The age-herald., 1900-03-08
JEFF DAVIS HOME
 MISTAKES CORRECTED

 ell Davis has adopted the name of varina Jefferson Davis, while the manly young son of Mrs. Hayes, her daughter has be- come Jefferson Hayes-Davis, while the oldest daughter perpetuates her honored grandmother's name as Varina Howell Da- wis Hayes. The Grant family is also keep ing up the old family names, and we have little Ulysses s. Grant TIT, and Julia Dent Grant Ill. It is good plan thus to trans init to posterity the names of our great heroes and statesmen through living mon uments. Today in our regular army a score or more of gallant young officers are adding lustre to the honored names ot their fathers, which they bear in full, and some of them in regiments in which their fathers Qater on generals) served in early life.
 The Confederate Veteran of Nashville, Tenn, for February, contains picture and quite an excellent sketch of the late Dr. George Baskerville Douglas of Sereven county, a gallant soldier and skilled surgeon in the southern army, and after the war member of the Savannah Confederate Vet erans association. Posterity will owe deep debt of gratitude to this monthly magazine, and others of like character, north and south, for such valuable sketches as that
 
 forms bright page dn Confederate war history. I knew him well. some years ago, and pleasantly remember him as a highly cultured, genial southern gentleman of the old school The last fight of the war, of any consequence, found him mdnistering to the wounded and dying Georgia soldiers.
 Some one has been inquiring through the press if General Andrew Jackson was not h ,apn11a all tator of the newly acquired territory of Florida. Now, while it is true that he was vested with remarkable powers, some of them outside of the constitution of the United States, the idea of dictatorship never for moment entered his mind. In dealing with the former Spanish officials of Florida he compelled at times to use harsh and extreme measures, and in some cases he aroused bitter censure, but only an iron hand like ''old Hickory wielded could have successfully conducted the public affairs of the new territory. While he deplored the use of the remarkable and to him, in a measure, questionable powers conferred upon him as military gov- ernor he felt that the crisis through which he was passing required their proper ex- ercise.
 President Hadley of Yale university pro- poses a boycott as the proper remedy to he applted to trusts that dangerous in their operations. This remedy is, I think, of military origin, and was first used against Post Sutler Dewitt of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, in 1843, who had in some way offend ed the cadets. An agreement was drawn up not to trade with Dewitt except in case of necessity, and this was signed by thirty four cadets, among them such distinguished Union and Confederate generals as U. S. Grant (afterwards U s. CD, s. G. French, R. s. Ripley, J. J. Peck, Rufe Ingalls,, Frank Gardner F. T. Dent, J. J. Reynolds, Isaac F. QIimby, Henry M. Judah and J. H. Potter. The most singular fact of all is that no one of the cadets ever revealed the nature of the offense that lead to the boy colt. Of the thirty-four signers, I think, only General William B. Franklin is now alive
 It may be true in some cases, as claimed in newspaper articles that deutenants in the army are addressed as "Mr.," but l never knew of its being done in my active career in tlre service. I lieutenant of dnfansry cavalry and dragoons, and saw some temporary service with the artillery, vet no superior of any rank ever addressed me as Mr." nor would he have done it the second ume fer I should have resented the insult on the spot. Tine humblest cor poral in the army is entitled to be called corporal and not Mir" Nearly all my service was as staff officer, and this brought me constantly in contact with colonels and generals, from Sherman down, but I never heard a lieutenant called ''Mr" I we'll remember night in his room at the Kimball house, in Atlanta, the visit paid General Sherman (after the war; by second lieutenant. As soon as he pre- scented himself General Sherman said: Well, lieutenant, what are you doing here?" The reply was: "Pm on my wed- ding tour.' To which General sherman answered sharply: And you a second lieu tenant; if had my way I'd put every ond lieutenant that married to work on a farm" Smdlingfy, the lieutenant, who was '1dttle but loud" replied: "Just give me a farm, general, and Fl go to work on it" This caused General Sherman and General AUgur to laugh heartily, and the former simply added: Well, I can't blame you, with such examples as you have had be- fore you, for Augur did the same thing when he poor second lieutenant
 have had occasion to correct two false repopts about the late Jefferson Davis, one in regard to the house he was said to have built on the frontier. and the oth- CT about his supposed grandson--Lfeuten- ent Wood-in the Transvaal. And now comes Mrs. J. H. Rabb, of vincennes, Ind, with another fiction, in which the courtship of Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, U s. A., and General Zachary Taylor's daughter figures in a sensational manner. The whole story is without foundation, in fact. Lieutenant Davis never met the daughter of General Taylor at Fort Smith, nor did he court her sitting on the rock Mrs. Rabb has moved to her place and proposes to celebrate over as a valuable relic It is possible that Major John Bliss, U. s. A., who married Miss Bettie Taylor, the sister of Mrs. Davis, may