Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-18

Judge A. b. Lougstreet, not long
ago President of the University Of
Mississippi, and better known every
where in America as the author of the
inimitable book "Georgia Scenes"
died not many days ago in Oxford,
Mississippi. The two first books the
writer ever read were " Weem's
Washington, rather a sober joke on
the country's paternal ancestor and
s'Georgia Scenes" the finest piece OF
broad fun ever conceived by South
ern writer. CuriOu5ly enough, there
was nothing in Judge LOngstreets
manner or appearance, when we knew
him, forty years after his book was
published, TO lead TO the suppositiOn
that such dignified, quiet gentleman
had ever dreamed of Blossom and
his horse Bullet" of the atrociOus
Ned Brace, or of that wonderful de-
batting club, in which McDufie Cal
hOun and Grimke are said to have
figured with LOngstreet and the father
OF the present DIR. Waddell, who, for
nearly half century, was President
Of the University of Georgia. DIR.
Longstreet was the uncle of the Con-
federate General, a machine that
served Lee we'll when under the mas
ter's hand, but an utter failure when
ever he conducted an independent
campaign. The venerable Judge, who
must have been nearly eighty
years of age at the time
of his death, was the school
fellow at Yale of the late Col.
John Pope, of this county, one of the
most accomplished gentlemen that
ever gave tone to social life in any
community. Through the latter
years of his lite, Judge LODgstreet
was President OF the University OF
Mississippi, position which he aban-
dOned because of his great age. We
have heard 10 said that judge Long
street never cared to confess the au-
thOrship of Georgia Scenes" III fact,
that when he became a Methodist, he
was disposed to repudiate the unique
production. Why, we can hardly un-
derstand. Extravagant as are the
stories told, they give a very accurate
apprehension OF backWOOds Southern
social life of sixty years ago. The
militia muster and practice for the
court day fight of country bullies has
given place to zOuave drills, base ball
and "the code" There's progress for
you, but whether LOngstreet approved
the new and learned to condemn old
modes of amusement and code of
honor, we never learned. In private
life he was kindly, devoted to books,
and, long ago, distinguished for his
skill as a flute player. He has many
papers that will be published in fu
ture years which may give those who
only knew him as the author of
Georgia Scenes" very different ap-
prehensiOn of his lofty intellectual
worth and character.
Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgreu,
who died Thursday at the navy-yard
at Washington, Philadelphian, en-
tered the United States navy in 1876.
He was an ordnance officer ten years,
and perfected the Dahlgren gun. He
became a captain in 1862, and Chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance. In 1863 he
was Rear-Admiral, relieving Dupont.
By a combined land and naval opera
ton Morris Island was captured and
Fort Sumter demolished. In Februa-
airy, 1864, he did a small plundering
business along st. Johns river. He
met Sherman at Savannah, and
thought, it is said, that Savannah sur
rendered becluse he (Dahlgren) hove
in sight, He was again cOmmandant
at the navy-yard at Washington when
death gave him long furlough.
Alexander William kinglake, a
prominent English author and poll
tician, died on Sunday, in the fifty
ninth year of his age. Mr.. kinglake
was a liberal in politics, and, though
speaking little, was member Of great
weight in the House Of Commons.
he lost his seat for Bridgewater in
consequence of the briberies which
were fastened upon his committee in
the election, but it was never sup
posed that Mr.. Kinglake himself was
even cognizant of these corrupt pro-
ceedings. 1t is as an author, how
ever, rather than as member OF Par
Lament or sergeant-at-law, which Dig
nifty he had attained before entering
the House, that Mr.. Kinglake will be
longest remembered. Few more bril-
liant books of Oriental travel have
ever been written than Eotheu,"
and his History of the Crimean
War" is regarded, even by those who
discredit it, as a most vivid and pow
erful presentation of facts and argu-
ments. The verdict of pOsterity viii
probably come nearer TO his Judgment
of Napoleon the Third than many are
now willing to believe. In person
Mr.. Kinglake was small and slight,
in manner shy and reticent, in Ordi
nary intercourse bland and courteous,
in private life in the highest degree
estimable. His London lodgings were
in st. James Place, near to the house
of the late Samuel Rogers. He never
married.