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ATLANTA, TUESDAY. MAYA
Tbs XiscaUta »t Mia* Ibstbait
There has been so much Interest felt to the
execution of Misa Eberhart, and soch® de
mand for our special, lengthy and graphic ac
count of the affair, cowering trrit four col*
nmns, that we hare been compelled to repub
lish it in this morning’s paper.
The propriety of Got era or Smith's action
in the sad matter has been ahlnlngly
apieuou*. He bad no possible ground upon
which to commute the sentence. The sol
emn rerdlet of oor highest legal tribunal
stood as an Inseparable barrier to coma
lion. Nothing stood pleading for it but a
creditable sentiment of sympathy, that a
young woman would naturally engendi
a gallant community, and which becomes
the stranger as the recollection of the ghast
ly murder grows dim and distant
We bam taken the trouble to examine the
testimony. It is mournfully conclusive and
tells with terrible emphasis the awfulatrodly
of the murder.
Jeptha W barton and J. If Wharton, who
arrested Spann and Miss Eberhart, b lb tes
tify that they made foil coefeaaion of the
crime; that they dasped each other around
the neck with their arms and said they were
both equally guilty; that they began a
month and a half before the murder,
deviling plana to get Mrs. Spann out of
the way; that Mist Eberhart wanned
some water and both aougfat to take
the stains off the neck. And there la a atm
more revolting rtrelation of testimony which
does not bear redial, but which more
all else exhibits the loathsome criminality of
the couple.
Human testimony could not be more direct,
conclusive sad unanswerably supportive of
We go so fuss tossy (hat Governor Smith
would have been direlect In hla duty had he
have stopped the sentence of the law.
Let ns trait that this dark case will end the
record of feminine criminality in Georgia.
The Fast meat nwccesstea.
The improvement in thehealth of the ven
erable successor of St. Peter waa only tem
porary. He may Unger a few dayi or weeks,
but hla recovery la out of the question. Hla
critical condition excites profound interest
In all parts of Christendom; for all know
that the death of Piuj IX at this time me
something more than a mere addition
another link in the great chain of apostolic
succession. The new Pontiff wfll certainly
breathe the air and influences of the nine
teenth century.
Not a little speculation is indulged in as to
the successor of the man who has worn the
tiara through twenty-seven eventful years.
The composition of tho college of cardinals,
upon which devolves the selection of the
future Pope, is a matter of much learned
comment When full It consists of seventy
members, bat there are now only forty-live,
divided as foUowa: Italian, 83; French, 5
German, 3; Spanish, 8; English, L The
Italians have three more than the requisite
two-thirds. Tho college must choose one of
its members. Csrdinal Lnclen Bonaparte,
aged 44, la tho youngest, and the archbishop
of Chambery, aged 01, is the oldest member.
The average age of the cardinals is sixty-
seven. There is no chance, therefore, for the
election of a hot-headed inexperienced m»n.
The imposing Conclave la assembled In the
Vatican with much ceremony, and when ful
ly organized, the cardinal deacon admonishes
them to bo faithful and conscientious in the
discharge of their great duties. They do not
then disperse until a pope Is chosen. Three
forms of election are permitted, but of late
ttotcruivu'um or ballot has been the adopted
mode. When the necessary two-thirds vote
is obtained, the pope elect selects the name
which he la hereafter to bear, ascends the
throne after assuming the robes of hla office,
bestows his benediction upon the attendant
cardinals, and is invested with the fisherman's
ring. His formal consecration and corona
tion usually takes place about a week later,
from tho balcony ever the main entrance to
St Peters, and In the presence of vast multi
tudes of the faithful. The cardinal deacon
places the crown on his head as he thus ad
dresses him;
''Receive the tiara crowned with three
crowns, sod know that thou art the father
of princes a»d kings, the ruler of the uni
verse, on earth the vicar of « ur Saviour
Jesus Christ, to whom be honor and glory,
world without end. Amen”
The Ancient , church may well be solici
tous about the character of the mao who
will nex- HU the Papal Chair. His career
will be beset with troubles. He will not al
ways dad it easy to raise the means to keep
the spiritual pot a-bulling; and serious dis
sensions, growing out if the changes of the
age, will confront him In Germany and
elsewhere that threaten even the spiritual
supremacy of the 8npreme Pontiff The
Conclave will be sure to regard capacity,
patience and prudence, as well as piety In
the selection of a recognized head for cue
hundred and aeventy-five millions of de
voted adherents
Csttsa, I*e. 39.
The receipts this week are 47JOOO bales—
23,000 more than last year, and 4,000 leas
titan two years since.
It is likely the receipts for next week will
be about 40,000 bales; compared with 17,000
last year, and 47,000 the year before; and
the receipts at the Interior towns 7,000bales;
compared with 4,000 last year and 8,000 the
year before. The weather this week has
The thermometer has averaged 65 degrees
at noon; three days clear and pleasant; four
days cloudy and warm; srith three dayaon
which we had pleasant showers, but no heavy
washing rains.
This, week last year, Uto thermometer was
78 degrees at noon, generally clear aad pleas
ant, one very light rain.
Next week, last year, the thermometer waa
83 degrees at noon, generally clear and pleas
ant, no. rain.
The frost that fell on the night of the 25th
April did bat little injury. As it had been
dry for three weeks cotton had not come opt
• few garden vegetables were killed and
some fruit blasted, bat the Injury, all told,
was very light.
For Ibis month wn expect a plenty of rain,
as all the indications point that way.
The market in New York has been steady
and quiet all the week; sales 8,000 bales of
spots and lOOjOOO bales of contracts; the
time causes operating on that market that
have been for several week*.
The New York market baa not fallen in
April for five yean, until this year, it has
declined one-quarter of a cent For this
month that market has risen three yearajand
fallen in 1870 three-quarters of a cent The
situation now, in many respects, is like that
year, except that New York is four cents a
pound lower, and Liverpool two pence lower,
equal to four cents a pound lower. The
market in Liverpool has been doll with me
dium sales, with a decline of i of a cent in
the price. The canse, the same as given last
week.
Trouble at'the coal mines lintogland.
(20,000miners having refused to work except
at a reduction of lime, per day, or an increase
of ssagesj and a strike of the cotton spinners
in some factories North (refuting! to work
over ten hours a day, and receive the
wages.) have added to the gloomy prospects.
There are now 215/100 bales of American
cotton all «t for Liverpool; of which 60,000
will be doe, and should be received there next
week.
Here follows our regular monthly state-
t, given in thousands of bales.
eta 846 ISM 1X11 1141
It will be seen thi the quantity in and
afloat is400/100bale* more than is 1870, when
ere had a tailing market all summer.
American cotton in eight and afloat for
Uvetpool, for same time:
we. 1877. ten. wt wx
ock ib m en m sis
leas. Me iso uo 171 sis
331 SIS 837 SI4 557
It will be seen that the quantity of Ameri
can is not much in excess of last year, whilst
our crop has been 700/100 biles larger; res
ale the Continent baa taken much more,
rwn spinners have taken more, ibe stock
at our ports Is 170/100 bales more, sod Man
chester spinners are running more on Ameri-
fit than last jear.
Antfriran cotton io sight for same time
i860. 1870. 187L 18n. 1873
.......... m.w -mono uie IMS 11*
r > at aad shipments from Bombay
for four yean for first four months of the
wo. wn. 1871. tan
■zw-risiodrt tBritiia, IM lit m
Cxentstauntlaeat... « 1SS 165
It will be seen that wbilst the receipts have
been 17/100 bales leas than last year, the ex
ports have been 156,000 bales less; so the stock
at that port is likely ab-iutllC/100 bales larger
than last year, all of which may be added to
the export* this summer.
Imports into Liserpool from America and
all other countries for four years for four
ISTU 1871. 1873. 183.
_ rtcaa 7i* t.si* 715
load .....1.153 1.774 I.43S
It will be seen that whilst the American
Import is lS2/>0 bates larger than lost v- ar
the total is 16,000 bales ires, tbe principal
tailing off bring 173/100 bales Brazilian, ba
as this only averages 210 pounds to the bale
It would be equal to about 80,000 bsies of
IMe tot
kspest, 1
Taken by the trade and actually exported
from Liverpool for four yean for four
1875
M
IIS
414
It wil] be seen that whilst tbe total takings
br the trade la 90/100 bales lets than last yeir
the American is 50,000 more, showing a de
rided preference for American when tbe
price is low enough.
The receipts at the interior towns for four
for one month and eight months are as
ERE
ten 1571 1873 383
Eight months 4J4 1,050 74}
It will be seen from above that the seven
interior towns are not a fair indication of the
extent of the crop except as to tbe past
month which shows as we believe about the
true tacts of the case almost double last year
and the same as two years since.
The total receipts at the ports for eight
months for four years are as follows:
1870- 1871. 1873. 1873
*.881 8.873 3,583 3,357
The per cent of American cotton taken by
tbe trade from Liverpool as compared with
the total of all kinds for four months for the
past four years is as follows:
W0. 1871. 187*. 1873.
Per cent. 80 88 50 _
As we are now at the end of eight months
we will revise our estimate of receipts.
Recripte last vear to this date were
269, which waa 95 per cent, of the receipts at
TbSjear the receipts have been 3,257,000 for
the aame time taking the same per cent as a
basil it make* thU crop 3,730,000, but we are
now well aseured that planters have held back
Therefore,we estimate thatthere hasbeenOO
per cent of this crop received to date. Mak
ing the receipts at tho ports, same as last
months estimate 8,620,000, add to which 280,-
000 for overland and Southern consumption
and we hare a total crop of 3,800,000, which
if oor present estimate.
The receipts after this date for three years
and our estimate for this year are as follows
1870. 1871. 1873. 187*.
rule of robbers and usurpers. A desire to
benefit our own interests should not cause us
to forget or view with indifference the mis
fortunes of our neighbors. The fats of
Louisiana today may be the fate of Georgia
or of Indiana to-morrow. The action of a
convention composed, as this will be, of tbe
Governors and representative men of twenty
different States, will necessarily exert a great
deal of influence, aad a recommendation
from it might be regarded by a President and
a Congress wbohave turned a deaf ear to the
appealsof the people of Louisiana.—Augusta
The success of the Great Western Canal de
pends opon keeping it out of politic 1. It is
one of those important public measures in
whose results men of a'l parties tie equally
interested and which override partisan an-
tagonisms and for the while wipe oat party
lines of demaxkation. To mix politics in its
discussion iito binder its achievement.
We do most rincerdy trust that no inch in
judicious step may be taken as that advised
by tbe New York Herald. It would be to
throw* firebrand of discord into the Conven
tion. It would be to introduce a subject for
action that has no connection whatever with
the single and momentous object of the meet
ing. And we are not indisposed to suspect
that the suggestion was made with a hostile
purpore under friendly guise While there is
no antagonism with the great Erie Canal,
•bortstgbted people to New York imagine
that there is And weean readily understand
bow an adroit enemy of the movement might
sharply advise the spring of a bitter politi
cal theme is a bedy that will be composed of
men of all parties, and differing on political
matters as widely as the poles.
No one sympathizes more than we do
with unhappy Louisiana, and nothing that
wc could do should be left undone to
ameliorate her condition and redress her in
juries.
To spring the Louisiana question on the
convention called solely to the iaterrst of the
Great Western Canal would be an unworthy
act. and as impolitic and utterly barren of
good as improper. It would be a deception
on those Republican Governors and other
leading men of that party who have ap
proved and propose to aid a great political
measure outside of all partisan considera
tions, and who come to Atlanta to discuss
canals and cheap freights and not to agitate
politics. It would immediately divide the
body and break it up. Unanimity of opto
ion or agreement of action on apolitical issue
would be utterly out of the question to an
assemblage combining, as this will, every
shade of political character.
In a word it would be bad frith and worse
policy. Without any possibility of good to
Louisiana, it would kill the canal project upon
which all will be united, by grappling to it
matters irrelevant upon which the widest and
most antagonistic diversities of belief exist
Let ns hear no more of such folly. The
Convention is called for a purpose big enough
to enlist ril its ability and consume all its
time. It will have mighty material problems
before it, affecting tbe largest interests of the
West and South. Let the simple but grand
object of the gathering be faithfully adhered
to. Let tho Convention etick to its ditch
and the colossal results contingent upon its
success.
SSI
819
It will be seen from above that we expect
Ibe receipts to be 156 per cent more than last
jrear, and nearly the same as the “Big Crop
FUTURE.
Far the future we repeat our remarks of
last week. Sell ril your spot cotton; you
can now get a good price for it, and it will
not pay you to bold it. Wc have no hesi-
a f to saying the general course of the
let win be downwards for nearly a year.
But If gold should rise again this summer
if we shonid have
a l it may do so) or
try « ‘
ivy aad continued reins this month (and
tbe indications point that wav) or if later on
tbe stocks at the ports shonid ran down to
250,000 bale*, we shall bave a short anti sud
den rise to New York sometime within the
next three months.
Gnwaraar SwtiU'i tetter.
We call attention to tbe able letter addressed
by Governor Smith to the farmers of tbe
West and Northwest on the great canal
question.
The fanners of the Northwest are thorough
ly alive to the Importance of this great move
ment
This action of the Governor is well timed,
which ia characteristic of ril his actions
Important matters, and it will be properly
appreciated and acted upon by those to whom
it is addressed.
Craps ia Oglethorpe.
Aran, 29,1873.
Editors Constitution: We bave bad consid
erable excitement to Oglethorpe for the past
few week* about email pox, which made its
appearance to the upper part of the county
several weds ago. There baa been five or
six cases, though there are no fresh ones, and
I hope there Is no danger of its scattering
further now.- We had a kilting frost on the
96th tost, which did considerable damage to
com and vegetables; as there wss very tittle
cotton up, tbe damage to it was very light
Ftult is also killed, only to high places there
is a little left The wheat crop is only tol
erably good and was not much damaged by
the frost The oat crop, so far as I have
seen, ia very good, though somewhat late.
The land sown compares favorably with that
of last year. Cup.
•reps In fmfik Conner.
Fobstth County,
May 1st, 187A,
The weather continued dry up to Monday
when we had pleasant reins—some rain Tues
day, pleasant Wednesday, and Thunday
tainr—q«83o eooi, with occasions! heavy
showers of rain from the East Farmers gen
erally np tritit their work. Corn is comug
■ and looks well. Hoatoftheccttonplant-
I hear of none up yet The area planted
is considerable to exoers of last year, so is tbe
quantity of guano used. Wheat is
late, but is begtontog to show better. The
quantity aownls less than an avenge. Oats
are doing well. Some sickness, but not gen
erally of an alarming character—(one death
the only one in this county) last week, of a
child five yean old, from meningetis. On
the night of the 27th, Hr. Sanford H. Late,
a worthy mechanic ard mason, died or
tceumonta. Bis remains were interred on
he 29th, Tuesday, with Masonic bonor.
Quite a number of the brethren of the mys
tic tie were to procession, and quite a num
bet of persons attended tbe funeral. R-v.
w A. Dodge P. E, preached the funeral
ion, and did himself great credit.
C.
Tha CmvreUaa at Governors.
"The proposed meeting of Governors
1 c.-_ in Atlanta, Georgia, on
20th ltf — May, witiTJeTiTtlLiTof *more than
ordinary interest if the subjects treated of
** they should, upon public concerns of
i. It is not only matters connected
with trade and commerce that demand atten
tion from a representative body like the one
proposed, bat great political questions might
be discussed to a way that would have a sain
tary effect upon the popular mind. Prom-
inent among these questions is that of the
Louisiana usurpation, in relation to which tbe
Governors of several States—notably Vir
ginia-bare expressed themselves to unmi*-
'* v - w * * Let this Congress of Gov
We take the above editorial article from
the latt issue of tbe New York Her Id, and
heartily endorse tbe suggestion which it con
tains. While the principal object of the con
vention is the adoption of a plan for the
speedy construction of the Great Western
Canal, it ia eminently proper that the con
dition of Louisiana should also be consid
ered, and some tfrrt made to relieve tbe peo
ple of that unhappy State from the oppressive
MISS EBERHART HANGED
THE CONSTITUTION’S SPECIAL
The Dread Tale of her
Execution.
The Poor Girl Cool, Repentant,
Resigned and Firm.
She Makes a Final Statement
in Prison to a Constitu
tion Reporter.
She Did not Think She Would
Mind Death More Than
Taking a Drink
of Water.
IMPORTANT STATEMENTS.
THE END OF THE BAT> TRAGEDY.
Summary of State Hews,
INDIAN SPRINGS.
The new court house will be completed by
the first of June. We have had fine reins.
Echo.
COSTERS.
This section has been visited by consider
able rein to tbe past few days, which was
much needed to put the ground in order for
farm work. Brass instruments are to be
purchased for the band at Conyere.—Exam
iner.
BAIKBRIDGE.
On last Sabbath a large number of colored
people assembled on the banks of the Flint
River to witoesa the baptism of some of their
number. We have had fine rains and crops
of every description look fresh and green,
fun.
PERRY.
Drue Lawrence, John Littleton and John
Stanfield had a fight on the Factory road,
Thursday evening, ia which Lawrence and
Littleton were severely stabbed; the former
to the back, and the latter to the face and
neck. Lawrence ia not expected to live.
The Ferry railroad his now a first-class
coach for the freedmen. — Houston Home
Journal.
'savannah.
May day was duly observed in this city.
It were needless to go into a detailed account
of the various amusements which marked the
day at the Fair Qrounda, the Isle of Hope,
the Schutzcn Park, and Wilmington Island.
Suffice it that the greatest enjoyment pre
vailed throughout There was an outpour
ing of the Catholics In Savannah on the 2d
inst, at the reception of Bishop Greys.
News
SANDERSYILLE.
The corn crop is growing very fast. In
many instances we recently saw it with from
six to eight blades.—The Moieau sensation
continues to enliven the gossips of Sanders-
villc. Tbe ch rcb, it is rumored, has de
termined to take the matter to band and give
it an investigation, and tbeir action, we sup
pose, will settle tbe question, so far as tbat
denomination is concerned A County
Grange of Ibe Patrons of Husbandry was
organized in Saudersville on Saturday last
Central Georgian.
TALBOTTON.
Rain descended in torrents Monday night
The stand of cotton in some sections of
this county i9 good, the plant looking green
ana healthy. Corn is somewhat advanced,
though in common with other vegetation has
suffered from the dry winds and cool nights
Farming operations generally are progreasini
satisfactorily. The negroes are working well
and altogether tbe crop prospects are encour
aging. Talbot connty cornea to the point
with a lively pullet with lour legs, two of
which appear to the place of wings.—Stand
ard.
ATHENS.
Last Saturday morning we had a heavy
frost and a pretty good sprinkling of ice.—
The revival in the Oconee Methodist Church
to this city is still going on. Monday night
last a married woman of this city left her
home and husband and went off with a stogie
man. Report says tbe husband went with
them to tbe cars, gave her money, and ren
dered any assistance he was able to start her
on her downward course. They had no
children. She was a Northern woman.
Northeast Georgian.
THOMA6TON.
Onr fanners are coming to town this week
looking more cheerful since the rein. Crop3
are beginning toImproTe, and prospects look
more flattering than before the rain We
learn that a negro woman living near town
gave birth last week to three children, ail of
whom are doing well On Tuesday last a
colored-woman in-Pike county gave Urth-ta
a child by her'brother. The breast and
abdomen of the child and the back makes a
complete tnrtie—tbe former being covered
by a soft white shell and the back by a hard
one.—Herald.
MACON.
The result of tbe election, on the 3d inst,
in regard to the Macon and Cincinnati raii-
rotd, resulted ss follows: For subscription,
419; opposition, 23.—Enterprise.
Three Wisconsin gentlemen are at tbe
Brown House in this city, who are seeking to
purchase lands to Georgia, with a view to
erecting some saw mills and going ‘
into the lumber business. The city tax
books of Macon show eleven men who pay tax
on (934,709. Susan Eberhart, the unfor
tunate woman who was hanged at Preston,
on Friday, while in prison waiting the exe
cution cf her awful sentence, whiled away
the solitary hours by making friends of the
rets tbat had access to her cell; they would
come up at a rep on the floor from her and
climb on her lap and shoulders.—Telegraph
and 1fee enger.
AUGUSTA.
A scries of four entertainments will be
given in Augusta, to May, for the benefit of
the Ladies Memorial Association of
Augusta. The Georgia Society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals has been
organized—President, James W. Lewis, Vice
Presidents, Rev. Dr. Robert Irvine, of
Augusts; Henry Grady, of Atlanta; Charles
Greco, Sr.; of Savannah, and Anderson
Reese, of Macon. Salem Catcher, Counsel
and Secretary. Executive Committee, Messrs.
U. P. King, J. S. Davidson, Jas. B. Cam
ming. J. W. Davies, and Salem Dutcher.
Lou King and Dr. De SiussureFord. The
following named gentlemen are officers of
the Young Men’s Library Association of
Angnsta: President. George T. Barnes;
Vice Fr. silent, George Robertson; Secretary
and Treasurer, J. H. Day.—Conttiluiimaliit.
Four new cases of small-pox (all colored)
were developed in Augusta on Friday and
sent to the pest house.—On Thursday night
a young white woman, named Betty Hub
bard, aged about nineteen yean, died from
the effects of laudanum, taken with the evi
dent intent of destroying her life. All the
debts against Richmond county have bees
paid, and there is a cash balance on hand of
over ten thousand dollars.—Chrvnieti and
Sentinel
Preston, Webster County, Ga.,
Friday, May 2d, 1873.
Editon Constitution : To-day at this place
has dosed the saddest scene to the strangest
real tragic drama that ever was enacted to the
history of crime to America. To-day Miss
Eberhart, who was convicted as beipg an ac
cessory and accomplice of Enoch Ferdinand
Spann, to the murder of his wife, Sarah
Spann, on the 4th day of May, 1872, suffered
the extreme penalty of the law, expiating the
mime upon the gallows.
THUNDER STORM.
A great thunder storm raged last evening,
and nearly all night. The rain continued
heavily until ten o’dock this morning. The
crowd in attendance at the execution was
small, probably not more than
SEVEN HUNDRED.
Of these, half were negroes, and a dozen
white women attended.
PRAYER.
At eight o’dock the IteT. J. H. Cawocd
visited the jail and prayed with Miss Eber-
bart, who manifested a bright hope to her
fnture and was folly composed. She was
not only willing, but thought it was better
that she should die than live.
GUARD ORDERED.
Last night an order was received from
Judge Clarke fora strong guard to be put
around the jail. This was in consequence of
rumors that an attempt would be made to
rescue. Sheriff Matthews had already anti
cipated the order. No attempt at rescue,
however, was made.
TO THE G ALLOW!
At 11 o’dock this morning a guard of forty
men assembled at the jail and forming a hol
low square marched to the gallows. The
prisoner went in the center of the square in a
buggy with the sheriff. The ministers
walked.
THE CONDEMNED.
Miss Eberhart wss neatly dressed, at the
expense of the Sheriff, in a white, small-fig
ured cambric. Her fine, long black hair was
plainly arranged to two long plaited braids,
one on each side of the head with the ends
tied together and pendant on her back. She
had on a calico son-bonnet.
HER REMARKS ON THE WAY.
She told the Sheriff, as they rode along,
that she did not dread death in the least, hut
felt happy at the prospect of soon being bet
ter off She alighted from the buggy and
took a seat on the steps of the gallows.
AT THE GALLOWS.
The Rev. Mr. Cawool read to her the S8th
and 130th psalms, and addressed her a few
words of comfort, saying that he felt the
greatest confidence to the genuineness of her
conversion and to the sincerity of her pro
fession of faith. .
The venerable Gcolke Stapleton, of Jeffer
son connty, led to prayer.
THE PRISONER’S FAREWELL.
Miss Eberhart then took leave of her
friends. She said she had no fear, but was
able to rejoice in this hour. She thanked her
uiends for their kindness, the freely for
gave all who bad ever wronged her. She
felt in her heart she loved all mankind. She
desired to meet her friends in peace in
heaven.
As she ceased speaking, the sheriff ssked
her: “Sussd, are you ready T” She replied:
"YES, I AM BEADY,"
and walking firmly up the steps, stood on tbe
platform of the gallows. Not a tremoijshook
her form as the Sheriff adjusted the rope *nd
the black cap. Sbo quietly said to Mr.
Mathews, tbe Sheriff that the ropo was too
tight around her neck, adding, “I don’t want
to be ehoked to death." The rope was then
loosened slightly "Susan, put your hands
behind yon.” She did so, and he tied them.
He again asked her if she was ready. She
replied, “Yes, ready and willing.”
THE EXECUTION.
The platform dropped precisely at thirty
minntea after eleven. She fell five feet, and
straggled but little. She was pronounced
deao after fifteen minutes expiration. She
wsu cut down to nineteen minutes. Her
neck was not broken.
TRIED TO REVIVE HER.
Tbe doctors made an effort to revive her
by an electric battery, but failed.
None of her kindred were present The
body wfll be carried to her father's house to
night She will be bnried from the Baptist
Church at Preston to-morrow.
tore, and it serins that he and his wife were
highly pleased with having found so good a
home for thrizigtnghter in the house of
Spann. ^7
This is a short introduction of all the par
ties torihe readers o'f The Constitution.
3CHE MURDER.
On Saturday-Right, the 4th of Hay, 1873,
Mis. Spann Was murdered while to bed, by
strangling of choking her to death with a
common plow-line tightly drawn around her
neck, held tonSs hands of her husband, and
the testimerey at the trisi went to show that
Miss SusaKwaa present, aiding and abetting
in some wiyV'w some extent. Spann and
Mis3 EberMiTTeft the place on that night,
GOING WEST OS FOOT,
and after wearily traveling a hundred miles
or more, pausing through various hardships
and trials, they finally reached the house of
Mr. Samuel Harris, an uncle (mother’s broth
er) of Miss Eberhart, on Baturday following,
the 11th May, where they remained till Mon
day, the 13t&,when they were overtaken by
their pursuers, brought back to this place
and committed*? jail. The Judge of tbe
Superior Court for tbe Southwestern Circuit,
Hon. James 1L Clarke, at tbe earnest solici
tation of Epson for a speedy trial, that be
might soon bo executed, (for he fully con
fessed the criiurto all, and did hot hesitate
to express
A DESIRE TO DE HANGED,)
convened tho Suoerior Court of Webster
county to extra session on the 27th May.
specially for the trjsl of these two cases. The
Grand Jury found: true bills charging them
with murder.--the day the court met
Spann was "tried and convicted the 28tb, and
Miss Eberhart on tbe 29th. The testimony
sgaiost them was identical on each trial, given
by the same witnesses, (their pursuers and
captors) andJ&qptLted almost wholly of
what these witnesses rerresented to be their
confessions at the time of capture and while
bringing them hack to this connty. Spann
was first arrested on Monday evening in Har
ris’ field, and it»cents, voluntarily told the
captors all the particulars of tbe crime with
out being asked. They then went to the
bouse, where ({Wo of them testified) Susau
said to Spann, when they met at the fence
and she learned,the situation, that they were
" BOTH GUILTY AND BOTH EQUALLY GUILTY.’
T>is is one main point in the testimony of
the witness, as to the confessions of Spann
and the girl.
Spann, with his dying words, particular
ized this statement and denied its truth in
many respcqJpSnil Miss Eberhart, with equal
emphasis and Solemnity, denied it to toto,
both declaring Quit nothing like it was uttered
on that occasion.
THE SUPREME ’COURT AFFIRMS THE CON
> FICTION.
Both esses woe brought to the Supreme
Court, which high tribunal affirmed the ver
dicts of the jury in both cases on the 11th
and 18th of February last respectively.
SPANN WAS HANGED
in this village Sa the 11th n't, just three
weeks ago, and Miss Eberhart passed
through the same tragic fate to-day.
It was a most heartrending spectacle—a
distressing and - horrifying sight to sec c
woman hanged; and especially was it unpleas
ant to the peomu of this community who
had, almost en mau‘, petitioned the Governor
to commute her punishment to imprisonment
in the penitentiary for life, but he refused.
The grand jury, who preferred the indict
ment against her. to a man, and every one of
the jury who Convicted her (except two, who
could not be found,) and a large number of
the best men aid women of Webster and
Sumter counties, signed this petition, ask
ing the commutation of her sentence on
the ground that she was young, ig
norant, did what she did by the
great influence Spann had over her, and was
all her life a good, kind-hearted girl, never
having done anything wrong or improper,
except being implicated to this crime, and
they hoped His Excellency would not con
sider her as deserting death. He carefully
considered these papers, sought all the light
he could, and postponed action on the case
until last Monday, the 28th of April, when
he sent the following letter to Hon. Samson
Bell, who has been very earnest in his en
deavors to save the girl s life, and who is a
gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and
one of tho best and most highly respected
men to the Stalest Georgia.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., April 28,1873. )
Hon. Samson Bell;
THE PEOPLE MOVED.
conduct to-day was fine,
and
Her
moved numbers to tears.'
Most of your readers are acquainted with
the principal facts to the history of this un
paralleled case, therefore I wfll recite only
an outline of the same.
SPANN
was born in Decatur county, and left
without father or mother at an early age.
When some four years old or more he was
brought to the house of hiscousto, Richard
Pendiy, in what waa then Stewart, but now
Webster county. He was sent to school, but
either would not or could not learn, and he
lived, unable to read or write. He lived with
his consul some ten yeara, and left there to
make his way through the world
poor uneducated orphaned boy. When
not more than seventeen years of age he was
married to Miss Sarah Perkins, in Marion
connty, who was bom and brought np in
Bibb county, not far from Macon, and who
was, at Ihe.timo of their marriage about thir
ty years of age. They had several children—
one of whom—a daughter—lived to be grown.
This daughter married to 1870, but died about
a year afterwards, so that
tPANN LEAVES NO POSTERITY.
Mis. Spann had one leg amputated* when
her first child was about two weeks old, and
ever afterwards went on cratches.
Spann was a hard-working farm laborer,
who never owned a home, bat always culti
vated ibelands of others. He was sober, of
good habits, a consistent member of the Bap
tist Church, frequently leading in ppblic ex
ercises and observed family worship. Not
withstanding his poverty, he kept his family
better supplied with necessaries, and even
such things as might, to some sense, be called
luxuries, than some who were mnch better
off to property. His wife, thongh having to
move about with crutches, did all her house
work, made her husband’s and her children’s
clothes, and kept them cleaner, her house to
much better order, than most persons to sim
ilar circumstances. Almost every one rep
resents Spann as a model husband—very
kind and attentive to his wife, waiting on
her most tenderly and gratifying her every
wish; and most of them say she was equally
kind and datifnl to him—though a few say
she was high tempered and sometimes disa-
grreble and quarrelsome to him.
When their daughter married it became
necessary to bave some one to assist Mrs.
Spann to her household work. She was be
coming quite old, and her health was not
good, besides her being a cripple. Several
persona were employed to render this help,
and finally, on the 8tb day of December, 1871,
~MTc3 susAH EBEBHABT
was brought into Hr. Spann’s family for this
a daughter of Hardy Eberhart, of
Webster connty, a man of good habits and
standing, but who was exceedingly poor. He
seems to have been thriftless and trifling, and
scarcely able to famish even a very scanty
supply of clothing and food to his large fami
ly of children, most of whom were daugh-
I have examined with great care the various
applications made ia behalf of Miss Eber
hart, hoping that I might gather therefrom
some reason whicS would justify me to in
terposing to save her life. Under tho law,
her guilt is fixed by the verdict of the jury,
and the suggestions offered to her iavor do
not create even a suspicion of the
correctness of the finding.
The evidence spbmiited upon her trial
shows that tho offense was committed by
Spann and herself under circumstances of al
most unparalleled atrocity. The reasons sag-
Rested for mitigating her punishment are
tbat she had been raised in ignorance, not
sensible of the weight of moral obligations,
and is a woman. The evidence shows be
yond all question that she was sensible of the
moral and legal guilt of the crime of murder.
If allowed by my jWnto the public to base
my official action upSHny feelings as aman,
I would not hesitate fo Interpose Executive
clemency to save a woman from tbe extreme
penalty of the law; but as a Magistrate,
whose sworn duty it is to sto that the laws 1
are enforced, I cannot intervene to prevent
ibe execution of the judgment of thccourtin
this case.
I am, dear sir,
Yours, respectfully,
James hi. Smith.
TOrULAR DISArrOINTMEHT AT THE SEN
TENCE.
The efforts of Judge Bell and of his sons,
Hon. Alfred C. Bell and James 'V. Bell, Esq.,
as well as many others, in behalf of this most
unfortunate, friendless girl, are most honor-
able to human nalure, as well as to them
selves. They sincerely believed that how
ever unparalleled the great crime may be, she
was not a participant In it to that extent to
make it murder on her parti They discre
dited in its essentials (hat portion of the tes
timony on tbe trial which represented her as
h ving confessed to a participation
in the commission of the crime
and believed she was under
tho influence of Spann through fear or other
wise to such a degree as to greatly lessen the
mural responsibility of what she may have
done in the case. The people generally
throughout this entire section of country, to
a grealer-or less extent, participated in these
views, and very few can be found who be-
lieved she ought to have been hanged. With
these prevalent views, it is not strange that
the Governor's refusal to commute her pun
ishment created a universal feeling of sad dis
appointment, while not a few were indignant,
and some expressed the same in no measured
terms.
THE GOVERNOR'S EMRARRASSMENT.
The Governor considered the case carefally
and delayed action to the very last day pos
sible. I have seen two gentlemen who con
versed with him about the time he made np
his decision, which he declared was a most
painful one. He said to one of them that
thongh the Constitution gives the power to
grant pardons and commute the punishment
of felons, he believes it shonid not be exer
cised save only when evidence—some facts—
are produced that ought, before a jury, to
change the verdict, and that an exercise of
executive clemency, without such grounds to
act upon, is a wanton abuse of the high trust
committed to the Governor, and a disregard
of the sacred obligations of the oath he takes
to see that the laws are executed.
UNDER OATH AND NOT UNDER OATH.
The jury who convicted her, said the
Governor, when they did so, were under
oath, and decided according to that oath.
In asking me to save her life they are not
under oath, but I am. HI were governed
by my sympathies, I would immediately
_ive the desired order; bull am acting as a
magistrate under oath, and no one has shown
me aparticle of eeidenee, or stated tome any
facts, upon which a chango of the verdict of
the jury can be based. The only grounds
upon which I am asked to do this, is that she
Is a woman, reared in ignorance, and wss in
fluenced to do what she did while young and
inexperienced—none of which are
justifications or palliations in the
eye of the law. I sympathize most
deeply with the poor girl, aad would most
gladly see her life saved. I duly appreciate
the motives of these ktodhearted
people who ask me to save her life. It is
highly honorable in them. If I bad anything
whatever to justify me as a magistrate to do
ing so, I would, but I have npt This is the
substance of what tbe Governor has said in
private conversation as reported tome. I
state it in justice to him, kndwirg your read
ers will duly consider in
HOW THE GOVERNOR'S REFUSAL TO PARDON
WAS RECEIVED.
When the news of the aclton of the Gov
ernor was first made known in Preston it
created a most painful and profound sensa
tion. Men talked of it to subdaed tones with
sad faces, expressing the d-tepest regrets.
The first news reached here at fifteen min
utes past one o’clock Wednesday. The gen
tleman who brought it was closely questioned
by many, who in tbeir queries manifested
their keen desire to find some ground npon
which to base a hope that it might be a mis
take, and that the Governor had not really
come to this conclusion. Daring the after
noon and the early portion of the night con
sultations were held by earnest men to sev
eral of the offices in town and houses to the
country near, considering if any thing could
yet be done, and it so what
INTERVIEW WITH MISS EBERHART.
The writer of this visited the jail to the
afternoon and had an interview with Miss
Eberhart of deep and peculiar interest She
seated on a pine box very near the small
grated window of her apartment, her
dress of light figured worsted material for
eariy spring wear for ladies, but not new,
and her fine long black hair neatly arranged
in plain style, being plaited into two long
braids, one on each side of the head, with
the ends tied together and hanging down on
her back. After the usual salutations had
passed, we said:
“Well, Miss Eberhart, I am sorry to be the
bearer of the unpleasant news to you that
Governor Smith has refused to commute your
sentence.”
“It’s just as I expected. I’ve never looked
for anything else,” she replied, looking
squarely at ns with
VERT LITTLE APPARENT EMOTION,
save a tear starting in her eye.
"Friends have done all they could to save
your life. They have given their time and
spent their money when it was necessary to
I»y expenses from purely disinterested mo
tives sincerely desiring to save yon. Since
nothing can be done, I trust you are fully
prepared for the worst, anddhat you can meet
your fate with courage and composure.
"I think I can; I don’t feel like I shall be
dashed any more than I would to take a drink
of water and believe I can go through it all.
I’ve thought of it well and thought about it
along time, and have made up my mind to
meetiL I’ve been expecting it from the
first and
NEVER HAD NO HOPES OF ANYTHING ELSE’;’
and she said this calmly, with very little emo
tion to her manner or voice, and only a few
tears dropping from her large expressive eyes.
“ Do you fed, Miss Eberhart, that you are
prepared to die, and that you are at peace
with God f”
She looked at us earnestly for a moment,
as if not expecting such a question, and then,
while fresh tears came to iter eyes, she said
distinctly, but with more apparent feeling
and emotion titan before: “ Yes,
I AM NOT AFRAID TO DIE;
for nearly seven months I have had this feel
ing, and I’m ready to die. I would like to
live, but I don’t know but what it is best for
m<- to die now—belter than if I could live,
and I’ve made up my mind to it, and shall
not be troubled about it I hate to die the
death that I mutt on the gallow s, and I hate
it the more because tbtogs were sworn against
me at the trial which were not true, and I
feel that I do not deserve this death, but no
doubt it is best for me, uud I feel like I’m
ready to meet it.”
"1 am glad indeed, to find you take this
view of the matter and feel as you do. To
be prepared for death is a privilege and a
comfort which man cannot take from any
one. To be prepared to die and have the
consolations of religion to that hour, is a
boon given us by our Creator, and no power
on tarth can take it away. And then again,
it is a great truth, not fully appreciated by
many, that to all whose hearts are truly
right, whatever may befall them, however
hard and trying may be tneir fate, it is
really all for the best; and it is our duty to
look upon all things that occur to us, no mat
ter wnat they may be, as for the best. This
a sincere Christian alone can do.”
She listened attentively to what we said,
and assented to it Here a pause in the con
versation ensued for some moments, which
we interrupted by asking if she wished to
make any statement of her case and leave
the same to be published. She first said that
she did not know that it was worth while or
would do any good, that she had once written
out a statement herself, but afterwards had
torn it up. She asked if we desired such a
a statement, and how much we wanted.
We told her we did not desire such a
statement from her, but would willing
ly prepare it for her if she wished it
done, and sec that it was published
correctly, and as to the extent of such a state
ment, that wa3 to be regulated solely by her
wishes or what she might think proper. She
said there were some things sle would like
to have publicly known, it it could be prop
erly and correctly made public, and that if
we would undertake the work for her she
would give us a frank and correct his
tory of her connection with the case
from beginning to the end. To this we
assented, when she related the following.
I give only the substance aad the facts, leav
ing out the exact ordtr in which her words
were uttered, and omitting the questions
asked and incidents of the narrative:
miss ebkrhart’s statement of her crime.
She was born 9lh September, 1853—went
to school three months when about six
years old, where she learned to read (it is a
mistake that she has learned to read only
since her confinement in jail) On the 8th De
cember, 1871, when only 17 years old she
went to Mr. Spann’s house, having made an
agreement with them tbat they were to re
gard and treat her as a member of their fam
ily and to counsel and train her as though
she were their child and advise with
her as to her conduct and associations,
and correct her errors cs a fath
er and mother wcuid a child;
and shu was to make herself useful as a child
should in household duties, and specially to
wait on and assist Mrs. Spann. They did
treat her well, were both very kind to her, for
which she felt grateful. They were both as
good to her as they coull be, and she repaid
their kindness by doing all isho conld for
them.
MRS SPANN QUARRELSOME.
Mrs. Spann was quarrelsome, unbind and
disagreeable to her husband, very frequently
upbraiding and abusing him. This he gener
ally bore- with much patience, and sometimes
left the bouse, and even left the table and his
food uneaten, to be away from,her ia her
angry moods, but sometimes his passions
would rise and he would quarrel with her.
This conduct of his wife really distressed him
deeply. Once, when they had thus disputed,
Spann said he was tempted to drown his wife.
At another time, when they fell out and had
a quarrel, he attempted to cut bis throat, de
claring he intended
TO KILL HIMSELF,
and actually made a stroke at bis throat as if
to take his life, but she and his wife caught
his hand and both of them took tbe knife
from him. Miss Eberhart remonstrated with
him for his threats, and also for having said
he was tempted to drown his wife. The
whole looked serious and omninus to her,
and she asked him why he had said he was
going to drown his wife, when he replied
that it was bee .use he was aggravated. " I
stood by him and begged him,” 9,id Miss E,
“till he promise-! me he would not talk so,
or makesuch threats any more.” All this was
at the time of the disagreement, and his wife
was present and heard it all,
MU. SPANN A KIND HUSBAND.
Mr. Spann was exceedingly kind to his
wife. He bought for Iter everything she
wanted, did everything she raked him to do,
and readily, and it seemed cheerfully, grati
fied her every wish to the utmost of his
power.
MISS EBERHART REBUKES SPANN’S GALLAN
TRY.
One Sabbath evening early iu the Spring
Mr. Spann and Miss Eberhart and several
young persons, the bays of near neighbors,
were in tbe yard, running on with their fun,
and when Spann remarked to her
that he wss going to “do like Gaines
Edwards: I am going to hang my
wife and get me a young wife, and when I
do, I’m going to have y u for a wife.” He
had a small piece of rope in his hand at the
time. “I’ll see yon when yon do that; do
you never talk that way in n>y presence any
more, and cover speak to me again, if that is
the way you have to talk.” lie never said
anything more to me in this way till the
night he killed his wife, (Saturday n’ght, the
4th of May, 1872) He came to me where I
was in bed, I suppose about 10 o'clock, and
told me to get up I asked him what be
wanted. He did not tell me, and I did not
get up. He came batk to me about midnight
and again told me to get up, saying ho wanted
me to
HELP HI A KILL HIS WIPE,
and begged me to assist him. I told him I
would not, and asked him if he had gone
erszy. He continued urging me to get np,
and said if I did not he would pull me out of
bed and force me to assist him, when I told
him that rather than be pulled cut of bed, I
would rise, whi th I did. He told me to come
with him to the bid where It s wife was which
I did. He asked me to hand him the pocket
handkerchief, and I did that. He put the
rope round her neck and
CHOKED HER TO DEATH.
When he began tightening the rope she
screamed: “O, Lord 1 who’s that,” and I told
her. 1 said “Mrs Spann, it is Mr. Spann.” I
reckon she heard me, but she never spoke
again. When I left my bed and walked to
wards Mrs. Spann’s he held my hand and
led me along and I was crying all tbo time.
I stood by till I turned very sick. I did not
faint, but I sack down npon the floor, and
then got np and went back and lay down on
the bed.
“I BEGGED HIM NOT TO KILL HIS WIFE,
but he said he would do it if he were to be
hung in five minutt s afterwards.
While lying in the bed I dropped off tor
sleep. He came to me I suppose at 1 o’clock,
aad waked me, and said, “i’vc killed Sally.”
I said, “Mr. Spann, have you killed Mrs.
Spann?” He said. “Yes,” and I asked
“What now are yon going to do?” Ho re
plied, “I am going off”
Then I told him I would go and get Mrs.
Blakey, and Miss Peggy, atd Miss Ann, to
come and wash and shroud Mrs. Spann and
lay her out, when he said, “ No yon wont, I’m
going to take you with me.” I told him I
could not go with him, bnt he said, “ If you
don’t go I’ll pick you up and tote you off.”
I said to him “ yes, you are going to drag me
off and then kill me too.” He Baid “ no,”
and that he would “ never hurt me.” He also
said there was no use in trying to get me to
go off with him and leave his wife alive, and
that if he did not do something that
would scare me off I would never go off
with him. In thi9 way he forced me to
leave I was afraid of him, and had been
for some time, and I was then so much
afraid that I did not dare to disobey him.
All along on thejourcey I cried and begged
him to let me come back, but he would not,
and I was afraid'to do anything without he
was willing.
It has been published that we once agreed
to
DROWN MRS. BP ANN
to a barrel of water at the cow-pen. There
is not a word of truth to this. Nothing of
the kind was ever talked of between us.
There was no barrel of water there. There
waa only two barrels on the place, and they
were both to the smoke-house, full of peas.
I had no intimation that it was his inten
tion to drown her to the creek tbat time. He
did not tell me so, and I did not suspect snch
a thing. It was the fourth Sunday to April
(the 28th day). We had all agreed to go to
church that day, and to go from there to old
Mr. Tyler’s and tske dinner. It was his
birth day, and he had invited some neigh
bors to dine with him, believing it was the
last birth day he ever would see to the
world. (He did die in July following.) My
little Bister Babe was along with us. I got
out of the wagon and took Babe out just be
fore we reached the creek, because I was
afraid Babe might fallout, and not because
o! any arrangement before hand. I saw
Mia. Spann fallout between the wheel! I was
close by. I called to Mr. Spann to catch
her, but he did not stop, and I ran to her and
pulled her out. I asked her if she was hurt,
andehe said she was. She and Spann went
back home. Babe and myself went on to
church, where I told several people of tho
accident, a? which some of them laughed, bua
I could see nothiog to laugh at in it I re
turned to Mr. Spann’s abont three o'clock,
and found that Mrs. Spann had been calling
for me, and as soon as I went into the house
Mr. Spann said to his wife,“here she is.”
She found tbe old lady somewhat hurt, and
she wua made somewhat sick from the oc
currence, but began to improve Wednesday.
Mr. Spann told me here, since wc have been
to jail, that it was his intention to drown
her then.
On Thursday Mrs. Spann was able to sit
np, and on Friday she visited Mrs. Blakey—
on whose land Spann resided and which he
was cultivating—her house being some fifty
or sixty yards distant Saturday evening
Mrs. Spann wanted to visit some other neigh
bor’s house, but Spann refused to accompany
her. MiES Eberhart would have gone with
her, but had made a dress for one of her sis
ters and wanted to carry it home to her, and
besides thought it was Spann’s duly to go
with his wife. Ho refused, and Miss
tus .n says this is the only request of his wife
she ever knew him not to comply with. Du
ring the day ho bad several times remarked
he hoped no one would come there tbat night.
She did not know what it meant, and once re
plied to him that often when we did not want
Another dispatch was received by tho Gov
ernor day before yesterday, as follows:
Amebicus, Ga., May 1,1873.
The whole community are fully satisfied
that what Miss Eberhart did was from slavish
fear and are unanimonsly to favor of com
muting the sentence.
To mhich the Governor sent the only pos
sible reply:
Atlanta, Ga, May 1,1873.
The decision to Misa Ebcrhart’a case, al
ready communicated in writing, ia final.
Consequently the execution took place as
above detailed.
ATOM OF EUROPE -No. 13.
THE TOMBS OF ROYALTY IH WEST
MINSTER ABBEY.
CHARLES DICKENS
An Aftcmoou in the House of
Commons—Tho Speaker and
Mr. Gladstone—The
Ladles’ Gallery.
SUPERB ENTRANCES.
Westminster Hall—A Model Po
lice Court—The Lord Mayor.
anything to happen, then was the time it
would happen. His wife wo9 present and
heard these remarks. Some of tbe neighbors
did come that night. (Mrs. Blakey and two
ladies who were at her house. They, it
seems, did not come to watch by the bedside
of Mre Spann, as has heen published, for she
had recovered from the ill effects of falling in
the creek the previous Sunday, hut merely as
social visitors and remained some hours be
fore going home) She Baid all the work of
KILLING MBS. SPANN WAS DONE IN THE DARK.
After It was. commenced Bhe wanted to
make a light, but Spann would not allow it.
Miss Eberhart very emphatically denied
the statement of the witnesses to regard to
her alleged confessions, and that no such
words were uttered by any one as that “ we
are both guilty and equally guilty,” at the
timu referred to or at any other time. She
said she did not know what Mr. Spann said
to the captors before she saw them
nor afterwards either, aa she was separated
from them all the time. The only thing said
between them when they met at her uncle’s
fence that evening waa as follows: Spann
took her hand and said, “Susan, I’ll have to
be hung.” She said, “I know it. Didn't I
beg you not to kill Mrs. Spann?” And he
said, “Yes you did.” And this is the full sub
stance, in almost the exact words, and nearly
every word that waa uttered between them.
She then went into the house. While this
was being sail, J. M. Wharton (the old man
whe testified on this point so positively) was
folly thirty yards off, as stated by Mr. Spann,
and could not have heard what was said, and
I did not speak to him till next morning after
we had started back. She never heard Spann
tell them anything, and does not know what
he said to them.
LAST EFFORT TO BAVEHERLtFE.
They told her that evening, that they had
not come for her, but only wanted Spann;
she could stay there. She was not formally
arrested by them, or restrained, or watched,
or treated as prisoner, either that evening or
on tbe return. After they ail came to her
uncle’s that Monday evening, she walked out
into a cotton-field a short distance from the
house, and sat down on the ground. Her
aunt and some others came and sat by her.
Some of the captors came and talked the
matter over, and it was agreed that she should
stay there till her aunt should come over here
on a visit in the tail, when Susan could re
turn to her father’s with her. No one ob
jected to this agreement, (in fact they did not
look upon her as a party to the crime) but
next morning J. M. Wharton (the old man)
said they had better carry her along then, as
they could do so without much trouble.
THE EFFEOr OF A REWARD.
After they came into Georgia, and
found that the Governor had offered a re
ward for their arrest, he began to question
and catechise her closely every way and on
every occasion—she thinks under the
impression that it would bo necessary for
him to get her to tell something that would
criminate her, otherwise he could not get the
reward offered for her arrest, and that at any
rate his manner towards her changed very
remarkably after he found the reward had
been offered.
She said the old man Wharton told her
they would not pul her in jail: that she had
committed nothing which the law would
punish her for; that he would take care of
her and carry her to her father’s house, and
let her ride all the w-y (as some of them
would have to walk all the time any way)
if she would eome back. She came, and
they did treat her kindly till they came into
Georgia and found a reward bad been offered.
They then went so far as to tell her they
must convict her or they could not get the
reward.
INSIDIOUS ADVICE
She states that on the evening of the 23lh
of May, 1872, after the verdict in Spann’s
case, (uer trial coming on the next day,) she
saw J. A. Wharton, one of the captors, who
told her that prisoners were not allowed to
speak or mike any statement in court, and
that she must not try to say anything in
court at her trial. She asked why. Hcsa'd,
“if you do say anything they will convict
you sure.” He further said: “Sue, if I swear
what you first toid me, it will ruin you.” She
said it would not, and asked him what it was
—to repeat it—which he declined to do, but
remarked that he had the power, and knew
enough to swear away her life, and would
doit.
She saw him once egain in September last,
and told him to hi3 face that he bad
TESTIFIED FALSELY
against her.
She expressed the opinion, that if nothing
but the full truth had been testified against
her, and if nothiog bad been stated as her
confession, but what she actually said, she
would not have been hanged, whatever might
have been her punishment
She gave it as her firm opinion that if
Spann’s wife had been as kind to him as he
wa9 to her—had never scolded and upbraided
him—he would never have attempted to do
what he did, or io any way depart from the
path of conjugal fidelity.
HER REPENTANCE
On Wednesday evening Rev. J. H. Ca-
wood visited and conversed with her, and
gave it as his opinion that her repentance
and faith were sincere and genuine.
RESIGNED TO DIE
She told ns herself, at the clore of the
foregoing remarks that she had freely for
given all who had wronged her, and did not
entertain any unkindness in her heart,
and tbat she really believed it was
best for her to die, and she
was not afraid of death. She regretted two
things—the shameful death of the gallows,
and the grief and shame it imposed upon
her father and mother and brother and sis
ters. But for these she felt she could die and
leave the world without regrets, and that all
would ba best for her.
HER MOTHER WON’T SEE HEE
Her mother has never seen her since she
came back and refuses to do so. She cannot
bear it She it overwhelmed with the deep
est sorrow of soul, often breaking out to the
most heartbreaking piercing cries of anguish
which nothing can assuage. She cannot bear
for the poor girl’s case or her name to be
mentioned to her presence.
Wednesday night some half dozen persons
assembled at the honse of Hon. Samson Bell,
and resolved to make a last final effort to
save the poor girl’s life by telegraphing the
Governor her statements and early
yesterday morning Hon Alfred C. Bell went
to Ameticns for this purpose.
This is the second case of a white woman
ever having been banged inGeorgto. Some
seventy years ago, a Mrs. Barcley was hanged
to Washington, Wilkes ecunty, Georgia, for
the murder of her husband. She waa a wo
man of wealth and personal attractions.
East Efforts In Behalf ogthe Senten
ced Woman*
The following telegraphic correspondence
shows the result of tha final effort to stay
the dread sentence:
Americub. Ga, )
„ „ , April 30,1873. f
Governor South’:
As counsel I beg you to commute the sen
tence sf Miss Eberhart.
To which Governor Smith replied:
Atlanta, Ga, April 80,1873.
All applications to behalf of Miu Eber
hart have been considered and decided ad
versely.
Written Expraair for The Atlanta Constitution.
The most interesting building in all Lon
don—in all the world, to an Anglo-Saxon—
the one that is fullest of our history, is
Westminster Abbey. Parts of tho dingy
time-stained pile can bo traced back to the
early part of tho seventh century; and
from that day to the first part of the pres
ent century, every architecturally-inclined
Prince wrought tho original Latin cross
into greater irregularity of form or orna
ment You will hardly expect an unlearnod
pen to describe it accurately. Before us,
on the right, as we approach Westminster
Bridge, is a squatted blackened Gothic pile;
and if we go in by tho west entrance, tho
multitude of divisions and decorations will
immediately appear in beautiful perspec
tives. The tattered banners of the Knights
of St. George, the thronging monuments of
the illustrious dead, and the labyrinth of
angles will be apt to confuse the mind,
until subsequent visits shall bring order out
of the chaotic grandeur.
Immediately behind the choir aro the
chapels in which repose the dust of sov
ereigns and princes almost without end. It
is so full that another royal burial place
has been established at Windsor. An an
cient verger—for a fee—escorts us through
them, with a jingling lot of rusty keys and
rustier observations. Many of tho tombs
are covered with full length recumbent effi
gies, and a seedy lot they are. Some lack
fingers, others feet; and one barbarian, dur
ing the civil wars, amputated an entire arm.
There are Kings whoso nosc3 look as if
they had been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
in tho morning. Tho sovereigns aro
crowned as well as buried in tho vcnerablo
Abbey; and tho aged sexton leans on his
well-worn staff as he shows the coronation
chairs that held the unfortunate beings. In
a second-hand furniture sale they would be
considered dear at seventy-fire cents
apiece.
The Poet’s Corner occupies a good part
of the South transept. No lock and key
or barrier guards it, no wealth of orna
ment marks the resting places of the Kings
of thought A plain slab in the floor covers
the fresh grave of one who was incom
parable greater than all the royal Georges
—Charles Dickens. And thus it is with
even tho men of song who have done so
much to lighten and heighten our drudging
lives. They built themselves monuments,
however, that will outlast limestone slabs.
Travelers generally take advantage of the
poet’s corner to air their sentimental no
tions; and lest I fall into the same lachry
mose vein, let us cross the street to tho
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Tho great Gothic edifice is now, that is,
the corncr-stono was laid in 1840. It is
immense, too,—covering eight English
acres, right on the Thames that mirrors
back the forest of turrets and carvings,
and high clock-tower. It is the only build
ing that I can remember in London, whose
exterior convicts the builders of a deliberate
attempt to erect something handsome. It
is built of a pleasant limestono from York
shire, and almost every block is a carved
part of some beautiful design.
I had looked at the great pile several
times with wistful eyes, in my wanderings
hither and thither. Tho Embassy could
issue but two passes a day to tho galleries
of the House of Commons, and a small
army of my countrymen were going and
coming—what chanco could there be, there
fore, for a lono unofficial traveler? None
but tho brave deserve the fair—seats; and
so, armed with a couple of commendatory
letters from senatorial moguls, I wont up
to the Legation, which is very near Parlia
ment House, aRd stated my grief to Mr.
Moran, its Secretary.
“Yes-sir, yes-sir,” says ho, “I can give
you a ticket for to-day. It is now 12
o’clock, and tha session has just com
menced: you had better go right over.”
Tho fatal facility of my getting in was
soon explained. A bill for tho substitution
of tho metric system of weights and meas
ures was under consideration. Disraeli
and tho other opposition chiefs were not
present; it was not a field day. Gladstone,
a short, rather spare, large featured man, of
about sixty years of age, came in and chat
ted a few minutes with the Speaker, creat
ing a sensation and much whispering in the
gallery. Ho remained to vote in the subse
quent division. The dried-up form of tho
Speaker was hidden under a black gown, a
wig, and a long-eared hood, causing him to
resemble an old lady who has just come to
town from the rural districts, and who has
remained blissfully ignorant of the caprices
of this century’s fashions.
Tho house is not modelled after our leg
islative halls, strange to say, although of
recent construction. I don’t believe it ever
had a model. The members sit on long
undivided benches that riso one above the
other from the central aisle that runs up
and down the floor of the hall; at the head
of which sits the Speaker in a chair of lit
tle, if any, elevation above -it. In front of
the Speaker is a long green table, at one
end of which is a couple of bewigged
clerks, and across which the Government
can shake hands with the Opposition seated
on a parallel bench. The members sit, loll,
listen or doze on the benches with their tall
hats on. There is not a desk in the house;
notes aro taken on the knees; no brisk
pages; no tumult or disorder. There is an
utter absence of style or formality. If a
member gets a glass of water, he puts it
down on the bench at his side. All is busi
ness and simplicity.
The galleries run around the Chamber.
We are in the one at the lower end. Direct
ly opposite, just above but behind the
Speaker, are the Reporters, and far above
the gentlemen of the quill, away up to the
lofty cefling, in a gas-lit *wiro cage is—you
guess. Give it up? The ladies, God bless
them. A member cannot recognize a face
behind the screen from his seat in the
depths, and this is said to be the reason of
it. I could not recognize one from the gal
lery—though it probably was not a good
day for my friends.
For five long hours I listened to tho mcr
its and demerits of the metric system.
Some of the speakers were fluent and some
were not. Any attempt at theatrical elo
quence would, I am sure, be laughed at
The speeches were short and intensely plain
and practical. Humorous remarks were fre
quently indulged to; and a member to favor
of the bill narrated the difficulties that
his little daughter encountered in a study
of the complex tables of weights and
measure! Mr. Chichester Fortcscue, Pres
ident of the Board of Trade, spoke from
the Government bench. At the close of
tho debate the House divided—those for,
going one way, and those against, the
other. Not a member remained in the hall.
I went still another way, for I was hungry.
On a subsequent Saturday we visited the
House of Lords, on a pass that ia granted
to any applicant at the Lord Chamberlain's
office. We went to see the hall, not the
Lords, for they were not there. No one
goes mnch out of his way to hear their de
bates. They are fast becoming a matter
of good-natured tolerance. Long ago they
lost the courage to balk the will of the
people as expressed to the House of Com
mons. The Lords sit to a hail that fairly
shines to crimson and gold—the oak carv
ings and stained glass windows of tho
House of Commons giving it rather a som
bre appearance.
Tho entrances to the two Houses arc
grand. After passing through the immenso
Westminister Hall, whoso rough wooden
ceiling dates from tho eleventh century, we
come to the magnificent corridors that lead
to tho legislative chambers. They aro cer
tainly much handsomer than—well, I don't
like to say. All that wood carving, stainod
glass, gilded leather, tho chisel and tho
palctto can do, greets tho eye in tho superb
road to the hall! Tho 'four Supremo
Courts of tho Kingdom aro held in tho
venerable Westminister hall, which is
really a part of tho Parliamentary build
ing. Passes troublesome to obtain are re
quired to gain admission. As an antidote
for so mnch grandeur lit us look into tho
nOW STREET POLICE COURT.
The pit was fall of weak, embruited faces
when we went in; and when ono of them
fell down in a fit, no one was much moved.
It seemed to ho Quito in the ordinary course
of event! Tho prisoner and the witnessing
policeman come in together; and they rarely
hold the ear of the court over fire minutes.
There is nothing specially remarkablo in
this famous police court; hut I shall long
remember the judicial thoroughness, the
earnest kindness that excluded all flippan
cy, arrogance or patronizing condescension,
with which tho magistrate heard and de
cided the cases brought before him—-just
such cases as our Recorder hears: petty
thefts, drunkenness, disorderly conduct and
assault! The senior magistrate is a baro
net A spare elderly man was on tho
bench when wc went in—Mr. Vaughn.
There camo a poor, weak-iuimicd girl.
Sho had never been under arrest, and her
answers were brief and incoherent The
policeman testified that she told him she
had been driven from home; that sho pro
cured a situation which she lest by reason
of the removal of the family to Australia;
and then he swore that of late she had been
a cast-away; had stolen some handkerchiefs
from a shop window; was seen, pursued
and tho property recovered. She did not
deny the theft I cannot portray Mr.
Vaughn’s kindness of manner towards tho
poor girl, lie did not tell her how bad sho
had been; ho tried to draw out the story of
her wretched life; and then he remanded
her, “ for,” said lie, “ I must know more
about your parents.” As I watched the
disposition of the thick-coming cases, I
thought there was no place in the world in
which a man could effect so much good.
We were afterwards in the Lord Mayor’s
Court at the Mansion House, where he or
ono of the Aldermen sit each day to hear
just such cases as those I have mentioned.
Ho appeared in a theatrical dress, his com
ing having been first proclaimed by an
usher. No doubt ho administered justice,
but I did not feel quite so sure of it as in
Bow street. Tho I,ord Mayor equalled
Goldsmith’s ancient schoolmaster in the
number of his joke! The victims of liis-
wit, however, did not receive them with
elec, even of a counterfeited kind.
b F.
ABL0NDE FOR ABRUNETTE,
How Twa EnglMien Excfcanseil Pic
tures and Wires.
A Strange Series of Adven
tures.
A Bomautic Story.
From the Boston Globa)
There is a little romance gntog the rounds
about Richard Farquhar Dingle and his wife
Phoebe, and Robert Moore and his wife Mary.
The account of the strange fortune that hap
pened these couples is so circumstantial that
it must be in the main tiue. All the parties
were English, and were newly married as
above in England before they came to tbe
New World to court the goddess fortune.
Dick Dingle and bis wife were both blondes,
and Bob Moore and his were brunettes, and
both women were beauties of their respect
ive types, and all were young and adventu-
rou! The two couples didn’t come over iu the
same ship, but they came about the same
time, and they dill not know each other.
Dick Dingle, together with his pretty wife,
proceeded to Petroleum Centre, Pennsylva
nia, with a capital of (10.000. which was soon
sunk in oil wells—all hut (100. Dick di
vided I'bis sum with Phicbe, and started out
alone for the Argentine Republic to retrieve
his lost fortune and make another. Ilcstruck
a good streak of mining luck and cleared
$9,000 in the first two years, which he sent to
Phcebe and which she duly received. ThU
reconciled her to her husband's absence for
the time, bnt she heard no more from him
for some years, and she began to regard him
as dead. The fact is, he was l'ving a wild
sort of life in tiouth America, and had almost
forgotten his blonde wife, though he carried
her picture^
GOLDEN VISIONS.
- Bob Moore and his brunette wife had also a
comfortable espitahwhen they arrived in this
country, and lost some of it in unfortunate
speculation. Boh left Mary iu Kncficstcr, N.
Y., and went to South America full of gold
en visions. lie promised to write to hi s wife
soon, but never aid, and was not lucky in the
Argentine country. Finally Dick Dingle and
Bob Moore met, and both were vagabonds—
in a strange country and without money or
friend! They joined their fortunes, and
told, each other the story of their live!
There was a remarkable similarity between
them. They bath had pictures of their
wives, and each went in raptures over
tho other’s picture, and cared very little
for his own. In a mad freak vagabond Dick
and,vagabond Boh exchanged the pictures of
their wives, and some luck appeared to come
to them afterward. They were fast friends,
and accumulated some money, a. d began to
behave themselves better. It was seven years
since Dick Dingle had written to hU wife,
and one day in a fit of repentance he wrote
her a letter enclosing (t.UOO, and Bating her
to join him in South America as soon as pos
sible. In the mean time she bad removed
from Petroleum Center to Philadelphia, but
the letter and the money found her after a
long delay. •
ON THE WRONG TACK.
Ab Dick had waited the proper time, and
heard nothing from his wife, he began to feel
uneasy, and one day resolved to return to the
United States to hunt her up. He started
from Panama on the English steamer George
Watts for the United States on Friday, the
7th day of June last, while his wife sailed
from New York for the Argentine Republic
the next day, Saturday, June 8. Dick went
to Petroleum Centre, {hence to Philadelphia,
but could not find bis wife or hear any
thing of her. He then went to New York,
resolved to take the next packet for South
America to join Bob Moore. But some
thing occurred to prevent tho voyage.
Ho got on a little bit of a spree to New
York and happened to stumble into a store
on Broadway to buy some trifling article.
There, behind the counter, be saw a band-
some brunette whose face looked charming
ly familiar. He was not mistaken—it was
she, and the picture he carried proved it
The acquaintance ripened. Maty had sought
and obtained a divorce from Bob Moore for
desertion, and was free, and lovely and still
young.Diek Dingle told the story of his
wife a disappearance, and the couple resolved
that she must be dead, sn these two got mar
ried, and arc now living happily in Brooklyn.
FINDING nKR IUCTUTE.
Phcebe Dingle ploughed the deep to join
her recreant but repentant husband in the
Argentine Republic. She was doomed to dis
appointment, but she found Bob Moore,
and Bob showed her the picture which he
bad received from the hands of Dick Dingle
himself, but he did not tell her the whole sto
ry. In fact, it is uncertain what Bob did say
to the beautiful woman who had come so far
to find her husband and failed, but it is quite
certain that those two got married in a very
abort time, and now live in good style in Cor
dova City, Argentine Republic. A real blonde
is quite a variety down there, and she makes
a sensation when she ridss out cvrry evening
on a beautiful palfrey. It is, perhaps, just
as well aa it has fallen out. These two sin
gular couples are too far apart ever to inter
fere with each other’s happiness, and arc
much better satisfied as they ore. than as they
were.
1ST A near-sighted Indianapolis woman
patched the scat of her husband’s pants with
a cold buckwheat cake, tbat the children had
left to her work basket, last week. The color
cf the patch-work matched the original
trowsers, and as the cake was tough, the
mistake might never have been discovered,
bat the old man gotcanght oat in m shower a
day or two afterwards; the patch began to
swell; he felt cold patches on his back, and
thinking that it waa spinal mcmlngitif that
had clutched him, sent for a doctor, who
toothed bis fears; but be wants a divorce:—
Vermont Titnes.
1ST Dress is a mystery because it is m
natural adjunct of that greatest of all other
myiteriea—the mysterious Jwoman. All
women are mysterious more or less hut we
love them better, and they Jove themselves
better, and are more amiable when conscious
of a pleasant presence by the help of dross
and culture; they know that men who may
have great ambitions, and can win fame,
bow before them as worshippers.