Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-29

lrest another colored man there. had
been taken from Jail hy q mob and
hanged. A few weeks ago ] read thar
[ two negroes. who had bccn charged
with doing something 90 mules-not
/. SO bad as stealing them. perhaps 10
was killing them-and discharged Cor
lack OF proof were promptly seized
and killed by "a mob. AN OF which
tallies with what my informant at
INicksburg said about the negroes be-
ing kept Ina their place. and ] suspect
that Mississippi must be n good state
for a negro 90 emigrate from, but that
might be considered not 'keeping his
place. as his labor is convenient to
have, and. i'm that case difficulties
would arise for him. However. / later
met q gentleman on the train. a busi-
/ ness man Of Meridian. Miss, who
4 took the opposite view Of the matter
and said ne believed I'm helping the
/ negroes upward
Cradle of Confcderacy.
And at Montgomery. Ala. where 1
next went ] heard warm commenda-
ton of Booker WASHINGTON and his
work. Montgomery, you an knew.
was the first capital of the eonfed-
eraCy A building now used for busl-
Q -t'tfN E@tA hfAsntH ~ hNNlH SNATCH on EtIIf-
let attached to ii by the Daughters of
the Confederaey, as the first .cupitor
land the building in which il was de-
cided 10 make the attack on Fort
sumter. Not far away is the house In
which jefferson Davis resided while
there, now bearing a lodgings
sign.
The statehouse, which became the
confederate capitol for a time, before
the removal TO Richmond is stiu i'm
use as the state capitol but has been
enlarged by the addition of wings All
the top Of the flights OF steps leading
10 its main entrance stood jefferson
Davis when he took the oath Of office !
as president of the confcderacv and
the spot is marked " a brass star
An upper room in the building is
called the Davis room and i'm II 10
kept the 'tour-poster' bed ON which
he died and other articles of furniture
in use in his room at the time of hs
death. lie certainly kept the oath ne
took there as long as he could and
we should think poorly Of the south If
she failed to cherish the memory of
jefferson Davis and the others who
rlsked and in thousands of cases lost
all, in her behalf.
battltilCiu Story.
"A confederate veteran whom | met
AT the capitol he wore the confeder- +
ate gray and / judge held some Off
cial position, perhaps as doorkeepr,.
there told me of his experience at the +
battle Of Chickamauga where, as he
Sald. ne was 'mortally' wounded
mad been slightly wounded before but
there, he repeated, was mortauv'
MnnnHtH "a
he had always been glad of. gave the
last water in his canteen ia n nnin,,
boy soldier who lay beside him. shot
through the head, asking his mother
whom he imagined beside him for
a drink, and later asking her TO NM
a pillow under his head, to which me
confederate responded by putting his
own blanket there, resting on which
the boy presently died and the other
lay there by his body until the next E
DAY when he was found. Long may
his mortal wound delay its final
stroke
Montgomery, by the way, is very
attractive and well appearing place
one of the centers Of king cotton's
domain, kingdom just now as afflu-
ent and confident from the effect of
the war as year ago from the same
cause it was depressed and almost
destitute. With cotton at nearly or
lutte II cents per pound and even the
Luzz which is taken from the seed at
he oil mills, and is especially adapted
% the making of war explosives, sell
ng at about cents as against "a
.ourth as much. before the war de-
nand arose. it is no wonder that
'heer prevails.
But the bon weeyil-wlll it yet eat
way the monarch's cotton-hale :
hrone? Coming, it is said from Mex {
go into Texas and moving SLOWLY \
eastward each season a little further
her ON, II has gone more than two
hirds of the length of the cotton belt 4
ma produced a formidable diminution \
n the yield of the cotton and thus I
ar no effectual remedy has been |,
Ound
l will not ask you to follow me !,
hrther ON my uneventful way to my Y
lome."