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EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH MARCH 2, 1907. &f>e SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslnefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA Entered at the poatafllre Atlanta, Gn.,aa aecond-claaa mail matter March 13, 1»01 The Sunny South Is the oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Fatfl and Fiction In the South & It is now re. flared to the original shape and will be published as for. merly every week £> Founded in 1874 it grew until 1809, when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an expert• meat S? It now returns to Its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of eelips. Ing Its most promising period In the past. Mother’s Pampered Darling i\OME weeks ago we action of a certain discussed lady of the New York city who had sent her son on orous and continual exercise mean a disease-resist ing physique and a vice-resisting mind in later years. They are teaching him. unconsciously, perhaps, to shrink from those rougher encounters which must play a part in the lives of the most fortunate of men. They are putting a discount on the cour age and tenacity which are the deciding factors when the young man gets out into the world, with no indulgent father or pampering, consoling mother to fight his battles. The standards of the latticed nursery are not those of real lite. Any man or any woman who has lived to mature age ought to be aware of the radical contrast. Tn the world, it is give and take—or go to the rear on a stretcher, or give place to some man or woman with the boldness and the com bative power to attack the problems which every day creates for itself. It is, therefore, a cruelty to the coming man to leave him unequipped for the struggle. He will not thank you for it in later vears, though he may sob his babyish appreciation on your shoulder when you interfere to save him from a well-deserved drubbing at the hands of a bov of his own size. It is. moreover, an injustice to the community. Every state, the countrv itself, needs men of steady hands, clear brains, calm and proved courage, to work out the larger material destinies of the twen Sure! Loot His Pockets a trip around the world during his j lict, J c . entur ';. J he “mollycoddle” will have no part most impressionable years, her | H1 “ lcn making. theory being that the best way to I make a man strong morally was to ! keep him entirely ignorant of even j the existence of evil. We combated i her viewpoint, our argument being j that the most effectual formula for i inculcating resistance to evil in j young men was in warning them, ■ frankly, of its existence and its per ils, showing them its repulsive side ! and then watching them with a keen eye and help-1 ing them with an intelligent hand when they opened ! their battle with the world. We pictured the dis- I astrous results where the young man was kept in j monkish seclusion and turned loose, as from a mon- | asterv, to play the strange game, of competition and crude and refined emotions called life. Closely related to the folly of sheltering a boy too sedu lously on the moral side, is the practice of shielding him from the friendly rivalry and the little rough nesses of physical play as they develop in the romps of early childhood, later maturing in the contests of physical prowess on the football gridiron, the baseball diamond, the footpath and other forms of young men’s sports. President Roosevelt, in this connection, delivered himself with characteristic candor and vigor in a recent address before the Harvard Union. Declaring that all men of robust mental and physical viewpoint loathed the “molly coddle,” he urged such discriminate indulgence in college athletics as would test the student’s capac ity to endure slight physical pain, make strong his muscles, and produce in him that subjective and objective courage without which his chances in the more serious business of life are dangerously im paired. The president is, himself, an exemplar of the vir tues of the life outdoors and of that courage and tenacity which does not flinch at grappling with obstacles of any nature—one of the most desirable ■results likely to grow out of the clash of man ^Rgainst man in friendly rivalry. We believe the average American father and mother have tolerably wholesome ideas in this con nection. They hold, as a rule, to that sound doc trine which decrees that a body must be sduuid be fore the mind for which it is only a tenement can be sane and productive. Undoubtedly, however, there are mothers here [will be lavishly generous where the food supply is and there—fathers, too, for that matter—who sys- concerned—he generally has a healthy appetite and tematically pamper their sons, wailing over every [loves to eat. Put let the woman propose anv nice- little scratch which appears on the cuticle, rigidly ties in the way of adornment for herself, clothes or forbidding participation in games likely to cost a j shoes for the children, an occasional pleasure which bruise or a jar, and fiercely denouncing the boy ! may cost money—and vou will see the purse across the way who may have, in the heat of his | strings pucker with a truly startling suddenness, anger or the enthusiasm of his resentment, dealt i When such a man heads a household, there are precious Algy a blow which blossomed into a black Icertainly extenuating circumstances if his wife finds eye. j herself under the compulsion of occasionally rifling In pursuing such a course they are simply rais-jhis pockets. The pitv of it is, she is generally, ing a hothouse son, a sort of masculine exotic—one [under the laws of convention, forced to keep a smil- of the most pitiable of the species that are called ing face to the world and givte her husband credit upon at the ballot box to settle the destinies of the for all the cardinal virtues. nation. They are denying him that full play of the May the judge who issued a righteous decision bodily energies at the formative period, when vig- rest in peace. JUDGE who, at one time in his life, decided that the wife had the legal right to go through her husband’s pockets anil extract therefrom small change when the gentleman was too miserly to provide for the necessaries of life, has just died. We hope he will receive his reward in the after-life if he did not in this one. For his decision was a right eous one. It would not be amiss if the women of the country who have found themselves in difficul ties from taking his advice should band together and erect a monu ment to his memory. Probably they will. We arc not, primarily, in favor of pocket-picking as be tween husband and wife, where the motives are tiiose of suspicion or distrust or idle, petty curios ity. If madame thinks her lord has been capering with another lady and tHat his pockets conceal doc umentary evidence to that effect, it simply adds indelicacy to his indecency for her to rifle his clothes in search of evidence. Neither is she going to be one whit the happier if site finds it, though she is pretty likely to be miserable if she does not find it—thinking that it is simply the criminal guile of Mr. Sly that has defeated her carefully laid plans. The same principle applies to the man who ran sacks his wife’s desk or opens her private corre-' spondence. in the hope of stumbling upon some verification for his gnawing suspicions. The day that relations between man and wife become so strained as to lead either of them to resort to this sort of espionage, it is time they either indulged in a fit of frankness, or stifled their suspicions in the interests of mutual peace of mind. But the miserly husband is an entirely different reposition. And there are plenty of them—never ! w T.t. t ^ hed ‘ A Belated Valentine Rondeau. Sweetheart—of all words known Tliis vocable alone Describes lier best to me— So dear, so fair is she, So like a rose full-blown. If she were carved in stone. Or, if her face were shown On canvas, one would see Sweet art. So, at my beauty's throne, 1 kneel*In worship prone, And make my lover's plea. What will her answer be, A melody or moan? Sweetheart?—Tart? —Life. Wanted Permanent ^Employment. Old Sam had been for several days pa tiently sitting on the bank of the Rappa hannock river, near the dam, holding ids shotgun in his hand. Finally he attracted the attention o; a passerby, who asked: '"Well, Uncle Sam, are you looking for something to do?" ''X T o. sail,” answered Sam; "I'se getlin' paid fo' what I s doin’.” “Indeed!" answered the stranger. ‘‘And what may that be?” ‘‘Shootin’ de miskrats dat am under “Shootin' dem muskrats dat am under- “Well, there goes one now," exclaimed the stranger excitedly, "why don’t you shoot?" “S'pose I wants to lose my job, sab?" answered Sam complacently. Along' tHe Highway By FRJIMK l~ STJINTOK J LAUGHTER AND TEARS. I. I gave Life my sighing— The tenderness of tears; But Life, it asked for laughter To ripple through the years. II. "Earth has too much of sorrow,” Life said, "And skies of gray; Let me weep tomorrow— Let me laugh today!” III. But thorny path or rosy, This thought tfame with the years: Life walks the way, but knows not The laughter from the tears! OLD TIME PHILOSOPHY. Some folks try to get on the good side of Providence by doing little ex cept. abusing the devil. Trouble must give us credit for be ing mighty obliging, since all of us meet it half way. Some times it isn't so hard to rise in the world as it is to keep from getting dizzy when you reach the summit. On the road to the Halleluia coun try you'll be sure to find people com ing back to get the troubles they left behind. THE MIDDLIN’ BROTHER, 1. He was this kind of a feller— When trouble come projickin’ roun’. He’d up an’ he’d say. In the cheerfuiest way: “I’m still upon middlin’ groun’!” M. Never did hear him complainin’— Tellin’ his woes to the town; All that you heard Was that hopeful, bright word: “I'm still upon middlin’ groun’!” III. The world never knew of his sorrow— Never saw tears trickle down; With the thorns at his breast, Still he looked at his best: — “I'm still upon middlin’ groun'!” THE PUBLISHER’S TRAGEDY. “Poor fellow!” ssaid the author. “To whom do you refer?" “My former publisher. See that man slinking along over the way?" “Fellow in the threadbare suit?” “The same. He took me up when I was an unknown quantity in liter ature. I wrote three novels, got fa mous, then leaned away back and dictated terms to him. In other words, i turned the tables on him. You- see the result?” “Hasn't lie got anything at all?” “Oh, yes! I send him a little some- Leaves from an Old Scrap Book By A GEORGIA COLONEL. G Talk about literary men being push-1 onoe in a while, and let hirn ed for time—there's President Roose- j holcl ni >' automobile on dark nights! velt. who runs the government iku! writes books on the side! LIVIN’ ALONG. I. I know ti-at (he sorrow Will sometime be song, So I just keep a-livin’— A-livin’ along. Way of Philanthropy. A lady who was recently appointed ;.s visitor to a hospital for children, fearing 'hat poor children failed to receive :he same attention bestowed on those of | richer parents, paid her first visit to the i institution, intending to effect a change, I says The Philadelphia Ledger. In a wa d i she found a tiny hoy quite alone. lie i informed her that there was another boy I ■n tlie ward, but that he was being ex amined before a clinic. The lady loose around her for evidence of neglect o the part of tiie attendants. A suit ■' clothes lay huddled on a chair. Foldin them in an orderly manner, she said: "Surely my dear, these trousers at too long for you by several inches.” "Yes, ma’am,'' replied the boy. “A sin and a shame." cried she, an] | took a “companion" from her bag. Sh* ! sat down and cut off the legs of the gar- ( ment and hemmed the edges. “Now."’ she said triumphantly, when j the task was. completed, "they will i.t j you better.” “The other boy's taller than me." re-! plied the child. “They belong to him.' By HELEN HARCOURT. If. ' I bore’s a bright star that shines Where the black tempests throng | So I just keep a-livin'— A-livin’ along! III. No light will forsake me— No rose do me wrong; So I just, keep a-livin'— A-livin' along! KEEPING THE FIRE UP He doesn’t mind the coal trust— So favored is his lot; The poems editors declined Will keep the stove red-hot! He pitches in a story— A love song, in its turn. (.The latter sure is warm enough To make the fire burn!) Though deep must be the sorrow That geniuses endure. The manuscripts returned to them Keep ’em from freezing, sure! THE DIFFERENCE. “Samson's strength was in his hair.” “Yes, but that new poet's hair is a yard long, and he isn't strong enough for a prize fighter." Why She Was Mad. “Foreign relations," said Senator Oul- ! lom recently, “are delicate things, an ] must be handled delicately, says The St Louis Globe-Democrat. “Foreign relations, in fact, remind m ■ ol a newly married couplel heard about 1 the other day. “Their life had been very happy for a year. Not a cloud /md marred their pc - r eot felicity Th.c'Jpne morning, the wif-- eame down to breakfast morose ml doubt that fact. They will, cheerfully, spend sev eral dollars on the “hoys” down-town and get a widespread reputation for generosity—while groan ing and snarling over every penn)- which the wife may request to pay the butcher and the grocer. I There is another varictv of Mr. 'I ight-Wad. He snappish with her husband. She would hardly speak to him. And for a long while she refused to expi-ru her unwonted eonduet. “Finally, though, the young man, in sisting that he be told why his wife was treating him so badly, she looked up with tears in her eyes and said: “ ‘John Smith, If T dream again that vou have kissed another woman, T won'- i speak to you again as long ns I live.’ ! Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. HEN the British were forc ed to evacuate Philadel phia, in June. 1777, and it became evident that they were about to take up march through New Jer sey to New York, it was a mooted question among the American generals as to whether “ Sir Henry Clinton should be allowed to proceed unmolested or whether his march should be made as difficult as pos- *3* This Is the Largest launch in the World ^ AKIE a Mexican Central train at El Paso, Tex., travel south into the land of Manana for ten hours, and if j-otij- engineer is following schedule time you will be traveling for the entire period through the ranch of one man. This king among ranch owners is General Luis Terrazas, former governor of many of his tnterests to other mem- . hers of his family. A 'few years ago lie gave nip tiie office | of governor of Chihuahua, which he had j held for years, and secured tiie place for | his son-in-law. Enriquez Z. Creel, a man j of very much the same type as tiie forme-.' ; governor, and on* who is ready to carry j on the same policies in regard to the fam- \ ily estate and the political government. | A host of nephews, cousins and other j relatives, many of them able financiers and business men. are engaged in the j 'Of the state oC Chihuahua I various department of the gigantic busi- and estimated to 'be the wealthiest citizen of the southern repub lic. Putting his ranch . holdings at a very low estimate and reckoning his cattle and marketable property at average rates. Ills wealth totals more than S2CO,- 000,000. For all that anyone knows tt may be actually double that figure. The astiuite old general, who has proved nt-ss. managing banks, directing the cat tle raising, caring for grain interests or controlling the big mining 'property. EMBRACES CITY OF CHIHUAHUA. The city of Chihuahua itself, with a -poipulation of 31,000, is within the ranch proper, and practically all its business interests are under the domination of Terrazas, directly or indirectly. Two himself one of the shrewdest business) lange ore smelters, an iron -foundry, sev- men of Mexico, never talks of ills riches | eral cotton seed mills, a soap factory, a and professes even to be unable to state what he is worth. It is left to outsiders to guess from the portion of his property that is visible to the eye. OWNER’S IMMENSE WEALTH. Mexicans who are competent to state say that not even Pedro Alvarado, who offers to pay off the Mexican national debt with precious metal from his fa mous mines, Is as wealthy as the ex- governor of the largest state of the re public. How large Terrazas' ranch actually is it Is impossible to say. Ridiing steadily on horseback from north to south hardened vaqueros require three days to make the trip from one boundary line to the other. East and west th° width varies consid erably, running at times as high as 300 miles and others narrowing down to lit tle more than 100. The line of the Mexi can Central railroad runs through it for 270 miles, or in the metric nomenclature Mexico, for 440 kilometers. Vast MBpanses of grazing land, pieces of desert, fruitful valleys, little towns, villages and 0©od-sized cities are all embraced In Its ©onflnes. OWNER NOW AGED MAN. General Terrazas is just past his 75th birthday, an event which was celebrate,! with great pomp and. show throughout tiie city and state of Chihuahua. On a-- brewery and the banking houses make up the principal business bouses of the (place. Even the daily newspaper Is ed ited and managed Terrazas. With the wide this one man. very little of it is unde 1 by a connection of domain controlled hv nil dressed in white and mounted on ipurt white horses taken from the ranch herds, were sent to the train to act as an escort to the gu ests for their trip to the scene of the wedding. CATHEDRAL’S INTERESTING HIS TORY. So many were tlie horses on the ranch, ■that tlte thousand tpure white ones, with- | out mark or blemish, were* found without i difficulty. The city of Chihuahua possesses con- siderable historic interest as the place I where Hidalgo, tlie father of Mexican Independence, .'■ailed by the Mexicans ! “the George Washington cf Mexico," was ! shot July 30. 1811. A statue is ere-cted I on the spot to his memory. The great | cathedral of the city, costing more than 1 $800,000, is of exceptional architectural beauty and has an interesting history. Its ; cost was met exclusively by a percent- agt tax u pon the fabulously rich Santa | Eulalia silver mine, located about 15 miles south of the city, amd still noted as a producer. LARGEST LAND OWNER IN THE WORLD. Besides having the .premier distinction of being the richest man tn Mexico, Gen eral Terrazas may claim to be the largest l land owner in the world, his .ranch hold- His Troubles. Tn a small Georgia town, says an ex change, lives an old negro couple, the support for both being the wife. Unci*- Zeke spends most of his time fishing in the brick-yard pond, not that he expcc.s to catch any fish, but “‘des tpr hab som harmless ‘musement, chile." Aunt Marv takes in washing. One day one of Aunt Mary’s patrons broached the subject to her, and sug gested that she should not encourage her husband’s laziness by supporting him in idleness, but Aunt Mary protested. “‘Deed, honey, mall ole man ain't lazy.” she exclaimed: “it's des' dem scientific notion he dun get when he was a-wuckin’ at de college.” “But what have scientific theories git to do with his not working?” the lady de manded. "Got er whole lot ter do. honey," Aurl Mary said, gathering up her basket. “Vo' «e. dem ideas what he got was dat hit wasn't healthy ter wuk after meals, an’ he ain't been able ter figger out no was ter 'complish dat not ye:—'less he gibs op eatin’, an* course he can't do dat!" Just Quips. “Do you know that I am soon to be engaged to Mr Huber?” “Is tiiat so? Has he spoken to your mother?” "No, but my mother has spoken to him.”— ileggendorfer Blaetter. seventeenth of June, Washing- i a council of war to consider measures it would be best to adopt. Whether to attack the enemy at once, whether the army should maintain its present position until the final evacua tion had taken place, or move at once | troor towards the Delaware: whether, should | the army march through the Jersey, it would be advisable to attack them on the way or to push on directly to the Hudson and secure that important com munication 'between the eastern and southern states; also, whether, in case an attack while on the march was de cided on. should it ‘be a partial or a gen eral one? These were the questions laid before the council of war by the commander-in- chief. General Lee, his second in com mand, always wayward and cynical, and ever, like General Gates, in jealous op position to his great superior, argued against an attack of any kind, saying tlie Sir Henry Clinton had ten thousand men splendidly equipped and disciplined. Our own forces were about the same in number, but poorly equipped and for the most part undisciplined. An attack would endanger the safety of the cause. His advice, Lee concluded, was merely to follow tlie enemy and prevent them from committing any excesses as they | traversed the country. j Several of the officers agreed with Lee. I The most prominent and experienced, ! however, Greene, Wayne, Lafayette and j Gadwallader, considered that the enemy j ought not to be permitted to make a j long march unmolested. An opportunity might be found for striking a signal blow j that would retrieve many American I losses and at the same time inspirit tiie troops. Such counsel as this was exactly I after Washington's own heart and judg- I ment. GREAT SECRECY. I Just at this juncture .word was brought ^ l to the council that Philadelphia was al ready actually evacuated. Sir Henry Passenger (about to leave the cars, sees his heavy satchel fall from the rack on a lady's head)—That's very fortunate. I had just forgotten it was tilt re.— Fliegende Blaetter. Stoekson—One day last week old man Gotrox bought a lot of those "Do now" signs and hung ’em around office. Bond—‘How dirt the staff take it? Stoekson—Almost unanimously. The I Clinton had made his plans with great cashier skipped witii $30,000, the head ] secrecy and dispatch. His army began bookkeeper eloped with the private sec retary, three c lerks asked for an increase of salary, and tiie office boy lit out to become a highwayman and got as fat- west ns Pittsburg before lie was caught and disarmed.—Judge. cultivation. By far the greater portion j ings easily taking first plaice for extent is used for stock grazing, and it that at the present lime 1.000.000 said •attle I among the known properties of today. Other randies in Mexico frequently count roam the ranges of the Terrazas ranch, j i.qoo.OOO to 3.000.000 acres apiece, and The Lesser Responsibility. Gladys. I, j^ad landed on the Jersey shore. Wash- ant going to buy an automobile and I j (n gton immediately detached Genera! want you to go and help me select one. . Maxwell with his brigade to cooperate Cousin Jack .Not for me, little git!. w j t j, General Dickinson and the New Why, I even wouldn’t pick )ou out a j jersey militia in harraesing the enemy ) on the march. Then, breaking up his Hast .year 700,000 calves were branded, so a su'cknian of the district avers. HEADS OF STOCK INNUMMERABLE These figures, It must be borne tn mind, do not include the herds of goats, sheep, horses, mules and burros, of each of whicli there are thousands of head. No pretense is madie to state within several thousand the roumber of heads of stock on the ranch, and this fact is one of the causes for the lack of definite informa tion as to the exact wealth of the Ter razas family. There is a story told among tiie vaqueros of the ranch demonstrating tlte vastness of the herds they have to care for. At one time, so they say. a favor ite cousin of General Terrazas was to be married at one cf tiie numerous pic turesque ramchliouses. The wedding guests were all to come by special train to a point some 10 miles distant front count of his advancing years he has the hacienda, and by order of General gradually relinquished the management I Terrazas a cavalcade of 1,000 vaqueros. the Zuloaga family claims 5,000,000 acres but n‘ ne approach Terrazas’ record of more than 15.000,000 acres. There is Scotch blood in the veins of the Terrazas family a few generations back, and this may account for their unusual business sagacity. Governor Creel, the present hend of Chihuahua, takes his name from Ids Scotch ancestors and others of the family, following this Mexican custom, have assume,) the same r ante. HOW RANCH WAS SECURED. Possess! n of the immense holdings was secured partly by purchase, partly by other means—some say by appropriation— soon after General Terrazas was sent into Chihuahua to assume the military control of the country and subdue its rebellious people. When, he had finished his work a grateful government gave him large grants as a testimonials of his good Continued on Fourth Page. husband.—Puck. A Mere Onlooker.—“They claim the cost of living is going up. Do you find it so?" "What have I to do with the cost of living? I board.—Washington Herald. The Garden of Love. (From The New York Times.) Man ha,.-s got four ages. As you here will see; 111 his happy childhood Gets the Christmas tree. Past that blissful season. Older grown to be. Then from Eve's fair daughter* Gets the apple tree. When for bread and butter All his children yell. He must with a hustle Shake the plum tree well. I,asl, when lean and slippered. All his pleasures flee. He has grave suspicions Of a lemon tree. How Washington Turned the Tide ^ At the Battle ©f Monmouth ^ IN TWO PARTS-PART I. l.v keeping along the mountainous coun try to the left, of the northern road. Sir Henry was moving very slowly. He was encumbered with wagons and provisions in Igrge quantities. His train of wagons and led horses was twelve miles in length. Moreover, the same heavy rains and intense heat that had delayed Wash ington's march, also affected Sir Henry's advance, and in addition bridges bad to lie built and causeways reconstructed over creeks and marshes, which had been destroyed by the Americans. Sii Henry's dilatory movements made Washington suspicious tha.t he was seek ing to tempt him down into the level country, anti then, by a rapid movement to tiie right, give himself the advantage of the higher ground above him, and then bring on a general action under un- : favorable conditions for the Americans, i Washington was anxious for such a com bat whenever ire could attack on favor- | able ground. He, therefore, halted at ■, j Hopewell, five miles from Princeton, and j held another council of war while the re resting. The conference did not satisfy the commander-in-chief. The majority, previously influenced toy I^ee, advised keeping at a distance from the enemy and annoying them toy rear and flank attacks by small detachments. In pursuance of these tactics a body of 1,500 men was sent off under the com mand of General Scott to join the other troops near the enemy’s line. Lee an grily opposed the sending of even so large a force as this. As 'before. Generals Greene, Lafayette and Wayne differed front the majority, and at Washington's request gave their opinion in writing that the rear of the British army could he attacked by a strong detachment while the main army shotild give a general action whenever favorable conditions could lb e secured. This view agreed with Washington's own judgment also, and he resolved to act upon it without further delay. REVOLUTIONARY COURTESY. Meantime Sir Henry Clinton had reach ed Allentown on his way to Brunswick, intending to embark on the Raritan river. Fearing, however, that the passage of the river would be opposed by Washing ton. and learning that other troops were coming from the north tinder the com mand of Gates, he changed his plans, turning to the right to a road that led through Freehold to Navesink and Sandy Hook, with the intention of embarking at tiie latter place. So now at last the enemy’s route was no longer in doubt, and Washington at ence sent Wayne witii 1,000 men to join tiie advanced corps, which, with this ad dition, now amounted to 4,000. The com mand of this corps belonged to Lee, as the senior major-general. Lafayette, however, entreated Washington to give it to him, and as Lee was so strenuously opposed to any attack at all, Washington gave ills consent, provided that Lee was willing. Tiie latter ceded his right to La fayette without hesitation, saying that he “was well pleased to be freed from all responsibility In executing plans that were sure to fail." Lafayette therefore set out without de lay to join the force under General Scott Washington, leaving his baggage and other encumbrances at Kingston, moved with his main body to Cranberry, three miles in the rear of Scott and I,afay- ette's forces, so as to bo ready to sup port them. And now again. General Lee proved as usual, “ft thorn in the flesh" to his commander. • Scarcely had he given up his command "gladly.” when he changed his mind and desired to take it back. He did not consider it fitting, he said, that a young volunteer general should be second in command. He did not approve of the marching of the de tachment, but if it was to march, he wanted to be at its head. This tardy change of mind placed Washington in an embarrassing position, which probably was Lee's Intention. He did not see how he was to satisfy Lee without hurting Lafayette’s feelings. But a sudden change of plan on tiie part of Sir Henry Clinton furnished a solution. Finding himself harassed by the Ameri cans on his flanks and in danger of being attacked in the rear, lie sent all his bag gage to the front under the convoy of i its retrograde movement at 3 o'clock in | the morning of the eighteenth of June, crossing tiie Delaware in boats from a ! point of land below tiie city, formed by | tlte junction of the Schuylkill and the i Delaware. By 10 o'clock the rear guard camp at Valley Forge, lie, himself, push ed forward with tiie main body of the army in pursuit of the retreating Brit ish. The route of the latter lay along the eastern bank of the river as far as Tren ton. Washington was, therefore, com pelled to make a long circuit in order to cross the river higher up. Heavy rains and the sultry summer heat retarded his progress, but the army succeeded in crossing at Coryell's Ferry on the twen ty-fourth. Tiie Britisli were then at Moorestown and Mount Holly. Thence they had the choice of two routes. One by a road on the left for Brunswick, thence to Staten Island and New York; the other by a road to the right leading through Monmouth by tlte heights ot Middletown to Sandy Hook. Uncertain as to which road would be chosen. Washington sent Colonel Morgan with 600 men to reinforce Maxwell, and ^ to hang on the rear of the enemy. He j himself pushed on to Princeton, cautious- Continued on Third Page. REAT interest was manifested dur- ing tlte war in what the foreign newspapers had to say about t ie conflict. I find the following clipping in the old war scrapbook: “We yesterday gave an article from the London Times on the opening ot 1864, and wliat had been accomplished by the north in 1863. We give today some further foreign extracts, wlii.n show what is thought in England of t; 8 prospects for the confederacy for 1864: (From The London Standard.) “ ‘Territorially, the south has rn> doubt lost something; hut she iias loa; infinitely less than was generally ex pected, and not a fourth of what some peculiarly audacious partisans of tiie federal cause have lately set down to Its credit. They say that the confea. eracy now holds only one-half of tiie territory it claims. The answer is simply that this is utterly untrue. In tie "claim,” of course, are included Mis souri, and Kentucky, of which toe con federate government never held pos session, and of which the nortli will no. keep possession when once it is de feated in its main object. Of the eleven states represented at Richmond in July, 1861, only one has been tem porarily reduced under federal rule, or rather occupied by federal armies. Sines the outbreak of the war the south hai lost Tennessee and a fragment of Ark ansas. a little portion of riverside terri tory in Louisiana, and isolated positions in Florida and the Carolinas. •‘ ‘The fed era Is occupy posts in Missis sippi, but that is all. Northern Vir ginia is simply a devastated battle-field, of which the north cannot be said to have possession. For all practical pur poses ten of the eleven states are stiii held by the eonfederates, excepting such portions of them as have been actually occupied by the federal troops under the protection of their gunboats. A ter ritory more than three times as large as France remains entirely unsubdued, and at their present rate of progress, wn ■ is not likely to he maintained, would take the north ten years to over run it. Even when overrun it wo l not be conquered; but we need not en ter : nto any discussion of what may happen in a case far removed from practical probability- " ‘If at any moment that should oc cur which has more than once seemed on the point of coming to pass; if the confederates should gain a decided tory i n tiie west, while driving the army of the Potomac out of Virginia, the north would have lost at a blow erything—except New Orleans—that t has gained in three years o! war!": while, as we have seen, the south m sustain a defeat without losing any thing of her essential strength and po w er of self-defense. It is quite cle; she will maintain it until her indep*ml ence is recognized; and it is for Eur-me to consider whether the termination ot a war which is a disgrace and an af fliction to mankind shall be allowed tc await tiie slow recovery of the t or from its fever dream of conquest, booty and empire.’ ” THE FLORIDA TROOPS The Floridian contained the follow ing in 1864: .v writer for the Knoxville Bee is; commenting upon tiie late eugug.*■: wnn the Yankee Raiders, took ... sion to pay our Florida soldiers handsome tribute of commendation fo their gallant conduct. It is comforting to us to know, wherever our brave boys have go in every section of our country — , every batt^ field, they haye trated’ their Peninsular State, ered themselves with a halo of u;m - ing glory. "We had the pleasure to muster i . y of the companies composing tiie s- - enth Florida into service—as well inspect the Sixth Florida before its parture for Tennessee and can saf> say, a finer looking body of men w* never saw mustered or inspect*, i, hence were not supprised at the an nouncement of the Register, but rhe> - fully give it a place in our eoluuv “ ‘The country, and especially >. u own city, owe much to the niih a > who aided in the defence of our Tt.im-s on Saturday last. They were f*’u number, but more gallant spirits never took part in the fray of battle, than they proved themselves to be. “The Sixtli Florida, commanded Colonel Finley, and fhe Seventh FI ida, commanded by Colonel Bull." k, entitled themselves to the gratitude f our people, and we take pleasure aclcknowledging our obligations to them. “ ‘These troops were posted in tha support of our various batteries i approaches to the city, besides doing heavy picked duty. Their coolness and determination, their good order and evident anxiety to meet the enemy at tracted the attention of all who were in a position to see it, anti won for them the highest praises. M'e owe much to these troops! But for their presen e our city would doubtless now he i the hands of the enemy, and we lie enduring the pains of the conquer* l. As citizens of Tennessee we acknmv edge our indebtedness to Florida! As the best return we can make her. we send, her word that her sons all ,l i ! well! None could have done better. ' A STORY OF L-EE. The following letter was 'writtei bv General Robert E. Lee. in reference to a proposition introduced into and add ed by the Richmond city council, for the purchase of a mansion as a p--’ ent to the great leader of the Virginia army. The spirit of the letter is oil the more lofty, inasmuch as It Is wel known that General Lee. having left all his property in the hands of the enemy, had little beyond his pay for the support of his family: “Headquarters Army of Northern Vir ginia. November 12. 1863.—To the Pres- i, J ent °f the City Council. Richmond, \ a. Sir: My attention has been direet- ed to a resolution reported In the news papers as having been introduced into the body over which you preside, having for its object the purchase, by the city of Richmond, of a house for the use of my family. I assure you, sir. that no want of appreciation of the honor conferred me by this resolution, or Insensibility 1 the kind feeling which prompted it. i - duces me to ask. as I most respectful; ' do, that no further proceedings be tak en with reference to the subject. The house is not necessary for the use *f my family, and my own duties will prevent my residence In Richmond. I should therefore be compelled to de cline the generous offer, and trust th. t whatever means the city council may have to spare for this purpose may be devoted to the relief of the families of our soldiers in the field, who are more in want of assistance and more deserv ing of it than myself. I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant, R. E. LEE, General.” ifKTT CAPTURE OF GENERAL VANCE I find the following interesting bit ol war news in the old scrap-book: “The capture of General Vance, of North Carolina, in east Tennessee, is confirmed. He was sent to Knoxville. The following is an account of it from a letter dated Asheville, N. C„ Janu ary 18: “ ‘On Wednesday last. General Vance, with about 150 men, entered the vil- Continued on Fourth Page.