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lii ji>-( miting Tliis l»rut • ketch ot my
honored father, I (b’.'irt* to have the
roadei of the i.'m u.wr enjoy a letter
xvj'itu: *0 ( 01. J. rt. Waddell to myself
gp vc!■ years ago. <ol. Waddell has
been •e l for r:vend yen r; ; himself, hut
the i nu iuhratiee r»I his many noble
quid’ll ", and the superior excellence of
hi? in., d •:*i«t heart, will never fade from
the iTroiioetion of tlio-e who knew him
in life. ;ie had many opportunities for an
e;.ten ed acquaintance with Judge ln
deruoo 1 , and for reason i rcque-ted
a u. ' <■! from subject. < 01.
Wad ' il had no sup&or in Georgia for
chaste, pure English as a writer, and it
v ill (»• a la-ting regret that lie did not
giv: hi entire life to literature, a call
ing (or which lie ’Ait- eminently fitted by
taste and cultivation.
I'nj i.a.v'l), near M Altii.viA, Nov.
SO, 1-77 I)* ir .Judge : In performance
<>l promise, 1 proceed to give you
soon recollection of your diatin
gni-iii'd l tlicr, the late \\ iiliam 11. Ln*
derwnol. It is a matter of regret that
my purely personal acquaintance with
him was of . o short duration. I knew
him handy as long as Phillips knew
tin i n not as long as “Bozzy” knew
•loiln‘<ni lie was an old man when we
li; t met. 1 had just come to the Ear.
He, “full of years and full of honors,’’
was preparing to take final leave of
cdiii Is and < limns and juries. But 1 had
known ot him from early boyhood.
Wluit man, or woman, or child, in Geor
gia did not know personally, or by repu
tation, (ho Great Wit of his day, “old
Judge Underwood,” as he was com
monly called? Ills name was a house
hold word from Rabun to Decatur, from
Dade to Camden. His witticisms were
part of t!ie social currency of the State
for more than a generation; they seemed
never to pull on the ear or grow stale or
flat. In fact, so thoroughly pronounced
am. universally acknowledged was his
prc-cii;ircnce in that character, that—as
in tbo use of Rabelais—much of the
halt, df-wd of die time was fathered
on i, ii. Sucl\ putative paternity gave
him infinite disgust. lie despised the
hi !• ! progeny. Jle, however, never
di i i ed his own; on the contrary I
think > was rather proud of ids happiest
icdl. . of his “white horses,” as Curran
war o .( to dominate the favorite pas-
his great speeches.
I r. 'll, as of yesterday, that warm
Sin , afternoon in .Tune, 15.71, when 1
tiro i Judge I'iiderwood. I!- 1 was sit
ting m the piazza of the old Verdory
ilii. at. Cedar town, in company with
other members of the Bar who had come
to 'mid an adjourned term of l’oik Su
perb • • urt. His was the central figure
of tin' group; no stranger could have
In il v 1 to note his as the most promi
nent c-iio of them ail, not only from the
ilignif. I and vcnerablo tout ensemble, hut
also from the marked respect and defer
ence shown him by ail present?. You ■
Hviusiv. 'aw v ors, a class, are proverbial
ly the most loquacious of people vvlton j
they meet in their social gatherings on !
the circuit. On such occasions, there arc 1
usually more talkers than auditors, and
not unfirqucutly a half dozen tongues
me gging at. the same instant of time
on a s many ditlorent subjects, lie is a
full grown man who can command the
undivided attention of such a coterie.
Judge l ii her wood always did. When
ho o, . mod his mouth to speak all others
were s uit, other tongues were still, all
ears were open. On that oeea-don, 1 was
inti, . ..cod by “Ramsey,” (as they then
called him, since Judge,) Alexander, to
an . id trap, above medium stature, of
portly build, with thin, gray hair, small,
round, deep-set, clear blue eyes, that
t wink!, d rather ttian laughed, of broad,
wcll-a;okod forehead and clean shaven
f;;.c, Judge Underwood. Never was
any one mere entirely mistaken in his
p:; inneepiiou of another’s personal ap
pear, nee than vy.is lin his. 110 was far
from being the spare, thin-visaged, sharp
chin ned, compressed-lipped, crabbcd
t looking pcrsc'n my boyish fancy had pre
figured. There was far more of benevo
lence than of morose asperity in the ex
pression of his countenance, ami for a
motucnt J almost doubted whether ho
be tin J “old Judge Under.vobtW H
treesm and at' lingua)
so long been tM terror
t J f so many contain .inti ip* :,,,
ot (hose legal fledgelings, whose de
meanor savorcu more of arrogaJee titan
ot modesty. He grasped my hand—r x
lendoJ not without some tremulots niis
grvu.gs—very cordially, and bale the
‘ limb ol the law” welcome to the
of a profession which ho charac
v r'/.od as “very numerous, and, for tlie
part very ignorant.” Robert S. j
then from Cobb, was of
ii:y. He, as vnu know, was a
as well as :t lawyer. In the run
* •*•"« general conversation which en
1. "ith but momentary abatement,
h s«v.ij renowned that he had noticed on
“ %;»y to Cedar town,
l!l C; M"S to be jKKujy tiwed; that he saw
wore of ars(ss and weeds JJ.in of cotton
<r . ‘ruin fee liolH. addressing
• ! a; ge Underwood directly, tb> inquired
" tlier farmers ii» upper Georgia did
not usually over-pitch their* crops?
“\.s," replied the Judge, “Farmers,
i.ke the rest ol mankind, universally
over-crop themselves. Yunna men of all
elates invasiabl) over-crop themselves
in all things.'' at the moment stroking
his own clean-tousored chin and darting
a quick glance *U at me, who at the same
time liap|>oned to wear a heavy crop of
whiskers, particularly for the season ami
for one of my years. Those whisker.-
were not clipped on the morrow, but I
was sorry they were worn on that day.
The crowd around was considerate and
tried to stifle a laugh. It cost them an
effort. Not so with myself. My risible?
were rigid and stark, never more so.
He did not afl’eet long beards on anv
b >dy. He would have scorned the ollice
of a patriarch or prophet of the olden
time, if couplet! with the condition that
lie must renounce the use of the razor,
that the barber’s occupation, like Othel
lo’s must he gone. No man, more, than
he, ever misliked the Samson strength
which lay in length of hair, whether on
head or face. He would have defended
Delilah “without fee or reward or the
hope thereof,” in any court wherein he
practiced had she been indicted for shear
ing off Samson’s locks. lie would have
eulogized the treachery' and striven for a
verdict of malicious prosecution! No
Norman ever believed more strongly
than did he, in the becoming ness and de
cency of short-cropped hair. lie was
remarkably cleanly in his person and
scrupulously neat in his dress. When
his linen was sent to rhe v asherwoman,
it was rarely soiled, the microscope could
hardly disclose a stain. The day of
milled shirt-bosoms” had long passed
when I put on the toga virllis. i doubt
whether Judge Underwood ever wore
the ruffles. Colonel Thomas A. Latham,
of Campbell, was the solitary member of
the Ear of that circuit who evinced a
lingering fondness for the antiquated.
He occasionally appeared in the court
room with rutiled bosom and wristbands,
reminding one of “an aged hemlock in
the path of the hurricane,” and he aban
doned their use with sorrow, very sin
cere, touching and personal, only when
tiie voice of progress proclaimed in the
words of Hamlet,
“It is a custom
More honored in the breach than the observ
ance.”
The two had for many years practiced
in the same courts and were better
known, for a longer time, to the people
af the circuit than any lawyers who took
the riding, the one for his wit, the o her
for his oddities. Their, personal rela
tions were friendly, cordial, I should
rather eiiy. When attending Polk court,
they generally occupied the same room,
and when the day's work was through
with, and no case for to-morrow occu
pied attention or exacted overnight
preparation, their room was the common
center of attraction to all who had
a fondness for the social gathering or
relish for the spices of innocent hilarity'
and mirth. A feast was sure to be spread
out. seasoned with rich condiments
tempting and gratcAil to the palate of
any intellectual epicure. I remember an
occasion when the room was full to dis
comfort—all the chairs, tables, and bed.
occupied for seats. It had been a “field
day” with Col. Latham. lie had gained
a pet case, made a fine speech and was in
exultant, jubilant spirits. Judge Un
der worn! had been of opposing counsel
and did net participation the Colonel’s
exhilaration largely; in fact, lie was not
in a very amiable mood. The Colonel,
like an actor on the boards, flushed with
applause from pit to gallery, was pacing
the room back and forth, repeating to the
crowd the strong points of iiis court
house speech, to convince those present,
it seemed, of rhe righteousness of the
jury. Ho recited, in nearly the very
language used in adressing the jury, one
of his happy hits, and with an air of
conscious triumph, said: “Didn’t L let
the water on v em there? Didn’t 1 ! carry
their Malakoff by storm?'” Then pat
ting Ids milled shirt with all the tender
ness a mother would manifest in fondling
the child'she was proud of, lie turned to
the Judge and said: “Underwood, why
don't you run a rutile?” The laugh,
for the instant, was on the Judge. His
reply turned the tables,or rather,reversed
(lie risiblos: “Col Latham, when T came
to be a man, I quit being a woman, or a
babv-boy.” Was not this tiie germ of
the famous answer he made to the ques
tion of Dr. Thompson, of ante helium
“Atlanta hotel” notoriety: “Judge,
j what do you think of this new fashion
! that gentlemen have got into of wearing
shawls instead of overcoats?” “I can
not give an opinion, Doctor, on that sub
ject, because I never knew a gentleman to
wear a shaw l.” This last recalls another
witticism which may have appeared in
the public prints of the time, perpetrated
at the Doctor's expense. Their relations,
us you wfll know, were as intimate and
is any that ever existed between
stbooL'boj chums. Their bond of Union
was not pofsona! only, but political as !
w<M, for both were gentlemen in society
and botft were federalists in politics.
Sallust's aphorism, “idem velle ct idem
nolle” was never more fully realized
ami exemplified than in the ease of these
two. But to the point: You remember
with what surprisfTig ’’quickness the
Know Nothing party party sprang into
being in ISoo; how formidable its num
bers were, and how it swept the country
everywhere until Henry A. M i<o, with
more than Canute power, breasted the
tide lit Virginia and beat it buck. That
blow, fatal as it proved to be, intensified
rather than abated party feeling in Geor
gia. Never since the days of Troup and
Chirk, was politjeai excitement so in
tense, so acn§v>nious and so universal
throughout hek, worders. it was auto
crat t>f ail classes and ovVr all the rela
tions of life, swaying sovereign sceptre
,in society, in courts, in churches. Inte.i
ligtnee of W ise's gul»eniatorial election
over Flournoy reached a considerable
ftuinber of the* iierokee Bar at Kingston,
iWien on their way to attend the Supreme
Court, then landing sessions at Atlanta.
Ou arriving at the passenger depot in
that city, some one of the jurisconsults
said: “Let’s -top at the Washington
i Hall. Lloyd (the proprietor,) is a good
CAETERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TIILjf
7 now Nothing.” Judge Underwood
•»> 1 o. though not a good Know Nothing,
was less of a Democrat, gathering up his
luggage, remarked, “Well, gentlemen,
a - many as choose, can go to Lloyd’s be
cause he is a good Know Nothing, but I
shall go to Thompson’s, he I ncurs little
enough for me.'”
Some thought his wit was lacking in
pleasantry, that it was cynical in tem
per, that tiie blade had gaps in its ed«
which lacerated the incision it made. ™
Jo not think so. True, the blade was
sharp and keen as tiie polished acime
ter of Salad in, and could not but cut
deep, yet the wound always healed “by
first intention,” unless the case was des
perate and required heroic treatment, as
the surgeons call it, even then lie was
more ready to pour balm than vitriol
into tiie sore.
Ot course }'oii will devote a full chap
ter of your volume to tiie witty sayings
of Judge Underwood. None who knew
him would willingly let them die. Un
like Sheridan’s, which “smacked of the
lamp,” there was a dewy freshness about
his that showed how entirely impromptu
they were. Nor did he call for them or
wai for them, they bubbled up, unbid
den, like spring-boils at their fountain
head. ile was a natural wit, just as
Burns was a natural poet or Patrick
Henry a natural orator. *
But Judge Underwood was much more
than a brilliant wit. He was an able and
learned lawyer. lie had studied law
more as a science than an art. liis ac
quaint nice witli the fundamental princi
ples, of universal jurisprudence was sci
entific and profound. lie had knowl
edge of all its branches; but it was his
thorough mastery of the common law
that made him most conspicuously prom
inent in tiie estimation of the profession.
In that department of legal lore lie tow
ered above all bis Georgian contempora
ries—the acknowledged Ajax of the pha
lanx. With the daily and the nightly
hand he had toiled through the “lueu
brationes rig inti annorum u and become
master of “the jealous science.” The
wealth of the profession, nowhere, could
have shown his superior as a common
law lawyer. He had paid the price of
excellence and won the palm of victory.
Success affeotioned hi* kindly toward
his legal kindred. Coke, he venerated
as a father; Blaqkstone, he loved like a
brother.
I cannot speak, with knowledge, of
the sheaves he reaped in of scien«
title research. I. hardly k those
fields were inviting to him, or his men
tal conformation more beliked the ab
stract than the concrete. But that he
was a ripe, and finished scholar in
studies, which the old schoolmen de
nominate “the elegant humanities,”
none who knew him will question. He
was not only familiar with the standard
English classic, but indulging his taste
tor letters always. lie kept up -with the
best literature of his own time. Nothing
from the pen ofßulwer, Dickens, Thack
eray’, Irving et id omne genus, escaped
his eager eye. lie enjoyed Thackeray,
especially, lie loved to eulogize Thaek
era’s pictorial power, which few appre
ciated as highly as lie did. I think
Thackeray’s definition of a “snob” cap
tured him. “A snob is one that meanly
admires a very mean thing.” His ad
miration of a good author glowed with
all the ardor of personal attachment.
Lie read much of almost everything.
liis style was chaste, vigorous, nervous
and perfectly natural. It approached in
neatness, perspicuity and energy, more
nearly to Horne Tooke’s than that of
any man I ever knew, with exception
of the lute Linton Stephens. lie spoke
as correctly and elegantly as he wrote,
L never heard an ungrammatical sentence
tall from his lips, if the sentence were
his own. lie addressed a backwoods
jury with tiie same precision and ele
gance of diction he would have employ
ed in addressing the learned bench. In
that respect he had the capital faculty
of always doing iiis best. If it had been
iiis fortune to preside in tiie Supreme
Court of Georgia, his decisions, like
Judge Stephens’, would have taken
rank, in point of style, alongside of
Chief Justice Gibson’s, of the Pennsyl
vania Bench.
His memory was, probably, chiefest of
his mental faculties. It was simply
prodigious. It was a capacious store
house wherein were garnered up, with
out confusion, and ready for use at any
moment, the facts of history, the inter
esting incidents of biography, the tine
passages and grand images of general
literature, whether of prose or verse.
Among all his contemporaries of the
North Georgia bar, whom I knew, Judge
John A. Jones, at meridian, was most
nearly his solitary peer in literary taste,
attainment and accomplishment.
These sheets have been thrown off
eurrente calamo ; if vou can turn them to
account, use them, if not, destroy them.
Yours truly,
J. I). Waddell.
William 11. Underwood was born on
the 30th cfhy of September, 1779, in
what was then Culpepper county, Yir
ginia, now Spottsylvania county, on Ce
dar creek, at the foot of Cedar mountain,
about two or three miles northwest of
Mitchell’s Station, near the battlefield
where Stonewall Jackson whipped John
Rope, in ISG3. Ilis ancestors were En
glish and Scotch. Ilis great-grandfather
was John Underwood, of London. Ilis
| grandfather was one of ten sons with
whom his great-grandfather emigrated
to America, and settled in Lancaster
. county, Pennsylvania, and his sons scat
’ tered in the state around Harrisburg and
Gettysburg. Joseph, the grandfather,
settled in Virginia, in what is now Page
county, in the Shenandoah Valley. This
valley was very much “settled up” with
NngHsif and Scotch—they intermarried
i and ea^grated south, in Culpepper oouu
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lie intermarried with Nancy C.
and had a family on his hands.
he was teaching school in South
na he formed the acquaintance of a well
educated Scotch-Irishman named Ander
derson McGuire, from whom he borrow
ed some Latin books, and under his oc
casional instructions learned a small
smattering of the Latin tongue, and al
though McGuire was an intemperate
man, addicted to the immoderate use of
ardent spirits, he was gratefully remem
bered as a benefactor and friend down
to the day of l;is death.
When war was declared against Great
Britain, in IS 12, William 11. Underwood
raised a company of volunteers In El
county to serve during the war,* - and
was organize d tiie regiment of Col.
Milton, aad marched to Mobile. Ala.,
and yeas stationed at Mobile at fhe time
of the battle of New Orleans, and after
that memorable event, wqa still at
Mobiie until the news ot the peace \\a3
received, when his company marched
again on foot to Elbert - county, having
been discharged at Fort Hawkins, near
the sYte, of the present city of Macon.
Often have I seen the old men w!k>,
when young, were his companions in
the army, meet him and salute him as
“captain.” It did not matter wh.qtoth-.
er title he had acquired, he was to them
their captain, and with joyous gladness
they met him, with et’ory expression of
delight, and parted from him with
glistening, downcast, mournful eyes.
The tie that binds true and brave
soldier to his considerate and kind officer
is as dear as any on earth. The soldier
remembers the hardships and toils, the
dangers and strife; and the officers of
the kindness of the officer. And the of
ficer remembers tiie obedience, devotion,
and unbounded courage of the soldiers.
And thus they are drawn together by
cords of sympathy and love, confidence
and trust, never betrayed. The officer
is to the soldier his captain, and the sol
dier is to the officer one of his men for
ever. We see such scenes when young
and philosophically refleeton them when
old. Underwood was a man of decided
opinions and earnest convictions. No
time server or demagogue. A firm, bold
thinker, always stating his views can
didly and without reference to the effect
on himself. He was, in the days of
Troup and Clark, a Clark man, greatly
in Ijm minority in Elbert and tiie ad
joining counties, yet unflinchingly he
maintained his principles. He rapidly
rose in his profession, and in 1525, in
the month of November, he was elected
by the legislature judge of the Superior
eourts of the western circuit, defeating
Augustin Smyth Clayton, one of the
ablest and purest men iu the state.
Clayton was a Troup man, and the vote
was strictly a party vote, the Troup men
voting for Clayton and the Clark men
voting for Underwood; the difference
was 27 votes. In IS2S the Troup men
had the majority in the general, assem
bly, and Clayton was elected judge by
about the same party vote. Both Clay
ton and Underwood, to the day of their
death, retained the entire confidence of
the people of the circuit and of the state.
Underwood was aver;- great admirer
of Blackstonc. He read Black stone's
commentaries every year of his life from
ISOS to 1559. He regarded Mr.
Biackstone’s style as the purest < f Eng
lish, and his definitions perfect, and his
logic unanswerable and as accurate as
mathematics. When the writer was a
young man studying law, as the phrase
goes, when his preceptor returne 1 home
from the circuit and took up Bfackstone
to see how his pupil was progressing,
among other questions asked: “What is
burglary?” The student answered:
“Burglary is the unlawful breaking and
entering a man’s house in the night
| time with intent to commit a felonj\”
; He threw the book on the t.-dde and
I said: “You will never make- a lawyer,
! you had as well go to somethu g else,”
; and proceeding to walk across the room
i with considerable indignation, :cm ark
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f--igiiieia*d. On m
opposing force, without n\^^HBHHB|
the ielea struck )iim that their
was probably as much frightened as hi?
was. This view of the matter remained
in his mind, and he never thereafter felt
trepidation in the preaen.ce of the enemy.
In his comments upon the much dis
cussed buttle of Shiloh, Gen Grant dis
sents from that if Johnson had
not been killed tjhe Confederates would
have won and annifilgied Grant’s army.
He remarks: ‘‘ffs’ defeated the Confed
erates at Shiloh. We should hgye-bec-p
--disgracefully beaten "‘if’"'all the bullets
fired by us had passed harmlessly over
the enemy, and ‘it’ all theirs had taken
effect.”
Tire fact that Johnson was leading a
brigade to make a charge which had been
repeatedly ordeyjd, is evidence that there
was neither the universal demoralization
oil our side nor the unbounded confi
dence on theirs, which has been claimed.
There was in fact no hour during the day
when I doubted the eventual defeat of
the enemy.
Grant says that Col. Win. Preston
Johnston’s description of the battle is
very graphic and causes the reader to
wonder why the Federal troops were not
all killed. I witnessed the fight, some
what sarcastically adds the General, and
I see but little in the description that I
can recognize. The Confederate troops
fought well and deserve commendation
enough for their bravery and endurance
on the Gill of April, without detracting
from their antagonists or claiming any
thing more than their due.
The General makes amends to General
Anson McD. McCook by explaining a re
mark in his Century articles on Shiloh
to the effect that McCook was unwilling
to pursue the enemy on April 7, because
of the condition of his troops. Grant
says the remark has been misinterpreted.
He sustained McCook and merely men
tioned the-fact as a matter of history.
He then pays a high tribute to McCook’s
gallantry.
Gen. Grant lirst met Lincoln when
called to Washington to receive his com
mission as Lieuteuant-General in March,
IS(M. “In my first interview with Mr.
Lincoln alone, he stated to me that he
had never professed to be a miltary man,
or to know how campaigns should be
conducted, and never wanted to inter
fere in them, but that procrastination on
the part of commanders and the pressure
of the people at the north, and of con
gress, which like the poor he had always
with him, had forced him into issuing
his well known series of executive or
ders. lie did not know but they were
all wrong, and did not know that some
of them were. All be wanted, or had
ever wanted, he sail. vas that some one
would take the responsibility and act,
and call on him for all the assistance
needed.”
Grant first met Stanton at Louisville.
Stanton handed him two orders, saying
he could take his choice. Both
created a military division of the
Mississippi, giving Grant command of
it, and were identical, except that one
left the division commanders as they
were, while the other relieved R >se
erans and assigned Thomas to his place.
I accepted the latter, rays Grant. After
Dpseerans' defeat at Chicakauiauga and
retreat upon Chattanooga, Grant says
Stanton sent for him and told him that
further retreat must be prevented, I
: immediately wrote an order assuming
i command of the division of the Missis-
S sippi and telegraphed to Gen. Kosecrans.
i then telegraphed him the order from
Washinfiton, assigning to Thomas the
1 eVamand of the array of the Cumbcr-
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enemy.
It. giving n
render, Gen. Grant says
I.B'} had been brought into
conducted to a house belonging tiaß
McLean, and was there witJuPm (jHi !
stall' officers
ii. uufumri was occupying a hill,
a portion of which was an apple orchard.
Wars produce many stories of fiction.
The story of the apple tree is one of those
fictions, with a slight foundation of
fact. Running diagonally up the hill
was a wagon road, which at one point
ran very near one of the trees of the or
chard, so that the wheels had cut olf the
roots of the tree, which made a little
embankment. Gen. Babcock reported
to me that when he first met Gen. Lee
he was sitting upon this embankment
with his feet in the road and leaning
against a tree.
It was then that Lee was conducted
into the house whore 1 first met him. I
had known Gen. Lee in the old army,
atid had served with him in the Mexican
war, but did, not suppose, owing to the
differences in our ages and rank, that he
would probably know rne; while I
would remember him more distinctly,
because he was the chief engineer on
the staff of Gen. Scott in the Mexican
war. When I had left camp that morn
ing I had not expected the result so soon
that was then taking place, and eonse-
quently was in rough garb, and I be
lieve without a sword, us I usually was
when on horseback on the field, wearing
a soldier’s blouse for a coat, with shoukg
der straps of toy rank to indicate whdß
was to the army. JHj
When I went into the house I fowpd
Gen. Lee. We greeted each otlian
after shaking li tnds took our .fIPF.
What his feelings were I do not khinv,
being a man of much dignity and with
an impenetrable face; but my own feel
ings, which had been qutie apparent on
the receipt of his letter, were sad and de
pressed. I felt like anything rather than
rejoicing at the downfall of a foe that
had fought so long and so gallantly, and
had suffered so much for a cause which
I believed to be one of worst for
which a people ever fought, <fnd -''for
which there was not the lecst pretext.
I do not question, however, the sincer
ity of the great mass of those who were
opposed to us.
Gen. Lee was dressed in full uniform
entirely, wearing a sword of considera
ble value, very likely the sword that had
been presented to him by the state of
Virginia; at all events it was an entirely
different sword from the one that would
ordinarily be worn in the field. In my
rough traveling suit, which was the uni
form of a private, with the straps of a
general, I must have contrasted very
strangely with a man so handsomely
dressed, six feet high and of faultless
form. But this was not a matter that 1
thought, of until afterwards. Gen. Lee
and I soon fell into a conversation about
old army times. He remarked that he
remembered me very well in the old
artnv. Our conversation grew so pleas
ant that I almost forgot the object of our
meeting. Gen. Lee was accompanied
by one of his start, Col. Marshall. I had
all of my staff with me, a good portion
of whom were in the room during the
whole of the intervie w.
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IMPTIIKHIA CUKKH BY SULPHUR.
A few years ago when diptheria was
raging in England, a gentleman accompan
ied tlie celebrated Dr. Field on his round
to witness the so-called “wonderful cures’’
which he performed, while the patients of
others were dropping on all sides. The
remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple.
All he took with him was powder of sul
phur and a quill, and with these lie cured
every patient without exception. He put
a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a
wine-glass, of water, and stirred it with
his finger, instead of a spoon, as the sul
phur does not readily amalgamate with
water. When the sulphur was well mix
ed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten min
utes the patient was out of danger. Brim
stone kills every specios of fungus in a
man, beast and plant in a few minutes.
JBpead of spitting out the gargle, he rec-
Ipimended tlie swallowing of it. In ex
treme (bases, in which he had been called
just in the jiiclrof time, when the fungus
nearly closing to allow the gar
gling, he blew the sulphur through a quill
into tlie throat, and, after the fungus had
shrunk to allow of it, then the gargle. He
never lost a patient from diptheria. If a
patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put
it on a sliovei and sprinkle a spoonful or
two of flour of brimstone at a time upon
it, let tlie sufferer inhale it, holding tlie
head over it, and the fungus will die.
The Atlania correspondent of the Ma
con Telegraph, after noticing the appoint
ment of John W. Nelms as United States
Marshal says :
“The next office to be filled now in the
custom house, one of tlie most important
and lucrative, is the postoffice. From all I
can gather and see, it is understood as a
part and parcel of the new deal that thus
important office will be handed over to ex-
Treasurer Renfroe.”
We think that when the senate comes
to act upon the nominations of Nelms and
Renfroe, tlie “true inwardness” of Sena
tor Brown’s support of Speer for federal
judge may have some light thrown upon
it. Nelms and Renfroe cannot be con
firmed without republican support, and
perhaps tlie support of quite a number of
republican senators. —Rome Courier.
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