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Address all Letters to
H. C. STEVENSON. Manager.
The St. Louis people are talking about
another Pacific Railroad. We have more
railroads in this country now than freight.
The foot and mouth disease among the
cattle of England is spreading to an ap
palling extent. Thirty-six thousand new
cases are reported.
The Augusta Constitutionalist has come
out iu anew dress, and i3 now one of the
handsomest as well as best edited newspa
pers in the State.— Sandersvilie Herald.
The people of Thomson are very anxious
t ) have the Picayune train extend to their
town. A petition is to be drawn up to that
effect and sent to Judge Kino. We hope it
will be favorably considered.
The prolonged question of Episcopal
Bishop of Illinois has been settled at last.
Dekoven was thrown overboard and Rev.
W. E. McLaren, of Cleveland, elected by
the Diocesan Convention yesterday.
Sam’l Morgan, the temporary Chairman
of the New York Democratic State Conven
tion, opened the campaign with a hard
money speech.
The ship Neckar left England yesterday
with over one hundred thousand dollars in
specie. The fact is remarkable in that it is
the first shipment of the kind known in
years.
After a three week s of the dryest kind
of drouth, the city was blessed with a good
rain yesterday afternoon. It has been
dusty; there was a hand bar in every
man’s throat in town.
The next elections will come off in Ohio
and lowa, October 12th. The Republicans
have lost all hope of carrying Ohio, and the
only question now is, what will old Bile
Allen majority be? If it goes beyond
twenty thousand, he will be the next Presi
dent of the United States.
The receipts of cotton yesterday reached
GB3 bales, the highest number received any
day since the season commenced. It is
steady at 12% cents for good mhidling. It
is remarked that all the cotton brought to
town this year has been of a very superior
quality.
The Holy See has made demands upon
the government of Alfonso which sounds
strangely in this age. If complied with
the Pope, will reduce him to the position of
a head clerk. The Madrid correspondent
of the-london Tim s says that if he does
not agree to the demands, the Holy See
will then back Don Carlos with all its
power and influence.
The Alabama counterfeiters intended to
tlood the South with their “ queer ” money,
But they have come to sudden tears. A
special from Huntsville this morning says
they were unquestionably guilty. In the
party is a preacher, who ought to be sen
tenced to—Brooklyn, for he should have
known that is the only place where his
salary would be raised to SIOO,OOO for such
conduct.
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The dispatches this morning indicate
that the rebellion in Turkey is far from be
ing settled The party of action in Servia
are bravely demanding war, but Prince
Milan and his Cabinet oppose it. No
doubt the whole country would be glad to
throw off the Turkish yoke, but they are
fearful of undertaking a war just now. Now
is the propitious time for Russia to step in
and tell them to go it. •
We have some further returns from the
election in Maine last Monday. In a vote
of about 120,0 *) the Republicans will have a
majority of forty-five hundred to five thou
sand. They have not raised a single crow
over the result. There is nothing to crow
over, and iu another year there will be still
less. When men fight for- twenty-three
ye irs to win a victory, as the Democracy
of Maine have, they deserve success and
sooner or later will attain it. The election
returns for all these twenty-odd years show
that no strength has been lost, but that
•every voter attended the polls and steadily
voted the ticket representing its principles.
In conversation with Mayor Estes yes
terday afternoon he spoke at some length
upon the deplorable state of trade and
financial matters generally up North. He
-ays they are far worse off than we are;
that everything is sinking and going to
the bottom, and that "bottom” has not been
readied yet. He says that whilst the
causes of this state of affairs are directly
traceable to the late war, much is due to
the extravagant habits which the people
fell into there and have been trying hard
to keep up ever since. Nothing short of a
resumption of old fashioned economy on
the part of its citizens will bring the coun
try back to its prosperity.
Mayor Estes returned to the city yes
terday morning, and in view of the heavy
loss o f the city in the late failure of John
J. Cohe.v £ Sons, nearly $50,000, everybody
was glad to see him. He says he first
heard of it in a reading room in Boston
when a friend read it in a paper he had just
laid down, but had failed to notice that
particular dispatch. He at once left for
home, and upon arrival here had a
consultation with the senior member of
the broken firm, and yesterday afternoon
met the Finance Cammittee of the City
Council, at which the heavy loss of the city
was of course the chief theme of discussion.
The only thing the city can do is to take
its share of the assets.
The dispatches from Grant and Pierre-
POX'" to Governor Ames are important, and
may be regarded as a finality to the little
Mississippi carpet-bagger. They tell him
plainly that the whole country is sick and
disgusted with the military keeping such
up-starts as he is in power; that if he
wants any troops he had better accept the
services of the Mississlppians who have
voluntarily offered him their aid in putting
down any insurrection there he will show
them, and broadly intimating that they be
lieve he lias been lying about the whole
thing. They have got him down about
right there. Ames’ efforts, therefore, to
flood Mississippi with troops and overawe
the people at the coming election may
he set down as a miserable failure. Grant
and fiis Cabinet have at last given way be
fore the indignation of the whole country.
They have at last found out that the people
of this Republic will not be ruled by stand
ing armies. They have abandoned the car
pet-baggers to their fate. Quickly will the
people vote them out of power, and quickly
will they be forced to release their hold
upon public treasuries, which they have
never yet touched but to plunder.
The Gale on the Gulf.
,\ EW Orleans, September 16.—The
Vesterday on the Gulf extended
frnm KeV West to the Rio Grande. The
tide at Atchufalaya Bay to reported.the
highest it has L“ en for 18 years There
has been no telegraphic communication
with Galveston to-day. The steamship
St. Mary, from Havana for GalvestOD,
put into Northwest Pass. She |D,st her
smoke-stack, and her wheei-Uousa W& 3
atove in.
®)c Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
GRANT AND AMES.
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE.
Grant Tells Ames to Do llis Own
Fighting—That the Country is Sick
of the Military.
Washington, September 14.
To Gov. Ames, Jackson, Miss.:
This hour I have had dispatches
from the President. I can best convey
to you his ideas by extracts from his
dispatch:
‘‘The whole public are tired out with
these annual autumnal outbreaks in the
South, and the great majority are ready
now to condemn any interfeienee on the
part of the Government. I heartily wish
that peace and good order may be restored
without issuing the proclamation, but if it
is not, the proclamation must be issued,
and if it is, I shall instruct the commander
of the forces to have no child’s play. If
there is a necessity for military interfer
nnce, there is justice in such interfer
ence as to deter evil doers. I would
suggest the sending of a dispatch
or letter by private messenger to Gov
Ames, urging him to strengthen his own
position by exhausting his own resources
in restoring order before he receives Gov
ernment aid. He might accept the assist
ance offered by the citizens of Jackson and
elsewhere. Gov Ames and his advisers can
be made perfectly. secure, as many of the
troops now in Mississippi as he deems ne
cessary may be sent to Jackson, if he is
betrayed by those who offer assistance, he
will be in a position to defeat their ends
and punish them.”
You see by this the mind of the
President with which I and every mem
ber of the Cabinet who has been con
sulted are in full accord—you see the
difficulties —you see the responsibili
ties which you assume. We cannot un
derstand why you do not strengthen
yourself in the way the President sug
gests, nor do we see why you do not
call the Legislature together and ob
tain from them whatever powers and
money and arms you need. The Con
stitution is explicit that the Executive
of the State can call upon the Presi
dent far aid in “suppressing domestic
violence only when the Legislature can
not be convened ,” and the law expressly
says, “in case of an insurrection in any
State against the Government thereof, it
shall be lawful for the President on ap
plication of the Legislature of such State,
or of the Executive when the Legislature
can not be convened to call, etc.
It is the plain meaning of the Con
stitution and the laws when taken to
gether that the execuiive of the State
may call upon the President for mili
tary aid to quell domestic vioience—
only iu case of an insurrection in any
State against the government thereof
when the Legislature cannot be called
together. You make no suggestion
even that there is any insurrection
against the government of the State or
that the Legislature would not support
you in any measures you migbt pro
pose to preserve the public order. I
suggest that you take all lawful means
and all needed measures to preserve
the peace by the force in your own
State, and let the country see that the
citizens of Mississippi who are largely
favorable to good order, and who are
largely Republican have the courage
and the manhood to light for their
rights and to destroy the bloody ruf
fians who murder the innocent and
unoffending freedmeu. Everything is
in readiness. Be careful to biiug your
self strictly within the Constitution and
the laws, and if there is such resistance
to your State authorities as you cannot
by all the means at your command
suppress, the President will swiftly aid
you in crushing these lawless traitors
to human lights. Telegraph me on re
ceipt of this and State explicitly what
you need. Very respectfully yours,
Edwards Pierrepont,
Attorney General.
Washington, September 16. The
lowest bidder for the Pensaco a dry
dock, was John Roach, of Pennsylvania,
§219,000.
There is little hope of Admiral Golds
bourough’s recovery.
The Post Office officials report the
fast mail a complete success. The
train to Pittsburg carried five tons, and
the train to Chicago canied forty tons
out of New York.
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Anotlier Pacific Railroad.
St. Louis, September 16. —A meeting
of prominent citizens was held last
night to adopt measures to call a Na
tional Convention to memorialize Con
gress for such legislation as will secure
another Pacific Railroad, and to con
sider means for a reduction of the cost
of transportation from ocean to ocean
and from the gulf to the lakes. Reso
lutions were adopted that the conven
tion be held at St. Louis on the 23d of
November ; that the Chair appoint a
committee of fifteen, with power to ap
point a sub committee, to carry these
resolutions into effect.
j,HE FINANCIAL WORLD.
More Failures—Assets and Liabilities.
Boston, September 16—W. H. Healy
& Sons, leather dealers, have faiied.
Lee & Shepherd’s assets, independ
ent of stereotype plates, are §199,000.
Liabilities, §587,000.
London, September 16 —John Ent
wish, merchant, failed. Liabilities, half
a million.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION.
Speech of Samuel Magore—He is for
Hard Money. •
Syracuse, September 16. —In the
Democratic State Convention, Samuel
Magore, the temporary Chairman, said
the living questions that are now be
fore the people of the several States
for examination and decision are to be
settled in the year 1876—paramount
among which is the Financial question,
which is deeply affecting every business
interest. The evils of a depreciated
currency under which the country now
suffers naturally flowed out of the de
parture from sound interpretations of
the Constitution, prohibiting the States
and by implication the General Govern
ernment from making anything but
gold and silver a legal tender.
Upon reassembling, the Committee
on Credentials reported iu favor of the
admission of the Tammany delegation,
but inviting all contestants to seats on
the floor. The report was adopted. The
convention organized with Judge Heze
kiah Sturges, of Otsego, Permanent
Chairman, who made a long address.
After which the convention adjourned
to 9 to-morrow.
Syracuse, September 16.—Recess to
await the report of the Committee on
Credentials.
Minor Telegrams.
Terre Haute, September 16. —Sam-
uel Carr, James Cardiue and a boy
were killed by the explosion of a
threshing machine boiler.
Galveston, September 16. — The lines
are down, owing to a hurricane.
Boston,- September 16. — The races
were postponed. Goldsmith Maid
trotted a mile, in the rain, in 2:18.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Demands of the Holy See Upon
Spain.
London, September 16.—The Madrid
correspondent of the Tunes summarizes
the circuiar of the Papal Nuncio to
Bishops as follows: The Nuncio claims
a fulfillment of the concordat which
forbids the exercise of any non-Catho
lic creed, requires the transfer of su
perintendence over education to the
clergy and pledges of co-operation of
the secular power.in suppressing he
retical teaching and literature. He
says one of the causes of the civil war
is the way in which religious unity has
been misunderstood by previous gov
ernments. For these reasons, iu view
of these consequences, the Holy See
believes itself strictly obliged to pre
sent these observations to the Govern
ment. The Tones' correspondent adds:
‘‘No doubt the presentation of this au
dacious claim at the timd when the
Liberal Cabinet has just been installed,
implies a threat that if the Govern
ment reject it the blessing of the Church
will be definitely transferred to Don
Carlos and peace retarded in every
possible way.”
The Vatican Council.
Rome. Septembar 16.—The Pope re
cently informed Cardinal Borromo that
the Vatican Council would reassemble
in 1876 to complete its work.
The Prince of Wales.
• London, September 16.—The India
Times says the Mazam of Hyderabad
has accepted the invitation to meet the
Prince of Wales.
The Earl of Huntington is dead;
aged 76.
Foot and Mouth Disease.
London, September 16. —Thirty-six
thousand additional cases of foot and
mouth disease last week and is spread
ing.
The Rebellion in Turkey.
London, September 16. —A Berlin
special to the Times says recent suc
cesses of the insurgents render a con
tinuance of guerrilla warfare until
spring possible. In such a case it will
be difficult to restrain Servians from
participating. Austria, with au eye to
thesa contingencies, has issued orders
regulating the supply of horses in the
vent of a mobilization.
Kragujewatz, Servia, September 16. —
The discussions iu the Committee of
Skuptschina on the address in reply to
Prince Milaus’ speech have commenced,
and will probably last till Saturday.
Members of the minority, who favor
war, have won over several menibers in
the debates. The attempts to se
cure a compromise before submitting
a draft of the address to the Skupts
china is still earnestly pushed, but it is
feared the party of action will bo vic
torious, especially as the population
is becoming more urgent for war. The
ministry will oppose war, even if the
committee report in favor ol' it, to the
length of resignation. The peace party
are less hopeful, but have not. yet
abandoned their efforts,
Kragujewatz, September 16.—Forty
two Deputies oppose the Government
and favor war, but a majority appears
secured for the address which pro
poses to leave the question to the wis
dom of Prince Milan. The Government
is most active in efforts to maintain
peace, and the immediate danger of
war is consequently somewhat les
sened.
Belgrade, September 16. —The Turks
have again violated Servian territory,
Servian armament continues. The
Turks are prosecuting Christians iu
Northern Bosnia. Six Curistians mas
sacred.
Specie Shipment—Dead—Fire iu Prus
sia—Thiers and Gambetta.
London, September 16.—The Neckar
took £28,000 of specie for New York.
Siguor Ranconi, a celebrated Italian
singer, is dead.
Great lire at Paddisburn, Prussia.
Three hundred families homeless.
The News publishes a Paris special
that Thiers and Gambetta have agreed
upon a common platform.
From Madrid.
The circular of the Papal Nuncio is
cotnmeuted on by all the Spanish pa
pers. Surprise is expressed that the
circular was sent without the permis
sion of the King.
The Epoca asserts that another cir
cular equally important has been is
sued. A Cabinet council hae been called
exclusively for the consideration of the
Nuncio’s circular.
The Correspondencia does not believe
the Spanish Cortes will meet this year.
POLITICAL NEWS.
Western Nominations and Elections.
Milwaukee, September ] 6.—The State
Conference Convention nominated Rev.
H. C. Tilton for Governor.
Omaha, September 16. —In the Re
publican State Convention H. C. Rogers,
President; Messrs. Lake, Yost and
Gault were nomiuated for Supreme
Judges and Samuel Maxwell for Chief
Justice.
Denver, Col., September 16. —Both
parties claim the Legislature. Arapa
hoe county elects a majority of the Re
publican ticket. Democrats elect two
couucilmen, one of four members of
the House and the County Treasurer.
The New Party.
Boston, September 16. —The Massa
chusetts State Central Committee of
the National Union party, to the num
ber of fifty, met at their rooms this
evening. A letter was read from Col.
T. R. Stockdale, of Mississippi, express
ing cordial sympathy with the* new
party movement and pledging hearty
co-operation. Also, a long letter from
Gen. J. A. Early, of Virginia, express
ing the same sentiments.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
The Republican Majority Less Than
Five Thousand.
Augusta, Maine, September 16.—371
towns give the Republican candidate,
for Governor, 4.584 majority; 122 towns
and plantations unheard from. The
Democrats have elected 11 and the Re
publicans 20 Senators.
Bangor, September 16.—Latest re
turns from the Fourth Congressional
District give Plaisted (Rep.) 1,000 ma
jority.
From- South America.
Pernambuco, September 16.—1 tis be
lieved an imperial decree granting an
•nuities to bishops and governors of
dioceses will be published on Friday.
The Government has determined to
pursue a conciliatory policy on the
question of religion. The Minister of
Foreign affairs replied to a note recent
ly received from the Buenos Ayres
Government.- He has accepted the ex
planations concerning all differences
between the two countries, excepting
the Paraguayan boundary question,
upon which no decision has been
reached.
AUGUSTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1875.
DR. DEEMS.
HIS ELOQUENCE A AD MAGNETISM
A Beautiful Sermon Before Mauy
Thousand People.
[Buffalo K" press.)
The eleven o’clock oration by Dr. C.
F. Deems, of New York, on the Sunday
School teacher and God’s book of na
ture has already been set down as one
of the very best which ha3 ever been
heard in this grove. Dr. Deems is of
Southern birth, is a Southern Metho
dist, but by some soi of inspiration he
has been thrown oui* of the regular
work in his denomination, and has
built up the Church of the Strangers in
New York, and is now its pastor. It
was largely through : his influence that
Commodore Vandeiibilt made his do
nation of §500,000 to|build a Methodist
University in Nashvide, Tenn.
The Doctor is rather uuder size, fra
gile in appearance, but compactly
built, and iu every w,y a pleasant man
and agreeable speaker. His voice is
hardly strong and loud enough for the
8,000 people who wei a on the ground.
The lecture consisted of a searching
analysis of the elem nts and forces of
nature, and a comparison of them with
the teachings of the Bible.
Your space will confine me to the
briefest synopsis of what was said, and
indeed the whole lecture should re
ceive a more permanent form than can
be given it by a daily paper. His pero
ration was one of tbe mightiest, grand
est flight of eloquence these grounds
ever witnessed. He said: The Sunday
school teacher must ;irs; of all under
stand with some exactness what is his
real work, because he has less time for
his work than falls to other men; he
must be the more solicitous not to be
drawn off to any employment which is
not a part of his vocation a*> Sunday
school teacher.
He is not set to teach art, science or
literature. He is not mainly concerned
with the intellectual training of his pu
pils, nor with their esthetic culture.
His single business is to labor to fill
his pupils with the spirit of religious
thought of the Bible. He has there
fore but one indispensable text-book,
and that is the Bible. He is to use art,
and science, and literature to teach the
Bible, not as one of the literary pro
ducts of the human mind, but as the
Word of God.
Now these are to the revealed word
illustrations, not an ulterior end. God
is to be taught for the sanctification of
the people. That is the one great ob
ject of Sunday School teaching, which
is successful only in tho measure in
which that is accomplished. “Sanctify
then through Thy truth ; Thy word is
truth.” This is the disdno Redeemer’s
address to the Father. The Holy Spirit
is the sanctifier of his people. How
does He accomplish our sanctification ?
By taking the things that are Christ’s
and showing them unto us ; by reveal
ing to us the mind of the spirit as it is
in the mind of God ; by making the
mind of God to dwell in us richly. A
man is holy iu the proportion in which
his intellectual and sensitive spiritual
substance w fingly and loyally yields
to and keeps the law of God, with no
more resistance than physical substance
offers to the physical force. In the work
of bringing one human soul to this
condition the Holy Spirit uses another
soul instrumeutally, the preacher, the
teacher, the parent; but he uses them
as his instruments only. In this use
the teacher is not hindered by his
knowledge of art and science or litera
ture. On the contrary, he will be aided,
and he certainly will bo unless he makes
the fatal mistake of subordinating the
Bible to the teaching of literature, sci
ence or art. They are all helpful to
the study of the Bible, and the study
of the Bible will promote all these.
The more a man studies the Bible for
the highest end, even his own sauctifi
cation, the more Lis taste will be re
fined, his literary discrimination be in
creased ac 1 his scientific spirit be
quickened.
But he is not to study the Bible for
these ends.iu.the Church or in the Sun
day School or on the Lord’s day. Then
and there he is to use the Bible for his
personal sanctification as hearer or
pupil, or for the sanctification of others,
preacher or teacher.
He then proceeded to say' that all
through the realm of nature God had
spoken many words. The lines have
gone out through all the earth, but
Jesus is called the Word because he is
the grandest utterance of God. Our
theme supposes that there is a book of
nature, and that the author of that
book is God, and that tho Sunday
school teacher sustains the same rela
tion to the one book that he does to
the other. He defines nature as that
which is in the process of coming into
existence; God as a thinking, feeling,
active being, always producing. Uni
versal space was a Jbook; the phe
nomena in space are the lines which
God is writing there, home are old like
the writing upon an ancient parchment;
others are fresh like the current ink of
tUe writer.
The facts, the deeds : of an infinitely
wise Ood cannot contradict one an
other, although one is addressed to the
spirit and the other to the intellect. —
He then opened the volume of nature
and read its pages as ta many respects
we have never heard it read before.
And then he took us to the pages of
revelation to ascertain their teachings
on the same subject. “ All flesh is
grass,” says the Bible, and theii na
ture’s book of God was made to pro
claim the same fact. These facts and
illustrations were multiplied and drawn
out at great length. I try to con
vey an idea of his concluding remarks :
It has puzzled Bible interpreters to un
derstand how there could be light when
neither sun nor stars existed. Philoso
phy has come to our assistance. Its
reading of the book of nature has
thrown light upon the sacred page.
Light comes not from tho sun. God
said: “Let be.” That utterance was
one of the sublimest events of all time.
That utterance not only gave existence
to light, bu u it was tho incipient step
to the creation of all the orbs that
shine. Science finds light just what
and where the Bible puts it—not a sub
stance, but the result of power.
Let there be a firmament, says the
translation following the septuagint.
Now, firmament means expanse, not a
fixed concave like a marble dome
studded with precio’s stones, but the
expanse of the atmosphere. Now, the
firmament contains the atmosphere and
the cosmic ether, the former propagat
ing sound, the latter light. Before the
eye of man came ; y 3a, before the
beasts came —yea, befoi -the plant, this
expanse was needed. Between the sun
and the earth, between. fixed objects
and moving oneu, between light and
plants, there must be something—there
could not be nothing- there must be
something. That something is the ex
panse of atmosphere and ether. If that
didn’t exist none but , ; Qod could see
light. It could not be projected through
space. The luminiferous robe of the
sun could not be seen. When that first
of the two profoundest discoveries of
science was made by Galileo which
sliowed God’s hand ki the system of
the universe, the Italian sage might
have leveled his tube in vaiu on the
heavens had this ether been absent.
The presence of this ethereal world in
the place of a solid concave is the dis
covery of science.
His last illustration was the grandest
of all. He quoted Job’s language de
scribing the “sweet influence of the
Pleiades,” and said the word “in
fluence ” properlymeant hinges. What
says science ? The moon revolves
around the earth ; the earth with its
satellite revolves around the sun , and
an Austrian astronomer has discovered
that oor suu is not fixed, and that the
centre around which it revolves is Al
cyone, a star in the pleiades. This
star, then—this central sun-star—sits
upon the royal throne of all we know
of God’s nation, whilst worlds and sys
tems of worlds ever go on making their
endless rounds. Believe it, if you will,
that it was a mere accident which
caused Job to refer specifically to the
central hinge on which the whole turns.
But I give it up in despair. I can
give you no conception of the mighty
grandeur of this peroration. He closed
with this anthem: Now unto Him that
loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, to him be glory for
ever. And the thousands rose to their
feet and answered back “ amen !” And
shouts like a wave of glory swept all
over the camp.
A TROUBLESOME PRISONER.
How a Wicked Young Woman Both
ered the Keeper of a London Prison,
Moncure D. Conway writes to the
Cincinnati Commercial of Miilbank Pri
son, giving this sketch of a trouble
some prisoner :
The chief difficulties of the prison
authorities have always been with fe
male prisoners, since flogging and vari
ous other penal punishments are not
permitted in the case of women. But
there is one young woman, the mention
of whose name still blanches the cheek
of tiie Miilbank official. This was Julia
St. Clair Newman. Her prison career
was so revolutionary that she was
discussed in Parliament, and referred
by a special committee of the House
of Lords. She was—may be yet, for all
knowu at Miilbank—a Creole, born iu
the West Indies, a lady by birth and
education, and accomplished as artist
and musician. Nay, she wrote clever
poetry, or anything else she pleased.
Her guardian in Trinidad, having given
her mother and her herself too small
an allowance, they attempted to in
crease it by the addition of their land
lady's silver plate. The mother died
in Miilbank soon after arrival, and this
young girl, whoso sentenco of trans
portation had been commuted because
she was a “lady,” began to try and
bribe the wardswomen. She afterward,
by the skilful use of chalk, went into a
swift decline, deceiving the physicians.
She invented ink, extemporized paper,
and smuggled letters iu and
out, despite all vigilance. When
caught in any misdemeanor she
clasped people’s knees, wept, and
set all tho wardens and keepers to
sobbing around her. Her acting show
ed power enough to have made a for
tune. She feigned insanity, and an
cient as the trick was she deceived
everybody until she took a whim to
try something else. She sent the police
hunting up fictitious treasures buried
in a flower-pot, and fictitious criminals.
She wrote very clever lampoons of tbe
chaplain, and an able paper on the
character of the Queen. Hes hands
were so small that no handcuffs could
hold them. They sent her to a dark
cell, and she refused to eat; she was so
near death that the keepers had to
yield. They sent her to Bedlam, but
the physicians there discovered that
she was feigning, and she had to
be sent back to Miilbank, The per
petually tore up her clothes, and to
keep* her from parading puris natural
ibus, whole wardrobes had to be sacri
ficed. Surgical instrument makers
took her exact measure to device some
contrivances that, would hold her ; she
beat them all. The greatest manufac
turer of restraints for the insane
made a pair of leather sleeves of fextra
strength, and fitted them himself.—
They came up to her shoulders, were
strapped across, then also strapped
around her waist and again below, fas
tening her hands close to her side.
Next morning the task mistress
took the sleeves to the Govern
or. In the night Julia had extri
cated herself from them and cut them
into ribbons, using a piece of glass she
had secreted.” A yet more powerful
strait-waistcoat was devised, aud a col
lar put around her neck to keep her
from biting it with her teeth. Next
morning she was free as usual. Finally
the authorities of the prison notified
the government that they had not the
power to restrain or rule this Creole
girl, aud that she kept the whole estab
lishment iu panic. So she was sent on
the Nautilus to Van Dieman’s Laud.
Whether she has carried*thither her
rein of terror I know not, but her ca
reer makes the great chapter in the
history of Miilbank.
Letter from Richmond County.
Richmond County, Ga., (
September 16, 1875. [
Mr. Editor: Weather remainsthe same
as in ray last; no rain yet. The pea and
potato crop are failures. Fall turnips
backward. Cotton shedding its foliage,
and what few bolls are on the stalk
fast presenting their white contents to
the full view of the pickers.
A gracious revival of religion pro
gressing at Hephzibah Church. Many
seem deeply affected, and much inter
est is manifested by the large congrega
tion that nightly throng to the church.
The services are conducted by Rev. W.
L. Kilpatrickthe Pastor, assisted by
Rev. W. H. Davis aud Dr. E. R. Cars
well.
A detachment of men—nine iu num
ber—from the Waynesboro Fliy Away
Base Ball Club, arrived in Hephzibah
on Wednesday morning, at an early
hour, to play a match game with the
Hephzibah Base Ball Club, (both
colored) for a ball and bat. Their ar
rival somewhat nonplussed the mem
bers of the Hephzibah Club, as the lat
ter had made grievous mistakes iu the
day of the month. They appointed
tho time for Saturday, the 18th instant,
but through misapprehension as to the
correct time wrote it the 15th. The
visiting club was handsomely enter
tained by Randall Bryant, and in the
afternoon the long looked-for game
was played in an old field located just
beyond the suburbs of Hephzibah in a
westerly direction. Result of the-game :
Waynesboro Fly-Away Club, 29; Heph
zibah Club, B—thu3 reported by the
latter club. Occasional.
New York, September 16.—A fire
occurred at 57 Ann street. Loss, §BO,-
000.
GUIBORD’S BODY.
THE GORDIAN KNOT SOLVED BY
THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL.
The Ground Containing the Remains
Accursed—Excitement iu the City-
History of the Case from a Catholic
Point of Vietv.
[Correspondence New York Herald.]
Montreal, Canada, I
September 12, 1875. (
This holy day of rest has, in the city
of Montreal, been gravely and serious *
ly disturbed, for upon the Guibord af
fair has descended that awful darkness
which all liberal minded men, whether
Catholics or not, prayed never to see.
The Bishop of Montreal last week sent
out the assurance that, in case Gui
qord’s friends insisted upon his burial
the earth that covered him would be
accursed: but no one for a moment im
agined that this threat would be ful
filled until Guibord was actually under
ground. But from tbe Bishop’s pulpit
to-day, in the Church l’Evechee, which
is immediately connected with his pal
ace, went forth that awful mandate
which curses every inch of ground in
the Cote-des-Neiges that Guibord’s
body may be buried in and leaves the
curse lying upon the spot, even though
the body should subsequently be ex
humed. The Bishop’s letter was read
by Yicar General Moreau, and was
couched in the peculiar dialect of the
French Canadians. A silence like thai
of death rested upon the congregation
during the reading of the document,
which is given in the sequel:
The Bishop’s Letter.
Pastoral letter of Monseigneur the Bishop
of Montreal concerning the religious
burial asked for an unfortunate ( atholic
who died in disgrace witli the Church.
Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, &c.,
&c., to the clergy, laity and religious bodies,
and to all the faithful in our diocese. It is
for you a duty to raise your voice to-day
concerning a certain agitation which is
troubling minds and which is fermenting
day after dav. and whicli will doubtless
create a terrible catastrophe. It is useless
to recall to you the lamentable fact
which has caused'you so bitter a grief, for
it is known to all of you and it is so strong-
Iv engraven upon your memories, with ail
its unfortunate circumstances, that it will
doubtless be handed down to posterity.
What we are going to tell you requires
only a simple explanation, which, we nope,
will suffice to appease your fears and dissi
pate certain prejudices, by means of whicli
bad passions are endeavored by some to be
excited.
It is to the benefit of all to faithfully fulfil
their duty to their country and' their
Church, to maintain the public peace and
live quietlv in the bosom of their families.
Now, tho subject which troubles so many
of you is the fear that your cemetery,
winch you justly venerate as a holy spot,
is to be profaned by the burial of a man
who died iu disgrace aud under the anath
ema of the Church. The news has alarmed,
with reason, the religious feelings of the
Catholic population, and it is on this ac
count that some people have been drawn
into a public but peaceable demonstra
tion to prevent the profanation of a
sacred spot where our religious an
cessors repose in peace, waiting the
great day of resurrection. By this de
monstration, spontaneous an I inspired by
your deepest emotions, your feeling for the
holy ground biest by the Church for tho re
pose of your dead, where your bodies will
be ultimately deposited to await peaceably
the sound of the terrible trumpet which
will awake you from your last sleep in
death and raise all men from the dust, we
ought to place at the feet of our sovereign
the religious convictions with which our
cemetery is connected as a holy place, as
consecrated ground and as a field set apart
where are placed after death the faithful
children of the Church to await the arrival
of the Sovereign Judge, while their bodies
mingle with those of the saints who, like
themselves, have departed and died in
the peace of the Church. We must, at the
same time, admire and mod rate the feel
ing shown by you at a time when all
expected blood would be shed, which would
have been considered by every one as a
great misfortune. For our part, we would
have exceedingly regretted such an issue
for mauy reasons. J hat is easv for you to
understand and appreciate. Let it suffice
you to say that this shedding of blood
would have been anew profanity of the
holy place, and that we took every step to
prevent such a misfortune. But if, how
ever, we have managed to prevent a breach
of the public peace, yet at the saiue time we
hafte taken every means to uphold the hon
or of our holy Church and to prevent the
profanation of our consecrated ground,
the means being to declare that, by vir
tue of the Divine power we had in the
name of the Lord of Lords, the place
where the body of this rebellious child of
tiie Church should be buried should be en
tirely cut off from the consecrated ceme
tery, and should be for the future accursed.
There is no necessity to inform you that,
under the solemn act of our consecration
to God, full power has been given to us to
bind and to unbind, to bless and to curse, to
consecrate persons, places and churches,
and to interdict them; to separate from
the body of the Church the limbs which
disturb and outrage it; to deliver to Satan
those who, by their own acts, sever them
selves from the Church, so that they shali
be considered from henceforth as hea
thens and publicans, so that they shall
not return to God without a sincere re
pentance. It is by virtue of this Divine
authority, &c., and to prevent future trou
bles, that we declare by these presents,
even though anyone shall pretend igno
rance of it, that the spot in the c ■metery
where the body of the late Guibord shall
be buried, even though in tiie future it
be exhumed in any manner whatever, will
be intact and in manner (ipso facto ) inter
dicted and separated from the rest of the
cemetery. Such is the declaration we have
to make to you. Therefore you need have
no fear that in tiie present case your cem
etery can lose its sacredness, or that the
holy rights it has upon its sanctified and
blessed places can be sacrificed or trodden
under foot.
The letter then goes on to quote au
thorities for the Bishop’s action, etc.
The effect of this letter upon the city
cannot well be described. It has fallen
on the Institut Canadien like a thun
derbolt. They threaten everything,
but everything is in such a chaotic
state of confusion that no one can tell
what will be done.
The Bishop indicates this action in
relation to Guibord by means of the
sentiments expressed in the following
interview:
Interview with, the Vicar General.
Yicar General Moreau, who was the
highest dignitary at present in the city,
in the absence of Coadjutor Bishop Fa
bre, and the difficulty of gaining an in
terview with Bishop Bourget, received
me with the greatest kindness and gave
a history of the case, which shows the
objections of the church to bury Gui
bord are founded on doctrinal points.
He says the Institute Canadien, when
first started, was not objected to by the
church, but a number of Freemasons
and members of secret societies having
joined the society, the church with
drew its support. The library of the In
stitut was shortly after filled with the
works of Moliere, Voltaire find other in
fidel and objectionable volumes, upon
which the Church informed the mem
bers that so long as they were connect
ed with the society, they would bo re
fused admission to the sacraments of
the Church and would be refused eccle
siastical burial. Several members left
the society, and Guibord, who did not,
shortly after fell sick aud sent for a
priest, who refused him the last sacra
ments till he renounced his member
ship. Guibord promised, received ex
treme uuction and recovered, but did
not leave the society, and, a year or so
afterward, v died so suddenly that
there was no time to fetch a priest.
The Churoh refused burial on the
above grounds and a law case was
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 38
instituted. The clergy received the de
cree of the Privy Council, and claim to
have obeyed it to the letter, being or
dered to bury, or permit to be buried,
the body, &e. They have offered no
opposition, and affirm that it is obliga
tory on the part of the Institute to en
ter the cemetery, and from information
they might have done so on the first
attempt, so far as the opposition offer
ed was concerned. The above is the
Catholic version of the case, and it is
only fair to say that the public should
know it.
[New York Times.]
It is easy to ask why the authorities
do not compel the burial of Guibord,
and thus vindicate the law. That is
precisely what they cannot do without
the consent of the Roman Catholic
Bishop and his subordinates.
SAVED AT THE LAST HOUR.
Respite of a Tennessee Murderer in
Missouri His Crimes in Gibson
County The Son of a Baptist
Preacher.
[New Madrid Special to the St. Louis Times.)
The preparations for the execution
of Tom Jones, the O’Banuon murderer,
to-day were suddenly ended by the ar
rival of the prisoner’s lawyer, H. C.
Reily, with a stay of execution. Up to
a late hour last night the prisoner had
hopes that he would receive a tempo
rary respite, but when the packet
passed and no news had come, he gave
up all chance and began to settle down
for the worst. The arrival of his at
torney just before the man led out to
the scaffold was a complete surprise to
everybody.
John Grier, ex-Deputy Sheriff of
Gibson county, Tennessee, and W. A.
Holmes, arrived on the packet this
morning and identified Jones as John
Wagster, who left that county five or
six years ago. They claim that he was
connected there with the perpetration
of numerous outrages on life and pro
perty, and that lie was compelled to
leave under an indictment for the mur
der of a negro. His father was a Bap
tist minister, now dead. His mother
and brothers are still living there. He
did not attempt to disprove or deny at
all what they said relating to the
change of his name.
In a final interview with Jones, just
before Mr. Reilly’s arrival, he gave
your correspondent the names of thir
teen citizens who were in the party on
the night O’Bannon was killed.
For the first time since his confine
ment he expressed a desire this morn
ing to see a minister, remarking that
the experiment might do him some,
good as it could not, in any event, re
sult in any injury.
Everything was in readiness for the
execution, and during the entire fore
noon people poured into the place from
all parts of the country to witness the
scene. Aged men came with their fami
lies in wagons, including even their lit
tle ones and daughters. The negro
population was largely represented. At
10 o’clock the number had swelled to
1,000. When the postponement became
known, the crowd dispersed through
various parts of the town. Some drank
freely, became involved in fights, and
gave way generally to impulses of
swamp whiskey iu war whoops and
flourishes.
On the arrival of the steamer City of
Chester, in tho evening, the prisoner
was taken down to the boat and sent
back to Johnson county jail for safe
keeping. He was accompanied to the
wharf by the Sheriff, his deputy and
about twenty shot guns. I spoke to
him on the wharf, and he manifested
the same firm, unflinching disposition
which has characterized him through
out. The opinion of many is that he
will spend the remainder of his life in
the penitentiary. He has reason to re
joice, for the gallows had for full
twenty hours been waitiug to claim
him.
GERMANY ON THE OCEAN.
Her Bid for the Naval and Commercial
Supremacy of the World.
[United States Economist.]
The openly avowed policy of the Ger
man Government in building up a navy
corresponding to the vast military
strength of the Empire, and capable of
competing with the great maritime
powers of Europe, involves issues of
the very greatest importance to the
whole commercial world. To the Gov
ernment aud people of England this
policy involves the most momentous
consequences. Against Germany as
a mere military power, that Gov
ernment can afford to be indif
ferent. With her vast fleet she
is all but impervious to the co
lossal military strength of the conti
nental nations. But as against a naval
and commercial Germany the condi
tions are entirely changed.' In that
contingency points or attack and
defence are reduced to an equality. It
has long been a maxim that commer
cial and naval power followed in the
track of military power, and Germany
seems likely to afford the world another
illustration of this fact. We can there
fore well understand the scarcely con
cealed anxiety of English writers and
statesmen at the prodigious develop
ment of the naval resources of Ger
many that has taken place during the
past ten years. And now with the
prestige and advantages derived from
her recent victories the same policy is
pursued with all the vigor and deter
mination characteristic of the great
Bismarck.
The real objects of her immense ar
maments is the building up of a naval
and commercial marine that will enable
Germany to take a commanding posi
tion as a commercial nation. That
they will really add anything to tho
effective military strength of the
Empire, is scarcely pretended. In
addition to these armaments, with
which it appears Germany ought to be
content, there always looms up the
danger of a sudden political com
plication that will enable Germany
to acquire, the control of Belgium and
Holland. But it will be seen that Ger
many pushes with remorseless tenaci
ty the idea of commercial supremacy,
and there seems no good reasons why
it should not attain it. To Great Brit
ain these changes involve the most
momentous consequences. They strike
at the very root of the commercial
prosperity of that country. With the
entire coast line opposite to England
in the hands of a competing power, it
is easy to see that tho commercial
prestige of England would undergo a
shock from which it would be slow to
recover.
ILLINOIS DIOCESAN CONVENTION
W.E. McLaren Elected Bishop.
Chicago, September 16.—Dr. W. E.
McLaren, Rector of Trinity Church,
Cleveland, was eleoted Bishop of Illi
nois. DeKoven received 22 clerical
votes on the first ballot,
Milwaukee, September 16.—Rev. John
Henry Hobart Brown is elected Episco
pal Bishop of Fok du Lac Diocese,
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BRISTOW’S BAD FAITH.
THE INSIDE HISTORY OF THE RE
SUMPTION ACT.
How the Republican Inflationists in
the Senate were Hoodwinked.
[Cincinnati Correspondence of tho St. Louis
Times.]
That word “ resume ” is suggestive.
It brings to mind a whole category of
Radical claptrap and suggests a brief
delineation or the True Inwardness of
that chieftest of Radical humbugs,
John Sherman, aud that sickest of Rad
ical shams, his celebrated Santa Claus
Resumption Bill, which is just now get
ting pretty roughly handled on all
sides. Leaving Gov. Hendricks on the
part of the Democrats and Pigiron
Kelley on the part of the Republicans
to strip the veneering from the outside
of this cheap sham, I will gently insin
uate my crowbar into the inner non
sense of the thing.
Not long ago I met a Western Re
publican Senator who had voted for
Sherman’s resumption bill finally, but
who had erstwhile been a fierce aud
untamable inflationist.
“Well,” said I, after the usual pre
liminaries, “how do you and John Lo
gan and the balance of you like your
newstatus as hard money men? I see
that Morton has finally floundered into
the party traces on that side.”
“I am not a hard-money man,” was
his reply, “and no party edict can make
me one. I don’t believe the country is
ready for resumption of specie pay
ments, and I am not and shall not be in
favor of forcing the thing.”
“But,” said I, “your party is pledged
to resume specie payments in 1879, by
the John Sherman resumption bill, and
Bristow is now hard at work borrowing
coin to resume with, according to pro
gramme.”
Bristow r, s Folly.
“ Well, sir,” responded my Senatorial
friend, inflating his profanity in about
the same ratio as he was originally in
favor of expanding the currency,
“ Bristow is acting the d—d fool. Not
less than twelve Western and Southern
Republican Senators, including mysolf,
voted for that Shermau-Dawes Com
promise bill, with the express under
standing that it was a purely political
measure, designed to harmonize the
Republican party aud dispose of the
currency question until after the cam
paign of 1876; and with the further dis
tinct and positive understanding that
none of its provisions were to be oon
strued as mandatory by the Secretary
t of the Treasury, but that it was to
lapso into a dead letter on the statute
books. And now here is this d—d
Bristow going on, as you say, bor
rowing coin to resume with, and tho
country is pinched and the reve
nues are falling off and tho inter
est-bearing debt is increasing and the
Republican party is catching h—l from
California to Cape Cod, and the people
are all turning against us ! Why, sir,
iu my State I’ll bet dollars to ceuts
there is not one man iu five hundred
who is willing to undergo tho trials of
resuming specie payments by this
force-pump plau in 1879. These devil
ish fools in Washington sit on their
haunches and imagiuo that everything
is lovely because there is no business
in Washington, and they can’t feel the
pressure that is squeezing the rest of
the country ; while we—myself and my
Western and Southern colleagues, who
were induced to vote for that bill—
must face the people and catch h—l
from all sides.”
Here my august Senatorial friend
paused for breath, while the atmo
sphere assumed a cerulean hue as his
vivid peroration evaporated.
“You surprise me,” I. said. “You
surely cannot mean to say that Bris
tow’s action is a piece of bad faith to
wards those Republicans who, being
originally expansionists, voted for that
compromise bill upon representations
that it was purely a politioal measure
and not designed to be enforced by the
Secretary of the Treasury?”
“That is just what I mean to say, by
G—d; and, more than that, Bristow
knew wirat the design of the measure
was, or rather what the design of those
who voted for it was, from the first.
Why, Sir, Senator Ferry, of Michigan,
told Judge Kelley—Pig-irou Kelley,
you newspaper men call him—that lie
voted for the bill as a compromise mea
sure to save the Republican party,
and when Kelley replied, “Sir, you
cannot save the Republican party by
committing a great crime,’ Ferry re
plied evasively and to the effect of
what I have already told you. I re
peat, it was the understanding that
this bill was not to be enforced, and
when I say that Bristow knew
it was not the design of its au
thors, or at least of those expansionist
Republicans whose votes scoured its
passage, that it should be enforced, I
mean that Dawes and Maynard went
to him after or about the timo of the
adjournment last spring aud told him
so 1”
“Did Dawes and Maynard tell Bris
tow in so many words that the bill was
a political measure, and not designed
for enforcement?” I inqui red, with some
interest, as may well be imagined.
“No, of course not in so many words.
They did not suppose Bristow was
such a d—d fool. But they told him,
or rather called his attention to the
fact that the bill, by its terms, was not
mandatory upon the Secretary of the
Treasury ; that it left the inauguration
of the programme it devised discre
tionary with him, ar.d that was as good
as if they had said: ‘ Mr. Secretary,
we have passed a bill here which does
not command you to do anything. If we
had wanted you to do anything, we
could have easily made the terms of
our bill mandatory.’ I say what they
said to Bristow amounted to this, and
I have every reason to believe that
Bristow fully comprehended their
meaning. But now he has gone on and
inaugurated his policy, and
ll—l is to Pay,
We shall carry Maine this fall but
d—n Maine ;we shall lose Ohio’ and
Pennsylvania, and the chances are
against us in lowa. Bristow Is at the
bottom of it, and the bottom will drop
out of it presently. I intend to bo
board from as soon as I get back to ,
Washington.”
ALABAMA COUNTERFEITERS.
Guilt of the Parties Established.
5 [Special to the Savannah News.]
Huntsville, September 15.—The ar
rests of the counterfeiters are sustain
ed, and the prisoners have been re
quired to give bail in sums of from
S7OO to SI,QOQ, I have to-day seen let
ters and bogus bills of the accused,
whose guilt is beyond| question. The
gang had planned extensive operations,
and their bills are good imitations,
especially the fives on the First Na
tional Bank of Paxton, Illinois. But for
these arrests the South would have
been flooded with counterfeits during
the present season. I will scad full
ports by mail,
