The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-14
RETIRED CONTEMPORARIES.

Longstreet is in comfortable po-
sition at New Orleans.
Jake Thompson is living in mod
crate circumstances at Memphis.
Beauregard is the superintendent
of street railways in New Orleans.
Joe johnson is thriving as lead
| ing life insurance man at Savannah.
JEFF. Davis is President of the
South Carolina Insurance Company
at Memphis.
Gen. Polly Robinson, formerly of
Hoods division, is a planter in
Texas.
Gen. Albert Pike, a brigadier
from Arkansas, is practicing law at
Washington City.
Gen. Braxton Bragg lives at Mo-
bile, and is superintendent of street
railways, with fair salary.
Col. Carter, of the rebel army, is
now acting with Pinchback, and
like LongstrceI, has been on all
sides.
Gen. Kershaw, of south Carolina,
is lawyer in the quiet town of
Camden, and is making a liveli-
hood.
Gen Hood has been cotton fac
tor and insurance agent at New Or.
leans and makes out but tolerably
well.
Ex-senator Robert M. T. Hunter
has poor farm on the Rappahan-
mood river in the Underwater part of
Virginia.
Gen. Cheatham, having made an
unsuccessful run for Congress
against Horace Maynard, has retir-
ed to private life.
Gen. Harry Hayes, ex-Colonel of
the Texas Rangers, married a lady
of means, and has been once Sheriff
of New Orleans.
Judah p. Benjamin has O good
law practice in London, England,
| but his clients are nearly all Ameri-
cans from the Southern States.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge lives
at Lexington, KY, and was given
an important place at one time by
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
Herschel V. johnson, who ran on
the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas
for the Vice Presidency, is planter
in Jefferson county, Georgia.
Gen. ID. III. Hill keeps q school at
meantime edits a periodical pub
/ AASASo INV q A1OllA, C0AtSu 4hO
Land We Love.
Admiral Raphel Semmes is prac-
ticing law at Mobile, and seems to
| be in good circumstances, which
leads gossiping people to imagine
that he must have saved some prize
money.
Robert Tyler, ex-clerk of the su-
| preme court of Penn ylvania, and
| ~ prnei6nnf InhT1 TtyVav. Sc ID
| itor of the Advertiser, the Demo-
cratic State organ of Montgomery,
Alabama.
Ben. Hill, ex-confederate, is prac-
| ticing law at Atlanta, and is said to
was Senator of the Confederate
States, and had personal collision
with Yancey.
Forrest, the great cayalryman and
ex-negro-tradeT, has been railroad
President and livery stable keeper
at Memphis. and sometimes appears
to be doing tolerably, thank you.
Gen. Pickett, who obtained $780,
600 for the smallpox documents
| which were purchased by the War
Department during the last political
campaign, fuctuates between Wash
ington and Canada.
Alexander III. Stevens, lives near
Charlottesville, Georgia, in a small
and not very comfortable house,
which he dignifies with the name of
"Liberty Hail." His forte is edi-
torials of liberal linear dimensions.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, COM
mander of Wheeler's celebrated
Confederate cavalry, and a West
Pointer, has married a rich lady in
northern Alabama and lives at his
ease, unwilling to call King George
his uncle.
/ Gen. VIM. Malone is at Lynch
burg, Va, is President of the At
lantic, Missippi and Ohio railroad,
and endeavoring TO save it from the
jaws of Tom Scott who has hanked
him by the DanviIle road, and
mooted connections of the same.
Joe Brown is f1fty-one years old,
and is the Bismark of Georgia. He
is pretty rich-is worth anywhere
between 100000 and soc, 0O0-and
| is President of the Western and At
rantic railroad. His State road con-
nection is thought to be strongest
in the south, and Simon Cameron is
said to be interested in it.
Gen. Sibley, the inventor of the
d SibIey tent, and the opposer of Cam
by on the plains of New Mexico
! during the rebellion, is now brig
adler general under the Khedive OF
Egypt, in company with bis son,
who is also an officer. and with
Generals, Rhett, Stone, Mott. and
} others. These officers get about
I $4,000 q year. Positions all filed