Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-06

| OF his carriage is the envy of the dandies.
1t is common saying among the women
that Whitney is "a perfect gentleman"
| He lives luXuriOusly, he belongs TO four
| clubs, he drives good horses, and men are
accustomed to point to him as a fortunate
| fellow for whom wedlOck has done Alad.
din wonders.
There is one house in Fifth avenue, New
| York city, and one only, which in it's
! architecture and contents combined bears
comparison with the mansions of the
| NanderOilts. This is the residence OF Mr..
William e. Whitney. 1t stands on the
| highest corner in the great thOrOughfare
| of wealth and fashion, within two blocks
of the main entrance to Central Park. and
! therefore about all of the pleasure driving
| goes past IT. 1t ls only a few years old.
| The original dwellers were the Stevens
| family, who had not completely moved
| in before a reverse of fortune COM
PEELED them to move out. Then the
fact OF the property being in the
market was nine days wonder. The
! purchaser was Oliver W. Payne, one ofthe
! Ohio Paynes, noted for their accumula-
| ton of riches through the Standard Oil
! Company. He made it a gift to his sister,
| Mrs. William &. Whitney; and he also
| presented a million dollars in money to
her. The lady was thus empowered to
| shine socially, for she already had an as
''New York's best people," She has shOne
| brilliantly. Her entertainments are nu-
| merous, elaborate, tasteful, and they
| gather the very finest assem- blages known
to the metropolis. Her name is in nearly
| every column of society news, and it
seems to belong there every time. so busy
a figure is she in noteworthy social do
| Jugs.
L. Q. C. LAMAR.
| T.uoiuc n n ,,,o1I I-,.o-....
that any extended notice of him is almost
| unnecessary. He was born in Putnam
| county, Georgia, Sept. IT, 1926. He was
| educated at Oxford Ga, and graduated
at Emory College, Georgia, In 1S45 He
| studied law at Macon, Ga, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1847. He moved TO
| Oxford, Miss, in 1S49, was elected Ad-
iunct Professor of Mathematics in the
| University of the State, and held the po-
| sltIOn as assistant to DR.. A. T. BledsOe,
| (edltor of The Southern RerielC) which he
resigned in 1850, and returned to COving-
ton, Ga, where he resumed the practice
of law; was elected to the Legislature of
Georgia IN 1888; in 1854 moved
to his plantation in La Favette
county, Mississippi, and was elected to
the Thirty-tfth and Thirty-siXth Con-
| crosses Of the United States, and resigned
IN 1850 to take seat in the Secession
convention of his State; in 1861 he entered
the Confederate army as Lieutenant Colo
mel of the Nineteenth Regiment, and was
promoted to the COlOnelcy, and in 1868 he
was Intfusted by President DAVIS with an
important diplomatic mission to Russia;
in 1865 was elected Professor of Political
Economy and Social Science in the Uni
versitv of Mississippi, and in 1867 was
| transferred to the ProfessOrship of Law.
He was elected to the FOrty-third Congress-
of the United States, and was reelected
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elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to succeed James Lusk AlcOrn,
Independent, and took his seat March 3,
1877. He was reelected in 1882.
l.. Q. &. Lamar is one of the most influ-
ential Of the Southern men. He is one of
the scholarly statesmen of the South, and
has had, probably, a wider range of eX-
perience than any of his Southern assO-
ciates. He is related TO the family of
Howell Cobb and other equally noted
Southern families. He has the reputation
OF being very wise in matters of state
craft, although he is not considered a
good politician. He has broad and lib
eral views, and commands the respect of
mis- political friends and foes. He has
always led public opinion in hts State. 1t
was not until after the war, when he re-
turned to the House, that he made a
great reputation. His eulogy of Charles
sumner gave him instantly a national
reputation. 1t was a very advanced view
to come from any Southern man who had
taken part in the war.
That speech did more, perhaps, to re-
store harmony between the North and the
South than any other one cause.
His ancestors have taken big hand in
the government of the country ever since
the Declaration of Independence became
. reality. He Is one of the very best rep
resentatives of Southern feeling and in
terest. If he were a worker like Bayard
he would be greater leader. He loves
his ease, and is in many respects an
idealist Full of sentiment and capable
of expressing it in eloquent words, he
has made his mark by the fine temper of
his intellect rather than its force.
AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND.
Augustus Ii. Garland, OF Little Rock,
Ark, was born in Upton county, Tenn,
June IL, 1882. In 1888 his parents re-
moved to Arkansas. He was educated at
Saint Mary's College and Saint Joseph's
College in Kentucky, studied law and
was admitted to practice in 1858 at Wash
ingtOn, Ark, where he then lived. In
1856 he removed to Little Rock. He was
a delegate to the State convention that
passed the ordinance Of secession in 1861, |
and was "A member of the Provisional
Congress that met at Montgomery, Ala,
in May, 1861, and subsequently OF the Con-
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Houses, and being in the Senate
when the war closed. He was elected
to the United States Senate from
Arkansas for the term beginning March
4, 1867, but was not admitted to bis seat. /
He made the teat-Oath case as to lawyers
in the Supreme COurtOf the United States,
and gained it. He followed the practice
OF law until the fall of 1874, when he was
elected Governor of Arkansas, without
opposition. He was elected in January,
1876, by the Legislature of Arkansas,
without opposition, to the United States
Senate as Democrat, to succeed Powell
Clayton, Republican. He took his seat
March ., 1877, and was reelected in 1888.
He was regarded as one of the two or three
great lawyers of the Senate.
MIR. David Davis, who knows a thing or
two, says Mr.. Garland "knOWs more law !
and has read more law than any man in
the South.i'
He is a good shot, and a handy man with |
the fishing rod. He is well read man,
and what he reads he remembers.
He looks his age, although his thick, |
dark-brOwn hair has hardly yet begun to |
show any signs of gray. He is tall, deep |
chested, broad-shOuldered invariably |
dresses III black, and to this day adheres |
to the soft slOuch hat of Arkansas life. |
He has large head. His complexion is |
swarthy and dark. There is a solemn |
gests the character OF a great tragedian
His forehead is broad and high. His eyes
are very black and deep-set under heavi- |
lv-shaded eyebrows. His nose is strong, |
straight, and nearly Grecian in its !
line. His mouth is large and thin
Tipped. He has very deep rich |
voice. He is considered one of the |
best speakers in the Senate. In private
life he is fond of joking, and delights in
chatting his associates. But he never in !
trOduces any pleasantly into his public
speeches. He thinks that such tightening |
of the burden of argument has a tendency |
to detract from its dignity and influence.
He is lawyer from the crown of his head |
to the soles of his feet. The study of law
with him is a passion. He can probably
repeat more authorities by the page and |
paragraph from his memory alone than
any lawyer in the country.
His equipment as a lawyer, char
acterized as it is by vast research,
includes also that comprehensive
grasp of leading principles and imperial
independence of judgment, which many
men learned in the law appear not to
possess.
WILLIAM f. Villas.
William Freeman Villas was born in
Chelsea, Orange county, Vermont, July9,
1S4O. His father, Judge Levi b. Villas,
was member of the Vermont Legislature
at the time, and one Of the prominent old
school Democratic politicians of the Green
Mountain State, SO that his son comes
honestly by his Democracy. The Judge
was frequently the candidate of his party
for United States Senator, Presidential
elector, etc, and represented Vermont in