An Old Newspaper Rookery--Reactionary Sectionalism in Cincinnati and Louisville--_The Courier-Journal_ I My dream of wealth through my commission on the Confederate cotton I was to sell to English buyers was quickly shattered.

The cotton was burned and I found myself in the early spring of 1865 in the little village of Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati, where the future Justice Stanley Matthews had his home.

His wife was a younger sister of my mother.

My grandmother was still alive and lived with her daughter and son-in-law.
I was received with open arms.

A few days later the dear old lady said to me: "I suppose, my son, you are rather a picked bird after your adventures in the South.