SOUTH CAROLINA. 



occurred suddenly from a severe attack of 

 hemorrhage. 



SMITH, THOMAS MATHER, D.D., president and 

 professor in Kenyon College, born in 1797, died 

 in Portland, Maine, Sept. (5, 1864. He was a 

 son of the Rev. Daniel Smith, for half a century 

 pastor of the Congregational Church in Stam- 

 ford, Conn., and graduated at Yale College in 

 1816, and at Andover Seminary in 1820. In 

 1822 ho was ordained to the Congregational 

 ministry in Portland, and the same year was 

 married to the eldest daughter of the Rev. 

 Leonard Woods, I). D., Abbott Professor of 

 Christian Theology at Andover. A failure of 

 health, after a fe\v years, required his removal 

 from Portland. Subsequently he was called 

 successively to the charge of parishes in Fall 

 River, Catskill, N. Y., and New Bedford. Dis- 

 satisfied with the Congregational system, he ap- 

 plied for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church. 

 He was ordained at New Bedford by the Right 

 Rev. Benj. Bosworth Smith, D. D., Bishop of 

 Kentucky, the Bishop of Massachusetts being 

 prevented from officiating by a sudden illness. 

 After receiving Priests' Orders from the hands 

 of Bishop Eastburn, he entered upon his duties 

 as Milnor Professor of Systematic Divinity at 

 Gambler, to which post he had been appointed 

 and for which he was peculiarly fitted. In this 

 important department of duty ho continued for 

 eighteen years, during four of which he was 

 also President of Kenyon College. In both 

 capacities he displayed distinguished merit, add- 

 ing to mature and finished scholarship unusual 

 prudence, thorough application, and marked 

 executive ability. On his resignation of the 

 Milnor Professorship in December, 1863, the 

 Trustees of the Theological Seminary unani- 

 mously appointed him Emeritus Professor, a 

 tribute of respect most fitting and appropriate. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. The movements of 

 the war left the State of South Carolina com- 

 paratively undisturbed during 1864. The Fed- 

 eral fleet occupied the entrance to the harbor 

 of Charleston. Morris Island was also held, 

 and an artillery fire was directed at intervals 

 against Fort Sumtcr and the city of Charleston. 

 Hilton Head was also occupied by troops, and 

 Port Royal preserved as the base of Federal 

 military operations on the coast of the State. 

 Some skirmishes took place between the hostile 

 troops, and some expeditions were made by 

 bodies of the Federal troops, but the results, 

 excepting so far as related under the title of 

 AKMY OPERATIONS, were unimportant. The 

 lower part of the city of Charleston suffered 

 much injury from the shells thrown into it by 

 the distant Federal guns. Some of the effects 

 of the shells are thus described by a visitor : 



We visited the old office of the "Mercury," in 

 Broad street. A message sent by the "Marsh An- 

 gel" had preceded us, entering the roof, passing into 

 the chimney, and exploding within, dumping several 

 card loads of brick bats, mortar, and soot into the 

 editorial room, smashing all the windows, and splin- 

 tering the doors. 



The " Courier," in Bay street, had not escaped 



damage. A shell went through the roof, tearing 

 down through the floors, ripping up the boards, 

 breaking the timbers, jarring the plaster from the 

 walls, exploding in the second story, rattling all tne 

 tiles from the roof, bursting out the windows, smash- 

 ing the composing stone, opening the whole building ' 

 to the sun-light. Another shell had clashed the side- 

 walk to pieces and blown a passage into the cellar 

 wide enough to admit a six horse wagon. Near the 

 " Courier office was the Union Bank, Farmers and 

 Exchange Bank, and Charleston Bank. They were 

 costly buildings, fitted up with marble mantels, 

 floors of terra cotta tiles, counters elaborate in carved 

 work, and with gorgeous frescoing on the walls. 

 The rooms are silent now. The oaken doors splin- 

 tered, the frescoing washed from the walls by the 

 rains which drip from the shattered roof, the desks 

 are kindling wood, the cornice-work has dropped 

 from the ceiling to the ground, the tiles are ploughed 

 up, the marble mantels shivered, the beautiful plate- 

 glass of flie windows lies in a million fragments upon 

 the floor. In short the banks have broke ! They 

 helped on the rebellion contributed of their funds 

 to inaugurate it, and invested largely in the State 

 stock to place the State on a war footing. By a 

 document which has fallen into my hands and which 

 lies before me, I notice that the three banks already 

 named held on January 6, 1862, six hundred and ten 

 thousand dollars' worth of the seven per cent. State 

 stock, issued under the act of December, 1861. 



Passing from the banks to the hotel I found a like 

 scene of destruction. The door of the Mills house 

 was open. The windows had lost their glazing and 

 were boarded up. Sixteen shots have strucK the 

 building. The Charleston Hotel has several great 

 holes in the walls. 



The churches have not escaped. St. Michael's, the 

 oldest of all, has been repcately struck. The pave- 

 ment is thick with broken glass which has been 

 rattled from the windows by the explosions of the 

 shells. All the churches in the lower portions of the 

 city are wrecks. 



In that corner of the State occupied by Fed- 

 eral troops, of which Beaufort is the principal 

 place, apart from the military and naval head- 

 quarters, a mass State Convention was held on 

 Tuesday, April 17. The call for the Conven- 

 tion invited the people of the State " without 

 distinction of color " to participate in the elec- 

 tion of delegates to the Baltimore Presidential 

 Convention. About one hundred and fifty col- 

 ored persons, and two-thirds as many Avhites, 

 assembled and selected twelve whites and four 

 Africans as delegates. A series of resolutions 

 was also adopted. These delegates, however, 

 although admitted to seats, were not allowed 

 to take an active part in the proceedings of the 

 Convention. 



The secession State Government held the 

 control of almost all the State, and con- 

 tinued in undisturbed operation through the 

 year. The Legislature, when in session, adopt- 

 ed resolutions expressive of its unshaken pur- 

 pose to secure independence and separation 

 from the Northern States, and declaring the 

 importance of restraining the Richmond Gov- 

 ernment strictly within the exercise of powers 

 delegated to it in its Constitution. On the sub- 

 ject of peace the views expressed by Gov. Bon- 

 ham, in his message to the Legislature, pre- 

 vailed, as follows : 



Those in whom the treaty-making power of the 

 Confederate Government resides have done all they 



