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Saturday Morning 1 , September 4,1875.
Sunday Constitutionalist.
Our paper to-morrow will, as usual, be an
extraordinary edition. Nearly double its
usual number will be printed.
It will present a fine opportunity for ad
vertisers, as it will go into every house
hold in the city, and for miles around it.
We print this morning some rich reading
fronts he Courier-Journal’s Chicago corres
pondence anent the splendid misery of that
city.
The Augusta Constitutionalist comes
out in anew dress, and it is no tie-back
either. Besides being one of the soundest
it is one of the most readable papers in the
St ate.— Dalton Citizen.
■<>■
There seems to be no doubt ol a hand
some Democratic victory in California.
The “tidal wave” is moving on the Pacific
as well as the Atlantic coast.
Illinois Ku-Kluxism has assumed a
queer phase. This time the bandits are
church members and the victim an ex
judge who testified iu a scandal case. Pos
itively, Phil Sheridan ought to be inter
viewed by somebody.
— -<>>■
As we surmised, the story of Rehm,
cashier of the Planters’ Bang of Louisville,
was a mere fiction. Ho was himself the
robber. The money has been recovered.
The old bank-burglar’s declaration that
the thieves inside a moneyed institution
were frequently worse than those outside
has had a st rtling exemplification.
-
A writer in one of our most popular
weekly literary journals draws an ingenious
parallel between the fate of Donaldson,
the teronaut, and Ralston, the sky-rocket
ing financier. He says men who seek to
make undue as ensions, either in balloons
or financiering schemes nearly always
suffer from “the vertigo of high latitudes,”
and fall disastrously.
The Augusta Constitutionalist has come
to us the past week wearing a beautiful
new head, which ad Is very greatly to its
appearance. The superior mechanical ex
ecution of the Constitutionalist makes it one
of the handsomest papers on our exchange
list. The Constitutionalist is truly a repre
sentative journal of the South, and is an
honor to its section, for which it has
fought and is still fighting so many va
liant battles.— [Covington Enterprise.
The reburial of Guibord was violently
resisted in Montreal yesterday. The Ho
man Catholic French Canadians succeeded
lu driving away the hearse and its sup
porters from the “consecrated ground.”
It is a pity that such things should occur
in a civilized and Christian community.
What does it matter now, where the body
of Guibord reposes ? The placing of it in
ground consecrated or unconsecrated will
neither save nor damn his soul.
The policy of Bismarck’s Prussia in the
matter of leligious toleration, is far differ
ent from that of Fbederick the Gbeat,
free thinker as ho was. The first decree
issued by that illustrious monarch was in
these words: “ All beligions shall be
j ole ated. The magistrates must have
th iu eyes open, and see that no sect
IMPOSES ON THE OTHER. In PRUSSIA EACH
MAN SHALL BE SAVED IN HIS OWN WAY.”
A correspondent of the New York Sun,
writing from Ohio, nails a recent “roor
back” of the Republicans in this fashion:
“Gov. Allen is brimful of vigor. I saw the
old Roman a few minutes yesterday, with
his duster on his arm, just starting for the
train to enter upon a series of appoint
ments, which now number twenty-eight,
and will swell to forty by the day of the
election. This dot s not look much like de
caying powers, nor carrying out the pro
gramme of the Toledo Blade by withdraw
ing from the ticket.”
The editor of the Sunny South takes us
to task for calling his “Answers to Corres
pondents” trash. In a rather triumphant
way, he alludes to an advertisement in this
paper, on the same line, and puts the iu
quoque argument to us. Now, the editor of
this paper is not responsible for paid ad
ve: tisements, and cannot be judged fairly
by them. We still think the Sunny South
would be all the better if such things as
these were omitted:
K. X. Dee, Covington, wishes to be recom
mended to the girl with the pillows, and
begs her address.
Mary, of Augusta, a curly-haired bru
jiette, w th hazel eyes, is ready to take
charge of some one’s “sweet little cottage
home." with a horse and buggy attached.
Dhe is partial to tall gentlemen with tine
m.’istache, but no whiskers.
It may be, as the editor says, that these
thing, s ? are entirely innocent; and so we
leave the matter to whom it may concern.
The death of General Frossard is an
nounced. He was born in 1807; educated at
the military schools of Paris and Metz;
entered the army in 1827; campaigned in
Belgium and Algeria, and rose to the rank of
Major in 1846. In 1849 he was stationed at
Rome, and in 1853 directed the fortifications
of Oran in Algeria. He was chief of engi
neers during the Crimean war. In 1859 he
was ordered to Italy with the rank of Gen
eral. At the close of the war he
was appointed Governor of the Prince
Imperial. Commanding the Second French
Corps in the war with Germany,
h<4Sopened the ball with an attack upon
Saarbruek. On the 6th of August, 1870, he
was defeated at Forbach and withdrew to
Metz. He fought in the battles of Cour
eelles, Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte. He
iiecame a prisoner of war on the surrender
•>f Metz and was detained at Frankfort till
the close of the conflict, 1872, ho pub
lisiied a justification of his military career
iu the Franeo-Gennan campaigns of 1370.
The Courier-Journal tells us what it knows
-of Trebigne, the centre of the theatre of
the struggle now going on between the
Turks and the Herzegovinian insurgents,
itjs located in the southern angle of Her
zegovina, within a few miles of the Monte
negrin and Austrian frontiers, and exclu
ivoof its suburbs contains a population
v>f 3, 000. mostly Mohammedans. The gar
rison, with the additional troops mentioned,
- (insists of 2,000 infantry, a suadron of cav
alry, and several guns. The Herzegovin
ians laid siege t > the place in the fit st week
of August, and although it is poorly forti
fied, the Turks seem to have held out
successfully thus far. Trebigne is a
wry important strategical point, and the
i’urks will cling to it as long as they can.
On tiie same line, the Chicago 'Tribune thus
speculates concerning the “Sick Man’s”
danger: Unless Austria, Germany, and
Russia interfere, the Turkish frontier will
very likely be pushed back to the line of
the Balkans. If they interfere, and if the
insurrection is therefore crushed, Turkey
wifi be forced to grant sweeping reforms
to the Christian provinces. In any event,
the weakness of the Ottoman rule will have
been demonstrated, and the political alma
nacs oi the future will have this legend
written across every page: “About this
time look out for an insurrection in the
Christian provinces of Turkey.” If our
latest dispatches are correct, Turkey has
doubled up Herzegovina and Austria is
helping her to do so
@)c SUigustu Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
THE INSURRECTION.
Discharge of Cordy Harris and His
Associates—Judge Johnson’s Exem
plification of the Majesty of Law and
Justice.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Sandersville, Ga., via Tennillk, I
September 3, 1875. j
Cordy Harris was formally discharg
ed this morning, and on recommenda
tion of the grand jury twenty-nine
prisoners were released, thus clearing
the jail. Judge Johnson addressed
those in the Court room in the most
feeling manner, adjuring every one to
abide by and respect the law, however
some might be impatient and demand
a victim. The special term \?as then
adjourned. The military were dis
charged from further service this morn
ing. Judge Johnson has ordered a
special term of Johnson Superior Court
for Monday next, to try the insurrec
tionists in that county. There is much
disquietude here at the verdict, though
it is admitted that the secrecy envelop
ing the insurrectionary movement need
ed proof. D.
The Indictment, Trial and Acquittal
of Cordy Harris —The Facts Proven
by the State —The Existence of the
Conspiracy— Hoyv the State Broke
Down —The Arguments of Counsel.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Sandersville, Ga., September 3d.
Mr. Editor : As telegraphed you, the
trial of Cordy Harris, the negro
preacher, upon charge of an attempt to
incite au insurrection terminated last
night in a verdict of not guilty. During
the tirst day of the trial the examina
tion for the State was conducted by
Attorney General Hammond and the
evidence established the existence of
secret oath-bound negro military com
panies, the presence of Cordy Harris
with Murkeson at a meeting of negro
headmen in Waynesboro, where Morris
said if the blacks did not get their equal
rights they would kill the whites, the
silence of Harris at such declaration;
the presence of Morris in this county
at Harris’ house after the negroes were
refused the use of the Court House
here for their meeting of July 24, 1875,
and Morris’ statement to Harris that if
he (Harris) coldn’t get two men to
burn the Court House he (Morris)
would; that Harris had advised
tiie blacks to vote for Grant as
King, and not to obey the road laws ;
and that he had told on another occa
sion that negroes who had not run
blacks for office had forfeited a right
to representation. On the second day
of the trial, yesterday, the examination
for the {State was conducted by Salem
Dutcher, Esq., of Augusta, and estab
lished that Morris and Harris were in
close correspondence ; that Harris was
the head man of the negro military
companies in all this section ; that he
had sent money to Morris to print
baud bills calling a military mass meet
ing here July 24th, 1875, to elect a mil
itary general ; that the hand bills were
printed and distributed ; that the pro
cession to form the meeting took place;
that it was made up of companies com
manded by officers, the men in the uni
form ordered by the hand bill; that
there were several bands of martial
music, bass drums, kettle drums and
iifes playing ; that there were two ban
ners, and that Cordy Harris rode at
the head of the procession with a drawn
sword, commanded it, and gave mili
tary orders ; that Murkeson was then
and there under his orders; that the
use of the Court House was refused ;
that Cordy Harris then adjourned the
meeting to a more suitable time, and
made no answer when one of the negroes
openly told him he dared not tell what
he came for. It was further shown for
the State that subsequent to this he
informed the negroes this was Govern
ment land, and that the white people
must give it up—if they did not he
would whip them into it. The de
fence introduced no witnesses in order
to give Mr. Akerman, the leading coun
sel for the prisoners, the right to make
the closing argument to the jury, but
brought out on cross examination :hat
Harris told the meeting on July 24,
1875, to disperse peaceably, and that
when he spoke of this being Govern
ment land he was laughing, and wit
ness, who heard him, did not think he
was in earnest. A stubborn resistance
was made by the defence to the intro
duction of the letter and handbill
proving correspondence between Mor
ris and Harris, and that the latter was
the military head man in this section
but the State secured their admission.
On the first day the Attorney General
sought to make proof of orders read
to rise and kill the whites given by
Murkeson in Cordy Harris’ name, hold
ing that it had been sufficiently shown
that Harris and Murkeson were co
couspirators and that the latter’s state
ments as to the former’s orders in
reference to the common design could
be proven, but was overruled by Judge
Johnson, After the introduction of
more testimony by the State on
the point of combination, Mr. Dutcher
yesterday renewed the attempt to in
troduce such evidence in au elaborate
argument, holding that as there was
now more proof of the combination the
proper legal foundation had been laid,
and the evidence was admissible, but
Judge Johnson again overruled the
State. This virtually broke down the
prosecution. Up to the point of show
ing the actual orders to kill, it had
been proven that Morris was the mili
tary head man; that many counies
obeyed his orders, and that he had
made incendiary speeches, but the fiual
point of actual orders could not, under
the ruling, be shown, and resulted in a
verdict of not guilty, though the elab
orate argument for the State, opened
by Mr. Dutcher and closed by the At
torney General, made the jury remain
out so long that it was the general m-
Dression they would fail to agree and a
mistrial result. Particulars iu my
next.
Minor Telegrams.
Baltimore, September 3. —Milton
Whitney, a prominent criminal lawyer,
is dead. *
Ottawa, September 3. —Lord Duffe
rin will sail for Canada on the Bth of
October.
Louisville, September 3, —Lo iis
Rehm, teller of the Planters’ National
Bank, who confessed having himself
committed the robbery, was arraigned
at the City Court and held in $50,000
bail.
A little girl of four or five yet.rs
asked her mother -one day if she had
not seen Col. Porter. “No, my child,”
was the reply, “he died before you were
born.” “Well, but, mamma,” she in
sisted, ‘if he went up before I came
down, we must have met,”
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
HERZEGOVINA’S BULL RUN.
The Turks Defeat the Insurgents and
Drive Them into Dalmatia—Great
Britain Urged to Interfere—Austria
Snubbing Servia and Protecting the
Infidels.
London, September 3.— A dispatch to
the Times, from Therapia, a suburb of
Constantinople, iu which the foreign
ministers reside, says the Turks in
Herzegovina have gained a victory.
Ten thousand insurgents were driven
across the frontier into Dalmatia, where
they have been disarmed by the Aus
trians. Nevesiquo, the focus of the
insurrection, has been destroyed. Com
munications by way of Kleck have
been re-established.
The Times, in a leading article com
menting on the Herzegovinian troubles,
strongly urges the fitness and duty of
interference by Great Britain.
An article In a semi-official journal of
Constantinople resents foreign inter
ference, and declares Turkey fully able
to cope with any rebellion, and will not
cede an inch ot territory in deference
to idle demonstrations.
The violation of Servian territory
will probably prove to have been a
frontier raid by Turkish civilians for
the purpose of stealing cattle.
A Vienna dispatch to the Daily News
says it is confidently asserted that the
representative of Austria at Belgrade
has notified Servia that a willful ag
gression on the part of the latter
against Turkey, may render it neces
sary for Austria to send troops into
Servia in order to insure neutrality. It
is expected that Servia will issue a cir
cular note, showing that her action was
necessary to protect her own territory
against Turkish aggression by force of
arms.
Reconstructing Herzegovina The
Greeks Coddling the Turks - Oilaud
Water Mixing.
London, September 3.—A special
telegram from Constantinople to the
Times, states that Server Pasha has
been instructed to issuse a proclama
tion on his arrival at Mostar, giving as
surances that henceforward no vexa
tious illegal acts will be permitted iu
the name of the Government. He lias
also been directed to dismiss and pun
ish officials guilty of oppressing the
people; to institute a special tribunal
which shall examine and satisfy the de
mands of those who have been objects
of arbitrary treatment; to recall any
persons exiled without just cause and
expel agitators. He is authorized to
employ all necessary means to execute
these instructions. The Porte, while
determined to repress insurrection at
all costs, intends to extirpate abuses
likely to lead to its repetition. The
Standard's special dispatch from Con
stantinople, represents that the insur
rection in Herzegovina is now main
tained by bands of robbers. Not a
single insurgent is to be seen around
Trebigne. The fugitive insurgents
have driven 18,000 head of cattle into
Dalmatia for security.
A semi-official journal of Athens vin
dicates the Government of Greece in
its neutral attitude towards Turkey.
It says the Selavonians never helped
the Greeks in Crete, and Grecian in
terests imperatively call for friendship
with Turkey. The Neologos, the Greek
organ at Constantinople, advocates an
alliance between Greece and Turkey.
Capture of Kliokand by tlie Russians —
Death of Gen. Frossard —Papal Ap
pointment.
Rome, September 3. — lt is reported
that Monsignor Roncetti is to be ap
pointed to a high ecclesiastical dignity
in America.
Paris, September 3. — Gen. Frossard
is dead.
London, September 3.—The Daily
Telegraph publishes a special telegram
from Berlin announcing that a report
has been received there that the Rus
sian General Kaufman has entered the
city of Khokaud.
That King of Burmah Again.
Calcutta, September 3. —The Gov
ernment here has heard nothing to con
firm the report telegraphed hence to
the Loudon Times that the King of
Burmah refused to receive Col. Dim
ean, and the story is generally dis
credited.
Japanese ainl Chinese News—A De
structive Typhoon lnternational
Complications —A Pig-tail Chowder.
San Francisco, September 3.—Advi
ces from Yokohama, the 14th ult., re
port a heavy typhoon in the Chinese
sea, causing much damage to shipping.
The chief officer of the steamer Gaelic
and a seaman were washed overboard
and drowned. Heavy rains damaged
property in the central provinces of
Japan over two millions.
Peshire Smith returns to the Japan
ese foreign office soon.
Chinese military operations are sus
pended in consequence of a revolt of
soldiers. A detachment of the latter
from Formosa, soon after landing at
Foo-Choo, assaulted an American lady
and gentleman with great violence, se
verely bruising both. Au investigation
into the affair is being made by the
United States Consul.
The Chinese Government is prepar
ing to send diplomatic representatives
to leading Western nations. They will
be preceded by a roving mission simi
lar to Burlingame’s, under Hart, In
spector of Customs.
The British Commissioner has start
od for Yunnan to investigate the mur
der of Margary, accompanied by Vice
roy Lehan and Chang-By-Chem, a
Chinese magistrate of the mixed court
of Shanghai.
Forty thousand taels have been paid
to the French Legation for the murder
of a French priest in Sze-Chuen, six
months ago.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Gold Transfers —Dr. Linderman’s
Notes on the Situation—A Sick Ad
miral-Cemetery Regulations.
Washington, September 3. — Dr. Lind
erinan, Director of the Mint, who is
now in San Francisco, has sent the fol
lowing telegram from that city to the
Secretary of the Treasury: “An ad
ditional one-half million in gold coin
may be transferred from the bullion
fund of the San Francisco mint to the
Treasury of the United States without
interfering with prompt payment of
bullion deposits and purchases by the
mint, which is refining and coining on a
large scale. The business outlook is
improving and matters will soon move
forward on a more solid basis. I leave
for the East on Sunday morning.”
The Secretary o? the Treasury has
gone to New York.
Real Admiral Goldsborough is seri
ously sick.
The War Department has issued a
general order in reference to the Na
tional cemeteries. Picnics are forbid
den. No admittance between sunset
and sunrise. No refreshments must be
taken into cemeteries. Driving faster
than a walk is forbidden.
A.TJGS-ITST.A.. GA„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875.
FINANCIAL.
Brightening Prosfects in San Fran
cisco-Opening ol|the Merchants Ex
change Bank—TWe Bank of Ca/ for
te Resume Operations.
San Francisco, | Jeptember 3. —The
opening of the M! srehants Exchange
Bank, and the pnispect of an imme
diate resumption o the Bank of Cali
fornia, causes the t ‘St possible feeling
in business circles, and, with the ex
ception of the doling of the Stock
Boards, business li is practically set
tled down to the u ual routine. This
morning the Boar l oi Brokers will
hold a meeting, and possibly may con
clude to resume buijiDess on Monday,
though the more caltious members ad
vise waiting until : he resumption of
the Bank of Califo nia. The time is
not yet fixed for the o >ening of the Bank,
as much work ren uns to be done in
examining the accou its. Mr. Ralston’s
successor has not ye been named. At,
present D. O. Mills iu at the head of
affairs. The amouDjj, of new capital
subscribed to date s $4,800,000. The
bank’s affairs will e taken in charge
and the business njpnaged as before
the failure, until al| assets are collec
ted and all debts paicj; and the engage
ments and obligatiorf? of the bank will
be regulated quietly Ind prudently, so
as to restore eonfldfnoe among mer
chants and relieve tlie city of any an
ticipation of injury insany respect. The
stockholders are expiated, in hieir own
interest and iu t hat o| the city, to give
the syndicate a controlling interest in
the stock, and whe* the bank is free
from its obligations, i|id its assets have
been realized, any beiiefit accruing will
be distributed amongLhe stockholders
pro rata. Assurance Is given, on indis
putable authority, tlat the business
of the bank will bel closed up as it
affects all creditors icd stockholders
in the most advantag njus way. Time
be given debtors wt ) are unable to
meet their bills, but tn effort will be
made to collect assetsf i. s soon as cir
cumstances permit. fAs fast as the
cash is available, the indebtedness of
the bank will be paii off. When the
affairs of the bank llive been cleared
up, the syndicate will like into consid
eration the advisability of continuing
the old organization, ir starting a ne*w
one, or some other Icourse will be
taken. I
Another Londot Failure.
London, September* 3. —Caldwell &
Watson, East India ijierchants, have
failed. Their liabilitiAs are estimated
at $400,000.
End of the Duir ee Strike.
The strike in Dundee is ended and
the mills reopened toMay, the operat
ives having consented o work at a re
duction of 5 per cent c l their present
wages.
Strikes Amonj the \ Massachusetts
Cobblers—T) 5 Lonjlou Press on
Trade l’rosp jts. !
Natick, Mass., September 3. — A gen
eral strike was inaugurated among the
workmen at all the bor® and shoe es
tablishments at Coiiiituato. Eight
hundred employes beilig idle caused
employers to refuse to i ?store their pay
to che same standard a before the re
duction, which was imu e some months
since on account of < ull trade. The
workmen in two proir meat establish
ments of this place si uck yesterday,
but a compromise was t Tected.
London, September 1. —The Times,
iu its financial column, says : “ There
is increased firmness i the discount
market apart from o her influences,
which may bo expect jd to cause a
greater demand for fiot .ing capital. As
we get into autumn n ure than usual
attention is directed o the require
ments of thq country in connection
with the grain trade. I is known that
we shall have to import an unusually
large quantity of wheal It is equally
certain that all the mal ing barley will
have to come from abro id.”
The Daily Telegraph i ays the pros
pects are favorable foil the hop har
vest. which has alreadlr commenced.
Damage done by mould* and vermin is
below the average. I
FROM CALIFORNIA.
The Democracy Triuit pliant—Chap
man can Crow This Ti te—The Tidal
Wave Rolls On.
San Francisco, Septem! er 3.—lncom
plete returns indicate t le election of
Irwin, Democrat, forGo\ irnor, and the
entire Democratic ticki ; by a large
plurality. Three Democi itic Congress
men are elected. The lpurth District
is in doubt. The Democrats have a
plurality in the Legislature and prob
ably a majority. A decision of the
Mayoralty contest willi probably re
quire an official count. $
i|The vote of the State, its far as heard
from, except the cities off San Francis
co and Sacramento, which are much
mixed, gives Irwin, DemcJirat, for Gov
ernor, 21,695; and BidwSdl, Independ
ent, 9,683. In the Second Congres
sional District, Page, Republican, re
ceives 4,891; Larkin, Deliocrat, 4,361;
and Tuttle, Independent, *1,297. In the
Third Congressional Diefrict, Luttrell,
Democrat, receives 5,64a. Deuio, Re
publican, 2,666; and Rcid.llnuependent,
2,165. In the Fourth llongressional
District, Wiggington, ijemocrat, re
ceives 6,442; Houghton,! Republican,
4,803, and Thompson, independent,
1,675. In this city, Piplr, Democrat,
for Congress, is undoutfcedly elected,
but the other offices ai|> still unde
cided, _ I
SPORTING NIjWS.
Goldsmith Maid Manta a Mile
in 2:14 1-2.1
HAiiTrORD, —The first r;Uc for horses
of the 2:34 class was wolf by Orient in
three straight heats; [pan Bryant
second and Unknown thii 1; time, 2:24,
2:24, 2:25^4;
The 2;28 race was won by Rarus in
three straight heats, A unie Collins
second and Little Freu third; time,
2:222:21>£.2:25,?4.
For the free for all race >nly Hopeful
and American Girl trotte I. The race
was won by Hopeful in t ireo straight
heats; tine, 17K, 18 }£, 18)
Goldsmith Maid trotte.fl two heats
with a running mate to b|at her best
record for a purse of $:000. In the
first heat Doble did not t|ind her, evi
dently only caring to pi<t her in trim
for the second trial. TLfs time was
2:22> 4 / , In the second h|at she was
sent, &,nd made a mile without a stop
in 2:14>2, creating great
Turfmen regard this as better than 2:14
on the Mystic Park and really
her greatest achievement! all things
considered. |
The running race was t|on by Lore
na, Leamington second, dime, 1:48^,
I*7&. „. . \
After that it is plain 4iiling. Our
charge for this is a boxSof cigars in
each case of successful application—
the charge to be and remali a debt of
honor until satisfied and Uncharged.
THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE.
Stovers of tiie “Queer” Arrested—
How Banks are Robbed—One Colored
Brother Kills Another —Illinois Ku
Klux—Dangers of Scandal Case Tes
timony.
Washington, September 3. —The Se
cret Service has advices of the arrest
in St. Louis of Hubbard, of St. Louis ;
Malone, of North Carolina ; Duff, of
Virginia, and Flint of Tennessee, al
leged dealers in counterfeit money.—
Malone, Duff and Flint were in St.
Louis to purchase “ queer ” from Hub
bard.
Louisville, September 3.—The Plant
ers’ National Bank has resumed. The
money taken by Rehm has been all re
covered. He took the money and con
cocted the story of the three robbers.
The money was found buried near
Rehm’s house.
Pittsburg, September 3. —Two half
brothers, colored, “alltercated.” After
a few words, one killed the other with
a shot gun.
Quincy, 111., September 3.—Ex-Judge
Mitchell, who testified in the Methodist
Church regarding a church scandal,
was assailed by the lady’s friends. The
Judge received three wounds, and in
flicted several. A bystander was shot
in the leg.
Fatal Accident at a Bridge Celebration
—Disaster to a Cattle Train—The
Pennsylvania Banditti Kill Anotber
Boss.
Atchison, Kansas, September 3. — The
celebration of completing the bridge
over the Missouri was the largest ever
known in this section of country. A
train coming to the celebration ran off
the track, and two persons were killed.
Omaha, September 3.—The rain wash
ed the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road near Jefferson, lowa. Twelve cat
tle cars went through a bridge. The
cattle were nearly all killed.
Pottsville, September 3.—The gen
eral inside boss for the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company was shot
dead by two strangers, who fled. Par
ties are in pursuit.
Arrest of Assassins.
Pottsville, Pa., September 3. —The
two men who killed John O. Jones, at
Lansford this a. m., were arrested iu
the woods, near Tamaqua, and fully
identified.
Two Suicides—A Promiscuous Hang
ing.
Norway, Me., September 3. —General
Win. K. Kimball suicided by shooting
himself. No cause.
Paterson, N. J., September 3. —U. C.
Hill, former President of the New York
Philharmonic Society, shot himself.
Pecuniary difficulties were the cause of
the! suicide.
ilittle Rock, September 3.— Six men
weije hanged to-day at Fort Smith.
Thsir names were James H. Moore
(white), Daniel H. Evau (white), Samuel
\V. Fooy (quarter Cherokee), Smoker-
Man-Killer (full blood Cherokee), Ed
mond Campbell (colored), and John
Whittington (white).
KENTUCKY’S NEW GO VERNOR.
Inauguration of Gov. McCreary—The
Ring of the Tr uest Steel.
James B. McCreary was inaugurated
Governor of Kentucky last Tuesday.
We make the following extracts from
his inaugural address:
“The mass of mankind were not
born bridled and saddled for a favored
few, with boots and spurs to ride them.
Equal rights, local self-government,
justice and economy are the watch
words of to-day, and the people are de
claring that those who oppose these
grand tenets of their political faith
shall feel their condemnation, and be
crushed by the Juggernaut car of pub
lic sentiment.
“The arts of peace are better than
the arts of war, and lam pleased to
state, after a somewhat protracted and
extended canvass, that there is now in
every section of our Commonwealth
peace, fraternity and good will. Drill
sergeants can no longer arouse the
passions and prejudices of the war.
The angel of Peace and Reconciliation
has, with soothing, healing wings,
fanned the hearts of our people, chang
ing foemen into friends, and through
out our State the people are casting
behind them the wreck and rubbish oi
worn-out issues and b3 7 -gone animosi
ties, and, with an earnest desire for
the prosperity of the olden time, are
advocating the needs and aspirations
of the preeeut. I hail this conduct as
the harbinger of better days, and I
shall do all in my power to perpetuate
it, and unite our citizens in golden, in
dissoluble bonds of friendship, confi
dence and love.
“A restoration of fraternal feeling
should be the earnest wish of every
patriotic heart; and we will have ac
complished our grandest national tri
umph, when, forgetful of the sorrow
and strife of the past, we resume in
every section of the Union an onward
career as a free, prosperous, and united
people.
“I desire an era of honesty, economy,
and justice in the admistration both of
our State and Federal Governments;
and peace and prosperity and progress,
not only in Kentucky, but iu every part
of the Union.
I wish to see the records of secession,
coercion, and reconstruction filed away
forever, and the people of the whole
country earnestly advocating peace
and reconciliation, and all looking to
the Constitution as the guarantee of
our liberties and the safeguard of every
citizen.
Northern and Southern men have re
cently met in the shadow of Bunker
Hill Monument, and there, animated by
common memories and common hopes,
with clasped hands have renewed their
friendship and rededicated their ener
gies to the advancement of the whole
country and the restoration of peace
and good will.
“ The friends of liberty and progress
propose to celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence on the 4th of July,
1876, by holding a grand International
Exposition in the city of Philadelphia,
where our Independence was declared,
where the first Constitutional Conven
tion was held, and where Independence
Hall still stands, and inviting not only
the citizens of the United States, but
the citizens of all civilized Europe, to
come and see the success and growth
of our Republic.
“I hope before that sacred anniver
sary arrives the liberty, dignity and
equality of every State will be recog
nized, and that a general amnesty law
will have been passed ; and then, as
civilization halts and takes an inven
tory of our resources, and of our vast,
varied and wonderful progress, and
the first grand volume of personal and
national freedom is closed, there will
be nothing to mar this grand pageant,
and I trust our teeming, thriving,
earnest millions will not only be stimu
lated to inscribe a greater and more
glorious record for the coming century,
but they will also, on this sacred day,
bury forever the passions and preju
dices engendered by the war.”
A WAIL FROM CHICAGO.
| A City Full of Unemployed Clerks,
and Laboring Men Out of Work —
Houses Empty, Hotels Bankrupt,
and a Miscellaneous Condition of
Indigence and Idleness Among the
Lower Orders, Etc.
[Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.]
Chicago, August 23.— Our buglers
claim that Chicago’s population has
been increased. 100,000 since the fire.
If that statement is true, fully 20,000
people have been out of employment
here for over two years, and, strictly
speaking, “on the streetand it is
true that beneath the pomposity of
rebuilt Chicago, notwithstanding her
marble palaces, splendid hotels, mag
nificent theatres, brilliant, duty-free
plate glass, dazzling chandeliers and
unique candelabra, she bides more
pinched gentility, exquisite misery and
intense suffering than any city in
America. Our newspapers and news
paper correspondents have pictured it
as the business man’s Mecca and the
poor man’s paradise. Article upon ar
ticle has been written to show why
persons should leave the country, vil
lage, town or other city, and hie to this
Western Utopia. This, and the adver
tisement of the fire, has had the effect
of flooding Chicago with
A Tidal-Wave of Adventurers.
Legitimate business men at a dis
tance saw that opportunities for quick
aggregation of wealth would be taken
advantage of by those already here,
who knew and could see the character
of such opportunities, and but few
came. But the stiff-necked farmer’s
son who had clerked in the village
store, or who had attended the village
academy until his shrewdness and pre
science exceeded that of his entire fam
ily line and the population of the town
ship in which he resided, came. The
fraudulent business man of the small
town or city came. The long-haired
country pettifogger came. The super
annuated clergyman—that shrewdest
and most relentless real estate or in
surance agent or insurance shyster—
came. The peculating clerk and the
speculating shirk came. The amateur
mechanic, bricklayer and carpenter
came. The forger, “shover of the
queer.” Peter Funk man, till-tapper,
garroter, blackmailer, courtesan —each
and every—came ; and the excitement
that attracted them gone, the police
and tiie criminal courts carry on the
record of Chicago’s wonderful increase
in population and boundless increase
of prosperity.
Among the hereditary gamin, and
those reduced by necessity to conform
ity with the species, there are now in
our city many
Counts and Discounts
illustrating greatness by contrast. The
fire advertised Chicago to foreigners
also; and the Munchausen tales of
wealth centering here, which found
their way across the waters, drew to
us scores of the gentility in decadence.
A title may serve a vain wealthy man,
but I have observed, both in this coun
try and Europe, a titled human iu rags
was proportionately unfortunate, as
the placards of their former knightly
honors were exhibited. In any case,
we are bountifully spiced with this
class; and if ye native American, by
tiie eighth clause of the ninth section
of the Constitution, must forego the
dubbing of nobility, he can have the
sweet satisfaction, at least iu Chicago,
of liaviug his lager drawD, hash pre
pared and served, and street orchestra
ground by those who have bent the
knee to receive the accolade and
sword. The most unfortunate class I
have been able to discover, however,
are
The Poor Devils of Clerks,
of whom, it is estimated, there are 20,-
000 in Chicago. The salaries of these
animated automata range from $6 to
sls, seldom as high as $lB per week ;
and how under heaven they make the
legendary “ two ends ” meet is one of
the mysteries. The salaries of those
who gain their livelihood by their
“shaDe” rather than by brains and
brawn, have been cut down since the
fire fully 100 per cent. There has been
uo reduction iu living expenses conse
quent upon high rents, which have
been very generally maintained. These
clerks are compelled to lose their in
dividuality completely, and have be
come, in consequence of their virtual
slavery, veritable puppets. Supposing
there was not the constant terror of
loss of situation —and there is, for au
advertisement in the Tribune for any
manner of a clerk will bring from 500
to 1,000 applicants, each able to furnish
“ the very best of references,” and we
will say the clerk receives the munifi
cent pittance of sl2 per week, which is
certainly the average salary. To
get board at as low a price $6 per
week, and this will only procure
the vilest of hash, he must live
from two to four miles from his
place of business. As he must be
behind his gorgeous counter —money is
put into furnishings, not salaries, in
Chicago—at 7:30 o’clock promptly, it
necessitates the expenditure of sixty
cents a week for car fare. His lunch is
not often included in this dyspepsia
producing boarding-house regime, and
$1.50 at least must be expended during
the week for restaurant dinners. His
washing will cost $1 more, for his linen
must be spotless, and his absolutely ne
cessary incidental expenses will swell
this total to $lO, leaving $2 per week
.with which to array himself iu costly
apparel, for he must be faultlessly
dressed. When it is true that more
clerks receive $lO than sl2 per week,
and the fact that many have families
to support is considered, a picture
of exquisite misery is furnished that
should prompt some artist to achieve
renown by portraying these miseries
and making the clerk their em
bodied type. I suggest as a study for
some of your artists during the leisure
summer days : An organized and des
perate classic-looking young man sus
pended over a cliff by a tape-line, mot
toed, “Twelve dollars per week.” Above
the cliff stands a “merchant prince” in
a heaven of glory and ribbons and
things, with his foot accidentally hold
ing the tape-line. Below the desperate
young man is a sea of squalor, just
above which are the faces of a wife and
of children. Their hands cliug to the
desperate young man’s threadbare gar
ments and left hand, while with his
right hand he is vainly struggling to
lift himself and those that God has
given him by the slender thread. You
can study the subject from life any
where.
But these are not all his miseries.
The “floor walker” or foreman has an
eagle eye for delinquents, and the
slightest dereliction is visited with a
stinging reprimand, a hissed curse or
that consummation of all horrors, dis
missal; and, so fearful of this do these
clerks become, and so groveling are
they obliged to be in consequence, that
I have stood by in disgust and seen
them. Manliness, sentiment, eonsidera-
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 27.
tion, are all evolved. Labor is valued
in these huge establishments at just
what it will bring, and five hundred
employes are morally so many ma
chines. The caprices of women with
time on their hands to kill; the petu
lance of women who carry their shrew
ishness into their inquiries for tape and
tarlatan; the whimsicalities of grand
mothers and the virulence of spinsters;
the torment of women who want forty
dozen samples “to send to a sick cousin
in the country,” but who are really
making patch-work and quilts; the
thoughtlessness of girls who end a raid
on a department with the remark:
“Guess ma’ll have to come;” snickering
women, terrible women; handsome
women, ugly women; holy women,
thieving women; and all the countless
contemptible little 'exhibitions of snob
bishness on the part of all women who
mistake them for evidences of woman
hood and caste—all have to be over
come and smoothed away by the des
pairing clerk, or judgment day comes.
This is but a faint idea of the condi
tion of Chicago clerks. Whatever may
have been the ambition of earlier years;
whatever hope, fancy, or bright ideal
ism may have pictured —all is struck
into darkness by the hard hand of ne
cessity, and these men, or things,
rather than walk in God’s sunlight
with a work-hardened hand that is
grasping more happy realities for the
future, sink into these compendiums of
nothingness, are eventually pushed
aside and pass from notice and exis
tence.
Some of tlie Results
of this starvation system, which is now
quite generally in practice in the great
trade establishments of the country-,
are shown in a recent exposure of petty
depredations committed for a period of
several yeais at the wholesale dry
goods establishment of John V. Far
well & Cos, of this city. In a former
letter I spoke of Farwell’s conversion
by Moody, and how neatly Moody has
since manipulated Farwell.
A month or two since, when the
Moody excitement was at its height in
London, the enthused convert, Far
well, having got all his shoddy Indian
blankets accepted (the contracts were
secured by his brother, Charles Ik Far
weli, Kepresentative at Washington
from the Third Illinois Congressional
District), felt that he must lend Moody
his moral and financial support. On
his way to Liverpool his religious fer
vor seemed to increase, and he was
carried to within sight of the celestial
palms by some biblical student’s touch
ing book called “Grace for Grace.”
Arriving in Liverpool, several hundred
of these were ordered, and a letter
from Farwell to his clerks printed and
pasted on the fly-leaves. In this letter
Farwell, in a Pickwickian sense proba
bly, wanted all his clerks to be good
boys and draw as near the throne of
grace as their limited salaries would al
low, and added that the book would
express his feelings better than he
could do it himself. The books were
received, the young men ranged in a
row, and the terror of anticipated dis
charge gave way to a look of hungry
expectation as it was whispered about
that “J. V.” had sent them each a
present. There was a sad disen
chantment, however, when the
trucks were wheeled by and “Grace
for Grace” dished out. But
Another Ceremony
was being performed. There had been
$50,000 worth—that is a large sum and
would have made the families of those
clerks very much more comfortable—of
laces, velvets, silks, &c., missing,
“Charley” Farewell, representative,
&c., who represents other than the re
ligious element of the firm, or Radical
politics, having less “ grace for grace ”
than his brother, now that he was over
the sea, went for these young men
with love and faith in thoir hearts, and
a squad of them were ari'ested. The
investigation showed that the thefts
have been committed without excep
tion, by clerks receiving the graceful
salary of
Six Dollars Per Week.
Six dollars per week to men and bro
thers struggling for the sustenance of
body and the miserable eking out of
life! Six dollars per week to keep
off the rain, to keep out the cold,
to battle with the gaunt de
mons Want and Death, and to
protect the parting thread of
very existence ! Is it strange that
gilded godliness, reaching from its
purple pulpit, is spurned and struck in
the face with these facts ? Facts, even
of the Gradgriud order, my clerical
friends, shame and confound you. And
it is as true that your calling may be
holy and blessed by bravely battling
these grinding injustices that confront
you at every step, and plead with you
in all their piteous aspects, thatagreat,
a mighty element of good which your
skilled hands might mold and fashion
into joyful fruition, is escaping you and
passing into the outer darkness of
struggles, of overwhelming temptation
and irretrievable infamy, because you,
whose voices are all-powerful, defy the
god of unapproachableness, and hide
the Christ of humanity; because you
make easy the self-accusations of pride,
and forget the lesson of sacrifice ; and
because your words are absolution to
Dives and despair to Lazarus.
There is no more dangerous a man
than the apostle of communism; no
more fatal sophistry than that thrift
deserves not its reward. But there is
no more loyal a Christian than he
who remembers that strict justice alone
is redemption to the great world of
toilers about him; no nobler man than
he whose voice and hand, disregard
ing the munificences of munificent hum
buggery, are raised to the practical,
every-day evaugeliziug of his fellows
by presenting the mighty incentive to
endeavor that the world ever blossoms
and ripens in remunerative toil. Lec
ture, but never be a clerk.
The Communists,
who have pursued a quiet and even
secret policy since their attempted
raid on the Relief building last winter,
have worked hard among the shops
and factories, and have drawn many
thousands of honest but ignorant men
into their society. Wages here in Chi
cago are notoriously low. As stated in
the first part of this article, there are
at least 20,000 people out of employ
ment. The elements are favorable to
riot. Every few days some placard
will appear upon dead-wall and curb
ing denouncing our militia regiments
and threatening them and their sup
porters with extermination. The Com
munists are holding no more public
meetings, but in every part of the oity
there is a “Section.” These seotions are
called once a week, in oellars and out
of-the-way places, where the members
renew their pledge of “Liberty, Fra
ternity and Equality,” and drill with
broomsticks, quite like the oohorts of
Lord Gordon and Simon Tappertit be
fore the London riots. Altnough the
authorities affeot derisiou at the crazy
by-play, there are those who apprehend
trouble when the long, hard winter
comes on, and it is true that the lead
ers have gathered rnauy determined,
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letters, or articles written on both sides,
desperate people among them. So far
as I can discover, their sworn intention
is, when the winter comes and those
who now have work are thrown out of
employment, a formal demand will be
made for work. If this is not furnished
by the city, or by citizens, with a
stated time, a demand will be then
mado for the means of subsistence.
If this is not complied with, then
Chicago and her protecting minions,
the city police, and the militia will be
leisurely butchered, after which Mayor
Colvin and the Aldermen will be anni
hilated, anew city government be or
ganized by the commune, the Reliof
and Aid Society gutted, and then mer
chants and private citizens will be
levied upon. If there is any opposition
to this programme, a few thousand ob
stinate people will become “dom’d moist
unpleasant bodies,” and a few thousand
acres of Chicago will be burned over,
so that poor people will have a change
to rebuild it next spring. With the
vendetta at one end, the Chicago com
munists at the other, and the Sick
Man, Beveridge, between, Illinois may
find all she can attend to at home dur
ing the next year.
THE OHIO*CANVASS.
How the Republicans ai-e Evading the
Real Issue—Cowardly Attempts to
Make Capital Out of the Sectarian
Question.
* [New York Herald.]
We regret the new phase into which
the Ohio canvass is passing, which is
equivalent to a ciiauge of base on the
part of the Republicans. Their press
and speakers have brought tho school
question into the foreground, and are
waging a war against the Catholic
Church rather than against the Demo
cratic party. This is unfortunate, not
only because the introduction of re
ligious questions into politics is contra
ry to the genius of our institutions,
but because, in the pending Ohio can
vass, it so confuses tho issues that no
body can interpret the result after the
election is over. If the Republicans
carry the State on the school question
the country at large will be left in the
dark as to the public sentiment of Ohio
on the great question of currency,
which is of vital interest to the nation.*
Spectators of the contest in other
States feel anxious at this shifting of
the main issue, especially as they can
not see that the school question is of
any immediate urgency in Ohio. Tho
Republicans are fighting a chimera.
The common school system of the
State is in no danger. A large majority
of the Ohio Democrats are Protest
ants, as firmly attached to the common
schools as the Republican Protestants.
Quite a proportion of the Catholic
laity send their children to the com
mon schools, and will continue to do so
in spite of the priesthood. The Geg
han law, about which such an outcry is
raised, was no doubt passed by the De
mocratic Legislature to please the
Catholics, but it is a harmless enact
ment, having no relation to the com
mon school system. It merely provides
that persons confined in tho prisons
and penitentiaries of the States shall
not be compelled to receive religious
instruction from ministers who are not
of their own faith. The religious issue
which the Republicans have dragged
into the canvass is a false and facti
tious appeal to religious bigotry and
prejudice.
The change of base by the Ohio Re
publicans is a bad omen. It is an indi
cation that their own party is so in
fected with the inflation heresy that
they dare not risk a canvass on that
issue. It is true, in point of fact, that
the Republican party of Ohio is divid
ed on this question, and that a consid
erable proportion of its voters are in
flationists. In the last Congress nine
of the twelve Republican members of
tho House from Ohio voted for infla
tion, and they, no doubt, supposed at
tho time that they were in accord with
their constituents. Those Republican
constituencies in Ohio may have waived
tlieir views, but not changed them, and
this is probably the reason why the
party dare not make a square fight on
the inflation issue. Their ehaugo of
base to the school question in tho midst
of the canvass is likely to be inter
preted as a confession that on the in
flation issue the Democrats would carry
the State.
GUIBORD.
Attempts to Bury Him in Consecrated
Orouud Frustrated—A Painful Spec
tacle.
Montreal, Septembers.—Some three
hundred persons accompanied tho body
of Guibord from the Protestant Ceme
tery. Five hundred Catholic French
Canadians assembled at tho gate and
swore his bones should never lie in
consecrated ground. The hearse was
driven off, but returned in the after
noon. The mob made a rush for the
hearse, crying, “Curse him!” “Stone it
off the ground!” The driver was in
jured with stones, and many persons
were bruised and trampled by the
horses. The horses moved off amidst
derisive cheers. It is unknown whether
another attempt will be made to bury
the body.
The Mob Armed and Determined-
Military Precautions “Religious”
Conflicts Feared.
After the departure of Guibord’s re
mains from the Catholic Cemetery
gates yesterday, the mob remained in
force on the ground until the arrival
of the Mayor and police, when they
abadoned the gates and dispersed.
Before this they had filled up the
empty grave and torn down the cross
over it. The Prince of Wales’ regi
ment rendezvoused last evening, and
is held in readiness for any outbreak.
The mob, numbering several hundred,
and well armed,are at the Cemetery to
day. It is not known when the fun
eral will be attempted again. The
priests deny they instigated the riot.
The feeling runs very high between
Catholics and Protestants. Orangemen
talk of turning out at the funeral.
— —i iii
Hard to Kill— The Chicago Tribune
sarcastically observes that “the man
who spoke of the Indians as a dying
race should emigrate, In 1861 they
cost the country $2,629,975 97; last
year $8,032,752 92 was required to sup
port them. Either the funeral ex
penses are inconceivably high or the
man erred.” There is a bonanza for
official sharpers in the Indian ring as
well as in Nevada silver mines. If
there was but a single half-breed
savage on the continent, some hanger
on at Washington would rnako a for
tune out of him.
When a Pennsylvania farmer sold his
farm to an oil company, he went to
town the day he got his cash and
bought his wife two hundred dozen
clothes pips and twenty-five clothes
lines. Ho said he’d had growling and
jawing enough about that house,