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REMINISCENCES OF
CEN, JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.
By His Friend and Compatriot, Gen. Dab
ney H. Maury.
Hie First Baptism of Blood In tlie Indian War—Wounded Florin Times
in Bal.tle —The Campaign In Mexico—Santa Anna's Beautiful Daugh
tc.v—Johnston's Bank In. the Federal and Confederate Armies—A
Letter With Regard to Ills Removal to Make Room For
f ' Hood—Valuable Additions to History.
'Jen. Bradley T. Johnson's Life of Gen.
Joe Johnston Is a most Interesting and
valuable book. It has that decisive qual
ity of a good book which makes you re
gret when you have reached the conclu
sion that there Is not more of it.
But enough is told to convince the read
er that Joseph E. Johnston was the ablest
general who lived in his generation, as
he was the most unjustly treated. It can
be said of him that in all of his long and
active life he was pre-eminent above all
other commanders, and all other men en
gaged with him in military operations,
email or great.
Jospeh Eggleston Johnston came of a
race which for generations has given jur
ists, statesmen and soldiers to their coun
ttry—no stain has ever tarnished their
i jbrave and honest shield. Our great gen-
I .eral was the bravest, ablest and truest
<of them all.
For many years this battle-scarred
body was in the front of his country’s
wars. He had fought more battles, had
deceived more wounds, and won more
victories than any general of his time and
lias left lessons of strategy and patriot
ism which will be always studied and em
ulated.
Soon after graduating at West Point
Lieut. Johnston was engaged in the Sem
inole war, and was specially distinguish
ed. When a party under command of an
officer of the navy were beset and over
whelmed by the Indians he came to the
rescue, interposed his command, drove
the Indians back and received his first
baptism of blood. While only five bullets
made holes in his body, thirty left holes
In his coat.
In the war with Mexico, a few days
previous to the battle of Cerro Gordo,
Lieut. Col. Johnston was again wound
ed, very seriously, while making a daring
reeonnoissance of the Mexican defenses.
A few days afterward the battle of Cerro
Gordo was fought, and this writer received
a severe w’ound, which caused him to be
borne to the same Mexican hut where Col.
Johnston was lying, and where, through
the thin, reed partitions the wounded offi
cers, Johnston, Stevens, Mason and Lieut.
Derby (John Phoenix) could chat as cheer
fully as their condition permitted—all save
Johnston, whose grievous wounds and im
patience at his absence from the field
made him silent and irritable.
One day he found considerable relief by
fcn explosion occasioned by Derby, whose
coarse jests had been a source of daily
increasing annoyance to Johnston, until
he found opportunity to explode when he
heard Derby order his servant to rob a
passing flock of a kid and prepare It for
his dinner: “If you dare to do this, sir.
I’ll have you court-martialled and shot,"
thundered “Old Joe.” As the penalty
might have been grave, John Phoenix
was silenced—for a time.
Old Gen. Scott was a very humane
man, always considerate of his soldiers,
end so soon as his army was quartered in
Jalapa he made arrangements for the safe
and comfortable transfer of his sick and
wounded to that beautiful and salubrious
city. A strong escort with litters and
ambulances were sent down for us, and
we were tenderly cared for upon our two
days’ march to the city.
My old friend, Kirby Smith, who had
been greatly distinguished in several bat
tles, was In command of the escort guard
ing my litter, and was devoted in his care
of me. During all of the second day’s
march we were in sight of the beautiful
city of Jalapa, nestled amidst the rich
foliage of the mountains, 6,000 feet or
more above the sultry seacoast we had left
at Vera Cruz.
Here Col. Johnston rapidly recovered
from his wounds. His devoted attendant
was young Preston Johnston, his nephew
and loving friend, and as soon as I could
walk about Lieut. Coppee daily gave me
his help to walk around to see how our
great colonel was faring. I remember well
that walk. It took us through the main
plaza, and by a street to the colonel's
house, and on the way we daily found a
beautiful maiden, awaiting our coming
past her window. In which she stood—a
most beautiful Mexican lady of 18 sum
mers, expectant and gentle and lovely—
ehe had a salutation ready for me. I am
sure it was for me, because Copee was an
ugly fellow and had no wounds, while I
was quite the reverse—at that time; for
that was over fifty years ago—and she
never stands In that window any more.
She was the favorite daughter of Gen.
Bonta Anna, whom any gentleman in the
country would have been glad to marry,
If he could, although her parents’ mar
riage was 'Teft-handed“—which mattered
little when the offspring was so beautiful,
and the dowry so generous as hers.
I waa sent out of the country soon after
this, and Col. Johnston and his bright,
young nephew were both shot in the valley
at Chapultepec.
The joyous young nephew was killed
while bravely serving hls guns. Not long
before our general's death he told me that
be heard of hls boy’s death from Lee, who
showed great emotion, and wept as he
gave him the story.
At Chapultepec, Col. Johnston command
ed his regiment, and was conspicuous for
bis daring. He mounted the parapet from
the shoulders of one of his men and so
was the first who was seen and shot by
the enemy. This was hls ninth wound re
ceived In battle, and closed his active ser
vice until the great war between the states
took place.
Two 6r three years before that war broke
cut two regiments of cavalry were added
to the regular army of tho United States.
Col. Johnston was appointed lieutenant
colonel of the First Cavalry, and Lee lieu
tenant-colonel of the Second Cavalry.
Col. Sydney Johnston waa appointed eol
cnel of the Flrat Cavalry. Not long after
wards Lieut. Col. J. E. Johnston was ap
pointed brigadier general United States
army and quartermaster general of the
army, which rank he at once accepted,
and resigned his lieutenant colonelcy of
cavalry, to which the Benlor major of
cavalry, George Thomas, or Earle Van
Lorn, was promoted. Col. Cooper was ad
jutant general Unttgrl States army. Thus
when war between the states was declar
ed these officers stood thus In relative
rank:
Brigadier General— J. E. Johnston.
Colonel— Samuel Cooper. v,
Colonel— A. S. Johnston.
Lb-Utenant Colonel—(R. E. Lee.
Major—G. T. Beauregard.
The congress of the confederate states
n.ad* a law by which officers of the 4 Uni.
b I States army who should resign their
cmmissions In that army to take service
the army of the confederacy should
rink relatively according to their rank in
*h United States army, which law was
*' I known to these officers.
'vtn. Bradley Johnson disposes com
pletely of the law of the confederacy,
which fixed the relative rank of the five
generals who had been serving in the
army of the United States.
Under the act of the confederate con
gress of Marca 14 five brigadiers were ap
pointed with relative rank, as follows, viz:
1. Joseph E. Johnston, brigadier United
States army.
2. Samuel Cooper, colonel United States
army.
3. Sydney Johnston, colonel United
States army.
4. H. E. Lee, lieutenant-colonel United
States army.
5. G. T. Beauregard, captain United
States army.
On May 16 congress passed another act
declaring that those five brigadiers should
have the rank and denomination of gen
erals, but when the President issued to
them commissions he changed their law
ful rank thus:
First. Cooper to rank as general May 16;
second, A. S. Johnston from May 28; third,
Lee from June 14; fourth, J. E. Johnston.
July 5; fifth, Beauregard, July 21.
•Gen. Joe Johnston filed his
remonstrance against a ruling so
unjust, and then went on ’ do
ing his duty as only he was able to
do it. to the very end.
On July 21 was fought the first battle of
Manassas, of which “Joe Johnston was
the superintendent providence. He issued
the orders and moved the troops and di
rected the blows which produced the great
result.”
Early in May, 1862 (see page 82, Bradley
Johnson), Johnston had upon the Penin
sula an army of 50,000 men. McClellan,with
110,000 men, was slowly advancing by reg
ular approaches to attack Johnston, Mc-
Dowell lying at Fredericksburg with 40,000
men. It was necessary for Johnston to
withdraw from the Peninsula and take
position near Richmond, from which he
could meet the attack of either wing.
In the execution of this movement he
was attacked May 5, 1862, by McClellan,
who was repulsed with great vigor by
Johnston.
Johnston captured many prisoners, ten
colors, and twelve field pieces. McClel
lan made no further attack.
Johnston held the field, slept upon it,
and next day pursued his march towards
Richmond. McClellan made no further at
tempt to molest the confederate army,
which marched quietly on to Richmond
and took position near Seven Pines, six
miles from the city.
This battle of Williamsburg has been
claimed by some writers as “a great
union victory!” It was one of those bril
liant strokes of battle which Johnston
knew haw and when to deliver, and an
effectual defeat of the great federal
army.
Johnston urged upon the President the
Importance of at once assembling all of
the dispersed troops of the confederacy
into one great army, and with that fall
ing upon McClellan, whom he had thus
drawn from his base, and crushing him.
Neither the President nor Gen. Lee ap
proved of this, and so the opportunity
was lost of destroying then and there the
greatest and best organized army that
ever invaded Virginia.
McClellan moved up and occupied the
opposite side of the Chickahominy. John
ston was reinforced by brigades from
Norfolk and North Carolina, and by the
latter part of May his whole force was
74,000 effectives.
On the 22d of May McClellan did what
Johnston hoped he would do, “straddled”
the Chickahominy with his army, throw
ing the two corps of Heintzleman and
Keys over to the west, the side upon
which Johnston lay with his army, hoping
for the opportunity thus given him by
his great adversary. The separated corps
advanced very slowly towards Johnston,
and entrenched as they came. Johnston
knew the treacherous character of the
Chickahominy, and hoped from the wea
ther indications that the stream would
soon be ir> flood, so that he migh’ destroy
the two advanced corps before McClellan
could get to their help.
On May 28 Johnston prepared to attack
the separated corps. The elements, as he
foresaw, help him, a heavy rain swelling
the Chickahominy so that all co-operation
between McClellan and his separated
corps was impossible, when Longstreet,
that Incomparable corps commander, fell
upon Heintzleman and Keys. “His on
slaught drove back the first line, the sec
ond line, the third line and the fourth
and last federal line."
“They were routed, rolled up, disorgan
ized. At nightfall came Sumner, over the
flood and swinging bridge, to the assist
ance of his comrades, but he was too late;
the battle was Irretrievably lost before
he got up.”
About 7 o'clock p. m., May 30, about sun
down, Gen. Joe Johnston records that he
received "a slight wound in the right
shoulder." The “allfEht wound'' had smash
ed through his shoulder-blade, and would
serve any other soldier to talk about all
the rest of his hfp, but he says, "and a
few minutes after was unhorsed” by a
heavy fragment of shell, which struck
him in the breast. This fragment broke
three of his ribs and placed him hors de
combat for many months. These made
eleven wounds the great soldier had re
ceived In battle!
No commander was ever personally so
daring as Joe Johnston. It was hla only
weakness, but a most amiable weakness,
which one commander we can name did
not exhibit in the presence of armed ad
versaries, but was very brave to women.
In May, 1863, Johnston was ordered to
Jackson, Miss., to command Pemberton’s
and Bragg's forces. He urged that
Holmes be brought over from Arkansas
where he had 55.000 men lying Inactive,
and which, added to the forces In Missis
sippi, could have overwhelmed Grant, who
had crossed that river after opening It to
hla fleets and troops, and thus left Vicks
burg of no further usa to the confederate
cause.
Could Pemberton’s, Holmes', and John
ston's forces have been united, they would
undoubtedly have beaten Grant, but this
was not to be. The confederate govern
ment disregarded Johnston's advice, Pern
berton disobeyed Johnston's orders, kept
his army In Vicksburg, which had ceased
to be of value to the confederacy, surren
dered It to Grant upon the 4th of July, and
sealed the fate of (he southern cause.
Boon after this calamity Johnston as
sumed command of the army of Tennes
see. whlcn, under Bragg, had been routed
at Missionary Iltdge.
After many battles, In which ha almost
dally defeated the enemy * attempts to
turn hla flank, he was removed from com
mand. The following letter from Gen. Joe
Johnstan glvea Ms own, clear statement
of the campaign which produced hla re
moval:
Macon, On.. Sept. 1, 1864.
My Dear Maury—l have been Intending
ever alnca my arrival here to pay a part
of the epistolary debt I owe you, but you
known how lasy It makes one to have noth
ing to do, and to with tbo hot weather jvo
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1807.
have been enduring here, I have absolutely
devoted myself to idleness,
I have been disposed to write more par
ticularly about what concerns myself, to
explain to you, so far as practicable, the.
operations for which I was laid upon the
shelf. You are one of the last whose un
favorable opinion I would be willing to
incur.
You know that the army I commanded
was that which, under Gen. Bragg, was
routed at Missionary Ridge; Sherman's
army was that which routed it. reinforced
by the Sixteenth and Tiwenty-third corps.
I am censured for not taking the offensive
at Dalton, where the enemy, if bcaien, had
a sure refuge behind the fortified gap at
Ringgold, or in the fortress of Chattanoo
ga, and when the odds against us were al
most ten to four. At Reseca he received
five brigades, near Kingston three and
about 3,500 cavalry, at New Hope church
one—in all about 14,000 infantry and artil
lery. The enemy received the Seventeenth
corps and a number of garrisan and bridge
guards from Tennessee and Kentucky that
had been relieved by numerous “hundred
day men.”
lam blamed for not fighting. Opera
tions commenced about the 6lh of May; I
was relieved on the 18th of July. In that
time we fought dally, always under cir
cumstances so favorable to us as to make
it certain that the sum of the enemy's loss
was five times ours, which was 10,000 men.
Northern papers represent Sherman's up
to about the end of June at 45,000 men.
Sherman's progress was at the rate of
a mile and a quarter a day.
Had this style of fighting been allowed
to continue, is it not clear that we would
soon have been able to give battle with
abundant chances of victory, and that the
enemy, defeated on this side of the Chat
tahoochee, would have been destroyed?
It is certain that Sherman’s army was
stronger, “compared with that of Ten
nessee,” than Grant's, compared with
that of Northern Virginia.
Gen. Bragg asserts that Sherman’s was
absolutely stronger than Grant’s.
It is well known that the army of Vir
ginia was much superior to that of Ten
nessee.
Why, then, should I be condemned for
the defensive, while Gen. Lee was adding
to his great fame by the same course?
Gen. Bragg seems to have earned at
Missionary Ridge his present high posi
tion.
People report at Columbus and Mont
gomery that Gen. Bragg said that my
losses had been frightful; that I had dis
regarded the wishes and instructions of
the President; that he had implored me
to change my course, by which I suppoee
he means assume the offensive.
As these things are utterly untrue, it is
not to be supposed that they were said by
Gen. Bragg.
The President gave me no instructions,
and expressed no wishes, except just be
fore we reached the Chattahoochee, warn
ing me not to tight with the river behind
us, and against crossing it, and previous
ly he urged mo not to allow Sherman to
detach to Grant's aid.
Gen. Bragg passed some two hours with
me just before I was relieved, and gave
me tho impression that his visit to the
army was casual, he being on his way
further west, to endeavor to get us rein
forcements from Kirby Smith and Lee. I
though? him satisfied-with the state of
things, but not so with that in Virginia.
He assured me that he had always
maintained in Richmond that Sherman's
army was stronger than Grant's.
He said nothing of the Intention to re
lieve me, but talked with Gen. Hood on
the subject, as I learned after my re
moval.
It is clear that his expedition had no
other object than my removal and the
giving proper direction to public opinion
upon the subject.
He could have had no other object In go
ing to Montgomery.
A man of honor in his place would have
communicated with me as well as with
Hood upon the subject.
Being expected to assume the offensive.
Hood attacked on the 20th, 22d, and 28th
of July disastrously, losing more men than
I had in 72 (seventy-two) days; since then
his defensive has been at least as quiet
as mine has.
But you must be tired of this. We are
living very quietly and pleasantly here.
The Georgians have been very hospita
ble.
We stopped here merely because it was
the first stopping place.
Remember us cordially to Mrs. Maury.
Tell her the gloves arrived most oppor
tunely. Mine had Just been lost, and it
would have been Impossible to buy more,
and they are lovely.
Just before I left the army we thought
tho odds against us had been reduced al
most six to four.
I have not supposed, therefore, that
Sherman could either invest Atlanta or
carry it by assault. Very truly yours,
J. E. Johnston.
Maj. Gen. Maury.
Was ever a nobler remonstrance made
than this; so full of dignity, proud pa
thos, sense of outrage, and manly en
durance?
He knew he had made a defense which
students of the science of war will study
for all time. There has been nothing like
it in modern war; and never in all of the
histories we know of has such a master
of the science, such a brave champion of
the right of his people, been so insulted
as was Joseph E. Johnston when the con
federate government, yielding to popular,
ignorant clamor, and removed this great
commander, this true patriot, to make
way for a vain and incompetent succes
sor.
Well might the brilliant and daring Wig
fail Impugn the discretion of our gallant
I'resldent, when he declared “his friend
ships are no less fatal to their objects
than his animosities."
Said he: “No man of his years had
so fine a prospect before him as Hood,
until Mr. Ilavls undertook to make what
the good Lord had not made of him—a
great general. He has removed Johnston
and placed Hood In his stead. He has
ruined the young man; but worse than
that, he has destroyed the last hope of
the southern confederacy," and so It was.
Johnston remained chafing over hts ex
clusion from further active service until
an accession of Intelligence Inspired the
confederate government to remove Gen.
Bragg and placo the great Lee In ohlef
command of the confederate force*. He
was capable of estimating the capacity
of his great compeer, and the suicidal pol
icy of the government which had degraded
him, and his first official act was to re
store him to command. It was then too
late to rerieve the misfortunes of their
country, but Johnston made one
more great effort, which though
too late to avert the final dlMater, lent
a gleam of brightness to ttM lent hours
of the confederacy, and vtadßcated the
great Opacity and high cl wfactor of the
victim lif his government’* cruelty.
It tg l>w well known flat Grant and
not fIU knan was the giant commander
Who Ml ably opposed Johnston In the
campalfi from lMlton til Atlanta.
lilshgp Lay t”ld this writer that dur
ing than campaign ho had occasion to
visit an Mtd relative If North Georgia,
who who m great dlstrs |> Gen. Johnston
passed ll l'i through hi ' lines, and gave
him a ngf* to Bherman asking him to al
low the t Shop to coni pie hts errand of
mercy.
This aeg impllshed, I german required
the good r tan to retur i by way of City
Point, who i Gen. Grant would pass him
back to ouf lines, go soon as Grant heord
of his presence he Invited him to an Inter
view, and ttlked freely with him about
the operatioi s of the armies. He explain
ed how, by iff ’ans of the telegraph, he had
been able to i Urect Sherman's operations
agalnet Johnf ton. He said: “After the
fighting cearti, each day Gen. Bherman
and I repair tt> our telegraph offices snd
discus* the emus of the day and lb*
movements to be made on the morrow.
This we can do as easily as If we were
both actually present with the army;
neither of us at any time Is actually with
the troops engaged, but In our telegraph
offices, where by our maps we can discuss
and direct movements as clearly as If
with the troops.”
And he said: “Bishop, I assure you that
when I knew your government had re
moved Gen. Johnston from command of
that army. I felt as much relieved as If 1
had been able to reinforce Sherman with
a large army corps."
Gen. Horace Porter, in his clear and in
teresting memoirs of Grant, said that he
commanded Sherman's army in ail of
those operations.
Wo cannot doubt it, for Grunt would
never have said so If It were not true,
and as they were the only movements in
the presence of an enemy that Bherman
had ever been Intrusted with that did not
result unfortunately for hls government,
we are convinced that some other mind
and heart controlled them.
Gen. Lee said of Sherman's march to
the sea: “I do not know why Shennnn
should receive so much credit for his
march through Georgia, for the only ques
tion before him was whether he could
feed hts army by taking everything tho
people had to eat."
Grant was a great soldier and a truly
brave and kindly man.
So soon as Johnston was restored to
command, he at once inspired hope in our
people, gathered together a few thousands
of the shattered army of Tennessee, which
he had turned over to his successor in
such splendid condition, called to him the
Home Guards of North Carolina and of
South Carolina, and with a force of 20,000
men fell upon one of Sherman's separated
corps at Bentonville, put it to rout, and
moved on to strike another, which was
in his way as he marched to Join Lee.
Soon after the battle of Bentonville,
Johnston heard of Lee's surrender, and
knew that all was over.
He met Sherman In conference, and ar
ranged with him the terms of surrender.
These were disapproved, but active hos
tilities were at an end.
Lincoln being murdered by a fanatic,
who was in no respect a southern man,
President Andrew Johson Issued his "am
nesty proclamation,” which contained
thirteen clauses of criminal conditions,
for which pardon must be specifically ask
ed, and explanation made.
About this time I received a letter from
Admiral Buchanan, saying he could not
bring himself to express regret for any
thing he had done, and, therefore, could
not ask pardon. When I told this to Gen.
Johnston he said:
i have asked for the pardon offered by
President Johnson, and did not express
any regret. Yes, I did, too. My applica
tion was in about these words:
"Your Excellency—l graduated at West
Point. I was an officer of the United
States army, and resigned to serve my
native state, Virginia, In the war juet
ended.
"I have the honor to request that Ihe
provisions of your excellency's amnesty
proclamation may be extended to embrace
me.
“And I regret that I can give your .ex
cellency no reason why they should.”
As my application had been of some
what the same nature, I was comforted.
I had pleaded guilty to the West Point
clause, and the army officer clause, when
I felt I might be suspected of guiltiness
under the $20,000 clause, and added, “1
have no money nor any other property,
save the ragged confederate raiment in
which I stand."
When 1 heard some of the voluble apolo
gies made by my confederate associates,
I was greatly consoled.
General Johnston went at once to work
at what his hands could find tp ' <W,
found good and lucrative employment. TTe
was elected to congress from the Rich
mond district.
Afterwards he was railroad commission
er. resigned thgt office, and retired from
public business to live in dignity and ease.
At the ripe old age of 85, with mind
and heart untouched by infirmity, he took
the last sacrament of his church, folded
his robes about him, and laid him down to
die.
In his death, as in his life, ho gave the
world assurance of a man. ,
J>abney 11,
GREELEY’S GEORGIA VISITOR.
A Sharp Conversation Between La
mar and tlie Great Editor.
Wallace Putnam Reed in the Ghlcago
Tlmes-Herald.
Among the southerners in Gotham in the
fall of 1865 was Col. Albert Lamar, a
brilliant Georgian, whose editorial work
on the Macon Telegraph some years ago
brought him Into the front rank of the
Journalists of that region.
Lamar'was a representative of the old
south. He belonged to a distinguished
family and was proud of hto ancestry and
hls connection.
One day the colonel found himself In
front of the Tribune office.
He smiled as he recalled some humorous
description of Editor Greeley, and he sud
denly felt a desire to see the man who
had been so bitterly hated and denounced
by his fellow countrymen south of the
Potomac. Why not call on him?
Lamar debated this question in hls mind
for some lime. He was a scholar and a
gentleman, with the blue blood of the
Huguenots rioting in his veins, while the
editor of the Tribune belonged to the
“mud-sill" class. Could be afford to call
on such a man?
The Georgian waa not long in making
up hls mind. He was In New York to sea
the sights—to study the freaks and oddi
ties of a strange people, who, by some
Inexplicable decree of providence, had con
quered their superiors in the luckless land
of Dixie.
Bo he entered the Tribune building and
sent in his card to the editor. He was
speedily admitted, but his reception some,
what disconcerted him.
Evidently hla name had not Impressed
the old man who sat scratching away at
hla desk as if hls life depended upon the
completion of hls work within a given
time.
The colonel remained standing a mo
ment and then, In some embarrassment,
he sat down In the nearest chair.
The busy man at the desk continued to
spin out hls mysterious hieroglyphic*
without looking up or saying a. word.
The visitor felt that he waa In an awk
ward fix. Ho was there uninvited, with
no motlw* teayond tho gratification of hls
Idle curiosity. He was In the house of hls
enemy, and he began to think that he had
acted very am wisely In placing himself In
such a position.
"Confound the old rascal!" he said to
himself. "How am I to account for my
visit? I have no business hens, and he
ha* no time to talk with me."
He waa wondering how he could slip
out of the room, when Mr. Greeley pushed
hls copy aside and euddenly wheeled hls
chair areund so that he could face hls
caller.
"Howdy-do, Mr. Jgimar.” he said brisk
ly, with hls keen eyes fastened upon the
colonel. “But, excuse me, you are proba
bly a colonel."
“They call me by that title at home,”
replied Lamar stiffly.
"Why, certainly," was the answer; “I
might have known that. What was your
regiment 7"
”1 had no regiment,” said Lamar. “In
Georgia nearly every prominent man Is
called colonel, unless he la a minister, a
physician or a Judge.”
"Exactly,” answered the other. "Very
sensible custom. It must be a delightful
country where a man can be a full-fledged
L colonel without aver giving hls attention
to military affairs for even a single hour. |
Think I'll rim down there next winter and
become a colonel myself.”
This bantering talk was not pleasant to ,
I.Smar arul he drew himself up rather
haughtily as he prepared a crushing re
sponse.
But his crusher was never delivered.
Before ho could open his mouth Greeley
address him again.
"Ami so you are from Georgia, colonel?
1 wonder if you belong to that family of
I. a mars who have been notorious for gen
erations as pirates and slave traders? I
mean the Isi mars who camo over here
from the other side of the sea to secure
liberty for themselves and deny It to oth
ers—the laimars who tried to build up
an aristocracy with slavery for its corner
stone—the hamars who stole negroes from
Africa and landed them In this country—
the Lamars who defied our constitution
and laws—the Lamars who caused a Geor
gia grand Jury to indict me because some
copies of my paper were circulated In
that state? Do you belong to that fam
ily of slave dealers and rebels?”
It was impossible to Interrupt the speak
er while he was pouring out this torrent
of questions, and the Georgian wai so
much surprised that he temporarily lost
Ills self-possession.
Astonishment and anger struggled for
supremacy In his mind, and he was trying
to decide whether ho should answer or
tight or take a dignified departure, when
the Tribune editor broke into a genial
laugh, and a flood of sunshine seamed to
leap from his eyes.
"Ha, ha!" he laughed. “Took you by
surprise, didn't I? Well, I guess that you
Lamars are among the bralnest and brav
est of the whole lot. How ure you getting
on down In Georgia?”
Forgetting his wrath of a moment be
fore, Lamar replied that the people of the
entire south were In hard luck and many
of them wero suffering.
“Stop playing poker and drinking so
much champagne!” snapped Greeley
sharply. “You fellows must give up your
vices and your extravagant ways and set
tle down to hard work and hard economy.”
By this time the visitor had found his
tongue. He was Just angry enough to
talk eloquently and with the proper spirit.
For nearly on hour he defended his sec
tion and explained the situation us he
viewed It, and from time to time the
great editor nodded approvingly or asked
a question showing his deep Interest In
the subject and his willingness to hear
the other side of the question.
When Lamar had finished ho rose to
leave, still regretting that he had ever
seen the inside of the Tribune office.
But the sunny-faced old man who stood
looking at him with a kindly light In his
holiest eyes was altogether different from
the eccentric person who hud made him
self so disagreeable a short time before.
"Umar, I like you," said the philosopher
In his hearty way, “and If I can do any
thing to advance your Interests while you
are in the city, or at any time, Just let me
know. 1 would like to help you.”
The ex-confederate thanked him in a
bewildered way, and after a cordial hand
shake left the office feeling like a man
who was recovering from a crazy dream.
“When I reached the street,” said La
mar In relating the story, "I pinched my
self to make sure that 1 was awake. I
walked about two miles thinking the mat
ter over and trying to decide whether I
had done right in not resenting Greeley's
offensive remarks. 1 recalled the many
things that 1 had heard about his eccen
tricities, and I came to the conclusion that
he was an exceptional character, and not
to he Judged by ordinary rules. I never
saw him aguln, but 1 shall always think
of him as a man with a big heart and a
wise head. His rough tongue hurt him
more than It did others, because It made
ihtm misunderstood. There was not the
slightest spite or malice In what he said
about the l.umars. It was Just his odd
way of drawing m 2 out and sizing mo np."
lav mar followed Greeley over the dark
river some years ago and no southern
Journalist has since appeared who can be
regarded as his equal In the field of work
In which he distinguished himself.
i>iuxati:.s ix ivsixii ideas.
People Kow Go Mini on Fp-to-date
Plans.
From the Ctnelnnati Enquirer.
Insanity, it seems, keeps pace with the
times and is In some of Its phases essential
ly lip to date. There vua a time when
people went crazy east and west over the
puzzle of perpetual motion; and the mad
houses were usually the final sanctuary of
the unfortunates who endeavored to figure
out this baron f all brain breakers,, but
now new and more modern enigmas have
taken Its place.
"We had two patients here some time
ago," said Superintendent Harmon, of the
Ixingview Hospital for Insane, the other
day, "who had lost their balance on the
perpetual motion problem, hut they are
both dead, and we don’t seem to get any
more who come over that route. Of course,
misfortune and grief are the causes of
most of tho dementia sheltered here, but
where the patients have manias for other
things, those things arc usually up to
date.”
Taking a key from his pocket, Dr. Har
mon proceeded trough the various wards,
noting here and there singular cases where
the subject's imaginings ran after modern
fads and crazes. It was a long Journey and
a tiresome one, although every ward
spoke of unusual care and even luxury,
for such an institution. However much
the klpdly spirit of generosity and philan
thropy may upholster the seats and make
the lives of Longview's inmates comfort
able, Jt Is Impossible to keep out of an In
sane asylum the atmosphere of the In
sane. It Is always the same qualm, the
same deadly lassitude, and the same quiet,
grave-like stillness, oppressive to an
alarming extent, und certainly consuming
in its character. No matter how much
of the day the patients are taken out and
walked about the grounds, this air re
mains. Good ventilation seems to have
little effect upon the atmoephere of tha
Insane.
"There Is no question In my mind,” Dr.
Harmon was saying, "but that Intense
anger Is one phase of Insanity. If you
would like to hfLVe a little trouble Just
come In here.” A door was unlocked,
which opened Into a ward on cither side
of which sat a long row of men recently
received and all of whom ar as yet prac
ticably unmanageable. Th/lr eyes glared
like those of crouching panthers, and
burned with the fire of awful Insane rage.
Had they been armed they might, like
wild beasts, have fallen upon the first to
paea through the ward and quartered him.
Entering a female ward a young lady waa
pointed out, who sat all day long on a
chair with her arms extended, working
her feet aa though they were upon the
pedals of a bicycle. She Is possessed of
the fgney that she la riding around the
world on a wheel.
••|iy the way, doctor," said a young
man who bore the symptoms In his ad
dress of having once veen very Intelligent,
I have got nearly all the track laid. It
will be the biggest Incline In the world.
There is yet some trouble In getting the
electrical appliances to working right, but
I'll promise you now that by next Sunday
It will all be complete, and you can have
a pleusant little trip to the moon. The
trolleys never slip on the moon route, and
you need not be afraid of accidents. We
will make the trial trip to the moon from
the earth terminal In Japan, starting next
Sunday at 0 o'clock In the morning. We
will have breakfast on the moon at 12:30.
Don't you think that will be making
pretty good time?"
Dr. Harmon, aa usual, thought It would.
The poor fellow Is erased on electricity,
and believes he has well under way an en
terprise which. If completed, would Ist
something of a departure In street rail
way engioeerihii. There Is another fellow
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who Is deep Into the mysteries of the air
ship business, and In talking about his ex
periments mixes logic and dementia to
gether in a strange comiiound.
In speaking about his exploits, he said:
“The trouble with all the airship builders
Is that they do not reckon rl|At,” which
is evidently true. "They tnustt drop ihe
bird bleu, for you know nature herself
gave it up la this line, as birds were In
tho course of lime created too big to fly.
It seems that nature made a stagger at
having them do bo, for they have wings.
Take the ostrich, for Instance, but, with
all the assistants nature could lend, the
ostrich cannot fly; then how can man ex
pect to build a machine on the bird princi
ple. though still larger than any bird liv
ing, that will carry up? It is not the same
In the case of thn bug. Here you have a
weight, which, according to the. flying fa
cilities, Is much heavier than In any other
aerial navigator. The successful flying
machine must be simply a big bug. Do
you get my Idea?" We got It. One of
tho most remarkable cases of up-to-dats
Insanity Is that of a lithograph artist who
sits all day making gorgeous but grewsome
posters. He is humored In his mania to
an extent. He fancies he is Aubrey
Beardsley, although he lacks the acute
phase of the distemper which Is so vivid
ly portrayed In the posters made by the
renowned Aubrey.
Of course, there are only rare cases. The
greater part of the Insanity housed at
Longview is cuused from disappointment,
grl'f, ,i Auctions and other causes that work
upon the emotions, and dementia Is as
much .the breaking down of the physical
as the mental. Whatever happens to
come most undfr their observation after
madness ensues, upon that something their
distorted fancy recolla, and out of the
chaos parades wlerd, grotesque Imagina
tions. Some of the Inmates of Lonvlew
fancy that the canal boats moving over
the water In front of the Institution are
beautiful barges of beaten gold, and others
tec in them battleships bristling with guns,
"yet for all their afflictions." remarked
Dr Harmon, as he locked the door of the
last ward. "I wish I were as happy as the
majolty of them. They don’t, for the
most part, seem to have a care in tho
world.”
CIGtH* AND THEIR MAKERS.
Each llos lias Six Marks anil the Ci
gar Makers Have a Cinch.
From tha Epicure.
“How many, I wonder,” said a dealer,
“have ever noted on every box of cigars
packed In Havana alx distinctive marks?
First, there la the brand, which la burned
In the upper aide of the lid of the box
with an Iron made for the purpose; second,
the label; third, the murk designating the
size arid shape of the clgare, which is usu
ally put on with a stem'll; fourth, the color
mark, which la also put on with a stencil;
fifth, the class mark, and sixth, the murk
usually put on with stencil, denoting the
number of cigar* In the box.
"Thi re are not so many regular sizes,
or vltolas, made In Havana as might be
Imagined— twenty-one, 1 believe, Is the
whole number of sixes—while all the cigars
mails In Havana are separated Into three
classes; some manufacturers divide them
Into primers, or first, secunda, or sec
ond, oud tercera, or third; while still
other makers call the first class flor, tho
second prlmera, and tho third secunda.
"Asa general rule, one workman makes
only one kind of cigar; for example, one
makes only londres; another only regalias,
and so on. Arid when a man has become
n skilled clgarmaker he has things pretty
much his own way; If the crop has been
a heavy one and there Is a demand for
labor, It Is no unusual thing for a skill
ful worker to demand from one employer
fJOO or so as an Inducement to work for
him for a season, and then, before his
time Is up, to accept another "Induce
ment” from another manufacturer for tha
balance of the season.
"Not only this, but the workmen Insist
on having their wages paid to them, first
at ! o’clock In the morning, when they
go to breakfast, then at noon, and again
at night. And not only this, but each
workman Is allowed five cigars a day, ami
you may be sure they select only the best
onea.”
PROFITS OF Oltt; W UItiXOKRS.
A Clnhmnn Question- a Dreamy-
Eyed Italian Woman.
From the New York Time*
A pair of organ grinders—a aour-visaged
Italian and his trim, dreamy-eyed wife—
have been pursuing their serenading way
through certain atreeta up town regularly
Tor the past year and a half. Twice each
week. If the weather be fair, they visit tha
same localities and grind out their tunes
with more or less profitable results. They
have their regular patrons In numerous
clubs and large apartment houses, and
some Inquisitive clubmen undertook to find
out from the dreamy-eyed woman a fear
days ago how the organ-grinding business
was prospering.
"Wo make not mooch,” said tha wo
man, ostentatiously displaying a few pen
nies that had been dropped Into her tam
bourine. "Ono cent, two-a cent—veF lit
tle." m .
"How many tlme”do you play that or
gan each day?" asked the clubman.
"Two—free hundr'd times," Interposed
the male manipulator of tha organ, mo
rosely.
By dint of patient questioning, tha club
man ascertained that the couple visited
about IUO city blocks caoh day and played
from two to three times on each block.
The women said she got "sometimes two
cent, sometimes four, five cent, but not
mooch ten cents; ver’ little silver mon'."
Hho admitted that now they only stopped
at places where they were sure to get
something. One of the elubmep there
upon made a little calculation, like thlst
"In some blocka you get two or Hires
cents, In other blocks, like this one, you
get fifteen or twenty cents. It Is fair to
say that you average live cents a block,
and as you visit 100 blocks each day, you
make sf> a day. Is that right?*’
The dreumy-eyed woman nodded affir
matively, but her lips mi*-mured, "Fivs
dolls' too mooeha mon'."
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—Copper waa actually used In Sweden
during tha last century aa the chief me
dium of exchange, and at time* merchants
had to take wheelbarrows with them when
they went to receive payment Ui largo
sums.
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