About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1887)
VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 590. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 5,1*87. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Cf LW •‘Well! Why not whistle as long as possi- j ble, and cry when you cannot laugh?” 1 Heri'-e I may not be able to t-ll you just how a man feels who stares death calmly in the face! For maybe I did not comprehend my , j situation. ’ But 1 was sentenced to death; that I fully j ! comprehended when they marched me, hand- ; cuffed, between two guards with arms at ! ! “charge” and bayonets fixed, back to the j prison; and instead of my former 12x12 ceil Shading Across the Bloody Chasm. THE WILLOW. O willow, whj forever weep, S.s one who mourned an eudtes. wroDgf W iat hlrden wo« can oe so deep? What utter grit f can last so long? The spring makes haste with step elate Y tur life «no neauty to renew; 8he even bids the rot wait, And gives her first fond care to you. The welcome redbreast folds bis wlug To pour fur you bis freshest strain; To vou t e earliest bluebirds sin/. Till all your light stems thrill again. The sparrow trills bis wedding song, Ann trusts bis tender nrood to yon; F.o fi iwsrlng vines, the summer long, Won clasp and kiss your beauty woo. The sunshine dranes your limbs wl'h light, The rain braids dl moulds in your hair, Tne brei z - makes love to you at night, Yet stilt you droop and still despair. Beneath your boughs, at fall of dew, By lovers’ lip. is softly told The tale tuat all tne ages through Has kept the world from growlngold. B it still, though April’s bnds unfold, O ' summer sets the earth a-leaf, O 'autumn pranks your robes with gold, You sway and sigh la graceful grief. Mourn on forever, unconsoled, And seep yi ur secret, faithful treel No heart In all the world can bold A sweeter grace than constancy, [Anonymous. TO BE SHOT AT NOON. A True Story of the War. By CAPTAIN W. F. CORDON. Nevi r mind what my business, or how I was betrayed, and how I was gathered in. Enough barred and bolted me in an underground, dark, dank dungeon, 15x10, with a tub occupy- i ing two feet of that sparse space, significantly j suggestive that I was to stay right there until : the day and hour. The sentence was fully realized during the ■ sunless days and no darker nights of the weeks that followed. The post chaplain’s was the only human voice I heard lor weeks, and his only once, i for my levity shocke t him so that be gave me u j as an irredeemable reprobate. He offerer! a prayer for me, however, I courteously kneel- i ing with him on the same stone floor. But he never came again. He to d me—wiat my occasionally-allowed i letters from my friends had too plainly in- j formed me that there was no hope of escane from the fate that seemed to them and the i outside world to be staring me in ihe face, i Every possible effort had been made, every i available influence pressed into service with t the president, and he had positively declined int rfering with the judgment of ihe court- I martial. The worthy chaplain corroborat'd ! their sad information. Said he: “C iptain, you should prepare for death, for ! your life ends in a few days.” Finally it came. Shall I ever forget that 1 November morning in 18(iu 5 They had told me 1 should be taken oul at 9 o’clock in the morning, would be allowed an j oflictr’s room in ihe barracks, where my pa-j rents, gists rs and brothers would meet me and ‘ spend my last few hours with me. When taken out they had to seat me in the outer guard-room a quarter of an hour, until my eyes became accustomed to the piercing glare of sunshine Then they took me to the room where I found father, mother, s sters, brothers, and a minister. It was the quarters of an officer of the post, and very comfortably furnished. Just outside—we could see them through the window—stood a special detail of twelve men selected as the unwilling executioners of the senti need man. Telling me I should have until the last min ute before 15 o’clock, but then would have to go, the colonel locked the door and left me with my friends. They had secured the privilege of spending these last few hours with me, I knew, to com fort and console, perhaps to streng hen me for the fearful ordeal through which 1 had to pass. But I bad to comfort and console them. My father was broken down It must be a horrrid strain on a father’s feelings to sit and look at his son, in the prime of manhood, and count off the few inter dewing minutes of that boy’s remaining life. Brothers and sisters could only gaze at me in speechless misery, appalling by the gloomy shadow of death that was then casting about me. I had to become consoler, and strained every nerve, called forth every power to smile WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 174. h t UifiV bageed me 180 railesimcdg. .Uy; ene- I would not pypftit the trembling man of God .o prison at of** 1 prayer, "knowing his words wou'.a rail rny’s lines, and hustled me off to prison Foit McHenry, in Baltimore harbor, where I was confronted with the charge of being a spy. No matter that I had on. when captured, my full uniform as cap aim No matter that at my court-martial trial their own officer who cap tured me teit'fieil that he did not take me as a spy, and that there was no work for a spy where he captured me. No matter, I was found guilty, and the sen tence was read to me: “to be hanged as a spy on the parade ground of Fort McHenry be tween the hours of 12 m. and 3 o’clock p. m., November 3, 1803.” In answer to my'request that if they must kill me, for the sake of honor to give me the death of a soldier, they graciously changed the papers to read, “to be shot to death ou the pt- rade gronnd, etc.” Somehow I sup rose I did not fully compre hend or adequately appreciate my si uation, for I did feel then any more than I do now thai death was to be my next deal. Nor had I at all contemplated that result all through the trial. Only the last day belore that sentence was read to me, I had been creating merri ment ty asking puzzling or irrelevant ques tions ol the judge advocate, telling jokes dur ing the recesses cf the court, in divers man ners creating fun to draw mirth for myself out of that barren rock, “military justice.” Only the day before the president of the court-mar tial, the colonel of the regiment, .twelve of whose otfici rs composed my adjudicators, asked to ta k a little jvitlr me in private as be tween man and man. “Of course.” V’ ■ > “Captain,” said be, ‘Tgjeatly fear you do not properly appreciate jour present situa tion.” “Well, colonel, I know of no man more fa vorably situated to realize it. Why do you say so’ ■Because, sir, your life-is at stak6 in ihis trial. ■Well? “Well, you'll be found guilty, most ass«g«. lv, of tli» charge.” “Well?" .“.You’ll be seniouced to die.” “.Well?” X ‘•‘And yotl’V.be tagged or shot! And. here you have been spending tlte leisure hours of the court trying you for life in frivolous jest ing and mirth. As a fellow-man.it grieves •ne to se i you so carelessly playing at so ter- rible a brink as you Hand on.” “Colohel,” was the reply, “I thank you for yonr.interest. If we are national enemies, vou speak as a man and a soldier, Buclewmeskay tbisfnoW l caunot explain wkaviBpeftr me to make the following’fooHsh. tsrjMgisti speech, but it bubbled up and was spokfflfj: “Colonel, you or 1 may die before night; we do not know; but, in so far as the rtesult of your court’s finding is concerned, I Shall tie alive when you and your twelve officers are dead and forgotten!” He left me in disgust and I don’t blame ain». But such was my feeling. I did not “feel ii in my bones,” as the slang goes, that death Was so near. . The colonel an*F the entire twe.ve compos ing the court dledjwfore I was exchanged— “shalto death” intone charge at Coal Harbor. I live' to.'wriUrfbe oocutrencc twenty-five years after the conversation. It may or may not be true that when the grim monster singles out his victim he sends him in some way aspiritual premonition that he is going to let fly from death’s quiver the fatal dart. Be that as it may. I had no pre monition of death. Not when they Stood me up to hear my sen tence and to answer, nor afterwards in the cool contemplation my isrlitfon- tind sflejit dungeon affordfijjl; not when the officers day, on that eventful execution morning, read to me in my dungeon the day’s programme, an! delineated my doom at the-hands of twelve detailed soldiers. He found me whist ling as I paced my narrow cell that morning, and exclaimed in surprise: “Good God, captain! what kind <jf a mas are you?” “Oh, I don’t know; skin and bone; flesh and sinews; blood and biK Why?” “Why! 1 >oo’t you know you are to be shot to-day? Outside here are twelve men detailed to send you into eternity. You’ll never see another morning! And you are whistling!” upon those loving ears as death wails, as clods falling on my coffin. I drew them, by everything I could think of, to contemplate anytbink bu r , my impending doom. As I would about succeed the little clock on the mantel would strike, or a footstep on the stair outside or some movement of the garri- si n would recall them with a sigh to the hor rid present. The little clock on the mantel seemed to me in these intervals to tick lo.udly as the clatter of a mill. It struck the half-hours as well as the full stroke; and it seemed to me its little whir would buzz and the tiny hammer strike every five minutes. TeDl Half-past! Eleven! And a half! Twelve! Half! One! Heavens! How it ticked off the seconds, gal loped the minutes and startled our pained ears with those fleeting half-hours! We were seated around the roou. close to e tch other as we could get. Father on one side, mother on the other side of me, a hand clasped by each, as the little monitor on the mantel broke the gathering stillness with its ueta voice, crying the half-hour gone. Just then a step sounded without, a hand touched the knob, the key turned in the lock, the door was thrown open, and the Colonel stood look ing in upon us. Instinctively I jumped to my feet, as father and mother sprang to my side, a hand upon each shoulder. How rapidly thought does its office in such emergencies! My though’, was, “Their dining hour ap proaches, and these officers wish to get through this unpleasant duty before dinner”. For a minute—it seemed eternity, and that the little clock had ceased to tell the time— wo stood, the Colonel and myself, silent, gaz ing sternly at each other. lie evidently expected me to speak. But I did not, would not. At length he slowly drew from his pocket a slip of paper, and saying; “Captain, I have just received this telegram,” read, while we gazed upon him in strained listening earnest ness. “The execution cf the sentence in the case of Captain William F. Gordon is postponed uqtii further orders. By order of the presi dent”. Not one of us spoke. “You can stay with your friends until 3; then you go back to your cell,” he said, closed the doer and left us hurriedly. Father drew a long, trembling sigh and sank slowly to the floor, where mother had already fallen—their support gone. The sudden, un looked-for lifting of the cloud of death, the rush of relief from the horrid nightmare, caused a quick revulsion of feeling that made me limp as a rag, weak as a dying babe, and I, too. sank between my parents. The minister said something I did not hear, brother and sister knelt around us, and I heard, the preacher pouring out a prayer of gratitude that the dark shadow of earth had paksed bv, leaving the light of life. ' My sentence of death was commuted to im prisonment and labor during the war. But tt was life! LEARN THE LITTLE ONES TO SEW AND KNIT.—See item in next column under Washington City, about ladies and their knitting long ago. FIRST ANNUAL BANQUET Of the Southern Society of New York. Extracts from Speeches Delivered on the Occasion Cood Feeling Expressed Between the Sections. The Inter-Statifi Commerce Bill. The big rai road magnates, North and South, i vince much concern as to the probable ' fleet of this bill on transportation,and especial ly on their heavy charges and large dividends on many times watered stock. VIr. James F. Jo/, President, of the Michigan Central, when asked about the bill, replied: Washington’s Birthday. The first annual dinner of the Souther ifcRp , ... . , ... ... - , i “It is time enough to discuss it when we ^ili ciety of New York City was given on tbe»_.,.u , flnd 0lK wlial jt u , eall „ of February) and was attended by.. >£• ij^[_ wide diffceens— cf opto representatives. lion. Algernon S. Sufi i van ; fore- and as to the powers of presided. His supporters were Cornelius N. i (I> \ 1 railroads cannot ver 1 . „ . u ul there ts some agreement among Bliss, Judge Gilmer, John C. Calhoun, Col. George W. MacLeon, Ballard Smith. Sergcon- Generals Bryant and Boyle, I)r. William A. Hammond, Kev. C. L. Deems, Senator M. 0. Butler, Dr. Norvin Green, and f 'ompt.roiler William L. Trenholm. Referring to the toast, “The City of New York, the homejof our adoption,” the presiding officer said : ♦ . . “Only 17 years have elapsed since this close i ruinous alike to railroads and thwoft»«ry. of the Franco-Prussian war; vet this very hour j do not see any way in which the rail a ds ( the world trembles at the ili'i of preparations ] kelp ti.eimelves in the matterm.'SSi^llje bi for renewed war, and at the prospect of ihe.se j is declared unconstitutional. ’1 * ph, will be. jobey it .spon sors as to what it means. They seem jj& be as much at sea over it as we are”. ipt ■ And E. B. Thomas, Gene al Manager of the Richmond & Danville, delivered Voself to ah interroga'or thus-dolorously : tec “The Inter-State Commerce hd is'rain to the railroads. Anything that fiWtarts *®he general settled laws of irade and 9rff“perce is fi'J.ntry A More General Celebration Than iu Many Years. In Washington City the 22nd was generally observed as a hjliday. All the executive die partments and many business houses were closed, and there was quite a nurqber of street parades. The firs. was compos*^ J veterans' tcep.- and. ^ofihaoid| -Yal Amssioif- icit^ and Baltimore, who subjiquentljf parti. a pa ted in the celebration in Alexandria. Tljp Nftipnal Rifles, the Washington Light Inf ry corps, >the Capital City Guards and High School Cadets also paraded during afternoon. The Washington Continentals made a pilgrimage to Mount. Vernon, where appro priate exercises were held, including addresses by; Representative Herman, of Oregon, and [Others, ^fhe Okies'.. Inhabitants’ association r also celebrated the, day in', ww.'" great and neighboring nations, in almost sav- i trouble, I apprehend, when t >ej erfidetoi^ , .jj,' New York 'the public buildings, banks, ase hate thinking again of mutual slaughter; quire into ihe meaning of .'arjous'clauses. t ' . .*« '■i 1 _ ’ ’ . 1 I WT linn Dan iron •> tori Pn 1 1 /->*»» n Ml 11*11 ■ K'o tn Q On*AO ♦OH kb'j of the law, it looks a contrasted picture. It is 22 years since the j as to the interpretation war ended between the Union and ilie C-nfed- j little unre asonable to expect railroad men to eracy, and we have perfect, peace. I nder satisf .ctorily obey it ’. these happy auspices we me“t, with the spirit The general impression, howevA among'the and hopes of Ilie new South to keep our me- i p C . 0 p] e large, and entertained that por- morial day. We meet as the Southern Socie- i . ... . ; -w, . _ - * ty of New Yoik. We are not only in hot ! tlon ,lf lhe P ress not directly contrcltf-d by rit. We railway monopolies is, that the we are of it in deed and in the very spirit. We railway monopolies is, that the \c f .;Wi|l either ask our compatriots to unite with us in appro- work good for the people, or iadiqxffj lio.w one priate tributes. We signify thespirit which | can ^ fralned that wilL ... animates the society: It is fellowship and ; - , thought and svmoathy with all others in New i " Serine Wifi .he b y j The Late South Florida Exhibition at honor the nation’s heroes, ‘our oftier broth- Orlando, Orange County, ers’’ We will hr nor them too. Will they Millions for Defense. the United States Senate has passed a bill making appropriations to increase our naval establishment as follows: For the construction of heavily armored ves sels or armored floating batteries or rams, to be used for coast and harbor defense, 810, OOO.tKK). For the construction of light draught guu- boats, suitable for interior waterways and ca nal service, *1,200,000. For the construction of torpedo boats of the highist attainable speed and efficiency, StJOO,- said torpedo boats to te completed and “ - ' jn twelve months from the signing it-aft fob their construction. . torpedoes and torpedo appliances to be ’operated from naval vessels, floating batteries or fa mat *600,000. - The bi.l provides-hat the material used'.in ail naval structures provided for in it, and the armament for the same shall be furnished and manufactured in the United States, and all contracts for the construction shall be under the provisions of the act of Aug. 3, 1886, (“An act to increase the naval establishment.”) and fur her that the appropriations made shall be available during five years from March 4, 1887. make efforts to purify the.politics and public service? We will unite in those efforts. Have they enterprises to enlarge, commerce and in dustrial arts? We will also enga e with them. Will they stand by “an indissoluble Union of indestructible States” in the spiritfiof justice and friendship, and in the name of Washing ton? They will ever find in this society a faithful, courageous and an honorable ally’’. General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, said : “Ohio and her sister States of the Northwest are proud and happy to be reminded of their kinship with Virginia.” He then traced the relationship of the sections, and added; “Whenever Vi'ginia sits at the head of the table, Ohio claims a seat as one of the family. I believe that, in spite oc the infinite distress of war, the liberation of slayes, the temporary overthrow of the industrial system of the South, and the needless losses and humilia tions of reconstruction, there is more of re- I spect and fraternal feeling betw-en the N o th and South to-day than ever bef ire since tbe | slavery agitation began sixty-seven years ago. I Gentlemen, tbe North craves a loving and lasting peace with the South. It asks no ini- i miliating concession. It recognizes as the . chief cause of the war the constitutional ques tion of the right of secession. wh cti question, j ui til settled by the war, had neither a right j nor wrong side to it. Our forefathers simply | evaded it in framing the Constitution, bt-liev- j ing if it were settled either way. the union of j all thirteen States could not be accomplished, j So they left secessisn ‘in tbe 1 >p of the gods.’ j They committed it to the chances of the fu ture, and then the war came on and settled it Now the Northern prop e are not. so Tne weather was fine and the trains were crowded from every direction. Tbe display was most creditable, vhen the short time for preparat on is consid-red. The Indian River c uintry took the lead in oranges and other semi-tropical fruits. , The premiums on veg'tableTTgiire shared by different counties. There wereJ^Jans, peas, asparagus, cauliflowei, celery, tomatoes,' etc. There was green corn (roasting ears) from Hernando county, and a turnip tfc d. weighed 18 pounds; and fron thence, too, were sam ples of the forest wealth—white qjik, hickory, red and white bay, magnolia and. cedar. In fact, this county won the best t itte for aggre gate txhib.tion. Several sho wed tobacco—botluN?® American and Spanish (or cigar) kinds. Before the eve of tl.e war the planters of Gadsden county raised §300,000.00 worth of cigar tobacco annu ally. besides a considerable amount of cotton. i ne poultry were the best ever seen in the Siate—the climate seems to suiM^j domestic birds. The department, of ladies’ handiwork, and works of art was very- interesjung. Orange county-excelled in these. “7 - There were radiantly beautifirfik'*(nen, the fair artists. - , ±Li The selection of Orlando Ks a £Pod one, and it would be well tq have a Fair there every year. Lakeland, Igl^. .A 'an old-fashioned discharged. Capt. Wirz was hung in the yard of Capitol, and he walked from his ceil f6 j scaffold with an undaunted air, as if eops that he was to be exdbuted for having, i dfficer, carried oat the instructions of acted in accordance with the wishes of his su perior officers. They went unpunished, but ^he—a poor, friendless foreigner—was hung 'like a dog. I*. From New York to Jiij^rpool ut forever. — - . . mean, fanatical or foolish as to complain of the South that it believed then, and beiieves now, that it had the right side of that question . of the constitutional construction. How could | from New York to Liverpool in four days it Four Days AVhen one can travel across *the Atlantic we respect the South if it were to saj now i w j;| mark an era of revoilitibn in the' 4rans- ^“LttX^blo^Jf 1 the^var j Atlantic trade. The Anpw Steamship Com- P , . . *a f»in ♦♦•no 5w_ i pany of New York will .vjon c^D\p£ncp thecon bad changed its convictions as to the ttue in- ^ terpretation of the Constitution as originally struction of a fleet of t *elve vessels with the adopted? Surely, with the authority of Jef- a foove purpose in view, and which are to bear flew 11 ^WashfngtOD andHatflten tataS j historic Indian names. The vessels wifi be of the Northern, eSh side can admit at i cast built expressly for passengy traffic, and to be the sincerity of the other. The North, t00 , ' of won-d ame! the en, of iron and steel, the engit& capable of g ving a OI f T,w. c n iht'iwovnkimr caus- i a speed of twenty-two knees an hour. There recognizes the fact tha. all the’ Provok.n. catm j ^ ho * eV( ^ cepl j*_who in- es of the war ^ v nr th and South and ! c *‘ ne 40 tSe belief ‘hat such a rate of speed can Sw&iaa -s j rs nf alavorv hprp arc not a Dart of Mile*anuria, a. *. t overthrow of slavery here, are not a part of j the plans of the Almighty, as to which we are foolish to parcel out the responsibility.” The Excitement, Over Natural Gas. ■"'Chatting about tie ex’.itement in northwest em Ohio over the natural gas discoveries^ex Governor Charles Foster, of*Ohio, remarked: that thfre is “You may imagine that t&Cre is some.exeite ment when I tell you that Jotra Sherman, who is considered the coolest of investors,') ~~‘~ chased outlying farms near Flm as §200 and §300 an acre. J. ain ? the Senator will never do anything his property than farm it”. A. New Lien for NeW. Cars. placed on record A mortgage has ji.st been placed on record from.^hg Baltimore It Ohio Railroad Company to Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, to coyer the issue of §2,500,000 wfibth '6f car trust bends by the Baltimore and Oqio-Car Trust Association, for the purpose of wcquir §g additional rolling stock, railroad equiptnertt, cai3ftand locomotives. The bonds exchanges andjjbusiness houses were closed and flags, werefflyiiig in all directions. At the poatoficp theie was. one mail delivery- at 0 o'clock and then letter-carriers werePrelieved for tbe day. A farge number of piiL.ie and private entertainment and benefits were giv en during tbe day and evening. At Alex-ndria the day was celebrated in un usually fine style. Visiting military and fire organizations from Washington and Baltimore participated, and were handsomely entertained by the citizens. The decorations were numer ous and brilliant, aud designed and arranged in excellent tzste. Philadelphia, as usual, .came to the front with enthusiasm and appropriate decoratious. All banks, banking houses, commercial, stock and petroluin exchanges aud other public in stitutions were closed, as well as nearly all business houses. There were military parades in the morning and bunting was proluseiy dis played all over the city. lu Baltimore the day was more generally and enthusiastically observed than it has been for years. - All banks aud business exchanges were closed, as well as the postoftice and cus tom house and the courts, State and Federal. Flags wt re displayed throughout the city and the throngs, of people on the streets were very large. Matiy of the stores were open, but no business was done, ths people seeming to have given themselves up to an enjoyment of the occasion. The day was unusually pleasant. In the evening a reunion of the Society of the Army m8 Navy of the Confederate States was held a™he Academy of Music. Captain Dawson, of the Charleston News and Courier, made an address on “Our Women in the War.” The reunion was followed by a banquet. All places of amusement were well attended, and the day was more entirely given up to social enjoyment than similar occasions for many years. In different sedtipns of the city there were balls, and everybody^-seemed bent on all possible pleasure, as it was on the eze of Lent, to be followed by absbenance and self-denial on the part of a large part of the people. At DeFuniak Springs, Florida, the day was celebrated by a gland concert with all the mu sical talent of the Florida Chautauqua. Ad dresses were delivered by B. G. Northrop, of Clinton, Connecticut; Rev. Arthur Edwards, of Chicago; Dr. : Archibald, of Cincinnriati, and Professor John Patterson, of Pensacola. The illumination and display of fireworks on -®e lake were tine. And our countrymen sojourning at thei cap- ital of the sister Republic south of us, together with many visiting tourists, celebrated the day by an open-airpicnic, at which a considerable fund was subscribed to a new American hos pital. An address was delivered by Minister Manning at the laying of the cornerstone of the hospital Ice Gorge in Michigan. Lyons is a town in Ionia county, in central Michigan, and the town being cut off by wind and water from rail and wire communication with the outside world, the following dispatch has been sent from Muir, a neighboring town: “The flood continues, the water rising a foot an hour. The Grand Ledge ice reached here this morning, forming a jam thirty feet high, above the'bridge, causing the river to leave its b?d. Tbe stream now rashes with mighty force through the business part of Lyons, sweeping everything before it. Twenty build ings were carried away and as many more were moved from their foundations. Several busir ess fronts also were broken in by the ice and floating timbers. A portion of the bridge was lifted frotn the abutments and car: ied down with the ice.” Poor Wirz. The trial, conviction and execution of Capt. Wirz, for alleged ill-treatment of Union sol diers. simply made this foreign Confederate officer a scapegoat for the si.-s of h s superi ors, whose orders he obeyed. When he was brought to Washingtin to be tried by a mili tary c immission he was suffering irom scurvy. His right arm, near the wris% was an open inch deep wo :nd, and part of the bone al ready gone. The hand and that part of the arm around the ulcer were very much swollen, and two fingers were clcsed to the palm of the hand. His left arm he could not bend up to his face, as the deltoid muscle was gone. His feeble state of health made him sometimes so weak that he could not appear in court. When there he could not sit up, and had to recline on a sofa. Besides when the trial took place, the season was very hot, and the room in which he was confined, and where a light was burning throughout the night, full of mos quitoes, which troubled him greatly. One morning the prisoner came into court in a very weak state. Col. Chipman, the judge advocate, had given orders to have him put in ir ms, but the officer at the Old Capitol, finding that the right hand was too much swol len to permit the iron t j be fastened, except in the inc sion made by tbe open and inch deep wound, had not had the cruelty to force the iron on his right arm, but had, in order to show that he had been willing to carry out orders of his superiors, fastened the iron to tbe left hand only. Even had it been possible to put iron on both hands, it would, aside of the wound, have been very cruel, as it prevented the prisoner from driving the mosquitos from his face, or even wiping off tbe perspiration, as his left arm could not be bent up to his face. His devoted counsel, Mr. Louis Schade, called the attention of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, one of the members of the commission, to that out rage and he became very indignant As soon as the court opened he inquired by whose or der the prisoner had been put in irons, and Col. Chipman acknowledged to having given the order because he had feared, judging from the high state of excitement under which the prisoner labored, that he would commit sui cide. The principal witness was a pretem Frenchman who called himself a grand ne] ~ of LaFaye ,te, and who presented pencil si es representing mirdqrs and cruelties by fcjj ~ ~ _ If or him a clerkship in the Deputme 'Interior; but eleven days after the dei vietim it was proven that he was a Getfnan . postor* whose name was. Felix Oeser, . woo Sianli.nmil * PERSONAL MENTION. What the People Are Doing and Saying. Henry M. Stanley has arrived at Zanzibar. General Hazen left an estate appraised at §12,000. James Russell Lowell will be in London again about Eister. Thackeray never made more than §25^00 out of any of his books. Vtrs. Margaret J. Preston, the well known Southern writer, is threatened with total blind ness. Miss Mildied Lee, daughter of the Confeder ate general, :s spending the winter in Wash ington. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will spend the latter part of the winter with her mother in New York. Miss Johnson, of Washington, who is sing ing iu London un ier the name of Mile. Dacca, will soon be heard in this country. President Cleveland has nominated Capt. A. W. Greely, of arctic fame, to be chief signal officer, with the rank of brigadier-general. August Belmont's real name is Schoen berg. When he came to this country from Germany he assumed the name he now bears. . Levi P. Morto t says that Gen. Grant pos sessed the faculty of remembering men in a higher degree thau any person he ever met or knew. The Ocala Free Press nominates Alex. St. Clair Abrams for Unite 1 States Senator. Flor ida might go a great deal further and do a great deal worse. At Clearfield, Pa., Mrs. Erwin, a soldier’s widow, dropped dead a few days ago while re ceiving from the agent §2,000 back pay and pension money. Austin Corbin, president of the Reading Rail way, has one daughter who will inherit his fortune. She has just graduated from a Parisian school. Engineer Henry Smith, of the Electric Light Company of Selma, Ala., while oiling the ma chinery fell against an electric brush and died almost instantly. At a special meeting of the board of over seers of Harvard University, the resignation of Hon. E. R. Hoar as president was presented and accepted. John Good, the inventor, of New York, a few yearn ago was a day laborer in a Brooklyn cordage factory. He now has an income of §160,000 a year. Elisha W. Davis, brevet Brigadier-General of United States volunteers and ex-president of the Pennsylvania Senate, died on the 13th at Philadelphia. Gov. and Mrs Scales, of North Carolina, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Katie, are in Philadelphia, where they will spend a or more with friends. Ut is currently reported thstsir Augusta mem and stJuilL president has pocketed between. " Birmingham, and Au- knitting the dis- at a outre-as kdund r in usband Ladles With Their «£*itMhg. In the olden time it wss notlunRsual to see ladies in tbe gallery busily while listening to the del play of knitting needles public lecture would be coi was the exhibition of Ca], the kirk while Jegnnte De: preaching. The wffirthy captain, it will be re collected, drew forth friph -his spleuchin his pipe and fire apparatus, and havihg struck fire with flint and steel, he lighted his pipe, and puffed away to his, heart’s content.. Iri&ool old times the New England ladies were wont to take sewing or knitting to parties, w.thout a violation of the'*proprieties of tbe time or place. 'St V: f The elder Booth attempted to play Richard at Washington, on the night of the 25th of Jan uary, 1841, but he vfe$.&o intoxicated, as to in capacitate him fromkperforming, and nothing but the high istimatwnjn whici tbe manage ress (Miss Monier) \j[ffpeldTiy all classes pre vented a row. The'jMy was suffered to pro ceed, however, amid shouts of laughter, par ticularly at the conclusion, when Richmond and a host of soldiers vainly endeavored to kill the crooked-back tyrant, fle would not die, not- W thstandmg all th.iiv efforts, and the curtain fell, while the supernumeraries, seized him bodily and carried him off the stage. John .e Previous, puestion. honn, then a Senator, stated in debate, in 184L that the “previous question 1 ‘ :edi; ’ was in roduced into the House in 1811. Its establishment was rendered necessary by the long-winded speeches of Barent Gardiner, a representative from New York who would speak two or three days on some unimportant reso lution, when action was promptly demanded. Henry Clay differed from Mr. Calhoun in his recollection. He said that before the pre vious question was introduced they had a rule in observance in the House which acted as a great auxi.iary in cutting off debate, and that was a question of consideration, viz: “Will tbe House now consider?” He recollected the application of that rule in a particular case of interest. Mr. Randolph, who under stood that a message would be sent from the President declaring war against Great Britain, came to the House in the morning and com menced his famous anti-war speech, and after he had 3poken some time, hq (Mr. Clay) sit ting mjthe chair, asked him on what proposi tion he based his remarks. Mr. Randolph re plied, upon a resolution he was about to offer to this effect: “Resolved, that it was inexpe dient to go to war with Great Britain.” Mr. Clay ffisked him to be good enough to reduce it to writing; which he did, and sent it to the chair. The question was then put, “Will the house now consider the resolution?" and de- the plate every Easter morn, and has been at death’s door, is not going to She is going to Newport, tin McCarthy, Gen. Lew Wallace, Henry irge, Carl Schurz and J. G. Blaine are ex- ' to address the students of the Univer ity of Wisconsin daring the spring. The personal property of Gen. Logan ia val ued at only §10,000. His wife has been quali fied as administratrix. The fund being raised fot her benefit has reached §64.060. Edwin Booth closed his eneagement atLouis ville on Wednesday night of last week... Tie local papers state 'that he played £o §3,000 houses every night of hU engagement. The resignation of Judge Samuel Treatok, judge of the United States District Court, for the Eastern District of Missouri, to take effect March 3, has been forwarded to the President. ' Dr. S. Price, of Lexington, Ky., has sold his bay five-year-old stallion Boston Wilkes, by George Wilkes, dam by American Clay, to Closser & Lyon, Laporte, Ind. Price piud, §2,760, John S Sheldon, of the firm of Sheldon & Sons,'Rutland, Vt., is at the Sanford House, Sanford, F'la. The Sheldons are well known as tbe wealthiest and most extensive marble dealers in Vermont. Mr. Labouchere thinks the Queen could not mark her jubilee by a more graceful ano pop ular act than writing an open letter to the Irish landlords calling upon them to treat their tenants humanely. Miss Tillie May Forney, the youngest daugh ter of the late Col. John W. Forney, is now a re&flar member of the staff of a Philadelphia soJrety journal known as Leisure Hours. She is a bright and trenchant writer. Dr. J. H. Douglas, late physician to Gen. Grant, is, with his family, recuperating from overwork at Hotel Conant, Conant, Flai. The doctor is now engaged in writing a medical history of Gen. Grant’s sickness, which will be issued in a short time. P. D. Armour, the great Chicago meat pack er, with his wife and a party o’ friends, are so journing in Jacksonville, Fla. Special local In terest attaches to this visit for the reason that he is largely interested in Jacksonville, having there one of his only two or three distributing establishments in the South. One of the curious coincidences of clature is that the daughter of Gen. Logan married a Mr. Tucker, while the daughter af Representative Randolph Tucker married a Mr. Logan. Each couple have a son. The name of one is Tucker Logan and the other is Logan Tucker. Mrs. and Miss Mahone start for Europe early in the spring, and propose making a*lengths: stay in Italy, where Miss Mahone will take an extensive musical course. This talented young lady, wbo speaks German and French fluently, has a fair knowledge Of Spanish, and during her stay in Italy this time wishes to perfect herself in Italian. cided in the m .egative, which cut off the Bpeech, tdolph denounced it as a “gag law." So that even the term was not original with the Senator from South Carolina. A con test had taken place in the newspapers of the time between himself and Mr. Randolph in relation to it, which, bye-tke-bye, he had never seen since. bear interest hit the rate®f io^r and a half per ' -«ed into teiiclasse?, matur- five, six, seven, cent, and are d; deled into teisclasse?, matur ing-in one, tw<i ih ree, four eight, nine and ten years \ Gen. Spinner, whose pleasant pot hooks graced so many millions ot greenbacks, cele brated his 85th birthday anniversary at Jack sonville, F.-a., a few days ago. Webster and Clay. Messrs. Clay and Webster were on excellent terms after the election of Harrison. A few weeks before his inauguration they dined with President Van Buren, and after dinner they went together to the assembly-rooms, where a large thring of the elite of the city were gath- e-ed to indulge in “tripping the light fantastic toe.” These assemblies were “got up” by the grandees of the metropolis, assisted by several of the members of Congress, and afforded some little amusement for them in the absence of anything better. Jas. A. Renshaw, prominent member of the New Orleans Cottoa Exchange, has made a cession of his property to his creditors. His assets are stated at §162,000; liabilities at §112,000. The Emperor Francis Joseph himself tint broke through the traditional etiquette of the Court of Vienna. One day a nobleman’s wife, who had been a brilliant actress, was named in a list of guests invited to a court reception. The horrified chamberlain pointed it oat to his majesty as “doubtless an oversight.” “No,” said the Emperor, “let it stand. I can create a dozen countesses any day, bat each women as that are scarce.” Joseph W. Drexel, the great banker, has a taste for mnsic which was well cultivated in his younger days and has not been in later years. Lome o^. nue he ha; 0 »uiered one of the of musiral works in the country. It is be his intention to give this library, by will, some institution in this country where mnsic is the only branch of education taught. A gentleman who was in Florida with Mr. Drexel a winter <»r two age told of an incident there which brought ont the fact that Mr. Drexel ia himself an expert in musical execution. On one of the river steamboats their company was edified by a band of Italians who had in their possession a fiddle, Ante, guitar and harp. Mr. Drexel. became interested in the mnsic and daring an interlude went over and picked up the instruments, one after another, and gare a performance upon each. Afterward at the be tel he sat down at the piano and rattled off mn sic as if it had been his life vocation instead hanking.
