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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year $lO o< six months 5 0( “ three months- 2 5( Tbi- Weekly—one year 5 ot “ six months 25c Weekly—one year ...... 2(X " six months ' lot Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, 2'A cts, Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. (i. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON J Addbess all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. “ 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. - ■ 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* To Advertisers and Siibserilbers. 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 offloe, 20 cents per line eaon insertion. Monet maybe remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Cobbkßi>ondenob invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notioe taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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.