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FP? Men for the Chronicle & Sentinel.
A Dirge—for Gen. Robert E. Lee.
BY ANNIE B. BLOUNT.
Why are the bells tolling so mournfully
slow,
And why all this sombre insignia of woe,
While a murmur of voices tremulous low,
Tells the tale of some stern despair?
From Potomac far out to the broad Rio
raride,
A wail of deep sorrow swells forth through
the land,
And toe heroes of yore for a time are un*
m»nned
While t ueir hearts join as one in a prayer,
And the lightning sad tidings bears o’er
the blue sea,
The South mourns her Chieftain—the
South weeps for Lee I
In every green hamiet and village and
town,
In eve y proud city the head is bowed
down,
For a whisper from mouth unto mouth has
crept round,
A rumor too sad for belief.
Yet too cruelly true, for the swift-winged
v* ire
Has crushed with a word the grey-haired
sire,
And ti*3 maid, and the youth with e3 T es of
tire,
All bow to the despot—grief!
! Tis Autumn- the time of the falling leaf,
And the whole South mourns for her fallen
Chief.
Hushed in the city—a spell is cast
O'er its bus}' trade—all flags at half mast,
As if the spirit of Death had passed
Through each late noisy street.
Each hall is draped in the trappings of
ghom,
Hark ! the knoll of bells and the cannon’s
boom.
Each sad stroke falls as the knell of doom,
And the tr*.mp of a thousand feet
Follows the kearse—meet emblem of woe,
Keeping time to the music's solemn flow.
Oh! well may the world speak with bated
breath,
Oh! well may the South wear a cypress
wreath,
For the bravest knight is laid low by
death
That his keen scythe ever mowed down
As brave as Napoleon, his fame bears no
stain—
lie fought not for glory -he fought not for
gain,
Nor waded o’er thousands of gory slam,
To grasp at a kingly crowm.
Os all the proud names history’s pages
bears but one
That can rank with our Lee—our own
Washington!
His sword flashed in the battle but to de
fend
Our lai.'d from the foe once deemed a
friend—
From a foe who with ruthless hand would
rend
The stars from our Southern Cross.
Oh ! “men of the Grey,” your great leader
lira low, —
The Southland is ruled by a merciless foe,
And his patriot heart could not master the
blow,
But broke with his Country’s loss.
Their Captain has followed that brave
martyred host,
Who gave up their lives for the Cau.se we
have lost!
In vain our Confederacy seut forth her
pride
To stem the fierce waves of the usurping
tide; —
Like heroes they lived—and like heroes
they died!
Led orTbv Jackson and Lee.
They fought—but oh ! ’gainst what fearful
odds,
They fought —not like men—but like
giants, like gods !
Their blood poured like wine on Virginia’s
sods, —
These patriots born to be free:
Hundreds ’gainst thousands—the ground
heaped with s’ain,
But the flower of our Chivalry perished
in vain !
Yet oh ! not in vain , tho’ our banner is
furled
Uaconquered we stand in the eyes of the
world,
Our sacred cause in our hearts impearled
As long as those hearts sha'l beat.
Our Chieftain Lee in his fame’s noon
tide.
Has followed Jackson—our country’s
pride--
Across Death’s w ave—on the other side
At >he great Law-Giver's feet.
They will pray that Thy rainbow, Lord,
may shed
Its rays on the South’s now crownless
nead !
Boom ! Boom !—list the cannon’s mouru-
Lal roar !
The sound is echoed from shore to shore ;
For a king among msn shall lilt no more
The sword so lately sheathed.
Is this the close oi his grand career,
shall tyrants no more turn pale with fear
The bugle-notes of our chief to hear ?
Oh ! Southland, cypress-wreathed !
Well may ye mourn or that gallant form,
Our star of hope in battle’s storm !
A still, clear day !-’tis a fitting time
In the calm October’s glorious prime—
No sound but the music’s solemn chime.
And the cannon’s mournful boom—
To look our last on that lordly face,
To bear the earth-born to earth’s embrace.
The knrghtliest of a knightly race
To ray in the silent tomb !
While—as one man—in bushed despair,
Tire whole ftouth kneels in a mutual
prayer!
Oh ! honored of ages ! O! favored of
Fame !
How pure thy record ! —no shade of blame.
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’JOURNAL.
Ev’r stained the sheen of thy knightly
name,
Aye even the generous foe
Will weave a garland to deck thy bier,
And far-off nations when they shall hear
Y’ill shed as they listen a sorrowing tear,
That the South’s great Chief lies low !
And the “heroes in grey”—an orphan
band—
Will mourn anew o’er their stricken land.
Oh! pillow him gently upon thv breast,
Virginia, thou mother of heroes !—the
best
And the saintliest now takes his well
earned rest
On ihy hallowed and blood-stained
shore.
The ceaseless crash of the minute gun,
From the South to the land of the setting
sun,
Tells us our Chieftain’s work is done.
And his heart’s warm throbbing o’er !
Oh ! Southnland women ! Your tears
shall be
A lastirg tablet to Robert Lee !
Scientific.
Written for the Banner of the South and Planters’
Journal.
THE TELODYNAMIC CABLE-
W. LEROY BROWN, UNIVERSITY OF GEOR
GIA.
At the French Exposition, held in
1867, there was a remarkable invention
on exhibition for the purpose of trans
mitting force between distant points,
and hence called by the inventor the
Telodynaniic Cable. Ic was judged
by the jury to be of so much merit
that the inventor, Mr. Hirn, of
Prussia, was awarded with the especial
distinction of the grand prize. Ordina
ry. the prime mover and the work to be
‘done and placed as near as possile to each
other, so that there may be a minimum
of loss arising from friction, inertia, and
other resistances; thus the water wheel
is put near the mill, and the steam cn
g'ine occupies the building of the work
shop. But in many cases it is desirable
to transmit the power a distance from the
motor, either from considerations of safety
or from the natural location of the power.
Science has so far overcome the practical
difficulties of this problem, that power
may be transported over two or three
miles, and even, probably as much as
thirty miles, just as any ordinary arti
cle of commerce, and the loss of power,
consequent on this transportation, not be
too great to render the undertaking of
economical advantage. This is a matter
of great interest in mountainous districts,
where Nature has, with a lavish hand in
the fall of water, furnished inexhaustible
supplies of power in localities where it is
not and cannot be m tde available, to be
able to transport even a part of this
power to places of active industry, where
it can be made productive. The economi
cal transportability of power is not a
problem to be solved. It has been prac
tically demonstrated by years of active
experience. It is done by two independ
ent methods, by Ilirns telodynaniic cable
and by compressed air.
But it was to the former that we
wished to call attention, and with espe
cial reference to its application to gin
ning cotton on large plantations.
The principle of the telodynamic cable
is the substitution of “velocity of motion
for mass of matter moved.” It is a well
known elementary truth that a small
body moving rapidly may accomplish as
much as a large body moving slowly.
A small hammer brought down sharply
will cause a nail to enter, when a larger
mass with little velocity will produce a
hardly perceptible effect. As construct
ed at present, as the engine or Mother
power a very high velocity is given to a
pulley wheel, and this wheel carries a
small wire rope or cable less than half an
inch in thickness, which passes around
another pulley as the place where the
power is to be used. The power is thus
transported to the required point though
not in a condition to be used. The rapid
velocity of the pulley wheel when the
power is to be used has to be graduated
by suitable gearing to do the required
work. The wire-rope may be light in
proporti >n to the velocity given. Ac
cording to theory a horse hair or a fila
ment of silk may move fast enough to
transport the power of a thousand horses.
This then was the conception of the
inventor to transport power by giving a
rapid motion by a small cable. But he
found great difficulties in its practical
application. When the distance was
great he found it necessary to support
the small cable by intermediate pulleys.
As at present used, the pulleys at the
extremities are about thirteen feet in
diameter the intermediate supporting
pulleys being half the size, and the cable
made of many small wires, is only two
fifths of an inch in diameter. The great
pulleys at the extremities are driven
with a velocity of over one hundred revo
lutions per minute.
This great velocity caused enormous
wear of the material of the pulleys and
the cable. But after repeated failures
and persevering trials—which always
distinguish successful inventors—through
a period of seven years, Mr. Him suc
ceeded in overcoming all difficulties. He
found that a thick covering of gutta
percha to the pulley was not itself worn
and did not wear the cable. This gutta
percha is held in a groove in the pulley
enlarged at the bottom to secure it, and
in one instance, after seven years of use,
it remained sensibly unaltered.
We have so far, endeavored briefly to
give the history and principle of this in
vention for transporting power. It is no
mere theory, but has been put into suc
cessful practice in Europe, and, we have
no doubt, will come into general use in
this country.
Os course there is a certain per centage
of loss in transporting the power from
the motive to the working, and, owing to
the practice of the pulleys, the rigidity
of the cable and the resistance of the air,
but this loss is not great. According to
the inventor one hundred horse power
may be transported six miles without
losing more than twenty-five per cent,
from ail causes. For short distances the
loss is much less. Thus, for a distance
of or.e thousand yards the total loss is
only seven per cent.; for three hundred
yards the loss is about five and a half
per cent. Hence, by the use of this cable,
an engine of twelve horse power could
be placed three hundred yards from a
gin house, and be made to exert at the
gin a power of more than eleven horses.
Its applicability for this purpose is obvi
ous. Wherever the operations are suf
ficient to justify the original outlay, it ap
pears that ic would be true economy to
use steam instead of animals.
In intimating the economy of the use
of steam, the injury to the stock by the
constant work of ginning, should be final
ly considered. Some idea of the com
parative cost of producing power by
steam or by animals may be formed when
we remember, that by burning ten
pounds of bituminous coal, or twenty
five pounds of well seasoned wood every
hour, we may produce the power of one
horse. The use of the Telodynaniic
Cable removes wholly the objection of the
danger of fire. The engine may be
placed an far as may be desired from
the yin house.
But this is only one of the many ap
plications of this important invention. It
has been in successful operation in Eu
rope for several years. As the great
Government manufactory at Oklitain, in
Russia, a total force of two hundred and
seventy horse power is transmitted along
a* line nearly a mile in length, and has
been in operation since 1867. Several
manufactories in Germany employ it for
distances varying from three hundred to
twelve hundred yards. In one instance
in Denmark, it is employed to transmit
power over one thousand yards, and at
one of the mines in Sweden it is in actual
use, transmitting power of one hundred
horse for a distance of three miles !
The wonderful suceess of these opera
tions at great distances has induced Mr.
Hirn, the inventor, to conclude that
power can be transmitted by this method
economically, as far as ten or fifteen
miles. The per centage of loss, though,
increases rapidly with the distance. The
other methods of transporting force by
compressed air, as is now employed by the
engineers at Mount Cenis Tunnel in
France, is superior to the Cable for
great distances, as the loss of power
thereby is not so great, but is inferior to
it for short distances.
There are many parts of our country
where immense water powers are daily
and hourly expending their wealth—for
power is wealth—without being made
to contribute to human comfort, which,
if transported to the neighboring town
would render it a place of active and
profitable industry, and this can be doue
without extraordinary expense. For it is
now practically demonstrated that power
may be bottled up, as it were, and trans
mitted and made to perform its full amount
of work, though distant for miles from its
creative source.
When it is desired to transport power
for a distance greater than five miles, it
can be done most economically by com
pressed air. We do not profess to dis
[ cuss this method now, yet we regard it
1 with great interest in reference to the
future of some of our towns now unem
ployed, abundant water powers, and to
its bearing on the development of mu
mming districts.
But for short distances, where safety is
the consideration, the Cable we have dis
cussed seems to be especially fitted.
tfonfeberate memorials.
CONFEDERATE ARMY ROSTER.
AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION
61 Wall Street, 1
New York, Oct. sth, 1870. \
My Dear General :
As an established rule, there are no
histories of the vanquished. To the vic
tors belong tiie spoils, and among them
is claimed whatever magnifies the con*
quest or extols the result, to the depreci
ation and, not unfrequently, the utter ex
clusion of all honorable meution of the
valor and the virtues of those who fought
bravely but unsuccessfully. Such is the
lesson of history; and the Southern
Confederacy, with all her historic wealth
of brave deeds, noble impulses and fa
mous heroes, will, within a little while,
be left childless, unless the record of her
struggles and her aims, her trials and
her triumphs, her men and her measures
is perpetuated not only in the cherished
recollections of those who, knowing, hon
oring and serving her in the days of
her glory and her peril, still cling to the
immutable principles of right and justice
which she perished in defending, but
also by a due publication of such names,
facts, theories and incidents as should be
wrested from the shifting sands of uncer
tainty and frail memory, and placed
above the ebb and flow of the waves of
forgetfulness, where the future historian,
whoever he may be, will find and use
them in the interest of truth and candor.
From the very nature of things, more
or less uncertainty attended the preser
vation of Confederate records in many 7 de
partments and in various localities. It is
not the language of exaggeration, however,
to say that these records, as a whole, were
kept wonderfully well up to the time of
the evacuation of Richmond. Then fol
lowed the dispersion and partial burning
oi the national archives. During the
hurried marches which ensued, amid the
excitement of the period, the difficulty of
transportation, and the insecurity’ of
peace,—coupled with the carelessness of
some of the custodians of these treasures,
—a destruction ensued of precious me
morials and historic documents whose
loss, deeply deplored, can never be sup
plied. Despite this grievous loss, how
ever, there are many valuable memories
and important records in the hands of
private parties throughout the length
and breadth of our Southern Country,
which may yet be garnered up. These
planks—still floating where the great
ship foundered—should be collected be
fore they too are engulfed in the dark sea
of oblivion.
I am glad to see from your prospectus,
that you propose to devote the pages of
your new paper in appropriate measure,
to the preservation of Confederate me
mories. Responding to your invitation I
have thought it valuable to furnish a ros
ter of the general officers, both miWary
and naval, and of the carious regiments,
battalions and independent organiza
tions in Confederate serv ee during the
war, as complete as the available sources
of information will permit. You will
readily sympathize in the difficulties
which environ the attempt to present a
roster perfect in every respect. You
will also agree with me that the prepar
ation ot such a record is highly impor
tant. 1 trust, therefore, in perpetuating
this list, —which has been prepared as
accurately as existing circumstances
would permit,—you will not only invoke
the indulgence of those whose honored
names and military organizations may
have been omitted, bat also bespeak the
good offices of all who can in any way
contribute towards its completion. So
soon »s I am satisfied that this roster has
been made as perfect as can reasonably
be hoped, my purpose is to publish it in
separate convenient form. It wiii then
be commended to the care of all who
honor the name and deeds of the Con
federacy, and count i: their crowning
glory to have been found in the ranks of
her defenders.
Meanwhile, tli* partial publication
will, I trust, awaken an interest in the
matter and elicit information, which,
within the range of ordinary corres
pondence, cannot readily be acquired.
Any communications addressed to me
will be sincerely appreciated.
As tar as it goes, this roster, I be
lieve, may be relied on as substantially
correct. Should any- inaccuracies have
occurred, they will, upon notice, be
carefully eliminated. A trruthful and
perfect record is earnestly desired.
With sincere wishes for the entire
success of your valuable adventure, I
am, dear General
Very truly Yours,
Charles C. Jones Jr.
Gen. A. R. Wright 'Augusta, Ga.
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