The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-12

scrVIco lB Bometlrnes reau. It 1B at present en-
closed by q ncat white paling, which, though
doubtless practical Improvement, is not inkeep-
ing with the surroundings, and mars tho beauty
of tho scene. Passing i'll and keeping on the right
you soon SEQ IN array Of scoro or moro of white
wooden head d-boards, that look like ghostly senti
nels at tho gates of Death. These mark the rest
ing place of Federal soldiers who have died in
Charleston Tho only circumstance worthy of note
about this portion of the ground is that the doc
trino OF tho equality of tho racos to enforce which
these soldiers fought, has received o CHASTITY ac-
acknowledgement in their burial. The foreign hire
ling, tho native volunteer and the African hero lie
side by side, with disregard of social distinctions
which some of them at least would have regarded
as dire disgrace. just beyond these you come to
the
CONFEDERATE BURYING GROUND
Side by side, and rank on rank, as when they
charged tho brsting breastworks of tho enemy,
now le these patriot soldiers Of vanished coun-
try, in sweet oblivion Of the stupendous ruin that
has crushed the land Of their nativity and love. or
oil that crowd Of hillocks, not more than three or
four have any mark to tell who lies beneath Their
occupants belong to tho vast throng Of the un-
known dead-unknown, yet unforgotten, living ever
in tho hearts Of tho people whom they died to de-
fend Orators have pronounced their eu1ogy, flow
ers have deckeds their graves, and the incense of
their praise has gone up to Heaven on the music
of the voices of the people, but it remains ror tho
historians pom to embalm their memory IL the Ian
guage of truthful commendation and jor posterity
to accord that need Of lasting fame which valor
and endurance, when prompted by noble motives
and exercised in a holy cause must ever win. In
| our day and generation we may never be allowed
by public acts, to acknowledge the services rem
dered by our slain relatives in tho cause Of tho
Confederate Utopia but surely as is this the
day Of humiliation and grief surely will the
day come when, through the length and breath of
| the land wherever rests q handful of the unknown
dead, marble monuments shall rise, on which
shall be inscribed, in letters Of gold:
| "Dulre ct decorum est pro patria mori.''
Passing from the Confederate burying ground
into square enclosed by thick hedge, you See
collection OF neglected graves, some Of which
seemed to have caved in, or to have had the bodies
removed from them. Among the few tombatones
in this square we noticed one erected by the off,
GERS and crew Of the steamship Hero to DAVID
MILLER, mate OF that vessel, and native Of
Scotland, who died July %, 1866 A steamship and
| q Scotch thistle are engraved upon the marble.
Leaving this square through an opening in the
hedge, crossing tho road, and climbing low en-
bankment on the other side you enter
| THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
This is truly City Of the Dead. A broad white
street runs through the middle from east to west,
in the central and highest point of which is erected
o large black wooden cross. On each side the va
rous lots were laid out in various forms-equare,
circular and semi-circulnr, oval, &c. Most Of the
lots were nicely kept, and the wen-trimmed cedars
! and shrubbery, and the numerous roses and other
flowers, made them look like pet gar.ens. To the
best Of our recollection the aign Of the cross con
secrated every grave wooden crosses being erected
where there was no other head-board, and marble
crosses carved all tho upright monuments
~hilo q representation OF CROSS was engraved OF
the horizontal slabs. On an unenclosed bed O
grass we saw soythe which had been abandoned
by some reaper, and it struck that it would af
!; ford subject for few melancholy verses, il
which might be introduced an allusion to the reap
er Death and to the fact that his scythe has neve
been known to drop from his hand since it's frs
blow fell upon the neck Of the innocent ABEL. No
having made any use Of the idea ourselves w
suggest it to such OF our readers as may bo poet
ically inclined and abandon, from this time out
Q any claim to it's authorship.
Among the monuments in this division of Mag
nolia We noticed horizontal slab raised on brick
work, the principal portion Of the inscription O,
= which was in an unknown tongue, and in incom
}, prehensible characters There was on the sam
: slab an English inscription to the memory Of tn
niece Of the person to whom the strange letter
referred, and tried by the help Of it to deoiphe
the meaning Of the hieroglyphics, but We were er
l. tirely unsuccessful We congratulated ourselves
l. the reflection that the sculptor who had endeavo,
10 ed to narrate to every passer by the name and vii
tues Of the deceased had likewise failed in his e1
It deavors. Perhaps the reader has seen--we ofte
l. have-the picture Of burial ground representing
j. railing around tomb, one OF thoset thst has sla
D. laid horizontally on four low brick walls, with
ID solitary weeping willow dropping artisically Owe
o the tomb. We think we have seen it on the on
g. side page of tract called the Dairymans Daugl
% ter, or at any rate upon some other tract Of ii
r, kind. We had always thought that picture III
natural but there is the exact counterpart Of it
O. the western portion Of this same Catholic buryn
r ground. The familiar appearance Of the railin
Of the tombstone and the willow, struck us at di
ID tance, and we hastened to examine. We could nj
10 get into the enclosure but looking over it be
10 we could, VIC made out upon the slab crown ar
al cross, and the name Of LABRENAGA. Joining th
with previous information in our possession, y
to concluded that this was the last resting placo
n former Spanish Vice-Consul at this POI
TO Whether the picture was originally drawn fro
to some graveyard similar to this, or whether tn
as was especially gotten up to resemble the pictur
cd or whether both these things were done, we ha
IS. not yot determined but it will be long before
es forget the resemblance that 10 unwontedly start
on us. Not far from this is grave bordered by IL
ns arrow-headed palings and strewed with pieces
ne Mosaic paving. Not far from the great bla
III oroaa in the cantre oP the 0rounl ia n small so