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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 5 00 “ three months 2 50 Tri-Weekly—one year 5 oo " six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 oo " six months 1 oo Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, 2)4 cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper ■frill be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN. ( Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.' Sunday Morning, August 29, 1875. The Mexicans have commenced another merry cattle dance on the Rio Grande. They are now laying in their winter sup plies. The garrison of Seo de Urgel has sur rendered. The cause of Don Carlos looks like it has gone up. That’s one tight in which we haven’t taken sides. The reception of live bales of new cotton yesterday unerringly indicates that the Fall trade will soon open. Our advertising eolums this morning show that our mer chants are ready for it. The broken, “busted,” collapsed specie paying Bank of California will be on tap in Ohio until further advices. Ancient Wil liam Allen will commence to-morrow asking several people to explain. The Tripolitans have caved. They waited until they saw Captain Scott, and came down without his shooting. The insuit to Vidal has been avenged, and the American Eagle' can proceed on its majestic flight. Ouk Atlanta correspondence fairly bristles with plots and counter-plots of Re publican officials. The factions led respect ively by Jack Brown and “ Potash ” Far row seem to be in deadly hostility and, as usual, the cause of the quarrel is the con trol of the Slate patronage ami a division of the spoils of office. President Ralston was too big a mon etary fish for the accommodating San Francisco Doctors to permit to swim the Stygian river labeled “A Suicide.” They now say he had apoplexy just after he was dismissed from the broken bank, and that lie fell off the wharf and was accidentally drowned! Too thin! - . The Commissioner for the purchase of the Black Hills will meet at Red Cloud Agency to-morrow. Several of the tribes interested have declared they would not sell, hut an Indian protest makes little difference when the white man want * to move into his country. He is at best a most worthless iucumberer or the ground, and will be told to “ move on ” until there Is no Indian to go anywhere. During his sojourn iu Augusta, Mr. Harry Wilde, of the New Orleans Picayune, visited our upper river region. Being a young man of vivid imagination, lie saw a great many things invisible to the common-place observer. As an evidence f this fact, we publish this morning an Indian legend of his concoction, which is no doubt as veracious a chronicle as any other romance of the same character. The failuro of the great manufacturing establishment, the largest in the United States, and of the house of Juan De Mier &, Cos., are announced this morning. Verily are the Northern people beginning to feel in earnest “the results of the war.” In crushing and ruining the South they killed the goose which laid their golden egg. Failures to the extent of fifteen millions in three days show that the day of calamity is at hand. The Turk pretends that he is making great preparations to crush the Herzego vinian rebellion. Mehemet Ali has been appointed commander-in-chief of the active army, the failure of the great Powers to mediate is foreshadowed this morning, l he Russian Consul who was to represent that Power in the Congress has suddenly, if not conveniently, fallen too sick to attend to the business immediately in hand! Rus sia never had the remotest idea from the beginning of throwing the slightb-t obsta cle in the way of the progress of that war, and if she don’t take a hand in it before it is over she will surprise us very much. We give this morning a very interesting letter from Sandersville upon the insurrec tion, written by one of the first journalists of the State, who is there for the purpose of investigating that affair to the bottom. The trial of the prisoners commences be fore Judge Hl kschel V. Johnson to-mor row morning, amos T. Akerman, the par ticular friend of the negro, and perhaps the ablest man in the Radical party in Georgia, has been appointed to defend the insurrec tion prisoners. They have, negro like, summoned one hundred and twenty-five witnesses. This investigation is looked forward to with great interest, not only by our own, hut by people all over the country. , We give this morning some more addi tional details of the failure of the great Bank of California, whose liabilities are put down in round numbers at fourteen million dollars, and assets at seven million, the worst break that ever happened in the United States. And this, too, n a country running upon the gold basis. Ralston, its President, committed suicide. He had con cealed the real condition of the Bank from its directors up to the last moment, but how any set of men pretending to direct the affairs of a cone >rn could allow it to iun seven millions in debt over its assets, without their knowledge, is anew chap’er in banking. There seems to be no abate ment in the excitement on the Pacilic slope and confidence is lost in every monied insti tution. Will the crash cross the Rocky Mountains? We have.received a communication from a friend upon the subject of a pen of hogs in this city. We were glad to get it, for the reason that it gave us the information that a line lot of porkers were being fattened of Augusta home-made hogs and for home consumption. Our friend complains that they are here, but as we dream of back bones, spare ribs and sausages high ly flavored with sage, we can’t stand anything favoring driving them off. We regret there are not more of them lying around in pens. We submit that the hog is a prime necessity. He is cash in hand if he is a native and to the manner born. And were we to see a drove of Georgia hogs coming into, this town we would sign a petition, with considerable enthusiasm, to Col. Barrett to order out tiie battalion to ofTer them a salute. No, sir, your article is well written and in a good hand, but our voico is at present for the hog. Our Charleston correspondent repre sents a curions condition of affairs in the City by the Sea. To an Augusta man such discords as exist’there are almost incom prehensible. We fear that the reform pol icy adopted since the war has borne bitter fruit, since there seems to bo no standard of principle anywhere to rally around and leade ship on the side of Democ racy is wofully lacking. When Ger mans coalesce with Bowen, Irish with Cunningham, and the men most in terested in good government take no part in shaping the political destiny of the citv, the situation is at once chaotic and unpromising. With a white vote al most if not quite equal to that of the ne groes, Charleston should be a free city in the hands of its best men. What demoral izing influences have brought about the present discreditable state of affairs, we leave the reader to conjecture. It appears to us that “ reform,” so-called, has been disastrous, and, In the discord consequent upon such a programme, the rogues have imprisoned the honest men. tk Stogtista CifetitwtwMlfet Established 1799. THE INSURRECTIONISTS. Amos T. Akerman Appointed to De fend Them—They Have 225 Wit nesses. [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Sandersville, Ga., via Tennille, { August 29th, 1875. f The trial of the insurrec ion prison ers begins here on Monday. Ex-United States Attorney General Amos T. Akerman has been retained to defend Candy Harris and other prison ers, and 225 witnesses wer subpoenod to-day for the defense. Attorney General Hammond and Judge Herschel Y. Johnson will arrive to-morrow. D jtcuer. - THE BROKEN BANK. The Suicide of President Ralston—A Financial Crisis on the Pacific Slope —Liabilities of the Bank $1.4000,000, Assets $7,000,000. San Francisco, August 28—Mid night.—It is difficult to state the effect of Ralston's failure upon bis manufac turing enterprizes. It is feared the Kimball Manufacturing Company will be unable to stand the shork. The rolling mills are in better condition. The Cornell watch factory will be seri ously crippled. The effect on mining stocks cannot be estimated. All busi ness iu that line is suspended. Ralston is quoted, “I tell you this failure is the result of a persistent effort for mouths to break this bank.” La ter—Directors applied to Flood & O'Brien on the day of the failure for relief, offering that firm the entire paid up stock of the bank, §5,000,000; also one million and a half in tank and an additional million to be assessed on the stockholders—iu all seven and a half millions—provided Flood & O’Brien would assume the liabilities of the bank. The proposition was re jected and the bank compelled to sus pend. No doubt the liabilities of the bank are $14,000,000; assets, 7,000,000, which will probably shrink before re alized. The true condition of the bank was concealed from the Directors till Thursday. At a full meeting of the Directors yesterday, Ralston entered and asked to resign. Ralston resigned. Ralston was then ordered to leave the room. The Board was still iu session when his drowning was announced. The stockholders will lose their stock, and to meet their liabilities, will be compelled to stand an assessment of fifty per cent. Ralston Poisoned Himself. San Francisco, August 28. — A meet ing of the directors of the Bank of Cali fornia requested President Ralston to resign which he did. It is belie ved he took poison before going into the water. He was still alive when brought ashore but all efforts of physicians failed to restore him. Suicide Denied by Accommodating Doctors. San Francisco, August 28.— Later in formation tends strongly to disprove the theory of suicide, and statements of the attending physicians go to show that the death of Ralston resulted from apoplexy while bathing. Yester day Mr. Ralston transferred all his property to Senator Win. Sharon, for the benefit of his creditors, and . Mr. Sharon, in receiving the trust, pledged his honor to stand by his old fiiend to the last dollar of his own private for tune. The affairs of the Bank of California have been put iu the bauds of an exec utive committee consistiug of William Alvord and Geo. H. Howard. Tlie Ralston Inquest—The Situation. San Francisco, August 28. —The in quest has commenced on the body of President Ralston. The Bank of Cala fornia is dressed in mourning. Everything is quiet on Calafornia street and matters are assuming their usual aspect. The rumors relative to a popular feel ing and demonstrations against the Bulletin and Call because they had steadily opposed Ralston’s policy in political affairs were idle utterances of excited individuals, and incendiary ef forts on the part of some persons per sonally and politically hostile to those journals to create enmity against them, but their attempts fell atill-boru. List of the Stockholders, The following are the names of some of tiie principal stockholders: The Barron estate, Thomas Bell, Nicholas Luning, Moses Edis, Captain J. B. Thomas, Asa S. Hampton, George Howard, William Norris, John O. Earle, John Parrott, D. J. Tallant, Michael Reese, D. O. Mills, Mark Liv ingstone and O. F. Giffans. Notes in the Hands of Travelers. London, August 28.—The Morning Standard, in its financial column, says the circular notes of the Bank of Cali fornia are somewhat largely hfld by travelers, but they may soon be paid under arrangements now pending. — % CONSOLIDATION OF TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. The Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific Merge. New York, August 28.—At the execu tive offices of the Western Union Tele graph Company this p. rn., a reporter ascertained that a committeo of that company and of the Atlantic and Pa cific Telegraph Company, have effected a consolidation in favor of a Daeeof the property of the Atlantic and Pacific by the Western Union Company, sub ject only to a ratification by their re spective Boards of Directors. The At lantic and Pacific has been treated at a capitalization of two and a half mil lions instead of ten million stock out standing, but the committies decline to state for the present whether the rental is to be fixed or graduated on the pro fits of the Western Union Telegraph Company. THE TURF. Long Branch Races. Long Branch, August 28.—1n the 2>£ mile race, for all ages, Galway was the winner, Osage 2d, Nettie Norton 3d. — Time, 4:10%. In the one mile Consolation 3takes, B. F. Carver was the winner. Time, 1:46%. In the two-mile heats Warrior won the first. Time, 3:43>2. Also second, in 3:44%. Trenton, N. J., August 28.—Josephus Savy, Jr., State Treasurer, is a de faulter for $50,000. His bondsmen are abundantly good. Pittsuurg, August 28. —Jessie York was kindling a fire with kerosene, and is dead.. House with contents burned. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Coroner’s Inquest in the Royal Yateht Collision. Plymouth, England, August 28.—One of the Coroner’s jury in the Royal Yacht collision inquest announces that all of the jurors favored a verdict of accidental death, but differed as to the blame attaching to idividual officers. The feeling against the officers of the Royal Yacht is very strong. Some of them were molested ou the street by a mob. The War In Spain—Surrender of Seo De Urgel Madrid, August 29.—The garrison of Seo de Urgel surrendered as prisoners of war. Paris, August 29.—A dispatch from Perpiguau says the news of the sur render of Seo de Urgel is doubted here. The latest dis patch from Gen. Campos was dated on the eve of the 26th and says: The Carlists still re fuse to become prisoners. I shall probably grant a further brief suspen sion of hostilities, after which, if they remain obstinate, 1 shall attack the citadel.” Madrid, August 28. —General Mar tinez Campos telegraphed on Thursday night that the forts of Seo de Urgel had surrendered, and the citadel would surrender next day. The War in Turkey—Mehemett Ali, Chief Commander of the Turks. Ragusa, August 28.—Mehemett Ali has been appointed Commander iu Chief of the Turkish forces in Herze govina and Bosnia. He arrived here yesterday on his way to Serajero to assume command. Servia Pasha, Ex traordinary Commissioner of the Porte, passed here yesterday on the steamer going to Kleck. The steamer also car ried troops and artillery. Representa tives of foreign powers will meet in Mostar aud attempt pacification. London, August 28.—A special dis patch to the Times from Berlin says it is reported that the Russian Consul at Ragusa is too ill to take partin the pro posed mediation of the Powers between the insurgents and Turkish Govern ment. If this is really the case, the task of other foreign consuls, never very hopeful, becomes less so. Three thousand Turkish Croats have crossed tfie Danube into Austrian territory, and expect to be maintained by Austria during their exile. Military prepara tions go ou steadily in Servia, but it is difficult to say whether they are made to satisfy the impatience of the people or to guard against a serious contin gency. A dispatch from Krujevacz, the old capital of Servia, announces that the new legislative chamber met to-day, but nothing but routine business pre liminary to organization was done. The session will be formally opened by Prince Milan in a few days. Religious Fanatics in France. Paris, August 28.—A pilgrimage from Germany is exciting considerable dis cussion iu France. Le Moniteur says France is open to all foreigners, but that the Government is entitled to and will oppose all assemblages or dis plays of banners and insignia calcu lated to disturb public order, auu it will li-t fail iu its duty. The Govern ment and public opinion of France agree that it is their duty to abstain from interference with discussions and conflicts in Germany between Church and State, and for the sake of peace, which is dear to us and desirable to the Germans, to avoid making French ter ritory thu scene of their religious dis cussions. Tlic Foot and Mouth Disease. London, August 28.—The foot and mouth disease is spreading among cat tle in Cumberland and Aberdeenshire. Shanghai, August 28.—Mr. Wade, British Minister, when recently visiting the Department of Secretaries of State, was kept waiting in an ante by Li Hung Chang, Viceroy of Pekin, and one of the Secretaries of State. Mr. Wade was offended and withdrew. The Viceroy apologized immediately and nothing serious followed. The Royal Yacht Collision. London, August 28. —A special dis patch to the Evening Standard says the rumored majority of the jury of in quest was in favor of a verdict of man slaughter agaiust the officers of the Royal Yacht, which ran down the Mis tletoe. A German Catholic Higera. London, August 28.—The Times cor respondent of Berlin, telegraphs that the Pope sent his special blessing to the prompters of the Catholic Pilgrim age to France. It seems certain that the project will be carried out, To avoid collisions, the Pilgrims will leave Germany one by one and rendezvous at Mons and Paris. An Editor Sent to Jail Frankfort-on-the-Main. —August 28. —Leopold Sonnemau, editor and pro prietor of the Frankfort Zeitung, and member of the German Parliament, was arrested this morning for refusing to testify as to the authorship of cer tain articles. For the same reason, five other editors of that paper are al ready imprisoned. ♦ m CRASH? CRASH! CRASH! WE GO. Failure of the Great House of A. Cow ing & Co.—Collapse of Juan DeMeir & Cos. New York, August 28.—A. Cowing & Cos., one of the largest manufacturing firms in the United States, have made an assignment to Wm. B. Lathrop, of Seneca Falls, where tjieir factory is. They have a large concern in Murray street, in this city, and depots in Chi cago, St. Louis, Kansas City and other places. John P. Cowing, founder of the firm, although not now a member thereof, says he will give up everything to pay creditors. He charges the dis aster to gross mismanagement. Juan DeMeir & Cos., soap and Hour merchants, have suspended. Liabili ties estimated at $300,000 to $500,000. They were carrying a large stock of hides. The Broken Sugar Refinery. Baltimore, August 28.—The joint committee of the directors and credit ors of the Calvert Sugar Refining Com pany has been busily engaged all day examing the books of the concern. It is thought the committee will not con clude its labors before Thursday, and have issued a call for a general meet ing of creditors to hear their report ou that day. THE TRIPOLITAN COMES DOWN. He Makes an Apology ami the Ameri can Eagle all Right. Malta, August 28. —The Hartford is here homeward bound. The difficulty between the American consul and Tri politans was settled on Thursday. An apology was made, by order of the Porte. The affair originated in some seaman entering the consuls garden for matches. GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1875. FROM WASHINGTON. Contract for Printing—lnternal Reve nue Operations. Washington, August 28.—The con tract for printing check stamps was awarded to the Graphic Company of New YoVk, Internal Revenue receipts to-day, $371,152.40; for the month, $8;174.902.10; for the fiscal year, $18,056,170; cus tom receipts to-day, $655,503; for the month, $13,495,065.54; for the fiscal year, $27,821,474.09; national bank notes outstanding, $348,725,018, of which $2,640,000 are in national gold bank notes; bonds held by the United States Treasurer as security for na tional bank circulation, $374,531,762, and for deposits of public monies, $18,792,200; national bank notes re eeived during the week for redemp tion, $5,010,147; legal tenders shipped duiing the week, $2,715,643. Treasury balances—currency, $3,674,478; special deposit of legal tenders for redemp tion of certificates of deposit, $64,225,- 000; coin, $70,223,690; including coin certificates, $17,510,400; outstanding legal tenders, $374,755,108. Edwin B. Smith has been appointed Assistant Attorney General. Mexican Raids into Texas. Information has been received here from a prominent officer on the Rio Grande, to the effect that cattle steal ing aud murders of. peaceable Ameri can citizens are still perpetrated by Mexican marauders, and in all proba bility they will continue, in spite of the forces we can send there, unless we can break up the bauds of assassins and thieves ou either side of the river, and as far in the interior of Mexico as may bo found necessary. Special River Report. 7:30 p. m. — The Mississippi has fallen two inches at St. Louis, eighteen inches at Cairo, twenty-eight inches at Mem phis, one inch at Vicksburg, aud twenty six inches at Helena. It has risen one iuch at New Orleans. FROM NEW YORK. Grant New Post Office Editor Drowned. New York, August 28.—President Grant and party are ou board the Rev enue Cutter. Grant conveyed Mr. aud Mrs. Sartoris down the bay this after noon. the latter sailing for England on the Baltic. The new post offiee building is iu ac tive operation, business having been removed from the old building at 10 o’clock to-night. Henry G. Lambert, publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Post, was drowned yes terday while bathing. Minor Telegrams. New York, August 28. —Last night, in a quarrel between Captain Laurence, of the schooner Josephine Potts, lying off City Island, and his mate, the former was killed by a blow from a hatchet.— The murderer escaped ; his name is un known. Syracuse, N. Y., August 28. — Colonel E. W. Longstreet, formerly of the firm of Longstreet & Denison, leather deal ers, was found insensible from lauda num and chloroform, and is dead. Fi nancial troubles. Indianapolis, August 28. —Rev. Isaac Dermau, a well known Baptist minister, aged 80 years, was killed at Lodi, Ind., tiiis afternoon, by being run over by a train. Bangor, Me., August 28. —The iron safe of Gates &jßutterfleld, at Lincoln Centre, was blown open with gunpow der by burglars last night and robbed of a large amount; of money. The thieves escaped with die plunder. Boston, August 23.—The Bank of Calaforuia failure has very little effect here, as tlie merchants being advised of the stringency in Calaforuia took the requisite precautions, aud thereby saved themselves from loss. His Honor and the Barber. [Vicksburg Herald.] “Tommy Jones!” tied his Honor, calling the next name on the docket, and a sleek-faced mulatto presented himself. Tommy’s look3 showed that he had been imbibing freely from the cup that cheers, and also inebriates, and his Honor was-about: tc administer a short lecture on temperance, when the prisoner addressed tlfe Court in tones of melting pity: “I Rope you’ll’scuse me dis time, as dis L my fust repear ance before you.” “Ah ! I see,” said His Honor, “your first appearance, only in amateur,” etc., etc. “What is your avocation, Tommy?” “Sir?” • j “What is your pursuit in life ?” “Ye-es sar.” \ “Yes sir, what ? Wpat do you do for a living ?’ S “Oh, sar,” replied vTommy, “I'se a barber.” “Oh, ho !” said His Honor, “you’re a barber, are you ? One. of those sleek, oily fellows who try t : rub all the hair off man’s head, drop grease on his shirt front, stick your finger in his, and then when you have thumped him about to your heart’s content, knock the prop from under himj aud then with unblushing audacity hfdloa ‘Next!’ ” “ Don’t answer me, I've got the floor, and I’m going to kee p it till I’ve had my say. I know you fellows, and I know your tricks and your manners. You put on a heap o' style, call your selves ‘tonsorial artists,’ and when I go into one of your establishments to be shaved in a grea;, hurry, you put soap all over my face, and then keep me waiting till you sharpen your razor. “Don’t say a word; you know it is so. You always wait until a customer comes in in a hurry to sharpen your razor, when you might have it already in order; and then you try to talk him to death while you scrape his head with your finger nails. Your jokes are as old as your combs and brushes, and as dull as your razors. Drunkenness is a small offense compared to the many others of which you are guilty. I will let you off this time ten dollars, but if I catch you again ;|ou go the work house for life. ?. Cockroaches thatge-; into the scissors man’s paste cup are reprehensible vag abonds, but they are welcome visitors compared with the man who calls the editor “Colonel.” There is a newspaper in Nebraska whose staff, from the highest to lowest, editors, reporters, pniof-readers, com positors, and all, are| obliged to dress in uniform. It is published in the State penitentiary. i Little slips of papjr, on which is printed, “ Don’t sweat,” are stuck up oil nearly all the corners in Boston. The Hubbite stops ;nd reads them each time, and then t; iere is an emis sion of a damn for being reminded of it so often, which slightly ruffles the gentle, Puritanical air.; LETTER FROM ATLANTA. Jack Brown aud Potash Farrow- Row Among the Radicals That ‘’Port of Entry”—The Herald and Colonel Sawyer—How to Stop Chin- Music—Pride and Want—Principles aud Potatoes. [From Our Regular Correspondent.] Atlanta, August 27, 1875. The holders of certain offices under the present Administration are on eggs. There is something wrong, and a good deal of deuced uncertainty about the favored few that has caused a conster nation in camp ; and the familiar mugs that a short time ago wore the benign smile of fat contentment and juicy per manency, now carry a ragged look of doleful anxiety and momentarily ex pected saddeuuess. The little under current of prejudicial parley aud polit ical puffing that has flowed in Wash ington and Atlanta alternately has forced its way up through the sly crust of disagreeableness, aud now runs along above ground, exposing to the view of the outside element all the little tricks and didos cut up in the city of magnificent cross-roads by which the aforesaid certain offices were procured and held. During the time Jack Brown was put ting in his biggest licks for the Internal Revenue Collectorship, Col. H. P. Farrow was hard at work against him. Per haps he had good and sufficient rea sons to show why Brown shouldn’t be appointed. At any rate the Colonel failed to substantiate his charges or make good his reasons, aud Brown came out with the feather iu his cap. The failure on the part of the Colonel to make a good case against Jack rath er loosened the dirt around his own fig tree. The powers that be in Washing ton also detected a lukewarmness of faith and loyalty in the hitherto genial ardor of the Colonel, and it soon oc curred to them that a uevv District At torney might be appointed who could wear the ermine to better advantage to the party than he of potash fame. This turn of affairs soon oozed out or the undercurrent aud became known to the loilty here. Then H. P.’s friends hustled together and swore eternal al legiance to his highness, whilst Jack Brown’s right hand men claimed and took the defensive. The iuevitable re sult was a crevice in the party stone and the organization of two factious, each bent on annihilating the other. Enough telegrams aud letters, to say nothing of verbal messages, have been sent to Washington to depose any offi cer in the land. Thicker than leaves that strew the brooks iu Valam brosa these tender missives flew between the touchingly interested. Of course, this flow of red tape protests, and other inflammatory literature, had its effect. At first we had the germ of a rumor that Farrow would be re moved. Then the germ developed, aud the rumor blossomed into the fact that he would positively be removed. That pronunciamento having gone out, the highly interested audience are perched upon the loftier branches of curiosity, awaiting -the shifting of the scenes by the shifters in Washington to gaze upon the happy countenance of the lucky successor. Jack Brown, hardly waiting for the ink on his commission as Collector to dry, feels it in his manly bosom that he will fit the vacant groove, and his friends mingle their tears in wishing to find one among themselves who will be called upon to do their glo rious country service in Jack’s collect ing shoes. The situation, as summed up, is, that Farrow'will be ousted, and Brown will tako his place. As to who will take Brown’s place, is a question time and circumstance will answer. Col. W. 11. McWhorter is spoken ol' as Brown’s successor. There’s no telliug, however. When a man holds an office under this government, especially at a time fraught with the strategy and cunning of heads that can see the end of their own row at the end of the quartette term, he might as well have another position cocked and primed, for his place is as uncertain as the aim of a new mule’s rear foot. He stands on the crumbling edge of a yawning pit, when the least movement in either di rection will send him headlong into the dark depths of political disappoint ment and aspiring consequence. By my next letter, I shall be made familiar with all the points in the case. The great question will be settled by that time, and I can then write more definitely. The Custom House. It was a lofty tumble for Atlanta’s pride when it came to light the other day that she was not yet a port of entry, and the building to be erected on the $60,000 lot was not going to be a custom houso but a court house and post office. It is really too bad that, after all this talk and blow and boasting of our custom house, to dis cover just on the heel of tiie warm Summer that we have cool ed ourselves off in the soothing breezes of importance for nothing at all. The average Atlanta man slams the bee-gum of enterprise over his pro gressive eyes and stalks forth upon the busy boulevards in the agony of bitter disappointment and the dark gloom of despair. The terrific suddenness of that startling disclosure has frightened Atlanta out of a year’s growth, and wrapped her in a mantle of sack-cloth that the enterprise and energy of her progressive people can’t take qff for months to come. To mention custom house now to the Atlantese is to offer an insult that nothing short of blood can wipe out. Gen. Gordon soothingly promises, however, as a sort of balm for the sor rowful wound, that he will supplement the bill appropriating $50,000 to build the court house at Atlanta with a clause making the city a port of entry. Until then, the tears that exude from her people’s eyes will surpass in co piousness the aqueous supply from her $300,000 water works. Journalistic. The Daily Herald has purchased a half interest in the Evening Common -. wealth , and the latter is now run as the evening edition of the former in a neat quarto form. The reason of this sud den addition to its strength arises pro bably from the fact that Colonel Saw yer, the editor of the Commonwealth, has for some time past thrown hot shot into one of the proprietors of the Herald, Mr. Kimball. Sawyer loves his State with a love too pure and too loyal to eulogize and exalt the acts of any man who is supposed to have lent a helping hand to defraud the people of their money. So Sawyer blazed away at what he calls the “developer” until the Herald thought beet to tuck him under her wide-spreading wings and with a little admonishing put her finger on his mouth, and thus prevent fur ther attacks. Strike. Eighty-five cents a day Is small pay for a grown man. It is squeezing a man’s living through the small end of the horn of dilemma. It is chopping his daily meat into hash-size pieces, and griuding his hard-earned bread back into flour. It is bringing him down to hygienic diet and water cure principle. Yet that is the glittering inducement held out to the laboring men of Atlanta by the liberal-souled contractor for building the new Court House. Cause—a greed for gain. Effect—a strike. But tbe in dignant blood of the plebeian has to simmer down to sober coolness when merciless hunger tickles the vitals and grim want gnaws holes at the knees and elbows. And yesterday, as the many striking laborers stood amid the excavation, looking upon two or three hunger-conquered men who had braved the sneers and jeers of their com panions and gone to work for the gener ous offer of 85 cents, a strange strug gle wa3 felt by every man. That strug gle was between pride and want. In many the pride went out like a flicker ing light aud they silently took up their spades and shovels aud went to work with the one consolation that half a loaf is better than no loaf. Martha. LETTER FROM WARREN. Tlie Grangers aud Their Costumes - The Hay Seed Fallacy—Chin Music on the Creek—Old Relics—Crops— Brighter Days Coming, [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Warren County, August 26,1875. When I first came among these peo ple I was so simple as to suppose that the Grangers wore the costume of their Order while engaged at work—that t hey sported a sort of sash when stripp ing fodder, or wore a rosette while shelling peas. This was a delusion of mine, for in this matter of dress they adhere closely to the fashions of their ancestors who, with a remarkable in dependence, did not decline to follow the plow in their shirt sleeves or such other parts of that garment as fancy would suggest or circumstances would require. They assume the regalia of the brotherhood only periodically and during the progess of festivals; and as to the lady Grangers wear ing grass in their hair it is only a pretty metaphor. I must confess a measure of disappointment about this latter matter, as I had anticipated some gratification in observing the novelty and, perhaps, the elegance of a chignon of grass, with nuts coquettish ly grouped in coronet. Respecting the hay seed which the gentlemen of the community are supposed to affect fora head dress, I felt no degree of interest, since I have often observed farmers with all manner of seed not alone in their hair but over their entire person without looking any the better by it. Consequently, I am indifferent to learn that the hay seed is fallacious tnd mythical. Since I last wrote you I have been over to the forks of the creek—nobody knows the name of the creek—where I went to serenade an -old army friend with a little chin music. In endeavor ing to keep the straight road to his house, as I was told to do—these peo ple never tell you to keep any other sort—l suddenly came up to the town of Wrightsboro, a place celebrated as a seat of learning as long ago as 1790, about which time the far famed Acad emy of Mr. Michael St. John (a spirited picture of which gentleman, by the way, may be seen in any volume of “Georgia Scenes”) offered such spe cious inducements to the parents aud guardians of the country. Attracted by the unattractiveness of this vain metropolis, which Belongs essentially to the tobacco epoch of Georgia, I dismounted, and finding myself imme diately at the town cemetery, I hastened > to search about, the old tomb stones'for such items of interest as presented on their faces. The following inscrip tion, which appears on one of the slabs, while it tells the history of a turbulent Irishman, assertoth the claim of Wrightsborough for centennial honors : “Thomas White, Born in Dublin city, 1753, Emigrated to this place in 1773, Married our mother in 1776, Was lighting for liberty over these hills in 1777, and left the field not a captive but a conqueror in 1841.” Leaving Thomas White under the daisies where I found him, I stepped into town with my mind on Tom’s old associations ; and as I stood, surround ed with old, decaying tenements, all cotemporary with the Revolution, so dissimilar in style from anything I bad ever seen, I could scarcely repress the idea that if I ever were to take a long pole and carefully poke about among the sills and rafters of these old houses, I would certaiuly jump an old Continen tal soldier or two, who, brushing the dust of a century from their eyes, would scud across the country, in their knee breeches, with cheers for AVashington or cries for quarter, as the occasion might require. Quitting this ancient mistress of arms and the arts, illustrated respec tively by Thos. White, soldier, and M. St. John, scientist, I kept the straight road, found the forks of the creek and the Colonel, and am back in the piney woods. From my own observation and from what I gather from the people, I judge the corn crop is below an average one, though there is no doubt but that the outturn of the cotton crop will be fully as large or larger than that of last year. I speak of the lower part of Warren particularly, though of the county gen erally. lam glad to believe that the people of all Middle Georgia are pro spectively better off thau heretofore since the war. The withdrawal of credit by tiie factors generally has necessitat ed the making of what is now being gathered at a much lower cost of pro duction than perhaps ever before. Of course the year has been a desperately hard one to the people; but, having had to “carry their own skillet” thus far, and to eat the buttons off their coats until corn matured, they now have the satisfaction of hav ing won their independence, in a measure, the coming year. So, under the circumstances, I wouldn’t wonder if the people were to borrow for the nonce, the old Indian custom of dancing about the ripened corn; indeed, I guarantee that there’s many a schot tische being performed even now about the barns aDd cribs of old Warren, in anticipation of plenty, and that the far mers of the country have seen their hardest times, and that they have be gun a pilgrimage towards a happier future. Wm. Harrison. Oblivion is the rule, and fame the ex ception, of humanity.—[Rivarol. South American‘soldiers have had their pay raised to eight cents per day. Mosquitoes are driving people from hotels in the vicinity of New York City. Stanley is reported to have lost one hundred men in a fight with the natives about Zanzibar. New Series —Vol. 28, No. 22. WANITA WETA; Or, The Legend of the Rushing AVater. BY HARRY WILDE. I Written for the Constitutionalist.) Some eight or ten miles above Au gusta, Ga., on the Savannah river, are a number of small falls or rapids, which have been kuowu for years by tbe Indian name of AVanita Weta, or the Rushing Water. These falls, some eight or ten in number, commence at the head of a sort of valley or ravine, surrounded by cliffs, through which the river pours, and narrowed by a small island, foam and plunge in numberless cascades. The sides of the river echo the sound which falls on the ear as the sound of a mighty wind, and which can be heard along the stream for miles. The banks themselves are very beau tiful, trees and grasses growing in the crevices, and the island which rises in the centre gives the whole place a ro mantic grandeur which none can fail to appreciate. The island itself is of curious shell formation, the high mound in the cen tre being composed almost entirely of shells, which shows the place to have beeu ages ago under the water. On top of this mound, which is at least a hun dred feet, also can be found immense quantities of Indian arrow heads, old pottery, stono tomahawks, aud other vestiges of that almost extinct race. In the centre of the large mound is a smaller oue, having somewhat the ap pearance of a grave, aud from which spring two ancient cedars. Of the island and rapids themselves the Indians tell this story, handed down to them through uameless ages of tradi tion, and which goes somewhat to prove that this section of the country was once the scene of a great earthquake. “Years and years ago, when all this laud belonged to the Indians, and uo one had ever heard of the white man, the river ran smooth between vast plains, upon which sported the buffalo, deer and elk in immense num bers. All of this country then belonged to the Wegaus, possibly a tribe of the Cherokees, under the domination of a great chief named Onedegua or the Leaping Panther. Now this chief had a daughter who was famous for her beauty far and wide, and numerous were the suitors for her hand. The Leaping Panther though was doubt less a cunning old soul, and with an eye for the main chance determined to bestow his daughter, who was named Wanita Weta, on an old churl by the name of Selegen or the Leap Frog, who was very powerful and very rich. The day was appointed for the nup tials and preparations were in full blast, corn was gathered and parched for the feast, and the Leap Frog aud friends were everywhere providing game for the same occasion, nor were numberless gay dresses and triukets forgotten by Wanita AVeta aud her friends. Matters stood thus, when one day there stalked into the council chamber where all the chiefs and warriors were sitting a single warrior. He was splen didly formed and strikingly handsome, and his eagle eye took in the assembly at a glance. He was richly dressed, his moccasins aud leggins wore of the finest material, his dress was graceful aud rich, at his back was a quiver of arrows, and in his hand a light bow. On his scalp lock was the feather of the mountain eagle. Throwing a belt of wampum on the floor, he addressed Onedegua, de manding his daughter’s hand in marriage. She was fair, he said, and beautiful, her fame reached every where, and he had come to demand her. It was right, he thought, that 'the fair should belong to the great and that to the most successful marksman, runner and boatman should belong such a prize, the loser should be promptly executed. The chief listened to him through according to Indian etiquette, aud then Selegen rose and asked was it proper that such a suggestion should be en tertained from a perfect stranger whose name even aud tribe were un known. Scornfully the new comer raised his tnautle aud the astonished assembly saw on his breast the mark of the mountain eagle, the totem of the tribes who resided in the precipitous hills and peaks in what is now Northern Georgia and Tennessee, and who were the hereditary enemies of the We gans. “Your young men are no warriors, or long ago they would have heard of “Onawahoa, or the Mountain Cedar.” It needed but this hated name to bring forth a yell of rage and passion, and many a tomahawk was raised against Onkwahoa, who stood calmly and defiantly before them. Onedegua, who was a cunning old fox, arose, how ever, and by a few quick words stayed the wrath of the assembly, and ad dressed them. He said the Mountain Cedar had come among them as a friend, and had made manly proposi tions, and it would ill become them if there were not many warriors in their tiibe who could overcome him in any match he might propose. The sly old gentleman was actuated in this by a double motive—a desire to show how much his daughter was worth, in the hope of increasing the present which Selegen would give him, and that of killing the Mountain Cedar, which he intended to accomplish, if not by fair means, by treachery. Selegan at first objected, but, know ing the scorn of the tribe was on him if he refused, he, with several others, volunteered to enter into a contest with the stranger, preparations for which were immediately entered into. To those unacquainted with the facts, the sudden appearance of Onawahoa would doubtless seem surprising ; but he had long loved Wanita-AVeta, and she had secretly in her heart a prefer ence for the mountain chieftain. Hear ing of the intended marriage, he had, therefore, come with all speed to, in this singular manner, demand her as his wife. Wanita’s heart doubtlessly beat with pleasure when she heard of the ar rival of her gallant lover, but she be trayed not the slightest emotion or cu riosity when the other women gath ered to peep at the Mountain Cedar, as he stood preparing for the conflict which was to give him a wife or decide his life. These preparations having been completed h 8 with Selegen and the other contestants and all the men and women of the tribe went to a large open space in front of the camp ground where targets had been placed, where the first trial of skill was to take place. First one shot and then another until at last only Selegen aud the stranger were left, The former though a little old was famous far and wide for his skill as a hunter and warrior, none having yet even defeated him. He To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21, 1875,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. 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Tho noxt contest was one of speed, aud in this old Onedegua thought tho pre sumptuous chief would surely be defeat ed; but, alas! he was not long at the goal when Selegen and the others came panting in, out of breath, losers of the race. The next trial was on the water, and one in which the wily old chief was sure of victory, Onawahoa being a mountain Indian and unaccustomed to the management of a canoe. The situ ation, though, was grave, and as he had so easily conquered in tho first two trials, there was uo guarantee he would not iu the third, so extra caution was to be observed. A meeting of chiefs was held, at which it was urged it would never do to allow Onawahoa to conquer, and a plan was devised by which he was to be placed in a canoe with a plugin the bottom, which would work out with the motion of the craft and he could bo drowned, thus saving their reputation for hospitality as well as skill. Wanita Weta, iu spite of her stoi cism, was an intense spectator of tho trials of the previous day, and when it was over she sat by the river supreme ly happy at their termination, and confident her lover would succeed. She was very beautiful; from tradi tions handed down, even to this day, it would appear that she was fair, her long hair hung almost to her feet, and her eyes -,yere star-like and won derfully luminous. As site was gazing into the water a light tread admonish ed her some oue was near, and in a few moments Onawahao was before her. Long they sat together, and when they parted it was oply with the hope ever so bright that on the morrow they would be united forever. Hastening home AVanita was sur prised to find her father was still at the council chamber, and fearing some treachery, she went up close to a chink in the walls and heard with horror of the terrible treachery that was to bo carried into execution. In a moment she had made up her mind. She per ceived that even if victorious in this case some means would be devised to kill her lover ana she determined to die or on the morrow escape with him. The day dawned bright aud beauti ful, and at an early hour the whole en campment proceeded to the river shore, where were the canoes in which the trial was to take place. Here, while the final preparations were being made, was tho first opportunity she had of speaking to her lover and warning him of the intended treachery. A few words apprised him he was to decline taking tiie boat offered him and select another. Some hundred yards above, where the race was to start a promontory j utted out into tho river. Here AVanita was to be, aud when his boat passed close unto the shore would leap in, and they would continue their course up tho river to where lay the tribe of Onowahoa. Things were as described; a boat was offered him, which, much to the aston ishment and chagrin of old Onedegua and his chiefs, he declined, and select ed another. A yell was raised, and the race started. Onawahoa shot ahead, and grazing the point, his light AVanita leaped into the boat, when ho raised, his war whoop, and with the speed of an arrow flew up the river. On and on they sped, pursued by the whole tribe, who, in hundreds of canoes, paddled after the daughter of their chief, howl ing for vengeance. All day they paddled and all night, and until far in the next day when they began to get exhausted. Tho AVegans who had halted for a time to obtain food were close upon them and Onawahao felt their fate was sealed. Ho determined, however, to die like a warrior and still continued on. About noon of the second day ho reached the wide open expanse of river between two plains already described, and after going some way the canoes of the pursuers shot into view and a yell was raised at the sight of their victims. Nearer and nearer they came. AVanita AVeta lay cowering in tho bot tom of the canoe in tears for the wreck of all her happiness as she saw her loved one tied to the stake in tortures by her tribe. Onawahoa rose, ho had ceased to paddle and tho boat loosely drifted. Ho commenced to chant. It was his death-song. He described his home, his youth and his life; ho re counted the deeds that had made him a great warrior and then of his love. Ho called on the Great Manitou to protect her, the God of the skies, the beautiful land and tiie mighty waters. His voice rolled up and down the river. Nearer came the canoes of his enemies. He laved his breast, and called again on the spirit of the river, whom he knew was born up in his own mountain home. Suddenly a rushing of mighty wings was heard, the sky became black as jet, a war as of a thousand cataracts tore the air, but above all was heard the voice of the Chief Onawahoa. His Manitou heard him and came sud denly. Again the sky was clear and everything was calm but how changed. AVhere the beautiful prairies had boen were rocky hills, where the smooth river a thousand whirlpools, while just iu front was a beautiful island rich in glossy verdure. The side of their caqoa grated on the sand just at the moment they saw their pursuers swept over the falls and rapids and their canoes dashed to pieces on the rocks below. Here the couple remained, but were afterwards joined by others, and in time the tribe extended to the shore and over all its hills and valleys and were feared far and wide. AVay ahead of them although was their great chief Onawahoa who was the greatest war rior in America, and had the fairest wife. Years and years they lived, and when they died they were buried on the topmost summit of the island, two mountain oedars planted over them, and here they were left to the eternal musical roar of the waters, called AVaaita-AVeta after the daughter of the famous chief of the AVegaus. Prussia must be a paradise in one re spect. It has one lawyer to each 12,- 000 inhabitants. In this unfortunate country we have one lawyer to every 879 inhabitants.—Exchange. This is a mis-statement, calculated to deceive the simple European. AVe have one in habitant to every 879 lawyers, and he is a noto shaver. A blind mendieaut in Boston wears this inscription round his neck: “Don’t be ashamed to give only a half penny, I can’t see,”