Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Impressed as I am with your mosque. the first I ever saw, and stirred as I am with the fact that your harbor once floated the great raits ot-ebanon-oedar from which the temples at Jerusalem were builded, Sol o:.on's oxen drawing the logs -through this very town on the way to Jerusalem, nothing can make me forget that this Jappa was the birthplace of the sowing society that has blessed the poor of all saeceeding ages in all lands. The dis asters to your town when Judas Mac :thus set it on fire, and Napoleon had livo hundred prisoners massacred in your n ighborhood, can not make me forget that one of the most magnificent chari ti<-s of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with her n"edle embroidering her name inefface ably into the benificeneo of the world. I see her sitting in yon der home. In the doorway, and around about the build :nz, and in the room where she sits are ti pale faces of the poor. She listens to their plaint, she pities their woe, sht r-:akes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this invalid woman, and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one, she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and toars and Christian encouragement. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by those whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard: "Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully in her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, an.l th.e lost and the abandoned startup with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as though an angel had addressed them; and as she goes out the lane, eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of l:ght about her brow, and a trail of glory in her pathway. That night a half paid shipwright climbs the hill and reaches home. and sees his little -boy well clad, and says: "=Wher" did these clothes come from?" And they tell him: "Dorcas has been here." In another p.ce a woman is trimming a lamp; Dor e.s bought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for many a week are gathered now, for Dor cas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pa-use in that woman's ministry. They say: "Where is Dorcas? Why, we haven't seen her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?" And one , f these poor people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness the news comes, "Dor mas is sick!" No bulletin flashing from the palace gate, telling the stages of a king's disease, is more anxiously awaited for than the news from this sick bene factress. Alas! for Joppa! there is wail ing, wailing. That voice which has ut tered so many cheerful words is hushed; That hand which has made so many gar ments for the poor is cold and still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is dimmed by the blinding mist that go up from the river of death. In every God fersaken place in this town; wherever there is a sick child and no balm; wherever there is hunger and no bread; wherever there is guilt and-no commiseration; wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks and stream ing eyes, and frantic gesticulation as they cry: "Dorcas is dead!" They send for the Apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of that place, stopping with a tanner by the name of Simon. Peter ui-ges his way through the crowd around the door, and stands in the. pres ence of the dead. What expostulation and grief all about him! Here stand some of the poor people, who show the gar mnents which This poor woman had made for them.- Their grief can not be ap peased. The Apostle Peter wants to perform a miracle. He will not do it amidst the excited crowd, so he kindly orders the whole room to be cleared. The door is shut against the populace. Tlhe apostle stands now with the dead. -0. it is a serious moment, you know, when you are alone with a lifelessbody! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the lifeless form of this one all ready for the sepul cher, and in the strength of Him who is the resurrection he exclaims: "Tabiths, arise!" There is a stir in the fountains of life; the heart flutters; the nerves thrill; the eheek flushes; the eye opens; she sits up! We see in this subject Dorcas the dis ciple; Dorcas the benefattress; Dorcas the lamented; Dorcas the resurrected. If rhad not seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this wo man was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart whice is not chorded and strung by Divine grace.. - ih'fore I show you the needlework of this woman, I want to show you her re gnnerated heart, the source of a pure lif'e and of all Christian charities. I wish that the wives and mothers and d.:ughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Doscas in her discipleship. Defore you cross the threshold of the hospitaL. before you enter upon the S:nptations and trials of to-morrow, I e:xage you, in the name of God, and by - eturmoil and tumult of the judgment a: y, oh women! that you attend to the ? st, last and greatest duty of your life .the seeking for God and being at y actte with Him. When the trumpet * all sccund, there will be an uproar, :&a a wreck of mountain and continent, a;d no human arm can help you. Amidst t.e rising of the dead, and amidst the iling of yonder sea, and amidst the iive, leaping thunders of the flying heavens, calm and placid will be every woman's heart who hath put her trust in Christ; calm, notwithstanding all the tumult, as though the fire in the heav eras were only the gilding of an autumn al sunset, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as though the awful voices of the sky were but a group, of friends bursting through a gateway at eventide, with laughter, and shouting, "Dorcas, t'.- disciple." Would God that every Y r: and every Martha would this day sit .iow'n at the feet of Jesus. Fu rt her, we see Dorcas the benefact i-ess History has told the story of the crown; re .pic poet 1nas .u or 1 !1 sword; the p a to::' poyet. with! ."is versess full of thc redolence of olvuer tops, and a rus:le with te silk of th- corn, has sung the praise: of the .w. I tell you the praises of the' fleede. Frm : lie fig loaf robe prepared in the tard en of Eden tb the last stitch taken on the garment for the poor, the needle has wrought wonders of kindness. generosity, and bc'tiefaction. I aderned the girdle of the high prie t; it fashion'd the curtains in the ancint tabernacle: it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon; it pro vided the robes of Queen Elizabeth: and in high places and in low pl aces by the fire of the pioneer's bac lo" andt under the flash of the chandelier. every whero, it has clothed nakedness, it has preached the gospel, it has overcome hosts of pen utry and want with the war cry of "Stitch. stit;h. s:itcl:" The operatives have found a livIihood by it, and through it the mansions of the employer have been constructed. Amidst the greatest triumphs in all ages and lands, I set down the conquest of the needle. I admit its crimes; I admit its cruelties. It has had more martyrs than the fire: it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into ihe lungs; it has sent madness :nto the brain; it has filled-the potter's ile d: it has pitched whole armies of the sufXer inginto crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking of Poreas and her ministries to the poor, I shall speak only of the charities of the needle. This woman was a renresentativo of all those women who make garments for the destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepare bandaes for the lacerated, who fix up boxes of cloth ing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suf:ering and: destituto searing that gospel which is sit ht for tho blind, and hearing for the deaf.: nd which makes the lame man learn lik a hart, and brings the dead to life. im mortal health bounding in their l6es. What a contrast between the pr tical benevolence of this woman ands g:eat deal of charity of this day: This woman did not spend her time idly planning how the poor of your city of Joppa weza to be relieved; she took her needle an. relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows, and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his bas ket of. cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platforms, and goes out to kick the beggar from the step, crying: "Hush your miserable howling." The sufferers of the world want not so much theory as practice; not so much tears as dtllars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes; not so much "God bless vous!" as jackets and frocks. I will put one earn est Christian man. hard working*. against Ave thousand mere theorists. n the sub ject of charity. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church archi tecture who never in their life helped to build a church. There are men who can give you the history of Buddhism and Mohammedanism who never sent a farthing for their evangelization. There are women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world who never had the courage, like Dorcas. to take the needle and assault it. I am glad that thero is not a page of the world's history which is not a rec ord of female benevolence. God says to all lands and people. Come now and hear the widow's mite rattle down into the poor box. The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the fa ie stricken. Queen lianche, the wife of Louis VIII., of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incar cerated in the prison, w.ent out amidst the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they miiht all strike it, and down wont the prison door and out came the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife of Ihenry I., went dow'n amidst the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. Retson, at Matagorda, appeared on the bttlefield while the missiles of death were flying around, and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever hoard of the civil war in America who has notheard of the women of the Sanitary and Christian Commis ions, or the fact that, before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South MIountain, the women of the North met the women of the South on the battle field, forgetting all their animosities while they bound up the wounded, and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas the benefactress. I come now to speak of Dcas the la mented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in this town of Joppa! I suppose there were women here of larger for tunes; women, perhaps, with handsomer faces, but-there was no grief at their de parture like this at the death of Dorcas. There was not more turmoil and upturn Ingin the MIediterranean Sea, dashing against the wharves of this scapot, than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There are a gr'eat many who go out of life and are unmuissed. There may be a very large funeral; there may be a greot many carriages and a rkhmed hearse: there may be high sournding eulogiums; the bell niay toll at the cemetery gate; there may be a very fine marble shaft reared over the resting place; but the whole thing may be a falsehood and a sham. The church of God has lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. 1t is only a nuisance abated, it is only a grumbler ceasirg to fin~d fault; it is o::1 an idler stopp- 4 yawning; it is only -. dissipated fasiinable parted from his wine cellar; while on the other han no useful Christian leaves tis world wi: out being missed. The church of Gud cries out liko the prophet: "Howl, b e tree, for tho cedar has fallen.' Widow hood comes and shows the garmente which the departed had made. Orphans are lifted up to look into the calm faco of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the coldbrow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning-mourninlg becaus Dorcas is dead. When Josephine of France was car ried out to her grave, there were a tgreat many men and weoen of poartp and pride and position that went out atr' her, but I am nmos: ac.t-l by the sc-'' of his:ory that on that dyteewr ten thousand of the poor ofEm' followed her 'oniin. we-png and w: : until tihe air rang again, becas when they lost Josephine, they lost th la earthly friend. 0, who would not rte have such obsequies than all thete that were ever poured in th lIhy that have been oxhumed from aen cities. There may be no mass o dead; there may be no costly srcop": gus; there may be no elabort .a.o leum; but in the damp ellars of tihe city, and through the lonely huts of '0 mountain glen, there will be mourning, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas is dead. _"Blessed are thie dead who die in tuo bor: t:e, r: _t irom thir 'ab in and tir works do fo(llou' them." p c" (I Doreas the resur re'cr-d. i ' r.:stle came to where she v a said Ai nl she sat up. n vhat a s'ort comnpss the great writer i t that-"She sat up:" 0, what a time ee must have ben around this town vLen. t'?e apo"o brought heroutamong Per cld friends How the tears of joy must have started! What clapping of hands there must have bcen! What singing! What laughter: Sound it all through that lane! Shout it down that dark alloy: Let .._ Joppa hear it! Dor cs is re.;urrected: You and I have seen the same thing many a time; not a dead body resusci t:ted. but the deceased coming up again aft:er death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to fifty years of age, servintt God. and ti n dies, we are apt to thin that his earthily work is done. No. Iiis inihr.enee on earth will con tinue tinl the world ceases. Services rendeired 'for Christ never stop. A Christian woman toils for the upbuild ing of a church through many anxieties, through many self denials, with prayers and tears, and titin she dies. It is fif teen years since she went away. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church; hundreds of souli stand up and confess the faith of Christ. Has that Christian woman, who went away fifteen years ago, nothing to .do with these things? I see the flowering out of her noble heart. I hear the echo of her foot steps in all the songs over sins forgiven, in all the prosperity of the church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrected. After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down, their noodle forever. After making gar ments for others. some one will make a garment for them; the last robe we ever wear-the- robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphan age. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. I do not know where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be; but there will be a lamp burning at that tomb, and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the night no rude footstep will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed. pleasant shadows, undis turbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sicep : From which none ever wake to weep. Then one day there' will be a sky rending, and a whirl of wheels, and the flash of a pageant; armies marching, chains clanking, banners waving, thun ders booming; and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly surrounded-surrounded by the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded souls to whom she had administered! Daughter of God, so strangely sur rounded, what means this? It means that reward has come, that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that the banquet is spread. Shout it through all the crumbling earth. Sing it through all the flying heavens. Dorcas is resur rected. In 1555, when some of the soldiers came back from the Crimean war to London, the Queen of England distrib uted among them beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for the two houses of Parliament and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience to witness the dis tribution of the medals. A Colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of Inker man, was Oulled in on a wheel chair; thers came in limping on their crutches. Then the Queen of England arose before them in the name of her government, and uttered words of commendationr to the officers and men, and distributed these medals, inscribed with the four great battle-fields, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol. As the Queen gave these to the wounded men and the woun di officers, the bands of music struck up the national air, and the people athi streaming eyes joined in the song: God save our rracious queen: Lcong live our nobie quccn: God s-ave thle queen: And then they shouted "Huzza! leiz a:'' 0, it was a proud day for those re turned warriors: .ut a brighter, better and gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled in h is service'. g0oe1 soldiers of Jesus Christ. He shall rise before them. and in the presence of all the glorified of Heaven lie will say: " Weil done, good and faithful servant:" and then lie will dis tr'ute the medals of eternal victory, net inscribed with works of righteous ness5 which we h'~ve done, but with those fou grat hanl-fids, dear to At :'d dear~ to Hea~ven, 3k-thle'hem! Naz -If p-ep': will net he honest in their etins imywil gro fjay he dis:'onest Lone of deceian:1. fabChd will show ircli in '.wd.---Un ite Pr'eshyterian. -E-I'ducation is an ornamtent in rrs p.:rity and a retug in atve:'ity.-Aris tutile rn makimizhoxes three workos can. Le-te w'ork. of thirteen. ire We (oifn to 'lake !t. The cott-o cron of the Staite, as re tu.e yte State Departmnent of Agri cu are ?~ i~ SSS, was 53.i-i bales. T'.:reor for this year puts the 0crop 'r.: f'0000 This would iadle-ate somre n .000 baies in excess of inst ve:.r. Wec Sthis estimnate will not be realized. A de1o the ite cottot still hangs .a fri wil camre to cotton it is im tions complait .u cotton not opec in -. It my ibe thati tihese bal ma. never come to cotton. Athgscon-d.'.., we do not Thok he coto crop of this State fo:- the Wt yer exeed hat f the last byv ha *e ct., amounting to ...whi..h wo umake the crop of - -rson (1.0 i: t::i of G;30, 1j1,~ ' prvoul c:ito. And! vet f :e bu lls tha a~enwi the field come ti c"ton the es timt of the State de .v the fac. Our experiec tches c~aar interru..in:-..cdent occurring ti) a pai-tially late, ut exceedin;;y reis bureau thas decliidt ak any~.i c:,ate of the 'ssbl crp eaega ur State ~ derien i'- s * i u "s its best jdm twih :l the. f.acts it could mather Itw! o i' cei~bet be reatihe:1 At the tirne of the estimtate I o:-euhoi f:.r2es i ::ippiirt; frost nor et te srang ce that apparently noodfrui hans onin the fields withou opning.-Coinmbia Register'. JEFFERSON DAVIS. INflIIESTING REMINISCENSES I AN INTIATE FRIEND. Some IIee41in: Det:ii of Its ;io Lire--Thie Steasur or B~eauoir--A MI Remar tkable Mnul. Atlanta Constitution. On the w:ay to the S.uthern Fores Congress in February, 1887, I fount had a day' leisure, and it occurred me to accept an (!ten repeated invitati to visit Mr. Davis at Beauvoir, Miss., rlr ad ::ton about uali way betwc Molnle and New Orleans. It cnanc th%.I had been o tihe committee whi esco:ted a;hn tii M)ntgomery in 18( and .ur reli:la i,eellm somewhat in ;; war, conltinuing wil out interruptiotn to this time. In the afternoon the train left me the little de t, wh:eb is also thei postoi lce-the ez-President being t chief patron. A young Englishman the service of Mr. Davis politely guid me over the devious country road to t family residence, half a mile distant. TUE BUILDINGS AT ILEAUvOIR form quite a group, having been built considerable cost for a luxurious Sout ern home. Situ:ted on a high bluti white said, about a hundred yards frc the Mexiesn gulf, blown over by t salt sea brcze, it must be a healt: olace. The soil seems incapahle of pt ducirg asnaything but the superb li oaks. magnolias and pines, which sha the grounds ofd about fifty acres. 2 the buildings are of wood-one-story, ai slate covered-the principal one is gI] capacious, containing probably t rooms, w.iths le:y ceiings and all han sotmely frescoed. A very wide hail ru through the center and a broad varan surrounds the whole. On either sid some lifty yards distanr, are cottages similar design, in one of which is A] Davis's office and reference library, I (laughteLs studio (Miss Davis is a fi artist) and a sleeping room. The oth cottage is an "overflow" guest chamt buildings; a cluster of outhouses hudd in the renr. All the houses are paint white and show pleasantly under t: evergreen foliage. Soon after sending in my card THE VENERABLE EX-PREsIDENT greeted we with hearty cordiality, and wats gratifying to notice that this I mnarkable man still retained the digt tied bearing, high courtesy and gent manner of the "old south." That ti man. now about eight, conspicious the Black IHawk, Seminole and Mexic: wars, secretary of war under Pierc United States senator from Mississip for two term:, president of the confede ate States during the greatest conflict modern time, state prisoner in a dan case mate of Fortess Monroe for tv years, could, during all the stress whit must have pressed upon him, still reta his erect carriage, wonderful memo and accurate knowledge of curre events is beyond my comprehension. Drawing some restful chairs to t] parlor windows, through which came t] soft gulf breeze, I had the happiness a free conversation with, I think, t] greatest man I ever knew. Many tend memories of personal interest were r called and many historic points discu sed. With the exception of John I Calhoun, Mr. Davis is TIIE MOST INTERESTING TALKER I ever met. I suppose he is the only m1 living who knows, and remembers a :urately the inner history of the co federacy. In speaking of the Blackhaw seminole and Mexican wars, he relat4 many interesting incidents, and me ioned the singular fact that all ti commands in the Mlexican war were fro the south, as Scott of Virginia, Taylor Louisiana, Worth of North Carolin Briggs of Georgia, Pillow of Tennesse Quitman of 3Mississippi, besides Brag Davis, Butler and others who held su rdinate positioas. Quitman, howeve was born in the north. I asked him who he thought was ti reatest confederate commander. Afta !ome thought he said General Lee. E: laining that Albert Sidney Johnson w; undoubtedly the equal of Lee, but ha ing fallen cariy in the war, he had >pportalnity to demonstrate his gre; aspabilities. After these two he me: ioned Stonewall Jackson, J. E. Joh tun, Gordon, Longstreet, Stewart, ti Lees, the Hills and many others. sked him whom he considered the gre test union general. IHe answered u! esitatigly-McClellan. Said he wi an intense union man and he respect< im as such, but that he fell under u: just suspicion at Washington-for pol ical reasons-and confusion ensue< When secretary of war, Mr. Davis he sent McClellan to survey the bay Samana, in St. Domingo, with the hoi of securing a harbor and coaling static n the Went Indies for the United Stati avy. His map and report are nowc file in Washington. The work was well done that he detailed him to vis St. Petersburgto report upon the miu ary establishments of Russia. In twel' onths he submitted exhaustive repor mnd also translated a technical worl which is now in the war office at Was: ngton. ItE soKE KINDLY mnd appreciatively of many northei enerals, saying General Grant was ~cod man and a great general, wi anne to the front when the confederat was exhausted, he also spoke in the mo indly way of Preaident Lincoln, who, his lile had been spared, would haa een of great service to the south and tI hole country. Mr. Davis inquilred jf I was in Rici mondi during the Seven d ays' battle? Yes I was a member of the Southem [hptiat convention, and remembert hmaring the guns, and cshile we expect< he feueral armay any day, there wast .n'.ernes~s manifested, but special prayc ere offered for the enemy and for ti roitectiou of the homes and people ;he south. I mt~ked Mr, Davis if he remember( ur conversation about a plan for the. GRIADU:.L ]:MANcIPATIoN OF TILE NE GIoIY. Yes, he recelleted every detali. I :ordi:Jly app roved of it, andi showed il 4lence between his lan and mil (this was in the autumn of 1864) and pe~sted mae to ride down to Drury's b~t nd confecr with General Lee. I did s and foua! that General Lee heartily a proved of the plans. Owing to the da cer of ridin g fourteen miles back ichmond in the dark General Lee cot peldme to sleep in his tet-a ye mba~rrng position for mne-becau be would1 make men sleep on his cot whi he sept in his blankets ou the groun The mnauer was submitted to congre in a pecia message, and the schemie w detcated, chiefly through H~on. Ri. M. Hunter, of Virginia, on the ground th the withdrawal of so many able-bodi' slaves (40,000 at first) who were to freed upon joining the army won probably leave the men in the field wit utm-nwir t Tewill be rem emhbe hat Captain harry Jackson offered to raise a retment of negroes in Georgia to fight for their frcedom. I spoke of my 3F embarssmnent in accepting Genera Lee's hospitality. le said Lee was right, as it would have been hazzardou me to return to Richmond after dark, and wt mentioned two armusing inst.nces of his I being arested while inspecting the lines near Richmond. rv The e.-president remembered my GOI GOING THROUSI THE BLOCEADE to to 'igland and France, partly at his on instance to meet the confederate commis a sioners, recalled our conversation in his en library just before I left, and was very = much interested in my account of a long cb interview with the late Lord Derby and ? other members of parliment, in which ti Lord Derby assured me that if he had been in powcr the confederacy would have been rcc.;nized soon after the seven at days battle before Richmond. (Palmar ston was then prime minister.) After e parliament opened I went with Mr. Mason to Paris and met Mr. Slidell and Mr. Mason, and explained the plan for grad be uial emancipation. The three commis sioners agreed that if our plan could have been carried out the confederacy at would have at once been recognized. I h- mentioned this simply to show the fore of thought of Mr. Davis. m All this seemed to interest Air. Davis, ic because I never reported after my return sy in 1805. The confederacy was in ruins, o- the president in a case mate at Fortress ye Monroe and nearly all my property des 3c troyed. Our conversation lasted until Ll about 11 p. m., when Mr. Davis insisted d upon esco:ting me to the cottage where I te was to sleep. A fierce storm swept over n the gulf that night, and the thunder of d- the waves on the beech recalled to my as excited imagination the bombardment of Ia Atlanta in '04, with a comfused idea of e, Long Branch and Biaritz on the bay of of Eiscay. :r. By a fortunate chance the is "DAUGHTER OF THE Co\FEDERACT" 3e er (Varina Anna Davis-"3Iiss Winnie") er returned from her triumphal visit in the le north during the night, bringing two of ,d her friends with her. I had seen Miss ;e Davis but once,- when she was an infant in the autumn of '64, and found it diffi cult to realize that this tall, handsome, highly accomplished young woman was the little child I had seen in Richmond. it I do not remember having met a finer or - more charming young woman that - Varina A. Davis, (named for her le mother.) is During my stay at Beauvoir I could in but notice that among all classes Mr. and n Mrs. and Miss Davis were universally e, beloved and respected, which, of course, P was only natural, as a more gentle, high r- bred and benevolent family I never knew. I brought away a Mexican cactus which, P at this writing, promises to develop into a line plant in our L. P.Grant park. THE EEAUTIEs OF NEAUVOIR. .n I think Beauvoir is one of the most a charming and restful places in the world -to visitors. I can, however, easily im agin that it may become monotonous to 1e the household during the winter mobths, o when the friends and families from the f city-who have cottages on the gulf return er home in the autumn, and only casual friends, and an endless proeession of sttangers-curiosity people-call at the place and overrun the grounds and the residence, occasionally claiming hospital ity which the slender -esources of Beau voir can hardly meet. in Beauvoir house is an interesting his o- torical locality. Ship island is directly -to the south, about five miles from the C, shore. It was on the landward side that :d de Bienville assembled his fleet when he 2- took cominand of the Frenoh possessions ie and founded Biloxie-once the branch m sea, of government, five miles east of >f Beaiuvoir. At this island Packinghiam s, gatheredh is ships before his disastrous e, campaign against New Orleans. Again , it was at this point that the fleet of Gen >- eral Butler rendezvoused before he occu r, pied New Orleans, It is now a quar antine station for Mobile and New Or ie leans. ir That this extraordilnary man, after a <- life of unprecedented vicisitude, often of i severe hardship, carrying on his person r- an incurable wound received at Buena o Vista, and the marks of the manacles at Lt Fortress Monroe, should have lived so 1- long and retained such wonderful vitali i- tv. passes my comprehension, but this, t fr-om my more recent tapaociation with I the family, I attribute largely to the lov 1- ing and judicious care of one of the no a- blest of women-Mrs. Varina Howell is Davis. I can recall but few women d who have been so affectionate and sen i- sible as the lady bountiful of Beau - voir. I. M.t~s. JEFFERsoN DATIs. d. Mrs. Davis is of Welch lextraction-sp > Howell, a grand daughter of Governor e Howell of New Jersey, who was a fast n friend of Washington. She was born in s Vicksburg about 1820 the daugtter of a n large planter in the famous, Yazoo bot 0 tonms, Married MIr. Davis forty-three it years ago, they settled the now cele - brated Brierfield plantation-a large se island in the Mississi'pi river at Davis a Bend, below Vicksburg.. The place was so called because of the luxuriant 1 tangle of briers which the rich soil pro duced. There they build a beautiful homc and planted the magnificent live noaks which are now the pride of the a rneighborhood. Mr. Davis had previous. o ly married a daughter of -ex-President zachary Taylor. During my visit we again reviewed our plans of '03 for the Sgradual emancipation of the negro. I do .e not know what the future hitorian nyy e say, 'for the history of the confederacy is yet to be written, but I do konw that -Mr. Davis, Gc:cral Lee, and many other prominent peCople of the south, favored n it, and that a bill was introduced in the d confederate congress to that effect. d Mr. Davis kindly, in describing o0 TUE BATTLE OF BUENA TIsTA, Ssaid that when thev moved out to meet Sthe enemy, they were uncertain about his tnumbers or position. General Taylor had about 1,200 men, andthey soon ascertain ded that they wcrc opposed by 8,000 of the flower of the Mexican army, com manded by Santa Anna in person! The situation was perilous. Colonel Davis [ obtained the consent of General Taylor, e to lead his Mississippi rifles through a ra I vine, thus flanking the enemy's position, e- hich led to the confusion and rout which ff finally ensued. H~e said there was no ill ofeeling betweecn hi:n and General Taylor p- about bis first marriage. Ie married a- with the general's consent, although the to latter could not be present, Hie mention a- ed the kin dness of ~es-President Pierce, ry who visited him during his confinement se in the fort, and who ps.2eroustly offered le him a home for life when released. He 3. had aJ~gh regard for Mr. Pierce; said he ss wa." a very able man, and that his wasi ast only adminir-tration in the history of i'. the country during which there was no at hange n the cahinet. Ed This unstudied memorandum about mfriends whom I love is written to pre id Iserre recollections which even in time b- Ima:y become dim in my memory. A STARTLING DISCOVERY. The Hov of a Dead lMan Found in a liar. rel at Winston. Winston (N. C.) Sentinel. Last Saturday night, about the sol emn hour of 12, a belated negro 'possum hunter passed near the bridge of the Wilkesboro extension railroad in Yorth! Winston. What was his horror when he saw, by the dim light of a bull's-eye lantern, four men digging with spades what seemed to him a grave. He stayed not on the order of his going, but went quickly at a 2:40 gait. The next morning this negro, coon-" like, went with some friends to the spot. They dug; they found; what? It was a kerosene barrel, and in it were the re mains of a dead man. The report soon spread, and the mystery promised to de velop into a second Maxwell Prellcr hor ror. Black negroes got three shades lighter, and their lips quivered and their eyes bulged as they told their terrible tale. But by Sunday night the mystery was solved. The body was that of the negro murderer, Bill Houston, who was hanged in Winston on July 18, 1888. After the body had been partially dis sected by physicians, they had it buried. Some days ago a young medical student, who wished the skeleton, supposing all the flesh decayed, went to dig him up, and it was this that gave the 'possum hunter the shivers. The body, however, was almost as firm as it was when bur ied. It was placed close to a branch, and the overflows had covered the body deep with sand. This sand had pre served the body, and when the medical student found it In this condition he in terred it again, to be found by the 'pos sum hunter in the morning. The authorities took the body and had it properly interred. It is a remarkable coincidence that Bill Houston was caught by Policeman Meroney hiding in a thicket only a few feet from where his body was afterwards buried. Vanicrbllt' Nortti Carolina Palace. The Asheville (N. C.) Citizen pub lishes an interesting interview with Mr. J. Gall, Jr., the superintendent of the improvements on the splendid es tate recently purchased near that city by Mr. W. -K. Vanderbilt, of New York. The palace to be erected will be 300 feet long, and the superstruct ure will be of Indiana limestone, which is of a beautiful fawn color. The foundations will be made of the stone taken out of Mr. Vanderbilt's own quarries. Also the material for the walls of the esplanade or plateau, on which the house will be built, will be obtained from the same quarries. These walls will be forty feet high in some places, and the esplanade will extend some five or six hundred feet in either direction, presenting the point of the diamond shaped plateau to the French Broad. The palace, which is to be built on this plateau, will not be begun until next spring. Then excavations are to be begun and the foundations laid. Two towers have already been erected on the site of the house. These are just the height of the first story of the build ing, and by means of these can be seen what the view will be from the house itself, and the- grading can be done accordingly. All the forests which have been cut down will be re stored. The trees which will be plant ed will be evergreens of various kinds, mostly white pines. The idea is to afford a pleasant winter view. It is intended ultimately to have a nursery, from which can be supplied the trees . needed on the estate. The laying of the foundation for three stables for attle has been commenced. They will be arranged according to the lat est sanitary ideas, and the water wil be led to them by pipes. The cattll will be stall fed. Altogether, Mr Vanderbilt's palace and its surround ings promise to surpass anything ever seen in the South. The Elections by the Leaislature. At this session of the General Assem bly there will be several elections, the irst in importance being that of jud~ges< to succeed Judge Pressley in the First< ircuit and Judge Aldrich in the Second. I'he mantle of Judge Pressley will in all I probability fall on .the worthy shoulders f-Geneial James F. Izlar, as there ap pears to be no opposition whatever to his election. For the Second Circuit judgeship, owever, there is to be an active and ively contest. Jcdge Mlaher, of Barn well county; James Aldrich, of Aiken, nd General J. W. Moore, of Hampton, all strong and popular men, are in'the ield, and each of them has a good fol owing. The next important fight will be for Railrrad Commissioners. The present board, viz: Governor Bonham, Colonel D. P. Duncan and E. P. Jervey, Esq., are all candidates for re-election, having s their opponents J. W. Smith, of Charleston, at present master mechanic f the South Carolina railroad; W. A. Boyle, of Charleston; R. N. Gentry, of Barwell; R. Mays Cleveland, of Green ille; N. B. Dial, of Laurens, and D. H. Salley, of Aiken. For Commissioner of Agriculture, olonel A. P. Butler, the present abile nd popular incumbent, seems to have no opposition. Two new members of the Penitentiary Board are to be chosen in the place of Mcessrs. Sarratt and Sanders, whose terms ave expired, but no names have been entioned as yet for these,. positions.-1 olumbia Register. Indignant veterans. The War Veterans' Association of King's County have sent President airison a long letter', detailing that hey are very much dissatisfied with he action in reference to standing by I he old war veterans in matters of ap pointment and reinstatements to ormer positions from which they were removed. They say: "No war veteran f Brooklyn has been appointed to any - position of prominence .in New York. Democrats are kept in the best places in the navy yard, while more skilled Republicans walk the street idle; so it is in the custom house and appraiser's1 .eatment. There are four Demo ratic assistant appraisers, inexpe rienced men, appointed by Cle-velandV from Brooklyn, still kept in oficej while expert war veterans-men who did noble service for y our election-are yet unrecognized. Our comrade, Harry A. Phillips, now being persecuted yi~ the ipterior department, is e~speciallyI :ear to every veteran in King's Count. t If the administration keeps on in the samne direction for another year we wil t ot have a Republican in Congress'1 next year, nor another legislative oicer elected from King's County. 4 The general indignation is rising toa< feaiful height. It is now time for a:i new deal and for some respect to be: shown to the rank and file, the work ers, who carry the elections, and the war veterans, who carry help and are willmint work."] THE STATE if GJSLAT URE HIGH LICENSE AND LOW SAL ARIES. A Bnteh a! Iills-A Chn'nyr i: rilu Emir L.w. The motto of the present Legislature seems to be high license and ow sal aries. The House has passed to third reading a bili to charge a State license of $500 for each barroom. There is now a county license of $100 and a United States license of $25-This will either leave a very small license for for the cities and towns or clsc it will break the barrooms. 2The bill for the regulation of m: r rages passed the House en SaurdE; and was ordered engrossed. The. economists are in control. The bill for the reduction of official salaries went through the House by a vote of 16 to SS. The following is the vote whereby she House passed to its third reading the bill to reduce the ,alaries of pub lic officers: Yeas-Arnold, Austell, Bean, Bow :ni, Broyles, Bryd, Cleveland, Cobb, Cooper, Connor, Davis, Dukes, John Gary Evans, W. D. Evans, Fowler, 'ox, Eagene B. Gary, Glenn. Gold, Earden, John R. Harrison, Howard, Eunter, Irby, Jackson, Jenkins, B. J. Johnson, J. M. Johnst , Lancaster, i45 Miller, Morrison, Moseley. icDanial, McKissick, Peurifoy, A, C. Sanders, A. N. Sanders, Shaw, smith, Stanland, Stepp, Strom, Tin lal, Thompson, Tumor, Vandiver, Wallace, Wailer, Watson, Wharton, Whitmire. Wilborn, Willia . Yelh :ell and Zimmerman-56. ans-The Speaker, Adams, Al irich. Barkley, Baxter, Benet, Boat wright, Brawley, Britten. Canon; Cap >eman, Causey, Cbilds, Dantzler, Licken, F. C. Fishourne, W. J. Fish )urne, Guess, Haskell, Hazard, Hey ward, Haghes, Jenny, Lee. Maher, feares, Moses, McCrady, McHugh, iIcKinstry, Nettles, O'Brien. Plow ion. Iaysor, Seegers, Tupper, Wash ngton and Wilson-38. The bill provides the following sala' ies: Governor $3,000, low y3,500; ecretary of State $1,850, now $2,100; tate treasurer $2.100, no change; omptroller general $2,100, no change, uperintendent of education $1,850. Low c2:100; commissioner of agricul ure $1,850, now $2,100; adjutant gen ral $1,200, now $1,500; attorney gen ral $1,850, now $2,100; assistant ttorney general $1,200, now $1,500; tate librarian $500,.now $600; super tendent of the penitentiary $1,850, Low $2,100; physician of the peni entiary $1,200; now $1,500; Governor's rivate secretary $1,200, now $1,500; xovernor's messenger $S80; keeper of state House grounds $300 now $500; hief clerks ofsecre -con roller genera', commission r oa ag iculture. superintendent of peniten iary, each.$1,200, now $1,500; three lerks of State treasurer each $1.500 o change, bookkeeper comptr.oller ,eneral $1,200, now. $1,500; clerk of )ension . department, superintendent >f education and adjutant and inspec or general $1,000, now $1,200. The salaries of employees are simi arly reduced. The saving proposed to be effee ted s about $6,000. Its fate in the senate remains in loubt. The two elements for and Lgainst retrenchment are very evenly livided in the Senate. The House passed, after an anim at d debate a usury bill making the rate ~f interest 1 per cent except on con ract when interest shall not evceed per cent. The first bill which passed bot h louses was one which provided that io railroad should change its rates or chedule without publishing a notice >f same at least three days before such hanges.. Other bills introduced are the fol owing: By Mr. Nettles, to provide a more ~fficient system of working the pub ic roads. By Mr. Watson, to repeal the con ealed weapons law. By Mr. McHugh. to provide for the dministration of the estates of insel rent debtors. By Mr. Gary Evins, to) exempt from axation all property of companies en ~aged in the manufacture of cotton >agging from fibres grown wi thin the :late. By Mr. J. D. Harrison, to impose a ax on dogs. Taxes them $1 each and ives the money to the schools. By. Mr. Edlens, to prevent the sale f pistols, pistol cartridges, dirks, dag ~ers, slingshots and metal knuckles vithout a license from the Clerk of By Mr. 1jaysor, reducing the privil ego tax on fertilizers from twenty-five :ents to ten cents a ton. By. Mr. 2immecrman, joint resolu ion proposing an amieinment to the )onstitution abolishing the homestead aw. By. Mr. Hazard, to regulate the taz ~tion of building and loan associations It provides that those association hall not be required to return for axation their capital stock cr securi ies, but that the shares of stockhol ors shall be taxable in the hands of he holders. By Mr. iRaysor, to 1onend the 12: elating to violation of ersntracts. By Mr. Tupper, of tareston, a bill o prohibit children under 14 year's of ge in manufactories. Th'e presidents >f' thirteen cotton mills in all sections >f the State were present1. Speeches ere made by Messrs. Barnwel, of 'harleston; Roddy, of Rock Hill; Con 'erse, of Spartanburg; Smythe ad ammett, of Greenville, and Bai'rett, ~f Langley. Mr. Tupper requesed the ommittec to hold the bill tyl the mill neratives could be heard from. The robabiiity is that the bill will be un avorably reported. Mr. Hlaskell, to provide for the re temption of that part of the State debt :nown as the Brown consol bond~s and tocks, by the issue of other bonds and tocks. B:y Mr. Dantzler, amending the Act >roviding for the establiehement of eparate school distriets in the cities, owns an'd villages of the State. By Mr. Evans, to amend the law as o ifes of physicians and surgeous tes fying as experts in criminal cascs. By Mr. Buchanan, to amend the ode of Procedure so as to alloV, thle uestion of fraud or no fraud to be de rindl by a judge in cases of arrest By Mr. Edens. to prohibit trusts and mnish persons connected therewith. By Mr.-Thompson, concurrent reso utian requiring the comptroller gen er l to extend the time for the collec tion of taxes until February 1, 1890. THE FARMERS' CAUCUS. The final caucus of the farmers' movement members of the Legislature wms held in Agricultural Hall at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and the lost touches were put to the plan of ihe bill which is to establish the Clemson College, absorb the agricul. tural department and reduce the scope of the University. The preparation of the bill was entrusted to .tepresbnta tive W. C. Benet, of Abbeville. The bill has since been introduced in the House. The title of the bill is: "A bill to provide for building and maintain ing the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina." * Section 1 provides that one-half of the agricultural land scrip fund here tofore vested in the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina'be vested in the board of trusteesof the Clemson Agricultural College. Thbr half amounts to $5,700. Section 2 provides that an annual grant of the $15,000, commonly knovin as the Hatch bill fund, be vested in the board of trustees of the Clemson Agri cultural College. This money now - goes to the three experiment stations: Section 3 provides that all moneys collected by the sinking fund commit tee in addition to money now on hand, collected during the fiscai year ending October 31, 1889, be disposed of in the same manner. This money is, by law, devoted now to the reduction of the State debt. Section 4 provides that three-fifths of the privilege tax on fertilizers, in addition to the amount now- in the bands of the agricultural department, shall go to the Clemson College. .The privilege tax yielded last year $33,000, and the amount now on hand is $23, 304 98. This money is by law devoted to the maintenance of the agricultural department, the expenses of making fertilizer analyses, the supervision of the phosphate interests and the collec tion of royalty, the aid of the State Fair, and other like purposes. Section 5 provides for the control and disposition by the trustees of the Clemson College of three agricultural experiment stations established under tle Hatch bill, the retention of the Darlington station and the sale of the the station properties at Columba' and Spartanburg, the proceeds goig to the Clemson College. Section 6 provides for the furnishins by the penitentiary board of a force of convicts, not to exceed fifty at one time, to assist in erecting the Clemson College buildings. STUCK TO HIS POST AND DIED : Dcstruction of a Ne*,apcr Ofice at Mis ncnpolis-A Telegraph Operator's Last Messago on tho Wires. The Minneapolis Tribune office was burned the other night, and from tea to twenty people lost their lives. Shortly after 11 o'clock portion of the wall: oz Fourth street fell and a number of per sons are believed to have been buried underneath. - ben ta en into a drug store in the - vicinity of the fire, and three others have just been carried into a restaurant ' near by. The Tribune building is on the north. east corner of First avenue and Fourth street. There were nearly one hundred per sor employed on the seventh floor, where the fire broke out. Among the killed was Mr. James F. Igoe, the Associated Press telegraph operator, who was on the seventh floor. On this floor -a~s situated many of the - Tribune sta- , editors, reporters and compositors. The only body yet identified is tha? of John Olsen, a merchant, who had gone to the composing rooms to'see about "position" for an "ad." ~He jumped from the top floor and was killed instantly, his body being shock ing'ly mangled. Seven bodies bave been already taken out, but nio more names are yet known. The Pioneer 'ress (Mihrmeapolis) force were onthe -t fiocr,~ and some fearo are .enter ..ainecd regarding their safety.. How ne 'h zecstfthe lossoflife seems .oIsv bocn in srother part ofths buiding. The fire started in a law office onthe third story of the building, about 10.3(. The elevator man noticed the smell of smoke and called the attention of some of the persons around the buidling toit. The cry of fire was raised, and several persons went down stairs from 'The seventh story to investigate and then returned. Before long the smoke be. gan to fill the narrow stairway, the only one in the building, and every. body began to make leisurely preparat tions to depart. No immediate danger was fear~ and the only exits from the building, which were supposed to be firepraof, were a narrow staircase wide enough for two rversons to come down abreast, the elev~ator, and a single fire-escape at the north end of the structure. Several= per~sons had made their escape in the - mo antime,. but in less than ten minutes the Ilamaes sought the' elevator shaft, w.hich, acting as a mammoth flue, con vydtelames to the top story, and son the editorialromontes e siie of t he building wher4 the fire originated, were a seething mas f Ilanes. In a few minutes the are. reached the other side, where thecom nosng room was situated. A general alarm was turned in and all tlie engines in the city responded to the call. The imprisoned printers gathered at the window~s in the south cud and shrieked wildly and despair iugly for aid. "Hurry the ladders!" was the awful Hury the ladders, for God's sake!" shrieked the men with all the vehe meucice they could muster. IThe vast cr owd witnessing the awful sight shouped back words of encourage -=ent. The long ladders seemed tp movic'e up~ at a snai's pace, but was I uully re" ea in position. and the terri :id rien i' gan to descend, the flames maig si.,-eady encroachments upon he crn-e no which they had been dr ien he life nets were brought ino use', and some were saved in this 'I'ho sparks were flying in all direc tins a -uadoining buildings, occupied lthe Ideal Restaurant, Stearn&Van Wiha saloon, and MlcCrystie's tene -toe, were destroyed. The Tribune building was eight yas ld seven-story brick strue jilton PIckett, in charge of the 3Iinneapo fis ofiice of the Pioneer Press, is suposed to have been lost. Witci E. yies. the agent of the Asso4 itePrcss, was among the killed. In the manufacture of carriages it ued' to take one man thirty-five days 'to make a carriage. It can now be made i twelve days.