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THE ATLANTA SUN
ALEXANDER IL STHPHENd, Political Editor.
A. R. WATSON, New« Editor.
J. HESLY SMITH, Gcuersl Editor and Businest
Manager.
Traveling Agent*.
J. IL W. HILL,
Agent) for the San.
James Allen Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.
J.L. Wright, 'Woodstock, G.v
J.G.Caldwell, Tbompaon, Go. %p -I
II. C. Hamilton^Dalton, Ga.
W.C. Davii, Jr.. Eatonton, Ga. -
Tappak, ILkpp iz Co., White Plains, Green co., Gi.
J. L. Smith. Chattanooga, Tenn.
J. 0. Parham, LaGrango, Ga.
B. A. Varnkdoe, Thomasvllle, Ga.
K. Q. William*, Union Point.
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VOL. 2, NO. 40.} ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13,1872.
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| Tlie Trepidation of the Central
izers.
Page 1.—Trepidation of the Centralizers. The
State Road Committee. Close of tho Tichborne
Case, etc. ■
which to transact their business and lodge
while making their investigations up the
Road, who has furnished the same with
out charge. They offered to pay him out
ETe'r and I ^ ie ^ r own money whatever he might
charge, but he told them the car was at
their service without charge, if they
Centralism begins to see flitting, amid
the darkness of popular despair, the
ghosts of murdered liberties,
anon the watchmen on the ramparts an-
H. nounce that the spirit of freedom stalks ...
page 3.—The Prospocu Ahe*<L illicit Distillers, abroad, striking terror into the hearts of vou£d acce pt of it. They have purchased,
Joe Fry Heard From, a Place of Refuge. The ilt monopoliste anfl monej ^ gg that and will purchase, with their own money,
“““ have usurped the seat of the Guardian N^ver they may need, and will bear
Genius of the Federal Union, and for | expen , ees ’
some years past have controlled the mi
chinery of our Government.
Close of the Ticlsborne Case.
Alabama Claim*. Napoleon’s Prospects. The Beal
Status of the Cartersvillo and Van Wert Railroad. [
The International Society. The work of tho Com-1
mlttee. The Public Debt. A Word to Southern
Young Men. Poetry—Tho New Church Organ.
Sun-Strokes. Local Notes. Excerpts of Fun and j
Humor. Telegrams.
This Committee have labored earnestly
and unremittingly, and have accomplish-
The oppressed toiler, who has been I ed * n •* ko,, “ hi, « amount of work. They
Page 3.—“ Historic Reminiscences of tho last days ground to dust under the heel of giant
monopolists, through the medium
of a Labor Reform Convention,
lifts his warning voice to combinations
_ | of money kings, and says, “thus far shall
ye go and no farther.’
The indignant descendants, of an hon-
of the Confederacy.” Sun-Strokes. Telegrams.
Georgia Matters. The Year of Wonders. Poetry—
I'm Growing Old. Sun-Strokes. Officers of the
Union Pacific Railroad. Pennsylvania Correspon-
* dance
Page “t.—" The Democratic Party and th* Pres!
dsntlal Contest.” Denominational Statistics.
CoL Avery’s Reply to Hsnry Clews. The Blind
have made discoveries of numerous frauds
and thefts which the perpetrators
thought were carefully covered up
and effectually concealed. Some
have been unraveled and developed
whose discovery is perfectly astonishing.
"We happen to know tho trails which, in a
Reformers. Th» DsmocraticP* rty and the Presi- ora bi e ancestry, are being slowly aroused few ctseB ’ tbey bave Btract and followed
^ by the spirit of their sires, which in mel- U P assiduity and an amount of
dentlal Contest. An Eagle Captured by a Lady
Snn-Strokes. Earth Eaters. An-
Gerty’e Glove. Snn-Strokes. Earth Eaters. An- .. . . . . . patient research and diligent, laborious
other Constitutional Amendment. Bringing Him Uncholy dignity 13 conjuring action in the * .. , ... .
to terms. Georgia Matters. Telogrsms, etc.
Page 5.—A Ring of the Right Metsl. Collector’s
Office. Clayton Superior Court. Business of the . , , ,
sute Road. Letter from John Bice, Esq. Re-1 well nigh destroyed the last moiety of
I line of duty.
The guilty criminals, who plotted and
ported Libsl Sait Against the
Tho Outwitted Father.
■ constitution.” | Constitutional liberty, forced t* look
upon the image of the glorious and beau-
pace G.—The Liberal Republican Convention #f ... , . . ,. , ,
xSy. Ulysses and the Eggs-Affecting incident in tiful past, conscience-stricken, are appalled
the Boyhood of Our President. •• Way* that are | at the picture of the selfish, corrupt and
purchasable tyranny that centralism has
1 enthroned, bows down to and woiship3.
That the fascination of those, who ad-
Dark.” Telegrams. Advertisements.
Page 7.—The Labor Reform Movement. Prison
ers Promenade. Quitman, Brooks County. Prin
cipal Keeper of tbo Penitentiary. Supreme Court
Decisions. Novel Immigration. The Labor Be- I vocate the political heresy of centralism
form Movement. Shooting Affray, etc. jg increased by familiarity with its vicious
Page 8.—Telegraphic. , * 1 »*—**— I
incut*.
I That its “frightfnl mien,” should at first
application, through the labyrinth of ras
cality in which the gang plied their voca
tion, the contemplation of which fills the
mind with wonder and admiration at
their aptness, ability and success in their
difficult work.
These men justly deserve the thanks of
the people of Georgia for their fidelity.
This we know they will receive, when
what they have done, and will yet do,
shall have been laid before the public.
The Escaped Plunderers.
Bollock and Kimball took time by . the
forelock and left before the storm came.
Asthma Curb.—We invite special at- sight startle some, not dead to conscience.—. ... ,, . ,
tontion to tbo odrertfaemont ol Pam- to sIiame> is „ fact COM btat trith T? C “' d bj * ** wh ““ 1
bam’a AMW Gate. wU-kaotm tanan impute. Nor 5. it f” m °” “'“T t* T *T
marvelous that convicted felons, who J lh “‘ , w0 ? d ^ £•*
. x coRta not help it, while their friends and
about to ... „— •
Recorder’s Court.—His Honor set up .
hia tribunal in opposition to the City . .
Court yesterday morning. Whichprored >» m ‘“ as!ied . should start at th. least
the most popular wewero unable to learn, *”>■ ” t conI,ue4 ' ,len V* tt . 6
but re know His Honor oousoled kta. slightest sipi of remorse or repen auee is
sell with the reflection that if he did not exhibited by ‘heir co-oon«p.r.tors or
hare tho crowd, he certainly had the “5 (llpe f® am ers.
The first victim of His Whether the actors m theby-playbe
Labor Reformers or Union Reformers,
their performances strike terror into the
who must hare been a Cendant of the I ^ ,
Lilliputians. Wo are led to this c01ll:lu . | hour tor Constitutional laberly. attempt
“crowdors.
Honor’s wrath was
their “organs” were announcing their
early return.
Fry is gone. Blodgett is gone. Hotch
kiss is gone. George Evans is gone; and
more of them will soon be gone, unless
they are fastened. They will forfeit their
bonds and leave, for they know the laws
which they have violated, the proof which
gus geeter, | .■~ T~S* .7 T"~~ „ exists against them, and the punishment
] that Will surely follow.
Fry’s escape is a public disgrace.
sion by his diminutive stature and barbar- so well defined and I Hotchkiss is under bond to appear at the
ous ferocity. He had no more scruples * . next session of the Superior Court. If
Y-n/»lr« nf: nrAtl.v littlAcrirls earnes tly P rolnu *S a t e d by the great Ap°8- . * A X,- n x Rio Rea
x ew were ever so romiUptic and rascally;
but the sky-rocket now is but a poor
stick i’ the mnd. The would-be Sir
Roger withdrew from the suit, and was
drawn into the penitentiary ; he lost new
fortune, and got Newgate. The prin
cipal “pool” of English gambling and
gossip has dried up.
The real Sir Roger, eighteen years ago,
went on adventure to South America; but
soon after sailed for New York, on‘the
ship “Bella,” which has ever since been
missing. In 1863 his father, Sir James,
seft his estates on earth, and they de
lcended to a posthumous nephew of his
late lamented heir. Lady Tichborne
could not believe that the cruel waves
had closed over her son ; but offered large
rewards for knowledge of his where
abouts, and especially stated that vast
estates were awaiting the primogeniture.
Three years later she received a letter
from Australia, saying that the writer was
her lost boy. On January 10th, 1867,
they met in Paris, and she recognized
him as such in decided terms, (which the
same is a good joke,) and allowed him
$5,000 a year, to lnbricate the machinery
of life.
He immediately sued the trustees of
the infant aforesaid for the fnll possession
of the said estates ; bnt next March the
deluded mother died, and with her his
prominent prospects. He put in the
plea of “ fonl play.” The trial was
staved off till about a year ago, and has
been in vogue ever since. The identity
of the claimant wa3 the main point in
issue. The evidence was unemphatic and
baffling at first—now you saw him as Sir
Roger, and then you didn’t.
'He claimed to have been wrecked at
sea on the “Bella,” in 1854, and was the
only survivor picked npby a vessel bound
for Australia, where for private reasons he
has since been known as “ Thomas Cas
tro;” that seeing the estate and title ad
vertised for him, he concluded finally to
arise and go to his father’s house. But
all tliis Vas on hi& mere say-so; and he
finally failed to substantiate his rounds,
wreck, rescue, and reclusion, though in
geniously and subtly assisted under the
Tlie - .Election To-day in New 1
Hampshire.
about throwing rocks at pretty little girls. T
than rabbits, and, “aa for kisaio," said “»» f
be, “boss, I-d rather cjrss than kiss a gal 1
the purtiest day that eber shone.” Such
a villainous sentiment as that perfectly
astounded His Honor, whose tastes and
propensities, be it to his honor said, are
radically different from tho] savage Lilli
putian. All the indignation and wrath
of His Honor simultaneously rallied to, _ _ . , . _ . . . ,
tha vindication of tho worth and I “>?■ an affrighted night wanderer,
purity of the abused fairies,
said he: “You heathenish, devilish, dia
bolical little fiend;you masticated spawn
shire, which is looked to with a vast
amount of interest from one end of the
country to the other. The Democrats
carried it at tha last election, by a very
small majority; we hope they may suc
ceed by on increased majority to-day.
writhing” of centralism tinder
fierce blows it is now receiving, even from
those of its own household, and which
so fret, worry and cripple it, just when it
fancied‘ itself securely enthroned upon
the ruins of the Temple of Liberty.
The centralizers in their alarm just
he does not his bond will be forfeited
cail I
and J Magistrate or the Sheriff, are to\f
I blame for the escape of Evans. Blodgett’s
so-called pardon ought not to have been
allowed to cover him till he could get
without the limits of the State, bnt he
should have been arrested long ago and
held.
From Gov. Smith’s well known integ
rity, his correct sense of justice, and
. ° .. , I soundness as a lawver. we feel sure that
“whistling on his way through a grave- “ J : ° ,
I yard to k«p his courage up,” protend a ? e . Ural pardon as
cheerfulness they do not feel, when one h»«8>«S^ binding, or worth as ranch
. , -,.u -, r“|popularmovementafteranother,mth." 8 ‘! ie W eronw,uchl ‘’'“ , ' n ‘ tol -
of a hyena; if those little girls were here | t Ue p „ t li blared out by the BI ° a <S e “ has sense enongh to know
I would make them scald every particle
of fiendish flesh into red-hot ether. Give
fathers of the Republic, indicates that |
their day of reckoning is approaching,
this, and Tie is gone! He is at
present in South Carolina. He went there
me or I’ll give you to the I, ^ thunder3 ofpopular indigna -1 tofindrefuge-a secure retreat-a place
mischief!” Nowthis outburst of eloquence
on the part of His Honor must be attrib
uted to the tender memory of his youth
ful days, when he “did a wooin’ go.
Here is a memento of those younger
days called from His Honor’s Diary:
NO ROSE WITHOUT A THORN.
I asked lor a Mss, but yon deemed it amiss
To be touched by a beard so thorny;
And curtt>eying low, said, “I’d bare you, sir know.
A scratch would In no wise adorn me.’’
I grant it—''tis true; but, appealing to yon,
I would lain ask you whether
(Since tho roses aro thine, and the sharp thorns mine)
Both ought not to flonrish together ?
JOBJB BAYLEIGH
may have once been a white man, bnt he
tion shall consign them to that infamy
which should ever attach to would-be as
sassins
where he would be out of the reach of
‘ I the criminal laws of Georgia, which he
of liberty, and conspirators against bns violated. Ho is staying.there because
the peace of a people whose inherited P”* a * he rc f r f“, >*
rights they spit and trample upon.
safely. He regards Atlanta, or any place
LaborReform movements and Re-Union in the S ^ te » 8 Wealthy (figuratively
speaking) for him, and this is why he is
not at home.
fvnrl Reform movements, spontaneous or
manipulated,so far as they indicate a re-as
sertion of their inherited rights on the
It is understood •
communication and
that he had
a full under-
I part of the people, strike no terror into »ua a uu unuer-
the hearts of true Democrats. Theirap- mth “>« carpohbag pun-
paritiou, though it “eauae each partieu- de ?“K Governor of that State befora
lar hair” on the head of every centralizer ' ,ho If. P remised to pro-
on
“to stand on end,
_ only the result o{ tect him and agreed beforehand to refuse
had lived so long in the vicinity of the I that re-active force, which from time to l to deli J® r - n P on ,^ y re ? nisi ^®“
Rolliug Mill, where he had midnight time will ever exert itself, until the last]
darkuess combined with the concentrated vestige of the recuperative energy of a
smoke from the forge, until he had be- pe oplc, once free, shall have departed.
come indistinguishable from an original
Hottentot. Bat during all this trans
formation, strange to say, he had not
The Stats Road Committee.-
. The Committee appointed by the Leg-
forgot Low to curse and squint “bine j s i atnre to investigate the Management
1. V. —.w »» TTa .T..vo I-. ArtrtnrtH f *nnnlrra r nio i w
blazes.” He was licensed to indulge this
barbarous propensity at $5 a “cuss.”
JAMES JOHNSON
was no relation of tho Ex-Governor, or,
of the State Road under Bullock and
Blodgett, yesterday morning went up
the Road in the farther prosecution of
make for him—intending to take the
ground that any charges.which have been
or may be preferred ^ against him here
are only political persecutions, and that
he has violated no law. From the best
information we can gather, we believe
this is true. It is certain that the Com
mittee who are investigating his admin
istration have requested his presence be
at least, if he was, ho was ashamed to ac- du ti es . They expect to stop at fore aud tiiat be ba3 _ not complied
1 1 - 1 - L TT.V - - .1%. /to! ~lvi I tJ Sr 4 I - - * lL IL .Tw «AMnnn(- TT ft w Cl 1 A/\n*A
varions points along the route, and ex-
_ I with their request.. He will comeback
here when he is brought in strings—when
amine the records of the Road, and such j ie can g0 n0 ^ t
knowledge it. He was dreadfully fright
ened, anil said:
•« And as in.nfflah thought hs stood,
Te Jabherwock, vrith eyes of flams,
Camo whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!” „ _
His Honor said he ought not to slander I • TrI;-work and ^va p-rnPno«, tn ti, n I There must be no slackness on the part
Sam Bard in that cruel manner, and j .i! I of those who arechargedwiththefadth-
charged him $5 and costs. 1 ' ’ ~ *
j witnesses as they may desire.
Now we propose that no more of those
This step will greatly facilitate them implicated in these plunderings escape.
BEE KONIO
State. Numerous witnessss along the I execution of the law; and those whose
line of the-Road must be examined, and duty it i3 to prosecute offenders, or those
said he had _ been doing^sometliius: very | it ^ co5t the State less for the Commit-1 charged with offenses, must be vigilant,
h^5b?golld 3 aSed tee to go to convenient points forthem| Has HeFIedT
if he remembered it.” Ho made a lavish to appear, than to require them to appear
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Marcii 3*
THE GEORGIA TRAGEDY.
To-day is the election in New Hamp- Tliree -Fugitives frotn Justice
Before the City Court of Lou
isville.
Spencer Prewitt, John A, S. Prewitt
and Ben M. Prewitt, a father and two
sons, were before the City Court yester
day morning, charged with the murder
... m l- of James H. Morris, in the State of Geor-
A telegraph dispatch from Washing-1 ^ The following are the facts in the
ton says: case as stated by Mr. Leonard Hidden
Radical editors are just now whistling to keep a member of the grand iurv that indiefMl
their courage up with regain to the New Hampshire 4R e p rew ua„ i vr. ‘-\ri i
election. Now England is looked upon as tho Gib- lne -“ evvltts » aQ d Mr. Michael McEm-
raltar of Radicalism, and that particular one of tho I ney, xreasurer of the COUntv whei-ft tho
VflW Vrt filer) d Ctatn* ainn. 1 j ont 4m Vtol.l v-rilirtf as ft a A'wmma • — 17.. . . V i < . *
Judge Warner.
divisions, the Democrats achieved a success: but native State, and who nave the iufnrmn
th030 who had the best opportunities for correct in- t; on -wRifiR oariBo^ *. T v
formation did not at all consider the result a reliable I r. 0 *; Caused their arrest: It seems
indicatiou of the relative strength of parties, if mat opencer Prewitt, the father, held
New Hampshire should go Democratic on the 12th, the office of Onlinurv nf 'nr-i
therefore, the fact must be most damaging to the -p flT1 : n „ rtrlri x„ ^TUinary ol Morgantown,
prospects of Grant Such a thing would prove be- A ry “ oounty, Ureorgu, the duties of
yond doubt that even New England is not to be de- Which correspond to those of onr A aaoeenr-
pended on at the coining Presidential election ff or a f 4R e time flip srimo
the support of the Radical nominee. .„/r« m ® - WaS committed.
The New York Tribune savs- d had , been . a T er J upright and popular
xne riew xorx ixionne says. man up to within a few months nrfer tn
The political situation In New Hampshire appears that timp when lie IS prior to
cheerful to the Republican observer. Democracy , j When he commenced to drink
and Free Trade do not apparently find favor in the very hard and to associate with lewd
Granite State, and our correspondence, to-day gives women. Mr. Morris was an nhl man
information that the threatened divisions of the RPTPrif ._ f was ^ O*® man »
Republicans on the Senatorial question has come to Be > e n[y nve or eighty years old, and a
naught. The contest promises to he lively, and resident for the latter nart of liia lif« nf
sharply divided as to parties. | Morgantown. 01
1,3® murder took place in January,
1871, and jn particular is described m
We are pleased to see Hon. Hiram a ^pfewTtt?
Warner so far recovered from hia long house, with now and then a pistol shot?
indisposition as to be on the streets,, and very loud talking going on all the
though he is not well enongh to resume ^ B ? e > an< L knowing that his son and son-
his seat on the bench. He hopes to be cardiT he P^y
... . • r cards, he naturally supposed that they
able to enter upon his duties as soon aa were engaged in the quarrel. Finn in
the wintry weather permanently passes Lis belief, he went to Prewitt’s house,
away. ? nd > giving the door a slight push, fell
in» when the elder Prewitt confronted
Railroad Meettar at Richmond. I ton joa?ol“ “f
QsitesMtefierot omjroauamt citi-
zens left this city on the night tram, on e st of the bow, aged at that time eleven
the Georgia Railroad, Sunday night, years, said “cr his old heart out,” and
to attend a Convention of South- 5 usb * n 8 to C*®bbed him while the
- * ' father held hU? The wound was a fatal
one, and Mr. Morris died in a short time
after receiving it. yyawq
The Preiritts, father and two sons,
going
era Railroads at Richmond, Ya., which
meets to-day. Col. L. P. Grant, Gen
Alfred Austell, Judge S. B. Hoyt, R. J.
Lowry, Esq., and others were in the dele- ^ re arrested and lodged in the county
gation. Mr. E. W. Cole, of the Nash-H* 1 !,’ aud r. on . th ® Jf““? inin K lrial th eir
•ii n .I -n ••• -m I bfcil was fixed ut* $b,000. Tiielioiyiestead
vfile and Chattanooga Railroad, Capt G. ]aw in that State allowing' a m J $3 000
J. Foreacre, of the Alabama Western, and and the people being poor (consequent
_ F ? I OD til O U'ftiw) S i- X ...1 » ' 1
contribution of §5 also.
JACQUES ANTHBOPOS
“vas a nice young man,” who, in the
palmy days of his youth, ah, well, here
it is:
“In a town—it matters not where,
At a time—yon don’t need tho date,
A yonni; man—ah! what’s in a name?
Was proceeding—of that I’ll not prate—
When he met—her name I won’t call,
Whom ho told—I must not eay what;
Which of course—now, what’s that to us?
And resulted in—let’s omit that.
Then they both—of course that was right,
So they went—but I fear I digress,
And were made—yon now seo the point;
And at last—th* rest you can suess.”
and he paid His Honor $5 for a marriage
license.
HARRIET KENNEDY
“vas a n ice youngg irl, oo alw'ay swould
ave er howu way,” and “er hown was to
curse worse than a Heathen Chinee, for
Which privilege she paid $5 and costs.
before the Committee in this city, and
A dispatch in our last issue announced
J,S 7 their expenses for sneit eUendmce.
The Committee have not gone oft like J Ha3 he «<-n- 00 dbmed?” The question
the whitewashing crowd did in 1870, very naturally'arises. If lie has net, ho
which took a frolic up the Road at the ex- doubtless soon wilL Keeping company
pense of the State and had its whisky Bufiockwin be his only comfort,
, , or. I and, no, doubt, his only escape from ar-
and cigar bil.s to the amount of .„l,GoJ res j. and punishment. Sooner or later
. - <« VftA I n - -ii i .-i _ _ TT.i a
paid by the
sides the expense of their
&c. It is composed of anoth-
of men; of men who are
er
State Road, be-1 this will be the case. Holden is im-
rneals, peached, and dare not go back to his
State. Bullock fled. Reed, of Florida,
under impeachment, and will either go
to the penitentiary or ren away. Davis,
earnestly hunting for rascality, and who j of Texas, absconded. The Arkansas and
will ha verv apt io find it wherever it! Mississippi plunderers will have to walk
will tie very aps « , ^ same plank> o{ Soutll Car0 .
exists. i ‘ -n t lina, will perhaps be the last one to va-
The Committee have gone wituout anj ; as he still has the protection of
extra expense to the State. They applied j United States bayonets and the support
to Gov. Brown for the use of a car in 1 of a Radical majority in the State.
lead of Mr. Sergeant Ballantine. 3
gThe defeDso- Ly the Attorney-General
and crjfp'l- was pointed as well as protract
ed—his' *peech lasted seventeen dsys.
The focal point of his attack was the
illiteracy of the claimant, while th© real
rambler was an adept in languages and
literature. It was too much to define
quadrangle as “a stair-case,” or that
Laus Deo Semper, means the “ the laws
of God forever.”
The result was, that when the jury ap
peared the second time asking permission
to render a verdict, the claimant col
lapsed his case. But his expenses for
commissions to South America, Austra
lia and other sea-ports, is far less than
that of the defense, from this fact: many
bonds were issued on his prospects of
baronetcy, and sold—and so were the
buyers. Notwithstanding, the effect is
awful. Te be branded os a perjured im
poster, and chronicled in yellow-backs
for a dime, along with the Iron Mask
Man, Dick Turpin, and the Man With
out a Country; to lose that lordly allow
ance, and Sir cognomen for plain Arthur
Orton, with “poor relations” throughout
the realm, is worse than the step to the
ridiculous—it is to the jail of Newgate
and its “ quadrangle” with a vengeance,
>-♦-<
PassiTism]Thirty Years ago.
It is known that when upon the death
of Gen. Harrison, Mr. Tyler,' as Vice
President became the President ci'
the United States, he fonnd himself
without a party in Congress. . His
old Virginia notions in politics didn’t
suit the Whig party in that body, and
the Democrats, were slowito take np
Whig President. Yet it was needful that
he should have a Congressional party,
and Mr. Tyler preferred that it should
be composed of the Democratic members.
It was thought that his veto of the bank
bill would conciliate the Democracy, and
it was proposed to open negotiations to
secure the arrangement. Mr. Benton
was the-Democratic Senator with whom
it was thought best to treat. Bnt “Old
Bullion” was a pretty hard case,
difficult of approach, and very bluff
in his manners. But finally the
duty of conducting the negotiations was
devolved upon Dr. Niles, of Vermont,
who was of most plausible, persuasive
parts, and seemingly best adapted to the
task. The interview was very brief, and
is thus related:
“Undoubtedly,” said Old Bullion, “the
President was right in vetoing the bank
bill, bnt there was nothing else for him
to do, as an honest man and a patriot.”
“Bnt,” insisted the emissary, “has not
liis-course laid the foundation of a claim
to the confidence and support of your
self and jour friends?” *
“None of your d—d intrigues with me,
sir! I am a Democrat, and act only with
other railroad men of prominence, were the war), it took forty-dye names on
along. ^ It is a meeting of great import-
ontto, in •olricix nearly every ruud In. the
Southern States will be represented.
These men all went by the Atlantic
Coast Line Route, of which A. C. Ladd
is agent. They had the company of Col.
the bond to raise the requisite $6,000,
and then the Judge refused to take the
bond. In the mean time the
lrewitts had broken jail and fled.
This being the case, the Judge
of til© Superior Court consented
to take tlie boud, if they would
_ come back and give themselves np, which
Tom Magill, agent of the East Tennessee they they did, and their trial was set for
route.
The Air-Line Railroad - The * ™* 8 T po ^ ibl ? *° find them
Work Goes Bravely On. fPJr!^ 0, T ^ , da y,°f tnal came, and
the bond was declared forfeited, but the
The grading on the Atlanta and Rich- Judge agreed to remit the forfeiture if the
mond Air-Line Railroad has been com- ^ nd ,escaped convicts
, .... . . . .. and have them at the next May term of
pleted to within a distance of eight miles the court The bondsmen immediately
from Clarksville, Habersham county, a took active measures to find the fugitives,
point distant abont thirty miles from Lut were for a long time unsuccessful,
a. . ... ... _ 1 arm TYUffnf. hava roYnoinail — _
some time in
I meantime the
October. 1871.
prisoners had
In the
escaped
Gainesville. Iron is being received daily,
and might have remained in ignorance aa
to their whereabouts had not the elder
and the employees will commence laying p rew itt written to his brother-in-law in
the track immediately. Large forces are forming him where he was. The brother
working steadily and zealously on all Lx-law made known the contents of this
points between the present terminus of } e ‘ te . rt ®' the prope 5 authorities, which
f, -r, , . „ ,. . led to the arrest of the Prewitts near
the Road to Greenville, grading andl Seyn?our) Indiana> a {ewdays ag0 . m
preparing all necessary timbers.— the time of the arrest the prisoners agreed
All contracts for bridges and rock- j to go quietly with their, captors to Geor-
work between here and
Greenville hut arriving here yesterday morning
* the wife of one of them gave informa-
S. C., have been awarded to Mr. John xj on ^ authorities which led to anin-
T. Grant of this place, who is faithfully vestigation of the affair and-the bringing
and rapidly prosecuting the work. of the parties before the city court yes-
, , , . -to i terday morning, where they were held to
The route passes abont six miles East await J a requisition from the Governor of
of Clarksville and traverses the Tngalo Georgia.
(upper waters of the Savannah) at Wal- „
ton’s Ford, nearly on the line of Frank- ga The Athens Banner > o£ *Le 8th inst.,
lin and Habersham counties, and thence sa J S *
directly to Greenville. The length of wbeno ^ o£
x* .XI X X n -II • 1 rn town * How is your railroad getting
the line from Atlanta to Greenville is 150 a i 0D g ?’ We learned at Jefferson that
miles, and it is estimated that trains will about $200,000 had been subscribed,
be winning through to Charlotte by 1st l eav ing $50,000 more to be taken before
TWflmhfvr commencing work. We believe it was
u ’ stated at the meeting of stockholders to
The entire length of the line from consider the choice of routes, that $40,000
Charlotte (N. C.) to Greenville (S. C.), conld Le obtained in Augusta for the
one hundred .nd four tnUre, i. graded | W? presauM tbat
and ready for the track-layers. This
portion of the line will be ready for I friends of the. enterprise here and along
trains by the middle of July. The track-1 £ Le line will not wait on others, but
layers will soon commence work at Spar-
make up the amount needed and go
. , , . ahead. It will be a great calamity to
tanburg, laying rails in both directions. Athens and Northeast Georgia if the en-
We are glad to know that this road, | terprise fails.”
which is bound to effect a revolution in
freight and travel, will soon be com
pleted.
The Savannah Republican of Sunday
says:
Mr. Joshua Friar, an old and respected
citizen of Coffee county, Georgia, sixty-
Obganizaxion of thu Elbebton Atr I two years of age, met his death abont
Line Railroad Company.—A meeting of ten da J 8 ^ nce - ^ a “ ost remarkable
1 manner. He. was smoothing a stick with
Democrats. If Mr. Tyler {wishes onr sup
port, he must come over to us unreserv
edly, without intermediates or go-be
tweens.”
This is given as a sample of Tom Ben
ton’s ideas of Passivism thirty years ago.
We have now a good many men calling
themselves Democrats who are not Tom
I Beijtoss,
citizens of Franklin, Elbert, and Hart |
counties was held at Franklin Springs,
on the 1st inst., at which a permanent or
ganization of the Elberton Air Line Rail
road was effected, with the election of
the following officers:
President—Col. Jame3 L. Heard, of|
Elberton.
Directors—Messrs. Thomas Crymes, J.
M. Freeman, Obadiah Dean, J. W.
Crump, John Herndon, O. M. Doyle, T.
J. Bowman, J. H. Grogan, W. H. Mat-
a drawing knife, when the catch of the
blade slipped from tlie stick and its keen
edge was pulled with such force by his
own hands against his person, that his
abdomen was cut open across the mid
dle, severing hia bowels and causing
death in thirty-six hours.
Representative Wood, cf New York,
in his response to the campaign speech
injected by Mr. Dawes, of Massachu
setts, into the discussion on the deficien
cy appropriation bill, gave the friends of
the Administration full notice of what
they are about to expect in the approack-
tox, E. M. Rucker, D. A. Matthews and ing canvass. “ The^ attention of the
J. H. Jones.
The Board of Directors chose Maj.
James. M. Freeman Secretary, and Col.
T'hos. J. Bowman Treasurer.
It was ordered that the next meeting
of the Board be held at Carnesville, on
the Thursday after the 1st Tuesday in
April next.
people,” said Mr. Wood, “isnot to be
attracted to the obsolete issue of tho col
ored race. The Democratic party intend
to put forward the issue of reforming tho
corruptions of every department of tbe
Government. They intend to denounce,
bring home and prove, that, from the
Presidential Mansion down to the hum
blest Federal official, tlie whole concern
is reeking with corruption.”