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WEDNESDAY APRIL 9, 1873.
augusta AND THE NEW BONDS.
The Atlanta Constitution gives a state
ment of the amount of the Nutting
bonds applied for so far by Georgians,
and the amount taken by each town and
county. Savannah heads the list, and
Athens and Clarke county follow next
in order. We see, however, no mention
made of purchases or applications re
ceived from Augusta. This fact might
cause parties unacquainted with the
facts to imagine that the capitalists and
citizens of Augusta were either deficient
in patriotism or not awake to their own
interests ; for we think that a Georgian
who is- able to buy a “ Nutting” bond
and who fails or refuses to purchase is
lacking in love of State and in knowl
edge of what constitutes a good invest
ment. But w'e think that the omission
of Augusta’s name from the list is due
to the fact that an agency for the sale
of these bonds has, we believe, been es
tablished in Augusta, and subscriptioms
to the loan are received here instead of
Atlanta. For the same reason, we sup
pose, the name of Macon does not ap
pear, as an agency has also been estab
lished there, and no report of its opera
tions has yet been forwarded to the
State Treasurer.
LEGAL ADVERTISING,
The Judiciary Committee of the Ken
tucky House of Representatives has re
cently reported a bill to regulate legal
advertising, which Tonld work well in
other States besides Kentucky. The
bill requires where legal notices or
advertisements are required to be pub
lished in a newspaper, that they shall be
published in the. icwspaper having the
largest bona fide circulation in .the
county. The object of the law requiring
the printed publication of legal notices
is, that they may be seen and read by
the largest number of persons, and the
end can only be accomplished by insert
ing them in the paper which has the
largest number of readers in the county.
This is the only fair and just way of
regulating the matter. Let the county
officers satisfy themselves which paper
eomiug into their county has the largest
bona fide circulation, and award their
patronage to that journal.
THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
The hearts of the loyal thieves of
South Carolina —native and alien—are
stirred to their deepest depths by an in
cident in the recent election contest
between the towns of Barnwell and
Blackville. The election was held in
accordance with an act of the Legisla
ture, to determine which town should
be the capital or county site of Barn
well county. After a severe struggle,
Barnwell came off victorious by a major
ity of less than fifty votes. After the
result of the election became known the
people of Barnwell made a noisy cele
bration of their triumph, and horns were
blown, and cheers were given, and ban
ners fiung upon the breeze in the usual
election style. But some partisan of
the defeated Blackville set afloat a hor
rible rumor to the effect that “the
friends of Barnwell paraded the streets
with wagons from which floated the
Confederate flag.” The intelligence was
duly forwarded to Columbia, and the
news of this crowing rebel outrage
blazoned to the world. The scalaw'ags
Tt nm»
wagon from which the Confederate flag
floated was a Republican office holder,
that the driver was a colored Republican
and former slave. There is also some
doubt as to whether it was a Confederate
J'almer or the French tri-color which
floated upon the breeze at Barnwell.
What spectacles for thieving loyalty to
contemplate have been recently pre
sented ; a Massachusetts Republican
calling a rebel General to preside over
the Senate of the United States, and a
colored Republican and former slave
flying the Confederate flag in South
Carolina !
THE ATLANTA HERALD AND ITS
WASH 1 NGTON DISPATCH.
In reply to our article asking the Her
ald to investigate the dispatch which it
received relative to the discovery of
frightful immoralities in the boarding
schools of Maryland, that paper says :
While on explanations we desire to in
form our Augusta cotemporary that the
dispatch from Washington referring to
alleged immoralities in Maryland girls’
boarding schools, was received by us
over the Western Union telegraph
wires at five cents per word, “special
rates,” and was forwarded by our special
correspondent at the Federal Capital.
Our cotemporary says he did not find it
in the Baltimore Gazette, but as it hap
pens that there are several other papers
published iu Baltimore that doesnot con
vict our correspondent of inaccuracy.
We exchange with but one Baltimore |
paper—the Sun, and we regret to say
that we omitted looking in it for a con- ■
Urination of our correspondent’s report. [
ts we had entertained any doubts of his
truthfulness we would have done so ; .
but as we have always found him truth- j
ful and accurate, and as we cannot im- j
iiviue anv possible motive for his in- j
ry of the kind, we are com
elude that he saw it in one !
imore papers. And even if ;
t, we could not bjj held re
r its since it
impossij/fie for us to know,
publication,
ot yf was false.
to have misuuder
ji/Ji of onr former article,
mean to imply that the dis
ed to was manufactured in
'e had no reason for doubt
-1 not doubt thti it was a
ishington special, revive
or as such. Neither did we
isert that it waa the duty of
to refuse to publish the dis- >
it became satisfied that its j
statement- were correct. This a dad.V
newspaper cannot do. Its business is to j
publish news as soon as possible after <
its reception. From the very nature of
the business, investigation in nine cases
out of ten, must follow instead of pre
cede publication. What we intended
to convey was simply this; That as ie
dispatch contained very serious charges
against the Maryland boarding schools,
ami as we were nnable to find any
reference to the alleged occurrences in
either the Baltimore Gazette or any of
our Northern exchanges, we thought the
ll raid, in a case of this character,
nhouul make some effort to ascertain
whether the statements oi its \\ ashmg
tou correspondent were true or false.
There are several hundred young ladies
from Georgia now Mi Maryland board
ing schools, and it is but just to them,
if the dispatch was incorrect, that its |
charges should be contradicted.
the TVK UPON the DEALERS in
HALT LUjOOBto-
Our attention lias -been directed to a
letter from the Comptroller General ot
•he stale of GeorghUo the Tax Collector
of Richmond county upon the subject
of the taxation of wholesale dealers in
malt liquors. 7he ComptroUer General
decides that pittW! who sell ale am
porter in bottles packed Ml casks by uAC
cask are wholesale dealers, and are
liable for the tax imposed by the legis
lature. Until shown this correspondence
we were not aware of the nature or ex
tent of the tax levied. By a reference
to the general tax act, however, we have
discovered that a “ license tax of two
hundred and fifty dollars” has been im
posed upon “every individual, com-,
[»auy or corporation selling or causing
-fco be sold any malt liquors in this State
iby wholesale, in each county for which
•be or they nay have an agency for such
••-sale.” This tax ifi manifestly wrong,
unjivffc and unfair, ml should never
have been permitted to go upon the
statute books of the State. Indeed we
jtearn that the tax was not fully under
stood by some of the members of the
Legislature, or it would have met with
very streuuous opposition, and in all
probability have beeu defeated. It is
wrong in theory, and equally wrong in
practice. In the fiftt place, it is not
right that this heavy burden should be
placed upon the wholesale dealers in
malt liquors —ale, beer or porter
while other wholesale dealers have to
pay no such penalty for the privilege of
doing business in Georgia. What reason
or justice can there be in a law which
dicriminates against one citizen and not
against another ? Wliy should the
wholesale dealer in malt liquors be re
quired to pay this onerous specific tax
any more than the wholesale dealer in
whisky, in cigars, in groceries, in pro
visions, in drygoods, in liardware? Cer
tainly it is not right for the Legislature to
say that Mr. A., who is a wholesale dealer
in Cincinnati lager beer, or in London
porter, or in Scotch ale, shall pay in ad
dition to other taxes, a license tax of
two hundred and fifty dollars, while
Mr. B, who is a ■wholesale dealer in
whisky, or dry gopds, or corn, or bacon,
or iron, shall pay nothing beyond the
ordinary taxes levied alike upon all
citizens of the State. What reason can
there he for this difference in the treat
ment of two citizens ? Why should such
an unjust distinction be made between
two merchants ?
In the second place, wdiile all license
taxes are unpopular and are more or less
odious, still if any distinction is made
iu the treatment of merchants the Leg
islature should n«>t make it against the
dealers in malt liquors. This business
deserves to be fostered instead of being
prohibited. The State should rather
encourage the dealers in this article in
stead of loading them down with oner
ous taxes. The manufacture of beer
deserves almost as much favor and as
maqy privileges and immunities as the
manufacture of cotton or woolen goods,
or of iron. There is a temperance ser
mon contained in every cask of beer
which comes from the brewery. A na
tion of beer drinkers is never a nation
of drunkards.
We hope that among the first acts of
the Legislature at its next session will
be the repeal of this section of the tax
act.
FIGURES FROM THE LAST CEN
SUS.
A cor esponilent of the New York
of Commerce lias been furnish
ing that valuable and ever reliable jour
nal some very interesting statistics com
piled from the last census. In his last
letter he furnishes a table which gives
each industry producing over $1,0(X),000
a year in each State. In this table we
find the following, showing the product
per annum of the industries enumerated
in the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
Florida and Tennessee :
GEORGIA.
Oaqientering and building $1,007,622
Cotton goods (not specified) 2,333,647
Flouring and grist mill products.. 11,202,029
Sawed lumber 4.044,375
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Cotton goods (not specified) 1,827,937
Flouring and grist mill products.. 3,180,207
Sawed lumber 1,197,005
FLORIDA.
Sawed lumber 2,235,780
TENNESSEE.
Carpentering and building 1.149.598
Flouring ami grist mill products 10,767.998
Iron, pigs 1,147,707
Lumber, sawed ; 3,390,687
[ALABAMA.
Flouring and grist mill products.. 4.827.479
Sawed lumber 1,359,083
New York lias one hundred and
Pennsylvania ninety and Mas
ninety-one industries, that
inually over $1,000,000. The
•oduetion of the cotton goods
husetta is upwards of $50,000,-
WOMAN’S RIGHTS.
A decision of some little importance
may soon be expected from the Supreme
Court of the United States. Mrs. Myra
Brad well, who edits a law magazine in
Chicago, having applied for admission
to the bar of that city, and having met
with rejection, has appealed to the high
est Court inathe country to say whether
or not she has.been rightly treated. Her
argument is that her application was re
fused, not because she was ignorant of
the law or deficient in any needful quali
fication, but simply on account of her
sex, and this, she contends, is no suffi
cient ground for her rejection. In sup
port of this assertion, Mrs. Bradwell ap
peals to the first section of the Four
teenth Amendment, the paragraph so
familiar to the public in consequence of
its use by the champions of woman suf
frage as guaranteeing to them the much
coveted right. Its bearing upon the
subject of female rights was, we believe,
first discovered and pointed out l>y that
attractive and eminent reformer, Mrs.
Woodhull, but her interpretation soon
received the sanction and support of
such illustrious jurists as Miss Anthony
and General Butler. Though Mrs. Brad
well’s appeal does not relate to the right
of suffrage, the decision of it will re
quire the Judges of the Supreme Court
to state their understanding of the much
rtiooteil words of the amendment, and
thus to settle the question of their ap
plication to the woman question. There
is, however, no difference of opinion
among educated lawyers as to the utter
irrelevancy of the appeal to the amend
ment as made by the suffragists, and it
is, therefore, not likely that the Supreme
Court will give any countenance to the
audacious quibble by which alone even
an appearance of relevancy can be forced
into the words.
go INVESTIGATION NEEDED.
The Atlanta Constitution, of a recent
date has a long article on Georgia bonds,
which winds up as follows :
There are vital facts connected with
the Bullock bonds that necessarily the
Bond Committee could not get, because
they could not secure the witnesses.
These facts will throw a flood of light oil
the bad bonds, will show up the dark
practices of some of the bondholders,
and enlighten us as to the real innocents,
in whose equities alone is there any
merit which the State should recognize.
It will require an investigation by able,
acute, resolute, honest men, to get at
these facts. Georgia cannot act with
safety and honor until she does get
them.
We are decided in our mind that the
bond settlement, as proposed, could not
be accepted by our State. Some of its
features will not stand the test of. care
ful and enlightened criticism. We. are
equally decided that an investigation
should be had. and that Georgia should
do vkst, under the facts learned, her
honor
We are glad to fc?-d our Atlanta co
temßorary so decidedly vft-osed to the
acceptance of the bond compromise as
proposed to the Legislature last Winter.
We are just as decidedly opposed to
any compromise being untie with the
holders of the spurious bonds issued by
Bullock, and are just a* decidedly op
posed to anv further investigation. e
ku ow of nothing which will justify the
State in reopening the question and in
volving us in fresh trouble and expense
We bat heard of no “vital facts’ which
the Bond Committee was unable to dis
cover that any other committee will be
able to obtain. If Messrs. Simons,
McMillan and Hall, armed with all the
power which «*. Legislature could con
fer were unable to pleura the attend
ance of witnesses, bow can com
. j,i. onv better success;
mittee meet with ,
how can its members to with
more extensive authority or war. eom
o „avs the Constitu
plete power? But, says me
tion these new facts, which will be
elicited to » Pew committee from new
witnesses, wih * flood ° f
light on the bogus bonds. t to 1“
gating Committee has already “
a flood of light” on these spurious obli
gations, or rather confirmed and proved
S the world the irucb of the charge
made by the people of Georgia -gamst
their legality when they were first issued.
ThelEvestigtiwCcwaiaMl-"* l^
practises of Jke ,^ oh . se d ” the
cued the people as to who
“innocents” in whose “equities alone
there was any merit which the State
should recognize. The State has al
ready had the benefit of an examination
by men fully as “able, acute, resolute
and honest” as any who can be found in
the Legislature or within the limits of
Georgia. Georgia has already obtained
the facts of the case, and Georgia has
already acted with honor and with safe
ty. What new witness do the Wall street
“innocents” propose putting upoa the
stand whose testimony will entitle them to
immediate access to the treasury, whose
statements will make the garments of
the innocents white as snow and remove
from their bastard bonds all taint of
fraud anil of corruption ? We can re
member but two material witnesses
whose attendance the Bond Committee
failed to secure, whose evidence they
failed to obtain. One of these was the
former financial agent of the State, the
other was the late Governor of Georgia.
For reasons best known to themselves
these gentlemen failed to appear, though
their presence was earnestly desired and
their information eagerly sought by the
committee. The latter, it is true, made
several promises and numerous appoint
ments but the pledges were always broken
and the engagements never fulfilled. —
Modesty or some stronger sentiment
prevented him from relating the trans
actions of which, like the hero of the
Aeneid, he was such a great part. Has
this brace of fugitive patriots—Bullock
and Kimball—promised to come to the
rescue of the bondholders ? Are they
to shed “ floods of light” and “ show up
dark practises ?” Will it be made worth
their s»Ule to come forth from their
absolve the innocents
from 1... me and take upon their broad
shoulders'the whole of the heavy load
of iniquity ? Have they bonds enough
of their own, but held by some conveni
ent “ innocent, ” to make such a course
pay the illustrious pair? Have they
ceased to fear the people whom they
plundered and laws which they violated ?
Have the penitentiary and the chain
gang lost their terrors, or do thoy ex
pect their crimes to be compromised
along with their bonds ? The people of
Georgia do not wish, nor do they in
tend to make Bullock and Kimball scape
goats for Mr. Henry Clows and his con
federates. They have sins enough of
their own to answer for without increas
ing their burden. And until they dis
prove their own guilt they cannot estab
lish the innocence of others. We assert
again that no further investigation is
needed or desired. The whole scheme
of fraud and villainy has been thorough
ly “probed,” the bona fide and the
“ innocent ” purchasers have been dis
covered and the “equities” have been
adjusted. The report of the committee
was received, its recommeimations calm
ly discussed and almost unanimously
adopted. Let the matter rest just where
it is.
THE RELIEF LAW DECLARED UN
CONSTITUTIONAL
In another column we publish this
morning a special dispatch from Wash
ington to the Savannah News, which
states that the act to extend the lien of
setoff and recoupment—more familiarly
known as the Relief Law—passed by
the Legislature of 1870, lias been de
clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of the United States. The dis
patch is very brief and the exact nature
of the case upon which the Supreme
Court passed is not given. Neither does
it state whether the whole act or only
certain sections has been declared to be
in violation of the provision of the
National Constitution which prevents
any State from passing a law impairing
the obligation of contracts. The in
ference seems to be, hdwever, that the
whole act has been declared unconstitu
tional. This decision is one of the
greatest importance to the people of
Georgia. Our own Supreme Court has,
by a divided bench, sustained the law
with the exception of certain sections,
but if the dispatch which wo publish be
correct, their decision is reversed and all
the defenses set up by debtors under
the relief law of 1870 are swept away.
THE ATLANTA “ HERALD” AND ITS
WASHINGTON DISPATCH.
The Atlanta Herald, in an eilitoiial on
its Maryland boarding school special,
notices “how eagerly those Georgia pa
pers that don’t have any correspondents
in Washington attack the statements
telegraphed to those papers that do.”
So fcir as the Chronicle and Sentinel
is concerned, the Herald must know that
the insinuation contained iu the above
sentence is unwarranted by anything
which has appeared in this paper. Our
only reason for noticing or alluding to
the dispatch was that we had reason to
believe its statements incorrect, and be
cause there w'ere hundreds of families
in Georgia who were affected by them,
and interested in having the matter in
vestigated. We are ever willing to give
the Herald or any other paper full credit
for its enterprise. The Chronicle com
menced receiving specials before any
other paper in Georgia, and has spent
enough for them to be above any feeling
of envy in the matter. If there was any
particular enterprise displayed in pub
lishing iu Atlanta,on the 26tli of March - -
a I statement of an alleged occurrence
which was first noticed in the Baltimore
A merican, on the 18tli of that month, the
Herald is certainly entitled to full credit
for its exertions. The Herald publishes
an extract from the Baltimore Netvs, of
of the 24th, which states:
A'few days since one of our morning
papers threw' out hints that a frightful
amount of immorality existed in one or
more of our public schools devoted to
the education of young girls, and so
alarmed have parents become upon the
publication of the article, that a large
number of girls have been withdrawn
from the schools by their parents. Last
week the Board of School Commission
ers resolved to inquire into the charge
alleged by the newspaper, but failing to
he convinced that said immorality exist
ed, save iu name, have wisely concluded
to carry the matter before a grand jury
of the Criminal Court for investigation,
and to this end the parties who gave
publicity to the dark charges have been
cited to appear before the grand jury
and make good their assertion.
This extract show's that the Herald
correspondent did have information
upon which to base his dispatch. But
the Baltimore Gazette, however, proves
very conclusively that the statements in
the American, upon which tine Wash
ington dispatch was based, were false.
The Gazette says editorially •.
A MALIGNANT FALSEHOOD.
A number of letters from gentlemen
in this city and at the South have reach
ed us, with the request that we should
make public the following dispatch, pur
porting to have been sent from Wash
ington to the Atlanta (Georgia) Herald.
It has created much excitement. It is
as follows :
FRIGHTFUL IMMORALITY.
“Washington, March 25.— This morn
ing's Baltimore papers contain articles
hinting at frightful immorality in Mary
land voung ladies’ boarding schools, the
details of which are said to evidence an
extent of debauchery and depravity ab
solutely appalling. The grand jury will
make a* thorough investigation into the
alleged immoralities, and will proceed
to indict the criminals. Meantime, a
panic reigns among the parents who
have daughters at these schools and
they are withdrawing their children from
them in large numbers.
Several copies ox u.e above, cut from
the columns of the Atlanta hsrold, the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, the
Augusta Constitutionalist, and other
papers, we been enclosed to us in
floors frpm gemiemen at the South,
statement be untrue,
asking ÜB| >*+ , sianuer
slip i,
aid P. üb V shed / the date of the 25th,
Wasiuag'ton- of papers contain
stating this 1,• orali ty
articres hinting at f „ rl T/ boarding
in Marylapd x to ll *. : ur y was to
I'ormgh fnvest.gatnmy and
‘ make a tuoroug a „„ n£! parents who ■
JS? a aa P u a g^rs ,g at these SU 1
dispatch has been very generally copied
and republished by the daily papers of
the State H and has occasioned a good
deal of excitement. We have carefully
examined the Baltimore Gazette (with
which we exchange), of the2sth, arid find
in it no reference whatever to the Mary
land boardiug schools, or any trouble
in those institutions. We have also ex
amined the New York and Philadelphia
papers of the 25th, and of subsequent
dates, and find in them no allusion to
the matter. We are justified, then, in
conluding that there mutt be some mis
take iu the statement published by the
Herald. As it is a very grave affair, we
call the attention of the Herald to it,
with the hope that it will have an inves
tigation, and inform the public whether
the dispatch was correct or incorrect.”
We have italicized one sentence in the
Chronicle's remarks to show the exten
sive circulation which has been given to
this bold and base falsehood, and the
natural solicitude it has occasioned —as
our letters prove —among parents at the
South who have daughters at school in
this city.
The source and origin of this most
mendacious of fabrications is, we regret
to say, the Baltimore American. On the
18th of March it published an editorial
article on “the vices that lie hidden un
der the crust of society, and that are only
spoken of in respectable society with
bated breath.” Iu this article, in lan
guage too gross to be repeated, it ile- 1
clared that notorious women made a
business of luring young girls, by spe
cious promises, to lives of degradation
and shame, and that “the profession of
the procuress thrives and wins in every
street in Baltimore.” It charged that
the pupils of our Eastern Female High
Schools were frequently in receipt of
circulars from women of bad character,
and that the facts were known to all the
members of the grand jury.
On the 25th of March—the date also
of the Washington dispatch—learning
that the attention of tire grand jury had
been called to these accusations, the
American undertook to explain away
its imputation upon the grand jury, by
declaring that it did not mean to say
that the members of that body “had
any further knowledge of the matter
than what could be gathered from gen
eral report,” and that it “never meant
to accuse them of neglecting to take ac
tion in the premises.”.
Last week, two of the most prominent
and responsible persons connected with
the American office were summoned to
appear before the grand jury, to state
what they knew iu regard to the tempta
tions to a life of shame alleged to have
been held out to the pupils of the school
in question. They testified—as we learn
—that they knew nothing about it.
And thus ends this most scandalous
attempt to injure the good name of our
city and the character—hitherto unas
sailed—of our female schools. The
story, so set afloot—false as it has been
proven to be in every particular—was,
as it will be observed, perverted and in
tensified by some real or pretended
lying Washington correspondent, and
made to apply to our female boarding
schools. But the defamatory article on
which the dispatch was based, first ap
peared in the American,
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Beaufort, S. C., April 2, 1873.
Editors Chronicle A- Sentinel:
The complete connection by rail- be
tween the city of Augusta and the har
bor of Port Royal, 112 miles distant,
has already been made known to the
readers of the Chronicle and Sentinel.
When the last spike was driven which
perfected that connection, the event was
celebrated by the firing of cannon by
the enthusiastic friends of the enter
prise; and the first train from Battery
Point on Port Roj al Island to Augusta,
as the columns of the Chronicle attest,
was welcomed with shouts and great re
joicings. But public interest demands
and individual sagacity subjects the
merits of every new enterprise, project
ed or completed, to a closer scrutiny
and to a cooler and more calculating ex
amination than that permitted when
statements highly colored by interest or
the enthusiastic demonstrations of con
sentient advocates are offered. The ex
perimonturn cruets is demanded. The
stern, searching, obdurate criticism of
conflicting interests is to be met and op
posed; and every impediment which
suggests failure or retards or challenges
success must he removed to win public
confidence and secure public favor in
these active days of rivalry and compe
tion. To meet as far as possible this
public demand, your correspondent un
dertakes to observe, inquire into and in
vestigate, as far as may be possible, the
claims of this new outlet to the sea from
Augusta, and through Augusta by rail
road connections from the far West,
which so boldly challenges river naviga
tion and established railway lines al
ready in active operation under the con
trol of well known and powerful corpo
ntions—the Georgia Central Railroad
hading to Savannah and the South
Carolina Railroad leading to Charleston.
A glance at the
history of the port royal road
Enterprise is, therefore, our true ini
tial point. The project of making ac
cessible the magnificent harbor of Port
Bojal, w'hose renown as an harbor is au
thentically as old as Colign High Ad
mind of France—in whose day it was of
ficially declared that “Port Royal would
float and shelter the argosies of the
world”—is not of post helium origin.
Mr. Ueorge P. Elliot, a well known and
influential citizen of Beaufort, inaugu
rated the project of effecting, by the aid
of modern art, that which nature had
not furnished through a navigable
stream, but which, at an earlier period,
determined the value of harbors and
the sitfc of cities—adequate and reliable
means for communication with and
transportation to anil from a supporting
back country. A stock company was
formed Hinder a liberal charter from the
State of South Carolina, under the Pres
idency oi his warm coadjutorand friend,
Richard ,1. Davant. A survey was mad*e,
and upon assurances of active co-opera
tion and material aid upon certain
specified conditions given in behalf of
the citizens and corporation of Augusta
by a committee specially appointed
therefor, consisting of the late William
M. D’Antignac and Henry Moore, the
work was commenced. It was continued
during the late w'ar until Sherman be
gan his m.rch from Savannah to effect
a junction with Grant at Petersburg.
Sixty mil* of road was graded to
completion or nearly so. At the close
of the war, ivhich close brought ruin to
a major part of the company of the road,
and the control of the company’s fran
chise fell to Lose sympathising, recon
structing developers, George D. Chap
man & Cos. Iu their hands considerable
additional w|rk was done, but there
soon followed u collapse—tljc chief loss
falling upon the sub-contractors and the
laborers, among whom were several hun
dred Germans, Irish and Swedes, who
marched to Augusta, proclaiming “pay,
bread or blood; and who were fed by
the corporation of the city of Augusta
until employment elsewhere could be
found for them. The road was sold, A
new company »as formed. All liens
and claims were Adjusted. Anew effort
for conr letion made. It was at
this juncture that Messrs. D. F.' Apple
ton & Cos., of Ne> York, and Messrs.
Appleton. Robbins & Cos., of Boston,
came forward proff« r j n g to complete the
road, iron it, and furnish a stipulated
equipment, not calling f or one (lollar in
money qr bonus, or orie s l iar e of stock
until sonde fifty qi sixty miles of the
line had been put in '.peratjqn. To-day
the road is a fixed fare, and a fact fixed
as a first class botuh ern ro . u ] Tll3
rails are connected U fish bar joints,
and weigh from fifty to fifty-six pounds
to the yard; and the rr )a( \ operated by
thirty ton engines an) first class pas
senger coaches and freight cars. So far
as to completion, the Royal Rail
road is no longer problematical —it is
a success, having been n con
structed and pressed tt completion in
the face of the formula! r i va i x . y an j
close competition before ii.,R ca t e j.
THE trip.
At “sharp” 6:45, a. m., *L, con< lnctor,
M. M. Hutson, “pulled the be u r ope,”
and W. W. Lockwood, fi whom we
recogniseu an old employee I! the Geor
gia Railroad, “sounded the Mu’stle and
opened the throttle.” The promptness
of the officials was pleasing* and in
spired confidence, if the early Vionrl
departure “by schedule a
able. After backing ami P uU **f lHninf?
ship in shoal water, and PeraJjjtri
seme intricate evolutions upon ’ e
cate Y, which eeemed to abound
of double curvature, u tfi W
S?cauL f Tut h
Depot in Augusta, the a “‘
nounced. ‘Rubier Springs. n
crossed the and , c f iua
that tract of land u
which be.df's the name of • pj Whig
famous iu the anna»s of t< djscover
party. It was at this point k n
ed in the forward car three “ a<J _
Augusta cotton mercha: Une
contred and armed witl■ secret
and flv andjiook, bound | abitants of
etpediuoi, exploit . locali .
pond trout, and to & speejaei
tv for/.-beds for
perch, itt view of the P the j
season. i Woiton would never,
shaue of Izaak WalD of the |
“commumcau- vitn - L^r lheir talk . ■
fraltT«i.wo4.«»» Tittol
them down as true lovers of nature. Os
course the big talk was upon the extent
of the present cotton crop. Then came
Port Royal; would it grow? And the
Port Royal Hoad; would it pay, and
what would bo its effect upon the for
tunes of Augusta? The sum of their
philosophy seemed to be that trade fol
lowed capital, and that each and every
one of them could employ double the
present capital at their command, profi
tably. Their adjudication of the whole
matter, summed up as concisely as
possible, was a prayer that the Good
Lord would send them more money and
less use for it.
The alignment of the road for about
thirty-five miles out of Augusta is
through or on the margin of the rich al
luvial bottoms of the Savannah river,
cutting a region known to old citizens
as Egypt. It is within nay personal
kuowledge that from one plantation
alone, cut by this alignment, twenty-live
thousaml busliels of corn were produced
and sold as surplus in a single year be
fore the war. The land is level, easily
cultivated, and productive of corn anil
cotton. The consecutive thirty-five miles
seemed to be studded with saw mills.—
The grating whirr of the circular saw,
and the white puff of the steam pipe
greeted ear and eye every two or three
miles. Every station thus far gave evi
dence of bustle and progress—of
speculation in town lots, skeleton
villages, and of anew commerce in new
store houses. Os course life can only
be that which Fennimore Cooper depicts
as a “ new opening,” and Mark Twain
calls “ roughing it.” Nevertheles it is
active and progressive, and promises
well for the local traffic of the new road.
THE JUNCTION.
At eighty-five miles from Augusta is
Yemassee, reached at 12:35, p. m.—the
junction of the Savannah and Charleston
Road—fifty-one miles from Savannah,
and fifty-three from Charleston. Pass
engers for Savannah proceeded imme
diately upon a connecting train from
Charleston; but passengers for Charles
ton and Port Royal awaited the arrival
of the expected train from Savannah
until 2:45, p. m. Yemassee appears to
be a place admirably adapted for alliga
tors, gallinipper- 1 and the use of Indian
choiogogue, elegantly adorned
with the gracefully pendulous, gray
drapery of the funeral—suggesting long
moss. A short and pleasant run from
Yemassee places the traveler at Beau
fort station, and a ride of a mile in a
comfortable hack permits a fine.view of
Beaufort Bay, and the enjoyment of the
refreshing sea breeze upon the broad
double piazza of the Sea Island Hotel.
M.
VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON.
llow he Was Captured by a Female
Lobbyist—Extraordinary Illustration
of the Value of Perseverance.
[From the Washington Capital. March 2.]
A rich incident is related of “Our
Henry”—so rich in fact that we canuot
for the life of us refrain from giving it
to bur readers:
“Our Heury,” commonly known as
old “Heel taps,” is well known for his
piety and philanthropy. In fact, phi
lanthropy it his best'hold, and he is
never so happy as when doing something
for poor, suffering humanity—especially
suffering female humanity.
But to our incident. Among the nu
merous nurses who went to the “front”
during the late “onpleasantness,” to
care for the sick and suffering “boys in
blue,” was a Mrs. Blank, all the way
from Maine. Now Maine is noted for
the patroitism of her sons and daugh
ters, and it would be supposed that Mrs.
Blank was perfectly willing to serve her
country on the score of patriotism mere
ly to keep up the .credit of the old
“Pine tree* State, you know. But she
wasn’t. For now comes the aforesaid
Mrs. Blank all the way from Maine to
press her claim for services rendered
and injuries received while in the service
of the Government, and the way she
pressed it was a eantion to novices,
which would have delighted the heart
of evan Joe Stewart, while incarcerated
iu a “blasted” congressional bastile.
Os courne Mrs. Blank laid seige to
the affections and sympathy of old Hen
ry, as a starting point, who introduced
her petition to the Senate and had it re
ferred to the Committee on Military Af
fairs, of which H. T. was then Chair
man. From that hour the troubles of
“Heel-taps’ connfieneefi, for hlrs. Blank
is none of your milk-and-water lobbyist
who can easily be put off with a promise
to do something ; with her, the thing
must be done. Then, angular and im
pudent, she moved as if worked by a
locomotive ; and as she swept past, one
could almost hear the clock work of
well-oiled anil perfect machinery.
“Heel-taps” promised, postponed, and
begged eff on various pretexts until the
patience of the party from Maine had
become exhausted. With the firm re
solve that that day’s “low descending
sun” should not descend upon her still
a suppliant at the door of the Senate
committee room. Mrs. Blank sallied
from her domicile at an early hour one
balmy morning in May last, 'prior to the
close of the second session of Congress,
and took her way to the tenement where
“Heel-taps” takes his daily indigestion
at a low figure. The aforesaid H. TANARUS.,
she was informed upon inquiry, was not
up. Would she wait ? With the memo
ry of the several expedients resorted to
by “Heel-taps” to put her off, in her
mind, she declined waiting below, and
waiving all formalities ascended to the
room. A bold, resolute knock was an
swered by the invitation to “come in.”
At the wash-stand at the opposite side
of the room, unconscious of impending
danger, stood the Senator, almost in the
abstract, completing his morning ablu
tions, for he was clad in abbreviated
habiliment of a very thin texture. At
sight of Mrs. Blank he hastily took
shelter behind a towel, which he shook
frantically as a flag of truce, with a
view of negotiations for a retreat. It
was no use, however, the time for ar
mistice hail passed ; and the party from
Maine with the courage of Joan of Arc,
Susan B. Anthony, or Dr. Mary E.
Walter, deliberately locked the door,
and as deliberately put the key in her
pocket. Waving aloft her parasol in an
ominious manner, the party from Maine
proceeded to “define her position,” wind
ing up with a scathing denunciation of
mankind in general and of the ‘ ‘Heel taps”
in particular, stating her intention not
to leave the room until she had satis
faction. She was not going to be put
off any longer, she who had braved the
dangers of a thousand battle fields as it
were, and while carrying off a wounded
soldier had fallen into a rifle-pit and
broken her leg ! Not much. Not if
she knew herself.
“ Heel-taps” was by this time
thoroughly alarmed. He was out of
reach of the bell, and the person from
Maine was nearest the wood box. He
ventured mildly to suggest that there
might be some mistake about the broken
leg. This was the last hair that broke
the camel’s back. Like a tigress in de
fence of her young, the person from
Maine pounced down upon “Heel-taps,”
who retreated behind a hair sofa, still
protected by the towel, where he help
lessly sank in a relapse. Dropping her
parasol, w r ith which she had repeatedly
“ prodded ” the trembling “ Heel-taps,”
she struck a heroic attitude and again
demanded her rights. ft was bad
enough she said, tq tag arquml after a
Senator for satisfaction and justice, and
be put of in the manner she had been,
but to have doubts cast upon that
broken leg—that was too much. Flesh
and blood could not stand ff, and she
now demanded a solemn pledge that she
should have justice done. It was aggra
vating enough that she should be
obliged to suffer privations and
diseases incideutal to camp life,
but to have her word doubted
was beyond hupian eudqjajijje, and
she was therefore compelled to give him
occular proot, and without waiting for
an objection or remonstrance she pro
ceeded to turn down a No. 12 stocking
and display a substantial limb, and
pointing to a protuberance thereon, de
manded if her statements as well as her
character had not been vindicated—said
protuberance being necessarily the re
sult of a broken leg.
One glance was enough for old Philan
thrqpby. IJe fainted. The leg had
rushed’ to his head, and it is only neces
sary to kd<l that the bill for the relief of
Mrs. Blank that day passed the Senate,
anil went to the House, where—the re
putation of Mrs. Blank, and the story
of her broken leg having proceeded her
—it was sqnufiurily passed, the commit
tee thinking very properly that it was
well worth a thousand dollars to get rid
es such a customer, from whom none
but able bodied members of Congress
were safe.
Dishonor and Death —A Dreadful
Story from Southwestern Kentucky.
—ln the family of Evan Clark, a promi
nent citizen of Smithland, a max of
family, there lately dwelt, in the ca
pacity of servant, a young girl, whose
widowed mother lived in Marshal coun
tv. On last Friday, so the girl says,
Clark sent her to the house of a woman,
named Ann Adams, where she was taken
sick. On Saturday the mother, who is
retried te be a worthy and honest wo
man, not having seen fie» daughter for
some time, concluded to make her a vis
it. Accordingly she journeyed to Smith
land, went to Clark’s house and inquired
for her daughter. Clark informed her
that she was not there, but refused to
give any information as to her where
rfcpT'ts The mother went down into
thefown, kiid, making jurtfiei inquiry,
had pointed out to her the house where
her daughter was. To this house filie
proceeded, went in, and, horrible to re
late at the very moment she opened the
door of the room where her daughter
was, the latter was delivered of a child.
The stricken mother realized the situa
tion at a glance, walked to the bedside
of her erring daughter, and, without
speaking a word, fell dead to the floor !
The physician in attendance went to her.
assistance, supposing she had fainted,
but found that she was beyond the aid
of human science. The shock, when
the knowledge of the disgrace of her
child and her family came upon her,
dulled her as suddenly as a bullet in the
heart would have done. The girl says
that Clark is the father of her child,
which happily, is a frail and delicate
creature, not likely to live many days.
The affair has created intense excitement
in Southland. We await further in
telligence, and will post our readers as
soon we get it —Paducah Kentuckian,
26 tk
Important Decisions.
Washington, April 3. —The following
decisions have been rendered in the
United States Supreme Court :
No. 123 — Walker vs. Whitehead, error
to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
This was an action on a promissory
note, and was dismissed because it did
not appear that taxes chargeable on all
debts had been paid on the debt.—
This Court reverses the judgment, hold
ing that the act imposing taxes on debts
by the State is unconstitutional as im
pairing the obligations of contract. Mr.
Justice Swayne delivered the opinion.
No. 132 —City of Richmond vs. Smith,
error to the Circuit Court for the Eas
tern District of Virginia. In .this case
the Court affirms a judgment for Smith
for $2,832 for liquors destroyed by citi
zens under the direction of the common
council to avoid the effects of drunken
ness upon the anticipated occasion of
the surrender of the city. The defense
was that the liquors were in the neigh
liood of a warehouse which the Confed
erate Government had determined to
fire, and that the liquors would have
been destroyed any way if they had not
been destroyed by order of the common
council. Mr. Justice Clifford delivered
the opinion.
No 141—Slowson, Jr., vs. the United
States, appeal from the Court of Claims.
This was a claim for the proceeds of
the ship DeKalb, seized by the Govern
ment at the taking of Charleston and'
subsequently sold for the use of the
Treasury. Slowsou claimed to be owner
by virtue of an administrator’s sale at
which he was the purchaser, made in
1868 at Charleston, and that the vessel
was pressed. The Court did not sustain
the theory of compulsion, and they
affirm that judgment. Mr. Justice
Davis delivered the opiuiou.
No. 185—Gunn vs. Barry, error to the
Supreme Court of Georgia. In this
case the Court held that an act of the
Legislature of Georgia of 1868, increas
ing the amount of homestead exemption,
was not applicable to pre-existing debts
and judgments and reverse a judgment
below, refusing the writ of mandamus
to compel the sheriff to levy on certain
property of Barry, that officer having
declined to make the levy on the grounds
that the property was exempt under the
act cited. Mr. Justice Swayne delivered
ed the opinion.
No. 125—Tomlinson et. at. vs. Jes
sup, appeal from the Circuit Court for
South Carolina In this case the Court
below held that the amended charter of
the Northeastern Railroad Company |
constituted a contract of exemption
from taxation between the State and
the corporation, but the judgment be
low' is here reversed, the Court holding
that a prior statute was in force at the
time of the act amending the charter,
and did as a matter of law enter into
and become a part of the charter of the
company, and as by the former act the
charter was subject to either, it has
been at all times competent for the
Legislature to altei or amend it. Mr. •
Justice Field delivered the opinion.
Chicago and the Sea.
Greensboro, Ind., March 22, 1873.
Dr. Jf. Ji. Case)/:
Dear Sir—Both of your late favors
have been received, as also have the
papers which you have kindly had for
warded to my address, for which please
accept my thanks.
During the present week President
Haymond sent an engineer to make a
reconnoisance of the line from this place
and Lexington, Ky., more especially to
examine the hills bordering the Ohio
river, and to make soundings of that
stream, and, if deemed advisable, to make
a preliminary survey. What we want
now is something to show to capitalists.
Any data you can furnish us of the
mineral wealth of your State—the kinds
and qualities—and the development of 1
the various resources of the country is !
capable, will be very acceptable. What!
is the opinion of your people of the nar
row gauge system of roads ? Personal
ly, i would favor that kind of a road, j
If you determine to hold a Convention
in Augusta in May, you should adver
tise it well and early as possible. Ii
think this neglect prevented a larger at
tendance from the South at our Indiana
polis meeting.
I have no additional news for you at
the writing of this letter, only to say
that the interest in our scheme is very i
general, and has not, in the least, abated.
I received yesterday a copy of the Lex
ington (Ky.) Dress, which contained a
very strong editorial article in its favor.
I see that one of the Lexington papers j
advocates this road in preference to the
Cincinnati Southern Road.
I shall be pleased to hear from you at
any time. Very truly, yours,
Wm. O. Foley.
A Fearful Smash.
A Rutland, Yt., dispatch of March
30tli, says an accident, attended with
fearful consequences, occurred to the
night express train over the Rutland
and Washington division of the Rens
selaer and Saratoga Railroad, due here
at 12:40 Sunday morning. It appears
that the surface water had undermined
the track at a place about lit miles
south of Shusham station, and when the
train reached this point, between 11 and
12 o’clock, the track appeared to be all
right, but as soon as the locomotive
struck the treacherous spot the track
and ties sank, precipitating the locomo
tive, baggage car, passenger and sleep
ing coaches off the track and down the
the embankment. The locomotive went
down on the right hand side forty feet,
turning completely over.
Henry Conner, engineer ; Patrick
Monahan, fireman ; Mr, Ryan, another
engineer, and Fred Dowds, a con
ductor, were on the locomotive at the
time. Dowds and Monahan were in
stantly killed. Henry Conner had two
or three ribs broken, and was consider
ably bruised, but will doubtless recover. I
Ryan’s injuries are not seringa. The
baggage oar, passenger and sleeping
coaches went oil on the opposite side of
the embankment from the locomotive,
which on this side was but a few feet
high. The cars were badly wrecked.
The baggage cay took lire, and the
through mails were about half burned.
The passengers in the rear car were
also shaken up badly ; hardly one es
caped without some scratch or bruise.
Among the badly hurt is G. D.
Lafayette, Indiana, injured in 'tiie eye
and breast, '4'Uejnjured ones will, it'is
thought, recover. When Conductor
Dowds was found, he was lying in fife
water and mud, under the casing of the
dome of tip) locomotive, with Ills neck
broken. Fireman Monahan was found
in the mud, under the front of the lo
comotive, and it was necessary to dig I
some little time before the body could
be got out. Monahan was out oiling ;
the valve when the accident occurred, t
The passengers and what was left of tho
mails arrived here at nnqq to-ila:.
.Tim Fisk's Scrap Rook,
New Yobr. April I.—At the Erie in
vestigation this evening tlie following
extracts were read from a mutilated
book found in the Erie railroad ofTSc* •
and furnished by WstSon.
James Fisk, j r ., legal and incidental I
expenses, March to December, 1868,
8171,404; Dan’l. Drew, March 1808
$*>2,600; Jay Gouhl, $122,000, from
| March to December, 1808; Hamilton j
| Harris, 1868, legal expenses, 820,000- !
j William M. Tweed, December, 1808, le
gal services, 830,000; Peter Sweeney,
[ 1868, 8150,000; Henry Thompson, legal
j expenses, July 30, 1868, 8150.500; A. T.
! Barber, May, 1859, 84,000
Harris, January to July, i$Q9, 822,443;
Wai. M. Tweed, .*29,912; Sam’l J. Til
den, January and February, 1869, 820 -
000; A. Van Vechten, 85,000; A. T. Bar
ber, March to June, 1870, $47,000; Thos.
C. Fields, 830,000; Jas. Fisk, Jr., No
vember, 1869, to June, 1870, s22' 000-
Jay Gould, 1869, $5,000: L. H. Hamil-
Jones A: Marsh, S44,(MK); expenses, j
September, 1870, 8140,TMM); Hamilton
Harris, $20,000; Jos. A. Brien, s>.->0o; ’
Wm. M. Tweed, £47,750; A. Van Vech- 1
ten, $?,500; Hugh Hastings, ex
penses, April 25, 1868, 815,000.
Bank of England Forger.
New York, April 4.—A writ of habeas
corpus was granted to-day, returnable on
Monday next, in iqvor or McDonald, the
alleged forger of Bunk of England notes,
on the ground that conspiracy to defraud
is not covered by the extradition treaty.
It is stated that several other packages
of notes sent here to the care of Jay
Cooke and others, by Bridwell, have beeg j
seized
Livery Stable and Horses Burned.
St. Joseph, Mo., April 4.—Stewart k
Gordon’s livery stables were burned to
day, with eighteen horses. The fire was
incendiary. ‘
THE HORRORS OPTHE DEEP.
Further Details of the Great Ship
wreck.
Halifax, April 2. —Early this morn
ing tlfb Dominion Government steamer
Ladyhead, the Cunard steamer Delta,
and the steam tug Goliuli, left the city
for the scene of the wreck ot the White
Star steamer Atlantic for the purpose of
rendering such assistance as they could.
The Lady Head had on board a number
of custom bouse officers and ther Delta
party included several newspaper re
porters. The start was made about 3
o’clock, so that the steamers might
read), the scene immediately after day
light. As the morning broke, the steam
ers approached to Prospect, and those
on board quickly learned the where
abouts of the ill-fated Atlantic from the
presence around her of a large fleet of
fishing schooners and small bouts.
The locality is one that mariners would
i do well to give -a wide berth to if possi
ble —the shore being a succession of
large beds of rock, with dangerous shoals
running out for some distance— while
the bay is studded with innumerable is
alnds, large and small, all of solid rock,
with scarcely a sign of vegetation or soil
for anything to grow on; yet frowning
and dangerous as the place was, there
was grftndeur and beauty in the scene
on this bright morning, when angry
waves were beating against the racks
and enveloping the shore almost con
tinually iu clouds of glittering spray,
but the terrible story of the shipwreck
absorbed too much of the attention of
those on board of the relieving steamers
to allow them to spend many minutes in
admiring the beauties of nature.
The business was to get on board the
passengers and others who had been res
cued from the wreck and put on shore,
where, with such a large number at such
a small place, not even the large hearted
generosity and kindness of the fisher
men could be expected to make them
comfortable.
The Delta and Ladyhead being un
able to venture near the shore, came to
anchor, and the Goliah with the life
boats went in to embark the shipwrecked
passengers. No time was lost. The
Goliah and the boats soon returned filled
with men, who proceed to get on board
the Delta; and such a motley party.—
Falstaff’s regiment were well attired and
respectable looking, compared to these
English, Irish, Scotch, Welch, German,
Dutch, Norwegians, Swedes, Swiss—in
deed, representatives of every country
in Europe and America were huddled to
gether, talking, laughing, crying, pray
ing aud thanksgiving, producing confu
sion of tongues of the most remarkable
character.
Scarcely one-half had a complete and
respectable looking suit of clotnes. The
wealthy merchants of London and New
York, the high-toned professional men,
and the lowest of the foreign emigrants
appeared in clothing much alike, which
had been given them by the good peo
ple ‘of Prospect. Some were without
coats; many without hats; others with
out boots, and all had to mourn the ab
sence of some of the comforts in the
clothing line. Expensive broadcloath
bleqded with a rough gurnsey jacket on
one '.person. He was an aristocratic
looking man striving to make himself at
home under a delapidated overcoat that
had [probably done duty, in days of
yore, on the back of more than one
hardy fisherman of the place, while at
the same time he made desperate efforts
to get on his benumbed hands a pair of
laveSßer kids.
All were warmly welcomed on board
the Delta by Capt. Shaw and his officers,
who .spare no pains to make them as
comfortable as possible. The Goliah
returned to shore and was soon back
again vith just such a crowd as the pre
vious one. There were several affecting
scenes on the Delta, as the passengers
were j collecting in her from different
points, where they had been stopping,
friends who had separated from each
other alter the Atlantic struck, and never
expeotc t to meet again in this world,
were brought face to face on the Delta,
where they grasped hands and wept for
joy, and returned thunks to Him whose
mercy had spared them while so many
of theii fellow passengers had been sent
into eternity.
By ;12 o’clock, all those who had
reached the shore safely—excepting an
officer; and four men, who remained, and
those friio walked inland—were taken on
board [the steamers Delta and Lady
head. | The former taking about 330and
the latler 77 persons.
A calculation was now made by Capt. !
William . showing that the loss of life, ■
though immense, was not as large as j
had l»ea reported. The Atlantic had
on board: 33 cabin passengers, 800 steer
age passengers and a crew, officers in- j
j eluded, of 143 men—total 376 souls—
I leaving the number lost at 546.
This.nay not be precisely correct, but
is neaifyso.
The wreck remained in the same posi- !
tion as More reported—bow and masts j
only abo e water —and the sea was break
-1 ing so tough that boats could not ap
proach vith safety. She was broken in |
some pices, and a few packages had
washed out and drifted to sea ; but the j
bulk of tie cargo appeared to bo undis- '
turbed.j
The cl es officer of the Atlantic, in re
ply to t « reporter’s questions, made
; his stiiteuent,, in substance, as follows:
My wrch ended at 12 o’clock Monday
night, tVhen the second and fourth of
ficers tube charge I went to my berth
and wasj roused by the vessel striking.
The seejmd officer came down to my
room ant said that the ship was ashore
and he xtis afraid she was gone. I put
a few ancles of clothing on and took an
axe anddi’ent on deck to clear tire boats.
The ship had careened before I reached
the deck; I cleared two starboard boats, !
and jusl then a heavy sea swept the
boats aafcy. I was holding fast to the
mizzemßist rigging, and now climbed j
higher f>r safety. The night was so !
dark anqtlie spray blew so thickly that
we couliluot see well what was going
on around us. I saw men on the rooks,
but did not know how they got there.
All wl were alive on board were in
the rigging when daylight came. I
countedß2 persons in the mizzen mast
rigging with me, including one woman.
When ts ese saw there were lines be
tween tin ship and the shore, many at- j
tempted!;o go forward to the Hues,'and
doing sfe were washed overboard and j
drowned. Many reached the shore by i
the aid it tho lines, and tho fishermens’ j
boats roamed many more, ‘
At lasi all had either been washed oil' \
or resoijnl, except myself, the woman
and a loy. The sea had become so
rough tljat, the boats could not venture
near us. Soon the boy was washed off, !
but he svam gaHui tly'and yoaohed one |
of the baits in °.Rfcty. I got a film hold
of the wainau and secured her m, the !
rigging. I could see the people on j
shore and in the boats, and could have
hailed them, but they were unable to i
help ns.
At 2 o thick in the afternoon, after
haying been in tho rigging 10 hours the
Rev. Mr. Ancient, a Church of England
clergyman, whose noble conduct i can
never forgot, while I live, got a crew of
four men to row him out to the wreck,
lie got into the* iqain rigging, procured
a line, then advanced as far out as he
could towards me and threw it to me. I
caught it and made it fast around my
body and then jumped clear. The sea
swept me clear off of the deck, but Mr. I
Ancient held fait to the line, pulled me
back, and got me safe in the boat. I
was then so exhausted end benumbed 1
was hardly able to do anything for my
self, and but for the clergyman’s gallant
conduct I must have perished soon,
■Tire woman, after beayipg up with re
markable strength under her great trials,
had dh-d two Lqurs before Mr. Ancient
Hurved. Her half nude body was still
fast in the rigging, her eyes protruding,
hey mouth foaming, making a terribly
ghastly spectacle; more ghastly by con
trast with the liumerons jewels which
sparkled on her hands. We had to
leave her body there, and it is probe.* ay
there yet.
I Tho scene at the i* j»w#ul— one j
| such as I h.nd ncycx before witnessed, j
; and hope never to witness again,
Comparatively few bodies drifted
ashore, most of them, with such articles f
as came out of the ship while I was on
her, were carried to sea.
New York, April 3, noon.—The agents !
of the Star Line have ordered one hun
dred coffins for the Ucdiox already floated
ashore.
*t'he Captam Overwhelmed.
The Captain of the Atlantic attributes
i the disaster to the speed of the vessel,
which must have made more than nine
knots, to get so far out of her course.
The Captain seems overwhelmed with
sorrow. He said to a reporter: “To
think that while hundreds of men w ere
saved, every woman should have perish
ed. It is horrible ! If 1 hr.d been able
the iiisaaWn i.ut V.> ../I -.7 .1. ‘ 1 .
Is Terrible! Terrible!!”
He seemed to fully realize that the
world would hold him to a strict account.
The Lo.st and Saved.
The latest accounts report 413 saved
and 560 lost, including !50 women and
children.
The caigo, generally of fashionable
dry goods, is valued at $500,000.
Harrowing details of the awful scenes
attending the loss of the steamship At
lantic continue to be received.
Women Drowned in Their Berths.
All the women who were asleep at the
time the ship struck were drowned in
iheir berths—the heavy sea which con
stantly poured over the vessel and filled
her preventing them from reaching
deck. Some women, who showed >v- '
markable pretence of mind nnd appre
ciation qf tikjr awful situation, only
reached the deck to be "washed into tin*
sea and drowned.
A Cheering Message.
Soon after, six men on the shore wrote
on a black board, “Cheer up—boats are
coming to your assistance." The an
nouncement was responded to by hearty
cheers from the ship. After half an
hour of awful suspense, the men were
Been on the island carrying a boat over
the rooks, and soon it was launched and
took off three boat loads from the out
laying rock.
While rescuing these men, Captain
Williams called loudly to the crew of
the boat to come to the ship and take
them off - first, as they were in the most
imminent danger, the captain saying “J
will give five hundred dollars for every
boat load rescued.” The boat after
wards made for the vessel, and’took off
two boat loads.
Another Boat to the Rescue.
Half an hour later another boat came
and rescued many of those clinging to
the rigging. Third officer Brady, who
had succeeded in reaching the shore
over a lino carried from the vessel by
himself, organized a crew and materially
aided in the work of rescue.
Dispatch from a Cabin Passenger.
New York, April 3, evening.- Mr.
Freeman D. Mackeval, a cabin passen
ger on the Atlantic sends the following
dispatch to the Associated Press:
Halifax, April 3. Say to the friends
of cabin passengers on the steamer At
lantic that I will remain with the wreck
until I have secured all lqst cabin pass
engers. I have boxes going to the wreck
this morning to receive tho bodies. The
bodies of Mrs. Fislier and Miss Merritt
we have. Tlio bodies of Mr. and Airs.
Merritt, Miss Scrymser and John 11.
Price, of New York. I have great hopes
of securing.
Tlie Ship Insured.
London, April I.—The steamship At
lantic was insured in London companies
for $150,000.
There were seven hundred and sixty
steerage passengers on the ill-fated
i vessel.
Classification of All Aboard.
Tlie passengers and crew of the At
lantic as she sailed from Liverpool were
classified ns follows: English, 11)8 men,
74 women, 28 male children, and 21 fe
male children; Scotch, 7 men and 4 wo
men; Irish, 43 men, 18 women 3 chil
dren; other nationalities, 150 adult males;
32 women, 19 male children and 18 fe
male children.
A large number of emigrants embark
ad at Queenstown, making the total
number of souls upon the steamer when
she sailed from that port, 952.
Incomprehensible. ,
Liverpool, April 3.
To J. 11. Sparks:
Tho Atlantic’s deviation to Halifax is
incomprehensible. The quantity of coal
on board was 967 tons, against an aver
age consumption during eighteen voy
ages of 744 tons.
[Signed] Ismay, In-uyer & Cos.
Eater.
New York, April 3. evening.—Papers
received from Europe by agents of tlie
White Star Line here, state that the At
lantic had 1,833 tons of assorted cargo
on board.
Large numbers of poor people, rela
tives of the steerage passengers, con
tinue to throng the passenger agency
rooms here in hopes of further tidings
of their friends.
A Raving Maniac.
Mrs. Graf, who lost her husband and
two children on the Atlantic, is a raving
maniac, consequent upon her affliction.
THE ATLANTIC HORROR.
Details of tho Search For and Recov
ery of the Dead.
Boston, April 4.—The agents of the
\\ bite Star Line have engaged Eanniel
Hall to provide for the Wants of the
saved emigrants from the Atlantic.
Halifax, April 4.—A steamer has just
arrived from the wreck of the steamer
Atlantjo. The ship is almost intact.
Only a few packages of her cargo have
come ashore.
False Reports.
The report that Mrs. Fisher’s body
had been found was not correct.
The story in some of the papers that
Albert Sumner committed suicide is
false. One of his friends, who was
saved, says Mr. Sumner held on to the
wiecK as long as he could and was
washed off by the sea.
Tlie captain says stories of tlie mu
tilation of the bodies by the crew are
false, and of robberies largely
exaggerated.
Robbing the Dead.
He says the people- at Prosp. ct did
all they could for the living and dead,
but among the crowds who flocked to j
the place from the surrounding country |
there were some who rifled the bodies |
whenever they could get a chance.
Investigation of the Cause.
The collector of customs is waiting
instructions from headquarters, and
will probably commence an investiga
tion this evening or in the morning.—
The daptain can give no explanation of
the cause of the disaster, except miscal
culation as to the current and the
vessel’s speed.
Burving the Dead.
Great numbers of people are leaving
in steamers, going down to the wreck.
One hundred and sixty-four is the !
exact number of bodies found up to this !
morning. The work of burying them
has commenced, and a gang of men will
be sent down this evening to help the •
fishermen in that work.
The bodies of J. H. Price, Henry P
Hewitt, Mr. Merritt, Miss Merritt ,’f
New York; Albert Sumner, of y an
Francisco, and Henry Metcalf Yhe see
ond officer, were brought up Yo'the city
Recovering the »’ >r) ilies
Halifax, April 4.-ts„ stone will be
left unturned to recover tin* following
bodies—-Mr. C, M. Fisher and wife,
Vermont; W . J. Shout, wife, sou
iuhl tlaugi Nevada; Henrv L. WM-
Boston; Mrs. Merritt, Miss
OTf' fU "I Mr. Kruger, New York;
M’.ss Rrodie and Mrs. Barker, Chicago;
Mr. Brindley, Mrs. Davidson aud duugh
! *.> England; beside what was reported
this morning as recovered, this com
pletes tho list of othin passengers who
were lost. Captain Williams and assis
tant searched the Island around the
wreck thoroughly last night and picked
out from among many bodies brought
ashore those reported this morning,
which have been telegraphed for bv
friends.
Awaiting Friends.
The bodies reported recovered this
morning have been dressed and placed
in metallic coffins, and await the nf
rival of friends and relatives to take
them in charge. It is thought the bodies
will hardly remain in a condition to be
examined. The coffins have been sealed
and made tight.
Another Trip.
Another trip will be made to the
wreck to-morrow. The stewards and
men acquainted with the passengers
have been left in charge of the wreck to
take care of the bodies as they are wash*
j ed ashore.
I John Brindley was lost—was put in
the list of the saved by mistake—one of
the passengers having mistaken another i
for him.
Monument to the Dead. - J
It is now proposed to bring all the
bodies to this city and bury them to- j
gether in the public cemetery, and erect j
a monument over them. Tho City Conn- j
oil, on application of (lie Provincial j
Government, resolved this afternoon to
place a lot in the cemetery at the dis
posal of the friends of the dead.
Tilt! ATLANTIC HORROR.
Further Retails- Another Statement
t'-'orn (lapt. Williams, etc.
New York, April s. —Among tho pas
sengers saved from the Atlantic horror
were S. W. Vick, of North Carolina, and
and a Frenchman named Simon Ca
macho, who had his legs badly frozen.
They were in the rigging eight hours.
Passengers report that from three to
five hundred passengers on the Atlantic
must have perished within ten minutes
after the boat struck the second time.
In conversation with a reporter, yes
terday evening, at Halifax, Capt. Wil
liams said he spent the most of Thurs
day night at Mars’ Hill, and personally
examined the bodies, but found none of
them mutilated, but believed many
bodies had been robbed. He said the
| Atlantic was sufficiently coaled before
j leaving Liverpool, if it had not been for
; three days’ heavy weather experienced.
We were out of our position solely on
' >• uoi-tlit.riy AV.t ~n' W.-n JIH won trrly.
Ho allowed eight degrees eastward to
offset, believing that to bo ample. On
Monday he was quite sure of iiis posi
tion, both barometers agreeing, but tho
northerly set proved greater than al
lowed for. For two or three days pre- 1
ceding he had found the ship set to the :
southward and eastward of her position, j
Capt. Willimns was in the chart room, on
the saloon deck, less than thirty feet
from the bridge, when the ship struck.
All tho leads and lines were in order,
but they had not been used, not deem
ing them necessary. He considered Of
ficer Metxiulf, in charge of tho deck at
the time of tho disaster, thoroughly
competent,
Finding a Burial Place.
Halifax, April 4.—Many fishing fami
lies at Prospect gave all tho provisions
they had to the shipwrecked passengers
and crew, and are now in want them
selves.
‘‘mm,-msVJ'. I '"' }■■■■■: ■
‘ " buried u. If D- '■
to the city. ’ v 'Vi. "s l—
aq/Hf
PBHII 1
Another ne, k ,~ p ' ItA U- 9
Ht - Loum a TANARUS" f ° r '
the ucciJeu t ’ fll \ , ! ri U-l t 9|
eastern 11,,i l,! St j ''l'u■
j. , hill]f()n,] ' bliiho
take tlie !' l ‘ n Was, t r ’■
pass, when tie. !, 'ttlj“St9
hud been pasK *l l" 11 * HX'ti'.,,N'U J
proximity) earn,. J' ! v " luSIM
r; u ' vo high sp.-!
the rear ~f tll „ 1 '• -".-l, *. t 1,9
conductor „f ti H !' ['‘"V-r int,B
the construe,;,, u 1 „■
out for the passen^l^ 1 , ~ I
•'limp 9
*1 1„ wX I
Bteaill - "”3 1> in,,.,;,■; 9
9
Lu>k, or Luke, of u ' Hr. , V-M
-un, wliileinu,,, .m
th( ; tr:iln > WttH ratigln i ! V , IS I
and b 11 fi'iuM
Finished U ,a
Her husband, with 9
arms, succeeded i u , ■
form unhurt. J
A gentleman, , 9
H. Watts, ~f <:i u . st ; "p i,. , ■
,)f ‘ r of the Illiimj ’ “‘Ns,
caught between t j ; „ 9
rear car and engine (ls jj' ai Vu
Liberally T(l ,, ni J 4 an<9
A young and night,■
MeLrunsb. .rough, p,‘ Gfif 9
jet of steam full’l
horribly scalded ' : "' t «a,\
upper part oft!.,. ], l', 1 1,-4 .9
Her Fjes Heivi, I
It is thought she ca 1 I
Mrs. Stehhins ‘ ( ,f v r V ,,,nvr - I
severely cut ami : " lll| l'r, ,1
and several other p a J,' U > " uf » .-i»J9
or less injured. ‘ ' '' .w, ~. ~ M
The engineer efth,,,,, "9
1 iiniiey, fled as soon as J >l
| suit oi his carelessness n9
I’orcign r.i'eviti,, a I
Versailles, April 1. - The ' i I
after a scene of disorder,e i I
proceeded to eon.s.der ,V.'
nieipality bill. H
> Louis'Martel, the hwdhi- I
Ibght Centre, is a proinir,:. ! f
for the 1 residency <4
which Grevy resigns, Tj , .
curs so-day. I
Lisbon April 4.-.]>,. |mtv I
made an alarmist snei-el, u' .**«■
!'\ e 7"'vntoi„. J /-I
latent revolutionary element, I
dared
called on the House to trust'tl'eVjl
ot the country. I
London, Aivil i \ , , I
B.me says the
Bayonne, April l. ■
headquarters are Estalh,.
will ojierate against the ('arlists
A Commune hn been declare:
the province of Sulamanea
Spanish A ffairg,
Mai.ru,, April
commission of tlie As Wul) i v i ßluai TANARUS;
immediate meeting of tlie'eoust’t
of the Cortes, if tlm Government U «u
tilines its present energetic policy 1
Senor Figueras denies that t)' lfrf ,,
any crisis in tho Ministry, unj,|f-c|i
the situation of the country is better' *
A train from .Saragossa f*.v Bar-th.m
was stopped by the CarlistHto-ike. '
Alaiuud, April s.— 'i’wen Carlotj
I were captured yesterday near llareeloai
and taken to that city. The Govern.
, ment troops had great and
ventinga mob of citizens from ivnHiim
the prisoners.
I
J have been closed or turned into bun. I
The floodeie,|m->t. |
New York, April it the ( I
1 inquest-, R I
I hys I
oeased; that I
j deceased in Delaware street; sm I
| woman there; had seen her het,-n |
his house in New Yolk, Goo.lrii 1
him to examine her; be did tuiaialf I
her three months pregnant ; (. I
asked him to produce an aborti u, ■
refused, but the ahorlmu was pr.-du I
he believed, by a man no id 1 I
He did not know wb e Hu: t I
Did not remember the mime - i i,.;l
Stoddard. Deceusi I
woman of violent temper; v ,‘n, I
identify liev if he saw In \] I
was not the woman. I
Tho investigati';,! i lV ,t,-,l till f
midnight. I
Buffet Elec,',,.,] president if n> |v
seinbly. (
I>A |'A April 4.- lu tlif A
-1 lie ell •/, h m i'i o' I ’reside! t of .
**' r > ibis afternoon, Louis and
- oeived 804 vote*. ! 1
was declared elected. 1!
congratulated bv tho me;
Right.
The Chamber then n sir *
sideration of the Lynn* :
bill, which was passed. Ik ■
ter, in a hopeless attempt l
measure, abstained from dmd '
A Lion Attacks IV\aE'«V"'
Washington, April 1* ' 1
Darions, who lias charge ol
of Forepangh’s menagerie, ”
ing to change the aninrtN I
cage to another, <>ue of them 1
him and gave him a fearful "
the left aide of his ljpi
animal was secured, and (!••• '•
man was pulled out and sent 1 j
- where a physician was callid '
| his head.
Application of the <’b and Bei' u
Wasiiinoton, April 1 j”■
of the civil service depart'd he
apply tests to the cu
treasury officers. I hey 4" ll! .1
York, thence to Bt. Louis,
New Orleans and lexa* p J
party, headed bv ( hie! j
Kaville, leaves next w. '' I
Norfolk, Wilmington, ti • ;; |
and other port* of < ntrj 11
stations on the coa t. !
7“t v• ■ ITS l: "”1
Danbury “New * " ..,. r „f tm ■
an elegant trosseau tin’ ' :l ...kgai I
Khedive of Egypt
. trowsere, as our item -i . I
m, „e, I
; try a watering - v \ ie 4i«’ I
now riding around '* u k
! milkmen on trial. - . I
j The press fti and ".‘‘V’‘‘niau m I
what they please, but* . I
' colored pat it and 1
i is not a fit person toiulj l,
catching ljiin water.
The first, robbin of tin
ed in Danbury on SumE.'. '; ,
corted through town by Ill ' u ‘
and arrows, sixty-two shot
muskets and eleven rifles.
Avery handsomely jj,- I
man, who was waiting at , ■
head for his girl, Sunday at 1 ■ ■ ■ e ■
desired to demonstrate to a _ m
neighbors how familiar he coil t j ■
such an animal, put the 11,11 je, 1
noble beast in his bosom, am. vJiij [j
the animal sneezed, and < J
who has seen a horse suee/.' ( , m 1
to liimsidf the state of that s on*
anil eollur and vest, just ■ - '
of the old masters could no * •
Gould as a Gold *’"* u ,q ;,tn < t i
gold fight was resumed in ' vik , 1)V .
Tuesday morning with n 1 4 , (ioW
The moment tho doors ol ■ „ o \ted I
Room were opened_thron , u ..
men commenced to pour into tla - \ j
ment, and again commenced the J
The demoralization spread from (,«
Gold Room into the str« et, and on Av.-ui
and Broad streets the wildest excitenu* nt
prevailed. Tho demonstration in tfi o
Stock Exchange was almost as groat
in the Gold Room. A rumor regarding
the failure of. two large bnjdxiig house.<
: yesterday Las proved imV ,
i The lriiiiKMOHon* <>« i ii.v
day and this morning, naul,
caver ten million dollars. vVliile the
importers are looking on in dismay
Gould, Smith & Hatch are dealing
heavily. Should this condition of affairs I
j continue two or three days longer, there* i
will probably be a number of
* >'mld, Smith A Hutch are ael now Ic.'aJfii
('< be the muster-, lit til** Mtlllltieil,
b' lVl ' and the,,' In make
street tremble i.. nu centre. Tli>'
t'-l. "f , ~
estimated at from twenty tuentv
millious in a single day.
St. Lons, April 4.— The steamer WIH
J. Lewis, for Red river, with eight li
dred tons, sunk. The cargo, valued at X
SIOO,OOO, was insured.
Baltimore, April 4. —Tho
machine of tho Cslxcrt sugar refinery 1
burstei, killing one and wounding two I
persons.