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THE ATLANTA SUN
DAILY AND WELKLY.
TilR SUN PUBLISHING CO.
Hon.A.H. STEPHENS
POLITICAL EDITOR.
TIIKDBATH ' r HO A . Jtl*. H. BONDER,
It was with deep sorrow we receiv
ed the intelligence of the death of this
gentleman, which occurred in Mil-
ledgeville on the 4th of this month.
Judge Gonder was born and reared in
Hancock county. He was for many
years a lawyer of distinction at the
bar when Sayre, Baxter and Thomas
were leading spirits. He was admit
ted to the bar about 1830. Being a
man of considerable fortune several
years before the war, he retired to his
plantation where he pursued an easv
and quiet life with the honor of rep
resenting his county in the State
Legislature. Few men in any county
had more influence with the jreople
than he had in Hancock. His estate
being shattered by the war, after its
close he moved to Baldwin county
and took up his residence in Milledge-
ville. His healtn has been infirm
for several 3 ears, but his friends were
led to indulge hopes that it was im
proving until the latter part of last
week, when, we learn, he was sud
denly taken worse than ever, and ex
pired on Sunday: We do not know
his age exactly, but believe it was
about sixty or sixty-one. We knew
him long and intimately, and most
highly appreciated his many virtues.
It is with profound sorrow and grief
we have heard of his death, and we
feel assured the same intelligence
will carry like sorrow and grief to
the hearts of many surviving friends
not only in this but other States.
a. u. s.
HRHOVAL OK a UK CAPIIOC.
Our sedate and steady contempo
rary of the Milleugeville Union and
Ih corder. like Banquo’s ghost “will
not down” when the removal question
is sprung. It frantically jumps up
in its place, in ami out of reason,
calling for the previous question on
this subject. It is really nervous and
sensitive about the matter, and rides
itifhobby with the desperation of one
in the greatest despair to reach some
fondly desired goal of supreme hap
piness, which iseems to be beyond
liojH* and yet not hopeless.
It wants the Capitol carried back
to Milledgeville to sit in stately
grandeur upon the dismal peak of
Capitol Hill around which cluster
the moss-covered homes of sobriety
and honesty—for says our respected
contemporary, “whilst honest men
were asleep, they [the peopie of At-
THE
WEEKLY
SUN.
VOL. 3, NO. 511
THK t ORVEkliuN Of OUVKKRURI,
The New York Herald and World
have proposed tnat the convention of
Governors, seon to assemble in this
city, take up and consider the politi
cal situation in Louisiana, and con
demn the policy of the Administration
thereon.
This suggestion, we take it, is made
not in any spirit 01 friendliness to the
enterprise which the convention has
been called to consider, but with a
view of repeating it. This conven
tion. as we unuerstand it, is to be
held in the interest of cheap trans
portation, and to consider the subject
of building the Atlantic and Great
Western Canal.
It is not to be a political meeting,
and whoever tries to divert it from
the consideration of the matter for
which it was avowedly convened will
he guilty of an effort to disgrace it
and cause it to flash out with no good
results whatever.
We learn that Governor Smith and
all who had anything to do in calling
the convention, emphatically oppose
any such movement, or the proposi
tion thus to prostitute the real pur
poses and influence ofthecouvePtion;
but desire and expect its deliberations
10 be exclusively confined to the busi
ness set forth in the call.
ATLANTA, GA., I L'EsOA V , AlAI 13.
W H Oll'iu;
N O M B K aOUO
THE LitlE WM. II McUlFFEV.
Dr. McGuffey was born in Penn
sylvania and was a graduate of Wash
ington College in that State. He en
tered the ministry of the Presbyterian
Church early in life, and was for
some years a professor in Miamn Uni
versity, at Oxford, Ohio. Subse
quently he lectured in Cincinnati,
and from Cincinnati he was trans
ferred to the University of Virginia—
the field of labor in which the re
mainder of his life was passed. His
chair at the University was that of
Moral Philosophy and Political
Economy.
His only published works are the
school-books (McGuffey’s series of
Spellers and Readers,) which have
passed through many editions, and
are in use to-day wherever the En
glish language is taught His lec
tures on moral philosopny are known
to # have been prepared and revised for
the press, but wtye never published.
Dr. McGuffey was twice married
and bis second wife, who is a daugh
ter of Dr. Howard, of the University,
survives Him. His two daughters—
Mrs. Hepburn, wife of Professor Hep
burn, of Miami University, and Airs.
Stuart, wife of Professor Stuart, of
Ohio—are also living. These ladies
lautaj were wide awake planning
how they could sell an old Opera were with him during his last illness”
House, which cost thirty thousond and Mrs. Hepburn was at his bedside
dollars and make the State pay 0 tbe li
nearly half a million for it.”
The people of Atli nta did not vote
to bring the Capitol here. It was
brought here by the votes of Bald* in
and other Sou 1 hern counties. At
lanta repudia ed at the ballot-box
the Constitution which removed he
Capitol. They fought with sleepless
vigilance the adoption of that Consti
tution, and are not at all to blame for
its adoption. If Milledgeville had
not been asleep, tl ere is some pros
pect that the negroes might have been
controlled to the defeat of that Con
stitution. The Atlanta people did
DEATH OF \JUDUK THADKUS tlOLiT.
This old and prominent Georgian
died at his residence in Macon, on
Thursday morning last. He was
born in Hancock county, Georgia, in
1793, and hence at the time of his de
cease, was in his 80th year. Ho grad
uated at Athens both in the literary
and law departments, and com
menced the practice of his profei-sion,
we believe, at old Hartford, Pulaski
couuty. In about 1828 he was elect
ed Judge of .he Circuit.
Amassing a large fortune he re
tired from his profession a quarter of
not take the Capitol from M iHedge- , a ^ ag0> and since thuc time
Ville, nor haie they stole the ^ tat « 1 he has devoted himself exclusively to
fuuus. Those who did were sent j his p , HDtmg interests. His wife and
here lrom Augusta, Milledgeville and , three children survive him .
Other places. But still, the Capitol j t m t
will remain in Atlanta. The Chattanooga Times, pro-
T«iK remains <»K urr. oh ken k. j fessed y Democratic, but really noth-
The Savannah* - News informs us, '™8> PoliUcaUy, says that neither
upon the best information it can pro
cure, that immediately after the peace
of 1?83 Geueral Greeue settled iu
Georgia, the State having liberally
granted to him valuable property in
the vicinity of Savannah. The
Gerv'-nl visited that city ou the 12th
of June, 1786, for the last time and j b|lt not those of g enu,ne Democ *
returned to his home, “Mulberry rac y
State Rights 01 the Resolutions of
’98 is founded upon or contains a
particle of “principle,” aud that “they
are the announcement of Govern
ment policies that the country has
outgrown.” Such moralizing mar
eouform to the ideas of Puritanism.
Grove,” on the 14th; the same day
he was attacked with coup de solid
and died from its effects on the 19tn.
His body was carried to Savannah ou
the 20th, and hurried in a vault in
the old cemetery on South Broad
strLet.
In a search made in 1820 for his
remains, owing to some strange over
sight at the time of his interment, in
not designating them, or from lap.se
of years, they could not be found, and
“no man knowetb of his sepulchre t<>
this day.” The beautiful monument
in ttie square opposite the Pulaski
House, was erected in honor of his
memory by the citizens of Georgia.
— Prof. Shrueder, of Berlin, is a musi
cian, we suppose; but it is ham to tell
what be is, if we are to kuow from the
Joueshoro Citiz-us which save: “He
took lessons of the celebrated maestro di
capella, haviug completed studies He
is uow a fine compositor and stands at
•he bean of the profession; therefore
voq can all expect music suen as whs
never t»efore heard m Jonesboro.”
HOIST. O- O- EEA.MMOOK1, Mayor of tlie uixy of Atlanta.
Above we have a likeness of this gen
tleman—our present Mayor. Although
having served a previous term ns a mem
ber of Council, and although elected to
the Mayoralty last winter by a large pop
ular majority, there are many men m
Atlanta occupying less prominent posi
tions, who are much better kuowo than
our Mayor This is due chiefly to bis
rather retiring and modest mien. Judge
Hammock is not a professional speaker,
but is a practical worker. Aud if he
does not make as many steps in a day
as some others, those he does make will
be as flrmly made as the next man’s.
The public accords to him a carefulness
and faithfulness in the discharge of his
official duties. He is sure to believe that
he is rigii 1, afore he goes ahead.
MaytA H iut took was o.Tn iu Walton
couuty Georgia, win nee he removed at
an early ».ge to Ogleth.irpe coui.ty. H.-re
De is widely kuuwn, having served for
years the country first us Oh rk of the
Couutv Court, thru of the Supenot
Court and afterwards as Judge of the
former. From Oglethorpe he moved to
Atlanta. For several years he was a
partner in the extensive wnolesaie gro
cery house of Langston, Crane A Ham
mock. More recently he has been very
successfully engaged in toe real estate
and auct.on business.
In December 1871, he was e’ected
member ot the City Council on the De-
l mocratio ticket. In December last he
was tleeted Mayor on the regularly nom
inated ticket of the Democracy, which
was supported by The Sun.
Mayor Hammock is yet on the bright
side ot fifty, though very near that age.
He looks, however, to be ttn years
younger at least, wnich is due, no doubt,
to his ever cheerful and oemposed tem-
permeut. Iu the official discharge ot
his duties, perhaps none of his prede
cessors in the office have ever been greet
ed with less expression of dissatisfaction,
^ud though at times we may, as jour
nalists, disagree with the Mayc .-, we at
all times feel assured he is acting up to
what he concieves to be fer the best in
terest of the city.
BY TELEGRAPH.
TO THE ATLANTA SUN.
Prof. W. H. Waddell delivered the
dec -ration omti.m t Athens
The E«h>ij .iiessenger lendetb its
• .1 mins iu-1 condolence to Fidler Bill,
on tu* de i'll of his drey h->rse. Ch odey.
-Gi.ffiu is ou the improve, if we ma
il. ve e N-.ws. Her sc.ipols »re well
- r*#i -zed, 'ue people having roncludtd
o e u<-..t« their children.
HALL S ABCTIO EXPEDITION.
New Yoke, May 10.—A special from
St. John, N F.. of the9tb, says that the
steamer Walrus arrived from sealfishing
at St Tohn’s this morning bringing news
that the steamei Tigress had come into
Bay Roberts, 18 miles from here, having
on board 19 survivors of Halls Arctic Ex
pedition. The correspondent imme
diately started to Bay Roberts to learn
the full particulars. The Tigress was at an
cijor and the rescuei men were assembled
cn deck. They furnished tbe following
deeply thrilling narrative of tbe adven
tures of the expedition aud -he death o
Capt. Hal!, aud the final escape of the
survivors who were taken off from tbe
ice by the Tigress on the 30th of April
last in latitude 53 degrees, 30 m., a'ter
baviug spent 196 days on the floe. The
following are tbe names of tbe rescued :
H. C. Tison, assistant navigator; Fred K
Meyer, meteorologist; John Herron,
steward; W. G. Kruger, seaman; Fred.
Jalka, seaman; Will Lirdeman, sea
man; Fred. Antinig, seaman; Gustavos T.
Linquinst seaman, Peter Johnston sea
men, ;Wm. Jackson cook, K^quimanx Joe,
Interpreter Hannah and child, E.qu -
maux Hans, Christian of Kane’s expnti-
tion, Hans Christian’s wife and four c~il
dren, youngest only 8 months old. Tuts
party which had been landed from tbe Po
laris and were driven from her by a gale
which burst her moorings ou me fifteenth
of October, 1872, in latitude 72 degrees,
35 minutes, where they last saw tbe Po-
lars. She was under Bteam and canvass
making for the harbor on tbe east side
of the Northumberland Island. She bad
no boats left of 6 which she brought with
her from New York, two were lost
in tbe northern exoedition; two werj
landed on ice with Capt. Tison’s party;
one was burnt as firewood to make water.
Ihe crew and others are on board of the
Tigress. The Polaris was in command of
Cap.. Buddiugton who had thirteen of the
crew along with him and a plentiful
stock of provisions. She was making a
good deal of water, but Captain Tison
informed correspondent that she was
not more leaky than when Ue was tin
ooard all previous fall and winter. Po
laris was somewhat damaged, and it is
the opinion of the survivors tbut tney
will be unable to get clear until July,
and even then if t ae ship is uu^ea worthy
they shall have to make a new boat to
effect escape.
Ou the 8 b of Oct ber, 1871, Lat.
81 38, Long. 61 44, Capt. Hail died of
appoplexy and was buried on shore
where they erected a wood cross to mark
the grave. He had recently returned
from.the Nort ern sledge expedition in
which he Lad attained Lat. 31 degrees
16 seconds. He seemed in his usual
health, and had called crew into cabin
to encourage them with hopes o f fu are
rewards and stimulate them to renewed
exertions, when he was suddenly strnck
down and expired to the grief of those
around, to whom he had endered him
self by bis kindness and devotion.
In September,1871,the Polaris entered
winter quarters, and left Aagust 12th,
1872. The ice was very heavy and set in
a Southern direction. She was forced
South and so continued driftidg till Capt
Tyson and party were driven from her.
The sledge prrty crossed Kanes P Lr
Sea, which they prononneed to be a
strait about 15 miles wide.
Tnere was an appearance of open wa
ter to the north. Tne rescued party suf
fered very much during their dreary
drift from hanger and cold. For tbe
last two months they ate raw seal and
polar bear as they could get it Wben
they ware met by tbe Tigress they show
ed evident signs of their great suffering,
tmt during nine days they have b-en on
board they have improved vastly and j
are now in fair health. The party is in
charge of the United States Consul and j
will arrive at St. John’s Monday next.
Tnc toliowing statement was fu r uishdd
a correspondent by Capt. Tyson: On Aa
gust 27, 1871, we left Tissitac and 1
went through Smith’s Sound. We suc-
cessed iu getting as tar north as latitude
32 degrees and 16 seconds. When we
returned we wintered at Polaries Bay at
latitude 81 degrees and 30 seconds, lon
gitude 61 degress and 44 seoonds. We
were frozen up until 5th September.
On 10th October Capt Hall started on
a sledge journey north and returned
oa the 24th, wben he was taken
sick and died on the 8th of Novemter.
He was buried ou the eleventh. The
attack that earned him off was said to be
apoplexy. We passed the winter at Po
laris Bay, and on the 8th of Jane, 1872,
we attempted to reach the north side with
two boats. We hauled our other boats
on shore and returned overland on the 8th
of July. We started for home on the 12*h
of August and ou the 15th we were beset
with ice i> latitude 80 degree, 02 seoonds,
we drifted lrom there down to latitude
77 degrees, 35 seconds, wnen we encoun
tered a heavy southwestern gale. The
ship being under a heavy pressure, on
the night of the 15th we commenced
landing provisions, Ac., on the ice, the
vessel being reported leaking very bad y
at times. We continued landing provts
ions for two or three hours when the
pressure ceased. I then went on board
tbe vessel and asked the sailing master if
the vessel was making any more water
than usual. He responded that she was
not making any more than she was doing
all summer. I went on the ice again and
shortlv fter it began to crack and in a
few minutes afterward was broken in
many pieces when, the vessel bioke from
ber fastenings and was soon lost to sigh
in the darkness and storm.
On the broken ice were most of our
provisi ns, to sustain the party through
winter, and seeing nothing 0 f a vessel
we attempted to reach shore in hopes of
finding natives to mmi*i ns in living
through the winter. Getting abont hall
way to shore with our heavily lade a boats,
tor p-o^ress became hard by drifting
ice, and I was compelled to leave on ice
again at this time. I succeeded ii
saving 14 cans of pemmioar, 111 bags o,
bread, 10 dozen 1 A 2 pound cans of
meat and soup, 14 hams, i pmail bag of
chocolate, weighing 30 pounds, some
musk ami ox skins, a tew blankets, a
number of rifles, and an abundance of
ammunition. In the morning, know
ing that- I bad not provisoes enough,
on abatement of the gale, I endeavor
ed to shoot as many seals as possible,
both for food, light and fuel, out could
only get three, owing to bad weather
having set in. 1 supposed the wind to
be Southwest Oa its clearing up, I
found myself within abont 8 miles of
what I supposed to be the East coast
and about 30 or 40 miles below the
ship. The ioe being weak. I could
not transport tbe boats and provisions
to land until it grew stronger.
While here, I discovered my other
boat, provisions, Ao., aud saved them
all. The ice grew firm, and I made an
other attempt t o reacu shore, cairving
everything in boats and draggiug them
on their kee), the ice being exceedingly
rough. W e stode both boats and we
succeeded on the 1st of November in
getting about half way to shoie when
night came ou us with very stormy
weather. In the morning the ice was
broken and we were drifting souiuward
very fast. We saw no more laud for
many days, and bad weather continuing
all through the month of November. We
bnilt snow houses and made ourselves as
comfortable as we could. We were ten
white men, two erquimaux, two women
and five children in all. We succeeded
in killing a few seals which fujuiahed us
with light and fuel with which to warm
onr ecanty allowance of food through tbe
darkness of Arctic winter. In the latter
part of February we lived principally on
birds, and in March couimeuot d to catch
seals. 1 hrough that month wi supported
ourselves on bears aud seals flesh, wasting
neither skin nor entrails. We collected
enough tood in this way to last us till
the middle of May nad we not been
driven 10 sea by a strong west gale. In
the latter part of JMareh our fioo piece
being then reduced from five miles iu
circumference to about twenty yard3 iu
diumater. We left a piece ou the 1st of
Apul ana abandoned nearly all our meat
and a large amount of ammunition,
clothing, skins and oth >r articles, tukiug
a portion of the meat m the boat, which
we were obliged to tlir >w overboard on
account of the boats bting so cjeeply
laden. I regained the outer edge of the
pack office on the 31 of April and suc
ceeded in getting a little further iu on
the pack. Ou t':e 4th a heavy northeast
gale set in, and a heavy sea was running
under the ice which broke it» in small
pieces, so wo had to live on small puns
as we could not- put the boat out, neither
could wo find seals for food, aud we were
reduced almost to staivution.
On the 21st of April we sighted a po
lar bear. Every person was ordered to
lie down a-.d imitate a seal, while two
Esquimaux secreted themselves behind a
piece of ice, an-1 on getting the bear
near enough to 11s, we kdled him. A few
days after we got our boat, in water and
worked our way west aud southwest and
continued to work every opportunity to
westward, in hopes to reach Labrador
coast and getting temporary relief. We
were picked up by steamship Tigress on
the 30th of April in latitude 53 degrees
and 35 seconds north, longitude 55 de
grees west or near Waif Island and
about 40 miles from land. The Polaris is
now without boats, having lost two in
trying to get north. In the spring of
1872 the Tigress fell ip with the party in
a dense fog and providentially struck
Tne very floe on which they were
otherwise they must have perished, they
all seem tolerably well. Capt. Tyson
complained of swelled legs and feet, but
nothing serious was the matter with them.
When they left the Polaris all od board
were in good health. In reference to the
way in which the Polaris got away from
the party which was rescued from off the
i -eberg, Capt. Tyson states that he felt
but little anxiety, first thinking she
would soon come to their relief. I set
my colors, he said, as she stood down
along shore, but the vessel was soon lost
to sight in a bend of tbe land and
being what I took to be North
umberland island apiece. I had now
commenced to drift South. As the wind
landed to the Northeast, opening a liittle
bay to the Northeast of Northumberland
island, I saw the vessel in the haroor.
Tuere her sails were furled, no smoke
was issuing from her smokestack that I
could see. I then attempted to bring
my boat across the floe in an Easterly
direction hoping to find water and
teach shore. I succeeded in dragging
one boat across and took to water and at
tempted to reach shore some distance be
low the vessel. We were then drifting
very fast and the gale was blowing fresh
with great violence from the northeast,
and snowing very fast and drifting. I
was driven back on the ice again and
compelled to pull my boat cat as night
closed on me and carried ns to south
west. In the morning we were abent 30
miles south west of where a ship went in
the harbor. A heavy sea was running
which broke np my floe piece, and se
parating ns from six bags of bread and
boat I saw a vessel under steam and
canvass rounding a point to the north
west, thinking she wonld come to our re
lief I gave myself no anxiety, but we were
soon doomea to disappointment, and
from that time till the Tigress rescued
us wa never got a ghmp-e of the Polaris.
New Yoke, May 10,-150 Brooklyn
gas men on.a strike.