The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31

the same to await the return of the
 boat from Pittsburg Landing and con-
 vey our party to Tuscumbia and Shef-
 field by 1o:3o p. m. The tickets will
 be sold on the 9th and 7th. All arr
 rangements for the boat wiil be an- each President We have not been able, so far, to secure the number desiring to take the trip, so arrangements can be made for their entertainment the night of the 9th This is necessary as the special at very early hour so as to make the trip in one day.
 Faithfully yours, Mrs. J. N. Thompson. President. The following letter will explain it. self. and serve to emphasize the notice given In the Presidents communication this week:
 University, Ala. March 25, 1907 My Dear Miss Andrews:
 will you not please call attention in next Sundays Advertiser to Article XII of the Constitution, which says that i the per capita tax must be paid to the State Treasurer one month before the meeting of the convention. Under this rule the Treasurer's book close April 8. If dues are not paid before that date. the Chapter will not be entitled to rep resentation in the convention. About thirty-flve Chapters have not yet paid and only one auxiliary has paid
 Very Sincerely, Mrs. T. W. Palmer, Treasurer, Ala. Div. U. D. c. AuaerronyfIIe and the wirx Monument. We would especially command to the attention of our readers the excellent paper on Andersonyille, by Mir James Galloway. copied in last Sundays Ad- vertiser from the Macon. Ga. Tele- graph It ought to be printed in let ters of gold and laid on the desk of every school teacher and chapter presi- dent in the United States. Mir. Calla- way and the present writer both lived near Andersonville during a great part of the war, and he knows whereof he speaks, in his magnificent vindication of the Southern people from respon- sibility for that great wrong. One fact showing the spirit of the people of the neighborhood toward their unwilling guests, am sorry he forgot to men tfon--or perhaps he was too much of boy at the time to remember It. Dur ing the marching and counter-march- ing of prisoners he describes, in the vain effort of the Confederate govern ment to get them exchanged. in the summer and fall of 1864, a band of some 5000 passed, on one occasion, through the neighborhood now known as Dewitt, on the road between All bany and Thomasville. The planters along the route were so moved with compassion at the sight that they or dered their negroes to collect such provisions as could be provided on the spur of the moment, and distribute them to the suffering Northerners. There was no time to do any cooking, but hampers of potatoes, turnips, groundpeas, sugar cane, etc., were emptied in the road before the melan- choiy procession and they were i'm
 vited to help themselves. At this dis tant day can stiIl recall positively | the names of three of the persons who performed this act of benevolence; they were MT. Robert Bacon, his brother, l Major Edwin Bacon, uncles of the pres | ent senior senator from Georgia, and | Mrs. Troup Butler, sister of the pres | ent writer, who was managing her l husbands plantation while he was aoff | at the war. There were doubtless many others who did the same, for the unavoidable sufferings of the prison CTS at Andersonville were a subject Of | frequent conversation and universal | regret among the people of that sec | ton. Father Hamilton, Roman Cath | ollie priest from Macon, devoted him. | self to the sick among them with a | self-sacrificing love that ought to en-
 1 title him to a monument at the hands
 of the G. A. R. itself.
 And speaking of monuments, MT.
 Callaway's alIusion to the movement
 of our Georgia sisters for building a
 memorial to Wirz at Andersonville,
 brings up the question whether some