The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-01

land To stalk the deer, or to the races at
Ascot, or to the University boat race on
the Thames, thither he was certain to in
vite General Taylor. He introduced
him at Windsor TO the Queen, and the
Queen was so charmed with his company
that she prayed him to stay for week
at the Castle. When the Prince went to
India he invited General Taylor TO be
one of the party. But the General pre-.
ferred TO stay in London, and many a
quiet rubber was played at The Marlbor-
ough House by the Princess, tie Duke
of Cambridge and the American, while
the Prince was riding in an elpehant how
dab through the jungles of Nepaul. in
the royal box at Ascot his figure was ia
miliar to every jockey on the course,
though his means never allowed him to
own race horses and rarely to bet. One
wager he took. however, the issue of
which troubled him to tie last. He was
on the Princes boat following the UNI
versity crews when the Earl Of Dudley,
spying some token of French imperial
'stn on the lawn at Chiswick, suddenly
cried that he would bet $4,000 to Gl0
twice over, that the Nnpoleonic dynasty
Sas never restored in France The Prince
of Wales took one of these bets, and Cen
eral Taylor took the other, and he hae
ever since regarded the metamorphoses
of French politics with M uncommonly
wistful eye. But despite this new born
ardor for imperialism he was received
with much distinction in Paris by Mar
shal MacMahon, and even the rugged
Bismarck greeted him with warmth
that savored of personal friendship. In
deed, his passage across the continent
was one of unalloyed triumph, and the
first gentlemen in Europe were proud to
call him their friend.
SECRET OF HIS SOCIAL SUCCESS.
At the root of this prodigious success
lay his faculty for being all things to all
men. Whatever the topic of conversa-
tion might be, to that he would adapt
himself To men of a younger genera
ton he was particularly charming.
When the faster members Of the Prince
of Wal, : set would meet at the Marl-
borough he would discuss coaches with
Lord Carington, cock pheasnnts with
Lord Aylesford, aud the latest horse race
with Lord Charl Beresford. In the
Park, with the Princess and children
his manner was redolent of antique chiy-
airy. At the Turf Club he would ar
range handicaps wi2h Admiral Rous
and help Lord Roseberry make his book
for the Newmarket meeting. At the
Athen9um he would cross literary swords
with 81: Charles Dixie, aud at the Uni
ted Services would discuss military tac-
tics with Sir Garnet Wolsely and Lord
Napier of Magdala. Nothing came
nmiss to him. George Otto Trevelyn,
nephew of Lord Macaulay, read bis arti-
cles in the North american Revie,o, and
said there was in him the stuff of
great military writer. Statesmen listen
ed with delight to his dissertations on
the American constitution. Won SIoltke
which he met Prince Bismarck. Every
himself gave in his honor the dinner at
where he spread about him the charm
of his personality, and nothing distin-
guished him from the crowd ofraconteurs
more than this, that his conversation was
never forced or out of place, never la
bored or prepared beforehand, yelling
up naturally from the stores of q natural
ly rich mind.
General Taylor had just before his
death published book, sDestruction and
Reconstruction" which is said to be nj
quaint, elegant and even brilliant in style,
and in which he handles men without
gloves. His Heath will prevent; recrimi-
nation on this account.
With pride which was possibly un-
wise he refused to take any measures
looking to the restoration of his confsca-
ted estate. He looked upon it as stake
lost in the great game of war, and to him
lost forever. But as the confiscation was
only of life estate, the property, now of
considerable value, will return to his
children, of whom three daughters, resi-
ding at Winchester, Va, survive him.
General Taylor's wife, who died in
1875, was Miss Myrth Bringier, of
New Orleans, and belonged to q Creole
family of distinction and influence.