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ATLANTA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER SI.
Brevities.
r&UiBoaad Impotent conclusion”—New Ctnaan.
HHW the balloonist, Is s member of Ctarlly
£a4g<V Knights of Pythias, Norfolk city.
Vhe subject of Ann* Diddneon'e lecture is "For
7oar Own Sake,” bnt the object is for her own sake.
ffnerrsHTmtrn B—p 1 *** *>ien elected engineer
aaJanpifKitniiilmt ot the Wilmington ,N. C) Water
C. western paper hM killed Signor Blitz again, and
t hadUtingnlshed prestldlgitstenr is in Philadelphia
rartalng the obituary.
Ifcs President has appointed Oscar A. Fryers
jjtxtod States Attorney for tbe Southern District of
t’lodda vies Mobley, resigned.
fbm. Holliday, the Oregon railroad magnate, and
•omer of Hippie-ilitchell, has taken a honse in
Wellington for the session of Congress.
Itds said that the Tlchbome trial has already cost
HflOOflOO. The claimant's only chance now Is to eee
gnom and engage himself sa a side show.
Thus far only four national banks have failed dur-
ing the present financial crisis—one in Washington,
onetn New York, and two in Petersburg, Virginia.
A California paper thinks it a coincidence that
President Linoolu will hare a successor named Booth.
Governor Newton Booth, Antl-Bailroad Bepnblican,
is alluded to.
Hie editor of the Hantsvillc, Missouri, Herald pop3
the <qn< stlon in his paper in this public fashion:
■'there’s a certain girl in this town who can carry
ear smoke honse key for life if she’ll only Bay the
ward.”
It is eu raise d that when Macbeth thnxdred forth
Hlnreal mo.-kery, hens,” he had reference to some
spring chickens of Are cummers that had been palmed
off on his colored cook.
Tke city curler of a Missouri paper on publication
dw scats himself in the nearest saloon, and in the
coarse of a few minntea delivers iach subscriber his
psyar in person, thus saving time and shoe leather,
Notwithstanding his failure, Donaldson can claim
that he haa done something for science. He has ae-
cectalncd that the easterly current which starts from
tteOapotoline Grounds, Brooklyn, has Its terminus
fea a well deSnod spur apple tree in Connecticut.
A Western reporter saw a bankpresldenthnrrying
down town early In the morning, and at once inter
viewed him. eliciting the important information that
tbecnon of greenbacks had forgotten the previous
-evening to get any beefsteak for breakfast.
James Conyers, the negro cadet at Annapolis, had a
streak of bad lock. Be has failed after two examlna,
fisrs, and hi* name la now before the Secretary of
dee Navy, who Is expected to give him his dismissal,
hi all this is added the lurther calamltjTor having his
name spelt wrong in the Administration Gazette.
Among the treasures of thedateDnke of Brunswick,
and concealed with a cover of base metal, has been
• round the celebrated "Vase of Mantua.” It is of onyx,
soda true masterpiece of artistic workmansh p. Its
■Same is great among antiquarians, who think it is of
fkmUic productioJ and tne phial used at the conse
acatfon of tbe ilebrew kings.
Senator Fenton, of New York, ventures a prediction
that will Inspire terror In the politician’s breast. He
express, s tne belief that the coming session of Con
apess, li.e that of last winter, will be largely devoted
ta investigation, for he believes that the people wilt
insist on fiuoing out, through their representatives,
what is being done with all the money that the Gov
ernment is amending.
A correspondent thus describes Alaska scouety
•Take one big mountain, coveted with trees from the
teas nearly to the summit, with an undergrowth of
'biaab, briers and moss, almost lmpaseuble—multiply
) tke one by ten thousand, and yon have Alaska.
There is a terrible sameness. One singular feature ot
AMa mass of forest is the absence of birds.”
A Washington dispatch says the German Minister
*as recti ted intelligence from Berlin stating author!'
datively that Hme. B .smarok is not only not dead, bnt
BOC sick. The story was probably Invented by the
Qkramon'anUts, to coincide with the arrival of Victor
Emmanuel at Berlin, so It would appear Bismarck
Jtaicoffered this affliction for the King of Italy.
dCt seems that Secretary Delano was caught in the
4xptosion of the First Natloaal Bank at Washington.
Tie Washington correspondent of the New York Sun
states that Assistant Sccretery Sawyer, of the Treas
ury, drew ont his fnnda on the day betore, being on
tfte inside. Attorney-General Williams and others
siao secured their money in good time, bnt Delano
■ (3,000. The brokers of the District ring, Kli-
9 & Lett*. lost $17,000. Even Judgo Me Author,
i District Court, which laaBUbrervienttooluf
storing, lost $IC,100 and Chief Justice Carter was not
George D. Plummer, a prominent Mason;
W. T. McLcfresa, a commission merchant
Gen. H. J. Wright, of the Register, is very
low, and Mrs. A. J. Wheeler, *wife ^>f the
Secretary of the Masonic Relief Board, has
dangerously relapsed. The Jewish Rabbi,
Samfield says that the Jews have lost fifty-
two of their people by yellow fever, and that
another will certainly die.
The Board of Health have adopted the
most vigorous sanitary measures, and it is
confidently believed that, with the aid of the
late frosts, they will soon be able to eradicate
the poison that has produced such fearful
results.
A Big Talk About a Big Ballroad.
Tke project of a railway across Newfoundland,
with a view of thortening tbe time of transit between
ktoereat commercial centers of both continents and
aeAtcingiberceau package to onu hundred hoars’
sail. Is beginning to aesauiu a tangible shape. It is
expected il»t tbe lime required lor the conveyance of
passenger* ai.d mails bum ten i oudon and New York
ortltbe but reven dajs and three hoars, all other
^itaees. nl course, shaiing iii this acceleration of speed
tit. John's in New Fonndland, and Valenti* on the
■ western coast of Ireland, are considered the points
wfiereChe Atlantic can be spanned by the shortest
iioe—distance J,6*o miles.
Playing on tbe bells of a church chime meat be an
oMlarating ptriormacce if the style of Proressor
Widdowr, at Grace Church Chntcb, New York, re
cently, la a comet one. The New York Gnpbio thus
- describes it: "Cold as the day was, Mr. Wlddowa
whipped to his undergarments, and was bathed in
jsertplralion. Be had to jnmp to and fro at the end
-of the long levers working the hammers of the hells,
-sometimes throwing bis whole weight on them. His
muscle and strength of endurance were immense.”
Cbrdiy eo pleasant that as to ait la the organ-loft and
gossip with the choir belles between the musical ex-
The Palmer Honse in Chicago held, on
Thursday and Friday of last week, a very
respectable body of gentlemen, to the number
of eighty-nine, every one of whom is in favor
of the immediate construction of a railroad
between Chicago and a South Atlantic port,
provided it is laid past his own door. Indi
ana, Kentucky, Illinois, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia were represent
ed in tbe convention. The latter State speke
through Capt. Alexander S. Erwin, John W.
Nicholson and John C. Johnson.
Governor MagofflD, of Kentucky, was
chosen President of the convention, and
after he had retnraed his thanks for the
honor of, etc., there ensued a mixed presenta
tion of the claims of the various routes, that
lasted through two entire days. It might
be well at this point to state that Potter
Palmer had tendered the hospitalities of his
magnificent hotel to the members of the con
vention daring their stay in Chicago. They
did not seem to be in a hnny.
General Clingman, Professor Smith, and
ither representatives of North Carolina
opened the ball with much talk about the
mineral wealth and easy grades of their
paradisical State.
South Carolina got in next. She talked
sweet about her inability to raise her own
food, which most and could only come from
Chicago. But here trnohle was developed.
The railroad projectors of the Palmet
to State were not a unit Some wanted
to lay the rails through Cumberland Gap
and down the French Broad straight to
Charleston, while others said that they most
be laid via Knoxville and Rabnn Gap to
Port Royal. Port Royal said com would
mold and flour become worthless in Charles
ton, and Charleston retorted by saying, yon’re
another.
Georgia participated in the discussion
throngh Captain Erwin, who favored the
Bine Ridge and Rabun Gap route. From the
latter point “connections could be made with
the Georgia Central, a powerful corporation
whose roads runs through the best portions
of the State.” In that way he said, all of
Georgia and the most fertile parts of Florida
conld be reached. In the matter of aid
Georgia would furnish railroads already
built and stocked. Colonel Wilson, of
Knoxville, thought the Bine Ridge ronte was
the only one that the convention conld safe
ly adopt.
In the end, the convention resolved that
they were in favor of a trank railroad from
Chicago “ to one or more of the South At
lantic ports, with such branches and connec
tions as are necessary to supply the planting
Statesand the delegates pledged their best
efforts, in the way of charters, connections
and subscriptions, to bnild the proposed
roads. As to the exact route, it was, says the
report, tacitly agreed to leave its determina
tion to “the engineers and surveyors,who
are to select the most feasible line,” which
was a very sensible conclusion to arrive at
after snch a waste of words. And then the
meeting adjourned.
Captain Erwin was right when he said
that tbe Rabnn Gap route is preferable to
tbe Broad French route, if Chicago wishes
to reach the South Atlantic States. The
troth is, she had better build straight to At
lanta, from which railroads radiate, not only
to Port Royal and Savannah, but also to
every section of the South Atlantic States.
Atlanta is the heart, the distributive center,
of those States, and she also possesses the
most direct and practicable routes to the sea.
The practical men of the coming engineer
corps will make all this so plain that tbe men
Of Chicago will readily see their way to
correct and economical conclusion.
Fund for Yellow Fever buffer era.
We received yesterday the following
amounts and letters:
E. V. Mack, $2; a lady $2 60; D. P. Hill,
Jr., $1; John Fain, $2; Sympathizer, $2;
Daniel'Walker, Newnan, 1; J. A. Welch,
NewnaD^fl.
Gbiffin, Ga., October 15,1873.
Editor* Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Oa.
Dear Sib :—Enclosed find two dollars,
which you will please send to tbe yellow
fever sufferers. r
Editor* Constitution:
Euclored find two dollars to go towards
the suffering cities.
Respectfully,
J. C. Drake,
E. H. Long,
Savannah, Griffin and North Ala. R. R
The following letters from the Howard
Association of Memphis and the Mayor of
the city, show receipts up to time of mailing
letters:
Ex-Member of Congress Con
way Shoots Senator
Pomeroy.
Mr. Pomeroy Only Slightly
Wounded in th? Breast.
Conway Surrenders Himself to the Fe
lice Authorities.
A. Strange Tale.
Office of Howabd Association, )
No. 42 Madison Street, >■
Nashville, Tenn., October 13,1873.)
To W. A. Hemphill & Co., Atlanta, Oa.:
Dear Sib—We return you and friends
our heartfelt thanks for yonr sympathy in
this our hour of affliction, and pray that God
may bless you for it. We enclose herewith
receipt for donation, $22, received
A. D. Longstaff,
President.
Gbiffin, Ga., October 14, 1873.
Messers. W. A. Hemphill & Co., Proprietors
Atlanta Constitution:
Dear Sirs—Your frequent communica
tion with the proper authorities in Memphis
and Shreveport leads us to request of yon
the transmission to them of the enclosed sum,
$95, a contribution for the suffering in those
cities from tbe Griffin Methodist Chnrch.
Please divide the amount so as to send $65
to Memphis and $35 to Shreveport. Yery
respectfully yours,
John W. Heidt, Pastor.
Mayor’s Office, City Hall,
The Fever In Xttemplile.
The Avalanche is confident that the epi-
•jJemic has reached its climax, and that it will
mow slowly, bnt steadily abate. Friday last
42te yellow fever interments were 65, the
-Ingest number thus far; Saturday 45; Sun-
d&y 46; Monday 28; and Tuesday 41.
The belief that the wotst is
over is based more on a
decrease in the number of new cases, and on
the hope that the recent frosts, light as they
- were; have purified the infected atmosphere.
■ And yet it should be remembered that not
-over ten thousand people out of about fifty
thousand, now stay in the city daring the
<ieadly nights. We can only hope for the
-best until a cold snap puts an end to the terri-
-ble scourge.
The relief societies are all actively at
-work. The Howards received $7,743 on
Monday from all sources. The funds of the
Odd Fellows are very Iqw, and they have
forty on the sick list The noble donation
-of Cincinnati, $15,000, will soon be available,
sad so will the large amount realized at the
• benefit given by the managers of the Chicago
Hxposition.
Among the latest 'deaths were Peter
• Swayne, only son of the late Judge Swayne;
Sunday In MLempbis.
Yesterday’s telegrams report cooler weath
er and a slight check of the fever; but on
both Sunday and Monday the condition of
the city was terrible. Not a street was free
of the disease, although lime, carbolic acid
and other disinfectants had been scattered
unsparingly. In spite of all that has been
done tbe poison now permeates the fairest
portions of the town. The whole city pre
sents a most gloomy appearance. The cere
mony of burial has long since been shorn of
all formality; and the hearses an driven at
the highest speed to the cemetery, that they
may quickly return for otheijvictims of the
the terrible scourge.
Drs. Gould, Ryan and Hilliard, of Chicago,
and Dr. Palmer, of New York, arrived on Sun
day and are at work for the heroic Howards.
Supplies are coming in freely, and much is
being done to mitigate the sufferings of the
stricken and the desolate The Knights of
Pythias, however, have eleven sick, and
were, on Sunday, without a cent in their
Treasury. The Odd Fellows have
large list of sick, and their funds are low.
The Masons bnried thirteen in three days
including Sunday, and have about sixty cases
in charge. They have assurances that re
mittances from various lodges are on the
way. The firemen had six cases on hand,
with handsome donations coming in from
their comrades throughout the country.
Among the deaths of Sunday were D,
Heston, conductor on the Memphis and Lit
tle Rode Railroad; J. W. Tooney, a visiting
member of the I. O. of O. F. from New
Albany, Ind.; andC. Canning Smith, Deputy
United States District Attorney. T. S. Juke,
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias
for Tennessee, is down with the fever. M. E.
Smelzer, city editor of the Avalanche, is
recovering.
With the change in the weather, Er.
Blackburn is of opinion that the back of the
plague is broken, and that a large number of
those now afflicted will recover, if they re
ceive proper attention and are comfortably
situated.
Memphis, Tenn., October 10,1878,
To W. A. Hemphill & Co., Atlanta, Oa.
Gentlemen : I hasten to acknowledge
yonr prompt and considerate kindness in tnis
time of our city’s affliction, and return yon
the hearty and grateful thanks of this com
munity, and of myself personally, for the aid
thus promptly extended. Below I hand you
the receipt of the Relief Association, to which
I paid it over. Respectfully,
Jno. Johnson, Mayor.
Received of John Johnson, Mayor of the
city of Memphis, the sum of one hundred
and fifteen dollars. Contribution from the
First Presbyterian Chuich, $100; contribu
tion by other citizens of Atlanta, Georgia,
$115, per express, for the relief of the suffer
ing sick in this city.
“J. J. Busby, Chairman.
“Memphis, Tenn., October 10,1873.”
Sontb Carolina News.
Martin’s majority for Senator in Fairfield
county is 949.
Dr. Joseph P. Latimer has been apsointed
County Treasurer for Greenville.
Tbe Governor has appointed W. G. Smith
and Seaborne S. Jones as Trial Justices for
Anderson county.
The fifty-third anniversary of the South
Carolina Baptist Convention will be held
in the Brptist Church at Columbia, begin
ning on Thursday before the fourth Sunday
in November. Delegates are requested to
forward their names to Bev. J. K. Mender-
hall, Columbia.
up at the expense of the State Department
Within a few months Mr. Pomeroy paid a
draft of one hundred dollars that Conway
had drawn, out of charity for him. A few
days ago they met pleasantly, and Conway
asked some pecuniary aid, wnich the Senator
was obliged to decline.
Conway refused to see or talk with any
one other than Mr. Merrick. It is the opin
ion of that gentleman that Conway is insane,
and in this opinion Mr. Pomeroy concurs,
and expresses nothing bnt the kindest feelings
towards the would-be assassin.
CONWAY ADMITTED TO BAIL. -
Dr. Verdi, about 7 o’clock this evening,
gave a certificate to the effect that Pomeroy’s
wonnds were not dangerous, and Conwav
was admitted to bail in $10,000 to appear at
the Police Court on Monday morning.
THE LOUISWLLE^XPOSmON.
Special dispatch to the St Lonis Globe ]
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENA
POMEROY.
Washington, D. C., October 11.—The
attempt of Martin F. Conway, well known
arfthe first Representative in Congress of the
State of Kansas, to assassinate ex-Senator
Pomeroy, this afternoon, has greatly excited
the city. The facts in the case are as follows:
Mr. Pomeroy was walking leisurely, a few
minutes after 2 o’clock, along New York
avenue, from fifteenth to Fourteenth street,
and when near the c rner of the latter street,
observed Martin F. Conway standing within
a dozen feet of him. He continued his walk
towards him, having no reason to fear an
assault, when Conway, the Senator, being
within six feet of him, drew a pistol and
FIRED AT HIM,
at the same time backing into the roadway.
This ball passed into the Senator’s hat,-an
inch or so above his bead. Two other shots
were fired, one of which penetrated the Sen
ator’s clothing above the nipple of the right
breast, and tbe other struck the pavement,
and, glancing, rebounded against the leg of a
by-stander, doing no harm. Mr. Pomeroy
staggered on being struck, but did not fall,
and turned and walked into the office of a
real estate firm on the corner. Mr. Conwav
returned his revolver, which was a small
Remmgton six-shooter, to his side-pocket
and walked across the street.
AFTER THE SKIRMISH.
He was followed by two gentlemen, Messrs.
Addison and Stiilson, the latter of whom
took Mr. Conway by the arm, saying, “what
have you done? Why did you shoot that
man?”
Mr. Conway replied, with a dazed air and
wandering manner, “He has ruined myself
ant’ family;” (not as an evening paper has it,
“He has°ruintd my wife and family.”
Walking back to the corner where the
affair occurred, Mr. Stiilson advised him to
go the Central Police Station and give him-
. self up.
An old Kansas friend of both then came
up, and, not knowing who Conway had as
saulted, joined in Mr. Stillson’s advice, and
started with them to the station.
NOT MUCH HURT.
Learning that Mr. Pomeroy was the vic
tim, he went to his house, whither the latter
had arrived, and found that the ball had
spent itself in passing through the coat, vest
and under-garments, inflicting only a slight
abrasion of the skin. Mr. Pomeroy is about
this evening.
Mr. Conway went to the police headquar
ters, accompanied by Mr. Sullivan, and
SURRENDERED HIMSELF.
He wa9 locked np, and Mr. Richard Mer
rick, an eminent lawyer, was sent for by his
request
There seems to be little doubt among all
of Conway’s friends here that he has been
the victim of hallucinations as to being pur
sued by personal enemies seeking his life and
destroying his reputation, when it is beyond
all doubt, also, that no one but himself has
been an enemy. The facts leading to the
THE FINANCIAL FLUTTER.
A Summary ot its Results—A Grand.
Success.
Louisville, Ky., October 13,1873.
Editors < onstitution: On Saturday night,
your correspondent witnessed the closing
scenes of the great Industrial Exposition at
this place. It has been in successful opera
tion for thirty-five days, the average daily
attendance being about eleven thousand per
sons. During the last wet kit has surpassed
that number, and on Saturday, the closing
day, the visitors were estimated at 16,000.
Under the present management the enter
prise has proven a grand success in every
sense. The arrangement throughout reflects
much credit upon Colonel E A. Maginness,
the Superintendent, and James P. Roberts,
bis genial and clever assistant, to whose good
taste and superior judgment the people of
Louisville and the whole country are indebted
for this magnificent display.
Captain Tracie, so well known by the
newspaper men all over the country, gives
great portion of his time to the entertain
ment of that class of the visitors. He is cer
tainly the right man in the right place.
When a person once gets acquainted with
Captain Tracie he never forgets him.
SCENE BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
Whea the great bell had sounded eleven
o’clock, the hour for closing, and the tremu
lous throng had passed out of the building
—the officers and clerks of the exposition
the members of the city press, and The Con
stitution correspondent, were invited by
Colonel W. F. Bullock, the efficient Secretary,
to the restaurant in the building where
banquet was. prepared. The champagne
sparkled, and the wits of the tasters grew
sharp, and me thinks the “wee sma hours”
had arrived ere this merry lingering party
retired to their respective places of abode.
Truly the Exposition has proven a grand
success financially, and the managers pro
pose to make it more imposing next year
than it was this. Success to the enterprise.
The business of this place has been very
much impeded by the crash, bnt the sky is
fast clearing away, and business goes on as
usual, except shipments to the South. It is
not for want of confidence in the Southern
merchants that this branch of business does
not go on as usual, bnt it is the lack of money
to move the great product.
Some of the church people of this place are
somewhat shocked at the erection of
opera house between and in very close prox
imity to two of the most prominent churches
in the place. The removal of the churches
is spoken of. The opera house is jast fin
ished and is said to. be the finest in all the
West J. A. S.
The wool factory of Mr. J. E. Pickle, with
all its contents, located in the town of Wil-
liamston, was entirely destroyed by fire on j .
Tuesday, 30th pit, at five o’clock in th5^.s^jftiit are a remarkable inustration°ofmis-
morningi Noufe of the machinery, and about
fifteen hundred pounds of wool, was saved.
It is supposed to be the work of an incendi
ary. Tho total loss is between three and
four thousand dollars, upon which there was
no insurance.
Greenville Enterprise: Mr. David Gunter,
of this county, has laid everybody aside,
that we have heard of in this section, in the
cotton-stalk line. On last Friday he brought
to our office, and tied np on the steps, one
which he says is seven feet high, and upon
which there are 180 grown bolls and 320
blooms and squares—making in all 500. The
seed came np spontaneously in a gully, to
which he afterwards applied Stono Ferti
lizer.
Tennessee News*
Kirklandtown, a place in the suburbs
of Chattanooga, proposes to be incorpo
rated.
The Gallatin Examiner say3: Mr. J. W.
White, of this vicinity, has recently imperted
into this county from Wellington county,
Canada, a Cotswold buck, one year old last
spring, weighing 265 pounds.
The Knoxville Press and Herald states
that a letter received by Gecrge W. Ross
from General J. H. Holman, dated St. Lonis,
7th instant, announces the important and
pleasing fact that tbe mantels made from
the marble of the Knoxville Marble Com-
K iy have taken the first premium at the St
uis Fair.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the 12th
says: The Mayor, in junction with Dr. Van-
Deman, our city physician, has ordered all
trains from Memphis to be examined by one
of onr physicians at StevensoD, and if found
to contain any person with yellow-fever, to
pat them off, and if they lefnse, the police
will board and stop the train one mile be
yond the city limits.
In the case cf the negro Murril, hanged
near Chattanooga last week, the Coroner’s
verdict is that deceased came to his death by
violence at the hands of unknown parties.
It was in evidence that eight men, unknown
to deponent, came to deponent’s honse at
night and carried Mnrril away; and that
soon afterward deponent was carried to the
dead body, and in its presence warned to re
veal nothing. He is said to have been lynched
because he nad been cohabiting with a white
woman. It is alleged thst he was drugged
just before he was hanged.
Memphis Avalanche: “If there is in our
midst one class more conspicnons th»n
another for untiring devotion to the sick and
dying it is the Memphis clergy. There is no
duty from which they shrink. At the dead
hour of the night, as at noonday, these min
isters of God are found wherever sickness or
death calls for their services. Kneeling at
the bedside in prayer, ministering to the sick
as nurses, or serving as messengers for medi
cal aid, they labor without ceasing. Thev do
not wait until their presence is ‘in
voked. Braving the pestilential air of
the infected district, they go from dwelling
to dwelling, from hovel to hovel, seeking
those who may need their services. Four
have fallen martyrs to their holy duty-
fallen while relieving poor frail bodies from
pain and pointing out to the dying the
straight, narrow path that leads to heaven.
Bnt the others press forward to fill the places
vacated by the Angel of Death—to close the
racks widened toy those who until a few
days ago stood beside them, shoulder to
shoulder, like brave comrades advancing to
a change in battle.”
directed ambition and vanity destroying the
usef ulness of a most promising man.
Colonel R. J. Hinton, who came np after
the firing, states that Mr. Conway has been
in his office several times during the week,
on the first occasion asking the aid of his old
friend to procure him some work so that he
might be able to get bread; and then the
next day and afterwards, asking for money
to get away to New York. At these several
interviews he talked very wildly, looking
round mysteriously, and declaring in whis
pers that he was pursued by enemies, who
had destroyed his reputation and would take
his life. So strangely did he act that Colo
nel Hinton, as well as a gentleman who was
present on this occasion, feared that he was
crazy and discussed the propriety of having
him put under surveillance.
CAUSE FOR THE ASSAULT.
The only foundation that there can possi
bly be for the remark made by Conway,
grows out of an act of benevolence per
formed for Mrs. Conway by the Senator, the
circumstances attending which are as fol
lows: Mr. Conway.it will be remembered,
made a remarkable speech in 1862, in the
House, in which be proposed, as an anti
slavery man, and on grounds of that charac
ter, that the North should recognize the
South and separate the Union on that basis.
He embodied this policy in a resolution and
voted for it himself. This rained him as a
public man, bnt never content, he neg
lected his family and all personal interests in
an attempt to get back into office. He went
to Richmond, Va., after the assassination of
Lincoln, opened a law office, publicly sup
ported Mr. Johnson and his policy, in defense
of which he made a speech at Richmond,
which was regarded at that time as the ablest
exposition of it then made. Mr. Conway,by
his last two speeches, showed himself to be
in politics a Calhounite, plus emancipation.
Mr. Johnson appointed him Consul at
Marseilles. There he got into trouble
with * some of onr naval officers.
He remained there till the summer of 1869,
when he was removed. During the latter part
of his Consular service he failed utterly to
contribute to the support of his wife and chil
dren, of whom there are three. One only
was with him, and was placed at a school in
Marseilles, in which he was left without
means on his father’s return to the United
States. Before that, however, Boston friends
of Mr. Conway had written to Senator
Pomeroy, asking him to do something
for the lady, to that she might at least be
able to get a living for herself and children.
In conjunction with Senators Sumner and
Wilson, Mr. Pomeroy induced Secretary
Boutwell to give the' unfortunate lady a
clerkship, which she has since filled, support
ing herself and children, while her husband
has wandered about this city, feeding cn his
own vanity and accusing Mr. Pomeroy of
having ruined his reputation by befriending
his wife. While brooding over the troubles,
which were the consequence of bis own pre
dilections, he fasted his morbid mind on Mr.
Pomeroy’s act of kindness as the initiative
point in his own downfall.
The facts stated above are all well-known
to former Kansas men, like Col. Hinton and
others who now reside here, and they unite
in denying all such inferences as the crazy
assailant’s misquoted words on being stopped
would imply, as unjust to Mr. Pomeioy, and
cruelly so to an estimable lady, who has been
shamefnily abased already.
Mr. Conway tried to get a clerkship here,
and so has nursed his wrath. Mrs. Conway
is a very estimable lady, who has been fairly
tormented for years past by this demented
man.
The little boy left at Marseilles was brought
THE BRUNSWICK AND ALBANY
RAILROAD SOLD TO THE GER
MAN BONDHOLDERS FOR
OYER HALF A MIL
LION DOLLARS.
BRUNSWICK SPECIAL TO THE AT
LANTA CONSTITUTION.
Brunswick, Ga., October 15,1873.
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad was
sold at public outcry to-day to the highest
bidder. The bid that finally obtained the
road was the sum of five hundred
and thirty thousand dollars,
was made toy the German bondholders, who
thus obtain this great prize. These Germans
represent some two millions and more of the
first mortgage bonds of the road *lhe only
ones that have any claim to validity.
The next highest bidder was your fellow
townsman, of Atlanta, Mr W. B. Lowe,
Esq., President of the Cuthbert, Bain-
bridge and Columbus road, who desired to
connect the Brunswick and Albany road
with his enterprise. Mr. Lowe bid tbe sum
of five hundred and twenty-seven thousand
dollars.
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE ATLANTA CONSTI7 OTION.
ILLICIT DOOM.
A BLOODY TRAGEDY BY
TP.AYED HUSBAND.
A BE-
PRESIDENT GRANT GIVES A VERY
LENGTHY OPINION ABOUT IT
-HE THINKS IT WILL DO
GOOD — SILVER CUR
RENCY MUST COME
BACK. AGAINST IN
TEREST ON DE
POSITS,
ETC.
Washington, October 13.—President Grant
yesterday, in an interview, said he thought
that the panic generally through the country
differed essentially, both in cause and tfftet,
from any similar events of which he had
knowledge. When such events have here
tofore taken place distrust has been occasion
ed as to the currency in circulation. Every
one in possession of currency would rush to
the banks with it or spend it in the most
liberal manner, but now, currency, instead of
being depreciated is actually becoming daily
more valuable. He thought he saw in pass
ing events the first steps toward resumption,
for the reason that panics generally occur
when the county lacks prosperity, such as
from the failure of crops, over purchases
from abroad, etc. In this instance the panic
has occurred in the midst of the greatest
general prosperity.
He believed that he was correct in saying
that our exports since th3 beginning of the
present fiscal year, have exceeded onr im
ports and that too, at a time when compara
tively no cotton, the largest single item t f ex
port, was moving. Everything we pro
duce is in great abundance, and the demand
for it abroad is beyond the supply, we have
to share.
Our manufactories are prosperous, and
many articles which have been imported are
to a large extent not only being produced at
home, bnt are actually competing in the sup
ply of foreign markets. The aid recently
rendered in the purchase of an nnusnal large
number of bonds was not so much real as
moral. The fact is, thejjmoney corporations
of thecountiy had become stampeded. Had
not the Treasury seemed to aid them in
some way, the fright would have become
more general and the .consequence to tho
country more fatal.
As it was he really believed the effect was
going to be beneficial in many ways to the
country at large, though the cost to some in
dividuals, deserving of a better fate, may be
severe.
A return to a specie basis can never be
effected except toy a shrinkage of value. This
always works hard to a largo class of
people who keep all they are worth in
margins. This shrinkage has now taken
place. Disasters to individuals have
already overtaken them, and it is to be
sincerely hoped the advantage might be re
tained in order to reach a solid financial ba
sis. Already the currency has appreciated
to about par with silver.
He wondered that silver is not now pour
ing out. When this should take place his
theory was that the country conld absorb
from 200,000,090 to 300,000,060 of it. This
would prove a great benefit In several ways.
It would supply a market for a number of
years for a product of onr mines now becom
ing a drag. It would,take the place of forty
millions of fractional currency, about the
amount of change that experience has proved
to be necessary {for the transaction of busi
ness, and will become the currency, which
will b8 bonded in small amounts. He be
lieved that silver once more in circulation,
greenbacks would never be at a discount for
silver. All finctu&tions from that point
would be in appreciation of value of our
paper money.
As to legislation, tho President said that
he thought much upon the subject, and
if he were now engaged in writing
his annual message to Congress ho should
recommend positive authority to reissue the
forty-fnnr millions of reserve, a free banking
law, with the same protection to bill holders
as now, a repeal of the clause requiring a
reserve for the protection of depositors, a per
centage of the other reserve to be in gold
and that increased in a regular ratio until the
whole reserve would be in gold. This could
be solely effected by requiring such institu
tions to save the whole or a large percentage
of the gold interest paid to banks on their
bonds held by the Treasurer of the United
States for the protection of bill holders.
He also favored an absolute prohibition to
the payment of interest on deposits.
The President did not contend that he
would be right in these recommendations,
but they embodied the views which his un
aided reflections had brought to him. There
was no question but that much demoralizing
and injurious speculation and gambling was
caused by the accumulation of capital in
large centers during a portion of tho
year when money is not required
for the moving of products by the
payment of interest on deposits. This leads
country bankers, merchants aud others to
deposit in city banks, principally in New
York, to make their money earn something,
during the peried when they do not wish to
use it. Banks paying interest on deposits
cannot afford to hold tbe money idle, hence'
gambling on fancy stocks millions of which
as an investment would not Bupply a family
even on the most economical manner.
The building of railroads that are not
wanted, and which cannot for years pay
running expenses, etc., such gambling and
speculation had, he trusted, received a blow
irom which,he hoped, they would not recover.
lhe President said that unless his mind
should undergo a change, he would recom
mend a post office bank. This would give an
institution in which every body would have
great confidence, within the reach of every
one who can approach a money order post
office. He should recommend the payment
of 4 per cent to depositors and the conver
sion of deposits either into outstanding United
States bonds or into new 4 1-2 per cent
bonds and the taking np of a corresponding
omount of those outstanding.
St. Louis, October 13.—A special dispatch
from Carrollton, Missouri, gives an account
of a terrible tragedy enacted near there.
Robert Austin, a youDg farmer, residing near
that place, suspected his wife of infidelity,
andton Friday left home, saying he was going
to the St Louis Fair, to be absent for several
days. He went to the depot, bnt returned
and secreted himself in a closet in his wife’s
bed room, armed with a doable-barrel shot
gun. His wife soon retired, and shortly after
Elijah Haley entered the room and undressed
himself. As he was getting into bed, Austin
sprang ont and fired, bnt missed Haley, and
the shot entered his wife’s abdomen. Austin
fired again at Hale7 and killed him instantly.
Mrs. Austin died Saturday afternoon. Aus
tin surrendered to the authorities. All the
parties are highly connected.
A TERRIBLE KILLING.
Nashville, October 13—RM. Richards,
proprietor of the Academg of Music, a dis
reputable place of amusement, was shot and
killed to-day by James Hogan., Richards
hid seduced Hogan’s sister. Hogan, after
shooting, stood over him and watched to see
that he was dead, then walked across the
street and surrendered himself.
MORE SUSPENSIONS—GREAT FALL
OF STOCKS—FEVERISH
FEELING.
New York, October 15.—Affairs or the
street are somewhat quiet This morning
stocks opened feverish, and went down one
to five per cent, touching lower figures than
at any time yesterday; rallied shortly,re
covering one to five and a half per cent, bnt
still very irregular. Pacific went down to
fifteen and a half, a lower price than it ever
touched before.
Only one failure reported—W. S. Perry, a
small operator.
Gilman, 8oa & Co., 47 Exchange Place,
have suspended. They say the suspension
was caused by the continued drain on depos
its, non-payments, collections, due the firm
and the depreciation of securities. They
have, therefore, concluded to pay no more
checks until further notice. Drafts drawn
against remittances received to-day, and
hereafter will be paid by the firm as trustees.
W. S. Perry, whose failure was announced
this morning, say their failure was caused bv
the heavy decrease in the price of stocks.
