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~TTE TWICE-A-^EEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY S, 1807. JOS. B. I Chariest now the >ppor- leaving-, a joint resolution of Cofigress I from Europe with him. His satire, a lored people ' commending Maj. Von Brocke was j fine Damascus blade, was handled with passed In January. 1864. which read: j great skill and success. On one oe- “Whereas, Maj. Hero? Von Brocke. j casioti ’ oetng hotl >' engaged in a per- adjutant and Inspector- WRITTEN BY SAVOYARD. FOR THE MACON TELEGRAPH. (Copyrighted 1907 by E. W. Newman.) Just fifty years ago the administra tion of James Buchanan undertook to put Stephen A. Douglas out of the po litical business The little giant was a candidate for re-election to the Sen ate, and by general consent Abraham Lincoln -.vas selected as his Republi can opponent. Horace Greeley, how ever, who was possessed of extrava gant admiration for rhe wonderful fo rensic genius of Douglas, advised the party in Illinois to give Us vote to him as a rebuke to the Southern Democ racy. that had prevailed on Buchanan to favor the Le Compton Constitution; but the Illlnos Republicans distrusted and feared the little giant, and the re sult was the splendid fight made against both Lincoln and Buchanan in J95S. from which he came oil victor. A dozen years later Charles Sumner and President Grant had a row over Mr. Sumner’s attempt to run our for eign aff.il: independent of the Presi dent and the Secretary of State, and there Is no sort of doubt that we would have had a war with Great Britain over the Alabama claims If Grant had not served notice on Sumner that Ham ilton Fish had charge of our foreign af fairs. The r.Mi t was Ihe recall of John Lothrop Mottley, our minister to England, who persisted In taking or ders from Sumner instead of from tho State Department. Iaater the Republi can majority In the Senate deposed Sumner from the chairmanship of for eign relations, and gave the place to Simon Cameron. Sumner then joined the Liberal Republican party and made a speech rebuking Gen. Grant for ne potism that was wonderful for the vast wealth of historical illustration with which It abounded. Sumner supposed Greeley, whom he survived but a few months. Another famous quarrel was that be tween Garfield and Conkling, which was cut short by the maniac's bullet lust as the Senator was getting ready to fight. -u:r.ner. j (unity ts co.T.e u I Ohio to wipe our that stain by sup- I porting the man who stood by their (brethren In a controversy with the most powerful individual on earth. The pie ! of Prussia, 'counter is leaded, btjr It is understood ! tha- to eat Federal pie and cut Fora- j her an Ohio negro will be required to | sonal encounter, a terrific blow wifh j that sabre—reported by the Yankee? general of the Cavalry Corps of the "as long as a fence rail” cut with such Army of Northern Virginia, having left force as to almost completely sever the hi? own country to assist in securing head of his enemy. and the Republicans nominated him ; v.aich ie. takes when he ent.rs upon j leave home and travel beyond the geo- 1 t^e independence of ours, and by his | Before leaving the Confederacy the for Govprnn’ Wi* D.amnrrFtli* wim- nis office. » graphical confines- of the State. I * — ~ ^ And now there Is a quarrel between Pre-ldent and (Senator that promises to eclipse all the f.rhers In publl" interest and political consequences. Ohio Is the battleground.and Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph B. Foraker the champions. The President asserts the right to ap point his successor, for that is what it mesne in plain English: the Senator maintains the privilege to be a states man In tho Senate, or a politician In Ohio, without let or hindrance from the President, or anybody and everybody else. -Secretary Taft is the man the President has chosen to wear his man tle after March 4, IMS. Unfortunately, Mr. Taft Is not all the Presidential timber In Ohio. There are thousands of Republicans In Ohio who believe Jo seph B. Foraker has done more for the party than Taft ever accomplished, and these gentlemen are In no humor to have their favorite horned oil from tho national convention In 190S or pitch- forked out of the United States Sen ate in 1909. Foraker is one of the most dashing and attractive public men Ohio has produced. Ho is fanatically honest and intrepidly courageous. His con science never felt the touch of Interest, and his tongue never felt the presence of bridle. What his heart forges, that his mouth speaks, and his Is an eye that never feared to look on the face of man. lie never flanks an obstacle. There is nothing negative about him, Had there boon there Is llttlo doubt that he would have been President ere this, and this I make beld to say, that he would have been electe’d President nineteen years ago if he had consented to contest for the nomination. for Governor. His Democratic . com petitor was George Hoadley. of the Cincinnati bar, an original Democrat, who had become a Republican because of his hostility to slavery and was now returned to the party of his youth and early manhood. The race attracted national attention. Hoadley had never been so able; Foraker never so elo quent. Ohio was In a blaze, off year that it was. As I now receollect, the temperance question was a big side Issue. However it was, Hoadley was elected—the third Democrat chosen Governor of Ohio since the war, and the knightliest man Ohio has yet pro duced went down. BZut it was the fall of Antaeus and he rprang up more formidable than ever, and two years later he succeedod Hoad ley as Governor, who was then taken out of Democratic national calculation for President as “Old Bill" Allen had been ten years earlier when he was de feated for re-election by R. B. Hayes. The defeat of Allen made Tllden the nominee, and the defeat of Hoadley made Cleveland the nominee In 18S4. Foraker was re-elected. While he was Governor Mr. Cleveland purposed re turning certain flags captured In battel to the Southern States. Foraker chal lenged him on that proposition, and for some weeks there was a political brain-cyclone In Grand Army circles. The result was that Mr. Cleveland re ceded. Foraker was actuated by senti ment, pure sentiment, and as evidence that malice had no part in it, he was the first man of the North to spring to th- aid of Chariest--:. «l:en that to.vn was visited by the disastrous earth quake in 1S8S. ■Foraker was 43 years old when he was nominated for Governor for the fourth time. In 1889. James E. Camp bell was his Democratic competitor. It was an off year, and the Harrison Ad ministration ■ was far from popular. Campbell, next to Foraker, was the best stumper In the State, and when he re turns came In the Rupert of Ohio was again unhorsed and, most people thought and many people hoped, he was done for. Like Blaine, whom he so much resembles In temperament and especially in audacity. Foraker has considerable capacity for making bitter enemies as well as great capacity for making devoted friends. his office.” There Is no politics in that. Man- j hood, noble manhood, breathes in every word. No man is fit to be Senator who j does not feci the sentiment of it in | every pul-at Ion of his heart. Patrick i bill. P __ Hi? speech on that subject was Henry felt it when he exclaimed; “Give ! one of the ablest constitutional argu- me liberty, or give me death.” ~— 1 * - th “ TT " ,, “'’ Adams, felt it when, M and firm Jaw and prqtrding he cried. “George of you.” Hercules, chained was a less conte'mptible thing than is an American representative in either House of Congres? who puts in pawn his conscience in the broker’s office of power, and ransoms it with his vote in the body to which he was chosen to legislate for 80,060.000 freemen. We know one thing, and that is that Foraker never hypothecated hi? con science for official favor; never sold his vote for public applause. The thing ought to be catching in this town. personal gallantry on the field, having gallant Prussian was promoted to colo , : won the admiration of his comrades, as nel of cavalry as a recogntion of his Fora.-cer was the only Republican , we u ns of His commanding general, ail dlslntersted and valuable services. In Senator who voted ?gainst the rate ; of whom deeply sympathize with him his ’’Memoirs" he writes himself “Chief ; in his present sufferings from wounds of Staff to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart." Of i received in battle: j the accuracy of that distinct’rv. I am ••Resolved, by the Congress of the . not prepared to Indorse, though from Foraker was born In Ohio because he is of a Virginia family that preferred to dwell In the then wilderness rather than to cast Its lot In a community where African slavery existed. That Is why Foraker was not born In Virginia. Perhaps that is why he wore the blue ami not the gray. He Is a Methodist ind was named for John Wesley’s friend and follower. Joseph Benson. A year before his birth there came the great schism In the Methodist church that presaged the political secession of 1861. The family settled In Highland County and there the future soldier and statesman was born July 5. 1848. At tho ago of 16 ho was a volunteer sol dier In tho great war and continued in the service to the end when he was mustered out. having advanced to the rank of captain by sheer merit and without patronage. Gnly 19 years of age and a veteran, his was a career and a record that tons of thousands of Ohio youth envied. He now set about acquiring nn education and was grad uated from Cornell University in 1869. There was but ono of the learned professions that invited him—the law— and during the autumn following tho completion of his college course, he was admitted to the bar and opened an of fice In Cincinnati, a city famous for the splendid abilities of its bar. With youth, health, strength, character, brilliant parts and no ordinary talents, he was studious and diligent In his profession and In a little while he was not lacking for clients. He was no moot court lawyer, as he had been no carpet-knight soldier. He had no odious vices. Pleasures he had, but they were rational, the pleasures of a gen tleman and a Christian. Ten years later he was on the bench, a judge of the Supreme Court. But Foraker was a politician. He was made for public life—made "to move assembly.” Not so polished an orator a« Hurd, he surpassed' him on the stump: not so accomplished a man as Garfield, he was more a favorite with the masses. It was character that stood him in pood stead. His reputation pen etrated the remotest precincts and everywhere he was known as one who never held to the seabhard when once he had drawn the sword. As meets a rock a thousand waves, so M'efnil met Lochlis. It was the days of reconstruction, a time of political frenzy that has its counterpart In the present economic frenzy, when nothing is patriotic that is not extravagant, nothing respectable thst is not unconstitutional, nothing excellent that Is net novel—where the leaders of both political rartles are bidding in the auction for the approval of the mob and offering to pay cash on the spot In the mintage of economic fallacy and the currency of political heresy. ■But Foraker was not done for. The next we hear of him he was more dar ing than f-ver. and entered the list? against John Sherman in a contest for United States Senator. He was de feated: but every man In Ohio knew that he would have been elected if the Legislature had been independent enough to select its first choice. It was the closest shave John Sherman had had In Ohio since he got the Senator- ship from a Legislature that wanted to give it to Robert C. Schenck. At the succeeding election for Senator, Fora- kcr was chosen to succeed Calvin S. (Brice. Meantime a new prophet had arisen in that Israel—Mark Hanna—a War wick, a President-maker. Trained to business, he brought to his new voca tion a superior intellect, a forceful in dividuality, and a capacity for organi zation rarely equaled. He entered upon the work with enthusiasm, and before the adversary got ready for action, he had secured enough pledges to make William McKinley the Republican nom inee for President in 1896. It was his wish to make it a tariff fight—the Mc Kinley tariff against the Wilson tariff; but by this time the coinage question came on to be heard and would not be denied. It was not until the battle was half over that Hanna realized the true point of attack, and the candidate did not see it until within a fortnight of the election. Foraker saw it from the beginning. With characteristic daring he proclaimed that gold standard, though he was then, and Is still, a more Inveterate and unreasonable protection ist than McKinley over was. The first time I ever saw Foraker he was forced to stand and compelled to make speech In the Republican national con vention of 1888. and his exodium was this monstrosity: "We Republicans be lieve in a tariff for protection, and If revenue should follow incidentally we have no very serious objection." There is no more aggressive standpatter than he, and if the friends of Secretary' Taft are disposed to promote Interest In the fight, let some one of them authorized to speak say something about "revis ion" anywhere in the Hocking Valley or In one of the manufacturing towns of the Western reserve. When the President ordered the dis charge of the soldiers of the Twenty- fifth infantry on account of that epi sode at Brownsville. Senator Foraker challenged him on the spot and secured an investigation of that affair that is not yet concluded. It was characteristic of the man, whether there be politics in it or not, and we may be sure his con duct would have been the same had any other man than Theodore Roose velt been President. Whether this episode shall affect the situation In Ohio, time alone will tell. There are more than 30.000 negro voters in that State, and It' is obvious that the Ad ministration is trying to placate them. The spoils of office caused the first col- tired United States Senator to forget i the debt of gratitude his race owed by a President*of his own party? v 44444 4 + 44-4 44 4 ♦ * SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF f BARON HEROS VON BROCKE j Gen. “Jeb** Stuart’s Big German Aide. f learning to support them. How much easier it would have been to fall In with the majority! How much more applause he would have reaped! He is lonesome who does not adopt a fad- He is recalcitrant who does not throw his cap in the air and raise his voice in unison with the whim of the mob. John Sherman, the greatest practical statesman Ohio ever produced, declared that the anil-trust statute that bears his name was all our dual system of Government would bear. That has been supplemented by the Elkins anti- rebate law. Foraker says the?e two are sufficient if they shall only be ex ecuted rigidlv and without fear or fa vor. The rate bill has been the law of the land for months. Where is the oc topus It has caught? Where is the trust It has busted? All that has been done was done under the Sherman and El kins acts. Foraker, rebuked by the Administra tion. has appealed the case to the peo ple of Ohio, and in Ohio will be the political storm center the next six months. The issue is, shall a Senator be de prived of his political life if he shall oppose a measure in Congress dictated v.. . Atvn nsirK'^ devotion to our caiJse. “Resolved. Teat a copy of the lutions be transmitted to Maj. Herns Von Brocke by the President of the Confederate States.” The big Major brought his own arms His services were valuable to the reso- i Confederacy and the troopers who fol lowed the raven plume of Stuart and the flashing sabre of Hampton will re tain a lively recollection of the big, gallant German. In 1877 the negroes of Bibb County geant. John W. Wood fifth sergeant, paid taxes on $244,421 of personal and William Guerry first corporal, William , Pin- e ii5 y ’ , i Wallace second corporal, and A. N. In 190. they will pay taxes on prop- Heckle third corporal, tyto the amount of $1,500,000, an in- | Death has divided 'th ease in thirty years of $1,255,579 or 1 fleers. The livine - erty creasy at the rate of over 540,000 a year. this dozen of of- j fleers. The living are Captain Bacon. ‘ Lieuts. Obear and Mason. Sergeants Hertwig and Wttod and Corporal Guer ry. « * * Notice of a lecture by Henry W. Grady is given. The subject as adver- j Potomac to the big fair. This task ac To prevent tho swamping of the craft. J J Dunlap, a sailor, torus* n.s n iir- . into' the hole. The shark then got .m the job and. as the Duii:ap nnger looked succulent, it nipped U off at tne first joint ns neatly as thoug.i it ni l been amputated by a surge >n. . tr. Dunlap’s interest in the hole imme diately ended and other means were taken to prevent the boat from sink ing. When the mutilated Mr. Dunlap was taken aboard it was discovered that he thoughtlessly had offered his trigger finger as a tit-hit to tho shark. As a result he will have to be retired, being incompetent to perform his du ties. The question now is whether Dunlap was guilty of gross carelessness or whether he Is eligible to retirement on full pension as having been injured ( In the performance of his duty. Tho * evidence of his shipmates is being ! taken. The shark has not yet been 1 subpoenaed. “Uncle Joe” Cannon this week sprung j upon Washington a most delicately beautiful confection iu the way of v ! headgear that the National Capital has j seen for many months. The hat is a ! symphony in mellow cream with a j lilly-white band. It is a rakish looking 1 structure and the brim droops In devil- may-care fashion over'the Speaker's eves. In texture Is is soft, almost filmy, and decidedly diaphanous. When his friends strove to learn where the Speaker purchased the hat they were disappointed. “Uncle Joe” smiled knowingly but refused to answer. The hat makes the Speaker look fifteen years younger. Lieut.-Gen. Arthur MacArthur has been ordered to go to Seattle, accom panied by his entire staff, to meet Ja pan’s great military hero, Gen. Kuroki. to escort him to the Jamestown Expo sition. Gen. MacArthur will bring his distinguished guest first to Washing ton. where he will pay his respects to President Roosevelt and the War De partment, and then he will attend the Japanese warrior on the trip down the COL. G. N. SAUSSY. ♦ + ++♦»»»»»»+-+ ♦♦♦♦»»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»♦»♦♦♦♦ ♦ 444444444" In The Telegraph of the ISth of April mud. "A strange feeling came over there appeared a brief notice in con- j me at the thought of having been so nection with an editorial, of the death j near death. It was not fear, but a vivid realization of the pitiless power In 1S77 there were 3.851 negro vo ters. The negroes had 3.327 acres of land, valued at $121,670: city property of the value of $87.8S0; all other prop- •- c-4? ’ . , - <>1104* 4o- 1 vx4au> ta 6t‘cu. me auujeci auver* j * wtvjjnai vv» o -v • * ***•-■ «•»»•-* »*v ert>, $<.So6, making a total of $_44.4_1. ; tised, was “Just Human,” but this was complishcd. Gen. MacArthur will re- ! far from being the subject selected by 1 *’’’■" ♦'* wnm«w. *»««•"* j Grady. | A number of Macon people were an- : xious to hear Grady, who was then just on the edge of the limelight. Ho was asked to come, and consented. Arrangements went on until some one j I think it was W. B. Volger. or per- ! haps Charlie Herbst. suddenly remem bered that the subject of the lecture had not been advertised. So a tele- j gram was sent, making the inquiry, j Grady wrote the reply on a telegraph i blank, Irish Humor. Those who knew I Grady well will remember that he j wrote an almost undecipherable hand, j and the operator, after puzzling over it for some time, took it to be Just Hu In the same year there were 2.300 white voters, or 551 less than the ne- i grees. In the county were 42 lawyers, 33 doctors and 5 dentists. The whites had 150.069 acres of land, valued at $1,174,533: city propertv. $3.- 912 383: personal property, $3,23S,063; I total $S,324.979. Now, with the property of the ne- I groes. the total value of all property In j Bibb County In 1877 was SS.569.400. I In thirty years these values have in creased until they now reach In round I figures $22,000,000. • * • These figures may be dry reading, as : figures generally are. hut thev tell an of Baron .Heros Von Brocke. Some memories of the giant Prussian may bo admissible, as his huge figure made quite a mark in the cavalry service of Lee’s army. ’Baron Von EYocke was not a soldier of fortune, as is usually applied to cer tain knights errant who whet their who was then, as now. the tax receiv- of destruction as Is let loose in war." | er. No one watche-s the growth of Ma- amazing story of rapid growth. Thev rnan ' an<J was accepted bv the lo- were furnished by Capt. Bob Anderson, Thus was Von Brocke initiated Into the actitvities of the battlefield as devel oped in the Old Dominion. Here (on the Seven Pines battlefield) Von Brocke (like the writer) for the first time saw President Davis. In company with con and 'Bibb County with greater in terest than Capt. Anderson. swords to earn money or distinction. ! Longstreet. D. R. Jones and their staffs But Von Brocke loved his profession ' we saw him under the Federal shell as a soldier. He had but a limited J fire, knowledge of the conditions in the i Von Brocke by his baptism of fire at South or the principles that actuated ( Seven Pines, was inducted into Jeb Foraker was a bloody-shlrter of the most ensanguined hue. He was out raged when Andy Johnson went ac quitted. He was fo, reconstruction, and re-reconstruction and re-re-enn- etructlon. He wanted treason made odious and trsitp-s punished. He be lieved m Ben Wade Thad Stevens. Oli ver P. Morton and John A. Logan. The Liberal Republican movement of 1872 be abominated as next thing to trea son; the Democratic victory of 1873 when “Old I3ill” Allon was elected Gov ernor. he held to be a chastisem»nt from heaven. His heart sank wit'rin him when the returns of the election of 1S74 reavealed a Democratic ma jority of about three-score in the Forty-fourth Congress. He believed that all was lost, and honor too. <rhen Samuel J. Tllden was elected Prerident in 1876. That tribunal of 8 to 7 made way with the honor and honesty part of the game in the shuffle thev gave and the deal they made the following February. By 1883 Foraker was the most bril liant and attractive politician In Ohio, Foraker took his seat in the Senate the day McKinley became President. He did not have to "spell up." He was In the front rank from the beginning, along with Hoar. Spooner. Hale, Lodge' O. H. Platt, Allison, Cushman K. Da vis, and the others. There was ihe greatest curosity to see him, the great est desire to hear. Now that Sherman was retired, he was recognized every where as the first statesman of Ohio, and save Thurman alone, the greatest lawyer Ohio has sent to the Senate ince George E. Pugh. The Senate saw in him the strong man he is and gave him desirable committee assignments. Always an industrious man. he plunged into the drudgery of the position, and after all, that Is what gives a man standing in tho Senate. I shall not undertake a review of Foraker’s Senatorial labors. Without a superior in that body as an orator, or debater, he has participated in every discussion of general interest and ai- wnys acquitted himself with credit. He discussed the Cuban question the Spanish war. the Philippine question, the tariff. Statehood, and numerous other Issue?. But for him the Senate would have been as craven as the House, and at the order of the Presi dent It would have joined Arizona and New Mexico as one monstrosity and admitted it as a State. If for no other purpose Mr. Foraker should be kept in official station to prevent this outrage. I pity the American who can read the following extract from a speech made by Joseph H. Foraker in the last Ohio State convention of the Republican party, without a thrill of pridge in hu man nature: ”1 have always thought it was a great honor to be a United State.? Senator from Ohio. Why? Not because of the salary, not because of the position, but because I have always understood that when my constituency elected me. it was because they had the impression at least that I possessed the qualifica tions of a Senator: that I had some ability, and that I had good character, that I would stand hitched, did not need to have somebody overlooking me, and that when a great question arose I would be expected, speaking for this mighty and intelligent constituency, to bring to bear, in the discussion of it. all those qualifications. I never under stood that somebody -was to tell me hew to vote, either at that er.d of the line or this end of the line; e'pecia.’y not about great profound constitutional questions that lawyers differ about. I thought I was to work that out: that I was to spea -c for you. I have pursued that p ilcy. if that is not right: if. on the contrary, a man is to be rebuked because he exercises the qualifications • with which he is possessed, then '-mu take al! the honor away from the office, and, so tar as I am concerned, you can take the office with it. No office has any value, in :ny opinion, unless it car ries with it the right to the man hold ing it to go according to hi? sense of duty, free and ur.trammeled. the official obligation to support and maintain the Constitution of the United States, her people. There was a certain amount of romantic adventure that prompted him to offer his services to the Confederacy. Bred to arms, and desirous of en larging his experience in active cam paigning. he concluded to offer his sword to the South. Accordingly he left Queenstown. England, on the 26th of April. 1S62, or just a year after hos tilities between the States had begun. He sailed in the British steamer Hero, bound for the Bahama Islands. When near the island of Abaco, tho Hero was overhauled by the United States cruiser Mercedita. As the pa pers of the Hero were regular, and at which the Yankee skipper and 'his offi cers could take no exception, after five hours' detention on the high seas, the steamer was permitted to proceed to Nassau. The bulky baron had pro vided himself with letters of introduc tion to prominent Southern soldiers and statesmen. but fearing they might in criminate him when the Yankee cruiser overhauled the Hero, he destroyed them. He writes In h1s "Memoirs” while at Nassau: “The news from America by every arrival became more and more exciting. It appeared inev itable that heavy battles would soon he fought before Richmond, and I earn estly desired to take an active part in Stuart’s military household, thence- Nat Winship’s age has always been a matter of conjecture among his friends. Nat is so careless about it that it really doesn’t matter how old he Is. possessing as he does a suffcloncy of handsomeness for all his purposes, but there are people who would like to know his exact age. This much is known: Ho remembers distinctly the forth as a close staff officer to the 1 freshet of 1867 that carried away the famous outpost commander, of whom the Federal general, Sedgewick, once said: “He (Stuart) was the best cav alry officer ever foaled in America.” On the 12tn of June Stuart started on that expedition that has few rivals in any age or any country—his famous ride around McClellan's army. Fam ous, because Its audacity is unap- cai committee and so advertised. When Grady came down from At lanta that afternoon, he saw the mis take, and laughed, divining at once the cause. He began his lecture by telling of the error and so merged it into the prepared talk that the lecture charmed all who heard It, * * * There were no outing or recreation club in those days. Boys who want ed to swim were allowed to jump into the river under the old sugarberry trees on the banks near the cemetery. This was the great swimming place for a certain class of boys. Another class learned to swim in what was city bridge, and when people crossed the river on a pontoon bridge. Sup- ' known as Brown’s Pond, located in the pose now. if we really want to get at his exact age. that he was about ten lower part of Tybee. Now and then a tough crowd would years old at the time. To remember it j muddy the waters of Brown’s Pond. so distinctly he cou’d not have been younger. Now in The Telegraph of 1877 we find that “the genial Nat Win- ship is traveling Georgia and Florida and it got into bad repute. At one time some white and black boys were In swimming at the same time, and j the pond was in danger of being enip- proachable and its success most mar- ■ for the New York clothing house of j tied, but not before the keeper was vellous. Von Brocke in his narrative places the flying column at 3,500 cavalry, while the facts of history show the figures to be but 1,100 then, accompa nied by two pieces of artillery. It is not the intention of this paper to give the details of that wonderful j affray. The column broke through Me- 1 Edwin Bate? & 'Co." It is fair to pre sume that he must have been some thing of a man to have been allowed to travel over that territory selling clothing, so Nat must be at least thir ty-two years old. B'ut does he look it? Speaking of Nat. In 1828 a hotel CleHan’s right- wing^ circumvented bis I Stood on the corner of Second and them. My position was embarrassing, men. demolishing a big tobacco barn My letters of introduction had been near by. provided the material with destroyed. I did not know a human being in the foreign country wMther I was going, nor did I ever speak the English langauge.” While In this state of suspense he encountered a "Mr. W.” (the full name not being given), who volunteered to accompany him through the blockade to Charleston, thence to Richmond. "Accordingly we found ourselves, five days after our arrival, at Nassau, on board the steamer Kate early on the morning of the 2?d of May. 1862. The night of the third day out the Kate was successfully worked through the blockading fleet and land ed the crew and cargo safo’v on the Charleston dock. Our nondescript at tempts at uniforms made a bad im- pre?sion upon this nobleman, accus tomed to the gaudv attire of European troops. "Far was I from any idea how soon these same men would excite my highest admiration on the battlefield. Cherry streets, where the Tavlor-Bayne Drug Company now never sleep. In that year, and in that hotel. Nat’s par ents were married. As the Winships and Cooks were among the first fam ilies of the land, the wedding was an important social event The memory of the oldest inhabitant today goes no further back on (hat cor ner than to the old wooden drutr store. For many years it was occupied bv J. H. Zeilin, and was known as Zellin’s corner. which to improvise a bridge. At this 1 Macon now has cnoun-h work in the perilous crossing the bulky Baron ' fanitary line to keep three inspectors swam sixty-five horses himself. The i Jusy. Thirty years ago George D. writer has a vivid recollection of! pawrence was the health officer, and watching the gallant Von Brocke while I ,, wor *V engaged in this exciting part of the j f ^ J vas raid. His excellent work attached him ' of Hugh and Wi.bur Bawrence, and to the men of the brigade. Of him ! Macon never had a braver or better of- Stuart wrote in his official report: ! He occupied various positions huge army, passing entirely around it. safely, between its extreme left and t'he James and regained the Confeder ate right with the loss of the gallant Latene dead and three wounded, but with 265 horses, 160 prisoners and property well up Into seven figures de stroyed. Von Brocke was conspicuous at the crossing of the ■Chickahominy, where because of the swollen river, we had to swim th» horses while nart of the Amongst those who rendered efficient services in this expedition I eannot forget to mention Heros Von B'rocke, formerly of the Prussian Brandenburg Dragoons, who distinguished himself by his gallantry and won the admira tion of all who witnessed his bravery and his military conduct during the expedition. He highly deserves pro motion;” and la-e won it. for he was now commissioned a captain on Stu art’s staff. Thence on. Von Brocke was constant ly in the saddle with Stuart. Through Our depleted transportation also j the now famous Seven Days at Rich- " hj’ '|W r niond, the rapid swing around Pope's right and the capture of Manassas came in for unfavorable criticism, as compared with the well-scheduled trains of the continent. Reaching Rich mond. the massive German found it difficult to secure official recognition. with the city. Some years the council made him marshal, some years the health officer, and some years some thing else. If a new office was created it was always George Lawrence to find out what work there was In it. If he couldn’t find work enough In it to keep a man busy the office was abolished. * * * Young America Fire Companv No. 3 hsd nn election. I notice, to fill some vacancies. E. D. Williams was made assistant foreman, Georee L. Mason second ass'stant. Fred Lewis director of hose. Herhert A. Knight assistant, and Jack Kimbrew. pipeman. E. D. Wil'isms is nn engineer on the Junction with Pope's enormous stores; • Central, and looks good for th'rtv upon the plains of Second Manassas: : ycars or mnret George L. Mason is In . ... „ ... . - Vow York Fred Lewis. Herhert Knight the activities of the First Invasion, At length Secretary Randolph gave i South Mountain Crampton Gap, ■him an interview, which ended with j Sharpsburg: the splendid Chambers- credential? to Gen; J. E. B. Stuart, and i burg raid; Stuart’s protection of Lee’s New York Fred Lewis. Herbert Knight and Jack Kimbrew have been dead for many years. on the 30th of May, 1S62. Von Brocke formally entered the Confederate ser vice. "With the lievliest interest I looked upon the masses of warrior-like men in their ill-assorted costumes who had come with alacrity from the Caro- | lina more d ids. from fertile Georgia, from Ala- Mentfcn is made of the falling down of a portion of the old Flovd House. This build’ng wa? built with a hoodoo. As far back as 1853 a portion of.it fell down on a stock cf groceries of T. C. drowned, so incensed were the peo- 1 pie. * * * As a reminder of the old times, here j Is a program that will he well remem bered-by the musically inclined. It Is of the opera “Doilie.” perhaps the only opera ever manufactured in Macon, and was put on by that sweet singer and musical genius, the late Arthur Wood. One of the largest audiences ever assembled in Macon witnessed tho ren dition of the opera at the old Ralston Hall: Col. Davenport Dimple, an old Mili tia Officer—J. W. Nisbet. Capt. Algernon Tops, of the Man-of- War “Thunderbolt.”—Luther Williams. Frederick Flipps, Drummer for an Attorney’s Firm, (Divorces a Special ty).—J. C. Powell. Billie Pepper-Sauce, a French Cook, in charge of the Commissary Depart ment.—Ed. L. Brown. Mustard Seed. Assistant Cook and Drummer boy of the Regiment.—Little Julian Wood. Doilie Dimple, the much disappoint ed Maiden.—Miss Jessie Hardeman. Mrs. Davenport Dimple, proud of her Scotch Lineage.—Miss Tacie Daniel. Pollie Dimple, the next Marriageable Daughter.—Miss Rebecca Isaacs. Amelia, a Sister anxious to bestow her Heart.—Miss Jessie Brantiy. Moliie, another sister, and in the same condition.—Miss Gussie Jones. Aurelia and yet another sister and of the same mind.—Miss Annie Mas- senburg. Sisters Conks, Sailors and Guests, by an efficient Chorus.—Prof. F. A. Guttenberger, leader of orchestra. * * * What a flood of tender memories turn to Milwaukee and there resume the preparation of his report on hls'f tour through Asia, made a little more than a year ago. Gen. MacArthur is generally regarded as the most schol arly and accomplished officer in the army. Wisconrin is his native Slate. The action of Attorney-General Ellis, of Ohio, in deciding against the legal ity of a primary to determine on Ohio's favorite son, is regarded here as a tri umph of Secretary Taft. It will be re membered that Senator Foraker pro posed the primary, which Is so strictly a party affair that it can be manipu lated by the managers of the machine. As Senator Dick i? the general man ager and the open ally of Senator For aker, it was almost a foregone conclu sion as to which way the primary would go. For that reason, it is said, the Attorney-General’s decision has let the rotund Sec-?tary of War out of a very tight political hole. Mr. Kills never has been a Foraker man. and for a number of years, as editor of a Cin cinnati newspaper, he fought tho senior Senator bitterly. That was when he was a Democrat, and later when he joined the Republican ranks he became even more bitter in Ills opposition. He and President Roosevelt are very close friends. If t.he north and South Pries still continue to hide their beauties from civilized eyes. It will not be because every known effort to reach them is be ing tried. Wa’Iter Wellman is prepar ing to launch out on a voyage of dis covery in an airship: Lieut. Peary is seeking to raise another $100.0(10 fund with which to make still another at tempt in the staunch ship Roosevelt, and the Department of Commerce and Labor ha? just learned from Consul- General Diederieh. who is stationed at Antwerp, that Henry Arctowski. an ex plorer, is about to start out on a hunt for the south pole in automobiles. Two finely constructed machines and a ve-v sel built especially for his purposes are being made ready for the trip. EVERY ARRANGEMENT IS BEING l MADE FOR THE INAUGURA- ' TION OF THROUGH STEAM SHIPS TO AND FROM A GEORGIA PORT ATLANTA. May 4.—With the inau guration of the direct immigrant steamship lines from Europe to the port of Savannah in September, the work of the Georgia Immigration As sociation, looking to securing desira ble alien farmers and labore.rs for the . State, will be thoroughly established. By the time the vessels .begin to ar rive on regular scheduled dates Geor gia will have been thoroughly organ- ganized and ready to properly receive such immigrants as come here recom mended and determined to become de sirable citizens. John A. Betjeman, chairman of the executive committee of the associa tion. whose headquarters nre at Al bany, Ga. has been aetkvr in bringing the matter of the organization’s plans and purposes before persons interest ed in many sections of the State, with the rernIt that, county organizations, to be affiliated with the State body, have been formed. The greatest evil which Mr. Betje man has discovered in investigating the bringing in of immigrants prior to , . J . this time has been the use bv Geor- come up at the mention of some of plans of agencies in New York eltv those names! • • - - * SOME LIVELY GOSSIP PROM SEAT OF NATION WASHINGTON. May 4.—It would he interesting to know whether ex-Gov- emor Durbin, of Indiana, who is at present here in Washington, is plan ning to trip up Senator Beverdge and wrest that young statesman's toga from him, or whether he is inflating a Senatorial boom to be in readine?? if Dempsev. who had a store in a pnr- j the Presidential lightning strikes the tb-n of it. In 1855 the hulld'ng caught ; tali form of Vice-President Fairbanks. right flank qnd head of column as he marched from the valley to intercept (Burnside at Fredericksburg?? jn that great battle—•Ciancellorsville, Brand Station. Upperville. On the morning of the 19th of June, far distent Mis«issippi, and yet j 1863. great activity was manifested by _ , , . , . , , ,, , , listant Texas.’ from sunny Flor- ( the enemy in the neighborhood of Mid- Are and burned a Iot_of_furnlture and , Jn a local morning newspaper today dleburg. Von Brocke says he' advised bairn, land of mountains and cane- j Gen. Stuart of the strength of the en- brakes. from L lives in defense >n Uicii mucu-ivvcu . iwm yu„ i?u h? . , . _ , . , _ South. Brigade after brigade we saw j Von; I shall be in Middleburg in less I gathered around the _ru ns.^_and awaiting the summons to the battle j than an hour.” A sudden and determined attack by the enemy forced Stuart’s men back in considerable confusion. These lumber belonging to D. Dempsev. In 1877 a portion of the bui’ding. there appeared an innocent looking paragraph, which, if it is not inspired. pi inuuuuiiiii ana cane- ; Lien, oiuari 01 me sirengin oi me en- , , , . . _ . • r . .. , Louisiana to imperii their 1 my. Of this Stuart was skeptical, and ! f 1 ™ 1 s xty £ et from Mulberry s reel, has alL the indications of being so. iso of their much-loved ! told Von Brocke: “You are mistaken, ! down with a great era?h. A large This little paragrapn draws attention which was soon to occur.” That evening, the 30th of May, Von Brocke was initiated into the cuisine of the Confederate cavalry. "One of I troops were rallied by Von Brocke, the chief dishes consisted of the eggs i while Stuart personally led up .rein in -the e-owfl was Officer .Tack Kim- . j brew and Mes?rs. Aaron and Emanuel i ; Isaacs, the throe having a narrow es- no from death. Before the war the hotel was kept 'by the father of W. A. and PhM Doofly. of the terrapin found fa a nearby creek, j fttreementa. It is proper to give the j nd* -suprt|S? U wh« f rh brought swarms of rata to it. Their short gray jacki I am sure no work of art from the Cafe j Baron's own words: “Being dressed in I Riche could have been t—o-c x ’c- i-.-; j the • same fashion as the general—a to my hungry appetite than th??e ter- ar.d gray hat with rapin eggs taken out of a Virginia {waving ostrich plume and mounted on swamp and cooked upon the instant 1 my handsome new charger—I was mis- cavalry encampment.” The next day Von 'Brocke j taken for him and my tall figure soon rloseiy ; engaged their attention, for the bullets ?ar!ned Fitz Lee’s First Virginia cav- ■ came humming around me like a swarm a ry as it movec .scrutiny called The men were easy and proce constant habit 1 out of bivouac. “The forth mv admiration, all Virginians, whose Pil seat betrayed the >f horseback exercise.” of bees. A ball had just stripped the ! gold lace from my trousers, and I was i saying to the General, riding a few steps before me on my left. ‘General, ! these Yankees are giving it rather hot ly to me on account’—when I suddenly \ felt a severe dull blow as though some | ; one had struck me with his fist on my neck: fiery sparks glittered in my eyes, : ‘ and a tremendous weight seemed to be j dragging me from my horse. . . .The : : blood was spouting from a large wound . in mv n»ck and s‘reaming_ from my ; j mouth at every breath.” The ball had ' j entered lower rart of his neck, partly j j cso'-oriog the windpipe and lodged in his ' right lung. This was a knockout blow j for our gallant German. He never was able to assume active duties jn the I field, 'hough he made mom than j on» attempt to follow Stuart's raven 1 plume. Le" .and in moving j Von Blocke was sent to Richmond, derate front, a shell ; and finally w?-s dispatched through the The Baron thus de-cribes “Jeb” at h’s first sight of the famous sabruer of the South. “Gen. Stuart was a stoutly bull: man. rather above the middle h? : ght. of a most frank and winning expression. - • • Hi? eye was ouick and r'°rcing. His whole person seemed instilled with vitality, and. al together. he was to me the model of a dashing cavalry leader. TI? had some of Murat's weakness for the vanities of military parade.“ xv'b'm the ‘-"IFoc'ix ended the battle of Seven Pines had b“pun. H's meeting with Stuart was ?!?o his initiation Into the method? of warfare as conducted in this country. Stuart entreated his n»w aide with nn order to Pit aero?? the Con struck an ambu'anc» horse buried it- 1 blockade with secret dispatches for the self in the mud. and exploding, show- ' Confederate comrr.is.rioners abroad to- burrowing under it caused the building to fall. Chief Jones can probah’v remember at least fif*v alarms of fire from the old Fioyd House. • * • There was an election of officers of the Mifcbell T.'pht Guards. J. .T Grif fin was elected captain. D. G. Sheehan first lieutenant John Rsnnev second lieutenant, Phil J- Deodv junior second Peutenant. Ed Schofield first sereeant, John A. MacMillan second sergeant. Mike O’Har.a third sergeant. J. A. Ga- bonry fourth sergeant. Miles Sweeney fifth sergeant Tim D’Conneil quarter master, Dr. E. G. Ferguson surgeon. Rev. L. Pazin chaplain and P. J. Cor- kery secretary and treasurer. Of these. Ed Schofield. John Mac Millan, Mike O’Hara. Tim O’Connell Dr. Ferguson and Father Bazin are living. * • • There was also an election of off'cers for the Macon Guards. Present Sena tor O. A. Paeon was elected captain, George S. Obear first lieutenant Geo. L. Mason second lieutenant. Henry Faulk junior second lieutenant. John D. Ross first sergesnt Chas. M. XValker second sergeant, Chas. de Beruff third to the fact that ex-Governor Durbin ts here and that there is reason to be lieve that he will become a formidable candidate for the next Senatorship. The paragraph dwells on the fact that he was a union soldier. Is still an active „ Anfi adds "he is a gentleman of , commissioners permitted to accept fee These bureaus and agencies he has i found with but few exaeptions. to bn J operated by men working solely for their commissions, responsible to no one but the courts and not hesitating ; to flood the South with the riff-raff ; from the streets and slums of New j York and other congested districts of ' the United States from which they j can induce tho migration of people. ! As a rule only a small percentage of ■ the people reached by those agents are | even newly arived immigrants, and they are dumped into the South with out regard to th?ir physical condi-’r' tion, their trade or their morals. Not only have a number of Georgia farm ers and nriillmen lost money in fees advanced to them but they sent in the people who. it Is asserted, have creat ed the peonage cases in the Federal courts in certain sections of the South. Toe State, in directing the move ment inviting desirable people from their homes in England and other coun tries to the State of Georgia, is not workfag for a fee, nor are any of its high character and sound judgment and has been very successful both in business and politics.” To close stu dents of national politics it is evident that Mr. Durbin is playing a very clever game. On a previous visit here the former Governor of Indiana Issued a statement to the effect that the peo ple of his State were for President Roosevelt for a third term, and the in terview was taken to be a direct attack on the Presidential aspirations of Vice- President Fairbanks. That this state ment was pleasing to President Roose velt is evidenced by the fact that this week Mr. Durbin obtained from the occupant of the White House a prom ise that he would make a short stop at Anderson, the Durbin home, .and de liver an address. This indication of favor is all the more striking when it is known that similar requests have been brought in upon Secretary Loeb from ail points of the Middle West, and all of them have been refused. Infer- ! entially it may be believed that if Mr. : Durbin does launch his Senatorial boom it likely will have Mr. Roosevelt’s j support. One •-.hovel-nosed shark has raised a peculiar question In the Navy Depart ment It appears that a few weeks ago : as one of the boats belonging to the gunboat El Cano.was being rowed out to the ship in Manila harbor, the plu j from any source. This makes It cer- , tain that only the better class of Im- , migrants need be expected to be aided ■ in any way by the Georgia Immigra- : tion Association, which is laboring in the interest cf the agricultural and fn- ! dustrial development of the State. Before these immigrants leave home ! the association will be fully informed as to their character and ability to form a part of an industrious common wealth. The work is carefully «ystem- iz«d both in the State and in Europe and Is being pur=ued without conflict with any law. The aims of the asso ciation have the sanction of President Roosevelt, who was acquainted with the work of the organization by the committee representing Geargia which recently visited him at Washington. This committee is composed of Hon. Hoke Smith. Governor-elect of Geor gia: Hon. G. Gunby Jordan, of Colum bus, and Major W. W. Williamson, of Savannah. Mr. (Betjeman preceded the committee by about four days and spent this time in conference with Sec retary Straus. Commissioner F recant. Secretary Root and Assistant Secrc-ter^ of Stale Bacon. After seeing the President the com mittee proceeded on its way to Europe where the members have been busy invstigating conditions in the several j countries of Europe with a view to ered the big Prussian with Virginia ward the dose of the war. (Before - sergeant, Herman Hertwig fourth ser- In the bottom of the boat came out. j aiding the association fa its werfa