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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 500 " three months *" 2 50 Tbi-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year .!.!.! 200 “ six months !00 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers. 2% ets. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. \ FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. 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 To Advertisers and Subscribers. ON AND after this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. 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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.