Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-20
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DIR. Russell on Men and Things
In America.
London Morning Post, June 81
A PHILADELPHIA HIGHLANDER.

Nv IN 0OaN0A W 49,
amusing. In one of the rooms, by
way Of a surprise and to give a loo !
color to the place, there was in wait
ing a iull dressed Highlander amid a
group of lady pupils and sculpture
models. He was all alive, too, and
made his bow very nicely, but he was
exceedingly Disconnected when the
duke exclaimed: "He has got on his
plaid over the wrong shoulder" The
Highlander, amid the laughter which
followed the remark, merely said in
good American: I'm not a Scotch
man nor a Highlander at all" | be-
lieve there are many in the killed reg
iments "a home who might make a
similar confession. He had evidently
been dressed after a photograph,
where the plaid was reversed.
VIRGINIA TWENTY YEARS AFTER
BULL RUN.
Travelling to Richmond on the I'd
of May, the party was joined near
Quautioe creek by General Fitzhugh
Lee, nephew of the great Confederate
leader, and the daring chief.
of the Confederate cavalry
on the death in battle of "Jeb"
u. E. b. Stuart-now settled as q
farmer on the banks of the Potomac,
in a region, every foot of which reeks
with the memories of the four years
war-a broad hroWed bright and
keen-eyed, soldierly looking man, Of
immense breadth of chest, thick
throated, arge-limbed with a resem
blance to Pelissier in his best days, to
which, no doubt, a massive mustache
and a heavy barbe d'Atriqqe some
what contribute. He lives on his
estate and c~ultivates it with profit,
and he draws, moreover, a rich har-
vest from the river at the time of the
shad fishing, when his nets sweep in
occasionally $4,000 or even $4,000 of
these much priced fish at a haul
Well, Fitahugh Lee told the duke
that he fully and entirely accepted the
situation; that he acknowledged the
union, and that he would not, if he
could, 60 back to the old order of
things. Nay, more, he declared that
the Virginians round about him we're
of the same way Of thinking. Labor
was to be had when needed. The ne
gross titled the field for wages, and
the hirer had no further care about
them when their work was done. Con-
trast that with his trouble with his
biped property. The ladies of his
house had to look after the women in
the travail, and the men, when sick,
we're thrown on the hands of the mas
ter. When worn out by work or
stricken with illness the colored per-
sons became burdens on their masters,
and anyone who has a breeding estab-
lishment for horses and cattle knows
| what in6nity of demands on the purse
and the patience the accidents and
maladies to which all living things are
exposed produces. Into Quantice
creek flows the stream of Ball Run,
and away there on our right was
fought the first of the battles the re-
suit of which one of the party had
good reason to remember. The presi-
dent, at his gracious reception Of the
duke and his friends at the White
House the day before, remarked tC
the gentleman referred to,
You brought ps the worst
news that day that could be told,
though | think it was not Very will
ingly, but that you could not help it.
General Fitzhugh Lee did not dwell
on the defeat with any relish either
but could not forget all that happened
on that memorable Sd of July, 1861
any more than he could forget the Ions
years Of ~incessant combat Of which il
was the precursor, and when our train
approached Fredericksburg, the scene
Of Burngide's disaster, and he wa'
warmed up by the interest and inter
rOgatories OF his companions to recall
the episodes of that three days san
culinary fighting, the fire was kindled
within him and the burly VirginiaI
farmer. standing beside the duke OF
the carriage platform, described
the position and the movement,
Of the two great armies a.
il he were still engaged in it. HI
pointed out Maree's hill and tn,
slopes on which the Irish brigade lal
in long rows of dead and dying at thu
close Of Meagher's desperate assault
the site where Lee surveyed and di
rected the action, the hills on which
the COnfederates were intrenched, tn,
plains over which Burnside's column
advanced and deployed under the Con
federate fire, and the cardinal mistak,
Of the federal leader in attacking thu
left instead of the exposed right Of the
southern army. IL have often Spoken
about it to Burnside since. He and
are very good friends now, and | hav,
often fought the battle over with hin
and told him his best chance woult
haYe been against our right, which h
could have got at by crossing the rive
lower down than he did" 1t was blu
the day before We had been chatting
with the federal general, now a sena
tor Of the United States, at Washing
ton, and as genial and lusty as be wa
when he came to the German head
quarters at Versailles on the chival
rous if somewhat Quixotic enterpris
Of saving Paris from the last necessi
ties Of defeat. Without any yauntin
the southern leader spoke Of hi
experience in the war, and those VIII
heard him must have recollected wit
feelings not easy to analyzc that but
few hours before they had been listen
ing with equal interest t
General Sheridan, the antagonis
Of the gallant gentleman VIII.
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