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Show 1 OUT SL'JlTLll. ATALlvWITHTllEMAN WHOBI.ILT IT IfE CAML FUOM IBLLAND, AD IS IN (.11 ABLEST N STILL. The j rtent, or, as il is called humorously, hu-morously, the; li-ing generation has 'ome ja.-cullar notions about Fort aumtcr It looks so gray and Qrliu ctdawu, w black ami frowmnc at night, and so much like a thiug from cut the tea, that tbo joung people are aid. to Jocata It In tlio agu of the jyrarukSs cr of tin ruins of ISaaltoc All this comes of iitk log of the gtrtod defeiusa of the an-cknt an-cknt fortrwe," '-Old fcumter," and other misleading phraM all tlic jouuj peoiIp uowever are lnforniwl now that the man n bo built Tort bunitir Is In C harWou IIo In fact ht been vrltli us" for about sixti year", having come over from Inland when ho was about twtnty flttyearsof aire lit was thu matter inisjn at 1 ort bumttr Hl ira then, when the t-pot on n hlcli Sumlt r was built trai a waMe of mud, lit only f jr fidilitr-, raccoou oy-tery, deadhninjg lu the Him mer, and other such alaminttiotiti o, ciMiizatiou tins ancient anu honorablo ma-ttr ntv-ou talked jctrrdaj to a rejwrter for the .Aetrs tnd Cutincr alKiut tin iHiIhling of tho ' ancient foitrtto." Ho gave first a list of tho various I edtral oflkcra under wl.om he worked on thefortandat (ort Moultrie, up to thu tiring of the Gre gun at tort bumttr When the wor started, a gnat force of laborers was brought from I4on nvcatly Iriehnien The did the pntra tory worktf lading the foil inlat Ion '-chooner loaJs of bhlngle and silt and broktn nxk wire brought and union Jed on tho mud flats until au addition to Hit. laud wan madi Then tin built up the walls abort, the highest tide anu !eftOtuafrfeut to tlit. tnel through which Uie targest Mrliooner ceuM tkli ulth eac Into the fort The intirhr Man a vast will w Inch was sixty feet deep, but thu Krhoouer toon lilltid this up and a -oli 1 fouudatlou wis madt ftirthat the wori was corurit tively east hen the fort was com pitted, not king la-fore the war, the tests of refei tau-c were made v i h a Columbian gun the lsrbest tlieu 111 tin ftrt 1-e When the wnr w as about to com mi nee tin. am itnt nusttr luatou of I ort -xiuil r t. as tiuder Uie onler of Lieutenant bottir at I' ort Jl&ul tut This or itr derired t.ie niaoti r mason to gouvtr to bumttr with VlwI-rsou hiiiu: to him that being an Iri-Jlimn hi uenlhate lo -tm tatliy t, 1th tbe -uulhefii aiu-t Die ma-ter miMin r,hl that he had icomi 1 lin 1 -on of c-oulli Caro-Iica Caro-Iica by hisaijuind iiUxensbivand that bc-idki, he had ' elvjil bouth Carolina ihifjnn ' Tins arrer mu-tliave Usu .nclnie, as the builder was ;n.rmil'eil to come back to Chark-4on fnm Moultrie, whtre hi left I leu hof-ivr lu the ail of Uirulng l gun carriages of tha fort. Comin over to C harleeton he met Mr (now Ocnim!) MeCnW, and informed him of t;hat was being be-ing done at the fort. Soon niter the-c etcnb tlic war broke out, ami the federals began to knock uown tbe fort tin had tried to hard to build It must have 1 ten an excellent ieceof ma-oiirt, considering the time It look the federals (o take do vn the bricks at long ranire 1- rom w hat tl e maetir maaon could n-collect tint began to bulk! Tort Sumter about twenty five tears before the war and, although It Is quite re-pectible on account of It-age, It-age, it is onl t snob win 11 ivui tared w itli the genuine ol 1 aristoc rarj or Fort Moultrie It is worth of t-peinl note that tlio liticks w bicb wen used in the con-lnictlon of I-ort biimter came from )ledwa, t n thu l.btek ltiter 1 Imitation on the Coor Uiter At this jilatje IaiHgri ve Smith w as buried The jilautatlou now belongs to Captain . 1 btom (Jharietton Aem and totirfcr |