Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-15
DEATH OF MIR. BENJAMIN.

Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, the distinguish
ed lawyer and advocate and eX-member of
the Government of the Southern COnfeder-
acy, died in Paris on Wednesday of last
week. About four years ago Mr.. Benjamin
had a bad fall in Paris from tram-car, on the
road running parallel with the Seine. For
getting that he was not quite as young as
when last in New Orleans, he jumped as
had formerly been his habit when resident
in the "Crescent City," from the car while
it was still in motion, and losing his feet,
he held on to the rail, and was dragged
many yards, dislocating his shoulder and
breaking two or three ribs. From this shock
Mr.. Benjamin never entirely recovered,
and one of the worst effects resulting from the
accident was that it brought back an internal
disorder, some symptoms of which had
manifested themselves at Richmond, in Vir-
ginia, during the civil war. Mr.. Benjamin
was born in 1911, on the Danish Island OF
St. Croix. There he remained with his
parents for four years until the war was
over, when his parents made their way to
Charleston in this State, and thence, little
later on, to New Orleans, La In that city
Mr.. Benamin's boyhood was spent, until,
in 1929, he was sent, as a student, to Yale
College, in Connecticut. He returned in
1882 to New Orleans, and was Immediately
called to the bar. He was sent a little later
by the State of Louisiana to the United
States Senate at Washington and after the
death of Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Silas
Wright, it was the opinion of many that
the Senator from Louisiana was the most
eloquent orator in the Union.
Mr.. Benjamin's services to the Confeder-
ate States are we'll known to the Southern
people. He was not one of those who were
active in bringing on the war, but he did
not hesitate to 60 with the people when
once secession had been determined upon,
and on the 31st of December, 1860, he made
an eloquent speech in the Senate of the
United States avowing his adherence to the
Southern cause, and on February 4th, 1861,
withdrew from the Senate and was at once
appointed Attorney General of the Confed-
crate States. He was afterwards appointed
Secretary of War, but resigned in conse-
auence of the censure of a Congressional
committee. Shortly after his resignation
of the War Secretaryship he was appointed
Secretary of State, which position he held
until the downfall of the Confederacy, en-
joying to the last the entire confidence of
Mr.. Davis, the army and the people.
At the conclusion of the civil war, Mr..
Benjamin effected his escape from Rich
mond, and succeeded in making his way to
the coast of Florida. After experiencing
strange adventures in small craft laden
with sponges, on board of which he put to
sea, Mr.. Benjamin landed safely in England,
where his fame as lawyer and states
man had preceded him, and where the Con-
federacy which he had served so warmly
had still some friends. Mainly by the adj
vice and assistance of the late Chief Justice
Pollock, Mr.. Benjamin contrived to get call
ed to the English bar without losing three
years in keeping terms. He was fifty-five
years old when he first put on the wig and
gown of an English barrister, and the tre-
mendous experiences through which he had
already passed would have exhausted the
energy of most public men. Yet the his
tory of the English bar will hereafter have
no prouder story to tell than that of the mar
velous advance of Mr.. Benjamin from the
humble position he occupied as junior in
1866 to the front rank of his profession in
1883.
The Sheriff of Chesterfield county made
a pretence at arresting Boggan Cash one
night last week, by publicly proclaiming
his intentions and summoning large posse
of men from all parts Of the county to carry
out his rash design. Before arriving at the
Cash mansion, the Sheriff twas unable to act
efficiently" and the posse was put in COM
mand of others, who went to Cash's house
and made thorough search, but OF course
to no purpose. Colonel Cash said that Bog
gan could not be arrested at present, and as
sured them that he and Boggan would GER
tainly be at Chesterfield Court House at
the next term of Court to stand their trial.
The failure to arrest Boggan is thought to
be from the manner of summoning the
posse. The Sheriff had deputized friend
of Cash to summon twenty men from Cole
Hill township, Cash's stronghold, where he
received most of the white votes last cleo,