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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 6 00 “ three months 2 50 Tri-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months ’ 260 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months 100 Single copies, 6 cts. To news dealers, 234 cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, J Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) 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. % 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. ■ i 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, To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet maybe remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. 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. 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,