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A Northern correspondent makes some
curious disclosures, in our columns, this
morning, relative to the late President
Lincoln's intentions with regard to the
colored people.
The Bank of California is still something
of an institution, notwithstanding the late
explosion. It has managed to pick up sev
en millions of guarantee, and will resume
on the first of October.
—*•*■
There was one sole survivor of the Lake
Michigan disaster, the helmsman of the
lost Equinox. After swimming a long time
in the water he caught the pilot house, and
upon that drifted thirty-one hours.
The Attanta Constitution says it was
whiskey we smelled instead of Ponce de
Leon water. This is a mistake. We had
that water analysed with the result that
forty pounds of assafoetia tied into one
bouquet would help it some.
They are still pegging away at a settle
ment of the Herzegovina trouble. Russia
is now trying to drum up some sort of a
conclave with the treaty ot 1856 as a sort of
guide or text from which to preach and
lay down the law. We are getting mortal
tired of this muss.
We yesterday received a letter from old
John Robinson stating that his circus was
now’on the road South and that Augusta
was down in the programme. He says his
menagerie has many new animals, that
Lowlow, Stickney, and many other old
favorites w ere still with him.
Cotton is now coming into the city at
the rate of over four hundred bales per
day. We have already received, up to last
night, 3,414 bales since the beginning of
September. It is being sold nearly as fast
as it arrives, and the money put into cir
culation. We look for an immediate im
provement in money and trade.
Congressman Lamar will find enough
time to spare from the Mississippi cam
paign to deliver an address at the dedica
tion of the Nashville Vanderbilt Univer
sity. He is to-day the first scholar, as he
is the first orator in the South, and the
Tennesseeans need not doubt that he will
utter words which will ring down the his
tory of their great institution.
We understand that Mr. Berry Benson,
of this city, recently overhauled Webster’s
Unabridged Dictionary, discovered a fear
ful number of errors, and sent the results
of his investigation to the publishers. The
publishers sent him, in return, a copy of
the Dictionary with his revisions. This
was quite a philological feat, and we record
it with pride of an Augusta man.
It seems that our paper of last Friday
excited the ire of that immense pile of
South Carolina Af. ican stench, Major Gen
eral Elliott. He wanted the Aiken court
to take exception to an article of our cor
respondent from there, on the ground that
the negro members of that bar had been in
sulted. But the Judge snubbed him and in
formed him that he saw nothing in the
article coming within his jurisdiction. This
Elliott is a big nigger in South Carolina,
and an insolent fellow. Our letter from
Aiken this morning tells the scene in court.
Old Probabilities says we are going to
have high wind around about this country
to-day. He has hoisted his cautionary sig
nals at Key West, Savannah, Charleston
and Hatteras. We call attention to the
weather report on the fourth page. This is
the only paper in the South which publishes
the Signal Office reports in full, which in
cludes the st ite of the thermometer and
barometer, as well as the state of the river
opposite Augusta. The rice planters on the
lower Savannah should send us a club of
about seven hundred subscribers in order
to get this official news.
Ames has not yet succeeded in convinc
ing Grant that he should issue a procla
mation ordering an insurrection in Missis
sippi to disperse. He asked Grant to make
a fool of himself, and Grant bluntly de
clines, therefore leaving Ames the lone,
dreary and solitary fool of the occasion.
The law’ in the case is that the Federal
Government can only interfere in insurrec
tion in a State aber the State acknow’ledges
its inability to put it down. But
Ames lied when he telegraphed Grant
there w’as an insurrection ; and
Grant knew it, and hence he demanded
proof of his assertions. Ames is working
hard to get the proof. Having failed in
Hinds he has started not a white but a
negro uprising in Tallahatchie county,
trusting to be able to tell enough false
hoods to convince Grant that black is
white, and white is black. Ames is the last
man in the carpet-bag procession, and a
sorry sight he is.
The Bon.ipartists are arranging a grand
rally for an early day in Switzerland. The
•disgraced Admiral, Nouby, and the exiled
Prime Minister under the last Napoleon,
M. Emile Olliyieb, will attend. No doubt
the exiled Empress, the beautiful EugSnia,
whom all the world, including France,
dearly loves, and the Prince Imperial, will
be present. The day will yet come when
that boy will be upon the throne, if he lives.
We hope he will live, which means we
hope he will be the future Emperor of
France. His father and his great-uncle
made France what she is to-day. Their
memories are too fresh and green, their
deods and the lustre of glory they shed
upon their country are too recent for
Frenchmen to look upon their lineal and le
gitimate descendant with other than feel
ings of the greatest enthusiasm. MacMa
hon knows that his government is a weak
concern, unsuited to the wants of the coun
try, and, being an Imperialist himself, he
is holding up the Republic in order to keep
the B urbons out until young Bonaparte
gets old enough to rule.
The Radical party comes out o'f the
Maine campaign like a singed cat, living,
but the sorriest looking thing anybody need
want to look at. “One more such victory
as Tratalg'r and England is conquered,’’
said the British statesman. In one year the
Republican majority has been pulled down
from ten thousand to forty-five hundred.
One year hence the Presidential election—
the great and material contest—comes off.
If the revolution goes on land who doubts
that it will increase in velocity?) Maine
will vote the Democratic ticket. She
bas not failed to vote down
the Democratic party at every elec
tion in twenty-five years. Never have the
Democrats come so near carrying the
-State in that time as they did last Monday.
The people there are slow in changing their
A party to which they are once
firmly wed-led must indeed be corrupt and
rotten to make them .cut loose from it.
Whilst the popular vote may be revolu
tionized in other States in a few months, in
Maine it requires the work of years. It re
quires just twelve months more to accom
plish the task of once more placing Maine
in the list of Democratic States.
% Augusta Coistlttttiottalfet
Established 1799.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Nip and Tuck—Heavy Republican
Losses—“One More Such Victory
Will Ruin” Maine—A Majority of
Ten Thousand Reduced to Pour.
Portland, September 14. —One hun
dred and forty towns give Connor 28,-
670 ; Roberts, 26,190. The Republican
majority will probably reach 5,000,
against 10,00*3 last year. The Congi es
sional contest for the vacancy in the
Fourth district is clase. The Demo
crats gain in the Senate. The House
is probably unchanged.
In one hundred ahd eighty-four
towns Connor has 34,874 ; Roberts, 32,-
193. The Republican loss is 3,943. If
this ratio holds the Republican major
ity will be 4,500. The unheard of tovms
last year gave the Republicans 21,190;
Democrats, 12,085.
Plaisted, Republican, for Congress, is
ahead of his ticket. He is probably
elected.
Night Report.
Augusta, Me, September 14.—Re
turns received at the Kennebec Journal
office, mostly official from 264 towns,
give Conner, Republican, 45,035 and
Roberts, Democrat, 41,541. Connor's
majority 3,494. The same towns last
year, gave Dingley 40,907, and Roberts
31,474. Dingley’s majority 9,433. There
are yet 229 towns and plantations to be
heard from. The Democrats have
elected 13* and perhaps 15 Senators.
In the Fourth Congressional District
General Plaisted’s friends claim from
800 to 1,000 majority for him and re
turns will doubtless elect him by these
figures.
FROM NEW YORK.
Liabilities of Schuckliardt fc Sons—
Firemen Killed—Mexican Veteran s
A Good Sentence.
New Yoke, September 14.—The lia
bilities of Schuckliardt & Sons, who
failed Saturday, are estimated at 81,-
100,000, 8800,000 of which are abroad.
The iErial Ladder Fire Company, for
practice, raised a ladder 120 feet.
Eight men mounted. While going
through evolutions the ladder cracked
and the second section broke. Thiee
were killed outright, two died while
going to the hospital, and several were
injured.
The Association of Mexican Veterans
celebrated the anniversary of the cap
ture of the City of Mexico. The vet
erans, numbering 100, assembled at
Worth’s monument, where they formed
a procession. Ex-Senator Pugh, of
Ohio, delivered an oration. Among
the participants were Gens. Gibscu,
Bites, Klotz, Lovell and Hooker.
Edward Conway, convicted of enter
ing a house as a sanitary inspector, as
saulting a lady and stealing 850, was
sentenced for twenty years.
Edwin Booth.
New York, September 14.—Edwin
Booth’s recovery is protracted. He
may have to concel some of his engage
ments.
MARINE DISASTERS.
A Survivor of the Eqninox Picked Up
—History—A Leak—An Aground.
Chicago, September 14. —Reuben Burr,
the sole survivor of the Equinox, wi,s
picked up. He floated 31 hours on the
piiot house. He was helmsman of the
vessel. She sprung a leak at 1 o’clock.
After the bulwarks were stove in it was
decided to lower the boats. The Wayes
was hailed to come alongside, but the
hail was unheard or unheeded. A boat
was lowered, with five men in it, when
the vessel went down. Burr and the
Captaiu swam a long distance side t y
side; subsequently Burr caught the
pilot house with the cook —the latter,
after 24 hours, slipped off exhausted.
London, September 14. —A leak ;u
the steamer State of Virginia was dis
covered 100 miles east of Cape Race.
Fourteen feet of water in the vess3l
before the leak was located. The water
tight compartments saved the vessel.
Cape Hatteras, September 14. —The
H. W. McClosky, from North Carolira
and bound for Philadelphia, is aground
in the breakers. Assistance has been
sent.
Minor Telegrams.
Fortress Monroe, September 14.--
Rev. M. L. Chevers, forty years chap
lain here, is dead; aged 84.
Louisville, September 14. — William
Harris, colored, in attempting to es
cape arrest, was killed by policeman
Hendricks.
Cincinnati, September 14.— Robert A.
Ritchie, formerly cashier of the Fourth
National Bank, was arrested for for
gery. The complaint charges that
Ritchie forged Mrs. Charles Daven
port’s name to three huudred shares of
telegraph stock some three years ago.
Boston. September 14.—The State
Temperance Alliance, by a vote of 13
to 3, adopted resolutions that neither
Dr. Loring nor Hon. A. H. Bice are
proper candidates for Governor, an 1
condemning the Republican party for
conciliating the friends of the liquor
traffic.
Chicago, September 14. The fast
mail over the Pennsylvania Road arriv
ed on time.
St. Louis, September 14.—The fast
mail arrived ou time.
Chicago, September 14.—1 t is feared
the Evening Star, with six men, whic l
the Mendota had in tow, is lost.
New York, September 14.—Call
Schurz has arrived from Europe.
MISSISSIPPI AFFAIRS.
“Other Official News Which Has
Been Requested."
Washington, September 14.—N0
action been taken by the Government
respecting Mississippi affairs, nor wil
there be until the reception of other
official news which has been requested
by the Attorney General.
The Government is still waiting fur
ther official dispatches from Mississip
pi. Late this afternoon the Attorney
General received a dispatch from ex-
Seuator Pease and one from Lieut.
Guthrie, commanding IT. S. troops in
the vicinity recently reported disturb -
ed districts. Both report everything
perfectly quiet. There is no disturb
ance, and they regard sending troops
there entirely unnecssary, and it would
be exceedingly impolitic.
MgMpsrs, September 14. —Latest ad
vices from Tall&hatchee county, Miss.,
represent the excitement as subsiding,
and the general belief is that there will
be no further trouble.
LONG BRANCH.
fiff’RJil Leaves for Washington.
Long Branch, Soptgnjber 14.—The
President left Long Branch this morn
ing for Washington. He was accoip
panied by Secretary Belknap, General
Raj?cock ; and Fred Grant.
AUGUSTA. GAI. s WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
French Politics.
London, September 14. A special
dispatch from Paris to the Daily News
reports the Constitutional party in
France resolved to force M. Buffet to
break openly with tjae Bonapartists at
the next meeting of the permanent
committee, or convene the Assembly
before the appointed time.
A Glasgow Failure.
Glasg©w, Scotland, September 14.
John W. Watt, merchant, has failed.
Liabilities, a quarter of a million dol
lars.
The Rebellion in Turkey.
Vienna, September 14.—Montenegro
has definitely informed the insurgents
she cannot make war on the Porte.
London, September 14.—The Times
understands Russia will attempt to ar
range a conference representing the
signatories of the treaty of 1856 with
the view of influencing the Porte re
garding the future government of the
Sclavonic provinces.
Organizing a Revolution in Russia.
The Standard says 250 men and wo
men have been indicted in Russia for
socialism, whicli theProcureur General
says is spreading throughout the em
pire. The most ardent propagandists
belong to the upper classes of socialists,
and only await an opportunity, such as
a foreign war, to organize a revolution
and practice their extravagant ideas.
Belgrade, September 14.—The Gra
netscher newspaper announced a depu
tation of ten Herzegovinians recently
arrived at Krogujewatz, asking Servia
to aid in the insurrection, The Gov
ernment replied it would wait until the
Skuptschiua decided the question.
Many disguised Servian officers have
started for Bosnia. Seventy-two flags
are being made for the Servian army.
Grand Bonapartist Conclave.
The News has a Paris special that
Rouher starts to Switzerland on Wed
nesday to assist at a grand Bonapart
ist conclave. Admiral Noury is invit
ed, and M. Emile Ollivier is certainly
going.
Paris, September 14.—At a meeting
of the Permanent Committee of the
Assembly, Thursday next, M. Buffet
will be interpellated upon the intention
of the Government towards Bona
partists, especially regarding the de
cision of the Bonapartist Committee to
print and disseminate a million copies
of M. Duvall’s speech at Evreux, hav
ing for its preface the letters of Admi
ral Ronceire Le Noury and the Prince
Imperial.
THE ALABAMA CONVENTION.
Appalling Condition of the Finances.
Montgomery, September 14.—The
Committee on Finance and Taxation
made a report to the Constitutional
Convention to-day. They say they have
examined into the condition of the
Treasury, which they find almost ex
hausted, and have looked into the
financial condition of the State, which
is absolutely appalling. They find the
total indebtedness of the State to be
about 829,000,000, and the total value
ol taxable property about 8159,000,000;
that it would require nearly 20 per
cent, of the entire taxable property
of the State to liquidate the
debt. This would indeed be appal
ling were it not fur the hope
of an adjustment held out to us by the
Commissioners appointed to adjust the
public debt by which Alabama may be
relieved from this heavy burden which
is crushing the energies of her people.
The direct debt is about fifteen millions
and contingent for the endorsement of
•railroads &c., about fourteen millions.
It is only necessary to present this
statement of formidable indebtedness
to convince the creditors of the State
that full payment is impossible and
that the State can never resume the
payment of interest until the debt is
adjusted and reduced so as to cor
respond with our diminished resources.
But in the face of this dark feature
it affords us pleasure to state that the
Commissioners are sanguine of their
ability to reduce the entire indebted
ness of the State, exclusive of the edu
cational and trust funds, to a sum not
exceeding ten .millions, the interest on
which will not exceed four hundred and
twenty thousand dollars per annum.
In view of this fact, ycur committee
have been stimulated to extraordinary
exertions in trying to so shape the
financial article in the Constitution as
to meet the ends which we have been
induced to believe can be accomplished.
We M>commend economy in each branch
of tne Government; we recommend
property to be taxed in propor
tion to its value; we recom
mend a prohibition of the State
from engaging in works of inter
nal improvement, or the loaning of its
credit for that purpose; we recommend
that no debt shall be incurred by the
State, except to suppress insurrection,
rebellion or invasion; we recommend
a reduction of 25 per cent, on all sala
ries, and a reduction of pay and mile
age of members of the Legislature
from 86 to 81 per day, and from 49 to
10 cents per mile; we recommend that
the Legislature shall not in any one
year levy more than three-fourths of one
per cent, tax upon the property of the
people for State purposes. We believe
with these economical views fully car
ried out, and the contemplated compro
mise consummated with this rate of
taxation fixed at three-fourths of one
per cent, as a maximum, that our State
will once more gain her desired pros
perity, that capital, seeing that our
debt is reduced and our taxing power
limited, will seek investment in our
cheap lands, and, population always
following capital, will fill up our waste
places ; and that our property will en
hance in value, and a rapid reduction
of the rate of taxation may be had with
yet sufficient revenue to meet an eco
nomical administration and pay the
interest on the public debt.
The committee reported an article on
taxation according with the above re
port, which was ordered to be printed,
and comes up for action Thursday.
THE AMERICAN TURF.
Mystic Park Races,
Boston, September 14.—The Mystic
Park purse—Sl 1,000 and championship
of the United States, open to all stal
lions, 54.000 to first, 32,500 to second,
32,000 to third and 31,500 to fourth
horse, mile heats—was won by Thom
as Jefferson; Commonwealth second,
Defiance third and Parkis Abdallah
fourth. Time, 2:27, 2:26, and
3:26. Commonwealth took the first
heat.
Episcopal Diocesan Convention.
Chicago,- September 14.—The Dioce
san Convention of the Episcopal
Church convened here to-day. It will
elect a Bishop during the session.—
Candidates: Dr. W. Ayrault and Dr.
DeKoven.
LETTER FROM lUKEN.
A Bombshell in the Ri ical Camp-
Major Gen. Gumbo Fi a and Feath
ers Elliott on the I; anpage—Con
tempt of Aiken 15ar-bi Tans Outside
of Court Jurisdiction- .in Ashantee
Election.
[Correspondence of the Cos stitutionalist.l
Aiken, S. C., September 14,1875.
Your correspondent’s etter in last
Friday morning’s editio [of the Con
stitutionalist fell like a Jombshell in
the Radical camp at thi qfiace, caus
ing every African v irrior even
to the high brigadiet*! and com
manders in chief t, 1 roll their
eyes around over the breastworks in
terror and amazement io see from
whence the obnoxious lussive came
and if more of the salie sort were
likely to follow. I
The sable chief, Elliott,? 'ose, in open
court, and asked his Ho; r, if he had
read the communication His Honor
with a smile remarked th; i he had, but
as there was nothing in it that particu
larly concerned him or i elected upon
his character ho had not [ iven the mat
ter serious consideration.
Elliott stated that he c usidered it a
very offensive and insulti g aiticle, re
flecting in very unpleasaiil terms upon
the Aiken Bar, which wi, never more
eminent than at the pr sent time, at
the same time glancing < >wn the line
over the kinky heads of J Sis dusky col
leagues and at Solicitor ’ Tggins upon
his left. As for himself, 1 i said his de
cade of practice in the coi |;ts of Amer
ica put him above such afuleks, but as
for the rest of the Bar, an* particularly
the Solicitor, they oughjg to consider
themselves insulted; aili he called
upon the Judge to appoiil a commis
sion to examine, judge, esfccSute and ex
pel the writer of the obnixlous article
out of the courts and fro; i the pale of
civilized society.
His H >nor said he hac no power to
act in the matter. This < oUrt was not
a legislative body. If at y gentleman
felt himself agrieved theiv Gas a reme
dy, but he had no pow r-;to appoint
commissioners for that r? any other
similar purpose. There is a feeling
prevalent in the commu lity that, de
spite the excellent characf sr and wise
rulings of the Judge, ou ’ Court has
lost cast. It can not le' otherwise
when jury commissioner pay no re
gard to fitness in making inflections to
fill the places of jurym A It seems
to us that it can not l. > ; accidental
when a majority of thegr nd jurymen
drawn pay no regard to E her law or
evidence in a case. Auc so, in a ma
jority of cases, the same nny be said
of the petty juries, who now almost
invariably decide as inter> it, prejudice
or couusel dictate. And v i thave seen
jurymen go to sleep wh* i important
testimony was being giv u, and when
counsel was in the midi > of a most
eloquent harangue. •
If this state of thing: cannot be
changed, we had much hi,tor give up
the form, avoid the expeir.e: and have
no courts at all. V :|
Aikeu Municipal ElSefion.
Our municipal election|:anie off on
Monday, September 13th. | Everything
passed off quietly—no dhf.urbeuce of
any kind. The Radicals bi.ing over
whelmingly in the majority la. the town,
and as there did not appt tr : to be any’
chance of overcoming th same, the
Conservasives held no cau> as, but went
quietly to the polls and w h their bal
lots protested against the] adical nom
ination by their voting fo the present
incumbent, John McKay with a now
set of wardens. 76 votes, itfier more
than the usual number, w rq cast for
the Conservative ticket. i
The Radical candidate IR. P. G.
Rockwell, with five negro tajrdens and
one white man, were ele ted by 116
majority. Forty more vot s ./ere poll
ed at this election than a. the last.—
Whether the Edgefield i ‘cables, the
Georgia insurrection, tho presence of
the grand and petty juries, or the nat
ural increase of populati n. brought
this about, this deponent s. ith not.
Sigma.
THE PLYMOUTH PR] ACHER.
The Moulton Libel Case- A Ringing
Letter from Mouli >n.
New York, September t.-District
Attorney Britton, of Brookl n, ad dress
ed letters to H. W. Beech r and F. D.
Moulton, suggesting that jmblic in
terest would be best serve* bv entering
a nolle pros in the case of E W. Beech
er against F. D. Moulton for libel. —
Beecher, in replying, con m s in this
disposition of the case a ggested by
the District Attorney. Ar. Moulton
says he cannot acquiesce i i the action
proposed, and concludes iis letter as
follows: “ I am indicted if libel in
charging the Rev. H. W. I. seeker with
criminal intercourse with a female
member of his congreg; tion. The
charge is true, he knows i to be true,
and whatever the imper ections of
man’s tribunals the Supret e ruler wifi
some day reveal the trut , and that
too under challenge and i; defense of
my own character and the t ldracter of
her whose good name is and at er to me
than life itself. I have bee T raigned
as a criminal, compelled lit 3 k felon to
plead with uplifted hand, s bjected to
the ignominy of bonds against an
escape from justice, loadec with oblo
quy by the public pres: frowned
upon and avoided by sci ;ty, and
now, after the indictment gainst me
has served its purpose by is crediting
in advance a witness of th Rev. Air.
Beecher’s guilt, and it is a parent to
you as it is to the world, th; t t am in
nocent and must be acquit! fd. At this
moment, and under these lireumstau
ces, lam requested to in a
nolle pros, and to suffer my accuser to
escape the penalty of hi perjured
prosecution. Never, sir, i aver ! I de
mand a trial and shall b< ready on
any reasonable notice to t die good
my defense. Very Respe Dully,
Francis D. Jlgulton.
FROM WASHINGTgUL
Capital Notes. I
The commission of John V. Dereen,
Postmaster at Demopolia, has been
signed.
The Secretary 0 f War ho i returned
froffi his Western inspection* topr.
A colored women sues tfib Pullman
Car Company for 8500 for r l iuriug her
sleeping car accommodatio I from Cin
cinnati hither. I
THE BRITISH Tl :F,
Yorkshire Handier >,
London, September 14. The great
Yorkshire Handicap, at Derr aster, was
wop by W. S. Mitchell’s Ju iii is St. Le
ger, Lord Che ■ §ecpnd ;
and Lord Aylesbury’s Aven .trie third!
Toronto, September 14. A cattle
train was wrecked. Sever t employes
were killed. A large numb> ;of cattle
were roasted alive.
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.
WASHBURNE TO RE GRANT’S SUC
CESSOR.
How Russell Jones is Setting the
Thing Up—The Mission of the Ex-
Minister in His Native Country—
The Galena Crowd Arranging for-
Posterity—The Third-Term Policy
in a New Light.
[Correspondence Philadelphia Times.|
New York, September 9. —Peopie who
reason like a trout and jump at the
nearest artificial fly think President
Grant means to stand for a third-term.
If you will look at the other end of the
lino you will see that Grant is not the
fly but the angler; the third term he
wants is not in his name but for his
frieDds, and his candidate is Wash
burne, whom he can help by preserving
the mystery of his own intentions. I
well informed public man to-day
from the Noithwest; you would recog
nize him at once if I mentioned him,
and he narrated the following move
ments in the State of Illinois: “The man
you are to keep your eye on,” said
this gentleman, “is not Grant, but
liussell Jones, of Galena, late of Brus
sels, Belgium, now’ of Chicago.” I re
plied that I had heard the Vice Presi
dent express the belief that Russell
Jones would go into the Cabinet, either
in Jewell’s or Delano’s place, and had
heard Henry Wilson also say that Jones
was a great organizer. “Russell Jones,”
continued my informant, “is a smooth,
smart little rellow, who was trading in
Galena when Grant lived there. Grant
maintains high respect for those people
who had some money and whom he
knew when he w r as poor. Jones had
money and knew how to turn it over
adroitly. But before this time,” con
tinued the narrator, “Jones had been
Washburne’s associate and man Fri
day. By Washburue’s aid, who knew
what a good organizer Jones was, Jones
was made Chairman of the Republi
can State Committee of Illinois. By
Washburne’s persistent efforts Jones
was made United Alarsbal of Illinois
by President Lincoln, and he held the
office for eight years. In that time he
received large sums of money, as all
marshals in the war did. and he made
lucky investments in Chicago street
railways for Grant and himself, and
doubtless for Washburue.” I recalled
to the mind of my informant the small
accessory fact that if Jones had not
done well by Washburne he was more
of an infidel than the Alormans whom
Washburne so long protected in Con
gress by the intercession of Capt.
Hooper, the Alormon delegate, who
long resided in Galena. I saw myself
Washburue’s nice town lot in Salt Lake
City, the polygamist’s best investment.
Aly friend smiled at the soft impeach
ment, and resumed: “After holding the
marshal’s office in Chicago eight years,
Russell Jones picked his new place un
der Grant, the Belgium mission, an
agreeable spot for a wealthy man. But
he did not allow a stranger to take the
marshal’s office in Chicago. Oh, no !
He had his brother-in-law Campbell
put into that vacancy. And now, do
you Ijqow that while Campbell is Rus
sell Jones’ brother-in-law, he is also
Gen. Babcock’s father-in-law?” This
was news to me about the formidable
elan Campbell. Like the obtuse Dutch
man, I began to “see dings.” “Yes,”
said the handsome Illinoisian, “Bab
cock’s wife is Campbell’s daughter.
Jones and Campbell are brothers
in-law. Campbell holds the best office
at the metropolis of the Northwest
to work things. Babcock hears ail the
President has to say’. Jones is at
Brussels, within call of Paris, where
Washburne keeps shad}’, watching the
situation across the sea. The third
term agitation keeps the public mind
off Washburne. Now, what is the next
move?” “By all means,” I said, “let us
have the next move.” The next move
is for Jones to resign, after holding the
Belgian mission more than six years.
He slips homo home and scoots around
adroitly and slyly to Long Branch and
Chicago. But who does he put in the
vacant place at Brussels?” “Badeau,
the biographer of Grant,” said I.
Guessed right!” exclaimed the watcher
on the Rhine. “You see it’s a Galena
crowd all through. There’s Badeau at
Brussels to cover Jones’ secrets and
conferences. Here’s Jones at home,
straight from Washburne, and Jones,
by the way, always had more
personal influence with Grant than
Washburne.” Then even Wash
burne has his Warwick, which his name
is Jones. I remarked that Jones was a
Welsh name, often preceded by Ap.—
“Yes, sir,” explained my great inform
er, “Jones can slip into the back bed
room door of Grant and sit on the side
of his bed, smoking a cigar, aud show
the President the possibilities of things.
Washburne can’t take that libeity.”
Beautiful republican picture ! Jones
sitting by our President on the side of
a bed, smoking a cigar. I wondered
what kind of cigars Jones smoked. ll
legirimidad ? The man of Illinois re
sumed while I was thinking of giving
an order for the above object to a pain
ter.
“When Jones came home,” he said,
“he was presently in conference with
Shelby Cullom, of Springfield. He sent
for Cullom, so it would attract no at
tention. Cullom used to be a member
of Congress, and is desired by Wash
burne and Jones as a compromise can
didate for Governor of Illinois. At
least we think so. You see Jones is a
very shrewd organizer, and he wants
Washburne to be Senator in place of
Jack JiOgan, whether he can or cannot
be President. If he can’t deposit his
friend on the purple, he wants Wash
burne, at any rate, dropped on a good
bale of fodder. The pre-existing coa
lition in the State was for Logan to
support the present Governor, Beve
ridge, for a second and full term, be
cause Logan was afraid of Beveridge.”
Here, for the first time, I had suspi
cious of this narrative. Logan, the
Mingo chief, afraid of Beveridge !
“ Afraid of Beveridge! Sooner far
Let midnight blush to own a star.”
But I respected the narrator, and he
explained: “The Methodists have not
a perfect assurance af Logan’s sincere
conversion. He joined by telegraph,
as it were, when in extremes. But Bev
eridge joined with unction, and the
Governor pitches his tent at camp
meeting and liked hymns, the blowing
of the horn, and plenty of straw around
the altar.” Here, again, was a domes
tic scene from the prairie; Beveridge
hearing the horn blow with a sera
phic expression of countenance: Lo
gan off in the woods like Esau, read
ing the Book of Kings. “Logan, there
fore,” resumed my friend, “ knew that
he was not as strong with our most
powerful sect as Beveridge. So John
had a conference with and
agreed to' give the Governor all the
Federal support for re-election, while
Beveridge agreed not to run for the
Senate. Now Russell Jones is produc
ing Cullom to break up that combina
tion. Jones can take the Federal pa-
tronage for whomsoever he pleases ;
his objective point is the Senate for
Washburne aud the Presidency, if it
can be persuaded to fall that way.”
“Now,” pursued my informant, “you
see that Jack Logau is alarmed, and
begins to take the back track ou infla
tion, and chime in with Grant’s policy’.
Horace White, who despises Wash
burne, was bought out of the Chicago
Tribune by Aledill, direct from Paris, at
a high figure. Logan’s paper, the Inter-
Ocean, is therefore offset. .In other
places the organization begins to ap
pear ready to advocate Washburne at
the proper time. If Grant can leave
the office with all his friends and kin
provided for, and his tracks covered,
that’s better than being President. And
if you watch this fall aud winter I think
you will find Jones in the Cabinet. If
he concludes to go in there,
after he surveys the field, he will
take Jewell’s or Delano’s seat, and begin
to arrange his campaign for ’76. If he
thinks it better to lie still, he won’t go
in. But the Galeha crowd has begun
the campaign. The third term pre
tense masks it.” “ Well, tell me,” I
said, “ how will Washburne run as the
Republican candidate?” “He will
strike pretty well in spots, but the ar
gument against him is that he is only
Grant’s administration under another
name, a cabal, a circle, not high in no
tice, selfish, reciprocal, nepotistic and
coarse, with a little demagoguery add
ed. Besides, all the leading Republi
cans dislike Washburne. Conkling
hates him worse than he does Blaine.
Blaine don’t like him. He will not
command enthusiastic support nor
stand close investigation.”
Jones is now on call before the cur
tain. Let him come out with his pair
of horses from the celebrated Galena
stable, aud make the first go through
an imitation of Washington resigning
his commission, while the second of the
same foal trots around and postures
for it. Gath.
THE SEWAGE OF CITIES.
How London Gets Rid of Hers—Mil
lions Swept Into the Sea.
[New York Times.]
Nearly twenty years ago it was re
solved to provide for tko*metropolis of
London a system of drainage that
should at the same time leave the wa
ters of the Thames pure and uncon
taminated. During seventeen years,
and at a cost of more than twenty-two
millions of dollars, the works liaye
been in progress, and it is only two
weeks ago or thereabouts that their
ultimate completion whs announced.
The sewage of one large section of
London, covering an area of nearly
one hundred aud twenty square miles,
is now carried away in the most perfect
manner, and provision is made by
which, for a long time to come, and
making all allowance for the contin
uous growth of the city, the drainage
will remain complete.
The great value of the sewage of a
large city is fully acknowledged. That
of London, with its dense population
of four millions, represents a vast an
nual amount of money. Yet it is not
utilized in any diigree. By the great
system of sewers now completed it is
carried underground to the mouth of
the Thames, and there made to flow
into the German ocean. Everybody ad
mits that there is a great loss resulting
from such an arrangement; everybody
is ready to tell of the national gain
that would result if that sewage were
utilized upon the land; but nobody has
yet been able to devise a means by
which in practice it can be done.
A few years ago a company was
formed in London for utilizing in this
way the sewage north of the Thames,
but the idea was a novel one ; at auy
rate the public had not been educated
up to an appreciation of its value, and
it fell through for the want of capital.
In one of the midland counties of Eng
land, one of the local boards of health
in 1870, took on lease for seventeen
years p. plot of 28 acres of land, with
the intention of utilizing the sewage
from their own district, which contains
a population of about five thousand.
The farm was a clay soil, badly culti
vated aud inefficiently drained. The
expenses have been heavy, but still the
profits of the experiment are more than
encouraging. At first the receipts fell
far short of the expenditure, lu 1870
the income was only 81,035, barely
enough to cover the rent. But every
year has shown a marked improve
ment, and when the accounts' were
made out for the twelve months ending
March, 1875, the receipts were found
to be 86,060, as agaiust 82,995 expend
ed. Such a return on a farm of less
than thirty acres is conclusive proof
that there must be some virtue in this
method of culture.
Near Leamington, in Warwickshire,
a simiiiar experiment has beeen tried,
but there, the farm being in private
ownership, it is not so easy to arrive at
the results. It is acknowledged, how
ever, by the Earl of Warwick, to whom
the place belongs, that the profits are
very large. The Earl pays to the
Town Council of LeamingtoD, $2,250 a
year for the town sewerage, and he has
perfected arrangements for receiving
and distributing it over thq.farm,
which is 400 acres in extent, as occasion
may require. It is applied to almost
every description of crops, from cereals
and roots, to beans and peas, cabbage,
celery, rhubarb, and even strawberries,
and with uniformly favorable results.
Rye grass irrigated with the sewage
has beeu_already cut five times, and it
is expected that at least two additional
crops will be secured. The root crops
are described as simply enormous;
turnips are obtained in perfection con
tinuously through the aeasoft, and
mangolds have produced as much as
82 tons per acre. It is also worthy of
note that the water which flows off
this farm is bright and sparkling, ab
solutely free from all fungoid growths,
and quite fit to drink. The farm, the
soil of which is a rich loam with a
gravel subsoil, has been under experi
ment four years.
It is uot too much to say that the
sewage which is every year allowed to
flow into the rivers from this city would
suffice to make all the land in the
neighborhood for miles around, include
ing the now barren flats of }jew Jer
sey, highly productive. If means were
taken tq utilize it, the city would find
anew source of revenue, "and provis
ions of many kinds woifld be cheaper.
The Bugle Song in tlie White Moun
tains.
The splendor falls on hotel walls
And mountain summits old and hoary,
And noses quake with many an ache,
And red bandannas are in glory.
Blow, Beecher, blow, set the hay fever fly
* in s;
Answer, sneezers, answer, crying, crying,
crying!
Oh, hark I oh, hear! How very queer!
How thin and how much thinner grow
ing!
Bold Beecher blows his swollen nose,
As still his horn he’s ever blowing.
Blow, Beecher, blow, set the hay fever fly
ing;
Answer, sneezers, answer, crying, crying,
crying! [Graphic.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 36
' THE X NHL HIED CORPSE.
Guards Still Watching the Remains of
Guibord—Criticisms of the Bishop’s
Circular —Trouble Expected at the
Coming Funeral.
[Correspondence New York Herald.)
Montreal, Sept. 10,1875.
The situation here remains un
changed. All that is left of poor Gui
bord’s body still lies in the vault of the
Protestant cemetery and is guarded all
during the night by armed men. To
day the two parties engaged in this
religious strife stand like pugilists in a
prize ring, each waiting for its rival to
strike. The Institut Canadien is
pledged to bury the remains of Guibord
in the Cemetery Cote des Neges, and to
accomplish their purpose they will call
on the military to help them,
The Church, anticipating this, states
through the mouth of the Bishop of
Montreal, that in case the body is in
terred by force, the ground covering it
shall be interdicted aud looked upon
henceforlfe as a cursed spot. It is the
eustorn of the French Canadians to in
ter husband and wife in the same
grave. Therefore, if Guibord should
be really buried, aud the ground be
cursed, must not the resting place of
Mrs. Guibord, whom the Church dearly
loved, be execrated as well ? It would
certainly seem so, and then, again, how
could the Church permit the body of
one of its members to rest with that of
the man whom it had excommuni
cated ? There is another point
which is being discussed in con
versational circles : Does the Church
fulfill the mandate of the Queen in per
mitting the burial in the limits of the
cemetery ?—that is, barely assenting to
it and withdrawing the consecration of
that particular lot owned by Guibord
and making it a spot accursed forever?
The lot was purchased when its value
was enhanced by consecration, and for
a particular purpose, which could only
be effected through the consecration of
the ground. The Crown orders conse
crated ground for the remains and in
sists upon its consecration. The law
yers are now earnestly discussing this
phase of the question. lam informed
to-night, by the French and the Eng
lish, too, that these soothing aud calm
ing messages are a mere warning to’
action.
In the quarter inhabited by French
Canadian workmen there is great con
cealment and mystery. If you talk to
them about the Bishop’s letter they
will shrug their shoulders and remark,
“It is only to quiet the Irish.” They
class all English speaking people undeV
the head of Irish, whom they hate, and
by whom they are as corilially hated.
From what I have seen of the people
of the East End, it is evident that the
Bishop’s curse will have little effeet
upon them, and they will turn out when
the time comes, fully prepared to bat
tle for rights they scarcely seem to com
prehend.
The Institut Canadien
I .visited the Institut Canadien this
morning. It is situated on the Rue
Notre Dame, just within a stone’s
throw of Bonsecours, the oldest church
in this city. It is a fine structure, very'
large and exceedingly well appointed.
The reading room is‘graced with a
group of magnificent engravings, pre
sented to the institute by Prince Napo
leon. The society is thirty years old
and is very powerful. It has numbered
in its ranks the most famous men of
the French Canadian race. There has
not been a man of note among the
French Canadians who fought for re
sponsible government and against the
bureaucracy under the old regime, or a
single statesman or orator, who has
not been connected with it, and to-day
its list of members comprises the flower
of French ability in the Dominion. It
has been honored by royalty, and even
Horace Greeley contributed to its
record by lecturing in its spacious hall.
Its rooms are free aud open to the
public, tho only stipulation being that
visitors shall be decently attired.
The Guibord affair was the sole topic
of conversation. Indeed, it could not
be otherwise when it is taken into con
sideration that just at this time the
ciety is pitted against the Church.
“What! have you not known of last
night ?” X hoard one man say to an
other in that peculiar dialect which
only a Canadian can use when under
the greatest mental excitement, “Dey
go to de cemetre Protestant; dey trow
stones at de police; dey fire many,
many shots; dey want to steal de body
un born him.” At first I thought he
was the victim of a rumor, for I was
in the cemetery myself last night till a
late hour, and heard no disturbance:
but a most worthy and reliable Mon
treal newspaper, the Evening Star-, in
its last issue of to-day, oontains the
following item ; “A 9tone was thrown
at the police on guard at the vault at
the cemetery at one o’clock this a. m.
The officers discharged fourteen shots
in the direction from which the stone
came, but nothing further took place.
This was tho only incident of
note during the night. Sergeant
Richardson has still command of the
guard at the vault. Passing out from
the Institut Canadien to the Rue No
tre Dame, I entered several stores un
der pretence of examining and pricing
such articles as a man would be apt to
purchase. I was aware that, though I
was in the neighborhood of the Insti
tute, I was at the same time among its
most vehement and bitter opponents.
What 1 heard there may be briefly ex
pressed in the following, which was ac
tually said to me; “Bury Guibord!
Never! I admire my Queen, but I
love my Church from my heartstrings.”
Apart from this, nothing remains to
be said. Armed men constantly guard
Guibord’s remains, The day for the
burial has not as yet been fixed upon.
He will be interred, not secretly, as the
Church presumes, but publicly. It
may be to-morrow, I anticipate trou
ble— sei’ious, murderous trouble. It
is inevitable, and I feel sure that the
burial of Guibord will be such an one
as the people of this cqyntry have
never seen.
Capt. H. C. Alley, the up-country de
tective, has captured two of the men
who threw the train off the Air Line
Railroad, near Seneca City, on the 24th
of July, by which accideut the engineer
was killed and several cars wrecked.
The parties arrested are J. N. Smith, a
discharged section master, and
Ranther, a discharged section hand.
The latter confessed the crime, alleging
that it was prompted by motives of re
venge.
t >—
The Georgetown Times says: “Since
the Pilot Boy has been sold and taken
from the line between this place and
Charleston the proprietors of the mail
coach line to Charleston, via Kingstree,
have changed t;Ue passenger fare from
six dollars to eight dollars. We do hot
understand that the Northeastern Rail
road has any hand in, or by any way
profits by, this extortionate arrange
ment”
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fighting for their lives.
Three Young Girls Attacked by a
Buck Deer While Rowing Across a
Pond.
[From the New York Sun, Sept. 4.J
Yesterday afternoon three young wo
men, residing near the Big Brink Pond
in Shohola Township, Pennsylvania]
started to go berrying. They were
obliged to cross the pond to reach the
woods. Before entering the boat they
saw something in the distance swim
ming in the water. Thinking it was a
dog, they paid no further attention to
it, but started on their way across the
pond, which is about two miles
wide. After rowing for several hun
dred yards, the girl who was piloting tho
bpat saw that what they first thought
to be a dog swimming in the water was
a buck, which was coming directly to
ward them. Having a clumsy pair of
oars, it was some time before the boat
could be turned, and th#n the deer had
reached to within a few yards of them.
The girl 9 became greatly terrified, for
the deer was fast gaining on them, and
from the way it snorted and plunged,
they were satisfied it meant mischief!
NY bile the one rowed with her might
the other two paddled, thus some
what increasing their speed; but the
deer was slowly gaining on them,
and know'ing they could not reach
the shore before being overtaken, they
ceased rowing to prepare for the inevi
table battle. When the deer, snorting
iiud plunging, had reached to within a
lew feet of the boat, it stopped for a
moment. Then it made a sudden plunge
and as its head struck the side of the
boat the brave girls brought down their
raised paddles upon it with such force
as to drive it under water. The girls
again raised their only weapons, aud as
tbe head lose to the surface they again
brought their raddles to bear upon it
with the same result.
When the deer again raised from the
water it seemed to realize that this
was to be the death struggle, and its
eyes gleamed like balls of lire. It made
a lunge, and threw its fore feet over
th<* side o * the boat, near the oar locks.
Iliis nearly capsized the clumsy craft
and threw Maggio Jordon, tho oldest
of the three, into the water ; but as she
fell she caught the edge of the boat
and was hauled in by one of her com
panions. Then the heroine at the oars
as she felt the animal’s breath iu her
face, raised a paddle and struck for
her life, and as the blow fell aoross the
deet s head the blood started from its
nosttils, aud it sank back helpless and
seemingly dead, but really only stunn
ed. The girls then started for the shore,
leaving the deer struggling between
life and death in the water.
Reaching the shdfe, one of tho girls
ran to a small log cabin, an eighth of a
mile distant, in which lived a family by
the name of Berger, aud told what had
occurred. Mr. Berger seized his riflj
and went to the pond, where he found
the wounded deer yet struggling in tho
water, a few rods from the shore. He
rowed out to it, and seizing it by the
antlers, cut its throat, aud then towed
the body to the shore. The deer was
the largest ever killed in the neighbor
hood, weighing two hundred and twen
ty-seven pounds.
The Negro Troubles in Georgia and
other Southern States,
[For the Constitutionalist.)
President Lincoln was one of the
few, possibly the only one, in the Re
publican party, before or during the
war who clearly foresaw the troubles
to arise from negro freedom in its un
limited sense.
At the time he was preparing for
emancipation his mind was busy also
in preparing means which should make
this emancipation a blessing to both
the white and the black race.
In his quiet home of Illinois he had
been a student of history, and, free
from the strife of politics, his mind had
duly weighed and considered the facts
that history alone records of the ad
vance of the human race. By these
facts he learned the danger from sud
denly loosing the bonds of serfdom or
of slavery without simultaneously pro
viding anew field of exertion or action
for the turbulent spirits who rule and
direct the masses of the more quiet or
even indolent freedmen to their own
ruin, involving in that ruin the destruc
tion of multitudes of innocent lives
and millions of property, if left with
out incentive in the old one. Ho fore
saw there could be no such adequate
incentive here, where equality, however
much vaunted in the halls of Congress,
could have no praotical existence when
brought to an exact test.
Deducing from his conclusions the
new necessities for safety and prosper
ity, he looked to the wide and certain
principle upon which an oppressed race
had always depended, and from which
they had but in few instances ever fail
ed to draw their permanent establish
ment and lasting happiness—coloniza
tion,
President Lincoln did not intend or
contemplate forcing colonization upon
the negro, but he had determined to
open that resource to their posterity.
Andip the address whioh he made to a
large*delegation of colored people seek
ing to know his views in 1862, this was
clearly set forth, and it would be well
for the country if some of our would-be
statesmen would now refer to and study
the wisdom and kindliness of that ad
dress, It might be well for President
Grant to turn to it and force its read
ing upon some of those who seek to
annoy him and disgust the country
with advice winch they are not compe
tent to give, and it might relieve Geor
gia and other Southern States of many
of their troubles.
One Who Knows.
BANK OF CALIFORNIA.
Seven Million Subscribed—Resumes
First Proximo.
San Francisco, September 14.—A di
rector states that seven millions have
been subscribed to a guarantee fund of
the Bank of California. The bank'will
probably open the Ist prox.
A correspondent writes from Bam
berg ; “ Sixty bales of new cotton were
reoeived at this place on the 4th inst.
The largest portion of the crop is now
open. Owing to the drouth, not over a
half crop will be mode in this vicinity.’*
The rain during the month of Au
gust in the neighborhood of Cheraw
was very abundant, damaging cotton
to some extent, but increasing the pros
pect of a good corn crop. The tempe
rature during the month was mostly
cool and pleasant, but the last few days
were dry, hot and sultry. Several eases
of bilious fever.have been reported in
the town and vicinity.
The reason that the Sultan of Zanzi
bar wore no orders or decorations is
that such things are not fashionable in
his own country. A man doesn’t like
pinning an order to his skin, and that
is the only way possible to a Zanzibar
bariatu