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VOLUME XII.—NUMBER •>> . ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY M()RM>G<'JANUARY - s . I s * 7 PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. 8haRing Across the moody Chasm On Seeing Modjeska as Mary Stuani. J ltv«- Sentence Was Death! N*»t until that, moment did 1 realize my critical jMidtion, con learned to die the death of a spy! To he hung like a dog and buried like a convict! The thought of death ils^l was i ! not so great, as 1 had, with thousands of oth- j ers, daily risked my life, and expected at per- I haps no distant dav to render up the life 1 had 1 offered as a sacrifice to my loved country; but tie mean, low, disreputable death of a spy by hutging w is to > much for me. From that lini ment I a’moHt gave up hope. 1 learned that 1 would have just one week in which to prepare : myself. That evening] 1 was taken away from among my comrades, who had done all they could to a»m ort me, and was confined in a ; sma 1 stone cellar which had but one narrow | window on the wes.ern side of the house. ' Here in this cold, chilly, underground room I was placed, chained to a pom which stooo up right in the centre of the room as a support to I the upper floor. My chaii was just long eno igh to reach to the window through which I would stand gazing almost from early dawn to the decline of the sun over the hills in tiie west. A guard was placed outside and his eternal, monotonous regular tread, like the pendn um of time, seemed to mark off the seconds and minutes of time left me. Contra bands, with wide open mouths and staring eyes would come opposite my window aui i gaze at me, with awed countenances and 1 whisp red comments among thems» Ives. One | day, aller I had recognized one of these ilark- ! eys as one who came regularly, I entered into conversation with him. Having some money I asked him to get. me some tobacco which hi did. A thought thin struck me, why not get the darkey to carry a letter to General Kelly, the coniman ling offi cer at (’umlierland, to whom 1 would write! 1 and ex >lain my condition and ask for a respite j i until my innocence could be proven. No 1 sooner conceived than put in practice, I I wrote a letter containing a itill account of my j , capture, m\ trial and all matters connected i with it, and when the darkey came i ext day I I ca led him to the window, and uniter pretense j : of wishing him to buy some trifling tiling, told j him what I wanted. Heat first refused, then j hesitated, bu. after my explanati *n and deela- i ! ratio i that no danger to him could attach, he 1 consented and took the message, with several ! dollars in money as his pay. He quietly dL- , appeared and 1 never saw him again. After the lapse of a day or two 1 began to fear that ; lie had either failed to find the general or had becom** afraid of the venture and destroyed j the note. 1 had but four days left me and I determined to try airain. I succeeded in the , I same manner in getting another contraband to ; consent to carry a note to the general, and he ( i also disappeared. I sent three notes alto- ! get her. the last one the day before my time ; j had arrived, and 1 stood momentarily hoping j rpA 1)1^ II 17 Y 1 \ sJ A yj I) V" and alternating in despair. No news! The I _[ JjjLi J1 U i\ ’T Jl U 1Y ul 1 • i day had arrived and nothing yet heard from ! any of my notes! Had the darkeys failed, or j I had the general turned a deaf ear to my ap- Capt. Payne’s Almost Mirac-; t?vS^ j 11 ImiQ 1 ^ ie °f my chain around and around the ; UlUlio LoL/dJJC. post until tired and worn out, I would fall to j t the floor and lay there bemoaning a fate Victim c^Mistaken^Identity-Trial, j ! 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Andg-e t Modj-.sm.’s wide renown K fleets no 9t :ill 1’i‘OiR '*’ : ia! hone count thee guil.y of, When WO see Her, Mary 8tu.»rt, fresh our love Goet forth lo tu»*e •I Fourth9t., Cincinnati,0. prie Just in the Nick o Time. ,iy narrow window. u.L s b fcL ‘l an ' * on the day appointed for my PERSONAL MENTION. WASHINGTON CITY. What the People Are Doing Reminiscences of Distin- and Saying. Miss Julia Sprague is lecturingon “What I saw in t'tah.” Jay Gould is so small that he wears boy’s sizes in trousers. Mr. and Mrs. Ira 1). Sankcy have just returned from Kurope. Hon. W. F. Slemmons lias gone to Ore gon on a government mission. guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. ldti. The A Cood Story. Kentuckians tell a good story of ex- Governor Magoffin of that State, who is a good It is now a settled fact that Secretary talker and likes to do most of the talking him- Lamar will marry Mrs. Holt, but the day , self. One day, in making the journey from is not fixed. j Cincinnati to I/exingt* n, he shared his seat in Gladstone has written, for the January , ,, , , . , number of the Nineteenth Oututy, a end- \ hr c ’* r W ', U ‘ ;l k,r, " hl , - v, ' d ’ Peasant-faced gen- cism of Tennyson’s late poem. tlema*. The governor, after a few Common- Senator Stanford is said to have spent pktee remarks, t# which his companion smiled fully $10,000 in purchasing Christmas pres- j and nodded assent, branched into a descrip tion of the scenes that he had witnessed in dif ferent parts of the country, grew eloquent over the war, described with glowing speech the horse-races he had witnessed, talked learnedly of breeding, and told thrilling stories of his battles with the Indians in the Northwest. ents for the poor of Washington. Mr. Hogg, of West Virginia, will be tin* youngest member of the next Congress. “Tae pen is mightier than the sword.” Judge Church, Governor-elect of Dakota, says lie does not think Statehood will be denied to that Territory much longer. Lord Teinplemore has offered to sell his estate in Donegal at twenty years’ pur chase on the basis of tiie present rental. Tbe Marquis of Londonberry, Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, offers to sell his Irish estates to his tenants. The terms of the sale are not mentioned. Fears are entertained that the Czar’s in temperate habits may lead to delirium tre- j aboard mens, and cause him to commit some act, “Y'ou are right. I met a gentleman of un w hich will precipitate war. j usual intelligence. We conversed all the wa] The ex-Kmpress Eugenie's health is even | over. I never was brought in contact with The hours slipped rapidly away, and when the train was nearing Ijexington the two ex changed cards and parted with a cordial shake of the hands. The governor drove to an inn, and to a number of friends he remarked tint the time had never seemed so short before. “Then you must have had pleasant company fcG'Wj r*i» w'H* ,.ird and Editor Scmkt South Among the ma. incidents of adventure and narrow escape, from a violent death at the hands of the enemy during the late war, perhaps no man living bad a closer call or a more vivid remembrance of the approach of “tbe shadow” than does Captain James T. I'ayne who now risides iu Charleston, the Capital of W. Va. The Cap tain's story of his escape from the death of a spy, for whom he was recognized through mis- 1 where over a lar taken identification was about as follows: In the year 1863 Captain I’ayne was a mem ber of McLennan’s battery, McGregor’s bat- tallion, .linboden’s brigade. In may of ’63 during a fight at l’arsou’s Mills he was captur ed by the enemy and taken to Kowlerburg, where with other confelerate prisoners he was confined in prison. The rest oi his story I give in his own words: “In this prison we remained several days, eating, sleeping and passing tbe hours of day light as best we could by playing cards or any amusement w iicb presented itself. Life became tedious and monotonous, and we all be« r an to look for exchange as our only relief from the miserable tedium of prison existence, if I had thought the tedium of prison life al most insupportable as a simple prisoner of war I soon had reason to radically change my mind and to think my partners were among tbe luifkiest and happiest follows. < >ne morn ing about a week after my capture an officer tap of a mullltd drum came ' ly to my ears. Louder and loui- -A t** 1 * .*d tones sounded as the guard ap- V'at^MnUl they halted s few paces from 1 h * 1 officer approached and opened t led t< tting in a broad stream of God’s \ ti trijijjj j„ m y f are< almost dazzling me . .L—frilliancy. My irons were taken off am. n commanded t<i follow which 1 did. The .uard surrounded me and silently, with measured tread and muffled drum beat we marched through a long line of blue coated soldiers to a small open space in the woods, limb of a gigantic oak a line thrown ami 1 was given J minutes in which to make my peace before I died. Hie 3 minutes was up and a command given to the soldiers holding the rope, when a horseman came dashing into the woods, shouting some motion from the officer COTTON EXCHANGE AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MOBILE, ALA. worse in Italy than it was in England. She will remain in Koine till after New \ ear’s, and will then go to Naples and Palermo. The new French Ministry contains one man of capacity, M. Berthelot, Minister of Public Instruction, who has no rival in France in tae domain of synthetic chernis- iry. Dr. Win. A. Hammond can afford tw write novels. Hi* not only has an ample fortune himself, but his wife has just come into the possession of the income of >loo,- OUh t^ueen Victoria, it is said, will use the utmost pressure to induce Lord Harting- ton to join the ministry and become < on servative leader in the House of Com mons . Lord Wolseley will complete his five years as an adjutant-generai at the close of the present year, but this term will be ex tended another year by the decision not to count the time he was absent on the Nile campaign. It is said that Dan Manning's cousin, Bobert L. Frye’*, di.,!>res ihat, he w go ... ... g ’ wt - Ai 'Vt - - tiie appoiniViieia a>» minister to MOBILE, ALABAMA. Fryer evidently has pondered over >t e \ | LTiiied States, of Kelly too much. _ ? sn y more agreeable man.” “Indeed! W ho was he!” asked his friends. "Wait a minute, I have his card,” and the governor felt in his pocket, and produced a bit of pasteboard. “His name is King.” “Not Bob King?*’ shouted a dozen in one breath. “Yes, gentlemen; Robert King—that is the way the card reads,” was the proud reply. A roar of laughter followed. “Why, governor. Bob King is as deaf as a post, fie was born deaf and dumb!” Confederate Documents. Gen. Grant sent forme one day while he was President, and requested me to examine some papers at the White House, and give him my views as to their historic value. The general s family was then, I think, at the Soldiers’ Home, at any rate they were not at the White House, and the trunks containing the papers were in one of the chambers of that building. 'Hiey were certain pajiers of the Confederate Government, which, with others, had been sent south from Richmond ^ March, 1865, and had been ordered to be bu Georgia, as the l nijui^Tj-iops approach,,.,. v v hey were in soni c v. ’ and ca •> ito Canada, where * not that I i \>«H o li^>1. pjekett, Washington, and offered i im'k’sf r takes away, and that there shall be no invader ! courts. I therefore, after keeping them a few on a consecrated field. This natural senti- days under guard, have discharged them.”* meat of the human heart found expression The matter was then referred to a committee, among the Hindoos in the custom of burning which reported at length. The report says: the wife after the death of the husband. This i “It is admitted on all hands tbit toe recent fixes the relationship between the two irrevo- arrest of Mr. Payne was made in the State of cably, and that is the exact intention of the 1 Tennessee. Your committee conceive thU the custom. It would hardly do to burn the ' Guard transcended their power in crossing the widows of this country, for they are generally line of the State of Georgia t * arrest an indi well-behaved and duly res|>ectful to the mem- vidual out of the limits of this State. And ory of their deceased husbands. If there your esmmittee believe that it was an act of ought to be any burning up in this line it which the sovereign State of Teunessee has ought to be of the widowers, especially the just cause of complaint against the authorities ! artistic combination of the modern Rtnaissance cider om-swUo are s° suddenly rejuvenated of Georgia.” The report then proceeds t° i and g ueen Anne 8tyUj of architectures. It has when loosed fn»m the matrimonial tether. No quote ti e report of the captain of the Guard, human creature is the butt of so much ridicule, as communicated by Gov. Schley, cites that ; a frontage of feet on the S . Francis street, the object of so much raillery behind the clause of the Federal Constitution which pro-■ and tH) feet on Comm#rcc street, with an ole in those very circles he seeks to pene- tects the person and papers of the citizen from ! vation of 66 feet from the ground, the divisions I did not find among them what T^ Alexander 1 >umas, the younger, is h n, in I to the correspondence of Mason, his sixty-third year, and his hair is tilvery Thompson and other agents of the Sol white.H» Confederacy abroad, disclosing the relaill^ The Cotton Exchange and Chamber I - W. w‘."'ror<-on^TWashington’s weU knowi ~ J of Commerce. I - ■**?*<*_ n« .rat to to. tosn.rj ..f to. | - „ u . cui optoion ib.l M. .,lu- SJS™ to 'Hf... So "'> _ of Mobile was undoubtedly the completion of cat ional bill will pass during this session of j by establishing' the Maximilian Enmhe the Mobile Cotton Kxchange and Chamber of Congress. IBta ; Mexico. Neither was tliere any stateme. Commeice building, at the northwest corner Schaefer says he will challenge the showing in whose hands the large sums of eola world to a contest with the cue at any kind ot belonging to the Confederacy when itcollaSed billiards. h«H fallen ****** of (’ommerce and St. Francis streets. It is an ildiers allowed the r..p- to slacken and stood fate and beiirjoff a victim, as that giddy per unreii liable entered the guard room accompanied by two j j, a ,i ln isiaki*n men dressed in private uniforms. While the officer stood near the centre of the room, the two men walked deliberately and slowly around among the prisoners closely scanning each countenance and personnel as they,went. They spoke no word nor betrayed the least particular interest nor ixcitemnt until they came opposite where 1 was standing gazing out of a window. When they got close to me both men stood sto k still tor a moment gaz ing intently at Jiy features and running their eyes up and down my person, then apparently satisfied, they turned and strode bark to the office, to whom they whispered something casting their eyes in a meaning glance toward me. The trio then went out ot the guard room. I was s miewhat mystified at the actions of the men, but had not the slijnr-t su picion ,,f their intent or purpose until late that af ternoon when the officer, a lieutenant, return- ed and calling my name informed nie that I had been recognized and identified by the two men. (who it seems were government detec tives), as Bedford, a notorious Confederate scout and spy. I denied the charge and reiterated the state ment I had given at fir-t of my name, com niand and where 1 had been captured, but the officer shrugged his shoulders and told me that I would have a rhai.ee to prove my inno cence of the charges before a Court .Martial which was ordered to meet on the next day. Even thi n the enormity of the charge, the danger and risk which would necessarily fol liting the horseman, who rode directly (a thepdficer and presented a paper. The officer read the paper and turning <• me said: “Gen eral Kelly has respited you.” I was then placed l*etween the guard and we counter marched to the original prison where 1 was again placed among my old companions. M\ companions, w;io ha i learned » f my tria', con viction and sentence, were of course glad to see me again, and overpowered me with a flood of questions to which I could only give vague answers, scarcely myself, under standing the si nation. However during the day I learned that the late contraband I had sent with a letter to the general, had proven true to his tins’, anil had placed the letter in that officer’s hands but a few hours before, allowing barely time in which to reach me bv a fast horseman. How near lie came to being “just too late” the n-juler already knows. lays an investigation disclosed that 1.1 searches,, and pro- ; , )f h( , isllt b(>ill „ o,,, , o, lo, and 1“ feet. The sou known as the marrying widower of ripe ceeds: “It appears then to your committer age. It is only when he is fortified with gold, th it the Georgia Guard, in the recent arrest i exterior of the building, which is of red prej and silver, and precious stones that fair mankind smiles and surrenders. He is then accepted as a speculat on. John Howard Payne, and the sayil'aftei-™.„ium Georgia Guard. him guilty of no offence for which he was swerable in our courts. ‘I, 1 the commander of tie* Guard, 'kept him in custody a few days and then discharged him.’ Your committee would ask, with feerngs of mortification, win he was kept in custody one minute beyond the time when it was ascertained he ,d committed no offence? Was it to idisereet state- Jeorgia Guard! , , :* , i <ri, t i mica r as' Berhaps so. But in so doing, the Guard have and, without exp« . * ‘ ‘ . I violated every principle of the Constitution if John Howard Bayne, trampled under foot ! ed Zanesville brick, is broken picturesquely tbe (’‘institution of the Tniteil Stute.s.” The | by anp l t . K , buttresseas,and gable ends, and tlie report then suites that the captain of the f .• ,. . ... . . , i . • , ; i . i ,i ,• roof of Queen Anne design is surmounted bv (iii'ird pointedly violated the executive in- . . 7 structions given him relative to arrests, and a towering statue of the Goddess of (’ommeree. The ommamier of the Guard resting her left arm upon an anchor, and hold his papers and finding Dig a wreath in her outstretched riiht hand. Knnoic Si nnt Soi tii: Most of thebioeraph- cal notices of John Howard Bayne, author of ‘Home, Sweet Home,” refer to his arrest on >i„* Dec ision by the Georgia Guard. This arrest , punish him for his ins never been explained, so far as lam aware, | menus in relation to the other i i , if the poet had, ail and that t 1 n. A short biw, my representations had been time after that we were paroled until ex changed. I shall never forget how near I came to suffering an ignominious death, and shall ever bear in grateful r» niemliranec the contra band who carried my letter to th • goneral and that officer for his prompt attention to my ai>- peals. I had an opportunity to partially and feebly return some of the debt 1 owed to General Kelly later on. It was after the celebrated raid of M*cNat’s Gavalry into (’umberiand and the capture by them of General Keiiy and other officers. I met them on their retreat with , their prisoners and gave the eneralall 1 could i pHwed tin gel to eat and placed at his command all the | liam N. Hishoj: comforts I p issibly could while 1 was vviih tin in. I learned a short time ago that the pen sion allotted him by the government had been increased Jo $100 a month. He deserves it, and if I had it iu my power it would be so large as to forever place him above want. “ There! you have the story of my arrest., trial, sentence and almost death as a (’unfed crate spy.” some way, violated the the State of Georgia had, in some way, been cruel or unjust toward the poet. Justice, therefore, demands that the facts should be made known. In is::t, the General Assembly of Georgia empowered the Governorto organize a military f„ rce for the protection of citizens and friendly Indians in Cherokee. Georg lAider this which guarantee liberty and equal rights the citizens of this country. 'They have jeop ardized the character and reputation of the Slate of Georgia abroad by this act of wanton and uncalled tor vandalism; and will bring down upon the people of the Sta r e the inevita ble and odious charge of in hospitality and cru elty to the stranger. Your c un mil tee conceive therefore, that the State of Georgia can only relieve herself from the obnoxious charges and denunciations that will be made upon iicr by a There are two principal entrances, one on ('ommerce and one on St. Francis street, the latter bearing over the arch in bold relief a bear and bull, symbolical of the two controll ing elements in cotton transactions. The gable over tins entrance is ornamented with a cotton bale, surmounted with a large golden crown, indicating the kingly sway of “Old KingC’ot- ton.” A balcony projects over the Commerce street entrance, and over it is a pavi.ion with an tqiening for a clock. On the St. Francis street side of the lower floor is the hall of the is reached bv a lobby shaped tiles of white Italian marble. 'This hall he was one of th is a magnilicenl d»-pariment, elaborately fin- of the best. Ev hority. Gov. Lumpkin enlisted a force of firm, decided, and unequivocal disapprobation though> Not a Joking Subject. some forty men, commonly called the Georgia, •times the (-herokee Guard, and under the command of (’ol. YY il In his letter of instructions to (’ol. Bishop, the Governor said: “Let it be constantly borne in mind that, uiubrthe existing state of things, your military com mand is designed only to aid the civil author ity in carrying into state;” and,again, “it will be most prudent, in all cases where arrests arc to be made, to obtain warrants from some judicial officer, in the due, form of law, an i be attended by a civil officer duly authorized to execute the same.” f the conduct of the Guard in this matter 1 the Representatives of the people in this lcgis- iative capacity. 'The character and standing which the State of Georgia have always held amongst her sister States, demand that upon this occasion, she should speak firmly and quickly.” The report the* proceeds to give reasons for thinking the existence of any military force in Cherokee GeoYgia unm*ceessary, and reccom- t the la vs of the mends tiie adoption of the following resolutions to-wit: Resolved, That the Legislature highly disap prove of the conduct, of the Georgia (Liard in the recent arrest and confinement of John Howard Bayne in the Chertikee Nation; Resolved. That the Legislature consider it xpedient to re-organize the Guard, in the 'There is one very careless habit of a great | it was not long, however, before complaints (’herokee circuit,which has been lately disband many excellent married people. II jw often I began to come in. A Jintice of the l’eace ed; we hear a man joke Ills wife about eotting eliargeil tiie Guard wiili having prevented the /te.r./red. That his Excellency the Governor i nn-.ir* from attending his court; then a suiter be authorized to leave the arms and aninmni- marned a second tune, or a wife perpetrate , } ^ urr 4V Superior court complained that, in don belonging to the State, lately in the use of «'t*r (mu ......... ... ,wi the same sort of ghastly pleasantry at the ex- Jj H . very presence of the presiding Judge, the ! the Guard in the Cherokee circuit, at such low^lid not strike me' with full Yorce, "and I i pence of her husband. They would not do it Cai.taiii of the Guard had grossly insulted place as he shall think proper for the use of wont back among my companions, careless ami 1 if they were to stop and think but a moment. , him; then the Cherokees protested against the i the citizens, provided he shall deem the same - '»*• «»•" —j--- * I I im »Kt of John Ross; and, finally, it was re- I to hi* m-ccessarv.’ thoughtless as ever. On the next day I was Did you ever hear a wife joke about the death taken bv a guard to the marque of the com Landing officer, where I found a Court Martial 1 of hcr chlU1 ' " r her ‘"other, «r her brother, ready to preside. The same men appeared 1 sister, or father? No, no. Iiut society is run and swore to my identity, declaring that they had frequently seen me and that but a few _eks before I had been set n and recognized iii (’umberiand, Md. They had no hesita tion iu swearing to my identity except in one thing—they both said I looked to them some what younger than when they last saw me, put this chahge in my appearance was attri buted to my confinement in prison and to my having shaved some of the beard which they said I bad worn when they last saw me. When it came my turn to produce evidence in rebuttal I found that all of my comrades in my own command who had been captured with me had been taken some days before to anoth er point, and that not a single man remained who could corroborate my individual state ments as to my innocence. I asked the court for a continuance to give me an opportunity to defend myself, but was refused, and re turned to prison to await the verdict. In about an hour an officer came to tiie guard room wi.h tbe verdict, which was “guilty,” and the niiig over With those who joke about the death of their 1 disbands. It is the most thoughtless sort of humor ever invented. It is trifling with the most serious subject on earth. We decry irreverent passages in a play or a public address. It makes the blood chill to see rude bands laid on tnat which is sacred. Give is sacred, marriage is sacred, death is awful. The one ever painful thought to those who are happily wed is that death comes at last to take one away and leave the other a lonely survivor. Conceive, then, the hideous flippancy of that wife’s conversation who speculates in jest as to her successor. What violence dix’R a husband do a preclaim thing when he in imagination jumps over the grave of his wife and dances like a ciown into tiie arena of widowhood, ready for another matrimonial enterprise? The world takes tiie proper view of this subject when it de- iiMuuls that the widows of its heroes shall remain constant until they themselves shall be _ _ to be neccessary ported that John Howard i’ayne had been put j Keport and resolutions were at once adopted under ‘ r uani ' and mav Im* fnmwl at. lpn»*t.!i. not. onlv in thp ““on assembling in November, 18J5, the Leg islature at once instituted an inquiry into the conduct of tiie Guard. Gov. Schley, who had succeeded Gov. Lumpkin, was requested to fur nish all tiie information in his possession on the subject and. in response, sent in a com munication as follows: ... „ , “I have receifed a communication from Lot- onel William N. Bishop, the commander of the Cherokee Guard, informing me that on his return from Milledgeville to Spring I’lace, in November last, he found John Boss and John Howard I’ayne in custody of the Guard ‘who were found engaged in examining and writing papers suspected of some design against the Government.’ lie says: ‘I have examined these papers and found tome very improper and indiscreet statements in relation to the President, our Government and State author ities and agents, both Government and State agents, the Georgia Guard, etc., and many bitter remarks concerning the Cherokee mat. tors, but filially concluded that they were not of such a nature as would justify their being bound over to answer for their offense in our and may be found at len^li, not only in the legislative Journals, but on the statute book of Georgia, in the Acts of 18ffo, pages 336 to 343. 'The facts, therefore, are that the poet was arrested, without warrant of law, on the soil of Tennessee by a body of Georgia troops, whose business was to keep the peace among the Gherokee Indians in the latter State; that his sole offence was the entertaining of yiews on the political questions of that day Tariant from those of the Captain of the Georgia Guard; and possibly, also, some caustic reflec tions on that eminent commander and his co hort; and that the General Assembly of Geor gia at once disavowed the wrong and disband ed the force committing it. Salem Dutchkk. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 16. 1886. Will Alexander Return? London, January 3.—Rumors are persist ently kept afloat in St. Petersburg and Odessa that Prince Alexander is arranging for his re turn to Sofia as King of Bulgaria. ing is the elevator which eoiuniunicates wi.h all the upper stories the boiler also supplying steam for heating every room and hallway iu the structure. The upper stories of the building, which are reached by a commodious stairway, are divid ed into large airy rooms, and are occupied by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. On the second floor are found the offices of the general manager, solicitor general, treasurer, and general freight and passenger agents, while the third floor furnishes ample room for the comptroller and his large force of clerks. Through the attic, which is unoccupied, one reaches the tower which surmounts the edifice, from which is obtained one of the finest viears of the city and the surrounding country. OFFICERS OF THE COTTON EXCHANliM In 1886 the last election f date was held and tha present officers are: I). E. Huger, I'resident. T. S. Fry, Vice-President. Louis Touart, Treasurer. K. II. Bolling, Superintendent. R. Middleton, Chief Supervisor. J. C. Bush, Jno. A. DePras, L. C. Dorgan, Geo. L. Hopkins, C. L. Huger, T. S. Ingersoll, John Wylie. A Tear’s Travel on the Big Bridge. The number of passengers carried on the New York and Brooklyn bridge during the year were as follows: Promenade, “,065,400; railroad, 24,471,307; total, 27,430,707. The gross receipts from all sources were $755,080,- 88. contest i had fallen. Tin* Russian Minister at Washington is al- . . .. lowed $25,000 a year by his government for | Llnco,n and Fighting Joo Hooker, the puqKxse of giving entertainments. i President Lincoln used to write long letters Henry T. Stanley, the African explorer, has military commander, and copy them declined an offer of $40,000 to return to Amer- j J 1,ms *- , t. Just after Gen. Joe Hooker had ica and complete his lecturing tour. | a , ^ c ’ omm and of the Army of the Potomac, , i w , , t i n. a letter was penntd, and while the President Lord Randolph Churchills resignation as y , t retained * it in h is possession, an intimate ( lianoellor of flic hxchequer excites almost (. ieml 1,append to be in his c-Mnet one Xht universal unfavorable comment m Lngland. aIld the p re!ii( u. llt read it to him. remarking - I’arnell thinks it improbable that the plan of “l shall not read this to anybody else, but i cainpi.if.-n has procured abatements in rents, want to know how it strikes you.’’ Durine j where everything else failed, as has been as- the following April or May, while the Army of sorted. “ ~ the I’otomac lay opposite Fredericksburg this Gen. Logan was not quite so poor as some friend accompanied the President to General of his friends tried to make out. He has prop- Hooker's headquarters on a visit. Hum ni<-ht ertv worth at least SdDJHSI at I'arbondale, 111., Gen. Hooker, alone in his tent with this i-eii- j his old home. tleman, said: “The 1’iesident says that he Cincinnati lias a lady engineer, probably the showed you this It tter,” and he then took out lirst and only one in this country. Iler name lhat document which was closely written on a is Miss Mary S. Brennan, and she is matron of [ sheet of letter paper. The tears stood in the a 3 tiling ladies’ seminary. general’s bright blue eyes as lie adkt d: ‘It is The ‘ Journal de St. i’etersbourg” says lius- ! il lell *' r “ s :l f: ! Ul ‘’ r “‘feht have written to sill's refusal to accept the candidacy of Prince I,1S "- And yet it hurt me.’ I lien dashing till' water from Ins eyes, lie said “When 1 have been to Richmond, I shall have this foster printed." But “Fighting .Joe” never reached Richmond, and it was sixteen years before the letter, which sharply criticised him, found its way into print. A Pretty Woman. Richard <’iton. an Englishman of credit and renown, came to B iltiwore, where he success fully engaged in business, and married Mary, a daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.’ ! hey had three daughters, the oldest one of which, Marianne, was married at AnnapoiUto Robert Patterson, brother of Madame Patter son-Bonaparte. The ceremony was performed n the chapel in the upper story of Mr. Car roll’s house, and the attendant festivities were magnificent and prolonged. Three belles from Baltimore w* re the brideinaids, one of them being Miss Mary Chase, afterwards Mrs. B r- n -y. 'Tin* bridal pair visited Kurope, bearing letters of introduction from the British Minis ter t * his fami y. by whom they were received with flatter ng attentions and presented at court, where George IV.. on beholding tlw* fair Baltimo ie^lie, gushed with admiration. “Is iz pos-ihl-,” said he, “that the worldc juiii produce so beautiful a woman?” Her husband dying shortly after their return to Maryland, Mrs. Patterson again went to Bn 'land, where she. mam* il the Marquis of Wellesley, then viceroy of Ireland. .she was Ferdinand, of Saxe-(’oburg-Gotha, for the Bul garian throne, is not due to personal objec tions. Senator Blair pays the following beautiful 'otton Exchange, which tribute to Gen. Luring: “Among strong men >sc*llated with diamond- he was one of the strongest; among wise men * wises ; among good men, one ;rvbody will mourn him.” lied in ash and black walnut, and measuring 31 by 48 feet. Al tiie conveniences for the use of the members, sue i as desks, easy chairs, tables, blackboards, etc., are t«» be found there, and a few steps away is the elegantly furnished office of Mr. K. II. Bolling, the Secretary of the Exchange. The rooms, both on the St. Francis street side and on the Commerce street side, are bright with the light that passes through large windows and transoms filled with finely illuminated cathedral glass. The adjoining space, of the same size as lhat de scribed, is occupied by the Chamber of < ’uin- tfo‘ position of private Secretary merce, both apartments being connected by two .Governors of Alabama, cove another room, IS by 15 feet, which is used as "1 eight, years, left Montgomery oi a committee room, common to members of his home in Jacksonville, Ma. both bodies. An office similar to that of Mr. General E. I*. Alexander’s description of Bolling is occupied by Mr. A. Pope St. J >nn, the Battle of Gettysburg, in the Century, is a the Secretary of the Chamber of (’ommerce, j very line, graphic and dramatic account. It is and the large hall is well furnished and sup- | full of spirit and movement., especially in lie- plied with ail the commercial and statistical j scribing Pickett’s glorious but tragic and use- lit rature both from home and abroad. At • foss charge. the end of the corridor in the rear of the builj o’Brie,is and the O’Collins, and the )'(iradys are putting the.r feet on tiie n. cks Now that I.ogan is dead. Blaine is very de monstrative in his expressions of the friend ship wiiieii lie alleges existed between them. This kindly feeling was not so apparent when Logan was alive. Capt. George 11. Uea. one of the oliest steamboat men in the West, and for several years president and large owner of the Miss issippi Valley Transportation Company, di.d al St. Louis on the ? itii aged 70 years. Col. Robert M 'Kee, who has so ably filled the last the I’d for j of the Puritans. Some people do not relish at one time first lady-in-waiting to (Jueen I the politieal impression of the Cel ierace in Adelaide at Windsor Castle, who, in an auto- i Boston, but they give the people admirable ! graph note to the in ,rel i ness, wrote: “His government, and prove 1 Heir capacity for ad ' majesty admires you much, you are so purely ministering high political trusts. : free from court gallantry.” A London letter informs admirers of Ouida’s j ..At a small dinner party, presided over by unwholesome writings on our side of the wa- Rut” ” "ham I\ ., a gentleman thought tit to ter that she is now a sour and discontented , J’ e a „* l ‘ ^ x I H ‘nsi' of the^American nat- old woman, practically destitute of human sympathy and companionship, and deriving little or no comfort from the fame which her work has secured her. Mrs. Cleveland lias not “agreed to doff her high hat when she visits the theatre,” and all the fulsome gusli that has been lavished upon her in consequence is wasted. It woulda t make a particle of difference, anyhow, for oth er women would continue to sport the tall towers just the same. The Senatorial contest in Teniiesst'e prom ises to be one of unusual interest. Gov. Kate appears to be the favorite. The Democrats have a decided majority, and if they do not hold a caucus there will be a deadlock between Kate, Marks and House, with Hon. James I), l’orter in the background watching for contin gencies. Henry George may be illogical, and his doc trines may be dangerous to society, but he is generous. George Hutchins, of New Jersey, died the other day and left his estate to Mr. George to be used in disseminating his opin ions. When Mr. George learned, however, that the widow of Mr. Hutchins was without means, he declined to accept the bequest. He would not take the widow’s mite. tonality. Turning to Lady Wellesley, lie ask ed: “Now, do pray toil us, do you come from that part of Ameriea when they guess or where they calculate?” “She comes from neither,” said the king slowly immediately in terruptin' him. “She comes from where they fascinate. ” Iamisa Catharine married Col. Hervey of the British army, first aidt-de-camp to his grace the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo. The colonel died suddenly, and in good time the conquering comeliness of the Calons captured the Marquis of Carmarthen, who, on the death of his father, became Duke of Ix>eds, his elder brother having been opportunely killed in a boxing-bout at college. The duke dying with out issue, the title passed to another branch of the family, and Louisa Catharine Caton still very handsome, was dowager-duchess. ’ Klizabeth, last of this transcendent trie whose faces and forms were not only their for tunes but their charters of rank and privilege married Sir George Jerningliam, Bart who’ on the death of his father in 1830 became Lord Stafford She is dead, as also is the Marchio- iwss of Wellesley. M Do Lesseps says that it will cost 137 500 - 000 francs to complete the Panama canal.’ *
