The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-15

the same" Not only was he brevet
brigadier general in the Civil War, but
he also served as a brigadier general
in the Spanish-American War. lie is
now a general in the Pennsylvania
National Guard and commanded the
troops sent to the coal mines during
the great coal strike. In the Grand
Army of the Republic, as in the
knights Templar organization ne mas
won the highest honors, being a past
commander-in-c He is man OF
strenuous life and the people of Penn
sylvania have been very liberal in pc
slowing upon him civic and military
honors. I know that Savannah does
not run after" people. TO show her
self off" from any selfish motives, yet
she loses nothing, in dignity, nonor
or money, when she bestows a gener-
Gus and cordial hospitality upon a dis
tinguished visitor like Gen. Goblin,
whose wide observation and long eX-
perience fit him to study well the true
character of his hosts.
A press telegram from Jackson,
Miss, unearths another survivor of the
Confederate Congress in Judge ]. A. P.
Campbell of that city, who has just
celebrated his seventy-third birthday.
But the telegram errs in claiming that
the death of Rev. DR.. ]. l.. M. Curry
leaves Judge Campbell the only sur
viving member of the Confederate Pro-
visional Congress" There are certain
" three others-ex- United States SEN
ator George Ct. Vest of Missouri and
Rev. DIR. S. II. Ford of Kentucky and
Gen. Roger A. Pryor of Virginia. L
think Gen. T. n. Waul of Texas is
also alive; if so, with Judge Camp
bell, there are five sole" survivors
of the provisional session still alive.
In the list in my letter of March ! the
name of Judge Roger A. Pryor, now
of New York, was accidentally omit
ted. Judge Campbell's name is new
one to me, and it is possible that there
are a few more sole survivors" yet
to be heard from. The latest deaths
are Mr.. Justice Mark II. Blanford of
Georgia and Hon. Stephen H. Darden
of Texas and Rev. DR.. ]. L. M. Curry
of Alabama,
The New York Sun says our Flag"
is the oldest naval flag afoat, having
been adopted in its present form in
1777." This statement needs amplifca-
ton to be strictly accurate. In 1777 the
old Stars and Stripes" thirteen stars
in a circle on a blue ground, and thir-
teen stripes, alternate red and white,
was the legal design. But when Ken
lucky and Vermont came into the I'm
ion the flag was changed to fifteen
stars, in three rows of five each, and
fifteen stripes. This was in 1894 and
the opposition then made to any such
change became so strong that when
Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana
and Mississippi became states, and de-
sired similar recognition in the flag,
although a congressional committee
favored it, the scheme was not carried
out. Capt. Read, distinguished ma
val officer, suggested a return to the
original thirteen stripes, and that one
white five-pointed star be placed on the
blue ground for each state then in the
Union, or that might come in at later
date. And this became the permanent
design for our national flag of to-day
with its forty-five stars. The last new
state admitted was Utah, at which time
the stars We're arranged in two rows of
eight stars each and four rows of seven
stars each.
The proposed admission of three new
states by the last Congress led some ed
itors to fear that it would disfgure the
arrangement of the stars on the pres
ent flag. But this could not occur with
the admission of three new states; for
the present design is three alternate
rows of eight stars each and three al
ternate rows of seven stars each. The
adding of three new stars would SIM
ply change the design to six rows of
eight stars each, which would really be
an Improvement to the present design,
the stars being arranged in horizontal
rows, and not in vertical rows as some
persons suppose. The design now in
use was adopted July a. 1896, the law
being that each new star shall be added
on the Fourth of July" following the
admission of the state into the Union
which it represents. The Equitable Life
Assurance Society of New York has is
sued an elegant flag calendar for 1903
which not only gives some beautiful
colored pictures of our national flags
and Colonial flags, but also adds some
important historical facts about these
flags. MIR. Henry ]. Powell, general
manager, Of Louisville, KY, has my
sincere thanks for copy of this valua-
BILE and artistic calendar.
The press telegram in Tuesdays
Morning News of the death of Nor
man Argo, said to have been the orig
inal Uncle Tom at the reputed age
of Ill years" is not correct. Norman
Kennedy Argo. former slave of Gen.
Thomas Kennedy, near Paint Lick,
KY, was simply an old playmate of
more. He was a diminutive darkey,
being less than four feet in hight. and
lived to be over a hundred years old;
perhaps. as claimed, to be Ill. His mas
ter was a prominent man in that Sec
ton of Kentucky and Mrs. Stowe inn
mortalized Paint Lick by taking most
of her Uncle Tom" novel characters
from his more than 100 slaves, of which
Norman became the sole survivor"
The George Harris" and the Eliza
of Uncle Toms Cabin" were Lewis
George Clark, and his wife Margie.
Paint Lick neighborhood is also IA
nous as the birthplace of Rum, ROM
anism and Rebellion" Burchard and
other noted preachers. Commodore
Cicero Price, who entered the United
States Navy as a midshipman, in 1926,
and went on the retired list, in 1867, as
commodore, was born in the Paint
Lick neighborhood. He died in 1858,
but left an accomplished daughter,
Lillian Price, noted as the Dowager
Duchess of Marlborough, but now
Lady Beresford. Despite the name
Paint Lick-it was an aristocratic
point in "Old Kentucky" and one IA
nous for sending forth great men, that
Mrs. Stowe selected to gather material
for her sensational novel on slavery.
Sidney Herbert.