Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-14

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are buried some of Charleston's most |
prominent citizens. Among others
the remains of Gen. Pickens, who de-
clared when the British were laying
siege to Charleston, "Millions for
defense but not one cent for tribute"
st. Philips, also French Protestant,
was organized before St. Michaels,
but worship in building erected since
1886 when their old church was de-
molished by the great earthquake.
The ''Old Post Office" now used for
deposit of records, was made prison
by the British after they captured the
city, and several of Charleston's
prominent men we're imprisoned in it.
The United States custom house, the
finestin the South-commenced before
the war, finished in 1876--is said to
have cost nearly three million dollars.
The famous old market was erected in
1875. The upper part is used by the
society known as Daughters of the
Confederacy, for museum. The
building in which the ordinance of
secession was signed in 1861, that
carried South Carolina out of the
Union, is still standing. A legend is
told that planter from the interior
of the state came to Charleston during
the session and having business with
the insane asylum and unacquainted
with it's location, was directed by
wag to Secession Hall as "the crazy
house." On Washington Square
stands statue of William Pitt, mem
Der of the British parliament, who was
a friend of the colonies and promoted
a repeal of the Infamous Stamp Act
in 1866. The right arm of the statue
was destroyed by the fire of the Eng
lish guns located on James Island
during the siege of Charleston in 1880,
and was taken away by them when
they evacuated the city.
On Marion Square is loca ted South
Carolina military academy, the West
Point of the South, on which stands
colossal statue of John @. Calhoun,
'the Great Nullifier" of whom "Old
Hickory" expressed regret that he
hadn't caused his execution while he
was president. Here also is rem
nant of "Tabby Wall' which formerly
| was the north boundary of Charleston,
extending from river to river, dis
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thirty inches in thickness and five or
six feet high. 1t is built of shell and
cement and was used as defense in
early times against attacks fro M
Indians, and later was made effective
as such during the siege Of the city by
the British in 17SO-S1.
The principal thoroughfares in the
city are King and Meeting Streets, the
former is the shopping district and on
the latter are the principal hotels,
"The Charleston" one of the most
famous of the cold South's taverns ;"
the st. John and Argyle, both recent
| ly erected. 1t is claimed that Charles
ton is the only city in the country
whose daily papers do not devote any
space to Society" Although her
people are much given to gayety they
are known to be very exclusive, and
to be eligible to membership in ''the
Battery Set" "the Four Hundred"
one must reside in a mansion a CEN
fury Or more old and it's silver and
furnishings must be either of English
Or French manufacture, also have a
clear title as descendant of some of
Charleston's ''first families and no
swain need sue for the hand of any of
her fair damsels who cannot prove a
like lineage, as his advances will not
meet with favor in maternal eyes.
They live much on tradition, dwell in
the past; blood counts with her peo-
pie.
Steamers make frequent trips to
Fort Sumter every day and are always
we'll patronized for it is delightful
sail through the harbor to "The storm
Graded Nation that FELL" A portion
or the OLD wall remains and the gran
to classmates damp and dreary within
which that devoted little band of the
nations defenders on that April day
in 1861 braved the storm of one of the
most continuous battery fires of the
war, and made terms of surrender
that sold Glory" should remain un-
furled. Now corporals guard of
regulars detailed from the command
Sullivan's Island garrison it. Mounted
on its ramparts are two twelve-inch
guns of modern manufacture, one q
disappearing gun, command the
!. channel, but peace reigns; ships go il
and out and "the stormy past is but 6
dream" "The Isle of Palms," ia
nous sea side resort, is reached b.