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'.-1' Eli LY EDiTIO(N.} WINNSIORO ,S. C SATURIL)AY. APRL 19, l879. iVOL.i GEN. RICHIARD TAYLOR. A SIKETCII OF TJII% 7ATE CQNFFD 1:JiATJ CJII 1'2'AIN. The Son of Zachary Taylor and Broth pr-in-Law of Jeff. Davis--A Dashing Warrior, Accomplished Gentleman and Pungent EssaysLt. The funeral servieps of General Dick Taylor, who died at the resi donco of S. L. M. Barlow, Esq., in Now York, of affection of the spleen, on the 13th instant, were poformsd in "The littlo church around the corner," by Dr. Houghton, His pall-boarers wore Hons. Hamilton Fish Chas. O'Conor, Secretary Win, M. Evarts, D. D. Withers, Win. It, Traivers, Geo. Ticknor Cm tis, August Bolimont, Charles L. P.orkins, Win. Constable, Abram S. Hewitt, Sena tor Bayard and Mayor Cooper. Gov. Tiklcen and other celebrities were present. General Taylor was born in Florida, but moved to Louisiana, and represented that State in the Charleston Convention in 1860, when he opposed a split. On the election of Lincoln ho moved in the Legsila ture for the Stato convention, lIe was made colonel of a Louisiana regiment, then a brighdior wid was placed under Stonewall Jackson. His first remai kable service was in the famous valley of Yirginia cam paign. At Port Rteptiblic the Lou isiana brigade carried the day and responded witb cbeors to Jackson's comnand, "THE ]iA'FTEiiY MUST BE TAKEN!' General Taylor was not a great ad miror of Jackson, whom he has described as a man given over to lemon sucking and prLyers. On this occasion, riding o,i the fiaii. of his column, between it and the hos tile line, ho saw Jackson beside him. Taylor did not consi.lor that this was the place for the .cammander of the army, and yenturecd to tell him so ; but he paid no attontion to the remark. "Wo reached a shallow .depressi,n where the enemy could depress his guns," says General Taylor, "and his fire became close and fatal. Many men fell, and the whistling of shot and shell occasion ed much ducking of kacls ii the column, This annoyed n.e no little, .as it was but child's play to tio work immediately in hand. Always an admirer of the delightful Uncle Toby, I had contractdd the most villainous habit of his beloved aripy in Flaniders, and, forgtting Jaclt son's presence, ripped out, 'What the hell are you dodging for ? If .Lior is any more of it yQ.t will be halted under this fire for an hour ' The sharp tones of a familiar voice produced the desired elrct, and the mil lookel as thoigh they had swallowed ramrode ; but I shall never fo.rge t the reproachiful sur.. pr-iso expressed imn Jackson's face. .He placed a hand on miy shoulder, and said ini a gentle) yoicC, 'I am .afraid you are a wicked follow,' .turnel an,ode back to the pi/.o." TRANsFERRED 70O LOUIsIANA. Geneoral Taylor was a fterwar'd -transfitrred to anoth'er and die.tant field 07 :operations, and, wvith .the ranik of nyaor-.general, on the re commendations of Jackson for ser.. vices in the Valley, p)laCcd in corp -. mand Qf the clitrict of West Louisi ana. He aho\ved great skill in his new sphere. .Actuated by a dream of recapturing Now Orloans, he fiercely attackced Banks, cut off his supl))ies and w\as in a fair way to success when ,th.e fall of Vicksburg destroyed 1hi8 hopes. .1Ii second service in i he trans-Missjissippi w's in the famous Rod Rive.r .campaign, in tihe spring sof 1%Q4, .ie -which lhe actedl under the ordere of General E J. Kirby Smith. He encountereod Banks' army moving fro.m Alogn dria, and gainbd two of the most important victories for the Southerai side. After the battle of Pleasant l;1ll1, Qeneral Taylor was .for pursu ing the enemy . to the water's -edge, and, ',ontemnplating the destruction of Banks and Porter, indulged tile prospect of thus' over throwing tho enlemy's power and ,opening tile way to New Orleanis. But the.comripanding general did not .favor this view. Taylor *llmosi do-. fled General Smith and ,took- the ;responsibility of changing a recon-. noisance into a battle, and 'on tihe 1comnmencement of the action he hlad, declared to General Polignac, whlo commanded one6 of his' divisions, -"Little F"renchman, I'r ao'rKG TO Gau' -An there if he has a million of maen.A despatch frpm General Smith came to him in the midst of the battle, ordering him to withdraw near Shreveport, "Too late, sir," said Taylor to the carrier who brought it ; "the battle is won. It is not the first I have fought with a halter around my neck." Fortulately for him he obtained a victory, but it was pretty clearly shown afterward that had he qbeyed orcors and] waited for hia sppports it is im probable any portion of I1anks' forcec would have escaped. The conse. quonce of the disagrepmont be tween Generzls Taylor 4pd Snitlh was that the former Nyns made a lieutonant-goneral and transferred east of thp Mississippi and given command of what wvas popularly known 4s the Department of the South west, conltprising East Louisi ana, Mississippi and 4labain.. Thia command G'eneral T.aylor surren dered to General Canby on May 4 1865. Qn being asked whether the tranr-Mississippi army ought to be surrendered he quickly replied "Yes ; surrender as uoon as possiblo. You are only sitting up with r corpse. I sat with it until it wa* blue, and if you delay much longei it will becom'o too offensive for do cent burial. THE SURRENDER is thus described : "A bquntiful luncheon wa$ spread, lof which w< partook, with joyous popping of champagno corks for a pompaninjont thse first agreeable explosive soqilds I had board for years. The air o: 'Hail Columbia,' wllich the band had struck up, was ipstantly changed b3 Canby's order to ilixie ;' but I in sisted on the first, and expre.sed n hope that Columbia tyould be agaic a happy land, a sen.inent honorei by nan' libations." After an ab seQce of four years he saw hif hope, Now Orleans. His estatc lia4 been confiscated and sold, and he was without a penny. His first caro was to se:l his h.rses, and o purchaser was found who agreed tc take and pay for t4em the following morning. The est horse was bad ly foundered bUt suflicint "green. bac3hs" were obtained for thn othei to bring his wife and children fron the Rec River to Now Orleans. FETED DY THE PRINCE OF wALES. Th? ,crowning triumphs of Goner al Taylgr's social career wpre won it Erigland and qn tthe COntinent o: Europe after the war. He firs gained aotori.ety at the L ondon clubi by hia admirable skill as a whis player. Ho yas a disciple.of Hoylc afid the ol.ler school of players anc oared lit.le for the moders niceties o tho game. His inemory was wor.derful at.d he never forgot a card, Tht l;ng)ish club men,-who had leacoi their science from James Clay, Cav. endish and Pole, were astonished at this old-fasbioned player, who beat thom in spi,te of their rules and f >rmu'aa, So GEfl3ral Taylor s fany came to the ears of the Prince of Wales, whq loves a rubber next tQ a tiger hunt, and they met at the Marlborough Club one night and played together. Tlzus began an intimacy wvhich endured to .the last. WVheroer the Prince wventi, whether to Sandringham for.g whift' oDf rustic air, or to Scotland to stalk the deer, or to the races at Ascot, or to the jJniversi.ty boat race on the Thames, thither h^e was certain~'to inyito Q'en oral Taylor. He introduced him at Windsor 'to the Queen, and the Queen wAe. so charmed with his company that ihe prayed him to stay for a week at t40 Castle. W'hen the Prince wep.t tQ India 3.he invited General Taffor to be one of the par,ty. But..j).ie gener'al preferred to stay in London, anrd many a quiet rub.ber wvas played at the Marl borough House by .tl,e Princess, the Duke of Cambridge end the Ameri can, wvhile the .1rince wvas riding in an elophant howdah through the jungles of Nepaul. In $4e royal box at Ascot his f.iur6 way familiar to every jockey og1 the course, though his means never allowed him to gwn race horses anid rarely A. bet.. One wager he took, however, the issue of which troub,led him to the last. Hie was on the Prince's boat following the Univerei.ty .rewve when the Earl of Dudley, spying some 'tokel of F'rench imperiauim.oni the lawp~ at Dhiswick, suddeinly cried that he ~vonld bet ?5,000 to, $.1 twice Qver, bhat the Napoleon.ic dynasty was gevor restored in Fr-ance. The Prince of WVales took one of thheo bots, andl General Taylog~ took the >ther, and he has byer:sinrce regard 3d the metamorphasey of -Frepeh politics with an uncontpoply wistful 3ye. But despite this nb*.lorn irdor for impepajism,her yes atec ' . 3d with mleb'distactinin Parlib *rai MaoMahon, and evey'i mugged JMismarc geeted hint g J warmth that savb red of persoial triendship. Indeed, his 'passage across the continent was one of unalloyed triumph, and the first gentflmen in Europe wore proud to call ihil1 their friend. sECIET OF 111s SOCIAL SUCCESS. At the root of this prodigious success lay his wonderful faculty for being all things to all men. \What over the topic of conversation might be, to that he would adapt himself. To men of a younger generation he was particularly charming. iWhen the faster menbers of the Prihlee of Wales' set would mnept at the Marl' borough ho would discuss coaches with Lord Carington, cock pheasants with Lord Aylesforcl and the latest horse raoo with Lord Charles Beres ford. Ti the .urk, with the Prin cess and children, his manner was redolent of antique chivalry. At the Turf Club he would arrange handi Caps with Admirable Rous and help Lord Roseborry ipako his book for the Newmarket rpeoting. At the Athenmun he would cross literary Pwords with Sir Charles Dilke, and at the United Service would discuss military tactics with Sir Garnet Wolsely at}d Lord Napier of Mag dla. Notning caio amiss to him. George Otto Trevelyn, nephew of Lord Macaulay, read his articles ih the North American Revieu', and sai. thero was in him the stuti of a great, military writer. Statesmen listened with delight to his disserta tions on the American constitutioil. Von Moltko himself rgave in his hon or the dinner ut which he met }3rinc3 Aismarek. Everywhere he spread about him the charm of his person ality, and nothing distinguisl)ed hiip from the crowd of. raconIteurq piore ( l,an this, that hih conversation was never forced or ovt of place, never l,;b.ored or prepa':ed before hand, welling up naturally from the stores pf a naturally rich mind. General Tayvlolr had just before his d :ath I u*lished a be ok "Destruet.ic and Reconstruction," which is said ;to be piquant, elegant and even brilliant in style, and in which lhe haudles men without gloves. His death will prevent recrimination on .this account. With a pri4e which was possibly unwise the refused to take any me.isures looking to - the restoration of his confiscated estate. iie looked upon it as a stake lost in te great game of war, and to him lo-t forever. But as the contiscation wai only of a life estate, the property, ,low of considerable value, will ret>.rji to his children, of whom three dapghters, residiig at Winchostor, Va., survive him. General Taylgr's wife, v:llo died in 1874, was a Mis Myrth .Brinnier, of l New Orleans, and belougel to a Creol.e family of distinctiun'and in. fluenco. AssocIATE REoRMED PREsBYTERY. The first Presbytery of the Associa ate Reformed Presbytorian Synod of the South, convened Monday, 27th of April, at Sardis Church, six miles south of Charlotte. Religious exer .c'.sas were commenced .o.i the Fridt y prviu and were continued every .day from ths,4 time to the day of ads journmen t. Last Sunday afternoon .Rev. J. P. Marion offteiated. Ini the n;iorning the Sac.ramn ct 9f the Igord's Supper was ptwrtaken of by twv9 ln% dred and fifty per'sonis. The business meeting o,f the pres lbytery commenwcd Mon day morn ing. r,te were p,resenit 49 delogates, as follgwvs: 20 9rdailned ministers, 1 liceitiate, 20 elders,'1 stuident and 7 comm issi oners. 4.11 the .congregar~ ,tions reported on pastor s' salaries. Calls were received for the services of ministers under the charge of the presbytery as followvs: From Gileacj and Prosperity Chnprehos, Mecklon burg county, for Roy. D. 0. Cald well ; from Unity (Church, Lancaster eounty, S. C., for one .fourth 9f the tige of Rev. 4. F/. Plressley ; from Hopewell Church, .Ghostor copipty, S.. 0., for the services,PI Rev. J.. H. White. J. T. Chalmers, somo.f Rev. 3. 0. Chalpersa, was received as a student of theology and preached his trial .sermon, which was ggcepted as evi Qence gf the candidate's progress. $en germons were preached dur tng sle ssiop o i Presbytery, adth. e teoting i a a pleasknt one in all iespects. The Freelytery adjourned on Tuesday afternoon, April ~8th, t9 meetsext year at Amity Church, Iredell county.- (Agfrlott6 .409)9 4ppropos o ite~ pgoceeding4,i'n the 1iver-CAvreyp ciase, 'Qld i says egeXr et be. jak de dresgu sirkAe ob qr\%. ~oA1et-nos' d~n in, fd'r'siinite sollytude wid or 'widdet 'oman d1at.a9 en dy nai-ry.!" MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM. RECLAIMING TiE WASTE8 OF CALIFORNIA. An Enterprise to Create an itland ?a and Make Southern California and Arizona Blgasom Like a Rose--A RT glon of Great Mineral Wealth and Resources. General Fremont, Governor of Arizona. has submitted to the prop- i or authorities at Washington a plan for brii. ing the waters of the Gulf of California back to what is sun posed to bo their old basin in Southern Glifornia. This basin, which is now a dry ind sandy desert, is 200 ipiles long, ?0 miles wide aidq in its central part is 35Q fpet below the level of the sea. It l'es between Southerp California a:ud Arizoa, and is unfit for the < sustenance of man or beast. Gen-< eral Fremont said to a Now York Ierld reporter, in answer to the questie n as to how he proposed ci enting this inland sea :--"It is I perfectly feasible. Between the upper end of tho Gulf of Califorrda and the basin or valley in question a ridge of land interposes, through which it is proposed to cut a canal for a distance of ten miles to p lake about twenty miles long, and at the 1 other end of the lake continue the canal some lifteen miles more. The cost might be $1,000,000 and the time necessary for the work perhipr six months, but the benefits to 'the two States of Ctlifornia and Arizona would bp incalculable. The great wants of Southern California and the adjoining region of Arizo4a are water and moisture. On the eastern slope of the low range of ipountains that separates this basin from Ari zona all is dry and 1barrei) as in thp basin itself. The boat is intolerable and no veketation is possible. The introduction of this groat body of water would change the whole fece of things. It wouli induco cool and tempering winds to blow over and fori cloucls t9 u}oisteu the parched arid plains. In short., it would make the whole surrounding coun try to blossom like a roae." "Iave you an idea that this I leiert basin was onco pld with .water " "Certainly; .11 the ov d,ence goes tq show that such was the case. Nu,mberless sea shells may be ob sorved.on its surface, and- the gen eral soil and formation is that of the bed of a dried up sea." ' "How is the project regarded gut ] there ?" '1t is quite popular. ;t would c be the means of redeeming S.oth eastern California and .Southwestern i Arizona. Sonora, to thq south '.of N Arizona, is yory fortile because ;t has water, and there ie no reason ] why theds othliq egion, phould not* be the same.'' "How far has the udertaking a progressed 7" "WVelI, the plan, briefly drawn, is in Wasington, wl.1ere I intena ro eoding this wveek and having it fI submitted to the President. If t ap)proved, n.s I feel pretty well as-- a suret, it will be, surveys of- tee land v thrQugh which the ,course of the e cana,l will be laid, 1gmat be made by: t officers detailed by the government,. 8 and .fter that Congress, will .pe~ ) asked to make the necossary appro- b priatign for what will be a .national fi work. It hasu been yery favorally g thougl,t of by all tlgue gentletge'n in d WVashngton with whomn I conversed. t: The capal s,bould, I'think, be made c ;deep and wide enough to admit d s0uch vessels and steamers as sailg the ;i'acifc. Another rb,it of f, .creating this inland sea woull be to p develop settlements around its Ii border, where there is nothing to o be seen ng w but the barren' sand~ and sage brush. The great 9bjedb, however, of forming this vast "dheet P of water is to .temiper the heat of the '4 climate and:iptrodudo ~~eiufe il 9 the atmosphere, to which it is now a stranger. The one grand dialderak- 0 tumn is rain thijt iNili, ''k i!eegetas . tion and life posspible, and this 'I & am satisfied cap oni he obtained by r floodiiig this vast '.sins with' thg9 t wvatier-,of the Gyl.f of.Cal1fd~i. e AnlIZoNA' k DyANTAGE8. of Anizona. . , A T fry~v t has pdlver~ a o14 d ymux4d' gold anid -silvet n o carrying gold and biYer~jv ~i)ty large percentage, .1eld,9 '$~~&V .and.coal nminee The bi iih Ai~ coal deposite are said tis be u i otts. The. climate iEd1irIabe A tween the sea level and the highest elevatjon, 13,000 feet high. Any height above 2,500 fe t is, however, very plonsant-somiethiug Xile the limato of Northern Italf- 'Though mountainous country, it has a great many fertile yalleys that ar really lke gardQps.' As you enter ho country from thlo east you meet i succession of imountain rauges, be :weon which are sheltered ' green md loyely valleys. Who.r I passed broggh the valley of 'Salt Biver in Tobruary last apricots and fig ' treei were i} bloom, and4 the plainis were sovred with alfal a, a kiind of aitiothly grass." '1Vhat is the draiybapc to itj p;os lerity ?" 'Ilailroad commuip} ation is the )pe great thing nee4pcl, and this we ;oon expect to have. Iluntiigton's Jaliforoia Southern road is now milt to within one hundied miles of ort Yuma. To get to Arizona now me has either to go to San Fran isoo and from there soutl eat by silroad, occupying nine days, o'r ake the Atobuson, Siuta .e and Copeka Railroad to the .el Norte md cross the plains by a stage-a ong and harassing journey. Next vintert or the following spiing, rowever, it is hoped that thQ Cali= 'oruia Sot;thern road and thQ ltcheson will meet 'at Tucson, thua naking a cqmplete southern link of ommunicat}gn between thQ 4tlantio tnd Pacific, aid yiplding espeoiAl )enefits to Arizona. Next year, it a thought, a rot}d .vill he projected rom Tucson passing through the &Iexican State of Sonora and strik nug Guayma3 on the Gulf of 'Cali.. ornia. Arizona has a' greet future )efore her. Her population is .rov iot more than 30,000, but with the nflux of capital anii labor that'lpust 3ecessarily follo;w the establihment f easy corpmunication, th'ere is no ;elling how prosperous she may not >ecoly,e. Her climate is zpilder than ;hat qf (olorado 'a'4d her mineral vealt. ie 4ortainly as' great." General 'remout lgo ed in splen. lid health,.and though his hair anc beard tre white h.e appeared to hav4 - ,ll jlh'o vigor ,9f, tbe tippa when, as l1Q 'UPathOnder," he crossed th? rackless deserts of the West ty thq ;h9Fes of thQ Pacific." TJE Eao.-Our legal readers 1vilj )erlaps do a little smile at the fQl.' owing, which we quote fro "Fifty iears of AIy Life," by the Narle of klbexyarle "cene, Dublin. Baron Q'QrAdy )residing ip court. Jush, 1eu a ng g'a cogasel, was pieadipg e, oause vith much elgquence, w'Ven a donk. ;y in the court yard 'set up a loud ray. 'On.e gt a time, brother 3ish,' calloc out his lordship. Peals >f Iaugbter filled the ,court. Th. ounspl .bore the intWription as he oulsi. The judge was proceed,igg o sum up with his usual ai' ity, when the donkey again g .to. ;ria. [ beg your lordship's par n sai4 lush, putting his harpo to "js ear, but there iseuch an ech tA ourt that I can't hear a ggr yoig ay. In Germany, emnployet;a pnist be areful what they .say or write is. ivor of diphonest servants whom hey discharge.' A merchant who pent' the syui is Weoigl;>ade,y rith his fane ly left his hovse' i age 9f h' seryant girl. On h,is re... tarnidcovere tbat she ad.aba sos e ,itJi, ya,1wables. e said dat h~ ormzer .popldger, who, as e itet rned,, ,ad 4ismilssed ,ei >r .'did t.~ , had Nievertheleep n:en her'i i' p~ reoQDRendatipp, eolaring her to ,e ."f ihful an$~ eustworthy?' )t wa '$ ially. do ided that Ll?4 agit 's yell rought, ad that th9 wpan who, 1y ise negi ont or r'eOkless -indorserpent 'ofe, utheg servrpt, caused another td ut eom degee in her, ogight to be old lialle for .the darpiage therely ocapioned.. At a ruass mieet,ing gf~olore~ med. e igrants eo~ ho oph now t Qapaw~attom ~lrown, pik$ishes ip mtter, ini N . v'oliw terp bli arviges to .~i the suf'erip -P9F4 afugees of'the 6i4th. He*te pa$ iti hIs'' opi'nion lhe 'tIn~7 20, xi maatkand althog . y l t.years old~ he is rayt evot ahi remarnlig energ es t4 W6t93~ WP eafre4s,, tI sepf