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Old Series- —Vol. 25, ISTo.
THE COSTSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, May 16, 1875.
The criminal laws of South Carolina
are no longer a mockery. There was a
regular hangiug at Camden, Friday.
The United States Circuit Court, sit
ting at Charleston, on Friday decided
the great Blue Ridge scrip cases, invol
ving about $2,000,000. The State won
them both. See South Carolina De
partment.
Mr. Kimball says that all the stock
for the Atlanta cotton factory has been
taken, and that the first instalment
will bo called for on the-Ist of June.
Mr. CojIN has selected J. Sherwin Da
vis, of Holyoke, Mass., as Superintend
ent.
The investigation of the connection
of Catholic societies of Germany with
Kullman’s attempt to assassinate Bis
marck has resulted in the Public Pros
ecutor sending several parties before
the courts for trial.
Ben Hill’s majority has at last been
determined. It will be seen that he
distanced Price, badly beat Estes, and
beat both of them put together. He
certainly goes to Washington the rep
resentative of the people of the Ninth
District. Not only that, but the repre
sentative of the people of Georgia and
the South.
We sometimes find a great deal of
wit and curious nonsense in doggerel
poetry. Thus an Atlanta poet:
“ I want to be a speller.
And with the spellers stand, .
A Wooster In mi poket,
A Webster in mi han.
Thar rite before the awgens,
So gorgus and so brite,
He wrasels with the big words
Prom mornin’ until night.”
In this office, the other day : Michi
gander—How are you getting along in.
South Carolina ? South Carolinian— O,
we are all right. We’ve the State Treas
urer in jail, true bills against half the
County Treasurers, with twenty coun
ties to hear from. Michigander—Bo
you think you’ll git any of the money
back? S. C. —Git any of it back ! Don’t
expect to. What they call the “ maj
esty of the law ” don’t take that in.
We’re all right, though !
“ About S7OO went out of Elberton
last week for corn. The market opened
firm on Monday at $1.35, but declined
under a supply to $1.20 by Saturday.”
And this is the pitiful tale from a
county which up to the close of the
war raised all its provisions. It is im
possible for our country to ever again
emerge from debt and rags until ihe
farmers stop this worse than folly.
The world is still agba3t. at the Schil
ler horror. One hundred and thirty
two bodies of her victims have been
dragged ashore. Our London dispatch
gives the names of several, among
others Mr. George Leonhardt, who
perished with his entire family. In
this connection, our readers will peruse,
with absorbing interest, the record we
publish this morning of a St. Louis
family which was exterpated by the
same disaster.
We ought, at least, to give a weekly
notice of the Beecher seaudal case.
The one hundred and fiftieth volume
of the evidence is now in the hands
of the printer. At last accounts the
jury were all alive and kicking, with an
occasional fainting case occurring
among them, and the attorneys with
the exception of vertigo, were all well.
We are satisfied yellow fever and chol
era will break out in that court room
when warm weather comes, unless
powerful disinfectants are resorted to.
The decision of Judge Gibson de
nying the injunction, prayed for by cer
tain stockholders of the Georgia Ruil
road and Banking Company to restrain
that corporation from the consumma
tion of the purchase of the Western
Railroad of Alabama, which is pub
lished in extenso elsewhere in the Con
stitutionalist this morning, together
with the full text of the Enabling Act
under which as amending the Com
pany’s charter the purchase is author
ized to be made, will be perused with
interest by other than legal minds. It
will bo observed that the Chancellor
has announced no new or unfamiliar
principle of law, but has hinged his re
fusal of the injunction upon discre
tionary growing out
of the relations of the parties
litigant. An issue of fact, made
by the respondent’s answer, as to the
consent or ratification of the action of
the Board of Directors complained of,
through the acquiescence of the stock
holders for a conclusive period of time,
is held to be proper matter for a jury’s
•determination; and without deciding
this question, which it is indicated will,
perhaps, ultimately control the fate
of the bill, Judge Gibson has
declined to grant the prayer
of complainants upon the solo ground
that “irreparable injury” would ac
crue to respondents from euch action
on his part. The matter is thus left
free for further proceedings in equity,
while the parties to the bill are per
mitted to stand in statu quo■ We ven
ture to remark further, though, that
the drift of the learned judge’s
opinion intimates his position with
regard to the legal bearings of the
cause—namely, that the complain
ants are now estopped from objections
in the courts to the action of the exec
utive officers of the corporation, after
the lapse of so long a time and un
doubted notice and full knowledge of
this action, against which their voices
have not been raised earlier.
Bayard, of the Brooklyn Argus,
heard that copperas-water w ould res
tore gray hair to its natural color. He
now calls out: “You lie, sir—you lie !”
—Detroit Press.
ini' fails
FROM WASHINGTON.
Topics of the Capital.
Washington, May 15.—N0 successor
to Rush Burgess, Collector of the Rich
mond District, has yet been named.
The Indian prisoners confined at
Fort Leavenworth, are to be removed
to Fort Marion, Florida.
Judge Pierrepont and ex-Senator
Pratt assumed their positions to-day
as Attorney General and Commissioner
of Internal Revenue.
A terror stricken knave of Baltimore
sends to the Treasury over $3,000,
which he had withheld from the Treas-
ury.
The Post Office Department has
brought suit against the Postmaster at
Calvert, Texas, for a defalcation of
postal revenues amounting to several
hundred dollars. This is the fourth
successive postmaster who has been
prosecuted for embezzlement during
the past four years.
Foreign Postage.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order reducing the postage to and
from all countries with which postal
conventions have not been concluded,
from ten cents to five cents for each
half-ounce or fraction thereof.
Postage on Newspapers ami Maga
zines.
The Postmaster General to-day issued
the following order;
Ordered, That section 103 of the re
gulations of the Post Office Depart
ment be amended by striking out the
words, “and the subscription must be
for les3 than three months,” in the 7th
and Bth lines, and the section so amend
ed shall be as follows :
Section 103. A regular subscriber is a
person who has actually paid or un
dertaken to pay a subscription price
for a newspaper, magazine or other
periodical, or tor whom such payment
has been made, or undertaken to be
made, by some other person ; but in
the lattercase such payinentmust have
been made or undertaken with the
previous consent or at the previous re
quest of the person to whom such
newspaper, magazine, or periodical is
sent.
A person to whom any such publica
tion is seut, without his couseut or re
quest, is not a regular subscriber within
the meaning of the law, and double
transient rates of postage must be
charged and collected on such publica
tions before delivery.
[Signed | Marshal Jewell,
Post-master General.
Note to Postmasters.
Postmasters will observe that by this
amendment of the 103d section of the
regulations, persons who are subscrib
ers to a newspaper or periodical ; s de
fined in the regulation, are to be re
garded as regular subscribers within
the amendment of the postal laws,
without regard to the length of time
of their subscription.
Illness of Jesse D. Bright.
Washington, May 15. —Ex-Senator
Bright, formerly of Indiana and now a
resident of Baltimore, is lying there
dangerously ill with rheumatism of the
heart.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Ex-Empress Eugenie and Her Pay.
Paris, May 15.—M. Rouher informed
the Government that the ex-Empress
Eugenie will accept no compromise of
her claims on the civil list, aud will
bring an action demanding for the ful
fillment of the Convention concluded
by the Deßroglie Ministry.
The Catholics and the Attempt to
Shoot Bismarck.
Berlin, May 15.—The inquiry which
was instituted iuto the Catholic socie
ties of Berlin at the time of Kullmaa’s
attempt to shoot Prince Bismarck
has been closed. The public prose
cutor has made charges against their
directors, and the case will come up in
June.
Russia Determined to Preserve Peace.
London, May 15.—The fall Mall Ga
zette says that Russia, annoyed at Eng
land’s persistent refusal to participate
in the St. Petersburg conference, and
the coolness of the other countries, in
tends giving the force of law to the
declaration of the Brussels conference
negotiations, separately with the pow
ers, to induce their adherence thereto.
A Popular Emperor.
Vienna, May 15.—The Emperor
Francis Joseph, who has been making
a tour of his dominions, returned to
this city to-day, aud was enthusiasti
cally received by the populace.
The French Assembly.
Paris, May 15.—The National Assem
bly to-day rejected the principal clauses
of the saviug bank bill, aud it was
thereupon withdrawn by the committee
having it in charge. The Chamber ad
journed till Tuesday.
The Steamer Tonawanda Sinks a
Schooner.
Philadelphia, May 15.—The steamer
Tonawauda, from Savannah, which ar
rived at this port to-day. reports that
on the 10th instant, at 2:25 a. m., 20
miles northeast of Hatteras, during
thick weather, she collided with the
schooner H. P. Blaisdell, hence with
coul and locomotives for Havana. The
schooner sank almost immediately,
The mate and a seamau were drowned.
The captain and the remainder of the
crew were saved and brought to this
port. The H. P. Blaisdell was built at
Frauklio, Me., in 1872, 302 tons regis
ter, rated IJ, aud hailed from South
Yarmouth, Me.
Sailing of Six Steamers.
New York, May 15. —Six steamers
sailed for Europe to-day, taking out
1,006 cabiu aud 1,293 steerage passen
gers.
, Specie shipments for the week $2,-
223,115.
Deaths this week. 543.
Weekly imports were $4,550,862, in
cluding $1,339,776 for dry goods, the
remainder general merchandise.
A Suit for $1,386,400-
New York, May 15.—The rate of
duty to which hosiery and other
cotton goods were subject was paid up
on silks alleged to have been smuggled
til rough the appraiser’s office at au
under valuation by Chas. L. Lawrence.
Tho difference between silks which was
paid is, it is claimed, $1,336,400. Suit
was begun yesterday in the United
States District Court to recover that
amount from Thos. L. Lawrence.
Carruth, the Vineland editor who
was shot in the head, still lives; but
he will wish that he had died the next
day whe he sees his name in the St.
Louis Republisan spelled Carruti. —
Norristown Herald.
' Wii ■ 1
Don t copy articles from books or
newspapers and send them to us for
publication as original. We prefer to
to do our own stealing.— Cumberland
Democrat.
THE SCHILLER DLSASTER.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
BODIES RECOVERED.
Names of the Rescued Dead.
London, May 15. —One of tne Schil
ler's officers has informed a correspon
dent of the # Standard that many per
sons on board the steamer were drunk
when she struck , and that several fire
men and many steerage passengers lay
helpless until they were swept away by
the waves. Thus far about one hundred
and thirty bodies of the dead have been
recovered from the wreck of the Schil
ler. Of those which have been taken
from the water just lately are bodies of
the following persons : Jacob Bronner,
L. Fathrig, chief engineer of the Schil
ler ; Wm. Frahm, Davenport, lowa ;
Fritz Thomas, Marlemanh, Highland,
Illinois; Holm Leoard, (prabably one
of the Leonhardts of Augusta, Ga.);
Mrs. Leilhlin, Ohlsen, and the body of
a lady having a ring marked “Herman
Stinkeisen,” on one of her fingers ; the
bodies, of two firemen ; the bodies of
two sailors ; five bodies of females, and
bodies of some other of the passengers,
males, which remain unidentified.
[New York Sun.]
Ocean’s Greatest Terror.
The worst feature of the loss of the
Schiller is that it resulted from a cause
which is ever existeut, and for which
there is'noromedy. Fog cannot be
seen through with human eyes, and it
cannot be uplifted or removed by
human means. Every steamship that
crosses the ocean is liable to run for
hours, and for days in a fog so dense
that an approaching vessel could not
be seen in time to avoid a collision ; and
when nearing the shore a like risk is
run in regard to rocks and breakers.
This is a danger attendant upon the
great increase in the rapidity of trans
it, which science and art have not, as
yet, found any means to avert. To
run slower in a fog might diminish the
danger somewhat, but to be effective,
in any considerable degree, it would
have to be adopted by all the lines, go
ing both ways. And even then the trav
eling public would not tolerate it. Peo
ple will incur any amount of risk of
going to destruction rather than not to
go fast.
A Family Record Closed—Three Gen
erations Blotted Out on Earth.
[St. Louis Democrat.]
The terrible disaster to the steamer
Schiller closes the record of an entire
family, beloved and honored in St.
Louis. To all of our older citizens, Jo
seph Ridgway, of the copartnerships,
successively, of Erskine & Ridgway
and of Erskine, Gore & Ridgway, was
well known. In their day those firms
were among the largest and most
prominent in this city. Of their mem
bers, Mr. Greene Erskine alone sur
vives.
Atter these firms were dissolved Mr.
Ridgway devoted himself solely to the
care of ids private estate, residing in a
family mansion built by himself, on the
northeast corner of Seventh and Wal
nut streets, which he sold to General
Blair about 1855, at winch time he re
moved to the vicinity of Boston for the
education ot his two daughters—bis
only children. About 1858 he leased
the well-kuown residence of Horatio
Greenough, the celebrated sculptor, at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in which,
surrounded by its wealth of art, he re
mained until his daughters had finished
their studies at the school founded by
Professor Agassiz. At that time the
daughters of several St. Louis citizens
were also pupils at the same school.
Those school days having ended,
Mr. Riogwav, after a European
tour with# his family, returned with
them to St. Louis about 1860, and
purchased a residence on Lucas Place.
Among the young ladies then just en
tering society none were more lovely
and attractive than Misses Lizzie and
Clara Ridgway—the companions in
that brilliant circle of many who are
now young wives and mothers, resident
here and in Eastern cities. It was here,
about 1866, that Miss Lizzie became
the wife of Charles W. Walter, a mer
chant of New York, but previously a
partner in the firm of Thomas H. Lar
king Cos., of St. Louis. That mar
riage, with the consequent residence of
the married pair in New York, induced
the removal of the Ridgway family to
that city about the year 1865, where, to
be with his family, Mr. Ridgway pur
chased a residence ou Forty-third
street, anticipating that at last Ms
wanderings had ceased.
About the year 1868-’69. tiis younger
daughter’s health required, under the
advice of some eminent physicians, her
instant removal to Southern France.
Leaving the married daughter (Lizzie)
and her two children in New York, Mr.
and Mrs. Ridgway hurried with the
younger daughter (Clara) through
Paris, consulting there with Dr. Pope,
to the neighborhood of Nice.
The day after their arrival their
daughter died. The sorrowing parents
hastened home at once, with the dead
body, to learn for the first time, on
reaching New York, that their elder
daughter, with her children and hus
band, had been during the Winter and
was still at Montmorency, S. C., as the
last hope, under medical direction, of
saving her waning life.
Instantly the father and mother
joined her and the grand-children. In
the latter part of April Mr. Ridgway
telegraphed to a friend in. St. Louis of
the improved health of the invalid
daughter, and of his iutentiou to re
turn early in May with the remaining
family via St. Louis to New York, and
requested the needed accommodations.
The succeeding day brought a tele
gram from Mr. Walter that Mr. Ridg
way had suddenly died the previous
night, leaviug his wife invalid daugh
ter and little grand children iii South
Carolina, and that the survivors would
proceed directly to New York. A few
weeks later another dispatch sum
moned St. Louis friends to New York
to witness the departure for the Tyro
lean Alps of the surviving daughter.
During that summer repeated tele
grams gave encouraging accounts of
restored health, until at last came the
sad message that she had died, with-
out premonition, on the margin of a
lovely lake in Northern Italy. The af
flicted husbaud, grandmother and
grandchildren returned home, bearing
the remains of her for whom this last
European tour had been ventured. '
Thus, at length, through extraor
dinary suffering and affliction, the sad
remains of the family, the grandmother
and two little grand-children, with the
disconsolate son-in-law, reached New
York.
A few weeks ago a voyage of love
and devotion was planned. The grand
mother could not be content until she
had again visited the sad scenes in
Europe where her daughters had died.
Full of this thought, which she freely
communicated to her friends here, she
took passage on the ill-fated Schiller,
AUGUSTA, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 16, 1875.
with her niece, son-in-law, grandchil
dren and servant (an emancipated
slave of olden time.) The voyage was
one of devotion to the memory of her
departed daughters. Her thoughts
were solely of those in the spirit land,
and of the two grandchildren to whom
she so fondly clung.
Thus, ou this last and sacred mis
sion, the aged grandmother, with these
two little ones and their father, started
on the fateful voyage.
The sad news indicates that she and
those dearest to her have Sooner than
she expected met those loved ones, for
reunion with whom she pined daily,
yet with an ever agonizing fear that
she should go alone, leaving the dear
little ones to follow in an indefinite
thereafter. Her ho'iest wish is fulfill
ed—she and those little ones have gone
together ; all of the three generations
left a united family at last.
Within five years there have thus
disappeared three generations of that
one family.
All that ample fortune and human
skill could accomplish, and all that de
voted affection could achieve were in
vain, for despite them all this family
record was closed when the Schiller
went down into the ocean depth with
her precious freight of human life and
love.
It is seldom that thus, within so few
years, an entire family, favored by for
tune, passes away leaving so many
startled and sorrowing friends to la
ment their melancholy fate.
A MILLION DOLLAR TEMPLE.
Air Drawn from the Sky ami Artifi
cially Heated in Winter and Cooled
in Summer—What a Great Journal
ist Did.
Dr. Hall’s new Presbyterian Church
on Fifth avenue, New York, is briefly
described as follows:
The new edifice strikes the eye very
pleasantly. Although massive and ex
pensive, everything is plain and neat.
It is at Fifth avenue and Fifty-filth
street, frontiug 200 feet ou thelatter
and 100 on the former. The front, on
Fifth avenue, has two towers, the main
tower rising 300 feet above the side
walk, 14 feet higher than Trinity spire.
The other tovVer is 160 feet high. The
main entrance, with four double door
ways, is between the towers, and is ap
proached by a stone porch 40 feet
broad, with stone steps. Thero are
also five side entrances. There are two
other towers, that at the northwest cor
ner, 100 feet high, being an air shaft to
supply the church with fresh air, the
air being taken at the top. to have it
pure and free from dust. The princi
pal entrance opens into a vestibule 45
by 16 feet. The auditorium is 100 feet
deep on the main floor, 136 feet deep
on the gallery, 85 feet wide, and 60 feet
high, with seats for 2,000 persons. The
[tews are arranged in concentric curves,
every seat commanding a full view of
the pulpit. The ground floor and gal
leries are inclined as in a theatre. There
is a finely carved canopy over the pul
pit, and above this is a gallery for the
choir and the large organ.
The ceiling is of wood, with hand
somely decorated panels and moulded
ribs. There are twenty-four large and
twenty-four small windows. Each
window has two sets of sashes, glazed
with stained glass. Gas jets have been
put. between the sashes, so that at the
evening services the stained glass may
be seen both inside and out. The space
between the two sashes is a large ven
tilating flue, drawing the air from the
church through the perforated panels
of the wainscoting, the current being
increased by the heat of gas burners
within the space. Every gas burner in
the church is hidden by ornamental
glass work, and supplied with ventilat
ing flues, giving a mellow light very
pleasing to the eye.
The air tower at the northwest cor-
ner supplies pure air, which is drawn
by a fan in the cellar at the base of the
tower, aud is worked by a ten-horse
power steam engine. Ten feet above
the floor of the tow r er, inside, a perfo
rated water pipe extends around the
walls, making a shower to cool the air
in the Summer and free it from dust if
necessary. The entire cellar floor can
also be sprinkled to cool the air. The
fan is of iron, seven feet in diameter,
and can make 220 revolutions a min
ute, forcing 30,000 cubic feet of pure
air iuto the church every minute. The
entire cellar is an air and heating
chamber, into which the fan delivers
the air, the ceiling being covered with
a net-work of steam-heating pipes. Be
fore the air enters the auditorium it
passes over the steam pipes and is
warmed. The warm air enters the
body of the church through movable
slats under the benches of every pew,
aud every person in the pew can have
warm or cold air at his feet, as he
chooses. When the cold air is forced
into the auditorium it enters fifty feet
above the heads of the congregation,
so that there can be no draft. The
steam for heating is generated in two
fifty-horse power boilers.
The bellows of the worked
by tr hydraulic apparatus 1 , the water
being supplied from a tank in the prin
cipal tower, 125 feet above the side
walk, a powerful steam-pump forcing
the water from a cistern iu the cellar
into the tank, which holds 6,000 gal
lons. Near the tank are the lire hose,
through which the entire building can
be deluged in a few minutes. The cellar
walls are double, with a space between
to exclude dampness, aud all the drain
and water pipes are thoroughly ventil
ated.
In the rear of the main auditorium
is a hall ten feet wide, with two wide
stairways leading to the galleries.
Next to the hall, in the rear, is thtf
chapel or lecture-room, 75 by 45 feet
and 25 feet high, with a large gallery
on one end and ladies parlors on the
other, having accommodations for 700
persons. There is also a trustees’
room and a minister’s room. Over the
lecture-room is the Sunday school
room, with three galleries. There are
also several large class-rooms and a
library. Over the class-rooms is a flat
for the assistant sexton and his family.
All the pews, galleries, fronts, organ
case and all the interior joiner’s work
are of the best ash wood, polished.
The building committee are James
Fraser, R. L. Stuart, the Hon. John A.
Stewart, Harvey Fisk, Robert Bonner,
and Moses G. Baldwin. A large part
of the $1,000,000 outlay has already
been raised, Robert Bonner alone
having subscribed SIOO,OOO.
Injunction against the Sale of the Ma
con and Brunswick Railroad.
Augusta, Ga., May 15. —John P.
Branch, of Virginia, has applied for an
injunction in the United States Court
in Savannah, to restrain the sale of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, which
is advertised to take place in June, on
the ground that no provision is made
for the pay moot of the second series of
bonds endorsed by the State, and re
pudiated by the Legislature, a portion
of said bonds being held by Branch.
Arguments in the case will be held on
Monday, before J udge Bradley.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Tlie Wonderful Water Works —Pota-
to Farming—Criminal Docket—Peni
tentiary Convicts—Young Men’s Li
brary, Etc.
IFrom Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, May 14,1875.
What on earth will become of the
Atlanta people when the water shows
itself in the pipes. They are as near
crazy now over the matter as you could
wish them. They crowd around the
gang engaged in laying the pipes, and
pompously point.jiyth perilous pride
to the upward stride their progressive
city is making. You can get up any
hour in the night aud find a knot or so
of the average citizens sitting around
a hydrant discussing the subject. They
watch at the trains, and when a strang
er shows his face, they nab him and
walk him over the territory laid with
pipes and inform him at every jump
that it is a settled fact that we are to
have water works.
These Atlanta fellows can go plomb
crazy over a little spurt of enterprise,
and blow louder than any set of peo
ple on the top side of the earth. They
have got it into their heads that the
town is so much like New York that
the two cities aie kin—say, twins.
The course of the main pipe lies
over only the business portion of the
city. Only those dwellings which ad
join stores, or lie in the route from
the works will be benefited. The en
gines have arrived, and every effort is
being made to commence the fun. 11
it could cleanse the city of its wicked
ness and rascality as effectually as
Hercules did the Augean stables by
letting two rivers run into them, it
would not only prove a boon to Geor
gia, but be regarded as a national
blessing.
Potato Farming.
Last Winter a number of Atlanta
men bought 200 acres of land near
West Point and planted the same en
tirely iu sweet potatoes. A Mr. Moore
planted, also, 100 acres which adjoined
the other. They calculate to make
20,000 bushels from the 300 acres, for
which they expect to get at say 50c. per
bushel SIO,OOO. They aggregate the
cost of planting and cultivation at
$2,000 If they succeed there is SB,OOO
clear profit, which knocks the socks off
cotton.
Criminal Docket.
Sentence of death has been pro
nounced on John Purifoy and Jacob
Stufford (colored), for the murder of
John Case}, a while man, iu January
last; also, on Alfred Airing (colored),
for the murder of Jos. Mayfield (also
colored), iu March last. Both of these
murders were unprovoked, cruel and
villainous. They had an impartial trial,
but the guilt was too plain, and they
will now sway their bodies in mid-air
on Friday, June 4th.
The Penitentiary Convicts.
It is bad enough to be seut to the
penitentiary, or to be punished in any
way, but wfieu it comes to real genuine
Uibumau treatment, justice ought to
rise up aud protest. The Governor
has taken from George D. Har
ris in Bartow county fifty con
victs hired to him by the State to labor
in and Bartow Iron Works. The
cause of the Governor annulling the
lease is because of barbarous treat
ment at the hands of Harris or his
overseers. If the statement of ill
treatment is true something more than
annulling the lease should be done in
the premises. In my opinion the leas
ing out of convicts is absolutely wrong.
They are hired for a song, take the
places that should be given to houest,
law-abiding men, and are a source of
constant trouble to the State, to say
nothing of the abundant facilities af
forded for their escape. Give us the
old penitentiary again.
The Young Men’s Library.
Possibly tiie best thing in Atlanta, is
her Young Men’s Library. Beyond all
doubt, it deserves praise from every
quarter—as an item for your excellent
association of the same ilk, I give a
few figures takeu from the annual re
port of the officers—number of volumes
on hand, 5,487 ; added during last year,
1,425 ; it receives 69 periodicals, lias a
membership of 655 aud circulated du
ring the year 17,500 volumes. Iu
tiuances—it received during the year
$412.69 from lectures ; from initiation
fees and dues $2,558.65 ; from exposi
tion, or fair, $2,805.94 ; from donations
$25.
Mr. John Flynn, for a long time its
able President, resigned at the annual
meeting, and Prof. B. Mallon, of the
Public Schools, is the probable succes
sor. By the way there is a good joke
on the Professor. It is said thaf be
fore he came here he was only Barney
Malone, but now lie has given his name
an aristocratic twist and is now Ber
nard Mallon.
Ben Hill.
Ben Hill’s speech on Wednesday
night was a good one, but not rated as
one of the kind Ben can make. Perhaps
he is reserving his fire for the halls of
Congress. He said he was a friend to
conventions, hut deprecated the use of
them to defeat the will of the people,
giving by way of illustration the re
cent action of the Gainesville farce.
He felt gratified at the result of the
election, and, bedad, who wouldn’t if
in his place—and was glad to have had
the chance of going before the people
square out, aud having an expression
of their feelings toward him by means
of the ballot. He had a large audience,
and the boys were very enthusiastic—
even if Ben does live in another city,
aud was elected by another district
than theirs. * Roanoke.
Ground and Lofty TuTnbling.
[New York lierald.l
At Trenton, N. J., Monday afternoon,
three men named Edward Clark, Mi
chael Mack and Si Cobert, while work
ing on the third story of anew brick
building in this city, became involved
in a quairel, which led to blows, and
resulted in all of them falling to the
ground on the top of each other, bricks,
mortar and other material tumbling
with them. They were picked up
in a bruised condition, bleeding pro
fusely and almost insensible. Broken
limbs, bruised bodies and cut heads
were left as memorials of the advent
urous light. Mack’s injuries are dan
gerous, if not fatal, and those of the
others very serious. Mack and Clark
originated the quarrel on the verge of
the dangerous eminence, and Cobert
interfered to make peace, which c aused
considerable wrangling and the result
as stated. The wounded men were car
ried to their homes on stretchers, sur
rounded by crowds of men, women
and children, when medical aid was
summoned. The occurrence created
considerable excitement.
Springfield, Mass., May 15. Sam’l
White, a prominent citizen of Ludlow,
was bitten in the thigh by a boar this
forenoon, and bled to death before as
sistance could reach him.
GOSSIP ABOUT LORD BYRON.
His Second Daughter.
[Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie in the Philadel
t phia Press.]
Leaving England for Ostend on April
25, 1813, Lord Byron visited the battle
field of Waterloo, after which, follow
ing the course of the Rhine, and luxu
riating on the beauty and variety of its
picturesque scenery, he reached Gene
va, where he took up his abode in the
Hotel Secheron, on the western shore
of the lake. Here, soon after, came
Shelley, the poet, whom he had never
met before, though there was some
family tie between them. Shelley’s
party included two ladies, one or whom,
then bearing the brevet title of his
“wife,” was the daughter of William
Godwin, philosopher aud novelist, and
Mary Wolfstonecraft, author of “A
Vindication of the Rights of Women”—
a pair of free lovers who had lived to
gether for six months before, in defer-
ence to the opinion of the world, but in
violation of their own publicly declared
principles, they became man and wife.
Mrs. Godwin died in childbirth in Sep
tember, 1797, leaving a daughter, Mrs.
Shelley, who gave ample and early
proofs that she inherited much of her
parents’ powers. In 1801 Godwin mar
ried a second time, the lady being a
Mrs. Ciairmont, whose daughter Jane,
by her first husband, was also a mem
ber of Shelley’s household at Geneva.
In August, 1811, Percy Bysshe Shel
ley had married, when nineteen, a
young lady whose age was sixteen. The
results were two children, and a sepa
ration which took place iu 1813. Soon
after, Miss Godwin, who had frequent
ly met Shelley at her father’s and was
no' seventeen, was persuaded by him
to leave her home and live with him on
the Continent, until the autum of 1815,
but finally returned to Switzerland in
in 1816, accompanied, as before, by
Miss Ciairmont. Shelley’s first wife
committed suicide in November, 1816,
alter Byron bad left Geneva, and, in
December following, the rites of mar
riage gave Miss Godwin a legal right to
be called Mrs. Shelley. Her last sur
viving child, born in Italy, in Novem
ber, 1819, is the present Sir Percy Flo
rence Shelley, Baronet.
In Geneva, after Shelley had trans
ferred himself to a small villa on the
eastern shore of the lake, Byron re
moved to Villa Diodati, within ten min
utes’ walk of his new friends, with
whom his intercouse became con
stant aud familiar. The two poets
wrote a good deal, and Miss Shelley
composed the “wild and wondrous tale”
of Frankenstein —certainly a surpris
ing production for a woman not then
nineteen years old.
Byron’s mind was in fullest activity
during his residence in Geneva, which
lasted from the middle of June to the
beginning of October, when he went to
Venice. At the end of June he wrote to
Murray, his publisher, that, in the two
months since he left England, he had
composed a third canto of “Childe
Harold,” containing 117 stanzas. In two
days of July, when weather bound at a
country inn, he wrote “The Prisoner of
Chillon,” and the “Monody on Sheri
dan,” with the poems called “The
Dream aud Darkness,” aud a consider
able portion of “Manfred,” also show
his mind’s remarkable fertility ut this
period. Besides he visited most parts
of Switzerland that were of interest
and curiosity, his friend, Mr. Hobhouse,
aocomoanyiug him through the Ber
nese Alps.
Early in the summer of 1818, when
Byron was living in Venice, a Swiss
bonne, or nurse, brought to him a fe
male child which had been sent to him
by Miss Jane Ciairmont, with whom he
had been only too intimate during her
residence with the Shelleys in the au
tumn of 1816. It is stated by the
Countess Guiccioli that this young lady
bad “forced herself on Byron, who
wished to have nothing to do with
her.” All that is subsequently known
of her is that she returned to England.
In Byron’s very copious correspond
ence she is only mentioned once, when
he acknowledges the receipt, through
Murray, iu May, 1820, of a letter “from
the mother of Aliegra.”
However unexpected and unwelcome
little Aliegra may have been, Byron
soon took her to his heart. His estab
lishment in Venice did not include a
single female servant, and therefore
the child, then about fifteen months
old, and her Swiss nurse, were most
unhappily placed. Mrs. Hoppner, wife
of the British Counsel-General ut
Venice, kindly took charge of Aliegra
for the next two years. In 1869, Mr.
Hoppner, commenting on Madame Guc
cioii’s mention of him iu her book, says
that Aliegra “was not by any means an
amiable child, nor was Mrs. Hoppner,
nor I, particularly fond of her.”
Aliegra is frequently mentioned iu
Byron’s letters. To Moore, in Septem
ber, 1818, when she-had been a few
months with him, he says, “ I have
here my natural daughter, by name Ai
lagra, a pretty little girl enough, and
reckoned like her papa. Her mamma
is English, but it is a long story, aud—
there’s au end. She is about twenty
months old.” This accords with the
statement iu Karl Elze’s Life of Byron,
that she was “ born in February, 1817.”
In the autumn of 1818, Shelley visited
Venice, where he wrote the poem of
“Julian .and Maddalo,” in which By
ron is Maddaio, Julian being intended
for himself. In the following beautiful
lines he described the Child at that
time :
The following morn was rainy, cold, and
dim;
Ere Maddalo arose I called on him;
And, while I waited, with his child I played;
A lovelier toy sweet nature never made;
A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being.
G- aceful without design and unforseeing,
With eyes—Oh! speak not of her eyes,
which seem
Twin mirrors of Italian heaven, yet gleam
With such deep meaning as we never see
But in the human countenance. With me
She was a special favorite;l had nursed
Her fine and feeble limbs, when she came
first
To this bleak world; and yet she seemed to
know,
In second sight, her ancient play fellow,
Loss changed than she was, by some six
mouths or so;
For, after her first shyness was worn out,
We sat there, rolling billiard balls about,
When the Count entered.
In June, 1819, writiQg to Murray, his
publisher, from Bologna, Byron says :
My daughter Allegra was well, too,
and is growing pretty; her hair is
growiug darker, and her eyes are blue.
Her temper and her ways. Mr. Hopp
ner says, are like mine, as well as her
features ; she will make, iu that case,
a manageable young lady.”
In fact, when she was four years old,
she had become mistress of the ser
vants, and wholly unmanageable,
though her father described her as
“ flourishing hke a pomegranate blos
som.” He sent her to the Convent of
Bagna-Cavalli, a few miles from Ra
venna, where he then resided, to
receive an Italian rather than
English education, because, with
ihe dis idvautagos of her birth, her
after settlement would be doubly
difficult. “ Abroad,” he wrote “ with
a fair foreign education, and a portion
of five or six thousand pounds, she
might and may marry respectably In
England such a dowry would be a pit
tance, while elsewhere it is a fortuue ”
In point of fact, by a codicil to his will
dated Noveml>er, 1818, when she was
twenty months old, Byron bequeathed
five_ thousand pounds to Aliegra Biron
(so it was writt en) to be paid to her on
attaining the age of twenty-one years
or on the day of her marriage" “on
condition that she does not marry with
a native of Great Britain.” It was his
wish that she should be a Roman
Catholic, “which,” he added, “Hook
upon as the best religion, as it assured
ly is the oldest of the various branches
of Christianity.”
The child seemed healthy and happy
in her convent, and therefore, in April,
1822, Byron received a great shock
from the announcement of her death
by fever. He was in Pisa at the time,
and the mournful news, conveyed to
him by the Countess Guiccioli, affected
j iuui so deeply that she feared for his
reason. Without any delay Byron wrote
to Mr. Murray, in London, announcing
the death of Aliegra, and his intention
of having her privately buried in Eng
land—“in Harrow Churchyard,” he
said, “where I hud once hoped to have
laid my own remains.” He alleged as
a reason for this that “Protestants are
not allowed holy ground ia Catholic
countries.” A month later he advised
Murray that the body, which was em
balmed and in lead, had been sent to
England by sea, aud that he desired it
to be interred at the entrance of Har
row Church, near a particular niouu
meut, “on the left hand as you enter,”
and a marble tablet <Vas to be placed ou
the wall, with this inscription:
In Memory of
Allegha,
___, Daughter of G. G. Lord Byron,
Who died at Bagna-Oavalli, in Italy,
April 2Jth, 1822,
Aged Five Years and Three Months.
I shall go to her, but she shall not return
to me.”— 2 Samuel, xii 28.
Moore, who visited Harrow School in
1827, to collect some material for the
biography of Byron, appears to have
ascertained only that the above in
scription was objected to there, because
it proclaimed to be the memorial of
an illegitimate child. He did not ascer
tain whether any inscription was put
up, or, indeed, whether Aliegra Byron
really was interred at Harrow.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
JUDGE WILLIAM GIBSON'S DE
CISION.
Injunction Refused—The Directors
Authorized to Proceed and Perfect
the Purchase of the Western Rail
road of Alabama.
G. P. Cozart et al. vs. Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company—Application for
Injunction, etc, in Richmond Superior
Court.
Gibs jn, J. —After a careful review of
the numerous decisions of the courts,
both of England and America, upon
the powers and duties of corporations
and the rights of shareholders, I am
clearly of the opinion that every share
holder iu a corporation hath an abso
lute and unqualified property in his
shares and all the net profits arising
therefrom, which should not be con
trolled by States, courts, individuals
or the corporation, except in the man-
ner prescribed iu the charter or grant
of power (except it may be for
that class of shareholders who by law
are required to have guardians to man
age for them). Every man should feel
secure in every species of property, be
it houses, lands, or stocks and bonds,
and the rents and proflts accruing
therefrom ; and each owner is entitled
to determine for himself what is to his
interest or advantage. Provided he in
jures no one nor violates sound fixed
law or principles of reason and justice,
neither States, courts, corporations,
persons nor combinations of persons,
can or ought to question his right to
control and direct his own.
The statement of this proposition
in its broadest sense is conclusive of
complainants’ first proposition that
no Boards of Xfirectors, Presidents
or others of a corporation, with or
without seals or valuable considera
tions, can divert the dividends due from
complainants’shares of stock in the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany to the constructing of other works
or roads, or payment of hoods or cou
pons, other than those of the Gteorgia
Railroad and Banking Company, con
tracted in the legitimate discharge of the
duties of the building, constructing and
running of said Rairoad and Bank. Ii
they can divert the net profits from the
shareholders ratably just because they
are shareholders, they can assess shares
and the individual property of the
shareholders. Legally that which a
man is entitled to as net proflts
arising from his shares, is as much
nis own as that which he already
has in possession; and any unauthor
ized use or appropriation of a share
holder’s net profits- arising from his
shares iu their legitimate use, is not
only illegal, but would entitle the own
er to action for its recovery. All the
decisions of every intelligent court,
who recognizes the individual rights of
the citizen to the free use and enjoy
ment of his property of every kind and
description, have been in favor of per
sonal control and direction of all prop
erty belonging to the individual and
against all encroachments. I am aware
that this may sound harshly to those
agents or servants, who from long con
trol, custody or management may as
sume to act for others and with
others’ effects as though they were
their owu, without being personally
responsible for consequences; yet such,
in my judgment, is the law. Conceding,
then, the rights of the shareholders to
the net profits in the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company, no action
of any Board or servants can divert
them from their true channel into the
pockets of the shareholders, however
good may be the intentions of said ser
vants, or honest and conscientious
their actions. When every man under
stands that others have rights and sen
sibilities of wrongs and courage to as
sert and maintain them, with courts to
intelligibly construe and execute the
laws, then may we hope to have law
observing and law-obeying citizens.
The grant of power in the original
charter and several amendments, in
cluding that of February, 1875, is
certainly ample and full so far as
the State is concerned, as to purchas
ing, and perhaps as to endorsements.
I will not here question or discuss this
proposition ; for if it was not ample,
I doubt not, under our present system
of legislating, ample and plenary
power could be obtained.
The respondents set up in their
answer, however, a more difficult ques
tion to contend with (and in that por
tion of their answer would seem to
concede the want of right or power
even with legislative authority) and
assert a ratification or consent of
complainants, either actual or con-
-New Series— Vol. 3. ISTo. 96
strueuve. And here I am met with
a question of fact, or of law*, and fact
mixed; and where no irreparable
injury is alleged or shown, I feel that
a Chancellor would be acting strictly In
accordance with (ho spirit and genius
of our institutions to call in the aid of
a jury to determine the issue of fact
made by the bill and the respondent’s
answer.
For this reason I feel constrained to
refuse the injunction asked until a
nearing by a jury of the questions of
the factum of consent or ratification,
either actual or constructive, of the
several acts complained of.
Let this bill be filed, and the usual
writs and copies issue in terms of the
suc h oases made and provided.
(Signed) Wm. Gibson,
Judge Superior Courts,
T , Augusta Circuit.
In Chambers, May 15th, 1875.
ENABLING ACT.
Full Text of the Bill Authorizing the
Purchase of the Western Railroad
of Alabama by the Georgia and the
Central.
An Act to authorize and provide for
the purchase of the Western Railroad
of Alabama, its property and fran
chises, by the Georgia Railroad and
•Banning Company, or by either of
them, and to authorize said companies
to issue bonds in certain cases, and to
authorize connecting lines to aid in
said purchase and issue bonds there
for, anti for other purposes.
Whereas, The Western Railroad of
Alabama and all the property and fran
chises pertaining to the same, b th
real and personal and mixed, which
road extends from Columbus and West
Point, Georgia, to Opelika in Alabama,
and then uniting extends westward via
Montgomery to Selma, are likely to be
sold at an early day under judgement
or decree of a Court of Chancery or
other competent tribunal in Alabama,
and that part of said property lying in
Georgia, likely to be sold under judg
ment or decree of some competent tri
bunal in the latter State;
And whereas, Communication over
said Western Railroad with the West
and Southwest and with the contem
plated Southern Pacific Transcontinen
tal Railroad is of great importance and
benefit to the people of this State;
Section I.—Therefore, Be it enacted
by the General Assembly of tbe State
of Georgia, that the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company and the Central
Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia be, and they are, hereby au
thorized to become tbe purchasers of
said Western Railroad of Alabama, its
piopertv and franchises, or any part
thereof, at any sale or sales of the same
that may be had in Georgia or Alabama
or both, and may hold the title to the
same under their existing corporate
capacities, or may acquire aud hold
stock in the present Western Railroad
Compauy of Alabama or any new cor
poration that shall be organized to take
the place of tbs same under the laws
of either the State of Georgia or Ala
bama or both, upon such terms as to
their relative rights and interests as
said two Georgia companies have or
may agree upon, and it they fail to so
agree then either of the two shall be
authorized to proceed alone in the
premises and to purchase and hold
separately as aforesaid ; aud power to
make all contracts and do all acts ne
cessary or proper for said purposes is
hereby conferred on said corporations,
so far as not already existing in th<‘ir
charters respectively.
Sec. 2. Bo it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That it shall bo
lawful for either the said Georgia
Railroad aud Banking Company and
the said Central Railroad and Banking
Company, or both, to make any cou
traet with the owner of or persons con
trolling any connecting line of railroad,
by which such connecting line or lines
may aid in supplying the means for
and effecting said purchase and be in
terested in the same upon such terms
as the parties may respectively agree
on ; and all contracts then made shall
be in all respects valid and biuuiug
upon the several corporations concern
ed, as if originally contained in their
charters respectively.
Sec. 3.—Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said
Georgia Railroad and Banking Compa
ny and the said Central Railroad and
Banking Company be, and they are,
hereby authorized conjointly or sepa
rately to issue their bonds to such ex
tent as may be necessary to effect such
purchase and the objects of this act
not exceeding the amount of the bonds
secured by two first mortgages and
one second mortgage as described in
the record of the Chancery suit and
decree rendered in Montgomery coun
ty, Ala., under which said property is
already advertised for sale, which
several mortgages amount in gross to
two millions five hundred aud uinty
five thousand dollars (82,595,000), or
near that sum, besides interest; and
the owners, companies or persons con
trolling said connecting lines be, and
they are, hereby authorized to issue
their bonds respectively to the extent
that they may become interested in
said purchase.
Sec. 4.—Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That all laws aud
parts of laws in conflict with this act
be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
(Signed) Tuo. Hardeman, Jr.,
Speaker House of Reps.
J. li. Sweat,
Clerk House of Reps.
T. J. Simmons,
President of Senate.
J. W. Mdrphy,
Secretary ol Senate.
Approved;
February 27th, 1875.
James M. Smith,
Governor.
The Ninth District.
Below we give the votes of all the
counties in the recent Congressional
election in the Ninth District;
Hill. Estes. Price.
Clarke 1,005 64 4
Hall 13 49/ 134
Oconee 290 35 ....
Gwinnett 1,135 K 1 ....
Morgan 639 376 ....
Jackson 794 152 7
Madison 291 164 1
White 79 363 9
Banks 110 321 14
Habersham 290 236 40
Lumpkin 93 24 351
Rabun 112 66 40
Forsyth 137 120 251
Fannin... 8 64 ,51
Dawson .. 106 148
Franklin 372 163 19
Pickens... 152 8 19
Union 11l 133 19
Total 6.210 2,942 1.209
Hill over Estes 3,268. Over Price,
5,001 over both 2,059.
A gun factory in Upper Austria is
making 250,000 rifles for Germany. It
has delivered 180,000, and has received
a further order for 75,000. A \ ieuna
firm is reported to be executing a Ger
man order for 30,000,000 for delivery
in June.