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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, VI (search)
e at an evening party in Paris that she made her celebrated answer, when the host expressed the hope that she had not been pained by the criticism: Why should I be pained? I have not the honor to be among the intimate friends of M. de Voltaire. Even at this day the French journalists are quite bewildered by the Pall Mall Gazette's lists of English immortals; and ask who Tennyson is, and what plays Ruskin has written. Those who happened, like myself, to be in Paris during the Exposition of 1878 remember well the astonishment produced in the French mind by the discovery that any pictures were painted in England; and the French Millet was at that time almost as little known in London as was his almost namesake, the English Millais, in Paris. If a foreign nation represented posterity, neither of these eminent artists appeared then to have a chance of lasting fame. When we see the intellectual separation thus maintained between England and France, with only the width of the Channel
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
ing, one day in each week did he dedicate to the sweet influences of Wormsloe, where, secluded from the turmoil of busy life, he surrendered himself to the contemplation of scenes and the revivification of memories upon which time had placed its seal of consecration. In further illustration of the liberality of our deceased friend toward this Society, it should be mentioned that he bore the entire charge of the publication of the fourth volume of its collections. That volume printed in 1878, embraces a History of the Dead Towns of Georgia: villages and plantations once vital and influential within our borders, but now covered with the mantle of decay, without succession, and silent amid the voices of the present. That work I had dedicated to Mr. DeRenne. I was on the eve of placing the manuscript in the printer's hands when he proposed that I should present it to the Georgia Historical Society, and that he would defray the expense of the publication. The suggestion met with t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Dr. G. W. Derenne. (search)
ing, one day in each week did he dedicate to the sweet influences of Wormsloe, where, secluded from the turmoil of busy life, he surrendered himself to the contemplation of scenes and the revivification of memories upon which time had placed its seal of consecration. In further illustration of the liberality of our deceased friend toward this Society, it should be mentioned that he bore the entire charge of the publication of the fourth volume of its collections. That volume printed in 1878, embraces a History of the Dead Towns of Georgia: villages and plantations once vital and influential within our borders, but now covered with the mantle of decay, without succession, and silent amid the voices of the present. That work I had dedicated to Mr. DeRenne. I was on the eve of placing the manuscript in the printer's hands when he proposed that I should present it to the Georgia Historical Society, and that he would defray the expense of the publication. The suggestion met with t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The annual meeting of the Southern Historical Society. (search)
mons & Bro., for binding,662 13 Paid Secretary on account of salary,1,000 00 Porter, expressage, postage, telegrams, stationery, clerk, and sundry office expenses,562 42 ———— $4,120 33 Balance in the Treasury to credit of the Current Fund,$48 95 Special Fund. Receipts from all sources from November 1st, 1882, to October 31st, 1883,$8,705 65 ———— Disbursements: Paid balance in full of debt due George W. Gary,$406 65 Paid Secretary on account of salary due for years 1877 and 1878 (as shown by reports for those years,)592 61 For reprinting missing numbers,496 50 Binding, insurance and freight on Texas sets,605 78 Temporary loan to Current Fund,255 19 Paid for agency work,1,740 00 ———— Total disbursements,$4,096 73 Balance to credit of this fund [deposited in the City Savings Bank, and bearing five per cent. interest,]$4,633 42 If we add to the amount of funds in hand, the value of the 300 complete sets of Papers, for which we are finding re
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Finances. (search)
mons & Bro., for binding,662 13 Paid Secretary on account of salary,1,000 00 Porter, expressage, postage, telegrams, stationery, clerk, and sundry office expenses,562 42 ———— $4,120 33 Balance in the Treasury to credit of the Current Fund,$48 95 Special Fund. Receipts from all sources from November 1st, 1882, to October 31st, 1883,$8,705 65 ———— Disbursements: Paid balance in full of debt due George W. Gary,$406 65 Paid Secretary on account of salary due for years 1877 and 1878 (as shown by reports for those years,)592 61 For reprinting missing numbers,496 50 Binding, insurance and freight on Texas sets,605 78 Temporary loan to Current Fund,255 19 Paid for agency work,1,740 00 ———— Total disbursements,$4,096 73 Balance to credit of this fund [deposited in the City Savings Bank, and bearing five per cent. interest,]$4,633 42 If we add to the amount of funds in hand, the value of the 300 complete sets of Papers, for which we are finding re
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Special Fund. (search)
Special Fund. Receipts from all sources from November 1st, 1882, to October 31st, 1883,$8,705 65 ———— Disbursements: Paid balance in full of debt due George W. Gary,$406 65 Paid Secretary on account of salary due for years 1877 and 1878 (as shown by reports for those years,)592 61 For reprinting missing numbers,496 50 Binding, insurance and freight on Texas sets,605 78 Temporary loan to Current Fund,255 19 Paid for agency work,1,740 00 ———— Total disbursements,$4,096 73 Balance to credit of this fund [deposited in the City Savings Bank, and bearing five per cent. inte
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.43 (search)
up when large gaps were made in the rank; how orderly they moved forward, driving the enemy, and how the few scattered ones that remained unhurt held their ground, hoping, but in vain, for support, until they were killed or captured by the fresh troops of the Federals that were pushed forward to restore the broken lines. No charge could have been more gallant. Looking at it now, after a lapse of years, with calm reflection, I think I may say, no commendation given by writers concerning this celebrated charge of Pickett's Division has ever exceeded the truth. Thirty years after the surrender, as far as could be ascertained, there were surviving of the 145 men of Company G, scattered from Virginia to Texas, thirty-six. Of these, Captain Richard Irby and Lieutenant Richard Ferguson, are the only surviving commissioned officers. The above items were gathered from a Historical Sketch of the company, published in 1878 by the surviving captain, with the aid of Lieutenant Ferguson.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.56 (search)
lmost as soon as the first bitterness of the war and of reconstruction began to be less poignantly felt, Clingman reappeared in Washington. During the sittings of Congress the place had fascination for him that he could not resist. He stopped at a prominent hotel as long as his purse would permit it, and then a boarding-house of the better sort was his home. For long years he was accustomed to being pointed at in public places as one of the chief figures of the days of the rebellion. In 1878 he issued a volume of speeches and lectures, along with notes and comments. The copies in the Congressional Library appear to have been well thumbed, and are evidently esteemed to be of some importance to history. He was the originator, moreover, of a wonderful theory of making tobacco a cure-all for all the ills of human flesh, and during many of the years when he was in Washington, it was a souce of much chagrin to him, that his friends seemed to grow tired of his expatiations relative t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Preston Johnston. (search)
s scholarly acquirements; and his success in drawing to the institution a class of superior youth from the West and South, and inspiring them with his own high standard of morality, learning and ambition, has been best evidenced in the honorable positions in life attained by those who came under his personal and professional influence. Colonel Johnston remained at Washington and Lee University until 1877, and while there wrote the Life of Albert Sidney Johnston, published by the Appletons in 1878. This work is an admirably written biography of the great Confederate chieftain who lost his life on the memorable battlefield of Shiloh, and whose character is one of the grandest and noblest in American annals. Colonel Johnston's life of his father ranked him as one of the best writers in the country, and his style is noted for its vigor and elegance. The judicial character of his work has been attested by many of the most distinguished generals and fairest critics on both sides, North a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
e next year, 1863, on the 24th day of February, it appears that the Congress of the United States, in session in Washington city, followed the Congress of the Confederate States and passed an act to establish and organize the Territory of Arizona, formerly a part of the Territory of New Mexico. The name, as will be observed, is the same as that of the Confederate Territory. See the United States Statutes-at-Large, volume twelve, page 664, or Revised Statutes of the United States, edition of 1878, page 335. It appears in the above cited act of February 24, 1863, that the United States made the Territory of Arizona of the western portion of New Mexico, by including all that part situated west of a line running due south from the point where the southwest corner of the Territory of Colorado joins the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico, to the southern boundary line of said Territory of New Mexico, and the same is hereby erected into a temporary government by the name of th
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