VOLUME XII.—NUMBER
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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 !
Tuol iT-l thn TSIiotr ft nor! * 1,l » 11 IV IIIUTiiW WlllirldW ^ i
<).i! Scottish Mary, w** w!kj
Thy menioiy well
K-jof'*** :o see tlimi yet can
T>» weave t J.y spell,
Eucli5*ii:ln«. round a newer race —
T give eur age
Thy q form aim comely face
To er »we its st
Oaf cou'ds r Burn se*-a 31-Jter queen
INiruaj *h> Je ar:,
Metlm ksth u’ *t »li • w rid tniis*-.-*
DowiUritdden 1
ehhd
i yielded us
Endowed with Godly genius;
An age of wild
Aid cruel schemes •';»»« birth to ir«
II. ie kindred woes
Then efsfaiuy clearcausee;
In I'. loidN ro s
We fid * is (.ric counverpnit
O those w! o’v** he. n
The then - of augui.- h lo U:y h \irt.
’Ti*- li i‘ug CellH
Whee IV and’sra .ghvr wears thy gr
< > ! fir I. -rr.one!
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.’ *
