Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-23
COL. W-EsTMoRELAND.
He Makes acIsan Breasts Of His Rascartlas.
He Discards Stonewall Jackson's campstOol
and Determines to Reform.
Who He is, What Ne Was, Who Ne Took
in," and How Ne Did it.

We LEFT Col. Westmoreland at our las
accounts on the river at DR.. Peters land
ing, remarking that we should probabl.
soon hear something new and interestinl
rom him. BY cur grapevine dispatehe
last night we received the following
which will be read with interest by SOM
Of our citizens at least.
On n last down-trip Of the steame
Geo. W. Cheek, there was a gentleman
vino had come up on her as a feiioW-pas
Senger with the Colonel, and who had DE
come quite intimate with him. When thu
Cheek stopped at DR.. Peters Landing
this gentleman was surprised to see thu
Colonel, who, on the up-trip, had TOLD
him, positively, that he was going Il
Memphis "to correct those yIllainous
statements OF the APPEAL" get on boarC
to 20 down stream. After b usual greet
ings were over, and a quiet drink hac
been taken, the Colonel called the gentle
man TO one end Of the cabin, and each
taking q seat, the following conversation
took place:
II nave renowned Stonewall Jackson's
campstool, and am going 10 reform. /
know I have talents and ought to use
them to better advantage than have been
DOING
Then you admit THAI you are the man
whom the APPEAL has been after2" asked
/ the stranger.
"Yes-I am the man. The APPEAL
has, as is generally the case in such af-
fairs, mixed up a good deal of fiction with
the facts as they really occurred. Now, /
want TO set myself right before you and
the people. and TO do 50 | viii give you a
little sketch OF nay adventures in Mem
phis and since l left there. But to begin
with, l am really what L give myself out
81. - ~ 80 - NHru~nnn-nNerI urag
"A Colonel OF the Fourth Texas Cavalry,
and I lost my leg at the battle of Win
chester. NY home is jefferson, Texas.
when the war closed, andI went home,
I found myself crippled asI was, a burth-
en- on nay friends, and my lite was made
miserable by the idea. In addition to
having only n leg, L was a
victim of tile inhammat0ry rheumatism
which untitled me for any employment
whatever. About the middle of Jun last
raised a little money and determined to
90 10 Hot Springs, Ark, IN hopes OF get
ting cured Of the rheumatism. l arrived
in Memphis about tho first Of July, and
was taken TO a private house. The ladies'
Of thai city, hearing my story, all took an
interest in me. and brought me medicines
enough TO Kill forty men, every one in
sistiug on rubbing and pouring their
ointment and salves on me-
while in Memphis, being a shrewd OBJ
erver. l saw that there were two
men who were trying in every way, by
controlling The negro vote, TO keep them
selves in power over the white people
one was named Barbour Lewis, and was
President of the Board Of County Com
missioners. and the other was a person
named Pearne, who had been appointed
Chief of Police By BrOwnl0w.
IT first went TO Lewis, and representing
myself as a United states detective. told
him that I was satisfied that the new
Registrar. who had just been appointed
by the Governor. and who was a Conserv-
alive, was issuing fraudulent certificates
10 rebel soldiers. The bait took, and Lew
Is, who was very anxious to catch BOugh-
ner, that Is the name of the Registrar,
Immediately employed me to watch
him. l got an advance of sew
eral dollars from him, and for some
time continued TO report progress and
draw small sums. l drew in all JwU hun
bred and forty dollars.
While watching B~Oughner, the idea
struck mne 10 plant Mr.. Psarne. \ mSn
naEed Collier killed a scallswag over in
Marion, Ark. about this time. and the
Metropolitan police We're keen To catch
him. l presented myself at Pearne's
office one day, and again representing
myself as a detective, was employed by
the Reverend Superintendent (whO was
as soft "A plant as / ever sawi) TO catch
Collier. l struck ham for $3.50, making ia
all nearly 500 that l got out Of the two.
" About this Time / thought that had
cave Memphis, and / did so, going
TO Marion, Arkansas, and leading
a quiet life Of il since. ] have been home
TO Jefferson INC since, and am now go
ing back there. / am going to quit fool
shness and earn an honest living if /
"How about that little affair over in
Clarendon, laJely?' asked the stranger.
'-Oh,' laughed the Colonel, ''thaJ was
al "A joke, end a deyiIish good one, tool
Those Clarendon people are a pack Of
and l couldn't help selling them
Juce, just for luck. III tell you how it
was. You see, / was over there at the
lU.el, ami while talking with q Of the
around town, | was slipping a
.wenty dollar gold piece up and down, /
catching il between my thumb and
inEer-iust by way of keeping my
lands employed. Wen, this fellow saw it
asked me where I got it. over in
Texas said l. We don't use anything
Use there and an idea Of showing oil
big passing through my mind, [ added, /
. aud l have just got thirteen thousand
dollars Of that sort Of money TO drop in
town If IL suits me- This just set
he town wild. Every id shopkeeper,
N lANAN uCdAEE. livery ShdbtG httDfEf anu
everybody else IN the place, wanted to
3el out 10 me. They deviled me nearly
% death, I couldn't walk ten yards but
some Of them would want to talk TO
in private, and as sOou as he got me TO
side he offered me his stock at a bar
gain. Well, You may imagine, l did not
suffer for drinks, and after hoisting
a a few Of them, what threatened
% be a bore at FIRST, became a
.oUrce of amusement, anil told every
me that buzzed me, that ] would buy him
directing him az the same time to 90
o work and make an inventory of his
.tOck. BY the living, il every cuSsed fool
lidn't take me at my word, and for a
While every shop int Clarendon was clcsedl
Meanwhile, L sloped."
The Colonel ceased his story, and taking
d" drink all around, - he again announced
lis intention Of going back 10 jefferson
nd commencing e On being asked
T the newspaper accounts would not fol-
him and Injure him. he replied that
nothing that any newspaper could say
gsinst him would be believed in Jeher-
He added that he had friends and
who would stake him to any
Our friend, the stranger,
sked him why he did not write a true
tatemeut OF bis adventures and send il
o the APPEAL, and he replied that he
would. Pen, ink and paper we're furn-
him, and he started a letter TO Us,
fhich he did not finish, however. We
ave it in an unfinished state. We have !
iyeu the substance OIL in his statement
hoye.
We sincerely hope that the Colonel's
esoives are not ike pie crust-made TO
Il broken, but that he will stick to them.
eturn home and put the talent and gem
rs which he evidently Possesses TO some
GOD purpose. With this we bid him
dieu until he turns up AGAIN.
BLACK and white alpscas this week at
. LOwensteiu & Bros.
4 LARGE lot of remnants Of popiins,
jeans pant stuhs, ETC., just gath
HERzoG s BRO.
"Mark Twain's Innocents' are at Cow
CHAPMAN n Co.'S.
WATCH our great Hosiery sale to-mor-
~ morning, less than half value.
\. SEESSEL q son.
CORsErs AT 80 cents, a small lot TO be
osed out by MENKEN BROS.
ELEGANT assortment Of China and Pa
REVOLUTION DOLLAR STORE,
2l3 Main street.
OUR Lonsdale Muslin at the lowest I
~ price. HERZOG * BRO. ,
TAPESTRY Brussels, 81 20: 3-ply, 81 IS;
emp CaTpeting. 80 cents, etc, sold by
4. FEGAN, 260 Second st. I
GAG sAIEt rnp ShIrl