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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months ] 500 “ three months "* 2so Tri-Weekly—one year 5 00 “ six months 250 Weekly—one year 200 six months 100 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, ‘i l A cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. •TAS. G. BAILIE. \ FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. 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, To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. ApvEimsEMENTs must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per lino each insertion. Monet 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 auonymou* 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,