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Address all Letters to
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'Thursday Morning, Sept. 2, 1875.
Dr. H. F. Andrews, editor and proprie
tor of the Washington Gazette, is in the
city.
*•*
'J he broken Bank of California and its
late President are prominent topics in all
the papers. We group together in another
column, some very readable extracts upon
the career of the Modern Midas and his
unhappy fate.
The counterfeiting gentry are not con
fined to America. When a Swedish bank
refuses to take Bank of England notes, on
the ground that bogus bills of that great
institution are flooding the Continent, it is
enough to make Pig-Iron Kelly weep. The
i ag man is abroad as well as at home.
According to cable advices, the Sultan’s
new Grand Vizier, Mahomet Pacha, is the
Turkish embodiment of relentless hostility
to compromising with rebellious subjects.
Either the Turkish Government is prepared
to make a death-struggle for existence, or
else confidence exists of being able to sup
press the Herzegovinian revolt.
Consolidation of telegraph lines is the
order of tire day. The Western Union and
Atlantic and Pacific Companies are still en
grossed in the attempt to form an alliance.
Whether this is preparatory to putting Jay
Gould in or keeping him out we cannot
say. By tire ides of October we shall know
whether the great speculator is to be Big
Chief or not.
—
It will be seen by reference to our night
dispatches that the Western “tramp” has
adopted the “gas business” for purposes of
robbery. Pretending to find out how many
cubic feet the meter registered in Gen.
Stager’s house, in Chicago, ingenious
thieves made way with the silverware. We
dare say the General has supplied himself
with material of war since that operation.
Not only are the Mexican greasers in re
volution, for the 3Gsth time, but they have
committed a gross outrage upon an Ameri
can citizen. If Gen. Sheridan has passed
liis honeymoon, and can be spared from
the sacred duty of protecting his father’s
grave from Western bandits, a fertile field
of operations may be presently opened for
him in Sonora.
Ojr Atlanta correspondent gives a
gloomy picture of the labor question in
the Gate City. It seems that a tremendous
tooting of newspaper horns has brought
many white men and negroes to town, and
the consequence has been by no means a
P easant one. Men in the country should
remain where they are, until such a time,
at all events, when the growth and pros
perity of a city demand an access of popu
lation drawn from the rural districts or
outside localities.
A correspondent of the Covington Star
thus settles the little matter of “the next
Governor of Georgia:” “Mr. James has
struck the key note if he intends to win the
race. Geu. Colquitt has a strong hold
upon our people for his past services to the
country, and his present connection with
the Patrons of Husbandry and the direct
trade movement, but it is not observable
that he is developing any new strength as
the Gubernatorial canvass approaches.
Col. Hardeman will not enter the field with
iHty very well defined hopes of success, and
tie and Colquitt will probably be the ‘last
men in the procession.’ ” We feel very
sorry for Colquitt and Hardeman.
, An unusually full chapter of horrors is
furnished by t legraph this morning. Our
peaceable citizens can sip their coffee and
eit their toast, with either increased zest
■or disgust, alter perusing the crimes and
casualties of their neighbors. The suicide
of the young Italian, Signor Vianni, at a
clam bake, equals in thrilling and dramatic
surrounding anything we have ever read
or heard of. Whether he took his life pur
posely and deliberately, for some unknown
cause, or was rendered temporarily insane
by the fervor of his passionate declamation,
who can tell? We venture to say that such
in, dreadful and unlooked-for self-murder
never before occurred at a festival so com
mon-place as a clam bake, and it is to be
Roped that similar incidents will be rare in
deed.
The Columbia Register, of yesterday,
which is a bright, bold and newsy journal,
speaking of the papers published in this
city, s iys: “No city in the South can boast
better dailies than Augusta. The Chronicle
and Sentiiel and the Co)istitutionalist are
both large sheets, and ably edited. The va
rious departments of these papers are filled
with the latest and most reliable informa
tion, and the quantity of reading matter
they furnish is astonishing. The last
named has anew heading, and is constant
ly making improvements, as is also the
former. The editors and managers are like
their journals in one respect—all have long
heads. We consider them invaluable ex
changes, and are pleased to see they are so
well appreciated by readers and sub
scribers.”
The question of homestead and person
alty exemption in Georgia is one of serious
moment to Northern and Middle State
merchants. We find in the Baltimore Ga
ze tie’s Macon correspou Jence the following
paragraph, which may explain itself:
Messrs. Tucker, Smith & Cos. are mistaken
in saying that there is a $3,000 exemption
of goods to a bankrupt merchant. There
is an exemption of one thousand dollars in
personalty and $2,500 In realty. This is bad
enough; buf a bankrupt merchant must
turn his assets into real estate before he
can get the exemption of $2,500. However,
.every wholesale dealer knows that an
ilion* ->t man will pay if he can, and a scoun
drel eau always find ways to defraud. The
report of Armstrong, Cater & Cos., a house
of great favor in Georgia, is correct. Mer
cantile circles have largely left, in the
last few years, the unsafe dealers. Those
who are now iu trade are generally sound
men.
The absorbing topic at Montreal is said
to be the reburial of Guibord, a French
Canadian, who died some months ago and
was refused interment in consecrated
ground with the Koman Catholic rites. It
seems that Guibord violated an ecclesiasti
cal law of the Catholic communion which
prohibits the joining of any of its members
with certain secret societies. At the time
of his death he had not recanted what is
called a “heresy." The priests had
A.} option in the matter, and re
fused him their burial service. The mat
ter became one of Government and ecclesi
astical controversy. It was referred to the
British authorities who decreed that the
Catholic priests should perform the rites,
in spite of the allege i defection of Guibord.
Under these State instructions, he is to
have a second burial. The probabilities are
that the Catholic clergy will refuse to ac
c >rd what has been already denied in their
f )ruin of conscience, and, rather than re
tire from their decision will pay the $20,000
damages, if the civic tribunals decide
against the Archbishop. Meanwhile, poor
.Gu ibobd’s soul has no doubt gone to its
place, and this squabble over his body will
w pen up a dangerous altercation.
@lje Slttgnsto Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
THE INSURRECTION.
A Jury Secured and Witnesses Exam
ined—Harris, Morris and Rivers—
Oatli-Bouucl Negro Military Compa
nies—The Hank auil Pale Dis
charged.
ISpecial to the Constitutionalist.)
Sandersvillk, Ga., via. Tknnille, t
September 1,1375. )
A jury was secured this morning.
Harris was put on trial. Twelve witness
es were examined. The weight of evi
dence connected Harris with Morris and
Rivers, but a conspiracy to raise an
insurrection was held by Judge John
son not sufficiently proven to allow the
admissions of Harris’ subordinates.
The existence of oath-bound negro
military companies was shown. The
grand jury recommended that some
thirty of the rank and file be discharg
ed from jail, which was done. The
case may get to the jury to-morrow.
D.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Theft Under False Pretences —Mur-
der and Suicide —Railroad Disaster
—A “Crooked” Firm—Coal Oil Ex
plosion,
Chicago, September I.—Pretended
gas men obtained access to General
Stager’s house and stole his silver
ware.
Boston, September I.—Patrick Rear
don, who had not lived with iis wife
for several years, shot her twice, at
tempted to shoot the person who inter
fered and then killed himself.
Milwaukee, September 1. —Severe
storms washed away the track of the
river division of the Milwaukee and St.
Caul Railroad, between St. Peter Junc
tion and Red Wing, and no train has
got through since Sunday. It is be
lieved the damage will be repaired to
day.
New York, September I.—Suit com
menced yesterday in the United States
District Court against the sureties of
Merrick, Prince & Cos., to recover $75,-
000, alleged to be due the Government
for unpaid duties. The firm was a
arge importer of silks, wines and
liquors, and gave warehouse bonds in
18(19 to secure payment of duties. They
have discontinued business, and the
members of the firm cannot be found.
Philadelphia, September I.—The
canal boat J. S. Dinkey, with 300
barrels of coal oil, burned. The explo
sion injured several persons. Danger
to shipping in the harbor was averted
by the promtness of a police tug boat
towing the Dinkey into the stream.
Mother and Daughter Drowned.
New York, September I.—Mary Mol
ler attempted to save her daughter,
who had ventured beyond the safety
line, at Rockawav. Both were drown
ed.
A Father Kills His Son by Mistake.
Cincinnati, September I.—A man
named Pttersou enticed farmer Trus
ty’s daughter to this city. Trusty find
ing her took Lor Haim*. Pvtoi-o.'u
lowed, making threats against the old
man, and last night approached his
house. Trusty took a shot guu and
determined to kill Peterson on sight.
Trusty’s eon, aged eighteen, learning
his father’s intention, approached to
dissuade him, when the father, mis
taking his son for Peterson, shot him
dead.
Murders by Pennsylvania Ku Klux,
Pottsville, September I.—Thomas
Sanger, inside boss of the Lehigh Col
liery, was killed by live strangers. An
other man was shot in the bowels. Two
others are reported killed. Sanger had
trouble with the miners a year ago, and
since then has received coffin letters
ordering him to leave the country.
Extraordinary Suicide of Signor
Yianni.
At a clam bake given by Congress
man Odell, other Congressmen and pro
minent persons being present, a young
Italian, named Yianni, of the Italian
Minister’s suite, of a prominent family
in Rome, committed suicide under very
singular circumstances. Dr. Dor emus,
one of the guests, announced that Sig
nor Yianni, who possessed very re
markable dramatic talents, would fa
vor the company with an Italian reci
tation in imitation of Rachel. The
young Roman took a position in the
centre of the groupe and began his re
citation. His voice was clear and well
controlled, his gesticulation highly
dramatic, his limbs semed to quiver
with passion, while the expression of
his face was startling. Once he interrupt
ed himself, aud turning to Senator Johu
A. King, said: “You understand Ital
ian?” He then resumed and finished
with the exclamation in Italian, ‘ God,
who judges all, will judge this!” Then
lie took a pis tel from the outer pocket
of his coat, and placing it to his temple,
fired. He fell partly on his face, per
fectly motionless. The spectators ex
claimed, “Wonderful!” aud app.ause
commenced, when Dr. Doremus rush
ed forward, exclaiming, “Great God,
gentlemen, he is killed!” Many at first
thought this a part of the entertain
ment, but on lifting the body, the hor
rible truth became manifest. Dr. Ellis
probed the wound, aud pronounce I the
case hopeless. Ht lived half an hour,
but never spoke. No cause was as
signed for the terrible act.
Reward for the Pottsville Bandits—
Great Excitement at the Mines.
Pottsville, September I.—A reward
of SI,OOO has been offered by Messrs.
Heaton & Cos. for the apprehension of
the assassins of Sanger. The excite
ment at Girardville and Shenandoah
continues unabated. A party of armed
men organized to-day and started in
pursuit. Wm. Wren was with Sanger,
and was severely wounded. There is
no hope of his recovery.
Sentence of Abortionists—Four Chil
dren Poisoned.
Harrisburg, September I.—Dr. J. W.
Bechtel and H. G. Walmer, who were
found guilty yesterday of attempted
abortion, were sentenced, the former to
three years and the latter to eighteen
months in the penitentiary.
New Orleans, September 1. —Four
children of Mr. Waier, in Ascension
Parish, were poisoned with French
worm lozengers, and died iu a few
hours.
FROM BOSTON.
Foreign Imports.
Boston, September I.—The increase
in value of foreign merchandize im
ported at Boston during the first eight
months of tne present year is upward
of two million dollars* as compared
with a corresponding period of last
year, the total value being over thirty
millions. Total amount of gold receiv
ed for duties for the twelve months of
1374 was $14,806,628,
ECHOES OF THE CRASH.
NOW YOU SEE IT, AND NOW YOU
DON’T.
Wild. Humors as to tlie Resumption
of tlie Bauk of California —FlooG anil
O’Brien Pushing Things—Contradic
tory Reports as to Ralston’s Stomach.
San Francisco, September I.—Nothing
authentic has been learned concerning
the resumption of the Bank of Califor
nia. During the lattei part of this
evening many reports have been heard
about town to (lie effect that the bank
will start in a few days ; that seven or
eight million dollars have been sub
scribed for that purpose, and that the
whole matter has been decided. All
sucii statements must be received with
due caution as tending to induce a feel
ing of certainty which facts do not
warrant as yet. Such assertions are
only traced to street talk. That they
have been, to a great extent, received
as correct, and have produced an addi
tional feeling of confidence, is unde
niable, but they should not be accepted
as authoritative. Flood and O’Brien
have employed extra force on the
Nevada Bank building aud are hurry
ing At to completion. Rumor has ob
tained credence that an analysis of the
stomach of Ralston has evinced evi
dences of poison. The coroner this
evening states emphatically that no
hint to that effect has been given, aud
that the assumption is entirely gra
tuitous.
Business Places Closed on Election
Day—Wild Cat Rumors.
San Francisco, September I—This
being election day the banks aud many
other places of business are closed.
There is nothing new in reference to
the Bank of California. The Chronicle
this a. m. publishes a positive state
ment that the hank lias reliable assets
to the amount of $14,000,000 and nom
inal assets to the amouut of $20,000,-
000, with an indebtedness of $13,000,-
000, and coin in tlie vaults $850,000;
that a guaranteed fund of five to ten
millions is nearly all pledged and that
resumption is assured immediately.
Similar statements are being spread
abroad, but all such assurances are
premature according to information
from headquarters.
Mercantile Failures.
New York, September 1. —Frend
Pitts, a Broadway merchant, and tlie
Boston aud Charleston Steamship Cos.
have made assignments.
Buffalo, September I.—Geo. W. Hay
ward, a merchant, has suspended.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Payment of the Elgee Claims Ordered
—Naval News—Gold Transfers.
Washington, September I.—Just be
fore the adjournment of the Court of
Claims, several months ago, an effort
was made by certain parties to prevent
the payment of the sum of $366,000,
awarded in the Elgee cotton case
claims. They represented by affidavit
aud otherwise that tlie cottou captured
on the plantation of Elgee was not his
private property, but belonged to the
vJGiircaciaou yju vyruiutriiu. a ucoo
pers were submitted by the Secretary
of the Treasury to the Attorney Gen
eral for his opinion, which was given,
to the effect that the statements were
insufficient to bar payment of the
award. Accordingly, arrangements are
being made for the payment of the
money, less SIOO,OOO, which, it is offi
cially said, belongs to the Government,
and is therefore retained.
The Worcester sails from Fortress
Monroe to-morrow, for Aspinwall, to
look after American interests on the
Isthmus. The Canandaigua has ar
rived at Port Royal, from New Orleans.
The Treasury Department was in
formed, from Ban Francisco to-day,
that a little over $500,000 of the bullion
fund in that city couid be used in the
business of coin transfer. Accordingly,
Koontz Bros, of New York, get SIOO,-
000 for the Merchants’ Exchange Bank,
of San Francisco; the First National
Bank of Portland, Oregon, $50,000, and
Drexel, Morgan & Cos., aud Seligman,
of New York, $400,000, tube apportion
ed to parties in that city asking trans
fers. The applications to-day were
largely in excess of Lite means of ac
commodation. The above arrange
ment, however, does not exhaust the
Government coin at San Francisco.
Debt Statement.
Decrease during the month, $1,500,-
000 ; in the treasury : coin, $71,025,000;
currency, $4,525,000.
Redemption of Bonds.
The Treasury to-day issued calls for
the redemption of $13,000,000 5-20
bonds of 1864, $8,000,000 of which are
on account of the sinking fund, and
$500,000 on aecount of the act author
izing the refunding of the national
debt. Of the entire amount $7,250,000
are coupon and $5,750,000 are regis
tered hoods. Interest on said bonds
ceases Ist December.
From St. Louis to Brazil.
The Post Office Department to-day
stated that the Mississippi Valley and
Brazil Steamship Company propose to
run a line of steam packets from St.
Louis, Mo., to Brazil, in South America,
and asking that the United States mail
may be given to their line. The De
partment will grant the request and
send a mail by their steamers, allowing
ocean lates of postage as a remunera
tion. They expect to start the first
steamer October Ist.
Sporting Neivs.
Troy, N. Y r ., August 31. —Four oared
crews. First heat the Atlantas won.
Time, 8:22%; second heat the Beaver
wycks won, 8:22%. The third heat will
be rowed to-morrow between the Beav
wycks aud Atlantas.
Single scullers. In first heat Riley
was the winner. Time, 9:41%; third
heat Courtney was tlie winner, 8:34.
The final heat between Courtney, La
throp and Riley will be decided to-mor
row. The Argonauts beat the Beaver
wycks in the four-oared race. Time,
9:39.
Hartford, September 1. — The races
at Charter Oak were well attended. The
2:31 race was won by Lady Snell in
three straight heats, Nellie Walton
second, and Bateman third. Time,
2:24%, 2:31% and 2:24. On aecount of
the large number or entries in the 2:25
race, five horses withdrew and subse
quently trotted for a special purse.
The 2:25 race was won by Amy, Joker
secend and Moisey third. Time 2:23
2:22%, 2:21%, 2:23% and 2:24%. ’ Moi
sey took the third heat and Joker
fourth. The special purse was won by
Rarus, Frank J. second and Parker’s
Abdallah third. Time, 2:23%, 2:20%,
2:25% and 2:22%. Frank J. took the
first heat.
Goldsmith Maid trotted a trial heat
in the park this morning, in 2:16%,
making the last quarter in 33%. She
will trot on Friday with a running com
panion to beat her record.
,A.T7GrLTST_A. GA. ’THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1875.
FOREIGN BISPATCHES.
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A MOHAMMEDAN rebel-quel
i ler.
Merciless Measures to be Adopted.
Against Insurgejits —Bosnia Said to
lie Pacific.
London, Septen >er I.—The Times
Berlin dispatch saj > that after the re
cent appoiniment f Mahomet Pacha
as Grand Vizier th re is less hope than
ever of the insurge its coming to terms
Mahomet is regarded as the champion
of absolute government, and his very
presence in the Cabinet is calculated to
make the insurgents desperate. His
appointment, unlesit a mere caprice, is
proof that the Sultjin is determined to
maintain the syst|m which has pro
duced the present t utbreak.
A Times’ specia from Buda-Pesth
says trustworthy information from
Bosnia represents tl.at the insurgents
who did not cross tjie Austrian frontier
have submitted to fae Pasha of Banja
louski. Bosnia may be regarded as
pacified.
Priuce Milan and : he “Young Servi
ans”—The Insure juts Withdrawn to
the Mountains.
Belgrade, Septen her 1. —The Young
Servians honored [’rinee, Milan, with
a torehligh procession, for the forma
tion of a Cabinet favorable to their
idea. A member if *he same party has
been elected President of Tkuptchina.
It is reported that 'Darkish troops Liave
been withdrawn froiit the Servian fron-,
tier. |
The Turkish troop;-! have relieved Tre
bigtie. The insurgents havo retired to
tlie mountains. A 4 >mmunicatiou be
tween this place aud *Crebigne has been
re-established.
The King of Burn|ih Stiff-Necked.
London, SeptembtU l.—A special to
the Times from Caktitta states that a
private letter from luagron, says the
King of Burrnah refused to receive Col.
Duncan. Col, Browl will return from
Shanghai soon. It Ij beiieved he has
not made much progress inquiring into
the attack on his in Yunau owing
to obstructions beinlj thrown iu the
way by the Chinese, f
Bank of England Cciinterfeits—Great
Britain an I China.
Stockholm, September I.—Swedish
banks refuse to cash the Bank of Eng
land’s notes, on account of counterfeits
circulating on the Coftinent.
London, Septembe j I.—Capt. Nares,
of the British polarl expedition, in a
communication to th(| Admiralty Office,
says the store at Dfsco belonging to
the American Goverrlnent appears to
be in a fair state of preservation.
The Foreign Offioij denies that the
British Minister at Ptldn had present
ed an ultimatum to Iho Chinese Gov
ernment. i
Impending Revolution in Mexico
Outrage to an Am<tidcau Citizen.
San Francisco, Seplfmiber 1. —A dis
patch from Tucson, says a
wealthy merchant of I’ucson and natu
ralized citizen of Arizjna, went to So
nora to collect bills alid was arrested
on the charge of furnishing arms to the
insurgents. No trial Ivas granted, but
shot. His grave had |>een dug when a i
messenger arrived witk a ransom. The !
roads are lined with* refugees flying >
from the impending revolution.
Guibord’s Body— Tills Struggle of
Church andSState.
Montreal, September I—Guibord’s
approaching funeral h the universal
topic of conversation, lit is said that if
all the ecclesiastical |ites be not ob
served at the grave by Catholic priest s,
Messrs. Doutre’s advocates will sue i
Monsignor Rousselot{ personally in
$20,000 damages. j
The United States cllored Minister
as a Protector of NiUro Murderers.
Kingston, Jamaica, iuigust 11.—Ad
vices from Hayti state* that seventeen j
followers of Gen. Cari*>l, who are now
under protection of th|i United States
Minister, Mr. BassettMcolored,) were
condemned to death o| July 29th. It
is stated that the Govilnment contem
plated a forcible entryinto the Ameri
can consulate to take tie refugees into
custody, they having ifeen condemned
us murderers and assassins by a Hay
tien tribunal. |
The editor of Le Ample has been
cautioned by the Go\f)rument for his
violent articles against(Bpain.
Earthquake at St. Thomas—Outlaw
ing a Bishop—Religious News—Car
tier’s Bank to Resuife.
Kingston, Jamaica, jlugust 11.—A
very smart earthquakejwas felt on the .
Island of St. Thomas <|i the 30th inst. ,
The shock was of coildderable dura
tation. The damage wl.s trifling being 1
confined to overthrowii|g crockery and
glassware aud crackiig walls. The
people were much alar tied.
Berlin, September 1|— A ministerial
order has been issureSl declaring the
Bishop of Paderborn hits forfeited his
rights to citizenship, b;| his departure
without leave from the tfity in which he
was interned. | *
Paris, September l.f-Cardinal Mc-
Gloskey has returned t(| Paris, and will
leave to-morrow eveninl "or Rome.
London, September 1,1-A special dis
patch to the Daily Ne |>o, from Berlin,
says the Catholic Pilgrimage Commit
tee have not yet consen|ed to give up
the proposed visit to jLourdes. The
French Government is peeking to have
it interdicted by the Po >e.
Montreal, September I.—At the Jac
ques Cartier Bauk m< fling to-day a
report of the coinmitte was adopted
to the effect that the iank would re
sume with an additiona*sl,ooo,ooo pre
ferential stock to the Cotte,
the ex-cashier of the |bank, was ar
rested on tlie charge of false represen
tations. *
FROM NEW jORK.
The Telegraphic Coalifiou—Bank In
junction j
New York, September I.—Commit
tees of the Western Unfni and Atlan
tic and Pacific Telegraph Companies
had another meeting, it is stated that
an understanding wasireached which
will be submitted to |:,he Executive
Committee of the Western Union to
day for approval. |
The British Bank of Jforth America
obtained an injuncti'li restraining
Laidlow Bros, from negftiating certain
bills of exchange remittid to tlie latter
from the Bank of Cali.” :Inia.
More Bauk Attachments.
Additional attachments have been
Baade against the propeijy of the Bank
of California iu this city*
——*
Cotton Mill to Rpsume.
New Bedford, Mass., September I.
The Wamsutta Mills wilft resume work
on Monday. ?
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“Say, Sambo, less us j*io de base ball
club.” “What fer, nigner ?” “Kase
it larn you how fer ter Isetch fouls on
and eflyf |
LETTKR FROM ATLANTA.
Tlie Labor Question—Honest Work
men vs. Convict Rivals —Civil Rights
—The Republican Split—Geu. Gor
don anil the Mississippi Campaign—
Dots.
LFrom Our Regular Correspondent.)
Atlanta, August 31,1875.
Tlie city is considerably agitated j ust
now over the question of labor. The
issue is between the cheap labor of
convicts aud the honest labor of law
abiding citizens. As the matter is of
great interest to all, I will give you, in
as concise a manner as possible, the
muse of the trouble :
Certain work, such as the necessary
.excavation for tlie new Court House,
vas given out to the lowest bidder.
r lhe lowest bidder was a contractor, a
bssee from the State of a number of
convicts, for which he pays S6O a year
each. Expecting to perform this work
vith convieC labor, this contractor took
the job at a very low figure—a price,
aowever, that would pay him a profit
with his cheap labor ; but on putting
his bauds to work he was informed
that that kind of labor was not wanted
>r would be allowed. Having con
tracted to do the work, he was forced
io procure other hands. Iu order to
save himself from loss he was com
pelled to offer only 85 cents per day.
Then came the tug of war. It was hon-
est labor competing with convict labor,
and it proved a nauseous dose even
#si' the country freedman. On the
first day of the work only a
few laborers could be found who
would work for so small a sum.—
The colored man and brother looked
on with sheer disgust. It rather star
tled him, and he wasn’t exactly pre
pared for the shock. He had worked
for four aud five dollars a month in the
country hoeing corn and cotton, but to
come into town and have to work for
the trifling sum of eighty-five cents a
Jay was a sockdolager. He went to
his boarding shanty and brooded over
the matter. It was a case of work or
steal, and the latter was by far the
most tempting but for the risk. His
friends congratulated him on his grit
in refusing the eighty-live cents, and
under this soothing balm he slept on
his pine board with a dreamy sweet
ness. Next day lie went down to note
developments. He found a few hunger
spurred fellows at work. He gazed
upon them, and the independent pic
ture grew somewhat more pleasing.
He thought he might try it himself
next day, and sure enough next day he
was found there with shovel in hand.
That fraud all call pride had come
down and he was earning honest bread.
But the questiou is, shall convict la
bor be brought iu competition with
honest labor ? If yes, then the law
abiding workmen must gather up his
duds and migrate to foreign parts;
if no, then the convict labor should
be carried to mines and farms and rail
roads. They should be carried outside
the corporate limits of the city and kept
from depriving the honest workman of
his rights and.his living.
So much work requiring no skill has
that constaiit streams of negroes are
pouring in and the cry is still they
come. Farmers in adjacent counties
complain terribly of their sudden exo
dus, and say that their contracts have
been violated iu almost every instance.
They say that rumor of work iu town
can spread faster than a plague and is
mightily nigh as disastrous, as the ne
gro drops his hoe right in the middle
of the field and scoots. All this from
convict labor in town. lam glad, how
ever, to state that bills are being framed
for tho consideration of the next Leg
islature which will not only carry the
evil (the evil-doers) out of the city, but
afford relief and protection for tlie uu
convicted and unsentenced laborers.
’Tis a consummation devoutly to he
wished.
Civil Rights.
An evening paper charges Captain
Jack White, late President of the
Macon and Western Railroad with
some ugly doings, and furthermore
says he endeavored yesterday to
procure sleeping car tickets for his
children by a negro woman. The pa
per in question calls it a dastardly out
rage and calls upon the people of Pike
county, wherein Capt. White lives, to
oust him and mete out the penalty due
miscegenationists. As the Captain is
immensely wealthy and occupies a high
social position, tlie public statement of
his private didos will cause quite a flut
ter. How Jack will make it all right
with a certain bonnie lass remains to be
seen. % Lack-a-day! he who dances
must pay tlie fiddler.
The Attorneyship.
No new developments since my last
in regard to the District Attorneyship
have been made except that it is sur
mised that Capt. Johu Milledge wilL
take Farrow’s place. On what his
claims are predicated deponent knoweth
not. Lochrane, John’s partner, says
there is nothing in the rumor, but
others, it seems, are quite sanguine.—
Some how or other, Farrow will have
to step out, and we are to have anew
officer. The mail and wire are iu ac
tive use by partizaus of hankerers for
the posisli, and it cannot be long before
something definite is settled on.
Gen. Gordon
left for Mississippi Saturday. He goes
to take part iu the Congressional
canvass iu that State. As the Radi
cals are running two sets of candidates
in the same number of districts, besides
being considerably demoralized, the
General cannot be of much use. He
can drink, with Lamar, to the success
of the lucky Democrat and fill a bump
er to the overthrow of the Radical
party in that State —an event likely to
occur.
Pencilings.
The Fulton County Bornological So
ciety are packing fruit on ice to be pre
served for exhibition at the October
State Fair.
Mr. E. W. Hack, of your city, was in
town to-day.
A great many burglaries in the night
are committed hereabouts. The wily
freedman, having had his summer’s
laze, now takes advantage of the creep
ing on of winter to add to his pile.
The Water Works, by reason of
bursting pipes, are not in successful
operation as yet. Martha.
A certain lady, welt known in Balti
more society, hurriedly beckoned to
her husband and, placing a five dollar
bill iu his hand, said: “Here, dear, put
that in the French pool on Spendrift,
quick!’ Tho husband walked away and
kept the money in his pocket, feeling iu
no mood to throw away a five dollar
bill. But, lo! and behold, Spendrift
won the race ! and when my gentleman
returned to his wife he found her all
excitement. “The horse has won—he
I has won—go claim the winnings!” she
said. The amount which she would
hava won was $59, and to avoid a scene
the husband paid it and held his
tongue.
MOVING EXTRAORDINARY.
Two Hundred and Fifty Tons of Briitk
Wall Carried Eijfliteen Inches With
out Unsettling.
[New York World, 25th.]
Anew and interesting eiqierimeut in
house-moving was successfully per
formed yesterday morning at 116 West
Twenty-fourth street, iu the presence
of a number of builders, General Dis
trict Inspector Tallmau and Inspector
Mac Gloin, of the Department of Build
ings. About a month ago the Society
St. Vincent do Paul determined to
build on the vaaant lots in the rear of
their Twenty-third street building. A
survey of the land being made, it was
discovered that the wall of the five
story brick livery stable adjoining oc
cupied by S. C. Mott., encroached
eighteen inches on their property.
The owner was notified to re
move the wall to the eastward,
and Weeks & Brothers, builders, were
authorized to tear it down and rebuild.
Mr. Weeks did not like to pull down
the wall, and hit upon a plan for mov
ing it bodily, which he submitted to F.
& S. E. Goodwin, house movers, and H.
A. Chesner. The plan was ratified by
the t hree firms, while other builders
declared it could not bo safely or suc
cessfully carried out. Nowhere could
be found in the history of building or
house-moving an instance where a brick
wall had been detached from a build
ing and moved. The wall was thirty
seven years old, and built of second
hand brick ; seventy feet high, about
the same length, sixteen inches wide at
the base, and about twelve inches at
the top. Its weight was 250 tons.
Ten yellow pine timbers, 12x12 inches,
planed on the upper surface, were let
in horizontally under the wall at equal
distances, just above the foundation,
and at right angles to its face. “Nee
dles,” builders call them. The upper
surface of each needle was profusely
greased, and a smaller needle planed
surface down, inserted along each
larger one. Spur-braces fixed at the
foot in these upper timbers held the
wall plumb. Ten jack-screws, working
horizontally, were set at the ends
on one side of the ten upper
needles. This being done, an eigh
teen-iueh slice was taken off ver
tically from the stable building just
inside the wall. At 7 o’clock yesterdaj’
morning a man at each jack-screw be
gan to work it, and the wall moved in
an inch safely. “Go on !” said the boss
with some little excitement, and this
time one of the ten men did not work
his rack as much as the rest. The
overseers were a little nervous at this,
but tlie wall carried the lazy needle
along with the rest. By 10 o’clock the
4,900 square feet of wall were pushed
up tight against the open side of the
stable, and the whole were perfectly
plumb and unshaken. The men in the
stable pursued their usual avocations
during this performance, which at
tracted a crowd of interested specta
tors.
HE HAH BEEN THERE.
Tennessee as Compared with Texas
and Arkansas—A Consoling Letter
- Native Tennesseeans.
[Letter to the Gallatin Examiner.)
I humbly ask space in the columns
of your good paper for these lines as
they may benefit some of tlie people of
your good county who are looking out
for a home in the Western States. I
will commence with the last named
State. I left tho county of Sumner in
October last to seek my fortune in a
more genial clime. That clime was
Texas—tlie great Lone Star State—de
signed to be the foremost State of the
Union (as these individuals, or railroad
companies tell us.) Companies who
have land to sell are the ones who tell
us of these great “bear tales” about
the unsurpassed resources of Texas.
The name is obnoxious to me because
it is composed of every grade of men
every nationality can afford. They tell
us Texas is the place to get a cheap
home, is fertile of soil, produces well,
etc. 1 acknowledge tlie land is very
good, but you cannot make a crop once
in five years owing to the dry weather.
And then there is scarcely any timber.
You have to get wood from eight to
twelve miles from home for fire purpo
ses. The land is not cheap in the civil
ized parts of the country. You can
get laud very cheup away out on tho
frontier—on the lonely plains and des
erts, where an Indian cannot live much
less men who are raised in a civilized
country. So you see they decoy meu to
emigrate to Texas and get them out
there, kuowing they expend their
all to get to their land of milk and honey
as they would have us believe; and
consequently they put thorn on their
farms, give them just what they please,
do with them as though they were
slaves—ami I think they are—because
they caimot get away. Meu who havo
families are obliged to remain, because
it takes four times as much to take
them away as it did to carry them
there. This is not the case with all;
but the majority are nothing hut slaves.
How can I advise any person to leave
Middle Tennesse. which is a perfect
paradise, comparatively speaking, to
Texas. I had rather own an old peach
orchard in Sumner county than one
hundred acres of the best land Texas
has or ever will have.
I arrived in Dallas, Texas, in Novem
ber last, and fouud it was overrun with
emigrants who could not get employ
ment at anything—brought here by
these meu (seducers as I call them)—
and the city had actually to support
eleven or twelve hundred of them. This
looks like living in Texas, does it not ?
I am a carpenter by trade —came out
here to coin money by getting from
three to five dollars per day ! But lo !
my happy anticipations were blasted !
I could not get employment at any
price—tried most everything, but inva
riably failed. So I absented myself as
quick as possible. I do not wish to
clothe Texas in obloquy, but if the cap
fits her let her wear it. 1 have traveled
through Texas aud this is the case
where I have been. I could write a
good deal more but do not wish to bur
den you with too lengthy a correspon
dence.
Science as is Science.— Just after the
Scientific Association had adjourned
sine die a broad-shouldered fellow,
with a neck as big as a nail-keg and
fists like mauls, entered the hall and
inquired of the janitor :
“ Where’s those fellows as brags
about their science?”
“ Gone home,” was the reply.
“Gone home, eh? Blow tho luck,
but if I hadn’ a missed the boat I’d
been here in time to too a mark with
the best man in the crowd ! Wonder
if Joe Coburn trained any of ’em ?”
Tho janitor wasn’t able to say.—(De
troit Free Press.
“The hardest trial of my life,” said
good old Deacon Banes, “was to shed
tears at the news that my wife’s uncle
had died and left her sixty thousand
dollars,”
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 26.
THE MODERN MONTE-OHRISTO
Ralston's Reckless Social Life- His
Character Compai'ed with, that of
Jim Fisk —Personal Sketches—“ What
are the Wild Waves Saying ?”
Unparalleled Extravagance.
[From Chicago Times, August 28.)
It was in Virginia City that Kalston
became acquainted with Sharon and
Jones, who were then inexperienced
superintendents of mines, working upon
a salary, and with nothing more than
this, except a great deal of presump
tion. They built the Reno and Vir
ginia City Railroad, or rather the Bank
of California did, which was a mo
nopoly ; the bank reached out its ten
tacles and grasped everything finan
cially and commercially. It established
branches in nearly every city. It put
its money into corporations. It finally
got hold of the quicksilver mines, in
which business Ralston had once been
engaged, and soon monopolized the
trade. In short, the institution began
to raise its impregnable head of mo
nopoly.
Ralston at this time became general
ly known as a business man, and his
social life was at the same time a mat
ter of comment amongst the people of
the slope. He was known as the man
who set all social conventionalities at
defiance. He cared nothing for public
opinion. He lived only for W. C. Rals
ton and the pleasures which that indi
vidual experienced. He outraged what
little there was of decency in the min
ing camp, and4ived a life of wild and
almost utter recklessness. He main
tained fast women within a stone’s
throw of his home, where lived his wife
and children, and lavished money and
gems upon abandoned characters in
sufficient sums to make scores inde
pendent for life. Money came and
went like the steady, profuse flow of a
deep stream. He did nothing by piece
meal. In conjunction with his com
panions he scattered wealth with the
lavish hand of a modern Croesus. A
circumstance which happened during
his sojourn in Virginia City will serve
to illustrate as well as could anything
else the prevailing characteristics of this
strange man: John McCullough, the
tragedian, was in the height—of his
glory on the.coast. He made irvisit to
Nevada, and had played several nights
in Virginia City to crowded houses, ne
was a special favorite of Ralston,
Sharon and a couple of others. Mc-
Cullough had closed his engagement
and was ready to leave the city. His
trunks were packed and at the stage
station ready to make their journey to
Reno. It was in the early evening, and
after business hours, when Ralston and
a few others conceived the idea that it
would be a capital idea to have McCul
lough play once more; so they sent
word to him that they wanted him to
appear that night in the “Gladiator.”
John sent back word that it was im
possible; he was prepared to go to San
Francisco, and he could not delay his
journey. This would not do; play he
must, Messengers were sent to bring
his baggage back, to light up to thea
tre, and mako everything ready. The
theatre was a small affair, and would
McCullough saw that it would not do
to refuse the men who had been his best
! patrons and bankers, and so he made
I ready. There was no doorkeeper that
night. It was free to all; but there
; was a man in the box office who sold
! tickets, simply for the sake of appear
ances. It was a grand blow out, gotten
up by the bank people. The receipts
that night amounted to the unprece
dented figure of $13,200, and it was all
contributed by three or four men, most
conspicuous among whom was VV. C.
Ralston. In short, it was a grand
drunk, and money was as free as the
air of heaven. The plan pursued was
for all ooncerned to go to the ticket of
fice and buy SSOO worth of tickets each,
after which all would adjourn to a wine
cellar, and wager a basket of wine that
each one could tear his tickets up in
the soonest time. When they had con
cluded this game the box office was out
of tickets, there was $18,200 in the
till, Mr. McCullough had finished the
play, the floor was strewn with tickets,
and the whole party was as drunk as
men could well get. This, in short,
was the grand incentive which ruled
the nature of W. C. Ralston.
After the excitement, of Virginia Cit}’,
Ralston went to San Francisco and
took charge of the hank as cashier.
That ho was successful, there can be
none to deny. Under the management
of the officers under his regime, the
hank was one of the most successful
institutions on the Continent. It was
looked upon as a bank that was as firm
as the adamantine hills which guard
the Pacific Slope. It was found in
every enterprise that was inaugurated.
It ramified into nearly every town in
the State of California. In short, the
Bank was the State ; it controlled
everything—finances, industries, poli
tics. It was one gigantic combination,
a great moneyed ring.
Prince Erie and Prince Pacific,
[Philadelphia Times.]
The sudden and awful death of Pres
ident Ralston, of the Bank of Califor
nia, whether it was voluntary or in
voluntary, is a fitting climax to his life.
Like the bold spirits of the border, who
sport with life and gamble on the
chances of existence, he died with his
boots on. Fortune had been his foot
ball, kicked about at his pleasure, and
tossed to either goal without regard to
the profit or loss of the outside world.
His means were those of the adventu
rer, his operations those of a great
conqueror. Like James Fisk, Jr., whom
he resembled in many respects, he won
by his audacity. No scheme was too
great for him, no speculation too wild.
He grappled with problems before
which the Rothschilds would have re
treated in dismay, and ran after bub
bles so thin that a child might
have detected their texture. Mr.
Ralston began low down on the ladder
of life, and like men who rise was not
satisfied with his elevation. Babel-like,
he aspired to climb to the skies, and in
so doing became the architect of his
own ruin. The humble steamboat olerk
became the cashier of the greatest
banking institutisn on the ..continent
and then its president, but he must
wear the imperial purple and lord it
over the destinies of millions of people.
He was the head of an immense bank;
mined gold, owned railroads and man
aged a great hotel. Like Mr. Merdle,
in Dickon’s story, he was immensely
rich, “a man of prodigious enterprise,
a Midas without the ears, who turnod
all he touched into gold. Ho was in
everything good, from banking to
building. He was chairman of this,
trustee of that, president of the
other. The weightiest of men had
said to projectors; ‘Now, what name
have you got? Have you got Merdle?’
And the reply being in the negative,
had said: ‘Then I won’t look at you,’ ”
That was Ralston, He had his finger
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On and after this date (April 21. 1875.) aU
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
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Announcing or suggesting Candidates for
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and valuable special news paid for if used. ’
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides
in every pie, and he was baking all the
time. Ho was a great improver and a
mighty developer. Rich as California
was lie sought to make it richer. The
old ways of amassing wealth were slow,
commonplace and costly, and this man,
who w<ts a sort of human Keely motor,
applied the needed force and speed.
The result is the explosion which has
scattered his own fortune and t hose of
other people, and shaken the financial
world. One thing can be said in favor
of the dead man—he was honest. What
he did was for the general good,
and if his notion was mistaken his pur
pose was right. But notwithstanding
this, his life was evil and his example
unwholesome. These bold, successful
men of business whom we so thought
lessly worship do more harm than
good. Fisk intoxicated the whole East
with his delirious spaculations, and
Ralston set California wild by his mad
cap ventures. Both taught a contempt
for the plain, safe paths of trade, and
tried to run a railroad to the kingdc m
of riches. It was not thus that the
Jewish banker of Frankfort builded,
neither is it thus that the foundations
of enduring prosperity are laid. It is
better to be a servant of fortune than
a prince.
His Liberal Spirit.
[N. Y. World Correspondence.]
The unfortunate Mr. W. C. Ralston
was eminently a man of the people,
plain, unsophisticated in his manners,
with a heart overflowing with kindness
and generositj\ He seems to have been
one of those practical princes of man
kind whom the eastern fables delight
in painting—rulers who aim to make
ail mankind happy and content. Riches
to him seemed only a means to obtain
the desired end of giving employment
to the multitude and bettering their
condition. Now that ho is no more it
may well be doubted whether his noble
instincts for the welfare of his fellow
men were not even greater than his un
rivalled capacity for enterprise.
Both, alas! wero too great for eveu
the resources of his once great wealth,
backed by the immense resources of
the Bank of California. He was ( so I
often spoke of him in his own city only
a mouth ago) ahead of his time. When
the gieat wealth of the Nevada and
California mines yield their $50,000 000
a month, and not in a year, a Ralston
may be looked for in vain. In other
words, a time will come, and perhaps
soon, too, when the resources of Cali
fornia will find that the greatest catas
trophe of the memorable 26th and 27th
of August, 1875, was not the failure of
the Bank of California, but the loss of
a man. And in this sad reflection his
bereaved family, who have lived in the
sunlight of Mr. Ralston’s fame for all
that is good and benevolent, may find
some consolation. j. s. m.
The Secret of the Deep.
[World Editorial.)
And now, the wild waves of the Pa
cific hold the secret of the final and
fatal steps by which this great institu
tion, originally founded to assure the
capital invested in the legitimate de
velopment of the great and opulent
young Commonwealth on its shores,
has been precipitated into
WH?. AtWFW TOTni^uf^o’uglii tsfeep?
PRE-NATAL HOMICIDE.
Why New England Women are Not
Prolific—Religion not the Cause.
IChicago Tribune.]
In our last issue we made some com
ments upon the recent unfair and prej
udiced allusions of Archbishop Lynch,
of Toronto, to “ungodly” New England,
with reference to its alleged diminution
of population by reason of its lack of
godliness, and showed the fallacy of
his reasoning by applying it to Franco,
whose population, being of the good
Bishop’s own faith, practices pre-natal
homicide more than any other nation.
We furthor showed that the promi
nent cause for the decline of popu
lation and the decrease in the size of
families in New England, as compared
with those of a century ago was due
mainly to the fact that the women are
less robust and hardy than their fore
mothers, and take less outdoor exer
cise, and illustrated the truth of the
assertion by reference to the same race
in England, where the families, al
though wealthy and refined, are very
large, because they live out of doors,
and take a great deal of physical exer
cise. This fact might be still further
illustrated by reference to Germany.
The German families are very large as
a rule. Among tho lower classes, the
women labor hard in the fields, and
are strong, tough and sturdy. All
classes live out of doors. The Germen
men, although they have few hall
games, indulge in athletic feats of vari
ous descriptions, such as walking, run
ning, jumping, lifting and turning. The
German ladies are constantly out
of doors, leading active lives, and are
strong and healthy as a consequence.
Another cause of the decline of fami
lies in New England is easily attributa
ble to the fact of the enormous drain
of youDg men from those States, who
emigrate in search of employment and
new fields of enterprise, and thus leave
the towns and villages filled with lone
ly old maids. All over New England
the country villages are full of old peo
ple and spinsters. The large majority
of the young men leave at an early
age and do not return. Numerous
other causes might bo named, but suf
ficient have already been advanced to
show the absurdity of the Canadian
Archbishop’s foolish and ill-tempered
attack upon New England.
m • i
Rev. Wayland Hoyt, who is traveling
in Europe, writes to "the Boston Journal
of his visit to the Houses of Parlia
ment, and of a well known member :
“An unpopular member has a hard
time in the House of Commons. Dr.
Kenealey—the notorious advocate of
the notorious Tichborne claimant—is
manifestly an unpopular member. It
is duo to him to say that he is the best
speaker I heard. His voice is clear
and strong, his words are aotlv chosen,
his manner quite commanding. But
when he rose to speak you should have
heard tho House of Commons. Laugh
ter, cries of ‘Oh ! ’ groaniugs, and an
indescribable sound the reporters here
call ‘ murmurs.’ These were kept up
throughout the entire speech. It was
impossible, except now and then, to
hear a word. But Dr. Kenealey kept
at it undismayed, and the House kept
at it.”
A stone-bruise on a boy’s foot will
not prevent him from walking around
all day if a circus is in town, but let
his mother ask him to bring in some
wood apd that foot completely dis
ables him,.
Red Ants.— Take ten cents worth of
carbolic acid to one quart of water,
sprinkle on your shelves, and ants will
take themselvos away, and if they re
turn repeat the dose, and you will be
troubled uo more,