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CONGRESS IS DISCUSSING
GREAT SOUTHERN PARK
The movement to establish a great na
tional park and forest reserve in the re
ason covering the southern Appalachians
receiving the attention of all thinking
•, people, and through Senator Pritchard, of
North Carolina. and Representative
Brownlow, of Tennessee. Is kept, constant-
* iy before the law makers.
Thia region Is the very dome ctf the con
t . tinent east of the Mississippi, writes a
correspondent to the Knoxville Journal
and Tribune. He continues at some
length: "The scientific men tell us that
in remote ages Mount Mitchell towered
like the Himalayas. After the gnawings
I of countless ages, it is still the highest
land east of the great Rockies. It Is ex
pected to Include all the region lying be
tween the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny
mountains of North Carolina It will lap
over and include a portion of all the east
ern tier of counties In Tennessee. It will
extend southward to the neighborhood of
Dalton, tn Georgia. It will include the
, northwest corner of South Carolina It
‘ will extend across the narrow western
portion of old Virginia into and including
a •edtion of the southern part of West
.Virginia. .
"A forvst reserve established here. In
cluding four millions of acres, more or
less, will prove a feeder, a natural **ser
voir for all the streams of the South At
lantic coast, and will affect the flow of
many falling into the gulf of Mexico and
the great Mississippi Itself.
"Flowing to the Atlantic are such
streams as the Altamaha. Ogeechee, Sa
vannah. Congaree. Peedee. Cape Fear and
Others, fed by such tributaries as the
‘Keeowee. Reedy. Pacolet. Broad. Cataw
ba. the Yadkin and others. Flowing into
• the Ohio are the Big Sandy and the Kan
awha. The great Tennessee river draws
its very life waters from this region.
: There are the Clinch, the Holston, the
: Watauga, the Kola Chucky. the French
Broad, the Big and Little Pigeon, the Lit
tle river, the Little Tennessee, the Telllco,
and the Hiawassee. Southward are the
Coosa and others.
••The Integrity of all these numerous
■treams. including their countless tribu
’ taries. depends on the future status'
this mountain region. If the old process
es are to eontlnue-the process of wild
and wanton destruction; of forest fires;
.of devt^istion: of deforestation; of eros
ion; of over-grazing of thoughtless dis
count of the future for the misguided
gain of the present; then all the region
watered by these streams will be ad
versely affected for generations to come.
It wilt take centuries to repair the damage
that may grow out of a few years.
The movement is timely, not only as to
fts needs, but as to its opportunities. Each
yrer of delay will increase the difficulties
of the great enterprise The government
‘can acquire the wild lands In this area
now at a nominal figure. Ten years hence
they may be double in value.
"The south has entered upon an era of
manufacturing and her cheapest power is
found In the swift current c* these same
streams. Secretary Wilson, of the agri
cultural department, discussed this aspect
of the matter In a recent talk with your
correspondent He thinks that this source
of wealth for the south Atlantic * ta, T^ s
at this very moment in gravest peril. Book
learning. I judge, counts for something
after all. If it convinces those most Inter-
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on the. headwaters of the Broad*or the Ca
tawba, directly affects the prosperity of
the cotton spinner of the lowlands of
South Carolina or Georgia. The secretary,
as is well known, heartily indorses this
enterprise, and says that the question of
Its establishment or failure, depends en
tirely on the southern people themselves.
If they are practically a unit In demand
ing it, they will get it; if they divide
among themselves, the}" will fail."
Senator Bate said during the last ses
sion of congress that he was opposed to
the enterprise on the ground that there is
no precedent for the government buying
land for the purpose of establishing a
national park and forest reserve on the
large scale here contemplated.
It is true, as Senator Bate says, that all
of the reservations heretofore set apart
in the far west have been carved from the
public domain. The nearest approach to a
precedent If statesmen must have one. Is
the case of the “Flathead Forest Re
serve.” established by proclamation of
President Cleveland, February 22. 1897. It
comprises one and a third millions of
acres and the east half of it was purchas
ed from the Indians and immediately con
verted to this use. We are a people who
make precedents Instead of allowing prec
edents to make us. The wisest man who
ever lived said that the Sabbath was
made for man and not man for the Sab
bath.
There was no precedent for purchasing
Louisiana: Thomas Jefferson made one.
There was no precedent for despoiling
Mexico; Polk the great expansionist,
seized a mighty empire. There Was no
precedent for a joint occupancy with
Great Britain of the far northwest; wc
made one. .
The famous ordinance of 1737; the
Missouri compromise; the Dred Scott de
cision; the great civil war; the electoral
commission; the attempted Impeachment
of a president; the intervention in Cuba;
to say nothing of a hundred minor inci
dents of our history; all these have been
without precedent.
It is safe to say that the enterprise
ought not to. and will not fail for want
of a precedent.
Geographically considered, this region is
in the center of that portion of the country
east of the Mississippi and south of the
Great Lakes. The establishment of a
great public park here involves vastly
more than a mere economic question con
cerning the farmer and the cotton spinner
of the southern states. It will become a
place of both summer and winter resort
for thousands and thousands of our peo
ple. It lies a day’s journey from New
York; less from Washington. Philadel
phia. Pittsburg, Louisville, Nashville.
Memphte. and dozens of other centers of
popuatibn. As a health resort, it is al
ready famous and has been for many
years. A recent writer has characterized
the region as the very paradise of our na
tive broad-leaved trees.
Up to an elevation of 2.600 feet are
found the oaks, the hickories, the gums,
the maple, the dogwood, the sourwood,
the basswood, the locust, the chestnut,
the birch, the ash. the yellow poplar, the
Once Governor of South Carolina;
Today a Tramp and in Prison g
a GREAT MORAL LESSON IN THE DOWNFALL OF A ONCE BRIL-jxj
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New York Journal.
A week ago ex-Governor Franklin J.
Moses, of South Carolina, was sentenced
in a Boston police court to four months
•n the House of Correction at Deer Island.
Back of this is a life story, strange,
dramatic, pathetic, which teaches a pow
erful moral.
The downfall of Franklin J. Moses from
the social and political influence of chief
executive of a state to a tramp convicted
of passing a worthless check is directly
traced to opium.
The only son of wealthy and influential
parents. Moses had ever}' possible advan
tage. His father was chief justice of the
state of South Carolina, his mother a dis
tinguished southern beauty.
Tall, handsome, of distingue presence,
gifted with exceptional talents, prestige
and wealth. Franklin J. Moses made a
dashing soldier and later an able states
man. That was thirty years ago.
Today he is the ruin of his former self,
bowev. down, haggard and pitiful. His
picture is in the rogues' gallery. He has
neither friends nor money.
He says of himself:
My hair‘is white, my skin is browned
and seasoned, my cheeks are hollowed,
my frame is shrunken, and my hands are
palsied like a man of eighty.
Worse than all. my reputation as a man
among men is gone.
Opium and morphine, the twin curses of
my life, were not content with undermin
ing my health.
It is years since I have tasted either of
them. But the work of destruction they
began all the destructive forces of nature,
disease and aifproaching age have helped
to carry on.
The beginning of my downfall was not
when I lost my political position of gov
ernor of the state of South Carolina.
Some Interesting Tests
Made With Crude Oil
Prof. James E. Denton of Stevens insti
tute. In a report just completed and com
piled in pamphlet form on the use of
crude oil from Beaumont, Tex.,, as fuel,
has reached some interesting conclusions.
The tests were made in New York city,
and were severe and scientific in charac
ter. In the first test 85 pounds of steam
were raised in 59 minutes, while in a test
made later with a heavy coal tire one
hour and 17 minutes were required to raise
the same weight of steam. After this ex
periment a careful examination of the
boiler was made, and no injurious results
were found. Several tests were subse
quently made, with similar results.
The scientific aspects of the experi
ments are gone Into minutely and exhaus
tively by Prof. Denton, but to the lay
mind the Interest in the tests will proba
bly be on the side of economy and the
possibility of ganger. It was found that
four and one quarter barrels of oil will
do the work of a long ton of coal. The
price of the latter is about J 3, while that
of the former is but 71 cents.
One of the large .routhern railways has
been experimenting with crude oil, with
results so satis factory that, before the end
of the year, over 300 engines will be equip
ped for burning oil instead of coal. Prof.
Denton estimates that it will require but
one fireman to attend to 30 oil burners
of 1000 horse-power each, and no ash
handling will be required.
As to the danger from the use of oil, the
report says:
“Experiments with samples of the oil
used for the evaporative tests show the
following results regarding its inflamma
ble £uaUties;
“A pool of oil spilled upon a board can
not be ignited with a match. *The latter
extinguished itself when the match is
partly burned. The instant the match
conies in contact with the oil, air is
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27. 1902.
cucumber. In the next thousand feet of
elevation are found in perfection, yellow
poplar, beech, birch, hemlock, ash, black
walnut and wild cherry. Above the eleva
tion of 3.500 feet the hard woods begin to
dwarf, but there are found along the steep
and sterile slopes and spurs the chestnut,
the chestnut oak. and the red oak. At the
point of 4.000 feet elevation and higher,
comes the region of dense growth of black
spruce and balsam flr.
It will thus appear that no place or
public resort already established can
compare with this In the line of diver
sified forest attractions. To the brain
worried denlztn of the city coming to
find nature In her home each tree is a
friend. The scenery may not be cast in
the rough and titanic mould of the great
west, but it is more pleasing and in many
sections It approaches the grand and
sublime.
Representative Brownlow of the first
district of Tennessee, Is pushing this en
terprise in the house of representatives,
.giving it the title in his bill of the "Mc-
Kinley National Park and Forest Re
serve.” and asking for an appropriation
of ten millions of dollars for the possible
purchase of four millions of acres.
Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina,
is looking after the measure in the sen
ate. His bill contemplates a smaller area
and a much smaller initial appropriation.
He grows enthusiastic when talking of
the enterprise and dropping Into the ver
nacular. says that it is better to start in
by getting “toe-hold.” His bill gives the
enterprise the title of the "Appalachian
Park.”
It Is not proposed here to discuss the
merits of the two names. They are both
good and appropriate. The advocates of
the "McKinley Park” hold that It is emi
nently proper that the enterprise should
bear the name of the lamented dead
president and thus become a monument
to his memory forever. The advocates of
the “Appalachian Park” hold that this
appellation is appropriate by reason of
its distinctiveness. They contend that this
title indicates at once, the location and
something of the scope of the proposed
park.
The secretary's advice is good; the
friends of the measure should pull to
gether; they should agree upon the name
and the method of procedure.
Senator Pritchard talked with
the writer about the measure, xie is a
lover of nature In all her moods. He
spends his vacation upon his farm near
Marshall, and in him, the wounded soil,
the growing trees, the birds and the
beasts of the woods, find a sympathetic
and practical friend.
He says it is not the purpose to sweep
away the homes of the settlers In this
region. All homesteads to .the extent of
three hundred acres each, with buildings,
will be exempt from condemnation.
The matter of jurisdiction of the courts
will remain precisely as it is now. The
state will make arrests and administer
punishments for all offenses against the
state. The authorities of the general
government will take cognizance of all
offenders and offenses against the United
States.
Political reverses come to all men In
public life.
My real ruin dated from the time that
the most brilliant part of my career be
gan.
In 1873 I had just been elected govern
or—the youngest man who ever held that
position in my native state—at the age of
th.rty.
I had fought my way up to that position
to speaker of tne state house of repre
sentatives and to other offices against the
bitterest opposition. I had been in the
Confederate army, but I had become Re
publican. as a matter of principle.
That was equivalent to being called a
traitor by the aristocracy of my state.
At the outset of my administration I
was subjected to a social ostracism. It
was extended to my family and friends.
My Masonic brothers would not speak to
me outside of the lodge room.
I held my head high and tried to ig
nore the taunts and humiliations that
were heaped upon at me at every turn.
My nerves gave way. I could not sleep.
To one of my particular friends I con
fided my sufferings of mind and body.
“My God!" he said, “why do you go on
this way? Take some morphine and
sleep.” That friend, who thought he was
giving me the best of brotherly advice,
was Major J. B. Dennis, formerly of Nor
wich, Conn., who went to South Carolipa
to settle after the war.
I took the advice and sent a messenger
to the apothecary that evening for the
drug.
“Now I will sleep!” I cried exultantly
that night before going to bed, as I poised
a bit of the white stuff on the point of a
penknife before taking the dose.
From that my downfall dated, and I
am what you see me today—waiting for
death to ferry me over the dark river.
Prof. James E. Denton, of <
Stevens Institute, Reaches *
Interesting Conclusions —Oil <
Is 75 Per Ct. Cheaper Than ‘
Coal for Fuel Purposes. '
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excluded from its lower surface, so that
the flame is above the oil, and it cannot,
therefore, vaporize sufficient of the latter
to bring vapor contact with the flame
of the match and* ignite.
“Some glass fruit jars partly filled with
oil were kept at ordinary temperature for
upward of ten days. Lighted matches
were then dropped Into them through a
half-inch hole in the cover without caus
ing any ignition of the contents of the
space above the oil, nor was there any
flame caused by holding the lighted
matches just outside the hole in the cover.
Also, with the cover removed, so as to
expose an opening of about three Inches
in diameter, the contents of the jar above
the oil could not be Ignited by the flame
of a match. •
“The same results were obtained with
the oil at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and no
vapor could be seen ascending from the
jar.’’
RAIN.
The patient rain at early summer dawn;
The long, lone autumn drip; the damp, sweet
hush
Os springtime, when the glinting drops seem
gone
Into the first notes of the hidden thrush;
The solemn, dreary beat.
Os winter rain and sleet;
The mad, glad, passionate calling of the
showers
To the unblossomed hours;
The driving, restless midnight sweep of rain;
The fitful sobbing and the smile again
Os spring's childhood; the fierce unpttying pour
Os low-hung, leaden clouds; the evermore
Prophetic beauty of the sunset storm,
Tranfigured into color and to form •
Across the sky—O wondrous changing rain!
Changeful and full of temper as man's life;
Impetuous, fierce, unpltylng, kind again.
Prophetic, beauteous, soothing, full of strife;
Through all thy changing passions hear not Sta
Th' eternal note of the Unchanging Sea?
—Laura Spencer, in Atlantic Monthly.
A Family Tree While You Wait
BY GEORGE G. SMITH, Vlnevllle, Macon, Georgia.
IN one of the Cincinnati papers there
Is a well written article telling of
how the shrewd Londoners turn a
penny by paying tribute to the vanity
of those Americans who want proof of
long descent and a whole wardrobe of
coats of arms.
They make these records to order.
I found once, in Richmond, a tremend
ous octavo, "American Families of
Royal Descent.” I found the names of
people I had never heard of, but found
they were kingly in birth, evidently as
they were rich. The Astors, I remem
ber, descended from Charlemagne on
one side and Alfred the Great on the
other. I asked Dr. Brock, of Rich
mond. if the man was a fool, or if he
thought his readers were daft. He said
no; he was simply paid for doing this
kind of work. The writer of the ar
ticle referred to is much mistaken in
saying that few of those who emi
grated to America were of good fam
ilies
GOOD FAMILIES.
This expression Is purely English.
By good families an Englishman
means none who are below the rank
of the gentry. As all men know who
have paid any attention to social di
visions, there are In England (1) Roy
alty; (2) nobility, dukes, earls, mar
quises, lords, etc.; (3) gentry, squires,
baronets, etc.; (4) middle class people,
merchants, bankers, etc.; (5) yoeman
ry, farmers not land owners; (6) peas
antry. All of the first three are count
ed from good family, and none others.
VIRGINIA EMIGRATION.
There was a very large number from
these three upper classes who came
both to New England and Virginia,
and it does not require great skill to
connect many American families in a
general way with these English,
Scotch and Irish people, but it is more
a strong conclusion than an establish
ed fact. I do not know a single case
where the demand of a court of chan
cery could be met in going back three
hundred years, but the conclusions of
a historian may be defended and ac
cepted as highly probable, while legal
documentary proof is lacking. In mak
ing my researches I have been able
often times to reach with certainty the
first immigrant to Virginia, but from
that point backward, I had only in
ferences. They were often satisfactory,
but not sustained by legal proof. We
often have a family tradition with
which to start. Sometimes it is worth
less, a piece of pure nonsense. Often
it is a good clue, but very rarely does
it ever prove fully correct. It is some
time the case that one has a directory
in some family record, which suggests
a plan of Investigation and leads to
satisfactory results.
THE GRANTS
I am writing the history A»f Method
ism and heard of the diary of Thomas
Grant, one of the first Georgia Meth
odists. I secured the book and made
copious extracts from It. After my
book was published I discovered that
Colonel I. T. Grant was the grandson
of this Colonel Thomas, of Wilkes.
This journal told that Thomas, the
first emigrant, was a Scotchman, that
he went from Hanover county, Vir
ginia, to North Carolina. I went at
Cantata Grant s, charge to Hanover
and found only one book of the old
records left, the' rest were burned—
but in it I found p. mention of Thomas
Grant, and In searching for other facts-
I 'went to the land office In Richmond
and there I found records of patents to
Thomas Grant and at last a record
of his first coming In 1668. In Green
eville, N. C„ I found other records, so
I made a complete chain back to the
first comer —and no honest man could
go further, not wfth the aid of Burke's
Peerage and Burls e s Landed * Gentry.
If I had been a professional I could
have made a plausible story which
would have reached the kings of Scot
land.
Sometimes the genealogist has pecu
liar helps in a name and in certain
general facts of history, as is shown
by the Talbot family.
THE TALBOTS.
The Earls of Shrewsbury were Tal
bots, and the American Talbots gen
erally claimed connection with them,
but the facts of thle connection was
not proven. I was employed to trace
the Georgia family back to Its first
American head. I soon found he was
Matthew Talbot. I secured his family
Bible and established the fact that he
was a native of Great Britain; that he
was afterwards a cltzcn of Virginia
and a leading man. I traced him by the
records from county to county and
troced him back to his landing In Ma
ryland, Burke’s Peerage said the Earls
of Shrewsbury were Talbots, but no
record was published of any but of
those In the direct line. The first thing,
however, noted was that the family
names of the English and Irish Talbots
were the same as those of the Georgia
family. „
The second, that only In one family,
that of the Talbots of Castle Talbot,
in Ireland, was there found the name
Mathew, but the one there found
could not have been the Mathew in
America, for he was born 50 years after
that Mathew. The fact was noted that
there was a Sir William Talbot, secre
tary of the Maryland colony, that
he was from this family of Castle Tal
bot, that he had a grandson named
Mathew, that he had a brother named
Charles, that a Mathew Talbot, likely
his nephew, came to America, married
Mary Williston about 1720, and was the
founder of the peorgia family. The
oldest son of this Mathew was
Charles, so putting all these facts to
gether, I drew the conclusion that
Mathew Talbot was the son of Charles
of the family of Castle Talbot, and of
the family of Earl Shrewsbury, and re
motely of Sir Richard McTalbot, of
about 1100. Everything was clear
to 1649 for it was supported by docu
ments beyond that there was logical
probability, but one of the most con
vincing kind.
FAMILY NAMES AND TRADITIONS.
Sometimes you are led by a family
name and a family tradition of a place,
and find positive proof from that chain.
The family of Congressman Howard
has in it the name Groves. It Is to be
found in no other Howard family.
That name Is found In Virginia in the
family record of William Howard,
whose name was found in the will of
John Heyward, who died in 1661. With
this fact to start with, it was not dif
ficult to come forward to the present
time but who was John Heyward or
Howard. This question I have never
been able to answer and I was inter
ested, for he was my ancestor. The
facts are a very large number of the
old families of Georgia and Virginia
were from what are known in England
as the best people. Many from the no
bility, more from the baronets, fewer
from the yoemanry and their claim to
a place in the book of heraldry is by
no means an absurd one, but when it
comes to establishing a claim to de
scent from any one member of a
large family such as the Howards,
Campbells, McDonalds, etc.. It Is abso
lutely impossible if 300 years have gone
by. For a hundred years the question
of who were English ancestors of
Washington and of Robert E. Lee have
been an unsettled one.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
The sources to which an intelligent
American goes in the sout h to find
facts are:
1. The Virginia land patents. There
is being published a valuable ab
stract of them in the Virginia Histor
ical Magazine and there Is a record
in the land office In Richmond.
2. The South Carolina records from
those who came through South Caro
lina.
3. The North Carolina state papers.
4. The Maryland archives.
5. The list of Georgia head rights as
found in the secretary of state’s of
fice and as published in the appendix
to my history.
6. A careful personal examination
of the records in the clerks’ offices.,
7. Family Bibles.
And last, family traditions: but per
sonal recollections are always to be .
taken, cautiously. There is a very
honest Intent to tell the truth, but
old people are sometimes forgetful, and
sometimes remember too much.
- The faithful chronicler.
A conscientious genealogist will
have a hard time, I fear, because there
are so many things one wants to find
that he can’t find, and so many things
one does not want found that turn
up; so unless he is making a genealogy
to order and unless he carefully obeys
instructions he will disappoint his cli
ents.
CONCLUSIONS.
I find It to be true almost univer
sally that in very few families of any
position in Georgia there are not to
be found somewhere representatives
of the best English and Scotch bloods,
and in very few is it-what the English
call a pure strain.
The study of genealogy bring out
some very important moral truths. I
find descendants of some of the noblest
families on every line in the depths of
poverty and shame, brought there by
vice, and some of the humblest who
have risen from the lowest walk to the
highest place by religion and industry.
But oftentimes one who was born In
a cabin and brought up by a mother
who could barely read, and "has made
by force his merit known,” has been
found to have descended from one of
the best of old English families, and
sometimes a poor drunken vagabond
or worthless deadbeat has only one
thing to cheer him in "his worthless
ness, and that Is that his blood Is blue.
SUPPLEMENTAL.
It is at first glance a very unlikely
thing that so many obscure people
could have sprung from the good fam
ilies of great Britain and so many
who are people of prominence can es
tablish no such claim. Men are dis
posed to look doubtfully upon all
claims to any other than a very hum
ble origin. When, however, one re
members how many people of. family
were in the old London company who
settled Virginia, and the English cor
porations who settled New England,
and remembers how many of these
people made their homes in America
and how they have multiplied he need
not be surprised that in three hundred
years he should find so large a number
of .descendants. The fact would be
true as you went north till you reach- .
ed Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York. Here Germans, Dutch
men, Frenchmen and Scotch-Irlshmen
were in the majority, and though it
is probable there were many people
of good families among them it was
not possible to trace them back, as
their records were in an unknown
tongue across the > seas, but they could
be easily traced from the early part
of the eighteenth century to the pres
ent time. It is very probable that
many French Huguenots and German
and Dutchmen and Swedes, if we knew
it, represented as good families as any
In England.
It is simply amusing and a trifle dis
gusting when one sees suoh a tuft
hunting spirit as makes all historical
truth subservient to it, and people
have crests on their writing paper and
coats-of-arms on their carriages which
are simply forgeries—but a family
tree ought to be planted in every
household. ,
FAMOUSPAINTINGS MAY
BE SOLD IN AMERICA
LONDON, Jan. 23—Lady Stanley, wife
of Sir Henry M. Stanley, asserts that she
has high authority for saying that Italian
legal difficulties have been overcome and
that negotiations are well advanced for
the transfer of the entire Borghese gallery
to the United States. She implores the
civilized world to join in averting such a
catastrophe.
The Italian chamber of deputies on No-
last, passed a bill appropriating
3,500,000 lire ($675,500) for the purchase of
the Villa. Borghese collection of pictures,
statuary and other art objects, the esti
mated value of which is >0,000,000 lire (sl.-
930,000.) Prince Borghese, who was in
financial difficulties, offered to donate the
entire collection of paintings to the Italian
nation if he were permitted to sell
“Raphael’s Sacred and Profane Love”
abroad, for which he has been offered
7,000,000 lire, but the government, under
the law, refused to give him permission
to sell it. It was further announced some
time ago that the city of Rome would
purchase the villa and park.
The Borghese gallery is regarded as be
ing the finest private collection of paint
ings In the world. Among the best known
works in it are Correggio’s “Danae” and
Raphael’s “Entombment.” The statuary
in the collection Is not regarded as of
great importance, but the modern sculp
ture includes several masterpieces, such
as Canova’s “Venus Vtctrix.”
Colored Shoes.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter.
A manufacturer of men’s shoes, and who
has during the past five or six years given
special attention to tans, russets, and other
shades of colored shoes, said: “I am between
two fires as far as being satisfied tn regard
to the use of colored shoes. Some jobbers
whom mv salesmen have visited decline even
to look at samples, others express some doubt
as to whether they will be worn and will not
place anv sample orders, while others are
imbued with the idea that any jobber or re
tailer who does not carry a line of colored
shoes will miss many sales. I am personally
convinced that New England, New York State,
Pennsylvania and perhaps other states will call
for the popular shades of colored shoes with
the opening of spring and summer, and yet I'
have a lingering doubt as to what extent I
would be warranted in buying colored calf.
A great many salesmen are now out, and we
shall be enlightened on their return, but the
trouble is that when wearers want colored
shoes they w’ant them quick, and we may en
counter a demand that we are not prepared
for.”
A German patent filed In London is a ma
chine for digging potatoes and separating thent
from the soil. Another for a hat provided with
a sponge saturated with water, ether or other
substances for keeping the head cool.. Still
another Invention is an umbrella with a handle
that bends at two joints.
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Gen. Kirby Smith's Brigade
At ’Battle of cManassas
GRANDVIEW, Tex., Jan. 12.
Editor Journal:
I see a great many of the old veterans
have written of their experience in the
late war, all of which I carefully read
with great delight. I have never seen any
thing from anyone of my command. I
was born and raised 30 miles north of At
lanta- I moved to Fayette county, Ala
bama, In 1852, volunteered the Ist of June,
1861. in company I. Eleventh Alabama
regiment, commanded by Sydnyham
Moore, of Greensboro, Ala.
Company I was ordered to join the reg
iment at Mobile, Ala. We arrived in Mo
bile the 19th of June, to find the regiment
had left for Montgomery, with orders to
follow on. We left Mobile on Sunday
morning on the St. Charles boat and ar
rived at Montgomery the next Sunday
morning. The command had gone to At
lanta with orders to follow on to Knox
ville. Tenn. When we got there the com
mand had gone to Lynchburg, leaving
orders for us to join the command at
Lynchburg Va. The regiment met the
company at the depot. We camped at the
fair ground and were mustered into ser
vice the 4th of July, 1861. We were soon
ordered to Richmond, Va.. and the Elev
enth Alabama was placed in General
Johnson’s division, Kirby Smith’s bri
gade.
We were ordered to Manassas Junction,
and from there to Winchester. We took
the train to Strausbury, eighteen miles
from Winchester, and from there march
ed along the macadamized road, and on
that road we met a train of passenger
cars, consisting of engine and four coach
es. pulled by horses. They were captured
at Charlestown, W. Va. The old soldiers
will remember this circumstance. We
went into line of battle east of Winches
ter and in plain view of Bunker Hill mon-
20th Ga. Regiment Took Part
In Attack On Fort Saunders
< BY GEO. M’RAE.
Editor Journal: I notice that D. I. Wal
den writes in The Journal that on the
night before the battle of Knoxville the
Tenth Georgia regiment was selected to
make the preliminary advance.
But the Tenth Georgia was not the only
'regiment in that advance. I do not re
member and cannot say how much of the
Twentieth Georgia regiment was employ
ed in driving In the enemy’s pickets that
night, but I know that company H, of the
Twentieth, was engaged, as I was with
them at the time. Furthermore I remem
ber that we were assigned to the most In
teresting point of the whole proceedings—
exactly in front of the key of the enemy's
position, and from this fact our experi
ence that night differed somewhat from
that given by Mr. Walden.
Fort Saunders was the key to the ene
my’s position .and that is where Long
street made the attack. If he had suc
ceeded in carrying Fort Saunders the bal
ance of the enemy's workstwould have
been at his mercy.
It was a large and strongly built fort,
situated on the top of a great bald hill.
As the enemy’s pickets retired we slowly
advanced in the darkness, in skirmish
line, until we came within a few yards of
the great walls of the fort, perhaps about
seventy-five yards. There we busied our
selves the balance of the night digging
rifle pits In front pf the fort. So, while
Mr. Walden and the Tenth Georgia were
shivering in the cold we were keeping
ourselves warm at work with pick and
spade. We barely had time to finish our
rifle pits before daylight. But we finished
them in time, and were safe in them when
open daylight exposed our exact position
to the enemy. Our business was to sharp
shoot into the port holes of the fort as
soon as it became light enough to see
them, so as to, prevent the artillerymen
from firing on our line of battle as it ad
vanced to the attack. We performed this
duty' successfully, for they did not fire
on our advancing line of battle until after
it had passed over us. Then of course we
had to cease sharp shooting when our
own men were between us and the enemy.
They had their great guns ready loaded
with grape and canister, and when our
line of battle came within about seventy
five yards of the fort they let every can
non go at once. At the same time their
infantry placed their rifles on top of the
works, firing on our men without expos
ing any part of their own bodies except
their fingers, for they had previously
taken the precaution to so level or slant
the top of the wall of the fort that when
their rifles were laid on it they would
point exactly to our advancing column.
They probably did more damage in this
way than if the enemy had stood up in
the ordinary way and nervously fired at
us. But if they had known it, our men
had unloaded guns. They meant to take
the fort, if they took it at all, with cold
steel.
Notwithstanding the murdegous Are so
suddenly let loose on them, our-men con
tinued to advance until they came to the
walls of the fort. Not quite to the walls,
either, for they found a deep and wide
canal all along in front of the fort that
could not be crossed. They lingered at
the edge of the canal helplessly a few
moments and retired in haste out of the
trap of death, leaving many of their brave
comrades lying dead and wounded be
tween our line of rifle pits and the fort,
without having fired a gun. Nor had they
anything to shoot at if their guns had
been loaded, except the bare walls of the
great fort. . *
General Bumside at once offered a truce
which was accepted, and the enemy came
out of the fort In great numbers, and as
sisted with great kindness in caring for
our wounded.
They did not claim the wounded as their
prisoners. Neither side could claim the
battle ground, for we still held our rifle
pits, and they the fort, and the wounded
on the battle ground were between us. If
they had attempted to rush over us, two
of our batteries, one to the right and the
other on the left, would have severely
punished them.
When the truce was proclaimed and they
showed their numbers, we found they
had two defending the fort to our one
attacking It. The battle was fought about
sunrise, maybe a little before; it only
lasted two or three minutes, and there
was no more firing all that day. Me could
have easily taken any other part of their
works, but we could not have neld them
while they held Fort Saunders.
Longstreet had Burnside and his ar
my shut up In Knoxville; also old Par
son Brownlow. The Confederates particu
larly wanted to get Brownlow. The plan
was to.starve them Into submission, and
we would doubtless have succeeded if the
genius of General Grant had not broken
up our arrangements. When he got things
ready, he not only broke our connection
or communication with General Bragg’s
army near Chattanooga, but he tore
Bragg’s army to pieces and started a
force to the relief of Burnside at Knox
ville. This force was coming up behind
us, on the same route we went to Knox
ville. If Burnside would surrender be
fore this new force would arrive, then
we could hold our ground against It; but
if we w’ould remain there waiting on
Burnside to surrender until this relief
force would arrive, then we would be be
tween the two armies and would have to
surrender ourselves. This relief force
would arrive before Bumside . woul<j
have time to starve; and Longstreet was
probably ashamed to hasten away with-
ument on the 18th of July.
We remained there until Friday after
noon. when we were ordered to Manassas,
58 miles by dirt road. Does any of the
old soldiers remember the spout of water
in the Shenandoah Valley coming out of
a green tree, and do they likewise recall
wading?
We camped at a place called Piedmont,
four or five miles from Manassas, the 20th
of July.
Sundav morning, July 21st, there was a
collisions of trains between Piedmont and
Manassas. This collision was done for the
purpose of cutting off this part of Gen
eral Johnson’s army. The conductor on
the down train was shot and killed by the
soldiers on the up train. ,
General Smith’s brigade marched north
east through wood and field, and’formed
on Beauguard’s left, just as the Yankees
were making a flank movement on the
general’s left. Just at this place is where
General Kirby Smith was wounded in the
neck, and I will add that the Yankees
got a bad licking in this battle.
We expected to go on to Washington
city from this point, but instead we camp--
ed on the battlefield that night and re
mained there one month.
I have a walking stick that I cut the
22d day of July close to where General
Bartow, of Cartersville, fell. The Ma
sons met there to raise a monument over
the place where he fell and I cut the stick t
from a cedar tree that was shot off by a
cannon ball close to that place. I will
take it to Dallas next year to the reunion
if I live and am able to go. It is just 50
miles from here to Dallas, where I hope
to meet some of my old regiment and
company.
There are only six of company I living
so far as I know. P. M. NeWTON,
Co. 1., Hth. Ala., Reg.
out doing something. He probably thought
that Burnside’s men, being on short ra
tions were discouraged. But whatever was
to be done had to be done qtrtckly. If he
succeeded In carrying Fort Saunders that
morning, it would be considered a brilliant
stroke, and with Burnside’s army disarm
ed he could turn about and face the new
foe that approaching.
Every one that participated tn or wit
nessed the attack on Fort Saunders felt
that it was a most unfortunate as well aa
ill planned affair.
Mcßae, Ga. \ ’
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It Is said that Herbert C. Hoover Is one of
the highest salaried men of his years in the
Industrie! world. At the age of twenty-nine
is in receipt of <33.000 annually for his ser
vices aa a mining expert.
At Montalto, in the province of Genoa In
tearing down an old church a small under
ground room was found full of old art objects
of the Roman time, chiefly chiseled sliver
amphorae and vases filled with gold and sliver
coins.
England’s oldest physician. Dr. G. W. Ed
gar died recently at Monkseaton at the age of
ninety-nine years. He had two brothers, also
doctors, who died at ninety-four and ninety
three. and a third doctor brother cut oft at
eighty.
An American woman traveling tn the far east
noticed that her relatives sent her magazines
with the advertisements cut out In order to
economize on postage. She wrote them that If
they must tear out some th Ing to leave the ad
vertlsements and eliminate the reading mat
ter.
Three government agricultural stations have
been established in Alaska, and from all come
more favorable reports than were looked for.
Though the temperature last winter reached
TO degrees below zero, rye planted In the fall
was protected by several feet of snow, and
matured perfectly. .
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