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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 16-TWELVE PAGES.
sons of mm men.
Large Legacies do Not Al
ways £poil Young Men.
JIM BENNETT ANO -.GEORGE LAW.
.Some HValthy Sonsr*f Wealthy and Plstin-
gtilitlied Men—They Know How to
Take Caro of TIteir Money-
Siugalnr L'plHodeH.
Washington. D. C., Oct. 4.—The sons
of rich men have generally been succcss'nl
in politics. As a rule they are not so easily
corrnpfe'l by the money (xiwer as men of
snijll means. Perry Belmont and Wm.
Walter Phelps are the leaders of the
banged and beautiful legion which liaa
Young Met/e Christian association and in | MARVKI.OUS MEMORIES,
the chtinhcs in wliich he is interested.' ' ———- ’ '
Georpe Vanderbilt, the student ami scholar,: WhBt Who Cultivate Their
was not moved to leave his library by the jfrom Welcome. * CU ***
fact that he was left a fortune for which! Mr. Stanton, the United States war ntin-
nany a prince woo'd pawn bis' throne. j inister during the great civil war, had a
Then there is the Astor family. Old very >etcntive memory, and was especially
John Jacob Astor was a prudent, careful well up in Dickens’ workH. One evening
man who know that 100 cents were worth in the early part of 1808 Dickens, then on
a good deal more thaD 100 cents if prop-j a reading tour in the states, was dining
erly handled. His son had the same! with Charles Sumner when Mr. Stanton
knowledge, and if his grandsons lack it and some others were present. The war
there is no evidence of the fact. . minuter was put to the test, and when
As-a matter of fact there is no steadier started could repeat from memory a chap-
young men in New York than Gould's | ter from any of Dickens’ books, showing a
sons. The oldest of them, George, has! much greater knowledge of thelmoeka
two sons of his own. Jay Gould has V 'b' ' I
been as fortunate in his sons as in his
financial ventures. The Little Wizard is
not what lie was physically. He Is not
the wreck that many papers paint him.
But at the same time ho reels the eflect of
the terrifice strain that he has been under
for years. Bnt if he should give up to
morrow, his quiet-voiced son, George, who
WT-ilWIe- "™'S Into ft.1 L'TSr ftft.srafcf &
somewhat beery and plug-cut atmosphere business and carry it on. :r \ , .
of the House. Rob Roosevelt, Seth Law J Cyrus Field, too, has two sons who are
and Willie Astor are all sons of million-! going business men of moderate
. , ... r t ,! habilR,and with alLthe best characteri*-
arres wbo went into politics for fun and j tic8 tho f aruollH f,.„ nily> w |, ost . hands;
became hard-working men in the positions j the Field estate will be safe when its pres
to which they were elected. Now it is ; enl owner gives up Control of it.
currently reported that Paul Dana, the I . Then there are the Goeleto; then comes
. / . . , i in Eld ridge V. Gerry; the H&oimmlcys:
son of the veto an editor, is itching for , Ebinelanders, nnd a dozen others who
congressional honors, iliis young man ;„] ier ite<i great wealth and were not spoiled
although a millionaire bill, by inheritance b it . Xod there is the son of our trusty
?nd marriage has been * h , u , rtl ;' v V r ki n «! mayor,Cooper Hewitt, who can scarcely
journalist for years, and would make in Help having brains, who has plenty of
energetic congressman.. I money and who married a daughter of
BmA »n>)ai^d|g|myi>w«y : = Work, who has more. There is
Ogden Mills, the son of D. O. Mills, the
Pacific Slope Croesus; ithcre is Pierre Lord
the people, btif the niajori/y of them turn
out well.
Whtn a few weeks see G'Orge Law ere-
ill-mi, Jr., who is as steady as clock work;
there is Allen Thorodykc Kiev, who would
have made a name even hnd he not inher
ited a fortune; theie is Henry Jlrrgh, Jr.,
who is carrying on tliVwprk to which his
father devoted his life; theye are ,tjie
grandsons of the great banker, Anson O.
Phelps, and there are fcdores of otheis who
have not been spoiled by fortune.
The’ list;! however, would notbe com
plete without mentioning the sops of .Rob
ert Bonner, of the Ledger- Hfe has given
j up alibis business to them and they are
S ' oing ahead with it.' The old gentleman
angs abound and keeps a sharp eye on
them ini case they,need Sdvipe, hut they
don’t «eem to need 1', and-lie admits that
itheir vigor and enterprise'surprise him.
Most Of the big editors of New York
hnvo sons that they have no reason to feel
ashamed oft
Anywhere in the neighborhood of the
big twelve-story building that the New
York Times is erecting in Printing Hoitsc
Square, a short, energetic yming mart with
a good looklojj face, bine eyes and blob , e
moustache drrtlng hither'and thither and
watching , everything that is being done
You might take him for some sort hf.o
sub-foreman, but 1 he is nett.' He is Gilbert
•Jones, son of George Jones, the principal
owner of the Times and <ine of the heist
the United States. It WAi
_ conceived the design for the great
riiuili who «c» rquundenug the fortnnehia j h ilding that the Times js erecting. I'
'father had accumulated. N«* he also who eortcoived the plan
It was very silly talk. George Law is , wherebv the inner portion of llie btiildim
not a youth and no is not a sqnapderer. j was left standing while the outer shel
In his convivial moments lie will come j was oeidg built Mtnind ib so that the
very near to i-penriinghisincome—and that; Times "S. l*vn®4 as usuii from tnc sain.
W. IV. ASTOR.
ated a sensation by giving away $10,000 or i
*12,000 wonli of djopiopd- to a crowd of j owner of the
prize-fighters and gauiblets at Harat ga,! mechanics in.
there was ilie. usual outcry aliout tlie lavish he who conceiv
than their author could boast. Mr. Stan
ton accounted for this intimate knowledge
of Dickens by mentioning the habit
which lie hnd funned during the war
of invariably reading something
by the author of “Pickwick” before going
to bed at nigbi. The late Bishop Prince
Lee, first bishop of Manchester, was simi
larly gifted. It is related of him that be
ing once, at an evening patty, started by a
lady with a line quoted from “Mnrmion,”
■lie went right on with the poem from
memory, and could have recited the whole.
As a furiher test, the same lady quoted a
few words from a conversation ill “Ivan-
hoe,” whereupon the bishop repeated the
whole chapter correctly from memory. But
greater than auy ot these was Lord Macau-
ley. From a very early age tho retentive-
n-ss of his memory was extraordinary.
When only three or four years of age,
his mind mechanically retained the form
of what he read so that, as Iuh
maid said, he talked “quite printed
words.” Once as child, whtn making an
afternoon call with his father, he picked Up
Scott’s “Lay of the Last Minstrel” for the
first time, and quietly devoured the treas
ure while his seniors were engaged in con
versation. When they returned home the
boy went to his mother, who at the time
was confined to,her bed, and sitting down
at the bedside repeated what he hud been
reading, by the canto, until she was tired.
Later in life his wonderful memory was
always a subject of interest to his triends, 1
and occasionally was put to searching tests.
One day at a hoard meeting at tho J’-risish
Museum Mac at, ley wrote down from
memory in three parallel columns on each
of four pages of foolscap a complete 1
of the .: Cambridge senior wrangle
GEORGIA GIANTS.
Sketches of Men Who Have
Made Georgia Famous,
OPINION3 OF COL. R. M. JOHNSTON.
Stephen*, ToodiIm*, Bmi Hill, tin' Cobb*
and Oilier Notables Entertainingly
Sketched—Some Interesting
Anecdotes of Them.
From an Interview in Nashville American.
Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, the
well-known dialect writer aud lecturer,
was found at the Nicholson House yester
day by an American reporter and engaged
in conversation upon a variety of topics
peculiar to the south and characterifltiq of
and impulsive, distinguished for excellence
in criminal trials. Stephens considered
him without a superior as an orator.”
“You know the Stepher.scs?”
“Very well. Linton was superior to
Alexander as a logician, and was a more
lttrned lawyerthu bit brother. Alu*
ander, however was also a good lawyer.”
“What was therein Alexander Stephens
that made him a great mau?”
“Added to his genius was his in» omita-
ble energy, perseverance and ambition.
Stephens found himself in early years an
invalid, and viewing the happiness of
others and inclined at first to be resentful,
hut determined to overcome this weakness
and to mika I lie bid ofl the {few things
that had been given him. I never knew of a
man who had more energy and persever
ance in carrying out his plans, lie was
most charitable of mankind, but indis
criminately so, and often bestowed his
charity upon unworthy subject!. Stephens
educated during his lifetime 125 or 130
young men a ml probably fifty or sixty
young ladies, to whom he gave a collegiate
Georgia. Mr. Johnston is aspleasing in - . T .„, AAA
u i- it i education. lie made $05,000 or $70,000
nversation as he has proven himself in from hfa hisloryj aQ(1 in # very ghort lime
delineating southern backwoods life. In
speaking of the great orators and states
men which Georgia has produced he
evinces a thorough familiarity resulting
from a personal acquaintance with all the
gentlemen named. lie can speak on this
afterwards every dollar of it was gone. He
died p'or, leaving not much more than
about enough to pay a debt he owed his
brother. He was educated in part bv the
ladies of the Presbyterian church with the
idea of following the ministry, but after
some time he changed his intentions and
subject with an accuracy which cannot be ' f?* 0 ** 1 t0 acce ,P l any mote money from
, , , , , „ . , . , , tins source, auu completed ms educatt n
disputid, and the following sketch of a ’ . . - •
spot despite the fact that the old wnlU
were being dem^' i * , 'i‘i and new ones
is hot an easv'iask. But When George is
not in n convivial mood lie i-t a very dif
ferent man. Gossips will g< Rsjp, hut as a
matter of fact llte pqtuuc kit by the old
steamboat man has been in no mariner di
minished since it passed into the hands of
his sqn George, dfspite the latter’s occa-
sisss! rcakne s for arsocistir.g with pugi!
iats, gamblers and other persons generally
considered OS' color.
A parallel case is that of James Gordon
Bennett, who, in his t'die has' been the j
hope and fear of mamrnaA with eligible'
daughters at every fashionable resort in
America and Europe. His extravagance
recalled Monte Grlsto and caaBtd knowing
ones to shake their heads and say that if
that Bort of thilig was kept up the Herald
would come to tho auction block'and young
Bennett to driving a sired car or something
of that sort, and that this would he the
result of the scheme and labors of the canny
Scotch founder of a great newspaper. None
of these things have come to pass. With .
all his erratic ways Bennett has continued •
to make the Herald u good newspaper.
There will be none of his name, as the !
founder of the paper might have wished,!
to continue iu control after he is gone.
Isaac Bell, Jr., hia nephew, will, in all
probabilities, be its next owner. paul dana,
But if Law and Bennett and others have ereefed. It was a feat in building that!
sowed wild oats wi li a strong and steady ; has not been seen before id New York. It !
hand, there arc o'her rich men’s sons, who, is no uncommon thing to see young Mr.
if they sowed wild nats must have sowed Jones going through with a machinist orj
them in soft ground where no one heard a plumber, monkey wrench in hand mend-'
them fall. in. a pipe or wiping a joint. Thefe is no
There sre rich ni'-p’s son., strange »a it nonsense about the young man, and it is
may seem, who deserved thsir Inek. | not strange that George Jones tliiuks that
It would require much .pace to ei.um'r-' in hiui, the Times an I tho npw Times
ale them and every Inter m the alphabet building he holds a full hand. j ; t
from A ander which the Aetor family j Nor. is diaries A. Dans, the Nestor of j
stand, to V for Vanderbilt, would be rep-! tbc g un> fortunate. 1’aul Dana, Ititil
resented by iheui. But il is not necessary honi deservedly one of the most papular;
to place them in alphabetical order. The mcu ; D j; ew York. An athlete and a
scions of the Vanderbilt and Astor fami- society man, the hufi'and ol ai pb^riilrjgj
lies liar 4 bren singularly careful to tread , woman, he is also a man of h>.tin's and has
•n the footsteps of the builders ol their bcen trainer! in the Sun otfi e under the
fortunes, and besides have cultivated qual- Lea eye of hia father, and it will bo ad
dles that their grandfathers otilil not It mined he could Jiave no hotter trainer,
■•well known how ll e lain Wn . H. Van | j 0Re ,,h Pulitzer has no «on to share hi*
money or hia talent.
Elliot F. Sheppard, the new proprietor
cf the Mail and Exprts', has a eon, bnt be
is not old enough to be heard from yet.
Whitelaw Retd has two aons, hut they
are not as vet inlero'ted in political came
pr.igns or’any other* of the trifles that
a&iuse grown-up infanta. . .e* ,
: Parke Godwin, of the Commercial Ad-
vertiasr. has two aons who manage Ms pa-
! per for him. ,
i Of course there are some sons and grand
sons of rich and famous men who have
' not yet had a cliaaee to make a record.
1 Chauncey M. Depew has a ti n that he
calls “Tile Busier," who will bear watch-
* n Addison Cam mack who married lute and
happily, h<» a chupie of bora for whom he
; would desert the stock mtirket.
I There are g audaons.in the V anderhilt
• and Astor families as well ai in-the family
. of JaV Gould, and they haven’t had; time
, to he’ anything bnt a credit w tlf .tj fam
• * *iliu list of rich^uen’a aons who'have
not disgraced themselves or anyone else
j might lie lengthened.^ ;Jlut, vlvift. ‘-he
use? .\\ V'V‘l A IYO ' -’U** u
A fi«J»'4.aftVi cod a^drdinarily as gcod)
any other map’s s*n.
David Wl
deibilp increase'! th
left him 1
(ieoroe ciounn.
hv thu ol#t emon*' dore, and left his sons
about $UI0,000,OlfO enrh, enough to c use
any yo«kg.uiKD to c" >•' the had fl w had .
any inclination to go in that direction.
But they had no Mi di ii oHpadian. Cor-1
Belitie{anderhilt quietly 'tipped into his
father 1 , slmew at ties- head of ins great rcil-
joad soimi . AittmUsd ly the Vanderbilts
Jfeet aa th, ugh lie hnd Ineo Engaged in the
*•**(■ iKjailloii fot a lifetime, and in the
fcemliai*did uot give up hi* aotk iu the
Sai>
But there is no oth
ache, tiizzinrM,
. if,
iedr to
r.d-1
nsttpatton, rum,
to rest',re a regular, he.d by a
|iv, r, stomach aud liuwcls, , qu ,1 I i
liable “Plrassnt Purgative Pel!,
pared hy Dr. Pierce Of druggis't,
wih dates and college*
for ■ i the 100 years during
which a record of the names had been kept
in tho university calendar. “On another
occasion."sayaTrevelyan, “Sir David Dun-
das asked, ‘Macaulay, do you kuow your
Popes?* ‘No, 1 was the answer, fl alwsy*
get wrong .among the Innocents.’ ‘But,
can you say your Archbishops of f’atiter-
litiry?’ ‘Any fool,’ said Macaulay, ‘could
say his Archbishops of Conlerhury back-;
wark,’ aud be went off at score, drawing
breath only once in orderito remark on the
oddity of there having been both an Arch-
bhliop Sancroft anil an Archbishop Ban
croft, until Sir David stopped him atCrau-
mer." Macaulay once said that if, by any;
poMtihle chauce, all the copies of “Paradise
Lost” and the “Pilgrim's Progress” in ex
istence were destroyed, he could write bath
ovt again, complete from recollection,
When O'Connell made his motion in 1SJt
for the repeal of the union, Mr. Teunnnt,'
member of parlitiniem for Belfast; deliv
ered a speech lasting SJ hours, full of fig
ures aud calculations entirely from mem
ory, iu which he trusted so completely
that ite sent the manuscript of his speech
to tht) newspapers before lie delivered it.
His confidence was not misplaced, for th4
oration was spoken without a single mis
take, or even a momentary hesitation. An
other Irish M. P., Mr. Robert Dillon
Brown, member for Mavo, had the saiitii
useful faculty. Hf .would dictate a jpceitll
afterward*, without looking at it or think
ing of the matter in the meantime, could
repeat it word for word. Woodfall, the
editor of the Morning Chronicle, and
brother of Juulus’ publisher, was able to
report accurately in the morning the de-
ba'e of the previous evening, without tak-
ing nny notes. In some cases the lututal
action involved in f. ats of this nature
would seem to be quite mechanical and
unintelligent. In the newspapers of Jan-t
uary, 182 ', there arc accounts of an extra
ordinary man, who was known as “Alcml
cry-corner Thompson.’’ This man, al
though he could hardly Tcmembtr any
thing ho beard, coqld yet retain perfectly
the names and descriptions of large col
lections of objects that met his eye. He
could take an inventory of tho contents o(
a house from cellar to attic merely by
surveying them, and could afterwart!
write it out from memory. He could draw
from recollection accurate plans of many
London parishes and districts, with every
srreet, tiller, pnblic building, public house,
etc., duly noted, down to the minutest top
ographical detail, such as pumps, trees,
bow-windows and posts, all correctly
marked. Conspicuous instances of this
mechanical kind ot memory are to he found
among the famous mental calculators.
Jebediah Buxton was a celebrity of ibid
kind shout the midlle of the last century.
He bed but tittle education, and, indeed,
was not ablo to write his own name, lint
in arithmetic and abstruse calculations his
powers were wonderful. The following is
a specimen wliich, when put to the tes , In;
solved mentally in a few minutes: Find
how many cubical eighths of an inch
there "aVe‘ in'” a quadrangu
lar mass measuring 28,145,781)
yards long, 2,042,732 yards wide ami •"'4.-
t)do yards thick. When in London in 1704
he was taken to see Garrick’os Bichard
III. at Drury Lane. The play did not
itilemn him bat he occupied iiinuelf in
reckoning the number of words he heard
and in Counting the number ol steps made
by the dancers. The American boy, Zcran
Colburn, who came to London in 1812,
was a similar phenomenon, lie had no
knowledge ol the ru.e* of arithmetic, and
raz quit- nsahlc tc crp’.sip h;:r' Jtc.nr
rived at the answers to the problems sub-
miit'.d to him. Mental power of his nature
wouhl seem- to imply an unwholesome
devel pment ofone part of the* brain at
the expense of the rest. The retentive ness
of such a memory as Lord Macaulay’s is
greatly to be preferred t tin- utm- tiad
mental activity of an animated calculating
machine. ' ...
Palmer's Splendid Canvas*.
From, the Chicago Herald.
Gov. Palmer docs not (inti that any of
his ammunition gets wet .in present
campaiv.n. Hisargummtsare a- trongis
ever. His aud>cacis re vive hi- do* trine
ef state supremacy under the federal con-
stiuiliou an 1 evini e their increasing rati-
fi. lion. The winning idea hr.* been tf.e
anti-Pinkerton platform. Thegov mar has
l tea a . rd m tha pop >lar iieau and t-
u v akinthaosebfhisadvantage. The
. gr .w.hof pr^'- tian bands, tln-ir murders,
tilei.- self-constituted authority, have
ait aroused the spirit that is ai the
l t * of American institution*. If i'al-
t mi.- -..ill he electetl ihe private arinie*
, vit. j« disbanded and non-producers will
( >e put at work.
portion of his remarks will prove interest
ing to all who have admired ill Georgia’s
hi-dory some of tho grandest figures of
American jurisprudence and statesman
ship.
‘‘Mr. Johnston, what foundation is there
for the idea that Georgia was a penal col-'
,ony in its early settlement?” was asked.
“When Gen. Oglethorpe made tho first
settlements in Georgia, in 1732,he brought
over with bun from England*a goo4 many
poor people and tome cconvicts, who set
tled in the lower portion of the state near
Savannah. The uumherof these that came
over, however, was very tuir.ll, the ; moat
numerous curly settlers beiug of respecta
ble English families ami German .Sulz
bergers, who built several little towns in
the lower section of the state, among them
| Ebenezer and other* whose history lias
attached; j been revived by Col. Charles Cj Jones,
i—;-- jj an y pi the leading names there are those
of the early S ilzhcrgers. Not long after
the arrival of these peepio a colony from
tho Hebrides Islands came over and set
tled in the counties of Emanuel anil Bryan
aq^l those adjoining. Tho nanus of very
many at the present time hear ths impress
of this origin, beginning with the Hootch
‘Mac.’ .Titis was in tbe lower belt of
country; aud by the low country is meant
that territo'y as contrasted to the hill
country, the latter classification including
rather a majority of the whqle state.”
“From where was John M*opherson
Berrien?”
“He came from New Jersey when a
young man and settled in Savannah a*
teacher iu a family aud afterward btca'mo
the most eminent lawyer cl the state, aa
regard, d by outsiders. Hia partner, Wil
liam Law, was of English descent and a
native of Savannah, and probably as goo 1
a lawyer as Berrien, who watt alio an old
whig, but subsequently attorney-general,
if I remember rightly, under Andrew
Jackson. The Georgians regarded Berrien
as a man ot great ability, but he was not
very popular with the people. He pre
vailed by force ot distinguished ability
both as a lawyer and statesman as well as
an orator of magnificent proportions.
Though the state never had his superior as
a lawyer, heperhat s could never have been
elected os a representative because
the people outside of Bavaur.ah, knowing
so little of him personally, would never
have voted for him. Anti I may say in
this connection th?t the representatives of
Georgia fi(tv years ago were men of extra
ordinary ability. Governor Jenkius of
Augusta was a pupil of Berrien and a pop
ular man with the people, and at least on
two occasions prevented Berrien’s defeat
for the Senate. Ife was speaker of tho
House of Representative*. Law was per
haps the equal of,Berrien as a Iswyer,
Rjhert Charlcton, coming on a little later,
was considered the finest lawyer of his day
in that Kection. He was also United States
senator,”
"Did you know the Cobbs?
"Yes, both Howell and Torn; the latter
well. As to tl.eir politics, they were both
democrats all the timp.exceptthat Howell,
in 1351, ran as the candidate for governor
of the Constitutional Union party sup
ported by tbe Whigs."
“Did you regard Howell Cobb as a man
of great intellect?”
“Cobb was a man of not extensive gen
eral knowledge; a man that had read
fewer hooks, perhaps, than any other man
of his prominence in the country. He was
possessed of a high order of talent aod was
a splendid politician. He was fat and
jolty and was excellent company. I would
not put him as a statesman beside Berrien
Lilt iu- was a better politician. His broth
er Tom was a cultivated man and at 24
years of age was one of tho best lawyers in
the state. At IS he graduated with the
highest honors of his class. When he was
about 20 he fell in love with the daughter
of Judge Joe Henry Lumpkin, who lived
near Allien.', and Judge Lumpkin told
him he might have his daughter when lie
and* bis first %00 lot, He lived at Ath
ens bnt WatkinoviUt was then the county
seat. Tom Cold) went over there one day
and was employed in a case concerning a
conflict of excoationspn a lot of money iu
lit. bands of the sheriff. Charles Dough-
triy mi» .it the beach. Cobb whipped out
his opponents, Hutchins, Cone and Bill
Mitchell, and sccuted the money for
hit client. When it came to the
question of a fee Cobti told his client he
want- 1 a hundred dollars and thatatonce.
H- gv*. ”d ~zz‘. L-..—.b«-.k iutim.-
diatelyto hi-houjoin Athens, where he
put on his !> it clothes, changed his hone
nod galloped down to Lexington, sixteen
miles away, to Judge Lumpkin’s, and en
tering tho hctiae threw tho hundred dollars
in the lap of busweoth art and announced
that lm hail come for her.
“ Their father way a man of large wealth,
hut lt>»l it on security debt*, nnd Howell
sj » nt all * t hi- wu money in paying his
father s debuo Tom Cobb soon made the
big®-t let - ot any lawyer in tho stale and
wt-an indefatigable worker. Sometimes
he would plead a case in one court to-day
p;al ge'. ia It's httggy and travel all night
in order ui appear it. mother court to-
aiorrow. He » ;« a hand- t* • man. a fine
orator, and invariably -pint the night with
I thin'.;.
opinion
of Judge
terian churdi. II
Lumber of the c'.m.
1 What was you
Lumpkin?"
"ite wat a most magnifieri.l or-.t.ir an.
considered to hive L«eD trie best tin - at
ever prod a. e.l except j «rhaps John For
silhe, who was Secretary ol Slate nnJ.
Jackson. He v as cultivate 1, ahie, a-dert
money that he borrowed from his
brother. The Presbyterian church at his
home was broken up nnd he never joined
any church afterwards. I never could get
hi; religious views, excep. that lie was a
very prayerful man and a believer in the
atonement of Christ.”
“Why did he never marry?”
“On account of his pour health anil
because he feared ho would ever be an in
valid. He was never without pain in his
life. He could have married well two or
three times, but refrained from doing so.”
“What was the bond of friendship be
tween him and Toombs?"
“They were horn nnd reared in adjoin
ing neighborhoods, and Toombs would
help Stephens out with his cases when
Stephens was unable to attend to them.
Toombs nnnnolyl W Hhintj for t fitqnHtinJ
which was cordially returned. They al
ts ays desired not to get on opposite sides of
a case. Toombs’ was the greatest intellect
that lever knew. Stephens thought so,
and I have heard him say that Tonnibs
had enough genins to govern tho North
American continent. In tho first place
Toombs was a splendid and mngnitcenl
lawyer, lie was a close student acd
would read a hook quicker than auy man
I ever saw. He was powerful before n
judge and irresistible before jury. Stephens
per-uaded a jury; Toombs commanded
tt. 1 heardToombs rnaketbegreatest speech
1 ever heard in my lifetime and he occu
pied only twenty minutes in its delivery,
lie would tske the main points and let the
remainder go and present them in a man
ner that seemed to say to the jury, ‘1 will
show you the case, aud if you aro honest
men you will find it au.' I don't believu
that Demosthenes ever made such a speech
in twenty minutes os Toombs made in this
instance of which I speak, and the jury re
turned a verdict in ac.ordnnce with his
plea in three minutes.
’’Ben Hill was the equal of any of them
as a lawyer fund an orator. I know John
son Ultimately; lie was a poor boy from
Jefferson county, and was in the class with
Stephens. He was a finer writer than anj
of them and almost as line on orator. How
ever, his disposition wa* MtQrnice and hi
seemed to be laboring under the weight o
some oppression. Unlike him Charles J.
Jenkins was full nf
"Ben HiU possessed a great intellect and
was a man of courage. Stephens chal
lenged him to a fight once,hut lie declined
on moral grounds.
“I regard Joe Brown as a man of ability.
He and Ben Hill ran for governor and
Brown was elected.
"Though many of these men are from
the up-country, tho Savannah bar has
been os good, if not the best, in the state,
among the practitioners . being Berrien,
Law, Charlatan, Barlow nnd otheis.”
"There is a considerable difference be
tween the negroes of Georgia and South
Carolina, how do you account for it?”
“In middle Georgia ia found the most
fertile land in the state, before develop
ment of southwest Georgia, nnd every por
tion of it is healthful; and tho mister*
lived on their farms and among their
claves. In the ecu..*'. ...tJ . ^uthern por
tions of South Carolina on the rice farms
the climate is unhealthful and the owners,
instead of living on their plantations,
either lived on tho coast or in the hilly re
gions, often twenty mile* away. The
Georgia negro has lived close- to his mas
ter on account ol the geographic conditions
of the country and the presence of bis mas
ter has exercised an intlurnce npon the
negro’s character. Iu the southeastern
portions uf Georgia the negroes are very
much like the South Carolina rice negroes,
and again in South Carolina tbe negroes
of the up-country and low-country are
very dissimilar iu their peculiarities:
“The negro,” continued Mr. Johnston,
“,s the child of the human race, and
needs, and is oblig'd to have the guidance
and protection of the white man, of whom
he u male the inferior. I never saw
stronger affection than b tween tbe mas
ters and slars- of Georgia. I believe the
negro i* capable of appreciating kindne-s.
The younger negroes of Georgia are not
near*so good workers as the race used to
he. Unfortunately, to give the young ne
gro an education seems to nofit him for
plantation work, but there is net now in
Georgia one-fifth of the mifcegeuath.it hat
there was in slavery. In Georgia five-
sixtlis of tlie negroes are as humble as they
were before tbe war. Tbeir politicians and
schoolmasters and some preachers in town
hurt their race. As to niiat they are ia a
religious point of view, I don’t know. The
negro i» a very religious being, and would
prefer to have a guide, and if they had in
telligent, upright guides of their own race,
all, I think, would be well.”
Reducing the Surplus.
ThedlspoeUwn,ol ibe surplus in the U. g.
Treasury engag 4 the attention ot our States
men, hut a more vital nunutun has nnr atten
tion, and that t* the. reductlou cl tbe Surplus
Consumptive*. Since the discovery and Intro-
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kumpltoa, liar* has been a marked decrease tn
the mortallt) from tlie dreaded dheaiw, and it
ia possible to ..till further reduce the number of
Consumptive*, ilowt Ily keeping constantly
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