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4 THE SEMI-UDEEKLY JOURNAL Eatertd at th* Atlanta Poateffie* as Mall Matter as th# Bacond Claaa. The Be**>Waektr Journal to pubtlehrd ra Monday* and Thureday*. and mailed In time far ail tha tirtaa-a-wMh star emits aaalle it contains the news tram all parte of the world breach' ever a special leased wire Into The Journal office. It has a staff of dletln cuiobad contributors with ctnonc Agricultural. Veterinary. Juvenile, Home. Book and other departments of special value to the home and farm. Agent* wanted ta every community ta the South. _ BcmmaJkCW tan b* made by postoffice money order, eapresa money order, registered Foreesw who *e®d postace stamps ta payment for subscriptions are requested to send taye of the 1 cent dennmiwaUoe. Amounts larger than W rente poetoffice order, express tbe'r papers chanced should give both the eld and the now NwScg TO TMI PUBLIC The only traveling representatives of The Journal are 0 i. L Bryan and James Callaway. Any other who represents himself as connected wtth Tte Journal as a traveling agent to a fraud, and we will be responsible anty tar moswy paid to the above named representatives. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MON DRY. OCTOBER 7. 1901. ■. WHY SINGLE OUT TEXAS? A writer In The New Orleans Times Democrat says that Texas is a Croat cattle country, and that Tom Greene county atone could produce enough milk to supply the whole country. And yet Texas pays out more than tt.OOfi.OM a year for condensed manufactured in dis tant state*. This ta a striking illustration of neglect* ed reaourcee and unnecessary dependence upon an outside supply. But why should Texas be singled out to point this moral' Every other southern state, including our own Georgia, to indictable on similar grounds. • Who can tell how many millions of dollars the south sends to the west every year for corn and oats and meat whtoh could be raised in our own region? The tt «fi«» which Texas pays out an nually for condensed milk to a small item compared to what Georgia sends to other states for canned fruits and vegetables which she could save by utilising the variables and fruits that are wasted in eur own fields every year. With; her almost unrivalled capacity for fruit and vegetable production Geor gia should reap an immense revenue from canning industries instead of paying out money for the products of other states. Happily our people are waking up on this question During the past summer more fruits and vegetables were canned in this state than ever before In one season Canneries were established in many Georgia towns and others which had been in operation before were enlarg ed. It has been demonstrated that those who attend to this buslnes/ properly can make M profitable. It will grow, but It will hare to grow a great deal before ft reaches the proportions it should have attained tong ago. Let us not rebuke Texas until we have done better ourselves. • WITHOUT A SUBSIDY. For several years there has been a clamor for a targe government subsidy to a company which proposes to construct a trans-Faetfie cable. The cry has been 'token up by lobbyists and newspapers which had a substantial taterest ta the scheme and who therefore expatiated eloquently on the great need of thia cable and the immense benefits it would cuufer upon our eeimtry. That such a cable would be very useful to undoubtedly true and the plea for a big govern.-nent subsidy to a company which should build it wa» based upon the positive assertion that without this assist ance it would never be constructed. Mr. John W. Mackay, part owner o? the Maekay-Bennrtt Atlantic cable, has given this argument a death-blow by applying for permission to land the ends of a cable at San Francisco. Honolulu and Manila. Mr. Mackay does not asx one eent from the government, but agrees to build the cable as soon as possible if only share rights be given to him. In return for this conceeston he will guarantee precedence to government business and the submis sion of the cable to government control ta time of war. Mr. Mackay has the means to construct the cable, though it wilt coot an im mense sum of money, and there can be no question about the sincerity of his offer. He has put the table subsidy-seekers out of business and saved the government from a great expenditure. It to probable, too. that he will con struct a better cable than would have been supplied by a company which de pended mainly upon a government sub sidy rather than its own capital and en terprise. THE CORN BULLS BEATEN. The Journal has frequently called atten tion to the fact that the extreme esti mate* of the shortage of the corn crop which have been industriously circulated were in an probability gross exaggera tions As the season advances it becomes more and more evident that this has been the case. The corn crop is undoubtedly away be low the average, but the attempts of the bulls to establish a belief that the crop would be less than a billion bushels, In stead of more than two billions, as estl mased on the first of June, was too bold and has failed. There has oeen a de cided decline in the price of com during the last week, and it is now certain that the crop will be ranch larger than the bulls have been trying to make us believe it would be. Kansas City has been the center of the corn crop scare and every effort has been made to keep the prices high In that mar ket But the bulla have been unequal to the task they undertook. • The market does not accept the reports of a shortage to anything like the extent of the bull estimates. There will be a great deal more corn than they have been predicting. The west will have more to sell and the south will have to pay less for corn than was feared seme days ago. THE BUFFALO PLATFORM. President McKinley s last publie utter ance was a plea for a tariff revision which should top off unnecessary duties and re adjust our antiquated tariff schedules to present conditions and needs. The pollcy which he then outlined briefly but with eufllclent clearness to show that It meant • far departure from the Dingley tariff. has been referred to frequently as “the Buffalo platform." A number of leading Republican newspapers are urging ft's in corporation in the next platform of their party. But the interests which enjoy spe cial benefits under the present tariff are not only opposed to any modification of it but are organising to resist any move ment in that direction. The Springfield Republican, speaking of the specious pleas for temporary delay from those who are really striving to pre vent tariff revision at any time, says: “Already we are hearing that 'the time Is not ripe’ for touching the Dingley tar iff; and to the Washington Post's ques tion* 'Why postpone the inevitable?’ the New York Commercial, having reference also to President McKinley's parting counsel, replies: *ff the matter were to be precipitated in congress next December, the result, would be. in our opinion, that an acrimonious debate would be stretched over the entire session, with no settlement of the question at the end, but a most de plorable unaettling of business for the better part of a year.’ Congress is ac cordingly urged to postpone any action on the tariff question until the party can be heard from through the platforms and votes of the congressional elections next, year. “But if the consideration of a moderate revision of the tariff in the congress about to meet would unsettle business, what must be the effect of throwing the ques tion into a heated congressional canvass? Moreover, if the congress soon to assem ble for its first and long sessions puts the matter aside, the opportunity for acting on th* counsel of the lamented president will no; again arise for two years, and a failure meantime to act might cause the loss of the house to the Republicans next year. “There is the platform, however—the new platform, ’the Buffalo platform. ’ as Mr. Hanna says; and the question now seems to be whether the party is to accept it as a creed to go oy and not simply to talk about. It is a situation calculated to interest the whole country.” z In the opinion of nu ny wise Republicans It would be good party policy to make concessions to the inevitable at an early day, to adopt the policy advocated by Macaulay tn the great English reform bill debate and “open the gates to that force which will otherwise enter through the breach." We may expect to see the tariff a very live issue at the next session of congress to say nothing of the next congressional campaign. HAWLEY NOT AT HOME., It must be that Senator Hawley Is* wandering or lingering somewhere. When he is at home he usually writes the edi torials that appear in the Hartford fou rs nt, of which he ta the principal owner. Those who know Senator Hawley will refuse to believe that he is the author of an editorial that appeared in the Cou rant of last Tuesday in which these words appear: "The slaughter of the greater part of company C, Ninth United States infantry, will grieve patriotic Americans and de light the anti-imperialists.” This is an utterance so contemptible that it would disgrace any newspaper with claims to respectability. The Springfield Republican very properly rakes the Hartford Courant for publish ing such a libel and exclaims: “Let it for very shame’s sake take back its lying words. Men who have questioned both the wisdom and Ameri canism of 'a policy of conquest for the United States, who believe that the true glory of a republic lies in brotherly peace and helpfulness in advancing self-gov erning republicanism everywhere by dis tinctly pledging this government to such a policy—such men are neither responsi ble for the slaughter of the soldiers of the United States, nor are they anything but deeply by such an event. It is deplorable from any point of view. If it shall have any effect in fanning into new life the flames of war in the Philip pines so much the more is it to be de plored. Ths American who can "delight” in this does not live within the borders of the republic, and iast of all to be so accused should be those whose consistent record absolves them first of all. Noth ing could be more melancholy than this happening in a locality where Spain was held at bay and where it would seem as If our soldiers should have been more on their guard In a hostile country.” We insist again that Senator Hawley, who is also Editor Hawley In addition to being General Hawley also, was not about the Courant office last Monday. If there ta not a shake-up in that establishment when he returns this triply titled cltisen is not the man we have taken him to be. MARKETS NEAR HOME. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, a suc cessful eetton manufacturer and one who has done much to attract attention to the great resources and advantages of the south, is convinced "that the opportunity In the West Indies and South America for cotton mill products is even better than in China, though at present our share in their trade ta trifling.” Chile, for example, imported cotton goods to the value of $4,213,380 last year, but bought only $210,038, or about 5 per cent, of them in the United States. Our proportion of such exports to Brasil is even smaller, being only about 4.6 per cent, or |6,887.tt2 out of a total of $12,021,- 449. We sell Argentine only 1 per cent of her Imported cotton goods. A still more striking instance of neglected markets at our very doors is shown by the West In dies, where our cotton goods trade does not amount to 2 per cent of the total. China buys $47,000,000 worth of cotton goods a year, of which we supply about one-flfth. There Is good reason to believe the statement of Mr. Tompkins that with proper effort we could extend our trade much more easily in the West Indies and South America than in China, though he does not discount our opportunities there. -'I Charleston is fortunate in having Mr. Tompkins as manager of the textile de- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1901. i partinent of her big exposition. He will thus be given an opportunity to impress upon the cotton manufacturers of the south the immensity of their opportuni ties in this hemisphere, some of which lie almost within sight of our shores., Bradstreet s agrees with the estimate of these possibilities given by Mr. Tomp kins, but says that these markets which are properly ours “cannot be won with out some determined and concerted effort on the part of our cotton manufacturers.” To bring about such an effort is one of the main objects of the Charleston exposi tion and there is every prospect that It will accomplish a great deal in that direc tion. OUR COUSINS OVER THE SEA. The assassination of President MoKln ley brought forth many evidences of strong sympathetic feeling in England. The leading British newspapers were moved to expressions that indicated deep feeling for this country in its affliction and a warm sense of kinship. * ’ Some of the London newspapers ap peared on the day after the' president's death with a mourning border. The Spectator among many communi cations on the subject published this one: “To the Editor of The Spectator: “Sir: Before the last sad news could be known here, the first words of an ac quaintance a-ere. '1 fear we shall lose Ui*. president.’ Surely the ‘we’ and the ‘th®< will go straight to the heart of your American readers. I am, sir, etc., “F. E. B." There is a volume in the two little words “we" and “the” in this brief card. MEXICAN “8A88.” The Mexican Herald no doubt thought it was very smart when it welcomed the Pan-American congress with the follow ing outburst: "We almost blush for shame that we shall not be able to show the Pan-Amer ican delegates a city hall whose corri dors and lobbies are crowded with tobac co-chewing loafers, potent ward leaders, plundering contractors, brutal plug-uglies, the proper and necessary adjuncts to an advanced municipal government. Nor has the city a boss who has behind him a po litical society blindly obeying his single will and electing men of scandalous fame to the board of aidermen. Surely the Pan-American* will say that the City of Mexico is sadly ‘backward.’ Something is lacking to the city’s full political per fection." This shot is clearly aimed at the United States, and there has been much in the government of some of our cities the char acter of the bosses and their understrap pers whom the people have permitted to lord It over them to justify much of this satire. But Mexico is not an ideal dwelling place or a full-blown pink of civilization. In its capital the Pan-American dedegates will find many pleasing conditions, mudh wealth and refinement, nearly all of which is imported. But Mexico City Is not Mexican. To find out what that country is the delegates will have to go out into the rural regions and the wretched little hamlets where the aver age citizen is a striking Illustration of poverty, stupidity anrf laziness. He re ceives a few <;ents for a work, but poor as is his pay it Is usually as much as he is worth. The Mexican of the masses rarely as pires to elevate himself materially, mor ally or intellectually. If he can get enough to eat and drink (he doesn’t care about his clothes and wears as few of them as possible); if he is permitted to snooze in the sunshine a good part of his time he is as happy as he ever dreams of being. He is about as tough material to work up Into a specimen of civilization as statesman, priest or school teacher or policeman ever* tackled. The Herald's allusion to, municipal bosses in this country reminds us that all Mexico has a boas of the bossiest sort and it is a precious good thing that she has. Without such a strong hand to di rect her affairs Mexico would have gone to the bow-wows long ago. President Diaz knows the character or rather the Mexican lack of character of the average Mexican from "a" to “ez zard” and acts accordingly. He lets him call himself the free citizen of a free government, but lets him have just as much liberty as is good for him and net a whit more. Nor does he consult the incompetent about the proportions of his dose. President Diaz has done his best for Mexico by acting quite as much the part of dictator as that of a president representing the popular will. It is the highest tribute that De has had any effect upon such a people.' hi time either he or some worthy successor may succeed in elevating the Mexicans considerably, but it will require a long time. TURKEY IN TROUBLE*AGAIN. The sultan of Turkey seems to be con tinually in trouble. He had hardly settled with our government for the American outrages before be had aroused the wrath of France and had his minister or dered out of the French capital. He has temporized France out of her anger, but is now In what will probably prove a fuller peck of trouble. There ta a city and a valuable harbor at the head of the Persian gulf called Koweyt. The place is ruled by a sheikh, a semi-independent sovereign under British protection. Koweyt is important to British interests because it is on the gulf which penetrates Asia from the Indian ocean. It is made more important at this juncture by the fact, that a railroad is now being built from Constantinople through Bag dad to the gulf with Koweyt as its pros pective terminus. Recently the sultan construed some act of the sheikh of Koweyt as a defiance of authority which he claims over that port. The enraged sultan Immediately dis patched a corvette and a considerable force to Koweyt to subdue the insolent sheikh, but they found the city under the protection of British men-of-war which prevented the Turkish troops from land ing. It is said that the sultan has put on a warlike front and massed 30.000 troops near Koweyt, but nobody believes he is such a fool as to attack England. He understands, of course, the meaning of the British war vessels at Koweyt and will not vent his wrath in any more prac- IAN OLD VETERAN’S HEARTFELT TRIBUTE FOR HIMSELF AND OTHER HOME INMATES ——————— £ BY CAPT. T. J. COX, Brevet-Colonel in Command 39th Alabama Regiment. Wounded When Fighting Around Atlanta. Since That Time a Resident of Georgia. During the War Col. Cox Was the Famous War Correspondent of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. He Has Been An Inmate of the Sol •< di er s’ Home Since it Opened. Editor The Atlanta Journal: Being an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, I desire to thank you in a public manner for your prompt and generous action in securing a temporary notne for me veterans who were rendered shelterless by Che pitiless flames which de voured our beautiful home on the 30th u>t.;.and also for your m a K nan imlty in using your columns for subscriptions to the fund for rebuilding the home. And the gratitude that I cherish for your noble deeds, individually, is shared by every inmate of the home, and doubtless by every Confederate veteran and their wives, sons and daughters, not only in Georgia, but throughout the south- And. when we remember that your public-spirited Journal but recently took the initiative in advocating the erection of a monument to the memory of the noble and lamented McKlnley-the erstwhile Confederate ■oMlm’*’ enemy converted to a friend—these combined acts emphasize t'he fact that The journal is conducted by patriotic and liberal heads and hearts; and that-as is the case with all true Confederate soiu.ers-while you do not relinquish one jut or tittle of your loyalty to the cause of the sout'h in 1861-4, yet as it is true thXt "peace has its victories, no less renowned than war," your patriotism can af ford to rise above petty past differences —and the states being now reunited that you and Confederate soldiers can and will hereafter battle for “Old Glory,’ if need be—just as our Lee, Wheeler. Hobson and others have done. En passant 1 wish as one who was devoted to his country and bared nls breast to the death-dealing missiles of the enemy from Pensacola In .1861 to the battle around Atlanta on the 22d of July. 1864. to Interpose an Inveterate protest to the continuance of that false and abominable appellation—“.Bost Cause;’’ for of all the stupendous and gigantic misnomers that ever existed, the “lost cause" stands at the head of the list in flagrante delicto. There was only one aspect, possibly, that lends plausibility to the thought that our “cause" might have been “lost,” and that is that it might have been best for us to have fought in the union instead of seceding, as a matter of policy and expediency mainly: for most southerners, like Alexander H. Stephens, believed that the states were tn themselves sovereign and independent, and only entered in to a compact for their mutual and reciprocal benefit, dissoluble when the terms of the compact were violated. It Is a fact that the constitution was framed for the most psTt by southern statesmanship and therefore the union belonged more to the south than to the north; and after the war between the states closed and the southern army had taught the citizens as the United States to respect, obey and revere the constitution, ex-Confederate soldiers could and can with patriotic consistency “pitch in and thrash out” any enemy who dares to make war on “Old Glory,” as they did during the Spanish war. The southern "cause" never was and never will be "lost. Our principles-which tical form than bluster. The Sultan s fre quent quarrels with the powers, however, are accumulating against him a store of impatience that will finally result in something very practical and. very un pleasant to that autocratic and Irritating ruler. SOUTH CAROLINA’S PISTOL LAW. The pistol habit has provoked South Carolina to a very strenuous z effort to suppress it. A law was enacted at the last session of the legislature which provides that after July 1. 1902. the sale of pistols of ordinary size shall be prohibited in that state. All pistols sold, or offered for sale, in South Carolina after the date named must be at least 20 Inches long and not weigh less than three pounds. It would be airpost impossible to con ceal a twenty-inch pistol on the person and the average man would very soon tire of lugging about a three pound weapon. The weak point of this law is that it does not forbid the sale of cartridges that will flt pistols of ordinary size, and they will probably continue to be sold In large quantities. Besides, the ImtJbrtatlon of pistols into South Carolina cannot be forbidden by a state law. and they will contiue to come in- The object of the South Carolina pistol law Is commendable, but it will hardly prove effective to any appreciable extent. A much better cure of the “pistol-toting" evil would be so? judges and juries to en force rigidly the law against carrying con cealed weapons. We have in Georgia some judges who have made striking examples of those who insist upon walking around With pis tols in their pockets and the heavy pun ishment of all such persons in every coun ty in the state would be a great public benefit. Aguinaldo seems determined to make us repent his capture by contributing regu larly to the magazines. Perhaps it is just as well, after all, to postpone the gubernatorial race until Bibb county gets through electing her sheriff. The labor leaders could learn another valuable lesson from the trust magnates —and that Is that it is unwise to fight each other, England may be able to beat us racing horses if she succeeds in her evident pur pose to rule ail American jockeys off of English tracks. “ - « ■; , ■ Now that the London Times manifests a disposition to withdraw its opposition, there is no reason why we snould not go ahead and build that Isthmian canal. Lord Kitchener to getting onto the situ ation at last. After considerable expe rience he now declares that the South African war would be over but for the burghers. Senator Hanna has discovered that President Roosevelt Is a nice man qf great promise, .but still it is doubtful if the new president is altogether as promisng as the Ohio senator would like. It is believed that when China agreed to pay that Indemnity she didn't take into consideration the hotel bills of her Ger man envoys, else she might have Insisted on ft still further reduction. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. , , Cail a man a*donkey and he is apt to kick. Ix>ve and a sliver dollar are tested by the ring. x- Keep in the straight and narrow path and avoid the crowd. Most women who angle for compliments de pend upon their curves. If the good didn’t die young no one knows how bad they might be. Many a man falls all over himself in striv ing to get ahead of others. Unless a man has an occasional inning he is unable to enjoy an outing. Every time a wise man encounters an obsta cle he makes a stepping stone of it. A girl gives up a lot of ice cream and theater tickets in exchange for a husband. Only a woman's first marriage is made in heaven; she arranges the second herself. The world has seven wonders, but the aver age woman can wonder more than that in seven minutes. What will eventually become of the tramp, if. as reported, his Satanical majesty finds work for idle hands to do? A girl may not think a certain young man. Is good enough for her, but she always con siders him too good for any other girl. Persecution of Lord Cochrane Comparable to Schley Inquiry Admiral Schley is not the first naval of ficer in the history of English-speaking people wbo has had to face serious criti cism. amounting, as many of his country men think, to persecution, after having won a brilliant victory over his nation’s enemies. No great commander ever es capes criticism. Envy is too conspicuous a trait in humanity to permit of the ele vation of one man in public esteem while others, who rank themselves as deserv ing, are passed by unnoticed. There are few instances, however, in which an of ficer has been dealt with as severely by his associates and as strenuously upheld by the people as has Admiral Winfield S. Schley. But the history of the English navy furnishes at least one case that ex i ceeds in malignity and persistency any thing that has thus far befallen the hero of the naval fight off Santiago, says the Chicago Tribune. The career of Thomas Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald, is a story that might be considered unworthy of belief were it not written in the records of the English navy. He entered the service on June 27, 1793, as a midshipman, aboard his uncle's ship, the Hind. Though but 17 years of age, he soon learned all the details of sea manship and became thoroughly versed tn the theory of naval warfare. England was then at war with France and Spain, and for a time he was employed harassing the enemy’s commerce. He soort became a lieutenant and developed such fertility of resource in action, such excellent sea manship and achieved such marked suc cess that jealousy was excited and in fluences set In motion that operated against him until the day of his death. The trouble probably arose from the natural conflict between the interests of the seagoing and the non-seagolng portion of the navy. It is the jealousy, it is said, between these interests that has caused the present inquiry at Washington. Be this as it may, it is certain that Lord Coch rane became early In his career a persona non grata at the admiralty office. He knew what he wanted and he was never slow to ask for it. He was a stormy petrel and when in service never rested. Forced to promote him to a captaincy, the admiralt gave him the Speedy, a boat whlcn he described as “little more than a burlesque on a vessel of war.” even for those times. It was 158 tons burden and was crowded, rather than manned, he said, with a crew of 84 men and six offi cers. Its armament consisted of 14 4- pounders, and, knowing the inefficiency of such guns, he asked for heavier ones. The admiralty gave him two 12-pounders, which he desired to mount as bow and stern chasers, but found there was not room enough to manipulate them. The weight of a broadside from his ship was 28 pounds, and, to show how insignificant it was, he once put an entire broadside of shot in his coat pockets and walked his quarter deck with it. GOOD RECORD WITH BAD BOAT. Knowing he had received all he was like ly to get. he sailed away, and during a cruise of about fourteen months cap tured more than fifty vessels, with 122 guns and 534 prisoners. One of these cap tures was the Spanish frigate Gamo, 32 guns and 319 men, which was taken in May. 1801, off Barcelona. The fight was a terrific one. By reason of putting men aboard prize vessels, Speedy’s crew was reduced to 54 men, but they took their lit tle craft alongside their big opponent, filled her hull with shot from their "pop gun four-pounders,” as the captain called them, and finally boarded and Captured the ship. The Spanish commander, the boatswain and thirteen seamen were kill ed in the action, and 41 were wounded. Speedy lost three seamen killed and one officer and seventeen seamen wbundefl. To take Into port a vessel with 263 unhurt prisoners was no light task, but the cap tain of the Speedy was equal to it. He drove the prisoners into the hold, trained the guns down the hatchways and kept men standing over them with lighted matches. In this way he reached Port Mahon and delivered up his prize. As a reward for this service he was sent with his little toy skip to intimidate the Dey of Algiers. He had a keen sense of the ridic ulousness of the situation and said of It: “The mission was a singular one to be en trusted to the captain of one of the small est and worst armed vessels in the British service. Remonstrance, to be effectual with a piratical government, ought to have been committed to an officer armed with a sufficient force at least to Induce respect.” However, he performed the mis sion without any great satisfaction to him self or his government, and on his way back lost the Speedy in a conflict with three French llne-of-battle ships. He fought his little vessel four hours, and when he struck his colors and tendered his sword to the French commander that worthy declined to accept it, saying he “would not accept the sword of an officer who had for so many hours struggled against impossibility.” CAUSE OF HIS BLACKLISTING. Captain Cochrane was soon released on parole, and shortly afterwards exchanged for a French officer. The government, however, had refused to purchase the Gamo and put Captain Cochrane in com mand of it, as was usual, but had sold the vessel to Algeria for a trifle. It like wise refused to promote him to the rank of post captain, under the rules of the navy, despite the pressure brought to bear in his behalf. He was, in lieu of pro motion, sent to convoy an old tub of a mail ship to Gibraltar, his orders requir ing him to take the mail bag aboard his wag the “cause"—are as eternal as time and as immortal as the souls of those who fought to establish them! And away—forever away—with the expression, “when we were whipped,'’ • or “after we were whipped;" for we never were “whipped," but as General Toombs expressed it, "we wore ourselves out whipping the enemy.” Jhe prin ciples that precipitated the “rebellion.” as the Yankees choose to term it, / and often denominated the “lost cause" by our own people, is fast proving in the mutations of our governmental affairs and the events as they are trans piring—to have been a “rebellion” against constitutional encroachments; and we may al! live to see a verification of the immortal sentiment expressed by that grand old "rebel." Father Ryan in the lines: "Th> graves of the dead with the grass overgrown May yet prove the footstool of liberty’s throne And each single wreck in the war-path of might Shall yet form a rock in the temple of right.” Begging your Indulgence for digressions, I will conclude this hasty note by expressing the opinion that the Confederate Soldiers’ Home—as it was before the Are. and soon will be again—is the grandest of all the grand institutions in and around Atlanta. Taking care of the old veterans, is in itself a patriotic and noble w’ork; but this is not all—the consummation of its grandieur exists in the love of “country, God and truth”—of the cultivation and perpetuation of the in spiration of the genius of magnanimity, generosity and patriotism—of the “es prit du corps" that constitutes the warp and woof of perfect manhood and wo manhood—of true manliness and womanliness, and without which, men and wo men would possess characteristic instincts not superior to the brute creation. I consdienciously concur in the sentiment expressed by a comrade a few days ago. when he said, “We have competent men at the helm of our ship, and I feri . perfectly safe as a passenger.” Well may Inmates of Georgia's Confederate home be contented and happy, when such men as Amos Fox. W. L. Calhoun and Capt. Tip Harrison are its trustees—one its treasurer, one its president and thd other its secretary. Each of this noble trio, has a heart as "big" as any moun tain in Georgia; and it can be said of each of thtm. as Byron said of Sheridan: “God made but one such man, then broke the mould that cast him!" If Captain Wilson, the superintendent of the home, has any fault, it is that he is too kind and Indulgent. And as to our soldiers’ mothers, wives, daughters and sweethearts—a part of the salt of the earth and the sugar also—of th* unconquered and unconquerable heroines! "They are good, as they are fair, None, none on earth above them. As pure in heart as Angels are. To know them, is to love them." vessel until they arrived in sight of Gi braltar, and then to place it aboard the mall ship and return to England without landing. Later he was sent to guard fisheries north of the Orkney Islands, where no British fishermen were to be found. In his autobiography he naively gives one of the reasons for the black listing he received at the hands of the admiralty. He had been persistent in his efforts to secure his own promotion as post captain after the Gamo affair, and had succeeded. Then he undertook to • secure a captaincy for his first lieuten ant. who boarded the Gamo. and was ter- 1 ribly wounded at the time. St. Vincent, the first lord of the admiralty, had finally • replied to him that “it was unusual to [ promote two’officers for such a service— i besides which, the small number of men . killed aboard the Speedy did not warrant ; the application.” ! Says Captain Cochrane of this incident: i “It was impossible not to feel nettled at a reply so unexpected—that because few 1 men had been killed aboard the Speedy ' its first lieutenant was considered un worthy’ of promotion, thouglf terribly cut up. To argue with a first lord is. no doubt, an imprudent thing for a naval officer to attempt, and my remonstrance in this instance had such an effect as to get my name placed on the blacklist of the admiralty, again to be erased. BECAME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Though a post captain. Ix>rd Cochrane was without a ship, and he was refused further employment for many months, which time he spent attending the college of Edinburg. When he was again placed in service he continued to exhibit the same energy which had marked his preceding career, and the success tnat crowned his efforts attracted the attention of the peo ple who elected him member of parlia ment for Honiton. In his capacity as a representative of the people he continu ally assailed abuses in the navy. and. though he did not succeed in effecting all the reforms he contemplated, he directed attention to them and set the people to thinking. Subsequently he was elected to represent the borough of Westminster, and in that capacity proved himself a most efficient public servant. It was while serving as member of par liament that he was next called into active service in the navy. The admiralty de sired to attempt the destruction of the French fleet lying in the Basque Roads, on the west coast of France, by the use of a number of fire ships. Lord Gambler was in charge of the fleet, and he had declined to undertake the task. Various other commanders, to whom the post was offered, refused it, and the admiralty sent for Capfain Cochrane. He was averse to accepting the commission, suspecting that he would be but poorly, supported, and that if he succeeded, the existing jeal ousy against him would be greatly aug mented’. The anxiety of the admiralty to secure the destruction of the French fleet finally led him to overcome his scruples. snd he accepted the commission. To the fire ships he added some vessels loaded with explosives, and when he had arrived off the French coast with his destructive vessels he prepared for an attack. Lord Gambier refused to permit the attack at the time the captain desired to make it, and the French became aware of the in tent of tfte enemy by this delay. After nightfall of the next day, April 11, 1809. the attack was made, the explo sive vessels going ahead. Captain Coch rane in charge of the first one. The scheme was not wholly successful. The explosive vessels did some damage to the French vessels, but the fire ships, by reason of their having been ignited too soon, drifted away and proved abortive. - On his arrival in England Captain Coch rane was created a Knight Commander of ir MaT ■» / 7,- IflU.u J"* Bug—" Have you been able to clear up the mystery of your brother’! dlsap* pearance?” ’■ * Worm—"We suspect foul play.” the Bath by the King, and resumed his seat in Parliament. An effort was made at this time to secure a vote of thanks in Parliament for Lord Gambler on account of the Basque Roads affair, and Captain Cochrane announced that he would op pose such action. He resisted every effort to change his determination, being con vinced that Lord Gambier had signally failed In his duty and the result was a courtmartiai for Lord Gambier, which re sulted in his being honorably acquitted and ultimately thanked by Parliament for his part in the affair. SENTENCED TO THE PILLORY. The animosities which these actions of Captain Cochrane engendered resulted in his becoming involved in the most trying episodes in his life. An attempt was made to defraud the Stock Exchange by means of a false report concerning the death of Napoleon. Captain Cochrane was accused of being a,participant in the af fair. and upon trial was convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment. to pay a tine of £I.OOO. and to stand in the nihory. Sir Francis Bur dette declared that if the latter part of the sentence was carried out he would stand in the pillory with Captain Coch rane .and toe government refrained from thus degrading its distinguished servant. I 7ne people believed so little in the guilt I of. the brave officer that they not only paid his line but re-elected him to parlla i ment for Westminster. It is now gener ally admitted that Captain Coehrane was entirely blameless in this matter, but ho was nevertheless compelled to serve his sentence in prison.a new trial being denied him by Lord Eilenborough. because oth ers indicted with him did not appear.in court and ask such favor. He was like wise deprived of his rank of knighthood. When he had completed hia sentence, feeling that he could be .of no further service to his country in the existing state of affairs, he accepted command of the fleet of the republic of Chile, then at war with Spain. He reached Valparaiso in November, 1818. and assumed command of the navy. It was a weak organization compared to that of Spain, but Lord Cochrane was soon repeating his earlier work, and before long had disorganized the Spanish fleet. One of his rnott re markable feats was the cutting otlt of the frigate Esmeralda from the harbor of Callao. This was in November. 1820. The frigate lay in the harbor, one of the strongest in the world, fixed to chain moorings, and protected by twenty-seven gunboats and 300 guns in the batteries. By night he ran into the harbor, and after a sharp fight of a quarter of an hour, during which he was severely wounded, succeeded in getting away with the fri gate. FOUGHT FOR CHILE AND BRAZIL. Jealousies and intrigues in the Chilean government then began, and Lord Coch rane’s position was rendered unpleasant. The withholding of prize money and even of pay for the seamen almost caused a mutiny in the fleet, and as a result he withdrew from the service after forcing payment of a portion of what was due hiAi. In 1822 Brazil, being then at war with Portugal, offered him command of her fleet, which he accepted* and served under that flag effectively. Upon his return to England he found himself still popular with the people, but as he was unable to secure redress of the wrongs he had suffered at the hands of the government he accepted command of the Grecian fleet. Owing to the poor discipline of the men. he was unable dur ing his short connection with the service to achieve much. After the powers had secured the recognition of the indepen dence of Greece he returned to England, and slowly his honors came back to him. He was restored to his rank in the na vy, but the new trial he had so long de manded was denied him. Instead, he was forced to accept a pardon under the great seal. “Heaven and hell are very real, but they are states of mind." —The Symphony of Life.