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THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884. Dally and Weekly. Till TKLEGRAril AID UlgelKGIl IS pub- llibcd every day except llondey, and weekly every Friday. the Daily la delivered by carrier! In the city hi lniiiled 1" ' : tree to aubaertberaat * 1 i>"r month, (2 50 (or three months, 15 (or alx months or 110 a year. the Weekly fa mailed to aubrertbera. poa- luge free, at $1 SOayear. 75c. (or ala ntouthi. To clube o( live $L*R a year, and to clubeor ton 11 i>er year, and an extra copy to getter up of club o( live or ten. lTanalcnt advertlaetnenta will be taken lor no Daily at-1 per squared ten llneaor leu (orthe drat Imertlon,and fifty rente for each subsequent insertion; and (orthe Weexly at (1 per equate for each Inaertlou. Liberal rates to contractor*. Rejected communlcatlona will not be re- rned. '•owearondence containing Important uewa n' dtaeueaiona of living topica, 1* aollclted, wit muat be brief and written upon but one aide of the paper to hare attention, Agents wanted In every community In the Stale, to whom liberal commt**lona will be paid. Poatmaatera are eapecially roqueated to write for terma. 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* Mr. T. W. 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