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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. 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MGDONOUGH & 5/UIfINTYNE, V Iron Founders, Machinists, n I Blacksmiths, Boilermakers, Manufacturers of Stationary and Pir iibie Engines, Vertical and Top Running Coro Mills, Sugar liiii EgEfIHMH HI Pm. SHAFTIN6, PULLEYS, etc. TELEPHONE NO. 03, ■ 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'." - i —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. 11