The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

lived some thirty-hve or forty years back, and longer if you choose. | recoilect Col John Blackwell. whom Mir. Klinck speaks of I beat him running a foot race at Old Alabama Town, on the day that James Johnson | and Henry D. stone ran Tor o.nce & .. colonel recollect that q MT. Clay killed pr. Sidneyham, about the same time. The doctor was a brotherin- law of Colonel John Blackwell recollect Adams and Madison whom he mentions. They were both as ugly as mortals ever get to be. I knew the Irtshman' John Conden, and bought his dun pony, which was about as well known ,, as Conden was himself. I also knew all the Evans, Tatums, Fftzpatricks' Gosses and Laprade. I knew him when he was a commissary in the army long before Montgomery was settled by the whites Jesse Evans was considered the best fighter of his size of his day Organ Tatum and Ben Ward had the first fist fight ever heard or in Montgomery county. Tatum pit orr piece of Wards nose.
 I also knew Bob Mosely Some one stole a fine hound from me in Mll- iedgeville. Ga, which l purchased from a man of Lyrick's Creek. s. C.. some years before that. I found the dog In possession of Mosely in Montgomery and we were near having a serious difficulty about It. I proved by Colonel Freeney that the dog was mine. It was Joe Fitzpatrick who was the competitor of Major Pinkston and not Phil, nor was Phillips Fitzpatrick the father of Senator Ben, but both he and Joe were the older brothers Of the Senator, and all were the sons or William Fitzpatrick. good old Wash ington and Adams Federalist; and both Joe and Phil had much to do at an early period in shaping Alabama poli- tics--were John Quincy Adams men in opposition to William H. Crawford, the regular Republican nominee for Pres ident to succeed Mir. Monroe. But both were Jackson men after that.
 could give you long string Of Jeffersonian Democrats both In Ala bama and Georgia who have descended from old Adams Federalists but it is of no use no was the national Democracy, South, is fixing to take up Mir. Doug las who has done 50 much for the South; for under his special manage ulerst a few Southerners at least have beenN permitted to live out a precariouB life with few slaves in Kansas. That and the whipping of old Greedy and Sumner are achievements of which the South can boast and if Mir. Douglas is the next President the South may be able to crow over many other such victories.
 AS to the few sketches I have given you about the early settlement of Montgomery, if you can find any one who can go further MAto little partic~ ulars than F can am willing to quit.
 My health is improving and hope that shall yet see Montgomery once more before I take my departure for that better city of which we read.
 am now fixing for hunting. l have fourteen fine hounds, a good horse and gun, and for fishing, there Is place near me that even Peter of old would not risk his net in if he knew how plenty they are. But notwith- standing alT the fine hunting and fish, ing as we'll as the balance of good things, Alabama and Georgia are pre- ferable places to Louisiana and Texas at least for me to live in. My advice to such as have advertised their lands for sale from choice in Alabama and Georgia is to withdraw the advertise ments, pay up the printer and content themselves, where they are.
 T. s. Woodward.