The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
THE EX.CONFEDERATES.
Some Of the Leaders Of the Lost Causes
What They Are and What They are
Doing.

Some Of the Leaders Of the Lost CaUse--
what They Are and What They are
Doing.
Jake Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances at Memphis.
Beauregard IL Superintendent OF Street
Railways at New Orleans, with good
salary.
The sons of Howell Cobb are farming,
and get along tolerably since the decease
of their father.
James Longstreet has public posi-
ton which suffices to maintain him and
his numerous family.
Clement &. Clay is buried at Hunts
vile, where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman.
Ex-senator Chestnut is also lawyer
III the town of Camden, :. c.. and makes
a fair living.
Gen. u. ID. Roddy, who had cavalry
brigade, is n banker in New York, in
good circumstances
joe Johnston is thriving rs n lesding
life insurance man at Savannah He is
growing old with composure.
Gen. kenshaw, of South Carolina, is
lawyer III the quiet town of Camden,
and is making livelihood
Gen. ID. II. Hill keeps school at the
town of Hillsborough, and meantime
edits periodical, published once a
month"; called The Land We LoUe.
Gen. Dick Taylor is probably the rich
est OF the Confederate Generals, and is
engaged in banking and other large
operations III New Orleans, abetting
Warmoth.
Vgh ~ L l., L., NJ
pins, where he would have very good
worldly condition if he were not annoyed
by some old lawsuits growing out of the
war.
Gen. P. NJ. b. Young, a leading cav
airy officer III the rebel army, is n planter
at Gainesville, Ga, in moderate circum-
stances, and he has just been reelected
to Congress.
Gen. Albert Pike, Brigadier from
Arkansas, is practicng law at Washing
ton city with ex-senator Johnson, of
Arkansas, and has just republished his
delicate poems.
Ben Hill, ex-Confederate, is practicine
law at Atlanta, and is said TO be the best
lawyer IN the State. He was a Senator
OF the Confederate States, and had q
personal collision with Yancey.
, Joe Brown is So years old and is the
Bismarck of Georgia He is pretty rich
is worth anywhere between $l00,00C
and 1000, 000-and is President of the
Western and Atlanta railroad.
/ Gen. Cheatham, having made an I'M
| successful run for Congress against Hor
, ace Maynard, has retired to private life
breathing scorn upon Andrew Johnson
, who divided the Democratic vote witt
. him.
Ex-senator Robert VI. 7. Hunter has
poor farm on the Rappahannock river
| i'll the tidewater part of Virginia, and i,
SAID to be dispirited, although his coun
, sci is cheerful at all times, and his intel
, ligent retains its full yigor.
, jeff. Davis is President of the Soutl
. Carolina Insurance Company in Mem
phis, under the patronage of n Mr.
Wick, whose bank recently went III
when the Southern Security Compan,
drew check upon it for an unforeseel
, amount.
The family of William H. Yancey re
: sides on farm near Montgomery, Ala.
: and are III only moderate circumstances
Iancey's tomb is small affair. 1t i
4
: whittier they emigrated at the close o
: the war
Gen. John G. Breckenridge lives il
e Lexington, KY, and was given an i'm
portant place at one time by the Chesa
f pcake and Ohio railroad. He show
@ good nature and quiet disposition, bu
$ no great bounce in these piping times o
4 peace.
/ Alexander II. Stephens lives nea
Charlottesville, Ga, in small and no
|. very comfortable house, which he digni
S fies with the name of Liberty Hail.
r He is charitable, and gives away all tn
It excess he makes after providing for him
It self, and he writes long and abstrao
s books, showing how nothing ought to b
o as it is, and what might have been tn
:, case had something else happened twelv
! years before. -Philadelphia Free Pres,