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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.