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THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. VOL. 6.—NO. 8. FEDERAL PATRONAGE. SAVING THE PRESIDENT TROUBLE. A N vel and Benevolent Scheme —How Applications for Office are to Be Made—A Clever Arrange ment if it Works. Washington, Jan. 2. —A few days since it was announced that the Democratic mem here of Congress had agreed upon a plan to relieve President-elect Cleveland from the troubles incident upon office seeking and the annoyances which are thereby inflctel on the Chief Executive of the nation. According to a well informed member it involves the dividing up of the patronage of the government between the Represents fives of the various States. It is very sim ple. The Senators —if Democratic —and Democratic members of a State will hold a caucus and divide up the Post Offices, Col lectorships, District Attorneyships, Judge ships, etc., which are to go to that particu lar State satisfactorily between them. When the places are thus divided up all applica tions are to be made to the Senator or mem ber to whom the particular appointment belongs. If an applicant in his ignorance of this arrangement should send his appli cation to the wrong Senator or member it is to be referred to the proper person, who has bound himself by solemn compact to shoulder this portion of the ex ecutive responsibility, and the apphcant will be informed that his case has been so referred and that it will be necessary to secure the approval of that particular msn before his application can be consider! d. If any applicant should unadvisedly seek the President he is to be similarly referred. The President will simply say: “Yours of blank date received. Please apply to Rep resentative Blank, of yorr district. It will be necessary to secure his indorsement be fore I can consider your case. Sorry, but Representative Blank has kindly relieved me of any responsibility in the matter of offices in bis district, and I must refer you to him.” This arrangement, it is thought, will greatly assist President Cleveland in tilling and making vacancies and will place the Democratic party on a substantial basis for the next campaign. The chief difficulty with which these self-sacrificing Congress men have to contend is in the division of the offices in States where Republican Rep resentatives are the rule instead of the ex ception. The disposal of the Federal offices in such States will be left to Mr. Cleveland of necessity, but Democratic Senators and members iu the above scheme agree to hold themselves in readiness to give advice and other assistance in the premises when called upon by the President. It is realized that a great rush will be made upon Presi dent Cleveland for the hundred thousand places at his disposal, and Democratic mem bers of Congress are willing to step between him and this expectant horde of hungry henchmen. It is thought probable that ii the President-elect had really understood this arrangement for his relief and protec tion he would not have recently rented a house in Albany for the next two months, but would have come ou immediately to Washington, where he could live compa ratively free from the cares of office and the ann vances of office-seekers, A SENSATIONAL MARRIAGE. Elopement and Wedding of a Couple Wldeh Had Adventures. Reading, Pa., Jan. 2.—The Reading papers a day or two ago contained the an nouncement of the marriage of Miss Catha rine Clubb, of this city, and Franklin Hcr dyman, of New York, also formerly of Reading. The b-ide is the only daughter of a retired merchant of this city, who has been successful in business and is reputed to be worth over $150,000. The family live in unpretentious style. The daughter hasbeen the head of the household since the death of the mother, several years ago. She is a fine-looking brunette, 32 years old, and had many admirers, but refused them all. Herdyman has been a-sent from Reading for several years. He is about the same age as his bride. Twelve years ago he was accused of assaulting the late Daniel S. Francis, afterwards editor of the daily Spirit of Berks, for which offense he served five years in the jail of this county. After his release he disappeared. He went to New York, whe-e, his friends sav, he has been leading a straightforward and upright life. Several weeks ago he suddenly appeared in Reading, after a pro longed absence. Miss Clubb was an old acquaintance of his, and it is said they corresponded while they were separated. Last Friday evening they were driven in a clcse cab through the snow storm to the parsonage of Rev Dr. McCauley, who made them man and wife. Upon their marriage being made public, it caused quite a flutter among those who knew them years S ”Herdyman says that he will take his wife to New York in a few days. His bride is remembered in connection with an ad venture by which her father lost $6,000 several years ago. He discovered that non registered bonds, which were negotiable at any place, were missing from his safe. He was under the impression that he had been robbed, and offered a reward for the thieves It came out that Miss Clubb had lent them to an acquaintance, in whom she had the utmost confidence, to pledge for a small loan that he nee led. This friend proved recreant to his trust and decamped with the entire amount. All further proceedings were dropped. Her friend die.l in the Joliet, Illinois, penitentiary shortly after wards. His name was John Miller. Reduction of Wages. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2. —The Bessemer Steel Company reduced wages 33 per cent, this morning. One thousand men are affected. L , Coshocken, 0., Jan. 2.—The steel works here reduced wages 15 per cent, to-day. bix hundred men are affected. ATLAN I'A AFFAIRS. Alleged Fraud in Bryant’s Appointment— A Sensational Divorce Suit—Minor Mention. Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. Atlanta, Jan. 2.—A considerable sensa tion has been created among the politicians i here by the statement that the comm s«ion I |< f John E. Bryant is for four years instead | of f r the unexpired term of General Long | street as was intended by the Senate that j I confirmed him. It is intimated in the Con stitution this morning that there will be an investigation into the matter and that there i will be developments that will reflect on the . 1 President. It is said that the confirmation - , ; was for the unexpired term of Longstreet, I i and that Bryant was commissioned for a full j four years. It is said also that Bryant on- I derstands that the thing is a fraud on the 1 I Senate and the people. 1 I A sensational divorce suit among the rich I and respectable people has been filed here. ' | Mrs. Sarah Jane Purtell sues her husband, ’ | Edvard C. Purtell, for divorce on the ground 1 j of continued drunkenness,cruelty and failure Ito support her. On the other hand, Purtell ■ | sues his wife for about $20,000 worth of | property which he says she bought with ! money that he gave her in the hey day of I prosperity when he was flush. The parties in the case have sepaia'.ed. The lady ca Is 1 ■it desertion, and the husband says he was 1 “fired.” The lady in the case is the pro prietress of a fashionable boarding house. Sam W. Small is in Washington City fig ' uring for a position as stenographer for the House of Representatives, made vacant by the death of one of the stenographers. The 1 l position pays $5,000 a year. Mr. Small has a verv strong backing for it. Judge Marshall J. Clarke, the new judge of the City Court, took his position on the bench yesterday. Judge Hillyer, the new Mayor, will be inaugurated on Monday next. . . -*« —■ — I SMYTH ALL RIGHT. I I He Turns up In Washington and Reports to tire Paymaster-General. I I j Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. ■ | Washington, D. C., Jan. 2. —Paymaster I 'myth turned up here to-day, and reported to the Paymaster-General. He explained f his departure by saying that he went off on a little spree. He says will make every ’ one whole, and that no will lose a penny by j his fun. [By United Press Association.] OKI J Washington, D. C., Jan. 2. —Paymaster Smyth, From Savannah, turned up here to day and settled his accounts with the War 1 Department. He said he . left Savannah while on a spree. He will probably be court-martialed. 1 A MILLIONAIRE SOCIALIST. ! Co-operation the Hope of the Working Mam I , Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2. —Andrew Car > negie, the millionaire iron manufaetvier, ' said in an interview yesterday that he look ed forward to the time when all men would work together for the general welfare, shar ing the profits of general industry. In other words, he was a Socialist. He believed that b co-operation is the hope of the workingmen. They were once serfs. They have risen and in future will rise still further. Socialism was the grandest theory ever presented, and ’ he was sure it would some day rule the ■ world. SHOT IN THE NECK f While Celebrating the New Year. r 8 Dayton, 0., Jan. 2.—Charles Sellers was 5 shot in the back of the neck by his wife yes -1 terday morning. He was shooting the old 1 year out, and, after snapping the trigger i several times, laid the revolver down. His t wife, thinking it was not loaded, in fun i pointed it at his back, when the weapon exploded, the ball loding in his neck. He • is still alive, but in a very critical condi ! tion. ! A CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT. ' Os a Very Serious Character. Jerseyville, 111., Jan. 2. —At a dance 1 at Bachtown, Christmas Eve, Rube Howard , fired both barrels of a shot gun into the com ’ pany, killing two and wounding five others. [ Jealousy was the cause. The fact that no telegraph or railroad penetrates that section accounts for the delayed intelligence. . MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. I The Destruction of Alhama Completed. 1 Madrid, Jan. 2.—Dispatches received this morning report fresh earthquake shocks throughout Andalusia. The houses which were left standing yesterday in the town of ' Alhama, with a population of about 7,000, have fallen, completing the destruction of the place. MR. CLEVELAND’S LETTER. Ex-Senator McDonald Much Pleased With It. , Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2. —Ex-Senator i McDonald said yesterday: “I am much pleased with Mr. Cleveland’s letter. It outlines just what I supposed what would be the policy of his administration, and ought to be satisfactory to the party and the country.” New Year’s Calls Getting Unpopular. ! New York, Jan. 2.—lt is conceded that , there was less general observance of the : custom of making New Year’s calls yester day than ever before. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1885. THENATIONAL CAPITAL ' THE UNITED SPATES JUDGESHIP. ' Interview With the Attorney-General— The President Puzzle d—The Savannah P.'stniastership—Cleveland’s Letter —Preparing for the Inauguration. Special Correspondence Daily Times. [ Washington, Jan. I.—The first day of j the New Year finds President Arthur un [ decided as to who he intends to appoint as the successor of Judge John Erskine. There appears to be a “hitch” in connection ' with filling the vacanc-*, which no one ex cept the President is probably aware of. A I few days ago your correspondent visited j Attorney-General Brewster in his luxurious quarters in the Department of Justice, and endeavored to extract from him some in formation on this subject. He said the “Georgia Judgeship case” had passed out of his hands several months ago. At the re quest of the President, he had arranged all th“ papers which had been filed in his office for and against the various applicants, and transmitted them to the White House. He added further that he would not undertake to make a prediction as to who will prob ably be selected. Some time ago the indi cations were very favorable to Mr. H. f’. Farrow. Complications have since arisen which can only be straightened out by the President. At the White House, the President’s private secretary informed me that the Pres ident at one time thought very seriously of appointing Mr. Farrow, whom he says is backed by Mr. Buck, Chairman of the Re- 1 publican State Committae, and several other prominent Georgia Republicans. In conse quence of the numerous protests which have been filed against the appointment of Mr Farrow, the President is somewhat puzzled , how to dispose of the matter. If it were | possible for the President to delegate his . : private secretary to make the selection, 1 I am convinced that Colonel C. P. Goodyear, . |of Brunswick, would draw the prize. Colonel i i Goodyear is said to have the indorsement of' ' i the leading citizens of the St Ge, including | Republica> s. Independents and a few De - I hocrats. Mr. John D. Cunningham is nls > looked upon rather favorably by the Presi 1 dent, so lam informed. There are several other names upon the President’s table for I consideration in this connec:ion, and the latter might take it into his head to g" outside of the Stele to fill the office. It is given out unofficially that the President would like to provide a snug place at a fair I compensation, for his esttemed friend, I i Walter Evans, the present Commissioner of ' I Internal Revenue. The Commissioner’s ■ ■ personal friends are non-committal on the • subject, and at the White House the rumor is said to be without the slightest founda i tion. One is apt to lose whatever reputation he may have earned, in attempting to forecast, the actions of the present administration In relation to the Savannah Postmastership ■ —two weeks ago I would have wagered a I large red apple that General McLaws would ■be reappointed. I called at the Postoffice ■ Department one morning and found Post master-General Hatton preparing to go to Cabinet meeting. The youthful P. M. G. said he intended to call up the Savannah matters as soon as he reached the White House. He referred to General McLaws in the most complimentary terms,aud appeared ' fully satisfied with his personal character and official capacity. He said McLaws was appointed during Grant’s administration, and from that time on had performed his official i duties to the entire satisfaction of the Post office Department. Under such circums’an- • ces, and believing that Mr. Hatton could ' have no object in leading me astray, I thereupon telegraphed to the Daily Times that General McLaws’ reappointment was probable. As I have already stated in the Daily Times; Mr. A. N. Wilson was ap- , pointed as the eu cessor of General McLaws, i the same day. The Republican office-holders here ap- , pear highly pleased with Governor Cleve land’s recent letter on the subject of civil ' service In fact, they really derive more i consolation from it than do many of the local Democrats. Some of the latter are I foolish enough to imagine that under Cleve- I' land’s administration, removals from office will only be made in cases where it is proven j I that parties have been active work rs in the I j political campaign. Ex Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, expresses the true Demo- I cratic idea on this subject when he ■ says: “The people have said that there must be a change of government, and you can’t change the government without you ! change the agencies thereof. There may be some officials now in office whose services are valuable to any party that may be in power, but all those whose places can be filled as well, if not better, than they are, should be turned out. That is the old Jeffersonian doctrine; the government should be in the hands of its friends.” Governor Cleveland’s letter certainly ap* plies to those officials who contributed to the Republican corruption fund, and if the true spirit of his letter is carried out, there are very few now in office who will escape the ] punishment that surely awaits them. It is said that every man, woman or child who contributed to the Clapp-Raum squeezing 1 committee, is known to certain Democrats, ; who will, at the proper time, place the in- 1 formation where it belongs. The gentlemen in charge of the inaugu ration ceremony are working industriously to make the event one long to be remem bered. The new Pension Office building ' has been selected in which to hold the grand ball. The capacity is almost unlimited, and it is estimated that the proposed ball room alone, not counting the numerous connect ing rooms, will accommodate at best 12,000 persons. There will be dancing and prome nade music. Provision will be made for the comfort of those who simply go to look on. A large gallery will be constructed, capable of holding several thousand spectators. United States Senator Brown and Repre sentative Blount have been selected to rep resent the State of Georgia on the Recep tion Committee. Several Georgia military organizations have applied t-j the Chairman of the Military Committee for quarters, stating that they propose to participate in the inaugural ceremonies. The railroads propose to make a liberal reduction to both civic and military associations that visit Washington on that occasion. Representatives Hardeman, Reese and Clements, of the Georgia delegation, are spending the holiday recess in New York. They may go up to Albany and pav their respects io Governor Cleveland before re turning to Washington. Representative Nicholls, of the Savannah district, is hete on guard wiiile his colleagues are absent. “ Bob ” BONDED WHISKY. The Distillers May be Disappointed. Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—lt is be lieved that the decision of the General in effect that whisky may be re tained io bonded warehouses indefinitely after the declaration by owners that they intend exporting it, will not result iu any order to that effect by the Secretary ti e Treasury. The fact is that the Kentucky dis tillers have been doing much too talking again. The interview with them in several pa pers show that they are saying that the decision will enable them to keep their whisky in bond as long as they like, and then if the market gets good they will with draw it from the warehouses and sell it at home. The effect of this would be practi cally an indefinite extension of bonded period, and it is believed here that the Secretary of the Treasury would hesitate very much before doing what Congress has by an overwhelming vote retused todo. New York Stock Market, New York, Jan. 2.—At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were : Union Pacific 46% Missouri Pacific 91% Western Union Telegraph Co 54% Pacific Mall 56 Lake Shore 62% Louisville and Nashville 26 Texas Pacific 13% Denver and Rio Grande 8% Michigan Central 55 Delaware, Lackawanna West n 89% Northwestern 85% St. Paul 72% Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 116% Oregon Transcontinental 11% Northern Pacific .. 40% Kock Island : 106 Jersey Central 4 1 Memphlsand Charleston 29 East I'eniies.-ee, Va. A- Ga (com) 3% East Tennessee, Vu. i Ga. (pfd) 5 I Philadelphia and Reading 18% ; Omaha (com) 23% ! Omaha (ptd) 83% New York Central 85% Kansas and Texas 16% Erie 11% New York Produce Market. New 1 otiß, Jan. 2. —Flour quiet, super fine $2 26a2 26, extra No. 2 $2 65a3 00 Wheat, No. 2 red winter, January 85} Corn, No. 2 mixed, January, 49 J. Oats, No, 2 mixed, 34} asked for December and February. Pork dull, mess sl2 25a12 50. Lard, $7 06 for January, $7 06 for Febru ary. Rosin quiet, strained to good strained $1 22}il 27}. Sugar dull, refined cut ’oaf 6}, granulated 6}. RAILWAY CONSOLIDATION. The Houston and Texas, and Galveston aud San Antonio Roads United. Houston, Texas, Jan. 2—C. P. Hunting ton, the railroad magnate, arrived here yes terday accompanied by Thomas W. Pierce, President of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. At the meeting last evening of representatives of the various interests, a consolidation was perfected be tween the Houston and Texas Central Rail way and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio system. Chicago ’Change. Chicago, Jan. 2. —Wheat opened }as-8c higher than the closing prices Wednesday’ January 76j. Corn firm, January 34}, February 34|. Oats unchanged. Pork 20a40c higher, January sll 25: Laru un changed. A Handsome Schooner. The schooner J. B. Jordan, which was cleared to-day for Buenos Ayres, with a cargo of lumber furnished by R. B. Eeppard, Esq., is one of the finest and largest schooners that has loaded at our port. She is com manded by Captain B. S. Martin, Thomaston, Maine, who is also part owner. She is 165 feel long, with 155 feet keel, 35 feet 6 inch beam, 12 feet 3 inch lower hold, 5} feet between decks. Her framing is of white oak, and also mottled. Her tonage is 722 gross, 686 net tons; built bv Messrs. 8. S. Gerry, of Thomaston, Maine, and has classed Al for 15 years, with a carrying capacity of 1,15? tons. One of the greatest advantages in this schooner is her after house, which is 32 feet long and 25 feet wide, containing two very large and handsomely fitted cabins, built of oak and cherrv, finely carpeted, and seven state rooms, all nicely furnished, with all the latest improvements. A Complete Livery Stable. Mr. E. C. Gleason does not claim to know as much about running a bank suc cessfully as a few gentlemen now living in Canada do, but a glimpse at bis large and commodious stables —the “Pulaski House Stables,” next door to that well known hotel —will suffice to convince the most skeptical that since he has moved to this place and fitted up things in spick and span good order he has displayed some knowledge of the line of business which he follows. The situation of these stables is too well known and their popularity too great to need more than passing mention, and since Mr. Gleason has moved his more than completeoutfit in, aud stuck out his shing e, the popularity of the place can only increase the morr. Mr. Gleason is prepared to board and care for horses in the best of style; can furnish carriages for indi viduals or funerals, with the best of care ful drivers, on the shortest notice; has some of tae must elegant turnouts iu the city, and can show some fastest horses on the road. Mr. Gleason is reasonable in his charges, and his conduct in the past is a guarantee that he will always do what he promises. He is entitled to a liberal share of the public patronage. REMINISCENCE OF WAR NIGHT ON THE FATAL FIELD OF FKEDERI' KBBURG. A Graph’c Portrayal of the Ter.-ible Stf ferings that Followed a Day of Un availing Heroism. Boston Congregationalist. These are anniversary days. Twenty-two years have passed since “Fredericksburg.' Os what then was, not much is left but memory. Faces and forms of men and things that then were, have changed—per chance to dust. New life has covered some ; the rest look but lingering fare wells. But whatever changes may beautify those storm-swept and’barren slopes, there is one character from which they can never pass Death gardens, haunted by glorious ghost-, they must abide. No bloom can there un fold which does not wear the rich token of the inheritance of heroic blood; no breeze be wafted that does not bear the breath of the immortal life there breathed away. Os all that splendid but unavailing valor no one has told the story; nor can I. The pen has no wing to follow where that sacri fice and devotion spend their flight. Bit memory may rest down on some night scenes too quiet and sombre with shadow to be vividly depicted, and yet which have their interest from very contrast with the tangled and lurid lights of battle. The desperate charge was over. We had not reached the enemy’s fortifications, but only that fatal crest, where we had seen five lines of battle mount but to be cut to earth as by a sword-swoop of fire. We had that costly honor which sometimes falls to the “reserve” —to go in when all is havoc and confusion, through storm and slaughter, to cover the broken and depleted ranks of comrades and take the battle from their hands. Thus we had replaced the gallant few still struggling on the crest, and received that withering fire which nothing could withstand, by throwing ourselves flat in a slight hollow of the ground, within pistol shot of the enemy’s works, and mingled with thedeail and dying that strewed the field, we returned the fire till it reddened into night, and at last fell away through dark ! ness and silence. ! But out of that silence from the battle’-. I crash aud roar rose new sounds mere ap ! palling still, rose or fell, you knew not which, or whether from the earth or air ; a strange ventrdoquism, of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan that seemed to come from distances beyond reach of the natural sense, a wail so far am: deep and wide, as if a thousand discords were flowing together into a keynote weird, unearthly, terrible to hear and bear, ye: startling with its nearness; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, pierced by shrieks and paroxysms; some begging for a drop of water; some calling on God for ' pity; and some on friendly hands to finish ; what the enemy had so horribly begun: i some with delirious, dreamy voices murmur iog loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; some gathering their last strength to fire a musket to call atten tion to them where they lay helpless and deserted; and underneath, all the time, that deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless or too heroic to articulate their agony. Who could sleep, or who would? Our position was isolated and exposed. Officers must be on the alert with their command. But the human took the mastery of ths official; sympathy of soldiership. Com's’am could be devolved, but pity, not. So will, a staffofficer I sallied forth to see what we could do where the helpers seem d so few. Taking some observations in order not t<> lose the bearing of our own position, we guided our steps by the most piteous of the cries. Our part was but little —to relieve a painful posture, to give a coolin? draught to fevered lips, to compress a severed artery, as . we had learned to do, though in bungii g fasihon; to apply a rude bandage, wh’ch yet 1 might prolong the life to saving; to ta'-e a I token or farewell message for some stricken home; it was but little, yet it was an end'ess | task. We had moved toward the right and the rear of our position—the part of the [ field immediately above the city. The further we went the more the need deepened 1 and the calls multiplied. Numbers, half wakening from the lethargy of death or < f despair by sounds of succor, begged us to take them quickly to a surgeon, and when we could not do that imploring us to do the next most merciful service and give them quick dispatch out of their misery. Right glad were we when, after mi Inight, the shadowy ambulances came gliding along, and the kindly hospital stewards, with stretchers and soothing appliances, let us feel that we might return to our proper duty. And now we were aware of other figures wandering, ghost-like, over the field. Some on errands like our own, drawn by compell ing appeals; some seeking a lost comrade with uncertain steps amid the unknown, and ever and anon bending down to scan the pale visage closer, or, it may be, by the light of s. brief match, whose blue, flickering flame could scarcely give the features a more recognizable or human look; some man desperately wounded, yet seeking, with faltering step, before his fast-ebbing blood shall have left him too weak to move, some quiet or sheltered spot out of sound of the terrible appeals he could neither answer nor endure, or out of reach of the raging battle coming with the morning; one creeping, yet scarcely moving, from one lifeless form to another if, perchance, he mi jht find a swal low of water in the cauteeu still swung from the dead soldier’s side; or another, as with just returning or just remaining conscious ness, vainly striving to rise from a mangled heap that he may not be buried with them while yet alive, or some man, yet sound of body, but pacing feverishly his ground be cause in such a bivouac his spirit could not ■ sleep. And so we picked our way amid the stark, upturned laces to our little living I line. The night chill had now woven a misty I veil over the field. Fortunately, a picket fence we had encountered in our chargt 3 from the town had compelled us to abandor i our horses, and so had saved our lives ot the crest; but our overcoats had been strap $6 00 A YEAR. ped to our saddles, and we misse 1 them now. Most of the men, however, had their over vercoats or blankets—we were glad of that. Except the few sentries along the front,all j hail fallen asleep—the Jiving with the dead. At last, outwearied and depress-. <1 with the ' desolate scene,my strength sank,and I moved two dead men a little aud lay down between - them, making a pillow of the breast of a third. The skirt of his overcoat drawn over my face helped also to shield me from the bleak winds. There was some comfort even in this companionship. But it was broken sleep. The deipening chill drove many forth to take the garments of those who ! could no longer need them, that they might : ■ keep themselves alive. More than once I I ' was startled from my unrest by some one [ turning back the coatskirt from my fice, ; peering, half vampire like, to mv fancy, through the darkness, to discover if it too were of the silent and unresisting; turning j away more d.sconcerted at my living word I than if a voice had spoken from the dead’ [ Having held our places all night we had to keep to them all the more closely the next day; for it would be certain death to [ attempt to move away. As it was, it was . only by making breastworks aud barricades of the dead men that covered the field that ( we saved any alive. We did what we could to-take a record of these men. A Testa r | ment that had fallen from the breast pocket of the soldier who had been my pillow I I sent soon after to his home —he was not of t \my c< mix aid—aud it proved to be the only | clue his parents ever had to his fate. ‘ | The next midnight, after 36 hours of this , i harrowing work, we were bidden to with k ; draw into the town for refreshment and ; rest. But neith, r e;t nor motion was to be tnought of till we had paid fitt n; honor to i our dead. We laid them on the spot where i they had fallen, on the sheltered edge of I the crest, and committed their noble forms to the earth, and their story to their coun try’s keeping. “We buried them darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning.” i Splinters of boards, torn by shot and shell from the fences we had crossed, served as headstones, each name hurriedly carved I under brief match lights, anxiously hidden from tle fee. It was a strange scene around that silent aud shadowy sepulpture. “We will give them a starlight burial,” it was siid, but l e.ven <r Li led a mure sublime I illumination. As we bore tnem in a dark i and sad procession their own loved North ’ took up the escort, and, lifting all her glo rious lights, l. d the triumphal march over : the bridge that spans the worlds —an I aurora borealis of marvelous majesty 1 Fiery lances and banners of blood and flame, columns < f pearly light, garlands and wreaths of g. 11, all pointing upward and becko: iag on. Who would not pass on as they did, dead for their country’s hf>, and lighted to burial by the meteor splendors of their native sky ? AT THE RACE COURSE. The Gentlemen’s Driving Park the Scene cf a Gay Crowd on Its Opening Day. ; Last afternoon about 500 or 600 people were in attendance on the opening races at I the Gentlemen’s Driving Park. The crowd j is said to have been the largest and most re spectable one ever on the course. The races opened with a sweepstakes for Savannah horses, best three in five, in har ness, for a special purse of $100; $75 forth g winner and $25 for the second best. At 2:30, the Judges, Messrs. Geo. A. Hudson, Thomas West and John G. Butler, calle 1 time and the following entries were made: Charlie Gr ham’s Charlit; F. e 1 Kol shen’s Pet, Sauu.-i Titu.nib’s Aiea T., W. T. Birch’s Dora. In the first heat Dora was distanced, and in the fourth Aida T., was distanced. The record of tue winner, and second best, is as follows: Charlie first, 3:10; second, 3:13; third, 3:21; fourth, 3:17. Pet, first, 3:13; second, . 3:14; third, 3:20; fourth, 3:16f. | The winning horse, a gray gelding, wts bought by Mr. Graham about a year ago, from Mr. Robert Rosenfield, of Louisville, Ky., who mikes a regular trip here each isas n with Kentucky stock. It was the I tir.,t time that either the horse or driver had i ever been on the track. j In the running race for a special purse of j S2O, best two in three half mile heats, there i were on y t«o entries, W. T. Birch’s Jim, l and W. E Fennell’s Dan. The race, a very c'ose and exciting cne, was won by Birch’s Jim, the first heat being made in 1:16, the seoi nd in 1:14, while Dan made it in 1:16} and 1:14}. Between the sweep stakes and the running race there was a lit tle diversion gotten up by au impromptu cock fight. One of the cock’s will fight no more. Several exhibition races were given against time by gentlemen from the city. Everybody was agreeably surprised at the marked improvement in the track and all surrounding-', and the turfmen could not say enough in praise. Everything passed off quietly and pleasantly. The races closed aoout 5.30 o clock, and soon after the shell ■ road was the scene of lively brushes as dif ferent gentlemen essayed the mettle of their • respective steeds. Superior Court ' Hon. A. Pratt Adams, Judge, presiding. 1 The State vs. Wm. Stoughton. Simple : larceny; plea of guilty entered, and prisoner J sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. State vs. Wm. McFarland. Burglary; t plea of guilty, and prisoner sentenced to 10 > years in the penitentiary. George Anderson vs. Susanna Anderson, i Divorce; second verdict rendered granting i total divorce. Philip L. Smith vs. Mary Ann Smith. 1 Divorce; second verdict rendered granting i total divorce. f D. A. O'Byrne vs. James R. \\ ard. Ap- - peal. At the close of this report the jury 4 was still out considering the case. e Judge A. Pratt Adams, qualified as g Judge of the Superior Court, and his com mission was presented him by Ordinary y Hampton L Ferrill. it Solicitor General Charlton’s time having ;e expired, he presented the commission of his n tuccessor, F. G. Dußignon, who was sworn •n in and entered upon the pc rformince of his p official duties.