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SPECIAL NUMBER The Consolidated Company JAMES E. PAYNE, Gen’l Mgr. 1112 Broad Street Augusta, Georgia ■■■■ DISTRIBUTORS OF ALL Leading Brands of Beer and Other Goods PROMPT SHIPMENTS Also our Fine Cascade Ginger Ale, Manufactured in the Mountain City of Greenville, from Pure Mountain Water. Respectfully, JAMES E. PAYNE At Random Strung By HENRY P. MOORE „ OFT-MOOTED QUESTION 1 Was there ever any tangible offer wade by the Lincoln government to allow compensation for the slave property of the Confederates? Was there ever any intimation from any authoritative source that such inten tion! was ever considered? This oft recurring question has been bobbing up regularly for some years past and, Jihe Banquet's ghost, it refuses to down. Along with it is related the equally Improbable story that Lincoln, placing his hand upon the shoulder of Alex ander Stephens, at the Peace Confer ence at Hampton Roads, said: “Stephens, I have written 'Union' at the top of this sheet of paper; you cani write anything else you please beneath it!” Don't common sense tell you that if this had happened, Mr. Stephens ■would have promptly written: Peace compensation for slaves and property destroyed, pensions for Union and Con federate soldiers alike, and the resto ration of the state's rights, as they were before the commencement of hos tilities? What was Mr. Stephens there for? What more could he or any other mem ber of the commission accomplish If Idncoln had made such an offer, was it not Mr. Stephens' duty as a peace commissioner to so report it to the au thorities at Richmond and to the peo ple of the seceded states? Greeley's Efforts for Peace. Mr. Stephens makes no mention of any such incident in his "War Be tween the States” nor does Jefferson Davis, in his “Rise and Kali of the Southern Confederacy.” If anything of such an important nature had tran spired. it seems as if they would have deemed It worthy of discussion. It looks like James G. Blaine and Sun Set Cox would have had some thing to say about so important a mat ter as the offer of compensation for I OUR SPECIALTIES THE BEST TO BE HAD, RELIA BILITY AND PROMPTNESS THEO. ZOLLER, Proprietor. J. L. JANES & CO. The Grocers .. . < •••’ ' _ • \ jJox*** • i \ - \ ~H.- tjaPisiMSr.' r • sr ; y \ ■■ ■ it*',.. .-j&~ -'-f- I - LSSa Sr three thousand millions worth of prop erty, the only property specifically mentioned by the constitution, and they would have been very apt to say something about so generous a peace proposal, coming at a time when both sides were sick and worn out with the long, bloody and exhausting war. But they don't. Before his death, John H. Reagan, one of the peace commissioners of the Confederates, and postmaster gen eral under Cleveland, wrote me a per sonal letter, in which he denied any knowledge whatever of such a pro posal. And I have failed to find any mention of it in any authoritative his tory of those times. Leading Republican Editor. The only possible foundation on which to base anything that smacks of an offer of compensation for slave property, is found in the Life of Hor ace Greeley, the great New York edi tor This was merely a suggestion that met with no encouragement, but] it may have been the basis of what afterward became the vague and in definite statement of what took place at Hampton Roads. William Cornell Jewitt, of Colorado, was greatly Interested in bringing about peace to the warring sections anil at his invitation, the agents of the Confederate government met him at Niagara Kalis to try and arrange a satisfactory peace plan. Greeley, who had been corresponding both with Jewitt and with Lincoln, wrote to the latter: 'Y venture to re mind you that the bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying country longs for peace.” He then submitted a plan for peace, which contemplated the restoration of ti.e l nion. the abolition of slavery, and also the payment of the sum of $400,- 000,000 to the slave owners as com pensation for their loss. He also sug gested that the Confederate agents he given assurance of safe conduct to Washington. Lincoln Not Agreeable. Lincoln did not take kindly to the plan. But he did not care to incur the enmity of a man of Greeley’s pow er, especially at a time when the elec tion was coming on. Then, again, lie saw an opportunity to put a quietus on the peace party of the North, whicn THE STAG SALOON 669 Broad Street. was growing all the time and clamor ing loudly for peace. He therefore wrote to Mr. Greeley: "If you find any person, anywhere, professing to have any proposition of Jefterson Davis in writing, for peace, embracing th e restoration of the Union and the abandonment of slavery, whatever else it embraces, say to him he may come to me with you, and that if he really brings such a proposition he shall have safe conduct with the paper (and without publicity if he choose) to the point where you shall have met him. The same if there be two or more persons.” Having received a letter so forbid ding in tone, Mr. Greeley knew not how to respond to the overtures for peace of the Confederate agents at Niagara Falls, and he therefore hesi tated to go, before them. In his per plexity aiui embarrassment he again wrote to Lincoln urging the necessity for peace and intimating that then would he a most opportune time when the agents of the Confederate govern ment were waiting to know upon what terms they could count. Tantamount to a Rejection. Mr. Greely went to Niagara Falls not knowing exactly where he was at, so to speak. There h e met Jewitt, who took a note from him to the agents of the Confederates, Messrs. Clement C. Clay, James P. Holcombe and George N. Sanders, in which he claimed that he was authorized to tender them safe conduct to Washing ton. They replied thqt they had not been clothed with authority to treat for peace on the terms prescribed by Lin coln, wiithout referring the matter to the authorities at Richmond. Mr. Greely, too, was without authority and had to wire to Washington to ask for further instructions. The affair was very loose jointed, as the Confederate agents were re quited to surrender everything the Confederates were fighting for as a condition upon which the terms of peace might be arranged after dis cussion. In reply to Greeley's telegram, Lin coln forwarded the following note; Washington, July IS. 1564. To whom it may oencern: Any prop AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 955 Broad <St. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA, Open Season in Elephants—Tzvo Hundred of the Great Beast Caught Every Year in India This is the year of the “elephant bat tue,'' in the great forests of Mysore, In dia. The hunting of these gigantic animals is permitted in India only every fifth year. On the average from -00 to 250 wild elephants are captured during the battue season, and these are trained for the various purposes for which the Asiatic elephant is used, writes Garrett P. Serviss. Everybody knows hew con spicuous a part tamed elephants play in the great public spectacles in India. In dian princes and'off 1 dais sometimes pay thousands of dollars for exceptionally fine and intelligent elephants. After they have been properly trained they are furnished with trappings gloaming with gold and splendid color. The howdah that an elephant trained for hunting carries on its back, and in which its master rides, while its driver places himself just back of its head, frequently weighs more than 200 pounds, but the huge animal regards it no more than a horse does a riding saddle. On a good level road an elephant will march, at the rate of five iles per hour, and he is capable of running, for short distances with a speed of 20 miles an hour. He can carry, in regular service, from 1.200 to 1.500 pounds, and he would not greatly mind a ton or more. One of the most interesting employ ments of the elephants is in hunting tig ers From tlie lofty back of his ele phant. at a height which, increased by tlie howdah, may be 12 or 14 feet above tlie ground, the hunter can take his aim at a tiger with a coolness that be would not possess if facing the animal on terra | firma. If. os sometimes occurs, tlie \ tiger makes a leap for the elephant, he seldom succeeds in attaining the man in tile howdah. although the driver, in his! eposed position on the elephant's neck. ; is in greater danger. There seems to be a natural enmity between elephants and tigers, although I an elephant will not attack a tiger nr- 1 less cornered, or compelled to do so bv 1 the tiger's own fault. Rut then a good, i fighting elephant will, if lie can once pet I Lis tusks to bear on his enemy, gore him to death, or literallv crush idm by I kneeling on him. It is said that the mere presence of a dead tiger will drivel osition which embraces the restoration I of peace, the Integrity of the whole 1 nion and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an au thority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will he received and considered by the executive government of the United States and will he met by liberal terms on other and collateral points, and the hearer or hearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Greeley said $400,0(10,000; hut how much did Lincoln say? At the Hamp ton Roads conference he made dte identical demands and there is noth ing to show that he ever seriously considered tlie idea of compensating I lie" slave"owners for* their loss, so far , as 1 can ascertain. W. L. NORRIS 121 & 123 13th Street Augusta, Georgia : - DISTRIBUTORS OF ALL THE ■-= Leading Brands of POPULAR BEERS BELLE OF GEORGIA PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN ALL ORDERS some elephants to fury. In view of the vast strength possessed by full-grown elephants, it seems almost incredible that they can be captured in herds, and quickly subdued to tlie will of their masters. At the present time, in Mysore, the regular method of cap turing wild elephants is for a large number of natives to go into the jun gle. some mounted on tamed elephants and many on foot, and to make a great I noise and hullabaloo, which results in driving herds of tlie wild elephants into stockades, or often into ponds of water, which have previously been surrounded on all sides, except at the approaches, bv immensely strong palisades. As soon as the herd is cornered, the pasages that had been left open are securely closed, and then the trained elephants are brought into play to cajole and subdue the perplexed prisoners. In India elephants are no longer cap- I tured. as they still are in Africa, by' means of huge pitfalls in the ground. In j these traps they are often seriously in jured or killed. The Indian elephant is I somewhat smaller than the African, and j differs from it in other ways, as, for I instance, in the fact that tusks are pos-I sessed only by the males, while both I sexes are provided with them in At- I riea. In general also tlie tusks of As- ' riean elephants are nearly twice as large : as those of their Indian relatives. a I single pair sometimes weighing as much os 250 or 300 pounds.—Philadelphia Ledger 1 , B Phone ro 2 a 3ot st JNO. S. CARSWELL A First Class Near Deer Saloon FOR GENTLEMEN in the Heart of the business Center. HOME KILLED MEATS Also Fancy and Family Groceries A Specialty Made of Choice Steak-Cuts at All Timp.~TnH p.h, c ... - ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. ! G. S. SMITH 318 and 220 Fifth Street. ■ . 68 . I— <• %JANES cSs? QQ The Grocers QBS Broad A Specialty 1887—ESTABLISHED 27 YEARS—I9I4 A reputation for square dealing which is our pride. Nothing but I • first-class goods carried in our stock. Prompt and courteous ser vice our watch word. A. B. SAXON & BRO. •. . WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. .. GROCERS 566 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA. “AUGUSTA IN 1914*