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“ Probs ” thinks the weather will be
cooler to-day. Good boy!
The Alabama Convention has repudiated
Secession. Now, what has the editor of
the Washington Chronicle to say to that?
Ham, a son of Japhet, now editing the
Warrenton Clipper in an allspice way, has
joined the Mulligan Guards and prepared
for duty.
The veteran editor, Col. G. A. Milleb,
Mr. ( lakenoe Stephens, of the Madison
Udine Journal, and Col. H. T. Peake were in
the city yesterday, and favored us with a
call.
That temporary ch airman of the Syra
cuse Convention has had his name mutila
ted in regular Plimsollian proportions.
Wo have seen it printed Magore, Mor
gan, Maguire and Magone. A gentleman
in Lliis city, well posted in New York poli
tical nomenclature, says it is Magoon.
The rival fast mail trains from New York
to the West open anew held for betting
men. One engineer has fainted from over
work and excitement, and seventy miles
an hour have been made. Look out for a
big smash. Prepare your books, gentle
men.
Very bad tidings reach us by telegraph
from the Texas coast. A terrible hurri
cane has visited that region and the dam
age to Galveston and its vicinity is already
very considerable. Grave apprehensions
are entertained in ease a northern wind
should prevail. We may look out, about
these times, for equinoctial gales, which
rarely fail to bring devastation on thelr
wings.
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The holders of Turkish bonds may cry
" peace," “ peace,” but there is no peace
alter all. The Sultan evidently fears the
worst, for he is represented as preparing
for any emergency, putting his army on a
war footing and strengthening the Danube
fortresses. Prince Gortschakofe thinks
t : e upshot of the present difficulties will
be the quasi-independence of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The efforts of the Great
Powers to pacify the insurgents may tem
porarily succeed, but even this appears to
be a doubtful contingency.
A defalcation is reported at Louisville
in the Gas Company. The whole country
seems to be honey-combed with dishonesty.
Men least suspected have turned out to be
rogues. In a majority of cases, the swind
lers have been living far beyond their
means, and, in order to do this, they spenfl
money entrusted to them ; and, when the
day of reckoning comes, their exposure is
complete. It is this wild and reckless per
sonal extravagance that brings many a
reputation to shame, and it is the frequent
unmasking of such robberies that tends to
destroy confidence and unsettle business.
The next twelve months will eaube such a
rattling of dry bones that any person who
values his name will be more anxious
to preserve it untarnished than to live on a
bladder of false pretenses which, when
pricked, always emits a foul and sickening
stench.
The Board pf Equalization, of Fouth
Carolina, have voted that the following
shall be the assessment on each railroad
in that State:
Value per mile.
Blue Ridge Railroad $7,242 00
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad 8,000 00
Chester and Lenoir Railroad 3,000 00
Greenville and Columbia Railroad.. 8,000 00
Northeastern Railroad 8,000 00
Port Royal Railroad 8,241 00
Richmond and Atlanta Air-Line
Railroad 8,500 00
Savannah and Charleston Railroad. 6,000 00
South Carolina Railroad 10,000 00
Wilmington, Columbia and Augus
ta Railroad 8,000 00
Laurens Railroad .’ 1,000 00
Spartanburg and Union Railroad... 5,415 00
The board adjourned to meet on the 16th
of October.
Our Atlanta correspondent having spoken
rather confidently of a consolidation of the
Constitution and Herald, the former paper
thus retorts: “ One very frequently has to
go from home for home news. For some
days past rumors have been current in the
city of a consolidation of Atlanta papers.
But the cone-pendent of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist ‘ can with safety say that the
two papers will consolidate.’ We always
dislike to spoil a seusation. But we are
compelled to topple that one. The Consti
tulion has ‘consolidated* several times in
late years, the Sun and the News coming
lovingly to its embrace; or, as the Rome
Courier put it some time since, the Constitu
tion may be a ‘journalistic whale,’ but too
much swallowing sometimes brings about
a gorge. At any rate, begging pardon of
the Augusta correspondent for assuming
to know something about the matter, we
desire to state that there exists no arrange
ment or preliminary arrangement what
ever looking to the consolidation he speaks
of or any other.” Now, let us hear what
Martha has to say about it.
The New York Democracy, in Convention
assembled, have placed themselves on a
hard money platform. Whatever our own
predilections may be, we are in favor of al
lowing tho party in each State to regulate
these affalis to suit themselves, and do
what they conceive to be the very best
thing to win a victory. The result will
teach them whether they are right or
wrong. We trust the New York Democrats
may gain a tremendous triumph over Re
publicanism. That is what we ara particu
larly concerned about. What is good for
New York as a money-lending centre
may not be good for the West and
South; but, be this as it may, we
wish our friends success. In doing this,
we adopt a wiser course than those jour
nalists. in the East and on the Border, who,
in their rage at the Ohio platform, waged
bitter aud unrelenting war upon Wm.
Allen and publicly expressed the hope
that he might be defeated by his Radical
adversary. We are not so hide-bound or
partisan as that, aud, as we presume the
New York Democracy have adopted what
they conceive to be the most popular plan
for making a prosperous canvass, we give
them our blessing in advance.
FROM BOSTON.
Fire in a Great Dry Goods House.
Boston, September 17.—Fire was dis
covered in the fifth story of the im
mense wholesale dry goods house of
Jordan, Marsh & Go., fronting on Som
mer street. It started in a mysterious
manner amoDg cotton battiDg. The
fire brigade of the firm attempted to
quench the flames, but the pumps
failed to work. A quarter of an hour
elapsed before the Department was
called. Meantime, the flames filled the
upper story, ami the situation was so
serious that threa), alarms were sound
ed in an hour. By extreme efforts
the flames were controlled, though the
entire building, containing millions of
property, was flooded. The elevators
fell, and threatened to ignite the
lower floors, but this was fortunately
prevented. Loss, $150,000,
®)c mpstfl! Coßstittttwnttlist
Established 1799.
POLITICAL.
New York Democratic Convention-A
Hard Money Platform Adopted—
Nominations.
Syracuse, September 17.—Tammany
delegates were addmitted. Stuigis,
permanent chairman, in the course of
his speech, said: “Lop off expenses
until promises to pay are at par with
gold. Then repeal the legal tender
act. That is resumption and not by
legislative enactment."
The Convention adopted a platform.
The Democratic party of New York
renew their pledge of fidelity to the
principles adopted and affirmed unani
mously by delegates representing the
Democrats of all the United States
together assembled in the latest Na
tional Convontion and since re-ap
proved and endorsed by Democratic
majorities in fifteen states, comprising
more than half *the population of the
United States. The 7th resolution
reads thus:
“The public credit must be sacredly
maintained, and we denounce repudia
tion in every form and guise.” [Ap
plause.]
8. A speedy return to specie pay
ment is demanded alike by the highest
considerations of commercial morality
and honest government. [Applause.]
To these authentic declarations of
Democratic principle and policy the
times give proof. The present depres
sion of business is caused by the reac
tion from the unhealthy stimulus of an
excessive depreciated aud irredeema
ble currency, by enormous aud ill-ad
justed municipal, State aud Federal
taxation, and by extravagance, waste
aud speculation in administration of
public affairs. The remedy for this
evil is not to be found in the renewal
of any of the causes. In face of the
fact that the existing volume of cur
rency is greater than can be absorbed
by business; in face of the fact
that the recent fall of price
was followed by repeated infla
tions, any attempt to increase the
currency wou'd be worse than ineffec
tual to .revive prosperity, for it would
interrupt the healiug processes of in
dustry. It would be worse than futile
to restore confidence, for it would
create distrust and new uncertainties
in business, paralyzing the beginnings
of prosperity, rob labor of its too
scanty employment, and. while stifling
the progress of legislative reforms,
would inflict lasting dishonor upon the
credit, the intelligence and character of
the country.
Nominations ; Secretary of State,
John Bigelow; Comptroller, Lucius
Robinson; Attornny General, Charles
S. Fairchild; Treasurer, Charles N.
Ross; Engineer, John Van Buren; Ca
nal Commissioner, C. N. Walworth.
The Democratic party of New York
also reaffirm the principles set forth in
their platform adopted last year at
Syracuse, and endorsed by 50,000 ma
jority at the election following in a poll
of nearly 800,000 votes, and vindicated
before all the people of this Republic
by the illustrious administration of
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden. The resolu
tions of the platform of 1871, tliuo re
affirmed, are as follows :
Ist. Gold and silver are the only legal
tender. No currency inconvertible with
coin.
2d. Steady steps toward specie payment.
No step backward.
3d. Honest payment of the public debt in
coin and sacred preservation of the public
faith.
4th. Revenue reform. Federal taxation
for revenue only. No Government partner
ship with protected monopolies.
sth. Home rule to limit and localize most
jealously the few powers intrusted to pub
lic servants, municipal, State and Federal.
No centralization.
6th. Equal and exact justice to ail men.
No partial legislation. No partial taxa
tion.
7th. A free press. No gag laws.
Bth. Free men; a uniiorm excise law; no
sumptuary law.
9th. Official accountability enforced by
better civil aud criminal remedies; no pri
vate use of pubiic funds by public officei s.
10th. Corporations chartered by the State
always supervisable by the State in the in
terest or the people.
11th. The party in power responsible for
all legislation when in power.
12th. The Presidency a public trust, not a
private perquisite; no third term.
13th. Economy in the public expense, that
labor may be lightly burdened.
The Democrats of the New York
Convention, assembled, pledge them
selves, their nominees, and their repre
sentatives in the Senate and Assembly
to follow where an honest and fearless
Chief Magistrate has dared to lead in
reforming the administration of our
great canals so long despaired of. their
construction maintenance, repairs and
revenues to carry on with unwavering
purposes and fidelity wise measures to
increase the efficiency of all depart
ments of the public works, and service,
and to persist in reducing our State
tax, in which the burdens have already
been lightened by the retrenchment and
reforms of a single year to the amount
of nearly 53,000,000 and upon this par
amount, immediate and practical issue
of administrative reform we cordially
invite the co-operation of every true
Democrat, every Liberal Republican
and ali our fellow-citizens, of whatever
name, who arc willing in the coming
State elections to unite with us iu sup
porting reform candidates upon a re
form plalform.
After the reading of the platform
the chair put the question requesting
all present, spectators as well as dele
gates, to rise if they favored it., and the
whole body, with few exceptions, rose
and applauded.
Hard Money Nebraska Democrats.
Omaha, Neb., September 17.—The
Democratic Siate Convention was the
largest ever held. The financial plank
reads thus : That we are iu favor of a
sound currency, coin or its equivalent,
as essential to stablility in business and
the restoration of prosperity, of steps
towards specie payment and no steps
backwards; that we deprecate all at
tempts to commit the Democratic par
ty to a system of paper money, based
upou an unconstitutional exercise of
Federal power, as a crime against the
common welfare aud a wanton viola
tion of a cardinal article of the Demo
cratic creed.
A Democratic Mass Meeting.
Baltimore, September 17. —Twenty
thousand persons were at the Demo
cratic meeting to-night. Hon. Reverdy
Johnson presided. •>
Proceedings of the North Carolina
Convention.
Raleigh, September 17.—The Orange
county election, to fill the vacancy
caused bp the death of ex-Gov. Gra
ham, resulted in the election of Patter
son (Dem.) by some GOO majority, giv
ing the Democrats two majority in the
Convention. . That body is n\>w fairly
at work. The ordinance fixing the per
diem of the General Assembly passed
the final reading, and one reducing Su
preme Court Judges to three from five
passed a second reading to-day, some
fifteen Republicans votiQg for it. The
ability of the body is being developed
in debate,
AUGUSTA. GA., SAfTURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Turkey Preparing for War—A Fugi
tive Carlist—Gortscliakoff oil the
Eastern Question —That Chinese
Outrage—Resignation of a Spanish
Ambassador.
London, September 17. —The Daily
Telegraph's Vienna correspondent re
ports Turkey as placing her .forces in
Bulgaria on a war footing and prepar
ing fortresses on the Danube for any
emergency.
Madrid, September 17. —It is rumored
that the Carlist General Saballs has
entered France.
Paris, September 17.— Bleu Publique,
the organ of M. Thiers, admits the
correctness of the following: During M.
Thiers’ interview with Prince Gortscka
koff, the Russiau Prime Minister, the
conversation related to the chances
favorable to the maintenance of peace.
Prince Gortschakoff especially feared
that France would yield to a clerical
reaction. He thought the solution ol
the Eastern question would not be im
mediate, but would eventually consist
in granting of an autonomy to Bosnia
and Herzegovina under the Archduke
Salvador or Server Pasha.
London, September 17.—Reuter’s tele
graph says negotiations relative to the
Yuman outrage have not progressed
beyond sending a special Embassy to
London. The Chinese Viceroy will in
vestigate the outrage.
Rome, September 17.—The Spanish
Minister to the Vatican has resigned in
consequence of a change in the Spanish
Ministry.
A Glimpse of Peace—The Bavarian
Ultramontaues Preparing to Cen
sure Bismarck—The British Turf-
Papal News.
Constantinople, September 17.—Ad
vices from consuls state that several
chiefs had accepted mediation. Some
demanded a guarantee and indemnity.
Berlin, September 17.—The Ultra
montane majority in the Bavarian Diet
are preparing a note of censure on the
Government, aud will request a change
in the ministry.
London, September 17. — Frauleiu won
the Doncaster cup. Louise Victoria
aud Marie Stuart, who were the fa
vorites, made a dead heat for the
second place.
Rome, September 17.—The Pope held
a consistory to-day and conferred upou
Cardinal McCloskey the ring and title
of Sancta Maria Supra Minerva.
Austrian and English Items.
London, September 17. —A Vienna
dispatch says reports ot victories by
Servian bands are untrue. A corps of
invading volunteers compelled the
Christians of Grahava, near the Dalma
tian frontier, into revolt. A fierce fight
occurred on Wednesday with the Turk
ish inhabitants, and the insurgents
were defeated.
A letter in the Times contains reasons
for the probable correctness of the re
ported marriage of Alfonso with the
daughter of Duke de Montpensier.
The trial of the 91 t i gun, cast for
the iron-clad Inflexible, with 250
pounds of powder and a 1,300 pound
shot, was not quite satisfactory.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Financial and. Indian News—Yellow
Fever in Florida —Dots.
Washington, September 17. —Five
million bonds were issued under the
act of Juue 30, 1804. Called interest
ceases on the 17th of December.
The Red Cloud Commission have
concluded examinations and com
menced writing a report.
The Navy Department has received
the following:
“Navy Yard, /
“Pensacola, September 16. f
“Yellow fever is epidemic at Howell’s
Station, on Pensacola Bay, 25 miles
above the Yard. The people have
neither food, medicine nor attendance,
and are crying out, in the name of God,
for relief. The Navy Yard is perfectly
healthy.
“[Signed] G. H. Cooper,
“Commodore.”
Maj. Geo. Elylean, Paymaster at
New Orleans, has been relieved and or
dered to report to tho Commander ol
the Department of the Gulf for assign
ment.
Brown, implicated in the Treasury
robbery, has been held for the grand
jury. m
GALVESTON INUNDATED.
A Fearful Hurricaue on tlie Texas
Coast—Wreck and Ruin—A Day of
Terror.
New York, September 17.—The Her
ald's Galveston special says that several
wrecks are reported. The Ocean House,
on the beach, is surrounded by water
aud the out houses are gone. The
City Hospital is filled with water. Thir
ty men on the Government breakwater
were cut off and lost. The Santa Fee
Railroad bridge across the bay was
swept away, and the Houston Railroad
bridge was flooded—2o feet of the east
end were washed three miles. The
backwater at Y 7 irginia Point is still
rising. The gale is increasing and the
barometer is falling. The bay is so full
of water that should the wind blow
from the north the island will be lost.
Shipping in the harbor, at last ac
counts, was having a fearful time. The
latest report, 5 p. m., announces the
safety of the Ship Channel dredging
fleet. _
Sporting News.
New York, September 17.—Molly
Darling won the 1% mile dash iu
Frank won the mile heats in 1:46 %,
1:47)4 5 Century won the mile aud a
quarter dash in 2:18)£.
Baltimore, September 17.—The an
nual Fair of the Maryland State Agri
cultural Society, at Pimlico, closed with
the usual address, delivered by ex-
Gov. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virgiuia,
and attentively listened to by 3,000 per
sons.
The running race, mile heats, for
purse of SSOO, was won by Kadie, beat
ing O’Neill, Fadladeen ’and Moses
Primrose, as named. Time, I:so>£,
l:49^ a . The steeple-chase over the
course, 2)4 miles, was won by Brook
laud, beating George West and Storm.
Time, 6:10. The trotting race for
horses, class 2:18, for purse of $2,000,
"was postponed to Tuesday, owing to
the heavy condition of the track.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
No Communication with Galveston—
The Sweep of the Hurricane.
New Orleans, September 17. —There
has been no communication with Gal
veston For forty hours. Fears are en
tertained that much damage has been
done by the storm. The equinoxial
storm continues. A dispatch from
Southwest Pass reports it blowing hard
and the weather thick. The ship Ma
ria Greenleaf encountered a terrific
hurricane in latitude 25:28, longitude
84:40. Her sails were lost and split.
HOME RULE FOI{ IRELAND.
Causes of the Recent disturbances in
Dublin—What the Iris A People Want
—An Interview with, One of Their
Ablest Leaders.
I Dublin Corresnornlt-nee df the New York
Herald.] ?
For the information <|? your readers
I may state that O’Conifor Power is a
man that, at the first Ciance, confirms
you in the opinion generally expressed
of him—that in a ver* short time he
will be at the head of tjie Irish parlia
mentary power in the liouse of Com
mons. He is of middle|stature, and a
stout built, firm-lookinfl man, of hard
complexion and wearing a full beard,
which is black and His eye at
once speaks courage, fash and decis
ion, aud beams with S;' fire evidently
produced by a well-stored, active mind.
He is just the “Gamiatta” of Irish
polities, the man of thjt age most like
ly to leave a mark fo;§ posterity. As
an orator he has few ec|uals, aud is not
surpassed by any, anfl, as lias been
wittily expressed of hiu| by a local jour
nal the other day, whet* he commences
to speak, nothing shortlof the bursting
of a water spout could slacken the at
tention of his audience.]
The following which 1 put
to him, he a swered in quick and can
did manner: a
Question. To what cliuse do you at
tribute the diff Yvuce Fiat manifested
itself on the platform between the Lord
Mayor of Dublin and tjie people at the
late demonstration? >
Answer. It was entirely due to the
fact that Lord O’Hagantwas announced
to deliver the oration, arid the National
ists knew beforehand tjiat, as a pen
sioner of the Euglish (tfovernmeut, he
would be obliged to iJuore the efforts
made by O’Couuell on Lekalf of Irish
nationality; and I Lee by Lord
O’Hagan’s undelivered* speech, which
appears in the pape j that the Na
tionalists were correct |in their antici
pations. r
Q. Did not the peop’L wish to hohor
the memory of o’Connt|l ?
A. Undoubtedly; butf,heir complaint
was that the committeeiwould not al
low them to honor tjpe whole man.
They wanted to honor p’Connell as a
nationalist and as a political prisoner
as well as a champion Lf religious lib
erty. In the selectiontof Lord O’Ha
gan the committee (lily recognized
O’Connell the religiouli emancipator,
who had made high p|xees accessible
to time-serving Catholils.
Q. What appears to lbe the feelings
of the liiearcky aud e&rgy of Ireland
toward the present ; national pio
gramme? 1
A. T believe the gr.Tifc mass of the
clergy of Ireland are |a favor of self
government, but with liie exceptiou of
Dr. McHale and one orjtwo others, the
heirarchy have, I am ij.'raid. but little
sympathy with the National party.
However, the bishops, ijs a rule, are so
silent on the national Giuestion, that I
would not like to unjertako to say
what their views really fire. They may
feel strongly in our favj tr though they
they withhold expressions of sympa
thy. J
Q. X\ liat ooomo to j’o\* tho moot fcaci-
Dle and at the same tinpe> the most use
ful course for the Irishtieople, at home
and abroad, to pursu| to better the
existing condition of allairs?
A. (pleasantly). That* is a very big
question. You might i*i well ask me
at ouce to stand up aucj deliver a lec
ture on the political and
physical resources of pio Irish race.
But I trust you will noli ask me to go
so far this morning. My own course
is fixed aud unalterarie. I will labor
for the overthrow of fl jlish rule in
Ireland while one link |>f the Imperial
chain remains to fetter constitutional
freedom of the Irish n.-ltiou.
Q. Do you believe tlJat the settling
of the question of a£ university for
Catholic teaching or th| adjustment of
the education question would termi
nate the demand for th|> legislative in
dependence of Ireland )
A. Oh, not at all! tl|e Irish people
will be content with nothing less than
liberty. You might aji well expect a
man who was cheated Jut of £IOO, and
to whom sixpence w;*s returned, to
forego his claim to tjie rest of the
money. {
Q. What is your opinion as to the
power of the clergy in* future political
movements in this country?
A. The political powUr of the clergy
has, I think, declined |u recent times,
and may decline still further in the fu
ture, because the necessity for their
interference in politick is not so great
as it was formerly, and the people are
better able now to fig*ll their battles
single-handed. But in‘J’ConneU’stime
the clergy were the gteat champions
of the people; aud as afitudent, of Irish
history I can remember with gratitude
tho way they used to [lead the people
in many a noble fight gainst govern
mental tyranny and landlord oppres
sion. - v
Q. Are the Catholic; clergy of Eng
land as anti-Irish as tjie rank and file
of the English people* and if so, to
what circumstance do you attribute the
cause ? J
A. No doubt many Jof the English
Catholic clergy are aijti-liish, and the
only cause I can assigrl for their anti
pathy to us is that t)ey are English.
They belong to the Conquering race.
But Cardinal Manningjas I know from
his public utterances fnd private con
versations with which jjke has honored
me, is a sincere friend' and admirer of
the Irish people. he is too
great a man to have ibis sympathies
contracted by national*prejudices, and
he can, therefore, do justice to our na
tional character. Theiifc are many Irish
priests in England, anqthey are among
the staunchest friendslof the Irish na
tional cause. j.
Q. Is the advanced national party in
Ireland respectful to tile clergy?
A. I have uo reason £;o think other
wise, though they do nf>t believe in the
political infallibility oil the clergy, and
are rather disposed to Act independent
ly of them in political matters.
Q. If Isaac Butt|or 4 rchbishop Mac-
Hale were called upcii to speak the
O’Connell oration well id they have
been listened to, and if so, why?
A. Mr. Butt or Archbishop Mac Hale
would have been listened to joyfully.
Either of those distingij>shed men might
have been selected with great proprie
ty. Mr. Butt is the leafier of the Home
Rule party, the onlp constitutional
party now working to iibtain that self
government for Irelaifi which O’Con
nell earnestly advocated ; but there is
not a man living who <(ould more fitly
represent O’Connell t|ian Archbishop
McHale. His grace \jould have been
just the man for the epeasion. He was
a fellow-laborer with ? O’Connell, and
he would not only hiive done justice
to the liberator as a (Lampion of civil
aud religious liberty, bit he would have
exhibited in his langilige that tolera
tion which O’Connell v|is always ready
to extend to men of ef ery class, color
and creed. I
Q. What are the prospects of the
home-rule party ? {
A. I believe that, with increased ac
tivity ou the part of the home-rule
members of Parliament, and proper
vigilance on the part of the constituen
cies, the home-rule cause will shortly
attain a large measure of success. I
was assured a few weeks ago by a
prominent member of the liberal oppo
sition in the House of Commons, that
the leaders of his party would not care
to replace the present government in
power, because of the difficulty they
would have to face on the home-rule
question. We must keep the liberals
out until they have removed that diffi
culty by undertaking to concede self
government to Ireland.
Domestic Economy of a Queen.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The money-matrimonial correspond
ence lately published iu the Ti'ibune
has given the public glimpses into a
number of humble households. We
have seen how Edwin and Angelina
manage to live with comparative com
fort on half the sum that Adolphus
find insufficient for his single wants. It
has been reserved for a grocer iu Paris,
however, to fling wide open the doors
to a royal household, and contribute to
legal literature an account of the way
in which an ex-Queen manages her do
mestic affairs. Isabella, the mother of
the King of Spain, and an exile from
Spain, has been sued by a vulgar, dem
ocratic grocer, and the courts of Paris
have compelled her to appear, at least
by proxy, aud plead her cause. These
courts, by the way, have a habit
of treating alleged culprits with
remarkable impartiality. They con
demned a man, in his absence, twice
nominated for President of the United
States (John C. Fremont) to two years’
imprisonment for swindling; they clap
ped Prince Perkins, the American who
was rash enough to marry into the
Bourbou family, into jail for defraud
ing his butcher and baker; and they
have just been trying ex-Queen Isa
bella on the charge of her grocer that
she was indebted to him and wouldn’t
pay. Paris has taken a lively interest
in every detail of the trial, but its chief
interest to us is the sketch it gives of
the interior arrangement of the house
hold of a woman of much money and
much matrimony. Few Queens have
ever had as many husbands as Isabella
de Bourbon; no ex-Queens have ever
had as much money. Here, then, is a
woman experienced iu both the depart
ments of life which our correspondents
have been describing. Her plans can
not but bo of value.
In the first place, she made a direct
contract with her cook. The latter, Mr.
Alfred Blanchard, promised to supply
her food and drink of a certain quality
aud quantity at a fixed price. Any one
who has seen the wieldly bulk of her
late Majesty will not be surprised to
learn that her daily diet consists of two
soups, eight dishes of meat, vegetables,
cheese, stewed fruit, and plenty of
Spanish aud Bordeaux wine. It is sur
prising, however, that Blanchard should
have undertaken to breakfast and dine
and wine this vast lump of royalty for
the comparatively small sum of
$2.40 a day. No wonder ho failed
to pay hia green-grocer, and so
got. his royal mistress into the
unpleasant position or aeiendant in a
petty suit in a petty court. It is true
that the $2.40 was the average price
paid for each of the teu persons who
formed the family of the Queen, and
the three or four children of doubtful
paternity who call her “Mamma” may
eat little enough to atone for their
mother’s ogre-like appetite. The un
fortunate B 1 unchard was forced to pay
for all “wasting ”in tho kitchen and to
feed the servants at certain ridiculously
low rates. It is safe to say that there
was the minimum of waste and the
maximum of want in the servants’
quarters.
And now, just after all this was set
tled, when the household machinery
was working smoothly, there came the
unfortunate trouble between the grocer
and the Queen. The former sued the
latter for provisions furnished the
cook; Isabella filed a contract with her
cook to prove her own non-liability;
and thus Paris aud the rest of the
world learned the details of the domes
tic economy of a Queen.
The “Juunelists’ Juel.”
[lndianapolis Journal.l
“Majah” Edwards and “Majah” Fos
ter are distinguished “junnelists” of
St. Louis. Majah Edwards sheds his
phosphorus iu tho columns of the
Times, while Majah Foster eats catfish
and exudes intellect in behalf of the
Evening Journal. These two estimable
gentlemen are gifted in the matter of
“ouah.” Thoy locked horns in the dis
cussion of the propriety of Jeff Davis’
invitation to address the Winnebago
Agricultural Association, and their re
spective “onahs” were so abraded in
the discussion of the matter that notli
hg but blood, and bloody blood at
that, could repair the damage. So they
went out and “fit a dool” with “pistu
nls” loaded with actual powder and
real lead. It was a “game” affair.
Both men were game—that, is, if you
call a hare or a mountain sheep game.
When the fatal word was given Majah
Joster closed his eyes, commended
lis soul to God and pulled tho trig
ger. The bullet killed a cow in a
neighboring corn field. Majah Ed
vards shut his eyes, mentally ejacula
ted “Good-bye, mother,” aud pulleo
the trigger. His bullet grazed the ear
pf one of the seconds, who was stand
ng thirty paces to the right. Majah
Edwards demanded a second shot, but
,he second, whose ear was bleeding,
peremptorily refused to accede to the
request, unless he would agree to shoot
it him instead of Majah Foster. The
iffair was then amicably adjusted, and
;he two game “junnalists” fell upon
?ach other’s necks, wept, and rolled up
.heir sleeves to hunt for strawberry
narks. Majah Foster then said he
would go to the hotel and change his
;rousers.’ The trousers (white duck)
ooked as if they needed changing.
Yfter bathing their respective “onahs”
n champagne, and taking up a collec
fion to pay the Illinois farmer for the
2ow killed by Majah Foster, the party
returned to St. Louis, and have spent
the time since the meeting in delivering
lectures on the Code to the strawberry
nosed habitues of their favorite bar
rooms.
Dying Declaration of Mr. Crews.—
We are informed by a gentleman who
was present when Mr. Joseph Crews
died, that a few minutes before he
breathed his last, and while conscious
of approaching death, he referred to
the malignant charge connecting him
him with the murder of Dr. Schell in
1868, and said: “I have been mur
dered, but I have committed no crime.
[ die an innocent man. I had nothing
;odo with instigating the murder of
ny man. Judge Mackey and Gover
nor Chamberlain know I am innocent.”
—[Union Herald.
California was twenty-five years old
is a State on Thursday.
“ A LITTLE DUCK.”
Miss Beckwith’s Five-Mile Swim From
London Bridge to Greenwich.
f London Standard, Sept. 2,]
A young girl named Agnes Alice
Beckwith, daughter of tho Professor of
Swimming at Lambeth Baths, yester
day accomplished the difficult feat of
swimming from London Bridge to
Greenwich. The distance is rather more
than five miles, and the time was re
markably fast—namely, one hour, seven
minutes and forty-five seconds. Mr.
Beckwith has been connected with the
Lambeth Baths for nearly a quarter of
a century, and for fourteen years held
the proud position of “ Champion
Swimmor of England.” The heroine of
yesterday’s proceeding is but fourteen
years old, of slim make and diminu
tive statue. The object was to decide
a wager of £6O to £4O laid against her
by Mr. Baylis, the money being depos
ited with Bell's Life. The event created
a great deal of excitement, and all
along the route the progress of the
swimmer was watched by excited
crowds on the wharves and barges. In
addition to the London Steamboat
Company’s Volunteer, a private steam
launch, and a rowing boat containing
her father, the referee, and some half
dozen others immediately interested
in the result, a perfect swarm of
boats accompanied and indeed imped
ed the swimmer the entire distance.
London bridge was crowded, as were
the vessels and other points whence a
view of the boat could be obtained,
Miss Beckwith dived from the rowing
boat at nine minutes to 5, and at once
commenced a rapid side stroke, which
she maintained to the finish. She was
attired in a swimming costume of light
rose pink llama, trimmed with white
braid and lace of the same color. The
water was very smooth and the tide
running about three miles per hour.
Swimming about a couple of yards in
the rear of the referee’s boat, Tunnel
Pier was reached at eleven minutes
past 5. At Horseferry Dock (5:22) a
salute was fired and the swimmer was
encouraged with lusty cheers. The
Commercial Dock was quickly left be
hind, aud soon after the Hilda, on her
return from Margate, crowded with ex
cursionists, passed the flotilla. Passing
Millwall Miss Beckwith crossed to the
north side and took advantage of the
strong tide. At this point she was met
by the saloon steamer Victoria, whose
passengers were vociferous in their
applause; The Foreign Cattle Mar
ket at Deptford was breasted at
twelve minutes to six o’clock, and
as Greenwich Hospital appeared
in sight tho intelligence was conveyed
to the swimmer by repeated cheers, a
salute being also fired from the Uni
corn. Tho pier at Greenwich and the
grounds of the ship were crowded with
people, who cheered to the echo when
the spirited strains of “ See the Con
quering Hero Comes ” announced the
success of the attempt. Miss Beck
with swam some distance beyond the
pier, and was taken on board at sh.
58m. 45s , having accomplished the dis
tance, as stated above, iu lh. 7m. 455.
She seemed almost as fresh as when
she started, and to all appearance was
capable of goiugf oouaiduruhly further.
It is worthy of mention that this was
Miss Beckwith’s first essay of the sort
if we except a trial trip on Monday
from Battersea to Westminster. Her
nearest approach to the present feat
was a swim of two and a half miles in
the Lambeth Baths in three-quarters
of an hour.
“ The Choir is Busted.”
[NewJYork Star.]
At Deekertown, last Sunday, there
was an exhibition of the contrariness of
church choirs that was both annoying
and amusing. Rev. Mr. Hamilton,
pastor of the Presbyterian church of
that place, being absent on Sunday,
the Rev. Mr. Soper filled his pulpit.—
He was ignorant of the fact that the
choir of the church had quarreled
among themselves the night before,
and that not a member was there to
sing on Sunday morning. He gave out
his hymn selected for the opening, and
read it through. There was no musi
cal response—no sound of praise—
from choir or congregation. After a
moment’s embarrassing silence, a broth
er arose, and, walking up to the pul
pit, whispered iu the preacher’s ear.
The preacher nodded his head and
smiled. He thought the brother had
eaid the wrong hymn had been read,
so he turned the leaves again and gave
out another. It was a long one, and
he read it through, closing with
“ Please omit one stanza.”
A dead silence iu the congregation
again. The preacher looked uneasy,
was about to give out another hymn,
when another brother arose and spoke
from the gallery :
“You see our choir is bursted. Some
of ’em thought the bass sung too low,
and some of ’em thought the sprauny
too high, aud others thought we ought
to hev a better alto, aud there wasn’t
many that liked the tenor, and so the
rest got mad, and they won’t be any
singin’ to-day.”
And so the services were ended with
out any “singin’.”
A Man Wlio Kicked Another for Kiss
ing His Spouse.
[From the Blooklyn Argus.]
Yesterday, Catharine Kelley, thirty
three years of age, swore out a war
rant before Justice Riley, charging her
husband, Andrew, with striking her
with his fist in the back. The couple
live at the corner of Tiliary and Navy
street*, and thither Officer Applegate
repaired last night, aud directed the
muscular husband to appear in court
to-day. When the case was called thin
morning Catharine was put upon the
stand and related her story, which was
one of abuse on the part of her hus
band. Then Andrew was called and
asked what he had to say. He had
considerable to say, and said it in
a straightforward way. He stated that
he had come home from his work
one night, and he found so and so
(naming the man) in his room kissing
his wife, an act which she was not at
all displeased with, as was evinced by
her patienee under the performance.
Andrew was indignant as he told the
Judge, and said he: “I kicked him out
the house, your Honor. He couldn’t
Beecher me, an’ I jist let him know it.
Then I told her (flourishing his arm in
the direction of his spouse) to get about
her business.”
“Served him right!” ejaculated his
Honor, bringing his jaws together with
a snap that betokened his opinion iu
the matter, and, dashing across his
paper the words “sentence suspended,”
he motioned to Andrew to go home.
The manufacture of sewing machine
needles is carried on extensively in
Brockton, Mass., and in the past year
the production at two manufactories
has been nearly five millions. At pres
ent they are finishing about twenty
thousand needles a day.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 39
THE COLLAPSE OF 1537.
One Grand Explosion of the Local
Specie-Paying Bank System.
|From the Mobile Register.]
Mr. S. S. Fitch, an intelligent citizen
of New York, recently delivered a lec
ture in that city, giving interesting rem
iniscences of the money panic of 1837.
Mr. Fitch was in Europe immediately
before the suspension of the banks.
Money was plentiful and the American
travelers scattered their gold right and
left. On the packet ship from Liver
pool there were a large number of
clerks of New York houses returning
home. On every pleasant day these
clerks were gambling the whole time,
and gold was as plenty on the tables as
if it was a very ordinary metal. They
took a pilot oft’ Sandy Hook; he brought
with him a tile of New York papers
that informed the passengers for the
first time that all the banks in the United
States, and in New York especially, had
suspended specie payments; in fact,
they had failed. On arriving in New
York fear and terror were pictured upon
every countenance.
It seems that the whole country had
been scathed by lightning, or wasted
by the tempest, or rent by earthquakes
—fear being expressed ev-erywlieie. Oh
enquiring it was found that the cause
of all this gloom was the universal loss
sustained by the whole community.
Their money was gone. Mauy people
considered wealthy, were in distress
for their daily bread; real estate utter
ly unsalable, and without any possi
ble value whatever; wages of the labor
ers merely nominal: very few laborers
employed at all; ail enterprises utterly
abandoned. This state of things con
tinued for five years. The Bank of the
United States resumed twice, but its
creditors would instantly run upon it
and take off all its gold, thus demon
strating that a debtor bank cannot re
sume until its debts are paid, or unless
they have a very large surplus over its
indebtedness, so as to meet all de
mands. Finally, in 1843, resumption
took place, and was maintained upon a
currency secured by seven millions in
gold to establish the values and do the
whole business of this entire country.
In this panic all the banks South and
West of Phi'adelphia failed, and paid
no assets whatever to their stock
holders or the holders of their notes.
The city of Philadelphia, which had
been the moneyed metropolis of the
nation. lost one hundred millions of
dollars, nearly all their money accumu
lated since the Revolutionary war. One
third of the city was untenanted. Great
numbers of the people lived in houses
without paying any rent at all—and
rents merely nominal. Philadelphia
was a stranded city, and fell to a pro
vincial city, where it has remained ever
since. The losses seemed to fall heav
iest on the wealthy people ; great num
bers of individuals and families, con
sidered wealthy, lost their entire for
tunes, and were reduced to poverty and
want.
Of this the lecturer mentions an ex
ample or two: “Mrs. George Ralston,
widow of a retired Scotch merchant,
who died in 1835, and left to bis wife
anrl children a fortune of $68,000 per
annum in gold; the fortune was as well
invested as it seemed possible to be.
In 1837, two years after his death, it
was fojind that the entire estate was
utterly swept away, and all that re
mained to Mrs. Ralston was a small
plantation with eleven negroes on it,
situated near Natchez, Miss., where Mr.
Ralston had made his fortune.”
Another case that he knew of was
that of a gentleman, an officer retired
from the British army, who drew his
funds from the British Treasury and
placed them iu Philadelphia. He lost
everything, and his daughters became
working milliners. The Presbyterian
congregation, worshipping at the cor
ner of 12th and Walnut streets, Phila
delphia, lost about four millions. The
State bonds of the State of Pennsyl
vania, “live per cents,” interest payable
in gold, fell from par to thirty-three,
and no interest was paid upon them
for many years.
On nearly all the bonds of every
State in the Union the payment of their
interest was suspended for an indefi
nite number of years; many of them
were never paid at all. The bonds of
nearly all corporations, towns, villages
and cities of the United States were re
pudiated, and generally were never
after heard of, or paid, or ever claimed;
property fell equally, or nearly so, in
New York. The house that the lectu
rer now occupies in New York (714
Broadway) cost—house and lot, in 1835
—about $45,000 in gold. It was sold
after 1837 for $17,000. This was about
the average fall on improved property
in New York city—all of 60 per cent. —
but unimproved or obscure property
was very often abandoned by the own
ers, as they could not pay the taxes.
The city sold such property for the
taxes, and so it became a total loss to
the owners.
Nearly the same destruction of all
private property, and property of re
tired wealthy people was lost in New
York in about the same proportion as
in Philadelphia. In Lafayette Place, in
New York, out of thirty carriages kept
by thirty females, twenty-nine car
riages disappeared in thirty days after
the banks failed. During the six years
succeeding 1842, vast numbers of peo
ple of all ranks and conditions strug
gled on in hopeless poverty. The aged
went to their graves. The middle
aged sunk in despair. Very few ever
retrieved their fortunes. The credit of
the people of the United States was
overwhelmed. The cries of the losing
creditors in Europe were heard every
where. No forms of abuse were spared,
but all the people of our country, and
all of our institutions, in fact the whole
nation, became a by-word and phrase
to iudicate perfidy and rascality.
The most striking example of this
was in the case of Sidney Smith, the
wealthy and witty Canon of St. Pauls,
whose cries were so loud and distress
ing that a deputation of clergymen in
London waited upon him to propose a
public subscription in his behalf, but
he declined ; and laying his hands on
the bonds, said that ho wished them
all to be as he was—except in the mat
ter of these bonds ; and long after it
was discovered the sum total of these
bonds was $4,500, and be at the same
time worth $500,000. The United States
lost over half their entire wealth, and
the progress of the nation was put back
for fifteen years, The horrors and sor
rows of the educated, the cultivated
and the enterprising from 1837 to 1848
cannot be described. As late as 1848 the
lecturer called at a large drug house
in Broadway. They had two book-keep
ers who worked from 8 a. m., until 9 p.
m. The head book-keeper had S4OO a
year, the second book-keeper had SSO a
year—both boarded themselves.
At last,” says Mr. Fitch, “ our poor
ruined country—ruined in purse, brok
en in pride, and hopeless of the future
—was suddenly aroused from its stu
por by the announcement of vast quan*
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titles of gold discovered in California.
Then was seen the indomitable spirit
of the Anglo-Saxon. The acquirement
of these golden treasures soon enlarged
the basis of our currency, and brought
hope, prosperity and enterprise to our
whole nation.”
THE BRITISH ARMY.
A Despondent View of It by a Leading
English Magazine,
[Frazer’s Magazine. |
In the army estimates for the pres
ent year, as brought before the House
of Commons on March 8, we are shown
on paper that England has at the pres
ent moment an army of 106,278 men,
with 372 guns, exclusive of those on
colonial duty. Of the former, accord
ing to the same authority, there are
6,730 rank and file of infantry, with
their regiments, and 7,100 with the
brigade depots. But after subtracting
the lads under twenty years of age,
who cannot be considered, from their
youth, as fit for hard work in the field,
and who, in any other country in Eu
rope, would be put under the head of
“conscripts” or recruits; and af
ter deducting for sick, prisoners,
men wanting to complete, and—
what is a very large item indeed
at the present day—deserters, the num
ber of effective bayonets in England
dwindles down to 30,272. Iu other
words, we could place iu line a force
about ODe-fourth less than a single
German army corps, of which that
country has, besides all her reserves,
no less than sixteen at the present day.
If we turn to our cavalry, a 3till greater
contrast between our forces and those
of other countries presents itself. Ex
clusive of the mounted regiments serv
ing in India, we have seventeen corps,
or including the three regiments of
household troops, twenty regiments
serving in the United Kingdom. Of
these, few, if any, could bring into the
field more than 250 effective men and
horses. This would give us a total of
5,000 cavalry, scattered over England
and Ireland, or some 900 short of
what is to be found in each Ger
man army corps. The most seri
rious deficiency in these days, when
battles are won by those who
have the most effective and quickest
served artillery, is the paucity of the
numbor of guns we could take into the
field. In the army estimates, we are
told that we have 372 pieces of field
artillery. But Lord Elcho proved, be
yond all doubt, that, as we have no ar
tillery reserve—the war strength of a
foot-battery is 204 men and 184 horses,
and that of a horse-battery 192 men
and 192 horses—we could not, with
our present artillery resources, or
rather with our utter want of them,
take into the field more than 120 guns.
Thus, supposing that we drain the
whole kingdom of every effective sol
dier, we should be able to commence a
campaign abroad, or to defend the
shores of England, Ireland and Scot
land with a force of, say 5,250 cavalry,
30,272 infantry, and 120 guns ; or, as
we said before, an army just about
equal in numbers to one of the sixteen
army corps into which the land
forces of Germany are at this mo
ment divided. Many persons—we might
say moat civilians—in England have
a sort of hazy, undefined idea that
there exists somewhere or other a body
of men called the Army Reserves, and
that when, If ever, the day of trouble
comes upon us, we should only have to
draw upon these reserves as a wealthy
man might do on the unemployed
funds at his banker’s', and thus the
strength of our regiments would
thenceforth be more than sufficient to
compete with any known enemy. But
when we come to facts matters look
somewhat different. The army re
serves, setting aside pensioners, num
ber on paper little more than 7,000
men; and of these, it is well known in
the service, that more than one-half,
if wanted for duty, would be returned
as not forthcoming. As for our mili
tia, the men have, no doubt, in them
the making of excellent soldiers, but
they have as yet neither the physical
stamina nor the training to take the
field in a campaign, and it would re
quire at least eight or ten months’ con
tinued drill and barrack discipline to
make them more hurtful to their ene
mies than they would now be to their
friends.
Minor Telegrams.
Chicago, September 17.—The Con
vention passed a resolution instructing
delegates to the next Convention to
vote against allowing standing commit
tees to reject bishops elected.
Louisville, September 17.—There
are rumors of a $60,000 defalcation in
the Gas Company. Garnett D. Mar
shall, late cashier, is involved. Mar
shall has transferred his personal and
real estate. There will be no prosecu
tion, it is supposed.
The outlaw captured at Pine Hill,
Ky., refuses to give his name or the
names of his companions.
Albany, September 17.—The Super-
the Insurance Department
has cancelled the authority of the City
Insurance Company of Providence, E.
1., to do business in this city.
Cairo, September 17.—Four hundred
feet of the St. Louis Narrow Gauge
Road went into the Mississippi with a
land slide.
Saratoga, September 17.—The ticket
agents are in session, D. M. Boyd, Jr.,
presiding. A reduction of rates will be
made in executive session.
Manayunk. September 17.—The au
dience refused to hear Gerdemanu lec
ture. He was escorted from the town
by the police. Gerdemann received a
few bruises.
New York, September 17.—A boy
three and a half years old disappeared
last night. He is supposed to have
been abducted by a dark man lately
frequenting the neighborhood, j
RAPID TRANSIT.
Mr. Keely Called For A Fainting
Engineer and Quick Time.
Chicago, September 17.—The fast
mail which left Cleveland 20 minutes
behind time arrived at Chicago 5 min
utes ahead of time. The engineer
fainted as he pulled his engine into
the depot.
'fj l6 fast mail train over the New
xork Central arrived 8 minutes ahead
of time. A portion of the distance be
tween Elgria and Sandusky was made
at the rate of seventy miles an hour.
Alabama’s Bill of Rights—Repudiation
of Secession.
Montgomery, September 17.—The
Constitutional Convention adopted a
bill of rights to-day. The following
section was adopted unanimously: “The
people of this State accept as final the
established fact that from the Federal
Union there can be no secession of any
State.”
Kentucky ladies go fox hunting.