Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-09-03

N NEw ORLEANS.
The Chicago Times has a letter from
New Orleans describing the present condi-
ton Of some Of the prominent generals in
the Confederate army. The writer says
"Oi the most prominent leaders in the Con-
federate army, six are now. and have been
since the close OF the war, residing in New
Orleans, peacefully pursuing the quiet paths
of bread-winner' life. The names ofthese
six are Beauregard, Longstreet, Hood,
Thompson. Gibson and Hayes, and Of the
entire PARTY it Is eminently worthy of note
that at this day the spirit of their politics is
not onlv a mild but broadly comprehensive
one. Thompson and Longstreet have even
gone 50 far a. to lie down in the manger
with the Republican party, and have found
their reward in handsome sinecures under
the State government. Gibson. Hayes and
Beauregard have veered around 50 flr that the
Liberal party of Louisiana in 1872 found in
them staunch champions, and in two of the
three found also standard-hearers, althO ugh
defeated ones.
Pierre Gregoire Toutaint Beauregard owns
to very long name, and daily wanders
through the haunts of men one Of the most
quiet and unobtrusve OF gentlemen. lie is
now s. years of age, bat such Is his careful
and rigid system of living that be looks 10
be 80. and promises to live 10 a ripe old
four-score or more. Since he dofed the gray,
and Welded to the fate of war. Beauregard
has philosophically accepted the situation,
and has made it ruling principle OF his
later life to shun a a plague political dis
cussionS, and sternly frOwn upon the slight
est incident dealing in even the remOtest de-
gree with the reawakening OF the dead issues
Of the war have said that be Is quiet
gentlemen | may add that he is intensely
80. To look at him he gives you the i'm
preston that he loves not the society OF man
kind, and prefers TO keep himself to him
self Although exceedingly wealthy at the
outbreak of the war. he suffered the re-
verses of fortune incident u 80 many thou
sand Southrons during that epoch, and now
enjoys but moderate competence, derived
from his services as president OF street rail-
way company and the rental of the remnant
of his once vast property. His daily life is a
quiet one, and leads him but little within
the scope of public observation he Is simple
and unostentatious in manner, and appears
rather to avoid than to court popular notice,
moving along in the even tenor of his way,
contented to pursue his peaceful and modest
mission in life undisturbed by useless regrets
over the past. or longing ambitions for the
future.
Gen jeff Thompson, known during the
war as the Swamp Fox, Is nova staunch Re
publican, and has for years been the chief
engineer of the river levees, ON the pay roll
of the State. jeff delights in being esteemed
eccentric, and takes especial care that his
reputation in that direction shall not suffer
for want of material. He affects outre cos
TUNES, and usually sports hat about as big
as n decent-sized umbrella. He is full of an
imal spirits. is one of the greatest and fast
est takers in America, it he be not really
entitled to the championship of that depart
ment: says what he thinks on all occasions,
with reckless disregard for iine-spun senti
ment, and does mt care three cents for the
opinion of any man in creation. OF course
the ''chiyalry'' don't bank on him now, and
in the contemplation of what they think
Jefi-s disgrace, in his afiiliation with the Re-
publicans, they have wiped his war record
from the tablets of memory, and ostracise
him As renegade. | don't think, though,
that he has ever lost any sleep in conse-
quence of any remorseful reflections over his
conduct and the loss of the Southrons' love-
When he laid kown his sword, he Jumped
ont of the last ditch and sensibly determined
flat the battle for bread and butter should
thenceforwerd claim his entire attention.
Throughout the war the name Of Maj
Gen. James Longstreet was one of the
brightest in the galaxy of heroes who fred
the Southern heart with worshipful rever-
enee and love To-day that name is utter
cd bv Southern 'lips only to deride it. and
its nossessor lives among Southern men an
object to be shunned-a man who has not
only forfeited every claim upon the hearts
of his compatriots but won likewise the
bitterest hate of those who once gloried in
honorinc him. And why9 Simply because,
like THOMPSON, Longstreet ended his rebel
linn when the standard of the lost cause was