About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1887)
ar TH[ f u»m ***** VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 596. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING,>PRIL 16,1887. S PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. SENATOR SHERMAN. On Southern Progress and Development. Remarkable Progress Hade by Col ored Students, Etc. New York, April 2.—A New York Herald Washington dispatch gives the following inter view with senator Sherman: In reply to the question “Do you find any change in the material prosperity of the South as compared with a decade ago?’’ Mr. Sher- SOME AUTHORS. Literary Writers Who Live at the National Capital. Washington as a Literary Center. There is always more or less speculation in the world of letters as to what city will event ually be the litera-y center of America. Washington, of course, comes in for its share of attention and many thoughtful people de clare that it will carry off the palm. Certain I am that many of tho most celebrated Ameri can authors are gradually drifting to the beau- ‘0, Tell the Boys, •‘I Hear the Bugle Blowing.’’ The following lines were written by James W. Treadwell, a native of Columbia, S. C , and a graduate of the South Carolina College. He was a gallant and dashing scout and ran ger irom the beginning to the end of the Con federate wir. He wrote them in view of death, and after all hope of recovery had pissed away. They were composed under peculiar circumstances, and portray most viv idly a scene in the life of one endowed not only with brilliant intellect but with a tine ed ucation, and who would have been a bright and shining light in the world, had it not been for the curse of strong drink: I am dying! sorely dying! With no friend beside my bed T<> speak a kind and cheerful word Or bathe my fevered head. Bu< the spirit that upheld me T :rough many a dangerous fight, S-iil upholds me In my agony This dark and gloomy night. Perhaps when I am dead and gone 8 >me ktnd'y voice may say: I knew him In ths pride of youth. When all was bright and gay; But me promise of that youta, ouce fair, Oice beautifully bright, II is vanished lu the darkness O! this black and stormy night. Dee t ply, darkly, have I sinned F #r many a weary year; My father’s heart cost many a pang, My sisters many a tear. Bat i’rn sure they will forgive me. When I’ve passed from human sight, And my s *a! has winged Us way into the shadow of night. 8omet!mes I see around me, _ When my fever’s at IPs iifunfrfc, Wf, , vu.n'ire f»» flabr. '/Y.if-cn. •- •; l.'S.*; ^r. * B it to seep mv memory bright, Wnen I’ve chained into tue darkness Of the deep and gloomy night. g^-7 unto those who’ve faithful proved Until mv race was niu Tn*r. c.’i* rrUghty king of terrors H*snocravm vtcdm won! F'*r T gttze into ids ft-arfu : fa*e W,«.i! eves as calm and brieht As of* I faced him on the field In douottul, dangerous hght. 0 tell “the boys.” when I have passed From this bright earth away, To see me like a soldier, Aye I a veteran laid away! And remember, though a reckless man, Few iiis memory to d*fend. Tout I bravely fought tor victory, Tnat 1 lived auddi-d their Blend, H^rk! comrades! I am eMng, Fades earth’K landscape from my sight; 1 hear the bug e blowing. Quick! my soul, prepare for fl’ght; W i.i) knows hut, on tne other snore, My pa*h may be mere bright? Because on earth my life was ouo D irk, dismal, dreary night. P*vl man said: “In Florida I did not. In northern ! tiful oit y on thc Potomac, and already it has Alabama and Eastern and Middie Tennessee, I yes; decidedly yes. Florida has no staple pro- 1 ducts. Her chief dependence is in ‘sick yan- • kccs,’ as they call tho Northern tourist, and | her profits come from the sale of oranges. I I lo not think I cin say much else for the State. ! tin the other hand, the coal and iron indus- i tries of Alabama and Tennessee are bringing I those States rapidly to the front. All ^the j region thereabouts is developing immensely. ! The tewns and cities remind me greatly of our j Western country. The people are alive and ' ambitions. Immigration is rapidly pouring in and capital is going there in vast volumes.” main- “Aud is this immigration and capital i ly from the North, senator?” “In grea‘ part, I should say. The younger men ol the South are very progressive, how ever, and they, too, arc Hocking into this coa! and iron belt.” “Do you think the Republican party will sec ire t hel electoral vote of any Southern States in 1888?” “There are six Southern States that are naturally republican. They are North Caro lina, South Carolina, Mississippi,Florida, Ala bama and Tennessee. Jiut for the prejudice existing there we would have no difficulty in ad ling them to the Republican column.” “Is it true that the colored people p.re go- ing over to the Democratic party iu any con siderable numbers?” “No, sir,’’ was the reply. “There is no truth in that. A Southern colored man is a Republican instinctively. Educate him and he becomes all the more confirmed in his adherence to the principles of the Republican party.” “What do the republicans propose to do about the alleged intimidation of the colored voter by the white democrats of the South?” “I cannot say as to that. Wo certainly ought to do something to protect these people. I think we will do so in the next presidental campaign. .Just what our inode of procedure will bn I cannot tell, hut we feel that the time fits. 'u other behind. ' thought 1 him a Asbioned ’ ’he cu- fortli CEORGE RANCROFT. among its citizens some of the admired auth ors of the age. Many things conspire to make Washington an agreeable residence place for people who make a living by the pen. It is tlie most beautiful of American cities, and its beauties should bn an inspiration to the author. It has that quiet seclusion that is so necessary to good literary work; it is the seat of Government and hither flock “all sorts and conditions of men,” thus making an unrivaled field for the study of character; its intellectual life is on a more congenial plane than that of most commercial cities and :t has a library the best to be found in America. Rut though the Capital is the home of so many authorsjof national reputation, I do not think it has produced from its own life a sin gle one of more than local repute. But the same thing can be said of almost every other be an interesting study to the physic- an. Tell him what you want in the way of information and lie will have it on hi* desk before yon in a moment, thus saving, perhaps, hoc ’. of re search to the student. He lathe bunfesT and hardest worked man in Washingroj. Every moment of hi* time seems occupied, ohd he is busier now than ever before, for he .< busily employed in looking after the inter; vs of the new library building. One marve’- t ow he ever managed to acquire his km;»er !ge of books, for you never see him readiu, for two minutes at a time. Sometimes as 1 ■ walks lightly across the library he will “sk va book,” and often on his way home he does kewise. I rode from the Capitol with him day in the same berdic; he in front I had nothing particular to do ami it a good opportunity. lie had w green, legal looking bag, stick as ol: lawyers use. I saw him dip down rious looking reccp'acle and hr:: learned looking volume in sheeps'- W Look imo it a mofhent, he turned over ' page 01 two, referred to the index and drop* in, only to seize another and go , same pantominr. Thus until he r residence on Massachusetts avenu brick mansion in the most fbshiona o? tlie city. Almost everybody lias heard of A Joyce, in one way or another. He is one of the most notable of the local ni^iii, and has decided poetical talents which -"ive never been properly cultivated. A l\er- eckian by birth, he entered the Union army , .uring the late unpleasantness between the ••• ,r>rs, and rose to the rank of iieuteuant-c: nel. Ills work consists for the most pa.r^M fugitive poems and verses, contributed to i. newspa pers and magazines. Sometime r the colo nel ami Ella Wheeler Wilcox, t' talented poetess of love and brimstone, fr* m the vt r- satile West, had a rather heated over the authorship ot one ot little gems in the language. The poet claims that lie wrote the mencing: 1 it. back •ou.h the vi.ed his a large r quarter -ol. John WASHINGTON CITY. St. Augustine. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 180. Laugh and the world laughs wit! y^n, Weep and you ween alone; The sad old eartn must horr. w mirth, But has sorrow enough of Us o>vii. Sing and the mils will answer, — „ Sigh and P’s lost in the air; Tue echoes hound with a voicing oound, But shrink from voicing cafe. The little thing is certainly a gem of the purest ray serene, but the poets iave never — - Everybody comes . permanent. Jr place. Nothing seems to be i .Tffironcc -We-ougit'to have them both.’ P, n P u ‘ a,ion n nfegrxthm£i* transient and the Sneaking of the h.-aa idatioy, ot the colored 't’-iPt * — — -tffi*’ 1 p:: i i was surprised to hear him tf-y that it w.r.f" Out tHoneh t.I question At-, you a native If GETTING THERE.” v What the South is Looking for and Her Progress Toward It. [New York Herald.] Richmond, Va.. March 11*.—“The South is booming. She’s getting there,” said a South ern railroad magnate to tlie Herald corres pondent at tlie Exchange Hotel. “The ‘boom’ goes, but where is she ‘getting,’ “As to wealth?” “Aye, and politically, too. She wii! he in the saddle again before long.” “Are you not rather previous in thc predic tion?” “I’m not. She’s already strong in the Pres ident’s Cabinet; conld control the House of Representatives if the boys would work to gether; is well represented in tlie diplomatic and consular set vice, and is gradually creep ing into the army and navy. On, she’s getting there.” “What will the South get next?” “The Vice Presidency.” “Isn’t it too soon?” “Not a bit of it. She’s bound to have it in ’83 ” “What sort of Vice Presidential lumber has she got?” “The very best—good as any.” “Any aspirants?” “Several on both sides of the ptlitical fence. ” “Who are they?” “Well, there’s Fits Hugh Bee, hero in Vir ginia,and Gordon, in Georgia, for the Demo crats, and what’s the matter with Billy Ma- jione, of Virginia, or B. K. Bruce, of Mississ ippi, ior the Republicans?—all of them good boys, and any of whom w juld give strength to their party ticket.” “Do you think so?” “Yes, and any of them would make a very good accidental President, too.’’ “Bruce included?” “To be sure.” “A negro?” “Yes. Isn’t a descendent of the royal house of Dahomey as good as a descendant of any of the kings of Ireland, in this great and free country?” , . , “Admitted, but . Do you think, though, that Fitz Lee would take the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination? He says he don’t want it.” “Of course he says so, but the Michigan ders doesn’t say so.” “What do you know about him.” “Fitz was up there in Michigan a short time ago, and they say he has the Vice Presi dential bee in his bonnet. Oh, yes, he’ll take it. Any of them will take it and be glad to liet it. M . “Does Gordon want it?’ “Well, I should say so. Gordon is nen, and nothing would please him better now than to figure on a national platform and af terward fill the second office in the gift of the American people. ’’ “Well, as to Mahone?” “He is the strongest man the Republicans can put on their ticket. Virginia is now a doubtful State and the claims of Mahone and Fitz Lee will be strong in their respective par ty conventions.” “Bruce is only a possibility? “A very strong one, though. He would make an American po itical sensation such as you never heaad of. It’s bound to came to it -looner or later.” “What will thc South want next?” “The Presidency, and she’ll get there.” surprised to near turn s-y that it was a i subject which was giving the more thoughtful j of his people a great deal of concern. They I excuse their action on the ground that ‘the end i justifies the means.’ But they are coming to j see that such methods are really dangerous I and subversive of our republican institutions. I They are ail patriotic Americans, and they I cannot fail to see how it is going to end if i much longer persisted in.” I “Are the southern negroes devoting much j attention to the matter of education?” “I never saw anything like it. Their thirst ! for knowledge has been greatly increased by | the obstacles previously thrown in their way. | There are several excellent colored universi- | ties in the south. The Fisk University at j Nashville is especially good. The young men and women attending it are blight and very intelligent. Tlie young white people of the south must look well to their laurels, or their black neighbors will soon lead them in the race for mental improvement.” “Is protection doing much for tho republi can party in the south?” “A great deal. The tendency of the demo crat is in the direction of free trade. Every manufacturer is a natural protectionist. Un less the democratic politicians of the south enroll themselves under that banner they will soon find the brains of capital of that region unalterably opposed to them.” would be answered in the negative by nearly every author resident here, they would very likely add that they wire adopted children of the beautiful Capital and are truly iu .love with their mother. As a class they are the most permanent in tlie city; they are not de pendent on Uncle Sam and are truly citizens. George Bancroft is by far the most distin guished man of letters resi lent in Washington. For the past two mouths ho has been quite unwell, and more than once there have been rumors about town that he was dying; but af ter having been sifted by tlie enterprising re porters and corresponpents tiiey were found to be false. However, there is no doubt that he has been a very side nun, and tlie work on Senator Bentcn. Senator Benton always asserted that he had a right to state what he said at d did in execu tive session. When, after the Mexican war, he had resisted the nomination of Brigadier- Gen. Kearney as major-general by brevet, because of his treatment of Col. Fremont, Mr. Benton gave to a reporter some resolutions which he hail prepared, denouncing Gen. Kearney, saying: “Take those, if you please, j sir, and print them. I give them to you iu the presence of these witnesses. I am responsi ble. I desire that they bo promulgated to the country.” The resolutions were taken by the correspondent and du*y printed. A few days afterwards, Mr. Butler made a motion tlia’ the galleries be cleared and the doors closed, for the purpose of enabling him to make a motion concerning the violation of I certain executive proceedings. Every one knew tha; Mr. Benton had avowed tlie publi cation of bis resolutions against Gen Kearney, avowed it and glorified it, and defied all ob jections to it. An altercation of an hour fol lowed, with excited remarks made under tlie cover of discussing tlie question of order, the perpetual sneers and jeers of Mr. Benton, his hundred interjectional exclamations, his final pompous declaration that he threw upon Mr. Butler the necessity of saying what ho did, that he w.as ready to meet tlie senator from Missouri anywhere. Mr. Benton, although his defiance was thus accepted, continued to assert that thc man who charged him with doing anything dishonorable was a liar in his throat. One could not conceive the violence and defiance which he threw into his manner, his emphasis and gesticulations. Never did — ^. 3 , ±±r£etter merit his sobriquet, “The Mad Buf- w ** S .4 £ -2 .= of the Plains." fir <3*2 •.•ntroTPrsy L* • prettiest Washington - -j s^s coin* John Taliaferc, of Virginia. ' 12 rfrWmT r : ted »J ir s i “ i ? ■v»N-," GolJstt.tV»!«, was during® -ki.!,Vji»>ne.” I#, satn.-. ,-an that h, Le l i ht New North, New South. Some years since, about the opening of mili- 1 tary reconstruction, Judge Kelley journeyed lo | Mobile and attempted a speech. By some mischance, says the Macon Tele graph, there was a row, and there was said to ! be a rattling of buckshot in tho neighborhood ; of the speaker’s stand, and tiie meeting was j adjourned sine die and without motion. The Judge returned to Pennsylvania, and it is sta ted, meeting Zeb Vance on tlie way he greatly changed his opinion of Southern men, and lias since that time been on friendly terms with Southern Congressmen in Washington. It seems that the Judge is again in Alabama, bn a more nseful and popular mission. He is in Anniston, and he may now go to Mobile j and make a speecit. And he will not hear the ! whistle of a buckshot even from aai Alaban-a i sling. These twenty years have produced chances. The next twenty years will produce greater ones. I ' The Mobile Register thus sends greeting to ! the great Pennsylvanian: | “Mobile sends greeting to Mr. Kelley at An niston, and begs him to come down and fee what changes have come about iu the past twenty years. He will find that our colored people are happy and prosperous; that a very large proportion of them live in their own houses; tiiat every colored man has a free and equal opportunity to east his vote, and that liis voice is always counted as cast; that col ored men sit upon the juries in the State courts as well as in the Federal courts; that colored litigants do not hesitate to submit j their causes to white juries iu preference to those of their own color; that colored people have free access to the street cars, and in ev ery way possess all the privileges of ei.izeri- ship without molestation. Come down, Mr. Kelley, and let ns shake hands across the bloody cliasm.” Judge Kelley ought to go down and if the o’.d vacant lot near John Forsyth's former residence is still available, he should speak there. This will do for a specimen of the real new South. How will this do for the new North? A Washington special says: “Mrs. Cleveland and the widow of Presi dent Tyler, the only two ladies who know just how it feels to be the bride of a President of the United States while he is in office, met Thursday for the first time, when Mrs. Tyler called on Mrs. Cleveland in the White House where she was once the mistress. They al most fell in love with each other. Mrs. Cleve land said of Mrs. Tyler, with genuine enthu siasm, “How very agreeable she is.” Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Cleveland are both New Yorkers. They both married presidents, and though Mrs. Tyler has lived much at the South, she was once a handsome belle from the interior of New York. She was a hand some and engaging yonng woman when she en slaved John Tyler, and Mrs. Cleveland is au thority for the fact that years have not de stroyed the magic of her manners. These little incidents smooth the rough side of politics, and after reading them, if we all cannot go to chnrcb and pray fervently they will not destroy our appreciation of the music. LIBRARIAN SPOFFORD. hi) history has progressed but slowly. He re cently celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday, and as he is qu te delicate of late, he hoards his strength with miserly care. The work he started out in life to accomplish is about fin ished. His great history of America has been brought as near the present as it can well be and still continue history, and I understand that he, does not propose to extend it further but only lo finish what is now laid out. When his health is good he is a hard worker. He does all of his work in the morning and gives up his afternoons and evenings to pleasure recreations. Rising at an early hour he has breakfasted before 8, and is in his library at, work. At 1 o’clock he has finished and is at 'uncli, after which he orders his horse and goes for his daily horseback ride. Sometimes these solitary rides last all the afternoon and it is dark when tlie venerable historian re turns, covered with the dust of the road, bul i with ruddy cheeks and a sparkling eye. Often on these rides a grand-daughter who is a grace ful eques r enne, accompai iis him. Bancroft has, perhaps, the finest collection of works on American history to he found in the world, liis library includes four rooms, in which are closely packed over 15,0(10 vol umes, many of them in manuscript and very valuable. As I have taid, the historian is a hard worker, but he really accomplishes very little, judged by the standard of quantity. A day’s work very rarely exceeds 250 words, or about one octavo page. His method is to dic tate to a stenographer who makes a type-wri ter copy which the author takes and corrects until it suits his taste. Then a new copy is made which goes to the printer who, when he gets it back, is hardly able to recognize it. One of the most interesting of the group of literati resident in Washington, is Mr. Ains worth R. Spofford, the accomplished gentle man who has so long been the librarian of the Congressional library. He is one of the most wonderful of men in his way, and that way is a very good one. lie is a particular friend of Mr. Bancroft’s, having known him for years, but the men who have made reputations are not the only ones who call him their friend for every author and journalist in Washington is prond to call him such. He is a veritable bookworm, but not of the traditional, near sighted, musty sort, that is the popular con ception. On the other hand he reminds one forcibly of the typical, quickwitted^ energetic American, full of push, goaheadativeness and hard work. He seems business all over, and yon would not think him a scholar, meeting him in the street. Bat wait until you get ac quainted. He is a human encyclopedia and he has the contents of the high collection of volumes at his tongue’s end. His brain is admirably trained, and its composition would no donbt COL. JNO. A. JOYCE. settled the controversy satisfactorily. Be sides this work. Colonel Joyce has published in book form a volume of autobiography un der the title of “Checkered Life.” In this book the genial colonel recites in .bright, en- tertaining style, the story of a life that has not been made up altogether of sunshine. Another or Washington’s authors, who has made quite, a reputation, is .Mrs. Mary K. Kail, who published a book rf poems this month under the title of “Crown Our He roes.” For a long period of years Mrs. Kail lias been a writer of songs and many of them are familiar all over the country. During the war her “Belle Mahone” and “Clarabel Lee," were the rage, and many a soldier has been cheered in {lie weary march or lonely outpost, by the touching words and music of the long ago favorites. For some years Mis. Kail was a clerk in the Treasury Department, but she lost her place some months ago and now de pends ent'ri-ly on literature for a livelihood. Her poems are very beautiful, both in rhythm and thought. The epirit of music is every where, and the emotions are kept in constant play and respond soothingly to the touch of a skiliful handling of the subject. As a specimen of Mrs. Kail's work, perhaps the touching poem entitled “Crown Our He roes,” is about the best example. Here are two verses taken from it: Crown our heroes, the soldier) whole fpir'fs have fled To the land rf the blest; crown the heroic dead. Let the talr hand ot woman weave garlands ol flower* Kissed by heavens pure sunllgt tin sweet morning hours Go tenderly, gent'y Bud scatte.r them where Our heroes are sleeping—go scatter them tnere. Crown onr heroes, the soldiers, who sleep on the shore Where the cell of the bugle can wake them no more; Men who fought, to deteed us—oh, c<U) we forget,, T he tribute of glory we owe to ihem yet? MRS. MART B. KAIL. Bring love* fairest offerings wltn tears and with prayer And gratefully, sacredly scatter them there, Two Balloons. Capt. Moore, the Winsted, Cons., aeronaut, is making an enormous balloon which will hold 18,000 feet of gas and will carry twelve persons. The muslin used in making it if laid out in strips of the width manufactured would extend nearly a mile. The balloon will be ta ken to Chicago and used in part for making aerial observations for the United States gov ernment. A balloon of colossal dimensions, and said to be capable of being guided at will, has been for some time in course of construction in Ber lin. The balloon is 600 feet in length and 60 feet in diameter. The total weight Is about 43,000 pounds, the envelope and netting alone weighing 10,000 pounds. The propelling ma chinery consists of two steam engines of fifty- horse power each, and the entire coat is esti mated at 96,000. nua with I* Ram.: can tbaf hS c “T” y ,®* r I- -Yriendshija-.brUmi?' adviser • ,"?* r w ,eI ‘ | was wuen be opposed tne :ii:m,i/Ntv.u:i7n'm | the elder Adams. Col. Taliaferro had always , lived liberally, and had enjoyed, as much as I any man that ever lived, social pleasures, in | all their approved forms. A: a supper party ! lie was asked what his secret was. lie re- | plied that he had never made but one meal a day, that if he took supper he did not dine, that he had risen early, had always used ex ercise, and never on horseback wlieu he could go on foot; and that, under all circumstances, he had preserved an equality of temper. His rule was never lo suffer that which was past to prey upon his mind, to enjoy what Provi dence sent him, and to trust to tho future. He finally served as librarian of the Treasury Department, and died in 1853, aged eighty- five. Jefferson’s Narrow Escape. Clark Mills, the sculptor, used to narrate how Mr. Browere, a New York sculptor, at tempted to take a cast in plaster of the head of Thomas Jefferson. The family of the ex Pres ident were opposed to it, but he finally con sented, saying that he could not find it in his heart to refuse a man so trifling a favor who had come so far. He was placed on his back on a sofa, one of his hands grasping a chair which stood in front. Not dreaming of any danger, his family could not bear to see him with tiie piaster over his face, and therefore were not present; and his faithful Harwell was the only person besides tiie artist in the mom. There was some defect in the arrangements made to permit liis breathing, and Mr. Jeffer son came near suffocating. lie was too weak fo rise or to relieve himself, and his feeble struggles were unnoticed or unheeded by his Parrhasius. The suffer! r finally bethought himself of the chair on which his hand rested. He raised it as far as he was able and struck it on the floor. Harwell became conscious of his situation and sprang furiously torward. The artist shattered his cast in an instant. Tne family now reached tho room, and Browere looked as if he thought their arrival most op portune, for though Bnrwell was supporting his master in his arms, the tierce glare of the African eye boded danger. Browere was per mitted to pick up liis fragments of plaster and carry them off, but whether he ever put them together to represent features emaciated with age and debility, and writhing ia suffocction, Mills did not know. Bull Run. The Battle of Bull Run was the real com mencement of the war, as it showed that the time for compromise was past. This was what the abolitionists had longed for, as they had feared that some amicable adjusts ment of the national troubles would have been made at the Peace Congress, and their organs 6houted, “On to Richmond,” although mili tary men were unanimous in their opposition to a forward movement. At last Gen. Mc Dowell reluctantly consented to advance, and having found that the enemy’s works com manding the fords could not be carried by as sault without a great loss, concentrated his forces at Centreville, and advanced "by the Hank around tlie fords to attack the Confeder ates at Manassas. Tlie advancing columns of Union soldiers with glistening bayonets, gay flags and bauds performing patriotic airs, moved through the primeval forests of the Old Dominion. They were accompanied by a crowd of spectators, who had driven out from Washington to witness the fight, as they would have gone to witness a horse race or a game at base hall. The Union officers, smart ing under tlie insinuations of politicians that they dared not fight, gallantly led their un disciplined commands into the range of the enemy’s guns, where they fought like vet erans. At first it was thought that victory had perched on the Union flags, but the deci mated Confederate regiments received fresh courage from the arrival of reinforcements, and the tide of battle was turned in their fa vor. A retreat was ordered which soon be came a disgraceful rout, and it wae impossi ble to control men who had lost all presence of m ind and only longed for absence of body. The Confederates were in no condition to follow up the victory which they had gained and to press on to Washington, and the de feat secured the support .of every loyal man in the Northern States for the Union cause, whatever his previous political convictions might have been. Practical issues were pre sented, and there was no time for hesitation or indecision. To use the words of Stephen A. Douglas in his last public speech: “The conspiracy is now known, armies have been raised, war ia levied to accomplish it. There are only two sides to the question. Every man must be for the United States or against it There can be no neutrals in this war. The Old City by the Sea and its At tractions. Editor Sunny South—St.(Augustine stands npon the sands of the sea shore 260 miles south of Savannah, Ga., and looks off to the east upon a bro;uI stretch of the Atlantic, and as tine a water view as is found anywhere upon the whole eastern coast, clear as crystal, and as viewed beneath tlie rays of thc sun, it reminds one of a vast lake of molten silver, while the old c'ty of the saints with its sur- bnrban surroundings is mirrored in every ! wavelet. Between the city and ocean is spread out a sunny little bay, into which the Atlantic each day pours its current of saline •waters. The charming little bay is the pri ie and delight of the city, and at almost any hour fleets of pleasure boats may be seen flit ting over its crystal surface. It was the sight of this bay with its sur rounding prospects that first attracted l’once de I,eon and charmed the old man with its fascinations. Nor do we wonder at his being charmed wii h the beautiful floral landscape, with its “fern-shaped” palmettos, and sunny bowers, where lights and shadow) play bo- peep and hide and seek amid the fores'-clad vines, laden witli the odors of perpetual spring, while wild birds of gaudy plumage make sweet melody amid the moss-covered branches of the tall old live oaks of the swamps. At any rate we are informed that the old tnan was induced to search tiie shore anti country, in quest of his pet hobby, the fabled “Fountain of perpetual youth.” And indulging our inclination to romance, we might say that we are not disposed to regard the old man’s search as an entire failure. A spring two and a half inites north-west of the city, of pure, clear running water, and called “l’once de Leon’s spring” is a popular resort for strangers, and as the distinguished John H. Bryan (a visitor and brother of Win. Cul len Bryant, the poet) has said: “If lie did not find the fountain of youth, he did find a place which has become a favorite health re sort, whose bright skies and balmy air have added years to the lives of many invalids and old people.” To this assertion he has ap pended the following verses of his own com position: “And was It all a shadowy myth 'Unit led those rude adventurers here, ■When still to this calm ocean Irlth Lltc-seestug crowds come every year ? PERSONAL MENTIOH. What the People Are Doing and Saying. T Nast the great cartoonist, was at Atla»- ta, Ga., a few days ago. Sam Jones is announced to hold a meeting M iv inB ’ “*•’ oemurenciug about the ldth of Brayton Ives owns the Gutenberg B'ble, the first book ever printed, and paid 414,000 for it at auetion. George VV. Childs will present to the West J oint Military Academy a life sizo paintiu"- of General Grant. There are two veterans of the Mexican war in J’jckens county, S. C., J. B. Southenand au i James A. Me Keen. Rev. A. W. Ciisby, for fourteen years pas tor of the Presbyterian Church in Macon, (4a.. lias resigned the position. The son of Gov. Ames, of Massachusettts, is hard at wor* in a shovel shop. Governor’s j sons don’t often go to work, j The fastest heat made on the ice during the winter was by Fannie II , 2:U) i, at Burlinz- | ton, February 17—a dead heat. Harriet Beecher Stowe was forty years of age when “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was pub lished. .She is now seventy live. King Kalakaua’s supplication for member ship ia tue Order of the Royal Arcanum is a surprise to the American fraternity. At a meeting of the Grant Monument Fund Association of New York yesterday it was re ported that the fund amounted $120,845. Amherst College’s memorial of Henry W ard Beecher will be a $50,000 endowment of the Professorship of Physical Culture. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon/of Louisville, Ky , wild deliver the commencement addresat Mau ry Institute, Holly Springs, Miss, June 22d. Bishop Paine, of tho A. M. E. Churcb, is said to be eldest living bishop in the United States. lie officiated recently at Ferandina. Two hundred and seventeen of the Stewart paintings brought .$520,000. Jay Gould and w. K. Vanderbilt each bough. $75,000 worth. Gen. Hemphill, editor of the Abbeville, S. C. Medium, is now assisted in his editorial and local work by his two charming daugh ters. Miss Mary Dickens, grand-daughter of the novelist, who is on the stage, is receiving ful some praise from the English provincial pa pers. Mias Alice Tt. Jordan, who took the degree of LL. B. at the Yale law school last June, has just been admitted to practice in the superior court of Michigan. Senator Payne and Erastns Wiman are at the head of a gigantic syndicate which pro- poses t° purchase or control all the iron ore / deposits of Canada. i i lie Duke cf Woatxr.ipnar has promised to TMFm’ifiyyevffSt'. Angus•_ ■ *'* "*- ■*>’ -*6.<M»0 of the most popular winter resorts upon the, . •' _ " continent. And at the present period comes | . U u Wen ‘ ie11 Holmes made a partTctf- with each succeeding winter an increase of , at the recent, banquet in “Tbe sick, the faint and weary come, Aye, seeking warm and pleasaut hours; Wan childhood finds a pleasant home And wantons here amid the flowers. ** ’Tis winter, but no snow comes here— ’Mid orange blooms tne mocking birds sing; This bright blue sky is full of cheer And Nature wears the robbs cf Spring. “O, quaint old city by the sea! Wh-.-re comes ihe ocean’s tat fil’d -oar, TOertiis no other -,pot like thee On ^.ii our strcU h ol laud or short*. • Y o s,ithon art oK, but etlil art. fair: 'T. love to trewd toy winding wvm*&uj 1 1 ore Ihcij-'i' r-. -iy Dr _ k i.c t-*D > 'j> 1 :'- j* mya T’it ninny jM’Ssf. An- — visitors in search of health and pleasure, great has been the demand for accommodations that capitalists have invested large sums of money in building big hotels and furnishing them with all the modern i nprovemeuts and conveniences. Tlie old city has many attractions for the curiosity seeker, and the lover of tiie roman tic. Many of the old-time relics still remain. Si rnctures of Spanish times have beeu care fully preserved as relics of interest. Among these are the pillars of the old city gateway, the old Spanish Cathedral, the convent, tue sea-wall, the Barracks, the oid Spanish Fort Marion, (formerly Fort San Marco) which stands at the northern boundary of the city. Its dark gray old walls rise massively above the bay of St. Augustine, mirroring their sombre proportions* in the sparkling waters of tlie bay. In the Plaza stands the Constitution al Monument erected by tlie deluded Span iards in the year 1812. Many other minor relics of Spanish times are yet visible in dif ferent parts of the city; such as old furniture, jewels, family keep-sakes, etc. And what is still more attractive are tlie antiquated old Spaniards who have outlived their race, and still brood over “the good old days of ‘Spanish times.’ ” Respectfully, R. II. Gordon. Columbia, S. C. Fatal Shooting in a Court Room—Tho Police and Liquor Selling, Etc. Editor Sunny South; X send you a few notes of local interest from the “City on thc Congaree” as Columb a is appropriately called by “N. G. G.” the genial and brilliant torres- pondent of the News and Courier. A few days ago the funeral services of James W. Treadwell, one of Columbia’s most remark able men. were solemnized at the Church of the Good Shepherd. As a Confederate sol dier he was a gallant member of the Kirkwood Rangers, and he frequently contributed to the press, prose and poetical history of the engage ments in which he participated. Endowed with a brilliant intellect, which received the polish of a finished education, he shone as a conversationalist in the best circles of our community, and around the camp tires of the Rangers was tlie life of the troopers. The en closed verses written by him, after all hope of recovery had been extinguished, are pathetic and touching indeed, especially to those who know his sad history. Are they not worth a place in your columns? Shoitly after this mournful occasion the obsequies of Mrs. RUett were performed in Trinity Clurch by Rev. Mr. Judd. This lady was the second wife of our incomparable Mayor, and distin guished lawyer, and the daughter of the great and good Robt. W. Barnwell, at one time U. S. Senator from South Carolina, and certainly one of the most gifted men of our oountry. This lady had many of the distinctive traits of her fatter, and was universally beloved by the devout people of this city. The startling intelligence of a personal col lision with pistols, between Mr. George John stone and Sir. John B. Jones, causes deep re gret among their numerous friends of this city. Eminent ministers of the law, in viola tion of the express terms of the statutes, they carried concealed deadly weapons into the court room, and, in sudden heat and passion, fired upon each other and both fell. Mr. John B. Jones, it is believed, is fatally wounded. The Christian mothers, who brought up these gentlemen in the same community, sadly failed—it may be feared—to learn them self- control. The Chief of Police in Columbia, and liis assistants, do in many respects deserve to be praised for their faithfulness. But in one respect they must be censured, in the hope of provoking them to the performance of an un pleasant duty. No city in the land has been more liberal to liquor dealers than our own; and yet some of them habitually violate the law by selling liquor and cigars on Sunday. I am not alluding to dens on side streets, but to cne who boldly does it in the building of the Columbia Hotel, situated on Main street. The unfortunate inebriate who is carried to the guard house, and appears before Mayor Rhett Monday morning and is punished, is far more excusable than the rich and jovial Captain of one of onr fire companies. Yours respectfully, Congaree. March 28, 1887. ears has honor of Mr. Metcalf, who for fifty y been a druggist in Boston. Ex-Premier Gladstone and Mr. Parnell have each made very telling speeches in opposition to tiie government, weakening its positions— never very strong—very great. Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder and wife will sail for Japan in June next to engage in mis sionary work, accompanied and assisted by Miss M. L. Graves, of Spring ield, Mass. Mine. Garibaldi, widow of the Italian Liber ator, lives ill a quiet street of Turin, the walls of her quiet little pyrlor covered with flags, medals and other mementoes of the dead hero. Lord Salisbury’s health excites continued uneasiness among his friends, who say he is rather going down hill than up, and complain that he continues to work twice as much as he should. Benjamin Richardson, owner of the historic Washington coach, is one of tee eccentric rich men of New York! He lives in a litt’e tumble- down house in Harlem, but is reported to be worth upwards of §2,000,000. II. II. Hunnewel, a wealthy citizen of Wel lesley, Mass., has presented the town with a tine hall, a park of ten acres and a public li- brary with (1,000 volumes. The estimated value of the gift is §250,000. William Buckhell, of Philadelphia, celebra ted his Pith birtnday on tlie 1st instant by giv ing §50,000 to Buckhell University, Lewis- burg, Pa. This makes a total of §l"42,0U0 ho lias given to the institution in four years. Bill Scott, of Erie, is 58 years old, the pos- essor of §T5,000.00O anil one of the richest men in Congress. The employer of 10,000 men. Thirty years ago lie was a penuiless man peddling fish about tlie streets of Erie. Rev. J. D. I). Renfroe, of Birmingham, Ala., will soon publish a book containing his sermons during the war when he was chaplain ot the Tenth Alabama regiment. The public will watch for the book with no little interest. James R. Jordan, tiie new Marshall for the Western District of Virginia, just appointed, is the youngest man in the country holding a like position. He is only 27 years of age. lie was once a newsnaper editor, hut is now in mercantile pursuits. In the house of T. A. E lison, at Llewellyn Park, is a peculiar mcinento of Beecher. The inventor at one time requested the preacher to speak a few sentences into the phonograph, so that Edison is now the only man who cai revive the silenced voice of the dead preacher. A lady of great distinction has just died in St. Petersburg—Princess M-mtchikoJ. She was highly esteemed both in France and Rus sia for her charitableness and tlie high order of iter intellect. She had greatly contributed toward the good feeling existing between France and Russia. Col. M. P. Stovall, well knowa throughout Georgia, died in Augusta, Ga., this week in tlie 76th yearof his age. Col. Stovall has been a citizen of Augusta for sixty years, and was held iu tiie highest esteem in social and com mercial circles. He was a director of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and its oldest member. The old family Bible that belonged to “Mary, the mother of Washington,” is still in existence, and is kept in a branch of the Washington family in Virginia. It contains the family register, recording the birth of George Washington, February 22, 1732. The binding has a cover of cloth woven by the hand ot his mother. Joseph II. Bradley, one of the oldest and most prominent lawyers of Washington City, died there on the 3rd., aged eighty-four years. I Iis father was Abraham Bradley, of Connec ticut, who was appointed first postmaster of the United States, and retained the office un til removed by President Jackson in 1829. He defended Mrs. Surratt, and Miss Harris who killed Burroughs in the Treasury Department in 1885. She afterwards became his second wife. The Cabinet of President Pierce was undis turbed by resignations throughout his term of office. Such a record is unparalleled in the history of the republic. Two'members of the famous Cabinet alone survive. One is Jeffer son Davis, who was Secretary of War, and is now 77 years of age. The other is ex-Judge Campbell, of Philadelphia, who was Post master-General under Pierce. He is now 76, is in good health and lives quietly in the Qua ker City.
