The Carolina Spartan

John Scott Cunningham, Esq., of South Carolina, has been appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate, a Purser in the Navy of the United States. It affords us much pleasure to make this announcement, as Mr. Cunningham was in early life in the employment of our establishment [Charleston Courier.

It is a very small matter, but South Carolina has not the honor of owning John Scott Cunningham as a son. His mother was a widow named Scott, living in the District of Columbia, whom A. F. Cunningham, formerly of South Carolina, and the gentleman alluded to by the Courier as having been employed by that establishment years ago, married. The son, to please the father, took his name, and thus became John Scott Cunningham. We know our contemporary aims at accuracy, else we had not taken up space to explain facts that are patent to us.