The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-11-09

about twenty miles from Abbeville,
hearing of the presence of Federal
troops in the neighborhood, and on
account of the general fatigue, the
party divided. Here, says President
Davis, Secretaries Benjamin, Breck-
inridge and Mallory left him, and he
saw them no more. Secretary Reagan
alone Of the Cabinet accompanied Mr..
Davis to Washington, and Mr.. Rea-
gan was with him several days after
ward, when he was captured few
miles south of Macon, just without
the limits Of the district under de-
scription. Mr.. Davis was carried to
Augusta, where Vice President Steph-
ems was being held in waiting. This
was the last Of the Confederate Gov
ernment. Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Steph-
ems were put aboard a steamer to-
gether, and conveyed, one to Boston
harbor, and the othe. to Fortress
Monroe. Thus died the Confederacy
at the home-in the very house-of
its birth.
AS the district furnished the Sisms'
before the war, it is worth noting that
it still continued to coin them. MIR.
Watson started the first branch Of the
Populist party in the South in his
district in 1890, though the Populist
party Of the country really had its
birth six years before in South Caro-
lima, when Senator Tillman started
his agrarian movement, the success OF
which inspired the general agrarian
movement, Of the country, and
caused the naming Of Popu-
list party in Kansas. When
the Populist party by name reached
South Carolina, however, Mr.. Tillman
skillfully kept his people within the
Democratic party; so we'll so, that
South Carolina was the only State in
the Union that did not have dele
gate at the St. Louis Populist Con-
vention in 1896. The dispensary sys-
tenn Of State liquor control, now en-
forced in South Carolina, and destined
to play larger part, was in the NUM-
cipality oil Athens, and appropriated
by Senator Tillman. Woman suffrage
has more adherents in South Carolina
than in any State in the South, and
it's chief advocates are in this little
district. The district has always
dominated politics in South Carolina
and likewise in Georgia until recent
times. w. 81. Fleming, who is now
representing Watson's and Stephens's
district in Congress as Democrat,
was Speaker Of the Georgia House,
and leader there for long time, and
aspires to leadership in Washington.
Among men Of letters, though the
South has been properly productive in
this respect, it is doubtful whether
any other locality Of the South has
had continuously quite so many con-
tributors to the higher literature of
the country as this. Paul Hamilton
Hayne, who competed in the popular
mind with Sidney Lanier (himself
born just outside the district, at Ma
con, Ga.) for the palm as the greatest
poet yet produced by the South, lived
within fften miles Of Augusta, out
among the sands and pines. Richard
Henry Wilde, the author Of that i'm
mortal little classic, f'My Life is Like
the Summer Rose, was born and lies
buried in Agusta. James R. Randall,
the author of the South's great war
poem, 'My Maryland" aud probably
her greatest war poet (unless Father
Abram Ryan be that one) lives and
works in Augusta, and has done SO
since the civil war. Father RyaL
lived for quarter Of century, dur
ing his prime. in Augusta. The ear
lest piece of Georgia fiction, as we'll
as one Of the earliest Of the South.
Georgia Scenes still standard,
was written by Judge Longstreet,
born in Augusta. Richard Malcolm
Johnston, the novelist, recently de-
ceased, was born and lived the greater
part of his life in this district, where
the scenes of all his "Dukesborough
Tales" are laid. Harry Stillwell Ed
wards lives in the district, at Sparta,