Show 1I J of k GENERAL JOE JOHNSTONE says the t t expresident of tha Confederacy stole 1 2500000 of gold belonging to the I Confederate government Johnatone after his accusation had been published I E 1 pub-lished in every daily newspaper in the i laud whines that he did not know he i f I was talking to a newspaper man f which latter fact of itself is the best of evidence that he was lying when t i ha said JeffDavis stole the money It i f is not likely that Johastone is so reckless in such matters aa to blab them to any stranger whom be happens hap-pens to meet unless he expected and wanted them published Illfeeling has existed between the rebel presi den and rebel general since before > the close of the war and the public will accept this as an explanation of the grave charge against the honesty of Davis At any rate the public will be slow to believe that the Confederacy Con-federacy had ao much gold when it J collapsed and slower still to believe 3 e i that JeflDavIs made awry with it or I any part of the rebel funds Ic is l notorious that Davis has been living i in comparative poverty and in all M f probability would have died poor bad F 1 t it not been for the money and Beu r f I + vair homestead bequeathed to him I two years ago by a lady admirer It r t I is not a little strange that so large a I r I I theft should havo remained a secret i for sixteen years and it is none the i less strange that Joe John t one should have been the first to discover i it when he had no special facilities f 1 for ascertaining how much money I I I f the defunct government had nor for I ascertaining what became it People t Will put this story down as a weak attempt at-tempt of a cranky old man in his dotage to scandalize a bigger and better bet-ter man with all his faults than Joe I ohnstone ever was or could becomes l L V s |