector found that he
had touched popular chord and money
was rendered in liberal spirit by newspa-
erary-m nded people and personal friends
until more than 5000 were put in bank.
II was resolved TO build memorial appro-
pirate TO the gap in the nature of feudaI
gateway broken through by the light, to
stand at the pitch of the pass and look out
on both Catoctin and Pleasant valleys.
MIR Jpkn l. Smithmeyer. the well-known
architect, volunteered TO design the gate
way. and the drawings were made and
work commenced by April IA, 1Sg6, and by
September the edifice was done, all the
program having been executed In eight
months
The money was raised by circular letters
addressed to sympathetic friends. Having
never asked for any aid before in the course
of thirty-six years of active professional
life. Mr.. TownSend's friends came to the
front cordially. in many cases repeating
their subscriptions.
The monument was put up Of the rude
hard mountain stone with dressed archways
and belts, the whole laid in cement and
standing on three feet Of concrete and
seven feet of underground masonry. The
summit width of the mountain at that point
Is hardly 200 feet, and the platform of the
mountain had to he filled out with 800 cubic
yards Of stone and earth filling, reverted by
dry walls. Four roads ascend into the gar
and unite in one short road across the sum
init. Between two of these roads the monu
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Crounse, E. Cuthbert, N. Davidson, w. F..
Davis, i. F. De Nyse. J. P. Dunn, D. B.
M. Eaton. c. H. Farrell, ]. c. Fitzpatrick,
R. D. Francis. T. B. Glover, T. c; Grey,
mem, B. Harding. G. H. Hart, J. Hasson.
John Hay, S. Hayes, L. A. Hendricks, A.
r. Henry, F. Henry. V: Hickox. A. s Hill,
G. W. Hosmer. E. H. House. A. Houston,
Thos. W. Knox, F. c. Long. r. T. McAlpin,
Richard c. Mccormick, Joseph B. McCul-
lagh, W. H. Merriam. ]. E. Norcross, Cros-
by 8. Noyes. 6. H. Osborn, B. F. Osborn.
Count de Paris, A. Paul, E. A. Paul, E.
Peters, Henry ]. Raymond. Whitelaw Reid
Albert D. Richardson: w; H. Rnnkle, o.
George W. smalley. Henry NJ. Stanley.
Edmund c. Ste6man, Jerome B. Stillson,
W. H. Stiner. William Swinton, r. H. Syl-
vester. Benz. F. Taylor. Geo. Alfred Town
vosburg. E. w. Wollazz, ]. S. Ward, Sam
Ward. F. Watson, E. D. Westfall, F. B.
Wilkle. Sam Wilkerson, F. Wilkison. A.
W. Williams. J. c. Wilson, 7. c. Wilson,
]. n. Young, w. Young.
Comrade Correspondents. Friends: Like
the universe, this monument was evolved.
Twenty years after the war one of the
army reporters. still entranced with the
campaign themes of his boyhood. found his
conflict he desired to use in a romance.
Where he stopped and stood. an apparently
Improbable arrival to the laborers along
the mountain side and the farmers in the
valleys beneath him, now arises this me-
mortal thirty-one years after the war.
Its lesson to the neighbors around it Is
the proftableness Of knowledge and Of let
tiers and Imagination to any people, how
ever they may undervalue these things.
That monumental traveller found things
to do: wells to strike, rocks to subdue. men
to enlist, roads to create. The busy human
head Is also a farm, an eng. q and shop.
Twelve years of pleasant contention with
nature and rusticity had multiplied objects
in this old battle gap when, like the image
of Diana appearing to King Pericles, in the
play. and ssylng:
Perform my bidding or thou livest in woe;
Dot and be happy. by my silver bow!'
the apparition Of this monument suddenly
arose to the aging correspondent.
Pen Peak.
This mountain sallyport was one of three
lofty embrasures overlooking the Bannock-
burn Of the war. As when Bruce. from
Sterling Castle. looked down upon the Wales
Of Scotlands freedom and set his standard
there against proud Edwards power,
upon the late chronicler's vision the fam
| ing pen of Abraham Lincoln writing in
these hills the proclamation Of liberty.
That President visited these battlefields,
| haranguea the soldiery, spoke gently to the
prisoners, persuaded the generals out Of
| their sulkin9 conservatism and the vane
upon this monument tells the sequel:
'-rhe pen IL mightier than the sword"
| Wars Evangelists,
TN the close Of November last, 1895, no
project Of this subject for Q monument had
bsen born. Its Immediate occasion was
looking 1T the new govsSpment road be-
tween the lines at AntistsJh- The form ct
the monument sprang from admiration Of
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the victcrs who was left able to write,
namely George Townshend, brother of the
Charles Townshend who imposed the taxes
On America to pay some of the expenses of
that war.
Frederick Hudson says that the writers
upon the Boston Gazette, Warren, the
Adamses, Otis. ETC., stood the real Bunker
Hill monument of history"
That paper, when almost fifteen years
old, published the NEST important de-
scription Of the Boston massacre, and
nearly four years later the destruction
of British tea During the revolution the
and the News Letter, loyal British paper,
was published for the garrison within.
Franklin and Warrington.
Franklin, as our monument records, re-
ported for his newspaper, assisted by his
son, the arrival of Gen. Braddock at Fred
erick, and attended that general to get the
Iews and acted as his quartermaster.
Washington at the age of nineteen made
his only visit to any foreign land at the
Barbados Islands, where his notes on all
phenomena and events were as painstaking
as his surveys and journeys in the inland
of America, while his character was form
ing. his last act was preparing his papers
for the press
Washington's wife's connection, Col. John
Park of Virginia, rode with the news of
the battle of Blenheim to Queen Anne.
Paine.
Thomas Paine was one of the newspaper
writer's who first addressed the soldiery
in the camps. He was advised by Frank
lin to proceed to America at the age of
thirty-seven and edited a Philadelphia
magazine, and about six months before
the Declaration of Independence wrote
pamphlet to hasten the complete sepl;a-
ton of the colonies from England; he then
enlisted and was on Greene's staff. At the
end of the same year he wrote another
pamphlet, which was read to the regiments,
and he was soon made secretary of the
congressional committee on foreign af
fairs and afterward clerk of the Pennsyl
vania legislature, where he gave his salary
to help pay OF the army. He also was
clerk to the commission to get money from
France in 1881. In a second visit Lafayette
the key of the Bastile. He wrote 1.-The
Rights of Man." in reply to Burke, to de-
fend the French revolution, and while out
lawed in England was made a legislator IN
ures and was thrown into prison. Up to
this time he had been an unwavering friend
Of liberty, but intemperance Of habits now
extended to his writings and he lost the
support of the religious element by his
defense of reason. Returning to America
in 1902 at the age Of sixty-four, the friend
ship Of President Jefferson could not avail
to save his popularity. As he had climbed
vehicle he fell and died in 1909. His great
prominence was partly due to the uncom-
monness Of the pen Of the ready writer in
these states At that time.
Hamilton ~ . Correspondent.
Alexander Hamilton was introduced to
the world 40 . correspondent In 1772, be-
fore he was sixteen years old. having de-
scribed . West Indian hurricane In the st.
Christopher Gazette, published by Thomas
Howe. IN freshman. and three years before
this. at the age Of twelve. he wrote to q
friend: .sssssF4se4y
II contemn the groveling condition Of .
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virile army correspondent to elevate the
reputation and revenue even of the London
Times. The Telegraph, which has since de-
graded the literary quality of the news
columns, was not at that time nor consld-
erably, III our war, correspondent chan
mel.
Mr. Russell was received in America with
more solemnity than foreign ambassador.
For him the hostile lines opened and both
the contending governments hoped for his
support. He pleased neither side, yet at
this distance after the events, In view OF
his obligations, provocatioas and difficult
fession, standing before this monument
which is not to any side, but only to
function and an art, 1 have to regret that
we lacked but his consent to enroll Mr..
Russell upon our tablets as one OF the chief
special correspondents of the American
war. He still lives, and he created the need
and model for US before we dreamed of
war.
his more artful and not less devoted shad-
ow, Samuel Ward, the bon vivant.
For every letter Russell sent to his paper
Samuel Ward sent another to reach the
State Department In Washington. using
the remarkable opportunity Of Mr.. Rus
sells friendship and facilities, to serve
Wards cause and government. The bon
hommie and cleverness which tricked Mr..
Russell also tricked the whole confederate
population.
Mr., Stanley, the Marco Polo Of war cor
respondents, served on both the confederate
and fede i sides in the war. and abused
neither side, and at the close of our war
commenced his long career with the spur
and the pen among the, Indians on our
frontier. He also lives. and sent one hum
bred dollars in gold to assist this monu-
ment. E=..s
The comte de Paris was In our army as
an observer for the literary field of the
lfa1 rryL
assassinated in Ireland, and who had used
an Englishman's privilege etc look across
our hostile lines.
John Hay, Etc.
As we have listed the Comte de Paris on
our monument, we have done the same
with Col. John Hay, the secretary and his
torian of the greatest man and writer
among Observation-Disclosures incoln-a man
who blended Montaigne with Sully and
Montesquieu, and wrote 10y nature, as II
he were Shakespeare's son.sn
Mr. Hay was a campai9ner In the war, a
press writer before the war. and is united
In sympathy and career with this monu-
The press men in the army were numer-
GUS. Fitz James O'Brien was one, and was
killed in the war; he whose tales and poems
gave Harper's illustrated paper some Of Its
| momentum to take up the war and abun-
dainty illustrate 1t.
Charles q. Halpine was another. He re-
| ported and embellished the captivity OF
| ace Greeley. bailed out OF bond. Among
| the regular correspondents who have most
| literally given to this monument are Henry
Willard. Nathaniel Paige. Richard G. Nc
| Cullash. Whitelaw Reid. Junius a. Browne
| Edmund c. Stedman. Henry v. Boynton,
Joel Cooke and James B. Sener.
| TAe Lists. s.