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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
TUESDAY, May 18, 1875.
Snow storm in Canada Saturday
night. This may be regular with the
blue-nosed Kanueks, but it Is eccentric
to us. Wouldn’t give an acre gopher
patch in Georgia for a whole county in
such a country I
After a silence of more than a month,
Don Carlos has again commenced the
civil war in Spain. The same old story
comes along the wives—he rushed up
to a town—threw iu a hundred terrible
shells—was repulsed by the Aifonsists
—no loss on either side. It is about
the poorest excuse for a war we ever
heard of.
Thb New York Herald has a lively
dispatch from London declaring that it
has been found out there tiiat Moody
and Sankey, the American revivalists,
are nothing more or less than a specu
lation of P. T. Barnum. It is rich read
ing when it places these street preach
ers as an opposition line to Manning,
MoCloskey and the Pope of Rome.
The North Carolinians are banking
heavily upon their Mecklenburg Cen
tennial, which comes off on next Thurs
day. They have a flue programme
to carry out—a procession, a good deal
of military with some artillery and
brass band—and of course thundering
speeches by the best orators that can
be obtained. The whole to wind up
with a grand ball.
As will be seen by the Montgomery
dispatch this morning, the injunction
prayed for by Branch, Sons & Cos., re
straining the purchase of the Western
Alabama Railroad by the Georgia has
been refused by the Chancellor. lie
tells them if they have any rights they
can get them notwithstanding the sale,
which is pretty much the language of
Judge Gibson.
General Mcßae has not yet accepted
the position of Superintendent of the
Georgia Railroad, to which he was re
cently elected. Our Atlanta letter
foreshadows, however, what ho Intends
to do, but there is doubt as to whether
lie will make his headquarters in At
lanta or Augusta. The General must
remember that the headquarters of the
road are still in Augusta.
We are sorry Gen. Bkeckinridob
grows worse Instead of better. He has
such a powerful constitution we still
have strong hopes, although the tele
graph seems to regard him as slowly
sinking. The whole South would re
ceive the news of his death as a great
calamity.
Midnight,— Since writing the above,
intelligence has reached us that this
great man is dead. A sketch of his
•eventful life will be found in another
column.
Minor Telegrams.
St. Locjis, May 16.—The Democrats
elected their Mayor.
San Francisco, May 16.—Lick has
made anew deed of trust, in which he
pinches some and swells others.
Boston, May 16.—Five hundred whis
key packages, valued at two hundred
thousand dollars, were seized, to be
held during an Investigation. The gov
ernment gives no security for leakage
through bung and spigots or gimlet
holes.
Houston, Texas, May 16.—Alderman
John Meagher’s residence, with three
men, was burned.
New Haven, May 16.—The drying
house of the Aferidian Woolen Com
pany was burned. Loss, 850,000.
Philadelphia, May 17.—The jury la
the Gerdenmn ease came into court at
twelve o’clock and stated that they
could not agree, and were discharged.
PERILS OF THE SEA.
Another Steamship Aground—Wreck
of a Schooner.
St. Thomas, Quebec, May 17.—The
steamship Polynesia, went aground
near here Saturday night during a
snow storm.
New York, May 17.—The steamer
Ashland, from Savannah, reports May
13, 6 p. in., Frying Pan light ship, N. E.
live miles, passed the schooner Henry
N. Bevens sunk, with the orew on board
the lightship. It was blowing a gale.
She could not communicate with the
light ship to take the crew off.
A Fatal Steamship Collision in the
Chinaßeas.
Quebec, May 17.—'The Polynesia,
which was ashore in the St. Lawrence,
floated and proceeded.
San Francisoo, May 17.—A collision
occurred on the 4th of April, off the
•coast of China, between the Chinese
teamsu*p Fusing and the British
steamship Ocean. The Fusing foun
dered almost instantly, causing the
loss of fifty lives. The Ocean was
seriously injured, but succeeded In
reaching Wusing. An investigation Is
proceeding.
Santander, May 17.—The Carlists
have stopped firing on Guetaiia and
are preparing to attack Renteria.
A exchange says : *' Prof. Wm. L.
Broun, of the Univeristy of Georgia,
read a paper on cyclones before the re
cent session of the Georgia Teachere*
Association. There is not a man in
Georgia of more depth than Professor
Broun.”
Not one. His theory that cyclones
are not caused by electricity is “ too
deep ” for the understanding.—Colum
bus Times.
* ¥ sir - 1 ♦ i y ♦ r ♦ *
m fails (Eommntuinaiist
FROM WASHINGTON.
Appointment—The Whiskey Elephant
—Decisions of the Court of Claims.
Washington, May 17. —The President
this morning appointed Otis 11. Russoll
Collector of Intarnal Revenue, for the
Third District of Va., vice Rush Bur
gees, resigned.
C. C. Sheets, Sixth Auditor, has been
granted leave until the first of July.
It is thought Auditor Sheats’ leave of
absence to Ist of July means ad infini
tum.*
Bristow and Attorney General Pierre
pont had a prolonged consultation to
day about the whiskey fiasco. It is
understood the elephant has been
placed upon Commissioner Pratt’s
shoulders.
The Court of Claims to-day delivered
au opinion in the case of Alexander L.
P. Green, who, in 1863, was convicted
in Nashville, but just before the cap
ture of that city went further south,
taking with him a large amount of
money of a firm for whom he was au
endorser. When leaving he was pos
sessed of certain buildings in Nash
ville, which in 1864 were seized by su
pervising treasury agents as abandoned
property'. The claimant averred in his
petition that he was always a legal cit
izen, but this the court said did not
strengthen his case as he voluntarily
entered the enemy’s lines. The act of
seizure of the property was a
war measure and it makes no
difference whether it was seized by the
army or a treasury agent. The claim
ant sought to recover on the ground of
an implied contract, and the liability of
the Government for the acts of its offi
cers. The court say no action can be
be maintained on that ground, and that
if the claimant was entitled to recov
er he ought to have prosecuted his case
under, the abandoned property act,
which he failed to do. The case was
dismissed. The court also decided
the case of the Corliess Steam
Engino Company. The claimant
had contracted with the Navy De
partment for the construction of
steam engines. Subsequently the De
partment decided not to complete the
engines, and, in accordance with a
written agreement, the company de
livered the boilers, engines and appur
tenances at the Boston Navy Yard, in
their unfinished condition. The court,
through Chief Justice Drake, said the
agreement between the claimant and
the Navy Department was singularly
clear and altogether free from taint. It
was the duty of the Government to
comply strictly with its obligations to
tho contractor. Judgment was given in
behalf of the claimant to the amount
of 8257,688.
A motion was made by the Assistant
Attorney General for anew trial iu the
Elgoe cotton ease.
The opinion in the Pacific Railroad
transportation cases will not be an
nounced before next Monday, to which
time the court has adjourned.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Sporting News-Gen. Breckinridge
Slowly Dyiug.
Louisville, May 17.—An extra race
has been arranged for the opening of
tho Jockey Club Spring meeting to-day,
for which sixteen horses were prompt
ly entered. Forty-three horses will
start during the day’s races, being a
larger number than ever started on one
day.
Lexington, May 17.—The condition
of Gen. Breckinridge remains un
changed. lie is still cheerful and
seems to be much less concerned at his
condition than those around him. He
has the papers read to him and con
vesces with his few chosen friends who
are admitted. Some of his more hope
ful friends entertain hopes of his re
maining with them for some time, but
experienced persons see he cannot re
main much longer and is liable to be
called away at any moment. His pulse
is very weak. Many of his relatives
and friends from abroad are here to be
with him in bis last hours.
Death of Gen. Breckinridge:
Lexington, May 17.—John C. Breck
enridge is .dead.
Sketch of Ilis Life.
John Cabell Breckinridge was born
near Lexington, Ky., January 21, 1821.
He was educated at Centre College,
Danville, studied law at the Transyl
vania Institute, and settled at Lexing
ton. At the breaking out of the Mexi
can war he was elected Major of the
Third Regiment of Kentucky Volun
teers, but had little opportunity for
active service. After the war he
was elected to the House of
Representatives of Kentucky, and
In 1851 was chosen to Congress, and In
1853 was re-elected after u violent and
protracted contest. During the first
session of the 33rd Congress, In the
course of the discussion of the Kansas-
Nebraaka bill, he was involved iu a
personal altercation with Mr. F. B. Cut
ting, a member from New York, leading
to tho preliminaries for a duel, which,
however did not take place. Upon the
accession of President Pierce ho was
offered the Ministry to Spain, but de
clined it. In 1856 tye was elected
Vice President, In conjunction with
Buchanan as President. In 1860
the disunion delegates In the
Democratic National Convention,
having separated from the supporters
of S. A. Douglass, nominated Mr.
Breckinridge for President, and he re
celved he electoral votes of all the
Southern States except Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tenneesoe and Missouri. In the
same year he wus elected United States
Senator.
After defending tho Southern Con
federacy in the Senate, he went South,
entered the army, and rose to tho rank
of Major General. He was repulsed In
an attack on Baton Kouge in August,
1861, commanded a corps under Bragg
at Stono River at the end of 1862, and
at Chicamauga iu September, 1863; de
feated Sigel at Newmarket in May,
1864, participated in Early’s advance
on Washington In July of that year,
and shared In the defeat at Winchester
in September. In January, 1865, he
was appointed Confederate Secretary
of War. After the surrender of Gen.
Lee he went to Europe, whence he re
turned in 1868, and again went to Lex
ington, resuming the practice of law.
FROM MONTGOMERY.
The Chancellor Denies and Overrules
the Motion of Branch, Sons &, Cos.
Montgomery, May 17.—The Chancel
lor denied and overruled the motion of
Branch & Sous, and others, to be made
parties to proceedings for the sale of
the Western Railroad and have the
sale set aside. He said that any right
they had could be asserted quite as
well in a separate bill, and he could not
delay the proceedings by sustaiuiog
tj*eir petition.
15 per cent, is demanded on mort
gages In Ohio.
FOREIGN NEWS.
A Roman Newspaper Suspended—Re
lease of German Priests—Hopes of
a Monarchy in France —Car list Af
foirs —Bismarck’s Bugaboo.
Rome, May 16. —The journal La Voce
Della Vet'ita has been suspended for
publishing the Pope’s address to the
German pilgrims. *
Berlin, May 16.—The priests impri
soned in Posen and the neighboring
towns have been released and informed
that evidence with regard to the secret
administration of the diocese by a Pa
pal delegate Is no longer required by
the government.
Paris, May 16. —Compte De Ctiam
bourd has written a letter to M„ Debel
castelleber, of the Assembly for the
Haute Garonne, in which he declares
that he still has hopes that a monarchy
will be re-established iu France.
Madrid May 17.—The Carlists made
an attack upon Pampeluna yesterday,
and threw twenty-four shells into the
town but no casualties resulted. The
insurgents were finally repulsed by
Alfonsist troops.
Berlin, May 16.—1 t is alleged that
the principal in the late conspiracy
against Bismarck’s life is named Danin
and has been arrested in Cracow.
Guayquil, Ecuador, May 17.—Hon.
Thomas Biddle, United States Minister
hero, is dead.
Failures in Japan—Officers in a French
Bauk Commit Robbery and Suicide—
A High Compliment to John Bull.
San Francisco, May 17. — The United
States steamship Aslnielot has been
detained at Naglsaki in consequence of
the explosion of her cylinder. Several
weeks will be required for repairs.
The American mercantile house cf
Augustin Heard & Cos. suspended pay
ment in Japan and China on the Ist of
April.
Cantelie and Swaby, the cashier and
accountant of a French bank in Yoka
homa, stole 850,000 in bank notes, and
attempted to abscond April 19th in the
schooner Iris,
A steamer was immediately sent in
pursuit. Tho schooner was overtaken.
As soon as the two vessels got along
side the two defaulters shot themselves
and died soon after. Captain Withers,
of tho schooner and the owner, named
Odds, were arrested. A large portion
of the stolen money was found on
board.
Paris, May 18. —Tho Moniteur, iu an
editorial referring to tho course taken
by the British Government, during the
recent war alarm, says that England,
by raising her voioe in favor of peace,
has naturally recovered her just au
thority and Influence in Continental
affairs, and the present ministry has
acquired a degree of strength and
power which will procure for it the
grateful respect of Europe.
It is announced that a manifesto
from Prince Napoleon, in favor cf the
Republic and In opposition to the res
toration of the Empire, will soon be
published.
The Great American Showman
Achieves His Greatest Triumph-
Moody and Hankey in Barnum’s Pay.
[Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Herald.)
London, May 14, 1875 A great se
cret has been discovered iu reference
to the American revivalists, Moody and
Sankey, and their work here. Their
movement is under the direction of P. T.
Barnum, the great, American showman.
Mr. Barnum, it is explained, having
achieved so many triumphs in the way
of directing pub ic opiniou, has resolv-'
ed to found anew religion, and he has
intrusted the work to Moody and
Sankey. One of tho reasons prompting
this speculation on the part of Mr.
Barnum i8 his desire to furnish a coun
terpoise to the too powerful novelty of
Cardinals McCloskey and Manning.—
The speculation has proved to be an
astounding success. The pecuniary re
mits have been very great, ami the
English speak of Barnum with enthus
iasm us among the wonders of the
world.
FROM NEW YORK.
Cubans Pnrcliaae a AYar Ship —Semi-
Centennial of the Tract Society.
New York, May 17.—1 t. is said the
filibuster steamer General Sherman,
recently sold by the United States
Marshal, at a sale at Key West, has
been purchased by Cubans as a war
vessel.
Rev. Dr. Hall’s new church, on Fifth
Avenue, was filled with a large congre
gation yesterday eveuing, to celebrate
the semi-centennial of the American
Tract Society. Justice Strong, Utjted
States Supreme Court presided. Ad
dresses were delivered by Rev. Drs. M.
B. Anderson, of Rochester; Wm. S.
Plumer, Columbia, S. C ; Geo. Maclos,
kie, Princeton, N. J.; Samuel Manning,
Loudon, England and Wm. Gillie, Edin
burg, Scotland.
A Wholesale Raid on Whiskey Con
templated.
New York, May 17.—A Washington
dispatch says every distillery and rec
tifying establishment in the country
will be tested as rapidly as possible.
Whiskey from the West is detained
from consignees for investigation.
North Carolina and the Centennial.
New YonK, May 17.—Gov. Bragdon
of North Carolina, In a letter to the
Herald in regard to the representations
of North Carolina In the centennial
exhibition, says ho hopes that a liberal
display will be made by that State, the
Legislature having failed to respond to
hie appeal to leading citizens to en
courage and sustain a uoble enterprise
by their patronage and support. He
regards the centennial celebration of
the greatest moment In the interests of
peace and friendship, and that it will
exercise a most favorable Interest in
promoting concord, union and har
mony, and he hails It with joy and will
do all in his power to secure its suc
cess.
Expressing Their Liberality.— The
Board of Managers of the Adams ExJ
press Company, at their quarterly
meeting, held in this city yesterday,
passed a resolution commending and
thankffig Geo. H. Price, their messen
ger who successfully resisted the at
tempt to rob him on Friday last, and
shot the robber, for his bravery and
fidelity, and accompanied the resolu
tion by tho gift to him of 81,000 in gold.
The Board of managers also donated
$2,000 to the Expressmen’s Aid Society,
to be divided, at the eud of the year,
among the families of such of their
employes as should die during the
year, and had been in the service of the
company for three years.— Cincinnati
Enquirer 13 th.
A Dreadful Accident.
Zanesvillk, May 17. —A boat with
two husbands, their wives and two
children each, went over the dam.
Both women and two children were
drowned.
A.UGTJBTA., GA„ TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 18. 1875.
KEEP COOL,
How the People of Augusta May be
Happy all Hummer.
If there is a spot on earth (besides
the “dearest spot”) that must be parti
cularly dearer to folks than any other
in hot weather, it strikes us an ice fac
tory must be that spot—whether run
by natural agencies in Greenland, or
pushed ahead by steam and cylinders
in the milder latitudes of our sunny
land.
We recently availed ourselves of a
courteous iuvitatlou from Superinten
dent H. N. Reid and rambled through
the establishment of tho Augusta Ice
Manufacturing Company located iu the
Southern part of our city. This ad
mirable enterprise was started in Au
gusta four years ago. After the first
year of its existence, it changed hands
and came under its present manage
ment, W. H. Barrett, Esq., becoming
President of the corporation. It is
eminently a home enterprise, four
fifths of its capital of some $53,000,
being owned in our own immediate
cily
There are two ice machines iu the
establishment, one of German and the
other of an American pattern, both
however constructed upon the ingeni
ous plan of the French patent—the
best patent for generating ice by arti
ficial contrivances in existance. These
maohiues have a combined capac
ity to [make from twenty-five to
thirty thousand pounds of ice every
twenty-four hours, when kept go
ing all the time. Their process consists in
passing ammonia, evaporated by these
machines from Its condensed state of
liquified gas, by means of pipes through
three oblong boxes of salt water, in
each of which arranged In rows are tin
cans 3 by 9 inches and 27 Inches long
that contain distilled water from which
the heat is extracted by the action of
this evaporated ammonia and the water
frozen into blocks of ice of the dimen
sions of these cans. Four hours are
required to complete the freezing of
one of these blocks of ice, the straDge
and beautiful natural process of cry
stalizatlon being necessarily a gradual
one, which artificial means can only ef
fect rather than hasten. The condi
tions of freezing are brought about,
and then the freezing proceeds in tho
natural way, the same iu the factory as
on the lakes and rivers of the
North. Tho ammonia is transformed
into the state of liquified gas by
means of compression in the
machines, a weight of two* hundred
pounds being superimposed on every
square inch, and by cooling it in a wa
ter tank through which the pipe runs
that conveys it from the machine to
the freezing boxes. The expansive
power of this liquified gas is 482 times
its bulk, and tho orifice through which
it is forced into tho freezing pipes in the
freezing boxes Is not larger than a No.
10 sewing needle. In the two machines
there are 7,500 pounds of this ammonia
which constantly alternately evapo
rated and condensed or liquified is
never exhausted.
The freezing boxes are filled with
salt water because it will not freeze
until its temperature descends 32 de
grees below the freezing point, or in
other words until the salt water gets
32 degrees colder tjian fresh water is
when it freezes. This salt water is
kept at a constant temperature of from
12 to 15 degrees below the freezing
point, and hence it will be seen that
the artificial ice made in this way is
necessarily from 12 to 15 degrees cold
er than natural ice. The natural ice
can’t get eolder than the freezing point,
because it rests upon the bosom of
fresh water from which heat is unceas
ingly being drawn and the ice thus
added to from beneath while its own
temperature is preserved at the freez
ing point or only inappreciably above it.
In each of the three freezing boxes
are uinoty-six ol’ tho tin ice cans, in
size 3x9 inches and 27 inches long,
numbering, in all, 288, which are filled !
with distilled or perfectly pure water,
that is, river water that has been evap
orated, leaving all foreign substauces
behind, and this vapor then condensed
or liquified in an apparatus known as a
condenser. This distilled water weighs
ten pounds to the galloD, while com
mon water weighs only eight pounds
per gallon, the distilled being two
pounds heavier per gallon; and it is
claimed that besides being some ten
degrees colder than the natural ice, the
artificial ice exceeds it iu weight by
ten pounds to the cubic foot.
It is a popular fallacy, resulting en
tirely from ignorance of this process
of artificial ice-making, that the arti
ficial ice tastes of the ammonia or some
thing else used in its manufacture.
The absolute absurdity of this position
is apparent at once, whon it is remem
bered J;hat the ammonia doesn’t come in
contact with the water frozen, being
passed around the tin cans in the rami
fications of metallc pipes—the metal of
the tin cans, the metal of these iron
pipes and the salt water in which the
cans sit being between the vaporized
ammonia and the water that is being
frozen. There is a flatness in this arti
ficial ice which results from its very
purity, formed as it is from distilled
water, but this is all removed after a
brief contact with the atmosphere.
Ice, natural and artificial, is selling
iu Augusta at the same prices, at whole
sale I}4 cent, per pound, and at retail
1% cent, per pound. With no differ
ence in cost, it seems that every one
should feel incliued to give patrouage
to this Augusta enterprise which Is de
voted to the manufacture of artificial
Ice, is owned and controlled by our own
people, employs labor here, and ex
pends here and keeps here the money
It makes here. Aside from this, the
use of the artificial Ice Is more econom
ical, It being ten degrees colder, and
hence requiring more time to melt than
the natural Ice, while It is absolutely
pure and free from all foreign substan
ces or anything that can harm or in
jure.
The prosperity of Augusta is wrapped
up in the prosperity of Augusta enter
prises, in the prosperity of Augusta
meerhauts, dealers, workmen and man
ufacturers. The general welfare can
alone be advanced by Individual wel
fare, and thus our whole p >ple should
rally to support, sustain and build up
every industrial interest of our noble
city—and rally, too, heartily, cordially
and as one man.
This conumdrumia respectfully sub
mitted to the best speller: S-l-o-u-x
spells su, and e-y-e spells 1, and s-i-g-h
--e-d spells side ; why doesn’t s-i-o-u-x
--e-y-e-s-i-g-h-e-d spell suicide?— tVoi’-
cester Fress.
A well-to-do farmer in the lower end
of tho county sailed for Europe on
Saturday. He will not be absent more
than two months, as he desires to re
turn In time for Spring plowing.—Nor
ristown Herald.
The rumor that the horse which P.
Revere rode would be in the Lexington
procession was a base hippophagicism.
[Rights for “spelling matches” re
served.] —Boston Transcript.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Hotels and Street Cars as Centres of
Gossip—Gen. Mcßae and the Georgia
Railroad—A Remarkable Man—Rail
roads Generally—Southern Text
Books Again—An Open Air Meeting.
IFrom a Special Correspondent.!
Atlanta, Ga., May 16th, 1875.
A brief after-dinner lounge on Sun
day about the National Hotel, which
somehow is a popular resort for the
average Atlantan, or a ride to Ponce
de Leon iu a street car, will always in
form the attentive listener as to what
topics are foremost in the minds of
these pious people iu the interregnum
between the sermon of the morning
and the services of the evening,
If Hill had reached Gainesville with
barely enough majority to ensure him
an even show iu the mountain counties,
instead of the overwhelming vote with
which Clarke, Ooonee, Morgan, Gwin
nett and Jackson sent him to the Pied
mont region, the question of his elec
tion could hardly have been more nice
ly balanced than would that presented
to the industrious inquirer striving to
determine the numerical preponderance
between-tho crowd that takes the street
cars to Ponce de Leon on Sunday after
noon and that watching the departures
from the front of the National. Wheth
er dwelling with the anxious watchers
on the sidewalk, or contributing your
nickel along with tho multitudinous
patrons of tho street cars, you
would be equally woll situated
for learning the average Atlanta talk.
It is a compliment to the Atlanta press
that in the issue of each of the morn
ing dailies you will always find a very
distinct foreshadowing on Sunday
morniDg of the averago gossip of the
day. It is a compliment to both press
and public that one fluds uppermost in
the public mind those subjects that the
papers are most freely discussing. In
a previous letter I dealt so impartially
with the Atlanta papers that 1 feel that
“my title is clear” upon that subject,
and with increased courage 1 refer en
passant to the industry with which these
Atlanta journalists labor to make their
papers readable and the success with
which they strive to make Atlanta a
newspapor-readiug community. I have
no doubt that a larger per ceutago of
the Atlanta people regularly (and espe
cially on Sunday) read the daily news
papers than in any other city in the
world. Had I not already devoted so
much of your space to this sub
ject I might here adduce iu sup
port of this assertion some interest
ing facts—interesting to newspaper
men at least, and containing no little
instruction to people in all kinds of
business who can comprehend that an
essential condition of success is to
offer attractive wares to the purchas
ing public.
Atlanta has talked a good-deal du
ring tho past week about matters per
taining to tho Georgia Railroad, and
incidentally to-day other railroads in
which Atlanta is largely interested haye
figured in the discussion of “Railroad
polities,” to which the recent reorgan
ization of tho Georgia Railroad has
given rise. Will Gen. Mcßae accept
the position lately tendered him? If
he shall accept, will he make Atlanta
his headquarters? These are the in
quiries that I have heard made fre
quently to-day, and I find as much
doubt existing as to both of them as
might be expected in the ease of a
•man silent almost to grimness like
Gen. Mcliae. A way back in 1861, whon
Stonewall Jackson, just, given com
mand of that Yalley District, which
became in a few months to the Confed
erates the theatre of unnumbered
glories, and to the Federals a veritable
Talley of Humiliation, was beginning
the expedition to Romney on the Upper
Potomac, Loring, the second-in-com
mand, was inquisitive as to Jackson’s
plans. “If my coat-tail held the secret,
I would cut it off and throw it in the
fire, sir,” was said by the soldiers of
“Old Jack” to have been the reply. A
newspaper friend suggested au inter
view of Gen. Mcßae, and I cautioned
him to prepare for a reply not unlike
Jackson's to Loring, provided he ques
tioned too closely as to Gen. Moliue’s
intention. Five years ago last autumn
I mot Gen. Mcßae in North Carolina,
where, in the midst of relatives and in
timate friends, who cherished him for
the admautlne integrity and the Ro
man-like devotion that are tho salient
features of his character, and sur
rounded by old comrades, whose ad
miration was simply idolotry, ho
was the same quiet modest silent,
gentleman, and faithful official,
that I find him to-day in Atlanta, if the
judgment of the public and his associa
tes is to be accepted. I met Gen. Mc-
Rae but odee, and I have no idea that
he has tho slightest knowledge of any
such person as your correspondent, for
people say he is not given to either
making acquaintances, or remember
ing casual introductions. It is a splen
did tribute, however, to the man and
the official, that in the Gen. Mcßae, of
Atlanta, where he came a stranger, I
find reposed the same public confidence
and respect that was aceordod to “Bill
Mcßae,” (as he was familiar tailed in
Wilmington) by his life-long associates.
As to Gen. Mcßae’s purpose regard
ing the question of acceptance of the
place of Superintendent of the Georgia
Road, and his subsequent intention as
to residence, I have no knowledge. The
prevalent rumor to-day is that he will
accept; but even rumor has not dared
to locate his residence. The average
sentiment in Atlanta, I think, is one of
satisfaction as to the recent action of
the stockholders at Augusta, and of
hopefulness as to the future of the
Georgia Railroad.
The Air-Lino Road is a subject of
much interesting speculation, and I
am mistaken if newspaper men are not
keeping their hawks’ eyes upon that
important artery of the Southern sys
tem of railroads. Nous verrons, as
Father Ritchie used to say iu discuss
ing the political outlook.
The Georgia Railroad topic has not
excluded from the columns of the pa
pers reference to other matters con
nected with tho railroad interests of
the South. Indeed, so far-reaching
and multitudinous are the iron arte
ries to which Atlanta is in some meas
ure the heart, that it is quite impossi
ble to avoid frequent reference to re
mote railroad systems in forecasting
the business connections of this city.
A stranger will be quickly impressed
with the extensive knowledge of rail
road topics possessed by any leading
business man of Atlanta. Go to Rich
mond, or anywhere else in Virginia,
and you will find people and press
talking about Mahono and Buford
with vague reference to Tom Scott
and Garrett (both en fonts terribles
to the Virginian mind); and in North
Carolina, where the domain of Buford
also extends, beyond the magnate of
the Richmond and Danville, and Air-
Line combination, you will hear more
of Bridgers in railroad circles than of
Tom, Soott, Garrett, Vanderbilt, Dan
iel Drew and all the rest combined,
whether railroad kings or capitalists of
fabulous wealth. Only to-day I talked
with an Atlanta business man, having
no official connections with railroads,
and I found by subsequent reference
to a railroad map that he was thorough
ly familiar with nearly the entire rail
road system of the whole country.
Previous experiences assure me that
this gentleman is by no means a rare
exception among Atlanta business men;
so thoroughly in earnest is their confi
dence in the future of their city, and,
therefore, so closely watchful are they
of all combinations and circumstan
ces bearing upon its development .
A sort of armistice has been arrived
at between the Herald and Mr. Steph
ens, tho secretary of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association, which will pro
bably terminate the menaced warfare
upon the subject of text-books, Ac.,
&c., brieflj’ commented upon in my last
letter. It will be remembered that in
this correspondence an armed neutral
ity was proclaimed, until the question
should expand beyond the mere specific
allegation made by the Herald reporter
concerning the convention at Griffin.
Mr. Moore has recalled his allegation
as to the existence of a ring in the
Convention unfriendly to Southern au
thors and Southern text-books, and
also certain terms objected to by Mr.
Stephens iu his communication to the
Herald. It is likely that the question
will end where it now is. Mr. Moore
and the Herald, having atoned for al
leged injustiee, are yet satisfied that
they have suggested important colla
teral questions, while Mr. Stephens
feeia that he has amply vindicated the
Association from damaging charges
which he maintains were not sustained
and which Mr. Moore acknowledges
to have been hastily preferred, and
upon representations not specifically
supported. As I understand the mat
ter, there is now no question between
Mr. Stephens and the Herald.
Atlanta, is fruitful in surprises, and
without some really striking novelty
every week it is impossible to conjec
ture the dismal fate that would over
take a community which, when it is at
work, works with all its might, but
which, when it is at rest, with more
than school boy avidity, is ever on the
qui vive for something new. The nov
elty hunters were to-day rewarded with
the sight of a religious service of per
haps an hour’s duration iu the street
near the depot. The services were con
ducted by two ministers, aided by. a
number of prominent gentlemen, but
did not attract a very large assem
blage. Enough quid nuncs were in the
vicinity to give the enterprising re
porters, who were speedily on hand, all
needed information. F. H. A.
SHOT DEAD.
The Tragic Ending of a Train Rob
bet —He it* Instantly Killed by an
Adams Express Messenger—Pull
Particulars of the Affair—A Brave
Man who Should be Remembered,
(Chicago Post and Mail. |
The Adams Express ear which left
here last night for Pittsburg on the
Port Wayne Road, was the scene of a
most remarkable event before it
reached the end of its route. A masked
robber broke his way through the car,
and was shot dead after tiring two bul
lets at the messenger in charge. The
bravery and faithfulness of the messen
ger saved the express eompanv several
thousand dollars, and the body of the
would-be robber and murderer now lies
dead at Crestline Station. The mes
senger is Georgo H. Price, recently from
Kentucky, a married man of ‘about
thirty. The robber was H. C. Binkley,
formerly a conductor on the Fort
Wayne Road, ruuniug the accommoda
tion train between Lima and Fort
Wayne up to last week, when he was
discharged because of grooving bad
habits. He lived at the latter city,
where lie had a most interesting fam
ily. The train had passed Lima, where
it had stopped for water, and was be
tween Ada and I aFayette, about 2211
miles from here, when Price heard,
above the racket of the rushing train,
the sound of crackling wood, which
came from the door behind him at the
end of the car. Suddenly turning, he
saw a face with black muslin tied over
it coming through a hole in the door,
made by breaking out the panel. Price
was alone, aud it was after midnight.
He was aimed, but it did not occur tp
bim to reach for his pistol. The sight,
was so unexpected that, for a few sec
onds, he was taken aback. The ear
w T as somewhat dim, a single flickering
lamp providing the only light, and he
was not quite sure as to what it was
coming up out of the obscurity of the
corner. Price is a man about thirty,
tall, strong, fully proportioned, one of
these healthy young fellows for whom
railway companies have a sharp eye
when there is treasure to be guarded.
He said, after it was all over, that he
did not know what was coming noxt.
The thought of danger did not
occur to him so much as a feel
ing of startled curiosity. He had,
a few moments before, called out
“Good night" to the solitary station
keeper at Lima, as the train whirled
away from the place, and he had shut,
tho door, locking himself in, prepara
tory for a quiet journey over the other
160 miles to Pittsburg. There was
notiiing unusual at the last stopping
place. The oar was strong, well bound
in all its parts, as befitted the recep
tacle of the immense sums of money
and quantities of valuables carried
from time to time between the great
cities of the West. There were on
board several chests packed with costly
wares, silks, clothing, jewelry, dia
monds, money for the woi th of every
one of which the company is liable to
the sender, in case of loss, and the
man who travels with these in charge
is more than the mere baggage hand
ler ; he is for the time being the
only protector, the only barrier be
tween the owner and tho thief. His
position is a dangerous one. It is not
possible to place more than one man in
a train, and he must needs ride alone.
His route lies over great stretches of
wild country, across uuiuhabited prai
rie, through dense and lonely forests.
The conductors do not come near him,
the brakemen are not permitted to en
ter —the door is locked against friend
and foe alike. When Price saw the
panel fall away, he saw that it was a
man who was on the other side of it,
and that his face was covered with
cloth, but there was no sign by which
ho could tell what man he was. Ho
had not long to think, however. Before
he could guess what would be the next
move the man in the mask stood up
with his hack against the door, his
light arm with a pistol in the hand
stretched out, looking steadily at
him. This all took perhaps not
half a minute. Price had just time
enough to turn his head on hearing the
crash, when the mouth of the pistol
wjts staring him in the face. -‘Give me
your keys !” came from under the mask.
Instantly Mr. Price’s presenco of mind
came back. It all flashed before hinr
Robbers were on board j the car was
e u pill^ed; be mußt tf ve Por die.
otill he did not reach out for his own
weapon. “Not yet!” he replied and
grinned at tho man, at the samo’time
taking in his build, as If to calculate
what the chances might be in a tussle.
He saw that he was about his own
size. A pistol shot was the reply
and Price felt the cutting sweep of
a bullet across his arm and over
the forehead, immediately followed by
another through his left shoulder,
the arm falling limp, and the blood
trickling down his face. Quick as a
flash his own pistol was out. “ No, sir!”
he shouted, “ not yet, not just yet!”
and he raised his right arm. For a sec
ond the two stood face to face, the load
ed pistol of each pointed at the other.
It was no longer spoils or no spoils, it
was life and death. The locomotive
whistle shrieked across the bleak prai
rie, the wheels roared above the sound
of powder and shot, the car swayed
from side to side, but neither moved.
The hammer of Price’s pistol was raised
to the full. That of tho other had yet
to be raised. It was the work of a
second, the contraction of the muscles
of a finger, hut it was enough to turn
the balance of a man’s life. The rob
ber pulled the hammer, and it quickly
responded to the pressure, but that same
instant Price’s pistol flashed, and the
would be thief and murderer was shot
through the head, his brains splashed
over the walls. He fell back, striking
the door, dead. In a few’ minutes more
the train had reached Crestline where
the body was lifted off, where it now
lies, awaiting tho Coroner of AJlen
county, 0., in whose jurisdiction his
death occurred. Price will be due here
to-morrow, and an ovation awaits him.
If there is anything which warms up
the cockles of an Express company’s
heart, and proves that at least one kind
of a corporation has a soul, it is to find
a man who stands up for it in the tour
of danger, and this Price has done in
the bravest manner. His conduct has
given the greatest satisfaction to the
company, and there is not a soul about
tiie office, from Anson Gorton down,
who is not willing to swear to-day that
Price is one of “tho gamest men of
America!”
Ex-Confederates in Congress.
(Now York Sun.]
Some of tho Grant organs affect to
lie terribly alarmed because so many
ex-Confederate Generals have been
elected to the next Congress. We regard
this, on the contrary, as an excellent
sign ; for, as a rule, those men who
ranked highest in the Confederate ser
vice were the best representatives of
the intelligence of their party in the
seceding States, and wo know that the
most influential and intelligent classes
in those States desire rothing so much
as a thorough reconstruction of the
Union, in fact as well as in name. They
feel that tho worst enemies of both
races in the South arc those who try to
keep alive the animosities engendered
during the rebellion and arising from
the former existence of slavery ; and
they are fully aware that their own
prosperity, as well as of the North, de
pends upon tho complete restoration of
harmonious relations between the two
great sections of tho country which
were lately arrayed against each other
in all the bitterness of civil war. No
thing but the mean devices of politi
cians has prevented a complete recon
ciliation. General W. F. Bartlett, a
Union soldier, now living in Virginia,
spoke words of truth at the centennial
celebration at Lexingtoi.. when he said
that between the soldiers of the two
sections fraternal relations were estab
lished long ago. Tt was only the other
day in Little Rock, Arkansas—in the
Stttto which Grant wishod to lawlessly
subjugate anew because the people
would not elect notorious robbers to
administer their affairs—that the Con
federate General, John P. Bull, united
with a Union officer to invite their com
rades of the blue and gray to join in a
common decoration of the graves of
soldiers who had belongtxl to the two
armies. At Richmond, Virginia, when
General Bartlett wjs tendered a seren
ade by a large number of distinguished
ex-Confederates in recognition of his
patriotic speech at Lexington, it was
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson who was se
lected to return him thanks for his
manly utterances. Only a few days
after Gen. Bartlett’s speech was de
livered, the laying of a corner stone of
a monument to the Confederate dead
in Augusta, Ga., was made the occasion
for a public declaration by Gen. Evans,
another Confederate, which was as
patriotic in its tone as that of the
Uuion General at Lexington. General
Evans said :
“Let us do nothing to keep alive the
passions of war. To st udy its lesson is
prudence; to profit by its teachings is
wisdom, but to stir up tho old animos
ities is madness. The voice of this
monument will not be for war, but for
peace; it wall say to us, the Confeder
acy has expired. Its great life went
out on the purple tide of blood that
flowed from the hearts of its sons. We
have buried it; we do not intend to ex
hume its remains. I respond with the
truest feeling to-day to the fraternal
words of Gen. Bartlett, spoken at the
centennial celebration of the first bat
tle of the old Revolution.”
Equally earnest expn'ssions of a pa
triotic desire for a complete oblitera
tion of sectional hatreds are to be
found in a letter from Fitzhugh Lee,
another Confederate General, which
has just been published ; and these are
the sentiments generally prevailing
among those who were leaders on the
Southern side during the late war. If
the seat of every carpet-bagger who
disgraced the last Congress could be
filled with a Confederate general in the
next the moral and political atmos
phere in the Capitol would be improved
beyond all measure.
Semmes. —A letter from Mobile, Ala.,
sth instant, to tho Memphis Appeal,
says: “The nuptials of (J. B. Bryan’
of Memphis, and Miss Anna Semmes,
of this city, were celebrated here to-day
at the residence of tho bride’s father,
Admiral Raphael Semmes, the com
mander of the Alabama. The rites
wore solemnized by Right Rev. Bishop
Quiulan.at 12 o’clock noon, in the pres
ence of relatives and a small circle of
friends. A reception was held from
12:20 o’clock until 4 o’clock in the eve
ning, during which time the nuptial
hall was thronged with Uie elite of Mo
bile—with fair women and gallant men.
Suspended from one side of the hall to
the other was the large, rich and mag
nificent Confederate flag, of tho costli
est material and most exquisitely em
broidered, which was made aud pre
sented to Admiral Semmes by the la
dies of London while commanding the
Alabama. Beneath this the marriage
vows wore taken. Tho bride was su
perbly attired, and her appearance was
truly regal.
Business is too good in England for
Lydia Thompson to leave.
New Series—Vol. 3. ISTo. 97
LETTER PROM RUTLEDGE.
Til© Weather and the Crops—An Acci
dent—Dulness in Trad©—Death of
Old Citizens.
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
Rutledge, May 16,1875.
The weather in this portion of the
moral vineyard, has been dry, with
warm days and cool nights for the past
two weeks—to-day we have a strong
northeast wind, blowing cool enough
to make Winter coats feel comfortable.
The farmers are siding and chopping
out cotton, which has come up a great
(leal better than was expected just after
the storm. The stand i3|generally good;
This dry spell is th© very thing for
wheat which is flrstrate in this section.
The sufferers from the storm have
in a great degree, repaired their dam
ages so as to go ahead with their
farms, with a few exceptions, who
were on rented lands and were so bad
ly torn to pieces that it would not pay
them to repair for the remaioder of
this year. Such have abandoned their
crops and are working by the day.
Mr. William Vining, the gentleman
ly and efficient, night-watchman at the
depot, met with a serious accident on
Friday night last, as he received the
mail from the night train aud slipped
off of the train on the track, his foot
slipped od the iron, dislocating his
ankle, causing a very painful wound.
Dr. C. P. Brown was called in, aud re
set it, aud Mr. Vining is doing very
well.
Death has been visiting our neigh
borhood during the past week, and
picking off some of our oldest and best
citizens. On the 6th inst., Mr. Ben ja
min Jones, aged about 75 years, de
parted this life. He was a good citi
zen, a kind father and an affectionate
husband. He leaves a large family
and many friends to mourn his de
parture to that place from whence no
traveler returns.
On the 13th, Benj. J. Harden, Esq.,
aged 73 years, breathed his last. Mr.
H. was well known with the commer
cial men, as he was for many years a
merchaut in this vicinity, but had re
tired from business and turned his at
tention to his farm the last few years.
He was a successful business man and
a good citizen. We ail regreat to give
up such citizens, and join in sympathiz
ing with the two large bereaved fami
lies. Mr. Harden was buried on Friday
with Masonic honors.
It is dull times with the merchants
in Rutledge, as our people are econo
mizing this year, and the merchants
are selling for cash, and the people
haven’t any of that commodity. The
merchants have all gone to farming
but one, aud he sells whiskey and
groceries for cash only, so he has shut
up shop and gone fishing. The dry
good clerks do net have much trouble
pulling down and putting up goods,
these warm days.
I would write oftener and more of it
if I had anything to write about that
would interest your numerous readers.
Then, again, I am very busy farming.
It is anew business with me, and it
keeps me busy. I cSTuId get several
subscribers to your valuable paper if
the people had the money. They are
all anxious to see my copy as soon as
I get it, and think it the best paper
now published in the State.
Will write when anything" occurs in
this place worthy of your notice. R.
THE MISSOURI BRIGANDS.
A Robbery Believed to be by the
Younger and James Brothers.
St. Louis, May 17.—The Republican’s
Kansas City special says information
has been received from reliable sources
that the feud which has existed for
some time between the James boys and
the Youngers has recently been settled,
and that they are again operating to
gether. It is also stated that two well
known desperadoes are with them.
A few days since they purchased one
of the fleetest and* best-bottomed
horses in Missouri, for which they
paid a high price in cash. The infor
mant says that they have determined
to strike some moneyed institution
soon, and a robbery may be expected
at any moment.
A Bold Robbery-
The Democrat has a special from
Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, giving
an account of a daring robbery com
mitted in that county last Thursday.
D. R. Lambert keeps a country store
twelve miles north of Clinton. It stands
aloue on the prairie, has a croquet
grouud in the rear of the building, and
is a resort of the young people of
the neighborhood. Thursday morning
about 11 o’clock two strangers rode up,
entered the store and were shortly fol
lowed by two other strangers.
As soon as the latter entered the
store, the first two drew revolvers and
commanded Lambert to stand. The
other two men went to the croquet
where eight gentlemen und ladies were
playing, and ordered them into the
store, where they were guarded by
three of the strangers, while the fourth
robbed the store of S2QO, a fine watch,
a shot-guD, two revolvers, aud a con
siderable quantity of goods.
They then left in the direction of
Clinton. All were well dressed, genteel
looking men, well armed and mounted
on splendid horses. The robbery was
done so quietly and quickly that a
blacksmith, working 100 yards distant,
knew nothing of the matter till the af
fair was over.
A gentleman living near Clinton says
he saw and conversed witli two of the
Younger brothers las'. Thursday, and
from this fact the robbery is attributed
to the Younger and James brothe -s.
No effort has yet been made to arrest
the robbers, and the dispatch suye it is
not likely there will be.
Praying Against Grasshoppers.
Jeffebsox City, May 18.—The Gov
ernor has proclaimed June 3d as a day
of humiliation, fasting and prayer, in
apprehension of grasshoppers.
Swallowed by a Shake. —On Wednes
day a sailor was painting the sides of a
bark in the harbor of Matanzas, when
suddenly the rope sustaining the plank
on which be was seated gave way and
the man fell into the water. Being a
good swimmer he easily kept himself
afloat, shouting to his companions to
lower a boat to him. By this time he
had pushed his way until alongside of
the vessel, when his companions flung
him a rope. At the moment of his
catching it, and while they were pre
paring to haul him up, the unfortunate
man was heard to give a terrible cry,
while at the same time the sea was as
suming a reddish color, and the body
of the man disappeared below' the
wares. A few seconds after th© upper
half of the body reappeared, the dor
sal fin of an immense shark appearing
over the water a few feet off The mate
ordered a boat to be lowered, so as to
get what remained of the poor jailor,
but the shark gave a sudden turn on
his side and swallowed the other half
of poor Jack at a single gulp.