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There was a frightful disaster on Lake
Michigan day before yesterday.
Instead of issuing^ a proclamation to
suppress an insurrection in Mississippi,
Grant will more likely offer a reward for
the lost Gov. Ames
The North Carolina Convent : on has voted
down a resolution to adjourn, and gone
regularly to work with the business for
which the people called it together.
Thomas D. Worrall is coming to Geor
gia to look for a suitable place t > establish
the headquarters of the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Comijany. We extend him
a most cordial invitation to visit Augusta.
The failure of John J. Cohen & Sons was
announced at a late hour yesterday after
noon. Not many people heard of it until
after supper. A portion of the depositors
were paid last night ninety cents on the
dollar.
Odk Charleston correspondent depicts
most forcibly the dreidlul condition into
which South Carolina politics and poli
ticians have fallen. If these abominable
deeds are results of “Reform.” heaven help
the men who led the people into such a pit
of degradation!
A rally for Ames! , Yes, sir; heroic
Vicksburg has tendered him one hundred
men to march anywhere to put down insur
rection, bind up wounds, take care of the
sick, drive ambulances, shield virtue, pro
tect innocence. These hundred men are
crack-shots, have smelled plenty of pow
der, are good Democrat s, and prefer the
gray uniform.
There was one man lacking In the
"Manager’s private box at the Park The
ater” New York, to make the thing com
plete. Govs. Kellogg and Wabmouth
were there. Bullock should have been on
hand. We can only account for his absence
upon the hypothesis that he had no dead
head tic ket and was short of change. We
understand his cash, like his character, is
short. ___
The great race horse and noted sire
Planet died on Friday last at the Woodburu
stud farm, near Lexington, Ky. This will
be a heavy loss to his owner, Mr. A. J
Alexander. Planet was foaled in 1855, and
iiad passed his twentieth year when he
dind. He was sired by Revenue, and was
out of Nina, by Boston. Planet made his
debut on the turf on Tuesday, May 4, 18 *B,
in the Dosweli stake for three year olds,
mile heat*, at the Fairfield course, near
Richmond, Va. There were thirty-eight
entries and live starters, P.anet winning
easily in two he its in 1.47% and 1.43. He
was the sire of a goo l many well known
li uses, among them Katy Pease and
Hubbard.
The Italians are making preparations to
celebrate the four hundredth birthday of
Michael Angelo Buonarotti, the great
painter, sculptor and architect, who was
born at the castle of Capresse, in Tuscany,
March 6, 1474. He was by long, long odds
the greatest man Italy has produced since
the days of Cjesar, Brutus, Sylla, and
Marius, an i whilst scarcely a trace of
those illustrious men remain on earth, the
paintings and sculpture of Michael Ange
lo are to-day the admiration of every vis
itor to Italy. Ho was the principal archi
tect of St. Peter’s, the author of the great
paintings, "The Deluge,” the “Conversion
of St. Paul,” and the ’’Crucifixion of St. Fe
tor.”
Cyrus L. Pershing, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, is a
native of Cambria county, and was born in
1825. Hehas prae iced law at Johnstown
for many years, and has devoted his life
to His profession. Although a Democrat
iu his convictions, he was not a violent par
tisan, and was often called to take a place
on the ticket. In 1856 he came within a few
votes of defeating Colonel Edie for Con
gress in the strong Republican District of
Huntingdon, Blair, Cambria and Somerset,
and in 1853 he was renominated for Con
gress. but defeated by S. S. Blair by some
two thousand, although leading his ticket.
In 1860 he was elected to the Legislature
and served five years consecutively. In
1869 he was the Democratic nominee for
Supreme Judge, but was defeated by Judge
Williams by 8,7J1 majority. Two years
ago the people of Schuylki 1 county, with
out distinction of party, nominated him
for President Judge against Judge Ryan.
and he wa 5 elected by over three thousand
majority. ’ inee then he has devoted him
self to his judicial duties, and discharged
them most acceptably.
Potash Farrow! Phoebus, what a name,
what a man, what a history! He is a na
tive of JSouth Carolina, from whence an ill
wind for Georgia blew him across the Sa
vannah. During the days of the Confed
eracy he had some sort of employment
furnish ng pota h for our powder works.
He has since its decease been a drum
major in the Radical ranks. Grant has
kept him pretty steadily in office, by
which he made meat and bread. But
his impecunious, hungry brethren, who
have for years stood outside with empty
mouths and watched him devour rich
slices of Government pork are about
to prevail upon Grant to lead him out and
let one of them go to the table. They rep
resent to the President that Potash Is fat
and sleek, and that they are reduced to a
mere skeleton. It is impossible for them
to get through the Winter unless they
either get office or go to honest work. They
prefer office. There is nothing left for
Pot ish but to step down and out and say:
•"Oh! momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of
uod;
Who builds his hope in air of your fail
looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready with every nod to tumble dowu! ”
We had the pleasure of a short visit last
night from Gen. A. H. Colquitt, who had
been spending the day with and addressing
the Richmond County Grangers. He took
the train last night for his home near At
lanta. We take the occasion to state that
Gen. Colquitt has never said one word
about the candidacy for Governor ol Geor
gia. The newspapers and their correspon
dents have done all that. No one has ever
authoritatively spoken on the subject. Ho
has, however, for ten years past, worked
hard and most faithfully to elevate the
farming interests of Georgia, deliver
ing addresses in a majority of the
counties upon purely agricultural topics,
totally free from politics and with
out even political allusions. The pa
pers have misconstrued all this infce an
ambition to be Governor, thus robbing him
of much that is due him and breaking the
force of what he had to say. After all that
has been said, no one actually knows
whether he would even accept the nomina
tion. We freely give General Colquitt the
glory of having defended Georgia like a
hero, as he is; and whea all was lost in bat
tie save our lands, of making a still
more glorious effort to win a greater victory
than was ever plucked from battle-field, in
the arts of peace. If" peace has its tri
umphs no less renowned than war," then
indeed, Is he entitled to the homage of
true Georgian,”
Angustn! Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
LAKE MICHIGAN DISASTER.
Loss of a Schooner and 22 Lives,
Chicago, September 12.—0n ake
Michigan, early yesterday morning,
the propeller Equinox, from Chicag > to
Bay City Michigan, with a cargo of
salt and towing the schooner Emma E.
Wayes, loaded with lumber, was over
taken by a storm about two o’clock
near Point aue Sable, 280 miles nc rth
of Chicago. Capt. Woodword, of the
Equinox, came to the stern of the Pro
peller at that time and called out to
cut the lines. This done and the Pro
peller careered and sunk in a few
minutes. She had on board a crew of
19 men and Uapt. Dwight Scott, of the
Cleveland, a well known Captain v/ho
was accompanied by his wife and
grand-daughter, making a total of 22
persons. The first intimation the
schooner had of the catastrophe was
the shrieks of the drowning. The
Wayes could render no assistance
whatever in the terrible sea that was
running. The entire crew of the
Equinox went down. The schooner ar
rived here this morning.
Chicago, September 11.-- -The Post and
Mail, in the account of the disaster to
the Equinox, says of the drowned : The
Captain was Dwight Scott, of Cleve
land, who was formerly owner of file
Ironsides; S. D. Caldwell and Gov
Cushman, the last named having been
blown up at Buffalo three years ago
The two passengers were Miss Minnie
Scott, the Captain’s daughter, aged 19
years, going home from the convent
where she was being educated, and
Miss Hattie Scott, aged 17, grand
daughter, who lived in Cleveland,
traveling for pleasure in the Equinox.
Capt. Scott was 60 years of age, and has
a son in business in Cleveland. The
story of the disaster is told by Captain
Lusk, of the schooner Emma A. Mayes,
whieh arrived off the harbor at 8 o’clock
last night and brought in this morning.
His schooner was being towed by the
lost propeller up to within a few
minutes before she went down. The
storm struck the lake with great forne,
but the vessels ploughed their way
without misfortune until 2 o’clock Fri
day morning. The crews of both ves
sels were ready for duty, that of the
schooner being constantly engaged
about the sails and ligging. The fury
of the storm was terrible. It seemed
several times certain that destruction
awaited them. N*> signs, however,
came from the Equinox that all was
not right, on board. Her speed was
much retarded, but she held her cou se
and steamed ahead. The night was
pitch dark and the water running high.
The storm created such fearful din as
to make it almost impossible to hear
anything but the warring elements,
while the lightning flashing across
the sky, afforded only a possible
glimpse of the dread scene. YVhen off
Point au Sable, at 2 o’clock Friday, a.
m., Capt. Lusk heard a voice from the
propeller shouting—“ Cast off ycur
line,” which was immediately followed
by the shrieks of women. For a few
seconds all was still. The crew of the
Mayes were meanwhile loosening liae,
when voices of women from the pro
peller were again heard sounding to
those on board as though they criea—
“We are drownirTg !” The line already
loosened, and the connection between
the two vessels thereby severed, when
suddenly, as Capt. Lusk was peering
through the darkness at the receding
propeller, it appeared to tip over, and
almost before he could move she dis
appeared. This was so sudden that no
one on board the schooner seemed to
have an idea of the situation. For a
moment it seemed as though the pro
peller had steamed away and was lost
to sight in the darkness, but there
could be no doubt but that the steamer
had been swallowed up without warn
ing or sign of wrong until the order
came to cut loose.
NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.
A Sine Die Resolution Y r oted Qown.
Raleigh, N. C., September 11.—Pr:n
cipal ordinances introduced in Conven
tion to-day: Abolition of the office of
Lieutenant Governor; prepayment of
poll tax as qualification for suffrage;
abolition of the township system and
restoration of the Courts of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions; to prohibit intermar
riage of the races; fixing a civil rights
anel social equality law from a Demo
cratic standpoint. The Republican side
of the house introduced only two ordi
nances, one of which was that no Con
vention should hereafter be called un
less the question be submitted to the
people. The calendar was taken up
and the resolution to adjourn sine die,
introduced by the Republicans, was
voted down. A resolution of the same
character, introduced by a Republican,
lies over under the rules. It will come
up Monday.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Miscellaneous—Customs Receipts.
Washington, September* 11. —The
Rio Bravo is repaired and will leave
Galveston for the mouth of the Rio
Grande as soon as anchors and chains
reach her. *
The President with his family are ex
pected to resume the Washington resi
dence on the 20th instant.
Customs receipts to-day, $413,030;
for the month, $4,683,653; for the fiscal
year, $34,463,672. Internal revenue
to-day, $354,781; for the month, $3,698,-
548; for the year, $22,599,529. Bonds
held by the Treasurer as security for
national bank circulation, $373,302,762;
and for deposits of public moneys, $lB,-
792,200; national bank notes received
for redemption during the week, $2,-
957,484; shipments of legal tenders for
the week ending to-day, $3,430,685.
FrigMful Mortality Among the
Negroes of the District.
Washington, September 12. —The re
port of the registrar of Vital Statistics
of the district of Columbia for the
week ending September 4th shows the
rate of mortality of the whites was
nearly 20 per thousand and of the
colored nearly fifty-nine per thousand.
The rate of increase of the white popu
lation by births over deaths was cne
and four-fifths per thousand and the
decrease of colqred by deaths over
births thirty-four and sixty-seven
hundredths ’ per thousand. Such
marked difference in the mortality of
whites ami blacks has existed for some
months past. Various meetings have
been held by prominent polored ipen to
discover a remedy for this decrease of
their race, but without success.
JACK FROST AROUND.
Your Buckwheat Cake Crop.
Port Jervis, N. Y., September 11.—
Heavy frost in this section last night.
It is feared buckwheat, porn aud other
late crops are injured.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Foot and Mouth Disease.
London, September —The Ex
ecutive Committee on the foot and
mouth disease asked the Prery Council
for an order to prevent holding market
sales or fairs throughought Warwick
shire. The disease prevails consider
ably in the country of Norfolk, the last
return showing 3,000 cases recorded
there during the week. Cattle,
sheep and pigs, are all affected.
The Four Hundredth Birthday of Mi
chael Angelo.
Florence, September 11.—To-mor
row will be the first day of the festival
commemorating the four hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Michael
Angelo, to last three days. It will in
clude service at the tomb and the inau
guration of a monument in a square, to
bear his name. • .
Rome, September 11. —Many arrivals
here to-day of distinguished Italians
and foreigners to attend the celebration
of the occurrence of the four hun
dredth birthday of Michael Angelo.
The W r ar iu Turkey.
Belgium, September 11.—The Skupt
chiua has elected a committee to
draught a reply to the speecu of Prince
Milan. The committee is wholly com
posed of members of the Party of Ac
tion, but the Government is privately
using its influence to moderate the ad
dress. The Skuptchina has laid on
the table the Bosnian petition for aid.
A thousand Turks recently encountered
sixty Bosnians and killed them all.
Minor Telegrams.
London, September 11.—The Secre
tary of Hooper’s Telegraphic Works
defaulted for $35,009.
Oil City, Penn., September 11.—The
lightning struck an oil tank, causing a
fire.
Charleston, W. V., September 11.—
The Supreme Court of West Virginia
has decided that the act of the Legisla
ture removing the Capital to Wheeling
is constitutional.
New York, September 11.— Governors
Kellogg and Warmoth, of Louisiana,
occupied the manager’s box at the Park
Theatre last evening.
Cincinnati, September 11. —A freight
train was ditched near Dillsboro, Ind.,
crushing to death three boys who were
stealing a ride.
Paris, September 11.— It is stated
from Constantinople that the Porte
will make certain conciliations to Ser
via and Montenegro as a reward for
their neutrality.
Berlin, September 11.—The daugh
ter of Priuce Bismarck has been be
trothed to Count Wendlzuenberg of
the Prussiau civil service.
Boston, September 11.—The shoe
makers of Cohituate and Nautick have
resumed work at the old prices.
Ocean Beach, September 11.—The
schooner Forshay (not Fursha) is
ashore and her cargo being discharged.
The vessel is in good condition.
THE TURF.
Prospect Park Races.
New York, September 11.—Prospect
Park first race, hurdle handicap, two
miles, won by Cariboo by a length, Cor
onet second, Busybee third, Byrnes,
censor filly, fourth; time, 3:59.
Second, selling race, mile and an
eighth, won by Burgoo by three
lengths, Camden second, Ida Wells
third, Mollie Darling fourth, Long
Branch fifth; time, 2:02 %.
Third race, free handicap, mile heats,
five started, B. F. Carver, Century Jack,
Trigg Frank and Warefare. First heat
—Carver first, Frank second, Jack
Trigg third, Centfiry fourth, YVarfare
fifth; time, I:4B>£. Second heat—Cen
tury first, Carver second, Frank third,
Jack Trigg fourth, Warfare fifth; time,
1:50. Third heat and race won by Cen
tury, beating Carver, his only contes
tant, three lengths; time, 1:51.
Fourth race, free handicap, mile and
an eightfl dash, won by Mollie Darling
by a length, Camden and Scratch dead
heat for second place, Ida Wells fourth,
Long Branch fifth, Burgoo sixth; time,
2:03.
A RALLY FOR AMES.
One Hundred Vicksburg Volunteers.
Vicksburg, September 11.—One hun
dred men who did not know there was
au insurrection in Hinds county until
they saw Gov. Ames’ dispatches to
Washington, have tendered tlieiF ser
vices to go to any part of the State for
the protection of the lives of the peo
ple.
No Insurrection—Ames Missing.
Washington, September 11.—Senator
Pease, of Mississippi, telegraphs to the
Attorney General that all excitement
consequent upon the disturbance at
Clinton has subsided. There has been
uo dispatch from Governor Ames. The
Attorney General is not changed in his
view that the whole trouble is com
pletely at an end.
The Lost Governor—One Cent Reward
—No Thanks if Delivered.
Washington, September 11.—The ret
icence of Gov. Arnes excites comment.
He has been officially asked the grounds
upon which he based his Constitutional
appeal for Federal aid, and also for a
report of the present condition of af
fairs. The silence of the Governor is
regarded as disrespectful, and the cau
tious course of the Attorney General
meets general approbation.
Spanish Cabinet Crisis.
Madrid, September 11. —Dissensions
have arisen among the so-called con
ciliation coalition Cabinet. A council
was held to-day, and after a sitting of
six hours’ duration the members were
unable to agree, notwithstanding the
efforts of Canovas del Castillo to pre
vent a rupture. The whole ministry re
signed. It is believed tbat Modines,
the Spanish Embassador at Paris, has
also resigned. It is probable Senor
Canovas del Castillo will form another
Cabinet, and that the only changes will
be in the Ministries of Justice, Public
Works and Foreign Affairs,
FROM NEW YORK.
The Erie Railroad—lmports.
New York, September 12.— Judge
Westbrooks’ decision denying the
motion in behalf of Josiah Richards
and John Livingston to vacate the
election of the Erie Railway Directors,
held July 13, .1875, was filed in the
county clerk’s office to-day. The U. S.
Circuit and District courts will not
open until Wednegeay, ouf of respect
to the memory of the late Judge Wood
ruff. His funeral took place on Tues
day. Import of merchandise for week,
$4,380,193 including $1,619,945 dry
goods: produce exports, $6,346,165;
specie exports, $118,900; silver bars
specie imports, $208,489 of which $186,-
627 was gold coin.
AUGUSTA. GA, .‘IAIN LUAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
s
The Quarrels of the liidical Ring-
Jack Brown and Grujud Hog Phi
losophy—The Attorneaship—A Test
of the Waterworks. X
IFrom Our Regular Coijespondent.]
Atlanta, Septenfcer 10, 1875.
Sometime last May PtJlomon Perch,
Esq., happened in Waiiington City.
Philomon is an insurable agent here,
and was on his way to G'ltham when a
notion seized him andliropped him
casually among the
During one of his perambulating soirees
he ran afoul of one Jos>hus Mills, a
gentleman who figures I juite promi
nently in the politics oflicreabouts as
a dyed-in-the-wool Rad. Josephus and
Philomon, hailing fromjAtlanta, and
as they knew each otheg in Gotham,
jr., twined their arms tf and were fast
friends. Joe informed us chum that
he was in Washington V| *rking to get
Jack Brown in office, and knowing that
Philomon had some influ nee with the
powers that be-durned,! le would be
more than obliged, ; :>u know, if
Philo, would saudvvich in a good
word for Brown. Poor , mk had once
run for Congress as a . democrat and
was defeated, and the again as a
Radical with a painfully rnilar result,
aud, being played out i Southwest
Georgia, he was now towi ing on lank
legs, and the getting of a: office under
the present administration was a ground
hog case. The story of Jack’s dire
calamities aud multitu inous mis
fortunes screwed up so f, into Philo
raon’s sympathising eUs that he
promised to go to work a 1 exert the
extent of his extended infi icnce. Brown
was fished out his accustomed haunts
and introduced to Philo. Three heads
being somewhat better ti m one, the
two held secret conclav *, beliugered
the wires and the result v is, that Jack
got the appointment.
After the rosy smile of -elf-satisfac
tion had died away, . isephus ap
proached Philomon and t Id him that
Brown would appoint hi: i clerk aud
First Deputy in consider cion of the
very important servijp rendered.
Philo modestly declined e proffered
unction, saying that he ( 'ills) should
take it. “Oil, no,” says I-, I’m going
to contest my seat in C ngress with
Candler (the Democrat! 1 triumphee,)
and I can’t." After so se suasion,
Philo agreed to take the office provi
ded that Brown would giv the promise
in writing, so that he cou i be certain
of the place, and make Tis rrrange
ments accordingly. This Town agreed
to do, and immediately in ited a letter
the purport of which was that, imme
diately upon his entering the du
ties of Revenue Collector t Atlanta, he
would give Philomon P< eh, Esq., an
important and lucrative ’fflee Then
the trio smiled loudly. 1 cut. Farrow,
however, dropped a bill t doux into
Revenue Commissioner I itt’s hands,
which caused considerabi delay in the
commissioning of the intankerous
Brown. Farrow charged that Brown
bribed, orattempted to ribe, Farrow
during or concerning thejlrial of the
Macon rioters. Farrow, t bing in the
best condition in Washb gton, Brown
finally triumphed and rect; ved his com
mission. He would have ied to Goth
am, jr., on first train, bu his chronic
absence of lucre i prevented,
and he was compelled to postpone
the trip until his warme< friends ami
anticipating office waute; - could for
ward the requisite ducat This beiug
done under severe pr- ssure, Jack
packed his paper-col .r box, stowed
his commission into the pocket that
tenderly overlapped hi heart aud
came home. Upon his rrival Philo
greeted him in that kit ; of fashion
that is usually exhibited >etween men
who are soon to become is one—two
souls, aud all that sort ol hing ; but a
regular ice factor 1 br* ze scooted
around the coll corner: of Brown’s
numby Indifference svhic! unearthed a
vague suspicion f cm tl > depths of
Philo’s unsuspecting co ildence that
there was a hole in th. well i me
where. A day or so aft \ Philo was
the astonished witness : the indis
putable fact that Jocko id evidently
forgotten the organ-grin er aud ap
pointed one Flash to the i entical office
that had been tendered hi. . Somewhat
discomfited, and rather ta*3n down two
or three button-holes, Ifci.o kept his
mouth closed, retired to privacy of
his newly-discovered eviu Jice of man’s
infidelity, and , rote a leu r to Brown,
reminding him of a certe a letter of a
certain day concerning a ( rtain office.
Shortly after the letter we received he
met Brown.
“By the way, Philo, di( I’t Mills tell
you about that letter !”
“No; what about it?”
“Well, I thought you r derstood it.
It didn’t mean anything. I never in
tended to give you an oftce, but the
letter was lor the purpo®> of raising
money. You had only to inhibit it, and
the money was forthcoming, I knew
at the time I was making iiyself parti
ceps criminis to a frauij but didn’t
care.”
Staggering under this s mning reve
lation, Philo hunted ] [ills. That
worthy still declared thgt the letter
was given in good faith, at i that Brown
had lied if he said other ise. It so
happened that Mills made mis remark
in the presence of sever t friends of
Philo. With a sagacity an Jlforethought,
that moves upon a fell .v when he
coolly determines cn va; qulshlog an
enemy, Philo had theaffld vitsof these
witnesses taken on the sp< by a special
artist, ami duly certified o by Mills,
Then Philo wanted a nev k’nd of al
bum—an album of preva [cation, you
might call it—filled it wi' such choice
literature as the : first, B >wn’s lotter
giving him this appoint); ent, Philo’s
letter of acceptance. Brow ’s letter de
nying that the appoiutme: was made
in good faith, and was o ly intended
as a money elevator, affid' fits of wit
nesses to Mills’ swearing "haf; it was
made in good faith, auf the album
closes by a certificate fronj Mills certi
fying to Brown’s willful ijevarication.
Now, it is my candid Ipinion that
there has been some prely tall lying
done by somebody, TheseSife the facts
as I get them from my litHp bin}. The
collectorship stands just i®)out in this
way ; Brown is a dead co<8; in the pit,
and his removal at short mjyice wouldn’t
freeze up the warm bloool ,f surprise
or worry us much with urfixpeoted as
tonishment. The salary '-2,s formerly
$2,000 a year, but when Bgitzclaw, the
late collector, saw his fate! lopped off
a thousand in order to crijple his op
ponent. s
The Attorneys! j*.
As Farrow’s term in March,
there is but little fear thatfie will be re
moved before that time. Jack Brown
itches with a seven-year S'g'ority for it,
but he is the last man in til procession,
and the procession is not gno of that
kind that follows a poor laan to the
grave-yard either. The liming man
for the office is Wifiipey. You
have no doubt heard 1’ Wimpey.
Well, let me tell you Siiy Farrow
is not immediately ousted and Wim
pey duly installed. Just after the
war Wimpey was a pension or claim
agent up here in North Georgia. He
j collected a claim of a few thousand
| dollars for the widows of two Federal
: soldiers, paid it to them and took their
j receipt. Shortly afterward the canvass
for Congressman from that
opened aud Johnnie needed "money.
Knowing that these widows had money
he went to them and borrowed it, giv
ing them his notes. The election over,
Johnnie found himself high and dry
upon the rock of defeat, the waters of
the popular vote having hardly touched
his Republican trowsers. Having dis
tributed the borrowed money of the
widows among the promising
youths of the insurrectionary caste,
he was in a pickle. His opponents,
perhaps out of spite, (so they say) in
duced the widows to believe that Wim
pey had perpetrated a fraud upon
them, and that their precious perqui
sites had levauted. Although Wimpey
has paid back nearly all of this money,
he is charged at Washington with the
fraud, aud this alone prevents him from
taking Farrow’s place now. YVimpey
has about SBOO yet to pay, and he is
workiug hard to square the debt. I
promised in one of my previous letters
to explain this revenue romance, and
I believe I have faithfully discharged
that promise.
The Test of the Water Works,
takes place to-morrow. The Atlanta
lady and her daughters have been very
industriously engaged on new dresses
for the occasion. It is to be hoped and
prayed that the milliner will not dis
appoint them. The dust is terrific and
needs an ocean or so of water to lay it.
You can almost see one of those Stone
Mountain zephyrs come along and dip
down into Marietta street like a scared
bullbat, scoop up a shovel full of clear
dust and then drop it mischievously
upon the most immaculate shirt front.
You can see the smoke from his ad
dress to .the wiuged wind at that par
ticular moment rise like the fumes
from an old-fashioned match. If the
works are a prominent success, the
city will tike due charge and hereafter
the water works will be an institution
of the glorious city of Atlanta—begad !
Martha.
LETTER FROM AIKEN.
The Sparnick Case—Who the J udge Is
and What He Is—The True Inward
ness of South Carolina Grand J uries.
fCorrespondence of the Constitutionalist !
Aiken, September 10.
The September term of the Court of
General Sessions commenced hereon
Monday morning. The docket is a
very full one—several murder cases,
one riot, and all sorts of minor crimes,
hog and cattle stealing, assaults, etc. —
But there was one case of universal in
terest, attracting the deepest concern
in all parts of the county. It was the
pending indictment of the Probate
Judge of Aiken county, oue Henry
Sparnick, a Charlestonian,’ who, after
the war, joined the Radical party, and
located himself at Aiken when the new
county was formed, establishing and
editing with excellent ability the Aiken
Tribune. He has of course flourished
with his Radical contemporaries in his
two positions, and though socially os
tracised and contemned as a scalawag
by the whites, is recognized as the wily
trickster who has piloted his local par
ty for years, and, in fact, furnished all
its brains. As Probate Judge he has
charge of a number of intestate es
tates, which he is accused of having
squandered or stolen. Last Summer
he called on one of the leading mem
bers of the Aiken Bar to confess the
embezzlement of three thousand dollars
belonging to the family of the late Mr.
Mar!ey,, gentleman favorably known
to almost everybody iu Augusta. De
clining to receive it confidentially, Mr.
called iu the other members of
their profession—for Sparnick is a law
yer—when a full confession of the defi
ciency was made, but justifying its ap
propriation from personal necessity.
Rumor aud the press soon advised the
people that this great shining light of
Radicalism was a public defaulter, and
prompt steps were taken to investigate
the whole matter.
At this term of the court the case
was presented to the grand jury. The
State’s attorney is a deep-dyed Radical
carpet-bagger, named Wiggins, from
Massachusetts, entirely ignorant of law
and notoriously ready to compromise
any prosecution if the defendants will
pay up the costs. His ahtecedents are
not entirely known, but he is said to
have been the ring-master of a circus,
left iu the low country of this State by
the war. As counsel, Sparnick is rep
resented by the negro lawyers, R. B.
Elliott aud S. J. Lee, with whom is as
sociated Mr. W. T. Gary, said to be a
practicing attorney in Augusta, having
recently established himself there. The
State had engaged distinguished coun
sel to assist the prosecution, aud ’twas
conclusive that the law would be vindi
cated. Yet, incredible as it may ap
pear to you in Georgia, the grand jury,
after two days’ deliberation, refused to
find a true bill, notwithstanding Judge
Maher—a learned and upright jurist—
charged that such was their imperative
duty, and unless it was done each man
refusing would commit perjury.
The infamous Judge Mackey, who
recently released the bond aud coupon
thief Parker—State Treasurer—that
he might escape and iu that way stop
the investigation which would assured
ly expose nearly all the State officials
at Columbia iu their notorious pecula
tions, startled the public. That wqs
the action of ope dishoqest individual
who djsgraoes his ermine. But when
we see the grand jury refuse to comply
with the requirements of the law and
the solemn charge of the Judge, but
act in accordance with the instruc
tions of political leaders, it beoomes
every man to ponder well what is his
next best step. What are we to do ?
Official theft is at a premium and igno
rance aud political knavery would seize
upon the very temple of justice. If
there is no honesty in the grand jury,
the very palladium of the people, then
we tqay despair.
Such are the simple facts in this de
plorable state of society, but we still
hope for a change. The sigqs are aus
picious elsewhere ahJ we haye an
abiding faith that in the political caul
dron now throwing off its feculencies
we too will be purified and the law in
all its majesty be administered by the
Intelligent and virtuous in this grand
old commonwealth, uninfluenced by
partisan or political bias.
X.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TRANSPOR
TATION.
Rooking at Georgia for Headquartera-
Louisville, September 11.—Thomas
D. Worrall, Managing Director of the
Mississippi Valley Transportation Com
pany, who has been looking about
Louisville for an American headquar
ters, has gone to Georgia.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
The “ Conservative ” Convention—Dis
graceful Scenes—The Abysmal Deg
radation of South Cai'oliua Politics—
Perilous Influence of the Lamar
Doctrine—Newspaper Reporting no
Sinecure in Ashautee.
[From Our Regular Correspond ent. 1
Charleston, September 10.
Tho so-called “Conservative Con
vention,” the delegates to which were
elected by the Bowen negroes, met at
Hibernian Hall to-night to nominate
General Wagener. as per programme.
Such a mongrel assemblage I have
never seen, even iu South Caro
lina, where, as your readers
must know, tho color line is not
very distinctly drawn. Of course, there
are very many estimable and respect
table gentlemen among, the list of dele
gates to this Convention. I think
about twenty would cover the number,
but’ I wouldn’t be certain as to the
exact figures; but there are negroes iu
it who have worn the striped shirt
which uniforms the penitentiary con
victs iu this State, and there are pimps
of that immaculate rascal Bowen in the
list of delegates who would not hesi
tate to do his bidding to the utmost
limit. Under such circumstances it is
a little singular that the score of gen
tlemen who are delegates to tho Con
vention should keep their seats; but
there is no accounting for taste, and I
suppose that they know best what
they desire to accomplish.
I should mention, just here, that 15
out of the 40 members who compose
the Executive Committee of the so-call
ed Conservative party have resigned.
They couldn’t stand the primary busi
ness, which was so splendidly ma
noeuvred by the Bowen negroes. Bow
en himself, I might state, is not in the
city ; he is busy night and day on the
adjacent islands colonizing the city
with negro votes. But to return
to the convention. It met to-night
and elected Mr. B. F. McCabe as
chairman. Then this model conven
tion went into executive session and
requested the public and the newspa
per reporters to step dowu and out,
whieh they did. After three hours’ de
liberation, the cut and dried pro
gramme was carried out, and General
Wagener was nominated for the mayor
alty, as per programme laid down by
Boss Bowen. Having done this the
Convention adjourned for ten days.
In the conservative element of the
community the action of the Wagener
ites is viewed with great disgust, and I
think that the primary elections of
Wednesday last have driven many of
them into a support of the straight-out
Republican ticket, with a mild Demo
cratic dilution, which will be put
forward by Cunningham. It is very
evident now that Bowen hopes to elect
General Wagener by a large importa
tion of negroes from the surrounding
Islands, and is even now engaged iu
coloniziug the city. You will see that
with the real Conservatives of the city
it is a kind of Hobson’s choice, and I
very much mistake tne Conservatives
if they do not prefer Cunningham and
a mixed board of Alderman to the
motley crew which Bowen will attempt
to foist upon the city under the
broad wing of General Wagener.
It is a dodge that lacks the
requisite amount of thickness, and it
evidently don’t go down the Conserva
tive throat. Gen. Wagener is an amia
ble old gentleman, whose purity and
respectability no one doubts, and who
is supported by a few equally pure
gentlemen, but he is iu extremely bad
company at the present time, and is
moreover on the losing side. Charles
ton cannot afford to swallow the mur
derer Bowen, even when he is gilded
with Wasrener!
Of coui'se the city, outside of politics,
is decidedly dull, and very little of in
terest develops itself. It has become
rather warm for newspaper reporters
within the last two weeks. Every vaga
bond who has his misdeeds and his
rascalities aired through the newspapers
arms himself with a bludgeon and a
pistol and waylays the knight of the
quill in a dark alley and gives him a gen
tle rap on the head in the dark. Under
these circumstances reporting for the
public press is rather a precarious
business, and it is not at all improbable
that there will be some shooting before
long. The thieves and rogues who
hang around the court house aud call
themselves Conservatives need shoot
ing, and will probably get it before an
other moon wanes. Qui Vive.
An Anatomical Curiosity.
[lndianapolis Journal.]
Quite a novel exhibition was held at
the First Colored Methodist Church
last evening, the performance settiug
at defiance three-fourths of the estab
lished notions of anatomy. The actor
was a colored man. Dr. George F.
Thomas, a native of England, having
been born at Sheffield sixty-eight years
ago. His weight is 168 pounds, and
although but five feet four or five
inches in bight, he claims to be able to
lift 3,800 pounds, and indeed after one
has examined his well-knit frame and
hi£ muscle, that is stronger and tough
er than iron, even this seemiug boast
will not be scouted. After a lecture
that was more wild, rambling and in
coherent than even one of George
Francis Train’s rhodomontades, he set
tled down to business and showed oue
or two feats of strength that were sim
ply miraculous. Taking a piece oi iron
piping of more than an inch in diame
ter, with a half-dozen blows on the
muscle of his left forearm he bent it
nearly double, and after having repeat
ed the feat with a similar piece of iron,
he then straightened them both in the
same manner. This exhibition, how
ever, waa nothing to what followed.
He removed his shirt, and after show
ing that his abdomen was soft and pli
able, and that his ribs, heart, &0., were
placed as in the bodies of other human
subjects, he displaced his ribs so that
they completely covered the abdomen,
and then retracted them, as he said,
without pain or effort. He then dis
placed his heart, causing it to appear
in his abdomen, rolling it about from
one side to the other, tne singular un
dulations being plainly noticeable un
der the black skin. He first showed
his heirt on the left side, where its
beatings were natural, then moved it to
the Jeft side of tho abdomen, four or
five inches from its natural position,
where the pulsations were but little
feebler, and then from tho left side to
the right, where, also, the beatings were
distinct and natural, After this he
stopped the beatings of bis heart for
nearly a npnute, the pulse in b,oth
wrists being entirely absent. It is to
be regretted that po medical gentlemen
were present, as this wonderful depar
ture from nature might have suggested
something of value to surgery and sci
ence.
New York, September H. —Fred
Schurhardt & Son3, bankers, failed.
Liabilities mostly abroad.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 34
MARY E. SURRATT.
THE MURDER OF MRS. SURRATT
ANDY JOHNSON’S SHARE IN IT.
The Murder Described by au Eye Wit
ness—The Confessional and the Scaf
fold—The Expected Reprieve—The
Prayer and the Death—The Respon
sibility.
[Brooklyn Sunday Sun ]
It was beneath a bright summer sun
that Mary E. Surratt was murdered.
The press of the United States was
amply represented. A majority of it
applauded the cowardly crime. When
the improvised trap fell, and swung
back and left her heavy body dangling
lifeless on the fatal rope, there were
present generals and officers of the na
tion bearing its uniform, whose but
tons and shoulder straps glittered in
the bright rays. Save good Father
Walter’s, no voice uttered a “God
bless her!” as she fell. The soldiers
that paced the-top of the surrounding
walls made no sign. Several turned
away their heads, sickened by the sight,
and awed to see a deed done in the
nineteenth century that in the four
teenth would have been delegated to
the secrecies a dungeon or the knife
of a solitary bravo.
Women have been murdered before
—jealousy, drunkenness, despair, a
maddened cupidity have all in turn
murdered women. Never before was a
hero called in the bright and open day
to see such a deed done. Hancock was.
He obeyed the call, and saw that the
hangmen were protected, that the as
sassination was not interrupted. How
his spirit rebelled at Ihe task that was
written on his broad foce. The writer
saw it there, as in a book.
The Site of the Murder.
It was in the old Arsenal Peniten
tiary yard, in Washington, in the inner
yard, that they strangled this woman.
The Arsenal and Penitentiary face and
terminate Four and a half street,
which stretches to it from the City-
Hall. They have erected there, since
then, a statue of Lincoln. Were it the
man himself, he might see the site of
the murder committed in his name
from the paltry pedestal on which it is
raised, The outer gate of the Ar
senal faces that statue at the other
end of the long, wide street, exactly.
From the gate to the old Penitentiary
where the mockery of the trial was
played, runs a broad and graveled
path. This path turned around the
Penitentiary walls, and led to the gate
of the yard where stood the scaffold.
The walls of the Penitentiary formed
two sides of the yard, the other two
were walls built to inclose the yard,
and there, stood some fifteen feet
high. Upon these walls sentries were
placed.
Fronting the wall that ran at right
angles with the end of the Penitentiary,
stood a strange, weird-looking struc
ture. The one end of it had a ladder
that reached to theground, beyond
that end, some twenty yards, was a
small iron door that opened into the
penitentiary—in one of whose lower
tier of cells, beneath a raised and re
placed flag, were rotting the remains of
John Wilkes Booth, This wooden
structure was
The Scaffold.
It consisted of a platform resting on
square wooden posts. The front part
of the platform was attached to the
back part by hinges, and this front
rested on posts which its weight alone
held in place. Along the back and solid
part of the platform were four chairs.
Around this yard lounged the corres
pondents, were ranged some soldiers,
and right in the middle of the yard,
when the writer entered it, stood the
tall and ample form of Hancock in full
uniform.
“General, may I go in once more and
see the prisoners ?”
“No, sir. One moment: —Orderly !”
“Yes, sir.”
“ Mount your horse, go to the outer
gate of the Arsenal. Don’t dismount,
but keep your eye along Four-and-a
half street, r hould you see a mounted
soldier riding this way, then ride here
and tell me. Stay there till you are re
lieved by the sight of that soldier, or
by order.”
“ Yes, sir.”
The orderly sped away.
“ No, sir, I cannot permit it. They
are with ministers and priests, have
but a few minutes to live. I have re
fused every other correspondent.”
“Do you expect a reprieve, Gene
ral ? ”
“ I expect nothing. That woman,
however, shall not lose a chance of life,
if I can help it/ That’s why I sent that
orderly to the gate.”
He did expect a reprieve, and his face
showed he did.
The Procession,
The eyes of most were, now fastened
on the iron door that led into the peni
tentiary. It looked like a postern in a
fortress, heavy, sullen and pitiless. My
eyes wandered back to the scaffold. I
then noticed, for the first time, that
above the platform, resting on two firm
posts, ran a beam. From this beam
hung four ropes. It sickened to see
them. The sun In the meanwhile shone
down on the whole, ghastly scene as
fierce in its unclouded splendor as ever
it shone on the hot sands of Syria.
A sudden movement, a murmur, &
low exclamation:
“Here they are | u
There they were, Issuing, one by one,
from the little door, preceded by sol
diers, flanked by soldiers, followed by
soldiers accompanied by men ip civilian
dresses; the priest, the minister and
the hangmen, There was a hangman
to every prisoner,
Atgerodt came first. Payne came
seoond. Harold came third." She came
last. Father Walter was talking to
her all the way to the soaffoid, all the
way up its steps, and on it, when she
took her seat. They sat in the order
in wbioh they had come.
The poor woman could scarcely
walk, and they assisted her to her
death very tenderly. As she sat down,
I could not refrain from looking to tho
yard gate, thinking of the orderly at
the outer gate beyond. There was no
sign. I looked at Hancock, his eyes
were turned the samo way; his usually
florid faoe was the color of ashes. I
could see his hands open and close
nervously. He looked at his watch,
and the chain oscillated at the touch of
his nervous fingers, usually as calm as
is the hand of a heavy lympathic man,
for Hancock was both,
Mary E. Surratt was praying to the
crucifix held before her by Father Wal
ter. Haoh of the others was listening
ts the minister. At length Father Wal
ter prayed aloud, and I reporting the
prayer, for the time, forgot the orderly,
Tho prayer over, I looked gatewards
again. No sign ! eyes were
riveted on the The arms of each
were heing pinioned. They were told
to rise, and they all four rose. Each
hangman placed the goose around each
of their necks. I look again at the
gate. No sign !■ Hancock was looking
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at his watch. Turning again to the
scaffold, I saw the straw hat of Payne,
blown by a sudden, unexpected breeze
off his head, as if to make wav for the
white cap. Detective Roberts, his hang
man,was about pulling it over his face.
I turned to see her. She had lost the
power to stand. They had to hold her
up while they pulled down the cap
Great God! can a thought be more
horrible.
Still no one at the gate!
They were told to walk forward upou
the front and treacherous part of the
platform.
There they stood. Atzerodt swaying
with fear; Payne erect and firm as the
gladiator which he resembled, when
awaiting the fatal fiat; Harold, still.
She lifeless to all appearance. The sen
tries had ceased pacing. You could
hear a pin drop.
“ Good-bye, my friends, we’ll all meet
again,” exclaimed Harold. \
Atzerodt said'something I could not
hear. From under Atzerodt the plat
form dripped with water on the ground
beneath.
Still no one at the.gate !
Hancock closed his watch.
The men who uphold the lifeless
woman stepped back ou the solid half
of the platform. She was falling, when
suddenly the supporting posts in front
were knocked down, and all four dan
gled and swung—tho most ghastly
spectacle man ever saw !
She never perceptibly moved. Her
petticoats and dress had been gathered
with a string about her ankles. She
hung a dead weight of flesh, not less
than two hundred pounds.
Payne writhed and twisted for sevoral
minutes.
Beneath Atzerodt there had gathered
quite a little pool of water.
There was no shout. There was a
shudder went through ail present
through soldier and civilian—nothing
more.
Again ] looked at Hancock. If ever
he wore that frightened look on the
field, his soldier fame is a lie.
Who Withheld the Reprieve?
Who withheld tho reprieve?
Holt says Andrew Johnson did.
Johnson said that he was never asked
for it. Holt admits that an official ap
plication by the murderous conclave of
troopers, called the Court, was made to
Andy for a reprieve. Andy said Stan
ton withheld it. Each threw the blame
upon the other ; but whosoever was to
blame, the deed was dune, in face of
day, under the shadow of the Flag of
the United States, by the authority of
its President, the acquiescence of hia
Cabinet, the siguing of the Secretary of
War, and under the actual supervision
of a major general of its armies.
Of all the more active participants in
-that murder, Holt alone remains to face
the stiange fates that have overtaken
his associates therein, dubious and sud
den death.
Stanton died quickly after. He died
suddenly, and suspected of the suicide
of remorse.
King drowned himself. And men do
say he drowned himseir from inability
to face the constant memory of his un
solicited share in that woman’s mur
der.
Andrew Johnson, whoso demise re
calls the whole of that awful story to
the mind again, died suddenly. Rut
not, we think, because of this crime, of
which a passing weakness alone made
him a passive accomplice.
Johnson’s Hands were Tied.
The Radicals who found in the blood
of Lincoln the fertilizing stream of their
despotio power did not forget one
maxim of Machiavelli’s: “If you would
know who perpetrated a crime look to
see who has profited by it.”
The death of Lincoln made Johson
President. And dark hints were thrown
out which could scarde fail to reach the
ear of Andy. The first whisperings of
the coming fight between Andy and the
Radical Congress had already been is
sued by J. W. Forney, before Mary E.
Surratt’s murder was determined upon.
Brave in all things else, Andy’s nerves
failed him here. He did not dare to
save the woman. As time passed Andy
felt he should have done so, and in his
agony uttered the cry that none had
asked him. This threw the whole re
sponsibility on Holt and Stanton. They
insisted that they had, the one sent, the
other handed, the so-called Court’s ap
plication to him. Less than two years
ago Andy and Holt called again for
public decision on the matter. The
proof on both sides is wholly unsatis
factory, and remains a question of ver
acity. But taking it as a question of
veracity, what man could believe Holt
to disbelieve Andy Johnson ?
Andy has gone to tell his audit where
proof is needless. He has gono unsus
pected of any other wrong—honest
amid thieves, true to his convictions
amid a crowd that had none.
Holt from the first thirsted for the
woman’s blood, showed his thirst in in
sult of her counsel, an honored lawyer
and statesman; showed it in hisftreat
ment of the chief witness against her,
Weiehimn; showed it in his whole con
duct of tne case. It may be taken for
granted, therefore, if Johnson sinned,
his sin was the sin of woakness, not uf
bloodthirstiness, of a weakness to
increase the dastardly suspicion against
him, by boldly reprieving from the gal
lows, unasked, a woman doomed with
out true trial, and shorn of counsel by
tho men who were at once her judges
and accusers. A. R. C.
A Contrast,
fChicago Times.]
It is true that the French President
signs his name “We, Marie Edmo
Patrick Maurice de MacMahon, Due
de Magenta, Marshal of France, Presi
dent of the French Republic;” but
when his son Patrick lately failed to
pass an examination at St. Cyr high
enough to entitle him to admission to
the engineers or cavalry, the President
did not immediately have him assigned,
to the stall of a lieutenant-general,
with eleven months leave of absence
every year and traveling expenses
paid. His Excellency the Marshal
McMahon, Due de Magenta, etc., sim
ply explained that he was “desirous
ihat his son should belong to the infan
try, that modest arm which, according
to a celebrated phase, is good for noth
ing but to win battles:” and further
made it known that his son “had not
yielded to that temptation which leads
young men of fortune to enter the
cavalry, but had preferred the solid to
the brilliant.” Young Patrick was then
unceremoniously incorporated into a
battalion of foot chasseurs at Tours,
and will take his hard-tack with tli9
rest. It is clear that these French offi
cials don’t understand the art of pre
serving soft things for their relatives.
——
Reason is tho Jack Ketch of pleasure
No joke—-Comio writing.
The man of pleasure and the man of
business differ but in this : one makes
a business of his pleasure, and the
other a pleasure of his business.
Love a woman, and in time she’ll
love you. Like her, and she’ll liatq
you.