The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-10-30

cnurch, just as II stood on that fatefr
Sunday morning in April, 1865, whc
I a messenger brought Mr.. DAVIS Tn
:, ncws as he sat i'll his pew that Gran
= had broken through Lec's lines q
Petersburg and that Richmond woul
have to be evacuated. Tho scat II
which he sat, No. G3, is pointed out t.
visitors, while on the opposite side 0
\ the aisle is shown tho scat occupic,
by Gen. Lee, No. III, whenever h,
was i'll the city, and close by is th,
house in which he lived after the sur
render and tablet in the wall tell,
that fact to the passing throng. VIZ
sat down in those seats and triod tt
imagine how each Of them felt will
the great responsibilities resting upor
them, and wondered if their grcat
spirits were lowering near. Two
memorial windows have been put in
this church, one each to President
Davis and Gel. Lee, and also three
memorial tablets to Mr.. Davis chill.
dren who died during the war. Mr..
Davis window is representation OF
Christ bound before Plate. fit en-
blem Of his own condition at Fortress
Monroe.
One Of the most attractive spots in
Richmond, especially to the old SOL
dlers, is the equestrian statute of Gen.
Lee, the unyeiling of which took place
at the last Confederate reunion held
there some six years ago. II is fine
reproduction of his features and OF his
noted horse, and one never tires OF paz-
ing at it. Everything about il is mas
slvo, and this IS fitting, for he was
cast in massive mould. Those who
were at that reunion from around hero
will remember that the monument
stood out iii fiji open fold. II is all
built up now with elegant homes out
to and for some distance beyond the
monument, and real estate sells there
all the way from $50 to $500 front
foot, showing how wonderfully Rich
mond has grown, now numbering over
100000 people.
Another most famous historic point
is the old st. John Episcopal church,
where the old Colonial House of Bur
gesses of Virginia was wont TO meet
in the colonial days. We saw and
stood by the pew where Patrick Henry
delivered his famous speech that
brought forth The cry of " treason"
treason," and that electrified Amcri-
ca. This old pew is just as it was
when Henry stood in it proclaiming
" Give mo liberty or give me DEATH"
except that it faces in different
direction. This old church was built
in 1741 and the timbers of which it
was built are as sound as ever, and the
old church Is just as il was except that
few years later it was enlarged, the
pulpit moved and the pews made to
face it. The old colonial sounding
board that was suspended above the
preachers head is still there, and the
same marble baptismal font Is used.
This font was brought from England
24l years ago.
There is no more beautiful and at
tractive " silent city of the dead " any
where than Hollywood cemetery. It
is lovely and picturesque in the OK
trcmc and seems to have been design
ed by nature for the purpose, and the
hand Of man has greatly bcautilicd
and adorned it with beautifully graded
serpcntine walks and drives and llow-
crs and shrubbery everywhere. There
are between 5000 and 1000 bodies
buried in this cemetery, and some of
Vlrginia's illustrious sons lie here. In
the same 10. lie the bodies of Prcsi-
dents Monroe and Tyler, while not
far away lie the remains of the eccen-
trio John Randolph, of Roanoke. But
the spot TO which the most of the pill
grimagos arc made, as TO n holy shrine
filled with the buried hopes of a pco-
pie, is the spot where lies the first and
only president of The Confederacy,
Jefferson Davis, with the daughter Of
the Confederacy, Miss Winnie DAVIS.
Here on grassy knoll, kissed by the
sun and the dow, they sleep their last
sleep overlooking the James and the
blue Virginia hills beyond. Like
| silent sentries they stand while the
waters rush and foam over the rocks
below and tho tumultuous waters sug-
gest the tumultuous life he lived.
Not far away stands tho shaft erect
ed to the memory of Gen. j. e. b.
Stuart, who lost his life at Yellow
Travern in May, 1864, few miles
away in beating back the invader from
the capital city of his native State.
On the north side stands the mOnu-
mcnt of rough hcwn Virginia granite
to the dead Confederate soldiers, hun
dleds of whom sleep beneath its
shadow. This pile is 90 feet high and
DC feet at the base, and the ivy has
climbed all over it, fit emblem of
mourning.
We visited no spot in Richmond
with more genuine pleasure and inter.
est than the Confederate soldiers
home, out on the western outskirts OF
the city, where ITS old veterans of the
Lost Cause" are passing their las
days in peace and comfort in home
provided for them by the bounty O.
their mother State, for whom they
! sacrificed all but life and honor. 1t il
an ideal spot which nature has croatet
, with lavish hand. Here in beautl
full grove of oaks and hickories, will
, tho earth carpeted with velvety grass
/ the cottages have been erected, SOM