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remains of the decoration of an ancient Mexican 

 temple. 



Around the walls, in addition to the pieces of 

 general statuary, all belonging to the recent past and 

 present centuries, are twenty well made busts from 

 Paris representing some of the distinguished charac- 

 ters of Roman and French history, and near them are 

 casts of five South Carolina worthies who figure in 

 American history — Calhoun ? McDuffie, the two gen- 

 erals Pinckney, and Col. Francis K. Huger, who 

 attempted the rescue of Lafayette, when imprisoned 

 in the Austrian fortress of Olmutz. 



