The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-16

| TINS demand makes the price
Of the document their property, tonight
passsd a resolution thanking Mai. Myers
for the donation and appointed \ commit,
! tee to make an Investigation and take steps
! tCward tie recovery Of the money. The
veterans say they have taken hold OF the
matter in earnest, and say they will insist on
restitution as long as a chance remains for
the enforcement Of their claim.
sfAJ. MYERS LETTER TO HIS BROTHER.
The letter, which brought the matter be-
fore the veterans, reads as follows:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Nov. 4, 1890.
Cant. Frunt II. Myers, .4tIdatd Ca:
Ny DEAR FRASK-You no dOubt recOllect
Charlie Herbst, If you please When he was
librarian Of the Atlanta library there was no
confederate in bis pretsnsiOns like him. Well,
you no doubt also recoiiect gave hi a the pay
muster rolls Of the Z. ). snip Sumter because ne
was librarian. Well, O friend who was in
Chicago, and visited Libby prison. which has
been removed there from Richmond, saw, ne
said, almost the first thing, the book. / wrote
Herbst mQuiring about 1t. I inclose You his
reply and my answer 10 him. He has yer
replied 10 it, and as l wrote him would send it
TO the Confederate Veterans Assoc alton of
Atlanta that he might be exposed preten
der, the correspo dence will explain itself II
you can have IL Rad at one of your meetings.
II not show 1t to as many of the veterans as
you can. want the fellow exposed. Show it
to DR.. Fox. Your Affect. brother,
Write me il Her0st is not Condemned BY cts
generally although the new south" las de-
yeloped class OF inca who would dig up the
bones Of their dead comrades ami sell them for
fertilizers If Ia y could thereby turn an honest
penny.
HERBsT'S EXPLANATION.
The following letter contains Mr. Herbst'
explanation:
MACON. GA, Oct Is, 1890.
NJ. II. Myers. Jacksonville, Fla:
DEAR SIR-In response, will state this fact:
| In ISL you 0dUe me the MEMS register of
5. S. Sumter On the fly leaf | wrote: "Pre-
scented 10 c. H.. etc, by Maj. Henry Myers of
c. 5. Sumter Last summer l thought it
| ought TO be in Richmond Va, and so wrote.
] Now, Mr.. Gremlin Of Chicago wrote and offered
| to buy for the Confederate and Federal Mu-
! scum" there. so sold, as / supposed l had o
right to do, being presented to me. Respect
| fully, etc, c. HERBsT. Librarian
| l also sold him flag OF the One Hundred and
| Fourth Kentucky Regiment H.
MAI. MYERS REPLY.
Maj. Myers replied to Mr.. Herbst as fol-
| lows:
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Oct 81 1890.
Mr.. Charles Herbst. Librarian Macon Library,
| sIR-Your letter of the 18th instant was re-
| received, and Is By NO means satisfactory. A
matter, no doubt, of supreme Indifference to
| you. At the time l gave you the book, you
were then posing as an enthusiastic collector of
| confederate relies. Your zeal is now explained
by the thrift you have displayed In disposing of
| them. ThinEing you were what you pretend 81
| TO be, conf1ded the book TO you that it might
be kept ID some southern library, and it was
! given 10 you only as the librarian OF the At
| lanta library. If had supposed for
an instant that you would have made it tae
| means of profit to yourself it never would have
| been placed in such mercenary hands. | should
| at least have been consulted before being sold
TO yankee spectators AMI showmen.
Amongst gentle men, presents are usually
considered sacred, and not merchantabe ar
! tices.
The only reparation for what | consider q
| breach of trust IL that the amount received By
you for the book should be paid over to the
Confederate Veterans Association of Atlanta.
Unless this is done | shall submit copy of this
correspondence TO that association Respect
fully, h. MYERS
WHO THE PAYMASTER IS.
| Paymaster Henry Myers was one OF the
mos capable and highly trusted officers
who serN ed under Admiral Raphael
Semmes. He is a native of South Carolina.
and was in the United States navy before
the war broke out. AT present he is au-
ditor in the water works office at Jackson
vile.
A romantic story is related of him. While
the Sumpt9r was lying at Gibraltar IL
February. 1862, no z eat while before she
became SO efectually blockaded as to cause
her to be laid up and sold, her com mander
dispatched Pay master Myers, accompanied
by civilian named Tunstall, TO Cadiz, for
the purpose OF obtaining a supply of coal,
the lack OF which had indeed already put an
end to the little war ships deshing career.
Myers and his friend never reached CadiZ.
The small Frencl steamer on which they
had taken passage touched at Tangier on
the way thither, and, in an evil moment,
lured bv the prospect of beholding the old
Moorish town, The pair decided to stretch
their cramped legs, and at the same time
enjoy the novel experience Of q stroll
through the narrow alleys and gaudy,
crowded bazLrs so att-actively unlike any
thing familiar TO occidental eyes.
UNDER ARREST.
After some time spent in this agreeable
fashion the gentlemen, finding that the
steamer had about discharged the portion OF
, her cargo destined for this port, started
, back to the quay. but hal proceeded only a
short distance when they were set upon by
? q body of JanlZaries aud marched under
arrest 70 the residence Of the federal consul,
Z | who had demanded their detention as Ameri
can pirates at the hands of the Moorish gov.
/ ernment, which latter, to quote Admiral
5 SemmeS, finding that ons christian dog''
= called for the apprehension Of other Chris
2 tan dogs" puzzled Its small brains very
5 little about the right and wrong of the cas- e.
= The consul at once flung his prisoners
| heavily IroEet, into a dungeon and kept
them there till ordered To remove them 4
Alge2iras, where they we're taken in charge
by Capt. Craven. then or afterward in CON
} mand of the United States steamship Nj
agara. This officer i'll due time sent then
TO Boston in a merchant snip called tn,
4 Harvest Home
: On board that vessel the prisoners suf
o fered sill more CALLING insults than had
? been inflicted upon hem in Africa Tn,
/ first act Of the inhuman skipper was {,
- shave their heads clean as a billiard tall
} and fling them, still heavily nlanacled
Z | nv the boid Ircidau+oliu =,