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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MARCH 8 1887
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AFFLICTED,
READ,
REFLECT.
• Are you Buffering from ii disease of a chronic na-
tore? Have you tried various remedies, numbers
of physicians? You have taken Blue Pill, Calomel.
■ Anenlc, etc. If a woman you have been exposed
to numbers of examinations aud manipulations,
bare been cauterizetl, packed and irrigated all
wlhoVVr*;lief. If a young man you have been
Swindled by free prescriptions. never falling rome-
. dies that cure in a few clays, etc. But in spite of
• all the knowledge that has accumulated for ages
In the regular profesaiou you arc still sick.
You have become despondent. and despaired of
ever getting relief. In tact you have almost mado
M> jour mind that you will never get well. Why
; uthiK’ .simply beenuso you have ucver had the
light medicine. Instead of medicines to assist na*
tore you have been taking romcdlo* (?) that direct
ly oppose the workitgs of nature. Failing with
. the doctors you have fallen upon patent medicines,
taking into your system something you know noth-
lpg of, something that the very makor himself
knows nothing of ai to its properties, uses, etc.
You take something of which you kuow nothing
for a disease of which you know oven Jess. To this
das* and to all the a filleted of long or short stand
ing, I address myself. I propose to cure you If
gout disease Is curable and iryou are too far gino
for a perfect cure, lean at least give you relief.
Nine-tenths of tho medicines I uso are nature’s own
remedies, vis: vegetable productions. I give no
heavy sickening doses but something generally
pleasant and Invigorating. My patienU gain from
fi to 15 pounds per month until perfect health is at* '
talned. This i* no fancy picture but reality. I am
more convinced every duy of the superiority of my
5 item of practice over the routino practice that
ves calomel, morphine, dover's powder, arsenic.
• little bitter tonic and much whisky, wine and
gin repeated day after day, "eecundcm artetn."
The following are among thedlseascs 1 succcsifnlly
treat: Asthma. Cancer, Consumption, Catarrh,
. Bronchitis, diseases of the Liver, Bowels aud
gpleeu. diseases of the Kidneys,^Dropsy, Gravel,
every form of Ulceration, Internal or external. Tu*
'toon, Uicirated or •'■oro Legs, Fistulas, White
•'Swelling. Worms, Epilepsy, Spasms or Fits, of all
kinds, Neuralgia, Dual ness. Sore or Iullamcd Eyes,
Kcrvous and General Debility, Sterility, Paralysis,
Spinal diseases, Spcrmatorrhu-n, Tetter, Skin dis
eases, Scrofula, Syphlllla primary, secondary and
tertiary, all Venereal diseases, 8trlcture, Piles, dis
eases peculiar to females, such as Fluor. Albus or
White*, Falling of Womb, disorders of Menstrua
tion of every furm, OvarUis, all dcrangemootsof
sexual system, male or female, diseases peculiar to
Cbildrenjdso diseases of Throat, Laryngitis, Ulcer-
titlou of Throat. In fact no matter what your dis
ease. Write me fully and confidentially; your
confidence will not bo betrayed. I tako yourcaso,
1 treat you. that is my business and I propose to
• stick strictly to basinets. I do not mako sick to
gnako well, neither do I stnrvoyou to cure you.
Bear in mind I prepare my own romedtes; I
SEtellifoV &i&rs£pt. n \T
own medicines. In conclusion let me say that
when writing give all prominent symptoms of
jour disease. Enclose stamp If reply is expcctod.
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STORIES OF THE WAR.
INTERESTING SCRAPS OF 1
WRITTEN HISTORY.
A War Poem Entitled "My Friend--.* Pioture of a
Beldler'a Home Daring His T»rm of Btrvtoe
ABoldUr's Home—At Af<12ekea’s Vend
—A Soldier’s Grave—Other Stories
EOMgtSSjSgr
Kama this paper. octlB-wkyW
The 8oldler*a Xlonte*
Written for The Constitution.
"All that land," said old nun Plunket, point
ing with his walking cane, "to the tight of the
read, clean back to the liver—mora than two
thousand acres—belongs to n man who started
n store Just after the war and sold the farmers
provisions on a credit at 331 per cent and took
mortgages on land for security. This Is noth*
ing like all ho owns. Bo’s got twenty snch
places and stock and money and United States
bonds, and ho lives like some er the "lords'' of
England that wo read abont, and It all grew ont
of the wat; and nobody needn’t try to make mo
believe war’s not a bad, bad thing.
"You see that double log house np the road
yonder?" asked the old man. "Thar’s whar a
fine feUow settled in 1858, and went off and
married and brought to that houso one er tho
finest young women ns it was ever my lot
to live by, and they were just getting llxod up
to live easy whan the war broka out
and John he volunteered and went off to Vir
ginia, fully expecting to get bock in sixty days
at fhrtherest They had a big fight at Ms-
nassts, and our boys whipped cm, and John lie
was thar and he writ homo erbout it and said,
‘Kiss the children and toll om I'll soon be
home,’ and wo all expected enr back in a few
days, so I put up a ahoat to fatten, and John’s
little wife she put up a big turkey and went to
scouring tnd swooping tho yards and cleaning
ip generally, to make John foel proud of her
when he got homo, but ho didn't coma, and
them yards got mighty trashy and tho turkey
died of old ate before he did come. Thatyoneg
woman and her threo children looked so lone-
acme stayin’ thar day alter day and night
afternlghi by themselves, and everyday tho
corn in the crib getting lower and the meat in
the smokehouse almost gone, and no hogs in
tho pen to replace it, I grew to think war was
a bad thing, and I've not changed that opinion
yet, stranger.
“Afloat John’s little wife scorned to wako
np to the fix she was la, and sho quit cryln'
and went to work samo as er man and planted
some corn and went to spinning at niaht and
weaving relay days, and sho soon had n cron
cr growing and the chUdren dressed in good
cheeked homespnn, and tho managed to kult
John socks sndgloves end to wotve him a good
. cans suit, and when tho settlement mads up a
xx to send to tho boys, John was sure to got
his share of good things, and the wilt him
cheering letters when evory line would have
been blotted with tears If aho’d give way to
htr feelings, bat she wee bravo, stranger, aho
was bravo, and thar's many a woman who wont
through them trying times that deservo a mon
ument that would stand the boating blasts of a
thousand centuries, that have novor boon
thought of. and will never bo hoard of iu con
nection with tho heroism of them days. War’s
a bad thing, atranger, war's a bad thing."
"Along in July of '63, away in tho middle or
tho night, I hered tho horn at John’s boose
blowing, and I knbwcd it was blowing for
help. Thar was no white men it homo scarcely,
so 1 knowed it was my dhty to go, and I hob-
bled out over thar as fast aa I could, and C
found that John’s little girl was mighty sick
and had a high fover, and ths little thing
wanted John, nnd all sho wonld say was:
" 'Hams, do tell pipa to come homo; his little
Anna la ao sick.’
“And then she'd cry and say, ‘Plain, papa,
>me to llttlo Anna; I’m so sick,’ and than the
mother ahe began to cry and the other chUdren
cried, and I tell yon, stranger, I cried myself.
Tho doctor como, and he said that Anna had
lbs typhoid fever, tnd ahe lingered along
mighty sick, and the only thing that aha would
say was to repeat tha words, 'Please, papa,
como to your little girl: she's so sick.’ Then the
mother wroto to John nnd told him
all abont It, nnd he tried mighty
hard to get a ‘furlough,’ hut he couldn't, and
a man couldn't travel then without ‘papers,’
for thorn was a guard at every station and on
every train, and at every street corner and
' ‘ ' nnd make yon show
i Anna died, and the
the grand consolation of being entitled to spiritual
prosperity, which cannot bo taken from him.
Colonel Hawkins In bis dally rounds amongthe
sick and dying had found a young soldier who re
alized he was not long for this world. Ho was en
gaged lo bo matrled to a lady and was anxiously
looking for a letter from her, that be might once
more read her loving words before be should die,
but the letter came not until after hlx death,which
was fortunate for the poor fellow forinstead of lov
ing promises, she had written to break off the en
gagement. Colonel Hawkins answered the young
lady’s letter to the dead soldier In the lines
which I have enclosed for publication, provided
you should think them of sufficient interest aud
hare not already been published In your most ex
cellent paper.' D. G. W’ATXtxs,
Member of Kemper’s battery,
Notthoru army Virginia,
Clarksburg, W. Vs.,
my friend.
Yonr letter came, but came too late,
For Heaven had claimed its own.
Ahlsudden change, Horn prison bars
Into the great white throne.
Aud yet I think ho wonld have stayed
For one more day of pain,
Could he have read thuso tanly words
Which you have sent In vatu.
Why did yon watt, fair lady,
Through so many a weary hour?
nad you other lovers with yon,
In that silken dainty bowerr
Did others bow before yourcharral
And twlno bright garlands there?
And yet I ween in all that throng
Ills spirit had no peer.
1 wish that you were by me now,
As 1 draw the sheet aside,
TO sec how pure the look he wore
Awhile before he died.
. Yet the sorrow that you gavo him
sun has left its weary trace,
And a meek and saintly sadness
Dwells upon that pallid face.
"Her love,” hesatd, "could change lor mo
The winter’s cold to spring.”
Ah! trnst of thoughtless maiden’s loro
Thou art a bitter thing.
For when there valleys fair In May
•Once more with bloom shall wave,
Tho northern violets shall blow
Above his humble grave.
Yonr dolo or seamy words had been
But one mere pang to bear;
Though to the last, he kissed with love
This tress of your soft hair.
1 did not put It where ho said,
For when tho angels come,
I would not hare them find the sign
Of falsehood In the tomb.
I’ve read your Idler and J know
Tho wiles that yon bare wrought, *
To win that noble heart of hit
And gained It, fearful thought!
What lavish wealth men remetimes giro
For a trifle, light and small.
What manly forma one often held
In folly's flimsy thrall,
Yon shall not pity him, for now
He’s past your hope and fear:
Although I wish that you could atand
With me beside his bier.
811111 forgive you, Heaven knows,'
For mercy you bavo need,
Since God Ills awful judgment! sends
On each unworthy deed. .
Tonight tho cold winds whistle by
As I my vigils keep,
-Within the prlsou dead house, where
Fc-w mourners come to weep.
A rude plank colBn holds him ifow,
Yet death gives always grace.
And 1 bad rather see him thus
Than clasped In your embrace.
every where, to halt yon and mako yon show
J our “pass;” and so llttlo Anna died, and the
at words sho uttered wore: ‘Papa. If yon lovo
jour llttloglrl,docomo—I’mso slefc.’ “War's
a bad thing, stranger; wart a bad thing!” •
“John’s little wifo broko down, then, and
weeds grew np In the yard,and the palings fell
off the garden fence nnd the gate) and the ban
were all down—and John, he was captured
end was away np In a northern prison, where
he stayed till after the surrender, and he
never, has boon the seme min since. Be gave
a mortgage on hla little place to get started
after the war end the per cent eat it np, end
the only land that John owns now is e little
spot of about ton foot square, which he re
served, because It was the grave of hla little
Anne, who died nover understanding why it
wu that ‘papa wonld not como to hla little
girl.’” Baboe.
At htUHkeu'o Bund.
Editors Constitution : I sea In a recent
number of yonr valuablo paper a war story
from n collection of stories by “M. Quad,”
which Is incorrect. Bo states that at the bat
tle of "MlUlken’s Hand,” In Louisians, that
General McCulloch's confederate brigade went
into that charge behind a "breastwork of
mules.” I was In that charge, and the state
ment aa to the mu lea la Incorrect. The federal
troops were mostly negroes, and were en
camped between the Mfau—Ippi river and the
levee. They had n breastwork formed partly
of the levee and some cotton balee. Tho charge
was mado about daylight, on Jane 7th, 1883.
General Henry E. McCulloch's brigade waa
composed of the aixteenth, seveutcenth nnd
nineteenth reglmenta of Texaa Infantry, and
the sixteenth regiment of Toxae dismounted
cavtlry, and they were all that was in that
engagement. Two of tha reglmenta, via., the
sixteenth dlemounted cavalry and the seven
teenth ir fan try, had to cut their way through
n young “hols do arc’’ hedge, and many were
killed In the hazardous attempt Our
lots In that sharp engagement
waa 181 in killed nnd wounded, betides soma
who were lost between the levee and the river
bank and were never heard from. A rather
laughable occurrence in that fight wu that
John Kinner, a sort of half-witted member of
company E, Nineteenth regiment went through
the fight without firing n gun, and after It wu
all over he had eight cartridges in hla gun.
There were no breastworks used.
Tho wu stories are very Interesting, and yon
may publish this if yon wish to don. Long
live The Constitution, Respectfully,
H. C. Joints,
Co. E, 19th Texas Inlt.
Groesbecck, Texas.
Another War Poem.
Editors Constitution: I too many
sketches nnd Incidents or the wu published lo
your valuable paper and have derived much pleas
ure horn reading them.
In order to contribute my mite towards that de.
pertinent of yonr great paper, r seod you tho fol
lowing incident of prison life daring the winter of
’M and '65, at Camp Chase. Ohio. It Is not my In
tention to apeak of tho suffering wa endured, as
that la put and could In no way ha mitigated.
But, lo proceed. Colonel W. 8. Hawkins, of Ten.
nemee, during the dreary winter of 'M and 'K wu
the most widely known and beloved man among
the prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio, and although
not a regular minister of tha goepel, ho wu the
moat eloquent and Interesting exponent of tho
Holy Beriptnree that I hart ever listened to. If
there few lines should happen toieatch the eye of
a confederate jiehoee mtrfioetune It wu to have
been looted at Camp Chase lo the winter of 'fit
and -Si, he will remember bow eagerly we would
rash from our barracks whenever It was announced
that Colonel Hawkins had come over from prison
to MO ns, and when he would mount tha barrack
steps and begin to apeak or preach ha could hold
ns spell bound for hoars with Ms eloquence.
He wu oar oracle In everything connected with
oar welfare, both spiritual aa* tampon!, bat his
greatest work wu dona at the coaebre of the sick
and dying, and If he la living today and has not
keen prosperma In temporal Jxffxln, he can have
Tonight your rooms perhaps are gay
With wit, and wine, and song.
And you aro smiling Just u If
You never did a wrong.
Yonr hand ao fair that none wonld think
It-penned there words of pain,
Yotar akin so whlte-wonld uod, your sonl
Were hall»free from stain.
I'd rather bo tills dear, dear friend
Than you In all yonr glee.
For you aro hold in grievous bonds
While he's forever free.
Whom senro wo In this life, rye serro
In that wbloh la to come.
He chose hla way, you yonm; let God
, 1’ronounco the fitting doom.
A Soldier’s Grave.
Editors Constitution : I wu bora aud
raised In Cherokee county, Ga. My father, 8.
M. McConnell, waa sergeant mglor of the Geor
gia regiment that went from Georgia to the
Mexican war. In August, 1884, when I wu a
little boy, I witnessed! fight atChorokeeMIlla,
Ga. A squad of confederates attacked aome
federal! who were In our bouse, plundering.
A fight ensued, the foderals driving off the
confederates, killing one of the confederate! In
front of our house. Ills usmo wu Milton
Jackson, and from tho papers found on Mm I
think he Uved In Cherokoo county, Ain. For-
hape his relatives, or even hla wife, may not
know where be wu burled. I, with the assist
ance of an old neighbor, burled tha dead sol
dier on a blU about one half mile from Chero
kee MUli, (la., where be wu shot. Blahoree
followed the confederate soldiers away. The
federate, after they drove the confederates
from the house, came out to where the soldier
was shot, and roUed him over to see If he wu
dead, after which they left him to be burled
by my mother and her little children, u there
waarto one elu near to help.
J. D. McConnell,
Vernon, Texas.
We regret that "How Soldiers Die In Bailie' 1
le unavoidably crowded out or this Issued. It will
appear nextiHue.
If We Know.
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he gets no pity from thoso who know nothing
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ROBERT E. LEE.
OHN, LORD WOLSELEY REVIEWS
THE-SOUTHERN LEADER'S LIFE.
Tht 8cm* Df fieri bod When He Accept** • Coraaiaaion
From tbcMother of Vre aldsnu-A Comparison
Between the Amorloon Bold lee and Hag-
land** Conquering Marlborough.
New Yobk, March 1.—Of the cables printed
* in the New York papers tho following special
cablo from London to tho world U (ho one
which will attract moot attention:
The leading article in Macmillan’* Magazine
for March is by General Lord Wolaoley, on
General Lee. Betcrcuco ta made in a foot note
to the recently pnbllahed memoirs of General
Lee by General Long and Marcus Wright, but
in no eenae a review of that work. General
Lee is given fall credit for the lovo he had for
the union,and for the struggle he went through
before finally taking tho decision to go with
his own state. General Wolseley describes
how Lee accepted hts commission ns command
er-in-chief of all the military forces of Virginia
in a crowded convention of tho most eminent
men of the state, and then draws a parallel be
tween him nnd the great Marlborough: "Gen
eral Lee’s presence commanded respect oven
from strangers by a calm,self-possessed dignity
tho like of which I have never seen In other
men. Naturally of strong passions he kopt
them under perfect control by that iron and
determined will of which his expression and
his face gave evidence. As this tail, handsome
soldier stood before his countrymen he was the
picturo of the ideal patriot Unconscious and
aelf-noesessed in his strength, he indulged in
no theatrical display of feeling. There was in
hisfacoand about him that placid resolve
which bespoko great confidence iu self and
which, in his case, one knows not how quickly
communicated its magnetic Influence to othera.
He was then just fifty-four years old, the ago
of Marlborough when ho destroyed the French
army at Blenheim. In many ways and on many
points these two great men much rosembled
each other. Both were of a dignified and com
manding exterior, eminently haudsome, with
a fig tiro tall, graccfal and erect, whllo a
muscular, square-built frame Iteipoko great
activity of body. The charm of maunor
which I havo mentioned ns very winniug in
Lee was possessed in the highest degree by
Marlborough. Both, at the outset of their great
career of victory, wero regarded as essentially
national commanders. Both had married
young and were faithful husbands nnd devoted
fathers Both had in all their campaigns the
enme belief in an cver-watchfal Providence, in
whose help thev trusted implicitly and for
whose interposition they prayed at all times.
They were gifted with the samo military in
stinct, tho same genius far war, tho power of
fascinating those with whom they were asso
ciated , the spell which they cast over their sol
diers who believed almost suporatitlouily in
their certainty of victory. Their contempt of
danger and their daring courage constitute a
parallel that is difficult to equal between any
other two great men of modom times."
AN ORGANIZER.
Rcferenco Is mado as to how General Loo or
ganized an army of 110,000 men in two months,
and as to how in another month he had gsined
a great victory at -Bull Bun and drivon the
northern Invaders bock across tho Potomac
liko herds of frightoued sheop, his army being
supplied with ammunition, army stores and
— m _ — —. army i — ——
clothing captured thcro. Ho tolls the follow
ing story: "Some time afterward, when Goneral
Pop* snd his large Invading army had beeu sent
hack flying aertwa tho Maryland border, I over*
heard this conversation between two confed
erate soldiers: ’Have yon heard the news?
General Leo has resigned/ 'Good God, 1 was
tho reply; ‘what fat? ‘Ho has resigned because
bo says he can not (Seed and supply fiissrmy any
longer now that hit commissary, Goneral Pope,
lias been removed.’ Mr. Lincoln hadjtxst then
dismiiKd General Pope, replacing him by (Jen
era! McClellan.",
INEFFICIENT SFBOEDIlfATES.
Genera? Wolsetar,incidentally expnmca an
opinion, when speaking of* Bull Bun. that the
confederates did not follow up their victory
there os they should havo dono. A rapid and
daring advance would havo given them pos
session of Washington, thofr enemy’s capital.
Political considerations at Richmond were al
lowed to outweigh tho very evident military
experience of reaping a solid advantage from
this their first great success. This suggests the
general criticism which follows;
"What most strikes the regular soldier In theso
campaigns of General Leo Is tho Inefficient man
ner In which both ho and hi* opponents worooften
served by their subordinate commander and how
badly tho staff and outpost work generally waa
performed on both sides. It is most difficult to
wove, with any effective precision, young armies
com-tltutcd as these were durlug this war. The di
rection and movement of largo bodios of newly
raised troops, oven when victorious are never
easy and often impossible, over and over again
was the south apparently within a stone’s throw
of independence, and it has been many times re
marked, when from want of a thoroughly good
staff to organize the pursuit, the occasion was lost,
end tho enemy allowed to escape.
Lee's combinations to sccpre victory wsro
the conceptions ot a truly great strate
gist, and when they had been effected his tactics
were also most always everything that could be
desired up to tho moment or victory. But there
bis action scorned to stop altogether. Was ever an
army so helplessly at the mercy of another as that
of McCloilsn, when he began his retreat to Harri
son’s landing, after tho seven dap* fighting around
Richmond? What commander could wish to havo
his foe In a tighter place than Burnside was In
alter his disastrous attack upon Lee at Fredericks
burg? Yet In both instances tho northern com
mander got safely away; and other simitar Instances
could be mentioned. The critical military studont
oftbtawar, who knows the power which regular
troops, well officered and well directed by a thor
oughly efficient staff, placed In tho hands or an
able general and who has acquired an intimate
aud complete knowledge of what these two con
tending American armlee were really like will, I
think, agree that Arom first to last the cooperation
of even one array corpe of regular troops, would
have given complete victory to whichever side it
fought on.”
AT ANTIKTZSf.
Lord Wolseley saya that Leo told him that he
had only S0,000 men in front of McClellan at Antic*
tern, with a fjv tired reserves behind, while Mo
Cieljoa had <rh army of 100,000 men. Hostates that
Lee alwara spoke well of McClellan, though be
spoke bitterly of none of his federal opponents. In
his reference to the thirty fire days'fighting around
Richmond Just before the surrender at Appomat
tox. Wolseley says; "Lee had only 55,000exhausted
soldiers to oppose 190,000 fresh men under. General
Grant.'’
In speaking of the faults of General Lee he says:
'One ot them was a too great dread of wounding
the feelings of othera, which lead him to leave in
competent men to fill Important positions. This
softness of heart or amlaUUty, however, good In It
self, may amount to crimo in the man intrusted with
public attain at critical moments. Lee's devotion
to duty and great respect for obedience seems at
Umta to have mado him too subservient to thooo
charged with the civil government ol hla country
Bo carried out too literally the orders of those
whom tho confederate constitution made his supe
riors, although be most have known them to be
entirely Ignorant of the science of war. Heap-
pears to have forgotten that be was the great revo
lutionary chief, engaged In a great revolutionary
war; that he was no mere leader in a political
struggle of parties carried on within the lines of
en old, well established form of government, it
was very clear to many at the time, as it wQl be
commonly acknowledged now,that the south could
only hope to win under the rule of a military die
tator. If General Washington had Rad a Mr.
DstIs over him, could be have accomplished
wlist be did? It will, I am sure, be news to many
that General lee was given the command over an
the confederate annle* a month or two only before
the final collapse, and that the military policy of
tbc icuth waa throughout the war dictated by Mr.
Davis as president of the confederate states. Lee
bad no power to reward soldiers or to promote
offeera. it was Mr. Davis who selected the men
to command divisions and armies. Is It to be
ropt'Oted that Cromwell, King William Ift, Wash
ington or Napoleon jcould bare succeeded In the
revolutions with which their names are Identified,
had they submitted to the will end authority of a
politician aa Lee did to Mr. Davisr
titrraii or tirwirowo.
Lord Wolseley says that "General Lee wu op
posed to tho defense of Richmond at the last, and
that he was right, for If ho had drawn General
Grant's army into the interior (hr away from its
base of supplies, be would bare greatly weakened
it. But it were vain to speculate. Richmond foil
and Lee’s army surrendered. Who shall ever
fathom the depth of Lee’s anguish when the bitter
end canto, and when, bcatcu down by sheer force*
of numbers and by absolutely nothing else, he found
himself obliged to surrender. The handful of starr
ing men remaining with him laid down their
arms end tho proud confederacy ceased to be.
Surely the crushing, maddening anguish of awful
sorrow is only known to the leader, who has so
failed to accomplish como lofty, 6omo noble aim
for which lie has long .striven with might and
main, with heart and soul In the interests of king
or of couutry. A smiling face, a cheerful manner
may conceal tho sore place from the ey.:s, poastbly
even from the knowledge of his friends, but tfnro
Is no healing for such a wound which cats Into the
very heart of him who haa once received it."
AN ESTIMATE OP LBL*.
The article closes with this enthusiastic estimate
of tho confederate chieftain : "When alt tho augry
feelings roused by the secession aro burlod with
thoso which existed when tho declaration of Inde
pendence was written ; when Americans cs
vfow the history of their last great rebellion with
calm Impartiality, I believe all will admit that
General Lee towered far aiiove all men on cither
sldo in that struggle. 1 believe he will bo regarded
not only as tho most prominent figure of tho con-,
fcderacy, but as tho groat American of tho nine
teenth century, whoso statue Is well worthy to
stand on au equal pedestal with that of Washing
ton. and whoso memory is equally worthy to be
eushrinedlnt tho hearts of all hts couutrymep."
THE WTT01MKiHKETS.
CONSTITUTION OFFICE,
Atlanta, March r>, 1887.
. Now York-Cotton firm. Spots, middling 9 it-Wc,
Net receipts for tho week ending today 79.'Jil
bales, against 9f*.2M bales last week, aud against
C7.GV8 bales for tho corresponding week last year;
exporta for tho week 12I.4GO bales, against «I,:r>3
bale* for the corresponding week last year; stock
7*8,416 bales, against 985,891 for tho samo time last
year.
Below FOghre the opening and closing quotations
ot cotton
New York
March.,
5§E
fib
AUgUSt .re.....
September.,..
October
November......-..,.
December-.....- —
Closed dim; sales 122,109 bales.
■Loc tl—Cotton flhn; middling 914c.
NEW YORK, Mart Ii 4-Tho ^following li thi
comparative cotton statement for tho week endiug
today:
Net receipts st all United 8tates porta. 79,931
Some time last^rcar - 07,708
Showing an lucroase 12,163
TOtal reCCiPtSrererere. ...re—. -1,813,498
Same time last year 4,ACe,340
Showing an increase.......................... 271,119
Exports for the week - 121.4S0
Same time last year - 81,319
. Showing an Increase 43.111
Total exports to date -8,617,260
Same time last year «2,901,465
Showing an increase 012,795
Stock at all United States ports....... 788,115
Same time last year 00,591
Showing a decrease - 197,470
Stock at lfttorior towns. 120,439
Same tlmo last year - 215.IW1
Showing a decrease .re... 95,628
Stock at Liverpool-.—* 930,000
Same tlmo laid year....—.. 6'.h,O00
Showing an incrcaso 212,000
American cotton afloat for Great Britain...- 211,000
Same tlmo last year 191,000
Showing au Increase 20,000
NEW YORK, March 6-Tho total visible sup
ply of cotton (hr the world is •,058,788 • bales, of
which 2.643.888 bales are American, against 8,045,663
bales and 2,572,153 bales respectively last yoar. Re
ceipt* at all interior towns 39,082 bales. Re
ceipts from plantations 44,7 is bales. Crop in sight
6,947,819 bales. ‘
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