The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-30

ranks of the United States army that occupied Mississippi and the southwest. He was ordered to Huntsville at the. close of the war in some humble ca- paeity under the freedman's bureau. There t was discovered that he was In possession of certain valuable pri- vate papers taken from the residence of distinguished citizen of Mississippi Jacob Thompson. The capture of the papers by the holder presented an in- stance of peculiar depravity even when vile deeds of the sort were licensed habits of the invading troops. Apple gate offered to sell the Thompson pa pers and did sell them to the heirs of Thompson for large sum of money while he was in the service of the bu- reau at Huntsville.
 See correspondence of R. c. Brickell. chief justice of Alabama, Montgomery Mail, August, 1888. Charles A. Miller of Maine, secretary of state, noted in the constitutional convention os one of the two delegates who wore clean shirt. R. M. Reynolds of Iowa, who had been seen In the state for six months before his election" John c. Keffer of Pennsylvania was commission CT of industries and head organizer and directing spirit of the negro orr ganization, the Loyal League" The attorney general legislated into office by the act of Congress June 12, was Joshua Morse of Choctaw county, a captain as we have seen In the Con- federate army, In the slave era Morse was a party to a case before tie su- preme court of the state. He had been charged with cruelty to a slave who was prisoner In jail. Before his cleo tion he was a fugitive from justice, charged with secret assassination of one Thomas, a newspaper editor in Chootaw county. General Meade al lowed him to make bail bond in an in- significant amount. pr. N. B. Cloud, superintendent of public instruction and president of the minor legislative body known as board of education,' was a southern born man of easy habits of mind whose administration of his of flee will be noticed later.
 E By the same act Congress legislated into the lower branch as from Alabama six members from the First district. to-wit: F. M. Kellogg, carper bagger on duty in the United States revenue department at Mobile; from the Second Rev. Charles W. Buckley of Massa- chusetts and New York, chaplain of a negro regiment, who stopped at Mont gomery with appropriate expectations; from the Third district went Benjamin W. Norris of Maine, on the freedman's bureau staff; from the Fourth district went Charles w. Pierce of Massa- chusetts and New York, captain com manding the freedman's bureau at Dem opolis; from the Fifth district went John R. Cullfs of Wisconsin, left over from the army of invasion. Cullis was born in North Carolina. From the Sixth and last district went Dr. Thomas Haughey, Scotchman, who had lived in Jefferson county IA years. Haughey at the outset of the war applied for a commission as surgeon in the Confed- crate army. He failed to receive the icoveted document. A short while later he entered the United States army as surgeon.
 This Is the gang of outlaws and pimps that swept by Charles Langdon, George c. Freeman, Cullen A. Battle, Joseph W. Taylor, Burwell D. Pope and Thomas J. Foster as they stood at the door, awaiting for their rightful seats, and took possession under the sword.
 JOHN wITHERSPOON DUBoSE.