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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 5 oo ” three months 2 50 Tbi-Weekly—one year 5 00 “ six months 250 Weekly—one year ” * 2 00 ” six months ..." 100 Single copies, 5 eta. To news dealers, cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance, Ihe paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. 1 FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON, j Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. '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. }- 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. ? f “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 free of postage. Advertisements must bo paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources 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,