trials and tribulatioils in Dirttown out of our way just to forage on Valley, Chattooga County, about Wesley Shropshire's farm" fifteen miles from Rome : In the meantime, my father remain- ed in his room listening to the con- The first real sorrow that came to versation. His life had been threat- rile during the Civil War was when ened often, and for this reason we my only brother was brought back never allowed him to appear at the home in his coffin from Cumberland front door until some of the family Gap, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1862. It had never had first reconnoitered. I said to the occurred to me that his home-coming captain, "Step out into the moonlight would be so sad, that with my dear and let me see your uniform." He old father, whose life was bound up jumped lightly over the bannisters in his promising son, and whose heart and jocularly remarked, "Are you sat- never recovered from this stroke, and isfied?" I made him promise on his with the broken-hearted young widow honor as a soldier and a gentleman and the five little children, I would that my father should suffer no vio- stand beside the form of a strong lence from him or his men. He sol- voung soldier, cut down in the hey- emnly gave his word, and I then di- hay of his youth. rected him to a window in my father's Nearer and darker grew the war room. He and father had quite a cloud in 1863. Marching and coun- chat; he gave father several Confed- ter-marching was the order of the day. erate newspapers and father presented Wheeler's and Forrest's cavalries him with a number of Northern pa- dashed in and out of our quiet little pers that a neighbor had secured in Dirttown Valley. Thousands of cav- Chattanooga. Father then directed alry camped on my father's extensive Capt. Harvey where he could find corn plantation; the commanding officers and fodder for his horses. quartered in our home, and often sat Capt. Harvey and his command re- at our table. mained in our neighborhood six weeks In the latter part of the summer of or more, raiding the railroads up about 1863 nearly every family of promi- Ringgold and Dalton, and capturing nence in our neighborhood refugeed. On many Federal prisoners, many of Sept. 20 and 21, 1863, the thunders whom conld not spealc a word of Eng- of artillery from Chickamauga battle- field startled us, and from then until the capture of Kennesaw mountain the roar of cannon reverberated over this section of Georgia day and night. Then came the lull before the storm. For six long weeks everybody in our neighborhood kept close at home; not a human outside our own family did I see, save my step-brother-in-law as he passed twice a day going to and from his mill. One bright moonlight night I was awakened by a low, rumbling sound; the sound came nearer and nearer until I recognized the hoof beats of cavalry. In a short time the noise increased and I heard the command, "Halt !" given. Instantly the quiet became intense. I raised up in bed and peered through my window. The whole front grove seemed full of mounted soldiers, whether friend or foe I could not tell. In a few moments a trim, soldierly fellow. rapped loudly on the front door. I threw up a win- dow and asked, "Who knocks?" He replied, "I am Capt. Harvey, of Mis- sissippi, and I have been ordered by Gen. Johnston to his rear to tear up the railroad between Chattanooga and REV. G. A. NUNNALLY. Baptist minister Kingston. I a'm here in command of who once ran for Governor of Georgla on 100 men. We have ridden 100 miles a liquor prohibition platform. lish intelligibly-these were foreig - hands on my father, swearing he ers imported by wealthy Northerners should be hung unless he gave them as substitutes in the Federal army. money, either gold or silver. A rope The prisoners were taken to Cedar was thrown over his head, and with Bluff, Ala., and as a member of Capt. an oath one of them started to drag Harvey's command told me, "were lost him off to a limb. I threw up my in the Coosa river." hands and begged for my father's life I can say that Capt. Harvey was a with all the fervor of a pent-up soul, gentleman, and we suffered no violence assuring them he had no specie. The from him or his command. He was ring-leader looked me steadily in the very fond of music and liked to playn face and said, "I believe you are tell- whist, and was a frequent guest in ing the truth." I answered, "On my our house. Thus he whiled away his honor as a lady, as sure as there is a time with my step-sister and myself. God, I am!" The rope was removed Once when I sang "The Officer's Fu- from my father's neck, the leader re- neral," he leaned his head on the table marking, "Old man, you owe your life and sobbed aloud. He begged me to to your daughter; but for her we overlook his apparent weakness, for would have hung you as high as Ha- .he had a wife and a little boy in Mis- maan." sissippi, and the chances were he On Oct. 10 and 12 Hood's weary would never see them again. horde appeared and passed in hot re- On Sept. 15, 1864, we met a different treat. It was ragged, worn, foot-sore band of men. These were the "Inde- and dejected in spirit. Yet they plod- pendent Scouts." Yes, write the name ded on their weary march, some bare- in blood, drape it wit% the pall of foot, others with raw-hide tied over death, trace it with fire, and then you their bleeding feet. "Lost Cause" was cannot conceive the full meaning of stamped on every face. I knew then the term. A horde of these marauders the Confederacy was doomed. made their ,camp in our neighborhood, On Oat. 14 and 15 the center of committing the most outrageous atroci- Sherman's army passed, following ties on old and feeble men. A gang Hood. I think this part was com- of perhaps a dozen came to our home, manded by Gens. Slocum and Frank and took everything they could carry Blair. What the "Scouts" left was away. Before leaving they laid violent appropriated by the Federals. Again our home was pillaged from founda- tion to attic. Large army wagons were loaded to the brim with corn, fodder and wheat; cows and hogs were driven off or shot, smoke houses strip- ped, pantries cleaned of every mova- ble article, and such as could not be carried off was broken or damaged. The negroes huddled together in their houses, like sheep among wolves, scared out of their wits and fright- ened almost white. Father and several neighbors had left a few days before for Blue Moun- tain, Ala., to procure salt, all of .this commodity having been exhausted some time before from the smoke houses. My step-mother, a woman of unusual courage, was so prostrated with fear that she took to her bed. Thus I again had to run the household. Capt. Hall, of Kentucky, kept guard over us for four hours, and after he left we were at the mercy of "wagon dogs." Three of these prowlers shut my step-sister, Em White, and myself in a room, swearing they would search us. Em collapsed in a large rocking chair. One of the marauders stood with his back to tjte door, while another ransacked bureau drawers, wardrobes, turned up the mattress, etc. I engaged the third in conversa- the carcasses left by the Yankees and tion, holding in my Rand a heavy dragged in by the negroes. The new wrought iron poker, with which I oc- corn left was sufficiently soft to be casionally poked the fire, but really grated on graters constructed from kept in readiness to give the fellow mutilated tinware." a whack if he dared lay hands on me. Oh, those were strenuous, perilous That "dog" never made a movement times. I will say in justice to our to touch me, although he said he had faithful slaves that only four left us; "stripped mlany as damned good- they stood by us nobly until my father looking women as I was and searched came in from Rome and announced them." One jerked Em from the that Lee had surrendered. My fakher rocker and pretended that he would called them all up and told them they strip her. I begged for her and he were all free.** He employed some; let her go. They left very much dis- others "spread wing." None went appointed that they found little of away empty-handed. Father helped value. them to the extent of his ability. Hoop skirts were in vogue then, and When Gen. Lee furled the Stars and so were full skirts. I had several Bars, sheathed his sword and shook thousand dollars in Confederate money hands with Gen. Grant, I did the same in a bustle around my waist, and my and on that day I buried every feeling small amount of jewelry and a few of animosity, never to resurrect the keepsakes in huge pockets under my dead past. With thousands of other hoops. Em had her jewelry and sil- Southern women I had my baptism of ver forks and spoons in pockets under fire and blood that tears cannot efface. her hoop. Standing on this mountain-top of After the Federals had passed, des- three-score and eleven years (she is olation was writ throughout the val- now well around SO), and looking back ley. For three weeks a hundred in through the vista of time, I see how our family (including slaves) literally lived from hand to mouth. We picked lovingly my Heavenly Father led me up scraps of potatoes left in the fields, "Sometimes through scenes of deepest small scattered turnips and meat from -- gloom, *Judge John W. Maddox declared in a speech Sometimes through bowers of Eden early in 1921 at the City Auditorium that all bloom." the Yankees left in Chattooga County was a broken-down steer that was not fit to be eaten by man or beast. I exclaim with the Psalmist, "Bless **Mr. Lincoln's proclamation was issued in the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not 1863, but news of it evidently hadn't reached Georgia. all His benefits." PRESENT-DAY ROMANS IN STRIKING ATTITUDES 1-Rev. J. E. Sammons. 2-E. E. Lindsey. &Rev. H. F. Saumenig. rw. C. Rash. 5--Rev. E. F. Dempsey. 6F. W. Copeland. 7 (Top)-Judge Moses Wright, addressing Easter crowd, Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Sunday, March 26, 1921. 6-B. F. Quigg. +Mrs. Ben& B. Troutman. 10-Wm. A. Patton. 11-Mrs. Robt. Battey at 90. 12-Young folk in Washington's Birthday fete. 13--Virgil A. Stewart. lrl--Miss Lilly Mitchell. ISMiss Martha Berry. lGE. P. Treadaway. 17-Miss Marion Moultrie. 18-Burnett Norton. 1GMiss Helen Knox Sph. CHAPTER VIII. Depredations of the Independent Scouts

ARIOUS roving bands, or- general rule, however, they were ganized for good purposes content to prey upon the defense- and bad, added substantial- less. ly to the misery which hov- In the "up counties" near the ered like a spectre over the people Tennessee line, perhaps the best- at the close of the Civil War. Pri- known gang was Gatewood's marily, these bands separated Scouts, organized and led by John themselves from the main body of Gatewood, of Tennessee, assisted the Confederate forces in order to by his brother, Henry Gatewood, impede the progress of the Union ~vhokept the books dnd accounts troops (or they were cut off), ancl of the company. John Gatewood to this extent their existence was was an illiterate mountaineer justified. Parts of the forces of whose red hair fell in long fronds Gen. Johnston and Gen. Hood had down his back, like Daniel Boone been forced steadily back into and David Crockett ; and when he Georgia by the driving power of wished to escape detection in a Sherman's army, and they never daring dash, he would cram his rejoined their regular commands, locks into the crown of his soft but carried on a bushwhacking feIt hat. He was a man of won- campaign from the hills. As long derful physique, tall and angular, as opposition to the invaders re- with the fire of Vulcan in his eye; mained their object, they acqt~itted and it used to be said that while themselves with bravery and galloping on his horse he could credit, but once the Union army shoot a partridge off a rail fence had passed, certain of these bands with his pistol in either hand. His fell hehin(l and plundered the coun- reason for taking the saddle inde- tryside; they stole, destroyed and pendently against the Union men murdered, antl for a time the peo- was that they had killed his old ple were completely at their mer- father in Tennessee, and he was cy. pledged to vengeance. After the These organizations were usu- Federals had left, however, his men ally nlatle up of I~orsemen,30 to terrorized the country from 50 in number. Excellent riders Gaylesville, Ala., as far northeast they were, and well heeled. They as LaFayette, Walker Co., Ga., and had a rather definite range, but touching Alpine, Summerville antl no particular headquarters. W11en Trion, Chattooga Couilty, be- the men l~ecame hungry, they t~veen. It was undoubtedly Gate- ~voulds~voop down upon a plan- ~vood's Scouts ~vho visited the tation or small house and take Wesley Shropshire plantation in ~srhatthey could find ; they were Dirttown Valley, Chattooga Coun- always looking for saddles and ty, Sept. 15, 1861; but so far as is riding l~ootsas well as money ancl known they pair1 only one visit to food. Sometimes they paid for itome. things appropriated, but this was John Gate~voodhad an India11 not often. 1~110looked after his horse. One Now and then the scout organi- ;lay he sent the Indian to a grist zations clashed with each 0th-:r illill near Trion, to have some corn to determine which crowd should ground intD meal. A l>and of subsist on a certain section. As a scouts favorable to the Union, let1 Iry John Long, killed this Indian Burns, of Rome, state comptroller by way of defying Gatewood. The general in 1869, who also went to challenge was accepted, and a Texas, once ran across Gatewood pitched battle ~vasfought near after the war, and found him en- the spot at night. Later Long gaged in peaceful pursuits. was convicted of killing Blev. Tay- Gatewood's Scouts participated lor in Alabama near Frix's Mill, in one of the most spectacular McLemore's Cove, Chattooga Co., events of the war at Chattanooga, and died in an Alabama peniten- probably early in 1864. They rode tiary camp near Wetumpka while boldly into the Northern army serving a life sentence. camp at night (this tiine with no Gatewood is said to have killed less than 100 men) and stampeded Green Cordle, another independent and drove away 2,000 cattle and scout leader and a man of some horses which they took to Gayles- years, in Walker County, after ville and sold or turned over to the running him out of a house where Confederate army. he was enjoying a meal. It was The scout band best ktlown to Gatewood's policy tu exterminate Rome was that of Capt. Jack Col- the other leaders and bands wher- quitt, a member of a Texas regi- ever he could, but in several in- ment who remained behind in stances he found strong opposi- 1864 and married a daughter of tion. His gang gradually broke up Jerry Isbell, of Polk County, near and he left Gaylesville on horse- Etna and Prior's Station. Its clash back, riding over Lookout Moun- with the Prior boys and its daring tain to Texas, where he established incursion into Rome in November, himself on a ranch. Maj. John 'I?. 1864, will long be remembered by the older Romans. Reference has already been made to the gang's murder of Nicholas J. Omberg and its' hanging of Judge L. D. Bur- well and Wm. Quinn to make them give up their money and valua- bles; also of its robbery of Mrs. Jno. H. Lumpkin and J. J. Cohen. Judge Burwell mas keeping a quantity of gold (said to have been at least $1,800) for a Jewish mer- chant named Wise, of the firm of Magnus & Wise. He was afflicted with some physical deformity that caused him to bend far forward when he walked, and the scouts told him if he didn't give up the gold they would "straighten him out." He didn't surrender it until the noose began to cut into his neck. They said "We've got Wise's gold; now tell us where yours is, or we'll hang you up again." As it happened, Judge Burwell had entrusted $500 in gold WM. SMITH, one of the four founders of to Mrs. Robt. Battey, who had put Rome, who contributed much' to the young city's growth and progress. it in her stockings. When the scouts came to her house the same night, der, and the two pumped bullets they stole a lot of small things, into his chest until there were but did not get the money. They eight. John explained as follows also intended to hang up James to a friend and hunting companion Noble, Sr., on Howard Street, but some time later: were scared off by the determined "I was so close when I fired my attitude of his daughters. first shot that I saw smoke come There appear to be two versions out of his mouth." as to what brought the Priors into The men in the store removed a conflict with Colquitt's Scouts, ham and box of baking powder with such disastrous results to the and stretched Capt. Jack Colquitt latter. One says that Capt. Jack out on the counter. He wore a Colquitt was killed by the Priors red-spotted calico shirt; the white in the presence of Hayden Prior, spots were now dyed deep in the the father, near Prior's Station, red of his own blood. because he had driven off some of The Prior boys went quietly off the cattle of the family when he and were not arrested, nor did they stocked the farm of his father-in- ever answer in court for taking law, Jerry Isbell. The other, more seven scout scalps. They had generally accepted, is that Col- sworn to exterminate the Colquitt quitt's men first killed Hayden wang as a service to the commu- Prior, better known as "Hayd" ri1ty.z'. Prior, and the sons then took up John Prior was a man of iron the feud and accounted for seven will and nerves in a knotty bundle. of the scouts, including their He had little heady, black eyes leader. At any rate, Ilayden that danced as he talked, and he was shot off his mule between Cave Spring and Prior's Station, and fell face forward into a branch where the animal was drinking. A brother of Capt. Jack Colquitt is supposed to have been in this am- bushing party, as well as the cap- tain himself. Capt. Colquitt was found one day in 1864 in Cedartown by the hrothers, John T. and James M. Prior. He was in a grocery store, and pretty well loaded with mean liquor as well as his brace of pis- tols. The hrothers took him by surprise and got his pistols anray l.)y covering him with their own. It was apparently their intenti011 to put him under arrest and get him a trial, but he showed fight. "Gimme a chance with my gun and I'll clean all of yer up, one at a time!" he roared, at the same instant drawing a long Eowie knife out of his right boot. Quick as lightning Jim Prior JoS. L. BASS, merchant and promoter, who was head of the old dummy line at Rome shot Colquitt Over John's slloul- and a constructive fo-ce in many ways. wasn't afraid of the devil. He was young captive said : loyal to his friends and an impla- "I believe you missed him." cable foe to his enemies. Men who "We'll see," responded the hunted with him said he was the marksman; "if I missed him, I'll deadest shot for miles around; he turn you loose !" could lay his double-barreled shot- gun on the ground, flush a covey The poor devil was dying in the bushes ; his horse kept going. Sev, of partridges, pick up his gun and kill two every time. Jim was of tral buckshot had entered the more even temper, regular build, man's back, and several the base of but he also took no foolishness the saddle. It is supposed, but not from any man, and he contributed definitely known, that the fellow his part toward a genuine pair in taken captive met a violent end. those stormy days. The next victim was a farmer of the neighborhood. John Prior The brothers quit the corn and walked up to this man's house and cotton fields and hunted scouts. A asked his wife where he was. The man named Tracy and several oth- woman replied that he was plow- er friends joined them at various ing in the bottom. John went times. Tracy later went to Texas down there and told the farmer to to live. The Priors came upon Col- unhitch his horse and send him in cluitt's Scouts in camp near Ball a canter to the house; to say his Play and Turkeytown, Etowah prayers if he wanted to, because County, Ala., on the Coosa River; he was going to be killed. The man gave them a surprise at night and begged for his life; he was re- put them to flight. The scouts minded that old man Prior was scattered and the Priors found shown no mercy. A shot in the two of them eating at a breast finished him. house by the road. John The hunter next heard that one killed one as he hopped off the of the marked men was living in near end of the porch and the other the West, maybe Arkansas, maybe as he left the far end. On their Texas. He went to the man's persons were found a number of residence and executed his design. $20 gold pieces (Wise's money cap- After living a while out there, tured in November, 1864, at Prior returned to Prior's Station, Rome) ; when things had quieted and later removed to the territory down John Prior sent one of these of Washington, on the Pacific coins to New York and had a cav- coast, where he died. Jim died alry battle engraved on the oh- at his Prior Station home. verse side, and wore the trinket A farmer named Ritchie, killed as a watch charm. on the Carlier Springs road about Near Cave Spring the Priors five miles east of Rome, was came upon two scouts riding along charged up to Colquitt's Scouts. the road. Surrender was de- Isom Blevins, a young Texan, was manded. One young fellow held killed at night by a Rome crowd up his hands and came in. The at Flat Rock, where the Southern ether wheeled about, dug his spurs crosses the N., C. & St. L. (or into the flanks of his horse and Rome) Railroad. His boots and sped away like a flash. John was spurs were removed and his body carrying the shotgun his father was thrown some 50 feet off the had used so long. As the fugitive bluff into the Etowah River. Sev- turned a sharp curve in the road, eral days days later the body was he cracked down. It was impos- found lodged against a willow sible to tell the result, and the snag at the foot of Myrtle Hill cemetery, and was buried on the tion to fight; but the result is not river bank. A scout, sometimes known. known as "The Lone Soldier," was The Ku Klux was also active ~vaylaid and killed on the Ala- soon after this period, especially bama Road between Coosa and around Coosa, so the anxiety of Beech Creek, and lies buried on the civilian population, who were the Rogers place, near the road, bent on making crops and a liv- ing, can well be imagined. One about five miles west of Rome. The 11ight the Ku Klux called on Prof. grave is surmounted by a head- Peter M. Sheibley, a Northerner stone, and residents of the neigh- by birth and a non-combatant in borhood have kept it green for 57 the war. When Mr. Sheibley years, and have maintained around opened his front door, a wooden it a neat picket fence. coffin fell into his arms. In these fierce depredations The political views of Judge ~ao. Romans were reminded of the IV. H. Underwood caused the Ku lawlessness of the Indian days; KIux to play a gruesome joke on and as if to answer their prayers, this sparkling humorist. A young a local scout organization was fellow well disguised by a turned- formed by "Little Zach" Har- up coat collar and a turned-down grove. Many people thought "Lit- hat walked up to Judge Under- tle Zach's" crowd would prove to wood after dark and offered him be as bad as the rest, but Horry a cordial greeting. The extended Wimpee and others testify that it hand was left with him, and it was was organized for protective pur- made of wood! poses, and did much to drive the Such incidents added a piquant camp - followers and deserters touch to the lives of Romans, away. It was reported that "Little wrung the hearts bf many, and Zach" attracted the attention of brought a strong .desire for peace, John Gatewood, and that Gatewood :i helpful understanding and a con- brushed by Rome with an invita- structive program. WHEN MAN TAKES HIS PADDLE IN HAND. Batteau and canoe trips on the rivers of Rome afford endless pleasure. Dr. Hugh I. Bat- tey of Atlanta, native son of Rome, here forgets incisions and bandages. His '*voyage" was taken in October, 1920, from. Carter's Quarters, Murray County, down to "Head of Coosa," 105 miles. and was made leisurely in three nights and two days. He brought a string of pearls for the Home-coming queen, Miss Penelope Stiles. Anecdotes and Reminiscences

ROSS-RIDGE FACTIONS FIGHT. get extracted by the wearer from a -The following item from the Georgia gold mine in Hall. With the button Constitutionalist (Augusta) of Friday, as a clue, the local authorities and Aug. 21, 1835, will give an idea of the friends of the deceased went to work. feeling between the factions repre- The police in Indian Territory arrest- sented by Ross and Ridge: ed two Indians wearing bottons similar More Indians Mztrdered.-The Cass- to the one found on the sleeve. Bar- ville Pioneer of the 7th ,inst. says: ney Swimmer and Terrapin were brought back to Rome, were given a "We have just learned of another fair trial at the old court house, found murder having been committed in this guilty of murder and sentenced by country on the 3d of August, inst. The Judge Owen H. Kenan, of Newnan, to names of the Indians killed were Mur- die by hanging. This was the first phy and Duck. It occurred, we un- capital punishment meted out to In- derstand, at an Indian dance on the dians in Floyd County, and it was a Oostanaula river, where a considerable coincidence that a cousin of the mur- number of the town or clan had col- dered man, Wm. Smith, who was, serv- lected to enjoy the customary pastime. ing temporarily as sheriff, should "Sometime within the night the In- have met the duty of sending them to dians murdered were seen standing their happy hunting grounds. The conversing in apparent friendship. A hanging took place at a tree at Broad few minutes later Murphy exclaimed Street and Ninth Avenue, and was wit- that he was stabbed, and expired im- nessed by practically everybody in the mediately. town, and by hundreds from the coun- "Duck was heard to say at the time ty. Several hours before the Indians were due to have been hung they re- that there was but one other Ridge quested permission to take a last swim man on the ground, and that he would where the Etowah and the Oostanaula inherit the same fate if he did not join. This was the place they had often leave the place instantly. swum as boys. Judge Kenan granted "Duck was found dead on the en- the request, and a strong guard watch- suing morning, murdered, it is be- ed them from the various banks. They lieved, by the friends of Murphy. thanked the court and the officers for Neither man, it is thought, was drunk. the privilege, and went to their death "Is it not manifest from the many with the courage of Stoics. It was outrages of the kind that it is the set- said that Terrapin was full of whis- tled determination of Ross' myrmidons key during his trial and up to the time to silence opposition by the knife of the of his execution.:'; assassin, and unless they are kept in awe by the Guard will go far to ex- ecute their hellish purpose?" A LETTER FULL OF NEWS.- $ :r * The following letter from Geo. M. Lavender, trading post man at Major In 1835 (or 1837) an atrocity that Ridge's up the Oostanaula, gives a was typical of the others committed in picture of pioneer life around Rome: the section occurred in Floyd County near the Polk line. The body of Eze- +'$Major Ridge's Ferry, May 3, 1836. kiel Blatchford (or Braselton), a land Mr. John Ridge: trader from Hall County, was discov- Dear Sir: I have received 6ut one ered in a lime sink; he had been mur- letter from you since your departure, dered, it was believed. A single gold and that was received some time since button was found on one of his coat and should have written you, but ex- sleeves, and it was of odd design, prob- pected, for some weeks back, that you -ably having been worked out of a nug- were on your way home. I have con- *Authority : Hilliard Horry Wimpee. Virgil cluded from the last letters received A. Stewart stated that the name of the In- from you that you remain at Wash- dians' victim was White. Mrs. Robt. Battey stated his name was Braselton. The name Eze- ington some time yet. kiel Buffington appears on the real estate rec- ords of that period at the courthouse. The name I have but little news of ,impor- Blatchford was taken from an account in 1889 tance to communicate to you. Mrs. by Belle K. Abbott, written for The Atlanta Eetsy Waitie, consort of Stand Constitution. **At Rome ; Cherokee Indians. Congressional Waitie, Esq., died four or five days Documents (1835-6), Doe. 120, p. 593. since from the delivery of a child, which also died, it is said. She had Please give my respects to the Ma- medical aid, but died under great af- jor and all your delegation. flictions.* Respectfully, your obedient servant, One of the emigrants, named Seek- GEO. M. LAVENDER. atowwa,"" of Hightown, was shot two or there weeks ago by a white man (Note: Referred to the Indian Of- at a little whiskey shop, one mile from fice by Major Ridge.) Artsellers or Dun Steers,"" said to * :k :!: be an accident; he is, however, dead CAVE SPRING INDIANS.-NOW and no more. and then a roving band of Creek In- Your family are all well and every:' dians would descend upon the newly- thing about your crop appears to be created Floyd County to fight or treat going on finely. Major Ridge's fam- with their ancient foes, the Cherokees. ily are all well, and your mother is It was probably in 1832 that a group going on in her usual and fine way of them pitched camp close to the white in making a crop, though frequently settlement at Cave Spring, prepared a little unwell, but no ways danger- to go into a pow-wow the next day ous. No person, except a Mr. Cox, with their more intelligent neighbors, has taken any of the cleared land; he whose camp was situated not a great has taken one-half of the long field hark away. on the west side of the river.**** Among the oltl settlers living at She has lost none on the side we live. Cave Spring then was William Smith, Our season for planting has been who removed to Rome two years later. very bad, owing to so much rain; but Mr. Smith was away from home when all appears to be getting on very well the Creeks appeared, and his wife was except the poor Cherokees, of which badly frightened. The visitors look- there is not a few who have been dis- ed so dark and villainous, and they possessed of their fields and dwellings, crept about like snakes. When night and turned out to seek refuge in Ala- came, Mrs. Smith gathered her baby bama and Tennessee, without any kind Martha (Mrs. Robt. Battey) in her of support, moneyless and nothing to arms, and taking a negro nurse, stole buy provisions. I know of a number out of the house into the underbrush, of families destitute of provision, or where, wrapped in shawls and an In- money to buy it, and wandering and dian blanket, they spent the night. eating from them that has a little sub- Mrs. Smith had feared the Creeks sistence, and many of- whom are emi- might break into her house during the grants. The circumstance calls aloud night; they could be seen moving on the authorities of Government for stealthily and keeping a close watch, relief of these people. It seems im- but they attempted no outrage. possible for them to last through- the Included in the Cherokees at Cave season. Corn is scarce and worth $1 Spring was a young fellow called Lit- per bushel by the quantity, cash ; flour tle Meat. He was in the habit of could now be had, and bacon at toler- scaring wee Martha Smith now and able moderate prices. You can scarce then by appearing suddenly and grunt- have any idea of the suffering your ing "Ugh!" and at the same time lift- Cherokee friends are now encounter- ing her up into his swarthy arms. He ing. Every week we have lots of men was a playful rascal and never meant hunting stolen property, and smoke any harm, but he nearly scared the lit- houses robbed of bacon, and every kind tle girl out of her wits many times. of stealing going on. They called him Little Meat because he killed so many small birds and Your' friend Knitts, of Donehutta, roasted them on a spit. received 120 lashes a few days ago, supposed to be concerned in robbing The country was wild, sparsely set- a smoke house; but I think he will tled, full of bad Indians and adventur- be proved innocent. ous- whites, a few soldiers at isolated *Should be Watie. I see my Cherokee friends, emi- **Sukatowie's enrollment number was 633. grants, within this vicinity every week, He was of the Chickamaugee district and voted inquiring what is doing at Washing- with Ross at the Rome council. *"Probably intended for Dirtseller's, Chat- ton, and trying to find out what will tooga County. A map dated 1810, in the ar- be done as regards their perilous sit- negle Library at Atlanta, places Hightown uation. between the rivers where Rome now is. "Hig?; tower" is probably a variation of "Hightown. Many families in our neighborhood and may have referred to an Indian signal station on the present Tower Hill. would be glad to emigrate if the Gov- ****Now part of the bottom land on the ernment would enable them to do so. Linton A. Dean farm.

c posts, and here and there a rough In- I have no idea that I can get away dian trail that sufficed for a road. before Congress adjourns & there is As settlers came in they were chosen no time set yet for the adjournment by mutual consent for certain duties. of Congress, though I will let you know William Smith was usually in "saddle before I leave when I will be at your and boots," prospecting a mine down house. I wrote a few lines to Major the Coosa, trading in land up the Richardson a few days ago requesting Oostanaula, attending court at Living- him to save me some peech seed from ston, hence acted as "sheriff" before illy old orchard (those large white the county machinery had been set up peeches). I have no news but what (and perhaps afterward). On one oc- you see in the papfrs. Mr. Clay has casion an Indian charged with a se- got back this morning. He has been rious offense was caught and brought absent ever since his Compromise bill to Cave Spring behind Mr. Smith with was defeated. The Senate has passed hands tied. They rode a horse. There all the measures that he had in his was no secure place to keep the In- Compromise bill separately with very dian, so Mr. Smith lashed him with slight alterations. Give my respects rope to a bed-post at the foot of the to your family and accept for your- bed, after which Mr. and Mrs. Smith self my best wishes for your health retired, and Mr. Smith slept soundly. and prosperity. Once several years later at the Your friend and obt. svt., Forks Ferry, Rome, a sullen Indian "DAVID VANN." provoked the wrath of Mr. Smith, who (In haste.) knocked the man unconscious with a * :k d heavy stick. The condition of the In- dian for a time was serious, and Mr. Under date of July 28, 1850, Chief Smith, following the advice of friends Vann wrote Mr. Smith from Washing- that he should be careful of violence, ton and stated that he was having went for a week to live with Philip W. some trouble getting his patent to 40 Hemphill at the place now known as acres of land containing the silver DeSoto Park. Most of the Indians were mine, and adding: his friends, however, and they sent "I presume the water is now low him word that no harm would come enough to examine the ford of the tu him. David Vann, the sub-chief, was the most powerful member of his tribe around Cave Spring, and Vann's Val- ley was named after him. On July 28, 1850, he was living temporarily at the Lake House, Cave Spring. He was very well educated and wrote a pleasing hand with occasional mis- spelt words, like most of the Indian leaders. He had two handsome, pleas- ant mannered sons called Cooey and Clem, who in 1851 were living in Crandsalem, Cherokee Nation, Arkan- sas, and about that time visited Dr. and Mrs. Robert Battey on Second Avenue on their way to a law school in Baltimore. Other sons were said to have been Augustus and Washing- ton. Under date of Aug. 27, 1850, Da- vid Vann wrote William Smith at Rome from Washington, D. C.: "Dear Sir: I wrote to you some time since informing you that I would be glad to hear from you respecting our silver mine in Alabama, but have not yet received anything from you. Will you be kind enough to write me a few lines and let me know how you are getting along? I have determined to go that way when I leave here for MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM, clever writer of home. I can not say when that will verse, in his regalia ais an officer of Cherokee be. It may be some time in October. Lodge 66 of Masons. creek. By looking in the ford you unionists to themseives, with Colquitt will find where old Campbell cut the and Towns to manage; they are dead hole in the rock and filled it up, and letters in Georgia; you can't get one just below the ford he said there was of them to talk about it. a deep hole, evidently dug out by "What is to hinder Clem from com- some person." ing? I think he would like to stay a Shortly after this the two, accom- year or two with us and read law panied by Col, Cunningham M. Pen- with Judge Wright or Judge Under- nington, of Rome, visited the mine on wood. Sand river, but failed to find anything "You have no idea how our town of special interest. has grown in the last three months. From Rome, Feb. 2, 1851, Mr. Smith They have built all around me clear wrote David Vann at Grandsalem, to the railroad and back to the bridge. Ark.: We have but a few lots left and I don't expect to keep them two weeks. "My apology for delaying to write It is a lively business at last, though you before this time is hardly suffi- it was a long time coming. My wife cient excuse. I have been run to death joins me ,in our love to your wife and of daylight and so tired of nights that children and says she remembers her I have put it off from time to time, kindness to her in bygone days. Ac- till I have got through with the bridge cept for yourself my best wishes. and have some leisure. "WM. SMITH." "After you left Gunter's Landing, *** I went up to where they were to run their horse race; there I found all DANCE AT CHIEFTAIN'S.-Mrs. parties concerned in that lot we want- Jno. S. Prather (Susan Verdery), of ed. I took Collins and fixed things Atlanta, who once lived at the old with him to bring about the trade with home of Major Ridge, contributes the D. A. Smith. He managed it as I di- following: rected it and I got the lot for $125 "It was evening and the night was cash. . . . Pennington is in high spirits, bright, with a galaxy of stars bending though he had very bad luck in the their pale beams through a wealth of matter. He took some eight or ten climbing roses, clinging woodbine and pounds of the best ore we could get white star jessamines. Candle light and took it to Washington, or I should sent a glimmer through the windows have said started with it at Wilming- to the front porch, and shadows from ton. He had his trunk stolen and lost the tall Colonial pillars fell across the his specimens and all his clothing and mossy lawn. A swish of satin could has never heard of them yet. He was be heard here and there and the gleam on other business at Washington and of white muslin and a more somber has just returned. We will consult contrast of black broadcloth and white as soon as this awful cold weather vests as the couples lined up for the breaks and make a thorough examina- dance. tion and write you immediately. There "A scraping of the preliminary is great excitement about it. I give chords and the popping of a fiddle them no satisfaction. I shall take a string made known that the plantation g.ood geologist with me, D. A. White, orchestra was nearly ready to begin of Savannah; he I have seen and he is its part of the performance. The two anxious to accompany us over there. black fiddlers were the property of I shall lie low; ,it must count. I am the owner of the mansion. in hopes you will be able to get the "Ah, there went the light footsteps old man Campbell to come out with in perfect unison with the music of you soon. Don't count the expenses if the cotillion! They danced for half you can prevail on him to come. It an hour. Occasionally a couple for- will do more good to have him here sook the crowd and repaired to the looking than anything. We must bare- veranda through the leafy screens of ly let the people know he is here. honeysuckle, there to exchange words "Well, I have no news to write you of understanding and to pluck a nose- more than you have seen by the pa- gay that carried its silent message pers. Georgia has killed the Disun- straight to the heart. ionist in the South. Our Convention "Milady sounded the gong; the danc- was composed of the best talent in ing ceased and supper was enjoyed in Georgia; there were but 18 Disunion- the dining room. What a supper! Of ists in the convention out of nearly quality and variety the choicest, and 300 members. They have broken up prepared after Aunt Lindy's favorite all old party lines and left the Dis- recipes. Then Augustus Nicholas Ver- dery, son of a French planter of the niuskets and accouterments were or- West Indies and master of the planta- dered and sent to Cherokee County, tion, struck a martial air on his fine in case of any hostile movements on violin. The couples formed again, and the part of the Indians. These prep- the son of the house, Thos. Jefferson arations on the part of Georgia, to- Verdery, and a fair young lady from gether with the appearance of the Charleston led the gay company out Tennessee troops under Brig. Gen. into the ball room again. The colored Jno. E. Wool, of the United States fiddlers played 'Oh Miss Nancy, Don't army, quieted the fears of the citi- You Cry! Your Sweetheart Will Come zens." to You Bime By!' The clipping referred to states that "A specialty was introduced by Mr. Capt. Mitchell was placed in charge Chas. De l'Aigle, of Augusta, whose of the expedition down the Coosa, hav- polkas and schottisches set the young ing heard that the Creeks were mov- feet patting and young hearts palpi- ing down toward the Cherokee country tating; and Tom Verdery and his lit- froin the head of Terrapin Creek, Ala., tle sister, Susan, danced steps that en- to- excite their tribal cousins in the joyed a wide vogue more than 50 years Valley of the Coosa. A scout, Fields, later. was sent out, and reported that the "At 11 the guests climbed into the Indians were concentrated and ready barge 'Mary Berrien' and were poled tc strike from the mountains at the down the Oostanaula to Rome-all head of Terrapin, which empties into save the guests of the house. A lone {;he Coosa just below Centre, Cherokee figure drew into the shadow of a giant County, Ala. Without waiting for re- sycamore as the merrymakers passed. inforcements, on scout duty or fur- It darted near the mansion, peered in lough, Capt. Mitchell left Rome with with a vengeful look and was swallow- 20 men mounted on horseback and ed in the gloom of the nearby forest. muleback, some with saddles, some 'Twas an Indian woman left behind with blankets and others riding bare- when her sister and brother redskins back. They galloped down the Ala- departed for the west, an inhabitant bama road through the Coosa Valley, of a cave in the hills who had stolen gaining recruits with squirrel guns as down into the lowlands to gaze on the they went. At dusk the command, now Cherokee retreat of the olden days 120 men, was within six miles of the with a prayer for the return of the Indian camp, and at sunrise the next tribe to its happy hunting grounds." morning they were on the spot, ready *** for an attack. In the meantime, the CREEK CHIEF IS CAPTURED.- good women of the neighborhood had White's Historical Collections of Geor- sent in breakfast rations for all of gia (p. 151) and an old Rome news. the troopers. The expectation was paper clipping furnish data for an in- that there would be a bloody fight. teresting story of the capture in 1835 These Coosa farmers and Georgia Vol- of old Fosach Fixico, the Creek Indian unteers were determined to strike a chief, by Georgia and Alabama troop- telling blow in defense of their wives ers, part of whom were recruited from and children, and this determination the Coosa Valley near Rome. Historian was not any less sharp from the fact White records: "Very soon after the of their crude arms and scanty equip- ratification of the New Echota treaty, ment. an apprehension was entertained by About 200 warriors, practically many citizens in Georgia that the naked and well daubed with paint, party who had opposed the :treaty swarmed from their wigwams like would become hostile, and petitions bees, until a side of Craig's Moun- for arms, troops and ammunition were tain was well dotted with them. As presented to the Executive, and grant- the Georgia troops were about to close ed. Orders were issued to Brig. Gen. in, a clatter of hoofs was heard and James Hemphill to raise a battalion up dashed Capt. Arnold with a com- of militia and place them at Lesley's pany of 60 cavalry from Jacksonville, Ferry, on the Coosa River, for the pur- Ala. Capt. Mitchell cried out: "No pose not only of keeping the Chero- time for consultation; you fight to the kees in check, but also of preventing right and occupy the creek above the the Creeks from swarming into Geor- camp !" gia, which orders were executed, and Capt. Arnold's men sped to the point the battalion was organized under the indicated, while Capt. Mitchell's swept command of Gen. James Hemphill and to the left, crossed Terrapin Creek, Maj. Chas. H. Nelson. A part of the dismounted and deployed in skirmish Cherokees were disarmed, and 500 line and approached to within 40 yards of the camp. Orders were not to fire the Watters district of Floyd County until fired upon. Suddenly a long was named. strip of white canvas was hoisted on :k * * a pole as a flag of truce, and an in. RIDGE'S LUCKY SHOT.-The fol- terpreter was sent out to declare, "I lowing anecdote, summarized from the am directed by Chief Fosach Fixico to Cartersville Courant of Apr. 2, 1885, say that he is not hostile." (by Judge Jno. W. H. Underwood) The Indian was ordered to return will show how a red-man would now and direct that the chief appear in and then befriend a pale-face: person. Fosach quickly appeared, the "In old Pendleton District, South finest diked-out Indian ever seen be- Carolina, lived Col. James Blair, a fore or since; he wore a red and blue Revolutionary soldier, last commander turban, with crimson and white war of Oconee Station and one of the con- gown of velvet that extended to his stables of Col. Benj. Cleveland, a hero knees, and hung profusely with beads of the Revolution, colloquially known and tassels of all kinds; his face and as 'Old Roundabout.' For 20 years neck were ablaze with war paint. He Col. Blair had rounded up Tories and came forward with an elastic and thieves and had swung many a 'bad somewhat defiant step. As Capt. man' to the gate gallows in front of Mitchell met him a few paces in ad- Col. Cleveland's plantation home. vance of the line, he repeated through "On this occasion, Col. Blair was his interpreter: "I am not hostile!' following Wiley Hyde and Tom Phil- Capt. Mitchell asked him if he surrend- lips, half breed Indians who had stolen ered, to which he replied:. "I am not two fine horses from Benj. Mosely, hostile, but if you require it, I do." who lived near Oconee Station. He was equipped with a horse in leash as At this juncture Capt. Luckie dash- well as his saddle animal, and two ed up with a troop of farmers from large horse pistols. At Reece's Spring, near the mouth of Terrapin Creek, ar- a mile east of the home of Major riving on the west side. He and Capt. Ridge, the Cherokee chief, and two Arnold were consulted and the terms whoops and a holler from Ft. Jack- of capitulation agreed upon. Fosach son, Col. Blair came upon the Indians, was to deliver all his arms to Capt. drinking at the spring. They were Luckie, who was to march the In- also fairly full of fire-water, and as dians forth to Mardisville. whence they he approached (having tethered his were to proceed under additional guard horses nearby), they covered him with to Arkansas. Twenty-four hours was their rifles. given for the red-skins to gather up their ponies, women and children. Such "Col. Blair threw up his hands, but of the Coosa River Volunteers as wish- quickly said, 'Don't shoot! I am a ed to remain with Capt. Luckie could friend with some good whiskey! Don't do so, and the others were free to re- shoot a friend with some whiskey on turn to their homes. Five hundred his hip !' muskets and accouterments surrender- "The Indians relented and began to ed by the Indians were sent to Chero- question him in their maudlin way. kee County. He told them he wanted to join a crowd and go over into Vann's Valley Shortly afterward, three cavalary and steal some horses. The suspicions companies from Floyd and one from of Wiley Hyde were aroused, and he Cherokee were organized into a bat- said, 'Tom Phillips, you are a fool. talion at Rome and were put in camp He's from over the line, and he'll be at Lashley's Ferry, eighteen miles be- shooting us full of holes in a minute. low Rome, on the north side of the Let's kill him and throw him in the Coosa. These were under direction of river.' Gen. Hemphill and under direct charge of Maj, Nelson and Capt. Mitchell. "Hyde raised his gun, cocked it and The command was known as the High- was about to crack down on Col. land Battalion, and was sworn into Blair's chest when 'Bang!' came from the United States service by Capt. the nearby forest. Hyde fell face Paine, U. S. h., and served until after forward into the branch, and as he most of the Indians had been removed went down, Col. Blair seized his gun to the west. On the resignation of and covered Wiley Hyde, who threw Lieut. Carter, Joseph Watters was up his hands. elected to the vacancy, and when Capt. "Major Ridge rushed forward from Mitchell resigned, Watters was named a clump of underbrush and explained in his place. This was undoubtedly that he had been out hunting wild tur- the same Joseph MTatters for whom keys when the pantomine was re- hearsed before his eyes. He knew the (Enclosure.) two men to be worthless scoundrels, **Childersville, Ala., Dec. 23, 1835. and was glad to do Col. Blair and the state the service of dispatching one of Mr. John Ridge, them. John Ridge, the Major's son, (Washington, D. C.) Stand Watie, John's cousin, and Sally Dear Friend: It has been some Ridge, the Major's pretty young weeks since I wrote to you. I have daughter, came running up, and with been expecting to receive a letter from a courtly bow, Col. Blair presented you, but have not received any yet. I his handsome gold watch to the little now write to give you the times here. girl. John and Stand Watie got the We are all well. I have commenced stolen horses together for Col. Blair; clearing up my ground for a crop. I Tom Phillips was tied securely and put shall start my ploughs in a few days. on one of them, and Col. Blair went Jno. W. Garrot*** is here on the other back to the Pendleton district of side of the river; has got large dou- South Carolina. The dead Indian was ble houses built, and has taken those buried 150 yards below the spring, old houses that Pathkiller used to live without even a tear from Miss Sally in, and made kitchens of them. He has to damped the sod. moved part of the fencing there and says he intends to hold all the pos- "This act gained for Major Ridge sessions, and that he will take the an honorable name among the pale- ferry as soon as you return. I for- faces, who ever after looked to him bid him to build there, before wit- to redress wrongs committed by mem- nesses. He threatens to shoot any bers of his clan; and when he fought man that would interrupt him. He so bravely at the Battle of the Horse- says he can raise a militia force any shoe, Ala., several years later, under time to protect himself. Major B. F. Gen. Jackson, all felt that his laurels Currey was here shortly after Garrot were lightly worn." first came, and ordered him off. Gar. rot now says they had a private con- versation, and Currey had told him TROUBLES OF THE CHIEFS.- that he should not be interrupted, and That life was not a bed of Cherokee roses for the Ridges and their kins- man, Elias Boudinot, is evident from the following letters : *Washington City, Mar. 13, 1835. To Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Sir: I read this letter this morn- ing, advising me of the progress of intrusion upon my plantation and ferry within the chartered limits of Alabama. The damage done to me will be considerable if this is suffered to proceed. Deplorable will be the fate of the Indians if lawless men, without the authorities of the States, are suf- fered to throw free people out of their houses while they are preparing to leave the land of their forefathers. This is not a solitary case, but these aggravating cases are transpiring al- most every day. The Government should give instructions to its agents upon this subject without delay. I am, sir, respectfully your friend, - JOHN RIDGE. *Report of Secretary of War on Cherokee Treaty (18351, p. 367. **Ibid. Undoubtedly the present Childersburg, Tallade~a County. on the Coosa River. 125 miles Glow ~ome. DR. GAMALIEL W. HOLMES, who estab- **+A man named Garrett is supposed to have lished a reputation as a family physician molested Major Ridge's ferry at Rome. after the Civil War. that they (Currey and himself) had to the East Tennessee brigade, to no- made a compromise of the business. tify them that they are exclusively I hope you will be able while you are subject to my authority, and unless there to make arrangements from Gov- they report to me without delay, and ernment to have him put off from this become subject to my orders, will place. If you can not do that, it will either leave the nation or be disband- injure you more than one thousand ed. In your proceedings, you will be dollars. If he was away from here governed by your instructions of the I could get $2,500 for the lace at any 4th instant. time, but it will not sell for half that I am, very respectfully, your obe- amount under the present circum- dient servant, stances. JOHN E. WOOL, I have bad news to tell you about the money business here. My share Brigadier General Commanding. this winter is but little. The small- In September, 1836, Gov. Lumpkin pox turned the people away in the wrote as follows of the Ridge ferry fore part of the winter, and now and seizure at Rome to Gen. John E. for some time back the people are Wool:*** afraid to travel on account of the highway robbers. The travellers are "I herewith enclose you sundry pa- getting killed and robbed in all parts pers placed in my hands by Mr. Gar- of the country. Between Mr. West's rett, on the subject of Ridge's ferry. and Spanish John's old place there From these papers it would seem that have been found a man and two horses Garrett is willing to yield his claims killed. On the mountain between here to the civil authority, and yet to obey and Mr. Bell's a man has been robbed and respect any military orders to him of a horse. Down at Mill creek, on directed by you. this road, a man was robbed of $192. "Garrett alleges that he will cease On the mountain near Cox's, a man to run his ferry boat provided Ridge was killed and robbed of his horse and will keep up the ferry and not disap- money. In Chattooga Valley there point travelers, but further states that were two men shot, but neither of Ridge is like the dog in the manger- them killed. Near Montgomery, a few that he will neither run his own boat days ago, a man was killed and rob- nor suffer him to run one. The pa- bed of several hundred dollars. pers, however, will place you in pos- I heard from Mrs. Ridge a few days session of the facts and relieve you ago. They were all well. Today I from further trouble in the case. shall send Mrs. Ridge $45 of cash. I "With great respect, your obeclient must conclude by saying to you that servant, I still remain, "WILSON LUMPKIN." Your sincere friend, ****New Echota, June 15, 1836. WM. CHILDERS. *Headquarters, Army Cherokee Na- Hon. Elbert Herring, tion, Valley Town, N. C., Aug. 12, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 1836. Sir: By the last mail I addressed a letter to Mr. Schermerhorn, to your Brig. Gen. Dunlap?'" care, which you have probably perused. Of the Brigade of What I there stated in regard to the Tennessee Volunteers. state of feeling among the Cherokees Sir: Captain Vernon, stationed at has only been confirmed to my satis- New Echota, informs me that John faction. Indeed, I will venture to say Ridge has complained to him that some there has never been a time for the white man ,is about to take forcible last five years when appearances were possession of his ferry on Coosa River. so favorable as at present. I know You will without delay inquire into the of no hostility to the treaty. I hear case, and if you should find the com- now, on the contrary, the Cherokees in plaint to be just, you will, until fur- this region will receive it with cheer- ther orders, protect Ridge in his rights fulness. They say the matter is now and property. This order will apply to settled and they are glad of it. I all cases of similar character in the speak of the mass of the Cherokees. Cherokee country. - *Secretary of War's Report on Cherokee You are further directed that in Treaty (1835). w. 640. case you should find any troops with- **w. C. ~unlap. in the limits of the Cherokee nation, ***Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia. (Lumpkin), Vol. 11, p. 43. whether in Georgia, Alabama, Tennes- ****Report of Secretary of War on Cherokee see or North Carolina, not belonging Treaty (1835). ps. 600-1. There is a portion who, no doubt, feel wish to be understood as speaking of far otherwise; but they are those the Cherokees in this region, and from whose ambition has been disappointed. which I have direct information. There Without their interference there will are neighborhoods where I have every be no excitement. I trust they will not reason to presume there is hostility endeavor to excite the people. towards us as a treaty party, and there The white inhabitants of this coun- are individuals who would willingly try are in a state of great alarm, take our lives if they could. I have founded upon some unfounded appre- no idea that the danger is as great hensions. I believe it is owing a great as is apprehended by the writers of deal to what is transpiring in the the two letters enclosed. Creek nation. Our people are not even I came through the neighborhood aware of the state of feeling among where hostility is said to exist, and the whites, much less are they think- the frolic or dance spoken of was held ing of making war. I trust, sir, that before I came along. I saw Thos. no exaggerated rumors, which, no Taylor there, and he told me that he doubt, will go out of this country, will found the people better satisfied than induce the Government to believe the he expected. Cherokees are ,in a hostile attitude. I yet think there may be some mis- They are not, nor do I believe, even take about Welch being waylaid. Fos- with Ross's influence, will a portion ter, one of our delegation, was here of them ever assume such an attitude. the other day, and he told me every- Our people are greatly suffering thing was going right for the treaty. for food. It is very important that the But as I have before stated, inflam- necessary appropriations should be matory statements from the other side made soon for their relief. If I had mag change the state of feeling. I authority to do so, I would begin to shall not be excited, and shall take supply them in this neighborhood. the matter coolly and deliberately, and In my letters to Mr. Schermerhorn shall endeavor to keep you apprized of I have referred to the speculations that what is happening. I shall repeat are going on upon the Indians by again what I have said, that matters whites and half breeds. Strong meas- have never appeared so favorable ures are necessary to prevent it. The within the compass of my observations president ought to have the right of within the last five years, as at pres- deciding what are the just debts of ent, and if Ross would only keep away, the Indians, for the protection of that the nation would almost be unanimous class. If not, they will go to the west for the treaty. deprived of every cent of their prop- To give you an instance how these erty, and the money will go into the poor people are deluded and misled, it hands of the whites and such Indians is said that one of Ross's delegation on as have opposed the very treaty by his return reported that the Cherokee which they are now trying to amass countries here and ,in Arkansas have wealth. I say again, strong measures been sold, and that the Cherokees will. are necessary. have to go to a far country, infested' I trust the President will think it by man-eaters. The people protested' best to send Mr. Schermerhorn again. going there, but are willing to go tot I think he is a suitable person be- Arkansas. cause he is a terror to speculators, and I should have addressed these let- understands the situation of these peo- ters to Mr. Schermerhorn, if I thought ple and their affairs. he was still there. Please give my With sentiments of high esteem, I respects to him, and let him see these remain yours, letters. ELIAS BOUDINOT. Very respectfully, ELIAS BOUDINOT. *New Echota, Ga., June 16, 1836. Hon. Elbert Herring, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. (Two Enclosures.) Sir: I addressed a letter to you yes- Coal Mountain, June 8, 1836. terday, giving you a favorable account Mr. Elias Boudinot, of the state of feeling among the Sir: There was an Indian frolic or Cherokees. I have since then received dance on Saturday night last, and the enclosed letter, which would seem there was some white men went to to- contradict what I have stated. I the same. They have reported that *Report of Secretary of War on Cherokee the Indians said that they had no Treaty (1835), ps. 602-3-4. malice towards the white people, but that they intended killing Ridge and place in April, complaint was not made yourself. I have written you that you to Washington until June 21, 1836, might be on your guard, which no more than a year later. Here is the doubt you are. The citizens of this summary of grievances, including the county had a meeting yesterday; they tale of the ejectment; it states that are resolved to punish all offenses, if Ross's father, Daniel Ross, was buried any. I would recomn~end for your at Rome, whereas members of the safety for you and family to leave the family in Oklahoma have always country until the excitement is over a thought the parent and certain others little. Please to accept for yourself were buried at Lookout Mountain, and family my best wishes. Tenn. Truly yours, "The Cherokees were then left to the GEORGE KELLOG. mercy of an interested agent. This Chattahoochee, June 8, 1836. agent, under the act of 1834, was the rlol:orious Wm. N. Bishop, the captain My dear Boudinot: I have just re- of the Georgia Guard, aid to the Gov- ceived a letter from Welch, informing ernor, clerk of court, postmaster, etc., me that his house has been waylaid and his mode of trying Indian rights by the Indians, who are seeking an is here submitted : ouuortunit~to kill him. Our friend Tbm Tayior is scattering the fire- " 'Murray County, Ga., brands. All my friends are well Jan. 20, 1835. pleased that our treaty has been rati- " 'Mr. John Martin: fied and are ready to pledge their lives in defense of the treaty party. We " 'Sir-The legal representative of have thousands of friends amongst the lots of land No. 95, 25th district, 2nd Georgians, ready to do the same. section, No. 86, 25th district, 2nd sec- tion, No. 93, 25th district, 2nd section, If you are at all apprehensive of No. 89, 25th district, 2nd section, No. danger, let me advise you to collect 57. 25th district, 2nd section, has all your friends and form an encamp- called on me, as State's agent, to give ment at Ridge's; arm but act on the possession of the above described lots defensive; make any contracts neces- of land, and informs me that you are sary to your support. The treaty must the occupant upon them. Under the meet them. I have just written to laws of the State of Georgia, passed Schermerhorn, informing him of Tay- in 1833 and 1834, it is made my duty lor's conduct. Write to me often. I to comply with his request, therefore, a~nmuch concerned for your safety. prepare yourself to give entire pos- Sincerely your friend, session of said premises on or before WILLIAM RODGERS.* the 20th day of February next; fail *** not under the penalty of the law. ROSS DRIVEN FROM HOME. " 'WM. N. BISHOP, -In April, 1835, it would appear, " 'State's Agent.'

Ross returned from Washington to his '6~~.Martin,*:!=k a Cherokee, was a home at "Head of Coosa," Rome. On Mar. 14, the Ridge party had signed man of wealth, had an extensive farm, with the Government the preliminar- large fields of wheat growing; and ies of the New Echota treaty, giving was turned out of house and home, the Indians $5,000,000 for Cherokee and compelled, in the month of Feb- Georgia. In order to. reach Washing- ruary, to seek a new residence within ton in those days it was necessary to -the limits of Tennessee. travel by stage or horse to Charles- *Usually spelled Rogers. ton, and there take the steamer north **John Ross, John Martin, James Brown, Joseph Vann, John Benge, Lewis Ross, Elijah or go the entire way on horseback. Hicks and Richard Fields. Authority: Cher- He had come in on his trusty charger, okee Indians, Congressional Documents tired and hopeful of a kiss from his (1835-6), Doc. No. 286, ps. 5-6-7. After Ross was dispossessed, he went to live in Bradley wife and children. Instead, he found County, Tenn.. where he and John Howard his family gone-thrown out with a Payne were arrested a few months later. few scant things they could carry ***Martin had been a judge of one of the Cherokee districts (Amoah). On Aun. 10, with them, and making for Tennessee 1835. he was arrested by I~ieut.Jno. L. I-Iooper, over the dusty road. commander of Co. F, 4th Inf., U. S. A., at Ft. Cass, Calhoun, Tenn., and confined at the home The following statement was signed of Lewis Ross at that place, whence he soon by eight leading Cherokees,** including made his escape. A spirited tilt then took place between Hooper and Major Currey. Mar- Ross, and it was undoubtedly written tin was charged with having th~eatened the or dictated by Ross himself. Although life of John Ridge for negotiating with the the ejectment seems to have taken Government. "Mr. Richard Taylor was also at driven out, unprepared, in the dead of Washington, and in his absence his winter, and snow on the ground, family was threatened with expulsion, through which they were compelled . and compelled to give $200 for leave to wade and to take shelter within to remain at home for a few months the limits of Tennessee, in an open only. log cabin, upon a dirt floor, and Bishop "This is the 'real humanity' the put his brother, Absalom Bishop, in Cherokees were shown by the real or posession of Mr. Vann's house. This pretended authorities of Georgia, dis- Mr. Vann is the same who, when a avowing any selfish or sinister motives boy, volunteered as a private soldier towards them. in the Cherokee regiment in the serv- ice of the United States, in the Creek "Mr. Jos. Vann, also a native Chero- war, periled his life in crossing the kee, was a man of great wealth; had river at the Battle of the Horse about 800 acres of land in cultivation; Shoe."" What has been his reward? had made extensive improvements, consisting, ,in part, of a brick house, "Hundreds of other cases might be costing about $10,000, mills, kitchens, added. In fact, nearly all the Chero- negro houses, and other .buildings. He kees in Georgia who had improve- had fine gardens, and extensive apple ments of any value, except the favor- and peach orchards. His business was ites of the United States agent,*** so extensive he was compelled to em- under one pretext or another have ploy an overseer and other agents. In been driven from their homes. Amid the fall of 1833 he was called from the process of expulsion, the Rev. John home, but before leaving made a con- F. Schermerhorn, the United States ditional contract with a Mr. Howell, commissioner, visited the legislatures a white man, to oversee for him in the of Tennessee and Alabama, and im- year 1834, to commence on the first portuned those bodies to pass laws of January of that year. He returned prohibiting the Cherokees who might about the 28th or 29th of December, be turned out of their possessions from 1833, and learning that Georgia had within the Georgia limits, taking up prohibited any Cherokee from hiring a a residence in the limits of those white man, told Mr. Howell he did states. not want his services. "Yet Mr. Bishox). the State's a~ent. represented to th; Luthorities of Gear: gia that Mr. Vann had violated the laws of that State by hiring a white man, had forfeited his right of oc- cupancy, and that a grant ought to issue for his lands. "There were conflicting claims un- der Georgia laws for his possessions. A Mr. Riley'l' pretended a claim, and took possession of the upper part of the dwelling house, armed for battle. Mr. Bishop, the State's agent, and his party came to take possession, and be- tween them and Riley a fight com- menced, and from 20 to 50 guns were fired in the house. While this was going on, Mr. Vann gathered his trem- bling wife and children into a room for safety. Riley could not be dis- lodged from his position upstairs, even after being wounded, and Bishop's par- ty finally set fire to the house. Riley surrendered and the fire was extin- guished. -Mr. Vann and his family were then *Spencer Riley, of Cass County, formerly or Bibb: The fight took place Mar. 2. 1835; au- thor~ty: Georgia Journal, Milledgeville, Apr. 7. -183.5.---- **Tallapoosa River, with Andrew Jacksan and Major Ridge. WADE SAMUEL COTHRAN, leading spirit in ***Reference to the Ridges, Boudinot and the Flrst Presbyterian church, who removed others of the Treaty party. from Rome to Anniston. "The same sun1m:ary process was from the diary of his father, W. R. used toward Mr. John Ross, the prin- Grahame: cipal chief of the Cherokee Nation. He "New York, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1832.- was at Washington City, on the busi- Was also with Testes Dwight to the ness of his nation. When he returned, City Hotel and was introduced to and he traveled until about 10 o'clock at had conversation with two Indian night to reach his family; rode up to chiefs, the first and only I have seen- the gate; saw a servant believed to be Mr. John Ridge and another chief his own; dismounted, ordered his horse whose name I do not remember. They taken; went in, and to his utter as- were well-dressed men in surtouts, tonishment found himself a stranger (wide-skirted coats reaching below the in his own home, his family having knees.-Webster's New Standard Dic- been some days before driven out to tionary), spoke good English and be- seek a new home. haved themselves like gentlemen. Ridge ''A thought then flitted across his is the son of an orator, the greatest, mind-that he could not, under all the Mr. Dwight said, among the Cherokees, circumstances of the situation, recon- a chief of the Deer Tribe. The other cile it to himself to tarry all night Indian was of the Wolf Tribe, of the under the roof of his own house as a Cherokee Nation, both of them. They stranger, the new host' of that house had beautiful, small hands and feet, being the tenant of that mercenary especially Ridge, who is married to a band of Georgia speculators at whose New England lady. They have come instance his helpless family had been to New York to raise the sympathy of turned out and made homeless. the public in behalf of their country- 'LUpon reflecting, however, that 'man men who have deputized them with is born unto trouble,' Mr. Ross at once that design, for the purpose of getting concluded to take up his lodgings them allowed to remain in their lands there for the night, and to console guaranteed them in Georgia, Tennes- himself under the conviction of having see and North Carolina ,in their treaty met his afflictions .and trials in a man- with the United States. ner consistent with every principle of "The Cherokees consist of 16,000 to moral obligation towards himself and 20,000 people, the women more numer- family, his country and his God. ous than the men. The Sequoyan al- "On the next morning he arose early, phabet, according to Ridge, can be and went out into the yard, and saw learned in three days by a quick schol- some straggling herds of his cattle and ar, and in six days by a slow one. sheep browsing about the place-his They have left off the chase largely of crop of corn undisposed of. In cast- late and devote themselves to agri- ing a look up into the widespread culture. Mr. Ridge said superstition branches of a majestic oak, standing kept the Indian from gaining more within the enclosure of the garden, information. He stated that legend and which overshadows the spot where had it that God first made the lie the remains of his dear babe and Indian and then the white man. The most beloved and affectionate father, Indian was offered the choice of a he there saw, perched upon its boughs, book or a bow and arrow, and while that flock of beautiful pea-fowls, once he hesitated, the white man stole the the matron's care and delight, but now book; thus the bow and arrow was left left to destruction and never more to to the Indian, and he has made good be seen. use of them ever since. Mr. Ridge's "He ordered his horse, paid his bill, father's home is a two-story one, 52 and departed in search of his family. by 28 feet, and there are many others After traveling amid heavy rains he of handsome design which show the had the happiness of overtaking them wealth and civilization of the owners. on the road, bound for some place of "Tonight at a public meeting in refuge within the limits of Tennessee. Clinton Hall, Mr. Ridge mentioned Thus have his houses, farm, public that the chiefs of the Cherokees had ferries, and other property been wrest- voluntarily resigned their ancient pow- ed from him." ers and modeled their state into a Re- * 0 * public on the general plan of the Unit- JOHN RIDGE IN NEW Y0RK.- ed States, with frequent elections (uni- Martin Grahame, of Briarlea, Sas- versal suffrage there is also, but he katchewan, Canada, who for some did not mention that). years lived on the East Rome place "In the morning he mentioned that owned by J. Paul Cooper, sent the fol- among the Creek Nation women are lowing in 1921 to Linton A. Dean monthly put out of the house to purify, and at these seasons men do not ap- due north to the top of the Blue Ridge, proach them, even to speak, except then in an easterly direction to Hick- from a distance. Adultery in high or ory Gap, then with the meanders of low degree is punished with beating the Blue Ridge to the beginning. until the criminals faint, and then cut. Cherokee County was organized early ting the ears off. Formerly, passing in 1832. The courthouse was located between a woman and the wind or where the town of Canton now is. A bathing higher up a stream at the same judge and solicitor general were elect- time with her was held adultery, com- ed. The Hon. Jno. W. Hooper was the municated of the water or the wind. first judge of the Superior Court. He After punishment is inflicted, how- was the father of Mrs. Thos. W. Alex. ever, the offender resumes his rank, ander and John W. Hooper, long a and if he can escape until after an an- resident of Rome. Hon. Wm. Ezzard nual jubilee, he may save himself en- was elected the first solicitor general. tirely from punishment. He now resides in Atlanta, Ga., a hale "A married man may have as many and hearty, well-preserved man be- wives as he pleases, if they are not tween 80 and 90 years of age, an orna- the wives of others. The ladies have ment to mankind, an honor to his race, not that privilege." a connecting link between the past and :ls 5 0 present. Jacob M. Scudder, who had long resided among the Indians as a WHEN THE RED MAN LEFT.- licensed trader, under the new inter- (By Jno. W. H. Underwood, in The course laws of the United States, res- Cartersville Courant, 1883). - The ident in the nation, was elected sena- County of Floyd is perhaps the most tor, and a man by the name of Wil- liams representative. Scudder was a interesting locality of this section of highly intelligent and able man, and the state. Situated on the confluence very soon made a favorable impres- of the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers, sion upon the legislature. Early in it has attracted the attention of many the session he introduced a bill to lay people. It was the favorite resort of off the country into ten counties, as the Red Man, and when the treaty of follows : Forsyth, Cobb, Lumpkin, Dec. 29, 1835, was made, the influx Union, Gilmer, Cherokee, Murray, of population was greatly increased. Cass, Floyd and Paulding. Murray The Cherokee country was surveyed County embraced the territory that is by the authorities of the State of now in Whitfield, Catoosa, Walker, and Georgia in 1830 and 1831. The lots one-half of Chattooga. It would per- were 160 acres and 40 acres in size. haps have been best if the original That supposed to be the gold region counties had remained as they were, was laid off in 40-acre lots, and that with slight exceptions. Mr. Scudder where there was supposed to be no laid off Floyd County with the view gold was laid off in 160-acre lots. The of the existence of a city where Rome whole of the Cherokee country com- now is. John Ross, the principal chief prised in the chartered limits of Geor- of the Cherokees, resided immediately gia was made into one county, called north and opposite the junction of the Cherokee County. The extent of the rivers, and called his place "Head of territory embraced was very consider- Coosa." I have seen his letters to my able, beginning at the point where the father often. 35th parallel of N. Latitude comes in Major Ridge, who was made a major contact with a point on the Blue Ridge by Gen. Jackson at the Battle of the fixed by James Blair and Wilson Lump- Horseshoe on the Tallapoosa River, in kin that now divides Towns and Ra- Alabama, for gallant conduct, resided bun counties, running thence west to up the Oostanaula River nearly two Nickajack Cave, the northwest corner miles north of the courthouse, on the of Georgia, thence due south, nearly east bank of the river. Major Ridge's in the direction of Miller's bend, on the son, John, was educated at Princeton, Chattahoochee River, two miles south N. J.," and John's sister, Sallie, at Mrs. of West Point, Ga., until it strikes Elsworth's School. John Ridge was the north of Carroll County, thence the great rival of John Ross, and Sal. east until it reaches the Chattahoochee lie Ridge was the first wife of George River, thence along said river to the W. Paschal, deceased, who was once mouth of the Chestatee, thence up the one of the judges of the Supreme Court -Chestatee River to the head and then of Texas. Ridge Paschal, their son, is *Not at Princeton University. It is generally a distinguished lawyer in Texas. accepted that he attended the mission schools There exists no record of the first at Spring Place, Murray County, and at Corn- wall, Conn. settlers of Floyd County. The site was at first located down the Coosa steamboat. He was born to command River, ten miles from Rome and called and generally had at least one-half of Livingston. In 1834, however, there the voters of the county under his was a very heated contest, and the seat control. He was often honored with of justice, the courthouse, was moved positions of trust by the people of the to the junction of the rivers and the county, and was once state senator. place named Rome. Among the early He died at comparatively an early age. settlers were the two Hemphills- He was a close and intimate friend of James and Philip W. Hemphill. One Col. Alfred Shorter. of them resided at the Mobley place, now owned by Col. Yancey, and the Of the earliest settlers, few if any other in Vann's Valley, at what has remain-alas, alas! they have gone been for many years known as the to that bourne whence no traveler re- Montgomery farm. turns ! Melancholy reflection ! The writer knew them all-they were his Walton H. Jones was the brother- friends and are now in the grave. in-law of Hemphill and was an early Among the later settlers were Wm. settler. So was Edward Ware, who H. Underwood, Dr. H. V. M. Miller, resided eight miles south of Rome, A. D. Shackelford, Wm. T. Price, R. where Mr. Alexander White now lives. S. Norton, Wm. E. Alexander, Pente- Joseph Ford, the father of I. D. Ford cost and Ihly, the Alexanders, the and Arthur Ford, was another, and Smith family, Col. Alfred Shorter and resided in Vann's Valley where Mr. Wade S. Cothran, active-minded and W. S. Gibbons now lives. He built the public-spirited men. brick residence there. John Rush was A. B. Ross, clerk of the Superior another early settler, and resided on Court, the father of our present clerk, the Calhoun Road, seven miles north- was here at an early day. He held cast of Rome. Joseph Watters was an the office of clerk until his death, and early settler, settling eight miles north- was as good a man as ever lived in east of Rome at the "Hermitage." Wal- th.e county. lace Warren was here early, and re- sided on the west side of the Oosta- Jobe Rogers, John DeJournett, naula six miles from Rome. Dr. Alvin Ewe11 Meredith and the Berryhills Dean, the grandfather of Linton Dean, were sterling men. The Rev. Geo. was another one of them. He resided White, of Savannah, Ga., published two about nine miles down the Coosa at books, history and statistics. of Geor- the residence of John W. Turner, who gia, and there is very little said of married his daughter. Thos. S. Price Floyd County. Floyd is now the fifth was another striking man, for sixteen or sixth county in point of population, years sheriff and deputy sheriff with and Rome is the sixth city in the state. Thos. G. Watters, now of Rome. The The future of Rome is very promis- Loyds were heard of at an early date, ing. The growth has been gradual and and so were Thomas and Elijah Lump- it is a remarkable fact that Rome has kin. John II. Lumpkin was here in built up by money made in the place 1834. Joseph Watters was many times principally. Very little capital from a senator from Flovd. John H. Lum~. abroad has been used. kin was for three ierms a member if Rome ought to be the great manu- the Superior Court. Among the men facturing, commercial and financial of mark who were here at an early center of this northwest Georgia. We day may be mentioned Daniel R. have considerable manufacturing in- Mitchell, Wallace Mitchell, A. T. Har. terests here now, and with the ore, din, Elkanah Everett, and Thos. Sel- slate, marble, and other precious and man, the father of the numerous and valuable'stones near enough to us, the highly respected Selmans. future of Rome must be upward and Perhaps the most far-seeing man onward. devoted to the interests of Rome that There is no collision of interests be- ever lived in our midst was William tween Rome, Dalton, Rockmart and Smith. He was of g-reat energy and Cartersville. The interest of one is very full capacity, with the will the interest of the whole. Let there and courage of Andrew Jackson- be no jealousy and no rivalry. Let warm in his friendships and attach- each and all push forward the wheel ments. He saw at an early day the of our progress, and make this section prospective commercial importance of in point of fact and development what Rome. He was very far in advance of the god of nature intended, the most the place and the people. He ,caused prosperous and lovely section of this to be projected and built the first great country. AN OLD RAMBLER.-The follow- makes. He was an humble man and ing Floyd County humor is from Bill unlettered in books; never went to Arp's Scrap Book, Chapt. 1, The Orig- school but a month or two in his life, inal Bill Arp, by Chas. H. Smith, At- and could neither read nor write; but lanta, Jas. P. Harrison & Co., 1884: ;till, he had more than his share of "Some time in the spring of 1861, common sense, more than his share of when the boys were hunting for a fight ingenuity, and plan and contrivance, and felt like they could whip all crea- more than his share of good mother- tion, Mr. Lincoln issued a proclama- wit and humor, and was always wel- tion ordering us all to disperse and come when he came about. retire within 30 days, and to quit ca- "Lawyers and doctors and editors, vorting around in a hostile and bellig- and such gentlemen of leisure as who erent manner. I remember writing an used to, in the good old times, sit answer to it, though I was a good Un- around and chat and have a good time, ion man and a law-abiding citizen, and always said, 'Come in, Bill, and take was willing to disperse, if I could, but a seat.' And Bill seemed grateful for it was almost impossible, for the boys the compliment, and with a conscious were mighty hot, and the way we made humility squatted on about half the up our military companies was to send chair and waited for questions. The a man down the lines with a bucket of bearing of the man was one of rever- water to sprinkle 'em as he came to ence for his superiors and thankful- 'em, and if a fellow sizzed like hot iron ness for their notice. in a slack-trough, we took him, and if "Bill Arp was a contented man- he didn't sizz, we dident take him; but contented with his humble lot. He still, nevertheless, notwithstanding, never grumbled or complained at any- and so forth, if we could possibly dis- thing; he had desires and ambitions, perse in 30 days we would do so, but but they did not trouble him. He kept I thought he had better give us a little a ferry for a wealthy gentleman who more time, for I had been out in an lived a few miles above Rome, on the old field and tried to disperse myself Etowah River, and he cultivated a and couldent quite do it. small portion of his land; but the "I thought the letter was pretty ferry was not of much consequence, smart, and read it to Dr. Miller and and when Bill could step off to Rome Judge Underwood, and they seemed to and hear the lawyers talk, he would think it was right smart too. About turn over the boat and poles to his that time I looked around and saw Bill wife or children, and go. I have known Arp standing at the door with his him to take a back seat in the court- mouth open and a merry glisten in his house for a day at a time and with a eye. As he came forward, says he to face all greedy for entertainment, me, 'Squire, are ye gwine to print listen to the learned speeches of the that?' lawyers and charge of the court, and " 'I reckon I will, Bill,' said I. 'What name are ye gwine to put to it?' said he. 'I havent thought about a name.' Then he brightened up and said, 'Well, Squire, I wish you would put mine, for them's my sentiments!' And I promised him that I would. "So I did not rob Bill Arp of his good name, but took it on request, and now at this late day, when the moss has covered his grave? I will record some pleasant memorles of a man whose notoriety was not extensive, but who filled up a gap that was open, and who brightened up the flight of many an hour in the good old time, say from 20 to 30 years ago. "Bill Arp was a small, sinewy man, weighing about 130 pounds, as active as a cat, as quick in movement as he was active, and always presenting a bright, cheerful face. He had an amiable disposition, a generous heart and was as brave a man as nature THE ORIGINAL BILL ARP. TESTING THE ROME BOYS FOR WAR DUTY. "Bill Arp's" book, "Peace Papers," tells how the recruiting officers at Rome poured water on candidates who were hot over Mr. Lincoln's "disarmament proc- lamation." If "sizzling" resulted, they were sworn in. The author's several books reflect vividly the humorous incidents and philosophy of the times. go home happy, and be able to tell to faster Bill would chew his tobacco, and his admiring family what Judge Un- the brighter his little, merry eyes derwood said and what Judge Wright would sparkle. said, and what Col. Alexander said, and what the judge on the bench "He had the greatest reverence for said; and if there was any, fun Col. Johnston, his landlord, and always in anything that was said, Bill always said he would rather belong to him got it, and never forgot it. When than to be free; 'for,' said he, 'Mrs. court was not in session, he still slip- Johnston throws away enough old ped off to town and would frequent clothes and vittles to support my chil- the lawyers' offices and listen to 'em dren, and they are always nigh enough talk, and the brighter the talk, the to pick 'em up.' "Bill Arp lived in Chulio district.'> much. It was very uncommon to see We had eleven districts in the county, a man drunk at a county court ground. and they had all such names as Pop- Pistols were unknown, bowie-knives Skull, and Blue Gizzard, and Wolf- were unknown, brass knuckles and Skin, and Shake-Rag, and Wild-Cat, sling-shots were unknown, and all but Bill lived and reigned in Chulio. other devices that gave one man an Every district had its best man in artful advantage over another. The those days, and Bill was the boys came ther,e in their shirt sleeves best man in Chulio. He could and galluses, and if they got to quar- out-run, out-jump, out-swim, out- reling, they settled it according to na- rastle, out-ride, out-shoot anybody in ture. Chulio, and was so far ahead that "When Col. Johnston, who was Bill everybody else had given it up, and Arp's landlord, and Maj. A~er'~"*and Bill reigned supreme. He put on no myself got to Chulio, Bill Arp was airs about this, and his neighbors were there, and was pleasantly howdying all his friends. with his neighbors, when suddenly we "But there was another district ad- discovered Ben McGinnis trapoosing joining, and it had its best man, too. around, and every little crowd he. got One Ben McGinnis ruled the boys of to, he would lean forward in an in- that beat, and after a while it began solent manner and say, 'Anybody here to be whispered around that Ben got anything agin Ben McGinnis? Ef wasn't satisfied with his limited terri- they have, I golly, I'll give 'em' five tory, but would like to have a small dollars to hit that; I golly, I dare any- tackle with Bill Arp. Ben was a pre- body to hit that,' and he would point tentious man. He weighed about 165 to his forehead with an air of defiance. pounds, and was consilered a regular "Bill Arp was standing by us, and bruiser; and he, too, like Bill Arp, had I thought he looked a little more se- never been whipped. When Ben hit a rious than I had ever seen him. Frank man. it was generally understood that Ayer says to him, 'Bill, I see that he meant business, and his adversary Ben is coming around here to pick a was hurt, badly hurt, and Ben was fight with you, and I want to say glad of it, and vain of it. But when that you have got no cause to quarrel Bill Arp hit a man he was sorry for with him, and if he comes, do you just him, and if he knocked him down, he let him come and go, that's all.' Col. would rather help him up and brush Johnston says, 'Bill, he is too big for the dirt off his clothes than swell you, and your own beat knows you, around in triumph. Fighting was not a.nd you haven't done anything against very common with either. The quicker Ben, and so I advise you to let him a man whips a fight, the less often he pass-do you hear me?' has to do it, and both Ben and Bill had settled their standing most effec- "By this time, Bill's nervous system tually. Bill was satisfied with his was all in a quiver. His face had an honors, but Ben was not, for there was air of rigid determination, and he re- many a Ransy Sniffle*" who lived along plied humbly, but firmly, 'Col. John- the line between the districts and car- ried news from the one to the other, and made up the coloring, and soon it was norated around that Ben and Bill had to meet and settle it. "The court grounds of that day con- sisted of a little shanty and a shelf. The shanty had a dirt floor and a pun- cheon seat and a slab for the Squire's docket, and the shelf was outside for the whisky. The whisky was kept in a jug-a gallon jug-and that held just about enough for the day's busi- ness. Most everybody took a dram in those days, but very few took too -much, unless, indeed, a dram was too *According to Miss Virginia C. Hardin, of Atlanta. Chulio was called after an Indian sub- chief who lies buried on the Stubbs place, ad- joining the Hardin plantation, near Kingston. **A busy-body character in Longstreet's "Georgia Seenee." ***W.Frank Ayer, once Mayor of Rome. BEN DicGIYNIS. BILL ARP, OF CHULIO, TRIUMPHS OVER BEN M'GINNIS. stone, I love you, and I respect you, Ben's bread basket, which he knew too; but if Ben McGinnis comes up was his weakest part. Ben hollered here outen his beat, and into my beat, enough in due time, which was con- and me not havin' done nothin' agin sidered honorable to do, and all right, him, and he dares me to hit him, I'm and Bill helped him up and brushed gwine to hit him, if it is the last the dirt off his clothes, and said, 'Now, lick I ever strike. I'm no phist puppy Ben, is it all over 'twixt you and me; dog, sir, that he should come outen his is you and me all right?' And Ben deestrict to bully me.' said, 'It's all right 'twixt you and "I've seen Bill Arp in battle, and he me, Bill; I give it up, and you are was a hero. I've seen him when shot a gentleman.' Bill invited all hands and shell rained around him, and he up to the shelf, and they took a drink, was cool and calm, and the same old and Bill paid for the treat as a gen- smile was on his features. I've seen erous victor, and he and Ben were him when his first-born was stricken friends. down at Manassas, and he was near "I was not at the big wrestle be- enough to see him fall headforemost tween Bill Arp and Ike McCoy, and to the foe, but I never have seen him had heard so many versions of it that as intensely excited as he was that one night, while we were sitting moment when Ben McGinnis approach- around the camp fire in Virginia, I ed us. and addressing himself to Bill insisted on hearing it from Bill's own Arp, said, 'I golly, I-dare anybody to lips. Said he, 'Well, gentlemen (he hit that!' always accented the men), my motto "As Ben straightened himself up, has been to never say die, as Ginrul Bill let fly with his hard, bony fist Jackson said at the Battle of New Or- right in his left eye, and followed it leans, and all things considered, I have up with another. I don't know how it had a power of good luck in my life. was, and never will know; but I do T don't mean money luck by no means, know this, that in less than a second, for most of my life I've been so ded Bill had him down and was on him, pore that Lazarus would have resign- and his fists and his elbows and his ed in my favor, but I've been in a knees seemed all at work. He after- heap of close places, and somehow al- ward said that his knees worked on ways come out right-side-up with care. "'YOU see, Ike McCoy was perhaps backwards and tumbled down the bank the best rasler in all Cherokee, and into the river-kerchug! he just hankered after a chance to "'Sich hollerin' as them boys done , break a bone or two in my body. Now, I reckon never was hearn before in you know I never hunted for a fight all them woods. I jumped in and nor a fuss in my life, but I never helped Ike out as he riz to the top. dodged one. I didn't want a tilt with He had took in a quart or so of water Ike, for my opinion was that he was right on top of his whisky and bar- the best man of the two, but I never bycu, and as he set upon the bank, said anything, but just trusted to luck. it all come forth like a dost of ippe- " 'We was both at the barbycu, and cack. When he gotten over it he laughed sorter weakly and said Sally he put on a heap of airs, and strutted Ann told him afore he left home he around with his shirt collar open clean had better let Bill Arp alone, for no- down to his waist, and his hat cocked body could run against his luck. Ike on one side of his head, as sassy as always believed he would have thrown a Confederate quartermaster. He took me if britches holt hadent broke, and a dram, and then stuffed himself full I reckon he would. One thing is cer- of fresh meat at dinner. Along in tain; it cured Ike of braggin', and it the evening it was norated around that cured Bob Moore of bettin', and that Ike was going to banter me for a ras- was a good thing.' sle, and shore enuf, he did. The boys "Bill was full of mischief and his were all up for some fun, and Ike indulgence in practical jokes some- got on a stump and hollered out, 'I'll times led him into trouble, but he al- bet ten dollars I can plaster the length ways managed to get out. Col. John- of any man on the ground, and I'll ston says that one time a young man give Bill Arp five dollars to take the stayed over night at his house, and bet !' had occasion to cross the ferry next "'Of course, there was no gettin' morning. He was from Charleston, around the like of that. The banter got my blood up, and so, without wait- in' for ceremony, I shucked myself and went in. The boys was all powerfully excited, and was a bettin' every dollar they could raise, and Bob Moore, the feller I had licked about a year before, said he'd bet twenty dollars to ten that Ike would knock the breath outen me the first fall. I borrowed the money from Col. Johnston, and walked over to him and said, 'I'll take that bet!' " "'The river" was right close to the spring, and the bank was purty steep. I had on an old pair of copprass britches that had been seined in and dried so often they was about half rotten. When we hitched, Ike took good britches-holt and lifted me up and down a few times like I was a child. He was the heaviest, but I had the most spring in me, and so I jest let him play around for some time, lim- ber like, until suddenly he took a no- tion to make short work of it with one of his back-leg trip movements. He drawed me up to his body and lifted me into the air with a powerful twist. Jest at that minit his back was close to the river bank, and as my feet teched the ground, I give a tremendous jerk backwards and a shove forwards, and my britches split plum open in the back and tore clean offen my -bread basket, and Ike fell from me *Etowah. BILL ARP "LOW RATES" M'COY. THE YOUNG MAN FROM CHARLESTON.

and had on a pair of fine boots and and in pitiful language informed hin~ a fashionable hat and a white vest how some soldiers came to his house and kid gloves, and was altogether last night and robbed him of all his quite dandy-like in his appearance. Bill honey, twelve hives in all, and they came over with the ferry boat and worth five dollars apiece, and now he eyed the man with a look of surprise was a ruint man, and the girls couldn't and contempt. The young man asked git no clothes, and the cofee was out, him if his boat was entirely safe, and and the old 'oman was sick, and so insisted on having every drop of water forth. bailed out for fear of muddying his "The general was a West Pointer boots. Bill showed great alacrity in and a strict constructionist, and he complying, and when the boat was was proud of his regiment; so that nearly across, and the young man was evening at dress parade he made then1 standing near the gunnel, looking a nice little speech about a soldier's down into the water, the long pole honor, and about this honey business, that Bill was managing came sudden- and wound up by saying that he didn't ly against his shoulders and keeled know tvho stole the honey, and didn't him overboard. Bill did not hesitate want to know, and he wasn't going to a moment, but jumped in after him, try to find out, but he wanted every and quickly pulled him up into the man who was willing to help pay the boat again. The youth was dread- old man for his loss to step five paces fully alarmed and grateful for his to the front. safe deliverance. He went back again "Bill Arp was the first man to step to the Colonel's house for some dry out; he threw up his hat and hollered clothes, but before he left he insisted 'Hurrah for Ginrul Gardner!' The on rewarding Bill for saving his life, whole regiment stepped forward and but Bill modestly refused to receive joined in cheers for their noble gen- anything. eral, while Bill, without waiting for "When we went into camp near Ma- orders, went down the line with his nassas, while Gen. Wm. M. Gardner, hat, saying, 'Put in, boys, put in; the later of Rome, was in command, Bill general is right; let's pay the old man took the general a lot of beautiful and git the gals some clothes. I golly, honey, which ,was highly appreciated, the gals must have some clothes!' and while he was enjoying it at the "They made up about ninety dollars breakfast table an old man came up and the old man was paid and went his way rejoicing, and the remainder heroines. I have seen all sorts, and of the fund was turned over to the so has most everybody who was in , hospital. the war, but I never saw a more de- voted heroine than Bill Arp's wife. "While in camp at Centerville dur- She was a very humble woman, very, ing the bitter winter of 1861-2, the or- but she loved her husband with a love ders against contraband whisky were that was passing strange. I don't very strict, but still, the soldiers man- mean to say that any woman's love aged somehow to keep in pretty good is passing strange, but I have seen spirits. One day a six-horse team from that woman in town, three miles from Page County drove into camp, loaded her home, hunting around by night for down with sixteen barrels of very fine her husband, going from one grocery apples. The hind gate was taken off to another and in her kind, loving and a barrel set down. and the head voice inquiring 'Is William here?' or knocked ,in, and the boys bought them 'Do you know where William is?' quite freely. After a while another barrel was set down, and in course of "Blessings on that poor woman! I time Col. Jno. R. Towers, another no- have almost cried for her many a time. ble Roman, of the Miller Rifles, ob- Poor William-hdw she loved him! served that Bill and some others were How tenderly would she take him quite hilarious, and he suspected there when she found him, and lead him was something wrong about that home, bathe his head and put him to wagon, and procured an order from bed. She always looked pleased and Gen. Sam Jones to examine it. On thankful when asked about him, and ins~ectionhe found there was a five would say, 'He is a good little man, gallon keg of apple brandy in each of but you know he has his failings.' six of the barrels, and the kegs were "She loved Bill and he loved her; he packed around with apples. The gen- was weak and she was strong. There eral ordered a confiscation. He sent a are some such women now, I reckon; keg to each of the five regimental hos- I hope so. I know there are some pitals, and had the sixth keg sent to such men." his tent and put under his cot. +*a "Bill Arp did not seem to be pleased "BIG JOHN" UNDERWOOD.- with-the distribution, and wagged his "'Big John' was one of the earliest head ominously. He was on the de- settlers of Rome, and one of her most tail that was to guard the general's notable men. For several years he headquarters that night; and so, the was known by his proper name of next morning, when the general con- John H. Underwood, but when John cluded to sample the brandy, and sent W. H. Underwood moved there, he was down for a few of us to come up and identified by his superior size and . join him in a morning cocktail, he gradually lost his surname, and was discovered that the keg was gone. Col. known far and near as 'Big John.' Towers was there, and sent for a list Col. Jno. W. H. Underwood, who came of the guard, and when he saw Bill ,to be distinguished as a member of Arp's name, he quietly remarked, 'I un- Congress, and afterward as a judge, derstand it now.' All doubts were re- was a man of large physique, weigh- moved; no search was made, for the ing about 225 pounds, but 'Big John' general enjoyed the joke; but that pulled down the scales at a hundred night the keg was replaced under his pounds more, and had shorter arms cot with about half its original con- and shorter legs, but his circumfer- tents. Bill said he was always will- ence was correspondingly immense. He ing to 'tote fair and divide with his was noted for his good humor. The friends.' best town jokes came from his jolly, fertile fancy, and his comments on "This is enough of Bill Arp-the men and things were always origi- original simon pure. He was a good nal, and as terse and vigorous as ever soldier in war, the wit and wag of came from the brain of Dr. Johnson. the camp-fires, and made many a He was a diamond in the rough. He home-sick youth laugh away his mel- had lived a pioneer among the Indians ancholy. He was a good citizen in of the Cherokee, and it was said fell peace. When told that his son was in love with an Indan maid, the daugh- dead, he showed no surprise, but sim- ter of old Testenuggee, a limited chief, ply said, 'Major, did he die all right?' and never married because he could When assured that he did, Bill wiped not marry her. But if his disappoint- away a falling tear and said, 'I only ment preyed upon his heart, it did wanted to tell his mother.' not prey upon the region that enclosed "You may talk about heroes and it, for he continued to expand his pro- portions. He was a good talker .and was suspected of trying to instigate earnest laugher. Whether he iaugh- the Cherokees to revolt and fight, and ed and grew fat, or grew fat and not leave their beautiful forest homes laughed, the doctors could not tell; on the Tennessee and Coosa and Oosta- which was cause and which was ef- naula and Etowah and Connasauga fect is still in doubt, but I have heard rivers. He brought Payne back as the wise men affirm that laughing was far as New Echota, or New Town, as the fat man's safety valve, that if he it was called, an Indian settlement on did not laugh and shake and vibrate the Coosawattee, a few miles east of frequently, he would grow fatter and Calhoun, as now known. There he fatter until his epidermic cuticle could kept the author of 'Home, Sweet not contain his oleaginous corporosity. Home' under guard, or on his parole Dr. Chisolm, of Charleston, is said to of honor, for three weeks, and night have put this matter beyond all dis- after night slept with him in his tent, pute, for he had seen a fat man and listened to his music upon the weighed but a few hours before Ar- violin, and heard him sing his own temus Ward lectured in that city, and sad songs until orders came for his this fat man laughed so hard and so discharge, and Payne started afoot on continuously at Ward's wit that he his way to Washington. He said Payne overdone the thing, and died in his was much of a gentleman. seat. The coroner sat upon him, and "Many a time have I heard Big John the doctor weighed him and found he recite his sad adventures. 'It was a had lost eighteen pounds of flesh that most distressive business,' said he. night-laughed it away, which would 'Them Injuns was heart-broken. I al- seem to settle the vexed question. ways knowed an Injun loved his hunt- "Big John had no patience with the ing-ground and his rivers, but I never war, and when he looked upon the knowed how much they loved 'em be- boys strutting around in uniform and fore. You know, they killed Ridge fixing up their canteens and haver- for consentin' to the treaty. They kill- sacks, he seemed as much disgusted as ed him on the first day's march and astonished. He sat in his big chair they wouldn't bury him. We soldiers on the sidewalk in front of his gro- had to stop and dig a grave and put cery and liquor shop, and would re- him away. John Ross and Ridge were mark, 'I don't see any fun in the like the sons of two Scotchmen who-came of that. Somebody is going to be hurt, over here when they were young men and fightin' don't prove anything. and mixed up with these tribes and Some of our best people in this town got their good will. These two boys are kin to them fellers up North, and were splendid looking men, tall and I don't see any sense in tearing up handsome, with long auburn hair, and families by a fight.' He rarely looked they were active and strong, and could serious or solemn, but the pending shoot a bow equal to the best bow- fight seemed to settle him. 'Boys,' said man of the tribe, and they beat 'em he, 'I hope to God this thing will be all to pieces on the cross-bow. They fixed up without a fight, for fighting married the daughters of the old is mighty bad business, and I never chiefs, and when the old chiefs died knowed it to do any good.' they just fell into line and succeeded "Big John had had a little war ex- to the old chiefs' places, and the tribes perience-that is, he had volunteered liked 'em mighty well, for they were in a company to drive the Creeks and good' men and made good chiefs. Cherokees to the far west in 1833, " 'Well, you see, Ross didn't like the just 50 years ago. It was said that treaty. He said it wasn't fair, that he was no belligerent then, but want- the price of the territory was too low, ed to give the Indian maiden he loved and the fact is, he didn't want to go a safe transit, and so he escorted the at all. There are the ruins of his old old chief and his clan as far as Tus- home over there now in DeSoto, close cumbia, and then broke down and re- to Rome, and I tell you, he was a king. turned to Ross's Landing on the Ten- His word was the law of the Injun nessee River. He was too heavy to nations, and he had their love and re- march, and when he arrived at the spect. His half-breed children were landing, a prisoner was put in his the purtiest things I ever saw in my charge for safe-keeping. Ross's Land- life. ing is Chattanooga now, and John "'Well, Ridge lived up the Oosta- Ross once lived there, and was one naula River about a mile, and he was of the chiefs of the Cherokees. The a good man, too. Ross and Ridge al- prisoner was Ross's guest, and his ways consulted about everything that name was John Howard Payne. He was for the good of the tribes, but "BIG JOHN" UNDERWOOD'S RETURN TO ROME AFTER THE WAR.

Ridge was a more milder man than that night the Injun stepped up to Ross, and was more easily persuaded Vann's Valley and stole the pony out to sign the treaty that gave the lands of the stable and carried him off, and to the state, and to take other lands Dick followed him next day and away out in Mississippi. You see, our caught him and tied him, and brought state owned the territory then clean him up to old Livingston before a out to the Mississippi River. magistrate. I was there and took the "'Well, when the whole thing Injun's part and got him discharged; seemed to be settled with the chiefs, and he kept his pony, and he was so we found that the Injuns wasn't go- grateful to me that I couldn't get rid in' to dove. We couldn't get 'em of him. He just followed me about started. They raised a howl all over like a nigger and waited on me; hunt- the settlements. It was just like the ed for me and brought me squirrels mourners at a camp meeting. The and deer and turkeys, and when time families would just set about and came for 'em all to go west, he hung mourn. They wouldn't eat nor sleep, around camp and wouldn't leave me. and the old squaws would sway back- When I left him at Tuscumbia, he wards and forwards and mourn, and cried and moaned and took on, and I nobody could get 'em up. don't reckin he ever got to the prom- ised land.' " 'Well, it took us a month to get 'em all together and begin the march "Big John was a stout and active to the Mississippi, and they wouldn't man, considering his weight. He was march then. The women would go out patriotic, too, and when he found that of line and set down in the woods and the fight had to come, he came up go to grieving, and you may believe it manfully to the cause and declared he or not, but I'll tell you what is a fact: was ready to join a buggy regiment we started for Tuscumbia with 14,000 and fight until they plugged him, and 4,000 of 'em died before we got which they were sure to do, he said, to Tuscumbia. They died on the side if they pinted any ways down South. of the road; they died of broken When Joe Brown called for state vol- hearts; they died of starvation, for unteers, he responded promptly, and they wouldn't eat a thing. They just seemed proud that he was in the line died all along the way. We didn't of military service, and was enrolled make more than five miles a day on on the Governor's staff. He said that the march, and my company didn't do he couldn't march, but he could set much but dig graves and bury Injuns on one of the hills around Rome and all the way to Tuscumbia. They died guard the ramparts. of grief and broken hearts, and no "Nevertheless, notwithstanding, lit mistake. so turned out that old Joe got fight- " 'An Injun's heart is tender and his ing mad after while and ordered all love is strong; it's his natur. I'd a his staff and his militia to the front, rather risk an Injun for a true friend and Big John had to go. The view than a white man. He is the best he took of his new departure in mili- friend in the world and the worst tary strategy will appear in the sequel, enemy. He has got more gratitude and also his remarkable retreat be- and more revenge in him than any- fore the foul invader when Sherman body. I remember that Dick Juhan took the Hill City and dispersed the swindled an Injun out of his pony, and home guard to remoter regions. "Big John is dead. The last time and dropped him over on the outside. I saw him he had lost his fat, and I never knowed he could jump that his old clothes were a world too big fence before, but he bounced back like for him. He said he was juicing away an Injun rubber ball, and the other so as to fit a respectable coffin and dog streaked it down the sidewalk save a winding sheet or two in his like the dickens was after him. Dogs shrouding. He owed no man anything are like folks and folks are like dogs, and no man owed him a grudge. Fat and a heap of 'em want the palings men die like lean ones, but they rare- between. ly die fat. Their fat is their vitality. " 'Jack Bogin used to strut around Fat men are generally good men, kind and whip the boys in his beat, and men, peaceable men, and t&y are kick 'em awful, because he knew he honest. Their fat makes them good- could do it, for he had the most mus- natured, and their good nature keeps sle; but he couldn't look a brave man them from swindling or cheating any- in the eye, mussle or no mussle, and body. If I was thrown among I've seen him shut up quick when he strangers and wanted a favor, I would met one. A man has got to be right pass by all lean and hungry strangers to be brave, and I'd rather see a bully and sit down by the biggest, roundest get a lickin' than to eat sugar!'" man I saw. Author's Note-The above highly "Big John's special comfort was a interesting and entertaining account circus. He never missed one, and it contains a number of historical er- was a good part of the show to see rors, particularly with regard to John him laugh and shake and spread his Howard Payne and the Indians, magnificent face. I saw the clown against which the history lover should run from the ring-master's whip and guard himself. It is well to remember take refuge close by Big John, and as that Big John was apt to depart now he looked up in his face he said, 'You and then from the path of historic are my friend, ain't you?' and Big rectitude. John smiled all over as he replied, *** 'Why, yes, of course I am.' 'Well,' then,' said the clown, 'if you are my "BILL ARP" TO "ABE LINaK- friend, please lend me a half a dol- HORN."-Maj. Chas. H. Smith wrote 1 The crowd yelled tumultuously a saucy open letter from Rome to as Big John handed over the coin, Abraham Lincoln at Washington on and the joke of it was worth half a the eve of the opening of the Civil dollar to him. War. It was this letter which caused "Big John took no pleasure in the him to write thereafter under the pen quarrels of mankind, and never back- name of "Bill Arp." The original Bill ed a man in a fight, but when two Arp happening along, Maj. Smith said, dogs locked teeth, or two bulls locked "This letter is so hot, I don't know horns, or two game chickens locked whose name to sign to ,it!" Arp said: spurs, he always liked to be about. "Them's my sentiments, Major; just 'It is their natur to fight,' said he, sign mine." And he did. The letter 'and let 'em fight.' He took delight was widely copied and made Major in watching dogs and commenting on Smith famous and uncomfortable as their sense and dispositions. He com- well. Here it is:" pared them to the nlen about town, "Rome, Ga., Aprile, 1861. and drew some humorous analogies. "Mr. Linkhorn, Sur: These are to 'There is Jimmy Jones,' said he, 'who inform you that we are all well, and ripped and plunged around because hope these lines may find you in statue Georgia wouldn't secede in a minute ko. We received your proklamation, and a half, and he swore he was go- and as you have put us on very short in' over to South Calliny to fight; and notis, a few of us boys have conklud- when Georgia did secede shore enuf he ed to write you, and ax for a little didn't jine the army at all, and always more time. The fact is, we are most had some cussed excuse, and when con- obleeged to have a few more days, for scription come along, he got on a de- the way things are happening, it is tail to make potash, con-ding 'im, and utterly onpossible for us to disperse when that played out he got a couple in twenty days. Old Virginny, and of track dogs and got detailed to Tennessee and North Carolina are con- ketch runaway prisoners. Just so I've tinually aggravatin' us into tumults seen dogs run up and down the fence and carousements, and a body can't palings like they was dyin' to get to disperse until you put a stop to sich one nuther, and so one day I picked - up my dog by the nap of the neck *From Bill Arp's "Peace Papers." WHEREIN MAJOR SMITH TRIES HIS HAND AT FARMING. When "Bill Arp" emerged from the war, all he had was a bolt of cotton cloth and a hunk of gum opium, which he quickly swapped for food. He tried to raise vegetables for a while, and here he is seen turning a few furrows. His boys are enjoying the sport, and the eldest advises him to keep at the law. onruly konduct on their part. I tried A few days ago I heard they surround- my darndest yisterday to disperse and ed two of our best citizens, because retire, but it was no go; and besides, they was named Fort and Sumter. your marshal here isn't doing a darn- Most of 'em are so hot that they fair- ed thing-he don't read the riot act, ly siz when you pour water on 'em, nor remonstrate, nor nothing, and and that's the way they make up their ought to be turned out. If you con- military companies here now-when a klude to do so, I am authorized to man applies to jine the volunteers, rekummend to you Col. Gibbons or they sprinkle him, and if he sizzes, Mr. McLung, who would attend to they take him, and if he don't they the bizness as well as most anybody. don't. "The fact is, the boys round here "Mr. Linkhorn, sur, privately speak- want watchin, or they'll take sumthin. in, I'm afeered I'll git in a tite place here among these bloods, and have to (Correspondence.) slope out of .it, and I would like to "Gilbert & Co., Bankers and Brok- have your Scotch cap and kloak that ers and General Agents for the Dela- you traveled in to Washington. I sup- ware State Lotteries. pose you wouldn't be likely to use the same disgize agin, when you left, and "Baltimore, Md., Jan. 10, 1860. therefore I would propose to swap. I "C. H. Smith, Esq., am five feet five, and could git my "Rome, Ga. plow breeches and coat to you in eight "Dear Sir: We talce the liberty to or ten days if you' can wait that long. enclose you a scheme of the Delaware I want you to write me immegitly State Lottery, for which we are gen- about things generally, and let us eral agents, 'our object being to try know whereabouts you intend to do and sell you a prize so as to create your fitin. Your proklamation says an excitement in your locality that somethin about taking possession of will tend to increase our business. all the private property at 'All Haz- With this end in view, we offer you ards.' We can't find no such place on the preference to purchase a very fine- the map. I thot it must be about ly arranged package of 25 tickets, Charleston, or Savannah, or Harper's which we have selected in the lottery Ferry, but they say it ain't anywhere drawing Feb. 11, Class 72. This pack- down South. One man said it was a age gives you the advantage of $31.25 little Faktory on an iland in Lake worth of tickets for the cost of only Champlain, where they make sand $20; and to convince you of our con- bags. My opinun is that sand bisness fidence in its success, we will guaran- won't pay, and ,it is a great waste of tee you another package of our extra money. Our boys here carry there lotteries free of charge if the above sand in there gizzards, where it keeps fails to draw a prize, the lowest be- better, and is always handy. I'm ing $200 (see full scheme within). We afeered your government is givin you make this offer in good faith, wlth and your kangaroo a great deal of on- a desire to sell you the Capital, $37,- necessary trubbul, and my humble ad- 000. Should you think favorably of vice is, if things don't work out bet- it, enclose us $20, and the package ter soon, you'd better grease it, or will be sent by return mail, the re- trade the darned old thing off. I'd sult of which we confidently think will show you a slite-of-hand trick that be satisfactory to you. would change the whole concern into buttons quick. If you don't trade or "Yours truly, do sumthin with it soon, it will spile "GILBERT & CO." or die on your hands, sertain. " (This is confidential.) " "Give my respects to Bill Seward "Messrs. Gilbert & Co., Gents.: I and the other members of the Kanga- acknowledge receipt of your kind let- roo. What's Hannibal doin? I don't ter of the 10th. I send you my note hear anything from him nowadays. for $20, instead of the cash, as it will "Yours, with care, save exchange, and there is really n? "BILL ARP." necessity of sending money to Balti- more and having it sent back again in ' "P. S.-If you can possibly extend a few days. This arrangement, I that order to 30 days, do so. We have confidently think, will be satisfactory sent you a check at Harper's Ferry to you, for it is done in good faith. (who keeps that darnd old ferry now? It's givin us a heap of trubble), but "I really feel under many obliga- if you positively won't extend, we'll tions that you have chosen me as the send you a check drawn by Jeff Da- object of your liberality and do assure vis, Borygard endorser, payable on you that when that $37,000 prize comes sight anywhere. to hand, the excitement which it will raise in this community will swallow "Yours, up and extinguish the John Brown "B. A." raid, and you will sell more tickets **+ here than traveling circuses and mon- "BILL ARP" AND THE LOT- key shows take off in 20 years. This TERY.-We publish in another col- is a good locality for such an experi- umn a letter from the managers of a ment, for there is a vast number of lottery establishment in Baltimore to clever people who are in the habit Chas. H. Smith, Esq., of this place, of racking their brains to devise some and his reply. . . The public owes way to get money without working for Mr. Smith a debt of gratitude for ex- it, and I know very well that when posing this iniquitous scheme. they are satisfied they can do so through your company, they will I shall have more to say about cheerfully give you that preference those papers from time to time, but

, which you have shown to me. the subject of today's sketch is an ar- "Our court is now in session, and I ticle in the "Southerner and Commer- very much regret you are not here to cial," a tri-weekly bearing date of lay your proposition before our Grand April 10, 1870. It is entitled "Ancient Jury, for I have no doubt they would History of Modern Rome," and is from properly appreciate it, and out of grat- the talented pen of Major Chas. H. itude board you a while at public ex- Smith ("Bill Arp"). Older Romans de- pense. Our legislature, in its genero- lighted to read Bill Arp's writings and sity, passed a special act, (which may I am sure the younger generation, too, be found in the 11th division of the will enjoy the style as well as the sub- Penal Code) to compensate such hon- stance of his words about the begin- orable gentlemen as you seem to be. nings of Rome, quotations from which "You are hereby authorized to de- follow : duct the $20 and send the remainder "In the year 1832, the county of to me by Adams & Company's Ex- Floyd was laid off by the government press. surveyors, and in 1833 the county site "CHAS. H. SMITH." was fixed at Livingston (a place about 12 miles distant, and situated near "(This is confidential.) " the South bank of the Coosa). A few "P. S.-A friend of mine has just houses were built and one court held shown me a letter from ;your firm to there by Judge John W. Hooper. About him, making him the same proposition this time a number of the fortunate which you have made to me; and he drawers in the land lottery were seek- professed some suspicion, but I as- ing to take forcible possession of the sured him that you knew we were in- very homes of the Indians. Judge timate friends, and that we would di- Hooper did not deem this just until vide the prize between us, or you the Indians were paid for their im- thought that possibly one of us might provements, and he therefore granted be away from home. many bills of injunction at the in- stance of Judge Wm. H. Underwood, "C. H. S." the leading counsel for the tribe. "P. S. No. 2-As I was about to "In the year 1834 a Rome town com- mail this, another friend confided to pany was formed, consisting of Z. B. me a similar letter to him. I am at Hargrove, Philip W. Hemphill, Wm. a loss to know how to satisfy him. Smith and D. R. Mitchell. The upper Please give me the dots. portion of the town was surveyed and "C. H. S." laid off into town lots. Favorable propositions were made by the com- THE NOTE. pany to the county authorities, and "$20-On demand I promise to pay Rome was made the county site in Gilbert & Co. twenty dollars, provid- 1835. The frames of some of the first ed the finely-arranged package of houses erected were brought up from ticlcets which they have selected for Livingston on keel boats, one of them me draws a prize of not less than occupied by Dr. G. W. Holmes, and $200. a~otherby Col. Sam Gibbons. The old- "CHAS. H. SMITH." est house in the place is a small tene- -Tri-Weekly Courier, Jan. 17, 1860. ment next above the fire engine house. *** The first court was held by Judge Owen H. Kenan in a log cabin 16x18, "BILL ARP" ON ROME.-(By J. erected on Academy Hill, and the D. McCartney, in Rome Tribune-Her- grand jury held their first session in ald, July 21, 1920).-Mrs. Harriet a lime sink a few rods distant. The Connor Stevens came up from Cave diligence and energy of the town com- Spring the other day and brought me pany, and the many advantages of the some papers that had been the prop- location, soon began to attract men of erty of the lamented Prof. Wesley 0. education and means and commercial Connor, her father. They are very influence. In a short time Rome be- interesting. One of them contains a came a market for a considerable ex- speech of Samuel J. Tilden made in tent of territory. Many of those who September of 1868 that is well worth co-operated in giving vitality and im- reading today. The others are the petus to the place are long since dead last issue of the Rome Courier and the and gone, but as long as Rome has a first issue of the Tribune of Rome, record, the names of John H. Lump- bearing date of Oct. 2, 1887. kin, William Smith, Dennis H,ills, Jobe Rogers and James M. Sumter will be Marks are the old merchants who are remembered when her early history is still engaged in that occupation. Judge recalled. Renan was succeeded by the following "In the days of these pioneers, Rome judges, in the order named: Turner was but a hamlet. From a single H. Trippe, George D. Wright, John W. point .a school boy's bow could send Hooper, John H. Lumpkin, Leander W. an arrow beyond the farthest house. Crook, Dennis T. Hammond, L. H. All that portion of the city now known Featherston, J. W. H. Underwood and as 'down town' was a stately forest of Francis A. Kirby. John Townsend was aged oaks, and the best society of the first foreman of the first grand Howard Street were the owls who jury, and the first bill of indictment hooted from their hollows. Until about found was against the Indians Choosa- the year 1850, Mr. Norton's store was kelqua and Teasalaka, charged with the extreme Southern boundary of all assault with intent to murder. improvements. The first hotel was kept "From the year 1840 Rome con- by Francis Burke, in the house now tinued to make substantial progress. occupied by Dr. Holmes. Not long In the year 1845 a steamboat was after, James McEntee built and kept bvilt at Greensport, Ala., by Capt. up a public house for many years. John Lafferty. For months the rude His blunt Scotch ancestry made him a settlers in the adjacent counties had universal favorite, and we are glad heard of the 'varmint,' as they called to know that he still lives near us in it, and when the time came for its the enjoyment of good health. The first trip to the junction at Rome, the hotel built by him is now known as scattered inhabitants gathered in the residence of Dr. 5. B. Underwood. camps along the banks to see the bar- Euclid Waterhouse, a man well known mint' go. When it did come, it was in commercial circles, opened the first to these rude settlers a show equal store in the place. Nathan Yarbrough, to a circus. At one point, more than Judge Lamberth and David Rounsaville 100 people had congregated, the men were his competitors in the mercantile all wearing coon-skin caps with coons' business. tails hanging down their backs. One "Wm. Smith was the first sheriff very consequential and 'highly-educat- of the county. In the year 1834 he ed' patriarch, Squire Bogan, of Cedar had to perform the unpleasant duty Bluff, Ala., stood forward to make a of hanging two Indians, Barney Swim- reconnoisance and give the crowd the mer and Terrapin, found guilty of the benefit of his vast learning. He saw murder of Ezekiel Blatchford (or the large letters 'U. S. M.' painted on Braselton). He represented this coun- the wheelhouse, and underneath them ty in both branches of the General As- the letters Coosa. He spelled it over sembly. He was defeated for re-elec- carefully, letter by letter, in a loud tion because of his bold and strenuous tone of voice, and after a third ef- exertions to change the projected fort, declared: 'I've got it, boys. Its route of the Western & Atlantic name is Use 'em Susy!' The 'var- (state) railroad between Chattanooga mint' never got rid of this nom de and Atlanta so as to include Rome. plume. In the course of time, other He was a man of wonderful energy steamboats were built, and a branch and foresight, and it is universally road from Kingston to Rome project- conceded that he did more than any ed. other person to insure the progress "Even the newspapers adopted the and prosperity of the little city. It name. Bill Ramey and Tom Perry was chiefly his influence that made built a little boat that they said could Rome the county site; his urgent ef- snake its way through any shoal when forts that caused the building of the the rivers were not a foot deep. In first steamboat, that projected the fact, Ramey used to swear his craft first railroad (the Rome), and that in- could run on dry land if there was duced the coming of such men as Col. a thick fog or heavy dew. Alfred Shorter, A. M. Sloan, Wm. E. "From the days of steamboats and Alexander, John H. Lumpkin and railroads the history of our city is too others of like means and spirit. He familiar to be rehearsed, but I will died in 1850, and, as is too often the venture to remind you in closing these case, before the happy results of his remarks that the lamps which have lit foresight and energy were fully real- her pleasing progress have not always ized. been brightly burning. There have "J. T. Riley and wife were the first been shadows, and still are shadows, couple married and now live in the which set in mourning the happy pros- town. Col. A. T. Hardin and Morris perity of our city. Dark lines are drawn around, and the stricken heart Still another was handsome Richard B. beats sadly the knell of our heroic Garnett, a West Point graduate in dead. Noble sons, husbands and fath- charge of the arsenal at Augusta, ' ers are missing-missing from here whose geographical position gave him tonight. They have been long missing a decided advantage over the others from the fireside and the forum, from and who got to the point of acceptance the farm, the shop and the counting of his proposal. However, parental room, from court, church and hall." objection was raised, and Dick Gar- + * nett went to his death at Gettysburg in 1863 with the image of lovely Ce- TURN ABOUT WANTED. -A celia Stovall graven on his heart; he Floyd County farmer, attacked by his had never married, and when the neighbor's bull-dog, defended himself Grim Reaper cut him down he was a and badly wounded the dog. The irate general and one of the bravest men in neighbor said: "If you had to use the army of Northern Virginia. that pitchfork, why didn't you go at It may have been a coincidence that him with the other end?" The farmer Wm. T. Sherman, then a lieutenant, replied, "Why didn't he come at me was assigned in 1845 to detached duty with the other end of him?" at this same arsenal at Augusta; he X 9 * mav have wanted to see his old room- SHERMAN'S GEORGIA SWEET- ma'te, but more than likely he -pined HEART.-In the Lucian Knight Geor- for sight of Miss Cecelia. However, gia historical books and elsewhere is if he sang the old love song over again, found a charmingly romantic story of her answer was the same, and here was Civil War days and before in which one citadel, at least, that an irrepres- a Roman played an important part. sible West Pointer could not take by Marcellus A. Stovall, of Augusta, later storm. of Rome, in 1836 had entered !the So with Dick Garnett, a noble son United States Military Academy at of old Virginia, who could trace his West Point and chosen as roommate ancestry back to 'Adam; but he was Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, an eagle- on a salary that would little more eyed lad of 16 from Mansfield. 0. than care for two. Miss Cecelia's Cadet Stovall was a brother of ~iss Cecelia Stovall, a noted Georgia belle and beauty, who presently on a visit to her brother became a favorite among the dancing set at the academy. In the forefront of her admirers stood young Sherman, who did not fail to make capital out of the fact that he was her brother's bosom friend; and it was whispered that the Ohioan, highly diffident toward the average young lady, had been smitten beyond hope of redemption by the dark-eyed girl from Georgia. The his- torians record that on one occasion when he was diplomatically sparring for a snug place in Miss Cecelia's af- fections (it may have been a straight- out proposal), she said quite frankly: "Your eyes are so cold and cruel. I pity the man who ever becomes your antagonist. Ah, how you would crush an enemy!'' To which he replied gallantly, "Even though you were my enemy, my dear, I would love you and protect you." Joseph Hooker, of Massachusetts, a graduate of West Point in the class of 1837, was another who claimed GEN. MARCELLUS A. STOVALL, roommate many dances with Miss Cecelia and at West Point of Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, who whose heart sank within him when became the sweetheart of Miss Cecella St0- she returned to her Southern home. vak proud parent, Pleasant Stovall, once returning here, and when you see her, a resident of Athens, desired that she do you hand her this card from me." should marry a man of wealth and in- On his card Gen. Sherman had writ- fluence. She was forbidden the pleas- ten, "You once said I would crush an ure of young Garnett's company and enemy, and you pitied my foe. Do you sent to visit relatives in South Caro- recall my reply? Although many years lina. There she met Capt. Chas. Shell- have passed, my answer is the same man, whose suit was favored by daugh- now as then, 'I would ever shield and ter and parent, and so they were mar- protect you.' That I have done. For- ried. give me all else. I am only a soldier. Lieut. Sherman's stay in Augusta terminated abruptly; in 1850 he mar- "W. T. SHERMAN." ried his adopted father's daughter, Nellie Ewing, and his biographer re- Later came Gen. Joseph Hooker, corded many years later that she was soon to be cited for bravery in the Bat- his "first love." Marcellus A. Stovall tle of Atlanta. Learning the situa- moved to Rome in 1846, and he was tion, he repeated the orders of Gen. soon joined by his young half-brother, Sherman, shed a tear over a boxwood George T. Stovall, who became asso- hedge and departed on the chase which ciate editor of the Rome Courier and was the forerunned of the famous was killed at First Manassas. Here March to the Sea. the beautiful sister visited them often. The armies gone, Miss Cecelia re- In 1861 Capt. Chas. Shellman built turned to Shellman Heights, gazed out for his Augusta princess the mansion over the winding Etowah, and breath- on the Etowah River, near Carters- ed a prayer and a poem to friendship. ville, known as "Shellman Heights." There she passed the rest of her days. Three more years passed, until Sher- On Jan. 1, 1911, fire took Shellman man's army of human locusts swept Heights, uninsured, and today the spot down from Chattanooga, trampled on is but a shadow of its former self, but Rome and continued into Bartow it will always live in memory. County. As the torch brigade set fire When Gen. Sherman approached Au- to this establishment and that, Gen. gusta from Savannah, the Augustans Sherman's attention was directed by took their cotton out of the ware* a fellow officer to a fine mansion on a houses and burned it, anticipating that hill. "Looks like the palatial retreat he would destroy everything when he of an old plantation grandee," re- arrived, and preferring to do a part of marked this personage. Sherman and it themselves. The surprise of every- his staff went to the place and ad- body was great, therefore, when Gen. mired its Colonial columns and its at- Sherman made a detour across the mosphere throughout. An old negro Savannah River into South Carolina mammy sat on the front steps moan- and left their beautiful city unmolest- ing her life away. "Oh, Ginrul, whut ed. There may have been military yo' gwine do? I sholy is glad Missus reasons, but Augusta folk to this day Cecelia ain't here to see it wid her own declare he spared the town because it eyes!" had been the home of the heroine of "Miss Cecelia?" queried Gen. Sher- his romance at West Point. man, as the little hob-goblins began to prance around his memory chest. "Who In 1915, faithful to a promise he lives here, auntie?" had made to Miss Cecelia and to him- self, old Uncle Josiah Stovall, the fam- "Missus Shellman,-Ceclia Stovall ily slave and master's bodyguard, turn- Shellman, sur, an' she's gone away ed up at the G. A. R. reunion at now, bless her politeness!" Washington to thank Gen. Sherman "My God!" exclaimed the warrior. for sparing the home. This old "Ches- "Can it be possible?" terfield in charcoal" carried a carpet ' Momentarily he bowed his head, a bag grip, a heavy hickory cane, and lump formed in his throat, he swal- wore a silk hat and a sleek broadcloth lowed hard and his eyes became moist. Prince Albert coat. His head and chin On learning from the old woman that were full of African cotton and he Mrs. Shellman had sought safety in attracted considerable attention as he flight, Gen. Sherman ordered his plun- tried to get out of the way of traffic. dering soldiers to restore everything To a policeman he confided that he had they had taken, and he placed a guard come to find Gen. Sherman, and wanted to protect the premises. Then he said, to thank him "in pusson," and to claim "Auntie, you get word to your mis- a gift he vowed Sherman had promised tress that she will be perfectly safe in him. "You're out of luck, old man. Gen. from the United States Military Acad- Sherman won't be in the parade today. emy at West Point, N. Y., in 1828, He's been dead nearly 25 years." and had left his seat in Congress in "Oh Lordy, white folks, den dis nig- 1847 to enter the Mexican War. His ger's sholy got to march back to Geor- service in this war was so meritorious gia !" that when Franklin Pierce was elect- *** ed President in 1853 he appointed Mr. Davis his Secretary of War, and Mr. MARTHA SMITH'S POLITICAL Davis held that position until the elec- COUP.-In 1844 when pretty Martha tion of James Buchanan to the Presi- Smith was 13 and riding a pony into town to school from her father's home dency in 1857. on the Alabama Road, and was begin- Miss Mary writes: ning to "dress up" and attract the "In 1855, while on a visit to the boys, she was taken by Col. Smith on South, my father, James Noble, Sr., a trip to Milledgeville, then capital of stopped at Rome. My brothers, at the state. Colonel Smith was a mem- Reading, especially Samuel, were anx- ber of the Legislature and as an ardent ious to obey Horace Greeley's injunc- Whig was boosting the stock of Zach- tion 'Go West, Young Man,' but my ary Taylor for President. He was to father had practically decided to set- make a speech at the town hall or tle at Chattanooga, Tenn. However, opera house, and various speakers my father met two old-time Southern were to tell the virtues of Taylor to his gentlemen, formerly of South Carolina Baldwin County friends and any oth- -Col. Wade S. Cothran and John ers who might wish to be enlightened. Hume, Sr.-who were so courteous and Now, the indulgent father had bought who advanced Rome's glories so ad- his daughter a beautiful new hat, of mirably that he wrote the boys to put which she was highly proud. He left the machinery at Reading on a sailing her shortly before the meeting with a vessel and bring it to Charleston, friend stopping at the hotel and the whence it lcould be transported by friend escorted her through the town train and overland to Rome. square to a seat in the front of the hall. As the chairman rapped for or- "In May of that year the older boys der and introduced Colonel Smith, and embarked from Philadelphia for a few enthusiasts yelled "Hurrah for Charleston, and my parents and my- Taylor and the Whig Party!" Miss self, Stephen N., then about 10, and Martha strode down the aisle. She my sisters, Jane, Susan, Eliza Jane was dressed in a becoming pink and (Jenny), Josephine and Elizabeth blue frock, and her new hat was the (Lilly), started from the same city to cause of an uproar. Colonel Smith Charleston by train. On reaching looked embarrassed; halted for a mo- Charleston, we discovered that the reg- ular train had left, but that we could ment, and a wag rose in his seat and be accommodated in a caboose at- yelled, "Hurrah for Polk and the tached to a freight train which was Democrats !" going as far as Augusta. It was Sun* Miss Martha, being for Polk and day afternoon when we boarded the having that afternoon raced through caboose. We were carrying a large the nearby stubble fields, had trimmed carpet bag filled with valuables, in- 11er bonnet in a garland of pokeber- cluding about $4,000 with which we ries. The meeting broke up in con- expected to start our new machine fusion; Polk eventually got the nomi- shop and foundry enterprise at Rome. nation and was elected. The irate In the caboose with us was an English father did not speak to his little daugh- family on their way to the Duck mines ter for a week. of Tennessee, with whom our parents *** became friendly because of their own JEFFERSON DAVIS ARRESTED English birth, and at Branchville, Or- BY ROMANS.-Miss Mary W. Noble, angeburg County, S. C., two quiet, of Anniston, Ala., relates the follow- well-dressed gentlemen in civilian ing unpublished incident of May, 1855, clothes, about 50 years of age, board- in which her family, traveling from ed the train as the last passengers Reading, Pa., to Rome, lost about before Augusta was reached. $4,000, accused Jefferson Davis, then "It was at the suggestion of the Secretary of War, of stealing it, and conductor that we had determined to actually had him arrested at Augusta, travel in the caboose. Our trunks were and consented to his release only after in the baggage room, and fearing he he had shown papers establishing his would not have enough money to pay identity. Mr. Davis had graduated our way home, my father had opened one of the trunks, removed the carpet was doubted and nothing was done. bag (which also contained jewelry and Some time later we received a state- papers) and extracted enough in bills ment by mail, I believe from a Cath- to see us all the way. On looking up, olic priest, to the effect that he had at- we noticed the conductor peering at us tended a conductor following a fatal through a window. Then the conductor accident, who had confessed to him rushed into the baggage room and on his deathbed that he had passed the . shouted, 'Hurry up; train's about to carpet bag out of a window to a con- leave!' and at the same time grabbed federate between Branchville and Au- the unlocked trunk and began to pull gusta. it out on the platform. My father "When the Civil War broke out and stopped him long enough to lock the Mr. Davis was chosen President of trunk; and then he took the carpet the Confederacy, with his headquar- bag into the caboose and put it under ters at the seat of gfovernment at the trunks in a compart~nentwhich Montgomery, Ala., the Noble foundry wasrseparated from the seating sec- at Rome was taken over for the manu- tion by a thin partition. In the room facture of cannon, and my father had with the trunks was a bench or a to consult frequently with Mr. Davis settee, and my sister, Jane, being tired, at Montgomery concerning orders. Mr. reclined on it. Davis always alluded with a smile to "When the two strangers got on at the incident at Augusta and sent his Branchville, one of them went into regards to mother and the girls; and the room where my sister was. She my father never failed to respond with arose and came back where we were, a gracious apology and a nice compll- and he took the seat behind her, leaned ment on Mr. Davis' fortitude and abil- over and apologized for his intrusion, ity in the trials of the war. saying he was unaware the room was "In connection with Confederate occupied. He talked pleasantly to her cannon it may be appropriate to men- for about ten minutes. tion that Col. Josiah Gorgas, father "About 6 o'clock the next morning of Gen. Wm. C. Gorgas, U. S. A., we reached Augusta, when lo and be- whose engineering skill made possible hold, the carpet bag was gone, and the Panama Canal, visited Rome fre- with it our $4,000. Our parents were quently as chief of ordinance for the much excited, and accused the con- Confederate States government, and ductor, recalling that he had peeked occupied as the guest of the Noble at the valuables through the window, family the front upstairs room at 304 and that he had been in such a hurry East First St., Rome, which overlooks to remove the trunk. The conductor the First Presbyterian churchyard, denied the charge, and pointing at the and we always called this 'Gorgas two strangers, said, 'There are the room.' Quite a friendship existed be- thieves.' Suspicion seemed to involve. tween Col. Gorgas and My father, the two, so they were arrested right which in after years was cemented there on the platform by an officer between Gen. Gorgas and Robt. E. whom my father had suxnmoned. The Noble, a surgeon in the United States strangers politely but with some show Army, and son of George Noble. Dr. of feeling proclaimed their innocence. Robt. Noble was closely associated with Quite a scene had been produced and Gen. Gorgas for seven years in Pan- a crowd had gathered. The taller of ama, then spent six months with him the two declared, 'Sir, I am Jefferson in South Africa, studying fever causes. Davis, Secretary of War, and my com- The two were on their way to Africa panion is an officer of the United again when Gen. Gorgas was stricken States army.' They produced papers and died in London. My nephew re- of identification and were released mained until after the funeral, then with an apology from my father, who took up his duties as assistant surgeon then proceeded to press the original general of the army with the expedi- charge against the conductor. How- tion." ever, the conductor had disappeared, * * 3c and as our train for northwest Geor- DE LA MESA AND THE TAB- gia was about to leave, we dropped LEAU.-Capt. Chas. A. de la Mesa the matter for the time. succeeded Capt. Kyes as reconstruction "On reaching Rome we consulted a officer of the United States Army at lawyer, who promised to investigate, Rome, and opened up the so-called but we were strangers in a strange Freedlyan's Bureau at 530 Broad St. land, our father unknown save through Here he tried to bring housewives and short acquaintance with Col. hthran, newly-freed servants into agreement Mr. Hume and a few others; our story as to what should be paid for services and wash. In the event agreements Mrs. J. M. Gregory, Mrs. M. A. Nevin could not be reached privately, the and Miss Mary W. Noble, and they contestants were hailed before Capt. received a surprise and shock when de la Mesa. Naturally that official's Capt. de la Mesa bought tickets for life was full of misery. Clashes be- himself and his beautiful brunette tween provost guard and citizens were wife, and planted himself in his mili- frequent, but not of a serious nature, tary trappings on a front seat. The for it was bad policy for either side following is a summary of two ac- to carry a chip on the shoulder.* counts of the affair: It was reported that Wm. Hemphill "The audience filed in, some of the Jones had a spat with the captain. It young women with noses pretty high in may have been over wash or some- the air at sight of the 'intruders.' The thing else, but Mr. Jones picked up a tableau was 'The Officer's Funeral,' foot tub or a wash tub and slammed and all went well for a while. The Capt. de la Mesa over the head with de la Mesas enjoyed the first part and it, according to the report. The cap- applauded liberally. A little play pre- tain enjoyed a considerable range. He ceded the tableau, in which Mrs. once went to Summerville, and the Hiram D. Hill (then Florence Mitch- picture of his leaving resembled that ell, daughter of Col. Daniel R. Mitch- of Wm. J. Burns 50 years later, bid- ell), played the part of the Irish Maid ding farewell to Marietta. A young of Cork, thrummed a piece on her man at Summerville claimed that Capt. guitar and was wooed by the hero. de la Mesa insulted or mistreated his "Then-bless Patsy! -the fireworks ! sister in some transaction, and pro- The curtain went up on the tableau ceeded to arm himself. He was halted in question. There stood 'Ferd' by the late Jno. W. Maddox, then a Hutchings, Dave Powers, 'Billy' Gib- resident of the Chattooga town, and bons, 'Tal' Wells and Leonidas Timo- Capt. de la Mesa moved on. At Dal- leon Mitchell. 'Coon' Mitchell, by the ton Capt. de la Mesa was served with way, was a son of old Daniel R. and papers in a court action, but explana- the very man who had carried Gen. tions were made and the case was Neal Dow, the famous Maine aboli- thrown out. There were other similar tionist, to Libby . Prison, Richmond, incidents in the path of Capt. de la from Mobile. All the others had Mesa's duty, concerning which, hap- fought the 'Yankees' with the Rome pily, there is no longer any feeling. Light Guards. And now they had the Capt. de la Mesa hung out a large temerity to stand up before the 'Yan- United States flag in front of the bu- kee' reconstruction officer in their uni- reau, and forced all passersby to sa- forms of gray! Furthermore, the of- lute it. Of course he was acting under ficer's casket was draped in a battle- orders; Romans made a wide detour. torn Confederate flag, the property of Then came the tableau in May, 1867,- Col. Sam Gibbons, father of Billy. Com- an intensely "dramatic" affair. pleting the scene were Miss Belle Lo- In order to replace pews in the local gan as the widow, and Mrs. Hill's churches and to repair other damage niece, little Irene Hicks, as the orphan. done by the Northern soldiers,"" the "Capt. de la Mesa began to boil; his female members of the congregations wife reddened sympathetically as the had formed a society to present tab- boys began to sing that famous and leaux at the old city hall, southwest heart-touching song, 'The Officer's Fu- corner of Broad Street and Fifth Ave- neral : ' nue, where the Fifth Avenue Drug Company is now located. On this par- 'Hark, 'tis the shrill trumpet calling, -ticular occasion the managers were It pierceth the soft summer air, *Capt. De la Mesa is supposed to have come And a tear from each comrade is fall- from Brooklyn, N. Y., and to have been a ing,- ndtive of Spain. He had a daughter, Miss The widow and orphan are there; Lella de la Mesa, who married A. C. Fetterolf, of Upper Montclair. N. J. At the time of her The bayonets earthward are turning marriage, the family wrote to Rome for a And the drums' muffled sound rolls picture of the old Freedmen's Bureau, and the around, request was complied with by Mrs. Ed Harris. Capt. de la Mesa died a good many yeaTs ago. Rut hears not the voice of their and it is understood that his widow remarried. mourning, **Quite a while after the war, the GOV- ernment sent a representative to Rome to as- Nor awakes to the shrill bugle sound. sess the damage done the First Baptist church. Hearings were held at this institution, and 'Sleep, soldier, though many regret some spicy comments were made by the women ' thee who testified, notably Mrs. Eben Hillyer. An award of about $600 was recommended to Who stand by thy cold bier today, Washington, and this amount paid the church. Soon, soon will the kindest forget thee, And thy name from the earth pass tremendous crowd gathered and sul- away; lenly watched their friends and their The man thou didst love as a brother, enemies go away. De la Mesa turned A friend. -in thy place will have back at Kingston. He had obtained gained, the services of another company or Thy dog will keep watch for another part thereof somewhere, and these And thy steed by a stranger be escorted him back to Rome, and for reined. several days kept watch over him and his bureau, until the excitement had 'Though many now mourn for thee subsided. Henry A. Smith, bookseller sadly, who had lost an arm in the war, was Soon joyous as ever shall be, due to have been arrested, too, but he Thy bright orphan boy will laugh had prudently gone to visit relatives glad1y up the Etowah river. The women, As he sits on some kind comrade's also, it was rumored, would be held knee; as traitors. There is one who will still pay the duty "Col. Mitchell got on the train with Of tears to the true and the brave, the intention of going to Savannah to As first in the bloom of her beauty, protest with Judge Erskine, of the She knelt by her boy soldiers' grave!' Federal Court. Instead, he wired Judge Erskine from Atlanta. The "Miss Ford stepped from behind the two got into touch with Gen. John arras and sang 'The Jacket of Gray,' Pope, commander of the district, and and as she concluded, with the line a release order came within three 'Fold it up carefully, lay it aside!' weeks. However, the order did not she lifted a soiled and thread-bare coat forestall serious indignities to the into full view of the audience. A captives, who had been confined in a shower of applause followed. The de miserable pen or cage. They were la Mesas boiled over, and trudged out taunted and cursed by their captors, of the hall, to the accompaniment of who prodded with bayonets gifts of a perfect chorus of boos and cat-calls, sweetmeats sent by relatives and sym- and a shrill defi flung above the tumult pathizing friends, and forced them to by a young 'Rebel,' 'Go it; that's not eat the poorly prepared food that had the first time you ever ran from that been provided for them. flag!' "A telegram announced the release to " 'Della Meezer, lemon squeezer !' Romans, and a huge crowd welcomed shouted an impertinent little boy. the boys at the station, and a supper "This 'good riddance of bad rub- at the City Hall softened the sting of bish' (as the players expressed it) their humiliation and enabled them to was thought to have ended the inci- chalk up the event as one of fate's dent, but not so. Capt. de la Mesa weird pranks." sent a hot message to headquarters in Atlanta, making a charge of high trea- Mrs. Hiram Hill adds the following: son, and requesting a company of sol- "Our home in the Fourth Ward had diers to spirit away the culprits. In been divested of its sides, blinds, the meantime, the Federal commander doors, plastering and everything that liad recognized all the offenders and the Union soldiers could tear down or had clapped handcuffs on each and carry away, and we had gone to live marched them to the guard room in the at the old Buena Vista Hotel, south- courthouse between files of troopers west corner of Broad and Sixth Ave- with fixed bayonets. Several of the nue, where Seale & Floyd's garage and young women went to the 'prison' to a grocery store now are. My father con sol^ the boys, and one of them, un- owned this place and occupied a small accustomed to Federal uniforms, asked one-story house on the west side of cpite audibly, 'Do all these dogs wear it as his law office. Mrs. de la Mesa collars?' The cordon around the pris- had been coming to the hotel from next oners was only drawn the tighter. door to give instructions to a Rome ''After the boys had spent a night woman who was sewing for her, and thus, a company of 59 soldiers from when I saw her after my brother's Atlanta appeared at the Rome rail- arrest, I told her to get out of the road station, marched up Broad Street hotel and stay out. She sent me with bayonets fixed, and escorted the word that she would march me up 'prisoners' and Capt. de la Mesa to and down Broad Street in charge of the station, where they caught the two soldiers and under a United States next train for the state capital. A flag. I defied her to try it, and she THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU ON BROAD STREET. This structure. still standing near Sixth Avenue, was the headquarters of Capt. Chas. A. de le Mesa during the Civil Ward Capt. de la Mema participated in a number of hair raising episodes. Rome's oldest brick building is at the right. never did. There would have been a "I am glad to see you, Col. Pen- lot more trouble in Rome, Ga. nington," declared Col. Smith, "but I "I suppose Capt. de la Mesa was sent for Col. Shorter." carrying out orders and ruled sternly Col. Pennington delivered the mes- for that reason. He and his wife im- sage promptly a second time, and it pressed me as people of refinement, was 24 hours before Col. Shorter found and I was especially struck with her it convenient to come. When he ar- beauty and the style of her clothes." rived, Col. Smith raised himself on his * * * left elbow, and with his right hand A DRAMATIC SCENE. -When reached under his pillow. Col. Shorter William Smith entered his last illness drew back and Col. Pennington step- in January, 1852, he summoned several ped between them. During one of friends whom he wished to transact Col. Smith's naps Mrs. Smith, the certain business matters for him re- wife, had removed his pistol. lating to his property in Rome. While "Alfred Shorter, you are a rascal!" they were still with him in the cot- shouted Col. Smith, the old-tixe fire tage on Howard Street where he died, flashing from his small, black eyes. he raised himself to his feet by hold- "This is a fine time to come to see ing to his chair, and said: a man-on his death bed!" "Gentlemen, you will have to help Shortly before noon the next day, me to my bed. I have done all that Jan. 27, Col. Smith died. Only a few I can do for myself." days before, his grandson, William They assisted him, and when he was Cephas, had been born to Dr. and Mrs. comfortably stretched out, he con- Robt. Battey. tinued: The Widow Baldwin, whom Col. "I am not a member of any church, Shorter had married at Monticello, but I have done the best I could in placed at his disposal $40,000 in cash, this life. Whatever I have had has a handsome fortune in those days of belonged to the people of this commu- low values. Col. Shorter brought this nity. No man has ever been turned to Rome with him at the instance of away hungry from my door if I had Col. Smith, and invested it in the land anything to divide with him. which Col. Smith had acquired, and "You gentlemen know that I have made certain improvements thereon. served this section, and if my body is Col. Smith's energy and Col. Shorter's of any use to science, I ask you to long business head made an ideal take it when I am gone." ccmbination, and their partnership Col. Smith had waited for Col. Al- interests grew rapidly. After the fred Shorter to come, so they could Civil War, Col. Shorter settled have a settlement with respect to the with Mrs. Battey, the daughter, for property they owned equally. Col. $10,000 'cash, and took her receipt. Shorter sent his representative, Col. It was a satisfactory ending of an C. M. Pennington, to see Col. Smith. unfortunate affair, and left Col. Shorter free to conserve his part, England Society of New York, N. Y., most of which went to Shorter College Dec. 22, 1886, is well known. At for the education of young women of Rome on this occasion, however, he ap- the South." pears to have struck his original "New :i: * * South" note, as follows: HENRY W. GRADY AT ROME.- As a youth, Henry Woodfin Grady "Every citizen of Cherokee Georgia had visited his uncle, Henry A. Gart- has long been convinced that our min- rell, in Rome, and thence had gone eral resources are unsurpassed, and to see another branch of his family all that was wanting was for some- at Floyd Springs."" Capt. Gartrell re- one to make a start, and induce men moved to Athens in 1865, after hav- of means to come among, to aid in ing served Rome as mayor in 1859-60. developing the same. . . . Our broth- Pleasant recollections of Rome and a ers of the quill will now have some- chance visit with the Georgia Press thing interesting to write about and excursion in 1869 caused Mr. Grady for a while, at least, will devote their to anchor his quill, paste pot and time to something more substantial shears at the foot of Tower Hill for than politics, and of infinitely more three years. advantage to our bankrupt people. It Col. E. Hulbert, superintendent of is refreshing to see men of all politi- the W. & A. (state) Railroad, had in- cal shades quietly traveling together, vited the Georgia press to send rep- and for once making a united effort resentatives for an excursion into to forget political differences, and to Southeastern Tennessee, Northwest lend their efforts to the more laudable Georgia and Northeastern Alabama, to cause of developing the great wealth write up the natural resources of that nature had bestowed upon us. those sections. The excursion started Cuffee for once has been forgotten. from Atlanta at 7 a. m., Wednesday, The splendid scenery of our moun- August 25, 1869. At Cartersville the tains and valleys, with the battlefields, members were addressed on the sub- which give us a prominent place in ject of minerals, agriculture and the history, has made a deep ,impression new railroad to Van Wert, Polk upon the minds of all, and proclaims County, by Mark A. Cooper, grand- in thunder tones what men will do father of J. Paul Cooper and father when pressed to the wall. Mutual of John Frederick Cooper, of Rome. forbearance seems to exist, and we Thence they went to Chattanooga, 100 predict that in future a better state strong. Then they turned southward, of sentiment and feeling will prevail." and arrived at Rome via the Rome At this time, maybe, Grady made Railroad, on their special train, at arrangements to work for The Cour- 1:30 a. m., Friday, Sept. 3. ier. The preliminaries may have been True to the spirit of newspaper en- started by letter a while before. At terprise, young Grady, then only 19, any rate, he soon came back. rushed to the sanctum of Editor Mel- At 3 p. m., after a speech by Mayor ville Dwinell, of the Rome Weekly Zach Hargrove and a serenade by a Courier. The hour was unearthly, yet brass band and dinner at the Choice the editor had remained at his desk to House, the party left for a trip down "cover" the momentous event of the the Coosa River on the Steamboat arrival of the excursionists. Capt. Etowah as the guests of Col. Wade Dwinell stated that he had left a col- S. Cothran. After inspecting the umn open. Mr. Grady declared a col- Round Mountain and Cornwall, Ala., umn would hardly start the story he iron works, they came back to Rome bore, so Capt. Dwinell side-tracked Sunday on the Etowah, put up at the some of his livest news and no doubt Choice House and Monday morning at a few advertisements. Mr. Grady had 9 left by rail for Selma, Ala. Wed- been writing his "yarn" on the train. nesday morning at 6:30 the editors re- He continued it for an hour, and for turned to Rome, had breakfast at the good measure threw in an optimistic Choice House and departed two hours editorial squib. A faithful printer later for Atlanta, where the "junket" hand-set type the balance of the night - and The Courier woke up the citizens *Col. Pennington was authority for the por- with Mr. Grady's remarkable narra- tion of the above narrative relating to the pistol; he told the story to Judge John C. tive. It was a sample of journalistic Printup. Mrs. Robt. Battey was authority for endeavor to which the quiet Hill City the statement that Col. Smith sent for Col. had not been accustomed. Shorter to make a settlement, and that the $10.000 was later paid to her. Grady's wonderful speech, "The **Doyle A. Moore, of Rome, is kin to the New South," delivered before the New Gradys through this branch. ended. On both these stops Mr. Grady off the limb in a squib of Sept. 10, fraternized with Editor Dwinell. 1869: The impelling reason why Grady "We are compelled by pressure upon went to Rome lies largely in the realm our space to abbreviate and condense of surmise. The lad was possessed of the report of the Press Excursion pro- a proud spirit which he called ambi- ceedings. Neither the editors nor the tion and which a handful of sniping proprietors of this paper were pres- contemporaries, less talented, might ent." have called bumptiousness. He was Wow! that should hold any young precocious to the extent that he had man, no matter how brilliant or pro- become an orator in his knee pants, gressive, in entirely reasonable bounds. and he was made to suffer more than "Damn 'em, I'll fix 'em!'' muttered once because he pitted his skill against Henry, who had been introduced by V. older competitors. Through a politi- A. Gaskell, of the Atlanta New Era, cal deal at the University of Virginia and J. S. Peterson, of the Atlanta In- he had suffered a keen disappoint- telligencer, as the Constitution's "rep- ment, and it is likely that in associat- resentative" on the editors' jaunt. He ing himself as "free-lance" corre- shot a wad of his copy at Melville spondent with the Atlanta Constitu- Dwinell, editor of the Rome Weekly tion he was inviting rebuffs that his Courier, over the signature "Zip!' Ed- gifts did not warrant. The Constitu- itor Dwinell ate his contributions with tion's editor was Col. Carey W. Styles, a relish; sometimes they ran several an experienced journalist, who, by the columns long, but it was good read- way, had been involved in the Yacht ing, and it landed Henry a nice job. Wanderer affair nine years before at He put over three columns Sept. 3, Savannah. Col. Styles had sat up with and duplicated with three a week legislators at Milledgeville before later-quite a contribution to a four- Henry Grady had ever thought of page newspaper. them, hence when the dashing young collegian essayed to pass voluminous Right proudly did Capt. Dwinell editorial sentence on a governor or a pave the way for the young literary congressman, it was out of the ques- crusader under date of Friday, Sept. tion. 10, 1869: Grady was trying to marry. He "To the Readers of the Courier: was fired with ambition to take the With this issue of our paper we pre- lead in molding public opinion. He sent Mr. Henry W. Grady in the ca- enjoyed writing "from the street and pacity of associate editor. The vigor, hustings," but he preferred the dignity versatility and polish of his pen has of a job at a desk. Brain work was recently been exhibited in his corre- one thing to Henry Grady, and "leg spondence for the Atlanta Constitution work" another. The Constitution was over the nom de plume of 'King Hans,' a new concern, having been founded and we may reasonably hope with his in the summer of 1868, had a full assistance to materially increase the staff, and could not find a regular interest of these columns. Feeling con- place for him yet awhile. Further- fident that this effort to interest and more, Henry was ambitious enough to please will be succdssful, we let Mr. believe that what he was writing, Grady make his own bow to the pub- mostly of a political nature, was just lic.-M. Dwinell." about as important as anything in the paper, and had as much right to Mr. Grady's bow follows: "front page" position as the other "The above notice renders necessary stuff they were printing. He believed the infliction of a salutatory upon that an excursion of the state's lead- you. We shall be as brief as possible. ing editors was a big news event, and We are young and without editorial was worth writing columns every day, judgment or experience, yet we hope perhaps. Consequently, he wielded a that the enthusiasm with which we en- loquacious pen. The Constitution's tel- ter upon our new profession and the egraph tolls became enormous when constant labor with which we are de- Press Excursion news started from termined to bend to our work may par- Cartersville and continued through tially, at least, atone for these de- Chattanooga and Rome. Henry was ficiencies. shooting readable material, but they "The Courier shall be in the future, couldn't see it at the office; they cut so far as our management is concern- his dqpe to the bone and dropped ed, devoted as. it has been in the past his pen name, "King Hans." In the a to the dissemination of useful and in- following fashion did they knock him teresting information, to the bold as- sertion and maintenance of correct po- large and open receptacle. Oh, his litical opinions and to the development face is tremendously delusive! of the best interests of the commu- "We were presented to him, and nity. went to the presentation primed with "We enter the editorial ranks of the about a dozen pardon proclamations, state with ill feeling toward none, but and about three of his reports on the with kindness toward all. We shall condition of Georgia. We had serious- cheerfully and with vigor co-operate ly contemplated taking a friend along with the press in the furtherance of to prevent the murderous onslaught, any project which tends toward good, which we were afraid our outraged and we shall endeavor with courtesy feelings would urge us to make upon and politeness to adjust nicely any dif- the Accident when introduced to it. ferences of opinion which may arise And lo! when the crisis came we found between us and any of our contem- ourself basking calmly beneath his ra- poraries. diant countenance like a rose beneath "Begging in conclusion that the an April sky. A clear voice saluted justice you render us may be tempered us with a dreamy kind of tenderness, with mercy, we don our harness and and we found ourself exclaiming, enter the lists. 'Surely this man ,is not our enemy!' "Most respectfully yours, "We looked for the famous 'sinister expression' which, according to novel- "HENRY W. GRADY." ists. invariablv resides about the nose The young journalist's "bold asser- and eyes of a villain. But we found tion of correct political opinions" found it not; the nose possessed a very mild expression in the same issue of The curvative, and the eyes were gushing Courier in the following editorial with cheery good humor. Instantly, as broadside leveled at Governor Rufus a last resort, we had to commence B. Bullock, who also was a guest on recounting his crimes, in order to pro- the Press Excursion: tect ourself against his blandish- ments, and actually had to come down "His Accidencg."-" 'We were de- to the appointment of Foster Blodgett lighted with Governor Bullock-he is before we could sufficiently hate him the right man in the right place, and to satify our Democratic conscience. will do all that any man could do to How deep down and how effectually restore Georgia to her former condi- does this man hide his rascality! tion of peace and prosperity.' "-Talla- "So much the more dangerous is he. dega Sun. No man who visits him, without about "The above tribute to the accident one-third of his political villainies full that now occupies the Gubernatorial in view, is safe. Beware, then, of this Chair, though clipped from a Radical mermaid with a siren voice-he will paper and written by a Radical re- laugh welcome in your face, and then porter, whose official duty it was to pardon the brute that ravished your become enamored of the Accident and sister. He is far more dangerous than all of his party, has a considerable Swayze-though the latter is his supe- significance notwithstanding. rior in force-for in the eye of the lat- ter there is a warning that puts us "The truth of the matter is that upon guard. any man who knows nothing of Bul- lock's political filthiness will inevit- "A child is never hurt by a poison- ably become 'delighted with him,' etc. ous toad; it is the bright serpent, with We have never, in the whole course of its spots of purple and gold, that our life, seen a man who was gifted charms and slays him. We do not with so great an amount of beguiling fear the uncouth ruffian that is with blarney as is this man. Present him hideous leer distorted, but the soft and to a Democrat and the sweetness of supple gentleman scoundrel that 'can his countenance is absolutely appall- smile and smile, and play the villain ing; infinite smiles ripple over his still.' " cheeks and break in soft laughter on Other public officials on the Press his lips; a thousand and one benevo- Excursion escaped the darts of young lent sparkles are beamed from his Mr. Grady. They included Mayor Hul- eyes; his nostrils play with kindly pal- sey, of Atlanta, Comptroller General pitations, and-believe me, for I tell Madison Bell, R. L. McWhorter, speak- ye the truth-his whiskers resolve er of the house; and Senators Smith, themselves into a standing committee Candler and Nunnally. to invite you just to walk down into Evidently the following item Grady his heart and take a place in that wrote for The Courier on Friday, Sep- tember 10, was prompted by a pang leaving The Courier July 31, 1870, to of conscience : assume the proprietorship of the Rome "We hereby announce to our read- Weekly Commercial. So quietly had ers that we shall not say another his plans been laid that his name ap- word about the Press Excursion. We peared on the masthead of The Cour- enjoyed it and 'developed' everything ier as associate editor and on the mast- we saw, and now we are done with it. head of The Commercial as editor on Not another remark shall we make the same date. about it. If information about it is Capt. Dwinell then wrote: wanted by any who may not have seen our notices as yet, we refer them to "To the Patrons of The Courier:- our back files." By the following card it will be seen It is significant that on the same that a change has been made in the day Grady penned the following in re- associate editorship of this paper. The sponse to a jibe from the Savannah relations of the paper with Mr. Grady, who now retires from The Courier to News: take charge of The Commercial, have "This excellent but sometimes impru- been entirely pleasant and we regret dent newspaper makes a bold attack to lose his valuable services. We wish upon us concerning an article of ours him abundant success in his new field on the Press Excursion. We would of labor. Col. B. F. Sawyer, for some answer the charges contained therein, time past editor of the Rome Daily, but we promised our readers in our a gentleman of high literary reputa- last issue not to write anything more tion and considerable editorial experi- concerning the excursion. To this ence, takes his place. We have no promise our contemporary owes ,its fu- doubt The Courier will be fully sus- ture salvation. For, were our hands tained in its previous position as a not bound by that promise, we would readable newspaper." just tear The News all to pieces! So return thanks, Brother Thompson, for Col. Sawyer's salutatory reads thus: your narrow escape." "I this day assume editorial control As a reporter he showed the same of The Courier. It shall be my con- enterprise and aptitude as in his ed- stant aim to sustain The Courier in itorial work. On Nov. 12, 1869, he published this: "Fights, Robberies, Shooting.-A sable son of Africa was tickled by a bullet from the pistol of Col. Sam Stewart, because he struck Col. Stew- art. Another African was perforated in four places, through the arm and shoulder, by a leaden messenger from Col. Stewart-cause, not known. "A Mr. Neph was robbed of $500 in money and a $1,000 check last night by a thief who entered his room at the Choice House. "A few episodical but very interest- ing fights took place last night among the 'boys.' No serious damage report- ed. Mr. C. W. Nowlin was robbed of his watch and chain Wednesday night. There were many other fights, rob- beries and drunks which happened around loose that we wot not of, and that deserve no mention in this paper. Verily, Rome is getting to be as nice a city as Atlanta." Although Mr. Grady was fond of Capt. Dwinell, he chafed at the su- pervision over his copy and destinies in The Courier office; it is also re- lated that he became irritated that HENRY WOODFIN GRADY. .orator, who he was not allowed to expose a petty started his ~ournalisticcareer In Rome ana local political ring, so we find him brought his bride there to reside. the high position of popular favor it combination of his first name and the has heretofore enjoyed. Should I suc- last name of his sweetheart in Ath- ceed in this, I shall be contented, and ens, to whom we can fancy hearing the patrons of The Courier can ask him say: no more.'' "Well, Julia, I will use your name Mr. Grady wrote: with mine, since you will not let me "To the Patrons of The Courier: change it for a while." Having been called to another field of Henry worked industriously; he labor, my connection with The Cour- could afford matrimony, or thought he ier ceases with this issue. I will say could, in the fall of 1871, and so they nothing of the sadness I feel in break- were married, and came to the old ing loose from the old Courier-noth- Wood home, at the northwest corner ing of the honest courtesy and kind- of Broad Street and Sixth Avenue, to ness of the proprietor, who has been reside. Some say they lived first at my friend and counsellor through thick the southeast corner of Third Avenue and thin;- because these things be- and East First Street, where the of- long not to the public, nor do they in- fice of the Harbin Hospital now terest the public. But I feel that I stands. At any rate, Henry had been would be lacking in gratitude did I "hatching it" here and there, and at not express my thanks to those of you one time had boarded with Mrs. W. who have encouraged me with your W. Watters; and his first cousin, Wm. kind words and approving patronage C. Grady, Roman in the iron business, during this, the first year of my ed- had boarded there at the same time. itorial life. Tendering you my most A Roman who had been his roommate sincere acknowledgments, I remain, at Athens also acted as a groomsman "Yours very truly, at his wedding-Col. Hamilton Yan- cey. Another Roman, Rev. George T. "HENRY W. GRADY." Goetchius, pastor of the First Pres- Henry Grady and his younger broth- byterian church, had been his class- er, Will $. Grady, ran The Daily Com- mate through four pleasant years. mercial* as editor and business man- The newspaper business is not al- ager, respectively. Associated with ways remunerative. The Gradys and them for part of this time was Col. Col. Shanklin had been publishing a J. F. Shanklin, the firm name being paper that in that day would be call- Grady Brothers & Shanklin. Some of ed "jam-up." They had bought it in Mr. Grady's best work appeared dur- July, 1870, from Mitchell A. Nevin, ing this period. Col. Sawyer was a who appeared to be glad to sell. Soon peppery old fellow, and he and Grady it was "jam-up" against the wall, so had many an epistolary interchange they poured it back into the jug. which old timers say came near re- Mitchell A. Nevin was willing to try sulting in a duel, but Mr. Grady's it again. diplomacy turned trouble into smiles. Just when the Gradys relinquished A free-hearted fellow was Henry hold is problematical. The Atlanta Grady. He gave liberally to old ne- Constitution recorded that on May 8, groes to get their anecdotes or stories 1872, Mr. Grady represented The Com- of their lives, and traversed many an mercial and Capt. Dwinell The Cour- untraveled thoroughfare to obtain a ier at the Press Convention in Atlan- glimpse of types which the average ta. Col. Carey W. Styles had gone man of his sphere seldom sees in their .in June, 1871, to the Albany News element. He had been accustomed to from the editorial chair of The Con- everything that money could buy, stitution, and had been succeeded by hence did not deny his friends any- Col. I. W. Avery, who later wrote an thing he could possibly bestow upon entertaining history of Georgia. On them. He was fond of candy, and so Nov. 5, 1872, The Constitution noted were the neighborhood children; so the sale of The Commercial by Grady was the blushing bride when she Brothers & Shanklin to Nevin & Co., finally arrived; a confectioner kept all and a coup-d'etat by Capt. Dwinell kinds near the newspaper office, so in announcing the addition of Major Henry would now and then run up a Chas. H. Smith (Bill Asp) to The bill of $15 or more. -Courier staff. The Nov. 10, 1872, is- It is noteworthy that, although he *This was Rome's first daily, and it was es- started using the nom de plume "King tablished by M. A. Nevin. A number bearing Hans" early in 1869, he did not ob- date of Friday. June 28, 1871, with the mast- head carrying the names of the Gradys as ed- tain real authority to do so until two itor and business manager and Col, Shanklin years later. This cognomen was a as managing editor, is still in existence. sue of the Atlanta Herald was vicious- used to visit a relative, a Mrs. Bal- ly attacked by The Constitution for its lenger, at Floyd Springs. A neighbor- "sensational New York journalism." hood story has it that on a trip across Since Mr. Grady started The Herald the Oostanaula after he had failed to soon after his removal from Rome, it catch any fish he had found a net full is more than likely that he left the that belonged to a farmer living near- Hill City and was presiding over the by. Going to Farmer Corntassel's destinies of the new Atlanta paper at house, he said, 'My friend, I have this time. taken your fish and I want you to In leaving Rome, this adventurous take my dollar. I know better than young journalist and budding orator to go home without any fish.' He hail managed to elude a battery of bill col- great consideration for older people, lectors and bailiffs by giving up his and spent much time talking to de- trunk. The trunk was finally re- crepit darkies, from whom he received leased and put in storage several many inspirations for editorials." months; John Webb, a friend, paid the A. Rawlins, former mayor of North storage charges and sent Henry his Rome, and father-in-law of Chas. T. trunk and "wardrobe." The wedding Jervis, relates the following anecdote : silver escaped, for it had gone tem- "I came down from North Rome one porarily with Mrs. Grady to the home day to pay my subscription to Mr. of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Battey at the Grady's paper when his office was easternmost end of First Avenue. Hard about the middle of the Hotel Forrest lines for the young couple, just start- block on Broad. I found him standing ing life's struggle, but they never gave in a stairway and I announced my in- up, and lived to speak in a philosophi- tention. He looked at me hard and cal and humorous vein of their early said: 'Mr. Rawlins, you say you experiences. came to pay a subscription?' Henry was persistently hounded by " 'Yes.' this motley pack, to the point where his friends claim he was literally run "'Do you really mean that you vol- away from Rome-to make famous an- untarily want to pay a subscription to other town. These incidents did not this newspaper?' embitter him; they came to him as " 'That's right.' part of the game of life, and when the "'Then I must say that you are to years had removed from his memory be commended as the first man I have the grim faces of his nemesises, he met in this community who wanted to often commented on his pleasant recol- do that. I have worn out $49 worth lections of the sublimated Seven Hills. of shoe leather calling on the others.' " From the top of the editorial and Chas. W. Morris, real estate deal- oratorical perch, with the plaudits of er of 300 W. Fifth Avenue and father the thousands ringing in his ears and of Paul I. Morris, tells this story: his own image deeply graven on their "When I was a youngster, Henry hearts, it was truly a retrospective pic- Grady used to buy two cakes of soap. ture in a golden frame. He thought every now and then and take me of the time when he used to scribble down to the wash-hole at the foot of' news notes on his cuffs, which neces- Fourth Avenue, Etowah River, and go sitated changing shirts every day ; in washing with me. He was chunky when "Uncle Remus" came unan- and a good swimmer, but not much on nounced to Rome and found him rid- diving. This was the shallow place ing a "flying Jenny;" when he bought where the downtown boys used to wade a dozen pairs of scissors and set every- across after a session of play at the body in the office to clipping an ar- Gammon home nearby. Mr. Grady also ticle out of each copy of the paper went in at Seventh Avenue on the in order not to offend a lady. Oostanaula. Before he married he had Rome reciprocated this feeling of a room upstairs near the newspaper love by sending a beautiful wreath plant, on Broad Street in the HoteI May 24, 1921, to Atlanta to adorn his Forrest block." monument as orators extolled him; and Judge Max Meyerhardt relates this: Romans reciprocate it every day of their lives. "Mr. Grady was editor, reporter and + * 9 everything that his brother Will (bus- iness manager) wasn't. He wore white ROME STORIES OF GRADY.- shirts that he changed every 24 hours Mrs. Samuel C. Whitmire, of New because his cuffs were full of news- York, N. Y., formerly of Everett paper notes taken during the day. He Springs, tells this one: "Mr. Grady was liberal, even extravagant, and did not develop much business ability in under his arms for a parade. He has Rome; he and his bride were fond of been dressing up and cutting up ever candy, and he often owed an indulgent since. confectioner $15 at a time. He was Comrade Treadaway told a story on literally run out of town by bailiffs the Grady brothers that brought a serving attachments on him, and they laugh. even seized his trunk when he left for "Henry and Will had some prop- Atlanta." erty in Athens, and Henry sent Will J. A. Rounsaville remembers him from Rome to sell it. Will sold it and well because of an unusual incident: passed through Atlanta. When he re- "My brother Wes' and I were conduct- turned to Rome, Henry said, 'Well, did ing our warehouse and grocery busi- you sell the land?' ness when Mr. Grady came by and asked us to give him an advertisement. " 'Yep.' We told him good-naturedly that his " 'Where's the money?' old paper couldn't sell any more goods "'In the bank at Atlanta?' than we could, and that on general " 'What bank?' principles we didn't believe in adver- tising. He went away without say- " 'They called it the Faro Bank."' ing any more sbout it, and the next Romans played a leading part in day we were treated to a deluge of Mr. Grady's funeral, Dec. 25, 1889, in cats: every small boy in town, it seem- Atlanta. Gen. Clement A. Evans and ed, brought from one to six cats, and the Rev. J. W. Lee, former pastors when we asked them why they came, of the First Methodist Church of they said we had advertised in The Rome, headed the funeral procession Commercial. We bought a paper and to DeGive's Opera House, where John found a small 'want ad' saying, 'Will Temple Graves, then a Rome editor, pay good cash price for cats.-Rounsa- was one of the speakers. Montgomery ville & Bro.' We sent for Mr. Grady M. Folsom and Frank L. Stanton, and told him it was his duty to stop Rome journalists, wrote poems to Mr. the applications. He said he could Grady's memory, and the late Rev. G. do that only by inserting a half-page A. Nunnally, father of Judge W. J. ad. We replied, 'All right, but put in Nunnally, and then president of Mer- the center of it that we don't want any cer University, pronounced the bene- more cats !' " diction at a memorial ineeting held in "Uncle Steve" Eberhart, the slavery Macon.-Feb. 7, 1921. time darkey character who entertains GRADY AS "CORRESPONDENT." thousands at the convention of Con- -The following letter to the Rome federate Veterans and is a regular weekly shows Henry Grady in a new member of Floyd County Camp 368, role : revealed in dramatic fashion Feb. 5, "Macon, Ga., Nov. 17, 1869. 1921, at the camp meeting in the base- "Dear Courier: Arrived here safe. I ment of the Carnegie library that he found it storming heavily, but soon used to be Henry Grady's valet while after our arrival it cleared off beauti- the great orator and former Roman fully and at the present writing the was a student at the University of moon finds her full face reflected from Georgia at Athens. a thousand rapidly evaporating pud- When Mr. Grady's name was men- dles that dot the streets. All will be tioned, "Uncle Steve" jumped to his delightful in the morning. feet, shouted and clapped his hands, "The city is jammed; every profes- hugged himself until he grunted, and sion or handicraft in the world has then exclaimed as tears rolled down many and vigorous representatives his cheeks: here, from the editorial profession "Lordy, white folks, I had the extin- down to the profession of pickpocket- guished honor to dust off Mr. Grady's ical-especially the latter. The gam- coat and black his shoes. He thought blers, the respectable, genteel class of er whole lot of your yumble servant." gamblers, are in full force and atro- "Uncle Steve" was "in college" with ciously energetic. the younger Ben Hill and a long list "In company with certain other edi- of noted men. He lived in Athens un- tors, we paid a visit to a fancily fur- til the dispensary times, he said, and nished saloon, wherein these old gen- then sought a better town, so settled try plied their craft. The fascination in Rome. In Rome he fell in with that these places are said to possess the veterans, put on a stove-pipe hat, was speedily dispelled as far as your and tucked two frying-sized chickens humble servant is concerned. I fol-

lowed my companions from table to he said, 'Well, I killed as many of table; in no case did I see a single man them as they did of me, and so I'm win save those who were evidently going to work!' A Confederate soldier connected with the establishment. returning home after defeat and roast- Teaching Sunday School in the north ing some corn on the roadside, said . of Patagonia may be a profitable to his comrades, 'You may leave the pecuniary venture, but I feel no hesi- South if you want to, but I'm going to tancy in asserting that gambling is Sandersville, kiss my wife and raise not. Among the devotees of the tables a crop, and if the Yankees fool with I noticed many faces that I had seen me any more, I'll whip 'em again!' I migrating through Rome about the want to say to Gen. Sherman, who is season of our fair. considered an able man in our parts, "As I did not get back here till after though some people think he is kind dark, I can report nothing interesting of careless about fire, that from the save the cardinal facts which have al- ashes he left us in 1864 we have built ready been given you by the telegrams. a brave and beautiful city; that some- "The Georgia Press is largely repre- how or other we have caught the sun- sented-almost every paper in the shine in the bricks and mortar of our state. Joe Brown, the fragrant; Bul- homes and have builded therein not one lock, the bewitching; McWhorter, the ignoble prejudice or memory !"** accident; Hampton, the chivalric; Cap- *** ron, the Commissioner; and Gordon, AN OLD TIMER.-Virgil A. Stew- the Governor, are ,in this house, and art, son of the late Samuel Stewart, figured conspicuously in the parlor to- Rome's first marshal before the Civil night. War, and grandfather of our own Capt. "Men who have attended fairs for Henry J. Stewart, favored us with a years say they never saw a larger call at the office yesterday afternoon crowd than is gathered here now. that was greatly appreciated. Mr. Thousands of ladies, plenty of shows. Stewart was born Jan. 24, 1836, at enough to eat, too much to do, and Rome, consequently is 85 years of age more anon. and remembers more than most people "KING HANS." around here. He is one of the two surviving members of the Rome Light (Henry W. Grady.) Guards who went out to fight for the "P. S.-The unanimous opinion is Confederacy in April, 1861, the other that there is a radical and shameful being B. James Franks, of Armuchee. mismanagement of all things pertain- Mr. Franks was a recruit, so that ing to said institution. The arrange- leaves "Virge" as the last surviving inents are huge, but unwieldly; im- charter member. mense, but muddled. . . . I heard a He is a nephew of his uncle name- man exclaim this morning while try- sake, the late Virgil A. Stewart, of ing to get his goods entered. 'Oh, if Lawrenceville, who under the guise of we had them Joneses from the Rome an "outlaw" joined the band of John Fair we'd get things straightened A. Murrell and captured that notorious out !' Sensible. A villainous store- character at the Mississippi River in keeper today refused to take Rome Arkansas. Murrell's gang operated money.* What. must be done with through the South, as far as Florida, him? before the removal of the Indians to "One of the prettiest and most hope- the west, and the Indians got the credit ful features of the fair is that the for many of their villainies. One of exhibitors all show an anxiety to get their hang-outs in Georgia was at Jug their advertisements in The Courier. Tavern, now Winder, county seat of Success will attend such sensible men! Bartow County. Murrell's capture re- Rome has many representatives here. sulted in a trial in Tennessee which Messrs. Noble and Cohen are attract- put him in the penitentiary for life at ing considerable attention. Nashville, and he died there. The "K. H." original Virgil A. Stewart went to Mississippi before the Civil War and HENRY GRADY TO GENERAL warned the people of a contemplated SHERMAN.-On Dec. 22, 1886, at a insurrection among the negroes. banquet of the New England Society -When asked how old he was, Rome's at New York, at which Gen. Wm. *This must have been some of the printing T. Sherman sat at the speakers' table, press money issued by Mayor Zach Hargrove Henry W. Grady declared: in 1869 to relieve a local stringency. **Sherman joined in the general tumult pro- " 'Bill Arp' struck the keynote when voked by these remarks. Virgil A. Stewart replied that he was William Smith, and she had seen deer "thirteen." Somebody in the office jump the fences while the dogs chased remarked that he could pass for 60 them. Her deer became enraged on easily enough, which seemed to please one occasion, attacked a woman and him greatly. He said he did it living had to be shot. out .in the open, '(catching water moc- * * * casins, eels and fish" from the rivers READY WIT OF THE UNDER- of Rome. WOODS.-Many clever stories are "I see by the paper," remarked Mr. told of the "absolution" with which Stewart, "that Judge George Ijarris, the late Judge John W. H. Under- of the Flat Woods, thinks he can walk wood, Congressman from Rome before anybody down in a day that ain't less the Civil War and noted humorist and than 70. You can just tell him for me wit, dominated jury and bar. Rome that if he talks much like that I'll lawyers of the old school like Judge take him up the river banks and back Joel Branham, Judge G. A. H. Harris again in a way he won't forget!" and Frank Copeland remember well Mr. Stewart relates how a big crowd his fine sarcasm, his rare good nature gathered about the year 1835 to see and the quickness of his intellect. two Indians hung on Broad Street A lawyer whose client had "gone up near Ninth Avenue, Somebody that the spout-guilty" asked Judge Un- wanted to see the spectacle lugged derwood for a light sentence. because him along, although he was only two the defendant was somewhat dull, to years old. The Indians were Barney which the Judge replied: "Then it Swimmer and Terrapin, convicted of will take a heavy penalty to make an killing a pale face named Ezekiel impression on him," and gave the man Blatchford (or Braselton). They were the limit. strung from a piece of timber laid At a meeting in Pittsburg of the across two limbs, and for a long time Tariff Commission to which President afterward the tree bore notches to Arthur in 1882 appointed Judge Un- show the spot. derwood, a Mr. Butler stated that pro- Mr. Stewart is authority for the fol- tection would increase the number of lowing statements: furnaces and thus reduce the price of He was at one time, at 2 years of pig iron. "Then," queried Judge Un- age, the only boy in Rome; Arthur derwood, "you want a high tariff so Hood started the first newspaper, and you can sell your product at a low Howard Jack and a Mr. Walker fol- price?" lowed him; William Smith owned the first ferry, which served DeSoto, the At another time the elder Under- peninsula and Hillsboro (South Rome) wood wrote to a friend: "I cheerfully at the head of the Coosa, and hired recommend my son, John, for the job William H. Adkins, Sr., to build him of Solicitor General. He has more the first steamboat, and Matt and ambition for office and fewer qualifi- Overton Hitchcock to erect the first cations than any man I ever saw!" bridge, a covered affair, where the A story is told locally which illus- Fifth Avenue bridge now stands. trates the fine sense of humor and the Smith owned the land where the Al- quick perception of Judge John W. H. fred Shorter (D. B. Hamilton) home Underwood. A Rome man who was in is on the Alabama road, and kept a a financial tight went to Judge Under- crib of corn open to the poor. He built wood to obtain his endorsement. on the hill across the Alabama road "If you will sign my note I will go from the spring nearby. John Smith, to the bank and get $300," stated the a brother, went to California during caller. the gold epidemic and died there. Chas. Smith, another brother, moved to Cass "Just make it $600," shot back Judge (Bartow) county and died there. Underwood, "I need that much my4 self ." Mr. Stewart says deer used to run wild through the woods around Rome Judge Nisbet wrote of the elder Un- in the thirties, and that Jim Ragan derwood, who was the block of which shot one near the Etowah River and the son was a chip: "Judge Un- the foot of Third Avenue, about the derwood, the elder, was a greater wit location of the John W. Maddox place, than Sheridan, but unfortunately, he in front of the old J. A. Gammon had no Boswell to write his biogra- home spot. phy or Constitution reporter to pub- Mrs. Robert Battey used to have a lish what he said. He was once en- pet deer given her by her father, gaged in a case, and the judge, after charging very violently against him, ings came to Atlanta and sent out in- locked the jury up for the night and vitations asking any one interested to adjourned the court. After tea the meet with them and point out unjust Judge and Underwood were walking on discriminations as they saw them. the piazza of the hotel near the court- Judge J. W. H. Underwood was a mem- house, and heard quite a movement of ber of the commission. When the chairs and feet in the jury room, at board assembled in the convention hall which the judge remarked, 'I believe of the Kimball House they were greet- the jury have gone to prayers.' Un- ed by a single man, come to talk over derwaod said: 'I suspect so. Failing the tariff. For two hours or more he to get any light from your honor's fired question after question at the charge, they are seeking it from tariff experts, turned the 'evidence above.' " meeting' into a debate between himself Governor John B. Go.rdon wrote: and the board and showed those gen. "When Underwood lived in Elbert, a tlemen just what the situation was in man was abusing him roundly, and the South. ended by saying, 'Yes, sir, and I un- "'What is your name?' asked the derstand you were a Federalist!' To commission of the young man. this Judge Underwood replied: 'In "'I am Woodrow Wilson, a lawyer,' those times there were but two par- he answered. ties in this country:-Federalists and "Mr. Wilson was a practicing attor- fools. I was a Federalist and I never ney in Atlanta at the time of the visit heard you, sir, accused of being one.' " of the commission, having been there The following story is told of the possibly two years. elder Underwood : "Judge Underwood's wit was caustic "Cooahullie Creek, near Dalton, was at times. He once made the follow- swollen from rains and Judge Under- ing statement to which many persons wood and other' lawyers were trying lnay agree: 'Debt and death sound to reach a courthouse on the opposite very much alike, and there is but lit- side in buggies. The Judge hauled tie difference between them.' " up in front and was urged ,on by his UNDERWOOD'S FIRST FEE.- companions. He answered, 'No, it is Mrs. Florence Underwood Eastman re- appointed unto man once to die, but it lates how her father, the late Judge shall never be said of Wm. H. Under- Jno. W. H. Underwood, won his first wood that he was drowned in Cooa- "legal fee." Her grandfather, Judge hullie Creek.' " Wm. H. Underwood, had been commis- John T. Boifeuillet, of Macon, relates sioned by John Ross to attend to legal the following: matters connected with the removal of "In these prohibition times of court the Cherokee Indians westward. About trials of liquor violations it may be the same time, Rev. Jno. F. Schermer- apropos to tell of an incident that hap- horn, of Utica, N. Y., was sent to pened when Judge J. W. H. Underwood, Rome by the government as removal the celebrated Georgia wit, was on commissioner. A big pow-wow was the Superior Court bench. Certain held at the home of John Ridge, Cher- temperance regulations were in ex- okee Indian, at "Running Waters." istence. In the hearing of a liquor Near here the Cherokees held their case the defendant said he sold the Green Corn dances, at which the In- whisky on a doctor's prescription, dians would gather from miles around, which he was at the time holding in pin corn shuck aprons around their his hand. 'Let me see that paper,' waists, and tie shells containing peb- said the judge. It was handed to him, bles around their ankles and dance for and he read it aloud from the bench. hours. Mr. Schermerhorn and Judge Wm. " 'Let the bearer have one quart of H. Underwood opened the meeting whisky for sickness. July 19, 1835, and were preparing for 'JOHN JOHNSON, M. D.' a continuation of the pow-wow at "'Yes,' said the judge, 'M. D. in the New Echota . (New Town), Gordon morning means 'mighty dry,' and in County, north of Calhoun, where the the evening, 'mighty drunk.' " treaty was finally to be signed (it was signed Dec. 29, 1835), and there was The following incident is related by much "paper work" to be done. Judge Henry Peeples, Atlanta attorney: Underwood and Mr. Schermerhorn "The Tariff Commission appointed pitched into the work. The Judge's to visit the various .sections of the son, John, was waiting nearby, watch- country and report on the tariff work- ing. "Why couldn't we put the lad to work?" inquired Mr. Schermerhorn. being the Rome Railroad depot, which 'Try him," suggested the father. was also used by the boats. This was Young John caught on readily, work- located about where the Central depot ed all night, and next morning Mr. now is. It was an ordinary 'up and Schermerhorn handed him $50. "Not down' frame house raised several feet bad for a starter in legal business!" upon piling. The vacant space, sev- chuckled young Underwood, as he eral acres, was the 'ciwus ground.' crammed the bill down into his jeans It was covered with grass and in wet and ran home.-Jan. 19, 1921. seasons a pond was near the depot. I** "At the foot of Broad Street the A PEN PICTURE OF ROME.*- new bridge connected Rome with 'Lick Skillet' hills, now South Rome. On (H. W. Johnstone, in the Rome Trib- these hills the stage driver always une Jan. 26, 1907) : winded his bugle as signal for pas- "The man looks back on what the sengers and mail. boy saw with his eager eyes before the Civil War. Among the boy's earliest "Crossing Broad Street at the depot, recollections is a group around the and coming north, the first building old courthouse at court (East First) he remembers was the Ketcham House, and Bridge Streets (Fifth Avenue), on the ground now occupied by the and the building itself, with its white Taylor-Norton Drug Co. Back of this medallions and red gables reminded was a field, and where Second Avenue him that here was a civilizing outpost now enters Broad Street was a gate, in North Georgia which kept watch thence along Broad Street was a fence over the destinies of mankind. to where J. J. Cohen's store stood- about where Fahy's now is. Thence "The corner opposite the courthouse to Fourth Avenue was vacant. building was a two-story affair with "The rear of Rounsavilb's ware- a wide veranda across the front. house covers a spring, the branch from "Down the hill from the courthouse it flowed through Douglas' stable lot, on the west side of Broad Street was crossed Broad Street, formed a 'pond' a two-story hotel known as the 'Amer- and went through a deep ravine into ican House,' with a wide veranda Oostanaula River where Third Avenue across the front. The postoffice was ends. in this building at one time. "Hardin & Smyer were on the cor- "South of this were the stores of ner of Fourth Avenue, then came Sanders, Sullivan, the two Ombergs, Johnson & Gwyn, next was Fried's, Henry Smith and R. S. Norton. The then vacant lots to the Choice House. first brick store 'in this block was About 1852 Wm. Ramey established erected by Sanders, and is now oc- the first livery stable on the site of cupied by a hardware house. the present Masonic Temple. A year "This store, and the yard in its later Wm. C. G. Johnstone built a ve- rear, was the scene of an escapade of hicle repository where my's stable which the boy may tell you later. It is and a large brick warehouse on the was so near a tragedy that he never present Baptist church lot. divulged his knowledge of it for twen- "Wm. R. Smith's 'Continental Shop' ty years ! was on the corner above the Choice "On the corner below Norton's was House. Immediately fronting this was Miles and Riley Johnson's, then came DeJournett's, a two-story frame struct- Wimpee's shop, and White's har- ure. In the upper story of this build- ness store, which stood about where ing the first Masonic lodge was insti- Todd's grocery now is. Thence it tuted. Later, under the lead of Wm. was vacant (being low and often Choice, Arm. Harper, 'Billie' Ross, and ponded), with a bridge walk built others, it became 'Thespian Hall.' This several feet above ground to where was used for theatrical performances Lanham's store stands. Here stood and school exhibitions. Across khe the 'Wells Hotel,' and in rear of this years the boy can still hear the was a small frame building, Miss Liz- voice of Billy Hills addressing the zie Smith's school. 'Conscript Fathers.' The ringing in- "Farther down Broad Street were quiry of Cooper Nesbit, 'Why is the other business houses, a,mong them Forum Crowded? What means this A. M. Sloan's, which stood about where stir in Rome?' And the eloquent Jack W. H. Coker is now located. Thence Hutchings assuring us that he 'came it was low and swampy to Oostanaula to bury Caesar, not to praise him!' -and Etowah Rivers, the only building ''Some of the,little boys of those *The scene goes back to 1856. days are with us still. I am sure Charlie H. could again entrance us nierville road, where Mr. Brown now with the 'Sailor Boy's Dream,' and resides-just beyond the old Asa Dolph R. could tell us of that dis- Smith home-now Willingham's. astrous 'Smacking in the District "The second principal at the Rome School, not far away.' Academy was P. M. Sheibley, then a "Memory fixes no residences south young man of fine appearance and of Fourth Avenue and east of Second pleasing manners. He was a finish- Street, except Cooley's, and one or two ed scholar, a firm, competent teacher. near the present site of the Baptist His pupils owe to him more than can church. be expressed here. At this school the "From Third Street east, to the boy first knew C. M. Harper, Dolph river, and south of Fourth Avenue, Rounsaville, John and 'Scrap' Black, nearly to Second Avenue, was the fin- Tyler Mobley, and that fine youth who est grove of oaks he ever saw. A few was drowned in the Oostanaula, Albert of these trees were standing near East Jones. Fourth street lately. This was known "On the corner of Seventh Avenue as 'The Grove,' sacred to political bar- stood Simpson's cabinet shop, where becues, and Cupid's delightful arch- sash. doors and blinds were first made ery. in Rome. West of this, on the emi- "Between Fourth and Fifth Avenues nence, stood the residence of R. S. on the east side of Third Street were Norton. What a home-maker he was, two residences facing west, their broad what a character builder! His sons lots extending back to the Wwah were often welcome visitors at the river. Fronting these residences, and homes of the boy's father and paternal extending over the hill to the court- grandfather. No finer gentleman ever house, was nearly all a grove of field tinted the 'grey' with the ultimate pines. The only residences on this sacrifice than did Charles Norton! space were Callahan's, where the Two of the great marts of the Central Episcopal church now is, Duke's, on West and the iron metropolis of the southeast corner, and Wm. C. G. John- South feel the impress of R. S. Nor- stone's near the crest, just back of the ton's character, through his living sons. courthouse. His life-work was a benediction to this "On the crest of the hill stood the city! Even the flowers bloomed rapt- academy, a long one-story, two-room urously in tribute to his gentleness and brick building, its west entrance care ! guarded by an enormous gnarled "Probably the oldest hotel in Rome chestnut tree. If memory is true, this stood on the corner of Eighth Ave- academy was built by subscription nue. It was constructed of hewn tim- under the auspices of S. J. Stevens. bers, drawn shingles, split lathes and While it was being erected Mr. Ste- plaster. On a medallion sign, swing- vens' school was located on a mound ing over the road, was the legend, just beyond the Shropshire residence 'Travelers' Rest-John Quinn.' -all woods then-now Forrestville. "Across Broad Street, fronting "About 1853 Mr. Stevens built an 'Travelers' Rest,' was the residence of academy in the valley between the Judge Nathan Yarbrough. Nestling residence of Major Ross and Reece's far back in a shaded yard on south- spring. This academy was a two- west corner of Ninth Avenue was the story frame structure. A long stair- home of Dr. Vernon, whose daughter, way, built outside, gave entrance to Helen, was the first 'belle' the boy re- the upper school room. This build- members, but on the next corner above ing was burned a few years later. At was a yardfull, where Hon. J. W. H. this school the boy first knew Dick Underwood resided. Cothran, Button and Ike Hume, Billie "North of this, extending to the Ross, Tom Berrien, Wm. H'ills, Wm. brick residence of Daniel R. Mitchell, Tuggle, Jack Hutchings and Cooper located about where John Davis now Nesbit, and among the small lads were resides, was a forest of oaks and pop- George C. Douglas, son of Dr. George lars, enclosing Mitchell's Pond, fit to B. Douglas, 'Randy' Mitchell, Sam bc 'God's first temples.' Lumpkin, Thomas Cuyler, T. J. Ver- "The square as now bounded by dery (whose home was the old resi- First and Second Streets, Fifth and dence of Major Ridge, chief of the Sixth Avenues, was a deep ravine, then Cherokees, which stood, and remains heavily wooded. On its southwest cor- or, Oostanaula River above Battey's ner was the Episcopal church, on the Shoals). Henry Stovall rode his pony northeast was the Methodist 'meeting to school from his home on the Sum- house.' In the bottom of the ravine stood the old gaol, built of logs, and Look out for that short, stout, keen- the windows strongly grated. Near eyed man with the "big stick." He is the gaol was a spring which flowed the town marshal, Samuel Stewart. down the ravine, across Sixth Ave- That enormous creature following at nue and Broad Street and into the his heels is "Wolf9'-his terrible hound. Oostanaula. He never failed to catch boys who did "Ah! what memories-from boy to any devilment-but once ! Sometime man !" I may tell you of that "once." * * * That gentleman with the Alsatian (Mar. 24, 1907.) face-who talks with his hands-is The DeSoto chronicles describe the one of God's helpers in beautifying loation of the Cherokee capital vil- the earth. We should not forget Dr. lage as being on a long island-and, Berckmans. according to the Indian legends, the You will notice that Robt. T. Mc- Oostanaula must have divided, near Cay's* hardware store is on that cor- Battey's Shoals, the "cut off" passing ner, the first hardware store in Rome. near the east foot of the Hills o'Ross That stocky, earnest-faced man talking across the bottom under the present to McCay is an Englishman who is Central railroad trestle to the Coosa. introducing the iron industry in Rome There are indications of this old -Mr. Noble. course even now. Many changes of Those six men sitting on the veranda this nature could, and have, come in of the Choice House are more or less the 365 years since DeSoto passed. politicians, yet each one has an inter- Let us go back to the early "fifties" esting history. and meet some of the old citizens. The tallest one with the smooth That tall man walking this way is strong Scotch face is the "Iron King'' Col. Pennington ; he believes in rail- of Georgia, Mark A. Cooper, a visitor. roads and steamboats. He always Next to him is Augustus R. Wright, carries that cane and umbrella, but a Congressman, a great lawyer and an never uses either. impassioned forensic orator. His gifts have descended, in good measure, to Notice that nervous, quick moving his sons. The tall, clean faced man man meeting him. He has a habit of with the cane is James M. Spullock, bringing his hand to his waist, then one of the finest fingered politicians swings it out as if to brush you aside, in the state. He is the man who as but Thomas Perry is a fine man "for United St4tes Marshal for Georgia a' that." seized the yacht "Wanderer" and sold That portly gentleman walking up her as a condemned "slaver." The the terrace is Judge Lumpkin. He "Wanderer" was Charles B. Lamar's had that mansion built in 1843. He private yacht-she was chartered by a is big hearted, broad minded and de- party of Northern men to make a cruise. serves his great popularity. You see She returned to Savannah loaded with John Quinn has changed his sign from African slaves, was captured, con- "Travelers' Rest" to "Cross Keys Hfo- demned and sold. Her owner, Lamar, tel," and, you can buy ginger cakes was exonerated from all blame, but from Mother Quinn-in the cellar. lost his yacht. The Northern men who That's Mr. Lamkin's grocery store made the cruise escaped to New York. next to the Choice House. Just be- This is the nearest the South ever low it is A. .M.Lamb's candy store, ad- became interested in "slave trade." joining Tom Perry's store, only a Most of these Africans were seized and plank partition separates them. returned to their country. That's Jimmie Lee, he owns the That stout, jolly gentleman was fish traps above the ford on the "High- later a captain under Forrest. His tower." He is the same fellow who memory will abide principally be- nearly drowned Will Adkins. cause he was Henry W. Grady's uncle That flowered silk dress designates -Henry A. Gartrell. Mrs. Sholes. She watches Jimmie's The brown-eyed gentleman with "traps" and tells on every boy she black hair and moustache-so erect in sees near them. None of the boys like carriage-and earnest in manner, was her. The boys and girls do not like the first Mayor of Rome (the only that fancy dressed man with her-for public office he ever held-except the he trades in negroes-his name is Jo- Confederate marshalship of Georgia). seph Norris. He was appointed Colonel of a regi- ment of a Partisan Rangers, but was *Father of L. W. McCay, professor of chem- istry at Princeton University and native Roman. induced to resign it and head the com- STEAMBOATS AND THEIR HARDY "SKIPPERS." 1The John J. Seay; 2-The Clifford B. Seay; 3--Capt. F. M. Coulter, who built a dozen boats; &The Mitchell; 5--Tom V. Marable; &The Magnolia, probably the finest steamer on the river; ?-The Alabama; &The Gadsden; -apt. Frank Benjamin; IO-Capt, J. M. Elliott; 11-The Resaca, with hunting party and game; 12-The Annie H. in a calm sea. All there vessels succumbed to gales, financial or otherwise. pany which produced salt for the poor Under these trees (near the Ridge of the state, during the war between house) was located the earliest and . . the states. He is Wm. C. G. Johnstone lnrgest. store in this section of Geor- (known familiarly as "Black Wm. gia-if not in the whole Cherokee Johnstone"). country. It was operated in the name The last of the group, who appears of George M. Lavender, Major Ridge so elegantly at ease, could claim dis- (the chief) being a silent partner. An tinction in science, politics and liter- immense business was transacted and ature. He was a physician, a United the owners grew very rich. The busi- States Senator, an author of note and ness was closed about 1837 and in the an orator of exceptional power. During division Lavender received a large the war of 1812-15, two young men amount in money and property, esti- became close comrades and friends. mated by some to have been more than When they parted it was agreed that a quarter of a million dollars. George their sons should bear the same names. Lavender never married. His estate Both were scholars and curiously they passed to his sisters, one of whom selected the names of the great poets. married Ray, whose descendants live Time passed. Major Clem Powers, of about Newnan and Atlanta. Another Effingham County, named his three sister, Edith Lavender, resided on an scns Homer, Virgil and Milton. Some eminence east of the present North years later he named his fourth son Rome depot. She remained unmar- Horace. ried until about 1847, when a man Meantime his friend had one son appeared to take the contract to grade born to him, and he was named Homer the Rome Railroad. This was Joseph Virgil Milton Miller. The second wife Printup. He secured the contract, but. of Wm. C. G. Johnstone was a daugh- had not the means to operate success- ter of Major Clem Powers, and her fully. Edith Lavender fell in love meeting with Dr. Miller is a vivid with the enterprising stranger, mar- memory. ried him, and her money enabled him to make his venture a success. Picture-Lumpkin, Hamilton, Mil- ler, Wright, Battey, Underwood, Smith Joseph assisted his brother, DanieI ("Bill Arp") , Spullock, with their S. Printup, through Union college, ladies at our hospitable board-with New York, and located him here, where Gartrell to fire the train-and you can his family remain. Major Joseph imagine how humor flowed, wit spar- Printup had no children. Many years kled, whether the subject be politics ago he was drowned in an insignifi- or literature-and remember., litera- cant branch near his home. His prop- ture was mostly the "leather-bound" erty, including the "Printu~Ferry " es- classics, also that the ladies often bore tate in Gordon County, passed to the the palms. children of Daniel S. Printup. Dr. Reece. the father of John H. I do not say such people are not and James Reece, was a delicate gen- with us. But somehow I do not meet n tleman who was surgeon of the regi- them. I may be "out of date -but ment of state troops sent here to re- I enjoy recalling the days when hon- move the Cherokees to the banks of or was kept bright-a mortgage was the Tennessee. Miles Reece, an uncle a curiosity-and slander dared not of Capt. John Reece, came to Cher- touch a woman! But I digress-yet okee before his brother. He became I warned you that this- intimately conversant with legends and affairs of the Cherokees, and was an "Might, perhaps, turn out a song; encyclopedia of Indian lore. Perhaps turn out a sermon!" An anecdote of Chief Ridge will Let us again go up the river. We serve to show how Indian traits clung will pass the service cottage erected to him. by Dr. George Battey, "When you and John Ridge, a son of Major Ridge, I were young," and stop by those large resided in Ridge's Valley. Chief Ridge trees about an hundred paces anent had a handsome daughter; educated, the old Ridge house. I hope the old proud and given more or less to van- trees are yet there. ity. She induced her father to order The Ridge house was then occupied her a fine coach. It was sent from by Mr. Verdery, one of whose. daugh- New York and created a sensation. ters married Warren Akin; another It was hung on leather swings at- married Dr. George Battey. The fam- tached to large "C" springs, the ily moved to Polk County, thence to driver's seat being on top. Augusta, Ga. This outfit arrived just before the annual "Green corn dance," which was lived. I went to school to his sister in held at Major Ridge's. The coach was Lawrenceville when I was a lad. Hol- ordered to convey Sarah to the dance. lis Cooley never had a lawsuit in his The horses were harnessed to it and life, and always declared that there the negro driver stocd ready. Chief was no necessity for anybody having Ridge inspected the outfit, even shak- one. ing the wheels to be sure they would "Old father Norton said, 'But, Hol- stand up. lis, suppose some rascal was to come Sarah came out in silks and feath- along, and knowing your mind about ers; her father assisted her to climb going to law, should lay claim to your the folding steps, closed the steps and house and lot, when then?' 'I would door, then walked around to the driver, give up to him before I would go to took the reins and ordered the driver law with him,' said Hollis. 'Yes, and to go back to his field work. Chief you would play the fool,' said Norton. Ridge then mounted one of the horses, 'By George, I would law him till his with the gathered reins in his hands heels flew up.' and galloped away to the "Green corn "I was remarking about that awful dance." pull up the little steep hill from the *** gulch to where Major Ayer's store DAYS THAT ARE GONE.-Maj. was. But I forgot. The major hasn't Chas. H. Smith (Bill Arp), sent the got any store. Well, it was about op- following letter to the Rome Tribune posite Morrison's livery stable, or of Sunday, Sept. 2, 1894: Flemming's saddle shop, or Tom Per- ry's law office, or somewhere there in "Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 1, 1894. the middle of the road. It's bothering "To Mr. W. Addison Knowles, me awfully to locate things. Bill Ra- "Editor The Tribune, mey will show you where it was. The "Rome, Ga. hill was short and steep and sticky, "Dear Mr. Knowles: 'Illium fuit- and I have seen strong teams stall Illium est,' Rome was-Rome is, but there and the wagon cut back and it is not the same Rome we old Ro- nearly turn over, Norton's store was mans used to know. Everything is then away down town. It was right changed but the rivers and Bill Ramey where it is now, but it was down town, and old father Norton. the lowest down of any, and was a lit- "I moved to Rome in 1851, but for tle, low, long, narrow, one-story house several years before that I used to with the hind end stuck in the hill so visit there and prospect for a place deep that you could almost step on the tc move to. I had a brother there roof. practising medicine. It is nearly 50 "There were no houses down town. years since I made my first visit. The Old man Crutchfield was building the Rome railroad was finished to Eve's court house. The Western Bank of Station, and the hacks met us there. Georgia was doing a busting business There were no bridges across the in that office back of the Choice Hotel rivers and the ferrying was done at -that same little office on the corner the junctions. All down town was in as you go up the hill to the court the woods. What magnificent timber house. Yes, it was doing a busting covered the bottom where down town business, and it busted. Not long after is now! it closed its doors I went there with "I went squirrel hunting there with $7,000 of its money and knocked at the Joe Norris. Joe was clearing the low door and demanded payment in bi- ground for Colonel Shorter and had metallic currency, but there was no deadened the timber. The road from response and nobody opened the door. the ferry was awful. I have seen six- I had to make the demand at the mule teams stall in the gulch that was bank's last place of doing business be- where the Lumpkin block was after- fore I could sue. But the dog was ward built. But you don't know where dead and my client never realized a that is. It is the block opposite the dollar. Denson building. But you never heard "By the time we moved to Rome of Denson. Well, the lowest part of down town was looming up. C. T. the gulch was right in the middle of Cunningham had a big cotton ware- the street that comes down Cooley hill house on the river bank, and Rhode and crosses Broad. Hill and Bill Cox were clerking for "Maybe you have heard of Hollis him. The first time I ever saw Rhode Cooley. He was an unpretending gen- he was having big fun by hiding an tleman; as honest a Yankee as ever egg under Jack Shorter's shirt collar, and he bet Cox a dime that he couldn't bearer there, and I did not stoop low find it. Cox felt all about Jack's enough as we passed under some clothes, and accidentally broke the egg, limbs of the crowded trees, and one of and it ran down Jack's back. But them took off my hat and my scratch Jack got the dime and that satisfied with it, and my bald head showed no him. hair apparent to the crown, and ex- "Rhode found bigger game later on cited too much levity for the solemn and is now a Peachtree nabob in At- occasion. I put the hat on my head lanta. Cunningham built a nice resi- with much alacrity and put the wig dence at the end of Howard Street. in my pocket. I have never worn one It is the Woodruff place, and Wm. to a funeral since, nor anywhere else. E. Alexander built the Rounsaville It is one of the comforts of old age house, and Dr. Battey built where he that a man is not expected to have a now lives. Alexander was Norton's great profusion of hair, but when he partner for a while, but he moved is young a very small vacancy hurts down town and took in Colonel Shorter his feelings mighty bad. as a partner. Mr. Norton never moved "James McEntee had been keeping -neither his dwelling place nor his hotel midway of the block next above store, He improved both, but never the Choice House in 1849, I think, and moved. Before I moved I bought me Colonel D. R. Mitchell acquired the a very nice home over there on the Buena Vista soon after. Old Jesse hill where DeJournett and Treada- Lamberth was one of the pioneers, and way and Omberg lived. You know lived in a little house back of the Odd where that is. No, you don't, either, Fellows' hall building, but he built a you are too young to know much about better house in front afterward, and anything-anything antiquated, I lived there for many years. mean. Well, it is not far from father Norton's house, the third house from "Sam Stewart was a very notable the corner as you go down towards character in those days, and had the the river. Dr. Smith, my brother, lived reputation of being a cool and daring in the first and Nicholas Omberg in the man. His brother, Virgil, helped to second. Old Mother Ragan lived right give Sam reputation, for it was he who in front of Norton's, and Sumter & ran down and caught John A. Murrell, Torbet's machine works were down in the notorious horse thief and highway the corner of his garden. robber. Sam was city marshal for many years, and kept all evil doers in "Jim Sumter was one of the best subjection. He was a good officer, men I ever knew, the best mechanic, the best magistrate, the best mayor, but it is said that every man will the best alderman, the best citizen and sooner or later meet his match, if not the truest friend. He made for me a his superior. One day Nicholas Om- large and beautiful walnut book case. berg broke down the gate of the city We have it now in our sitting room, pound and took his cow out and drove and I prize it for his sake. It is the her home. Somebody had opened Om- only piece of furniture the Yankees berg's gate and let his cow out so as to left me. It was so big they couldn't put her in the pound and get the fee move it. They did move the books. for taking up stray cattle. Omberg was They loved to read, but they didn't dreadfully mad when his wife told him read their titles clear to my books. about it, and, as he didn't favor the About that time the people who were anti-cow ordinance nohow, he took the the best off made their homes on shortest way to recover his cow. the hills. Andrew M. Sloan, who was "When Stewart found what Omberg a big merchant and banker, lived in had done he got mad, too, and forth- a one-story house on the hill where with went to the merchant tailor to Hiles now lives. Dr. P. L. Turnley arrest him. The Norwegian never lived nearby. Mr. Thomas D. Shel- winked or quailed, but seizing an enor- ton lived where Shorter College stands. mous pair of shears, he rushed at Rev. J. M. M. Caldwell and his wife Stewart like a mad man and ran him lived and taught school in the house out in the street. Stewart said after- adjacent to the old Methodist church. ward that he had either to run or Old Judge Underwood lived on .the kill him. Caldwell college hill with his daugh- "The city council fined Omberg $50, ter, Mrs. Wilson. The First Baptist but he carried the case to the supreme church was nearby, on the same hill, court and gained it. Nic Omberg was and the old graveyard is not far away. a very superior man, and was highly "I shall never forget that graveyard, esteemed as a citizen and a Christian for one time I was a Masonic pall- About the close of the war MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS RECALLING ROME. Here may be seen: a 1921 group of girl High School graduates emerging from the Auditorium with their beautiful nosegays; Billy King, 9, Rome's youngest and most famous cartoonist; the Second Avenue (E. Rome) Methodist Church; views around the courthouse; a group of young players; Gay Jespersen's Lindale band; and a tiny glimpse of Rome. some lawless scouts visited old man of the living where peace may be Quinn's house one night to rob him. sought and pardon found. May you The old man cried for help, and Om- emulate your good father's Christian berg ran over to defend him and was example and make the world better himself shot down and killed. with your presence. "And that causes me to think of But I must not monopolize your Tom Perry, at whose house poor Om- space. It would take a book to tell berg died. Tom Perry was perhaps of ancient Rome and the citizens who the best known and most beloved cit- have gone to the undiscovered country. izen Rome ever had. He was raised Of William R. Smith and Wm. Smith poor and hard, and had but little ed- (Mrs. Dr. Battey's father) and Johnny ucation. He used to haul wood with Smith, a good man who for the love of steers in the cold winter with his toes the beautiful planted water oaks and sticking out of his old shoes. He mi- elms around the churches and along the grated from Lawrenceville to Rome down town sidewalks. The trees are before anybody, and when I first visit- there yet, and men and women walk ed Rome Tom was keeping bar for a and children play under their shade. free negro, Wm. Higginbotham. Next Then there was McGuire and Hardin, he hired to old William R. Smith to and Quinn, and T. S. Wood, and sweep out the store and knock around. Isham Wood, and Cohen, and Dr. Pat- Next he got to be clerk in the post- ton, and Dr. Starr, and Dr. King, and office for Nathan Yarbrough. Next Dr. Geo. M. Battey, who kept the drug he was postmaster and then a steam- store under the Choice House. Ram- boat captain. Next he was elected sey Alexander was a leading lawyer J. P. and held that office for many there when I moved to Rome. Tom years. He was the chief promoter of came later and so did Judge Under- the Masons and Odd Fellows. He was wood. I formed a partnership with United States commissioner. He was Colonel Underwood in 1852 and it con- the best friend the widows and or- tinued for thirteen long and pleasant phans ever had in Rome, the best years. chairman of the street committee. He "Then there appeared some lesser was always at work doing something lights who kept the little town lively. for somebody. He .wrote much for the Old Jake Herndon, for instance, the Rome Courier and pasted everything town loafer, who never lied from mal- he wrote in a scrapbook, and would ice, but only from habit. He used to read it on Sundays. When he had tell about the big freshet that came in planned any public thing he would June, 1840, and covered all the country write a piece and sign it Vox Populi, save the top of court house hill, and and then call a meeting at the court how he tied his batteau to a gum tree house to put his measure through. If on top of that hill, and seeing no place nobody came he called himself to the for the sole of his foot, he untied it chair and acted as secretary, and pass- and paddled to Horseleg mountain, and ed a string of resolutions and had it was hot, devilish hot, and his ther- them published as the sense of the mometer rose to 240 in the shade. He meeting. He never lost any space in always said thermoneter for thermom- his manuscript. If there was not room eter. Old Jake had told that lie so for an 'and' at the end of a line, he often that he believed it. I think he would divide the word and put the d has a son now in the United States at the beginning of the next line. He navy. If folks do 'laugh and grow worked up to the full measure of his fat,' I think that big John Under- capacity and was everybody's friend. wood took on his fat from his daily Me looked like a Democrat, for he was intercourse with old Jake Herndon. pigeon-toed and loose-jointed, and chew- "And there was Old Man Laub, the ed cheap tobacco, but he was an un- inimitable cuss who was created just compromising Whig. to fill ur, the cracks, like spralls in a "When your good father was edit- stone wall. He was a little sassy, loud- ing the Rome Courier, Tom gave him mouthed rascal, who kept a bakery and aid and comfort as best he could. I cake shop, and some blind tiger and remember your father well. He was a oysters, just below Dr. Battey's drug courtly gentleman. His company was store. He had two front doors. Over always welcome, for he was a good one was painted "Laub's here.'' Over talker and never indulged in slang the other was painted "Laub's here, or vulgarity or intolerant assertions. tco." He drove a pair of calico ponies, His gold spectacles became his fea- and was always in a fuss with some- tures and added grace to his individ- body, and especially with his wife. uality. You were not then in the land She would run him out of one front door wth a broom and he would dodge and residences, notably at Rome. In into the other. Big John's grocery 1892-3 he built the Floyd County court was right opposite across the street, house, one of the most substantial and it was a good part of his business structures anywhere. His work and to watch the antics of the Laub fam- materials were of such a high order ily and shake his fat sides with laugh- that he made little money. He died ter. When I first saw Laub's name comparatively poor, but he has left and sign I thought that Laub's was buildings which for a century more something to sell-some kind of fish will silently sing his praises. like oysters or shrimps. I had no idea * * * that it was a man's name. "Of the notable men who moved "GRANDMA GEORGY'S" "PEN away and still live, Dr. Miller was PRATTLE."-Mrs. Naomi P. Bale chief. He lived in a cottage where contributed these reminiscences to the your new court house now stands, and Rome News of Oct. 3, 1921: his office was on Broad Street, near One by one they are passing away the McEntee house. He had a very to give place to new structures, these smart cur dw named Cartouch, who old landmarks of Rome. When the old laid in the piazza of the doctor's of- Bradbury house on the corner of Broad fice and watched for country dogs as Street and Sixth Avenue was built, they came to town behind farmers' I don't know, certainly more than wagons. Forthwith Cartouch would seventy years ago, such a thing as a run to assault him, and would whip "filling station" was not known in the him if he could, and hurry back be- wide world. fore the waggoner could punish him. This old building has stood the If the dog was too big and showed storms of inore than three score and fight, Cartouch would hasten back to ten years. About forty years ago Ch1. Dailey's house, which was next door, Stokes (grandfather of Misses Estelle and get Dailey's big dog and away and Addie Mitchell) came in possession they both would go and jump on the of it, put the old house in repair. At country dog with irresistible violence. that time the name "Dolly Varden" The doctor enjoyed it immensely, and was prominent-how it originated I declares to this day that dogs have don't know, but the name was stamp- a language and understand each other. ed on dry goods of every bright color. Cartouch would say to Dailey's dog, 'Come and help me, come quick, Col. Stokes had the old house painted there's a big country dog out here that and trimmed in bright colors, and it I can't manage by myself.' was called "The Dolly Varden." "But I will now forbear until the Later, Mr. J. L. Bass came in pos- spirit moves me again, for I do not session of it and added the "L" that suppose there are a dozen men living jutted out toward Sixth Avenue. who will enjoy these memories. This Neither Col. Stokes nor Mr. Bass ever generation is moving forward, not lived in this house. All these years it backward. has been occupied by tenants. The aassing of this old Bradbury house "Yours truly, brings to mind other localities of homes "CHAS. H. SMITH." now passed into the "yesterdays" of *** Rome. Just across Broad Street from A PROLIFIC BUILDER.-A news- the Bradbury house, where the Audi- paper squib of 1888 says: torium now stands, lived Dr. King (I "Jos. B. Patton builds court houses, think his name was Joshua), a den- but does not patronize them, never tist and medical practitioner combined. having sued or been sued on any con- The Carnegie Library occupies the tract." old home place of Mrs. Fannie Moore, Court houses he had erected up to maternal grandmother of Miss Battie that time included Trousdale County, Shropshire. Tenn., Benton County, Tenn., Russell The west corner of Broad Street County, Ky., Chattanooga, Tenn., Cen- and Seventh Avenue, where a "filling ter, Cherokee County, Ala., Anniston, station" has been recently built, was Calhoun County, Ala., LaFayette, once the home of a Mrs. Mitchell. I Walker County, Ga., Gainesville, Hall think she was a dressmaker. County, Ga. In the same year he built Northwest corner of Seventh Avenue the buildings near DeSoto park for the and Broad Street, part of the R. S. North Georgia & Alabama Exposition. Norton lot, once stood a large furni- Prior to that time and afterward he ture factory operated by Mr. Sumter. erected many other public buildings Mr. Sumter made everything from a pin-tray to a coffin. He was also an lege with Rev. and Mrs. J. M. M. undertaker. Made the coffin and Caldwell as president and dean. After buried the people. Coming back down the suspension of the college, Dr. J. Broad Street where there is another B. S. Holmes converted it into a san- "fililng station" southwest corner Sixth itarium. The building was burned and Avenue and Broad Street, stood the the property divided into lots and sold home of Mrs. Pierson; later, Col. W. for residences. S. Cothran, also Dr. J. B. Underwood The First Baptist church, organized . and until a few years ago occupied by in 1835, yet stands on the corner of Mrs. Isham J. Wood. Mr. Waring Eighth Avenue and West Fifth Street Best's garage is where Col. Thomas and is now an apartment house owned Alexander lived right after the Civil by Mrs. Griffin, My own home, 601 war. On the enclosed lot adjoining the East First Street, was the cradle of Best garage stood the old McEntee the first newspaper published in Rome House-the first hotel in Rome. Sev- -Samuel Jack, editor and printer. It eral years ago this old building was was called the Rome Enterprise. This sold to Dr. Robert Battey, who con- item was given me by Miss Amanda verted it into a hospital and it was Jack, a daughter of Mr. Samuel' Jack. known as the Martha Battey Hospital. My home was also the Methodist par- I think the property is now owned by sonage before the Civil War. In 1906 the Kuttner Realty Company. The the old house went down in ashes and old Buena Vista is yet fresh in our I had it rebuilt on practically the minds. This at one time was the lead- same foundation. My husband pur- ing hotel in Rome, with Mrs. Choice chased it from the estate of Mr. Mc- proprietress. The Curtis Undertaking Guire about thirty years ago. There Company (colored) occupies the oldest are yet many old homes in Rome of brick building in Rome. I have been historical 'interest. Col. Alfred Shorter, told that the oldest wooden house in Daniel R. Mitchell, C. M. Penning- Rome is the corner of Fifth Avenue ton, Major Ayer and other prominent and East Second Street, now occupied men did much in laying ;the foun- by Mr. Ward. Probably Misses Om- dation on which Rome now stands. berg on West First Street are the only Some of the statements herein given residents who occupy their ancestral were told me by my father, Wesley home of ante-bellum days. The Spul- Shropshire, Sr., and my uncle, Mon- lock home on Broad Street, now occu- roe Shropshire, both of whom came to pied by Dr. Shamblin, was built about Rome in 1835. Other items are from 1857. Judge D. M. Hood's home, ad- my own observations, for I have been joining the Spullocks, has been moved in touch with this city for 71 years. nearer Broad Street, the lot divided and a bungalow built. Col. A. T. Har- *** din also lived here. "GRANDMA GEORGY" RECALLS Judge J. W. H. Underwood's old STAR BOARDERS. - "Thank you home has passed into stranger hands very much, Judge Branham, for a -the house raised, and the homes of copy of 'Sketches and Reminiscences Dr. McKoy and Mr. J. M. Lay have of the Rome Bar,' compiled by your- been built. self. After reading it with the aid of a reading-glass a reminiscent mood Where Joe Jenkins and Mr. McKew laid a canny hand on me and I began now live was Judge Underwood's gar- to count the faces of some of these den. Mr. Max Meyerhardt lives on lawyers who sat at my table three the Quinn lot. The Quinn property times a day when I kept boarders on was divided into building lots after Mr. Fifth Avenue where the courthouse Quinn's death and sold. Linton Van- now stands. Col. W. H. Dabney was diver, Mr. Keith and Mr. Berry have ar, inmate in my home for several homes on what was once the Quinn years. He was a quiet, unassummg, garden. The large brick house now pleasant gentleman. When court was occupied by R. L. Morris was built by in session he ate sparingly-sometimes Mr. Crutchfield and given to his only a bit of bread and a glass of daughter, Mrs. J. H. Lumpkin, as a milk. He often asked me where to bridal present in the early forties. The find certain passages of Scripture, homes of Mr. A. S. Burney and Mr. saying he had need for them. Fuller occupy the site of the Chero- kee Female Institute, built and man- "Capt. C. N. Featherston and Cols. aged by Col. Simpson Fouche. Later E. N. Broyles and Dan'l. R. Mitchell this building passed into the posses- were regular table boarders, Judge A. sion of the Presbyterian church, and R. Wright a dinner guest when court was known as the Rome Female Col- was in session. All of these gentle- A FASHIONABLE WEDDING AT A ROME COUNTRY PLACE. The picture shows the guests at the marriage June 24, lSS6, of Miss Josephine VanDyke lnman, of Atlanta, to Hugh Richardson. of Vicksburg, Miss., at the summer home of the Hugh T. Inmans. which was later the home of Jos. L. Bass and now is "Maplehurst," the home of Mrs. A. W. VanHoose. Robt. W. Craves and Miss Julia Bayard, of Rome, are on the bench to the left. Rev. Edward H. Barnett, of Atlanta, the officiating min- ister, is at the extreme right. men were very courteous to me and to sell Philip in 1863 at the court my housekeeper, Miss McCauley. Thir- house in Atlanta. The master attend- ty-two young men sat at my table reg- ed the sale and promised to buy him ularly-business men and clerks. All back at the first opportunity. Both have passed the Great Divide and 'left wept as the auctioneer sold the boy, me counting on this spot the faces that then 19. are gone.' In 1908, when Philip Harper was "In my young days I was often a 64 years old, he wrote Mrs. Harper guest in the house of Judge Wright. from Marietta as follows: He was fond of music, and would lie "Dear Madame: This missive leaves on a sofa while I would play and sing me as well as I will ever be again in for him. Sometimes tears would creep this life. I fear 1: would have been through his closed lids, especially when up there before now, but my old wom- I sang 'Bonnie Doon'-sometimes he an keeps so very poorly until I fear walked to and fro in the parlor and to leave her. How are you and all called for his favorite songs. the children? Well, I hope. My dear- "The curtain of years now veils my est associaton as a boy began in and eyes, and the drum beats of time around old Cave Spring. It has been have sadly dulled my heariing, but so long since I have been there that memory lingers and I see again many 1 believe I would not know the place, beautiful pictures, and many sad but if the good Lord will spare me a scenes that have come into my stren- few days longer, I will in real life uous life of three score and eighteen review my old, old home once more in years. this life. All the people that I once "God is my Father and He leads me knew are gone, gone; and I have only on daily nearer to the City that hath a few days-then I shall join them in foundation. Heaven. I have thought a thousand "Very truly, times about the last meeting Mr. Alexander and myself had was in At- "NAOMI P. BALE." lanta in 1863 at the court house after -Tribune-Herald, June 22, 1921. the sale was made. Then it was I * * * did my best at crying. He cried, too, LOVE FOR OLD SLAVES.-The but he promise to buy me back. tender bond of sentiment existing be- "I know you will excuse the bold- tween master and slave in the ante-bel- ness I take in writing you. When I lum days is an old story, and it has got sick, you was my doctor; cared plenty of verification in fact. While for me in sickness. You remember it is quite true that there were oc- how you cared for me when I got my casional instances of cruelty and op- finger broke? pression, as a rule master and mistress "WM. PHILIP HARPER." treated the slaves with great consider- ation. Few people would want slav- Mrs. Harper immediately sent the ery re-established, yet it is interesting old darkey enough money to come to to take note of instances in which Cave Spring, which he did, and both slaves were treated almost like mem- of them cried as they reviewed the bers of the family by the "white folks." days that will return no more. As a When the war came, many slaves member of the Harper family express- begged to accompany their masters as ed it, Philip's appearance was like the .bodyguards, and were allowed to go. return of a long-lost son. These faithful souls will never be for- *** gotten by the people of the South. WES' ROUNSAVILLE'S BOY- H. W. Johnstone, of Curryville, Gor- HOOD.-The following extracts are don County, relates how "Aunt Mam- from the autobiography of Jno. Wesley my Anne," his family's old slave, died Rounsaville, who died at Rome Oct. 4, at Rome in 1855, and was buried be- 1910 : side the Johnstone family vault in "When my father, David Rounsa- North Rome. ville, died, I was in my eleventh year; Philip Harper, a 10-year-old boy, Sister Josephine was six, Brother was sold Aug. 3, 1854, with three other 'Dolph' five; these, with our mother, darkies from John Harkins to Alex- constituted the family. The question ander Thornton Harper, of Cave that faced us was how we were to Spring, for $2,275 cash. Quite an get a support. ' Father had been sick attachment grew up between master a long time and the small amount of and slave, which found its highest ex- money he had accumulated with a view pression when Mr. Harper was forced of entering the mercantile business again was soon spent and we were where I wanted to go. I told him practically without means. Fortunate- Rome, Ga., and he inquired if I lived ly, we had a home at Sixth Avenue there. I replied in the affirmative, and East First Street, and this was and he said, 'Do you know Col. Printup a great help because we didn't have in Rome?' to pay rent. " 'I did know him, but he is dead,' "My first work was with a Mr. Bay- I replied. less, who kept a confectionery store in part of the old Exchange Hotel. I "I inquired as to where he had think my salary was $5 per month. known Col. Printup and he said in Father left us a team which we hired Rome, more than 40 years before. He out and from which we collected the stated in answer to my query that his hire every night, and this with my name was Bayless, adding that he had pay was our only means of support. just returned from Australia, where he Our mother was a very industrious had gone from Rome, and had never and economical manager. returned in the meantime to this coun- "About this time a small affair try. probably changed the current of my '"Mr. Bayless, do you remember life. Mr. Bayless told me one hot Gen. Black?' I asked. He hesitated day to sweep out the store. I did a moment, looked me straight in the so to my own satisfaction, but not to eyes, and then dropped his head. I his; therefore, he ordered me to sweep said, 'I know you well. I clerked for it again. I demurred and he puilch- you when you first came to Rome and ed me with the brushing part 6, the opened your confectipnery.' 'No,' he broom. I d'eliberately walked into the answered, 'you are mstaken; I was in street and procured a good-sized rock the cotton business.' and went into the store and threw it "I informed him that I was not at him with all my might. He ran leaving New York until the next day out the back door and I got my little and would call back to see him. I red calico coat and left, and never called several times, but he was not went back again. there. "Mr. Bayless was a northern man. He continued to do a prosperous bus- "After leaving the confectionery iness, and finally went into groceries shop, I went to work for Mr. 0. A. and wholesale liquors. He kept large Myers, a most excellent gentleman and quantities of liquor in barrels and cof- editor and proprietor of the Rome fee in sacks, and had them piled up Southerner. He took me in his office in tiers against the walls of his store. at $5 a month and my clothing. How One morning it was announced in the well do I remember the first thing he Rome Southerner that Mr. Bayless had gave me-a pair of fine gray cash- sold his large business to Gen. Geo. mere trousers. I thought they were S. Black and associates. It seems Mr. the prettiest things I had ever seen Bayless bantered Gen. Black into a and it seemed they never wore out. trade, and sold on an inventory just Mr. Myers appreciated my efforts so taken by himself. A check for the much in my thirteenth year that .he money was given by Gen. Black (most sent me out to travel for the paper. likely on the Bank of the Empire I remember one night at Cave Spring, State), and Mr. Bayless left imme- where I spent the day collecting sub- diately for the east. A few days later scriptions until I had a considerable Gen. Black showed a customer a Sam- sum of money. I was afraid to go to the hotel, lest I might be robbed 01. ple of the fine whiskey, but the whis- miss the stage coach, which was due key turned out to be water, and the to leave for Rome at midnight, so after bags of coffee were in reality corn or dark I slipped into the coach, crouched peas put up so as to deceive. The in a corner and waited until the driver whole stock was that way, more or box less. Gen. Black made a strong ef- climbed onto his and made off. fort to locate Mr. Bayless, but did not "Once I went to Summerville, and . succeed. saw two men arguing politics in the "About 44 years after this happen- town square. Buchanan was running ed, I was in New York and getting for president. One man seemed to ready to come home. I stepped into a have the advantage of the other, and railroad ticket booth in the hotel and I championed the weaker side, asking saw a handsome, white-haired gentle- 'the other man a question he couldn't man standing behind the desk. I ask- answer. The crowd whooped and yell- ed the man what was the price of tick- ed, and the man turned on me and ets to the South, and he asked me said, 'Look here, my little fellow, you ought to be at home with your two pairs of old breeches, that you mammy!' That year I made $450. may have a new coat made of them; "Mother soon decided that I must go also some new socks, which your to school on what Little Dolph and I mother has just knit by cutting down had made, so I went two terms to some of mine. Your mother sends you Prof. Peter M. Sheibley, one of the $10 without my knowledge, and for finest teachers Rome ever had. In fear you might not spend it wisely, I 1858 we removed to the farm of Uncle have kept back half, and send you only Jimmie Meredith in Broomtown Val- five. We are all well, except that ley, Cherokee County, Ala., and farm- your sister has got the measles, which ed there until the war broke out. The may spread among the other girls. I people were very kind to us, although hope you will do honor to my teach- the young farmers laughed at us be- ings. If you do not, you are an ass, cause we plowed in gloves and large and your mother and myself are your straw hats, and could not lay off affectionate parents."-Rome Tri- straight rows. I often amused a crowd Weekly Courier, Jan. 21, 1860. telling them of schemes I had to make *** farming easier, like boring a hole in ROBT. BATTEY'S TROUBLES the end of the plow foot, and putting AT SCHOOL.-At 11 years of age up an umbrella to plow under. and under date of May 12, 1839, Robert "I also said a man ought to be able Battey wrote as follows to his mother to ride while he plowed, and I per- in Augusta from Phillips-Andover fected a three-foot plow that would Academy, Andover, Mass. His brother list land with two furrows, and save George, 13, was there with him at the the labor of two men and one horse. time: For irons I used hickory withes and "My dear Mother: We received a attached them to the front wheels of bundle from you not long since con- a two-horse wagon and pulled the con- taining a letter, 4 dollars, some cot- traption with two oxen, Mike and ton seed, a pocket handkerchief, 2 Bright. I demonstrated that this plow flags, 2 knives, 2 books, the violet and would work, but lack of means and Juvenile Forget-me-not which I the taunt from the Alaljama farmers thought was very good and interest- that it was a lazy, mean method, ing. Brother goes to writing school caused me to give it up. Years later to Mr. Badger and is improving very I saw men patent this idea and de- fast. As soon as he has done his velop it into some of our labor-sav- coarse of lessons he will write you a ing plows of today, and I have always letter so that you can see how much thought; my plow deserved the priority. he has improved. Chas. Hall is here "Our life in the country was not at present. We have got a new boarder, only a pleasant and happy one, but his name is Daniel E. Safford. Brother I verily believe it paved the way has five rabbits and one of them has for our future success in business. or is a going to have some young ones. It taught us to work and brought us I have been reading Rolo Learning to a knowledge of the people from whom Read and Rolo's Vacasion. I like them in after years we received our great- very much indeed. Last Tuesday we est help in building and maintaining had a company of 100 Latin and Eng- our wholesale grocery and cotton bus- lish students. They marched up and iness. down town and then they had a re- "We learned nature and the sea- ces of about 15 minutes. They had sons and the peculiarities of agricul- water and molasses and water. After tural products of the section. We that they marched around again; were taught the value of money, how their dress was simply their Sunday hard it was to make, and at the char- best clothes, a cane and a role of paste- acter-forming time, instead of carous- board with a blue ribbon tied around ing cn the streets of a city until mid- it. I have found a very great falt night, we went to sleep soon after in brother, that is, telling things supper and slept the sleep of the in- arround town that I never told him, nocent and the just. In later years and when he gets caught in telling we opened our store at daylight and a lie he says that I told him some- closed it at midnight." thing like it. His object in doing this is to make folks think better of him *** and worse of me. Sometimes he is COST OF A COLLEGE EDUCA- kind and affectionate. I believe you TION.-The following letter was sent wrote me to tell Mrs. Green when he recently by a Floyd County man to his imposes uppon me, but I do not like son at college: "I write to send you to tell her but I do not do anything to him but stand and bare it. The other a cane-bottom chair for a friend; on day I went down to Mr. Abbott's and the dark, smoky, spider-webbed walls bought some sugar to put in some a Lewis Gregg pen sketch of Joel chocolate as I and D. E. Safford used Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus") to go over in a field and build up a and cartoons by Opper and Fox past- fire in an old tea kettle for a stove ed up without frames; a sea of old and had an old coffee pot which we newspaper exchanges, the accumula- found out there which we made our tion of months, stacked so high on chocolate in. However one day I had both sides of the desk as to obscure the sugar in my pocket and Mrs. Green the pigeon holes, which are crammed took it out and said it was hers. I with letters, papers and poems; the told her it was not for I bought It top of the desk burdened with daily down to Mr. Abbott's and if she was and weekly journals from all over the a mind to she might ask him but after country, and surmounting them a tan- that she got pretty cool about it. I gled heap of spider nests and ancient have got a book called My Brother's dust; on the floor a discarded shower Letters which I think is a very good of his literary sheaves; a single elec- book. Give my love to father, Aunt trip drop globe and a clouded window Mary Anna and all other inquiring to admit a little more light; a rat's friends and my best love for your- nest in nearly every drawer of the self. I hope you will write me soon. desk. "Your affectionate son, Stanton is always absorbed in plots "ROBERT." for poems and paragraphs; he moves solitarily between office and home; Shortly after the death of his father, year in and year out he grinds his Cephas Battey, from yellow fever, daily grist, a column known as "Just Robert wrote his mother from Ando- From Georgia," and his political ver (under date of Dec. 8, 1839) : quips and a serious editorial daily; he "My dear Mother: I received a let- is one of the most prolific writers in ter from Aunt Susan last Thursday the United States; he is friendly and morning. Wednesday before last there reminiscent, but he seldom invites any- was a great fire up town. Wednes- body to his den, and when they come day before last the book bindery burnt they do not consume much of his time. it belonged to Mr. Wm. Waters there His office is in a rather remote part has been a subscription &r him. of the building; not so remote as it is Thanks be unto the Lord it was not . "unsuspected" and undiscovered, for our house for I was sick. I had eaten the human stream that flows out of something that did not agree with me. the elevator and the stairway does not Mr. Green had his hog killed last Wed- pass his door. - nesday. Some body set fire to our In a sense, Stanton is comparable chicken house last Thursday. George to Sir Walter Scott, who used to lost 7 rabbits. My little pigeon is do- throw his manuscript over his shoul- ing very well. Daniel came last Fri- der, to be picked up later by some- day. Mrs. Green's flowers are doing body and put into print. He exudes very well. Tell me is cousin Miller so much poetry that it sometimes gets alive. Tell aunt creasy I am well. out of his reach in the junk that sur- Mrs. Blanchard, Rhoda & I all send rounds him, and does not appear for their love. days, weeks or months afterward. In "Your son, a sense, he is comparable to Horace "ROBERT." Greeley, who wrote such a miserable hand that but one compositor on the George added a postscript, saying: New York Tribune could read it. "You will see by Robby's letter that Stanton can write plainly and pleas- we have had a fire. I have been play- ing chess with Robby and he can play ingly when he takes the time. How- pretty well for the time he has been ever, he usually leaves much to the learning." imagination, and unless the printer +** reads it who is accustomed to his style, there is trouble in the plant. FRANK L. STANTON'S SANC- TUM.-The casual visitor to Frank A story is told of Stanton which L Stanton's sanctum in the Atlanta will illustrate his accustomed environ- Constitution building is deeply and ment: lastingly impressed with the physical John Temple Graves,. editor of the aspects of the place; a roll-top desk Tribune of Rome, had h~reda new of- over in a corner; a swivel chair for fice boy, to whom these instructions the poet which he seldoms "swivels;" were given: THE INMAN-RICHARDSON WEDDING FEAST AT "MAPLEHURST." The nuptials of Miss Josephine VanDyke Inman and Hugh Richardson were attended by many well-known people of Rome, Atlanta, and elsewhere. In this picture are seen the wedding party at supper following the ceremony. On the right. standing, with baby, is John W. Grant, Atlanta capitalist and philanthropist, in front oP him are the bride and groom and beyond are Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Inman, and between them Edward H. Inman. In front of Mr. Inman is Mrs. Grant, formerly Miss Annie Martin Inman. "One of your duties, son, will be to the door is attached to the chandelier carry the copy to the composing room. in the middle of the room. The easiest Whenever I write anything, you come and quietest way to get in there is to in here and get it, and whenever Mr. grab the rope and swing from the Stanton writes anything, go in there door to the table beside his desk, and take it back. I think Mr. Stan- where you will be able to get the copy. ton has some now." Then you swing back. The idea is not The boy returned in a minute to Col. to disturb his muse. Let's see how Graves' desk and said: well you can do it.' "I couldn't make him answer." "Colonel Graves, I ain't lost nothin' "What's that?" in there." "He just kept on working when I "Why, what's the matter?" asked him if he had wrote anything." "A man from Mt. Alto just come "Oh!" exclaimed Col. Graves with a out, sayin' he wanted a write-up, but twinkle in his eye. "Let's see." saw Mr. Stanton was busy, so just left his box on the table and said he They went to the doorway and peek- would be back. No, sir, I ain't goin' ed in. There 'sat Stanton with his in there!" elbows aspread, his head low and his right hand fighting furiously with a "What sort of write-up did he pencil. He had dug so deeply into a want?" mountain of papers that no part of "He said he had broke the record at him was discernible below his should- Mt. Alto for ketchin' the biggest rat- ers. He would make a great effort tlesnake !" and out would come a sheet of long Mr. Stanton was the owner 'of a hand, suggestive of a doodle-bug play- small dog which had the distinction ing in a sand hill or a mole starting of having been named after a famous a direct route to China. expression. Sam Jones used to come "I forgot to tell you the way you to Rome and exclaim at his great should approach Mr. Stanton. The boy meetings, "My, my, man-can not you that had your job understood it. You see the error of your ways?" So the notice the rope on the hook here at dog was named "My-my." "My-my" was a product of the flood of 1886. He has been born in the Fourth Ward in February of that year; when the high water came, he sdram into Rome proper for the first time, and anchored on Broad Street. It was cold and the puppy took refuge in a hallway, where he was found and adopted by Col. Graves, who carried him home to 402 First Avenue. Here the little dog forgot his late experi- ences, and his humility at the same time. He bit Dr. Henry Battey sav- agely on the ankle, so that ever after the doctor bowed himself out of the house backwards. The dog soon became a pet at The Tribune office, and since Stanton fed him and kept him as a "paperweight" on his desk, he soon forsook his orig- inal benefactor. Presently Col. Graves' first wife died and they buried her over on Myrtle Hill. Bishop Warren A. Candler came to Rome, called on Col. Graves and proposed that they go to the cemetery for a silent word of prayer. As they approached the tomb, they saw Mr. and Mrs. Stanton, ac- companied by "My-my." "Even my dog seems to have de- serted me!" exclaimed Col. Graves dis- FRANK LEBBY STANTON, Georgia's lyric poet, who served as night editor of The consolately. "My-my, you must choose Tribune of Rome under Jno. Temple Graves. this day whom you will serve." So saying, Col. Graves walked off, and corps, Army of the Cumberland (U. Bishop Candler followed. "My-my" S. ) , writes: hesitated a moment, swallowed hard, smacked his lips meekly and tucking "I was at Rome on the night of Oct. his tail between his legs, followed the 3, 1864, having been sent with orders Stantons. Col. Graves declared philo- to Brig. Gen. Jno. M. Corse to move sophically, "Thus it is with all earthly his command at once to Allatoona Pass friends !" and reinforce the post there, where Sherman had stored 1,000,000 rations. Stanton soon moved to Atlanta at We reached Allatoona on the after- the instance of Wm. A. Hemphill and noon of the 4th; John B. Hood, in com- brought "My-my" along, and the dog mand of the Rebel forces, had got in hame a prime favorite around his our rear, and on the morning of the sanctum. When "My-my" died at the 5th, Gen. S. G. French, in command age when all good dogs are supposed of a division of Rebels, sent us by flag to die, The Constitution printed his of truce information that if we would picture and recorded that many of his friends among the children followed surrender, we would be treated well, him sorrowfully to a decent burial but if he was forced to attack, every place, and concluded: "My-my was in one of us would be massacred. To this, many respects a remarkable dog, but Corse replied after consulting the particularly so because he was the small force at hand, 'Come and take only canine we ever heard of who was us if you can!' knock-kneed in front and bow-legged "On they came, and I assure you in the rear." French paid dearly for his assault, *+* and toward night he began withdraw- FRANK L. STANTON TO HIS ing his forces, or what was left of MOTHER."-The beloved Georgia them. During the battle, a signal was poet once penned this beautiful son- seen flying from the top of Kennesaw net: Mountain," telling us to hold out, that help was coming to us. Corse Thou shalt have grave where glory is answered, 'I am minus a cheek bone forgot, and part of an ear, but am able to Thy star all luminous in the world's whip all hell yet!' Corse had been last night, hit late in the afternoon by a rifle ball Thy children's arms shall be thy neck- and knocked senseless. We thought lace bright, him killed, but he soon rallied. We And all love's roses clamber to thy suffered severely for the number en- cot; gaged. My horse was killed in the And if a storm one steadfast star shall fracas. The gun I used that terrible blot day of slaughter stands this moment in From thy clear Heaven, God's an- my bedroom, and money couldn't buy gels shall re-light it. It is an 8-shot Spencer repeating The lamps for thee and make the dark- rifle. ness write- "French's troops were heroes, every The lilies of His love shall be thy one. They were ,in the open and we lot ! were behind strong breastworks. They He shall give all His angels charge had no chance to dislodge us. French of thee, had cut our wires. Americans against Thy coming and thy going shall be Americans, and I am glad to hope that known, North and South are now one united Their steps shall shine before thee country ." radiantly, **" Lest thou shouldst dash thy foot against a stone; THE BARTOWS IN FLOYD The cross still stands; who will that COUNTY.-Comparatively few people love condemn know that the Bartow family, of Sa- Whose mother lips kissed Christ at vannah, once maintained quite an es- Bethlehem ? tablishment at &ve Spring. It is *** likely that they removed to Floyd FROM A SHERMAN SCOUT.- County prior to 1850, and that they. Thos. D. Collins, of Middletown, N. Y., lived there part of the time for five courier, guide and scout of the 20th years or more. Mrs. Bartow moved - back to Cave Spring after the death of *From The Mothers of Some Famous Geor- her husband and her son. The head of gians. **Signal sent by Gen. Wm. Vandever, who the house was Dr. Theodosius Bartow, for a time occupied the post at Rome. who was born at Savannah Nov. 2, 1792, and married Frances Lloyd Feb. GEN. NEAL DOW PRISONER OF 26, 1812. A ROMAN.-It is not commonly known .that Neal Dow, once Mayor of Port- Says The Mothers of Some Famous land, Me., and a general in command Georgians: of colored soldiers durinp the Civil "After Francis S. Bartow's sad end, War, was taken to Libby Prison, Rich- Mrs. Bartow returned to her home in mond, Va., probably in 1863, by Leon- Floyd, now endeared to her by many idas Timoleon ("Coon") Mitchell, sacred memories, which threw a halo brother of Mrs. Hiram Hill, of Rome. around her pathway, for it lay in "Little Neal" Dow, as he was known, shadows the rest of her days since the had carried his negro troops against Jight of her life, her counsellor and the Confederate works at Port Hudson, friend, would no more go in and out Mississippi River, La., May 28, 1863, with words of peace. Her 60th birth- had lost 500 in killed and wounded day was N'ov. 1, 1852, and her son from his brigade, and himelf bad wrote: been wounded twice. Subsequently he "'I now take advantage of the clos- was captured and put in prison at ina hours of this day which completes Mobile. Feeling was so intense against your 60th year. It has been one of him there on account of the fact that those bland, bright days, more like he had led colored troopers that it was spring than autumn, neither warm nor deemed best to remove him north. A cold, and I have thought of the green Roman, "Coon" Mitchell, member of hills of Floyd and wished myself there, the Rome Light Guards of the Eighth that I might walk with you through Georgia Infantry, was selected to take the quaint garden and see the sun, as him. he sets behind the mountains, light up The route, for sake of safety, was the sky with golden radiance. How through New Orleans. Gen Dow, dress- beautiful does nature present to the ed as a private, was taken there, and mind the evening of a well-spent life; lodged over .night at a hotel. Some- how few are the dark hours between how the secret got abroad and a crowd the mellow twilight, so full of peace of angry people gathered at the hotel, and rest and the glorious reappear- demanding the body of the prisoner. ance of the rosy beams of morning. The proprietor sent word to the room of captive and escort to flee. "'For you I cannot wish those many Mitchell had been guarding his charge years on earth which is the customary and had had little sleep; had not re- greeting. I know enough of life's moved his clothing; but in spite of his meridian, of its fleeting joy and con- fatigue he smuggled Gen. Dow out of stant carw to feel that the happiest a rear passageway and caught a train home is where the soul is freed. But at a way station and landed him at for me my prayer would be that you Richmond. Gen. Dow was later ex- who first held me up to the light of changed for Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, neph- day should close my eyes. A selfish ew of Robt. E. Lee. prayer, at least, that I may so live that, like you, some golden light may Gen. Dow got his commission as be reflected in my evening days! brigadier from President Lincoln and was regarded as a capital prize by " 'God's will be done! May He guide the Confederate hosts. He was a great you and me and all of us! My heart temperance leader and as prohibition is with you always!'" candidate for president in 1880 he re- ceived 10,000 popular votes. He died For quite a while Mrs. Bartow's at Portland Oct. 2, 1897, at the ripe dsughter, Theodosia (Mrs. Edward E. old age of 93. Ford), was the principal of a girls' school at Cave Spring. This place be- "Coon" Mitchell himself, it will be came known as "Woodstock," and it remembered, was imprisoned shortly was conducted by Mrs. Ford before and after the war by Capt. Chas. A. de la after the war; it was once owned by Mesa for his participation in a Con- ' the Nobles, of Rome. The Bartows federate uniform in the tableau "The were the principal donors of the Epis- Officer's Funeral'' at Rome. Capt. de la copal church at Cave Spring, and sev- Mesa was in charge of the Freedmen's eral of the old-time residents remem- Eureau at that time, and objected to ber them with deep affection. Mrs. the presentation of the tableau as an Bartow died at about 80 years of age. i~sultto the United States flag. She was a kindly and true Southern Mitchell was born in March, 1839, gentlewoman, typical of a race that is hence was 24 when he took "Little no more. Neal" in tow. He died a good many years ago and was buried in the Sol- her a guard, to which she replied feel- diers' Section of Oakland Cemetery, ingly: Atlanta. "Oh, General, I can not express my *** gratitude! I can only hope that be- "GINRUL" VAsNDEVER AND fore you die you will succeed in win- "THE WIDOW LUMPKIN."-When ning the heart of the Widow Lump- Maj. William Vandever, of Sherman's kin !" Army, took charge of Rome in 1864, Mrs. Hawkins went through trials one of the early callers at his head- second to none during the war. After quarters (whether by official invita- the evacuation of Rome Capt. Jack tion or otherwise it is not known) Colquitt maintained a band of bush- was the handsome widow of Judge whackers around Rome, Cave Spring John H. Lumpkin, congressman, who and Cedartown who had formerly been had died four years before. A state- members of a Texas unit opposing ly ex-congressman from Iowa and Sherman's attack on Rome. This band a splendid gentleman, General Van- traveled under the name of Colquitt's dever had been cited for bravery Independent Scouts. A foraging party on many a battlefield, but he was of Union soldiers having gone out in a married man and there was undoubt- wagons toward the present site of edly no justification for the gossip Lindale the Scouts ambushed it in which wagging tongues soon spread front of the Bryant-Hawkins home, concerning his "affair" with Mrs. killed several men and stampeded the Lumpkin, who, by the way, had been horses. In retaliation Gen, Jno. M. Miss Mary Jane Crutchfield, daughter Corse, of Pennsylvania, the Northern of Col. Thos. Crutchfield, of Chatta- commander, claiming Mrs. Hawkins' nooga. Mrs. Lumpkin lived on Eighth husband and son had led the attack- Avenue in Rome's finest home, five ing party, caused the home to be burn- blocks from the General's headquar- ed to the ground. It was stated by ters. neighbors that Mrs. Hawkins had However, the tongues did wag, and time to save only the family Bible; on numerous occasions connected the also that a soldier invited her to names of the two in a way that must rescue the portraits of her ancestors, have been embarrassing to both, but to which she replied contemptuously, furnished them considerable amuse- "I would not lower myself to accept ment at the same time. s.uch an invitation! I will stand here Enter a mischievous young Rome and watch it all burn together! The woman determined to protest in her piano and the funiture and the grand- own way at the Yankee occupation, as father clock are equally sacred to General Vendever's carriage passed me !" by. Mrs. Hawkins was then arrested "Ginrul, Ginrul, may I stop you a and sent to share the roof and the moment?" scanty wardrobe of sympathetic "EIold up there, Bob; let's see what friends. *+* the lady wants. What can I do for YOU, ma'am?'' STORY OF THE WHITE PA- POOSE.-Mrs. Pattie Wright Stone, "Ginrul, would you be kind enough of Farill, Ala., contributes the fol- to lend me a pianner?" lowing story of Alexander Thornton "Madam, I'm sorry, but I've got no Harper, of Cave Spring, who married piano." Miss Elizabeth Whatley Sparks, the "Why, Ginrul, I hearn ye had seven girlhood sweetheart of Gen. John B. at the Widow Lumpkin's!" Gordon : Mrs. Thos. Hawkins, formerly the "On Mar. 28, 1832, there was born beautiful and cultured Miss Pauline in Vann's Valley, near the beautiful Eryant, whose father was prosperous Little Cedar Creek, to Thornton Har- in a comfortable estate on the Cave per and his wife, Frances Long Rich- Spring road, got a pass through the ardson, a baby boy named Alexander lines and appeared at General Vende- Thornton. On the night of the third ver's headquarters ("Bill Arp's" old day of the child's birth there came a home on Fourth Avenue) and asked knocking at the door of the IIarper log for protection from maraudingl bands cabin. At that time the valley swarmed of soldiers. Her husband was away with Red Men, and well did the in- with the "Rebels" and she was practi- mates of the forest home know when- cally alone in a great big house. ever a red knuckle rapped. General Vandever courteously offered "'Oh, dear, dear, it's the Indians,' Mrs. Harper whispered, and with one "Mr. Harper was a pioneer of the hand she drew her baby nearer her highest type, and his savage neigh- breast, and with the other gathered bors admired his humanizing quali- up little Elizabeth, their only other ties. On one occasion an Indian boy child. was sentenced to receive 40 lashes for " 'Don't be alarmed, "Chick," reas- horse theft, and he pleaded that Mr. sured the husband. 'There is no harm Harper be allowed to apply the pun- in them.' ishment. "Mr. Harper opened the door and in "The valley was full of game and filed several Cherokees, the leader of the Indian boys hunted much on their whom said with a grunt and in gut- fleet footed ponies. Often they would tural tones, 'Indians want to see white expend a quiver of arrows at wild papoose.' turkeys and come home laden with the "It was the first white child born great black birds; they also killed in Floyd County. deer and exchanged the venison for * " 'Give white papoose to Indian; In- beads and other things the settlers had dian hold him in his arms.' to offer. "Mr. Harper, confident of the In- "Mr. Harper built the first house of dian's good intentions, placed his size in that neighborhood. It was a young son ,in the Red Man's arms, and two-story affair and was known as then each Indian insisted on holding the White House. Practically all the the baby in turn, and on scrutinizing other establishments were log cabins, the little fellow to determine how the with a room on each end and a pas- Great Spirit had made him so pale sageway through the middle, or a sin- instead of red. When the baby told gle room without hall. He made his them in his own peculiar way that he nlantation blossom with slave labor , wanted to go back to his mother, the brought from South Georgia. Pres- Indians knew .it was not the sound of ently there were five white papooses the brown papoose. They went away instead of two, and when Alexander reverently and were swallowed up in and Elizabeth had grown up some- the gloom of the nearby forests. what they used to play with the In- dian boys and girls. The boys played a game with thick stones shaped like wheels. These would be rolled across an open space and shot at with ar- rows, and the side which scored the most hits was declared the winner. "Once when Alexander and Eliza- beth were playing with a lot of pearls and wampum in a bureau drawer at David Vann's home they heard some- body ask Mrs. Vann if she were not afraid the pale-faces would drive the Indian out. 'No,' she answered scorn- fully, 'right now I could sound the war whoop and a thousand braves would answer from forest and field.' "Little did she realize how soon the Indians were to march sullenly by for the west as Alexander and Eliza- beth hung on the fence and waved them farewell. We have their val- leys. rivers and hills and they are gone to the land of the setting sun; but so has the little white papoose gone to the happy hunting ground of Heaven. On Saturday, Jan. 2, 1905, Alexander Thornton Harper died .at his Oave Spring home. 'A noble man has gone to that reward promised the faithful in Holy Writ. He fought the good fight, he kept the faith throughout the allotted years of life and now enjoys THE HOTEL ARMSTRONG in fire of Mar. 8, 1921. Note burning cupola a,nd fireman that bliss accorded the righteous who at top of ladder. die in the Lord.'" A FAMOUS LEAP-YEAR PARTY. nice and pretty coming from our ed. The Rome News of Dec. 29, 1920, car- itorial senior, and although he insists ried the following story: we must not, we will say it, senior in Only two more days of Leap Year,- years as well as editorial experience. two more days 'and then a lapse of He can afford to write that way about four long years! Leap Year parties when he gets a spe- cial invitation to go and has an escort. Look before you leap, young ladies Hut there are two sides to every ques- of Rome, but leap while ye may! Next tion and we are on the other side of year, 1921, is not divisible by four to this one, for we did not have a 'pecu- a nicety, nor is it divisible by twos liar institution' in embryo to come and or couples if the plaints of the hard hand us a sweetly-scented billet doux time croakers are to be taken seri- written in the most delicate chirog- ously. raphy, respectfully soliciting the pleas- 'Twas the same in the old days, and ure of our company. 'tis the same now. The love song is "It is true we did get through the sung in season and out. Fair maids postoffice a sort of general invitation sing it one year in four and handsome or permission or something of the kind men the remaining three. which seemed to say 'If you are not Back in 1860, just before the muffled afraid to come by yourself, you can drums started beating for the Civil come, or you can stay away, just as War, there resided in Rome a young you please; if you come you can take bachelor by the name of George T. care of yourself, and if you stay away, Stovall, member of one of Georgia's nobody will miss you anyhow.' most prominent families, who in ad- dition to being a lawyer, wrote ed- "We have never done anything we itorials for The Rome Courier. know of that makes us deserve such treatment. We have never been caught He was one of the first to fall in disturbing the midnight slumber of the First Battle of Manassas in 1861. anybody's hen roost or in mistaking His senior editor on The Courier was another man's pocket for our own. We M. Dwinell, who was also a bachelor, don't recall ever having said that wom- and who went away with Stovall as en were intellectually inferior to Be- a second lieutenant in the Rome Light con, or Newton or Bonaparte or J. Guards. The Courier having no so- Caesar or Pompey or Solomon or Brig- ciety editor Jan. 27, 1860, a leap-year ham Young or Joe Brown, and we are party was handled in the editorial col- satisfied we have never compared them umn as follows by Bachelor Dwinell: to a huge fodder stack with a little "It was our pleasure on last Friday piece of ribbon or turkey feather flut- night to attend a most delightful party tering from the top of it. However gotten up and entirely managed by the much we have thought all this. we young ladies of Rome. Everything was have prudently kept it to ourselves; arranged in excellent good taste and but we vow we won't do so any longer! the young ladies played the gallants "On the other hand, ever since we most admirably. They showed that had heard there was to be a Leap they not only knew how to gracefully Year party we had been studiously at- receive the attentions of the sterner tentive and polite to every one of the sex but also that they can most charm- 'Dear (Bah! ) creatures.' Whenever ingly bestow them. It was a sweet we have met them on the street we season of joyous hilarity, mirth and have invariably tipped our hat as social amusements,-a genuine 'feast gracefully as we knew how and smiled of reason and flow of soul.' There are a little sweeter than we ever thought many more young ~entlemen than we could before, and ever can again; young ladies in the place, and if the and in one or two instances we fol- former did not all get special invita- lowed them several blocks hoping we tions, we see no reason why they might have an opportunity of picking should be growling about it. The ladies up and returning to its owner a glove deserve great credit for the pleasing or a handkerchief she may have 'un- exhibition they made of their 'rights' intentionally' dropped. for the coming year. May they all "And yet, after all this, not one of live long and happily and each be the them offered to escort us to the party; pure center of sacred household joys." and we waited as patiently as Job un- Having read this squib in the proof, til 9:30 that night. Then hope and Bachelor Stovall wrote the following: our fire going out about the same "Now, we wish to say a word or two time, we concluded to follow their ex- on the subject. All that sounds very ample and stroll up to the city hall, A TRULY COSMOPOLITAN ASSENLBLAGE. In this group are three physicians, a lawyer, a sheriff, a merchant, a mining engineer, a minister and a college professor. They are, left to right, Dr. Harry. Huzza. Dr. Geo. R. West. of Chattanooga, and Lyle B. West; Edwin Watters, Rev. R. BJHeadden, long pastor of the First Baptist church; Judge Robt. D. Harvey, Jake C. Moore, Robt. D. Van Dyke, of Atlanta; Prof. Jos. Lustrat, of Athens. and Dr. Ceo. B. Clover, of Monticello, Fla. only to see how many and who were formation on the status of Rome and there. We very foolishly went in by Romans directly after the Civil War: way of testing the matter a little fur- ther, and just as we expected, nobody To Former Patrotm.-Greeting: On came to ask us to promenade or insist the 16th of May, 1864, the last number on our singing Jeremiah, or to play of this paper was published. The Fed- the elephant or any other animal, or eral forces occupied Rome on the next to ask us how we were enjoying the day, and since then, up to about the evening, or even to inform us of the first of last May, it was not deemed state of the weather. prudent for such a 'Reb" as we have been to engage in any permanent busi- "One young lady (bless her sweet ness in Rome. soul) did offer to take our hat, and it was such an extraordinary act of at- Some three months since we returned tention that we would have given it to the old office and found it in great to her if it had not cost us five dollars confusion. What a pickle it was in, and was the last one we had. We to be sure! Stands, tables, cases, were satisfied from what we saw that presses, stones and stove pipe, impos- our senior's rhapsodies are all put on, ing stone, cabinets, racks and every- for he was a most neglected wall flow- thing else all turned topsy-turvy; and er. It may be called spite or spleen, then the whole chawdered up and but to us the whole affair was a per- beaten to pieces with sledge hammers fect humbug. and crowbars until the office looked "We would rather eat sour grapes like the Demons from the Infernal Re- any time than attend one for half an gions had been holding high carnival hour. The man that started the idea there. of giving up for twelve months the Of course we felt bad. It looked dearest privileges of his sex to a par- very much like "Othello's occupation cel of unappreciative and capricious was gone!" It would do no good to women deserved a coat of tar and think hard things and still less to say feathers, and on Friday night we had wicked words; we at once resolved the great satisfaction of burning the that as for us and our house, we would wretch in effigy and singing his re- arise and go back to the old fold again. quiem. Well, the first thing to be done was "So far as any advancement of our to take the Amnesty Oath. Now, about own from a state of single blessedness that we felt a little like the keeper of to one of double wretchedness is con- a cheap boarding house did about eat- cerned, when we record in our journal ing crow, after he had forced down the events of 1860 we will simply leave a little for a wager. He said he could eat crow, but he "didn't hanker arter a blank page. it!" We took the oath and have been "We think Patrick Henry could have feeling better ever since. was prob- made the expression a great deal It stronger if he had said 'Give me Lib- ably just the medicine needed. We erty or give me Leap Year!' We only would advise every citizen of the state wish it were 1861; we would see how to embrace the first opportunity to far another Leap Year would catch us take the Oath of Allegiance. It is as in this fix again. As it is we have a little as could possibly be asked of us notion to spend the balance of this after four years of most determined one in Utah. There we reckon the and earnest effort to disrupt the Fed- ladies are not so independent. Leap eral Nation, and besides it is really Year indeed !" our duty to give an honest pledge that hereafter we will give a full and cor- . Bachelor Dwinell read the proof on dial support of that government, which the above sally by Bachelor Stovall after all our sins against it proposes and tacked on the following: now not only to pardon (with a few "Our junior has fully justified the exceptions) but also to spread over us fable of the Fox and the Grapes. We the aegis of its protecting wings. pity him; but since he wrote the above Having taken the Oath, we went in- we discover unmistakable signs of dustriously to work and with the as- convalescence and (assure the ladies sistance of one good printer, by pick- that he .will be in his right mind in ing up the debris, assorting the type, a few days." patching some machinery and buying *** a little (with borrowed money), we CARRYING ON.-The following are now enabled to come out with the items from The Rome Weekly Courier, paper as you see it. It is our deter- Vol. 20, New Series No. 1, Thursday, mination to publish a first-rate family Aug. 31, 1865, will give further in- newspaper, giving the subscriber as much reliable and interesting informa- schools now in operation. Mrs. J. W. tion on Commercial, Political and Mis- M. Berrien also has a fine school, and cellaneous subjects as the columns will Mrs. Jennings, her sister, teaches mu- contain. A.l1 Military and Govern- sic. Mr. Nevin has a school for boys ment orders and Proclamations that that we understand is well patronized pertain to the people of this section and doing well. will be published as soon as received. Rolling Mill and Machine Shop.-We The paper will be neither partisan nor are pleased to. learn that H. M. An- sectarian, but we shall do all in our derson & Co. are preparing to rebuild power to support President Johnson their rolling mill. Messrs. Noble and the Provisional Governor in their Brothers are also arranging to rebuild present policy of restoring the Empire their Machine Shops and Foundry, and State of the South to its once proud we hope ere long to hear the genial position in the great family of States. hum of machinery all along Railroad Wanted-One Thousand Subscribers Street as in times before the war. to This Paper-Our rates are low. The Business of Rome.-The business of paper will be the best News Paper we this place has increased nearly 100 per can possibly make it. Terms, $1 for cent a week for the last three months. three months; $2 for six, or $4 for We now have twelve dry goods stores, 12 months. We will take in payment nearly all keeping more or less hard- currency or produce, anything we can ware, crockery and groceries ; seven eat, drink or wear, at market price; family grocery stores, two wholesale also clean cotton or linen rags at 2 and retail grocery stores, two hotels, cents per pound. No name will be three eating saloons, six bar rooms, entered on the Subscription Book until two billiard rooms, two livery stables, the paper is paid for, and the paper etc., and all doing a good business. will be stopped as soon as the time paid for expires. "Home Again."'-Nearly all the for- mer citizens of Rome and vicinity have Bill Arp.-We are promised a series returned and others intend coming of communications from this inimitable soon. Among those who are still ab- wit and satirist. Probably we may sent are Dr. H. V. M. Miller, who is have one article from him next week. now in Macon but still claims Rome Important Military Order.-Capt. as his home and will soon return; A. Kyes, commandant of this post, re- M. Sloan, now in Thomasville, but ex- ceived a telegraphic dispatch from pects to move back in October; D. R. Gen. Steedman on the 29th inst. or- Mitchell and Dr. Jas. B. Underwood, dering that no cotton shall be shipped ncqw in Valdosta, intend to return this from this place after that date until fall; Wade S. Cothran, now at Valula, further orders. It is supposed that this is expected soon; Jno. R. Freeman, now order is general throughout the cotton at Flat Shoals, Meriwether County, is states, and that all cotton will have to due before Christmas; Asahel R. Smith remain where it is for the present- expects to move here again in a short one object of this order ,is to prevent time. In fine, nearly every one of the the stealing of cotton that is now car- former residents are certain to return, . ried on to such a shameful extent in and before long Rome will be herself some sections. again. Taking the Oath.-While Capt. Must Ladies Talce the Oath?-"The Heirs was Provost Marshal, from June orders are very plain on this subject. 10 to July 26, he administered the Oath The ladies are required to take the to 342 persons; since August 14 Jesse Oath before taking their letters. By Lamberth, ordinary of the county, has command of Maj. Gen. Steedman, S. adminisltered it to 770, making the B. Moe, Adjutant." The above is an total number up to noon yesterday extract of an order received by our 1,112, and still they come. Postmaster in reference to ladies re- Schools in Rome.-Arrangements receiving letters by mail. are made for a good number of ex- Drou.th.-This section is suffering cellent schools for the children of from drouth to an extent almost un- Rome and vicinity. Mrs. Dr. Brown precedented. Since July 16 there has still continues her school at the former been but one little shower here, and place. Mrs. Reeves has returned and then only one-fourth of an inch of wa- will reopen her school on Monday next. ter fell. The consequence is that all See Advertisement. Mrs. Susan Smith corn is greatly injured, and the late is also about to commence another corn nearly ruined. The garden yege- school, and Misses Maggie Riley and tables and potato crop are nearly cut Mattie Sawrie each have prosperous off. County Meeting.-A call has been The neighborhood was alive with published for a meeting at the City "Yankees," but the confusion incident Hall in Rome on Saturday, Sept. 9, to to the chase after Gen. Jos. E. John- nominate candidates for the State Con- ston's stubbornly retreating columns vention at Milledgeville. The State gave Curtis Green an opportunity to Convention will be entrusted with the come within 100 yards of Gen. Sher- most important and vital interests of man's headquarters and to speak with the people, and the very truest and Miss Sallie, then a slip of a girl at best men should be sent from every 18. Mr. Green had been detailed as a county. spy to obtain information of Gen. Sher- - New Steamboat.-Our friends dom man's movements, and he had boldly the river and many others elsewhere walked through the lines in a Union will be glad to learn that fine progress uniform, using a stretch of woodland is being made by H M. Anderson & to cover the dangerous distance be- Co. in constructing a new boat for the tween his own men and the enemy. Coosa River. The boat is being built Miss Sallie was incredulous at first, at McArver's Ferry, and we under- but when he told her in a decided stand that a portion of the machinery Southern accent that he was a mem- of the old Alfarata will be used. ber of the Sixth Georgia Cavalry un- Specimen Copies.-We send this der command of Gen. Jos. Wheeler, number of The Courier to many of she believed his story, and admiringly our old subscribers, in hopes that they declared she was so glad to see a Con- will subscribe again. We can not fur- federate soldier that she desired to nish the paper on a credit. make him a nice present. It was his Garrison.-The military force now privilege to choose what the gift should stationed here is Co. C, 29th Indiana be. Quite possibly he exacted a for- troops, Capt. Kyes commanding. feit expressive of the happiness they Hgprnenea1.-Married on the 20th felt at meeting, but history must record inst., by Hon. Augustus R. Wright, simply the fact that he asked her to Dr. Miller A. Wright and Miss Sallie make him a suit of home-spun clothes Park, formerly of Columbia. On the -not a military uniform, but a habit 24th inst., by the Rev. Jesse Lamberth, that might serve him better in gath- Mr. John Holland to Mrs. S. A. Stans- ering information for his chief. bury; all of this ciky. "But, little lady, we have only a *** minute more to talk," he warned her. "I must hurry back. If you would do A WAX-TIME LOT.HARI0.-After your honored father and the Confed- having attended the Confederate Vet- eracy a service, you will meet me at erans' Reunion at Chattanooga, Curtis 1 o'clock after midnight tonight in the Green, of Oglesby, Tex., came to Rome clump of pines at the top of yonder Saturday, Oct. 29, 1921, to visit his hill. Lucky for our cause if the clouds relatives, Mrs. M. B. Eubanks and Ed obscure the moon!" A. Green; then developed a story of Civil War romance that it is the for- Miss Sallie's heart beat warm for tune of few in a lifetime to hear or the boys in gray. Her father was bat- experience. Miss Sarah (Sallie) Wal- tling to save the home from the in- lace Howard appears as the heroine, vader. Her sisters and her mother and the meeking between the two, for were dyed-in-the-wool Rebels, and with the first time in 57 years, is staged all the strength at their command they at the home of R. E. Griffin, 101 West had resisted the efforts of the foe. It Eighth Avenue, where the circum- was a perilous task but she could not stances are recalled. be less brave than Curtis Green, for In May, 1864, shortly after Rome what is Iife without liberty and hon- was first occupied, Gen. Wm. T. Sher- or? Her smile told him she would be man's headquarters for the Union Ar- there, and he rushed away, as if to my were at "Spring Bank," Bartow transact some important business at County, home of Capt. (Rev.) Chas. the front of the Union line. Wallace Howard, father of Miss Sallie Miss Sallie took into her confidence Howard and of Miss Frances Thomas Miss Fannie, who was 19, and undoubt- Howard, who in 1905 vividly recount- edly "Mother" Howard knew, for they ed the family's war experience in a never kept anything from her. At book entitled "In and Out of the any rate, the young ladies dressed Lines." "Spring Bank" was about themselves in dark waists and dark midway between Kingston and "Barns- skirts. If they were caught they would ley Gardens," the palatial estate of probably be shot, but they might es- the Englishman, Godfrey Barnsley. cape by pleading that they had ven- ROMANS AND "NEAR ROMANS" HERE AND THERE. Wm. M: Hardin. Judge Harry Johnson, Chas. W. Morris, Richard Venable Mitchell and James D'Arcy; Miss Elizabeth Laaier and a group of Romans at "Oak Hill", home of Mn. Thos. Berry; Col. Hamilton Yancey; George Rounsaville on parade; Little Miss Jean Landrum; Ernest E. bdsey; Hughes Reynolds and W. S. Rowel1 in a playful argument; Wm. J. Vincent; Little Mim Patti O'Neill; a Kiwanis Club group helping to dedicate the Municipal bandstand. tured forth with heavy hearts, unable On the night before his execution to sleep, to search for the body of was to take place, he was singing that kinsman or friend. These heavy hearts old familiar Confederate air, "The Bon- were in their slender, white throats as nie Blue Flag:" they approached the most advantage- ous point in the line. Sentries stalked "We are a band of brothers, heavily to and fro at intervals while And native to the soil, the snores of the rank and file told Fighting for our liberty that they were at peace with the world With treasure, blood and toil. for the nonce. And when our rights were threatened By dodging behind an ammunition The cry rose near and far: wagon here and a friendly tree there 'Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag the girls managed to get through, and That bears a single star!' how they did fly up the hill! They had Clmrus: reached the clump of pines before Cur- "Hurrah, hurrah, for Southern rights tis Green, and they crouched low, and -hurrah! held their breaths; the pine needles Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag seemed to spring up around and half That bears a single star!" to envelop them. Presently the young Confederate appeared. He was 24 and The corporal of the guard remarked handsome. He greeted them wjth a that he would be singing a different warmth that reflected his admiration of tune at daybreak and asked if he had their courage; pressed them to make any request or statement to make. The haste; received valuable pointers on fiery "Rebel" lit into the petty officer the number of Sherman's men and with a volley of vituperative abuse of their disposition; bade them forewell the Union army and cause. Then he with a promise to call presently for went about his digging, and by mid- the suit of clothes, and bespoke the night or shortly after had scooped out tender care of the Almighty in their with hands and an old soup spoon return to the Howard home. The girls, enough earth to permit of his crawling having found the path one way, trod to freedom. It is only fair to his com- it safely again, and spelt soundly until panions to say that they assisted him morning. with the excavation, and as he was In two days the wool for Curtis about to make his getaway, snored Green's suit had been carded and spun. loud enough to prevent the scraping The outfit was ready, but lo! the hero of his brass buttons against the sill was gone. Private arrangements with of the jail from being heard outside. fair damsels in war are one thing, and A miserable gas lamp at the corner stern army commands are quite an- flickered and sputtered; it shed a dim other. Curtis Green's unit had been glow about the front of the prison and ordered on a scouting expedition near the sentry box, and cast a comforting State Line, between Floyd County, Ga., shadow down a gulch that led to the and Cherokee County, Ala., and here Oostanaula River. Through this de- he had been cut off and captured. After pression the escaped spy ran, tripped a considerable stay elsewhere, he was and rolled. He was greatly handi- removed Sept. 23, 1864, to a rough capped because they had handcuffed wooden shack in Rome which stood at him in front, but liberty was sweet, the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and when he reached the river he slid and West Second Street, about 150 into it and began to swim as best he feet north of the Floyd County jail and could, kicking hard with his feet, 200 feet east of the Oostanaula River. working his hands together in a side- A drum-head courtmartial had found wise position, and occasionally turning him guilty of espionage and he had been over on his back and churning the wa- sentenced to be shot Oct. 4 at sunrise. ter with his feet like the paddle wheel The prison was a rudely-improvised of a steamboat. His escape was soon affair, either with a loose-plank floor- detected, and the firing of muskets let ing or a flooring of native earth. It Gen. Jefferson C. Davis' garrison know contained a number of other prisoners something unusual had happened. whose capture had greatly increased When Mr. Green came to Cave their docility, and who did not become Spring at 17 years of age he began actively interested-at least not for swimming regularly in Big and Little themselves-in Green's plan to escape. Cedar Creeks; he possessed a strong The prisoners were mustered and and clever stroke; and he was so fa. counted every hour during daylight, miliar with Rome that instead of so Green was forced to do his digging merely crossing the river and landing quickly. at the other side, as his guards be- lieved he would do, he set out for death he preached his first sermon at Black's Bluff, three miles down the New Hope church, two miles from Car- Coosa, which in this day and time is termille. His first appointment was considered a fair distance for a swim- to Van Wert circuit, where he served mer to make with hands free. Here and three years until 1875, when he was there he could touch bottom, or he assigned to the DeSoto (Rome) Cir- would snake himself on a half sub- cuit as pastor of the Second Methodist merged log and admire the stars. Fi- (now Trinity) church and six small nall y, after several tedious hours, he churches through the county, includ- reached the biuff, where he knew there ing Prospect Methodist at Coosa. He were Confederate scouts or natives, built his church in the Fourth Ward; and with the aid of a bit of soap sup- when Trinity Methodist was erected, plied by a farmwife, slipped off the the old strllcture was moved to 402 manacles from his wrists. W. Fifth Avenue, next door to the In the meantime, Miss Sallie How- Second Clwistian church, and was con- ard had been wonderng what could verted into a dwelling. It is standing have happened to Curtis Green, and today. He and his wife occupied the had been keeping the home-spun suit lower story of 733 Avenue A, south- beyond any "Yankee" reach. Eventu- west corner of W. Tenth Street, now ally her father received a serious the home of Varnell Chambers. wound and was paroled to Athens, and Mr. Jones continued to fight the devil Miss Sallie went there to attend him, and also to tamper with the devil's charging her good mother that if the firewater. He was not sensitive to the Confederate trooper returned, the suit extent of excluding his own shortcom- should be delivered to him. One day ings fror his pulpit discourses, and a dust-covered traveler in a tattered often told of this harrowing experience gray uniform rode up on a limping and that, and warned young men to horse. He had surrendered with the go the other way. Rome was a wide- Sixth Ga. Inf. in North Carolina and open barroom town, so Mr. Jones found was on his way to Texas, to grow up many human wrecks to shoot at, and with the "new country." He was very an occasional door that swung open sorry indeed that pretty Miss Sallie for himself. On one occasion the was absent, but said he with a note Fourth Ward brethren discovered Mr. of hope in his voice, it would be some Jones unable to proceed with his du- consolation in view of the eventuali- ties and they wired Rev. Thos. F. ties of 1865 if he could take with him Pierce, presiding elder of the district, the substantial garments she had asking what to do. Dr. Pierce wired, made with her own hands the year "Tell him to go ;o preaching." He before. It was Curtis Green. went to preaching and recovered his "God bless you, Mrs. Howard!" he mental and physical equilibrium. His cried as he mounted his steed and lodge brethren expelled him from started for the Etowah ford; "and menil>ership, but years later when his may your halls and lawn never again reformation was complete and fame be defiled with such a motley throng! crowned his brow like a benediction he I'll keep this suit as long as nature accepted reinstatement with the grace will spare it; and I'll save these hand- of a prince. cuffs to remind me of a pleasant voy- His first revival work was done at age around Rome!" the First Methodist church (where the *** Candler 11uilding now stands) in At- SAM P. JONES AT ROME.-When lanta, with Rev. Clement A. Evans, Sam Jones was 9 his mother died and who had previously, in 1879, filled the his father married Jessie Skinner; and pulpit of the First Methodist at Rome, in 1859 they went to live at Carters. but it was not until January, 1883, at villa. The young man was being pre- Memphis, that his fame began to grow, pared for college, but he developed a as thousbnds hit the "sawdust trail." wild streak, started drinking heavily Thereafter he preached all over the and by 21 had practically wrecked his United States and converted countless health. Straightening up for a time, sinners. It. is estimated that he ad- he studied ?a:v and was admitted to dressed 1,000,000 people a year. Every the bar, but ne17er carried his practice now and then he would come back to far. His devoted father died in 1878 Rome. The South Broad Methodist and Sanl promised him on his death- church sponsored his visit in 1897 and bed to reform. His experiences had received its share of the proceeds of not broken his spirit and he saw in the collection. No church in Rome was them an opportunity to benefit his fel- large enough to hold the crowd, so the low men. A week after his father's Howel cotton warehouse was selected. Romans will not soon forget his pow- preted, might mean that Rome is to erful arraignment of Satan and his have glory on Monday, the 22d inst., worlrs. from "G. G. Grady's old-fashioned cir- "Shams and the Genuine" was his cus." As there seems to be a consid- subject on this occasion. erable number of the Grady family Several years before this Mr. Jones connected with this saw-dust enter- had come to Rome to conduct a two tainment, we beg leave to inquire if weeks' revival. On the very first night the immortal "six" or the prolific hc painted a glowing picture of the "King Hans," concerning which a vast sins of the community. Judge Jno. amount of inky tears have been shed, W. Maddox happened to be presiding have been retained. If not, the pro- officer of the Superior Court at the prietor has lost a trump card.-Au- time, and when he read of Sam Jones' gusta Constitutionalist.' castigations on Rome and Floyd Coun- "Our junior is attending the fair at ty he laid the matter before the grand Macon, and since he is well known as jury, with the demand that Mr. Jones a Hans-ome man, is doubtless think- be made to appleai and prove his ing more of diamond than of sawdust charges. The evangelist cut his Rome rings. As to the 'immortal six,' they engagement short. He explained later may be tumbling around somewhere .that he was dealing in generalities but whether it is 'ground' or 'lofty' which he knew to be true, whether he tumbling we are not advised.". could prove them or not. * * * The story is told that one Saturday ONE WAY TO MAKE MONEY.- Mr. Jones left Rome to fill the pulpit "Skinning a flea for his hide and tal- at Prospect church, Coosa. There was low" was a po~ular occupation a narrow gauge railroad known as throughout the South after the Civil the Rome & Jacksonville, which was War. There was little to eat and lit- "limited" to the Rome-hosa redon tle money. Along came Zachariah B. and at the latter point "quit." Mr. Hargrove, Jr., in 1869 as mayor, and Jones drove horse and buggy along decided on an easy way to relieve the the railroad for several miles, mutter- local money shortage. ing that if a train could run on such "Hell," exclaimed 'Little Zach" with a track, with the help of the Almighty . HE certainly could, and his mare could hit the crossties like the devil in the ten-pin alley of irresolute souls. Mr. Jones was fond of telling stories incident to his travels. His favorite was the following from an old-time darkey, a compliment he always said was tne highest he had ever received: "Well, Brudder Jones, you sholy does preach like a nigger! You mag have a white skin, but I tell you, sir, you has a big black heart!" Mr. Jones' churchmen and neigh- bors at Cartersville were accustomed to gather yearly to celebrate his birth- day. They had made elaberate prepa- rations in 1906 to welcome him home from a swing through the west. He died Oct. 15, of that year while his train spcd homeward, a day before the event, and the rejoicing was turned into a funeral dirge. The brave heart, the massive brain had worn themselves out in the strenuous effort to pilot sin- ful humanity througN the heavenly gates. *** RAZZING MR. GRADY.-Captain Dwinell reproduced the following squib in The Courier of Nov. 26, 1869, and SAM P. JONES,evangelist, who built a Meth- added a touch of his own: odist Church in Rome and became its pastor, " 'Gloria Mundi-which, being inter- later removing to Cartersville. characteristic directness, "I'll PRINT "Cost paid to J. M. Langston, clerk. some money !" Principal and interest of this fi. fa. And he did. An experk engTaver paid by me at the request of the de- was hired, and before he had ceased fendant. He has kept me out of this his operations he had ground out $50,- money two years by lying, and then 000, which was considered sufficient. swindled me out of $10 by lying. Fi. About the time the last $1,000 was fa. given to him satisfied."-Docket, being spent to "ease things," word p. 4. came from the Treasury Department Robt. T. McCay informing the Rome mayor that the vs. money printing monopoly was located A. If. Kerr in Washington. After cussing out the $93.87 and cost. Nov. 13, 1859. Nulla "troublesome Yankees," "Little Zach" bona. reluctantly called the money in. Now "Bad eggs. Both gone up the spout. and then a bill that didn't get caught Kerr has since come to life, and like in the call bobs up and is stuck in a a good many of us, is kicking to make scrap book as a precious relic of those a living, but can't pay old debts. Let palmy printing press days. them go with the past. Feb. 3, 1860." *** -Docket, p. 40. A PLEASANT HOUSE PARTY.- All kinds of entertainments were en- Magnus & Wise joyed by the guests of a house party vs. at the F. M. Freeman home at Free- J. J. Skinner man's Ferry in 1898. A lawn party $178 and cost. there, a band-wagon ride to Mobley "Joe may come to it after a while, Park for an evening theatrical per- but the Radicals have released him. formance and dance following, a swell April 13, 1867."-Docket, p. 45. supper at the Armstrong, then the * * * ride by moonlight back to the banks JUDGE BRANHA'M ON OILD of the gurgling Etowah, formed part TIMES.-The Rome News of Oct. 3, of the entertainment 1921, carried the following reminis- Among the guests were Mrs. J. G. cences from the late Judge Joel Bran- Blount, chaperon; Misses Lou Flem- ham: ing, Edith Carver, Julia and Edith Smith, Mary Berry, Hazel Adkins, Ce- "The first time I ever saw the city leste Ayer, Clara and Ella Johnson, of Rome was in April, 1861, and again Laura Jones, Orie Best, Mayme Hud- on the 20th day of that month. The gins, Lillian Hurt, Susie Freeman, Lil- population then, I suppose, was about lian Lochrane and "Merrimac" Arnold, 3,500. Sam Stewart was the marshal and Messrs Harry Patton, W. Addi- and had been for several years, and son Knowles, Bernard Hale, Walter he ruled the discordant elements of the Ross, Sproull Fouche, Waring Best, city successfully. He had no pistol. Oscar H. McWilliams, Langdon Gam- He carried a gold headed cane. When mon, Dr. Wm. J. Shaw, Griff Sproull, he said stop, they stopped. I wish we Sam Hardin, J. A. Blount, John M. had his like again. and Tom Berry, Nick Ayer, Paul "I came from Kingston to Rome on Jones, Horace Johnson, Julian Hurt, the Rome railroad, then the only rail- R. S. Best, Wm. McWilliams and Hor- road to this city. The track was laid ace King. on stringers with bar iron a little * * * thicker than the iron tire that goes WROTE WHAT HE THOUGHT.- around a wagon wheel. Holes were "Nathan Yarbrough, former mayor, punched in the iron and it was spiked was sheriff in 1866-7," says Judge down on the stringers. Such a thing Joel Branham's booklet, "The Old as a "T" rail was unknown. The depot Court House in Rome," (p. 65). "He stood where the Stamps wholesale was a stout, broad-shouldered, red- fruit house ilm stands on the north headed man, abrupt in manner, firm side of Broad Street. The cars con- and fearless in conduct and opinion. sisted of a little engine which burned He moved to Texas many years ago, wood, a baggage car, a passenger car and died there. His docket shows with side seats such as is used on these characteristic entries: street railroads. The passengers faced one another in this little car. The J. J. Cohen Admr. depot building was as long as the train vs. and no cars stood across Broad Street. J. L. Ellis Wade S. Cothran was the president. Judgt. 1866, $22.50. He was a man of magnificent mind, the most progressive citizen of the city dence and a number of other residences of Rome, and a man of strict hon- are now on this property. esty. C. M. Pennington, whose house "I came through the country from stood where the Country Club now Milner, Ga., with a friend of mine in stands, was the superintendent. a buggy in February, 1865. He "The Shorter block between Broad, brought $10,000 buckled around his Second Avenue and the river was all waist; I had $12,000. We came here vacant property except the depot to buy land; we didn't buy it; we building referred to. It was seven feet still have our money. We crossed on below the present grade. a ferry boat. There was not a man "The Etowah Hotel stood on that to be seen on Broad Street. The town parcel of ground now embraced by was desolate. the Norton Drug Store and all the "I came to Cartersville just after the buildings down to and including the surrender of Lee in a wagon driven Rome Hardware Store and extended by Harrison Watters and owned by back from Broad Street of the same Z. B. Hargrove. They were running width to East First Street. The hotel a passenger line between Atlanta and was a wooden building, three stories, Cartersville. At Cartersville we took with a veranda around it and stood the railroad to Rome. It was then op- back from Broad Street. I stopped erated by Federal troops, and they there when I came to Rome to be were cursing and swearing and drink- married on the 20th of April, 1861. It ing on the train in the presence of was kept by Geo. S. Black. my wife. Just before I left Macon on "The block between First and Sec- this occasion a company of lawyers cnd Avenue, East First and East Sec- were gathered at the corner of Zeiland ond Streets was vacant, and it was & Hunt's drug store. There was but also vacant when I moved to Rome in one dollar of green back in the crowd. January, 1867. I had a barley patch Not a single one of us had a cent of where the Cooper warehouse now money. I said, 'I am going to leave stands and my cow grazed in that bar- this country and go to a country where ley patch. there are no negroes.' At this Clif- "The block on which I now live, 264x ford Anderson, who was afterwards 400, was vacant except for my resi- attorney general, laughed heartily. He dence, then a six-room house, four said it reminded him of a man who rooms on the first floor and two was sitting on a cart tongue and the above, and a little old dwelling on the steers were running away with him. extreme corner opposite the Methodist Some man cried out, 'Why don't you church. In the middle of this block jump off?' 'Hell,' he says, 'it's all I where the Rounsaville warehouse now can do to hold on.'" stands there was a pond of stagnant *** and green water. In the summer time PAYING THE FIDDLER HIS the frogs croaked their 'jug-0'-rum,' MITE.-The following letter to E. F. jug-^'-rum, 'jug-0'-rum,' an article Shropshire, clerk of the City Council, which we do not now have in that from Cave Spring, dated Feb. 24, 1871, neighborhood. will illustrate the penchant many peo- "Asahel R. Smith, father of Bill ple have of piping "economy notes" Arp, my partner, resided on the lot unto worthy "scops and gleemen:" where the Methodist church now "Dear Sir: Yours of 19h inst., en- stands. closing check for $4, balance due .Cave "The town was originally built on Spring Band for services rendered the 245, 23rd and 3rd; 276 belonged to citizens of Rome at the Waterworks Alfred Shorter. It contained the old Celebration, has been received. As farm house, a log building in the cen- that amount does not pay our leader ter of the north half of the block (outside of the other performers), we lying between Third and Fourth Ave- very respectfully return it. nues and East Second and East Third "The hotel charges are wrong. Only Streets. Only the farm house and the six members of the band stopped at residence of P. M. Sheibley was on Mr. Graves', which number had two that block. There were no other meals each with the exception of my- houses on it. self, who had three meals. He also "Maj. Chas. H. Smith's home em- makes a bar bill which I am author- braced all the territory lying between ized by each and every member of Fourth Avenue, Shorter College alley the band to say is false. and East Third and East Fourth "Hoping that when the city of Rome Streets. Mrs. Charlie Hight's resi- again needs the services of a band that it will procure those of one that will in the house at 709 known as give it better satisfaction, I am, dear the Featherston place. When Wood- sir, as representative of the band, row Wilson later became a young man "Very respectfully yours, he visited Mrs. Bones, then living in East Rome, and his cousin, Mrs. A. "P. E. ALEXANDER, Thew H. (Jessie Bones) Brower. It "Secretary Star Cornet Band." was at Mrs. Brower's home that he "P. S.-Our understanding was that met Miss Ellen Louise Axson, who we were to receive $25 and all ex- later became his wife in Savannah. At penses. P. E. A." this time the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Shropshire eased the municipal Brower was on the hill just west of conscience by appending on the outside the Southern depot, and then was the of the sheet the trite notation, "Cave only house on the hill, and the grounds Spring Band Busted." extended down to the Terhune place *** (and may have included it) and em- A RELATIONSHIP EXPLAINED. braced the ground on which the Ted- -Since many people are confused as castle home was built, now known as to the relationship between Woodrow 'Hillcrest,' the residence of Mr. and Wilson and the Bones family, once Mrs. John M. Graham. Mr. Brower residents of Rome, a lady close to them was interested in the East Rome Land offers the following explanation: Co., which owned most of East Rome. "The Bones family are related to "The Brower house was afterwards the Wilson family through Mrs. Bones, bought by Judge John W. Maddox, and who before her marriage to Mr. James when the Ragan home was erected next W. Bones was Miss Marion Woodrow, to it, Judge Maddox moved it some the sister of Miss Jennie Woodrow, who distance to the site it now occupiea. married Mr. Joseph Wilson, the father Thc present occupants are Mr. and of President Woodrow Wilson. Hence Mrs. Arthur D. Hull, and the location Mrs. Bones 'was Woodrow Wilson's is 6 Coral Avenue. The Browers re- aunt, whom his mother, he and his n~ovedto Chicago in April, 1884." brother Joseph used to visit when Mrs. * * :k Bones lived on upper Broad Street, WOODROW WILSON'S COUBT- SHIP.-The chance circumstance of a slack legal practice for a young law- yer quite possibly explains how Rome was put more prominently in the pub- lic eye than in any other chain of circumstances since the city's estab- lishment. Woodrow Wilson was born Dec. 28, 1856, at Staunton, Va., hence was 26 years old in 1882, when Judge George Hillyer, of Atlanta, and others signed his license to practise his pro- fession in that city, shortly before he paid a visit to Rome. Judge Hillyer is authority for the statement that Mr. Wilson first practised a short time in the Central building, southwest; cor- nez of E. Alabama and S. Pryor Streets, and then on Marietta Street new the southeast corner of N. For- syth, where the Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. oEce supply store is now located, and in the second story. At this lat- ter place he was in partnership with Edward J. Renick, later assistant sec- retary of state in President Cleve- land's second administration, and still later special legal representative of tht. banking concern of Coudert Broth- ers. He had graduated at Princeton Zlniversity in 1879 and in law at the University of Virginia in 1880, and ELLEN LOU AXSON, as she looked in 1882 after the usual preliminaries of pri- during the courtship of Woodrow Wilson at vate study a committee examined him Rome, which included a Silver Creek picnic. two hours in the Fulton County Su- perior Court and decided he was well by. He looked' not once, but several qualified. Attorney Gadsden, of South times before the sermon was concluded, Carolina, was chairman of the bar and stole a glance or so as the congre- committee, and Judge Hillyer was a gation were leaving for their homes. me~nberof it. He was so fascinated by this young The shingle of Wilson & Renick lady's beauty that he inquired as to failed to produce business in spite of who she might be and if by some their earnest application, and in the chance he might not be privileged to summer of 1882 Mr. Wilson found it meet her. He was told that it was convenient to take a two-months' va- Ellen Louise Axson, daughter of the cation in Rome as the guest of his Rev. Samuel Edward Axson, the pas- cousin, Mrs. A. Thew H. Brower, tor, who was living in a cottage on and his aunt, Mrs. Jas. W. Bones, the Third Avenue lot where Jno. C. whose husband was maintaining the Glover now resides. Rome branch of the well-known Au- Mrs. Brower found that she could gusta hardware concern of J. & S. do her Atlanta cousin a good turn, so Bones & Co. The Bones home was proposed that they invite Miss Axson built by Mr. Bones, and is identified and several others to go on a picnic tcday as the residence of S. L. Han- east of Lindale, to a spring which cock, in Oak Park, East Rome, south- forms part of the headwaters of Silver west of the Yancey place. Some years Creek. The meeting place was at the previously the family had lived on Brower home, and when young Wood- liroad. Half a mile away lived a first row asked if he hadn't better take cousin, Jessie Bones, who had become some lunch, Miss Ellen Lou readily the second wife of A. Thew H. Brower. suggested that she had plenty for Col. Brower's first wife, Mary Mar- two, and this offer left no room for garet (Minnie) Lester, had died Feb. argument. Others who were invited 6, 1878. and went were Edith Lester, 6 years The Bones family were staunch old, now Mrs. Wm. P. Harbin; her Presbyterians. Mrs. Bones' father nephew, Jno. Lefoy Brower, 4, de- was Dr. James Woodrow, a teacher in ceased; Ella, Mary Florence, Harry the old Oglethorpe University at Mil- and Frank Young, of East Rome; and ledgeville, and whose championship of the Darwinish theory and other ad- vanced ideas after the war caused his suspension by the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina from the faculty of the Columbia Theological Seminary at Columbia.* Mr. Bones was a high official in the Rome church, and Woodrow Wilson's father, Dr. Jos. R. Wilson, was a Presbyterian minister at Augusta; hence when Sunday rolled around there was no conflict as to whether the young barrister should attend services, and where. With Mr. and Mrs. Bones and his first cousin, Miss Helen Bones (who became Mrs. Wilson's White House secretary), Mr. Wilson went to the brick church at Third Avenue and E. First Street. The sermon was not so engrossing that the visitor failed to notice the piquant beauty of a girl with brown eyes and hair that fell in graceful -curls upon her forehead, sitting hard 'The synod later exonerated him by electing him moderator, the highest office in its power; and still later he became president of the University of South Carolina. Thus his own evolutions and theirs were of a pronouncea character. Dr. Woodrow taught Sidney Lanier. Southern poet, at Oglethorpe, and Mr. Lanier proclaimed his old teacher the greatest moral (THOMAS) WOODROW WILSON, about the influence in his life. Authority: Dr. Thorn- time he first saw Ellen Lon Axson in the wall Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University, First Presbyterian Church, Rome. Atlanta. Helen and Marion M. Bones (died Mar. Woodrow can be?" asked Mrs. Brower, 6, 1888). The distance was eight or as if aware of nothing. nine miles, and two rigs were used; "I know," piped one of the chil- the more attractive of the two for the dren; "he's over there cutting a heart young folks was Col. Brower's wagon on a beech tree!" with side seats, in the body of which plenty of wheat straw had been piled; The preliminaries were all disposed and then there was the buggy, which of that day and fervent resolutions carried Col. and Mrs. Brower and their made if not promises exacted. The baby, and Mrs. B. S. Lester, mother fates which had been cruel to Rome of Edith Lester and of Mr. Brower's smiled upon the dilemma of the young first wife. Atlanta lawyer. A freshet in 1881 and swept away the first East Rome bridge 'Tis said Woodrow and Ellen Lou (over the Etowah at Second Avenue). chose the back of the wagon that they The river separated Woodrow and El- might dangle their feet behind, and len Lou, so the former borrowed a bat- away went the future president of the teau built personally by Col. Brower, United States and the future First and they not only crossed, but paddled Lady of the Land, caring little wheth- up and down." We hear much of er school kept or law business were President Wilson's famous typewriter, remunerative or not. and of how he would put on his old After bumping along country roads gray sweater of his Princeton days and for an hour and a half they arrived peck away at it on the George Wash- at the picnic ground. The lisping of ington; League of Nations "dope" the gentle waters and the droning of ground out on the high seas, as well as the bees in a nearby field of wild flow- Gay Paree and Washington. But ers furnished the systematic tremolo again we must go back to Rome. He for the young lawyer's love sonata, and brought his typewriter with him in soon they strayed off from the crowd. 1882 and did some copying for Col. Lunch time came and all were sum- Rrower in the Cothran-Brower suit moned to the well-filled baskets. All over the East Rome land. save two were ravenously hungry after However, all was not so smooth for a session of romping and wading. the youthful lovers as the surface of These two were industriously search- the crooning Etowah; they would be ing for four-leaf closers on the pasture obliged to wait until the wherewithal greensward; playing "Love-me; love was forthcoming. Woodrow came back me not" with flower petals; blowing now and then. A year or two passed the downy tops off dandelion stems. and Ellen Lou (who removed to Sa- "I wonder where Ellie Lou and vannah) went to New York with Anna Lcster (older sister of Edith) and Florence Young. The girls were bound for the Art Students' League, to study art and kindergarten work. Mr. Wil- son may have been teaching at Bryn Mawr then, and again he mayn't, but he got on the train at Philadelphia and soon joined the young ladies and escorted them to the big city of the East. The three boarded at an es- tablishment similar to the Y. W. C. A. of the present time. Alas ! as long as they were here they were supposed to be hard at work and not to receive their gentlemen friends. This rule did not comport with the desires of Miss Axson or Mr. Wilson, so she found more con- genial surroundings. She was un- usually talented with the brush, and their homes wherever they lived in later years contained numerous evi- dences of her handiwork. On June 24, 1885, they were married at Sa- vannah, at the home of the bride's grandparents, with whom she was then residing. On visits of Mrs. Wilson to A. THEW H. BROWER. Gainesville two of her daughters were RECALLING WOODROW WILSON'S COURTSHIP. At top, left, Mrs. J. W. Bones, Mr. Wilson's aunt; Miss Marion M. Bones, his cousin; Mrs. S. E. Axson, mother of Ellen Lou Axson; Minnie Lester, the first wife of A. Thew H. Brower, at whose home Mr. Wilson met Miss Axaon. Next, the West and McDonald homes, built by the Axsons; the Brower and Bones homes; in oval, Axson home in 1882, and Silver Creek, on which a picnic brought the young couple together. born; there she was the guest of her A faithful sentry was ordered to round aunt, Mrs. Louisa C. Hoyt-Brown, up the scattered members, but could mother of Col. Edward T. Brown, of not find them until next morning, and Atlanta and Washington, D. C. Most then all were at church in Rome. The of the time they lived in the North. captain was found there, too, and after From 1890 to 1910 they were residents a while the bunch disbanded. of Princeton, N. J., the last eight years "In the winter of 1884, several of which Mr. Wilson was president of months prior to this incident, the ladies Princeton University. Then he was gave a bazaar in Noble Hall (the old chosen governor of New Jersey, and City Hall) for the benefit of the Rome in 1.912 became twenty-eighth Presi- Light Guards or the Hill City Cadets. dent of the United States. A prize drill at night was on the pro- From the executive mansion at Tren- gram for Broad Street, with the ton Mrs. Wilson engaged in welfare Guards, the Cadets, the True Blues work throughout New Jersey, and she and a Cave Spring company com- colltinued her efforts two years in the manded by Col. H. D. Capers as con- White House, where she died Aug. 6, testants. ' 1914. The grief-stricken husband ac- "The True Blues were sure their companied her to the Old Home Town drill was the best, and when the failed and to Myrtle Hill cemetery, there to to receive even 'honorable dntion ' lay her beside her loving parents. On they left for their armory in conside;. the hill above the depot stood the two- able disorder. On passing an alley story frame dwelling where he had first back of the Choice House, they were met her, and beyond the hill Silver confronted by a Ku Klux 'ghost' in Creek murmured its old-time love-song spooky white. The captain was seized as it went tumbling on down toward by the 'ghost,' and the company left the sea. *** him for the light of a gas burner HOME GUARDS (THE ROME down on Broad. If the 'ghost' had TRUE BLUES) .-This military com- taken full advantage of the situation, pany, with tents pitched July 6, 1884, he could have had more guns and ac- at Camp DeForrest, Forrestville coutrements than he could have car- (North Rome), and Gov. Henry D. ried. The captain got away by scratch- McDaniel looking on, received a hand- ing and biting the 'ghost.' " some flag from Mr. and Mrs. M. A. *** Nevin, containing on one side the AN OBSTREPEROUS MAYOR.- Stars and Stripes, and on the other A good many years ago,-it may have the Georgia coat of arms. been before the Civil War and again The "ossifers" were Richard V. it may have been after-Rome had a Mitchell, Jr., captain; Jas. B. Nevin, mayor who often wrestled with "John first lieutenant; Chas. J. Warner, Jr., Barleycorn" and nearly always got first sergeant; Louis S. Rosenberg, "thrown." On this occasion he ate a second; Paul P. Fenner, third,; Wm. little lunch and drank a lot of beer Coleman, fourth; Jno. W. Bale, first and licker at the bar at Fifth Avenue corporal; Herbert T. Amos, second; and Broad, and was trying to make it Wyly Snider, third; Frank Omberg, to the next "station" when a policeman fourth; Dr. J. M. Gregory, surgeon; accosted him. His "Irish" was now up Julius S. Mitchell, color bearer. and he pulled away from the officer, The "privates," outnumbering the saying, "Don't you know the mayor "ossifers" by two, were Dickson C. of this (hic) town?" Then he went Stroud, George Snider, Baker and Wal- back into the saloon and loaded up ter Weems, Gregory Omberg, Henry good; proceeded home with outraged Adkins, Sam and Max Kuttner, Hugo feelings and armed himself to the Spitz, Ed Lamkin, Frank S. Bale, Ben teeth. Cooper, Wm. Harbour and Frank D. Edge. Some said his gun was 30 inches long and weighed nine pounds; others that The company's captain tells the fol- it was 18 and weighed seven. Anyway, lowing "tales out of school:" he went back to town looking for po- "Most of the boys were very young, licemen, and when he saw two, backed and they were quartered in three large behind a telephone pole and shouted tents next to the state troops, who defiance. The officers took him in tow were in annual encampment in For- and chucked him into the "jug," where restville. During the night a terrific he became so noisy that they.-confined wind storm broke on the camp, making him in a sort of cage in the rear of the tents behave like balloons, and caus- the station. He obtained a hose and ing the True Blues to think of home. turned it on himself; Etowah water sobered him and he called for the turn- West Rome, and was perhaps the first key to bring the "Black Maria" so he woman to fly over the Hill City. This could go home again in style. was a day following the dedication of It was said that on one of his sprees the field,, Tuesday, October 11, 1919, he "kissed the candy man's wife," no by Commander John H. Towers, of the doubt thinking she was his own; and navy. The flight was made at 11 a. m. that he was "put in" on another occa- with Lieut. Kenneth B. Wolfe, U. S. sion. When "at himself," said the old A., in his Hispania Suiss plane, and timers, he made one of the best mayors lasted 30 minutes. Rome ever had. In 1920 Miss Moore participated in a more interesting and sensational flight. Major Lawrence S. Churchill, A PEACE PRAYER IN 1898-Sup- U. S. A., cam'e up to Rome from plications for international amity did Souther Field, Americus, to claim her not start after the German Armistice for his bride. He flew to Rome in his Nov. 11, 1918. In the Rome Georgian airship and flew away after the cere- of May 28, 1898 (Beulah S. Moseley, mony with the blushing Miss. Bessie. editor), we find the following from Let her tell in her own words of what Capt. Christopher Rowell, a veteran of she saw in Rome on the first-mentioned the Civil War: flight: "There is much in the pomp of war "Strapped in and ready to go! The to attract the multitude; the noise of feeling is iqdescribable. mile the contending legions, the shouts of vic- propeller raises a cloud of dust and tory, of strains of martial music. The sends a stiff wind into your face, ??our outward panoply of war always com- emotions are mixed. You are curlous, mands close attention, more of those pleased, anxious, filled with wonder as who are not familiar with the details to how it will feel, if you will be fright- than of those who in retrospect contem- ened, if you will be sick, and every plate the progress of such a state of minute seems like five before you things. A war waged for humanity's get away. sake would look like a contradiction, but it is through the ordeal of shed- "We took off facing town. The plane, ding blood that many of the changes once started, ran along over the in the progress of civilization have ground, then got smoother. Pleased been brought about. A war of defense i~finitely, I was anxious to rise, is always justifiable, but a war for ac- and eager for the sensation that comes quisition of territory or political ag- when you ascend in your first flight. grandizement, in fact, for any pur- I had waved my handkerchief to all pose except for defense of humanity's the spectators and was sitting still sake, must be of questionable pro- waiting for the big thrill to come when priety in this so-called civilized age. we would actually go up, and looking May we not hope that there will always from the side I caught a glimpse of be a redeeming spirit of law and hu- telegraph wires and I knew we were manity in war? It may be many days already flying over the Land Company yet before 'grim visaged war shall bridge. Then we crossed the river. To smooth its wrinkled front,' but we hope the right was Myrtle Hill cemetery. it will not be long before our bugles Then I saw Broad Street, and we went will again sing truce, when the storm higher and higher, sailing toward East cloud of war has fled. It may be that Rome at 100 miles per hour. What a the writer's views of war may not sheer exquisite pleasure! I was actual- accord with the notions of this utili- ly flying. It was delightful. I sat tarian age; but the time is surely com- back, surprised that I wasn't fright- ing when the first streaks of morning ened, my hands which at first held shall broaden into the full fruition of tensely to the sides of the car, were the coming day--on some occasion, too, relaxed. I was flying higher and higher. when the great Arch Angel standing A thing I had wanted for years had with one foot upon the land and one happened to me, and I was supremely foot upon the sea shall proclaim that glad. Thus I sat, musing and think- time shall be no more." ing. I was up in an aeroplane. I had *** no knowledge of fear. The thing I had dreaded, getting sick, had not hap- BESSIE MOORE'S THRILLING pened. I never felt better. Then re- FLIGHTS.-Miss Bessie A. Moore, membering that I wanted to see more former society editor of The Rome of Rome, I came out of my delirium of News, made the first flight taken by a pleasure, and took a look over. Roman from Towers Aviation Field at the North Georgia Fair grounds, in "1 saw a beautiful space of woodland, a wonderful panoramic view of the stunts but kept my eye directly on the country beneath me, a stretch of moun- instruments in front of me. I had tain, blue and purple, whose top melt- previously been told this would pre- ed into the low clouds of a damp Octo- vent the possibility of any sickness. ber morning. Yes, it was Rome, and "We came around to West Rome how tiny everything was! I couldn't again. This time we were nearer find out where we were, nor did I rec- Shorter College. The girls outside were ognize a single land mark. I knew taking exercise. We could discern that by instinct it must be far out of the plainly. They stopped to wave their city, and later learned it was quite a hands as we sailed overhead. distance east of the town. Then we circled around coming in the direction "Then I recognized the circus ring of Rome, but swinging far out toward of the Coosa Golf course, and saw a West Rome. tiny trough of water which I knew was the swimming pool. The club house "It was nothing less than a beautiful seemed entirely concealed by a tiny canvas painting in tones of green and bunch of green bushes. Then over the dull brown. Houses looked like minia- cemetery we flew. The cemetery seem- ture toys, straight, precise little rows etl flat and scattered with broken of growing things on farm lands took china. The extreme summit, where on the aspect of a piece of striped silk, stands the Confederate monument, re- roof-tops of white, red and brown sembled a nicely browned dough-nut. skirting the farm lands, nestled close, Then over the Etowah River, a narrow to the trees, which were tiny green winding strip of brown ribbon, laid bushes. As I looked in wonder upon in green velvet. I saw the perfect Y the town I knew so well, I laughed to where the two rivers form the Coosa. think of a plane as strong and defiant as ours ever being caught or hung up "I was trying to place a certain queer. on a tree-top like the little ones I saw. looking red brick house, and discovered Then we crossed a river, and there was it was the courthouse, and one inch a great stretch of green velvet, much away from it was Broad Street. None like a carpet. Presently I saw the of the blocks in Rome appeared over George Stiles race track in West Rome, one inch square. Around we circled and growing directly in the center was again. The third time we came over a tree which looked larger than any I Shorter we sailed at a low altitude. had seen. Around and around we flew, The girls were wearing white middies then back toward town over Shorter and blue bloomers; they looked up and College, which looked like a set of shouted. We were closer than ever child's playing bricks. Circling high- before. Then around again. This time er, climbing up, up, up, the car be- above the fair grounds. Towers Field came filled with steam. A fine spray with its big white T could be seen of rain pelted my face and hands and plainly. We were approaching from the wind roared by my ears like East Rome. We were getting lower thunder. I attributed the steam to and lower, and just like a huge bird some exhaust or defect of the engine, with out-stretched wings we sailed but looking down saw a fine white veil down smoothly, without a bobble, land- between plane and earth and knew we ed in the upper end of the field, and were in the clouds. The indicator reg- like the same big bird, hopped along istered 2,000 feet. The clouds were the field, until two of the mechanics damp, cold and refreshing, with who had signaled a safe landing ran flecks of yellow and brown rolling here up and swung themselves on the and there in the white. wings. The engine stopped and we "Presently I felt myself hanging en. were down. The taking off and the tirely to the plane by the support of landing, which I had always heard was my belt. I learned later it had been most difficult, was the easiest, smooth- a loop. Looking to the right I saw est part of the entire flight." the great wings of the plane turn high- Miss Bessie took part in a more in- er and higher, and was told afterward teresting and thrilling episode Jan. 17, we had done some king overs, which is 1920-her flight from the state of sin- a popular form of stunt. Above the gle blessedness. Major Lawrence S. city clock, which resembled a spool of Churchill, U. S. A., aspired to be the brown thread, we came down in a pioneer in an airplane romance that spiral. I didn't know what particular would thrill Rome. He started in an feat we were performing, but felt the airplane from Souther Field, Ameri- sensation one has when shot down to cus, with Lt. Perry W. Blackler as earth suddenly in a swift elevator. I pilot. In an accompanying plane were did not look down as we did these Lieut. Wolfe, of the aforementioned ROME AS VIEWED FROM AN AIRPLANE. A daredevil aviator came buzzing over Rome in the spring of 1921. He was on his way to Texas and was willing to carry up a few passengers for the price of his gasoline. David A. Sparks flew and got some snaps. We see the Municipal Building, the business section, Myrtle Hill Cemetery (in center), tbe wings of the plane and Shorter College through them, and lastly. the beautiful Etowah. flight, and Sergeant Jones. The last- Geo. T. Stovall (my cousin) ; Henry A. named pair landed at Towers Field, Smith (he kept a book store before and where they were received by City Com- after the war; I met him once early missioner Ike May, with the keys of in the eighties) ; F. M. Stovall (my the city, and by a curious crowd. The cousin, went from Athens to Virginia other machine encountered unfavorable and joined the Light Guards) ; Chas. winds and was forced to land at King- H. Smith ('Bill Arp'), Scott Hardin, ston, whence the remainder of the trip and others. Clinton Hargrm,e ms was made by Maj. Churchill in an au- another one I knew. He was a friend tomobile. Lieut. Blackler flew the of my half-brother, Wm. A. ('Bill') plane to Rome on Saturday morning Roberts. of the wedding, and although the at- "This story brings up memories of mospheric conditions were unfavorable, a handsome, gallant and brave lot of he thrilled the bride with a series of young men in Rome. I doubtless knew barrel rolls over her apartments at many more than are named, but nearly the home of Miss Camilla Fouche. Mr. 64 years have passed since I lived in Blackler was killed at Souther Field, Rome. Americus, May 10, 1920, when the wings of his German Fokker machine "The Light Guards had their first came off while he was executing one taste of fighting at Firt Manassas, Va., of these same aerial contortions. July 21, 1861. The Eighth Georgia, under the gallant Francis Bartow, who *** was killed there, covered itself with THE BOYS IN GRAY.-The recent glory and gave up many of its best story by Bessie Moore Churchill in the members, including Charlie Norton, History Series on the Rome Light Geo. T. Stovdl and 'Clint' Hargrove. Guards in the Civil War was read by a "These recollections are very inter- good many people, but by none more esting, with a tinge of sadness to appreciatively, perha:ps, than Frank those who knew and were associated Stovall Roberts, a cousin of Judge Joel with these boys long ago. I daresay Branham, who wrote from Apartment I am one of the very fkw of that day 312, "The Cordova," Washington, D. who are now living to recall them." C., under date of January 7, 1921: "Thank you very much for the story Mr. Roberts was among the boys of of the Rome Light Guards. Many of Rome who sent their older brothers the names given in the article are and cousins off to war with a shout quite familiar to me. I knew many and who stayed behind and helped their of them, a few having been my school- families care for still younger ones.- mates, though older than myself, back Jan. 12, 1921. in 1855, 1856 and 1857. Geo. W. Fleet- * * * wood was one of them who went to Mr. Stevens' school in these years. A LETTER FROM THE FRONT. (Mr. Fleetwood died last fall in Okla- -James Madison Gartrell, younger homa and was buried in Myrtle Hill brother of Gen. Lucius J. Gartrell and cemetery, Rome. - Editor). Virgil Capt. Henry A. Gartrell (of Rome), ('Virge') Stewart was another. H. wrote Mrs. J. D. Thomas, then Miss D. Cothran and "Coon" Mitchell also Mary Fort, under date of April 21, attended this school. 1864, from Dalton. (Mr. Gartrell, it "I do not recall Captain Magruder, will be recalled, was an uncle of Henry who took the company to Virginia, but W. Grady). I remember, as a boy, Miss Florence "I hope in my next to be able to give Fouche, whom he married. I recall the details of a grand battle which re- many members of that company: Mel- sulted in the overthrow of Sherman's ville Dwinell, Geo. R. Lumpkin, Wil- and Thomas' armies which will tend to liam ('Bill') Skidmore, Dr. J. M. Greg- a speedy termination of this unholy, ory (as memory serves, he married unwise and unpleasant war . . . You a sister of Mrs. Daniel S. Printup) ; need have no fears as to the safety of R. D. DeJournett, F. M. Ezzell (he Rome. Those sacred hills will never married Miss Lena Sherwood, of Ma- be polluted by the foul tread of the con, lived in Macon after the war and Yankee soldiery until our army is then went to Atlanta); A. R. Johnson, crushed, which to accomplish Sherman Chas. B. and George C. Norton, W. F. with his present force is quite inade- (Bill) Omberg (went to Mr. Stevens' quate. school, and after the war lived in "The little tobacco bag you gave me Louisville, Ky.) ; A. R. (Arch) Pem- is now in daily use. I have quit chew- berton, 'Zach' Hargrove, M. A. Ross, ing and learned to smoke a pipe. "You say you were expecting Henry ducks after the cow dide and the fam- Gartrell in Macon on the 8th. I should ily so sick. please hunt up the boys like to hear from the gentleman. If and tell them how it stands and how he is as prompt in the discharge of his pore I am. Respectfully, military duties as he is in answering CC- --. 9, letters, he must be a splendid soldier. I don't see how Forrest has succeeded Col. Stewart informs us he has so well without him!" "hunted up the boys," and knows who they are, and requests us to say that J. M. Gartrell was killed a short time unless they fully remunerate this poor later at New Hope church, near At- woman for the injury they have done lanta. her, he will give their names to the Capt. Henry A. Gartrell wrote Mary public next week. We hope a sense of Fort January 1, 1865, from Johnson's justice will prompt them to do this, Island, Ohio, where he was a prisoner and that such a case may never hap- of war: pen again in a thousand miles of Rome. "A happy new year to you. I was --- captured near Nashville on the morn- "TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR."- ing of the 17th ultimo. I was cut off, A young gambler from an adjoining made a desperate effort to escape on county, who had made up a game of the night of tEe 16th by running over "seven up," in Rome last week, and the Federal pickets. At least 20 shots desired a secret room to play in, was were fired at me from not more than 20 admirably accommodated at the sug- to 100 yards, but with the exception gestion of our City Marshal, Col. Stew- of a wound to my horse and a ball art. The gamester expressed his want through my coat, they did no harm to in the presence of Col. S., who is a bit me. I am going to write to Gen. For- of a wag and loves a practical joke rest in a day or two asking him to pro- as well as any one, and he gave a slight cure a special change for me. wink to the person enquired of, and "I employ my time reading and vis- at the same time handed him the key iting my friends and acquaintances on of the Calaboose. The contract was this ice-bound island. Major Printup soon made for the use of a small office, is very well. He hasn't heard from of which the gentleman, at that time, home in five months. I never saw a had the control, takes the gamester braver soldier than Dick Fort. He and and his friends to the Calaboose- Joe Stillwell could not be beaten the opens the door-and just then hap- world over. I don't know whether any pens to think that he has no matches, of my men were captured or not."- and he requests the young novice to Sept. 16, 1921. remain there until he can go and get * * * them. This he consents to do, and they all step out and lock the door after WHO ARE THEY?-The following them and leave him there to play sol- letter has been handed us by Col. Stew- itaire in the dark, until next morning. art, for publication. The name of the We hope this game will prove to be a writer we suppress for obvious rea- profitable one to the young man.- sons. Weekly Courier, Feb. 28, 1866. "Mr. STEWARD. *** "As you is the Mar- "PARSON" WINN'S "HELPING shal of this town I thoght I would tell HAND."-Rev. Genuluth Winn was you how I am treated. My husband is an old settler who "rode the circuit" of lying sick and one of my children the Methodist church in the Ooosa to an yesterdy my cow dide, I had to Valley during the Indian days. come to town to git a little mele an Dr. Winn was noted for his aggres- when I was gone some boys from rome siveness in practical business affairs went huntin up the River and found 2s well as the work of the Lord. He my ducks an shot um-two of um dide came to Floyd County with the early this morning an one never come home inhabitants and either bought or drew yit and I ant got but one drake just by by lottery large tracts of land in and his self, a friend of mine said thay was around Cave Spring, and lived on one three boys one boy was a big hi boy, of them five miles south of Rome on and one was a little boy and one was a the Cave Spring road, where he owned short thick set boy. if you can find many slaves. He was exempt from out who was the boys tell them to pay miitary service and went among the me for the ducks as I have a mity hard Confederate sodiers exhorting them to time to git along. I ant mad much express their divine faith by slaying about it only I can't aford to loose my Yankees. The following story is told of his up, he departed for Wilmington. In response to a call for help from a some manner he had contracted pneu- hother of the Methodist persuasion : monia, and on July 16, 1855, he died D. R. Mitchell, a pillar in the First at that city. Out of respect for the Methodist church, then located at Sixth wishes of Col. and Mrs. Bayard, the Avenue and East Second Street, had Hands agreed that he should be buried picked a hardy settler or two to run in Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome. Col. his ferries where the eccentric char- Bayard had his tombstone engraved acter known to the Indians as the with navy characters, and there he "Widow Fool" had run them some fif- lay in peace several years. teen years before, at the forks of the Soon came the Civil War, and in rivers of Rome. One day a ferry- 1864 a band of Sherman's men, read- man went to Colonel Mitchell with the ing that Lieut. Hand had been in the story that the "strong-arm" men of a service of the United States, decided rival pioneer had seized the ferries they would send him to a "better land." and driven off the Mitchell men. The They dug up the coffin and expressed old Colonel grabbed his stout hickory it to the National cemetery at Arling- stick, called to the ferryman to follow, ton, Va., across the Potomac River and gathering up a number of his sup- from Washington. This high-handed porters, charged the invaders on the procedure did not suit the fiery Col. ferry boat. The fight proved fast and Bayard, who after the war went north furious. Reinforcements, including a and brought the body back to Rome at number of half-drunken Indians, hav- an expense to himself of $300. ing also reached the other side, the Mitchell crowd were about to be An appropriate line decorates the worsted, when along happened Rev. sailor's tomb: "The anchor of his soul Genuluth Winn in a buggy drawn by was faith in Christ." a somewhat broken-down pony, want- *** ing to cross the river. REMINISCENCES OF 1886.-The Seeing Rev. Dr. Winn, Col. Mitchell late B. I. Hughes wrote in The Rome yelled, "Help, Bro. Winn! If you never News of Dec. 10, 1920, as follows con- did anything for the Lord and D. R. cerning the experience the First Na. Mitchell, do it now!" tional Bank had in the flood of March- Dr. Winn sprang out of the buggy April, 1886: seized a long pole from the bank, and "At that time we had $55,000 in handled it so dexterously that in little paper money in the vault, in $5,000 more time than it takes to tell it he packages, each package containing ten had knocked all of Colonel Mitchell's $500 packages. We opened the safe, enemies, including the Indians, into and found that notwithstanding the the river, and Col. Mitchell had the water had seeped through two combina- ferry for keeps. tions, these packages were so covered *** with muck that you would not have A SAILOR'S ODD "CRUISE."-A known they contained money. We ' touching story is told of a lieutenant washed them off just as we would if of the United States navy who lies they had been brick, and then the ques- buried in Myrtle Hill cemetery. Bayard tion was as to how we would treat the E. Hand, a step-son of Col. Nicholas J. wet currency. Bayard, had just graduated from the "Finally, we hit upon the plan of naval academy at Annapolis, Md., building a big fire in the grate and when he fell in love with a beautiful setting in front of it, on a slant, a young lady of Virginia. His court- piece of glass, about three by four ship resulted in an early wedding feet. The glass was soon hot and we and the honeymoon was spent in the opened up the packages and placed the Old Dominion. The budding young separate bills on it. The space would officer was on 30-day leave, at the ex- take about the number of bills that piration of which he bade his bride were in each $500 package, and the farewell and rejoined his ship, which heat of the glass and fire was suffi- immediately sailed for South America. cient to dry them out as rapidly as we While Lieut. Hand was on his trip, could place them. his wife came to visit Col. and Mrs. "The result was that in less than an Bayard at Rome, anticipating that he hour, we had dry currency that we would return ere long. The ship tied could use, and as far as I can re- up at Wilmington, N. C., and the of- member, not a single dollar had to be ficer hurried to Rome to rejoin his sent to the treasury department. The young wife. His second leave being year's business, as we have before