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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN : fOLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 23, 1X86.
Our Country at the Morey of Armed In
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MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT,
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NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM.
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Washington, October 22.—This country
hits not boon for miiny years in tiuite such
a defenseless condition as it is just now.
Usually there are at the forts, which are
scattered along the cost, a few men who
hnve been going through the form of
“holding tho fort/’ To-day these alleged
defenses are themselves absolutely de
fenseless. They are untenanted, save by
the owl and rattlesnake.
“We were obliged, said Colonel Wilson,
of tho engineer bureau of the army, talk
ing to your correspondent, ‘ to dismiss,
by telegraph, on the adjournment of con
gress. every man employed on tho forts
and defenses and to suspend every'expe
riment and operation connected with the
torpedo service which we have been
studying and trying to make valuable for
several years past.”
“What wasthe case of this action, gen
eral?”
“The failure of tho fortifications bill in
congress. That bill struggled along toward
the close of the session and it was believed
that it utmld pass and permit us to at
least keep up our defenses in a seini-
E table shape and continuo the tor-
experiment, but it did not get
jh and we wero obliged to imme
diately dismiss every employee at the
forts and to stop everything in the way of
torpedo work.”
‘"Then tho country is in an utterly de
fenseless condition, is it?”
"Practically so. Of course thero nro a
few troops at a few of the fortifications
along tho coast, but they are very few;
there are possibly a few at Portland,
Maine, a few are at the forts at Boston, a
military station at Newport, some at tue
New York harbor, four of the forts thero
being garrisoned, I believe, none at Phila
delphia, a garrisoned fort in Baltimore
harbor, also at Fortress Monroo, one at
Pensacola and one at New Orleans. On
the lake const garrisons are located at
Plattsburg, Oswego and Fort Niagara, in
New York state. On the Pacific coast
there aro garrisons at San Francisco, Co
lumbia and Fort Townsend. Asido from
these our defenses nro entirely deserted)
not an engineer or a laborer, or even a
watchman, is left to protect them or pre
vent their falling in decay or being dam
aged by mischievous persons.”
“How about tho City of Washington,
has it any means of defense at all?”
“None whatever except the troops at
Fortress Monroe, at the entrance of Ches
apeake bay. Why, we were even obliged
to dismiss the watchman at Fort Wool,
which is in the channel above Fortress
Monroe. Ho had been there a great many
years and desired to remain and take his
chances of getting paid for his service.
We could not accept a gratuitous service
for it is not permitted bylaw, but it was
decided that as he desired to occupy the
house which he had so long made his homo
and was willing to give some service as
watchman in exchange therefor he could
be_permitted to do so. So it is perhaps not
absolutely correct to say that Washington
is defenseless for it has one defender in
this old watchman at Fort Wool.”
“How about tho forts on the Potomac,
Fort Foot and Fort Washington ?”
“ Oh, they aro entirely tenantless, not
even a watchman is left tie. re for our pro
tection.”
“ And tho line of earthworks that was
erected around Washington during the
last war?”
“There are none of them kept up; they
were not on government property, and
were only intended to be ol a temporary
character. There has been no attempt
since the war to preserve them.”
The allusion to tho line of earthworks
stretching around Washington upon the
hills overlooking the city and river sug
gests some inteiesting facts in reference to
them. Take a drive about the city and
over tho hills lying immediately about it,
and you will see upon the commanding
eminences mounds of red earth overgrown
with weeds and grass and busiios. They
aro the abandoned forts or earthworks
that were oreeted to defend Washington
during the late war. They number some
thing over 150, counting forts, armed bat
teries and unarmed batteries that were
ready for guns in case they should be need
ed. They blossom out on every hilltop grim
relies of 1 hose terrible days, but happy re
minders in their deenying condition that
the days of civil strife are passed in this
country. They are generally located in
fields now again cultivated, hut with tboir
deep outer ditches, high walls of rammed
earth and abandoned magazines and bomb
proofs with in, they yet defy the hand of
man and of the tiller of the soil who wc u d
restore them to an agricultural condi
tion. They were all built of earth which
was rammed to tho utmost degree of solid
ity possible, tho walls being from twenty
to twenty-five feet in thickness at the base
and twelve to eighteen feet at the top. Out
side the walls was a ditch six feet deep,
made in front of this a glacis thrown up so
ns to bring the ground in front
W'”iln the plane of musketry tire
front the parapets,Iwhile on this gla ds
tin ubattis of pointed brush and timber
was laid, extending entirely around tho
fort. Within there were magazines of
hewed logs covered with twelve to fifteen
feet of rammed earth, to make them bomb
proof. They were built during the first
two years of the war, for then and now
tho Capital City was in an utterly defense
less condition. The work was begun in
May, 1861, on the Virginia side. In seven
weeks a line of defenses, consisting of
Forts Corcoran. Bennett and Haggerty,
was built for the protection of George
town; Forts llunvon and Albany, covering
Long Bridge on the Potomac, and Fort
Ellsworth, near Alexandria,
i Immediately after the battle of Bull Hun
there was a second lino of fortifications
constinoted to fortify Arlington Heights,
which'included Forts Craig, Tillinghast,
Cuss, Woodbury, Richardson and Strong.
Forts Worth, Ward and Lyon were ndded
to the defenses of Alexandria. About this
time a line of forts was constructed along
the nort hwestern and eastern parts of the
District of Columbia. They consisted of
Fort Reno on the heights of Tennallytown,
Fort Stevens on the Seventh street road,
and Forts Gaines, De Rissey, Slocum, Tot
ten, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Thayer and
Lincoln, the latter overlooking the Ana-
costa. Three small forts, Kirbv, Cross and
Davis, afterward united under the name of
Fort Sumner were constructed on the
heights near the receiving reservoir of the
Washington aqueduct. Beyond the Ana-
costa the fortifications were forts Stanton,
Grable, Carroll and Mahan, to which forts
Meigs. Dupont, Baker, Wagner, Ricketts
and Snyder were added in the latter part
of 1862. At Chain bridge there wero forts
Ethan Allen and Mercy. Additions were
made to these lines of fortifications from
time to time, until in the spring of 1863
there were south of the Potomac thirty-
four forts and armed batteries, with 426
guns and eighty mortars, and thirty-eight
unarmed batteries for 200 guns. North of
the Potomac there were forty three forts
and armed batteries, with 3S4 guns and
thirty-eight mortars, and thirty-six unarm
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JOSEPH F. POU,
Attorney-at-Law,
Oilico up stairs over 1111 Broad street.
pEABODY, BRANNON & BATTLE,
Attorncys-at-Law.
fjiHOMAS W. GRIMES,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office up stairs over Robert Carter’s drug store.
■yyM. A. LITTLE,
Attorney- at-La w.
JAMES M. SMITH.
O. J. THORNTON.
j^MITH & THORNTON,
Attorney s-at- Law.
ORIOSDY II THOMAS, JR. GRIGSBY E. CHANDLER.
MPHOMAS A CHANDLER,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Otfico mi stairs over C. E. Hochatrasser’s store.
J AS. M. LENNARD,
Attorney at-Law.
Oifice back room over C. J. Edge's shoe store.
r L. WILLIS,
Attorney at Law.
Office over Crane’s corner.
JAM. Q. MOON,
Attorney-at-Law and Real Estate Agent.
Office corner below Swift’s warehouse.
| AMES M. RUSSELL,
Attorney-at-Law.
Practices in the state and federal courts of
Georgia and Alabama. Office over 1247 Broad St.
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f. U. PEABODY.
| JATCHER & PEABODY,
AttorL eys-at-Law.
Oifice up stairs over 1119 Broad street.
yy A. TIONER,
Attoruey-nt- Law.
Office on second floor of Garrard building.
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.
Attorney-at-Law.
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i to all business. Oifice
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T. J. CHAPrHLL
Q OETCHIUS & CHAPPELL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
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yy B. SLADE,
Attorney-at-Law.
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Attorney-at-Law.
Office up stairs over R. S. Crane.
pOUIS F. GARRARD, *
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J. M. M’NEILL.
L. 0. LEVY.
ypNEILL & LEVY,
Attorneys-at-Law.
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Practicing Physician.
Office at Robert Carter's drug store.
n EORGE J. GRIMES.
Physician and Surgcrn.
Office up stairs over City Drug Store.
JOHN NORWOOD,
Practicing Physician.
Office at City Drug Store, IM2 Broad street
J W. CAMERON,
Practicing Physician.
Office up stairs over Central Drug Store.
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Practicing Physician.
Offic at Robert Carter’s drug store.
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Practicing Physician.
W. W. BRUCE.
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Practicing Physicians.
J NO. J. MASON,
Practicing Physician.
Office at City Drug Store.
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gOHLEY & SCHLEY,
Homeopathic Physicians.
Officer over •Hochstrasser’s. Dr. P. T. Schley’s
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gETH N. JORDAN,
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JJR C. T. OSBURN,
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WTATEOFGEORGIA MUSCOGEK COUNTY :
^ To the Honorable Superior Court .of said
Counts : The petition of the Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company respectfully shows,
That it is a corporation ot said state, located ami
doing business in said county, and its principal
office and place of doing bus : ness is in Columbus,
in said county.
That the original charter and act of incorpora
tion was granted by the General Assembly of
said State by an Act eutit’ed ‘ An Act to incorpo
rate the Eagle und Phenix Manufacturing Com
pany of Columbus. Georgia,” which act was ap
proved 10th of March, 1806.
That said Act of Incorporation did not provide
for the election of more than live Directors, nor
has there been any change in the lawt: respecting
said corporation.
That tbe corporators named in said Act did or
ganize said company, and that the capital stock
o* said company lias been increased to one mill
ion two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, all of
which has been paid in.
That the object of said corporation was the
manufacture and sale ol cotton and woolen
good3, and said company still carry on such busi
ness in said county.
That at the last annua 1 meeting of the stock
holders of said company it was resolved by said
stockholders that application should be made to
alter and amend the charter of said company, so
as to provide that the stockholders should, at the
annual elections, choose nine directors among
said stockholders instead of five, as provided by
said charter.
Wherefore, your petitioner prays that an order
may be passed at the next November term of “aid
Court declaring said petition granted, and that
the Fourth Section of said Act shall be so altered
and amended us that the same sha. i read as fol
lows :
Sec. l V. That there shall be an annual meeting
of the stockholders of said corporation at such
time and place as the corporation may provide by
its by-laws for the purpose of electing nine direct
ors, and that the time of holding the first meeting
of the directors under the said first election shall
be fixed by said directors, or a majority of them,
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Petitioners’ Attorneys.
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CENTRAL RAILROAD,
Columbus, Ga., September 19,188ft.
O N and after this date Passenger Trains will
run as follows. Tains * daily; t daily ex-
cept Sunday. The standard time by which these
'Trains run is the same as Columbus city time.
heave Columbus
Arrive Macon
“ Atlanta
*12 00 m
* 4 38 p m
* 9 35 p m
f 8 50 p m
+ 6 40am
* 1 35 p m
7 23 p m
* 3 58 p m
* 2 45 p m
* 113 p in
* 3 45 p m
* 4 07pm
“ Albany
“ Milieu
“ Augusta
“ Savannah
* 11 10 p m
* 3 00 a m
* 6 15am
* 5 55 a ni
Passengers for Sylvania, Sanderville, Wrights-
villo, Milledgeville and Eatonton, Thomaston
Carrollton. Perry, Fort Gaines, Talbotton, Buena
Vista, B akely and Clayton shonld take 8 50 mm
train. -
Leave Macon
“ Atlanta
* 10 00 a m
* 6 00 a m
? 8 30 p m
* 3 10 p m
* 7 40 a m
* 10 55 a m
* 12 00 m
* 12 00 m
* 9 30 am
* 8 40am
* 5 20 a m
“ Euf&ula
“ Albany
“ Millfn
♦ 5 40 a m
* 11 00 p m
“ Savannah
Arrive Columbus
* 820pm
* 2 25 p m
Sleeping Cars on all night trains between Co
lumbus and Macon, Macon and Savannah, Ma
con and Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, and Sa
vannah and Atlanta.
Tickets for all points and Sleeping Car Berths
on sale at Depot Ticket Office
G. A. WHITEHEAD,
Gen’l Pass. Agent.
C. W. MEYER, Ticket Agent. augl tf
Opelika, Ala., September 14th, 1886.
O N and after Sunday, September 14th, 1886, the
trains on this road will be run as follows :
No. 1.
Leave Columbus 8 22 a m
Arrive Opelika 9 52 a m
No. 3.
Leave Opelika 10 05 a m
Arrive Columbus u 20 a m
No. 3.
Leave Columbus 2 28 p m
Arrive Opelika 3 58 p m
No. 4.
Leave Opelika 5 18 p m
Arrive Columbus 6 43 p m
No. 5.
Leave Columbus 7 10 a m
Arrive Opelika 9 23 a m
Arrive Goodwater 5 50 p m
No. 6.
Leave Goodwater 5 20 a m
Arrive Opelika 9 46 a m
Arrive Columbus 12 56 p m
No. 7.
Leave Columbus 145 p m
Arrive Opelika 3 38 p m
No. 8.
Leave Opelika 4 13 p ra
Arrive Columbus 5 54 p m
The night trains are discontinued for the pres
ent. A. FLEWELLEN.
dtf Genera] Manager
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Office General Manager,
Columbus, Ga., September 12th, 1886.
O N and after Sunday, September 12. 1886, the
schedule of Mail Train will be as follows:
No. 1—Going North Daily.
Leave Columbus 2 29 p m
Arrive at Chipley 4 32 p m
Arrive at Greenville 5 37 p m
No. 2—Coming South Daily.
Leave Greenville 7 10 a m
Arrive at Chipley 8 11 a m
Arrive at Columbus 10 21 a m
No. 3—Freight and Accommodation—North.
Leave Columbus 6 00 a m
Arrive at Chipley 8 14 a in
Arrive at Greenville 9 25 a m
No. 4—Freight and Accommodation-South.
Leave Greenville 10 22 a m
Arrive at Chipley 11 38 a m
Arrive at Columbus 2llpm
W. L. CLARK. Gen’l Manager.
T. C. S. HOWARD. Gen’l Ticket Agent.
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