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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 5 00 “ three months 2 50 Tbi-Weekly—one year ' 500 “ six months 250 Weekly—one year 2 00 “ six months 100 Single copies. 5 cts. To news dealers', cts. Subscriptions mdst 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. 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” To Advertisers and Subscribers. ap ™r this date (April 21, 1875,) all ?^ ltlo 5 a °* Jke Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. E i TrSKM i ENTS I ? ust he paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. M o?Pos“ai y Or e der mltted at ° Ur rißk by ExDress Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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