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VOLUME XIV.—NUMBER 673.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 20. 1888.
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■baking Aoross ina Bloody Chasm.
CAVILE BEI.LUM.
•‘In this fearful struggle between North and South
there are hundreds of aases In which fathers are
arraigned against sons,brothers against brothers.”—
American Paper.
' K fleraaa, shoot me a fancy shot
Straight at the h«*%rt of yon prowling vldette;
King me a bill In the glittering spot
That shines on his Dre&st like an amulet!’’
“Are. Captain! here goes for a fine-drawn bead;
There’s music around when my barrel’s In tune!”
Crack! went the rills, the messenger sped.
Aud from hla horse fell the ringing dragoon.
“Now, rifleman, steal through the bushes and
snatch
Prom your Tlctim some trinket to handsel first
blood—
A button, a loop, or that luminous patch l
That gleams In the moou like a diamond stud!”.
“Oh, Captain, I staggered and sank In my track
When I gazed on the face of the fallen vldette;
For be looked so like you, as he lay on his back,
That my heart rose upon me. and masters me yet.
“But I snatched (fT the trinket—this lecket of gold;
An inch from the centre my lead broke Its way,
Bcsice grazing the picture, so fair to behold,
Of a beautiful lady In bridal array.”
“Ha! rifleman, fllag me the locket! ’TIs she—
My brother’s young bride—and the fallen dragoon
Was her husband—hush, soldierl ’twas Heaven’s
decree;
We must bury him there, by the light of the moon l
“Bnt bark! for the bngles their warnings unite I
War Is a virtue, weakness a sin;
There’s lurking aud loafing around us to-nigbt:
Load again, rill-man; keep your hand In!”
WAR INCIDENTS.
V;w and InfftresftP" Uftministwees of (ii»
Late Moody Conflict.
NUMBER 28.
MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND.
The morning of September 2, 1802, found
the soldier, of Lee’s army in motion, en rente
for Maryland. After a day’s rest, the
fantry, artilery and cavalry, with the long
trains of army wagons, started on that first
trip to penetrate the enemy’s country. The
line of march was northward towards the
Potomac river. Passing Frying Pan Church,
the road pnrsued by Longstreet’s corps, the
stream of mer>, animals and wagonB proceeded,
via Gnilford Station, to Drainesville, Fairfax
county, wbere the first night and a part of the
succeed ng day were spent.
Jackson’s corps, with D. II. Hill in the van,
had marched on is the direction of Leesburg.
On the afternoon of the 4 th we again took np
the march aDd wended our way to a point two
miles south of Leesburg, where we went into
bivouac. The people of that section of Vir
ginia had long felt the iron heel of the op
pressor. The presence of the Southern army
caused great rejoicing among them, and they
were very kind and obliging, many of them
throwing wide open their doors and distribut
ing, with a princely hand, every particle of
food that their larders would fnrnish.
AN INSTANCE OF HOSPITALITY.
The bright sunbeams of the morning of the
5th awakened the writer as he lay, wrapped in
his blanket, in an open held not far from a
cozy farm-house. Standing over him was the
smiling face of the farmer as he repeated,
•’Come to breakfast." The words bad a
strange sound, it had beon so long since snch
an invitation had been received, and it was
some little lime before he ould fully realize
their moaning; but rising and catching once
more the welcome smile of the kind-hearted
son of toil, it was not long before his house
was entered, and steaming hot coffee had
given his visitor’s olfactories a pleasing sensa
tion. General L-mgstreet and staff were pres
ent. and after joining them in a good pull
from a blsck, long-necked bottle, at some
thing said to be thirty years old (and it ought
to have been, for it was very strong), they all
went in to breakfast. It is useless to say how
that meal was enjryed; the appetizer acted
like a charm, an 3 before leaving all had pro
nounced that home the best place to ren
dezvous in Lrudoun county.
STRENGTH AND CONDITION OF THE
CONFEDERATES.
Lee's army, at that time, was not in con
dition to campaign in the enemy’s oountry, for
most of the men were ragged, dirty and ill
provided for; they had lived on green corn and
apples for so many days, that their physical
proportions were dwindled; their appearance
was any thing but prepossessing, and they had
well earned the name of “tatterdemalions.”
Though thus accoutred with rags, lacerated
feet and bloodshot eyes, they had lost none of
their fearlessness—but stood ready and anx
ions to cross the river and plant the standards
•f the Southern Confederacy upon the shores
of “Maryland, My Maryland.” Their strength,
as an army, had been greatly reduced by bat
tle, disease and straggling; and, jost before
crossing the Potomac, was further lessened
by an order from General Lee forbidding bare
footed men from accompanying their com
mands. Their number did not exceed 15.000
effective men; bnt their hearts were right and
they felt themselves invincible. The prime
obj ct of the invasion was to give the Mary
landers an oppor.uni y to throw off the yoke
of oppression and tu ite their fortunes with the
Sootn. Bnt it did cot work; they lcved the
d -sbpots of E :ypt better than freedom in the
land of Canaan.
OVER THE RIVER.
On the 5th, the troops commenced crossing
the Potomac at the several fords, and by the
afternoon of the fol owin day all the army were
on the nor hern banks of the stream. For the
brattice the borders of the enemy’s territory
was orossed, and strict orders issued by Gen
eral Lee, who had cstab ished himself at Fred
eric, for the protection of private property. So
far as destruction of grain and fruit was con
rerned, would have been almost an impossi
bility to have prevented starving men from
helping themselves whenever an opportunity
; resnted i self; onr own State having been
stripped of its standing corn for the sustenance
of both armits, it was not to be supposed that
Maryland should suffer lees. Tae B. and O.
Railroad, and all the roads leading to Wash
ington, Baltimore, Harper’s Ferry and the
upper Potomac had been se zed. Oa the 7th,
General Lee issued his proclamation.addressed,
“To the people of Maryland,’’ and remained
at Frederic several days to give them time to
accept of its povisioua. I was coldly received
and it was soon seen that there was no hearty
cooperation to be expeted from them
After reaching Frederck, General Lee was
imformed that Harper’s F-rry was still in pos
session of the enemy. As he naturally sup
posed it wonld have been abandoned npon
tearing of h<s march into Maryland, be was no
little surprised. As it would never do to let
so strongly fortified a post remain in his rear,
cn bis direct li le of c imtnunicatione, he deci
ded to capture it, and for that purpose General
Jackson was instructed to move his corps, on
the morning of the 10th, by way of WilliamB
port to Mariinsbnrg, disperse the enemy at
that point and then move to Harper’s Ferry
and take immediate stBps to capture it. At
the Bame time McLaws’ and Anderson's
divisions were marched to Maryland Heights,
to ae’zs that important position and instructed
to co-operate with Jackson. Walker’s division
recroeaed the Potomac with the intention of
occupying Loudoun Heights.
Swift.
SIEGEOF ATLANTA.
A Militia Man’s Experience.
Arrived at the Depot—The Harrow
ing Bight—July 22nd, 1864.
NUMBER ONE.
Written for the Sunny South.
A long train of box c trs from Macon drew
np near the car shed at early dawn, " while it
was yet dark,” July 22ad, 1881. I was a
member of a squad of about sixteen additional
recruits, made np of bnjs under age, for Con
federate conscription, men over age, and a
doctor or two of snch age in practice as ex
empted them from Confederate service. A
green set as regards war; and the artillery
and musketry pratioe going on at that usually
still hour, struck us moie enthusing tt an
dangerous. Indeed it was pretty music
to those who were full of fight. Pop,
pop, boom—pop, pop, boom—and the
orchestra seemed to extend two-
thirds around the oity. Those who ave j n their likes and dislikes to enable any minis-
IRELAND’S STRUGGLE.
Pictures of Her Cbampious and Her Martvrs—Tbe Irish
Question in Parliament.
O A
It is always with a to develop the resource aud manufactures of
feeiiig of sorrow that their country that bat?'been destroyed by the
one gets upon the study ' statesman of the school of Manchester and
Birmii gham. In all ibis the questions of free
trade and protection prominent, and the
Parnellitea ant ~ a .It** \tl
against the Ss-l^h
where, even with a
there will always
federal system is ad
doubtedly, the dual s'
tria-Hungary would U
ising for Ireland’s wel
r of Irish politics and Ire
land's distress. It seems
at times as if the brave
straggle of tae l’aruelites
for home rule for Ireland
mast be a hopeless one,
,in spite of the assistance
which it is to-day re
ceiving Tom Mr. Glad
stone and English Liber
als and Radicals. We
nark no real advance, in
lac’, since Mr. Gladstone
put h<s aged shoulder to
the wheel of the Irish car, bnt only note that
the canse of Ireland is in exactly that stage
to day in which it was when the G. O. M. took
hold of It a few years ago. Mnoh as we ad
mire the old statesman’s enthusiastic adher
ence to the canse towards which his enthnsi
astic energies were directed so late in life,
much as we admire his burning denunciations
of the tyranny, and cruelty of the
Sassenach, we cannot get away from the
idea that home rale for Ireland will not be
wrested from England by oratory. It is a de
lusion to hope the great middle-class leaders
in parliamentary life will ever be able to briog
about justice to Ireland’s demands. The mass
of English voters are totally ignorant on Irish
affairs, and what they lack in knowledge they
make np in pregndice, and they are too fickle
> ^l%land, nu-
if fyP exists in Aus-
■i the most prom-
jy,' Hungary, though
aD integral portion of tae Austrian Empire,
is, to all intents and purposes, he; own master,
oertainly, as far as the -egolatiofi of her com
mercial interests goes, thongh in army mat
ters and in those relating to the entire realm
she is subjeot to the will of the empire. It is
tme, however, that Hungary, whose fight for
freedom was carried on withaa much bitter
ness as has been the straggle in Ireland, had
opportunity on her side. She also had a great
statesman to guide her; though Franz Deak
was not a wiser leader than is Parnell. Deak,
like Parnell, was always in favor of gaining
autonomy by peaceful means. Wnen the
TUELAMORE GAOL.
never heard the steady pioket-firing of two
confronted hostile armies, may find a striking
resemblance, where a number of axemen are
engaged in felling trees on a still morning;
each blow representing a musket-report, and a
falling tren that of a cannon. But what a
sight struck us, as we groped our way up to
and around the car-shed. O. each side of a
three-foot walk lay dead and wounded Con
federates. The sight disintegrated onr squad.
I being an yl-licnlapian, groped my way among
the poor and st ffering wounded. Here is one,
covered all over witn a gray b anket—dead ;
the next is snoring loudly; not slsi-p, but the
coma of death. As Ig—.efuily threaded my
way along by the scant light, one poor fellow
uttered a fearful scream, sprang half upright
and then fell heavily on his left on a wounded
neighbor—extorting from the latter a loud
moan of pain. I sprang to the relief, seized
the delirious soldier, and lifted him back on
his pillow.
“ This man must be wounded in his brain,’
I remarked to a neighbor.
“ Don’t know.”
“ Wh“re is he from?”
“ He is a Texan.”
“ And where are you from?”
“ Mississippi.”
While returning an hoar or two later, I
baited, with better light, to see my wonnded
Texan;—he was dead 1 Observant medioal men
are always on the alert to correct or verify
their prognostications; so I carefully examined
tbe forehead and temples—all was dirty and
powder-blackened, bit there was no wound
found;—ran my hand all over, and under bis
head;—ah, yes, on the back of his head, there
is a boggy feeiing, ragged wound; but this is
an exit wound; where did tbe missile enter?
It required close examination to discover that
a ballet had struck him plnmb in the left eye
without catting the eye-lids. There is no
donbt this poor fellow was shot while faciBg
the enemy, and with his eyes wide opeD; peace
and honor to his dost!
Onr squad were for several hours in confu
siou; we hailed from Sciiven county, were re-
ernits for a battalion of “Pets”—Joe Brown’s
Pets, as they were called—that had been sent
up to JobDston’s aimy a fortnight before,
made np of local militia officers and county
officials; they were in the trenches, but where
abouis i> was difficult to ascertain. We had
a sub-officer who nsd charge of us, and while
he was the whole of the forenoon on the pad
to find some one to tell him where to pat us,
we became subject to the wiles of a man that
fell in with us that morning. He talked very
patronizingly, and in quite a fatherly way.
He had come up from lower Georgia, ahead of
his command to see if anything ecu d be dono
to save Atlanta. Gen. .Johnston had been su
perceded because he would not fight. Hood
bad been defeated on the lO.h. Hardee's in
fantry had marched out of the city before day,
and there goes now his artillery down the Mc
Donough road;—it all means evacuation. “I
am going back to Macon,” said he, “will stop
my command there, and will take charge of you
men and pat you under my orders.” Bat for
tbe fact that two or tbiee of us knew some
thing of this man’s antecedents—bis failure to
get into congress—his efforts to raise a Con
federate reg mam, etc , we might have had
some discord in the (quad; as it was he went
—we stayed. Sometime about noon, we were
sent a mile or two southwest of the city, on the
east side of the Macon R R , and located in an
onk thicket, without tents, rations or cooking
utensils.
Ear;y in this afternoon we began to notice
how incessant the artillery roar was getting
to be. It was east of os, and several miles
away. Disdtct reports were scarcely observ
able; it was a continuous, wavy, shaking roar.
We were satisfied it was a battle. I walked
half a mile t <wards ihe uproar, sat down on
the top of a high hill in a field, and with my
back to a dead chestnut, listened, wept and
prayed for onr success. A while before sun
set, as the air became denser, I beard freqnent
and distinct rolls of musketry, though the dis
tance must have been at least five miles or
more. This proved to be the bloody fight Gen
eral Hard ve made on the evening of July 221,
ISO! wh“re our brave General W. H. Walker
—wnicb Mex can huilets, in showers at Molino
del Key, failed to kill—iost his life, as well as
the distinguished Federal General, McPherson.
It is do evidence of weakness that I both wept
and prayed; I loved my country, had just come
to lay my life on her aliar—and, besidee, I had,
I knew, several kinsmen and a host of gallant
friends and neighbors participating in that
terrible carnage. I envy not the man who
conld do ieas than weep aud pray, when he
conld find nothing else to do.
Allendale, S. C. J. W. 0.
In addressing the electricians at their ban
quet in New York a few days ago, Mayor
Hewitt, waxing eloquent, said: “We stand
npOD the borderland of dreams, and you are
slowly raising the curtain. I si&il not see the
drama piayed oat, bat there are some iu this
room who will do so. If this world is happier
and more civil.zsd than it was a hundred years
ago it is owing to the steam engine and what
it has brought with it. Still farther develop
ments in the coming century will come from
your hands. You will revolutionize the
world.”
try to do good for a number of years in suc
cession, that is, long enough to bring the
struggle to a triumphant dose for home role.
GLADSTONE AND CHAMBERLAIN.
Mr. Gladstone had at one time the ahance
of bringing about a settlement, but unfortu
nately he did not show himself possessed of
the necessary courage. This was during the
severe parliamentary struggle that preceded
the last elections, when he made the question
of home rule one of life or death for his g >v-
ernment. It was at that time be took the in
opportune opportunity of quarreling with
Chamberlain, who, although he is a map of
‘vauity and puffed tip seff-importancej'was
worth reconciling when a great cause was at
stake. Gladstone himself took his ideas of
action presumably from Mr. Parnell, who at
that time was demanding au Irish Parliament
in Dublin, but refused to entertain the idea of
Irish members silting in Westminster. To
Mr. Parnell the idea of a dual arrangement
seemed at the time impracticable, as it perhaps
was; bat it is none the less sure that if that
idea had been carried out it would have
reached its logical conclusion in the project
which Mr. Gadstone is studying np to-day.
Mr. Chamberlain's idea of home rnle was un
satisfactory enongh, bat he insisted on the
Irish members appearing in Westminster, and
when Mr. Gladstone, against all traditions of
sound statesmanship, went sgainst him and
challenged his own defeat in Parliament and
FORBIDDING A LAND LEAGUE MEETING.
now appeal to the country, he fonnd that
the Birmingham screw manufacturer had
taken with him half the L’beral forces, who,
under the title of I/beral Unionists, and with
a campaign cry of “Save the empire from dis
ruption," enabled the Conservatives to oome
back pleasantly to power.
To-day, however, Mr. Gladstone has changed
his views entirely. Now he (and the Parnel
litea with him) is willing not only to see the
Irish members assembled at Dublin and in
Westminster, bnt in him has developed the
idea of a grand Imperial Parliament to be
established, in which each country shall
be sepreeented—the same as with us—by state
Legislatures and a central Parliament for Im
perial affairs. This idea is taking hold of the
English mind, and it may come to completion
if Mr Gladstone makes up his quarrel with the
Liberal Unionists and thus enaole himself once
more to come into power.
THE FARNELLITE POLICY.
The Parnellites themselves are willing to
aocept thia idea or they are coming rotnd to
The Parnellite members opposed the plan
for years, but they did so only because Eng
land herself was not ready for the imperial
project now mooted. They never demanded,
as a body, total separation from England; that
PARNELL
iuatro-Prussian war broke out the more fiery
Magyar leaders were in favor of taking the op
portunity of compelling Austria to give in to
the Hungarian demands as a condition to the
Transleithan loyalty. Deak, jurist and states
man, said; "No. We shall get what we
want.” Franois Joseph sent for him to Vien
na to discuss affairs. D iak gave him the as-
suranoe that Hungary, though indignant and
discontented, was not an adept at treachcry;
that she wonld fulfil her duties to the em
pire, unpleasant as they might be, bat that a
return would be expected.
Francis Jjseph kn-or how to appreciate
Hungarian loyalty wfifOme; aei cue cl hla
first sets after the defeat of Stdowa was to
seed for Deak again and thank him, and then
to make preparations for his coronation at
Buda Pestb, and the granting of autonomy to
the Hungarians. Many Parnellities have
hoped that a similar opportunity would come
for Ireland. But the present imperial federal
movement mooted in England is of greater
promise; and on that the hopes of the friends
of Irish home rule are jnst now fixed. Hal the
real zadon of the prejeot will depend on whether
the G. 0. M. and the screw making statesman
of Birmingham settle their little differences.
Otherwise the Tories may grasp the imperial
idea and leave the Liberals oat in the cold.
Disiae'i wonld have grasped it. So may Lord
Randolph Chnrchill. L rd Rosebery, Liberal,
is however, foremost in pronouncing for im
perial federation. Not long ago, when he pre
sided at the inaugural meeting of the
Edinburgh and East of Scotland branch of the
Imperial Federation League,; he Bald that the
real foundation of all bis polities, party or oth.
erwise, was to be fonnd in imperial federation
m the closea anion of the empire whioh was
absolute, essentially required for the future
existence of tbe Empire.
IRISH MARTYRS.
does not treat them with cruelty so great as is
the lot of political prisoners in Irish gaols.
We can scarcely recall one prominent home
rnler who for speeches ti his countrymen ad
vising calm resistance to oppression has not
been condemned to imprisonment. Tie last
to be arrested was James J. (/'Kelly, who was
taken when leaving the House of Commons
and transported at once to Ireland. O'Kelly
is usually one of the calmest of Bpeakera, and,
though of great courage himself, is wisely
careful about getting his people into ooi 11 ot
with the authorities. He was one of the
members sent some live years ago to oarry the
home rnle campaign into Ulster, where h&
made many brilliant speeohes, besidee confirm’
into and out of the cor fi ct with the autjjj^*
•*6(0, ’>th digiity. William O'Brien’s impru)-
...merit is well known. 'Mr. D lion knows the
ways of English jailers by heart, and the
members of Parliament know his earnest, al
most inspired loyalty of oratory. Of all the
members best known, perhaps Mr. T. P.
O’Connor is the only one who has not made
acquaintance with the horrors of a prison cell.
He is a very brilliant literateur, knowu best,
perhaps, for bis “Life of Beacon/ field,” and
now is the editor of the London “Star," and a
strong, incisive and. occasionally brilliant
speaker. Thongh Mr. Biggar, the bitterest of
wasps in Parliament, whose sting is felt se
verely by the Sastenacks he attaoks, has not
been imprisoned, be bss frequently been ex
pelled from Westminster, and enjoys the ex
perience. But there is one man who was not
only imprisoned, bat who died in prison; a
member of Parliament, one whose condnct
justifies ns in classing him as one of nature's
noblemen—Mr. Mandeyillr, whose funeral
took place on Thursday, July 19th. His is a
sad story, and one which will be an eternal
stain on the pages of England’s rule in Ire
land.
SKETCHES OF COERCOIN.
On the fifth of May last there was a doable
page of illustrations in the "Illustrated Lon
don News,” which was entitled “Sketches of
Coercoin; the Prison Life of an Irish M. P.”
There were eleven pictures in all, and they
were entitled; “1. The prisoner’s rest is dis
turbed by the tramp of the police patrol; 2.
The toilet materials are not elaborate; 3. The
special punishment call; 4 Tbe doctor tests
the temperature of the cell; 6. The warders
on the waicb; 6 The exorcise yard; 7. In
the punishment cell; 8 Refusing to wear the
prison garb; 9. The pris-mer clothes himself
in a blanket and sheet; 10. He writes a letter
by moonlight; 11. The gas jet in his cell does
not give much light." These the titles, the
pictures, according to the text acoompanyiDg
them, most have been intended to afford
amusement to English readers. We reproduce
for this artiole, with a few changes of costume,
the sketches entitled “Refusing to Wear tbe
Prison Garb” and “The Prisoner Clothes Him
self in a Blanket aud Sheet.” Few people
knew that this series of pictures referred to the
prison life in Tullamore Jail of Mr. Mandeville.
The picture published by the “Freeman’s
Journal" last week, representing the dead man
in his ccffin, shows by comparison that these
are sketches by an English artist of the unfor
tunate man’s life while in prison. This is
what the article accompanying the pictnres
sayf:
“Without prejudice to any political opinions
of aoy party the common spnse of E glishmei,
allied with their sense of the ludicrous, could
not fall to observe certain incidents of last
November in a supremely comical aspect. An
honorable member of the House of Commons
on August Oth and 11 .h, in defiance of a law
remove this brave gentleman to the jail of Tu'.-
lamore, in King’s oounty, where those rules
are uoiformally maintained. Oar artist’s
sketches of the interior living arrangements of
this establishment give an idea of. unadornel
simplicity, free from the perplexing inventions
of modern household luxury and superfluous
decoration. This might be welcome, for a
brief Interval of retreat, to maDy a contetnpla
five student feeling his coarse of thought em
barrassed at certain hoars by the calls of the
drawing room and the dinner table.”
But how different reading was the story as
it came out in the inquest. It was a tale of
shame, whioh when related Id tbe House ot
Commons, caused Bal^PBr to, ”
stammer whea
vsprive Ho foq hitsoment STtfiL , .
donee and umnoP’;' calm that usually charac-
terizsd him. It was eo disgraceful that the
doctor who under Balfour’s behests htd assis
ted at the martyrdom, Dr. Ridley, committed
PERSONAL -MENTION,
What the People Are Doing
and Saving.
Q reen Victoria is a confirmed whist player.
Larimer Stoddard; son of the poet, is aft
Utyiaea S. Grant i*buil4in£ail50,0®0
’ Max O'Bsll g&f t/v i
.. -7*
m,
suicide and thns escaped a hunted life like that
of the informer Carey. Even decent English
men, the cable tells ns, were disgusted at the
clii rial brutality and callousness toll oo oath
in the witness box by physicians, Justices of
the Peace and other reputable witnesses, aud
equally strong was the feeling of admiration
for the heroism displayad by poor Mandeville,
whose modest retitence made even his friends
underrate his sufferings, tbe magnitude of
which has only been known sinoe his death.
“At the inquest,” says a Dublin paper,
“though the public were prepared to hear a
Balfour's victim, mandeville—the hob-
RORS OF TULLAMORE JAIL.
they knew was an impossibility; bnt they
a iked to be allowed to govern themselves and
The world has read with indignation the
treatment of Irish prisoners in Irish jails by
the English Government. Gladstone himself
used to take a delight in snch work before his
conversion. Burke wss assassinated as a pro-
test by an outraged people. Balfour lives; the
Irish people know that he is simply the out
come of a vicious system of government. Just
now the London “Times” is trying to show by
the assistance of the Tory government that
Parnell and the home rulers had knowledge of
the brutal murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr.
Burke. If tbe trial inquiry should ever come
off it will be seen that Mr. Parnell’s bas been
tbe restraining hand on the wilder forces that
only slumber beneath the political surface of
Ireland’s present agitation. There were no
men more shocked than tbe Parnellites when
the news of the Ptcoiix Park assassination
was Hashed to London. It has put back our
work for many years, tkay said one and all-
And it did. Parnell is t’c made ot the stuff
that engenders murder, the is a believer in
constitutional method.'jerly. ’he was able to
keep the Irish agitjtbd, *uh hfljorms within
legal bo”n' , »—Q&fl a so dier’s ii'-a^jj Vafr 4
cost* e.sssp. (ji* iLtiJtaecw,. »iii*.. A
thririCPpor-D'ampaigliiST^^Tos-ig u - A
whicu otherwise would deinai-tf the sword fo'r
its solution. There U a heroism developing in
the evicters are comino.
passed for the preservation of the pnblio
peace, thought fit to attend meetings legally
prohibited iu a certain district of Connty Cork
and to make speeches incitine the peasantry
to resist the sheriffs and bailiffs in the execu
tion of an ordinary civil process. He was on
September 24th convicted on two specific
charges before the appointed Magistrates, who
sentenced him to three month’s imprisonment.
An appeal to the Connty Coart resulted on
October 31st in the confirmation of this sen
tence. He was therenpon lodged in tbe
Connty Jail; bnt here comes in the grotesque
and ridionlons part of the affair. The political
t. p. o CONNOR.
Ireland that must be warmly acknowledged.
It belongs to all people worthy of their inde
pendence. Englishmen read with pleasure of
the breaking down of tyranny in other ooun-
triea. Tuey hailed witn delight the downfall
of Tarkev in the Ba kans. They are proud to
consider England the safe refuge to all Europe,
to all who are guilty of poli.ical crimes. “Free
spot eh is every mac’s right,” they shout, only
it should not be uttered in Ireland. “Look at
Russia,” says the virtuous Briton, “sending
her chain gaDgs of political prisoners year
after year to Siberia. Thank God we are not
like one of these!”
POLITICAL PRISONERS.
Russia does send her political prisoners
to Siberia; some of them she hange; bnt this
much must be said to her credit—that she
mandeville in prison.
martyr immediately announced with “the true
pathos and snbiime”—or bathos and sham
crime—of heroic law-breaking that all the
Queen’s horses and all the Q-ueea’s men should
never make him wear the prison dress. He
obj°cted not only to the simple aud convenient
jacket and trousers provided by her Majesty’s
government for the temporary attire of Ic-door
pupils of penal discipline—farcy a monk re
fusing to wear the cowled frock and sandal
shoon of his order—but even the clean linen
punctually wuhed and brought to his bedside
in the penitential cell. He would rather go
dirty for weeks or lie abed, thongh in prison
sheets or blanke s, all the days as well as the
nights of hie enforced residence ic a public
mansion, for those deserving obj eta of gov
ernment care who must submit to compulsory
ret remeat from the exciting influences of the
outer world. H.bus so unwholesome, per
sisted in fora week or two, naturally brought
about a depressed Blateof htalih, and it was
not at ail surprising that tbe indefatigable ora
tor, who bad been accustomed to travel about
the country and speak at open air meetings in
the roughest weather, was soon reported to
have become an inval.d. As ce'tan visiting
Magistrates of Cork, favorable to the Nation
alist party, were dieiucliuel to uphold the fixed
ru es of piiton management, it was decidtd to
GLADSTONE IN PARLIAMENT.
story of crnelty and inhumanity in Mr. Man-
rieville’s regard, the revelations made at the
irqnest came upon them as a horrible Bhock
Toe story of suffering and torture which h>s
widow nnfolded is one to take away one’s
breath. The two months which Mr. Mande-
ville spent in prison was a period of continual
starvation and brutal inhumanity, eclipsing in
horror anything that was ever practiced in
Austrian or Russian prisons. As the outoome
of the inquiry, this one fact stands ont dis
tinctly—that under the pretence of legal im
prisonment in a British jail and in the name
of a Christian government an innocent man
was tortured to death in a way j ust as horrible
as any ever known to pagan R iman or devil-
worshiping Chinese.”
A great sensation was caused by the evi
dence of Daniel G raiding, who was formerly
warder in Tullamore Jail. Gonlding deposed
that on the evening of November 22nd, the
governor of the jail Baid he had received or
ders to strip Mr. Mandeville ; that he (wit
ness; and the other five warders entered the
prisoner’s ceil and found him sleeping soundly;
that the chief warder shook the prisoner rndely
and aroused him ; that Mr. Mandeville resist
ed, but was soon stripped naked, aGd that he
cried. “ For decency’s sake leave my shirt.”
Thereupon the Warder gave him his shirt, in
which he lay the rest of the night refusing to
put on the prison garb. The witness said he
was aware that Mr. Mandeville had been pun
ished for periods never recorded in the ward
er’s book.
Mrs Mandeville, the widow, testified: “ Be
tween tbe time he left prison and his death he
was always complaining of Tullamore ; he said
he never recovered his strength. He com
plained that his throat was sore nearly the
whole time he was in Tnllamore. Ha said
the dootor certified he was fit for punishment
when he was not fit for it. His throat was so
sore that he conld not eat tbe broken bread nor
take tbe cold water which were the pnnisment
diet. He took nothing for more than twenty
hours. He told me that one ot the Tang
prisoner’s gave him a rope, and that as he
suffered more and more from hanger he
tightened the rope. Mr. Moorehead, a visiting
justice, said he was seriously ill, but that Dr.
Ridley seemed to think that he conld stand
punishment. He suffered from hunger and
his mind wandered and he said he prayed to
God that he might die, rather than that he
shon'd go mad.
* Before tbe sentence was completed they
had to take off the punishment. They then
removed him to another cell. Hs told me that
after punishment he conld not eat for some
days. He told me, describing the hanger
from which he suffered, that a warder wag
eating a meal outside his eell, and when he
was done he opened the door and threw him
in a tiny piece of meat, as he might
throw to a dog, and he said he never eDjoyed
anything so much in his life.’’
Mrs. Mandevile then repeated that be said
he prayed to God that he might die rather than
lose his mind. He Baid they offered to put him
into hosDital if he would put on the prison
clothes, and he would nor. A cable dispatch,
July 21: “Dr. Ridley was threatened with
dismissal from his comfortable position if he
continued to show leniency lo political pris
oners.” When Mandeville and O’Brien arriv
ed at Tullamore, Ridley received instructions
and he obeyed them only too faithfclly. He
wonld admit nothing and would see nothing.
When the visiting Justice, Dr. Moorhead, re
peated y wrete inoignant protests in the prison
journal against the barbarous treatment to
which Mandeville was being subj -cted daily,
Ridli y caluly certified that the prisoner was
rong and fi. for punshment. Oa December
0, in the deal of winter, Dr.Moorhead visited
_ private apartment
Mandeville and fonnd his body racked' with on ‘ , Emperor is to wear tie Black Eagle
Senator Hawley and his new wife will ao to
housekeeping In Washington this fall.
The Bishop of Ripon is a brother of the B#r.
H. B. Carpenter, the B iston Unitarian
Alexander Dumas is the riohest writer la
the world. Tais may be taken in two ways.
Commodore Garry, of New York, nan a
city tax of 8 UMQ900 on his real estate.
The sad news comes that the Mikado of
Japan has beoome addioted to alcoholism.
It is said that fifty deurtmente will return
General Boulanger at the coming general
elections in France.
Elward Wallaoe, of Montcalm county,
Mich., owns the first Governmsut bond
daring the civil war.
Jane Hading brought only fifty costumes
with her to New York, bnt she apologizes by
the remark that dress has really nothing to do
with art.
It is not to the discredit of Charles Dodlsy
Warner that he has goue to Canada. He will
wiite a series of magazine articles oa that in
teresting country.
C. C. Brown, a Duluth newspaper man pat
ented a safety oar truck and sold a two-third
interest for §80.000. Mr. Brown has "a Mg
thing on wheels."
Prof. Salisbury, of Yale, one of the very
few millionaire college professors, secured his
fortune by judicious investmonts in real estate
near B iston maiy years ago.
In the law offi ie of Senator Erarts a son ot
Gen. Win. T. Sherman and a nephew of
Sxmewall Jacksoa occupy a desk together.
And yet Foraker is still fighting.
Chong Kee is the richest Chinaman In Sad
Jose, Cal. Ha has made a large fortune by
charging his countrymen 5 per cent per
month on nc questionable collateral.
5 |The oldest priest In the country is said to be
Rev. John Carroll, of St. Mary's Ciurah, Chi
cago. He was born in Ireland in 1797, and
was ordainel in January, 1820.
John L Porter, who designed and con
structed tne Merrimac, the first ironotal ever
bail:. aud who thus changed c impletely the
system of naval warfare, is now wielding A
broadaxe in the navy-yard at Norfolk.
Franlien S inkrah, otherwise Miss Harkuess,
the Anurioan girl who recently gained an en
viable reputation in Germany as a vfolin-
player, has married a lawyer at Weimar, end
will be heard no more in public.
The new Persian A-'•basset or at Tahl.sc-
ton eipreiees himself as much pleased with
th’s country, and says with true Oriental en
thusiasm that its women are the most beau
tiful in the world. He left Mrs. Iliji Hassein
Ghooly Khan Motamed el Vasari at home.
A railway train has j ust been constructed in
France for the E mperor of China. It coneista
of six carriages, three of which are for the
Emperor’s own use. They are magnificently
decorated, and each of them contains a
throne. A small table for opium-smoking is
a barbarous piece of furniture that stands in
front of each throne.
To the list of actresses who have beoome
British peeresses must now be added the name
of the comic opera actress. Miss Elith Bran
don, whose husband has just succeeded to ths
ancient Earldom of Berkeley. Her husband
who served for a time in the Royal Navy is
twenty-three years of age and married ’her
about a year ago.
Horace Davenport is a boot-black who has a
stand near the Chicago Board of Trade. Hs
does a big business and employs a number of
assistants. Davenport has announced that
the gross reoeipts of his establishment from
Monday morning until Saturday night next,
shall be devoted to the fund for the yellow
fever sufferers.
Tom Fisher, one of the lucky owners of the
magnificent bearing 100-acre orange groye at
South Lake Weir, is also the largest owner ia
and superintendent of the Standard gold min.
at Gold Hill, N. M. It is a very valuable
piece of property, and with only five stamps
in operation, is cleaning up net returns of *5 -
COO a month.
The late Prof. Richard A. Proctor will be
greatly mourned in England. Of him Edmund
Yates says that he was perhaps more widely
known than any other scientific man of the
day. “As a lecturer iie was unsurpassed. His
fugitive articles, c on vernations aud letters have
familiarized outsiders with the deepest
thoughts of experts. A very potent force and
a stimulating factor is extinguished.”
There was a grand re-union of the Rilling.
family, at Springfield, Massachusetts, recently.
Several hundred members wore present, all
descendants of the three Billings brothers who
came to this country lu 1640. Many family
heir-looma were exhibited, consisting of por
traits, table-lioen and bric-a-brac. It was
voted to fnblish a hietorz of the Billings fam
ily which Charles Billings had prepared.
Francis Warren Rioe, ex-Uuited States Con-
sal to Panama, died of paralysis in Saoo, Ms.,
on Sunday, aged seventy-three years. He
was born in Buxton, Me., and learned the
printer’s trade at Stic, going from there to
the Portland “Advertiser” offi ;e, then to Bos
ton and then to New York. In 1837 he be
came assistant editor of the Mobile “Adver
tiser,” which place he held two years.
The State Departmeit at Washington has
been informed that Mr. Everett Frazer, of
New York, has been decorated by the Coreas
Government. This honor is conferred upon
Mr. Frazer for his faithful discharge of the
duties of American Consul-General to Corea.
It gives him the rank of nobleman of the
second class with insignia of handsomely
carved gold aud jade.
Mrs. B ossie O.on, the distinguished and
charmiug Kentucky elocutionist, read before a
large audience in Paris, Ky., on Friday, the
12th for the benefit ot the Confederate Mon
ument Association. She will read In Dan
ville, Ky., on tbe 20:h, Frankfort oa the 24th,
Louisville on the 28 .h, and in November will
accept a position to teach in one of the
m »s' flourishing schools in the South, located
at Warrenton, Va.
The portrait of Eooperor Wuliam of Ger
many which Angell is now painting is not for
Qieen Victoria, as has been stated, but is in
tended as a gift to the Cztr of Russia. The
Emperor is represented iu full uniform, and
wears the Black Eagle and the Russian Order
of S: Andrew. Another portrait is to be
paiated ae a gift to Qieen Victoria, wiohas
more than twenty pictures by Angell in the
Windsor, and in this
rheumatism, in a cold, drafty cell serving
sentence of forty-eight nonrs solitary confine
ment on bread and water. “My feet are al
most frozen with walking in slippers on tie
cold digs,” eaid poor Mandeville to the indig
nant vis'tor.
Comp'aint was made to Ridley, who neither
examined ncr prescribed for the sufftrer, but
once more certified that Mandeville was a
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and the Garter.
BOILED TO DEATH.
ti
At the hot springs at Nevada, Col., on ths
6th instant, 8 tinuel C. Pratt met with a terri
ble death. He went down to take a bath, and
was fonnd a few hoars later lying parboiled
npon the bank. He died in a short time. It
is believed that he plunged into the water, not
knowing its intense heat.