The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-13
HARD TIMES IN THE RANKS.
Present Occupation Of Jcf's
Loyal League.
Pens and Ploughshares Super
seding Rifles and Swords.
Financial Condition of the Sc
cession States.

The Ieadfng officers III the repel service VINO nave
survived the war and also seven years Of selfde.
pendence since the peace should show in their ex-
ample what the better men of the South may be
about. express the belief that the consequences
Of the war and the devastation Of the South have
not fully reached this class as yet since certain
social countenance and support have assisted
many OF them, particularly In the professions and
NJ their favorite pursuit OF saried life insurance
agents. AS we recede from great war we find
the respect due to It's promoters to be relnqushed
and this Is especially In war Of failure. Hard
times follow slowly upon great social and prop
erty upturning like the South's and sel1shness Is
more conspicuous ten years after the peace than
IN the first ceremonious years Of return to civil
av0catlon.
POLITICS BROKEN HOPE.
Fully twothirds Of the late rebel army officers Of
good rank have held to the hope that peaceable
Political revolution would give them severally
something On1cial to do. They reviled James
Lsngstreet for taxing an ONCE under the radicals
before his turn, and it was not so much his change
Of coat which they despsed his failure to serve
notice, 30 that all might go over in column to-
Sether Ofce-holding Is the natural line Of promo
zion expected by the rebel military men in the
peace, and this has never been directly attacked
until General Cheatham was arraigncd as the
representative OF the principle by Andrew john
D0n last Autumn. Johnson raised the rebel rank
and die against the stan and beat CheathaIn with
the most consistent radical in Tennessee, Horace
Maynard. In the majority Of the States OF the
South the future Is dark for many rebel officers
unless they betake themselves to laborious occu-
patton or join the vanguard OF radicaism. II Is
my opinion that many Of them will lind it easier to
90 the last, and In that position they win be used
20 stop the draught OF public scandal and give the
radicals character.
Imperial Caesar dead, and turned 10 clay
Night stop hole to keep the wind away.
The drift OF political events seems to be In.
suitably toward radicalism In the South. In four
years change OF public opinion will have strength.
ened radicalism "a much as 1t had received appar-
ant accessIons by democratic deiections nom
Greeley, even in border States like Kentucky
Delaware and Maryland. Every point the conser-
Natives can make against the republican party In
the North Ia neutralzed by the obstinacy of the
yeaotiOnary South. The Ku Klux Khan was the
poorest political continuance ever gotten up to
relieve the impecunlosity OF q disbanded army.
SOME CONFEDERATE NorABILIrIEs
General Kershaw, OF South Carolina, is q lawyer
n the quiet town OF Camden and il making live
mood. Ex-senator Chestnut Is also lawyer in
the town OF Camden 8. G., and makes fair living.
General d. Ii. Hill keeps Q school At the town OF
marlborough, and meantime edits q periodical
published once month, called me Lana we Loge.
Makes living. Ex-senator Yulee, OF Florida, has
been connected with some railroad AFFAIRS in that
State and u In moderate condition Of prosperity.
General william Malone is at Lynchburg. Va, Pres
ident Of the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
and endeavoring to save 1t from the jaws Of Tom
Bcott, who has nanked him by the Danvllle road
and mooted connection OF the same. Malone was
one Of the first rebel officers TO get On his feet, and
ne Is combination OF Ancient Pistol and CGur dc
Lion, mighty in words and energies His road il
I'M nucaiu ,pr cboI Lob
SON, who ran on tho ticket with Stephen A. Douglas
for the Vice Presidency, is planter I'm Jefferson
county, Ga, and was o candidate for the United
states Senate. He Is SAID to be somewhat moody
and down-hearted. Forrest, the great cavalryman
and ex-negro trader, has been railroad president
and livery stable keeper at Memphis and some
tunes appears to be
ON "PERMANENT BASIS"
]. Il. Bryant edits a newspaper az Savannah and
acts with the republican party. Joe Brown Ia nfty-
Ave years old and 10 the Bismarck OF Georgia. lie
10 pretty rich-is worth anywhere between 500 GOO
and 81 0oo 0Oo-and Ia President the Western and
Atlanta Railroad. His State road connection is
thought to be the strongest in the South, and
Simon Cameron 10 said TO be interested IN It,
Brown is an interchangeable worker, good writer,
fond Of notoriety and plain in his ideas General
7. M d. Young, leading cavalry oticer in the
rebel army, ~ planter at Cartersville Ga, In
moderate circumstances, and he has lust been re-
elected TO Congress- Joe Johnston IL thriving as a
leading life insurance man at savannah. he IL
growing Old with composure. General Lafayette
war the Confederate side, is the president of a
Augusta, where he Is a lawyer OF moderate prac.
tice. The sons OF Howell Cobb are farming, and
he Zen e rat GsI prass 81 s1 s
- Atlanta and s said 10 be the best lawyer in the
State lie was ascnator Of the Confederate States,
and had personal collision with Yancey. Alex.
ander II. Stephens lives near Charlottesville Ca in
small and not very comfortable house, which he
algn!aes with the name OF Liberty Hail." lie is
charitable and gives away all the excess ne makes
after providing Tor himself; and ne writes long and
q Il 10 ana VIVA. might have been the case u bss
something else happened twelve years before. He
= anxious % reappear IN public iie and his recent
visit 70 Atlanta was interpreted by Governor
emish's frtends to be an electoneering campaign
Ter the United States Senate As rode past Draw
lad been eating chicken all his life, pointed out
che direction Of stephens house and said, 1.-THE
General sibiey. the inventor Of the Sbley tent and
the opponent OF Candy on the plains OF New
Mexico during the rebellion, IL now Q brigader
general under the Khedive OF Egypt, IN company
Generals Rhett, Stone Mott and others. These
General sibley's wife and married daughter reside
q atlanta, where his son-in-law, John Stokes, IL
government BrsadIer General j. II. clanton. 'e Of
Alspama, was the leading conservative In the state
Ss :" tas Eme Of his unfortunate rencontre with
killed. He rcalded at Montgomery and was by
Many thought TO be the head Of the ku KIux. Gen.
SLAa Y. =; Da.ae u an insurance agent 1t Tus-
General T. ~ Law, who Is the best lighter Alabama
forkvillc, q o., where he IL snuav "a censys,E
n. Pettus, OF Selma, In a lawyer in Sood practice
and was prominent democrstlc csndi2pta Tor
Governor Tor Alabama last year. GeneraI Grant nj
Who was one OF the half-d0zen orgadi IN the
Confederate army originally appointed rom Ar.
Kansas, became republican before the close Of the
war, and he now holds An ofiice under
THE CLAYTON GOVERNMENT Al LITTLE ROCK
General Albert Pike, brgadier from Arkansas
n practising law &C washington city, with ex.
Senator Johnson OF Arkansas, and has just repub-
nshcd his delicate poems. General Pickett, who
obtained $4,000 for the smallpox documents
which were purchased by the War Department
during the laSt uOltiCal CamDalQn. nuctuatps