The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-12-11

hat Captain Harry Jackson offered tc
raise regiment OF negroes in Georgia &c
fight for their freedom. spoke of my
embarrassment in accepting Genera
Lees hospitality. He said Lee was
right, az ii would have been hazZardou
to return to Richmond after dark, and
mentioned two armusing instances Of his
being arcsicd while inspecting tie
lines near Richmond.
The ez-prcsident remembered my
GOING TuRoUeH THE BLOCKADE
toE1glaad aud France, partly at his
instance to meet the confederate commits
sioners, recalled our conversation in his
library just before I left, and was very
much interested in my account Of long
Interview with the late Lord Derby and
other members of par!iment, IL which
LORD Derby assured me that if he had
been in power the confederacy would
bsve been recognized soon after the seven
days battle before Richmond. Palmar-
sten was then prime minister.) After
parliament opened I went with Mr.. Mason
to Paris and met Mr.. Slidell and Mr.
Mason, and explained the plan for grad
ual emancipation The three comnis-
sioners agreed that if our plan could
have been carried out the confederacy
would have at once been recognized. l
mentioned this simply to show the fore
thought Of Mr.. Davis.
All this seemed to interest Mr. Davis,
because l never reported after my return
in 1865. The confeGcracy was in ruins,
the president il case mate ct Fortress
Monroe end nearly all my property des-
troyed. Our conversation lasted until
about II p. m, when 5Ir. Davis insisted
upon esco:ting ne to the cottage where l
was to sleep. A fierce storm swept over
the gulf that night, and the thunder of
the waves on the beech recalled to my
excited Imagination the bombardmcnt Of
Atlanta in 'G4, with confused idea of
Long Branch and Biaritz on the bay of
Eiscay.
By a fortunate chance the
DAUGHTER OF THE coNFEDERACy''
! (Varina Anna Davis-"1liss Winnie'y
returned from her sriumphal visit in the
north during the night, bringing two of
her friends with her. l had seen Miss
| Davis but once. when she was an infant
in the autumn Of '64, and found it diff
cult to realize that this tall, handsome,
highly accomplished young woman was
the little child I had seen in Richmond.
I do not remember having met finer or
| more charming young woman that
Varina A. Davis, (named for her
nother.)
During my stay at Beauvoir could
but notice that among all classes Nlr. and
Mrs and Miss Davis were universally
beloved and respected, which, OF course,
was only natural, az more gentle, high
bred and benevolent family ! never knew.
I brought away Mexican cactus which,
at this writing, promises to develop into
fine plant in our L. P.Grant park.
THE BEAUTIES OF BEAUvoIR.
think Beauvoir is one of the most
charming and restful places in the world
to visitors I can, however, easily i'm
asin that it may become monotonous to
the household during the winter nohths,
when the friends and families from the
city>who have cottages on the gulf return
homo in the autumn, and only casual
friends, and an endless procession OF
strarse.s-curiosity people-call at the
place and ovcrrun the grounds and the
residence, occasionally claiming hospital
ity which the slender -esources of Beau
voir can hardly meet.
InterHlt,nCy his.
torical locality. Ship island is directly
to the south, about FIVE miles from the
shore. 1t was on the landward side that
de Bicnville assembled his feet when he
took command of the French possessions
and founded Bloxie-once the branch
seat of government, FIVE miles east of
Beauvoir. At this island Packingham
aatne-edh is ships before his disastrous
campaign against New Orleans. Again
it was ct this point that the feet Of Gen
eral Butler rendez7oused before be occu-
pied New Orleans, 1t is now a quar-
an:ine station for Mobile aud New Or
leans.
That this extraordinary man, after a
life of unprecedented vicisitude, often Of
severe hardship, carrying on his person
an incurable wound received at Buena
Vista, and the marks of the manacles at
Fortress Monroe, should have lived so
long and retained such wonderful Vitali-
t7. passes my comprehension, but this.
from my more recent association with
the family, I attribute largely TO the loV-
ing and judicious care of one of the no
b,nct of Uomnn-Mrs Variua Howell |
Davis. I can recall but few women
who have been so affectionate and SEN
sible as the lady bountiiul of Beau
voir.
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Mrs. Davis is of Welch ..extraction-ap
Howell, grand daughter of Governor
Eowell of New Jersey, who was fast
friend of Washington. She was born in
Vicksburg about 1926 the daughter Of a
large planter in the famous, Iazoo bot
toms, Married Dir. Davis forty-three
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