The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1863-02-06

PICTURES OF THE LONDON TIMES
CORRESPONDENT.

We extract from Mr. RUSSELL S gossippy
book of the United States in War Time,
several sketches of the notabilities of the
South.
At Charleston he saw General Beaure-
gard, "a small, compact man, about thir-
ty-six years of age, with quick and in
telligent eye and action, and good deal
Of the Frenchnan in bis manner and look
And here is more notable man than Beau
regard:
''As the boat touched the quay Of the
fort, a tall powerful looking man came
through the shattered gateway, and with
uneven steps strobe over the rubbish to-
wards skitf which was waiting to receive
bin, and into which he jumped and rowed
off. Recognising one Of my companions
as he passed our boat, he suddenly stood
up, and with a leap and Il. scramble tum-
bled in among us, to the imminent danger
of upsetting the party.
Sour new friend was dressed in the
blue trock coat Of a civilian, round which
he had tied red silk sash-his waistband
supported a straight sword, something like
those worn with court dress. His muscu-
lar neck was surrounded with loosely
fastened silk handkerchief; and wild mas
ses of black hair, tinged with grey, fell
from under civilians hat over his collar /:
his unstrapped trousers were gathered up
high on his legs, displaying ample boots,
garnished with formidable brass spurs.
But his face was not one to be forgotten
a straight, broad brow, from which the hair
rose up like the vegetation on river bank,
beetling black eyebrows--a mouth coarse
and grim, yet full of power-a square jaw
a thick, argumentative nose-a new
growth of scrubby beard and moustache--
these were relieved by eyes OF wonderful
depth and light, such as never saw be-
fore but in the head of a wild beast.
"Ifyou look some day, when the sun is
not too bright, into the eye of the Bengal
tiger, in the Regents Park, as the keeper
is coming round, you will form some no
ton Of the expression | mean. 1t was
flashing, fierce, yet calm--with q well OF
fire burning behind and spouting through
It; an eye pitless in anger, which now and
then sought to conceal its expression be-
meath haif-closed lids, and then burst ont
with an angry glare, as if disdaining con-
cealrnent.
This was none other that Louis T. Wig
fall, Colonel (thel of his own creation) in
the Confederate army, and Senator from
Texas in the United States"
This eminent southern gentleman" was
in state Of whisky, unsteady in his gait
and thick in speech and after while,
having coarsely abused Senator Sumner,
began to speak no better of Lord Lyons,
which Mr.. Russell would not stand, and
there was mOmentary chance of a duel,
prevented by an humble apology from
Wigfall.
Governor Pickens was another of the
notabilities he met, "a stout man, of big
head, and large important looking face,
with watery eyes and habby features, ~
looking not at all as though ''born insen-
sible to fear" He was also favored with
the acquaintance of the Rhetts, from the
elder Of whom, "a pompous, hard, ambi-
tious man," he received ga pamphlet Oh
his life, character and services" 3" evidently
a kind of elaborate advertisement, show
ing how an application of Rhett would
cure all the diseases of the country. Mr..
Rhett and his pamphlet must have re-
mind the Times correspondent oddly of the
Hlndoo washermen who came on board
when vessels get near Calcutta, each also
with little pamphlet on his "life, char
acter and services" Another one of these
testimonial Rhetts-ot whom it is not re-
corded that he handed Mr.. Russell PAM
phlet-made an ass of himself by declar-
ing that "there were two persons in
South Carolina who would not sooner ask
Great Britain to take back the State
than submit to the triumphs of the
Yankees. we are an agricultural people
pursuing our own system, and working
out our own destiny, breeding up women
and men for some other purpose than te
make them vulgar, fanatical, cheating
Yankees-hypocritical, if as women they
pretend to real virtue; and lying, if a;