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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
APRIL 16, 1885.
A lady friend thanks us lor our arti
ticle on the tenant system of last week.
If she will only put her experience in
shape for the Couimnt it will be a most
enjoyable treat for our readers.
Oi k sterling citizen, Mr. L. S. Mun
ford, left yesterday for the New Orleans
Exposition, accompanied by his estima
ble wife. We trust they will have an
enjoyable trip to the Crescent City.
Now what do you say of the weather?
Did you ever see such a spring? One of
our townsmen was bemoaning yesterday
the sad fate of his potato patch, which
had been blackened twice in the last few
days, by hard frost. Will we have any
fruit?
Onr of our neighbors dug up a gold
dollar in his yard a few days ago. When
it was lost or who lost it the memory of
man doth not recall. It had been buried
so long as to make the superscription il
legible. Another neighbor resurrected
another gold dollar the same day from
the rag-bag, where it had been forgotten
nearly thirty years. If the luck will
only continue we can afford to snap our
Ungers at any common gold mine in the
State.
Wk have many persons living in our
midst who were here before the removal
of the Indians. Rev Bethel Quillain was
one of the sheriffs who organized the first
court in the Cherokee country. lie liv
ed a neighbor to the celebrated Indian,
MWiite Path, in Gilmer county, of whom
Judge Underwood has told us. Mr.
Quillain says, “he was indeed a man in
every sense of the word.” We would
like to inquire if there is not some poet or
novelist in our midst who could, like
Fenimore. Cooper or Longfellow, im
mortalize himself by writing up the his
tory of the Cherokees in fiction or verse?
Where is there in this world a richer
field for both than tho traditions, the su
perstitions and tho romantic history of
the sweet-tongued race, who gave the
melodious names to our beautiful
streams?
J udo u William Ezzakd, of Atlanta,
writes us that he was the Mrst Solicitor-
General of the Cherokee Circuit, so
graphically described by Judge Under
wood in his “Reminiscences of the Cher
okees. “It became my duty/’ says he,
“to prosecute the Indians all well as tho
whites, us the laws were extended over
the Indians some four or five years be
fore they were removed. As you may
imagine, I had a good deal to do with the
Cherokee Indians. I remember the old
man Scudder very well, of whom the
Judge writes. I stopped at his house
frequently when passing. The iast time
1 was there the old gentleman insisted
that I should go with him to the church
where his marble coffin was deposited.”
We find that Mr. Scudder was well
known to all persons who are familiar
with the country in that early age. A
friend from Gordon county told us a few'
•venings ago ot a visit to Mr. Scudder’s,
and the old man’s talk about Solomon,
which he had never forgotten. We will
endeavor to get as many facts and inci
dents as possible of those early times, for
they will be valuable to com'iug genera
tions. Except Judge Underwood’s ar
ticles, we have never seen a written his
tory of this famous Cherokee country.
Judge Ezzard is upwards of eighty him
self, and it is our duty to our descend
ants to gather all the history we can be
fore these noble veterans leave us.
and GIXSROUS SCGGESTIOX.
In “Scribbler’s” contribution of this
week (whose communications are so in
teresting to us and the readers of the
Courant,) you will find a notice of Mr.
“Cube” Guyton’s bereavement. Our
neighbor, “Bill Arp,” (Maj. Smith) has
made his name a household word in the
Constitution. We have known Mr.
Guyton for many, many years—were
acquainted with his own good mother
before him, and she was one of the “ex
cellent of the earth.”
He, himself, is a kindhearted, clever
and obliging neighbor, and whatever
charity can be bestowed will be grate
fully received by him and those eight
motherless children. Should our Car
tersville friends desire to donate such
articles as “Scribbler” indicates, we will
see that they are conveyed safely to this
helpless family—if they are deposited at
the Courant office.
Perhaps the Constitution, whose read
ers have had so much enjoyment with
Mr. “Cobe’s” antique saying and doings,
will give an extended notice.
The clothing and half-worn shoes, etc.,
w ill keep these little ones from suffering, i
and the charity will find its way directly |
and usefully to those who need it and '
will appreciate it.
Jcdoi Jamks Brown, of the Blue
Ridge t ircuit, is & brother of the Senator.
It is said that the latter has the longest
head and the former the longest neck in
Georgia. The other day the Spartan ju
rist fined himself because the train on
which he was travelling was behind
time, thus necessarily delaying his open
ing court. It is said His Honor is a can
didate for Congress in the Ninth
Augusta Chronicle.
The Weekly Sentinel, of Augusta,
Georgia, is, we understand, edited by a
colored man. Ihe copies we have seen
do him credit. We are glad to see the
colored people successful in all laudable
undertakings.
A TI. A XTA IXITSIXFA XC Y.
We have read various chapters In the
Constitution, and lately some in the Au
gusta Chronicle, upon this subject, but
we think it is possible, for a person who
saw* the Gate City in its earliest youth to
tell something about it, that these au
thorities would have to obtain at second
hand—if they should be able to tell the
story at all.
The town was first called Marthasville,
and when we first saw it, it struggled
and suffered under that name.
A number of civil engineers, who
were then engaged in surveying and
constructing the Georgia Railroad, were
temporary inmates of the writer’s home.
Ours was the nearest quarters where
they could be entertained and accom
modated,
So, when the news came that an
excursion train would start from Mar
thasville to Marietta on a certain day,
the kind, sociable engineers insisted that
the hospitable family should go also.
The writer was rather too small to take
along, but it was equally inconvenient to
leave her at home, so we were prepared
for the trip, much to our gratification
and delight.
If the young “shavers” of this day
and time are ever half so excited as we
were, in being made ready and antici
pating this tremendous journey, then,
Indeed, should modern mothers and
fathers be very lenient, for the excite
ment, a* we recollect was tremendous in
such a small body as ours. Anew dresr,
made out of what was left after our
mother’s was constructed, anew hood,
and a pair of new shoes for the impatient
■mall feet, almost overcame us. Such a
plethora of nice things was rarity in
these day*.
We drove to Decatur in our barouche,
behind a pair of spanking cream horses,
for everybody had fine horses before
railroads came, and dined at Dr. Thomp
son’s famous hostelrie. He was brimful
of expectation and likewise all his
household. A gayer crowd it would be
hard to find, even now.
Wo all made our way to Marthasville
after an early dinner, to find a very sor
ry looking town. Except a frame build
ing, used as a depot by the State road,
and one grog-shop, there, was nothing
but the virgin forest all about us.
The locomotive—and the State road
owned but one, it having been haultd
with mules from the completed end of
the Georgia road, wltich road was making
its way to the same place by slow ap
proaches—and one passenger coach, were
all the equipments for the great under
taking in its infancy.
As w’o recollect, our horses were very
averse to approaching the monster en
gine that made the wilderness echo with
its perpetual succession of whistles, and
one small backwoods girl was perhaps
the most frightened creature in all the
crowd. We think yet we never heard
such an agonizing whistle on a locomo
tive, and we opine it was played for all
it was worth that day, to show “smart”
on the part of the engineer and fireman.
When we boarded the the train, heard
that mighty man, the conductor, cry
out “all aboard,” the engine whistle giv
ing vent to its final agony, and realized
the fact that we were at the mercy of a
dreadful Apollyon, which breathed out
fire and smoke, our state ot mind can bet
ter be imagined than described.
As soon a3 we reached the Chatta
hoochee river we all got out walked
around to see the mighty work, a per
formance carried out at every bridge,until
we reached Marietta, where Kilby’s ho
tel was in a state of noisy expectancy,
anxious to take the excursionists in
charge. The crowd danced all night,
but sleep happily came to the relief of
our tired brain and feet, so we know but
little that happened until we boarded the
train early next day for the return trip.
We next saw Atlanta in 1845, and it
was a sorry looking chance fora town at
that time. Soon, however, it began to
take on airs, and its pioneer citizens
adopted the role of bragging on every
thing it did, which they have continued
to do, world without end. It had a
rough crowd for a good while to contend
with, and the people of Decatur looked
upon its pretensions much as decent
people do on faro banks and the theatre
comique, a place to make money in, but
a spot to be shunned socially.
The attack on Mr. Stephens by Judge
Cone was one of the notable occurrences
of that day, A mass meeting of the
Taylor campaign was held in Atlanta
shortly after, and Mr. Stephens, still an i
invalid from his wounds, was placed in a j
carriage and drawn by human strength
to the speaking place amid the wildest
enthusiasm.
The killing of Hilffurn by his brother
in-law, Bird, was another notable event
of Atlanta, which had shaken off Mar
thasville and put on anew name with a
fresh dress.
Atlanta was not the only name pro
posed for the embryo city. “Termini”
was seriously discussed as a suitable cog
nomen for its wonderful capabilities as a
grand terminal point for Southern rail
roads. One of the civil engineers, who
was active at that time, was anxiously in
favor of the latter name, but Atlanta got
the most votes at the time of the selec
tion and thus it became Atlanta.
Poor Decatur was soon sucked in wlien
Atlanta began to show its magical power
and attractions, and for a time it seemed
as if its glory was forever departed. We
are glad to say she is beginning again to
Shine, but only by reflected light.
11l onr opinion Atlanta succeeds by her
“cheek” and supreme confidence in her
self. She booms everything. Whatever
she attempts to do, becomes from that
moment the bravest, wisest and most
proper thing to do. She always rides a
hobby, and she rides it for all it is worth
if she kills it in the attempt. “Any
thing to keep Atlanta on the boards” is
the motto, and whether it is au Exposi
tion or a Base Ball Club, it is the all ab
sorbing topic of the day.
If the Cocrant readers would like a
dainty, try Phillips’ Digestible Cocoa.
It is nice.
prospectsri war betweex exg-
LAXD AXD RUSSIA.
It seems that war between these two
great European powers is now inevitable.
a sad and discouraging reflection
that our common Christianity does not
suppressor even lessen the frequency of
war. It has, in connection with the
improved implements of warfare, greatly
ameliorated the accompaniment* of war.
It has civilized warfare. Its restraints
have compelled the nations of the earth
to slaughter each other according to
specified rules—rules internationally
agreed upon. It has given birth, promi
nence snd efficiency to the terms contra
band, non-combatants, priso
ners, parole and exchange of captives.
This is about all Christianity has yet ac
complished in arresting human slaughter
upon battle fields; but the good time is
coming—the time when the plowshare
and pruning-hook shall banish the
sword.
England and Russia may fight—in
deed, ail Europe is in feverish excite
ment and nothing but the highest order
of statesmanship can save the world from
a general war.
Thi3 war between England and Russia
will be long and bloody. They are the
two great empires of the world. Togeth
er, they control about one third of the
firm land of our globe. Together, they
practically give laws to about five hun
dred millions of human beings. These
two powers propose to meet in battle and
determine what is apparently a mere
trifle—namely, who shall own a little
strip of land which is quadrilateral in
shape, and contains about 250,000 square
miles, having a population of four mil
lions. This little strip of land is swept
in its northern portions by snow-storms,
and in its southern portions, and in its
valleys it produces the tropical fruits.
This variety ot climate and production is
attributable only to the different heights
and directions of its mountain ranges.
But this comparatively insignificant
strip of territory is the connecting link
between India and Western Asia. Who
ever controls Herat, one of its chief cit
ies, must exertl?reat influence in India
and all of Western Asia. India is the
“precious gem in the crown of Great
Britain.” Victoria is Empress of India.
The little island we 1 call England furnish
es the brains and the hibles, while India
furnishes the material treasures of that
mighty empire. It has oyer three hun
dred millions of inhabitants, and its
products and its commerce are the rich
eft and most desirable of the world. Eng
land must own and control Afghanistan,
or India with its immense wealtli and re
sources is exposed to the aggressive
march of Russian armies.
So, then, it is not so much a trifle after
all, which is unchaining the “dogs of
war” and iparshaling the armies of Eng
land and Russia around the proud, war
like Afghans. Success to old England !
God bless her standards and strengthen
her bulwarks! Her enemy, Russia, is
politically, ecclesiastically and socially
s monstrosity among the nations of the
eaith. Czarißra expresses and describes
her past and outline* her future. Hew
humanity, religion and constitutional
liberty shudder at her approach. Her
touch is death to everything which hon
orable men usually covet. She instinct
ively coalesces with all that is despotic,
cruel and unclean. Her nature is to
crush all self-assertion, justice and truth,
all through the house of Rurik, and the
present dynasty of Roman off, with their
Ivans, it* Catherines, its Anns, its Nich
olas’ and Alexanders it has struggled to
suppress all freedom of thought and ac
tion and has relied for its maintainance
upon censorship, police and an army of
•pies.
If this war between England and Rus
sia begins, it will make the United States
the workshop and granary of the world.
There is comfort in the thought that
American labor will grow rich by the
wars of other nations. Russia is the
great wheat field of Europe. India it
the cotton belt of Asia. These five hun
dred millions of human beings, under
tlie*e two governments, and who are
likely to be so largely engaged in war,
must be fed aud clothed. The cotton
spindles of England must be kept run
ning. The United States must furnish
these supplies. The United States can
furnish them provided her productive
industries are brought into full working
capacity. It will, however, be no time
for vagrants and idlers to stand on the
street corners bewailing the evils of
over-production. Labor and its products
j must be wonderfully increased. All
breadstuffs and meat supplies will be in
stantly in demand. Cotton will be only
temporkrily depressed and will inevita
bly advance in price. Corn and wheat
fields, factories, furnaces, ship-yards, and
all places of industry will feel the quick
ening influence of the war. Let our
people prepare for it. Let them remem
ber that labor then, as now, will be the
talisman ot public and individual pros
perity. Especially let them remember
that corn is the basis of American agri
culture, and therefore the basis of Ameri
can wealth and thrift—that the State
which has “corn and meat” to sell, and
not to buy, will be the State which will
profit most by the approaching war be
tween England and Russia.
W. H. F.
GMX. GSAXT IX TBM HdXDS OF
SB A BPS BS.
The testimony in the Fish trial reveal*
an astonishing state of things, as our
readers will see from the sample as copied
in another column. It is a melancholy
exhibit. There was never a time when
a man of Gen. Grant’s reputa ion
had- before been used so mercilessly as a
a tool. His name and 'credit were used
for iniquitous jobs, wrecking his own
fortunes and sinking ten millions be
longing to other people. He was loyal
and steadfast toWard, who, with Fish
and other sharpers, used his confidence
to throw him into humiliation, mortifi
cation apd financial disgrace. It Is a
pity, a sad pity ! We hope he will live
through tbe trial of Ward, who now lies
in jail awaiting it. Fish has been found
guilty, and his sentence will cover ape
riod of five to ten years in the peniten
tiary. If the General dies before Ward
testi ties,there may be a bafeh of falsehoods
foisted on the country, when the only
man who could protect Gen. Grant’s
name and honesty is out of the way, un
able to contradict and uncover fully the
swindler. We hope he will also live'
long enough to rebuke the tears and
gush of all other people who used their
influence to swindle him out of his n o iy.
Certain exposed swindles and a flood of
tears over Gen. Grant’s supposed death,
are irreconcilable to honest dealing peo
ple.
•*
TUB PRINCESS OF WALES.
No conquered province was ever more
refractory than Ireland has been since
the year 1800, when the legislative union
between Ireland and England took place.
Ireland was reduced to subjection, but
she ha* never been brought to a state or
condition of resignation under English
laws.
England has tried various methods to
induce pacification—and she has been
likewise very ready to show her arbitrary
control. Nothing has ever been done to
inspire the Irish people with a real feel
ing of tolerance or generous respect for
the English people.
Until last February, however, there
has been no attempt to assassinate the
royal family or the nobility by these
restless insurgents. While Russia was
afraid to ride abroad or to sit at home to
eat with comfort, or to *leep in quiet, the
Euglish nobles and the princes of the
blood have been comparatively easy.
Btit the late attempt to blow up the
House of Commons and the Tower, be
trayed a hate and desperSllon that coulu
not be slighted as a warning. It is net
healthy or comfortable to have foes in
front as well as in the rear at the game
time, and it becomes necessary to recon
cile the Irish people before Russia opened
war on the Afghan country with her
mighty armies.
And what has England done to ac
complish this end and to arrest this
trouble? She has simply sent a woman
over to Ireland to wake up in their hearts
the alienated affections and dormant loy
alty of the Irish nature. It is true this
woman is the daughter of a king, and
the wife of the heir to the greatest
throne in the universe of nations, but
she i* only a gentle, lovable woman for
all that,
Her father, King Christian, of Den
mark, is a amall king, if you consider
only the size of his dominions, hut meas
ured by what he has done in rearing,
educating and marrying-off two of his
daughters, he is no small man, estimated
even by a kingly rule.
The Prince** Alexandra of Wales, is
without contradiction the finest speci
men of the royal females in Western
Europe. Her sister, the late Princess
Olga of Denmatk, now the Czarina of
Russia, is nearly equal in culture, re
finement and queeniy merit and majesty.
It was a lucky day for queen Victo
ria’s boy when he found his wife among
the Danes. Her girlhood home is a mite
of a principality compared to the great,
British Empire, but the Princess herself
is a crown diamond in the circlet of
queens and empresses. She captured
the English nation as a bride, but her
beautiful domestic life will make her the
idol of her subjects when Tier husband
succeeds to his mother’s .throne and
power as king of England.
It was a shrewd design therefore that
sent her to Ireland. The Guelphs were
ever a sluggish people, and the Prince
of Wales is a genuine descendant of his
German kindred. He needs the tact, the
grace and the sweet urbanity of the
princess to win to himself the love as
well as the respect of Great Britain.
When the little lady, escorted by her
husband and oldest son, set foot on Irish
soil, she was dressed in the famous
“Irish green,” and we will wager she
wore a sprig of shamrock somewhere on
on her hat or near her heart. Whenever
you read the details of the royal banquet
in Dublin you will find her draped in
Irish silk and lace*, with Irish emblem*
woven therein.
Courage is good, but tact is better, and
the Princess of Wales has enough of
both to make her beloved by the sons of
Erin. The prince was sharp to take
along so potent a charm.
“Her overpowering presence makes you feel
It would not be idolatry to kneel.”
DIA TH OF MR. “SUXSET COX’S" MOTHER
A private letter of congratulation from
us to Mr. and Mrs. Cox upon his ap
pointment abroad as Minister to Turkey,
found them by the death-bed of Mr.
Cox’s aged mother. She was eighty
three years old, and a most remarkable
woman. Her father was Judge Samuel
Sullivan of Ohio. He was himself a na
tive of Delaware, and was when a child
a witness of one of the first naval fights of
the revolution, which took place on the
Delaware river. Mrs. Cox lived in Ohio
in its pioneer days, and often mentioned
her playing with the Indian children.
She was the mother of thirteen children,
of whom she lived to see nearly all
grown into womanhood and manhood.
She was “honored with affection beyond
most mothers,” arid by none, more than
her son, S. S. Cox, who had been the
stay of her widow-hood and her old age.
It was a part of her supreme delight
that he came in time to see her while she
was conscious and could recognize him.
| When told that he was appointed to the
Turkish Empire, she said she feared she
w-ould never see him. When told he
was near her, she said, “If the office
pleases him, it pleases me to have him
go. He deserves all the President ha3
done.”
“She passed away as a child drops into
slumber, painlessly and placidly. Her
life was as simple and pure as the Sa
vior’s teaching had made it.” While it
was sad to bid her good-bye forever, on
the eve .of a long absence from the
United States, the recollections that this
good son will have of having watched
her last moments, will be inexpressibly
sweet for him to remember in the land
of “Orient sunbeams.”
FI3H RKLKASED FKOH THE WIT- '
JfCSS-SXAJiD.
The examination of James 1). Fish,
late president of the Marine Bank, ended
yesterday before Judge Benedict in the
United States Circliit court, lie identi
fied the assignment as the one made by
him May 7, ISS4, which he said he de
livered to Mr. Morris at the bank. Fish
then, in reply to Mr. Stanley, said:
“In the latter part of ISS3 I called at
the office of Grant & Ward to see Mr.
Ward, and met Gen. Grant in the on Wide
office, and after some little conversation
I asked him how the business was. He
said : ‘First-rate. The success of Grant
& Ward is'phenomenal. 1 think we
have made more money during the past
year than any concern in Wall street or
perhaps the whole country. I think Mr.
Ward is the most able man I ever saw.’
I asked him if he ever looked ovei the
books, lie said no; he only locked over
the monthly statements, which were sat
isfactory to him.”’
Mr. Stanley asked the witness to whom
he referred in a letter read on the pre
vious day iu the words, “Will not the
General be willing to give his note for
that $25,000 loan?” &o. The witness re
plied: “Gen. Grant,” and that the loan
was to him. In reply to questions of
Mr. Root, however, it appeared that this
was a loan to Mr. Ward put in the Gen
eral’s name, as other loans hail been to
Malloy, Doty, etc. No security was
given for the loan and in the letter Mr.
Fish asks W r ard if he can't get a note
from the General, so that there shall ap
pea, to be security to the eye of the
bank examiner. In the letter of Sept.
2, ISSO, Mr. Fish speaks of his “friend
and partner,” and to Mr. Stanley the
witness said that in this phrase he re
ferred to Qeq. Grant; but it afterwards
appeared, iu to Mr. Root, that Gen.
Grant had not become a partner until
two months afterwards, and that the al
lusion to “an unfinished road” referred
to the Elizabeth City and Norfolk road,
upon the bonds of which Ulysses S.
Gram, jr., had on that date borrowed
$30,000, and that he was the “friend and
partner” alluded to. In reference to the
conversation with Gen. Grant at the
office, to which witness had testified, Mr.
Root asked :
“Why did you drag Gen. Grant’s name
into this business of borrowing money
without security in a letter written two
months before he became your partner?”
“lie had frequent loans,” was all the
reply Mr. Fish coijld make.
“Why did you ask Gen. Gaant if he
had examined the books.?”
“I had time to ask him about the busi
ness. It was a right I had, and I had
curiosity to know.”
“What gave you a curiosity ?”
“I had an interest.”
“Did you suspect that there was any
thing wrong about the books?”
“I did not.”
A letter marked private of Fish to
Ward was read, in which he speaks of
the Relmont mine property, which had
been purchased for the firm by young
Grant of Gen. John B. Gordon for $155,-
000, and expresses the opinion that the
property is not worth much and adyises
that the firm sell out, but at any rate,
Fish says, if Ward don’t think it well for
the firm to sell out., he hopes that Ward
will sell out his (Fish’s) portion for the
best price he can obtain, and not to let
Gen. Grant or his son know anything
about the contents of the letter, and Mr.
Root asked:
“When in this letter you say you don’t
wish Mr. Ward to show to Gen. Grant
and his son the information you had ob
tained about this property, are you fairly
illustrating the ‘consultation and advice’
which you desire to have with Gen.
Grant in the letter of July 5, 18S2? You
did not wish him to know any tiling about
it until you got out?
“I wished the firm to sell out.”
“But you did not mean that Gen.
Grant or his son should know anything
until you got out?”
“I did not think it necessary to give
them my opinion.”
“And you thought—you, a business
man of man}’ years’ experience—you
thought it necessary to ask the opinion
of Gen. Grant as to the contents of books
at all times open to your inspection, and
which you had never cared to examine?”
“It was a question I had a perfect right
to ask,” replied poor Mr. Fish, who
seemed very much annoyed at Mr. Root’s
persistency.
St. Louis, March 13, 1882.
(Private.)
Dear Mr. Ward: I arrived here
this morning; found no letter from you,
but got a telegram which [ have answer
ed. It is about time for the comptroller
of the currency to call for a quarterly
statement. lam afraid the bank will be
disgraced with a pitiful showing. Can
you not borrow some money for the bank
or collateral for a few days? No matter
if you have to pay fully 6 per cent. Don’t
worry John about it, but insist upon
doing it if you can* I wish we had the
money we put into Belmont; that would
just about do it. Sell out that concern if
you can. Take my opinion this time and
I will stake my reputation on it. It is a
concern to sink money in which I think
can never be recovered. I will be here
until 16th, inclusive, or tome time du
ring that day. Telegram after you re
ceive this will reach me here, lam well
and feel first-rate. Truly yours,
J. D. Fish.
A letter dated Jan. 6, 1882, said: “Be
fore our committee make their examina
tion please have Mrs. Farwell’s loan
fixed up. I mean that joint loan you and
I have together, in which there is 100
shares mining stock.” The postscript
•ays : “Glad that Tappan will not draw'.
We must make as good an appearance all
the time as possible.”
Mr. Root also read three letters from
Mr. Ward to Mr. Fish, written just be
fore fhe failure as follows:
May 3, ISS4.
Mr. Fish:
Dear Sir: I have arranged with a
party uptown a loan of $200,000, but will
not get the check till I go to*his house
to-night. I will, however, deposit it by
9:30 o’clock on Monday morning. That
will be in time for the Clearing-House,
won’t it? This is*from a private investor
uptown, who does not come down; hut
1 am to take the securities to his house
to-night. Yours, F. Ward.
New York, May 5, ISSI.
Mr. Fish: I have secured a loan of
$250,000 from a private investor uptown,
and will take the securities up and get a
check, but may not get back till iate this
afternoon. I will either have the check
to-night or by 0 o’clock in the morning.
Yours, F. Ward.
This, with.the SIOO,OOO, will make us
all better. F. W.
May 5.
I will get that $250,000 check to-night
if possible. lam doing my best to put
matters through and make the bank
easy. I went for Spencer, and he went
to Platt to get him to deposit $50,000 ex
tra to-day. Spencer also got $75,000 from
the Pennsylvania Coal Comp my. lain
not leaving a stone unturned. I think
Gen. Grant will get more money from
W. H. V. to-morrow.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT
In the Life of General Grant, in Which a
Cincinnati Physician Figured.
Courier-Journal.
Dr. John W. McUeish, of Cincin
nati, formerly of the Twenty-sixth lowa
Voluhteeer Infantry, Third Brigade,
First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps,
relates the following pathetic incident,
showing General Grant’s kindness of
heart, which at this time will be appre
ciated by all his old soldiers: The army
was encamped at Young’s Point, La.
An order had been promulgated by the
General to the effect that no officer should
be allowed leave of absence until after
the capture of Vicksburg. I had a lit
tle girl at home who was my pet and
idol. One morning I received a letter
from my wife, which contained the fol
lowing sentence: “Come home imme
diately, if you would see Winnie alive.”
Startled and fearful lest I should be too
late to see my darling child again, I
hastened to procure a leave of absence,
and succeeded in getting it regularly ap
proved until I reached Gen. Sherman’s
headquarters, where I received a stern
refusal: “No, a soldier should know no
family iu time of war.” I turned away,
knowing I could go no further, when 1
heard instructions given to an aid-decamp
to take dispatches tp General Grant, whose
headquarters were on a boat three-quar
ters of a mile away; but into the rain
and darkness I impulsively rushed after
after the aid, and with him made my
way to the boat. Appealing t;o Major
Bowers for a personal interview with
General Grant, 1 was ushered into the
presence of the General, whom hitherto
1 had thought to he stern aud unap
proachable. lie greeted me with a
kindly salutation. 1 told my story, and
knew by the tnostened eye and sympa
thetic voice that the great General had
also a great heart.
“Approved twenty days leave of ab
sence, with transportation to and from
Cairo,” was bis order; then turning to
me he said: “If you are required to re
main longer, do so, but report in person
to me on your return, and I sincerely
hope you may not find your daughter; s
ill as you anticipate.”
My little one died, and had been buried
ten days when I reached our Western
home in lowa.
When the exquisite lines of Eugene
Field, in sympathy with General Grant
on his sick bed, yearning for the arrival
of his beloved Nellie, were published,
the doctor had them neatly engraved on
white satin, and lately forwarded them
to Mrs. Grant, with a beautiful note re
lating the incident. The appropriateness
ot the lines are apparent:
“His listening soul hears no echo of battle,
No patan of triumph, nor welcome of fume;
Rut down through the years cumes a little one’s
prattle,
And softly he murmurs her idolized name.
And it seern3 as if now at his heart she were
clinging
As she clung in those dear distant years to his
knee;
lie sees her fair faoe, and he hears her sweet
singing,
And Nellie is coming from over the sea.
“While patriot Hope stays the fulness of sor
row,
While our eyes are bedimmed and our voices
are low,
He dreams of the daughter who comes with the
morrow
Like an angel come back from the dear long
ago.
Ah, what to him now is a emotion,
And what for our love or our grief careth he?
A swift-speeding ship is asail on the ocean,
And Nellie is coming from over the sea!”
GEORGIA BONDS.
Five Per Cent.—Thirty Years.
Executive Office, }
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1885.f
Under authority of an act, approved
Dec. 23, 1884, authorizing the Governor
to issue Bonds for payment of principal
of bonds maturing in 1885 and 1880,
sealed proposals will be received at the
office of the Treasurer of Georgia up to
twelve o’clock ra. on April 15, 1885, for
j three million, four hundred and fifty-five
| thousand dollars ($3,455,000) Five per
I cent thirty year coupon bonds as herein
i after set forth, bearing date July 1, 1885.
i Principal and interest payable in the city
| of New York, at the fiscal agency o
| Georgia; and at the office of the Treas
| urer of Georgia in the city of Atlanta.
[ Interest payable semi-annually on .Jan
uary 1 and July 1 respectively.
Bids will be received for two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) of the amount
to be delivered on July 1, 1885. And for
two hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars ($225,000) to be delivered January I
1, ISS6, the accrued interest being with- I
held by the State. And for the remain
der of the amount of three million four
hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars j
($3,455,000), (or so much thereof as may |
be necessary for the purpose aforesaid),
on June 1, ISS6, the accrued interest
withheld as aforesaid. As to last de
livery, however, successful bidders will
have the option of tendering any Geor
gia Bonds maturing as aforesaid, at their |
par value, in payment therefor, at any
time after July 1, 1885, and receiving
new' bonds.
Bids must specify amount of bonds cie- j
sired in multiples of one thousand dol- I
ars ($1,00')) accompanied by certified
check, or certificates of deposit of some
solvent bank tor live per coni', of the
amount of such hid, payable to the order
of the Treasurer of Georgia, or by a de
posit of bonds of the State of Georgia.
Bids w ill be opened and declared by
the Governor and Treasurer, the State
lesoi ving the right to reject any one or
all of the bids.
The State will issue registered bonds
in lieu ot any <>t the above named five
per cent, bonds as provided in said Act
at any fcime on demand of the owner.
Copies of the Act of the Legislature,
and inform;!!ion touching (lie proposed
i.-stieot hoieis, wiii he lurni.-i ed on ap
plication to the Tivasur;
By ti:e Governor.
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