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THE gray SOUTH
Sketches of Southern
Literature.
THE PAST AND PRESENT.
NO- 13.
Southern Writers and Authors.
By JUDGE WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE,
of Florida.
Author of the Constitutional History of the United
States and Common and Civil Law in the United
States.
Lira and Campaigns or Liect. Gen. Thomas J.
Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) by Pkof.
* R. L. Dabney, D. D.
Robert L. Dabney, one of the professors at
the Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, is a
distinguished and learned theologian, and min
ister of the gospel of the Presbyterian church.
It was the privilege of the distinguished au
thor to enjoy for years the friendship and con
fidence of Gen. Jackson, and to serve next his
person,as chief of his staff during the memorable
campaigns of the valley and the Chickahominy,
in 1662, which gave him a personal knowledge of
the great events on which the structure of his
brilliant, and well deserved military fame was
first reared. The responsible work of writing
the life of Stonewall Jackson was entrusted to
the author by the widow end family of the Gen
eral, supported by the urgency of his successor
in command, Lieut. Gen. Ewell, of his venera
ble and beloved pastor, W. S. White, and of
many other friends, in and out of the army.
Tile author had access to the correspondence
of Gen. Jackson with his family, his pastor, and
his meet prominent friends in public life, to
gether with copies of all the im r ortunt official
papers on file in the AVar Department of the late
Confederate government.
In the details of the military campaigns, and
battles fought by Gen. Jackson the author has
been Etudiously careful and pains-taking, hav
ing in his possession the fullest illustrations pf
the battle fields, sad theatre of war wheie the
General acted, from the topographical depart
ment of the government and from careful per
sonal inspection.
The diagrams, eleven in number, with the
minute descriptions of the position of the dif
ferent parts ot the army, the maneuvers on the
battle field, the various items of the camp, and
the march, present from the standpoint of the
author conclusive evidence of accuracy, aB well
among his varied and extensive learning, ac-
CcmplitLments and talent, a military capacity
which qualified him to write the life and cam
paigns of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson; illumined
as they were, by a continuous blaze of glory,
Jrcrn an early period of his military career to
the clay w hen in the language of his last words
he said in fhriBti^n fortitude and resignation,
•Let us pass the fiver. and rest under the
shade of tie trees.'
them,’ said he, 'that I have now fifteen thousand
men, I should have forty thousand, and with
them I would invade the north.’ When this
message was delivered to General Lee, he repli
ed: ‘But he must help me to drive the people
away from Richmond first.’
Dr. Dabney’s history of the Richmond cam
paign is a masterly effort, combining the high
est qualities of the historian and the biographer,
and in narrating the services performed by
General Jackson, gives an interesting detailed
history of the campaign with many allusions to
other distinguished officers and the part they
performed.
General Jackson displayed perhaps as high a
talent for military diplomacy and skill in the
conduct and arrangement of measures as he
manifested on all occasions as a commandant in
actual field service. After the brilliant success
of the Richmond campaign in which he was so
conspiciou8 an actor, he said it was manifest by
every sign that McClellan’s was a thoroughly
beaten army. He foresaw the danger of repeat
ing the error of Manassas or Jamestown. He
was anxious to leave the lower James, and desir
ed, and advised that he be returned to his former
field of action. The advice of Jackson was laid
before tbe President, and the campaign in the
West soon took the direction he bad indicated.
The remaining chapters are full of thecontin-
ous services of General Jackson from the battle
of Cedar Run, the second battle of Manassas, the
campaign in Maryland, the engagement around
Fredricksburg, the famous battle of Chanoellors-
ville, and finally his death and burial.
These great military movements, anti the re
markable display of .military talent, and success
which everywhere crowned the labor of General
Jackson are well related by the distinguished
author, and his work forms a series of essays on
the character and events of tbe memorable pe
riod. and distinguished character to whom they
refer not only interesting and instructive, but
rarely surpassed in biographical.or military his
tory.
The highest praise is not more than simple
justice to tbe life and character and services of
Lieut. Gen. Jackson, as a commander and as a
pure, stainless, devoted Christian; nor do we
in commending the history of this man, by the
distinguished author, say more than is deserved
when we unhesitatingly pronounce it equal, as
a biography, to any work in American litera
ture, and surpassed by none in accuracy and
purity of style, and true eloquence of language
and feeling.
In a public and private sense, the most im
portant, the most beautiful feature in the life,
character and service of Jackson, was the thor
ough manner in which the hero, the patriot,
the man subjected every feeling, every action,
every purpose to Christian duty.
In representing the Christian character and
true piety of Gen. Jackson, the Rev. author has
exhibited not only an eloquence pathetic and
thrilling, but performed a duty and accom
plished a service to his countrymen unsurpass
ed by #ny living author.
This is not extravagant language, nor used
without due consideration. Let the reader
pause and ask himself the question: can we es
timate the true value of the life and influence
in a national sense, of the virtue and usefulness
of the services c f a distinguished Christian pub
lic servant, marked by piety and a constant de-
pjpp to serve his country by serving his God,
the manifestation
able distinction might learn therefrom lessons
of wisdom and true greatness, and those in high
office might feel renewed couarage in making
duty to God and lore of country a common
Christian effort. How true has this pious and
learned divine,in speaking of Jackson’s exalted
virtue and usefulness as a man said: ‘Thus God
teaches how good, how strong a thing His fear
is, He makes all men see and acknowledge, that
in this man, Christianity was the source of
those virtues which they so rapturously ap
plauded; that it wag the fear ot trod which
made him so fearless of all else; that it was the
love of God which aaimated his energies; that
it was the singleness of his aims which caused
his whole body to be fall of light, so that the
unerring decisions of his judgment suggested
to the true thinking the belief of his actual in
spiration; that the lofty chivalry of his nature
was but the reflex of the spirit of Christ.’
The distinguished author of the life of Jack-
son is at this time a professor in the Union The
ological Seminary, Virginia. He has written an
eminent work designed for his classes, which
we will notice in another department of these
sketches. He is also connected with the South
ern Presbyterian Review, and occasionally illu
mines its pages with his learning, his eloquence
and his wisdom, while the southern pulpit is
graced and adorned by his learning, his elo
quence and true Christian piety.
Pope Leo XIIL
How He Looks and Talks in Contrast
With Hus IX.
The Men.
The Rome corresponlent of the Boston Pilot,
P.fij. Connellan, gives the following graphic de
scription of Pope Leo XIII, as he appeared du
ring the audience of tLe Irish College, May 2:
At a quarter to one the door leading to the Pon
tifical apartments was opened, and shortly af
ter eight noble guards^j^th high helmets, blue
, kEd drawn swords, entered
Those beautiful words should be, as they gre
immortalized with the life of the Christian hero, ^
for they are embalmed In history in the follow- j apd fo make public service
ing elcquence of the distinguished author of pig o\ big {mg fiefige Of religious duty,
life wb-en he go pathetically inquires: ! The Christian principle is under all circum-
’VPc big gout wandering back in dreams to | stances th,e vital element of a nation. Un '!• it@
tLe liver of his beloved valley, the Shtnandpahj j J;f 8 depends, Plid the virtue and sufferings of
(the liver of t pal kilt g Wait-re,) whose verdant the people. The example and usefulness of a
meads aLd giovts Le had ledeemed from the
invader, aLd across whose floods Le had so of
ten wen hi6 laseage through the trials of battle?
Or wa6 Le reaching foiwaid eciosb the river of
death, to the golden streets of the Celestial City
PXd the trees whose leaves are lor the healing
of the nations ?’ '
B$w beautifully, truly and impressively elc-
qutnt does our author continue:
‘It was to these that God was bringing him
through his last battle and victory, and under
their blades he walls with the blessed compa
ny of tbe redeemed.'
The work embraces a minute biography ot
Gen. Jackson from boyhood to the grave; his
early yeais, Cadetship at West Point, his career
in the previous war ; his lile at Lexington
which gave an instructive chapter in relation
to hi6 domestic habits, and Christian virtues.
The chapter on Secession presents Jackson as
a Statee-Eight Democrat ot “the most strailest
sect.’ This chapter contains a clear and strang-
ly expiessed vitw of the right of Secession. It
is well written, and fair in its feelings, yet it
presents only the partial working of the consti
tution in the Lands of a sectional majority,
composed of a people intensely selfish, and
striving as will every section not only lor sec
tional advancement under the administration
pf the government, but for political ascendency
from a sectional standpoint. Dr. Dabney makes
the common blunder ot endeavoring to justify
Secession upon constitutional rights, ignoring
the political bearing of the constitution which
has failed in its'phiiosophic, efforts to restrain a
sectional majority even in its selfishness or
illiberality, if not unfairness. Secession is an
improper and impolitic phrase for the right of
revolution. Secession is under all circumstan
ces if it succeeds, the death knell of the union,
as well as the overthrow of the constitution,
while its successful suppression is the develop
ment of the inherent principles of national gov
ernment which proves the constitutional pathway
from republicanism to monarchy.
When revolution is necessary let it be resort
ed tc— the lamiliar phrase, “FigLting in the
Union” if carried out at iLe point of the Lay-
onets will preserve the Union, and we may say
the constitution longer and better, than Seces
sion, which is but tearing out the very heart of
the constitution and breaking down the fabric
of the Union.
We do not criticize Dr. Dabney’s recital of the
causes which led to Secession. He relates them
with power and truth. We only Eay they were
causes ol war, lor which we justly fought,
but under a mistaken apprehension of the
safest way to obtain justice, and maintain the
constntion and the Union, which was to fight in
the Union.
But as the termination of the war blasted the
effort at Secession, let the Christian patriot from
every Bection feel and trust that happily in the
United States Government nothing is irremedi
able peacefully and regularly if we work honest
ly and fairly; although it may require a change
in the constitution itself.
From the first campaign in the valley of Vir
ginia; the winter campaign in the valley in 18G1;
the ctrapaigns in 16G2; the battle of Kernston;
the chapter on McDowell; the entire operations
atound Winchester, the object of that campaign;
the battle at Port Public; the Confederate posi
tion at Cross Keys w ith all the details connected
with these events, the entire narrative is so
clearly, and accurately stated, that every intelli
gent reader can, and will appreciate the talent
of tbe author for writing military history, and
the full justice done the celebrated character
whose history he was writing.
We approach fields of greater action as we
tjace the Richmond campaigns, so fullcf interest
in every respect and known as perhaps the most
renowned and memorable of the great events of
the war.
After the victory of Winchester, General Jack
son requested the Hon. A. R. Boteler to repre
sent to the authorities near Richmond, his
desire for reinforcements, with a view of carry.
:ing the war toward the Federal Capital. ‘Tell
Christian statesman, a Christian soldier high in
command, has never been sufficiently estimated
by the body-politic. The genius aod the pub
lic services of our distinguished men are valued
too much on account of those arts which build
up the material splendor of the, natiqL 1 ,. without
looking to’the etronger and more lasting bul
warks cf moral and intellectual purity based on
the culture of true Christian principles,
•Few' generals have waged war with such un
varying success as General Jackson. It has
been truly remarked of him that he was never
routed in battle; that he was Dever successfully
surprised by bis enemies; that he never had a
train, or any ciganized portion cf Lis army cap
tured by them.’ Thus writes his biographer.
We might enlarge this sketch by ahudiDg to
the many pleasant incidents related by the au
thor showing how he was beloved and admired
by tne highest, end most distinguished, as well
as the humblest. Robert E. Lee wrote to him
and said: ‘Could I have directed events, I
should have chosen lor the good of the country
to have been disabled in your stead.’ And a
little child of five years old, exclaimed: ‘Oh, I
wish God would let me die lor him, lor if 1 did,’
addressing her mother, ‘you would cry for me,
but if he dies ail the people in the country will
ory.’
It was the pure Christian character cf the
great man; for Christian virtue is the essential,
and only lasting element of greatness in w hat
the world call ‘great men,’ that has made Jack-
son the man he was, and gathered around him
the fame he bears, and will bear to distant ages.
His biographer says with his accustomed elo
quence and philosophic truth;
‘ How is it that this m&C, of all others least
accustomed to exercise his own fancy, or ad
dress that of others, has stimulated the imagi
nation, not only of his own countrymen, bui of
the civilized world, above all the sons of genius
among us ? How has he, the most unromantic
of great men, become the hero of a living ro
mance, the ideal of an inflamed fancy, even ba-
foie his life has been invested with tne mystery
of distance ? How did that calm eye kindle the
fire of so passionate a love und admiration in
the heart of his people? He was brave; but not
the only brave. He revealed transcendent mil
itary talent; but the diadem of his country
glowed with a galaxy of such talent. He was
successful, but it had more than one captain
whose banner never stooped before an enemy.
T he solution is chiefly to be found in the sin
gleness, purity, nnd elevation of his aims. Ev
ery one who observed him was as thoroughly
convinced of his unselfish devotion to duty, as
of his courage. It was no more evident that his
was a soul of perfect courage, than that no
thought of personal advancement, of ambition
or applause even for one instant divided the
homage of his heart with his great cause, aud
that ‘all the euds he aimed at were his country s,
his God’s and truth.’ The corrupt men, whose
own patriotism was merely the mark of ambi
tion or greedy avarice, and who had been accus
tomed to mock at disinterested virtue in their
sacred hearts, as an empty dream, when they
saw the life of Jackson had as heart-faith a con
viction of his ingenuous devotion, as the no
blest spirits who delighted to form their souls
by the mirror of his example. In the presence
of his sincerity, the basest were as thoroughly
silenced and convinced as the good. The con
fidence of his countrymen was, therefore the
testimony of the common conscience to the
beauty of holiness. It recognized the truth,
tnat the strength of Jackson wus m his exalted
integrity of soul. It was the confession of our
natures, that the virtue of the sacred Scriptures
is true greatness; grander than knowledge, tal
ent, courage, :philosophy or success. May it
not be concluded then, that this was God’s
chief lesson in this life and death! He would
teach the beauty aud power of true Christianity
as an element of national life.’
The pages from which we are quoting, are so
true, so beautiful, so eloquent, that we would
take pleasure in presenting them entire in this
sketch, that the young men, striving for honor-
coats and gold belts,
the hall, and immediately following them came
the Sovereign Pontiff in white soutane, and
white silk colotte, or little skull cap, accompa
nied by Mgr. Macchi, and another chamberlain
who carried the Pontiff's wide-rimmed red hat
and scarlet cloak. His pace was very rapid, as
he walked from the doorof the hall to the throne;
his step was quick aud short.—Hs is thin, even
to meagerness, and tall. The fingers of his
hands are almost lleshless, and the whole figure,
and the outlines of the face, ascetic to a degree.
—He is in appearance not unlike what Cardinal
Manning was a few years ago, when his activity
was greater than it is to-day. A9 he sits listen
ing to the lengthy address read to him by Car
dinal Cullen, his right hand, tremulous with
nervousness, is employed in buttoning his sou
tane, and his fingers shake, aud one might say
fumble, from very nervousness, around the but
tons. As tbe address continues he looks from
tbe Cardinal to the crowd assembled before him,
and hack again to the Cardinal, in a quick, ner
vous way. A few minutes of stillness succeed,
during which he grasps the arms of the throne
tightly with his nervous hands, as though to
keep himself still. Then his knees begin to
tremble as with a nervous force over which he
hoS no control. A lilfTe cTiiiij, fat and chubby,
breaks in on the Cardinal's reading with what
might be regarded as a remonstrating cry,' aud
the Pontiff turns to’Jlgr. Macchi and smilingly
addresses him, as if commuting on the inter
ruption. The Curdi.ua! has nJ length-concluded:
Mgr. Kirby presents thw gifia- £1.000 sterling,
£800 being contributed from the Diocese of Lis-
xnore, through the Bishop, Dr. Conaty, and the
remainder contributed here.—The Pontiff rises
suddenly to his feet, and—rare event—ad
dresses a discourse to the Cardinal. His voice
is very' impressive, and hc^jays seems to
i/o' iilc ia', rw-1 fi g In Lio heart.
You would say that he was thinking aloud. His
tone is somewhat nasal, but clear and ringing;
not robust 9Ed round, like that of Pius IX., but
tliriliing anu penetrating, very like to Cardinal
Manning’s, except that it is stronger, His ac-.
cent is not at all Roman; and although he was
educated here, he Las from his long residence
in Perugia, and much intercourse with the Pe
rugians, acquired the accent of Perugia. His
sentences are generally long, and you are forced
to admire how happily he keeps the master-
thought that runs through what he says con
stantly in view. *******
The people now gather closer around the throne.
The presentation of each one to his Holiness
now begins, the ladies being, of course, pre
sented first. The little chubby child who in
terrupted the address is brought before the pon
tiff, at whom he stares with a half-frighted,
half-wondering look in his large blue eyes.
The Holy Father afl'jffionately places his hands
upon the child's head, and after blessing him in
the most gracious rnauuer, the little fellow is
carried away as surprised and dazed-looking as
ever. Here is Father Mullooly. of Saint Clem
ents, just before me, and when the Pope hears
his name he most kindly says. ‘We are most
happy to see Father Mullooly, of St. Clements,
of whom we have heard so many praises aud en
comiums.’ Hero it was that I was best enabled
to see his euuhlehahce. A noble head, erowned
with snow-white hair, a high, wide forehead,
not smooth and shining, but rough with bumps
which would delight the heart of a phrenologist;
eyebrows bushy aud overhanging, deep^et,
kindly aud keenly intelligent eyes; a large, very
large nose, tuin and white; a wide mouth, which
lends itself most readily to a very attractive
smile, deep, straight lines bounding it, and a
good, clear, pointed e!.:n, with well-defined,
firm jaw, constitute the principal features that
you become aware of in looking at the counte
nance, expressive in the highest degree, of Leo
XIII. As you approach him, and kiss the em
broidered cross upon his slipper, and the ring,
almost slipping from his bony finger, a kindly
interest lights up his eyes as fie hears who you
are, what your occupation is, and how long you
have been in Rome. * * * Unlike Pius IX
in person he is no less unlike him in many oth
er respects. Pius IX. was an orator by nature,
and was probably tne most naturally eloquent
speaker of bis day; Leo XllL is more of a writ
er and less of an orator; appea‘8 Has to the
emotions and more to the intellect. Pius IX.
was distinguished for his thorough good nature
and genuine kind-heartedness; Leo XllL is re
markable for his kindly and courteous man
ners, his gracious speech, and the affectionate
interest he takes in those with whom he comes
in contact.
Hon. A. H. Stephens arrived at Augusta, Ga.,
Friday night, and was met by a large crowd,
and a salute of thirteen guns was fired.
William Hawkins, aged 20, has been lodged
in the jail of Culppeper county, Va., charged with
having murdered Willie Turner, aged 13 years,
on Tuesday last, in that country.
Prof. John L. Buchanan, of Emory and Hen
ry college, Va., has been elected to a chair in
Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, with a sal
ary of 2.500 and residence, and has accepted the
position.
Col. Geo. Proctor Kane, Mayor of Baltimore
City, died, after a prolonged illness and great
suffering, at half past three o'clock on last Sun
day morning.
The Portsmouth Times says: Saturday loth
inst., Mr. Owens who Killed bis son a few days
ago, acoompanied by Chief of Police, George W.
H. Watts, and several friends, visited the grave
of his son in Portlock’s Cemetery, soon after the
body had been interred. The sight there pre
sented was a most heart-rending one to behold,
the wretched father exclaiming: ‘Ob! my son!
I have killed you, but God knows I did not in
tend it. I did not know what I was doing.’
Gen. L.B. Horrigan, a Northern man and a
Federal soldier, has been nominated for criminal
judge by the Democrats of Memphis Tenn.
Ben Pittman, the phonographer at the trial,
agrees with Manager Ford in believing that Mrs.
Surratt had no knowledge of the plot to assas
sinate Lincoln. He also tells the interesting
fact that just after the assassination, Stanton or
dered every letter that passed through the Wash
ington postoffice addressed to Canada to be open
ed, in the vun hope of funding the supposed
Southern instigators of a plot which was con
ceived in Washington on the day of its execu
tion.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon on
Sunday week, read the late William Cullen Bry
ant s 'Thanatopsis, ’ which he said was among
the best specimens of exalted and beautiful hea
thenism—‘the sweetest pagan song that ever
was sung.’ He then read one of Watt’s hymns,
begining: ‘Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb,’
which be said was a beautiful Christian chant,
remarking at the same time that ‘Watts is a far
better man than Bryant.’
Rev. L. K. Willie, who died at Oxfjrd last
week, left his entire property to the widows and
orphans of deceased Methodist ministers of the
North Carolina Conference.
John Yeung, who is working the mica mine
of G. D. Ray, on Rowland’s Creek, three miles
southeast of Burnsville, took out, with one oth
All The World Over.
The bark Azor, from Charleston, April 21,
with colored emigrants for Liberia, and which
arrived at Sierra Leon May lit, reached Morviaa
on the 3rd. inst.
At Pittstou, Pa., Monday of last week, eighteen
persons were poisoned by drinking tbe milk of
a cow whose udder had been bitten by a snake.
Two will probably die.
Mr. Walter Frazer, of Augusta, Ga., a gentle
man of 40 years, went on board the flat at Sand
Bar Ferry on Thursday morning at 5 o’clock,
and when in the deepest part of the Savannah
jumped overboard aud was drowned.
The dwelling house of Mrs. StearnB, a widow
lady, near Charlotte, was burned to the ground,
and with it her little 5 year old grandchild!
It seems that all the children (three or fourj
were sleeping in the house alone. The eldest,
quite young herself, awoke and found thehonse
wrapt in flames. She succeeded in getting the
other children, out, and was in the act of rush
ing madly into the flames to rescue the little boy,
when she was prevented by some laborers who
arrived at that moment.
‘A person who was present aud witnessed tbe
scene says that on Thursday last, when Gen. Joe
Johnston was upon the floor of the United States
Senate by invitation of a Senator, the scene in
that grave body was almost like a levee—Sena
tors from all parts of the United States came up
to be introduced to him and to shake his hand.
Not once in a geneeation is such a scene wit
nessed—Business was almost suspended.
This circumstance shows the influence Gen,
Johnston will have in Congress.’
A few days ago one of the convicts on the
canal made his escape from the guards, and se
creted himself in a barn, taking off all of his
penitentiary riggings. He remained quiet till
the landlord spied him in this condition; who
ob discovering him, wished to know what his
business was. He promptly replied: ‘The con
victs got hold of me, and left me without a
rag.’ The farmer sent at once for au old suit of
clothing, and something for him to eat. Of
course he has not been heard of since.—Lexing-
ton Gazette.
*
There died recently in Hartford a somewhat
eccentric person, whose public services though
valuable, never met with recognition until now.
He was a man about fifty years of age and of
some means, but somewhat deranged in intellect,
who was every day seen upon our streets, walking
with downcast eyes, engaged in carefully remov
ing from the sidewalks all those stray pieces of
orange-peel and banana-skin that are really so
dangerous and occasion so giuch profanity. It
is said to be a fact that in early life his lady-love
A Little Fun.
A correspondent of the Charleston Kews, re
cently writing from Columbia, S. C. , mentions
that Mr. W. E. Doge, of New York, paid not
long since $15, 000 for the famous ‘Preston
Mansion.’ Only three or four years ago it was
sold to F. J. Moses for $45, 000, and evi;n this
sum was considered a low price at that time.
The bricks alone that surround the grounds
would, it is said, bring more money, if sold at
present prices, than the amount paid for the
whole property.
Triokett, the famous Australian sculler, has
lost two fingers while handling u cask of liquor.
It is usually the casque that loses two or mree
fingers while being handled.
Hon. William Archer Cocke will, it is said, be
put forward as a candidate for the United States
Senate, rice S. B. Conover, when the Legislature
meets. ,
er hand, sevAity-five pounds ot splendid mica | 5roke her leg b slipping on a piece of orange
in six days. 1 he James Gibbons mine on South . pee l, and eTrintl / ally died from the effects of The
oe rner in Taney county, is also yielding fine acc i den t. This it was that affected the mind of
mlca ’ j our hero and led to his unselfish occupation for
The Shenandoah Valley says: ‘There is a man j the rest of his life,
liviug near here who has a very convenient name;
you can read or spell it backward or forward,
and it is the same—ASA RENNER. Can anoth
er instance of this kind be found ?’ Yes, Han
nah Adams, of New Jersey, whoa faw months
ago married Adam Hannah. Her name is now
Hannah Hannah.
A colored youth, John C. Whitaker, will
graduate from West Point, thi% summer. He is
from South Carolina, and stands forty-fifth in
a class of sixty-six.
Gen. Hampton at Ninety-six earnestly advis 1
os the Democracy to send their best men to the
legislature this year. Soch advice was proper,
and we hope it will be heeded. Edgefield nnti j
Abbeville have done well in nominating ex-Gov- ;
ernor Bonham and Gen. McGowan, and'set the
.other countries an excellent example.
Uie Women.
Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who is
about ninety-six years old, is in the enj/yment
ot fair health, having recently recovered Irom a
severe attack of illness.
Two young ladies* inembers of the Eioou'ion
class of Mis* (Sarah M. Rice, of Baltimore, have
won the prizes for the two best e«eays on Shak-
speare or his plays, offered by the tShakspeare (So
ciety of Loudon.
Plymouth church congregation, Brooklyn, N.
Y., settled the Beecher-Tilton scandle to lis own
satisfaction Sunday night by formally excommu
nicating Mrs. Tilton.. The members then had
a general handshaking and congratulation
among themselves.
A female coat, er rather a woman’s coat fori
can't exactly prove its sex, is all the rage, and
the stylo is the pigeon tailed, shad bellied, or
business cut, with tight sleeves, aud the whole
thing covered with buttons. A white vest and
standing collar sets off the style. The breeches
have but one leg us yet, except Dr. Mary Walk
er’s; she has two legs to her pants, but a right
tight pin-back is as near it as others can come.
And nless the dear creatures, every one that
wears a coat has a frock (that's what my mother
used to call it) so short that it doesn’t touch the
ground by two and hall or three inches.
The Stage.
Never try to whistle a diamond back when it
is out of ear-ring.
Everybody seems to think himself a moral
half bushel to measure the world's fralities,
If you hear your neighbor slam a pillow against
his bedroom wall you may be sure that the
mosquito got away
The girls are graduating. Young man, if you
are not on the alert some other fellow wiil seize
a prize worth more to you than a mine iu Colo
rado;
Mr. Barnum claims to be the greatest show
man on earth, and he cannot stand on Lis head
! unless he gets up against a wall.
An, Oil Citizen whose last summer’s suit was
"* T'aiued by a Clothes cleaner, says tne fellow is
one of the few, the immortal names that were
not born to dys,
A noted agriculturist writes to his paper: ‘For
the last five years I have not lost a cucumber or
melon.’ It is very evident this noble man lives
miles and miles from femaie seminaries and
camp meetings.
The deifinition of Webster of a bonnet as ‘a
covering for the female head,’ ought to be re
modelled into ‘a covering for the vision ot' the
man in the back seat of the theatre.
An Eastern editor sadly remaks, in noticing
the death of King George of Hanover. 'Another
one of us gone.’ The words are called for.
King George was stone blind, and we have ire-
I quently seen the E :stern editor in that condi-
j non, too.
When you see a young fellow who a year ago
| used to step up and order lager for the crowd
| with the utmost sangfroid, patiently trundling
1 a baby carriage along tne street on Sunday after-
' noon, and loosing chop-fallen in his lust season’s
I hat, don’t it speak volumes tor the reforming in-
j fluence of woman’s society ?
! In a communication in the New York Sun,
Mary Ellen Chase says: ‘Women outnumber
men three to one in heaven, and in the same
proportion men outnumber women in hell - ’
Mary shouldn’t thus expose the secrets of the
other world. She will have all the women striv
ing to go where there are the most men.
—The Grand Duke’s Theatre, in New York,
managed by street gamins, has closed its doors,
The season was a uisaatrous one, the proprie
tors losing about eleven dollars.
— John E. Owens is planning a tour of the
world, to occupy two years and to close his pro
fessional life.
A dramatic and literary association has been
formed in Yorkville S. C. comprieing the lead
ing amuteur talent of the town, wish Col. A.
Coward, president: Mr. W. R. Jones, first di
rector; Mrs. Clara D. McLean, second director;
Miss Hannah E. Grist, third director; and W.
P. Good, Esq., secretary and treasurer.
The Atlanta Dramatic Association are deter
mined that Lajomurr shall be put on the stage in
the most careiul and finished manner. Great
pains has been taken with the cast, and some’
new and really fine talent enlisted, it would be
a rather bold undertaking for average amateurs
to play Imgomar, but tne Atlanta Association
will make it a success. The play happens to
be peculiarly suited to the scope of the mem
bers who take leading roles.
The principal theatres throughout the coun
try are either closed for the season or occupied
tor light, inexpensive entertainments. John
McCuuough is going yachting with Boucicault.
Lawrence Barrett is very ill of nervous prostra
tion, and has been delirious. Joseph Jefferson
has been playing the Tutor in the indelicate
farce,‘Baby,’ in !San Francisco. Hensy Irving is
to play Vanderdeckeu, in tbe Flying Duchiuan,’
in London. The Cnatelet Theatre, Baris, now
uses the electee light exclusively. Next season
will commence John Gilbert’s fifty-first year on
the stage. Raymond and Florence will, jf open
ings can be obtained, present ‘Col. Sellers’ and
tbe ‘Mighty Dollar’ in London this summer.
Fanny Davenport and Manager Field, of the
Boston Museum, may have a lawsuit over ‘ Oli
via,’ the dramatization of the ‘Vicar of Wake
field,’ which has proved successful in Loudon,
as both claim to have bought the play fdr Arner
ica. Sothern will return to the United Statea-
at the close of his shortened season inLoudou.
Tne number of stock companies iu this country
will be fewer than ever next winter, and most
of the theatres will depend on traveling com
binations.
The Crown Princess of Pussia and
Eugenie.
To-day the whole royal and imperial party are
out at Windsor. I met them as they drove
through Hyde Bark to the railway station in
that brilliant way always used by theQieen—
an open barouche, drawn by four superb horses,
ridden by postillions in scarlet livery and at
tended by a detachment of mounted soldiery, as
well as by a number of gentlemen in civilian's
dress on horseback. Tne cortege is a splendid
one, comprising not only the Queen's ba
rouche and that immediately following, in which
the maids of honor are seated, but various other
royal carriages, containing the immediate house
hold of her Majesty, and finally a sumptuous
looking van, in which the royal baggage is trans
ported. Just previous to the departure of these
royal ladies trom Buckingham Balace, the Em
press Eugenie called on them, attended by the
Duke de Bassan and the Countess Clary’, the two
principal members of the little court in exile at
Chiselnurxt. The Empress has been in town a
great deal lately, and it is said she is iu negoti
ation for the purchase of a magqifiaent town
house, where, when she enters it,, she will emerge
from seclusion as a widow and a deposed sove
reign, and receive the great world of sooiety
again iu a manner befiitiing her station. It is
my fortune often to to see the Empress, as I have
before mentioned in these letters. This summer
she is looking exceedingly well. The pensive
beauty of her face still remains in spite of the
furrows which care ln^t drawn there. Her figure,
once so perfect, has lost its youthful slender
ness, and is now decidedly inclined to embonpoint.
Tne principal objection that can be made to
her style is that she evidently objects to grow
ing old gracefully, and resorts to those adven
titious aids to the toilet iu the shape ol the In-
dia-ink pencil, and the liquid-white bottle, and
tbe yellow hair bleacher, which, by the great
mass of right-thinking people, are considered
subterfuges more fit to be used by the cocutle
than by the grawle dame. It must have cost
Eugqnie a pang to do homage to the Crown Prin
cess, the wife of Prince Fritz aud daughter-in-
law of the German monarch, who was made an
Empror by the very war which unmade her
Empress.