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THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER.
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884.
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All communlcatlona ahould be addreaaed to
New England fails to enthuse over
Logan. The Republican ticket jour
neys along with its tail between its
legs.
'TiiF.'prospcct of an investigation into
the Democratic Republican coalition
which divides official plunder in Geor-
is very distasteful in certain quarters.
modern nations. Let our young men
remember these facts, and prove that
the old race has not perished with the
old South. The dark days are nearly
over. There is a future of manufact
uring and commercial supremacy in
store for this section, and these forces
control politics. "Strikcforyour coun
try and your sires,” young gentlemen.
Tnihi: will be a wild scramble to
“stand trom under” if “Hightowers
Bill" can get an investigating commit
tee to work. The abject misery exhib
ited hv little Mophistopheles at the
the mere mention of the matttr is the
strongest argument in its favor.
A Philadelphia Prett corrcspond-
enf has gone down into North Carolina
and has been writing about the negro.
He sums up as follows: “All the civil
rights hills on earth will not affect the
status ot the negro here for years to
come. Ho has ceased to look to legis
lation for advancement, and is begin
ning to learn that his position and
power depend on his wealth and in
telligence.”
El Mahdi recently gave a refugee
ISO lashes for smoking cigarettes in
camp. Now let the relief party rescue
El Mahdi. The country needs him
more than it does Gordon.
The Congressional primary in Fulton
county promises to he warm and close.
On ouch an occasion Col. Hoyt and bis
trained band of striped and patriotic
voters ought to count for much.
“Please do not shoot at the organist;
he is doing his best,” was a notice
posted upon a Colorado church door.
And the New York Timet thinks the
Tribune might profitably adopt the le
gend for self-protection.
Thebe is a fifteen-story house in New
York 170 feet high. A servant girl
who was removed from the basement
to a position under the roof because of
the ardent devotions of iier young man
has only gained a hull-hour of leisure
after aupper.
Gen. Logan has been on both sides
of. every important question that has
arisen in politics in twenty-fivo years.
The main question with the Republi
cans of fo-dsy is “office.” It may not
he long before Black John gets on the
outside of this.
"Ramadan,” the Moslem forty days
fast .is just at an end. General Gordon,
though not of tho Moslem persuasion,
observed this fast with a punctilious
ness that would commend him to the
Mahdi, but for the fact that the Gener
al's devotion was compulsory.
A sLEeve and collar button peddler
bt New York says that he sells more
Blaine kuttona titan those whicli bear
the likeness of Cleveland.—Sew York
Piper. This is an effort to convey tho
impression that New York Republicans
wear shirts. It will fall fiat.
"Voting,” says tho Rev. 8. B. Ros
■iter, "is the religion of politics.” The
man who does not value the privilege
of voting on public questions enough to
take part in elections ought to be de
prived of that privilege. Tlte day may
come when his power will prove- dan
gerous.
IIehe is instmetive reading ior peo
ple who rely upon a distant market for
the sale of truck:
Durins the put wuk tho health laapcctors
have destroyed hundreds of barrels and crates
of fruit and vegsutdea unlit to be eaten, be
sides putting nearly ten thousand bad water
melon* where they would do the least harm.
—New York Herald.
CoNoaiia has given pensions to the
wounded and sick; to the widows and
orphani; to those who served and
many who did not serve, and finally to
the desertera. The office-holders are
pretty well provided for, and it only re
main! to give unto Cuffee his forty
•ere* amP a mule. The colored man
ought to look into tliia.
The Senatorial Election.
The Cartersvillo Fere Prett is anx
ious to get up an opponent to Senator
Brown in the Senatorial race, and sug.
gests General Lawton, Major Bacon,
Dr. Felton and others. It argues very
truly and strongly against the methods
observed in the two last Senatorial con
tests, and declaims against the palpa
ble injustice of locating botli Senators
in Atlanta. An exhaustive attempt has
been made to put Major Cumming,
Governor Smith, Major Bacon and Gen
eral Lawton in the Senatorial contest.
All of these gentlemen have declined.
There are other and many other good
and competent men for the position,
but they do not come forward. There
seems to be an apathy as to high
political ambition. Any intelligent
man witli a clean record and an ac
quaintanceship in ten counties in Geor
gia could now he elected Governor if
he would offer his name for the posi
tion. The same may be said, even
more strongly, of the Congressman’s
place in the sixth district. But it
seems that no one has either tlte nerve
or the ambition. Dr. Felton would
make an excellent Senator; but he
would start in the race now under groat
and manifest disadvantages. It is a
matter of general congratulation that
he is likely to go to the Legislature.
If he docs go, the opportunity will be
in his grasp to straighten oat this Sena
torial business, lie is an honest and
fearlessman. That is just what is most
needed in the Georgia Legislature.
He cannot he airaid to imperil his poli
tical future by doing a present right.
Let him go there and move a com
mittee of investigation, into the Blod-
ge :t claim, the use of the pardoning
power, the use of money and other cor
rupt methods by which it is alleged
Colquitt succeeded in getting his Sena
torial seat. The proof exists or men of
honorable antecedents and high stand
ing in the State have given circulation
to lies. It was the bounden duty of
the last Legislature to do this work,
hut it failed in its duty.
Dr. Felton can do himself credit and
the State no greater service, than by
moving earnestly in this matter.
If under tho powers granted
to a Legislative investigating
committee the proof of these charges,
which have been notorious for more
than a year past, can be established,
there will he no difficulty about having
a vacancy in the 8enatc. If Colquitt
doea not resign in the face of this move
ment, the body in which he sits will
turn him out at ita conclusion.
The honor and tho interests of Geor
gia aliko require that this matter should
he thoroughly sifted, and Dr. Felton is
pre-eminently fitted to sift it.
I ait us have the investigation and a
brace of Senatorial elections.
The Penalty of Crentnese.
When one man rises either by merit
or accident above his fellows, especial
ly when he aspires to a high dignity in
the gift of the people, he may expect
that all of his past life will he subjected
to the wliito light of the most searching
scrutiny. It is one of the penalties of
greatness to invite slander and vituper
ation, and Mr. Cleveland just now is
suffering the fate that lias been common
to many who have preceded him. Pol
itics is at best a dirty trade, and prom
inent among its wares are detraction
and defamation.
Amomt the brute creation the one
that is wounded is instantly set uponjby
the others and hounded to death. This
is better titan to die by slow torture.
A sensitive man might eagerly welcome
a death blow in preference to that slow
torture which follows the entering of
the iron into the soul.
It is not expected that political meth
ods can be reformed. They are the
same now that they have always been,
and are likely to continue to remain un
changed. But it is always right and
timely to enter a protest against such
as are unworthy and indefensible. The
man who aspires to political greatness
must he prepared to suffer the penalty
which will surely follow.
Just now political malignity is assail
ing the private character of Mr. Cleve
land. One of his defenders observes
that tho fact that he was elected mayor
of Buffalo is the best and most suffi
cient answer. Not so. The best an
swer is a denial that cannot be success
fully refuted. If political malignity
has invented a He to impair his suc
cess, the lie will surely recoil with the
forco of a boomerang upon the heads of
its inventors. Men of great pow-ers,
with favorable opportunities, have
reached exalted stations in all the de
partments of life, notwithstanding their
characters, but they have not carried
with them the respect, confidence and
affection of good and honest people.
schedule. He must insert in his plat
form planks guaranteeing no work and
all play; 100 per cent, horizontal reduc
tion in the shade of midday; possum
and potatoes; hog and hominy ad iq/I-
nitum; tho banjo, yellow girl and tho
break-down, music, drums, ribbons,
flying banners and ail the pomp and
pageantry of modern Congo chivalry.
These, and a little fire water. Upon
tliis platform the mulatto prophet
can carry all of African Georgia by
storm and catch some of the white
vote. “The Sons and Daughters of
Jacob” will get out their ladders to
scale Zion’s walls. The “Ring Doves”
will coo in council and prepare to mi
grate. The “Devoted Sisters" will
cease their devotions and form in col
umn. Tho “Armstrong Society” will
demonstrate its stiengthand far-reach
ing silent influence. “The United
Suiters ot Blue Jerusalem” will lift
their voices in song, as they strike for
their happy homes.
The first result of this movement will
be a scarcity of boiled shirts and cold
dinners. Danger threatens. But per
haps all this can bo paralyzed by ener
getic action on the part of the white
men wito, aa yet, are not ready to be
rescued from the world of sin. Let
them catch tlte Prophet and inquire in
to his politics. It may He that in place
oi a fatiguing campaign aa a "Deliver,”
he will compromise on a mall carrier’s
position or consent tp yield his leader
ship for a deputy deputy’s clerkship
and tho flesh pots of Egypt.
FROM ATLANTA.
A Cow Thljf nnd His Antics—Election
Contest From ;camdsn—Poli
tics and Baseball.
[special corxxspoxdxxce.]
Atlanta, July 28.—The police officers
pulled a cow thief this morning, in the act
of making off with a cow. The negro was
captured out Decatur street near the Air
Line shops, and in attempting to escape
humped his head against a car box. lie
then pretended to be seriously hurt—out
of his head, speechless and in a dying con
dition. He was moved with some
difficulty to the police station and there
laid out as if tn articulo merits. Sat
isfied that the negro was playing a lit
tle game, ward physician Dr. Kerstan was
called in and the situation explained. The
Doctor put him through an elaborate
course, of doctoring aud between the
medicine and the fright the negro was
restored to consciousness and speech. Ho
gave his name as Gus Flannegsn, and Ous
will doubtless be able to go to trial, and
subsequently do the county some service
on its public works.
CONTEST IN CAMDEN.
There Is a contested election beforn the
Governor in the matter of justice of the
peace for the thirty-second district, G. M.
The election was held on the first Saturday
In June, and James C. Wright duly elected.
-l . Frazier contests, be-
TWENTY YEARS ACO
First teach the negro to work. An
ignorant mind cannot be expanded
while the body remain! listless. If the
South moat educate the negro, educate
him to work. Tlie vital forces stimu
lated will in tom stimulate tlte mind
to (nap information, and it ii that
which the mind grasps, and not what is
thrust into it, that educates.
“No man,” says Judge E. R. Hoar,
• “can point to an act of liia (Mr.
Blaine) public life from which he has
ever made private profit an advan
tage.” Judge Hoar la a successful
Jurist. Will the judge say that a man
who attempted larceny, burglary or
highway robbery ia innocent because
he failed to secure ,\ny plunder?
The Denver (Col.) Tribune asserts
that the Democracy “confessed the
cruelty ot ita slander at Garfield'
grave.” The Western editor ia far
from the truth. The Democracy never
attended Garfield's funeral. It waaa
Republican bullet that killed the Re
publican President and the only slan
ders circulated came from the same
wing ot tlte party that moulded the bul-
let.
of
An Important Invention*
From Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday,
came news that will interest the world
at large and stimulate speculation over
tho final mission ot electricity. It em
braces the description oi an electrical
street railway system by which as
many aa fifteen cars may he propelled,
stopped and reversed at will with the
power derived from ono machine.
It lias for a long time been admitted
by scientific people that in the con
struction of ■ practical and desirable
electric power machine tlte chief diffi
culty was Hie cost of the fuel necessary
to ran it. There are now in existence
several inventions that will yield all
Hie power necessary to operate ma
chinery of most any size, hut which are
undesirable by reason of original cost,
and the quantity of fuel demanded.
No electrical power machine has
yet been developed that will give aa
much power to Hie quantity of fuel con
sumed as the steam engine, nor one that
can be made at a smaller cost. It will
he noticed that the cable roads have
proved a stepping stone to the in
ventors. Under the cable system the
power Is famished by the motion of
the cable Itself, which travels in a
groove between the the rods and re
volves around drums operated at the
stations by steam engines. By a pro-
ecting clutch tlte car can instantly
be connected with the cable and made
to share its motion. Under the new
system, if it indeed prove* practical
as the recent test would seem to indi
cate, the cable* will doubtless he sta
tionary and the current communi
cated to the machinery ot the car
by a traveling connection, insulation
wherever necessary being effected with
gbua pulleys. The fact that one ma
chine furnishes power for fifteen cars
It was a Southern man, Schley,
Maryland, who commanded the expe
dition that rescued Greely. It was a
Southern man, Lockwood, of Mary
land, who reached tlte highest latitude
ever tread liy a white man. Further,
Southern men commanded and com
posed the armies that closed Uur Revo
lutionary war, that closed the war of
1812, and tiiatclosed the Mexican war.
And It was Hie South tiiat furnished
the greatest generals the world has ever
seen. It furnished, also, the men who
’ baaed (he Constitution of the United I HH P
states and made the greatest of | “8 machinery
Advent of a “Deliver.'
When the last of the carpet-baggers
grasped the handle of the receptacle
that hold his plunder and struck a bee
line over the mountains, it was confi
dently believed that no more forever
would false prophets lead the negro
astray. The failure of the “forty acres
and a mule” subdivision scheme, the
failure of the Freedmen’s Bank to
pay dividends and finally the failure of
the bank to return the principal it
self, gave prophesy a black eye in Geor
gia and robbed unindorsed promises of
future benefits ot half their charm. But
ii the New York Evening Telegram
to be credited, and it is a paper that
strives to become the pink of perfec
tion, prophecy and the promise busi
ness in tills State have again been re
vived,
The plan of the present campaign
is based upon the darky’s relig
ious fervor; its head-piece
“a tall and not unpleasant
looking mulatto.” This mulatto is the
great American “Deliver” or prophet
who shall make his grand entree upon
a great white horse," possibly bor
rowed from Elijah's celebrated chariot
team, and “all the world shall bow
submission.” He is at present near
Gainesville, and it must be admitted
that the negroes who have the move
ment in charge have displayed great
wisdom, both in the construction of
their prophet and his temporary loca
tion. No white man will ever consent
to bow down to nn African Deliver, and
since the Republicans have made the
Caucasian complexion unpopular, no
real African black can be prevailed
npon to accept a wliito Deliver. In
this dilemma a compromise In shades
which brings altout a mulatto Rescuer
of the World seems a happy
stroke of policy. At Gaines
ville, which is something
of a summer resort, he will he enabled
to get bis hand in as a moral puri
fier while experimenting upon the
varied and milderfonns of moral turpi
tude presented, moving into new fields
as practice perfects. This also would
seem to indicate wisdom of a superior
nature, for itis easily understood that if
ho had gone at once into some sin cen
tre, say Atlanta, for instance, with no
experience and wiUiont methods, there
might have been a 'snowed-nnder De
liver among the missing, and the
world would have gone to pieces for
want of a rescuer.
If we may trust the reports, the De
liver is thriving. He hasa large follow
ing who”fa!l down anil worship him,”
and whose homage he receives compla
cently, as though accustomed to it
He "lives in Hie midst of Gloomy For
ests and in CaA-es illuminated by the
FUful glare of pitchpine knots blazing
in the liands of stalwart Blacks at in
tervals among the audience." He
tells the mixed and excited
crowd that they are “down trodden,”
under the heel,” tiiat the “hour of
deliverance it near at hand." More
over he inspires hishesrers with glow
ing and fanciful pictures of the land
flowing with “milk and honey,”
abounding in the “sports of the
Indian's happy hunting ground,” and
reeking with the “sumptuous sensual
joys of the Mohammedan paradise.”
And here is .the weak spot in Hie
Prophet's campaign. Milk and honey
to the darky has no charm beside hog
and hominy. The Indian's happy
hunting ground, with its violent exer
cise, is gloomy beside the sport of the
ebony fisherman, who angles from the
bateau for the sluggish modest. The
Mohammedan paradise ia no paradise
for ths man wito “loves to dance and
afng at night and play the old banjo,”
and strike for the dinner table when
Dinah blows the horn.” This will
It smacks of the “town nig-
Mother-In-Law.
Every now and then somebody comes
out anil writes a defense of mothers-in-
law and about the time the public heart
is getting mellow over this necessary
and really much abused class, a mem
ber of the band violently dissipates all
the good effects.
The mother-in-law has appeared in
many rolet; she has slung irons, waved
brooms, hurled coffee pots, pulled hair
and made mops of offending persons,
but the lately reported case of Mike
Dubois’s mother-in-law vs. Mike Du
bois in a New York police court throws
all previous exposures in the shade. It
was a touching family picture
presented to his honor
the day of tho court. Mike
Dubois moved up the aisle, his bands
bound behind him, his wife holding
one end of the rope, his mother-in-law
tflo other. Amid the protests of tho
females Mike was unbound at the
court’s command and the trial began.
The women’s testimony was that Mike
was trifling and lazy and would not
work. Mike’s testimony contradicted
this. He declared the women made
him get breakfast and that, finding
him asleep, and overdue at the store
in the morning, they had tied him and
led him like a lamb to the slaughter.
Upon ids bended knees ho begged tho
court to send him to jail for six
months. It will not add to the com
fort of those who havo dangerous
mothers-in-law to know that the court
dismissed the case, refused the prison
er’s pica, and was Jnformed five min
utes later that the women's umbrellas
had left a well thraahed man helpless
in tlie arms of a policeman at the court
entrance.
Whereupon James F. Frazier contests, be
cause. as alleged, the superintendents of
the election ilfd not sign the returns os the
law directs, and did not forward them to
the clerk ot the Superior Court, but, ou the
contrary, to the ordinary, etc, etc. The
case promises to bo one of lntereat. as the
papers from all the partiea exhibit a
wealth of rare grammar throughout, which
will doubtleis put the officials of the Exec
utive Department on their mettle.
POLITICS,
The politician is conspicuous to-day
about the city, end Wednesday’s election
ia the topic. There baa been no apparent
chance In the situation since Saturday,
but there ia time yet for hard work, and
tbeojiportunity la by no means being neg-
Captain Jackson will address the voters
of Atlanta at the opera house to-night,
and it is advertised tiiat he will reply to
the attacks that bare been made on his
character and discuss his opponent. I un
derstand that Colonel Hammond designs
making a reply to-morrow night.
A gentleman, who ia something of a pol
itician, a supporter of Captain Jackson,
stated to yonr correspondent on the street
this morning, in discussing the probable
result of the election in Fulton, that in the
event ot the nomination of either Jack-
•on or Hammond, he was satisfied an in
dependent candidate would take the
field. If Jackson Is nominated, he
thinks bis opponent will be Em
ory Speer; if Hatnmotyi, he
will be opposed by Col. Reuben Arnold.
Your correspondent does not In the least
share this conviction. There will be yt-ry
little chance or prospect of success for any
Independent tn this race, and the gentle
men named will be doubtless shrewd enough
to see it The nomlneefof the Congressional
convention, whoever he may be, will be
8tonemnn wae Captured Near Macon,
and a Battle Fought.
Twenty years ago thla day General
StoDcman made hia memorable raid and
attack upon the city of Macon, was while
on hie retreat, met at Sunshine church,
sixteen miles from Macon, by General
Iverson's command and taken prisoner.
This battle cannot be classed equal with
tlie numerous battles of the war, where
marshaled .hosts contended against hosts,
blood and carnage the result; neverthe
less, in comparison with the numbers cif-
gaged, it was no less effective in its
achievements In protecting a city from
vandalism and saving the large amount of
army stores and ordnance supplies manu
factured here.
We compile from Butler's history and
other sources
AN INTRRISTINO NARRATIVE
2. the events of tiiat period:
“Until the last of July, 1801, Macon had
escaped the attacks of the enemy's raids.
While Sherman was pouring a storm ot
tiot shot and shell into Atlanta, the coun
try around that place was frequently infes
ted with raids which extended their dep
redations into Alabama and eastward, be
yond Covington, Ga. In fact, raids were
the order of the day. On the 29th of July.
Captain Samuel S. Dunlap, in commaud
leading from Macon to Savannah, at Oh. I
WOld&tlon, when- they formed SndifcI
•troyed seventeen locomotives and or* I
one hundred ears: then went on hn!35 I
the bridge acroe. the Oconee, ud SI
Hd H« < \ 1 , Tt * 1 ° n Macon. Ktonenro,' I
•helled the town across the riyerSSl
could not cross by tlie bridge, andretm?
ed to Clinton, where ho found the 2!
obstructed by a superior I
There he became bewildered and eacrSi
himse ffor the safety of his cotatSSa” jg
occupied the attention of the enemy bv.
•matt forceof seven hundred men,
Colonels Adams and Capton leave wh£ 1
their brigades, to cut their way back'SI
me at Atlanta. The former reached!?
entire, but the latter was struck and **«*
tered at some place further north
came in by detachments. Stoueman .nr
rendered and became a prisoner nn filfo
was exchanged some time after, late 2
September, at Rough and Ready." “ |
CASUALTIES.
AS eai
wounded on tue Confederate right of'tk?
line in the Black Ankle engagement- he
Killed-Private A. J. HogTn. L'euten**.
Goldsmith from Augusta VolintoS-T^i
vo nntftorPfl In ntn» ranDa *
volunteered In our ranks.
Wounded-Private W. R. 8lngleton ■„
leg, severe; J. P. Shiver, in heed sererf
clmpb^reef-pSoiS;!
volunteered, iu neck;D. R. Lemmon £
breast, severe; James Brown- in. ...
arsfif T a:"aa:fe
Lieutenant James Blanchard in hand’'
•light. Ltetenaut Blanchard was notin''
of a party of scouts at Clinton, heard tiiat adintant and Inspector general on Genr'Si
the enemy were at Monticello and Cheatham's staff, then auileiine from .
“ * “ ** trniimi in tint Kami 1° u *
would advance upon Macon. He dis
patched the news to General Howell Cobb,
and the citizens, who had a gun of any
kind, were ordered to report at the coart
of the 30th, two thousand men were post
in line ot battle between East Macon and
Walnut creek. On the evening of the
29tb a battalion of aix hundred Tennes
seans, under command of Maj. John W.
Nisbet, had arrived from Andcrsonville on
their way to Atlanta, also about one thou
sand of State militia who were destined to
the same place. There troops were de
tained at Macon Mrerat days for ita de
fense, and to their accidental arrival at
that time, which swelled the little army of
defenders of the city, may be attributed
the retreat of the 2,500 Federal cavalry
under
OENBSSZI STONEMAN.
The Confederates, with a battery of three
pieces under Captain Peschke, were placed
under command ot COl. J. B. Cumming,who
formed them on the 29tb,on the Clinton
road, on tho left of the line. A battery under
wound in the hand, volunteered as a dH
vate and was struck by a spent bell in th.
same wounded liantt There were other
casualties In other parts of the line bat
wo have no accurate record; nor is there
any record ot the loss sustained by the en-
Atlanta lias the baseball fever and the
match games at the Athletic grounds are
match games at the Athletic grounds are
drawing large crowds. The Stars of Co
lumbus will play the Athletics three games
here this week on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday afternoons. These garnee
ore attracting considerable interest.
THR0t-r.lt THE BRAIN.
The physicians who have been attend
ing Arche Orme, decided last week to
probe for the ball, which it was thought had
entered the brain, when he attempted sui
cide nearly two months ago. To-day they
put into effect that decision and made a
very careful and skillful operation, Yonr
correspondent saw Dr. Ridley late thie
evening, after bis return from the opera,
tion, and from him learned the result.
Ether was administered to the patient
and the probing begun. About an Inch in
a part of the bullet was found and extract
ed. This appeared to be about one-fourth
ot a forty-two calibre bail. A few pieces
of bone were also taken out of the same
locality. The probe was then introduced
directly into the brain, the Initrument
penetrating a depth of three and one-half
inches by measurement, but with
further result. At this
PERSONAL CUPPINC8.
Maj. Edwin Talifarro was stationed on a hil I
beyond Fort'Hswkins. Lieutenant-Colonel
Findlay's Georgia Reserves were between
this battery and Curaming's command.
On the weat side of the river, Company B.
Macon Volunteers, CapL B. F. Ross; a
company of operatives from the Macon
cotton factory under Major M B. Rogers
s company of convalescents from the ho*
? Hals under Lieut Col. C. M. Wiley; the
ireman Guards, Lieut. Nicoll. and the
8ilver Greys (a full company of aged
gentlemen), Capt. J. W. Armstrong, were
posted on the Vinerllie road. On the
morning of the 30th. the cavalry of Stone-
man made-an advance within three miles
of East Macon. The troops on the weat
aide of the river were ordered to East
Macon, anil on reaching the Central rail
road bridge heard the sound of battle to
the left. They were under the command
of Col. Gibhs and were marched to the
right ot Taliaferro's battery, leaving the
Silver Greys to guard the bridge. Cot.
Gibba’a command formed the right ot the
line.
“The enemy had planted a battery at
Dunlap’s farm, and fired shot which (elt
freely around the auburbiof the city with
out any serious damage. One shot fell In
the heart of the city, on Mulberry street,
tearing away a portion of a column tn front
of the nouse of Mr. Asa Holt.
“TIIS RATTLE COMKENCSD”
the left wing. Cumming ordered
Feschke'e battery to reserve fire until the
Federate were tn two to three hundred
yards ot their front. They were then
coming down the Milledgeville road. The
battery opened with a well directed fire,
when Ntebet's battalion was ordered to
charge.
“The militia and Findlay’s- command
were held in reserve to follow the battal-
lion if necessary. On the eharge being made
and the lire ot Peahkl’a battery kept up,
the enemy retreated toGroes Keys. In the
indicates that cheapness has at last
been secured and the question of local! 11( ,t do.
travel solved. In time electricity will I _£,.>• it c jells of Hie public school and
donbtless share with steam, if it does' tret library. The prophet can
onopolize it, the honor of furnish- j ni . V er lead his forces
Hie promised land on such
—Archibald Forbes Is at work on a
story telling ills experience in India with
white elephants.
—Miss Louisa Wilcox, a Chicago
lady, committed suicide because the pice
life baker sent her did not salt.
—Tlie British l’ostmaster-General,
Fawcett, expresses confidence that the
parcels poet will ultimately pay expenses.
—Since marriage Oscar Wilde has
been content to sink into a cultured Col
fax, and Is laid to wear In publio a perpet
ual smile.
—Mrs. Langtry says iter profits for
last season were about $82,000, of which
•he has invested $05,000 in New York city
property.
—Mary Anderson, in a private letter
to a friend In this country, expresies an
earnest desire to be back again In her
native land.
—To Mr. John P. St. John, the Pres
idential nominee of the ProlitbiMontets,
belongs the distinction nt being the only
Republican candidate for Governor of
Kauias who was ever detested.
—Dr. Koch in boyhood was fond of
observing animal life m ita various forms,
and instead ot Indulging in games and
other aporta would spend hours watching
a nest ot ante or ths habits of s worm,
—Princess Dolgorould, tho widow of
the 1st* Csar, baa left Paris, srith her chil
dren and a large suite, for Switzerland,
and intends to pass the autumn between
the Lake of Lucerne and the Italian lakea.
—Mr. Purcell’s newspaper, the
Rochester Union, Is nut aiding in the
Democratic canvass any more than Mr.
Purcell himself, an out-and-out bolter.
The plan ot the Union is to abrtek for fres
trade.
—In 1801 Troilope’i book on America
gays ths cost ot trsniporttng a bushel of
wheat from Chicago to Liverpool aa aixty-
nine cents. This year wheat baa been
carried between the lame cities for fifteen
cents.
—Mrs. Scovilie, now known as Mrs.
Howe, the sister of the late Charles
Guiteau. and living in Chicago, sent her
late husband a quantity of her unusad
wedding stationery In view of hte ap
proaching marriage.
—The Washington.Starinformsan in
quirer that the President is paid hte salary
by the United States Treasurer’* draft, Is
sued on the warrant of the Secretary of the
Treaaury, based on an account audited by
the First Auditor and first Controller of
the Treasury.
-Wei. Daniel, a candidate for Vice-
President on the Prohibition ticket, te of
such diminutive stature that during a re
cent visit on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
one of the boys of the family unwittingly
aaked him out to play bad “while the
grown folks were eating dinner.”
—A clergyman named Hoyle was so
indiscreet aa to register hte name at one ol
the Baltimore hotels. Within half an
hour afterward no fesrer than forty-nine
anxious inquirers ssot up their cards to hte
room, begging to be informed if s flush
royal couldn't get away srith (oar sees.
—The Pope had a fainting fit a few
days ago, owing to ovenrprk and the sum
mer hast. He baa always been subject to
similar alight attacks at the commence
ment of Lot weather. Hte physicians
strongly advise him to abstain from oyer-
work, and to permit himself to take a pe
riod of complete repose.
—A Mr. Ollendorff, of Germany, has
arrived tn New Jfork. The Horton TVaw
icript wants to know If this u the brilliant
inventor ol those wonderful dialogues of
this pattern: "H»ve you the umhretU of
the shoemaker?” “No, sir; but I have
tbs aUppen of tbs slater of the wife of the
beroosea'gardener,' 1
Vindication of the Twenty-Elshth Ceor-
Bla Regiment.
The following article was aent tn the
Atlanta Omititution on the 17th instant
with the request that they publish the
same. For reasons not known to me. they
have refused their columns for the defense
of the Confederate—living and dead:
Editor Atlanta Omililution : Under the
beading “History of the Campaign," In
Sunday’s issue of your paper, I am pained
to see statements which not only do vio
lence to truth, bat also cast unmerited re
proach upon as noble a band as ever fol
lowed the banner of Lee to the struggle Tor
Southern liberty. I have no part or in
terest tn the icrarable that te now going on-
for the Congressional nomination in your
district, but when it comes to the pass
that the trainers of either aspirant find it
expedient to brand the soldiers of the
Twenty-eightn Georgia Volunteers "a»
robbers of women and children,” I, in
member of that organization, and one of
the hundred or more who, incensed be
yond self-control by the cruel and un
necessary punishment indicted upon their
comrades, defied the tyrant and set the
captives free, cannot remain silent
The facta are few, and can be amply au
thenticated. The brigade had been on the
march during the day, and had pitched
camp for the night; the usual guard was
thrown out, which, as was usually the
case, was eluded by aome ot the boys, who,
prompted by hunger, found tome pota
toes and syrup, which they bought and
ntol the hands ot the guard, and were
carried at once to the headquarters ot
Pnl Zaphin* “fion. CVi'miifr Jwintr aK.
Col. Zachary, “Gen. Colquitt being ab
sent.” where, at daylight iu the morning,
they wore found tied and buckc-l. The In
dignation in tlie command wits universal,
and the prisoners were promptly released.
They were aoon afterwards rebound, an t
and again promptly set free by their com
rades, a hundred or more tn number; and.
to relate, only one of three, a aim-
ink) sharp-shooter*, who engaged the right
wing under Col. Gibbs, which, In marching
between Fort Hawkins and the position
they took along the farm of Mr. Geoi
point It WSJ determined that It would be
useless as well aa dangerous to probe
further, as It seemed clear that tlie ball .
had parsed entirely through the brain and meantime, Stonnuan bad formed a line of
lodged on the other side. It te probable
that a cyst or toe has formed around the
ball, and it may never give him any trou
ble. II it baa not, there te danger of an
abscess forming, which, it te likely,
will result fatally. The patient
•food the operation well, and
thus far baa sufiercdltw ill effects from it.
Dr. Ridley regards it as one of the matt re
markable cases tn eargeiy.
It te a bit remarkable that a man bent on
•utcide shoots himaelf directly through the
brain with a 42-calibre ball, a part of it
on one aide, a part on the other,
iter two months’ time te not
only able to hear the operation of probing
between three and four inebre into the
brain, but gives every evidence of complete
recovery.
A saw COMPANY.
An order was issued to-day (or sn elec
tion ot a captain of tho Calhoun Rifles, on
August9. at Arlington, Calhoun county.
School Commissioner Orr returned to
day from the icsiion of tho National
Teachers' Association, held at Madison
Wisconsin.
strange to Tnutv. umy uuu ut tucav, m ouu-
pic, harmless, beardless boy, could be
identified. And how was he nione, among
the hundreds engaged In ths rescue, sin
gled out and Identified a* the wretch
whose life must b* sacrificed to military
vengeance7 Perhaps CapL Jackson him
self may remember that it ten* by a
bayonet throat through hi* r .at. nar
rowly missing his body, that hte identity
was established, CapL Jackson may also
remember that lids wound In tlie cosh
which, unfortunately (or the victim, a*
ift-T • v. :i! ■ proved. .Ii I I...: pi. riv i ■
heart, waa made by a commissioned officer
who had been zealously, butvalnly,exhort-
ii ■ I!.I- ■ . ir I In lire at. : mu the
rescuers, and failing in this ho seized a
until ordered to return 1L They returned
the fire srith good effect and put the sharp
shooters to a nasty retreat.
“Stoneman, on leaving Atlanta, dis
tributed hia lorce.iti three columns. One
wet to advance on Macon by coming down
the road via Griffin and Forsyth, and en
gage the local force at Macon in the rear,
while he, with the other tsro columns, was
to meet the first column at Macon. The
first column waa Intercepted by a portion
of Hood’a army between Griffin and At
lanta. When Stoneman arrived at Clinton
be was surprised to learn that the city
bridge at Macon had been carried away by
a freshet a short time before, and that
oax.ioax.qi s. Johnston
UJLUll.l. IIIIU 1*11.1.1 lit HUS IIU BVIAEUa
musket from the hands of a soldier and
himself made wUh tlie bayonet tlie (esrial
r- Til. .. ti I!.' e\ id- a I... Ii M !>•:
Ill" ! r.:.t . i 1 . u.irv .1 - q.l::..' I !
forms of military procedure, the innocent
blood of this harmless boy was abed, and
Looking Into Emot? Muzzles.
Detroit Free Press.
On the way tlown from Natclioz to
New Orleans the boat rounded to Ut a
landing on the Louisiana shore to take
on a lot of cotton seed. She had just
made fast, and the mate had stepped
ashore to “huaUe them niggers,”
when a middle-aged man. closely re
aembling tho typical Southerner, sud'
denly stepped out from behind tlie
sacks, p resented a revolver within a
foot of Uto mate’s face, and cried
out:
“Throw up your hands or you ore
dead man!”
There were fifty of us with our eyes
on tlie two men, and we held our
breath as the mate slowly raised his
arms above the level of his head. He
didn’t change color in the slightest,
end those who took in tlie details no
ticed that lie chewed away at hia plug
tobacco with the same regular motion
—neither faster nor slower.
“Now, then, down on yonr knees and
beg my pardon, or 1’U send a bullet
into your eye I”
The mate’s legs wabbled, bent, and
down h* sank and remarked Hist ke
won sorry if lie had offended Hie other.
“All right,” growled the man with
the pistol os he shoved it into his hip
pocket. “After this you be a little
more careful whom you fling yonr im
pudence at.’’
As he turned away the mate made a
dive with hia rightiuind, and up came a
derringer, ont shot the arm, and in a
voice of tnumler the mate cried:
“Halt! Throw up your arms! Down
on your knee* or I’ll blow yonr brains
all over this plantation t”
The tables were turned. Up went
the arms, and after a few seconds tlie
man went down on his knees and said
be had the highest respect for the
mate’s moral worth. When be rose
up the Captain and others bad reached
the pair, and in ten seconds more they
were disarmed.
“Closecall that!” said one of the
passengers aa the Captain handed the
weapons to the clerk to keep until Hie
boat was ready to leave.
“Humph! Neither one of ’em load
ed!” replied the oUl man.
Snch was the actual fact. Two empty
and harmless weapons hail humbled
two men who meant shoot.
con bad been
army at Atlanta. On arriving near Macon
hte deluilon was increased by the number
oi troops be saw in bit front, and by the
rapid and continuous fire form the ar«-
tial baiterrin. Finding that tie could not
capture the dty, he kept ooe column of
capmrn ut* uq, u* **|i, v.-iumu
1,000 men, principally ibarp-ihootorn.with
a couple of rifled cannon, ou the old Black
Ankle rood, which leads from East Macon
to Walnut creek, to make a feint on the
city, while be aent another column upon
several undefended poiula ou the Central
railroad, tearing up the track, burning the
bridge* over Walnut creek and Oconre
river, destroying locomotives and cars
river, ueerrujiira tuLuunni.n *|IU vate,
and other property at (IrbwoldvlUe and
Gordon.
“On the evening ol the 30th the column
retired from Croes Keys. On tbe31it,
Saturdar night, the pickets, under Col.
George T. Bartlett tn lverion s command,
from Atlanta, met up with a force of
8toneman men, and indulged in a moon
light skirmish beyond Sunshine church.
Ou the following day both armies con
fronted each other, and alter a sharp bat
tle, in which a number were killed on both
■idee,
■VOX KM AX SI’RRXXDZXXO,
with five hundred men, to CuL Crews,
ot Iverson's command. The prisoners
were marched Into the city by Uenersi
HIWU wt mu iiauiiiL.vi tJVjr n art aum.uuvi
that, too, when the war was, as we all re
alised. subAtantlnlly at an end.
CapL Jackson may be able to give you
the name oi that officer who to zealously
urged the slaughter of soldiers by bis
brothers in armt. In jusUcetoCapL Jack-
son, whom 1 know to be a brave man, and
believe to be a truthful one, I will here to
mtit that I do not undentand that this
slanderous charge against the Twenty-
eighth Georgia te either made or author
ised by him. It nods to mo like the vol- ■
unteer statement of a party whoknewnoth-
Ingof tlie facts. CapL Jactson being at tho
time acting in the capacity ot assistant-
adjutant-gcneral ot the brigade should and
prubably does know better than myself
by whom chargee were preferred
against poor Ore; who composed
the court-martial by whom he was tried
and condemned to an ignominious death,
bnt no one can better than I know that la
him died as brave a soldier, aye, and aa
true aud faithful a one to all hi* dude* as
ever faced death on the many bloody fields
In which the Twenty-eighth bore a pert
1 do furttier know that the mother who
sent ner darling boy forth to battle, and
whose prayers followed hie every foohets*
to the cruel and bloody end, was well nigh
heartbroken by ths awiul intelligence
brought her by hte returning comrade*,
and I know that tho authors of this trag
edy rested under tit# deep curse of an aged
and honorable father, whose Upe are now
silent in death, for this cruel wrong indict
ed upon hte good aud brave boy.
Co. A., 28«t Qa.
Irwin ton, Ga., July 29,1884.
Iverson, and for several days'a luge num-
caught in the woods and brought
Tsi xphsme is a newly coined word,
meaning * telephonic dispatch or
•age.
berwere _
in as captives. All of Stoneman’s artillery
and orer one thousand splendid eignt-
ahooter rifles and a large number of horses
were captured.
“This battle has been chronicled in two
histories, respectively by distinguished
commanders and authors. Gen. Joseph K.
Johnston, in hte “Narrative of Military
Operations,’’ says of the attack on Macon:
“It was attacked by a division of United
States cavalry, with tbs object, probably, of
destroying the valuable workshops which
had been established there by the chief ol
ordnance, Oen. Gorges. The place had
neither entrenchments nor garrison. For
Innately, however, two regiments of ths
militia promised mo while commanding
tbs army by Oov. Brown ware passing on
their way to Atlanta. Their officers were
serving In the army as privates, so they
had none.
“With them, and as many of the me
chanics of the workshops and volunteers
of the town as he could find arms for, in
all 1,500 or 1,800. General Cobb met tbs
Federate on ths high ground east of the
Ocmnlges, and repulsed them after a con
test of several boon, by bis own courage
and jodtekms disposition, and tbs sxet
lent conduct of hia trap*, many of who
heard hostile shots thsnfor ths first Urns*’
General W. T. Sherman, in the second
volume of hte "Memoirs.’’ refers to the
SAID ON MACON
as follows: “Stoneman bad not obeyed
hte order to attack lbs railroad first, before
going to Macon and Andereonvllle. bat,
had croes ed lb* Ocmulge* river high op ! Brain I
near Covington, and had (on* lest vigor, and stri
down that river on tho east of brain and body,
bank. He reached CUnton and sent oat | ghta, or by —
Thousand* Say So*
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Arkaasaw Traveller.
The cruelty of woman’s criticisms some
times goes beyond life. “Bid you trtt sse
a more natural c<>n.ae than Mm. Podsonr
asked a lady of a friend. “Such ft con
tented smile.”
"Contented smile!” repeated the ineod.
'It waa all put on.”
To Toy Cently With Fortuns Is Mies.
To toy with fortune, if at not too great a
risk, ia one of the pleasantest of i>a-tiiDM-
The wild gambling in stocks on Walls'reet
brings to the simulator not near as
healthy an exercise as investment in the
drawings of the Louisiana Mate Lottery,
at New Orleans, La., of f5 for a whole or
proportionately for fractional parts, the
171st grand monthly drawing will oc< :r on
Tuesday. August 12tb, and any informs-
tioo etti be bad on applw&tion to M. A
troops, many of whom Dauphin, New Orleans, I.a.
than fnr tha nrat tlm* 11 __
l>c hii
ry fair pi
study,.
detachments which struck tbs railroad; First Arenas, New York City,