The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-04

of the first number of the Maryland
Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, now
the Baltimore American, published on
Friday, Aug. 80. 1773." And yet this
copy" is simply a fac-simile reprint
recently made of an ancient newspa-
per. Any sensible editor ought to know
that ancient copies of newspapers are
not numerous, and are mostly found in
old-established libraries or valuable
private collections. The News says the
Advertiser Q773) states that the King
had appointed Patrick Toyne, Esq, to
be Governor of West Florida. This is
an error, as Peter Chester was Gov
ernor of West Florida and Gen. James
Grant was Governor of East Florida.
He resigned in I'LL, and Lieut.. Gov.
Moultrie served until IVA. when Pat
rick Tonyn, not "Toyne," became Gov
ernor. The Historical Society of New
York has recently given the public
some important information about the
oft-heard-of Ulster County New York;
fac-simile. People get hold of one of
these issues and imagine it is a family
relic of old times, and they carry it to
some editor, who falls an easy prey to
their "old family heirloom"
The press telegram from San Fran
cisco that Maj. Gen. j. f. Wade, U. S.
A, had arrived from the Philippines
en- route to New York, to take COM
mand of the Department of the East"
is misleading. Brig. Gen. Fred u.
Grant, U. S. A, is in command of that
department, and Gen. Wade goes to the
command of the Division of the At
lantic," more important position
Botetourt county, Virginia,
has just unveiled a handsome Con-
10 TN.
memory of twelve companies that went
to the war from that county. The
Herald publishes in full the eloquent
and appropriate address of gallant
Maj. Phil f. Brown of Blue Ridge
Springs, the orator of the occasion.
Mrs. Nellie Gray, in her
Woman's Department of the Jackson
Vile (Fla.) Metropolis, answers all
kinds of inquiries, and seldom falls
into an error But in answer to an in
quiry as to who held" the title of
full general in the United States army
she errs in using the term conferred -
instead of held" 1t is true. as she
says that Grant first held" that title
but 1t was conferred" upon Washing
ton long before, but he declined il and
died lieutenant general. Mrs. Gray
also gives Washington, Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan and Schoield at the
lieutenant generals. She should have
added Scott. by brevet, Miles. Young
and Chaffee, the latter now chief of
staff, with the rank of lieutenant gem
eral.
The widow of a distinguished Con-
federate major general asks me about
Gen. Albert Pike. He was one of the
three dozen Yankees who became gem
erals, lieutenants, major generals and
brigadier generals in the Confederate
army. He was born in Boston. Mass.
in 1909, but in early life went to Ar
kansas to practice law and became a
leader at the bar. During the Mexican
War he was captain of an Arkansas
volunteer company, and in the Civil
War, owing 10 his acquaintance with
the Indians, he was assigned 10 duty
as brigadier general TO organize them
into regiments and put them into scrv-
ice. After the war he. was editor for
a time OF the Memphis crenn.) Appeal.
but later moved 10 Washington, ID. C.
where he died IN 1891. Gen. Pike was
q poet and writer OF more than ordi-
nary ability. while as a Mason, he was
illustrious, holding the highest Offices.
and his work on Masonry Il coneld-
cred a standard authority. His vor-
sion OF Dixie" was n stirring and
popular war song. 49, The Army
and Navy Register, weekly, now pub
fishes illustrations in each issue. which
N a great Improvement on the month
~ illustrated supplement But Il is
q serious blunder 20 print = nne Pic
turc Of Lieut.. Gen. A. N. Chanr0 in
be regulation uniform and pat under
a major general" The Nov. 20 issue
contains handsome phofo-enffaWnR
NJ fhf marriage ~ Miaa Gertrude Mile
10 alarming lAulllnI al big. nau.