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Beaufort, S. C., Feb. 18th, 1865.
The occasion of the presentation of a
hor9e to Lieut . Col. Bogert (late Provost
Marshal) this morning, was one of the
pleasantest affairs which, has occurred in
Beaufort for some time. On Monday
last Col. B. came here to purchase a
horse, and having found one to suit him,
a meeting of the citizens was,, held im
mediately. Mr. J. C. Mayo was chosen
Chairman, and Mr, Jno. C. Alexander,
Secretary, it was decided to putchase
the horse, and part, of the purchase
money was paid down. >■ Got. B. on
going t© pay for the horse in the evening
was told that he was sold. Me was, of
course, somewhat provoked; and indulg
ed in some expression of sentiment not
extremely complimentary to Beaufort,
avoided meeting any of his Mends that
evening and left early the nOxt morning
for Hilton Head, in a sailboat, with per
haps not the best of feeling. As soon as
it was ascertained that he was gone,
Lieut. Col. Woodford (Provost Marshal
General,) was telegraphed to inform Col..
B. that his friends in Beaufort desired his
presence to present him with a horse, to
which Col. W. .replied that he would be
up On Thursday, 'but, owing to the irreg
ularity of steamers, he did not arrive
until Friday eve. During the evening
fbe was serenaded by Gen.
band and the G&ee Club connected with
it At 10 1-2 o’clock, this morning, the
horse, Preceded by the Beaufort Post
Band,#!as escorted down Bay street, to
the front of the Post Office, where Mr.
IJ C. Alexander preseaited the horse aqd
read a memorial, signed by the follow
ing gentlemen—
David Post, Geo. W. Pond.
Jco. R. Stinson, A. H. Hamilton.
S. Mayo, Geo. Waterhouse.
S. W. Bennett, Augustus Behu,
J. S. Fyler, M. M. Kingman.
E, E, Bedford, A. Welsh.
A. S. Davenport, R. Hall.
Steel & Burbank, Sam A. Cooley.
A. Goss Jr., D • G. Summerfield.
Benj. H. Champney,Chas. Poetting.
Jn®. C. Alexander, J. P. Wilkes.
Seymour. W. Ely, Dennis & Cos.
L. C. Styles, E. Ts. Herring.
J. W. Collins & Co.,H. Jennerman.
After which Mr. Alexander in behalf
of the abo ye gentlemen, expressed their
‘appreciation ol Col. BogertS administra
tion as Provost Marshal, congratulated
him on his promotion, and closed by
SAVANNA, bA., MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 27, 1865.
proposing three cheers for Cot B. which
Were heartily given with a ‘“tiger ’—to
which Col. Bogert replied that the time
spent in Beaufort was the pleasantest
since he had been in the army, he thank
ed them for their kindness, and was hap
py to know that he had fulfilled his
duties as Provost Marshal satisfactorily.
Mr. Alexander then presented him with 1
a beautiful Sash and Belt from Capt. E.
M. Ba ldwin, of the Navy, the part y Was
then escorted by the band to the office
of Lieut. G. N. Little, Provost Marshal,
where they dispersed. There was pro
bably never an occurrence of the kind in
Beaufort since its occupation, which
created such a heartfelt sensation among
a few. While. Col. Bogert was rigid in
the periorman ce of his duties, he was
kind, courteous and just to all, and prov
ed himself a high-toned gentleman in ail
his business ; this was so different Horn
the previous administration of the office,
that it was appreciate and by everybody in
Beaufort. A.
A Wonderful Little Theatre.—l
save you some time since an account of-i
the life ted by Mdme. George Sand atNo
hant. Let me supplement that descrip
tion by translating an account of her pri
vate theatre, recently given by M. Tiieo- j
phile Gautier: ‘ “The Nohant theatre,
where the ' illustrious novelist amuses
herself by trying fieri dramatic Ideas, Is
capable of holding some 60 people, but
the performances»there are generally
given before the family circle, and some
times, when the piece, requires six .or
eight actors/ George Sand is the whole
pit. Although the stage is small and
naturally proportioned with the theatre,
it is machined with a perfection unknown
in the large theatres. The scenery,
Which is in great part painted by friends
of the family, consists of real paintings. •
• The limited dimensions of the scenes en
able the artist to paint them with a care
which cannot be bestowed an large
scenes. As we are a,critic who is incjuisi-
I live about the “wrong side’ of stiges, and:
the secret firings of things, we yere gra
ciously allowed to visit ’ the scenery ma
gazine, the costume room ami the pro
perty room, which .arsea-elegated to* the
immense garret of the house., yr • :
We stood surprised ,at the immense
appliances which this little theatre re
quired.* It is* true that the care bestowed
on bringing out pieees. was never carried
further. Every object bore ;ts appro
t priate label, and was arranged in perfect
order ; here Vere backgrounds, ‘practi
cable’slips, details .of every sbrt. Our
attention wasen grossed by coaplicated
| looking machines, which seemed like
: ,rough models of unknown imtrqrqents
; of music. When we exained close
ly, we read upon one of them tearing of
a stove,’ upon another ‘winters wind in
the passage,’ upon a third ‘creaking of
a weather-vane;’ the last was entitled
‘‘wind and hail against the window
panes.’ The machines (wlich were
most ingenious inventions) were made,
to imitate in some fantastic drama those
mysterious and plaintive yokes, those
accents of the night and of silmee and
of solitude, which predispose one to
vague terrors, and are like the ‘flourish
of trumpets’ which precede the entrance
ol apparitions. There are likevise owls
which flapped their wings anl rolled
phosphorescent eyes, which might well
rigure in the scene of melting balls in
‘Der Freischutz.’. A small tir lantern
placed behind the bird’s head vrought
this wonder. What shall I say of the
bat-—symbol of the “blues'-r which
springs from the head of one of tie char
acters, flies around the room, anl disap
pears through the window —6r, Aw-
L\t, Gazette.
A Terrible Duel.--—A few years
since, as a New England gentleman,
whose name we shall' call Brown, was
passing a few days in one of our Wext
ern cities, he had the misfortune unin
tentionally to offend the susceptible
honor of a tali Militia Colonel, who was
one of his fellow boarders. His apolo
gies not being satisfactory, a challenge
was sent to him, which, however, he de
clined, from conscientious scruples. The
Colonel, who, by the way, had won in
two or three encounters quite a reputa
tion as a duellist, ,at once conceived the
idea that his opponent was a coward,
and resolved to disgrace him in the face
of all the assembled wisdom of the house.
Accordingly, the next day, at .dinner
time, in marched the dUbilist, armed with
a cowhide, and advancing to Brown's
chair, proceeded to dust his jacket for
him in the most approved style. Brown
was astonished. Luckily, he had been
Lieutenant of Militia in his native State,
and he knew the importance of incom
moding his enemy by a diversion. So>
seizing a gravy tureen, he tossed the con
tents into + he face of the belligerent
Colonel, and before he could recover,
from the drowning sensation, thus occa
sioned, he sprang upon the table, and
began to shower upon film with a •liberal
hand the contents of the dishes around.
‘You are an infernal ’
‘Coward V the colonel was about to say,,
but at that moment a plate of greens
struck full'npofi. his mouth, and the word
was blockaded and lost Forever.
• ‘Ha•! ’ cried the New Englander, whose
blood was now tip, ‘fond of greens, are
you ? Take a potato, too Sd and he hurled
a telling volley of hard potatoes at him.
‘Excellent eggs here, ‘capital, with calves
head, 5 and crash chine a plate of soft
boiled eggs against the side of his
cranium.
The blows of the cowhide, which had,
hitherto descended upon the Yankee's
head and shoulders, now begon to fall
more weakly and wildly, and it became
evident that the assailant, half stunned,
choked, and partially blinded, was get
ting the worst of it. His courage,was
oozing put.
'Take a turkey T shouted'Brown, as a
noble old gobler descended fairly upon
the Colonel s head, and bursting, filled’
his hair and eyes with deliciouslooking
stuffing. ‘Here’s the fixings,’ he com
tinued, as the squash and jelly followed
after. ■ ■-
By this time the Colonel was irretriev
ably. defeated, and his merciless oppo
nent seized a huge plum pudding, steam
ing hot, ana holding it above his head
with both Lands, seemed to bury him
beneath it,- ! he quailed in terror, and
throwing down his Cowhide, turned
about, and made a rush for the ddor.^: \
-■ 4 Stop for the pudding, Colonel stop
iot the pudding!’ screamed all the fellow
boarders, amid convulsions of laugher.—
But the Colonel was too terrified, add
did not cease running until he had lock
ed himself into his room.
But although the Colonel escaped
from the pudding, he did not escape
from the ridicule which the' affair oc-
J casioned. He subsequently challenged
four persons against whom his : ire was
particularly excited, and they all consent
ed to fight, but availing themselves of
the privilege of the challenged party,
appointed puddirig bags for their weap
ons. At length the -unhappy duellist,
finding no one willing to shoot or be shot
at, was obliged to quit the State/ /
EPIGRAM. ' '■
We asked a Frenchman once to point ss out
Wherein the rheumatism differed from the gont.
He thus defined the two. ‘’Suppose. ” said he,
“You put your fiuger-in de vice.” “Tisdoue,”
said we.
‘•You turn it,” he continued, “till dcpaih
So great ip you bear to turn a< a‘n.
D&t is de rheumatism ; den no doubt,.
If you give one tarn more., dat :’s de gout.
The Russian-American TExiofcAMi -**-
The San Francisco papers announce that
Colonel Bulkley, chiet engineer of the
Collins-overland Telegraph, is making
extensive- preparations in that city
for his trip northward* The .vessels,
ladep with materials for the construc
tion of the new line, are on theh- way to
Victoria/ and operations will begin at
New Westminster, in British Columbia,
whence the line will run through an ex
plored epuntry toFort Babine.Beyond that
point, as far as the Yukan river, the re
gion is, unexplored ; and through this
wild district it is the intention of the
company to make their way for a dis
tance of about three thousand miles.
From the Yukan river the company
will proceod to Cape Prince of Wale 9,
tfhicn is the point of land nearest the
opposite- coast of Asia, From tills point
a submarine cable will be laid across
Behring’s Straits, which, are here only
thirty-six miles wide. Arrived on the
Asiatic side of the straits, they will go
around Andyr Bay through Techuktchr
I (an unsettled country, though - not alto
j gether unexplored) until they strike
Penjinsk Gulf, or the Okhotsk Sea,
whence they will follow 7 the coast around
to the Amoor river. This country J
settled by the Russian Cossacks, a
roads are built the entire distance.
The company anticipate that by. .
time they arrive at the Amoor riw t j )e
telegraph which now 7 extends fr oni
Petersburg t® Irkoutsk Wftt b ave j )eei j
completed to the Amoor river, ’ the point
of connection for the internal ional lines.
From the mouth of the A .moor river
across to;the Japanese islam is the dis
tance is short, and the work of uniting
these islands by the submarii ie telegraph
with the main land is coir iparatively a
small undertakeg.
• About fifteen hundred men will 1m?,
employed An land in the proposed work*
besides the co-operative force- nt sea nr
on the coast, The line of the Western
,'lJnion Company is to be extended from
the Western States to New Westminis
ter bv ** 5 -Aaßife of March, from
t —v m-st or m,....
which point it Will be taken tip bv Colo
nel Bulkley’s party and stretched to the
Amoor river country,! there to connect
with the St. Petersburg lino, gjnd com
plete the girdling of two hemispheres.
A Little Heavy. ‘‘C , good souT,
after taking all the little comforts he
could afford to give to the wounded sol
diers, went into the hospital for the for
tieth time the other day, with his mi to,
consisting of several papers of fine-cut
tobacco, Solace for the wound
ed, as he called it. . He came to one bed,
where a poor fellow lay cheerfully hum
ming a tnne, and studying Out fadcV oa
the papel-ed wall/ • '•{ - •
;i “ ‘Got a fever?’ asked C—
. “ ‘No, 5 answered the soldier.
“‘Got acoffi
“ Wes, Cold—///o'—like the d—l
' ‘“Where? 1 ‘ • : - ;: .
‘Well, to tell you the truth,it's pretty
- ; weli scattered.. First, there’s a bullet in
my right arm—they hain’t dug that out
yet. Then-there’s one near my thigh—
it's sticking In Vet; one in my leg—hit
the bone— that fellow hurts / One through
my left hand—that fell out.. >And I tel!
you what, friend,with ail this lead in me,
X feel, gin'rally speaking, a little heavy all
over! % '
“C lightened his Woes with a
double quantity of Solace.”
Democritus, who was‘always laughing,
lived one’ hundred and nine years; Her
aclitus, who never ceased crying, .only
sixty. Laughing,, then, is best ; and to
laugh at one another is perfectly justifi
able, since we are to)d that the gods
themselves, though they made us as they
pleased, cannot help laughing at us.
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