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Muscle vs Steam Most Extraordinary Exploit in Ameri can History. Captain W. A. Fuller’s Chase and Capture of the Bridge Burners in 18(12, and their Final Execu tion on the Gallows. A Full aud Reliable Narrative of this Great Event, Corroborated by the only Living Witnesses and by Capt. Fuller Himself. ; minfttion to re-capture his engine, no matter | who the parties were. He started out ON FOOT AND ALONE, nothing danntad in putting his ninscle in com- I petition with steam. He soon reached Moon’s ! Station, two miles from ltig Shanty. Here he : learned from the track hands that the men with ! the engine stopped and took from them by force all their tools. They reported that on the en- | gine and in the freight cars there were some ‘24 or ‘25 men. While stopped here, a portion of | the men gathered the toels, and others climbed the telegraph poles AND CUT THE WIltES ; in two places, carrying away about one hundred j yards of the wire. This statement satisfied i Capt. Fuller that these men were Federals in I disguise. This added new stimulus to his re solve. He started out now not only to capture | his engine, but the Federals. With the assistance of the track bands, he placed on the track a hand-car, such as is used I to haul cross-ties and tools in, and pushed back i for his engineer, when he soon met Messrs. Murphy and Cain. | Knowing the schedules, grades, stations and ; distances so well, he was confident that bv : using great effort he could reach Etowah river j by the time the fugitives could reach Kingston. At Kingston he knew they would have to con- | tend with a number of freight trains, which I would necessarily detain them several minutes. As soon as he got Murphy and Cain on board, | he told them his plan was to push on to Etowah as quickly ns possible, for there be hoped to get the ‘Old Yonali,’ an engine used at Cooper’s Iron Works, and his plan proved successful. Mo men or set of men ever worked harder, used greater diligence, or were in more danger than they were, as the sequel will show. In the ‘rapid transit' by band-car, Capt. Fuller, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Cain took turns in pushing it, TWO RUNNING ON FOOT an5 pushing, while the other rested. One mile from Moon’s station they found a large pile of cross-ties on the track -placed there by the fu- QUIl’K AS HE COUI.D BUN, and met t.he express freight. Having a gun anil knowing the signal, the engineer recogniz ed Capt. Fuller and stopped the train immedi ately. Knowing that Mr Murphy was only a short distance behind, Capt. Fuller detained the train until he came up. He then took a position at the rear end of the train, twenty car ! length from the engine, and STABTED BACEWABDS j in the direction of Adairsville, without taking I time to explain matters to the engineer or con- [ duetor. | When be got within 200 yards of the switch I at Adairsville, Capt. Fuller jumped off the train ran ahead and changed the switch, so as to j throw the cars on the side track. He accom- i plished this, changed the switch to the main track, and jumped on the engine. This feat ; was accomplished so quickly that the train and engine BAN SIDE BY SIDE for fully 400 yards. He has now only the engine, with the following crew on it: A. Murphy, Peter Bracken, the engineer, Fleming Cox, tiie fireman, and Alonzo Martin, wood passer. He resumed the chase, making Cilhouu 10 miles distant in 12 minutes. As he approached Cal houn, Capt. Fuller recognized the telegraph ! operator from Dalton, a lad twelve years old. The operator recognized Capt. Fuller, and as the engine passed by, at the rate of 15 MILES FEE HOUR, I grasped Capt. Fuller's hand, held out to him, and was safely landed on the engine. The ope rator having discovered that the wire had been cut, made his way down to Calhoun, looking for the break. As they sped along as rapidly as an engine, i with five foot ten inch wheels, going backwards, | and 1G5 pounds of steam, could possibly run, ; he then wrote outtho following telegram to Gen. ; Leadbetter, then in command at Chattanooga: ‘My train was captured this a. m. at Big Shau- ' ty, evidently by Federal soldiers in disguise. | They are making rapidly for Chattanooga, possi- Although jaded and fatigued, Capt. Fuller, A Murphy, Fleming Cox. and Alonzo Martin took to the woods in puranit. When the fugitives abandoned the engine, Andrews, their leader, said: ‘EVERY ONE TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF; and they left in squads of three or four. Four of them were run down in the fork of the river at Graysville and one was forcibly persuaded to tell who they were. The mili ia, mounted on fresh horses, took the woods that evening, nnd by the next day the last one of the fugitives were captured. A TALK WITH THE LEADER. Capt. Fuller visited Andrews, the leader, while he w».s confined in prison, at Chattanooga, and had a long conversation with him on the ! sive effort we broke the rail chase and object of their expedition. He stated to Capt. Fuller, in the presence of all the others, that he suggested to Gen. Mitchell while at Shelbyvillo, that lie could take a detachment of gard.” The tank-tender was named William ltussell, who said that he would give his shirt off his back to Beauregard if it had been asked for. Pittenger says : “We obstructed the track as well as we could by laying on cross-ties at dif ferent places. We also ent the wires between every station. * * Finally, when we we'e nearly to the station where we expected to meet the last train, we stopped to take up a rail. We had no instruments tor doin ' this hut a crow bar, and instead of pulling out the spikes as we could have done with the pinch bars used for that purpose by railroad men, we had to hatter them out. * * Just as we were going to relin quish the effort, the whistle of an engine in pur suit sounded in our ears. ’ * With one convnl- n two, * * and we took up our precious half rail and left. * » We were scarcely out of sight of the place where we had taken up the half-rail, before the other train met us. This was safely passed. * When our soldiers, descend as far south as Marietta, and pursuers came to the place where the broken on their return trip, burn all the bridges on the , rail was taken up, they abandoned their engine, Western and Atlantic Railroad in their rear, nnd ran on foot till they met the freight train! Gen, Mitchell said that if he would do this he i nnd turned it hack after us. * * We adopted would give him every expedient we could think of to delay pnr- $50,000 IN GOLD, j suit; hut as we were cutting the wire near Cal- which was agreed to, and soldiers volunteered k°nn, came * n . sight of us. ‘ * We in to go with him. It was afterwards concluded H ^ ant; l. v I ,ul our engine to nil speed, and in a that a large force would he necessary, and $60,- j mo , ment the wheels were striking ti-e from the 000 was asked for and agreed upon. The addi- ; rH , 1 . s , la ^ lelr rapid revolutions. I he car in tional $10,000 was to be divided among the vol- ‘ Truth is stranger than fiction,’ and the late war between the States produced many an epi sode substantiating this aphorism. The year 3862 witnessed one of the most daring exploits of the age; twenty-two Federals coming one hundred and twenty-five miles into the Confed erate lineR, stealing an engine, and almost suc ceeding in accomplishing the object of their daring expedition, viz: The destruction of the bridges on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. That they did not succeed, was due to no neg ligence on their part, hut to the quickness to plan and execute on the part of Capt. W. A. Fuller, whose portrait we present in this issue. To appreciate fully the situation, the daring deed of the twenty-two Federals, and the value of Capt. Fuller’s achievement, it is necessary first to consider the status of affairs. Early in the year 18G2, Fort Donelson, after a heroic struggle, fell into the hands of the Fed erals. Gen. Bragg’s fore's evacuated Kentucky; ! Columbus and Nashville were abanboned by the Confederates; Island No. 10 was invested and j the Tennessee river was filled with A VAST ARMY AFLOAT, ready to strike into the center of the South, j Gen. Buell, with 40,000 men. was marching across Tennesse; Gen. O. M. Mitchell was at ! Shelbyville, aiming for Chattanooga, at the head ot a strong force; and Gen. Morgan was at Cum berland Gap read} 7 to strike through to Knox ville. This in brief was the position of the Fed- 1 eral forces. The Confederates under Gen. Beauregard were j at Corinth, Miss., with smaller detachments scattered along the railroad to Chattanooga. All the commissary stores had been brought out of Kentucky and Tennessee to Atlanta, and for warded to the Confederate army as needed. Sup plies, reinforcements and communication with Gen. Beauregard, all depended on a line of railroads, forming an irregular parallelo gram. Tho Northern side extended from Mem phis to Chattanooga, the Eastern fiom Chatta nooga to Atlanta, the Southern from Atlanta to Jackson, Miss., and the Western from Jackson to Memphis. The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad intersected the paralellogram at Chatta nooga. To destroy the Northern and Eastern sides was to isolate Gen. Beauregard and leave East Tennessee in the hands of Gen. Morgan. . It would have prevented the sending of rein- : citizens, Mr. Smith who lives in Jonesboro, and forcemeats or supplies to the Confederates. The , Mr. Steve Stokely of Cobb county, who render- railroads were taxed to the utmost to transport | od valuable service in the subsequent pursuit. | 7 •• * “ ’ - . , Hesuming their journey they found no ohstruc- i tions until they reached a short curve two miles ! from Etowah. Here two rails from the outside j of the curve had been taken up. The result j was the hand-car was ditched. In a few seconds j Captain Fuller and liis men had the car on the j track unt°ers, seven in number William Campbell, citizen of Kentucky; Geo. D. Wilson, co. B, 2 1 Reg. Ohio Yols.; Marion A. Ross, co. A, 2d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Perry G. Shadrack, co. K, 2d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Samuel Slavens, 33d Reg. Ohio Yols.; Samuel Robin son, co. G, 33d Reg. Ohio Yols.; John Scott, co. K, 21st, Reg. Ohio Yols. The following were detailed: W. W. Brown, co. F, 21st Reg. Ohio Yols.; William Knight, co. E, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; J. lv. Porter, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; Mark Wood, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Yols.; J. A. Wil son, co. C, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; M. J. Haw kins, co. A, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; John Wollam, co. C, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; D A. Dorsay, co. II, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; Jacob Parrott, co. K, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; Robert Bnffum, co. H, 21st Regt. Ohio Yols.; W. Bensiuger, co. G, 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; W. Reddick, co. B, 33d Reg. Ohio Vols.; E. II. Mason, co. K. 21st Reg. Ohio Vols.; W. Pittenger, co. G, 2d Reg. Ohio Vols. As none of the prisoners d.*nied the state- which we rode rocked furiously and threw us from one side to the other like peas rattled in a gourd. * I then proposed to Andrews * * to let our engineer take the engine out of sight while we hid in a curve after putting ou a cross-tie on the track; * * when they checked to remove the obstructions, we could rush on them, shoot every person on the engine, reverse it and let it drive at will back as it came.” Pit tenger corroborates Capt: Fuller in all the es sentials, even to firing the freight car. The article in the Southern Confederacy, says of the fugitive federals: “ They had on the en gine a red handkerchief * indicating that the regular passenger train would he along pre sently. They stopped at Adairsvilla, and said Puller with the regular passenger train was be hind, and would wait at Kingston for the freight train, and told the conductor to push ahead and meet him at that point. (This was done to pro duce a collision with Capt. Fuller’s train.) * * When the morning freight train reached Big Shanty, Lieut. Cols. II. F. Maddox and C. D. Phillips took the engine, and with fifty picked meat of Andrews, it seems to have been a true men * followed on as rapidly as possible, (Capt. - - - ■ •• - Fuller on his return met them at lunnel Hill and turned them hack.) * * Peter Bracken, I statement of the ease. Andrews JaugLingly said that inasmuch as Capt. Fuller had defeated him, the State of Georgia, or the Southern Con federacy, if it lived long enough, ought to pay Capt. Fuller the $60,000 for saving the bridges. Tne Federals were then pressing on Chatta nooga, and the prisoners were removed to Knox the engineer on the down freight train, ran his engine 50.\ miles—two of them backing the whole freight train up to Adairsville—made twelve stops, coupled the two .cars, dropped by the fugitives, and switched them off on side- 1 ville, then under the command of Gen. E. Kirby bugs—in one hour and five minutes. (Capt. ! Smith. At Knoxville | Fuller fully corroborates the invaluable service j rendered by the veteran Bracken.) aouiri . s organized, j Another interesting incident of the chase is none of the court being under the rank of the fact, that on the return from the pursuit of Lieutenant There were two Colonels and one ; the fugitives in the woods, Capt Fuller was so Major. The balance were Captains and Lieu- ' ’ ... Captain W. A. Fuller. troops and supplies to the Confederates and the importance of keeping the line free was felt bv the Confederate authorities. There were THIRTEEN BRIDGES on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, guarded by small detachments. These bridges cost about $300,000, hut their destruction would have in volved a loss almost Incalculable to the South at that time. It will he seen that although the risk undertaken by the Federals was great, the ■end to he accomplished was greater. They made their daring effort on THE 12th OF APRIL, 1862, having succeeded in getting down to Marietta. That morning Capt. W. A. Fuller left Atlanta at 6 o’clock in charge of the passenger train, having three empty freight cars next to the en gine, which was intended to bring commissary stores from Chattanooga to Atlanta. When he reached Marietta, twenty miles distant from At lanta, a considerable party of strangers, dressed in citizen’s clothes, got on board and paid their fare, some to one point and some to another. They all claimed to he refugees from within the Yankee lines, desirous of joining the Confeder ate army. Seven miles from Marietta, at Big Shanty, the train stopped for breakfast. Big Shanty has been noted for the past twenty years as a place to get a superb meal. Most of the passengers and train’s crew went to the breakfast house, which was situated some forty feet from the track. At this time Big Shanty was the location of a camp of instruction, called camp m’donald, and there were only about 3,000 Confederate re cruits there at the time, being drilled ready to send to the front or into active service. The passengers had taken seats at the table. Capt. Fuller was sitting on the opposite side ol the table from the railroad, and facing the train. He saw through the window some of the stran gers, who got on at Marietta, get on the engine in an excited manner, and START OFF RAPIDLY, xvitn the three freight cars detached/from the passenger train. He remarked to his engineer, Jeff Cain, and Anthony Murphy, who was pres ent, the then foreman of the Western and At lanta Railroad shop: ‘S ,me person who has no right to do so, has gone off with our train.’ All three rGse up and hurried out of the house, juBtas the engine passed out of sight. Some deserters had been reported as having kit Camp McDonald, and the commanding offi cer had requested Capt. Fuller to look out for them and arrest any soldier who go*, on his train v/itiiout a passport Capt. Fuller had no idea that the parties in possession of the engine were Federals, hut supposed that it had been taken bv parties desiring to desert Camp McDonald, and who would run off a short distance and abandon it But he left Big Shanty with a and well-defined motive and a fixed deter- gitives to obstruct pursuit. The ohstru tioDs ; bly with an iden of burning the railroad bridge were removed, and they pushed on to the Ac- I in their rear. If I do not capture them in the worth. Here they pressed into service such f meantime, see that they do not pass Chattanoo- guns as they could find, and were joined by two j ga.’ Capt. Fuller’s desire now was to reach Dalton and send the telegram before the fugitives could cut the wire beyond Dalton. Two miles beyond Calhoun, Capt. Fuller saw THE FUGITIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME and from their movements they were evidently greatly excited. They detached one of the freight cars and left it at the point where they were dis covered. They had partially taken up a rail, hut that nor the car did not detain Capt. Fuller. He coupled the car to the engine without stop ping, got on the top of the freight car and gave signals to the engineer by which he could run, as the car in front obscured his view. Two and a half miles farther Capt. Fuller came acriss an other freight car which the fugitives had detach- e 1. As before he coupled this on without stopping, aud pushed on to Resaca, where die switched the two cars ofi' on the sideling. Again he start ed out with an engine only. Two miles beyond Resaca, while standing on the rear end of the tender, he discovered in a short curve a T rail DIAGONALLY A( ROSS THE TRACK and being too clos9 to stop, the engine went over it at the rate of 55 miles per hour. After this until they reached Dalton, only ®c- casioDally were obstructions met with. At Dalton he dropped the telegraph operator with instructions to put through the telegram at all hazards, and continued the chase. Two miles beyond he overtook the fugitives TEARING UP THE TRACK, in plain view of Col. Jesse A. Glenn’s regiment, camped near by. They cut the telegraph wire just after the Dalton operator flashed Capt. Ful ler’s telegram over it, preventing him receiving the usual acknowledgement from Chattanooga of ‘O. K.’ The fugitives resumed their flight, and never perhaps did two engines with five feet, ten inch wheels make faster time than the pursued and the pursuer. The fugitives had the advantage in the fact that the ‘General’ a ‘ Rogers’ was headed towards Chattanooga while the ‘Texas’ a Danforth A Cook engine was running backwards. The fifteen miles to Ringgold and three miles beyond was made in less time than Capt. Fuller even made the same distance, in twenty-two years experience as a conductor. Half way be tween Ringgold and Graysville he got within one quarter of a mile of the f ugitives, who, being so closely pressed set their only remaining FREIGHT CAR ON FIRE with a view to cutting it loose on the next bridge. The smoke of the ‘General’ plainly evidenced that she was fagging. The fugitives abandoned the engine and took to the woods in a westerly direction. Capt. Fuller now ran up and coup led on to the burning car. The fire was extin guished and the car sent back to Ringgold in charge of the engineer. As Capt. Fuller passed Ringgold he noticed some fifty or seventy-five militia mustering and sent word back to the commanding officer to pat all his MILITIA ON HORSEBACK, and send them into the woods in pursuit of the fugitives as quickly as possible. This was about half past one o'clock. BEYOND THE BREAK and with renewed energy and determination j they pushed ou to Etowah where, to their great 1 joy, they found the engine as Captain Fuller ! supposed they would. And yet it appeared a slim chance. The engine was standing ou a side track with the tender on the turn table. The tender was turned around and pushed to the engine and coupled up and a coal car attached. | Some six or eight Confederate soldiers voiun- ; teered in the chase aud took passage in the coal i car. From Etowah to Kingston Captain Fuller ; ran at the rate of SIXTY MILES FEB HOUR and found the fugitives had passed by. A large number of freight trains had pulled by the sta- | tion so as to let the fugitives out at the farther j end of the side track. The agent informed I Captain Fuller that the leader of the fugitives claimed to he a Confederate oflicer who had im pressed his (Captain Fulller’s) train at Big Shanty, and the three cars were loaded with fix ed ammunition for General Beauregard at Cor inth. Capt. Fuller he said was behind with the regular passenger train. He insisted that agent should let him have the keys of the switch and instruct the conductors of the down trains to pull by and get out of his way, as it was important for him to go on to Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible. So authori tative was he in his demand and so plausible in speech, that the agent, a patriotic man, believ ing his story, carried out his request and so the fugitives, by the finesse of their leader, passed by one great obstruction. The freight trains were gathered here, and so heavy to move, that had Captain Fuller stopped to get them out of his way to pass, his delay would have been too long. Finding he could not pass with the old Yonah, he abandoned it. The Rome engine was on the Y, headed for Chattanooga with one car attached. He immediately took possession of it and continued the chase with all who would volunteer to go with him. He had not proceeded far before he found cross-ties on the track every 200 or 300 yards. Alter passing Kingston they punched out the end of the rear car which enabled them to drop out the ties without slacking up. Captain Fuller was forced to lose time in stopping to remove these obstructions. Laboring under these dis advantages the Captain redoubled his energy and proceeded to Adairsville. When he reach ed a point four miles from Adairsville he found sixty yardB of track tom up, and BET OUT ON FOOT, calling on his men to follow. When he had gone half a mile, he looked back and saw none but Anthony Murphy following him. He made two miles as exhausted that he had to lie down on the back of a mule and he held there by a man walking on each side. The blood vessels of his thighs hursted from his extraordinary effort. It cannot he gainsaid, that the expedition, in the language of Judge Hall: “In the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a ro mance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime.” We would not de tract from their laurels. It was a deep laid scheme, on a grand scale. They were impelled by the hope ef reward in money and fame, and devotion to their cause. They seized every moment and converted every opportunity to their own advantage. It appear ed as if everything favored their success. On the other hand, Capt. Fuller had all the odds against him. He had to start on foot, use a hand-car, remove obstructions, fix up engines, shift trains, abandon one engine to take a new one, and made the last race with an engine run ning backwards. Dangers beset him on every hand. Rails and cross-ties threatened to wreck his engine, him self and men and the enemy might ambuscade and kill them. The trains that he thought like ly would detain the fugitives, did not accom plish that end, hut were simply in his own way. His chase commenced on foot and ended on foot. CAPT. W. A. FULLER was horn in Henry County, Ga., on the 15th of April, 1836. His father was born in Morgan County, Ga., February the 17th, 1810. His grandfather, John Fuller, was born and raised in Camden District, S. C., and was in the battle of Camden, when Gen. Gates was defeated. Capt. Fuller worked in the cotton field until he was sixteen years of age. He was educated at the Piiiladelhhia Academy; entered the ser- i vice of the Western and Atlantic R lilroad as to the decree of the court ^sanctioned j con( i uo tor, on the 8th day of September, 1855, at the age of nineteen, and continued in that service for twenty-two years. Our engraving is a perfect likeness of him, and he is now a prom inent, useful and popular merchant on Marietta street, in Atlanta, Georgia. tenants. The President of the court was Col. Leander W. Crook, then in the Confederate ser vice, hut formerly Judge of the Rome Circuit. The trial was conducted in a most solemn man ner, only one prisoner being tried at a time. TRIAL OF THE FEDERALS. The prisoners were ably defended by Hon. John Baxter and Judge Gault. The witnesses were William Pettiuger, one of the detailed men, and Capt. W. A. Fuller. Pe.tinger’s evidence was as to the object of the expedition, and what they tried to do. Capt. Fuller’s testimony was as to what they did and tried to do. Ppou this testimony, the seven volunteers and the leader Andrews were convicted. The others were not tried. Eight of them, viz: Brown, Knight, Por ter, Wood, Wilson, Hawkins, Woliam and Dorsey escaped in October from Fulton county jail. Parrott, Br.fium, Bensinger, Reddick, Mason and 1 e finger were exchanged in March, 1863. In his evidence, Pettinger stated that during the chase. Andrews’ men came near open mutiny. They proposed to stop the engine in a short eurve, and AMBUSCADE AND KILL FULLER and his men as they came up, but Andrews would not agree to it. Capt. Fuller was not aware of this danger, hut he pressed his pursuit so hotlv that they had little time to take on wood and water. When the ‘General’ gave out the fugitives were burning oil cans, the tool box and planks ripped off the freight car. As they aban doned the engine, they reversed her in order to bring ou a collision with Capt. Fuller’s engine, but in their excitement they left the break on on the tender, and the steam had not sufficient force to back the engine. THE EXECUTION. On the 14 f h of June, 1862, tho prisoners were brought to Atlanta. Andrews was executed ac cord in by Gen. E. Kirby Smith, commanding the de partment. lie was hung in the hollew near Walton Springs. Campbell, Wilson, Ross, Shadrach, Slavens, Robinson and Scott were hung ten or fifteen days afterwards, a little south-east of the Atlanta cemetery. Wilson was granted permission to speak and denied being a spy, claiming to have been de tailed as a soldier to perform what he did. Ross, while under the gallows, requested Capt. Fuller to mark his grave, and if he sur vived the war inform his I Ross') father and mother wh 7 re he was buried. After the war, Capt. Fuller wrote to Ross’ fa ther at Christanburg, Ohio, who subsequently came out here for his son’s remains. When the trap was sprung, THREE MEN FELL TO THE GROUND, Items Of Interest. the rope breaking. These men were Slavens, Campbell and Shadrack—all heavy men. The rope was readjusted and the trap sprung the second time, with fatal effect. O. Winniugham was officer of the day, and Col. W. J. Lawton commandant of the post. Mr. Winningham wishing to be excused, Col. Cruz was detailed to conduct the execution. Capt. Fuller during the war witnessed the ex ecution of thirty persons, hut says he never saw as brave men as these were. TOES TIl’l-ING THE GROUND. At the execution of Andrews, it was seen that his Let were touching the ground. A man named Jim Barnes, as an act of humanity to the suffering man, removed the earth from under his toes, which were just tipping the ground. INCIDENTAL POINTS. Three or four accounts have been published ci".* enung this chase: John S. C. Abbott, in his ‘Her uc Deeds of Heroic Men;” William Pit- i. > g**r in his worK, entitled “Daring and Suf fer hi;’ .,u artiel- in the “Southern Confeder acy.” .nid another in the Confederate Monitor. Lt. I'm uger, in his “Daring and Suffering,” givis ; graphic account of the race, but in the exeitem. in of the affair, he viewed it at a differ ent s'.anG point from that of the real facts. Yet, his at count in the main is correct as to his part of the occiii ence. He says: “At the next sta tion, Andre vs borrowed a schedule from the tank-tender, telling him that he was running an express powder train for Beauregard.” The article in the Southern Confederacy stated that: “The fugitives, not expecting pursuit, quietly took in wood aud water at Cass Station, and borrowed a sch dule from the tank-tender upon the plausible pretext that they were running a pressed train, loaded with powder for Beaure The first balloon ascent was made in 1783. The first copper cent was coined in New Ha ven in 1687. Kerosene was first used for lighting purpos es in 1826. The first use of a locomottve in this country, was in 1829. New York street cars carry 165,000,000 passen gers a year. Wade Hampton can call over 8,000 citizens of South Carolina, by name. It will cost one frauc to enter the Paris Expo sition building. One hundred and thirteen persons in Pitts burg answered an advertisement for a book keeper, while only eight responded to another advertisement issued by the same firm, for a hand to work on a farm. The Pacific ocean covers 80,000,000 of square miles; the Atlantic, 25,000,000; the Indian oceaa 14.000. 000; the Southern ocean, to thirty de grees is 25,000.000: the Northern ocean, 5,000,- 000; the Mediterranean, 1,000,000; the Black Sea, 17,000; the Baltic, 175,000, and the North Sea, 160.000. Texas has fifty wheat producing counties, one fifth of which, fully cultivated, would pro duce 86,000,000 bushels of grain. It has also 69,120, 000 cotton yielding acres, which, if taxed to the extent of their productiveness, would yield 6,962,000 hales—more than the entire pro duct of the world. The inducements for a man to become a de faulter are growing beautifully less. Nowa days a man to attract much attention and sym pathy, aud keep out of jail, must embezzle not less than $500,000, and such opportunities are deeidedlj scarce. It may have been noticed, that the official, who "misappropriates the big gest sum is he who gets the biggest salary. It would seem that a small salary is an incentive to houesty—aud yet we don’t want our salary reduced. —Hock land Courier. Rev. Dr. Isidor Kalisch is evidently indignant at the charge made by the Jewish Messenger boys about his sketch of the Talmud being cloth ed in heart-rending English. Ignorance and impudence are the chief characteristics of those •Boys.”