Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-01-30
ADVEETIsING RATES
THE RECONSTRUCTED.
yghas the E..Repals Arc Doinr,

WHIST the E--ReDeIs Are Doing.
Jack Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances al Memphis.
Beauregard is superintendent OF
street railways at, New Orleans, with
a good salary.
The sons ofHowelI Cobb are farming.
and get along toleTably since the de-
cease OF their father.
Clement G. Clay is buried at Hunts
willie, where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman.
General p. D. Roddy, who had a
Icavalfy brigade, is a banker in New
York, in good circumstances.
James Longstreet has public position
which sufices 10 maintain him and his
numerous family.
Ex-senator Chestnut is also a lawyer
in the town Of Camden, South Carolina,
land makes fair living.
Joe Johnston is thriving as leading
life insurance man at Savannah. He
is growing old with composure.
General Kershaw, OF South Carolina,
! is lawyer in the quiet town of Cam
den, and is making a livelihood.
Gen. D. II. Hill keeps school at the
town Of Hillsb0rough, Ga, and mean
time edits a periodical. published once
a month, called The Land We Lore.
Governor Isham G. Harris resides at
Memphis, where he would have very
good worldly condition if we were not
annOyed by soae OLD law suits grow
ing out OF the war.
General P. NJ. B. Young, leading
cavalry officer in the rebel army, is a
Planter at Cartersville, Ga, in moder-
ate circumstances, and he has just been
reelected 70 Congress.
General Dick Taylor is probably the
richest OF the Confederate Generals,
and is engaged in banking and other
large operations in New Orleans, abet-
ting Warmoth.
General Albert Pike, Brigadier
from Arkansas, is practicing law at
Washington City, with Ex-senator
johnson, Of Arkansas, and has just re-
published his delicate poems.
Joe Brown is 50 years. old and Is the
Bismarck of Georgia. He is pretty
rich-is worth anywhere between $780,
900 and $4,000, ,000-snd is President Of
the Western and Atlanta RaiIroad.
Ben. Hill, ex-Confederate, is prae-
ticing law at Atlanta, and is said to b.
the best lawer in the State. He was a
Senator OF the Confederate States, and
had personal collision with Yancey.
| General Cheatham, having made an
unsuccessful run for Congress against
Horace Maynard, has retired to pri-
vate lite, breatilingscorn upon Andrew
johnson, who divided the Democrat
&c vote with him.
Ex-senator Robert NJ. T. Hunter has
poor farm on the Rappahannock
River, in the tidewater part Of Vir-
ginia, and is said 10 be dispirited, al
though bis counsel is cheerful at all
times and his intellect retains its full
vigor.
JEFF. Davis IS President of the Carroll
IA Insurance Company, at Memphis,
under the patronage Of a Mr.. Wick,
whose bank recently went up when
the Southern Security Company drew
a check upon it for an unseen amount.
Gen. John C. Breckinridge lives at
Lexington, Kentucky, and was given
an important place at one time by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. He
shows good nature and quiet dispo-
sition, but no great bounce in these
piping times of peace.
The family of William L. Yancey
reside on farm near Montgomery,
Alabama, and are only in moderate
circumstances. Yancey's tomb is a
small affair. 1t is said that two of his
sons are in Brazil, whittier they emf
grated at the close of the war.
Alexander II. Stephens lives near
Charlottesville, Ga, in small and not
very comfortable house, which he dig
nifies with the name of Liberty Hail."
He is charitable, ana gives away all
the excess he makes after providing
himself, and he writes long and abstract
books, showing how nothing ought to
be as it is, and what might have been
the case had something else happened
twelve years ago.