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EIGHTH year Smoke Xtra Good And Rebel Yell Cigars HISTORIC TALE OF CANDLER AND DOW find How the Latter Game To Be a Confederate Prisoner. hs exchanged fob general lee. Colonel MacKowen Made the Capture and the Brilliant Louisianian Writes Enter tainingly of His Experience. From The Atlanta Constitution. Some weeks ago there began to appear in the newspapers an irre -Bh.tiblf> publication purporting to be no interview with Colonel All en D. Caix'ler on war experiences and containing a declaration from Col. Candler that he had captured ( tn. Neal Dow the famous com nnind- r of the Thirteenth Maine regiment during the operations of the confederate army in Mississip pi in the summer of 18G3 . Colonel Chi<Her never said it or thought it -.r dreamed it but the article wii.j o wu.elv c >pied ihat it finally r> nchrd the eye of the man who redly ni<i captu p e General Dow and in a natural spirit of resent ment he has caused to bo printed k warm repudiation of all that Col. Candler did not say in the interview attributed to him. Tin- acknowledged captor of the great warrior from Maine is Dr. .John C. MacKowen, one of the bravest men who ever went to the war from Louisiana, and who now resides on his big plan, tation in peace and plenty at Jackson, in East Feliciana par ish. that state. He was at one time captain of the famous Mac- Kowen’s Scouts, and later be came liuetenant colonel of Pow ers's regiment, in the confeder ate cavalry, lu the quiet of h s home circle lie found in his newspaper, the other day, the falsehood above referred to, and he wrote a prompt and emphatic denial, sent it to The New Or leans Times Democrat, and had rjy A t ■ ■■< a • / AM i//*|\\ I which capli- ! ( J ' I / vat e s the '--T /-VV T - / \ strongest tia- A L « tures. 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In de scribing iho capture of General Dow he says: “When the signs of war were unmistakable my father and fam ily returned to his p'antation in Feliciana parish from Paris,F a c where no had deen living tor some years and bre light with him a valuable I-ible set vice of silver and some of those costly ornaments which travelers pick up abroad. In addition to these hig plantation stores w ire tilled with valuable goods which any enterprising gen eral like Dow backed up by a large arinv could easily pack up and *-end north I knew that the fall of Port Hudson was only a que. - lion of time —that no confederate troops would remain in the Flor ida pansnes to protect them that Dow won d soon have an oppo’tu nity to exercise unlimited power .■ver the poperty liberty and lives of east Louisianians and that my father won d be his first victim . “Now, my father was a chol eric Presbyteri in elder, from County Tyrone, in Ireland with very fixed notions about his rights to his possessions, and if Dow tried to interfere with those rights he would certainly get collared and cowhided, even though he brought with him a division of troops, and it was equally certain that Dow would have my father shot on the spot; his town and country residences and stores would be burned to the ground after they had been sacked, and to prevent all these disasters lilial piety demanded that Dow and all his philan thropic tendencies should be re moved from the Felicianas and be locked up m some safe place. “I can remember how my heart beat v. ith pleasure at the notion of indulging in the school boy lark of pulling the coininan dei-in-chief of an army of some 30,000 troops out of his head quarters and galloping him into the confederate lines, for at one time I passed within a mile of Banks’s headquarters, and I was >orely tempted to bag the bigger game, but with a feeling of re gret that my father was so head strong and peppery in spite of his being an elder and the best of men, and that Dow would steal every thing but a red hot stove in spile of the immense amount of professional philan anthropy permeating his heart and brain. ROME GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1898. | “I gave up Banks and pushed on two miles farther into the fed eral lines to hag Dow. It was a sacrifice amply compensated when General Dick Taylor thanked me on he race track at the derby races in England for leaving Banks to han. General Taylor seemed very gratetul to Banks for the assiseance rendered at Mans fi Id and some other points by this federal commander, who sacrificed bis blue coats to cotton bales and gave Taylor every op portunity to defeat the federal army and drive it out of north Louisana. ‘YVhen I rode up to Dow’s headquarters the first thing was to capture the sentry pacing up and down with loaded gun before the Cage house. This was done without creating any a'arm. Then the sergeant and the rest of the guard were waked up one at a time and taken in charge Mv men found horses for them in Dow’s s'able, and they were al! excellent horses, stolen from the best studs in Louisianna, »ud es pecially Dow’s mount a B ick Hawk, I think, stolen from 1 un can F. Kenner. When I entered was not there. It was the brightest of inooi.d nights, and I took possession of his paper and magnificent pres entation sword without lighting a lamp. “I found out from an Irishman among the captured that Dow had ridden over to the house of Dr. B. B. Barnett, a half mile distant, and in plain view of the Cage house, where two federal colonels were under arrest for dissuading their men from re-enlisting, as their term of service was about to expire and Dow thought he could persuade these conels en coi.r.ge r< • ilistment: Tie c< tt >n fields near the the Cage house and toward the Barnett house were whith with the tents of fed eral soldiers, who we could hear as they sang and talked. “I waited an hour more or less it seemed a week—until the gen eral galloped up. A cocked navy six jammed into his abdomen after I had asked him if he was General Dow, surprised him and before he had recovered from his surprise he was disarmed his borse with him on it was led ar ound to the Cage house where my men and prisoner already mounted awaited us. “We started at a walk, which we kept upas long as we were in the lines, so as not to attract attention ; then once east of the Baton Rouge and B.<jou Saw road, we gave our horses their heads and a fifty mile gallop over roads running through per fumed woods with great masses of silver light dashed in and out of them by the full moon on the most delicious of balmy summer nights brought us to camp, near Centreville, Miss., the next morning Dow was sent under regular guard from camp to the Jackson and Great Northern railroad (now Illinois Central,) where he was consigned to the provost marshal, and continued his journey to Mobile. From Mobile he was sent to the Libby, where, after nine months, more or less he was exchanged for General Fitzhugh Lee, the pres ent consul general in Cuba.” The provost marshal to whom Colonel MacKowen says he de livered his distinguished prison-1 er at Jackson was Colonel Alien ATLANTA CHOSEN fts Heaiiqifarters For Gills Department OF the FEDERAL ARMY I Big Changes Made In Army Posts Yesterday. Washington, March I’2. —The secretary of ‘war issued an order creating a new military department with headquarters at Atlanta, this morning. General Alger came to that decision yesterday afternoon and before the information had been given out telegraphic instructions were sent to Brigadier General William M. c.rahtnj), commander of the department of Texas at San Antonio, to proceed at to Atlanta with two of bis rtaff officers, the others to remain to attend the detail of the removal of the troops. The same order which establish is t' e new department to be known as the department of the south abolishes the department of Texas, which has been inexistence many years. The removal of the headquarters from San Antonio is not without a heavy loss to the government on account of the fact that the head quarters buildings in San Antonio will have to be abandoned at least temporarily. There are no government build ings in Atlanta for the accommoda tion of the headquarters and for the present available buildings will have to be hired. The new departments wil’ con sist of the states of Georgia,South Carolina, Texas. Louisiana. Ala bama. Florida and Mississippi. THE ORDER MAKING CHANGES. That portion of the formal order issued by the war department covering the creation of this new department reads as follows : “A department is hereby estab lished to be known as the depart ment of the gu f. to consist of the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, with headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia. “The records of the department of the Missouri will be transferred to the department of the lakes and those of the department of Texas to the department of the gulf. “Major General John R. Brooke is assigned to the depart ment of the lakes, and Brigadier | General John 11. Brooke is assign ed to the department of the lakes and Brgadier General William M. vraham to the command of (he department of the gulf. “The officers of the several staff departments now on duty in the department of the Missouri and the department of Texas are as signed to like duties in the depart ment of the lakes and of the gulf respectively.” This is based on an entire rearrangement of the several de part iient. By this the department of the Missouri and the the de partment of the Texas are dore away with. The department of the east is curtailed by the loss of all of the states that go to make up this new department of the gu'f except Texas has been under the old arrangement a department in itself. It is now added to the other six which are taken from the department of the east to form the new department whose headquarters will be in Atlanta. SONS OF VETERANS Meet at Coilrt House and Or ganize Permanently. MUCH INTEREST SHOWN, To be Known as Floyd County Camp of S. of G. Vs. An enthusiastic and interest ing meeting of the Sons of Floyd County Confederate Veterans was held at the courthouse yes terday morning, with the tem porary officers presiding. The purpose of the meeting was to permanently organize a camp of Sons of Veterans in Floyd county, which was done most successfully. There was no Uck of enthusiasm and the charter members of the Floyd county camp will number at least two hundred, the majority of who were present. Temporary commandant Jno. C. I‘rintup, to whom most of the credit for the success of the organization goes, presided and received the reports of the dif ferent committees appointed at the last meeting. The committee appointed to enroll new members were very successful; their report showing that several hundred new names had been added to the member ship. The efficient work of the committee was highly compli mented. They were also in structed not to cease in their ef forts until every eligible young . man in this county had been enrolled as a member of the or ganization. The work of the coinmitte on constitution and by laws was unanimously adopted. By a unanimous vote the name of the organization was changed from Win. Gardner Gamp of Sons of Confederate Veterans, to the Floyd County Camp of the Sons of Confeder ate Veterans. The latter name was thought to be more appro priate, and when a name for the permanent organization had to be selected it was chosen and adopted. The meeting es the Sous of Veterans will be held on the fourth Saturday of every month at 11 o’clock, at the court house. On the fourth Saturday of this month a meeting will be held and special officers chosen for the ensuing year. All officers will be elected annually. This new organization will carry a large delegation to the rand reunion to be held in Atlanta next July. Active prep arations for this will begfn im mediately. The department of the Missouri loses some of its western posts | which go to the department of' the Platte, and the states about the great lakes are formed into a department with headquarters at Chicago. Hjw commanders are located. This leaves the departments of the army: Department of the! East with headquarters at Gov ernor’s island, New' York. Department ot the Lakes with headqarters at Chicago. Department of Dakota, with headquarters at St. Paul. Department of the Colorado, with headquarters at Denver. Department of the Platte, with headquarters at Omaha. Department of California with I beadquarters at San Franc sco. | Department of the Columbia, j with headqarters at Vancouver barracks. Department of Guff, with head quarters at Atlanta. These orde’S have been tele graphed to ail post and headquar ters affected. 10 CENTS A WEEP "NOTums." “We Do Not Care To Make Any Alliances.” ANSWER OF SENATORS “We Do Not Need Any Aid,” Said Senator Cullom. Washington, March 12. —Re ports of a possible alliance with England are received with no fa vor in congressional circles. “Such an alliance,” said Sen ator Davis, “would he unwise, and a departure from the policy we have ebserved from the day of Washington.” “If we can help England,” Senator Chandler said, “in secur ing open ports in China without, gettii g into a quarrel with our traditional friends, Franco and Russia, we might do so. In trou ble with Spain we would not need her help.” Senator Lodge said: “We can not fight with her or for her hut there are many ways m which our moral support and influence could be exercised in an effective man ner. I doubt whether anything will ever come of the proposition. Senator Cullom: “While we would be glad if England gave us her sympathy, we do not need her aid.” INJUNCTION SUIT. x Gordon Lee Files Bill Against H F- Stone of New Jersey. Gordon Lee, through hfs at torneys, Glenn & Roundtree, to day filed a bill in the United States court against Henry Fred erick Stone, of New Jersey, to enjoin an ejectment suit which was instituted in December. The original suit was for the purpose of ejecting Lee from 1,000 acres of land in Dade and Walker counties, of which it was alleged he was wrongfully in possession. I nder an order of Judge New man the ejectment proceedings have been held up pending the hearing, which is set for March 26.—Atlanta Journal. OIVK KIVJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Howels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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