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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 THE MON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. S63 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. 0. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. The Telegraph can' ba found on aalu at the Kimball House and the Pied moot Hotel in Atlanta. 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. i-i-i-i-i- ■++ .Caught on f the Wing f i-i-M-K-M-i-i:; 111 11: i-h-i-m- 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