Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-15
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singular ability with the political
aspects Of the treaty and ably dis
secting Lord SaliSbury's circular.
KNOWN BY HIS WORKS.
The Daily News concludes by
saying: ''The general regret felt at
Constantinople will be shared by
many persons all over England
to-day, to whom Mr.. MacGahan
was not personally known, but who
were long familiar with his works.
SORRY TO LOOSE HIM.
"He attained success in a profes-
sion in which he had few equals,
and had fallen a victim to the
perilS Of his vocation. His col
leagues and the public whom he
has SO ably served feel that they
have lost one whom they can i'll
afford to part with"
UNFULFILLED HOPES.
1t was Mr.. M2cGahau's intention
on returning to England to write a
book on the Eastern question,
which he had already planned. 1t
was to have been in three volumes
and would have embraced a COM
prebensive review of the great
question and the present war for its
solution. beginning with the atroci-
ties in Bulgaria and ending with
the work of the Berlin congress
He died in harness, however, at the
end of that brilliant campaign
which, starting at the Danube,
landed the victorious Russian army
on the Sea of Marmora. His great
work will never be written.
HIS LONG AND FAITHFUL SERVICE
FOR THE HERALD.
Mr.. John A. MacGahan was
born in st. Louis in 1916, and was,
therefore, thirty-two years of age.
His boyhood and early youth we're
spent In that city, where he re-
ceived a thorough education, after
which he began the study of law.
In 1868 he sailed for Europe, and
up to the outbreak Of the Prussian
war resided chiefly in the Belgian
capital, occupying his time in ac-
quiring the German and French
languages, Of both of which he be-
came a master, and in perfecting
his knowledge Of international law.
When hostilities began on French
soil in July, 1870, Mr.. MacGahan
accepted the position of special
correspondent of the Herald with
the army of Bourbaki. He imme-
diately proceeded to the front, and
joined the headquarters of the old
Algerian hero in time to witness and
record the disastrous defeat and
subsequent dispersion of the demor-
allied troops in Switzerland.
Thence Mr.. MacGahan hastened to
| Bordeaux and wrote a series of in
terviews with the leading statesmen
Of France, which attracted wide
attention in America and Europe.
Chief among them were detailed
and carefully written conversations
with Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc,
Archbishop Dupanloup and Gam
BETA. When the assembly ad-
ljourned its sittings to Versailles,
Mr. MacGahan hurried away to
Paris and arrived in the capital
early on the morning of the 18th Of
March. He noticed an unusual
commotion in the streets, and fol-
lowing regimentof of the line which
he saw en- route to Montmartre, he
thus had the good fortune to be the
only journalist present at the open
ing scene in the bloody Commune of
Paris. Throughout those perilous
days, Mr.. MacGahan behaved with
a courage, tact and industry that
rendered him famous in the capital.
His dispatches and correspondence
were graphic, truthful TO the letter
and widely copied yet during his
dangerous duties he always found
time to perform many acts of kind
ness and humanity which will never
be recorded. When the Versaillais
entered the city, and while a fierce
battle was Waging in the streets, he
was arrested with another Herald
correspondent, and escaped death
at the hands of the mob, and hu-
initiation from the hlood-thirsty
officers, by the interference of Mr.,
| Washburne, who went to the Place
| Vendome at midnight and made a
formal application to General
!, Douay for their release. During
the war of the Commune he was a
great deal with that singular cham
pion of the people, the Pole Dow
! browski, whose courage and talent
made one of the bright spots in
that carnage, For that fellowship
he several times nearly paid with
his life, as he was denounced to the
authorities who know of it, He
escaped narrowly with his life on
Montmartre from the same batta'
lion that shot theGenerals Lecompte
and Thomas. After a long tour
through Austria, Poland and the
Crimea, Mr.. MacGahan accom-
panied the party Of General Sher-
man to the Caucasus, whence he
wrote a series of brilliant letters
At the departIIre of the Russian