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NEGRO SLAVE OWNERS.
Perhaps everybody else knows
that there used to be In the South
not a few r.egro owners of negro
slaves, but some detai.ed Informa
tion on the subject given by the
Charleston News and Courier is
the first we had ever heard of such
a thing, and we are immodest
enough to believe that not many
people In the North will fall to
share our surprise.—New York
Times.
The facts brought out by the Newa
and Courier and noted by the Times
are as follows: In Charleston just be
fore the war came there were many
free negroes with property running
well up into the thousands, and the list
I of taxpayers for 1S50 shows that there
I were 132 of them from whom was coi-
| lected an impost of $3 each on one or
more slaves of their own race. Of
Those who have claimed that the ^ ^ MlmUm negroe s, two had
evidence against the negro aoldiers ; fourteen 8jajes another owned
charged with "shooting up" Browns- I thJmen ^ ow - ned twelvet and so
ylil. was unsatisfactory can not fall, if I dowaward . According to the state-
horn eat and unprejudiced, to be stag- | ment of old resldents> the black slave
owners acquired'their chattels exactly
as did the white people and managed
them in very much the same way. often
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MORE LIGHT ON BROWNSVILLE.
| gered by Paulino Preclado'a testimony
( before the Senate committee,
i Senor Preciado, who has for aeven-
! teen years been the publisher of "El
Provenlr," a Mexican newspaper, testi
fied his positive knowledge that the . no prIv jj ege8 and
negro soldiers did the shooting. His I — - - -
LOVE AND YOUTH.
It is charged that men, especially
men of advancing years, are altogether
too fond at what has been described as
“sweet sixteen" and too often exhibit
a disgraceful eagerness to unite the
cradle and the grave, so to speak, in
marriage. Women, on the other hand,
are supposed to prefer husbands from
three to ten years older than them
selves. This has been the general rule
in the marriages of the past, but in
these days aging women are found
pairing off with mere boys as well as
aging men with girls In their teens.
Since the venerable Baroness Bur-
dett-Coutrs married an American of
twenty-live, numerous rich widows and
actresses with generous bank accounts
have followed her example. Not long
ago Mrs. Leslie Carter did it, more
recently Ellen Terry followed suit, and
now May Irwin’s name has been put
on the list. The first is said to be over
sixty, tie second confessed that she
was fifty-nine, and the dispatches
place the age of the third at fifty-four.
All three chose young men under or
.. , about thirty,
hiring them out to other employers.
, , . . In the ordinary marriage the man
I These free slave-owning negroes had) f s
— chooses and provides the home and the
wherewithal. In th3 cases noted, the
detailed statement has been printed In
these columns.
Commenting on this “amazing and
explicit testimony, the New York Sun,
which formerly claimed that there was
not a scintilla of convincing evidence
against the negro soldiers, now says:
“There Is no means of combatting it,
unless an alibi is proved for the pub
lisher of Provenlr. ... The effect
on Senator Foraker and others who
maintained that no case had been
made out against ths soldiers of the
dismissed battalion can be imagined.
Only corroboration of the statement of
did not
dream of social equality, but they were
amply protected in all their civil rights,
could engage In any business they
pleased, and their descendants are still
the colored aristocracy of Charleston.
The same account mentions a free
negro of Clumbus, in this State, one
Bob Parker, who did a trucking busi
ness with fourteen drays and the black
drivers thereof included among his
property, besides a number of negro
women and children. It is further
shown that DHsey Pope, a Columbus
negress, owned her own husband. Him
she hired out until he offended her In
some manner not recorded, and then
the publisher of El Provenlr Is now she pun , s}led hlm by . en , ag . hlm t0 CoL
needed to terminate the Ser.ata Inves
tigation and release the investigators.”
The Sun asks why this evidence was
not produced before, and suggests that
It might have been suppressed to bo
used in rebuttal. However that may
be, the Senate committee seems to have
been in no hurry to get at the evidence
against the negro soldiers. On the
contrary, interest and energy seem to
have been centred on the production
of evidence more or less In favor of the
accused and at least admitting of a
doubt as to their gullL Such a reluc
tant attitude. If It exists, need not
surprise the observer who reflects upon
the partisanship of the negroes in
this matter and the supreme value of
t'’«ir votes In the doubtful States to
the Republican party.
A “ROOSEVELT CONSTITUTION,”
An Oklahoma delegation is in "Wash
ington to seek the President’s help in
saving their new Constitution from the
Territorial courts which have Issued
writs enjoining the authorities from
bolding an election to reject or ratify
that Instrument.
The members of the delegation de
clare that their’s is a "Roosevelt Con
stitution,” and submit that “every so-
called radical provision in It is sup
ported by the public utterances of the
President.” However that may be, it
is rather positive in Its anti-corpora
tion and pro-labor features. A two-
cent-a-mile railroad fare la decreed;
companies are forbidden to own any
productive agency of & natural com
modity (coal, oil, etc.); stock issues
are to be Jealously restricted and books
periodically examined: commissions are
to be created to supervise the business
of railroads, Insurance and mining;
>oratlons shall acquire no more land
is absolutely necessary for the
irpose of their creation, and corpora-
ins to deal in real estate outside of
icorporated cities are not to be organ-
id at alL An eight-hour day on
iblle works Is provided for, and when
-the State acquires coal mines, which Is
Olearly oontemplated, the day’s work,
except in emergencies. 1* to be limited
bo eight hours. The Legislature is di
rected to create & Board of Arbitration
and Conciliation, of which the Com
missioner of Labor la to be ex-officio
chairman.
It is said that the Oklahomans were
•o anxious to please the President that
they threw out a “Jim Crow" clause
which “Southern Influences” would
otherwise have carried. Naturally the
President would be expected to espouse
most heartily the cause of a “Roosevelt
Constitution,” particularly when he Is
assured that changes will be compli
antly made at his dictation. But the
trouble is that the two Senators and
five Representatives from Oklahoma
would probably all be Democrats and
It is desired at Washington to keep the
Btate-to-be and her unwelcome elec
toral vote out of the Union until after
November 4, 1908. Thus we have an
Illustration of the cares and perplexi
ties of a President who Is distressed
by the pressure of conflicting Interests
and who is too often pulled both ways
at onoe.
Seaborn Jones for a price now forgot
ten. We may appropriately add the
account given by an old Georgia resi
dent of a free negro who -bought a
slave girl in order to take her to wife,
whether with or without the formal
participation of a clergyman or a civil
magistrate is not stated.
Perhaps the New York Times would
be still more surprised to learn that
throughout Africa there have been
many more slaves than freemen for
thousands of years; that the American
negroes-ln Liberia also own slaves and
can purchaso them at as low a price
as ten dollars a head; that early in
the last century there were more anti-
slavery societies in the Southern than
in the Northern States, and many ne
groes wero privately manumitted and,
finally, that several companies of free
negro soldiers from Mobile and the
counry around served In the cause of
the Confederacy.
These latter, as Is shown In Flem
ing’s "Civil War and Reconstruction in
Alabama,” were descendants of the ne
groes and mulattoes who were left
free under the treaty with France.
They expressed an earnest desire to
fight for the Confederacy and finally,
when the war was about half over,
were received into the Confederate ar
tillery under a resolution or enactment
of the Alabama Legislature.
There are many facts in both the
recorded and unwritten history of the
American negroes that would probably
"surprise” both the editors of the New
York Times and all their readers.
conditions were entirely reversed, at
least so far as the ownership of the
check book was concerned. The ques
tion suggested by this tendency is ob
vious: will the "new” woman of the
future who is financially and otherwise
independent exhibit In her choice of a
husband the same worship of youth
which men have so long displayed?
A correspondent of the New York
World who confesses to the "utmost
enthusiasm” for the President, pro
poses to get around the third-term
objection and the idol's promise not to
be a candidate by nominating Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr. (after so amending the
Constitution as to make one so young
eligible). Thus the present Adminis
tration would continue, the son merely
acting for the father. Now Jet some
other "enthusiastic” Jackass rear up
and propose that tho royal family of
Roosevelt be made heirs of the Pres
idency forever.
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Henry Clews, a New York Republi
can, join John Temple Graves In the
proposition that Roosevelt be unani
mously renominated for President by
the two great political parties. Clews
is a Wall street banker. I believe tie
people of Georgia have heard of him
before, and if 1 mistake not Mr. Clews
has some remembrance of this State,
other than the suggestion of the Atlan
ta editor that the* Presidential track to
the White House in 1908 be cleared of
aH entries save Tedd.
urged In the financial
gia during the reconstruction era. and
for a short while In the rehabilitation
period of this commonwealth. Through
the Instrumentality of H. L Kimball,
as X understand it. Governor Bullock
appointed the banking firm of Henry
Clews & Co., as financial agent of the
State of Georgia to negotiate the sale
of several millions of dollar-s of State
first given to Kimball in payment on
+ I the opera house and. then afterwards
T | the gold bonds to be exchanged for the
currency bonds, but the exchange was
never made, and it is alleged Kimball
used both sets of bonds. The legisla
tive investigating committee says
“these currency bonds so delivered to
Kimball were not intended for sale,
but were to be retired by the gold
quarterlies.”
The following interesting passage
appears in Avery’s history of Georgia:
“Among the historic landmarks of the
reconstruction is that magnificent
building and most valuable Instrument
in Atlanta progress, the Kimball
House. It was a superb hostelrie, far
ahead of the growth of Atlanta. It
was begun in April and finished on the
17th of October, and its construction president pro tempore durln
|CHARLES A. CULBERSON;
Savoyard for The Telegraph.
About four years before the pro
mulgation of te Declaration of Inde
pendence by the Continental Congress.
William H. Crawford was born in
Amherst County, Va. Before he had
advanced beyond childhood his father
took him to Georgia, and there the boy
grew to manhood J and became one of
the first citizens of hte republic. He
was elected to the Legislature, and
soon after was chosen a Senator in
Congress, of which body he became
his first
was a marvel of rapid work. It cost I terra
iT'VT i over *600.000. and the agent of Henry ing the war of 181
■ in"st-.- of rmr. i Clews Mr. Crosby, told the writer that ! turn was appointee
J300.000 of the monev advanced on by President Madi:
State endorsed bonds to build th
Brunswick and Albany Railroad had
been traced into this hotel.”
I do not know how many of the
bonds that were declared Irregular,
illegal and unconstitutional are held
by Mr. Clews. He has steadily con-
_ _ tended that In all his transactions in
of Georgia bonds. The proceeds were I connection with the bonds he acted in
to be applied to three uprposes only. J Perfect good faith. In this article I
to-wit. to pay past due bonds of the j have merely skimmed here and there
State, the interest coupons, and for i over the surface of this bond matter,
such other purm>»es as the Legislature It would take pages of The Telegraph
might direct. The Legislature made no
other disposition of the proceeds from
the sale of these bonds than to pay
the past due bonds of the State, and
the past due interest acccunL A pay
ment of the proceds to any other pur
pose was termed “ misappropriation of
the funds of the State.” Clews & Co..
hs agents permitted officials of the
State to draw this money and to ap
ply it to purposes unauthorized by law.
to carry the entire story.
Mr. Goodyear’s Canal Project.
Brunswick. Gn.. May 24. 1907.
To tho Editor of Tho Telegraph: The
canal connecting Brunswick, upon the
Southern Atlantic const, with the Mis
sissippi. Missouri and Ohio rivers, and
their tributaries, with Chattanooga
Knoxville. Nashville. Louisville. Bir-
He was minister to France dur-
nnd upon Ms re
nted Secretary of War
adison. and soon after
was transferred to the Treasury De
partment, of which he continued the
head throughout the succeeding two
administrations of President Monroe.
He was a prominent candidate for
President In 1S24. and hie was one of
the names that went before the House
of Representatives upon the failure of
the electoral college to elecL Though
he was a Jeffersonian. Daniel Web
ster. a New England Federalist strove
for the election of Crawford, even over
John Q. Adams, from Webster’s own
State. When Adams was elected by
the House he Invited Crawford to re
main at the head of the treasury, but
he declined, returned home, accepted
a judgeship, and a few years la:er
died
Crawford was not W great a man as , dea , of m0 d no end of vigilance.
Clay, or Calhoun or Webster, but ho . , ze ri from the state . U cost a
™ s _ b _ e Ji er _A t, !2 J.L th ® T . P _ r .! s . Id i but Christian civilntion cheerfu'ly foot-
d the bill and policed the border. In
to his clients, he was forced to resign
■ the office. While yet a young map ne
appeared in the Supreme court of she
United States and argued the celebrat
ed case of Le Grande vs. Tho L-nlted
■ States, involving the constitutionality
I of the ku kiux act. His speech on that
J occasion was a legal triumph, and the
; courj decided the case in his clients
i favor.
In 1890. at the age of thirty-five he
was elected attorney-general of Texas
succeeding the redoubtable James
Hogg, and two years later he was re
elected. It was while lie was nttor-
- ney-general that he again appeared be
fore the supreme bench at Washington
ar.d argued the case of R-agan vs.
the Fame s' Loan and Trust Company
involving the constitr/tonality of tho
act creating the Texas' railroad com
mission. When he had concluded his
argument and was preparing to leave
the room th? clerk of the court beck
oned him. and upon going o the desk
he there found Mr. Justice Gray, who
warmly cong atulated him on his pres
entation of the case. This was praise
from Sir Hubert, and a Sir Hube-t not
lavish of praise. Some years subse
quently. when he made another ex
ceptionally strong plea before that
bench. Justlre Gray again sent for him
and said: “Young man. 1 have watch
ed you. career, and am not unmindful
of the fact that the people of Texas
have taken care that you should not
go unrewarded." Chief Justice Fuller
also heartily commended him.
In 1894 Culberson was elected Gov
ernor. defeating the veteran John H.
Reacan for the nomination. His ad
ministration was eminently satisfac
tory. and his name went to the titter-
most parts of the Union, when with
bulldog deto mlnatlon, he banished the
than any one of them. He was em-
mingham. Gadsden and Florence In the ' phatically a sagacious man He was ! jjrjg' Culberson became a Senator
a large portion of which was allpged to South, with Chicago. St. Louis. Kansas ! not a statesman by Intuition: his ; Congress, and Is now serving his sec-
lutve been for the use of the Western [ City St. Joseph. Omaha, DesMolnes. I statesmanship resulted from reflection. ! ond term". He is a capital public
and Atlantic Railroad. The custody j Minneapolis. St. Paul. Cincinnati. Though no genius, ho had wisdom of j R p oakpr but no j a whirlwind declaim*
and sale of a large amount of bonds, j Pitisburg. in the West, giving to At- j the highest practical order. Wehster j or< wimt he says will set a man to
'Regally endorsed bv tho State, for the
building of railroads In Georgia, was !
also Intrusted to Mr. Clew'. The ,
Brunswick and Albany RnFroad was j
the most conspicuous of these enter- j
prises to which State aid wa« grantad
by the Issuance of bonds. The bonds
were Issued and endorsed in advance of .
the work of building the road, ami toe
Ianta, Cartersville. Rome, outlet by
water to the world’s markets to the
great Internal markets of the country.
To Macon. Hawklnsvllle. Dublin. Ab
beville. and all other cities upon the
Altamaha. Ocmulgee. and Oconee riv
ers. already connected with the coast
water connection with the west has
been shown by highest possible test, |
thinking, and not to shouting. He
speaks the English tongU". and neve:
wande-s from the text. His style Is
that of the thinker and tlto lawyer,
lie never talks for the galleries, but
his addresses are to the Senators.
Culberson Is a party man through
] and through: so was Lincoln: so 13
„ —- — _ . —. — Charles A. Culhersnn. of Texas. Is ft I Roosevelt But Culberson, like all
State authorities required no certificate namely canals bull! over the Allegha- I direct lineal descendant from William gr eat lawyers is a conservative. He
and Calhoun were warm friends In
1825. and both hoped to see Crawford
chosen President over Adams or Jack-
son. and It is no small trihute to a
man’s capacity and character when
Calhoun and Webster Indorsed him for
the first place in the republic.
"POLITICS” DID IT.
The published estimates show that
up to June SO, 1906, the following
amounts had been paid out by the
United States Government to soldiers,
their widows, minor children and de
pendent relatives on account of mili
tary and naval service in various wars:
War of Secession
...13,259.195,807
War of Revolution (estl.). 70.000.000
War of 1812 45.542,069
War with Mexico 38.059.245
War with Spain 15,438.355
Indian wars 8.260,143
Regular establishments .. 7.229,313
Unclassified 16.135 879
Total paid out for pen.. .$3,459,860,311
On the pension roll In 1906 we had:
Invalids 701.4SS
Widows, etc. 284.488
*What is Roosevelt after?”
claims the Nashville American.
ex-
But
whatever of the engineer as to the j nies. at greater altitudes, within mod- ; H. Crawford, of Georgia, and a chip doe? not believe in pyrotechnics. He
progress of the construction. The herds ! erate outlays per mile, entirely feasi- I of that same block In abilities in suspects novelty. He will sooner cross
bore no date of endorsement. About ble. ' I character, in temperament. Cautious in j the river on a safe br'dge than on a
$1 pon.nnn of the= e bond* were signed I is there a project, the main pur- i deliberation, he Is adamant when once , tightrope. He examines everything,
by'Charles L. Frost as president of the : poses only of which are stated In the 1 be has reached a conclusion. There is noJabor daunts him. Well ground-
road. some months after h? had ceased ahove opening- paragraph, conceivable, I nothing dazzling about him. It Is a i ed In the fundamental of part' 1 poli-
to be president It is said that *ome , which will have direct and far reach- I cool head always He reflects care- tic*, he tests everything by those prln-
of the bonds were Issued In duplicate : j n g Influence for the general welfare fullv and weighs every argument j ciples. In short. Charles A. Culberson
and triplicate. j of so many communities. States, so scrupulously before he decides: but his ig his great-graat-gandfather re’urned
! laree a population? decision Is final. He Is today the best | to life, and William H. Crawford and
The first Democratic Legislature aft- Thirty million people with a new sea prepared man In the Senate. He has ! David B. Culberson live again in him.
er the end of reconstruction, entered 1 coa ,- t outlet to the markets of tho In old trunks, boxes, drawers, and :
fully Into the Investigation of the bond world. 8.000,000 In the South. chests more papers and scraps of pa- j I tmderstand the Democratic side of
Question. Among the mo--t prominent i A transportation problem created by P ers than any other of our public men. the United States Senate is In search
figures In the conduct of this examlna- f be grea t an d unexampled prosperity and he knows precisely where to j of a lender. Culberson has no sunerior
tion were the late Chief Justice T. J. . 0 f a great people, demanding solution, search for anv one of them. He burns ; in that body. No man Is more alert—
Simmons, then a State Senator from prosperity threatened "'in every no letters, and writes no letters he swifter to see a m'stake of the enemy.
the Macon district: Judge John I. Hall. de p a rtment of' human activity exam- would request or wish to be burned, or prompter to take advantage of It
now of Macon but then renrerentlng p]es of lt „ Don every farm j,J every Like Baillie Nlcoi Jarvle’s father, the I It may he objected that he is Fahius
the question which people are most i Butts, of Spalding County. I believe In factory m m at ever ^, port ' In Inahlli- deacon, he never puts out his hand so rather than Mnrcellu*: hut Fnh’ns
interested in just now Is, what la after ^ e T J^l use: f n j7 th ® ,!5te Jndge Charles tv t0 p ' rocure carSi ]n de iaved freights, far that he cannot draw it hack again, j gave Hannibal more concern that did
_ . . _ _ C. Kfo-bee. at that t'me a Senator from th , sufficient relief ‘the utmost He Is the most capable and the most i Marceiltts F.ah'us saved Rome: Mnr-
.t. Augusta Herald. Our the Hawklmvll’e district I think, hut f waferwavs we have the'r skillful politician in the Democratic ! oellus fell In action. Culberson Is per-
hindsights fool us badly If Roosevelt ° d “"bond bm to connection wherever possible’ until Party today
Isn’t flgrurlngr on ’being- his own "after.” tho •r?Arrro<5Ant:»HvA ttqii suc ^ connections connect each navlera- ! Da\id B. Culberson was a member of
g ble river, with, every other, obviating ! Congress for twenty-two years when
_ , “ was t * ie author of a like measure in of breaking bulk and costlv he voluntarily retired from that body.
SpeaJter Cannon dined at the White | the House. Messrs. Simmons and Hall j ^handlingT s and Ag a lawyer he had no superior In
Is it possible to conceive of any pro- ' either hou c e of the national legislature.
u'c nuuse. .virb^rci. .mii'iiiie nail rAho n si«
House with Roosevelt and Taft and did ' w * ro ° n the re'fbrated oommittee that i re ?. a
went to New York and made *uch an
not hear a word spoken of Ohio politics, j ^hausti^ toyesll^Vton “of ^the^bond 1 £ XiJbto rlver^which • the Jud1c™7 CoSttoe.^ Onf of°rte
Tingy” Connors and William R. • tinns the L?o-'.-lature dec’ared the fol
Hearst have fallen out over a trifle of i lo "'! nar * 7 i 57 0 °° of honds nul ' and
; void and the same were never paid:
36S.OOO difference in their accounts. Is j Gold bonds, second issue to
Ft. & A. R. R it $l.R8a.rco
there a limit beyond which Willie will
not permit his leg to .be elongated?
STATE PRESS VIEWS
Cuba's Never-Failing Crop.
Columbus Ledger.
While the Cubans can’t raise enough
of an army to make war. possibly they
think they can raise what Gem'sher
man said war was.
Gold bonds in Clews’ hands.. 102 000
Currency bond* l.Konoqo
Fndorsement Ft. & A. R. Ft... 3,300,000
Endorsement Bainbridge C.
A- C. TL R 600.000
Endnrsment Cartersville and
Van Wert R. R 275 000
Endorsement Cherokee R. R.. son onq
Total $7,957,000
Wfttterson’s Dark Horse.
Waycross Herald.
It Is said that Henry Wattecson has
a dark horse tied out for the Demo
cratic nomination for President one
which he alleges will please every
body. H. W. has our permission to put
him on the track.
The Corncob—Uncrowned King.
Dawson News.
Consider the corncob. How humble,
yet how useful. It is pointed out that
it produces alcohol, cldar, vinegar,
breakfast food and pure Vermont ma
ple syrup.
What the Bishop Meant.
Amerieus Times-Recorder.
Bishop Nelson says that language in
“good society” Is not what It should be,
and that lt Is too loose In Its oharacter.
The bishop probably meant society that
dubs itself “good,” end not the gen
uine article.
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Louisville has been added to the list
of applicants for the Democratic na
tional convention next year.
"Damnum absque injuria,” said Sen
ator Pettus. a member of the Browns
ville Investigation committee, when
asked by the reporters for his opinion
of the proceedings. The veteran Sena
tor was not indulging ir. profanity but
merely replying in legal phraseology,
meaning “a loss without an injury."
But th« question remains, what did
the Senator mean?
When William J. Bryan and John
Temp'.e Graves finally serew their
courage up to their convictions and
openly espouse Roosevelt as their
leader, possibly the Democrats wtil be
allowed to conduct their party affairs
without the interference further of
foreign influences.
Total pensioners 985.971
The most interesting and significant
fact in this showing is that the war of
1861-5 cost in pensions (paid the sol
diers of the triumphant group of
States) as much as all the other wars
combined and more than three thous
and million dollars in additionl
It Is true that the war of 1861-5 was
by far the deadliest and most costly
Avery’s history of Georgia sftvs:
“Perhaps the strongest speech made in
throwing over the fraudulent securi
ties was by the Hon.- A. O. Fiaoon. His
portrayal of the reconstruction Legis
lature was a verv graphic picture, and
his argument avninst the had bonds
was masterly and co-nc’usive.” He was
also a men-iher of one of the Investigat
ing committees. «--<r ■'
haps the only Senator th? Democrats
wou’d cheerfully follow. He dors not
create antagonisms. He has an admlr-
ab'e temper. He commands confidence
and wins respeet Leadership Is as n?-
cessarv to a party ns to an army. No
man who -saw the work of Thomas T?.
R?ed in the Fifty-second Congress w'll
chaiiane-e that proposition. If the
Democrats of the f??"ate of 19117-08 are
led. with half the skiM the Republicans
■ tne attention ui an wiiiuu un mjuuu i of the House were in 1S91-93 it w'll
ilk. ■pr'o'jSt, per mn,“V"constmclim,! « J“ ”*• 1" ‘ £P.S.TS?**"" " Mo1 on t! " pom '
From to Atieotn os d " ' P’e man in temperament and as demo- I In 1801 and noughts died, the Uemo-
nalized river 87 miles ! craticJ>s a hunting *dilrt or a coonskin j crats of the Senate were In a. great deal
From Atlanta to Cartersville
canal 45 miles
From Cartersville to Rome
improvement of Etowah,
making it navigable at
light cost.
From Cartersville via Rome
to Gadsden, Ala., navi
gable.
From Gadsden to Gunters-
ville on Tennessee river,
not exceeding canal 40 miles
A branch from Birmingham
district to nearest- naviga
ble point upon Coosa riv
er, not exceeding 40 miles
In the above tnhle of bonds annesr
A total of canal of 21 2 miles
By organization and effort this great
national project, unequaled since the
Erie canal In Its scope and purpose,
and results, may be commenced quick-
8690. 090 of the RatobHdee. Cuthbert ly and carried rapidly to completion,
and Columhu* Railroad bonds which Each city upon the line by getting ac-
had heen endorsed, yet not one mile of i tive, assist every other,
the road was ever constructed. | A campaign inaugurated by a live
In the ca«e of the riar'prsville and organization can arouse an enthu-
Van Wert Railroad. *’75 000. and the siasm, an earnest support throughout
Cherokee Railroad. $300 0P0, they were the States affected, which will insure
one and the same railroad, but • the necessary surveys, then the placing of
State endorsed two sets of bonds. When this project in the list of continuing
$275 000 of bonds had been Issued and projects with yearly appropriations
endorsed for the Cartersvil’e and Van until completed.
Wert the name of the road was then Twice the Government has surveyed
changed to the Cherokee, and $300 000 this route. Twice pronounced lt feas-
additinnal hoo ds were issued and en- jble.
dorsed. and this too when only throe . jt cannot be carried to success by
and half miles were completed. i individual initiative. The press and
i the people can Insure its early com-
I have already referred to the Al- ■ mencement and completion,
bany and Brunswick Railroad but will There are organizations to secure
say further that for $1,125,000 of the anproprlatlons for Improvement upper
bonds of this company there was no Mississippi, Mlsslssppi, Cairo to New
road completed, and as there was a Orleans, the Missouri and Its branches,
debt of S3.0P0.000 against the corpora- t h 6 Ohio. Why rot for a connection of
tion there was a “doubt as to whether t he Mississippi and all Its tributaries
Ind'ana is preparing to boom Felix
p;^to^M, r , te Iu° f ,„l nd i ana E 0 l'*- f 2L£® ? n >' of the ! nd t °;7,<* bonc !f . vltn'tto AoSaUc'‘ocean? 1
had been rightfully applied.” j c. P. GOODYEAR.
Presidential nomination on the Frohi
bition ticket Charles F. Holler, also
an Indianian, is mentioned for the sec
ond place on the ticket
Former Assistant Postmaster-Gen
eral Wiliiam M. Johnson has with
drawn his name from use in connec
tion with the Republican nomination
for Governor in New Jersey this faJL
An interesting feature of the next
Republican national convention will be
a reunion of the delegates to the na-
, , . tlonal convention in Chicago in 1880.
(though not the longest) of our wars. ; who, for thirty-six ballots, supported
but this of Itself would not account for j Gen. U. S. Grant for the Presidential
the stupendous disproportion of cost a third term,
to . William J. Bryan has grown quite
.n pensions. The explanation Is to be | 5tout wlth i n the past few years. His
found partly in the sentiment but | present weight Is 234 pounds, while
at^he time he entered the campaign in
1896 he tipped the beam at exactly 165.
chiefly in the "politics” that dictated
a prodigality unheard-of In the his
tory cf the world.
In eleven years he has gained sixty-
nine pounds in weight.
Theodore E. Burton, who, as alleged.
The Boston lady who Is titillating the Is favored by Administration people at
.... . . .... ... , , i Washington for the speakership of the
Atlanta spirit with the promise of a j next congress in preference to Mr.
real breach of promise suit against a j Cannon, has represented a Cleveland
native Georgian Is quoted as saying: I dlstr! , ct J or sev f ra > y ears >», a*'
I tlonal House of Representatives and
“My friends, and they are among the ; was chairman of the rivers and har-
best people in Boston, all knew of the 1 bors committee in the Fifty-ninth Con
gress. He is a lawyer by profession
I
In the above list of bonds there will
be observed an Item of $102,000 gold
bonds In Clews’ hands and an Item of
$1,500,000 of currency bonds. The fol
lowing statement will explain these
amounts: "The last reconstruction
Legislature cost the State $979,055.
Toward the close of the term It be
came evident that there was not
money enough In the State treasury to j g d to leave to you the settlement
defray the expenses. On August 27. | „*„??rrito<r th? rivil Wa -
1870, the Assembly passed an act au-
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSON AFT
ER THE LOSS OF ATLANTA.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
The Picayune has recelved.-the fol
lowing:
Scranton, Miss., May 18, 1907.
To Editor of Picayune: Knowing
your knowledge of history we have
of a question concerning the Civil Wa:
history namely: Did General Robert
E. Lee or President Davis reinstate
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to the com
mand of the Army of Tennessee? A
contends that Mr. Davis did it, while
the majority hv the
end the !nvInoi M e tout
Democracy., n orinctolc
r»-r»rn*'rit Jr»
P^TIIlWlp p’DOo r\rr*
h *er tn-** Tn*rfr*
of
thn1 nover f^r
t mlnoWtv In ts»s
'*1 of
cap. The late Tom Reed had extrava- j worse fix than their anceesann? are In
gant admiration for his extraordinary : the present Senate. Thov were few Ir.
abilities, and when they were both | numher and without leadership. The
members o fthe Judiciary Committee, I two ablest men among them were pow-
Reed was fond of taking untenable po- ! erlecs in the gro^n of the demon of
sitions just to see “old Cyclops derr.ol- j drink. Garrett Davis was not yor a
l c h them.’’ It was the ambition of the j Democrat. Lazaraus W. Powell was
elder Culberson to represent Texas In ‘ d'scred'fed for his Southern svmnra-
the Senate: not for van'ty, but hocause j thles. Latham was more than half a
he was conscious of his capacities for Renubllonn. Tm-ole was a Senator h»it
that theater. A time came when the ! a few weeks. Dnoimie was yet a full
Senatorship was his for the asking, but j Rennh'ican Hendricks was not vet a
he was now growing old and tired of ; Se--te- Thurman did not come in
parliamentary life. He declined it. and until 1869.
Texas gave lt to his favorite son. the -l ‘'““e ' V!,s no •!?•>de-shin, and very
apple of his eye. the core of his heart- tMoV^and
the boy whom he was so proud and It w ,,. tlv , wire ?nun«ei of *rh„-m,n j»m-
who SO well deserved his approbation, nnrted hy n*yard Lamar WU a-d Paca-r-
I Ipy that navp f*»$* PGrno<*mts t**o
The younger Culberson was hnrn !n j In the Fo»*ty-cu-*h r-onerDc.c. jt t«*v 12
Alabama In 1855. and the following year? for th? ”n’d Rem-'a" to aeeoma'i-h
year his father became a citizen of
Texas. Old Dave said that he intended
that the hoy should have an education
that would enable him “to find hi?
hat.” One might write volumes and
not expres* it so well. What the fath
er meant wast hat his boy should be
d’scinllned for the hatt’e of life: that
he should be taught detail: that be
should be grounded In self-reliance:
that he should know how to make his
way in the world. Many a boy, bright,
healthy, vigorous cannot find bis hat
In the morning, and the pltv of It Is
they go through life Ju?t that way—
always seeking what they were not
pmnerly taught In childhood how to
seek.
And as soon as he was old enough
voting Culberson was packed off to rhe
Virg’nia MiHtarv Institute, a school
little Inferior to West Point. There he
graduated with high honors, and was
anxious for a mllltorv carper: but that
did not suit the father, who Insisted
that the son should study for the bar.
He en’ered his father’s office and
studied under the Instrurt’on of the ..
old man for three vears and then he- | * ° r and then take orders from tho
came a student at th? law department j en ^, T h „toong Demo?-,tie |eador-M„
of the Un’versltv of Virginia, where he I ff, P , rTni,«ek of Co»tgre«*_r»ii’VmUon
greatlv distinguished himse’f. H n re I ena sr-UJIn—a—*v, a n „,
he attracted the attention of Senator | American Congress would h? the moat
Daniel, hlm-elf a great lawver. who i ‘T' < ‘r" s V nEr „ w , !r V, ln a generation and 't
■wrote a rarer on one of Culberson’s j . ?„_ 2 V _S™."“t,_ Arr >eriean poll-
legal productions at school, and pre
dicted the distinguished career the
young man was to carve ouL
sttMition of the Dnftnd Stntea. Tllden raiv
with ne-feot vieieri as oa-H- a« 1970,
he made the declaration: “The Damo^
cratle nerty v.a* never beaten when It
was Democratic.”
Will
But leadership Irn—Ura dl«otnP
the Demoe-ary bp |ed? That it t
tion and tba-e*s t bP rub. Senators are
human. DuTheraon v?t young for a
genato-fa] leader. W'll the otters fopow?
Tt is said that Mr. Rooaevelt ho, rho«en
the Pe-aaratlr Jeerte- of the peuate and
M-. Culhersnn Is net the man. Mr Roo-e.
veJt has accomnlisned more tmno-sih’e
thing*? than any other man sleep N r ono!
l?on Bnnanarte. He i*. absolutely mas*o-
of one party and eiatms an notion on the
other. If the Pemocrafte rts-tv J.s *rnln-
to take orde-s from e Ronuhttea n p r e»|_
dent It Is u-eles*? to even t>-1nk of c,,].
he-s-rn fo- th® titular leader of sueh a
Isvont. Tf he is mode ]eade r rnme he
will he loader In fact, a-d th? ra-ty to
the Senate would as we’] or hetfe- go
0”t a' the entt Me*>I h'idnA??'.. to o™—.
tote-egtlng wRWn
would henefielallv
tics for another eonoratlon
(Copyrighted by E. W. Newman.)
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
thorlzlng a bond Issue to meet the
exigency, and Gov. Bullock Issued cur
rency bonds to the amount of $2,000,090
to raise money by hypothecation. On
September 15 the Legislature passed
an act providing for an Issue of quar
terly geld bonds, to take up the cur
rency bonds ‘and for other purposes.’
Undpr this act the Governor Issued !
$3 090.000 of gold bonds, but in the in- , CO mmand of the Army of Tennessee i ward
From the New York Press.
A plutocrat has it; a demagogue
wants IL
Most men can he honest unless they
have a chance not fo be.
A woman's Idea of social standing is
engagement, and many were the con
gratulations I received before leaving
home. They all thought I was coming
to get a Georgia- peach, but It now
'ooks as though I am to have a lemon.”
We had no idea the denizens of classic
Murray Hill bad progressed so far in
the use of the pure and virile American
tongue as the lady’s speech would la-
iicate.
and an authority on finance.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Cal! It "cotton seed oi!,’’ says Dr.
Harvey Wiley. Yes, and then the peo
ple who paid high prices for it under
be name of “olive oil” would not have
t at any price. Sometimes it seems
almost a virtue to humbug humanity. J QC y him twice to face tho bartender.
Pram the Chics go News.
The more patience a woman has with
her children the less she has with their
father.
An easy way to make money is to
buy stocks when they are low and sell
them when they are high.
How difficult It is for a man to get
hack to hard work after nursing a po
litical job for a few years!
On her wedding day a young widow
always wonders how many men will
comrril suicide on her account.
Many a man has lest his mental haJ-
j ance by attempting to entertain two or
mere ideas at the same time.
While you may not be able to lead
a man to water, you seldom have to
Returning to Texas after Ms gradu
ation. young Culberson opened an of
fice at Jeffe-son, and actively engaged
In the practice. He was v»rv soon
the-enfter elected prosecutor of Marlon
utu t wujic ■ County; hut his private practice made __ „, a „ ull ,
B says General Lee was the”author of : BUch demands on him, that in Justice j being so snappy that everybody hates
the reinstatement in question. Who : — ■■ ■■ ■ — * v i
is right. Yours very resnectfullv. j ^ maws a woman feel about
INQUIRER, i and had reached Savannah In January, times richer to call her husband’s
General Johnston was removed from | 1865.when he proposed to march north- : money his estate,
command of the Army of Tennessee ^ ward through the Carolinas. In I Where a woman Is sensible is in
vestlpation of the committee it was j j n obedience to a general demand from ! order to cefist such a move- ) pretending .«h© isn*t, so «he con put
discovered that 81.500.000 of the dead pe0 p]e of North Georgia, who saw ment as much as possible , a Con- j the responsibility for such things on
currency bonds had not been redeem- ! a j| strong positions in that moun-
ed as prescribed bv law.. Of these | tainous region abandoned before the
outstanding Henrv Clews held $890,000. , advance of Sheridan’s army. In
Russell Sage $539 000. H. I. Kimball j obedience to this demand, but unwil-
had negotiated $120 000 for a loan from i ijnglv. although his confidence In John-
J. B. Johnston & Co., and $50,900 for ston had been greatly shaken.the Pres-
loan from the Fulton Bank, of , ; d ?nt displaced the officer, and on July
her husband.
federate force was assembled
Charlotte. N. C., on February 23, '
1865, General Johnston was placed ! THE STATESMAN.
In command on the p oposal of General | Not he that breaks the dams, but he
R. E. Lee who had been made com- : That throug the channels of the
mander-in-chief of all the >“mles. but 1 State
still under the authority of the Presl- ! Convoys the people’s wish, is great;
Brooklyn. N. Y. As these bonds should j Vs. 1S64/ put General Hood In com- i dent. Mr. Davis. In his “Rise and ; His name is pure, his fame is free:
have been surrendered by the holders j mnnd. , Fall of the Confederate Government.” |
In exchange for the gold bonds, tho ! General Johnston was no fighter but : on page 61, says: “With the under- • He cares. If ancient urage fade.
General Assembly held that their fall- ! t, e was a strategist. General Hood ' standing that General Lee was him- To shape, to settle, to renal;-,
urc to do so rer.dered the obligations | was a fighter’ but was destitute of ' self to supercede and control the oper- j With seasonable changes fair,
null and void, and so enacted. When! stratgetic ability. Gene al Johnston ! ations, I assented to the assignment.” ! And innovation made grade by grade:
the gold bonds were issued ll.lno 000 never advanced, but consanily retreat-
of them were placed in the hands of e d. Nevertheless, while he abndoned
Henry Clews for negotiation. The com- j the country and its resource to be de-
mittee reported $102 990 of tbe'e bonds ! stroyed by'the enemy, he took care of
as still in the possession of Clews, but ’
unsold, and recommended their can-
ce’atlop. which was accordingly done."
Of the remaining gold bonds $500,000
his forces. General Hood continued
to advance until he had secured disas
trous defeat for a great part of his
forces, and it was compelled to a ban-
Afte- some movements in which the
troops under General Johnston were ; Or. If the sense of mn*?t reoulre
engaged with Sherman’s forces, Gen- j A preririent of larger scon?,
eral Johnston sur endered his army at j Not Heals In threats, but works w!
Greensboro. N. C., on April 26. 1865. hone.
It appears from the histo ic reocords ! And lights at length on his desire:
of the time, that President Davis con- I
sented to the reassignment of General | Knowing those !f\ws are tost al'ne
were placed with Russell Sago to se- don Tennessee, into which his advance i Johnston to the command of what was
cure a loan of $375,000: $300,009 with
the Fourth National Bank of New
York: A. L Wb.Iton. $100,990: $250 000
to H. I. Kimball on the onera house—
the old capitol—on Marietta street,
Atlanta, and *100.000 to J. H. .Tames
for the executive mansion on Peach
tree street, the present mansion. In At-
had been made, the entl e movement
having been a failure for lack of the
stratgftic acuity.which when combined
with fighting qualities, has character
ized all great military commanders.
In the meantime. Sherman, disre
garding Hood’s advance into Tennes
see, had continued almost unopposed.
jantft. St*to currency bonds were i his march through Georgia to the aea
at contemn’?te a mighty plan.
The frame, the mir.d, the soul of
man.
Like one that cultivates his own.
still called the Army of Tennessee, and
It is much to be doubted if General Le?
would have taken such a step in oppo
sition to the President’s expressed
wish. Therefore, under the circum
stances, neither proposition as con
tended to- in the inquiry of the corres
pondent above given can be consid- i Against the Spirit of the T
ered strictly correct- —Allred Tennyson.
He. seeing far an end sublime.
Contends dean'stog party rage.
To ‘hold fh* 5?r**rlt of the As?Q