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VOLUME XIV.—NUMBER 669.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNI^U, SEPTEMBER J'2, 1888.
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■hiking Across ins Bloody uhiid,
THE SOUTHERN WAGON.
Come all ye Bonn of Freedom,
And j)ln oar Southern bind;
We are going to light the enemy
And drive them from our land;
Justice is our motto
And Providence onr guide,
8 j jump into the wagon
And we’ll all take a ride.
Cnottus.-
Oh. wait for the wagon—
The dissolution wagon;
The South is our wagon.
And we’ll all take a ride.
8seess on Is our watchword.
Oar rights we do demand.
Ai d to defend our firesides,
We pledge noth heart and band.
Jell Invls Is onr President,
And Stephens b7 his side;
Britn Beauregard and Johnston
WUI j >ln as in our ride.
Chorus —
The wagon’.* plenty big enough,
The running gear Ik good;
It's lined with softest cotton,
- And mido of Souihern wood;
South Carolina Is our driver.
With Gn-rgia by her elle;
Virginia hole8 our flag-stall—
And we’ll all j >la in tha ride
Chorus —
Tennessee and Texas
Are a:so in the ring;
They wouldn’t bavo a government
Where Cotton Is not King;
Alabucn too, aud Florida,
Have lotg ago appded;
Mississippi’* 1-j the wagon—
Anxious for tho ride.
Chorus —
The old North S:ate and Arkansas.
Follow sole—1/ slow;
i.TilptmM* h 4 • v-
*■ rr/ViV; ••
There’s old Kentuck and Maryland-
Each won’t make up her mind,
But Missouri’s In among us.
And we’ll take them up behind.
CHOP’' - ^
Our Cause if} ist and holy,
Oir men are brave and true;
To whip the Lincoln cut throats
Is all w« have to do.
God bless our noble Army-
In Him we all confide—
8o Jump Into the wagon,
And we’ll all take a ride.
CII OKI'S —
The Famous State Prison From Whose Destruction the
French Republic Dates Its Origin.
THE Fresch people cele-
, hrated yesterday ths six
teenth anniversary of the
of the Third Re
public. The cable dis
patches, as usual, bring
full descriptions of the
The fete
this year had one object
of mere than ordinary
interest, one which must
have served in some de
gree as an object-lesson
to the newer generations
of Frenchmen. As long ago as May, indeed, the
novel snd remarkable exposition has been open
to the public. It represents the Bastile and
neighborhood as they existed in 1709, the date
when it was destroyed and when the monar
chy received a blow that brought about ita
long quietus.
The model Bastile has been built in connec
tion with the coming World's Fair at Paris to
be held next year, and is placed in the Champ
de Mars, the vast Bquare across the Seine from
the Trocadero. The ancient quarter is Baid to
be reconstructed with such art as to look quite
a century old. A correspondent of the Pall
Mall Gazelle says of it: “Solid masonry,
carefully-rendered costumes and that natural
aptitude for acting which distinguishes the
Latin races, all combine to render the scene
one of striking reality. Shops ply their dif
ferent trades, sellers and buyers wrangle over
their bargains—in short, life hustles along
merrily as if the world conld never grow a day
older or Each an unpleasant interruption ns a
revolution take place. The Qusrtier Saint-
Antoine echoes as of oid to the cries of dead
and buried news venders: “La vraia lettre
bongrement patriotique dti pere Ducheue,” or
“La rage et le desespair de Jean Bart.’’
Cnarmigly-attired flower girls appeal to the
eral Washington.
The significance of that gift is evident. La
fayette saw in the demolition of the Bastile
the beginning of the end of the old regime and
the birth of a new era of Republicanism fer
France, that Republicanism for which he had
helped Washington to fight on this side of the
Atlantic ten years before. The results of the
American Revolution were of positive influ
ence in Francs. Brisaot, who had only a two
month’s taste of the Bastile, also visited the
United States, spending a year here and then
returning to France with his Republican fervor
increased then throw himtelf heart and soul into
the revolution. There was at that time only a
handful of Republicans in France, but his fol
lowers. known as Brissotins, supported by the
Girondists, had determined to overthrow mon
archical government, and to establish the re
public in its Btead. But the Jacobins, with
Robespierre at their head, gained the upper
np m
strong
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Whose the Honor?
Pickett and Hood at Gettysburg—
A Response to “Ex-Confed.”
Editor Sunny South: In answer to quer
ies of “Ex-Confed,’’ in your valuable issue of
the P.h, I reply: 1st. l’icketl’s command, at
the battle of Gettysburg, was composed of
three Virginia Brigades: Armistead’s, Gar
nett’s and Kemper’s. Corse’s brigade, a mem
ber of the division, was, at that time, in Vir
ginia, and did not participate in the battle.
2. If any Tennessee troops had a share in
that charge, they must have belonged to either
Heth’s division on Pickett's left, or Pender’s
division to the left of Ueth, neither of which
reached the first line of the enemy.
3. Some of the prominent officers killed and
wounded, were: Brig-General Richard B.
Garnett, instantly killed; Biig General Lewis
A. Armistead, mortally wounded; Brig-Gsner-
al James L. Kemper, very severely wounded.
Seven colonels of regiments were killed on the
field and one mortally wounded: Hedges. Ed
monds, Magruder, Williams, Patton, Allen
and 0 sens, and Stuart, wounded. Five colo
nels were wounded; taree lieutenant colonels
were killed and three wounded.
I. All of the above were members of Virgi
nia regiments.
The division carried in 4.4S1 muskete; ag
gregate strength about 4 7C0, rank and file.
Tho exact number killed, wounded and miss
ing amounted to 3,393—about three-fourths of
the number in the battle.
“Pickett's Mi x ’’
Alexandria, Va., Sept. 8, 189b.
27 tb, Georgia Battalion.
Ed. Surry South: It is desirable to have
a meeting cf all the surviving officers and men
of the Twenty Seventh Georgia Battalion,
which was mustered into the Confederate ser-
' vice in Augusta, sometime during the National
Exposition, at Augusta, Ga.
Any member cf seid Battalion reading this,
or any one having informaiion abonl membcis
not iikely to seo this notice, will please com
municate P. O. address of officers or men of
said Battalion to C. R. Dill,
Cleburne, Texas.
SepSlt.
Cost of Big Guns
An article in Ilarpers Weekly on big guns
says that it mry be estimated that they cost at
about the rate of 91,000 a ton. Herr Krupp,
for instauoe, might contract to deliver a 100-
ton gun for 8100,000. But these monsters are
short-lived, the life limit being reached, ac
cording to authorities with the two hundredth
discharge. It is important therefore to make
every shot count Tne pueumatio torpedo guns
made at Fort Lafayette have the advantage of
being able to a and more discharges. The
shel a for these guns may be filled with hun
dreds of pounds of exp'os ve gela’ino, and
each shell on exploding would be sufficient to
dts joy a small town.
Tom Thumb “Left”
Gen. Sawyer, of Key Wes', is hi years
cld, weighs 40 pounds, and is 40 inches
high, being two inches shorter than Tom
Thumb. He is well made, good looking, ac
tive and intel.igent, and a cigarmaker by
trade.
There sre twenty four youug woman hold
ing the degree of LL. B. from Michigan Uni
versity, iLC.tiding ol« woman lawyer, who in
tends to practice in tbe Sandwich Islands.
the hostile.
passer-by: ‘Pretty seigneur, buy a bouquet
for your fair mistress? They are neither aear
nor expensive, nor expensive nor dear—only
ten sous ’ ”
Further on a picturesque guard cf the pe
riod clicks glasses under the inn porch with a
modern sergeant de ville in his eober black uni
form. A buxom tricoteuse sits smiling in her
big tub, as her like sat through the trial of
Marie Antoinette and the bloody massacres of
the year 1 She seems to appreciate the joke
of the situation and nods her mob cap know
ingly. But her fickle audience has already de
serted her. It jostles at present before an au
tomaton struggling apparently to get itself
wonnd np, which then proceeds to indicate
with jerky movement of head and haDd the
entrance way. A suspicion, however, begins
to gain ground among the spectators that the
object is not as mechanical as it appears. One
Inquisitive old gentleman in particular grows
visibly exercised in his mind as to its construc
tion. He pokes it tentatively with his cane,
pise :s a five-franc piece on the contribution
plate, then quickly withdraws it in a tantaliz
ing fashion, yet can extract no answering
gleam of cupidity from the lifeless features
and glassy eyes fixed on vacancy. At length
he retires, thoroughly mystified, leaving his
five-franc behind him, whereupon the image
cats a sndden caper into the air and bursts
out in stentorian voice: “Enter, enter, good
people all! Now is your chance! Consult
tbe great sooth-sayer, Cagliostro, controller
of the stars, master of all etcrete, past and
future 1”
LAFAYETTE
Curiosity is no less potent nowa-days than
when Cagliostro in person led Paris by the
nose. Francs are deposited, and the crowd
passes under the sign of the dragon. It is but
fair to add that M. Cagliostro proves himself
less of a charlatan than might have been ex
pected. His magnificent symbolic robes of
white satin are a sight worth seeing, and his
conjuring tricks by no means despicable.
Next door to the Golden Lion is a mtst in
viting dairy, where the tnirs'y can refresh
themselves with a draught less deleterious
doubtless in its effects, than the manufactured
vin ordinaire sold under the bush. A few
steps beyond loom the mighty walls of the
Bastile, surreunded by moat and rampart,
groaning under belt a .to bar, yet most hospita
bly thrown open on the present occasion to
every passing visitor. The grewsome dungeon
of tbe Baziniere, where the celebrated Iron
Mask passed so many years in strictseclusioD,
is faithfully represented. Dark and tortuons
passages, heavy doers moving reluctantly on
their rusty binges, dim vaults lit by loop-holes,
stone benches and beds where manacled pris
oners recline in meek despair, are all repro
duced with absolute historical accuracy. A
big key of tl e veritable old Bastile is on view,
together with a battered door bearing an il
legible inscription, which alone survive from
tbe wreck of that strorghold of despotism.
This is one of the maDy veritable keys of the
Bastile, for it should be remembered that we
have ourselves one, which, as ths inscription
declares, wr s presented by Lafayette to Gen
LATUDE S ESCATE.
hand. Fjr a time Brissot thought of joining
with tho constitutional royalists in order to
avert the disastrous consequences which he
dreaded would ensue in cass tbe Jacobi os
should triumph. Robespierre and Danton had
their revenge. The leaders of the Brissotins
were defeated in the convention, the maj jrity
of them perished on the scaffold and Briesot
himself wa3 put to death on October 31, 1790.
Ic took F'rance eighty three years in reality to
establish the Republic, whose birth is dated
from the fall of the Bastile. She bad to pass
through the most terrible ordeals before her
people became strong euongh not only to es-
tab ish but to preserve Republican institu
tions—through the Reign of Terror, tho direc
tory, the Napoleonic rale, the empire, tbe
restoration, tne second R<^ hblic, and second
-’-lay,
" TfiJd<sfirucftnn of thoBastile'wss'im C
11th of July, 1739, and, consequently, the cen
tennial anniversary of that evoot will be cele
brated next year. It was an incident in tbe
revo'uion, tut it has been accepted as mark
ing the dale of the triumph of the people and
popular representation over monarchical des
potism. For the Bastile itself was not the
worst prison in Paris, and its dem lition was
not brought about by the indignation of the
AS ANCIENT INS.
people against it as an insti' ation. It was to
Paris what the tower of London had been to
London, what tbe prison of Sts. Peter and
Paul in St. Petersburg is to day to the dwellers
of the Neva. In it hideous crimes were com
mitted more by the orders of vile officials than
by thoBO of the Kiog himself. The miserable
aud unfortunate Latnde, who spent thirty-
five years in the Bastile, owed his incarcera
tion to the notorious Pompadour, though his
own indiscretion was io blame. During the
reign of Lonis XV., lasting fifty-nine years,
an enormous amount of mis tv must have
been inflicted, for no less than 150.000 lettros-
de-cichet were issued while he occupied the
throne. And after 1774, when Louis XVI.,
bad ascended the throne, tne abuses of Minis
ters and men in office were so great that even
under ths government of this well-meaning
KiDg 14,0C01ettres-de cachet were grattedin
tie fifteen years whirls elapsed between the
accession of Louis and the meeting of the
States General.
The unprincipled way in which these lettrcs-
de-cachet were used is perhaps suffiriently
shown by a few instances during the last
years of Louis’ reign. Tners was Debit;e, the
oldest bookseller if France, tie patriarch of
tib'iognphy, who was sent to the Bastils in
LATUDE IS HIS DUNGEOS.
1773 because he refused to acknowledge the
ridiculous ordinaucs issued by the council of
State decreeing that the term of copyright
should nor extend the time which was required
to defwy the expense of publishing. The King
himself, ic la said, ordered his release after a
few days. Another bookseller, Blaigot, was
sent to the B tstiie by the King’s Ministers be
cause he had sent the King himself pamph
lets on the great questions of the day. Amon
the last occupants of the Bastile was Simc
Nicholas, Henry Lirquet, ho incurred the
enmity of Manrepss aud e. s oust into the
Bastiic He was released t< come to a worse
cnd.beiDg condemned to dear- by the Jacobins
and executed in 1794 la 17: t, the year when
Latudn was re eased, the ab'-iiinsbie Marquis
de Side was transferred to rte Bast-lefrom
W centres, and in tbesa two prisons bo wrote
the earliest of these works, i i which ‘ every
thing the most monstrous ard revolting that
can be dreamt by >be most renzied, obscene
and sanguinary imaginat on , eetos to be com
bined ” Then comes the Cor ttess de la Matte
a - , d Cardinal de R hen, who wi re arrested in
connection with the greet, Marie Antoinette
diamond necklace case. Rob’.- was acquitted
on trial, but the Countess war - i enced t.n be
branded on both shoulders and publicly
whipped and to be confined i the rest cf her
days in the prison of the Salpe.ri-re.
caglostro.
TbecCouot Cagliostro wa3 at occupant of
the Bastile at the same time as the two latter.
He was incarcerated on suonicicn of being an
accomplice of Cardinal d9 II rfci.n, but was ac
quitted by tbe Parliament. Hi) gift of proph
ecy was proven by the words be wrote on the
wa'ls of his prison cad: “La Pastile sera de
mon c, et sur Vemplacement on dxncera." Acd
so it came to puss He was oue of the last
prisoners sent to the Bastile. Last of »1! it be
came a place of refuge f ;r the p rrstcated Ke-
veillon. who really was the osn.to of t,be first
riots of the revolution. Ia April 1789, the
public mit a was in a state of ferine ncation,
popular outbreaks wore cccun eg in various
qiartera. Rtveillon. a paper-tinging manu
facturer, was reputed to have arvd, wrongfully
indeed, that bread was not yet drer enough
and that he hoped that hunger would yet com-
pei tbe workman to labor for half the wag's
they were then getting. The mtb in the quar
ter St. Antoine, where ha lived, determined
to taka summary vengeacca on him They
deputation to him with this request. Do Lau-
ney promised to withdraw the cannon from the
entrances. By this time a report had spread
that the cannon had been turned toward the
city; an enormous multitude of people were
hastening towards the fortress shouting, ‘ We
will have the Bastile! Down with the troops!’’
Two of them ascandedto tbe roof of theguird-
houso and with axes broke the chains of the
drawbridge. Mr. Daver port, in his historv of
the Basil in and of its principal captives (Pail-
adalphia, 1840), thus describes the succeeding
event?:
Tbe throrg then pressed into the court and
advanced towards the second bridge, firing all
the while upon tbe garrison. The latter re
plied with such effect that the sssailants were
driven back; they placed themselves ui.der shel
ter,whence they kept up an irosasarit discharge
of musketry. A dispatch to the governor, in
forming him that succor was at hand, hiving
been intercepted by the committee, that body
sent a third deputation to prevail on him to ad
mit the perisian force.'. It reached tbe outer
court and was ir.vited to enter tbe place by
some officers of the garrison; bnt either it mis
took the meaning of the invitation or it retired
without fulfilling its mission. The firing was
recommenced by the people and was answered
by deadly effect by iheir antagonists. Three
wagon-loads of straw were now brought in
snd set on fire to burn the building near the
fortress, but they were so unskilfully manag
ed that they proved obstacles to the beseietrs,
who were compelled to remove them. While
they were thus employed they rectivad a dis
charge of grape shot from tne only cannon
which the garrison fired daring the cor Act.
The French guards nsw arrived with four
pieces of cannon to take part in the attack. Tbe
sight of this reinforcement entirely depressed
the spirits of the beseiged, which had already
b g :n tc sink. They ca’Ldon thiircommander
to capitulate. Anticipating, ro doubt, the fate
which was reserved for him, he is said to have
seized a lighted match, intending to apply it to
the powder-magazine. A large portion of the
neighborhood would have been destroyed with
the JBastile had not two non commissioned offi
cers repelled him with their bayonets from the
danger: us spot, A white bankarchief was
hoisted or. one of the towers as a flag of truce,
and a parley was beaten by the drums of the
invalids. Thes3 sigua were unnoticed for a
considerable time by the besieccrs, whe con
tinued their fire. At length finding that ail
was silent, ia the Ba3tile they advanced to
wards the lust drawbridge, and called to the
garrison to let it down. A Swis3 officer looked
through a loop-hole, and required that his com
rades ehould b3 allowed to march oat with the
honors of war. That being refused, ho declar
ed that they were willing to submit, on condi
tion cf not being masssced. “Let down the
bridge, acd nothing shall happen to you,” was
the reply. O r this assurance, the governor
gave up the key of the bridge, acd tho con
querors emend ia triumph.
demolition of the prison in which ho spent so
many years of his life, and lived long enough
to secure a considerable sum as damages from
the heirs of the Pompadour. I, is by reading
such a story and the descriptions left us of the
tyranny and knavery of the ruling c a3ses tha;
the malignity of the days of terror can be un
derstood.
The destruction of the Bastile was the close
of Oue era of French history and the begin
ning of another. Which was the more terri
ble it would be difficult to say. In the long
hibtory of tyranny of which the Bastile is the
symbol, there is nothing to equal the degrada
tion o! the French peasantry under Louis
XIV. aud down to 1789. Had they been
serfs, as in Russia, or slaves, as in the United
States, their condition would have been less
lamentable. As it was, they were born to
hopeless misery, living a life of semi-starva
tion from the cradie to the grave. It was the
policy of the crown to keep the nobles at
court. This was the means to which the
king resorted to keep the nobility in check.
All the extravagances and vices of the French
Presented !o
C^'t.UjASHINGTON
BY
lAFAYETTE
Court grew out of if, aud it wa3 to sustain
these extravagances aud vices that the French
people were plundered from generation to gen
eration. Tha feudal system held tb<
chains long after the nobility had ceased to
paifiim the reciprocal duties o/ ifOndalism.
It set Inevitable that us th^yreat
sswwtr
build op.
mmm
to gen-, mo
hem in bo
t'ously clean; change
next tha skin, and do not
DANCING OS THE RUINS OE THE BASTILE.
bnined his house and manufactory to the
ground, the troops bad to be called out aud
the result was that four or five hundred of the
rioters were slaughtered on the spot. Reveil-
lon managed to escape from the mob and
sought shelter in the Bastile, where he re
mained for a month. Three months after
wards the revolution was fully ripe, aud the
political Btorm which had been so long gather
ing, burst forth and Bhook the throne of France
to its basis. The Rcyalists were in favor of
the sword. Foreign troops were collected in
the capital and the blood-shed began in earnest.
Baron de Breteuil had declared that “if it
should be necessary to burn Paris, it shall be
burned and the inhabitants decimated; desper
ate diseases require desperate remedies.” It
was the intention to dissolve the National As
sembly by force and to consign to the scaffold
A vast majority of the assailants were un-
doubedly brave and honorable men, but there
were among them numbers of the most infa
mous of mankind, men who lent their aid in
tnmults only that they might gratify their love
of plunder and blood. To these degraded
wretches must be attributed tbe cruellies which
Bullied the victory. No sooner was the d»y
won than they began to gratify their diaboli
cal prop era it ei. Theirfi: s', achievement wa to
attempt to throw into the flamee a young girl
whom they found in a fainting fit and suppos
ed to be the Governor’s daughter. She was,
however, Baved by one of the Parisian volun
teers. Others were less happy. The unfortu
nate De Launey was maaascred on his way to
the town hall after haying received innumera
ble sword and bayonet stabs from the savages
around him. Five of bis officers were put to
death in an almos t iquallv bar barons manner
tacked on even points on the evening of the
its most distinguished members. Butthepeo- - -
pie prepared for defense in time. The National | The lose of the besiegers was 8o killed on
Guard was created, Paris was summoned to the spot, 15 who died afterwards, 13 crippled
arms and the Prince de Lvnbesae’a brutal at- and sixty wounded. In the Bastile there were
tack on the people with the Royal German reg-1 found only seven prisoners, four cf them had
incent began. The Court party was separated, j forged bills to an immense amount, two w-re
Bat it was understood that I’ariB was to be at- insane, and the last, the Count de Sclaage, had
bsen coufiaod at tne request of his father for
dissipated conduU. Ths BastUe soon ceased
to exist. It was demolished by order of the
civic authorities of Paris and when the domili-
tion was completed a grand bill was given on
the level space. The capture and down 'all of
this obnoxious fabric were hailed with delight
by the friends of liberty in every part of the
globe and they long furnished a favorite and
fertile theme for moraii sts, orators and poets.
The seven prisoners were named Taviraier,
Pajade, Laroche, the Com e de Solage, de
White, La Conrego and Bscbado. Tavernier,
who had bcea accused of plotting against the
life of the Kins in 1749, spent thirty years of
his life in the B istile, a d nineteen of these
without leaving his dungeon. O? the othera,
Whi.e had lost his reason. Is would take too
much space to mention the great lumber of
illustrious persons who at one time or another
were incarcerated in ths Bastiic. Among them
may bo mentioned ths Dnc de Richelieu, Fou-
quet, Lally. Provost de Bsturnout, Cesar, the
Magician; Henry, Prince of Ccnde; Francis,
Count de B.u evitie ; Nicholas de I’Hospita 1 ,
Marquis of Vitry Dubois, Count Josias de
1SS ON THE PLACE DE LA BaSIILE.
14th cf Ja y. The position of tbe BAStile,
which interrupted the communication between
various parts cf the capital and commanded a
considerable portion of the city, was a cause
of embarrassment to the people. M. de Lau-
cey, the governor of the prison, had received
instructions to defend his post to the last ex
tremity. He was amply provided with means
of defense; he had on the ramparts fifteen can
non and twelve wall pieces, each of which car
ried a ball a pound ard a half. He bad also
plenty of shot, 15 000 cartridges and 31,000
ponndB cf powder, besides on the summit of
the bnildiug six cart loads of paving-stones,
bars of iron and other missiles to hnrl on an
approaching enemy when the cannon could no
longer reach him. Tne garrison consisted of
32 Swis3 and 82 invalids. Tbe Council of Elec
tors, sitting at rite Hotel de Ville, had at first
no idea of attacking the Bastile. Tney wished
only for the governor’s neutrality and sent a
TUE OLD BASTILE.
Rauizau, the Count de Rieux, the Chevalier de
Rohar, the corrupt Marchioness of Briuvilliers,
Madame Guvod, the mysterious Man with the
Iron Mask, Voltaire (who in his twenty-secood
year was sent to the Bastile by the regent
Duke of Orleans on an unfounded suspicion o
being tbe author of a libel and was incat cor-
a ed above a year before bis innocence was
discovered), Pater Robbe de Ceauves-, “the
bard of the unclean malady,” besides Hugue
nots, contortionists and disgraced politicians
innumerable. Among all these the stories of
the imprisonment of the Man with the Iron
Mask and the sufferings of Masers de Latude
are best known. The story of the latter with
his tame rats has been read probably by every
echoolboy. He was release 1 five years before tbe
ion the old regime fell to pieces,
with the fall cf thd Bastile, a feeble tyrant iq
the person of Louis XVL gave place to the
fiSicsr tyrauts who were borne to power ‘ m
the top wave of revolution. Henceforth Ac-
ciients were to rule in Francs, to whom lead
ership cams as unexpectedly as it came to Ca
mille Desmoulins at the wine shop in the
Palais Royal. It was centuries of oppression,
of degradation, of savagery that made possi
ble the long line of Accidents from Robss-
pierre to Boulanger. If ths Bastile was a
symbol cf the past, its destruction waB a sign
of the future, and it is only now, after tire
lapse of a century, since France awoke in
wrath to wreak vengence in blood, that it be
gins to look as if the Republic might at last
be placed upon a sure foundation.
For the Sunny South.
THOUGHTS.
BT MARC A RITE,
Suggested on viewing a portrait of Sir Isaac
Newton.
“Nature and Nature's laws, lay bid in night,
God said, Let Newton be, and aU was light.”
Pope.
O! man ot bright, empyreal Lme,
Whose living laurels crown thy name,
As I geze upon thy speaking eye
Where immortal beantles lie,
Revealing all tbe depth of tbonght
By angelic patience wrought
Into tmths ImoartlDg light,
“When nature’s laws lay hid In night
Pardonably proud I claim to be
With sneb an Image banntlng me.
That, though remote from me and mine,
Thy lineal blood Bows through my line,
Aye! my ancestry heretofore
Gtzed on thine Image to adore.
And thns It Is the good and great
All future ages elevate.
Modest, and more beloved we know
Than was proud QalllUo,
Thou wert honored In thy time
By Kingly heads of every clime.
Bo bright Iby fame-the meed Is Just
That lesser lights revive from dost.
Who conld not pity—yet who conld blame
Tbe o'ersbadowed lJgbt of Leibnitz's name.
July, 1888
“Great Expectations” Realized.
M. Arthur Meyer, editor of Le Gaulois,
Paris, is said to have declared in hie youth:
“I shall bs a gentleman of society..* I shall
force my way into the moat carefully-guarded
drawing rooms. I shall be the equal of princes.
1 shall kiss the hands cf duchesses. I shall
be on Intimate terms with the greatest houses
of the Faubourg St Germain. In a word, I
shall bo the Beau Brummel of tbe Jews.” Ha
h&3 resi zed his ambition.
Miss Francis E. Willard.
Miss Frances E. Willard will be fifty years
old at the beginning of the cominz year, and
tho National Woman’s Christian Union have
decided to celebrate tha eyent. At the con
vention held in Nashville last year it was re
solved that she be invited to write her autobi
ography, together with the history of tho Tem
perance Union during its sixteen eventfnl
years. M;ss Willard accepted the fnvitatioD,
and is now busily engaged npon tbe book.
Oue of the last acos of the governor of Louis
iana before the adjournment of the recent gen
eral assembly, was to present to Mrs. Mary H.
Hunt, of Boston, Mas3., the pen with which
he signed a strong tempsrauce education law,
which that lady, in behalf of the Louisiana
Woman’s Christian Association Union, had
advocated before that legislature.
The food of the sultan of Turkey is cooked
by ore man and his aids. It is prepared in
silver vessels, and each vessel is sealed by a
slip of paper and a stamp after tho meal is
cooked. Tnese seals are broken in the pres
ence of the saltan by the high chamberlain,
who takes a spoonful of each dish before the
sultan tastes it. The annual expenditure of
the sultan’s household is over §41,000,000.
The Queen R -gent of Spain is gaining a great
hold on ihe affection of, her subjects, and ia
said to be a wonderful woman, charming in
manner and possessing great administrative
ability. It is claimed by many that she will
rank as one of tbe great women sovereigns of
history. Snare may doubt all this from the
fact that she cannot keep the baby king quiet
in public.
There are 347 women blacksmiths in Eng
land, and 9138 nail-makeis of the same sex.
Beauties and Celebrities.
American ife Under Eigh
teen Presidents.
Prominent Sttamea ai<l Brilliant
Belles—Fashionable Styles. Enter-
tinmonts. Aasnlntar. 3ta.
SUMBR EORTY-TWO.
Close of Adam’s Administration.
The winter of 182 3 9 closed ths administra
tion of John Q rincy Adams. During his In
cumbency office-holders were not removed for
opinion’s sake. He was warned that not to
do it would possibly result ia his defeat, but
be persisted, fully expecting that he, as hie
predecessors had beer, would be elected for
a second term. Not only that—it was the im
pression that Mr. Clay, as had been the case
with other Secretaries of State, would sucoeed
Adams in 1833. Bathe was mistaken. The
bitterness which had existed against ths elder
Ad ams had been rearoused, aud he was de
feated
Mrs. Secretary Porter.
In December a bold innovation upon tbe
rule of fashion was made. The famous east
room was thrown open and tbe dance intro
duced. This had not been done since the
close of the war of 1SI2. On a Monday in thi«
month Mrs. Sfcretary Porter gave her first
party. A letter-writer of the day remarks:
“Mrs. Porter is charming and easily takes the
lead of all her gay cotemporaries of the day
now at the esptoi. She has been the posses
sor of great personal beauty, and is remarkaj
ble for an air of dignity with which her fine
sense well corresponds. She sustains the ad
ministration with her spirit,her cleverness, and
her versatile talents. She is perfectly ac
quainted with every political man, and Clay
himself wou'd not hesitate to take a lesson
from her judgment. Her position is one of
the most popular ^nd influential of the court
circle at Washington, was gained by her noble,
sympathizidg nature, and the oharm of a
naturalness of manner which set others at
case in her so isty. In the midst of Washing
ton gayeiies this elegant Mrs. Porter said she
had chiefly worn for a whole winter one black
silk dress—viiring cap and collar to suit dif
ferent occasions.”
Closing Season’s Festivities.
At the soirees of ths secretaries dancing
was allowed, with c ird tables, backgammon,
or chess, but at the .president’s there was
lOtbing bat talking, squeezing, promenading,
wing, drinking ccff se, and sipping liquors.
At one of the president’s soirees, besides the
secretaries and other prominent persons there
wgre present many °Jacksnn men from the
Every ons seemed looking f
Id not find, except the Lrdy
'' er life aud
heavily ujJlfc tl
observing that when beck voodemen get fa^
tigued they always take a seat on the flnt
stump they come across.
The leaders of the ton were the very elite of
the principal cities of the Union. “Last
week,” says a vieitor, “was Clay’s Wednes
day, and this week has been the President's
drawing room; on both accasions it was a per
fect jam. Clay’s night was distinguished for
some brilliancy, some beauty, plenty of poli
tics. execrable music, and a solitary cotilion,
varied with an occasional waltz.”
On the 9.h of January, 1829, a party wae
given by Mr. Vaughn, the British Minister,
which was r aid to excel anything of the sort
that had taken place the entire season. Mr.
Vaughn was a bachelor, and admitted to be
one of the most agreeable and polished of
that species.
Of all the sparkling festivities of the for
eign legations, however, the gala at Baron M.
Krudener’s was of surpassing effect. The wit
and beauty were more brilliant than had yet
bewildered the pleasure-seeking society at tbe
national capital. Tbe married ladies were
the most admired belles. One of them was
heard to indulge in moralizing over the de
generacy of the times, recalling the haloyon
days of Jefferson ! the glorious republioaa
days, when the mind shone forth in its pare
unstudied richness, beyond the power of em
broidery, lace, perfumes, and the accomplish
ments of modern music and dancing masters.
Whip syllabubs were not then in fashion,
ice-creams were unknown, and a thousand
villanons compounds had not been invented!
Jefferson restored the symplicity which should
forever characters the coart of a free psople 1
On his days there were no “drawing-rooms,”
no waltzing, no fashionable mobs where death
stalked abroad in the shape of bon-bons and
confectionary.
80ME NATIONAL DEBTS.
The Creat Burdens the Leading Na
tions Have to Carry.
If a national debt is a national bleesing,
France is tho most blessed country on earth.
The latest computation of the French debt
places i; at abrnt >'5,902.S00,000, to which must
be added 9432,000,000 in life annuities, which
will expire with the lives of their owners. The
funded debt is co npc3ed of -32 900,003.000 of
perpetual 3 per cants., 31,257 000,000 of per
petual 4 1-2 par cents, and 9937,900,200 of re
deemable bonds. The floating debt is abont
9200,000 0C0 and the ball nee is made up of an
nuities to companies and corporations The
annual charee for interest, annuities and sink
ing fund is .$258,167,083.
Of the other Enropsan nations the debt of
Russia is the greatest, amounting to 93,605,-
000.000. Bit Russia has a population of 80,-
000,000. while France has but little more than
30,C00,0G0 Tne per capita debt of Russia la
less than 950, wh:le that of France is nearly
9200. The English debt is next in groea
amount, beiog 93 505,800,000. Italy owee 92,-
220,000,00.'; Austrii, §1 857,009,000; Spain,
91,208,400,000; Prassia, 9952,800,000, and
Hungary, 9335,000,000. None of these coun
tries, except Ecgland and Prussia, have a per
manent revenue sufficiently large to guarantee
interest and eiuking fund charges from year to
year, and the financial policy of each is made
np of make shift expadienta that usually fail
to prevent the rapid increase of government
inaebtednees. Tuis is especially the case with
Franca, the debt of which has increased with
marvellous rapidity daring the last quarter of
a century.—Philadelphia Times.
An 1804 DolUr.
Mrs. Constant Tourgee, who is visiting her
niece at Pawtacket, hme in her possession one
ol the rare silver dollars of the coinage of
1801, whose whereabouts has not been pub
licly known until very recently. The his
tory of this coin is interesting. Mrs. Tour-
gee’s maiden name was Elizabeth Pieros,
and she wa» the dangbter of Joshua Pierce,
of North Kingston. Upon her eighteenth
birthday (sne is now in her seventy-sixth
year) her father gave her this dollar, whioh
he receivad at the close of the war of 1812
as a part payment for services in that war
and which he had kept since that time, and
she has faithfully observed his iDjunction to
always keep it —Providence R. I. Journal.
Lady physician—“Dear me, I wonder If it iw
ever going to clear off? A patient sent for m3
two days ago.”