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| FOR GOVERNOR.
ALLEN D. CANDLER, of Hall
FOR CONGRESS, 9th District ,
HOWARD THOMPSON, of Hall.
Berner for Governor.
Last Saturday the politicians
were startled and dumb-founded to
read the announcement of President
Bob Berner, of the State Senate as
a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor. Ilisan¬
nouncement und stacked cards knocked^iolitical into smithereens slate;-
Mr. Berner’s platform does not
strike us as a platform that will
command the approval of Georgian
who are earnest in their efforts U
build up the state and anxious t<
see the state grow in wealth anc
population. Mr. Berner seems to
be afraid that the railroads ant
manufactories will own the stav<
before long, if their aggressivencs
is not checked. lie seems to think
they are institution which have al¬
together too Aiany privileges, anc
jhat in the presence of the law they
|ire upon a plane entirely different
from that occupied by the citizen
We are not prepared to say what
Mr. Berner’s intentions are, but it
doss look as if his purpose was L
make a campaign *or the Guberna¬
torial nomination on the ground ol
opposition to railroads, banks am
all other kinds of corporations, lh
has much to say about factories ant
speaks strongly against encourag¬
ing them by such concessions as
have helped other Southern states
to greatly increase their wealth and
population. As for the railroads,
Mr. Berner gets on them with both
feet, though what the people would
do without them, or how the state
would be benefitted by having them
crippled, he does not undertake to
say.
The railroads ought of course to
comply with the laws. But do
they not? Mr. Berner seems to
think they do not. If they do not
it would seem as it somebody wouh
undertake to compel them to do so.
Spencer Atkinson is one of three
who are paid $2,500 each a year
to look after the people’s interett’s
-—agaist encroachment b y the
railroads. Does’nt he do it?
May it not be that Mr. Berner re¬
gards them as a fit subject out of
which to make political capital,and
that they are not defying the law-
and oppressing the people as lu
seems to intimate.
We are inclined to believe that
Mr. Berner will find that he has
not taken the right track to read
the Gubernatorial mansion. Tin
people are awakening to the fact
that capital and immigration mean
wealth, population and prosperity,
and that railroads and factorie>
help to bring both. In all parts ot
the state where the people are in
touch with the great world and ari
eager to improve their material
condition Mr. Berner will haw
to use other arguments than those
contained in his letter announcing
his candidacy if he wantes to secure
a respectable following in the state
convention.
It is possible that Bob Berner has
purloined Spencer Atkinson’s plat¬
form? Spencer has not made good
his word as yet and given the dear
people his platform which he said
sometime ago was iorth-coming.
Is it possible that he thinks a “bird
in hand is worth two in the bush,”
and decided that one bird is enough
for him?
We verily believe that President
McKinley will apologize to Spain
for the blowing up of the U. S.
man-of-war Maine and letting her
hulk sink in the sharky waters of
Havanna Bay.
NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspep-
Constipation and Indigest
Regulates the Liver. Price.
printed Druggists in and colors physicians’ for labels
two $1.00 per
1000 at the Record Job office.
Liked Candler’s Letter.
And by the way, that first letter
pleased me. I liked every line of
it, every syllable of it. I knew
where it hit just as well as I used to
know where my mammy’s hand hit
when she had me across her lap. I
knew who he meant,and there are a
hundred thousand fellows in Geor¬
gia now who knew who he meant
just as well as Mr. Candler knew. I
tell you,gentlemen, when you shoot
in the hole where they are, they
will come out a-humping and swear
(hey were not in there. But they
are full of shot all the same ; and if
lie didn’t shoot in a hole full of lit¬
tle lousy rascals I am no horse doc¬
tor—I wouldn’t be considered a calf
doctor in this settlement. And you
can tell who was in the hole by the
gang that ran out and hollered.
Steve Clay swears he was not in
there,and I don’t believe Steve was.
And duBignon swears he was not
there. General Evans said that
the hole was so full he couldn’t
have gotten in there if he wanted
to. Gentlemen, I know the hole
was full from the great crowd that
came out of there in the last few
days. Mirable dictu! It may be a
mystery forever what caused the
explosion of the battleship Maine
in the harbor at Havana. I don’t
know what caused Candler to ex¬
plode; but from that day to this
the dirt has been flying up in dif¬
ferent sections of the state, and the
little potiticians have been poping
up until we have got a candidate in
almost every section of the state—
and one from Cartersville, Ga. If
that dynamite hadn’t gone off I
don’t believe I’d have been a can¬
didate myself.—Sam Jones.
* * *
Let’s pen up all the jackasses for
awhile in the back lot and trot out
some thoroughbreds.—Sam Jones.
* * *
Candler has resigned. Right you
are, Mr. Candler. You could af¬
ford to resign. Judge Atkinson
hasn’t. Judge, you can’t afford to
resign. Experience has taught you
wisdom. You remember when
Henry G. Turner was sitting on
the other end of the “see-saw” you
were up in the air. Hold on to
your job and you will have the
same job when the fall elections are
over; otherwise you will be a po¬
litician out of a job.—Sam Jones.
* * *
JUDGE ATKINSON AND DUBIGNON.
An interesting piece of gossip
was floated in the lobby of the
Kimball, concerning a casual meet¬
ing between Hon. Fleming D. du¬
Bignon, of Chatham, and Hon.
Spencer R. Atkinson. Judge At¬
kinson called Mr. duBignon aside
in the Kimball the other day and
expressed the hope to him that he
was not so complicatod in the gub-
ernatoriae race that he could not
give him his suppoit for governor.
“Well Spencer,” replied Mr. du¬
Bignon, “I have made no conceal¬
ment of the fact that I am for Col¬
onel Candler, and will give him my
active support. I am now, as I
have always been, a good
friend of yours, personally; but you
will remember that, when mv name
was mentioned for gevernor, you
were so complicated that you could
not support me, as you said you
were committed to Terrell.”
“Yes,” replied Judge Atkingson.
“that is true; but all my section of
the state would have supported you.
and I was in hopes you would be
for me now.”
“I am sorry,” said Mr. duBig¬
non, “to disappoint you, but it
seems to me that if your hope was
based on the sectional argument,
the same rule might-have suggested
itself to you when I was being dis¬
cussed as a candidate.”
The conversation between these
two well-known Georgians was
brief, but pleasant, and the episode
ended as above quoted.
* » *
Councilman C. L. Mize took a
little turn around town one day-
last week to see how dead Hon.
Alien D. Candler was, politically,
in Toccoa. He interviewed 42
voters, mostly business men, and
found 30 straightout Candler men :
6 did not know how they would
vote; and 6 were against Candler!
Some were stronger Candler men
than ever before. That much-talk-
ed-of-Ietter has done Candler as
much good as it has done him harm.
The voters this year, anyway, are
agafnst political tricksters, rings
and cliques.
• * *
HE IS SEEKING VOTES.
“I am going to seek votes for
governor,” said Sam Jones the oth-
er flay, “and I propose to be heard
from in more ways than one before
Tb® lt«y®l is the highest grade bakiag ponder
to ut s . Actaal tests show it gees eoe-
tfcinf farther thaa mmy other hraa^
pom
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&AKIN® i
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
KOYAl BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YO*K.
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the tne votes votes ore are counted counted, hut out T i do do not not
want to be governor. I would
rather , be a bailm, because such , an
office would leave me sufficient
time to attend to other and more
important duties.”
“If you don’t want to be gover¬
nor yourself, who would you prefer
to get the office?” was asked.
“Col. Allen D. Candler,” he
said, promptly, 4 t He is one of the
best and cleanest men that God ever
placed in Georgia, and I have al¬
ways been for him. Iam for him
now.”
This was all Mr. Jones had time
to say, but it speedily became
known that he had written a letter
in which these sentiments were
very forcibly and at much greater
length enunciated. The letter is a
square and positive declaration of
his political principles, and will
unquestionably prove to be the
warmest document of the sort that
will be contributed to the political
literature of the campaign. It is a
redhot roast for political trickery
and chicanery.
A Serious Look.
As we go to press the dispatches
state that the relations between the
United States and Spain continues
to grow wider, and there is great
likelihood of war between these
countries. It is, at this writing,
almost an assured fact that our bat¬
tle ship Maine was blown up by
Spaniards. If this becomes an as¬
sured fact, the people of the United
States will force war on Spain and
at the same time free Cuba. We
await developments with abated
breath.
The Best Way Out.
Editor Toccoa Record : —I pre¬
sume that our condition as a coun¬
ty, is pretty well known all over
the community ; the court-house is
lying in ruins blown up in the night
with dynamite; Taxes so high
that the poor man can hardly meet
the demands of the Tax Collector;
money so scarce that it is out of
reach of a majority of the people.
Well it is true, that all this and
some other things about the county
affairs, which we have not space to
mention, makes us realize that we
are, without doubt, in a bad pre¬
dicament. Now which is the wisest
thing to do; curse the clan or ring
that got us inlo it, or make prepa¬
rations to get out?
As the court-house is in ruins,
we all realize, that there must be a
house or some place to hold court;
well we the citizens must make the
necessary arrangements, or that is,
it must be made out of our means,
then what will it profit us to
kick out of the harness, and swear
that we wont do this, that or the
other, we don’t know what we may
do yet; our foresights are not as
goo i as our hind sights; while I
am readv to denounce the tearing
down of the court-house as one of
the most rascally things evpr enter¬
ed into in Habersham, yet I take it
as the best policy to go ahead make
the best of things that lean,
as the old adage says “It will all
come round right after while.”
Some of the citizens in this, the
upper part of the county, are wish¬
ing that Demorest would offer the
Bank Building to the county, and
let us vote on removing the
county site to that place ; how much
better would that be, if it should
go there; I reckon there would be a
jail to build, if no other inconven¬
ience; so summing it all up, the
best I know to do is just grin and
endure it, and remember it at the
election. A Citizen.
Soque, Feb. 15
Hon. T. Swiftus Davis has
organized a company to fight
Spain. Jim Jones is his chief lieu¬
tenant and post-mortem adviser.
They have determined to start im¬
mediately for the commonwealth of
Rabun and there proceed to build
moonshine licker and Rabun Dew
for the wholesale slaughter of the
“dod-gasted” Spaniards. Capt.
Oavis says he is sure he can, w^th
Jim’s help, kill at least a million.
Announcements.
£3.50 Cash in Advance.
I hereby announce myself candidate for
for Sheriff of Habersham Coun-
subject to the Democratic primary, if
is held. Thanking my friends for their
support, I assure them of my appre¬
of their kindness and promise if
will again elect me, I will do all in
power to serve them efficiently.
A. M. GRIBBLE.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
of Habersham county subject to the
friends
rs*0f f *t 11e'co'” 1 t * ie Mn ^ ,ort of t * 1 ‘‘
vo11• 1 itv
J L Brown.
To the voters of Habersham county:
Thanking you for past favors, I beg to
announce myself as a candidate for re-
election as Clerk of Superior Court, sub¬
ject to action of Democratic party. Pledg¬
ing you if elected to do all in my power, in
the future as in the past, to make an effi¬
cient and acceptable officer,
I am yours, etc., J. A. Erwin.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of Clerk of Superior Court
of Habersham couuty and if elected prom-
i?e to 8tnve tt , f aithfully discharge the du-
*a es that office to the satisfaction of the
people I am subject to the action of the
Democratic primary if one is held Solici-
ting the support of all voters,
I am Respectfully,
Wm. M. Jordan.
To the voters of Habersham County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
Tax Receiver, subject to the democratic
primary if one is held.
H. E. Hopkins.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Corrected Weekly by Sanders,
Swann & Co.
By telegraph to The Record :
New York, February 18—
Cotton futures opened steady
with a sale of 80,000 bales up
to 10.30 a. m.
February 5-97
March . . , 5.88
April. . . 6.06
M ay.. . . 6.13
June.... 6.16
Toccoa, Ga., February 18—
Local market steady; Midding
5.88 cents.
SHERIFFS SALES
For March.
Will be sold before the Court house door
in Clarkesville, Habersham county, on the
first Tuesday in March, for cash, and
within the legal hours of sale on said day,
the following described property, to-wit:
Part of lot No. 176 in 3d district of Haber¬
sham county, commencing at the north¬
west corner of said lot at a post oak, thence
east to a red oak, thence north to a pine on
the old road, thence along said road to be¬
ginning corner, less. containing one hundred
acres more or Levied on and to be
sold as the property of R. Y. Price, tinder
and by virtue of an attachment fi fa, issued
from the the Justice’s Court of the 409th
district G. M. of said county of Habersham
in favor of Elizabeth Martin against said
R. Y. Price and against this particular
property. Notice of levy served as required
by law.
A. M. GRIBBLE, Sheriff.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hail’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney, Props , Toledo, O
We the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly and honorable in all business
transactions obligations financially able to carrv
out any made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale ruggist, Tole-
do, O. Walding. Kinnan &Marvin, Whole¬
sale Druggist. Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c, per bot¬
tle. Sold by all druggist. Testimonials
free. Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Ink for rubber pads at The Rec¬
ord office.
Blue liidge & Atlantic Railroad,
Table, No. 36.
In Effect Tuesday, Sept. 8,1896.
NO 11 No 12
Pass. STATIONS Mix ed
Mon’y Dai ly,
and Except
Sat'y Sun’y
g Lv Ar P M
5 3 Tallulah Falls 1 05
6 3 Turnerville 12 45
6 ^ . Ana.ndale.. 12 25
§ .Clarkesville. 12 10
7 8 . Demorest.. 11 50
7 53 .. Cornelia .. 11 35
P M Ar Lv A. M.
W. V. LAURAINE, Receiver
North-Eastern Railroad
Time Table No. a
Between Athens and Lula.
11 9 I 12 10
Daily. Daily STATIONS Daily Daily.
P. M A. M. Lv. Ar. A. M P. M.
j 8 15 11 05 ;W Lula N 10 50 8 00
8 32 11 22 ! Gillsville 10 33 7 43
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8 48 11 36 Mays ville 10 19 7 29
9 02 11 52 Harmony 10 03 7 13
9 17 12 07 | Nicholson 9 48 6 58
9 25 i 12 15 Center 9 40 6 50
9 40 12 30 jW Athens D 9 25 6 35
P. M P. M. Ar. Lv. A M P. M.
11 9 12 10
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NORTHERN MILLS
• TURN TO GEORGIA
_ Railway _ Representative
Says the Movement Has Be-
gun in Earnest.
Atlanta Journal.
Mr. L. Scott Allen, the Boston
representative . of . the , T Land > and , T ln-
dustrial department of the Southern
railway, spent a day id^Atlanta re-
cently and also stopped at Toccoa
and Rockafart. He cifme south on
a flying trip for several New Eng¬
land and New York concerns,
which are looking for locations for
new plants in the south. He says
the movement of eastern capital to
the south has set in in earnest, and
there are at least a score of cotton
manufacturing concerns now look¬
ing for good locations.
“I came down here in behalf ot
some of them,” said he, “and am
making investigations for their
satisfaction and for my own. On
the way down I stopped at Toc¬
coa, where there is a little mill
with equipment not surpassed for
fine work by anything at Fall River ,
where there are 750,000 spindles.
GOODS OF FINE QUALITY.
“This little mill, with only $100,-
000 capital stock, is spinning No.
40 yarn and making print cloth. It
has been in operation only about
six months, but is making money
and has already established a remi-
tation for its goods, which are < f
fine quality and sell readity. ? t
This is a remarkable statement
when it is remembered that within
less than ten years Edward Atkin¬
son solemnly declared over his own
signature in a magazine article that
while the southern mills might spin
the coarser fabrics, the sites of the
finer cotton industry must, for cli¬
matic reasons, remain in New Eng¬
land. He also argued that it would
take a long time to educate the
labor at the south up to the point
where it would compete with New
England labor in the production of
the finer fabrics. Mr. Allen says
that the operatives at Toccoa who
have been engaged on the fine class
of work are all natives and it was
unnecessary to bring any but the
superintendent from Massachusetts.
The country girls, who have been
used to the loom in ther own homes,
are deft of fingers and soon learn to
operate the machinery skillfully.
TURNING TO THE SOUTH.
Concerning the talk that the sto¬
ries sent out from New England
are published for the purpose of af¬
fecting labor legislation in Massa
chusetts and other New England
states, Mr. Allen said:
“While I have no doubt they are
using the facts for that purpose, it
is still true that the cotton goods
can be made cheaper in tthe south
and that the manufacturers are
seriously turning their attention
this way. I am here for several of
them right now, and I expect to
see a number of them come south.
The people here have no idea of the
effect of the work done by the
Southern railway in New England.
We have been at work years on
this business, and it has revolu¬
tionized opinion there. A great
many of the New England people
had queer ideas about the south,
and we went to work systemati¬
cally to disabuse their minds of that
prejudice. It only took a little in¬
formation applied to the right spot
in the right way, and you have no
idea what a difference it made.”
While here Mr. Allen made some
inquiries for the New York mills
people. He said that some very
absurd stories had been sent out
about that concern from Chatta-
nooga and Baltimore, to the effect
that the New York Mill company
would remove its plant from the
present site in New York to Geor¬
gia.
“That,” said he, “is ridiculous.
The New York mills have been
running for several generations and
, have , built great reputation .
up a
for their goods. Their brand alone
is worth several hundred thousand
dollars. It would be the wildest
kind of folly for them to throw
that that awav away and and thev they haven’t haven t the the
slightest idea of doing it.
Mr. Allen intimated, however,
that the company owning the New
v \ ork . mills was seriously . . consider- .,
ing the erection of a mill south,and
probably in Georgia. He thought
they would do so.
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A BOY SPY MYSTERY.
M’CLELLAN’S WARNING OF JACKSON’S
FLANK MARCH TO RICHMOND.
A Mere Boy, Well Posted About Jack-
ton's Force*, Straggled Into the Federal
Lines Just a Day Ahead of Jackson's
Coining—His Story of Adventure.
ICopyright, 1897, by American Press Asso¬
ciation. Book rights reserved.]
AR histories, of-
a fleial and other-
i Vj / J wise-have ^e?S^ti\. failed
\ to the
\ I fact that when
1—\ Lee and Stone-
,/A wall Jackson
\ united their col-
umns north of
Oj f\ overwhelm Richmond the to
• Army of the Po-
— t o m a 0 they
found the enemy
11 ever y where
alert. Stonewall Jackson was a man of
mystery, and it was planned to surprise
McClellan’s outposts and destroy his
right wing at a blow. In the minds of
Lee and Jackson McClellan was rosting
secure that McDowell’s army at Fred¬
ericksburg was nearest in touch with
his and ready to inarch to his aid; that
Jackson was still in the Shenandoah
valley and Richmond a prize to fall un¬
der the attacks which he began to make
on June 25. On the 26th Lee attacked
the Federal right wing under Fifcz John
Porter at Mechaniosville, and the next
day with Jackson renewed the attack
at Gaines Mill, losing in the two bat¬
tles over 10,000 men.
In place of giving the enemy a fatal
surprise, as Jackson had done in his
valley campaign, both Lee and Jackson
met with terrible repulse. McClellan’s
army W as still in position and able to
hold its own during the week of battles
which ended in another terrible repulse
of the Confederates at Malvern Hill on
July 1. Generals McClellan and Porter
state briefly in their narratives of the
campaign that warning came on the
night of June 24 through a Confederate
deserter that Jackson’s army was mov¬
ing to attack Porter’s right flank and
was already in the vicinity. Porter at
once prepared a warm welcome for the
hero of the valley. He fought on the
26th and 2?th against odds of two to
one and so effectually paralyzed the col¬
umns of Lee and Jackson that they did
not strike another blow in three days.
Recently the compilers of the official
war records have unearthed a document
which reveals the source of Porter’s
warning. It came through a boy who
doubtless entered the Federal lines from
Jackson’s camp as a spy, but made a
worse than fool’s errand of his delicate
mission. The late General Farnsworth
of Illinois was the first to see through
the would be spy’s real character. On
the 24th of June be sent him under
guard to General Porter with the fol¬
lowing note:
General—I send you a young man who (ac¬
cording to his story) was in our array and
taken prison at Winchester, escaped at Lynch¬
burg and made his way to Richmond and from
thence to the lines of my pickets. He is
either spy, scout or deserter from the rebels.
Respectfully, etc., J. F. Farnsworth,
Colonel Eighth Illinois Cavalry.
General Porter found the boy’s story
very weak and that he knew more
about Jackson’s army than about the
northern cities where he claimed to
have resided. Acting upon the vague
hint, he saved the army from another
Chancellorsville disaster. Meanwhile
the boy, who gave the name of Charles
Rian, was taken in hand by the secret
service men and confined under the pro¬
vost guard at headquarters. His story
was written out by Pinkerton. It will
appear in fall in the supplementary
volumes of records.
Rian stated that he was 17 years old,
bom in Iowa, and during childhood re¬
sided in Albany and New Orleans. Lat¬
er he lived in Baltimore, and, when the
war broke out, in New Orleana He
then went to Baltimore again and to
Brooklyn. He returned to Baltimore
and joined the First Maryland Federal
regiment in March, three months be¬
fore his appearance at the picket lines
before Richmond. He said that he was
at Winchester and Front Royal in May
aiiH taken prisoner; escaped at Lynch¬
burg through the aid of some young la¬
dies. From Lynchburg he went to Rich¬
mond, and, having changed his Federal
suit for a nondescript one, mingled with
the soldiers.
Having heard that Jackson’s army
was at Gordonsville, Rian said that he
made his way there in order to see for
himself and get information for McClel¬
lan. However, he found that while
Jackson was at Gordonsville re-enforce¬
ments were going to him from Rich¬
mond. From Gordonsville the boy trav¬
eled on foot 40 miles to Ashland, off on
Porter’s right flank, and then set his
face toward the Federal pickets. In or¬
der to get aid from the citizens on the
way he passed himself off as a Confed¬
erate scout He wore a straw hat, citi-
aen’s coat and trousers procured in
Lynchburg. Upon his person was found,
when taken, a printed sheet tom from a
pamphlet having written on the margin
these words:
Steltow—S ay to him Dr. Lumpkins is well
In Richmond.
McClellan’s detectives knew that Dr.
Lumpkins was a zealous Confederate
who had lived between Mechanicsville
and Ashland until the Federal army
leached the vicinity and then moved to
.Richmond. The boy said that the mem-
orandnm had been given him by one of
S the girls who aided his escape at Lynch-
H ! was *° hav * d el iv * red *
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Rian’s account of getting into the
Federal lines was very plausible. He
^ a tarjnei toW him how the lines
lay , and that he encountered a Confed-
erate picket in a forest, who fired at
him. He ran from the picket, and the
picket started in an opposite direction,
Biau pasaed the whole night wandering
stumbling upon camps which he
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did not expect to find and could not tell
to 'which army they belonged. At last
after daylight be saw some roaming
cavalry dressed in blue and walked bold¬
ly up to them. They proved to he a
scouting party of the Eighth Illinois.
Rian puzzled the generstls and detect¬
ives with whom he came in contact.
He seemed to know the names of all of
Jackson’s commanders and the extent
of their forces. However, he thought
that Johnston commanded the Confed¬
erate, army opposed to McClellan, and
not Lee. He insisted that he had heard
this discussed by the Confederates, and
Johnston’s name was used. His knowl¬
edge of local geography was marvelous
for a northern boy, but he said that
soon after joining the First Maryland
regiment ho was called upon to scout,
and, taking a liking to it, he had pro¬
cured a map and studied the country.
He had some knowledge of tactics,
which he said was due to his glancing
over books devoted to that subject. He
claimed that it bad always been a habit
to note down everything which im¬
pressed him and to frequently look over
the notes and refresh his mind. Then
he tore up the memoranda.
But when cross examined as to his
service in the northern army and his
life in the north Rian’s story was very
weak. He said ho thought the colonel
of his regiment was named Kelly, but
that he was not sure of it or that his
company really belonged to the First
Maryland. The company when in-the
field was constantly scouting and ne vei;
drilled with the regiment. His bri^MM
commander, he said, was a GerinzSf
whose name he could not remember, a
tafe guess for Federal commanders in
lihe Shenandoah valley at that time.
With a knowledge of the country and
of military affairs far beyond his years
Rian was look 3d upon as a remarkable
boy, and but for the fact that upon his
very heels Jackson came, and, with Lee,
attacked in the very vicinity where
Rian was picked up, his career would
have long puzzled the army wiseacres.
As it stood they classed him as a Con¬
federate scouting about for information
for his side and prepared with a trump¬
ed up story to mislead the Federal gen¬
erals if caught in the act; if not that,
then a spy sent into Porter’s lines on
purpose to deceive. But this last was a
task for an older and a cleverer bead
than his.
Upon the point of his life before em
tering the army the boy’s story was so
weak as to lead to the belief that that
portion had not been carefully rehearsed.
His father’s family, according to his
account, had been roamers, never stop¬
ping long at any point. He had lived
with relatives in various places, and
while he claimed to have hosts of them
north and south he couldn’t name one,
excepting the Brewsters, in St. Mary’s
parish, near New Orleans. lie had let¬
ters at home from many relatives, buf
their munes had escaped him. Of two
Intimate young men acquaintances in
Baltimore he could recall but one by
name. When before General Porter,
who was well acquainted in Baltimore,
he could not name a single street nor
prominent building. Unabashed at hie
want of knowledge, he adhered to his
story and said dramatically to his in¬
quisitors, “I am as good a Union sol¬
dier as ever shouldered a musket. ” In
spite of the vigorous protest the secret
service chief placed him iu close confine¬
ment as a spy to await further develop¬
ments. When these came iu the shape
of Jackson’s columns marching down
upon Porter’s flank by way of Ashland,
where ihe boy was found, he was look¬
ed upon as a deserter from Jackson’s
army and as such passed unnamed into
history. That would have made him
out an irresponsible talebearer. But his
custodians believed that he was more
than that. From the moment of his ar¬
rest he was anxious to have a personal
interview with General McClellan.
Pinkert-on declared that the boy was
exceptionally shrewd and well educated
Mid knew too much about affairs inside
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the Confederacy for a Yankee prisoner
who had been in the southern lines but
one month. Besides, the memorandum
about Dr. Lumpkins was carefully con¬
cealed, plainly showing that it was not
the innocent affair he wished it to ap¬
pear to be.
Rian’s late was as mysterious as his
advent. He was placed under guard up¬
on suspicion of being a spy and in order
to save his neck finally confessed that
he was such. That is the last official
record of him. Two days later the army
began its march to James river, and
the boy disappeared from view. The war
department records’ files show nothing
beyond Colonel Farnsworth s and De¬
tective Pinkerton’s reports; the head¬
quarters papers of the army and the
military records of Maryland nothing.
General Porter thinks that he escaped
by collusion with his guard while on
the march to the James.
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