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. GEO. F. WEBB,
Attorney, at Law,
. OSloe is the Dutler Building, Liberty,
A mi to County, Mia. . ll--M
D. C BR AM LETT,
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' k . WOODYILLE, MI88. ' ,
'. . Will practice in all the Ccarta W
Amite and adjoining counties, andia U
t Bunremu Coilrt at Jackson. 1-tlL
t theo. Mcknight,
Attorney at Law,
SUMMIT, MISS.
Will practice In all the Court ot
. , Pike and adjoining counties, and In
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( , Jackson.
J. R. GALTNEY,
Attorney at Law,
. LIBERTY, MISS.
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I rooalte pro.tppt attention. .
E. H. RATCLIFF,
Attorney at Law,
GLOSTER, MISS. .
Will practice in all the Coon at
Amite and adjoining oonntiesaod in ta
Supremo Court at Jackson. ' Is-W.
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J. n. webh,
Liberty, Miss.
EATCLIFFA WEBB,
Attorneyts at Law,
. LIBERTY, MISS.
. Will practice in all the courts of Amlt
and adjoining counties and in the Su
preme Court at Jackson.
V. E. CILL,
Attorney -at - Lav,
LIBERTY, MISa
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Amite and adjoining counties, and la
the Supreme Court at Jackson.
St. Loui, Miseouri.
W. O, McDOWELU : : Agmt,
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It at he la now prepared to rsoairt
. ' boarders and entertain the trareliny
. public Fare the beet the market af
fords. - He is also prepared to meet the
; 'Srania of tho public in the way of feed
', ' lug, stabling aad groomlug siuck which
- taa; bentrust4 to his cara Chara
aeasooablo. OIto met trial .
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TIIE JACKSON STATUE.
Tb Flnaat Uonoment in the City
of Washington. , i
fcMMtblag AlMst Clark MlUa, th Aoh-rt-
M Gaalaa r)a I1uh4 aa4 El
jaawd Ua Kara tail OraMfat
, Work of Art.
- ISneciaJ WaabJiurtoa Letter !
The equoEtriaa statue of Jacksoii In
LafajetV square, opposite the white
boose, ia omMiicrcO the best worl of
art of Its kind in the national capital.
Its location Is such that It attracts at
tention from a. featcr number ot Tia
ltors than anr other ttatae, bad it has
a history, which was recently brought
tollirbt by the efforts of certain un
artistie people to dbecflrw tin) Jackson
statue by placing the Lafayette statu
at the south entrance of the park. It
was claimed, by officials baring a
little brief authority, that "the goT
erament has a clear title to the Jackson
statue, and can obscure it, or remove it
into the woods, if it wants to."
There was one a newspaper pub
lished here called the National Intelli
gencer. Tho Ule of that 'paper, ander
the date of January 1L IS53, contain the
following paragraph: "It ia due to th
Jackson monumental committee, to say
that the Jackson statue ha been mad
and erected entirely under their con
trol and direction. They caused th
money to- -be collected, employed the
artist, and mode all the arrangement
for its inauguration. ' That commltte
consists now of the following gentlemen:
lion. Caro Johnson, chairman; Amos
Kendall, F. P. lilalr, John W. Maury,
B. U. French, Charles K. Gardner, C. P.
Bengttock, John McCalla, George V.
Hughes, Thomas Uitehll, George
Parker, John a Rives and A. J. Donel
son. The original committee consisted
of thirteen members, of whom were the
following gentlemen: John V. Van Ness.
James lloban, Jesse E. Dow and Wil
liam A. Harris, the three former of
whom have died, and the latter, upon
going abroad, resigned; and their
places have been tilled bv Messrs. Mo-
Cafttt, Parker, Hughes and Donelson."
' The Hies of the samo paper show that
the'statue was inaugurated on January
8, 1853, tho date ordinarily called
"Jackson's Day," because it is the an
niversary of the victory at New Or
leans. Upon that occasion, the statue
was presented to the United States; and
hence there is no doubt about the title
of the government to the statue of "Old
Hickory;' but it has been settled that
the bronze presentment of the military
and civic hero shall remain in Its pres
ent position. Thestatne of Lafayette
is now located at the southeast entraaee
of the park, instead of the south en
trance, where it would have been di
rectly between the Jackson statue and
the white house.
The names of the member of the
Jackson Monumental association are
the names of the most prominent citi
zens of early Washington. The official
programme of the dedicatory exercises
contains the following:
Military escort,
'lhe monumcDt eommlttoa
Clark Mills, artist.
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, orator.
Chaplains of congress.
President ot the United States.
fienjw and house ot representative .
Judges of tho supreme court
Commander In chief of the army, and the old
est commodore in the nary, eto.
It was a long procession, and the ex
ercises lasted from ten o'clock in the
morning until three o'clock In the af
ternoon, the last performance being a
national military salute, followed by a
benediction by the chaplain of the
house. At the conclusion of the oration
by the greatest orator of his day, Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas, Mr. Clark Mills,
the artist, was presented to the vast
concourse of people and heartily
cheered, as he deserved to be, for his
work was unrivaled at that date. .
Clark Mills had been a plasterer, and
it was while engaged in making plaster
cornices and center pieces that he con
cluded to undertake the reproduction
of faces in plaster. He had very little
success, and finally turned to modeling
IHIllHliiiiiiniiiiuyiiiiiiiiiniiHiiiliHIMiinillllllli'
JACKSON EQUKSTBIAS STATUE.
In clay. His first effort In this direction
was a clay 'model of the bust oChis
father-in-law,' who was regarded as a
very homely man with an expressionless
face. After making that model he ex
hibited it to some of his friends, and
they Instantly recognized the likeness
of the subject This encouraged and
stimulated Clark Mills, and when he
bad leisure he made models of his wife
and several intimate friends. ' From
that - original work, "without an in
structor, he proceeded to the execution
of a stone bust of a well-to-do friend.
His success was so marked that funds
were raised to send him -to Italy as an
art student. On bis way to the eentor
of art studies and art students and art
critics, young Mills stopped in Wash
ington to visit some friends. '
His journey to Italy - ended) right
there, lie was offered tho commission
to make the Jackson statue, provided
that his model received the approval
of the committee. II immediately
procured a quantity of clay, went to his
room and lubored diligently and with
anthwiasrn, until bhil produced 'six
eqnestrlan statues ot Jaefc!ii These
be placed In a row, and studied them
Wag and earnestly. At last be mad
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the best point of the oricinal aix. i
This was substantially tbe accepted:
model after whkb the famous t'-Mu
waa constructed. . i
Toung Mill thea became" a brrse j:
trainer, ia a small way.. He purchased i
a spirited bora which, ha Jt rained to
rear and stand hi the position which h
had decided to reproduce ia the sbttue.
Then he taught the hone to stand that
way, with man upon his back. All
thia required a great deal of time and a
wonderful amount of patience and de
termination of character,.- Bat the- re
sult was finally achieved and the
statue, when completed, was so per-
fectly equipoised that it required no
fastening to the pedestal Rods, how-'
ever, were put into th hind legs of th '
uuj, uieij ior tne purpose oi prevenv i my knowledge. I had been told, for in
ing any of the then nnaieroua eoemiea ' stance, kv everr rowan resident
of Jackson from committing an act of
vandalism by turning over and destroy
ing the status, .
Ia working out this idea th yonng
artist .met with many difficulties and
obstructions. It was held by many
prominent people that the figure of a
horse, la rampant position with it
ARTIST HILLS AS A B0B8K TRAINEE.
rider, could not be constructed without
an awkward support of some kind.
Prof. Charles Page, of the Smithsonian
Institution, ot that timo one of th
great scientists of this country, ridi
culed the idea and endeavored to prove
that the feat was Impossible. He
showed in a very clear, theoretical
manner that, with the wind blowing at
so many miles an hour, with so many
pounds pressure per square inch, no
statue so constructed could stand. Prof.
Page convinced many people Of stand
ing that Clark Mill was undertaking
the impossible, and the young man
camo very near having all of his trouble
and expense without recompense; for It
was almost decided atone, time not to
acoapt hi work. This wan on the
ground that, even after It successful
erection and unveiling, it would fall
and be destroyed, and the money in
Tested would be wasted. The young
man, however, had some, warm friends
who believed in him and in his ability
to accomplish his work, and the statue
was finally accepted and inaugurated,
and there it stands to-day. There it
will stand forever. Moreover, when it
was finally decided to accept his statue,
vountr Mills was allowed to make his
casting from guns capturod by Gen. j
Jackson at .New Orleans.
The success of the young artist Imme
diately made him famous. At the fol
lowing session of congress an appropri
ation was made, for an equestrian
statue of Washington, after the same
model, and Clark Mills was engaged to
do the work. He built a workshop
three miles from tho capitol, and re
mained there nntil his death. Ills first
work, in that place, was the statue of
Washington which stands in the center
of Washington circle, whero Twenty
second street ciosses Pennsylvania
avenue just east of Rock creek, about
midway between the white bouse tnd
Georgetown Heights. These two are
tho best pieces of statuary in the nation
al capital. ' '
Mr. Mills made a duplicate of his
Jackson statuo for the city of Now Or
leans, lie also tnadev a' handsome and
striking statue of Gen.' fctcott for th
soldiers' homo, and placed it upon a
height where it overlooks the city of
Washington; and another, an eques
trian statue of Scott, on Sixteenth
street, midway between the . white
house and Columbia Height. Hut none
of his TVork has excelled his first pro
fessional effort, the Jackson statue. He
took a plaster cast of Gen. George 11. Mc
Clellan, when that military leader waa
at the height ot his fame, and made a
clay model from' it; but. he never put
it into bronze. The model exists, and
some day a handsome statue of Mc
Clcllan can be mado from it :
In his later yean Mr. Mills used to
abuse himself with model making just
as he had done in his early days of pov
erty and struggle for existence.' His
home, workshop) forge- and farm, were
combined in a handsome' place north of
the city, where he - commenced bis
career in adversity and ended it in tri
umph. The young reader must opt be
misled into the belief that because
Clark Mills' became a great sculptor
without adequate training everybody
can succeed in like manner.' lie had
special gifts ' which Were developed
by Industry. The successful' genius hi
the genius of labor.' Smith D. Far.
First Woman Journalist la London, , '
Huldah Frledrichs' has the honor 31
being the first woman taken on the reg
ular staff of a London paper. Although
of. German rationality, she can both
write and speak English fluently, and
knows both Russian and French suffi
ciently well to act as special correspond-"
ent n St. Petersburg or Pari at need.
Miss Friedrichs joined trie staff of the
Pall Mall Gazette when Mrl cjteod Was
its editor1, and has been a valued mem
ber ever since, leading qsite as busy
life as any of her male colleagues. ' it
Was she who introduced Sister Ros
Gertrude to the pnblio, She also acted
as special correspondent to Heligoland1
when the island was given over to Ger
many, and Fas at Berlin at th time' of
Prince Bismarck's resiirnatioo, .Mi
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. Athe foofrof Mont Blanc stands th
eldestehstnut Ire l the world. It
has a circumference of S13 fct and is
S.ooo fear out
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AilOXQ THE PAESEES.1
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IcairucUro Chapter Life
. la Persia,
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TTM Mat EmpkUUi ao4 riwa f fa
ghatl tU Ontf Sena' Thoa
sea lu Wonhkywa Oj ha
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tba Laa t toraaatar. r
ISpedal LetteM j
Daring my stay in Persia, some y tars
' ago, I , ra.wle aom Investigation on
rerninr that Interesting1 fragment of
the Persian people variously known a
the Parse, Guebrea, fir or son wor-
ari rarm. Tim lit(liitmnt rial's Wsjri
found by sundry facts that had come to
with whom I had conversed en the sub
ject that this remnant of at once pow
erful race was by all odds the - most re
spectable of the whole nation, that
these men were truthful. Industrious,
very cleanly in then- habits, abetemk
ous aad chaste, honest la their dealiags.
etc. In short, the general opinio of
these intelligent and impartial observ
er was that the Par-sees are, ia nearly
every respect, the exact opposite of th
modern Persians. In personal inter-
Bourse I found this opluioa fully cor-
roborated. 1 saw that everybody Vha
had a Parsec, male or female, in bis em
ploy, was satisfied, whereas the 4on-
trary wasinvariably true ia easoa wher
an ordinary Persian was the employ.
1 also learned Incidentally o amen
that struck me as extraordinary abrmt
these Parsees that I concluded they
would well repay the trouble of a
special study, j was fortunate enough.
too, to make the acquaintance of Ah
blgh priest of the Paraee, and subse
quently paid him a long visit at his
homo d. Teheran, the Persian capital,
he receiving me both kindly and hos
pitably. The name of thl venerable
dignitary Is Manlkle Llinle liarteria.
He i an octogenarian, and of very im
pressive appearance, with a long, sweep-.
Ing beard of snowy white, a noble head
with a broad brow, ruddy cheek and
complexion as fair as that of th aver
age American.
His appearance alone;, In tact, showed
him to be of pure Aryan stock, while
the vast majority of the Persian Mos
lems have a goodly percentage of Arab,
Turcoman and Tartar blood in their
rein. I will skip the first portion of
the interview I bad with this ancient
sage and" merely repeat his statements
as to the" precise nature of his belief and
that of hi oo-religionista. . ;
."There are, he said, "some 100,000
Parsees in India, especially Bombay
and Calcutta, but in the cradle of our
creed, -at Persia, there are barely 7,004)
ot us left. The congregation at Tehe
ran is small, merely 800, and the bulk
ef our people are to be found In the
south, in i ead, in Herman, in oeodjan.
We believe in God, whom we in onr
language call Hormnzd, the ever-wise.
And we believe in the sun, the tire, wa
ter, moon and star a types and eman
ations of the living God. As such we
worship them. We adore the sun when
he rises', nd to see him in all his sunny
glory, and to be free from annoyance
and interference on the part of the
f anatie Mohammedans, we go on the
house tops, kneel down and pray to the
kind symbol of our God with out
stretched hands.
"As to the distinctive features of Onr
religion, they are very simple. To lire
an upright life that is the sum total of
all our teachings. The liar, the thief, the
oppressor Is an enemy of God as well
a of his race; and, though our God
good, H is not to be trifled with. We
take but one woman for wife, and w
do not bury our dead these are th
two most marked differences between
na and the Moslems. ,
"We do not inter the lifeless body be
cause we believe that that which gave
the body value, the soul, has fled, and
hence the sooner fire and water, sun
and rain dissolve the body again into
ita original dements the better. Wo
divide the month into four part, and
the beginning of, each of these ia a holy
day. The days of the month have each
separate names with us. ' The first day
is called after God, for it is named
Hormazd. . Th other twenty-seven
days are each called after some Divine
attribute. ' Thus the second day of the
month is Bammun, the third Ardibez,
the fourth Zcrlvas, the fifth Sarpen-
dar, the sixth Kordad, the seventh
Amordad. The eighth day is again a
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holy day and is named Deh Baadar,
the fifteenth Deh Bulmef, the twenty-
second JJch ISchdin. ' I regret to say,'
continued my informant, "that the gov
ernment persecutes us savagely and
persistently, and this persecution has
been going on. almost uninterruptedly
for 1,200 years. Death used to be our
portion for following the religion of
our forefathers. Now they no longer
slay us) but they oppress us, ro as and;
constantly Issue now, lavs ,and. regula
tions against ns, m !
"Is it any wonder that the Parsers ra
Persia lEe pure, unmixed deseendafita
6f the'Tulert ef thin hi6Vhave shrunk
to a few thousands?.- We are forbidden
by law to ride on .horseback, to wear
fee
new and fine clothes and to serve ai treek or Latin, or : - - -witnesses.
Our testimony Is never Professor Blang. Boston Tran
takca, no matter how truthful aad i wipt
accessary 'it m.flif t.J Thus, -we ra
th prey f every tapastor and J th
wanton cruejtj pftae fonatwai raVI.
Thev reproach ha ith driultiu wia
Certainly vs dot -we-dniA it mod
rtcjly,. a 'Sanaa, -the latyieu J'e.-vao
Moslem does not. There, are csiny
more restriction an3 Injustices we sta
ler from, as tor instance the taw mak
ing the leavlfi? cf afly inheriUnc
K)tg a a paiHnhhble oiK-itse, ami the
ether art wfckh allows any, Pertiaa
Moalem to take our property f rom is at
twenty per cent. ..less than ita a-cr-tained
value. ' i
What tht "ancient Gnebre dignitary
had told m I found stterwarda fnliy
confirmed. For gem-rations past not
a single crime has been charged against
these people, not even by their u)oti
fanatical oppressors. I
A week or so later I witnessed a
Guebro funeral It "was a very qaiel
and decqroas affair. It ia believed that
so long as the body Jies In the esuat
abode of the living! the soul, though
anxioas to take flight, cannot quit the
mortal frame. Hence the obsequies are
often held in this a few hours after
death has intervened. The deceased on
this occasion had been a Bombay mer
chant on a visit to his kindred in Per
sia, and death had come suddenly. The
MUSICIAKI JALVTUl T1U RI8I!f SUS.
body, loosely wrapped In the folds of a
spotless white shawl of. soft material.
but leaving the .face exposed, was
stretched out la the middle ot the room
on abler. The floor was strewn with
flowers, end the mourners stood around
in a semi-circle, with the priest
a tall, " handsome man'-near ' the
bead f ., the. corpse. , Their -faces
were : grave, while, tho priest ex
pressed the'hope that "the soul of this
dead man Would be fonnd worthy to
dwell in the good place and that Asib-
man would bare no part of him. A
silent prayer followed,' and! the bene
diction, pronounced by the priest with
outstretched hands, .closed with these
parting words: "Let now the sun hav
his part, and the water its part of this
form of Clay!" .1 j
Then the, bier was lifted up, the
shroud drawn over the still face, and
the procession moved out The body
was carried head foremost, and when
passing the threshold the priest opened
the fold over the month a triflo, so as
"to allow the soul to escape." .
In front of the door there was a litter
drawn by four mules, and the whole
arowd accompanied this to the Guebre
cemetery, th men on donkeys, the
women In kedchawehs (baskets hang
ing from the backs of mules), some
three miles out from the Derwazeh
Izfahanee (Ispahan gate.) The ceme
tery is on the ridge of a mountain,
forming part of tile Elbnrz range, and
UvlBible front a long distance by rea
son ot the glaringly white color of the
circular wall surrounding it, standing
It out distinctly against the sora ber hue
of the bleak rock. The mountain is
very steep, and it takes some hard
climbing to get up to the cemetery; but
there we Were at last, but a stone's
throw from the dismal place. A piece
of wall had already been broken out to
admit the corpse (the opening always
being closed afterwards so as to prevent
intrusion), and through it the. "field of
the dead could, be plainly surveyed.
Nothing bnt bleached bones could be
seen here and there on the calcareous,
porous soil, but overhead, far up in tho
sky, the vultures were already drawing
their circles) ready to Swoop down soon
and begin their ghastly feast; for the
dead are In nowise protected here, eith
er against the elements or the birds of
These vvere a fe Incidents in Parse
life I was an eye witness to, but at the
south of Persia, particularly a Yczd,
more of the original ceremonies of this
almost defunct race have survived.
There,' too, they still have temples
very much as in the days of Darius or
Kosroes where Hormazd and his sym
bol, the sun, are worshiped with some
showof splendor. ' There, too, on the
holy days consecrated to the sun, the
rising of the orb is greeted with music
and joyful shouts, As to the "never
ending fire," however, which used to
draw Parsee pilgrim from all -over the
Orient to Baku, the ancient city by the
Caspian sea, it has been extinguished
by wrder of the Russian government,
for Baku to-day forms part of the czar's
Asiatic possessions. I -
No longef does the noble and simple
creed, of which Zoroaster (in Persian,
JJerdusht) was the . ablest exponent,
rule in the ancient land of Persia. . The
Allah, Whom Mohammed taught, with
slight native modifications, .rules in
stead of the dual divine essence. The
very name of their forefather's religion
has been blotted out of the memory of
the modern, Persians, and they look
npon the Guebres or Parsees purely a
infidels, as pagans. " ' .
, :.:t: -Wolf to ScniERnjtASn,
. v- 1 'r-', i A, BarvaraV ' "i'i
' . Ktist 1iggWgiri-r-Soydi teaoa A Har
vard?, Jhat must be so nice! Anil you
teach tile students all sort of langu sge.
snfpos9 they ntver tpeatt EftglisA at
-.fc '.a .'! C : v " '
Professor Very seldom speak it. -"
J Miss O. There, I was sure of IU
What Tansuage" To J lliey speak. most.
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Gen. IVaureg&r-i reeenfy t. 'Afti ', ,
to tha aeapprf New Uritni a re
r'jf to, tha re..-.-r.t .asKt::; jEJjsjWaj.
IV. JL (jiiibe. ot CHula tamana, r -- '
th Ertt "aheU at Fort a truer, i
final respoasiijiUty fk-rj iaat at fc, of
course, pa the mao who iatrui. i
tions to open fire, na tie y, leaunf anj
himself; while ue also haJ kH ra.
Biltas to h battery cf'turaaader who
received and executed that order, this,
aceordirp;toGea. iieaurtj'ard, waa Capt.
Georg rv J astea, . i f.
The sam queaUo came uu several
years siro in tha Century Mauine and
tbe "Battle and Lea Jera of ti Civil
War." Gen. S. U. Lm ba4 eontriboted
to that series of war article hi remi
n licence of "The First bup in th
war. ' 11 has been en of veaure-
g-ard's aidea-de-catnp at the boajbard
ment of Sumter, and with James Chest
nut, 'jr., Roger A. Pryer and A. R.
Chisolm,who era alsooa Beauregard's
staff, had gon in a boat from Fort
Sumter to Fort Johnson, on James Is
land, In the early morning of April U,
1861, after a final internet witiaMaj.
Anderson. , Th rest of th story may
be given in Gen. S. IX Lee's words! : .
"Tbe order to fir khe signal tm waa fives to
Capt George H. James, eoattnandtog the bat
tery at that total It wa thou Ua Capt.
J;im--. at eace roused b eommaod aod ar
ranged to carry out the order. Heua(rat'
admirer of Hoer A. Pryor, and aald I him:
You are the only man to whom 1 would five up
th kenororflrlof the Brat guaot the war;' and
he offered to allow aim to fire It Pryor, on re
ceiving the ener, wa very meek agitate.
With a husky voice, a said; 'I could not Ore
the ft ret gua of tbe war.' II ii manner was
about atmilnr to tha at Mai). Aodttnoa, aa w
left him a few momenta before on the wharf at
Fort Homtert Capt Jamea weald allow so
one else but htmsel! to Are this frua.
"The Boat, with tbe aides of Uca Beaurefrard
left fori Johnnoa befom the arranments
were complete tor the firing of the irun. and laid
on Its oara, about oac-thirds the din lance be
tween the fort and Sumter, there to wltaeea the
firttiR et the first fun of vie war between the
states. It waa flred from a ten-Inch mortar at
4 SO a m , April It, i&l Capt Jamea was
altlUful offlcer, aad the Bring of theaheUwua
success, Xt burst Immediately over the for
apparently about one hundred feet above."
Col A. R. Chisolm, in a few note
following Gen. Lee' article, says that
Roger A.- Pryor was not with as on
our second visit to th fort, giving me
as a reason that his state, Virginia,
had not yet seceded. For the same rev
son he declined to fire the signal shot
Moreover, I believe he was there as a
member of congress, and may have been
bawilllng to oompromis himself. -
In a latter to Gen. Beauregard, irrlt
ten during the present year, which that
officer now makes public, CoL Chisolm
give a more detailed account ot the
particular affair, substantially agreeing
with that of Gen. 8. D. Lee, already
quoted:
" W entered the boats and wroceeded to Tort
Johnson, then In command of Capt. George S.
Jamea, who met us on the wharf, where we de
livered to him, aa per your Instructions, tin
order to ore the eignal gun. Capt Jamea, see
lng Gen. Pryor In the boat, said to him;
" 'Mr. Pryor, I have alwaya been a great ad
mirer of youra, and sow offer you the honor of
firing the first shot at Fort Sumter.'
"Goat Pryor felt flattered, bat with many
thanks declined the offer. I asked him why he
did not accept It Hi reply waa 'that it would
not do for him to fire that shot, aa hi state had
not yet acceded.'
"Jamea tben aaldt 'I will act give that privi
lege to any other man. 1 "
Perhaps there ia not necessarily any
conflict between these accounts and
that of Maj. Gibbes. It will be seen
that neither Gea 8. D. Lee nor CoL
Chisolm wa in Fort Johnson when the
first gun was fired. What they testify
to is really that they delivered to Capt.
James, who commanded the fort,
Beauregard' order to fire, and that
James, after offering to Pryor the right
to fire the first shot and it had been de
clined, said that be "would not give
that privilege to any other man." What
Maj. Gibbes says is that he, a first
lieutenant, In command of a battery ot
ton-inch mortars, was actually directed
by Capt James, who commanded the
whole artillery company, to fire th
iun at exactly 4:30 o'clock.
"Our mortars were loaded and trained, one
with a full charge, directly on the fort: the
other, according to- Inelructlotia, to explode
hlfrb in the air, and wide of the mark, only as a
signal. Corporal Welch, with onelaotard la
hand, and I wits the other, anxiously w-raited
the moment, and watched our timepieces aa the
hands marked the half hour
"The shell wa thrown high in the air, a beau
tiful right, aa tha whole line could be traced by
the buroing fuca. Immediately cur mine waa
sprung to destroy a house which Interfered with
oar view, and the the gua which waa trained
upon the fort, and waa Intended for business,
was discharged; all within on minute Jab-tit.
Henry I Farley, with Capt Jamea, commanded
a second battery of mortars, and Lieut Hayne
a detachment of reserve. Thea are absolute
facts, and the two shells from my battery were
the first of the siege." .
' However this controversy may be set
tled, in one sense the first shot at Saut
ter was not the first shot of the war.
An editorial note to the article ot Gen.
S. D. Lee gives these facts. . . -
"When the Star of th West arrived, on th
Hi of January, the first snot fired across her
bow waa fired by a. Haynsworth, and the aeo-
ono, aimed directly at bar, by Cadet Horlbeck,
It is claimed that before this date a hostile
hot from a four-pounder had been flred from
Vlcksburg by Horace Miller at a passing United
State vessel, supposed, to be carrying a mippljr
01 arms ana ammunition to New Orleans.'
An article by Gen. DouMcday In the
same publication make still another
point! "We have not been in the habit
of regarding; the signal shell fired from
Fort Johnson a the first gun ot the
conflict although it was undoubtedly
aimed at Fort Sumter. Edmund Rnfiin,
of Virginia, -is usually credited with
opening the attack by firing the first
gun from the Ironclad battery on Mor
ns island. The ball from that gua
struck the wall of ithe magazine where
i was lying.
,One circumstance well worth noting
is that -the day before the bombard
ment Beauregard had demanded of
Maj. Anderson the evacnation of the
fort the demand being delivered, says
Gen. 8. D. Lee, by "two aides of Gen.
Beauregard, James Chestnut Jr., nd
myself. :At 4X p.' tn. he handed u his
reply, refusing to accede to the demand.
bnt added "Gentlemen, if you do hot
batter the fort to pieces about' us,' we
sballe starved out la a few alny:
The reply of Maj. Anderson raj ptt
In Gen. ucauregard s hands at5' p. tn.,
and he was also told of this informal
remark. Anderson's reply unci rt-rrs-k
were communicated to the confederate
auinoriucs at jui; .taery. It ap
pear that tha Beer-tat-y War, I l
I. t.i. . a . i A
by h,ji tl tee t
ITtuitv.-,-.t ori r ; 9 t
A r ; ' -." - 1 i
tl at Ua i i l . e-
t.. d '-- C C
lm a ! g-vrt i , .la
pile, but he d , ,t:t 1
open h-s f-tut t.,.-ii
trot i I It t-.ti ". 1 - ?
onitratioiis co, : i
htsf i'
Tina la 'en.-nt, it t
gar:4 t y a. I -
reading it over, ss
and they sec. y
the bun tu4i t t
hour. '-, lui.ev w
X. Y. S-ko.
CHAFGE H -A 1-1
Aa Oil Itarou's I- tr.t -Vl.it to
Y ' Land, ,
It was in Cdi' sr. 'it . '-
struck In 1 ett it a ' -t
poaat-rjior of sonic yu.imi
at aa excellent bum -ti
bad desire to visit t .n
present means euaV'.i-'l
I
b-
bis wipli, it as n, 1 1, ; ,
on on ef tbe oo st 1 t
way to th old vto1-; !. JV
snd Ireland la In (--iai
ing' s fund of cxpi'i-o-iice U
with landlords an4 Bthr t;
tainly valnabia, iioulv for
hint to t-(iui'j 11 Li
did st the price iimiji
his oan lnh-u.'h, n i
measure curious to ate how .
part of tba gcutry v
1 i
In sunny Franc and lu, y.
inqulrlea he mn''e t1 1 r t r
that Gallie or ia ,in hn--t v
les frugal orexai Vat t an t
British kingdom, so tuat be n t '
urally judged horn pat eij
so much of bis time aa m n
ed in sleeping would be chit i'y
in opening his poeket-lxn sn t t.
various payments and don.tM i
or less just to almost everi i '
bronght in contact with.
Whether he was right or ti
thus assuming that every tin" r
long as it was paid for, h con d i
sibly decide for some time. 1 he l
that It was -all . rllit had uii t .
through Paris and other of the r-"
cities, after visiting which he bn
to Marselllea. Here hi eye wet
lighted with reading th lct- : '
l.i
n a
rather poor-looking hotel that 1 , "i
wss spoken there. Entft'' I ' it
that statement only partly vei , i !, as
a knowledge bt that spcrvli was con
fined to th proprietor. btLJ, as h- ! 1
made out hitherto, this was m' -t
a shock, although hesocn found u t t
ty extortion practiced upon him ttcru.
The slightest service wa treated ia the
light of an item for the bill Opening
window seemed to be made a mem
orandum of by th officiating waiter,
and handing htm alight for a c'.ir !. il
the character of special extra.
This went on for about half a unr.
when he had an altercation with an of
ficial whom be erroneously took for the
man that blacked his boot. As neither
understood the other too well, tbe trav
eler, possibly mistaking the. garcon's
natural vivacity for offenstveness,
knocked hiin over a couple of trunks
and down the stairs.
In a moment up rushed the proprie
tor.- '-
. "Mon dieu, monsienr,' he said, "you
have killed ths waiterl"
"Killed Win, did ir was tlie some
what surprised answer, "iih, well,
charge him in. th. MIL" Philadelphia
Timea, ' t .
3 . Aa Kvl'leot C.e. 4
"They Vvere disenRiing tbe print? fnr.
tune of the town snag-notes when CoL
Blank's nam cam a p.
"What's he worth?" asked one.
"Between two hundred and fifty and
two hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars, I should say," replied the statistician.-,'
:' . . . " .
, "No more than that?" ,
"Than what? Isn't that a pretty good
fortune?"
"Ten thousand dollars? No. -I've
got that mneh myself."
"Who said anything about ten thou
sand? I said he Was worth between two
hundred and fifty and two hundred n.A
sixty thousand." - ,
"Well, Isn't ien thousand between
two hundred and fifty and two huntlrc I
and sixty thousand?'1
But. the other, man got huffy ar,d
wouldn't answer. Detroit Fr-9 Press.
, . ! Did Mot Complain. "
Globetrotter I had an experience last
time I waa over. The inn niittre I
stopped in one town was fuUt and I
had to take th haunted room tr sit m
all night , , i, .. .
Host Did you take it?
! Globetrotter Yes; and if ev a i -
was really and truely haunt-.! t --.
Every time I woke up. I fe:t v-.c
seemed like another pe- , n In 1 :
me, but when I lit t'.e . 'e ,
was there. It wa horri'tV. ,
Host I should say l id 1
the landlord?
Globetrotter No indeed, no .o-.i!:i
have charged me tor lodging i r t .
N. Y. Weeklv. .
H-t jlr'.-'l t .v.
Mrs. '"Gaz.-iin-Hitvirire, t 1 ie"a
an article on how to seep n I
sealskin sa ques. t -
Gaz,am-"1 niit fan't V" of t -tercet
to - yoa, as yn have n-t k- ... ,.-i
sacque. , .- j.
. Mrs, Gerrorn ll-at wa i-'--t f i. .
ed (o direct Jour aU: ntii'a I -'. ;
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