American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . andbeauty. The mantle of greatness was assumed by thiscity in colonial times, and has never been laid the most distinguished early Americans weremany Charlestonians, and in not a few instances the oldblood still endures there, and even the old names: suchnames as Washington, Pinckney, Bull, Pringle, Rut-ledge, Middleton, Drayton, Alston, Huger, Agassiz,Ravenel, Izard, Gadsden, Rhett, Calhoun, Read, DeSaussure, Lamar and Brawley, to mention but a few. Charlestons early history is rich in pirate stories ofthe most thrilling movin
American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . andbeauty. The mantle of greatness was assumed by thiscity in colonial times, and has never been laid the most distinguished early Americans weremany Charlestonians, and in not a few instances the oldblood still endures there, and even the old names: suchnames as Washington, Pinckney, Bull, Pringle, Rut-ledge, Middleton, Drayton, Alston, Huger, Agassiz,Ravenel, Izard, Gadsden, Rhett, Calhoun, Read, DeSaussure, Lamar and Brawley, to mention but a few. Charlestons early history is rich in pirate stories ofthe most thrilling moving-picture variety. Blackbeard,Stede Bonnet and other disciples of the Jolly Rogerpreyed upon Charleston shipping. Bonnet once held aMr. Samuel Wragg of Charleston prisoner aboard hisship threatening to send his head to the city unless theunfortunate man should be ransomed—the demand be-ing for medicines of various kinds. Colonel Rhett, ofCharleston, captured Bonnet and his ship after a savagefight, but Bonnet soon after escaped from the city in 316. In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legare Street, I was struckwith a Venetian suggestion HISTORY AND ARISTOCRACY womans clothing. Still later he was retaken, hanged,as he deserved to be, and buried along with forty of hisband at a point now covered by the Battery Garden, thatexquisite little park at the tip of the city, which is thefavorite promenade of Charlestonians. In anotherfight which occurred just oif Charleston bar, a crew ofcitizens under Governor Robert Johnson defeated thepirate Richard Worley, who was killed in the action, andcaptured his- ship, which, when the hatches were openedproved to be full of prisoners, thirty-six of them as late as the period of the War of 1812—a warwhich did not affect Charleston save in the way of de-stroying her shipping and causing poverty and distress—a case of brutal piracy is recorded. The daughter ofAaron Burr, Theodosia by name, was married to Gover-nor Jos
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