The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-22

the whites One old auntie wanted to know
"ef dem blue-coated buckra had come fur TAX
de Charleston niggers ter Africa
The visit of these ironcads calls to mind
pleasant visit of the Harriet Lane to our waters,
some months prior to the advent of the Star of
the West,) and in connection with which there
is quite bit of romance.
Among the many guests entertained aboard
the Harriet Lane was beautiful girl, just in
her teens, that age when brass buttons are most
attractive and civilians sink into nonentities.
The soft, gazelle-ike eyes of this fair maid of
the Ashley caught and enchained the heart of
one of the most gallant officers of Uncle Sans
ship, who stoutly declared that he would not
quit port until he had obtained her promise to
become his bride. On leaving the boat the day
of her visit he handed her piece Of seaweed,
which had been blown across his face during a
tremendous storm in which he came very near
being washed overheard. II shall come back
and redeem it as soon as you say l may We're
his parting words. That evening he called at
her beautiful home, and as the barge bore him
back to his shipit was unnecessary for his brother
officers to ask, ':What successY Itwas written
all over his handsome beaming face, and
echoed in his merry laugh But fate had or
dained this to be final parting. In less than
year he lost his life in naval engagement with
one of the Confederate rams on which the
brother of his betrothed also went down. To
day there can occasionally be seen, walking
upon the Battery, looking wstfully out toward
the ocean, sweet pale-faced woman, whose
I iron gray hair peeps from within a close-ftting
widows bonnet, who, if you were to ask why
she had never married, would show you gold
locket, in which little piece of seaweed is en-
cased and from which handsome face looks at
you, and she would say, IL am waiting for him
to redeem it,"
In speaking of the Star of the West | will
say, parenthetcally, that your correspondent
was the first person in Charleston who knew the
day that that boat boat was expected, and the
information was given accidentally, bya woman,
(of course,) a member of the family of the
chaplain of the fort. They were still on Sulli
vans Island when called on them to know
their plans as Fort Moutrie was in the hands
of the State troops, the Federal garrison being
in Fort Sumter The wives of the officers occa
sionally visited the fort, carrying with then
! provisions and necessary comforts, and the
chaplain paid daily visits his pockets filled witt
candles, writing paper, etc. Noticing during
the visit that hasty preparations were being
made for removal 10 the city, asked why the.
were in such haste, when the young lady inad
yertently replied, "Why, ifthe Star of the Wes
gets in tomorrow morning there will be trouble
p and we do not want to be III range of the
guns" The Star of the West did attempt t.
come in the next day. with what results you ar
already familiar
2 A visit to Fort Moultrie now in its presen
desolate condition is positively painful to thOs
who knew it in former days, when brave me-
and fair women prOmenaded the ramparts AM
> the strains of delightful music echoed and re
eched over the mighty waves which washed tn
a base of the massive walls. Now the owl an
' the bat have a lodgment there, the casemate
I only echo to the voice of tourists who visit tn
historic spot, the old flagstaff stands as a sol
tary sentinel looking over at the desOlatiOn c
s Fort Sumter just across the way. Huge san
= banks and piles of masonry tell of the terribl
D struggle, and dark "bomb-proofs seem heay
with the groans and signs OF the suffering one
1t will be day of general rejoicing should tn
il Government ever decide to rebuild the old fort
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