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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 500 “ three months 250 Tri-Weekly—one year 6 oo " six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months 100 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) r RANCIS COGIN. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,J Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. Friday Morning, Sept. 3, 1875. The great Calvert Sugar Refinery, of Baltimore, has resolved to make an assign ment. ■— The Briton lost one of his fine iron-clad men-of-war yesterday by collision in the Channel. Probably the most brilliant article evoked by the broken Bang of California and its unfortunate President is that of George Alfred Townsend (’“Gath,”) which will be found in our news columns. The Bank of California “is moving heaven and earth,” as Sharon says, to re sume. An effort is now making to get the Oriental Bank, of London, to help it upon its feet again. It is very doubtful if it will, for the concern is too badly broken for any sound business man to touch. Germany yesterday celebrated the sur render of Sedan. Napoleon the Great taught Germany war, and Sedan was the corrallary of Jena. It had better take care that Sedan has not its corrallary yet to be fought. The result of a war in Europe will bo determined by preparation before it be gins. Indiana roughs killed and ex-Federal Colonel night before last, and a subsequent mob were only prevented from hanging them by th - heroic efforts of the Dayton police. ‘These butcheries must be put down, if it r quires the assistance of the United States Army,” as the Chicago Radi cal Si >p Bucket would say. Our respected coteruporary, the Atlanta Constitution, usually very accurate, makes a mistake in stating it published yesterday for the lirst time the speech in full of Mr. Norwood, delivered to the Oxford Alumni. That address was published from the origi nal manuscript in the Constitutionalist of July 23d, and in a few days afterwards issued from this office in pamphlet form. We had a pleasant, though short, visit from Mr. Jas. A. Bryan, traveling Agent of the Augusta Constitutionalist, on Mon day. In his perambulations through our county, we hope Mr. B. will meet with suc cess. The paper ho represents is one of, if not the oldest in Georgia, being established in 1739, and is the best interior daily that visits our sanctum, and we can therefore fully recommend it to our readers.— Waynes boro Expositor. At this distance the story of the robbery of the Planters’ Bank of Louisville, yester day morning, of SIOO,OOO looks a trifle Ashy. If it happened as the cashier states it is the boldest robbery even of these days of well nigh universal villainy. An effectual plan to prevent such a robbery as this is a com bination lock or key requiring the presence of three persons, and these persons should never sleep at the same place. The robber would be obliged to drag all three from their beds, which it would he well nigh im possible to do without raising an alarm. The London papers of yesterday morn ing declare that the news from Turkey is unfavorable to the insurgents, that the re bellion in Bosnia has been suppressed, and that the Conference of all the Powers will soon meet at R igusa to settle the difficul ty. By tills is meant Herzegovinia must submit again to the hated infidel yoke. These powers are nothing if not intensely selfish and jealous of one another. They are afraid that if any province is detached from the Turk it will soon be incorporated with Russia. We publish this morning the evidence in t lie preliminary examination, at Waynes boro, of some of the ringleaders in the late effort to get up a negro insurrection. Three of the negroes, Gray, Vincent and Hughes. were fully committed. We also p blishthe true bill found by the Washington county grand jury against Corey Harris, Jerry Waters and others, and a letter from ex- Congressman Speer, written from Wash ington, I). C., while he was a member of < ’ongress, to Gen. Joe Moekis. These •documents constitute a very important and very interesting chapter in the history of the insurrection, ——— - The first fall election came off in Cali fornia on the first, last Tuesday. The dis patches tins morning indicate that the Democrats have carried the State. The pres'igeof the brilliant victories it gained last year is not broken by the vote in the Golden State. lor will the tide of victory stop until the ’Republican party Is swept out of existence. Revolutions are slow in their formation, but when they burst no man can stay them if the cause is just. The Republican party has been condemned by the people of the United States. Corruption has killed it. Revenge has made it odious. Jt had a splendid opportunity to rule i 1 he country for a quarter of a century, hu t instead of adopting a policy of wisdom and moderation, it sought to keep alivo the auimositics of the late war by libeling the people of the South, and disgusted every honest man by grand and petty lar cenies in offices in which their representa tives had been trusted. It has totally ruined our commerce on the ocean, prostra ted trade on land and sea, and more than all this broken down commercial confi dence. It is necessary for the prosperity of this country that this party be voted down. And the country at large concedes it- —■ We are glad September is here, that the dull summer is gone, and that the fall sea son is about to open. Reports from the plant itions are all agreed that the fields are white with matured cotton, and that ♦■very idle hand is busy picking it out. It will soon be rolling into the city, trade opened in earnest, and anew face put upon everything. Whilst other States and com munities are in the throes of a financial crash, all is as serene as a summer morn ing in the South. Wo have rubbed along during the summer months, making no thing it is true, but losing precious little. The time is now at hand, however, when a stream of money will be poured into every portion of the cotton belt. No people on earth ought to bo more wealthy or more happy. Hard times should bo un known. Wo remarked the other day that twelve million dollars were paid out annual ly in Augusta for eotion and cotton goods- We can save at least half this money if we only try. We must stop the indiscriminate purchase of wholly unnecessary things learn to raise our provisions at home, and stop going so much In debt and paying ruinous interest. THE TURF. Best Running Time Ever Made. Hartford, Conn., September 2. The first race (or horses of the 2:45 class was won by St. Julian, in three straight heats, Sister second, and Great Eastern third. Time, 2:23 3 4, 2 la the 2:23 race eight started. The Race was won by Music, Bella, second, and St. James third. Time, took the third heat. The riming race ■was won byKidi, Spendthrift second, and Burgoo third. Time, I:42>£, Best running time ever made. % Constrhvtiom'ilist Established 1799. THE INSURRECTION. New Evidence Introduced—Ruled Out on Legal Grounds —Akerman Com pliments the Counsel for the State— Cordy Harris to be Released—Other Cases go Over, etc. [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Sandersville, Ga., | via Tennille, Sept., 2,1875. j The State introduced a number of additional witnesses to-day mostly the county officers, and offered evidence going to show orders from Cordy Har ris to the negro companies to march, and if opposed in their plans kill the whites, but Judge Johnson ruled it out on legal grounds. Attorney General Hammond and Salem Butcher, Esq., argued the case for the State and Mr. Akerman for defense, Akerman com plimenting the Counsel for the State for their impartiality and fairness. Judge Johnson charged the law and particularly urged the jury to discard all prejudice of race. After being out until half past eight the jury finally agreed and returned a ver dict of not guilty. Cordy Hariis will be formally released to-morrow and the special term wiil adjourn—all the other cases having been continued. The Sandersville Herald, of to-day, contains a call for a meeting of the ne groes of Washington county on the 18th of this month, at the Court House door, to choose two men to send to some other State to select a suitable place to emigrate to. Preliminary Trial of Joe Gray, Abram Moore, Frank Vincent ami Frank Hughes, of Burke County', Charged With “Attempt to. Incite Insurrec tion”—Decision of the Court. (Specially Reported for the Constitutional ist.] Waynesbobo, Ga , Sept. 2,1875. Of the leaders in the attempted insurrec tion in Burke, noue are believed to stand so prominent as Joe Gray, Abram Moore, Frank Vincent and Frank Hughes, all of whom are Captains, or Presidents, of secret organizations, except Frank Hughes, who is only a Lieutenant. 'The time for tiieir trial was anxiously looked forward to by the whites, and new developments of the dark designs of our deluded colored people were expected by all. Last Saturday was the day appointed for the preliminary trial, and at an early hour the court room was well filled by botii race . To facilitate busi ness, the court, in accordance with the wishes of the attorneys in the case, ordered the above named negroes to be tried one and all at the same time. The evidence, as sworn to UDon the stand, is of interest, and I will give it only in sub stance : Berry Williams, sworn, said: I am Joe Morris’ nephew. Joe Morris, when in burke, lives on Mr. Applewhite’s place, in a house of my father’s, situated about fifty yards from the one in which I stay. J car ried Morris’ mail for him twice, I heard him say: “ The negroes are not getting their rights, and the only way to get them was by fighting.” He said he wis leader, and if the negroes would follow and stand up to him he would got their rights.— The plan was for the negroes all to assem ble at the cross roads, near Nathan Byne’s, in Burke, on the 20th of August. 'They were then to march to Waynesboro and “kill out the race of whites,” from there to march down with Morris and his staff to No. 11, and meet Prince Rivers with his staff. On the way down, they were to “kill on out the whites, with guns, pistols, hoes and axes, or anything of the kind they could get hold of.” Frank Hughes, Joe Gray and Frank Vincent received Joe Morris’ order to assemble on the twen tietu of August, acknowledged him as leader, and said they would follow and stand up to him. After ail the whites in Burke and other coun ties had beeu killed, the present offi cers of the government would be deposed, and Joe Morns and Prince Rivers would be “head” and would “run” a government of their own. The place to kiil the whiles was made up between the head men last April, but I v. as not let into the secret till last June. I saw Morris’ order to the negroes to begin killing the whites, read part of it, and it was about the same thing as what Mr. Kidgely read to me from a newspaper. William Thomas sworn,said: Joe Mor ris is leading everybody to ruin. He first wanted seats on the jury, and next he wanted negro commissioners: and he said he did not think they could be obtained without lighting. I never heard any day specified for fighting. lam president of a club at Barcamp. I saw one order from Joe Morris, and I understood there was “blood in it.” I heard Morris say that the whites and blacks would have to have a “skreemmish.” I was here to a big meeting in the “Old Field,” and understood frem resolutions there of fered, that if wo would fight and get the laud, it would become government land, and we could then cut it up for ourselves. Joe Gray was present at this meeting. I don’t know Frank Vincent nor Frank Hughes. These resolutions were adopted on Joe Gray's drill ground, but if he was present I didn’t see him. The companies got drums for amusement, but they said they would continue to beat them in’order to annoy the whites, and cause them to at tack us. My club was to meet at the beat ing of the drum. Resolutions were adopted in my clud to put to death any member who divulged secrets, and my life h is been threated since my arrest, if I acted as wit ness against the negroes. I don’t know anything about defendants in this case proposing to kill the whites. Joe Morris wrote to my company, but never mentioned killing the whites. My club is composed of two branches—a mustering crowd and a laboring crowd—which together number about one hundred and seventy men. I saw there was nothing good, and wanted to draw out. I act as a witness because I think it is to my interest—a man ought always to 1 >ok out for the strongest side. Henry Byne, sworn, said : I never heard a word of the troubles Joe Morris was go ing to go up. After the whites attempted to arrest Morris, I saw about twenty armed negroes who said they were goiug to guard him. I told them it was wrong, and they went home. H. H. Perry and L. M. Berrien, Esqrs., next went upon the stand, but the sum and substance of their testimony was to show that Berry Williams, nephew to Joe Mor ris, had made too different and contrary statements of the proposed insurrection. They affirmed that Williams’ excuse as he stated it to them, for making conflicting statements was, “that he had been threated if lie acted as witness against the negroes.” Frank Lewis sworn, said: lam drill mas ter in Joe Gray’s club, and never heard of the insurrection till I was arrested. Joe Morris and Joe Gray had a fuss, b cause Morris wanted Gray to have arras in his company, and Gray refused. I was Presi dent of the Blue Ribbon meeting, called the members to order and then left, Joe Morris ordered the negroes to refuse to work the roads, and a great many said they would him. I opposed Morris, because his speeches looked to war. We allowed him to speak because many wished to hear him. Several other witnesses gave testimony, but the tenor of their evidence was merely negative. Several of them, however, af firmed that Joe Gray said in their pres ence that ho would work the roads when ever he was called on, Such are the prominent points of public interest in the evidence of the above men tioned trial. Doubtless I have omitted por tions of the testimony, of importance both to :he prosecutors aul defendants, but my int uitions are impartial and free from pre judice. P, P. Johnson appeared as attorney for Hughes, Col. J. D. Ashton for Moore, Vin cent and Gray, and Jones and Rodgers as prosecutors. There being no evidence against Abram Moore, he was discharged, but Hughes, Vincent and Gray were com mitted to jail to await trial at the next term of the Superior i ourt. Lora. Indictment Against Cordy Harris, Jerry Waters and Others. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Sandersville, Ga., Sept. 2,1875. I enclose you the indictment against the insurrection prisoners, Cordy Harris, Jerry Waters, and others. It reads as follows: State Georgia, Washington County.—We the grand jurois, selected, chosen and sworn for the county of Washington, to wit: Theophilus J. Smith, foreman; Law son Kelly, George W. Kelly, Littleton L Adams. John N. Layton, Charles D. Hard wick, William J. Jordan, John J. Brown, William Archer, Hugh L. Peacock, Thomas D. Cullen, John E. Harrison, James Barron, Lafayette Watkins, Doctor F. Chambers, Benjamin L. Jordan, John R. Miller, Wil liam G. Hailey, Henry Poyier, William Wal ler, David L. Burns, Francis M. Brantly, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Geor gia, charge and accuse Prince R. Rivers, Joseph Morris, Francis Murkeson, Cordy Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Houston alias Neil Wood and Jerry Simmons of the county and State aforesaid, with the offense of an attempt to incite insurrection, for that the said Prince R. Rivers, Joseph Morris, Fran cis Murkeson, Cordy Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Houston alias Neil Wood, and Jerry Siam ons, in the county aforesaid, on the twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and on divers other days be fore and since said day, and before the find ing of this true bill, with force and arms, unlawfully and feloniously did attempt, by persuasion of the colored citizens of said county and adjoining counties, an I organ izing the mail colored citizens of said coun ties into military companies, oath bound, to follow the orders of their officers, and by falsely representing to Jake Moorman, Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Wright, John Chillis, James Wright. Tobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, and the other male citizens of color of said counties, that the laws of said State generally, and especially as to juries, public schools, and the tenure of real and personal property, are partial to the white citizens and unjust and oppressive to the colored citizens of said State and of said counties, and by other means to the jurors aforesaid unknown, to induce said Jake Moorman, Benjamin Davis. Benjamin Wright, John Chillis, James Wright, Tobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, and all other col ored citizens of said counties, to join in combined resistance to the lawful authori ty of said State, by which juries are em pannelled, public schools are organized, and rights of property are secured, with intent then and there to the denial of said authority in said counties, and then and there intending that said denial of said au thority should be by the colored citizens of sdd counties, manifested by acts of vio lence, to-wit: by the practical abrogation and subversion of said laws in said coun ties unlawfully, by the burning of the courthouses and consequent destruction of the evidences of the tenure of the lands in said counties, and by the forcible and un lawful taking away from tho white citizens of said counties their lands and household property, and unlawfully and forcibly ap propriating the same to the colored citi zens of said counties, and by the indiscrim inate unlawfully killing of the officeis of said caunlies, and all other the white citi zens thereof who dared to oppose them in their said nefarious plans, contrary to the laws of said State, tho peace, good order and dignity thereof. August Special Term, 1875. John W. R bison, Solicitor General. William Worthen, True bill: Prosecutor. Theofhilus J. Smith, Foreman. *.• Among the documents captured at Mor ris’ house was this letter from ex-Congress man Speer, by which it seems that his ne gro constituents staggered even him in their demand for “lights:” Washington, D. C., April 4th, 1872. Mr. Morris — Dear Sir ; Your favor of the 23d ult., together with accompanying pe tition, has been received and contents noted. W hat you and petitioners ask for is impossible to be accomplished. Sucli a thing lias not nor cannot he done in the United States. If you could only bo here and investigate the question for yourself you would see how hopeless your ease is, and also the utter absurdity and total im practicability of your request. Why, sir, there is no man nor set of men in tho Na tional Congress that could do anything on the line that you indicate. I vote as square ly Republican as any man in Congress, and stand as ready to serve you and your peo ple as any man living, hut when you want anything done you must ask something that is reasonable. I have done more for vour people than any member of Congress from the South, but! cannot do that which is an impossibility. Respectfully, Thomas J. Speer. • i ■ GORDON IN MISSISSIPPI. Enthusiastic Reception at Holly Springs—The Great Georgian in the Mississippi Campaign. [Special to the New Orleans Picayune.] Holly Springs, Miss., August 30. Intelligence reached this place this morning that Senator Gordon, of Geor gia, would pass here this afternoon on his way to meet his engagement at Ox ford, Miss., where he and L. Q. C. La mar are announced to address the peo ple of that place next Wednesday. It was at once determined to give him a becoming reception, and at the same time invite him to speak at this place before he left the State. Quite a large number of our citizens, accompanied by the fine band of our town, boarded the street cars and made for the depot to meet the south bound train. Gen W. S.Featherston was accorded the honor of making the welcoming speech. The train was an hou ’ate, but the people waited patiently its ar rival, which soon occurred, and there upon the reception committee stepped aboard and found Senator Gordon in the smoking car. He was evidently unconscious of his being the object of so much attraction, music and parade. Very soon, however, he came forth, amid the shouts of the citizens and the playing of the band. This was Gor don the battle-scarred soldier and statesman, of Georgia, meeting the people who had so often, in days gone by, welcomed Jefferson Davis, and scattered flowers in his way. Gen. Featherston, in an eloquent and ap propriate manner, addressed Senator Gordon, and expressed the joy and pride the people of Mississippi felt in extending a warm and hearty wel come to Georgia’s honored aud faith ful Senator. He then invited him in the name of the people of Marshall county, to address them be fore he left the State. Gen. Gordon responded in an easy, graceful and charming speech of ten minutes. It was full of eloquence and patriotism, worthy of the occasion and the orator. It was drank in like good wine by the audience, who sent, up cheer after cheer. When the Senator had con cluded, then came the hand-shaking, and noticeable here was the corniug forward of Capt. Cliff, of tho United States army, stationed at this point, aud his being introduced, Gen. Gor don expressed his pleasure and grati fication at meeting an officer of the old army, and paid other pleasant courtesies to him. Senator Gordon has no plans beyond his speech at Oxford. He informed your correspondent that he would ad dress tho people of Marshall county at an early day. You shall be advised. __ H. INDIANA ROUGHS. Killing an Ex Federal Colonel—A Mob Resisted. Dayton, 0., September 2.—Yesterday Wm. Dawson, ex-Colonel of an Indiana regiment, while attending a wedding party at Barlaw’s Hill, having refused admission to six roughs, was stabbed by Jas. Murphy in the abdomen, and died in a few minutes. Three hundred persons gathered around the jail last night with the avowed purpose of lynching Murphy, but were prevented by the entire police of the city. AUGUSTA. GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 3875. (ALIFORMA ELECTION. The Democracy Carry the State—The Officers Voted For. California held an election Wednes day, the Ist, for Governor and other State officers and four members of Congress. The last contested election in the State was for President, in 1872, when the vote was as follows: Grant, 54,020; Greeley, 40,718; O’Conor, 1,050. For Governor, in 1871, the vote was: Republican, 52,581; Democratic, 57,520. The State officers are elected for four years, and the leading candidates the present year are these ; For Governor—Timothy G. Phelps, Republican; Wm. Irwin, Democrat. For Lieutenant-Governor—Joseph M. Cavis, Republican; James A. Johnson, Democrat. For Secretary of State—Edward Hallett, Republican; Thomas Beck, Democrat. For Controller—J. J. Green, Republi can; J. W. Maudeville, Democrat. For Governor—W. E. Lovett, Tem perance; John Bidwell, Independent. For Lieutenant-Governor—J. V. B. Goodrich, Temperance; Romualdo Pacheco, Independent. For Secretary of State—W. H. Bax ter, Temperance; William Roush, In dependent. For Controller -Joel Russel, Tem perance; Laureu E. Crane, Indepen dent. Messrs. Goodrich and Raxter, of the Temperance candidates, have declined their nominations. For members of Congress the candidates are: Ist. District—lra P. Rankin, Repub lican; William A. Piper, Democratic; Samuel Branuan, (bolter). 2d. District—Horace f. Page, Repub lican; Henry Larkin, Democrat. 3d. District—C. B. Denio,Republican; John K. Luttreil, Democrat. 4tlk District—S. O. Houghton, Re publican; D. P. Wigginton Democrat. Ist. District—John F. Swift, Indepen dent. 2d. District—Charles A. Tuttle, Inde pendent. 3d. District—Charles F. Reed, Inde pendent. 4tli. District—J. S. Thompson, Inde pendent. Tiie people of California also vo ted on the same day upon the ques tion of calling a convention to revise the constitution of their State. A ma jority of the aggregate vote of the State cast for members of the Legisla ture will be requisite to call the con vention, a mere majority of the votes east directly upon the quostiou not be ing sufficient by the terms of the law. The full list of officers to be chosen in the State is as follows; Governor, Lieu tenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney Gen eral, Surveyor General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, four Representatives to the Congress of the United States, twenty members of the State Senate, the full House of Representatives, and county and other minor officers. The Returns. San Francisco, September I—Midnight.—Thel—Mid night.—The election returns are coming in slowly frpm tho interior, and there is nothing yet to indicate the result of the State ticket. In this city it is thought Clayton is ahead for Mayor. Vote in San Francisco about 25,000." The Democrats Elect the State Ticket by a Large Majority. San Francisco, September 2—2:45 a. m.—Election returns to date are mea gre, but indicate that the Democrats nave elected their State ticket by a large majority. Houghton, Republi can, and Huttrell, Democrat, for Con gress, are probably elected in their re spective districts, the third and fourth. No returns have yet been received from the city precincts. 3a. in.—ln the Sec ond Congressional District the fight is between Page, Republican, and Larkin, Democrat. Tuttle, Independent, in the same district, is rn’icfi behind his ticket. The impression is luite general that Piper, Democrat, fo* Congress, in this district (the first) is ifhead, but all spec ulations as to the rei|ilt, in this city at the present hour, an| useless. San Francisco, September 2 —3 P. M. —The few scattering 'returns from the city do not furnish lany indication of the vote. The Independents are very confident they havt elected most of their city officers e; eept the Mayor, which is doubtful. ' here are no later returns from the ini prior. Washington, Sept rnber 2.—Nothing later from California commodori Collins. Grand Honors to t ie Dead Officer. Kingston, Jamaica,fclugust 25.—Advi ces from Lima, Augiiit 13, relating the death and funeral ol Admiral Collins, say the greatest horlirs were paid by the Peruvian Government to the de ceased. The Ministlr of War issued an order directing hiliors due to a Gen eral of a Division in| active service be shown to the memo|y of Admiral Col lins. An infautry reJinient of the line, squadron of cavalry land two sections of flying artillery wire sent to Callao :o take part in the Mineral. The pro cession to the Protestant Cemetery of Bellavista, was a short mile from port. In this mournful <|>rtege were Min isters of War and Mmrine, Foreign Af fairs and luterior, almost all members of the Diplomatic aifi Consular Corps, aud a large number <|f the most promi nent foreign resident! of Lima, together with mauy distingi. ished Peruvians, die American Miuisti r and officers and men of United St ites mentof-war. From tho sliip the 1: ody was brought to shore, followed byltnoro than twenty boats from the Onward and Richmond, \M Peruvian war veiseis aud several merchantmen in tin harbor. At and near Molewere statio ied the division of troops from Lima, 1 o prefect of the province, the port ac rdiral and ail offi cers of yard. At al out 4 P. M. the services of the Eng ish church were read over the remai is of tho Admiral in the cemetery oj B llavista. EADS’ JE I’TIES. Meeting of j Engineers. New York, Septem >er 2.—Tho Board of Engineers, invite*! 'by Capt. Eads for consultation ou lithe work at the mouth pf the Mississippi, met in form al session to-day. GJn. Barnard of the United States Engineer Corps, was ebosen President. Cajt. Eads addressed the board, requesting an examination and criticism of his [ lans. The board spent the day discus ling the location of the jetty now. be ug built. Before the formal session*began President Grant visited the rooin of the board, and remained somejftime in conversa lion with the members relative to the work. I Peace m CMombia. New York, September 2.—A private dispatch announces the signing of a peace by the commailder of the Colom bian forces and cornmfinder of the forces of the Insurgent cop ‘ States. THE BROKEN GOLD BANK. The Directors in Session—No Re sumption Yet. San Francisco, September 2.—A per son in confidential relations with the Directors of the Bank of California, states this evening with reference to the rumored meeting of stockholders to-morrow that he has no knowledge of such meeting having been called. Also that the examination of the ac counts had not sufficiently progressed to enable the directors to make a j definite statement as to the condition of the bank. The directors are in session to-night but nothing is known of their proceedings. Endeavoring to Arrange With the Oriental Rank. There is reason to believe that the Directors of the Bank of California are endeavoring to effect arrangements with the Oriental Bauk of London looking to assistance from that quarter, in contemplation of resump tion but nothing definite is known as yet. It is believed that the Stock Board will reopen next week. All clerks of the Bank of California were discharged yesterday. There are signs that money will soon be easier. In addition to the disbursements by the United States Treasury, the United Staets branch mint in this city will be ready to issue about two million dollars in coin in a few days. The prospect is brightening and the feeling buoyant. Suit to Recover $25,000 in New York. New York, September 2. —Judge Brady of the Supreme Court granted an order of publication on the suit of Drexel, Morgan & Cos., v .s\ the Califor nia Bank, to recover $25,000 in gold on affidavits that the defendant is a for eign corporation, whose president is dead and whose cashier lives in San Francisco and which has no officer in this city on whom service could be made. The suit is not for deposits, but on a circular note. Confidence Being Restored. San Francisco, September 2.—The feeling on the street this morning is cheerful, even buoyant. The Mer chant’s Exchange Bank opened its doors at the usual hour. The National Gold Bank and Trust Company report an improvement in their outlook for resumption. The officers are evidently in good spirits. The Board of Brokers have a meeting this a. in., at which some action is expected looking toward tho reopening of the Board, though it is thought some settlement of the affairs of the Bauk of California will be a necessary precursor to open ing the stock bonds. The report of a called meeting of the stockholders of tho Bank of California is unfounded, as the directions and friends of the Bank are still at work trying to ar range matters. There is a strong feel ing among well informed financiers that arrangements will be made to se cure tho depositors against loss, whether resumption takes place or not. On the whole, affairs seem to be look ing up, and the best of feeling prevails in monetary and commercial circles. I>. O'Mills Gives a Guarantee—The Bank All Right. D. O’Mills authorizes the statement that capitalists interested in the Bank of California will obtain a transfer of stock from stockholders relieving them from liability and guaranteeing them against any loss, and will subscribe funds necessary to place the bank in a condition to pay all demands and put it on a sound basis. Should any sur plus arise in the settlement it will be credited pro rata to stockholders. This arrangement will go into effect in a few days. * THE CALVERT SUGAR REFINERY. An Assignment Ordered. Baltimore, September 2.—At a gen eneral meeting of the Calvert Sugar Refining Company, a majority being present, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the President and Direc tors of the Calvert Sugar Refining Com pany be requested to make an assignment of all their property and effects to B. F. Newcomer and C. Morton Stewart, for the benefit of all creditors in accordance with the report of the Committee submitted to day, and that their commission shall be one per cent., but not in any event to ex ceed SIO,OOO each. Baltimore, September 2.—The com mittee of tho Calvert Steam Sugar Re finery creditors made an elaborate re port of the condition of the company. Assets. Total stock of sugars and bone black, $589,014; cash in bauk, $41,353; open account and bills receivable, $783,000; making a total of $1,413,907. Due by Stirling, Ahrens &Cos., $1,033,488; cost of refining and machinery, $009,974; total assets, 3,057,429. Liabilities. Bills payable, $2,585,748 63; other lia bilities are estimated at $100,251.37; total liabilities, $2,086,000. The committee recommend that the creditors should at once require an as signment to be made by the Calvert Sugar Refining Company of Baltimore to proper trustees of the entire assets and property of the company for the benefit of all the creditors, without preference or priority, and that said trustees bo invested by the creditors with full power and authority to oou tinuo the refinery until all the present stock of sugars, molasses, &c., is work ed up and to convert the product and all other assets into money as speedily as pqesible, and also to make sale of the refinery, real estate, ma chinery, good will, &c., pertaining to it, and so soon as sufficient funds are in hand to admit of paying a dividend of ten per cent., such dividends should be declared and paid, and further divi dends from time to time as fast as the money can be realized. The following resolution was then adopted: Resoived, That the President and Direc tors of the Calvert Sugar Refining Com panv be requested to-make an assignment of all their property and effects to Messrs. B. F. Newcomer and C. Morton Stewart, as trustees, for the benefit of the creditors, in accordance with the report of the commit tee submitted to-day; and that their com mission shall be one per cent., but not in any event to exceed ten thousand each. The meeting theu adjourned. At a meeting of the Board of Directors af terwards they consented to carry out the recommendations of the creditors and their counsel. Thomas J. Donald son was Instructed to draw up the bill of assignment. A HUNDRED THOUSAND FIRE. Congress Hall, at Sharon, New York, Burned. Sharon Springs, N. Y., September 2. Congress Hall, owned by Fred. J. BaDg and J. H. Gardner & Sous, together with the sulphur bathing houses, was. bestroyed by fire, which originated in the engine room of the bathing houses. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Insurance not known. THE DEAD BANKER. “GATH’S” REMINISCENCES OF RALSTON. His Personal Appearance and Mental Habits —His Associates —A Drive to His Country House—His Family— The Men Who Broke Him Up, and How. (Correspondence of Philadelphia Times.) Saratoga, August 28th, 1875. The first day I met Ralston was in his bank, in 1871, a plain, strong edifice on the chief banking street of the city, built on columns, especially for its uses. The large area of the bank was a mere waiting place, and tho counters were filled with piles of gold coins, gener ally in tvveiity-dollar pieces, which were paid and received by the trowel and the scale. The inner office overlooked the operations of the clerks, aud there sat Ralston, a man with the eye of a pilot and the dispatch of a ticket-seller at a theatre. He was, as I remember him, cleanly shaved, except at the jaws, where his beard was dipped ; a loose collar left hia throat open and gave him something of a sailor’s style ; he had no vest over his frilled shirt, in which were diamond studs, small aud neat; he had a hail-fellow air, with a touch of scrutiny in it, and aptuess at doing business and courtesy by turn with almost equal dispatch. The powers for which Thomas A. Scott and other lightning men of a period are noted; instant decision, followed by con fidence in that choice, were transpa rent in the man. He had a good head, and particularly a good forehead, with dark hair striving to curl around the ears aud temples ; his eyes, were blue ish gray, apt to snap, and his teeth had acquired a terrier-like habit of biting off his decisions with a species of com mand which gave the only appearance of want of feeling to his animated and Democratic expression. He is recalled to me at this day as the image of a naval officer, not a financier—a sort of Nelson or Decatur at the mess table. That open neck, those curling locks, t he look of enterprise and courage, and the comgly, broad shouldered, trim and springy figure arise upon my mind iu this hour of his tragedy as the por trait of a seaman ; he lived his youth by water and he died in the breakers. He said to me—of whom I suppose he had heard at a snatch and had merely a vague notion, of why and whence I came—that I must come that day to the Occidental Hotel at 2 o’clock. — “ Sharp,” he said, “ for I never wait, Gath !” At the same time he invited my host, Gen. Hutchinson, whose son was an officer of the bank, to accompa ny me. In the room at the time were D. O. Mills, tho President, aud Selby the Mayor, who was suspected of be ing the bank’s candidate for Governor against Newton Booth. At Selby’s works Ralston was drowned; Sel by is dead. Booth is one of the parties to the fight against the bank, which has been one of the causes of this catastrophe. Mills was a cleri cal looking gentleman, of no great magnetic or business force, whom Ralston’s operations had made richer than Ralston. The latter kept the cashier’s place because it involved the personal administration of the bank, : the rough-and-ready work, while Mills was made president. At that moment, as it seemed to me, California was the seat of a power built up by Ralston, and of a hate of that power naturally engendered by its sagacity, threatening the general comfort and charity of so ciety. Latham had just come to opu lence with a rival bank built on English capital, the London and San Francisco. Latham was an Oliio boy, who had i reached the governorship of the State, a colder and more cultured man than Ralston. The course of Latham’s life was toward domestic elegance, paint ings and refined society; Ralston’s en joyments were wholly physical and masculine, a rapid team, a yacht, the development of the earth, and the wrestling of wealth from its recesses for the sake of more development and still more wealth. Latham was a money lender mainly, a Shylock; Ralston was an Antonio as well, with ventures on the sea and a bench on the Rialto also. Asa banker solely, Latham’s policy was the wise, conservative one; he worked very little in combination with other,enterprises; Ralston covered the coast with his faith and intimidated the populace by his courage. The puff and speed of the steamboat on which he was bred attended the man; there he obtained both his coarseness and his method. At 2 o’clock I was at the Occidental Hotel. Ralston was already on the box and I climbed beside him. On the seat behind were two English engineers, fresh from India and yet tanned with its suns, who had been brought to the coast by Ralston to lay out a plan for irrigating the San Joaquin Valley. We started at once, the horses on a trot and run as they liked, Ralston driving. Half the year ho drove this tifty-two miles a day into San Francisco and back. It was his recreation; he had no driver. The wagon one of tho “0” spring, Kimball teams, in whose manu facture ho was largely interested, and it had run every competitive style of wagon off the Coast of the Pacific. We galloped over a long causeway, took a broad dirt road within sight of the bay, passed Mills’ new house, and at the thirteen mile house a man came out the horses. At seven teen miles we stopped: Ralston mixed drinks at the bar, where he may former ly have operated, and the horses were changed with the wagon tongue. At tweuty-six miles we turned from the high road into the green valley of Bel mont, and stopped at the banker’s door at one hour and’ thirty minutes, from San Francisco twenty-six miles, partly over cobble-stones and causeways. Bel mont was the weakness of Ralston ; a huge wooden house with bays and ve randahs, with thirty or forty bed chambers, and all tho lower floors a series of salooss, with waxed floors and open sashes. The stables were a mu seum of wagons, new or disabled ; a meadow close by was full of crippled horses, sick or sprung from such driv es we had seen ; tropical and native plants surrounded the mansion, which looked like a sort of fantastic summer hotel. Here, it was understood, the bank allowed Ralston a sum of money, ©25,000 or ©50,000, to entertain novel ties and distinguished visitors. A ser vant took each of us and showed us to bed-rooms complete in the comforts of our period; water, gas, spring beds, etc., yet nothing was “ loud ” or showy. The extent of the hospitality rather than its intensity fUled the imagina tion. Our host disappeared until the banquet began. The occasion of this banquet was the retirement from busi ness, as the head of tho great Almaden mine, of Samuel Butterworth, Esq.— This was the friend of Daniel Sickles on the day bo shot Philip Bar ton Key; a military-looking man of great pride, severity and enterprise New Series —Vol. 28, No. 26. of character. He anticipated Ralston’s death by dyiDg of two attempts to dis sect his liver and seek the origin of tho disease there. Tho stomach is what ails the successful Californian; lie lives too high. There were seventy-six guests present, all men, and among them were his neighbors—Bell, the Barrons, both Millses, “Duke” Gw>n, the brother-in-law of the Marchioness of Lome, Victoria’s daughter, Lord Clifford, and all that was distinguished on the coast. Nick Biddle, in his greater days, never had such hospital ity to give, nor gave it with more quiet bounce. There was a blessing asked by a Bishop, who drank his wine like a man, but no speeches broke the variety of the service with their dull monotony. I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Ralston at a balcony window opening on tho stair way. At midnight a special train took the company back to San Francisco, but I remained, and the next day Rals ton drove me over the country to his neighbors, tho Haywards, Barrons, Howards, Bells, Mills, etc. We were gone all day, except at the dining hour. He was a gentleman in liis bearing, hu morous, enjoying the air—the prospect and the vision of the future of Califor nia he presented with such torse, man ly, practical strength. I omit any conclusion to this part of my visit, as I may take it up at another time. Let me speak of some of the circumstances of his fall. The Bank of Nevada, which is to rise on the ruins of the Bank of California, is to be tho property of Flood & O’Brien and Fair & Mackey. They are all Irish, and Flood and O’Brien were a few years ago a sort of Durar and down-town Delmouico to the operators on Califor nia street, keeping the liquor and lunch place there. They caught the air and secrets of the patrons of their house, and tried mining speculative stocks a little. As they increased they got an engineer to iook about the Comstock lode for them and picked up a mine I supposed to be worn out called the “Hale and Norcross.” This mine they soon developed into anew source of actual wealth. They paid for it 70 cents per share when the wholeamount of shares afloat was only five thou sand. As they brought out the bul lion they watered the stock, and it went up hundreds per cent. Then they built crushing mills, and began to feel under their shafts to the west mine. There they discovered a real bonanza, for in those mining ventures there is a reality as well as romance, and while the proprietors of the mine were asleep or ignorant, these Irish miners picked up their stock and began to take $1,600,000 a month of bullion out of this new acquisition. The stock, of course, was watered and went sky ward. Only four men owned all this wealth, Mackey possessing two-fifths of all. Thus, mining bullion, at the rate of $20,000,000 per annum, genuine mining, these parvenues became a power beside or against the Bank of California. But Ralston and Sharon owned half tho crushing mills and the railroad at Virginia City. The Flood and O’Brien crowd began to build other mills £ud to compete for the greatest mines and the bank’s monop olies as well. A struggle ensued over the Yellow Jacket mine, and the two rival parties chose .a com promise directory. It was renewed over the Savage mine. The Flood and O’Brien party beat Ralston and Sharon out. The multitude looking on began to see that the bar-room party had got the upper band over the soda fountain party, for D. O. Mills began life in Sac ramento selling soda' pop. He never mixed the mountain dew, and tansy roots, begorra ! Nor flavored drafts of i mint and rue with the price of Angos tura ! Poetry, my lord! As I have said, here were the saloon keepers on top. They had undoubted genuine bullion wealth. They proposed to Ralston’s party to step down and out and let them become the Bank of Cali fornia. The Earl who took a Roman Senator kiudiy by the beard and asked permission to rest in his chair was civil beside such an offer to the man who had been powerful on that coast since 1852, and had ruled it since 1864. Rals ton refused. Flood and O’Brien and the rest of Milesia immediately or ganized the Bank of Nevada, with five millions of paid-up capital in gold, and made Louis McLane President. The difference between Ralston and Sharon and Flood and O’Brien was this: The latter went at mining wil ling to wait for a return, plodding and feeling about in secrecy, Fenian style ; Ralston wanted his gains at once. His theory of business was “now and dften;” the new comers worked on the principle of “quiet ami sure.” Besides, Ralston’s management of the crushing, milling, assaying and railroad power had got to be a monopoly ; he had sus tained the Republican ticket generally, and the new Irish party was, of course, Democratic, He had been friendly to the Central Pacific Railroad, which had just absorbed tho Sacramento Union newspaper. Tho allies of this paper in San Francisco, the Bulletin and the Call, two strong journals, independent in politics, knew that Ralston held such a mortgage on the Alta Califor nian, their rival, that he controlled it. Ho the new Bank of Nevada, under Louis McLane, the son of Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasui y, the Bulletin and Call and the Demo cratic and Independent parties went in together against the bank of Ralston. Its credit was impugned, its master in dicted. His money and the bank’s—for lie was the bank —its whole genius— and his private account ran parallel with the bank’s- —were distributed in a hundred material enterprises, mills, wagon works, real estate, woolen mills, irri gating dams, acqueducts-what not? The enemy’s money was in a pile, and being replenished at the rate of $1,600,- 000 a month. Meantime gold was high in New York, and the United States Treasury buying. Tho saloon keepers kept their pile at home. When Ral ston reached out for it they would not loan. He could not pay drafts and ac ceptances. They would not now take his bank as a gift, as the moment was opportune to totally demolish Ralston’s combinations and take what was prof itable out of the wreck of the estate, particularly the “Union Mining and Milling Company” and railroad of Ne vada. This road had almost literally cost lialston nothing, being paid for by the mining companies, and it had been Aladdin’s path to him. The strong man had made himself so strong that there was nobody to save him. And when he saw D. O. Mills and the soda water people take his bank and order him to leave the room, “Then, in a mantle muffling up his face Or eat Caesar fell.*' He went from that bank where he had been the pleasant autocrat for eleven years and threw himself into the sea; for there was no religion he had ever learned except generosity and enterprise. He died a bold man at the end of a drama where he had been the hero throughout, and his death had that heathen quietness and fortitude To Advertisers and Subscribers. ——— On AND after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist wili be sen* tree of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per 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 it which his face became. Not per fect, nor yet an example, he had a mas tiff character. The worst of all is that so much kindness and chivalry were not parts of any formula of living which the historian can commend. Bred roughly, inspired by a Garrison, he had nothing for his wealth to orna ment but a social spirit and love of his coast and her development. The poorest Chinaman in California was wealthier in poverty than this leader of the coast. Louis McLane, who has been a good while on the Pacifiic 3ide, is a son of Doris McLane, of Delaware, who afterward settled in Cecil county, Maryland, and family in Baltimore. Gath. Ralston’s Farewell. [San Francisco Dispatch.l I have just learned that on Thursday evening, at half-past 5, Mr. Ralston as sembled the entire clerical force of the bank and said his last words : “ Boys, I have been hounded to my death, but the many absurd stories you have heard of me are not true. lam very sorry for you all and will always do all I can for you. Good-by.” Why He Sought Death. IChicago Tribune.] He did not dare to live and read the morning papers’ whining appeals by whining clergymen, extenuating if not justifying the wholesale robbery of thousands of persons on tho ground that of the other people’s money he bad appropriated he was always a will ing contributor to build up God’s church and to pay the salary of God’s minister, who in preaching the com mandments to his congregation of bankers, and speculators, and gam blers, carefully omits “ Thou shalt not steal.” Ralston was a man of the world, and he preferred death to being the victim of such an apology. Mr. Ralston, in his lifetime, was a hospitable entertainer. His house was a home to whoever was admitted to it. He lavished the luxuries of life upon his guests ; all that he had or could procure was at their disposal. He did Hot, however, fill Lis house with any one class or profession ; his hospitality was cosmopolitan. Ho did not make bis house the asylum for clergymen to take back with them to their flocks glowing invitations to invest in the railroad or other stocks and bonds which he was trying to palm off upon the public. In his prosperity he scorn ed such an act as this, and in his ruin —though he had not plundered auy churches or robbed widows and or phans through tiie instrumentality of priests—he lacked the courage, so con spicuous iu others, to meet the matter of-fact people whose money he* had taken and lost. This man Ralston had braved the perils of snags and boiler explosions on the Mississippi river, when a violent death was a mere question of time iu his profession. He had braved the perils of the poker table when a revol ver and eternal vigilance were essential to success in the game. He had lived in Central America, literally fighting for his existence. He had traversed the mines of California and Nevada, where weakness and cowardice invited murder. But down iu his heart, plant ed there perhaps by a mother’s love, lived the lesson that stealing was a crime of which every man ought to be ashamed, and one demanding the ex clusion of the guilty from the counte nance and respect of all people whose respect is worth having. He was aware that all his predecessors lived and flourished, and were magnates in so ciety, pillars in the church, and rulers in government; still he had not the courage to imitate their boldness, nor the oourage to brazen out, as they do, the mendacity of their acts; and so, to avoid the shame that should attend such meu as he, he sought death and eternity as preferable to wordly pros perity, execrated and despised even by himself. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Collision of War Vessels in the Chan nel-Sinking of the Vanguard. London, September 2.—lntelligence received here this noon of a collision in the channel between her Majesty’s war vessels, Iron Duke and Vanguard, resulting in the sinking of the latter. No lives lost. Both are double screw iron ships, armor plated and of 6,034 tons each. The Prisoners of Seo de Urgel. Madrid, September 2.—Gen. Martinez Campos has arrived at Ripoll, on his way to Barcelona with the Carlist pris oners captured at Seo de Urgel. Tho Bishop of Seo de Urgel, who was also captured, will bo imprisoned in a for tress at AlicanL. vvhero he wi 11 await tho decision of the Government in his case. The War in Turkey—Reverses of the Insurgents—A Peace Conference. London, September 2. — News from Herzegovina is of a conflicting charac ter. Its general tenor is unfavorable to the insurgents, who have been un successful in several recent encounters with the Turks. The rising in Bosnia has been effectually suppressed* Tho previous reports of assistance given the insurgents there by Servians and Montenegrins are not sustained. Belgrade, September 2. — A party of Turks entered Servia, in the neighbor hood of the Stolatz Mountains, and assassinated several villagers and stole some cattle. The Government has notified the foreign repi'esentetives here of the violation of its territory by the Turks. London, September 2.—A special to the Times from Vienna says the Austrian and Prussian Consuls in Al bania have arrived at Ragusa. They will join the German Consul there anti go to Mostar to meet the French and Italian delegates and Server Pasha, when the conference for the pacifica tion of the troubles in Herzegovina will bo held. East India Cotton News. Bombay, September 2.—Heavy rains in Baroach District will necessitate re planting a large part of the cotton crop there. Telegraph Negotiations Off. New York, September 2.—After nu merous consultations between commit tees appointed by the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies, to effect terms of consoli tion, no plan acceptable to both sides could be decided upon, and conse quently negotiations have been termi nated. Cardinal McCloskey. Rome, September 2.—Cardinal McClos key will arrive the 9th or 10th. He will first go to Turin, and may perhaps visit Florence. Ho will take the title of Cardinal of the Church of St. Mary of the People. It is horribly said that the distin guished tragedian is getting on Boothi fully.—[N. X. Herald,