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And the Mechanics Bank, of Montreal,
was a specie paying- concern.
The Mechanics’ Bank, of Montreal, went
up yesterday. So did a small New i’ork
flour house.
A disease similar to epizooty has broken
out among New York horses. r lhe jack
asses still have the whooping cough. It is
chronic.
Bismarck has a summary way of mak
ing German editors behave themselves.
He has just sent one to jail for five five
months for speaking his mind of him.
The Russian General Kauffman has
captured Knokand, humbled the Khan and
dictated a peace to him. This puts an end
to one war on the world’s hands.
THECarlists are slowly frazzling out.—
Eight hundred of them have gone into
France. We don’t know that we have any
particular sympathy for Don Carlos. He
is a Bourbon of the old school and makes
war in the name of religion, both of which
will bear watching and all of two centuries
to the rear. The Don is the last man in the
Bourbon procession.
The people in a portion of Galveston were
left in a terrible plight by the late gale. A
relief committee has been formed, whiel)
calls for assistance. The wind blew the
w r ater from the Gulf through their houses,
washing away everyth ug they had. From
all accounts it must have been one of the
most terrilic and appalling storms ever
knuWD.
“Major General” Joe Mobris, the
leader of the last Georgia rebellion, has
been arrested in Atlanta and put in jail.
He will be taken to Waynesboro’ for trial.
The General had a m mth in which to get
away, but he preferred dodging about
through Geoigia, and finally landed in At
lanta, where the detectives picked him and
the SSOO rewar 1 up.
The family or Professor James Garland
have had a case of “true inwardness,” with
a different conclusion from that of Brother
Beecher and Sister Tilton. The old man
shot his wife, theu shot himself, cut his
throat, and when the last dispatch left was
playing Collin’s ram, by making tilts at a
granite wall. We hope the wall stood it.
Col. Beecher and his congregation will
have lively reading this morning.
The Commission sent out to swindle
Col. S. Tail out of the Black Hills had a
session last Haturnay. Old Spotted Tail
and Blue Thunder have fallen a million
in their price, and now ask six for that
country. The Commission expect them to
sell out for twenty-five thousand, payable
in blankets at regular prayer-meetings.—
They may agree to throw in a bushel of
tracts and call it even. Spot had b tter
watch, that party.
Augusta received over 700 bales of cotton
yesterday, and for the season nearly 6,000
have come forward. It was selling upon
tke basis of 13 cents for good middling.
The sales footed up $35,000, which money
passed into general circulation. Money is
still a little stringent, but we almost know
it will become easier in the next few days.
Trade is only fair for the season. It will
perhaps be the week in October before
everything is booming.
The rebellion in Turkey drajs along.
The specials to the London press yester
day gives every advantage to the Turks.
The vaceilating policy of Prince Milan will
no doubt prove fatal to the Insurgents in
the end. Herzegovina seems to be the only
province in earnest. Were all the disaffect
ed provinces in revolt in harmony the
resul would be questionable. Without
outside assistance there is no hope of suc
cess as the matter now stands.
The news from Indianola is simply ter
rible. It is situated on the coast of Texas,
and received the full force of the great
storm on the Gulf the other day. One hun
dred and fifty lives were lost, and nearly
every house in the town destroyed. Ihe
Morgan steamer which went there on Mon
day found no place to land. She reports
(having seen a great many dead bodies lying
maburied along the shore. W T e do not re-
Kaember having heard of a more awful hur
ricane in years.
Carl Schurz has rallied to the rescue of
Ohio Republicans. He goes in on the con
traction and hard money platform. It will
be difficult for him to convince the people
out there that they should vote for the con
tinuance of a party in power which has
brought upon the country sore financial
str (its. The pro>blem, as worked out, is its
own incontestible answer. We all know
that there is something radically wrong
with our present system of finances. It
has been tried and won’t do. To continue
jt is folly.
A touch of cold in town yesterday! Fires
for tne li st time were lighted in the cham
ber. Last night the wind was tempered
with frost. It was a positive relief from
the long hot Summer we hive passed
through. C .ld weather is healthy. It is
bracing. It brightens one’s wit. makes the
step more elastic, and gives every man
who has nothing to do an objective point,
she fire. To go home and find a bright fire
blazing, with the little bairns and their
mother around it, and the vacant. chair for
yourself, i3 a picture, is a reality, it is in
deed an episode in the daily round.
That brief chapter about “Chaeles G.
Fisher, late Assistant Federal -District
Attorney” for the district of Columbia, is
lively reading. The second division of the
text runs: “Committed to jail in default
of SI,OOO for stealing Court Records.” By
the rale 0/ inverse proportion, Charles
should only bo prosecuted for petty lar
ceny. Had he got away with three hun
dred thousand government money, he
would have been pardoned, but as he took
only Court documents he should be sent to
the penitentiary for the life time of a
chronic office-holder, which is ninety-three
years.
To say that the Atlanta Constitution is
“ bilen ” hot, would be like the soft, sweot
sigh of a spring zephyr carolling among
tvd peach blossoms in comparison with a
Harris county cyclone. We print him on
the thijd page in clear, beautiful type, in
order to let the authorities of August*
read without the aid of eye glassot
what a bad £et they are. We stated
the other day that the paupers sent
forward on the Georgia Railroad didn’t
originate in Augusta, but eame up from all
quarters, like a Moody and revi
val, and that they were on thejr way to
Chicago, where it is well known that when a
man makes a dollar he gives sixty cents of
it to the poor. They generally prefer go
ing by way of Atlanta in order to see her
new water works, inspect her great Kim
ball House and newspaper offices. Atlanta
is a rich cosmopolitan city, and this is the
iirst time we ever knew her U) object to
anything, from the Capital down, every
body who wants to commit suicide now
goes there to do it. It is the head-centre
for politics, religion, and blackberries. No
man can get to heaven without having
more or less of Atlanta mixed up on the
trip. The Cmatitutton’s treatment of these
people is heathenish.
fflje SltMiitgfff Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
DESTRUCTION OF INDIANOLA.
THE GALE ON THE GULF.
Great Suffering at Galveston —An Ap
peal for Help.
New York, September 21.—The fol
lowing telegrams were received last
evening by prominent merchants doing
business with Texas :
“ Houston, September 20. —The great
est distress prevails among poor peo
ple at the east end of Galveston. Sev
eral hundreds have been rendered ut
terly destitute by the storm. They
need help immediately. A committee
of relief has been organized to help the
sufferers, with the Mayor of Galveston
at the head. Contributions are now
being received. Can you help them ?”
“ Galveston, September 20. The
greatest suffering prevails here among
the poorer classes, and many of the
wealthier class are in distress. People
at the East Eud have been washed out
of their houses, their clothing lost and
provisions destroyed. Help is needed
now.”
Destruction of ludianola, Texas—
Nearly Every House in the Town
Destroyed—One Hundred and Fifty
Lives Lost—Dead Bodies for Miles
Along the Beach.
St. Louis, September 21.—Superin
tendent Clowry, of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, communicates to
General Anson Stager as follows : A
Morgan steamship has just arrived at
Galveston, and reports the town of
Indianola, Texas, almost entirely de
stroyed. Lighthouses, wharves and
nearly every house have been swept
away, and one hundred to one hundred
and fifty lives lost. The steamer could
find no place to land her cargo.
Additional accounts of the Indianola
disaster say the loss of life and suffer
ing is terrible. Dead bodies are strewn
for twenty miles along the beach. .Citi
zens here are organizing for relief.
Over one hundred bodies were found
and buried up to the time the steamer
left. The telegraph manager, Sanborn,
is reported safe, but the office and lines
are gone.
Galveston, September 21.—The Mor
gan steamer Harlan came into port this
a. in. with colors at half-mast. A large
crowd gathered at the wharf to learn
the fate of Indianola. The destruction
there was almost complete. Only five
business houses were left. These are
H. Zeligsiu & Cos., H. Runge & Cos., D.
Sullivan & Cos., Cossiwir Lillenuoe and
D. H. Regan. The people are suffering
for food and clothing. The following
note was received :
“ Indianola, September 20.
“ Editors News : We are destitute.
The town is gone. One-quarter of the
people are gone. Dead bodies are
strewn for twenty miles along the bay.
Nine tenths of the houses are destroy
ed. Send us help, for God’s sake.
(Signed] D. W. Cram,
“ District Attorney.”
The following was received by busi
ness firms from correspondents:
“On Wednesday, the 15th, winds
from eastward veering to north.—
On Thursday morning it became
more steady, increasing to a gale.—
The water was waist deep. Every
man, woman and child were seeking a
place of safety. It blew fearfully. The
situation was awful. Screams from
women and children eould be heard in
every direction. The water was six
feet deep in the street. About two
o’clock Friday a. m., the wind veered
to the northwest; the waves then be
come chopped,and houses washed away
or tumbled to pieces. The wind,
toward a. m., began to lull a little,
the water was getting lower, the wind
veered to the north, then came hope.
Daylight began to break, and then did
we behold the awful destruction
around, and thanked our God that
we had been saved, and that our peril
ous condition was as nothing compared
with the sufferings of our neighbors
and citizens along the bay. Broad day
light revealed a scene that was terri
ble to behold. The town could not
be recognized as the Indianola of the
day previous—ruin, total ruin ! Every
where people were seen walking and
jumping over one gully aud another.
Neighbor met neighbor aud told of the
troubles and tribulation of the previ
ous night. Death and destruction were
all around us. Houses were crushed to
the ground; others swayed round and
leaning over. The wind was dying and
the water disappearing from places in
the streets. ’I hose that could rallied
to learn the news. Bodies of men, wo
men and children were found in all di
rections. Police and guards were organ
ized and the search was mado for
missing relatives aud friends. How
many have lost their lives in this fear
ful storm, it is impossible to learn. Up
to this time sixty or seventy bodies
have been found and buried. Women
were found, and men also, who had
lloated off on doors or anything they
could get hold of. Some were beneath
the roofs, carried away long distances.
‘'The escape of so many of our citizens is
almost miraculous.
The search for bodies is still going
on, and the number of human beings
drowned will never be known, as
there were a large number of strangers
in town. We estimate the number of
lives lost at 150. H. J. Hack lost every
thing but his houses. Eighteen bodies
were found yesterday, aud search will
be continued until all the dead are de
posited in their last resting place. You
cannot imagine the extent of the dis
aster. Nothing short of its full details
will give a proper knowledge. Num
bers of persons were out ou rafts for
hours, but in many cases were not
saved. Wm. Taylor, ou trial for the
Sutton murder, was let out of jail to
prevent his being drowned, and made
his escape.
All the churches in the town are swept
away. The Court House is safe. One
hundred and fifty-five persons, includ
ing Capt. Sam Browu and two of his
family, were saved. They took refuge
in the light house, aud were thereby
saved. Brown is now the only surviv
ing|pilot at the pass. Great destitution
prevails. The Victoria people, hearing
of it, nobly sent us assistance at once.
Information from Corpus Christi re
ports that town safe. They escaped
the heavy gale. The town of Saluria
svas entirely washed away. Tele
graph lines are prostrated for miles.
Fears are entertained that Rockport,
and Corpus Christi have
Offered. Over 200 lives lost.
The Picayune extra has the follow
ing,
Sabine Pass, via Orange, September
21. -This city is submerged and eon
si doable damage has been done to
whiles aud buildings by the terrific
storin through which we have just
i # Much loss of stock is report
i e d, RiG gpops in the surrounding coun
try Live i)eea considerably injured.
No lcte 3 Q f life, has been so far
report : ,j The mail steamer Pelican
State a3 wrecked in Sabine Lake,
but th ; passengers and crew saved.—
AUGUSTA, GLA.., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1875.
: Many small crafts have been blown off
| and capsized/Capt. Gibbs, of schr. Tre
mon, from New York to Indianola with
assorted cargo, arrived to-day, reports
his schr. ashore fifteen miles west of
the pass and a total loss. The gale
caught him off the pass and of Missis
sippi, and he lost his reckoning. The
crew were in rigging for twelve hours
but were all saved. No news has been
received from Calcasieu, but the
worst is feared. Much lighter gales
have in past swept this place.
New Orleans, September 21. —The
Bulletin extra has the following regard
ing Indianola: “ The first of the storm,
it seems, carried away the telegraph
lines, and the communication between
Galveston and ludianola was cut off.
ludianola is situated ou Matagorda
bay. There is no protection in front of
it. It has about 1,000 inhabitants, and
the loss, it seems, is fully one-fifth.”
FORE IGn""DESPATCHES.
The Rebellion in Turkey.
London, September 21.—A special
dispatch from Berlin to the Times says:
“The Porte is endeavoring,to impress
ou foreign powers the necessity of fix
ing a date for the termination of Con
sular mediation in insurgent camps.
The Turkish Government in view ot
possible military requirements, has or
dered the construction of the Sophia
Nisch and Banjaluka Railway to be
pushed with the utmost dispatch.”
A telegram to the Times from Vienna
expresses the opinion that, now that
the Turks have had time to occupy in
force the Bosnian frontier, the chances
of renewing the insurrection in Bosnia
have vanished.
The Daily Ntiws correspondent at Vi
enua telegraphs that the Turks now
have a force of forty-eight thousand
men concentrated ou the frontier of
Servia.
France —Tlie System of Voting by De
partments.
Paris, September 21.—The Courier de
France states the Cabinet unanimously
resolved to propose the abolition of the
system of voting by departments. The
Courier anticipates in consequence the
overthrow of the ministry in Novem
ber.
The Carlist War.
Paris, September 21. —1 t now seems
Only 800 Carlists entered France, and
these by the Javaruie Valley.
Kragujewatz, September 21.—An ad
dress has been sent to Belgrade, where
it will be printed. It may be consider
ed certain, for the present at least, that
Servia will remain neutral.
The Berne Postal Treaty.
Paris, September 21.—The French
Government have notified Switzerland
that the provisions of the Berne postal
union relative to communication with
Great Britain through Frauce may go
into effect immediately. The French
Government will make before the first
of January the same concession re
spectiug communications with America,
The Newfoundland Fisheries.
London, September 21.—The Globe
regrets to learn the disadvantages suf
fered by the British engaged in New
foundland fisheries, as compared with
Freuchmen, which has in nowise abated
the present season. Officers of the
French cruisers protecting French in
terests have assumed a very high tone
in asserting their rights thereabouts.
Sentence of a German Editor—Death
of a Prince —Capture of Khokand.
Berlin, September 21.—The Munici
pal Court of Berlin sentenced the editor
of the Germania , an Ultramontane
journal, to live months imprisonment,
for having published an article insult
ing to the Chancellor and inciting diso
bedience of laws.
Prince Adelbert, uncle of the King of
Bavaria, is dead. He was born in 1828.
Advices from Sr. Petersburg announce
that the Russian General Kauffman oc
cupied Khokand on the ICth of the
present month, without resistance. The
greater portion of the Russian troops
remained in the fortified camp outside.
All the Russian prisoners were deliver
ed over to Gen. Kauffman. The Khan
has accepted all the conditions of
peace.
‘THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.
An Old Man Shoots an Old Wife and
Kills Himself.
New York, September 21. —Professor
James Garland, musician, of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, aged fifty, his
wife a few years younger, and married
twenty years, insane from jealousy,
shot his wifo in the head twice, in the
presence of her daughters, and then
shot himzelf, cut his throat, and
crushed his head with a hammer. His
wife may recover.
Houston, Texas, Bouds.
New York, September 21. —At a meet
ing of the holders of bonds of the city
of Houston, Texas, representing two
hundred thousand dollars, to take ac
tion upon the non-payment of interest,
Mr. Chew, Financial Agent, suggested
the surrender of the bonds and accept
ance of others, bearing six per cent.,
while this city could pay but ten per
cent., was entirely out of the question.
This was refused. No conclusion was
reached.
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, September 21. —A commit
tee was appointed to arrange for hold
ing a National Railroad Convention
here November 23. It authorized the
President to issue an address, and ap
pointed necessary sub-committees.
Concord, N. H., September 21. —Mr.
Roach, of Savannah, Ga., died here
last Saturday, it is reported, of yellow
fever.
Dr. Horatio Stone, the sculptor, died
at Carrara on the 11th instant.
Marcus S. Hopkins, Examiner-in-
Chief of the Patent Office, has resigned.
Saratoga, September 21. —The monu
ment to the memory of the veterans of
the 77th Regiment was unveiled. The
attendance was large.
Boston, September 21.—The trial of
Geo. Miller, John Glen and Wm. Smith
for mutiny and murder on the schooner
Jefferson Borden commenced to-day in
the United States Circuit Court. The
jury was empanelled. A motion was
made to quash the indictment. The
trial will probably last four days.
Worcester, Mass., September 21.
At the Republican caucus this evening
thirty delegates to the State Conven
tion were chosen, all of whom, with
possibly two or three exceptions, de
sire the nomination of Chas. Francis
Adams for Governor.
GEN. JOE MORRIS.
To be Taken to Burke,
Atlanta, September 21. —Judge Ers
kine, of the Federal Court, took no ac
tion regarding the capture of Joe Mor
ris in the Court building. No further
trouble. The prisoner will be taken to
Burke county for trial.
JOE MORRIS.
ARREST OF THE BU RKE COUNTY
CHIEFTAIN IN '|?HIS CITY.
He is Captured in tlig! District Attor
ney’s OfT-ee.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Last evening, shortly before nine
o’clock, Joe Morris, t{is leader of the
Burke county insurrection, and against
whom a true bill is Spending in that
county, was arrested iji this city. The
circumstances aud pla'-e of arrest were
very singular. Siuce tjie discovery and
breaking up of the insurrection and
trial of many of the implicated ne
groes in WrshiDgton and other coun
ties, Joe has been lying very low. Even
the SSOO reward offered by Governor
Smith for his apprehension seemed
iucapable of getting him, and had
Joe kept away firm Atlanta he
might to-day be a free man. But Joe’s
evil genius prompted him to go into
the Ku Klux and after pre
paring a list of certain ‘white citizens of
Burke county whom h<| desired to have
arrested, and also a lfot of negro wit
nesses who would swesjr against them
anything he wanted th/m to swear, he
forsook his hiding place, wherever that
might have been, aud came to this city
to consult with Districij Attorney Far
row. Even here Joe tbok pretty good
care of himself, only gring out at night,
aud then exercising mdro or less cau
tion. As he was entirely unknown here
he could do this with. impunity; but
yesterday he tried dci-ng business in
daytime, and hence his capture. Yes
terday afternoon about five o’clock a
reporter of the Constitution wandered
into the District Attorney’s office in
search of news, and iere got his first
glimpse of the Burke <jounty General.
The reporter was conversing with Col.
Farrow, when suddenly the latter said :
“Do you want to see; a great man?”
We answered, “yes ;” ajnd then point
ing to a negro standing near the op
posite wall, Col. Farrow said : “There
is General Joe Morris.” Our emotions
were those of disappointment. Joe
looked as little like a General, cr, in
deed, a respectable private, as any
darkey we ever saw, aii]l we think the
negroes of Burke county were evident
ly hard pushed for a leader. Indeed,
we could have supplied them a few
from Atlanta who woSild beat Joe all
to pieces in looks if not; in brains. Joe
Morris is a rather slender built, black
negro, scarcely medium height. His
face is not remarkable for any expres
sion whatever, and hi; was attired in
anything but an elegaii'.: suit of clothes.
While we were engaged in taking a
mental photograph oh the General, a
new actor appeared upon the scene. —
This was no less a person than Detec
tive Ed. Murphy, who put his head in
at the door aud gazeo] steadfastly at
General Joe, as if he hail suddenly re
cognized the features of] some lost rela
tive. Then withdrawing his head, the
detective inserted his ifody, and walk
ed by, Joe still gazing at him as if
charmed. Joe didn’t p;|y much atten
tion to the detective’s presence until a
negro urchin in his sh’jrt-sleeves, who
had been standing in tke passage, and
who evidently knew liijarphy, came in
and spoke something 'to him. Then
Joe took one sharp looij: at the officer,
and then instantly sprang through the
door into the inner office, which he
closed behind him and; locked. Now,
this was a move which took the detec
tive considerably by surprise. Murphy
doubted his authority to force an en
trance without Col. Fat’row’s permis
sion, and while distinctly disclaiming
any intention to shelter : a prisoner, or
connive at his escapq, the Colonel
said he would prefer n.jt to give that
permission, but leave iftie officer to act
upon his own responsibility. Another
embarrassing point in tile case was the
fact that this entire flobr of Austell’s
building was occupied jby the United
States Court, and there tjj'as some doubt
whether an officer haq any right to
make an arrest there without the ex
press consent of Judge ffirskine. In the
meantime, our worthy sheriff put in an
appearance, as also diji a number of
policemen and several! deputy mar
shals. All reconuoiterkfg through the
key hole proved futile,: aud Joe had
stored himself somewhere away in the
room out of sight. At; the request of
the sheriff, the reporter,drew up a note
to Judge Erskiue, setting forth the
facts, and asking permujiuon for the of
ficers to break the dqpr open. His
Honor sent word back that he had ad
journed court, but that bourt would be
in session again this ijjiorning, wheu
he would take the matter into consid
eration. I
After waiting undecided until nearly
nine o’clock, Sheriff Perl|erson became
impatient aud concluded’he would get
into the room, not by breaking through
the door, but by going dyer it. So the
glass was removed and?a step-ladder
procured. Several lights were held in
over the door, but noting could be
seen of Joe, and the ide,;i) began to gain
ground that he had escaped either out
of the window or through the marshal’s
office. At last Sheriff ’“erkersou con
cluded he would see fqr himself, and
dropping down into ttii> room, found
General Joe curled up qhder the desk
in the center of the rthm, like a rat
under a tub. The General surrendered
at once. On his person were found
a razor, a pocket-knife, jt|nd a pocket
book with some money. The negro
boy who cleans up the rpom produced
a skeleton key, the doef opened, and
after a short consultation! with Colonel
Farrow, the prisoner w;:!s led away to
jail. Joe said he would iiot go to jail
unless the Colonel walked along with
him. This Colonel Farjrow consented
to do, and the prisoner t i.us released of
all his foolish fear that ijia was going to
be robbed. The Chief oi] -police, several
privates, two he Sheriff, and
two reporters of the Constitution were
along, making quite a respectable pro
cession. The prisoner j said nothing,
and will be carried to B f i ke county to
day. ' it ‘
rnmutut} > # ■
FROM WASHINGTON,
Federal Capitali-Notes.
Washington, September 21.—Post
master Burt, of Boston,] is here. He
saw the President en rebate, and had a
long interview with t|j9 Postmaster
General. The question ;pf his suspen
sion is not decided. K
Chas. G. Fisher, late Assistant Fed
eral District Attorney, lias been com
mitted, in default of $t;000 bail, on a
charge of stealing court-records. The
penalty is $2,000 fine <:ic three years
hard labor, or both, at the discretion of
Court. He Is a son of Judge Fisher,
late United States District Attorney.
Appointments : Amos ,L. Frost, Rev
enue Collector First District Tennes
see ; Fred. W. Sumner, Postmaster, at
Sherman,
1 Cheyenne, \V. 7] September 21. —The
Treaty Council held its Erst session on
Saturday. Soldiers at JAjd Cloud num
ber three companies o?> cavalry and
four infantry. H
SOUTH CAROLINA.
LETTER FROM BARNWELL
Wanted, a First-Class, Fearless and
Honest Democratic Newspaper in
South Carolina—Dots.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Barnwell, C. H., S. C., Sept. 18, 1875.
If nine-tenths of the white readers
of this State were called upon to give a
candid opinion of what was most need
ed by them, I venture to say the reply
would be “A good, substantial Demo
cratic organ.” The remaining tenth
would point to the News and Courier
aud say, “Lo! behold the desideratum —
the object of your longings.” The first,
and overwhelming majority, would
answer: “So thought we once, but our
eyes are finally opened to the fact that
the News and Courier is the very worst
political enemy we have, or eould have.
In the garb of friendship it has won
its way to our firesides, and, instead of
averting the calamities it promised to
fight vigorously against, it has ever as
sisted the enemy to a knowledge of
our weak points and opened the way
to successful attacks on them by that
enemy.”
Well knowing that the attitude of the
Southern people after the war was
thoroughly pacific, and well knowing
that their condition being desperate
they were ready to grasp with greedy
gusto any plausible proposition which
promised amelioration of that condi
tion, this traitorous sheet counseled
the wretched policy of compromise!
None knew better than its editors that
the policy was a suicidal one ; for they
are wise, able men ; but they are en
terprising men also, aud the spirit of
aggrandisement—of personal advance
ment-rose paramount to all sense of
duty to those patrons by whom their
paper was supported. Confidingly
the patrocs trusted, and treacher
ously were they betrayed ! A
grander, nobler field was never open
ed to young, intelligent and patriotic
men than these same editors attempt
ed to fill. They had, as it were, the
destinies of South Carolina in their
hands, and they shirked the self
sought responsibility as soon as an oc
casion arose for the exercise of any
spark of patriotism that threatened pe
cuniary loss. They hungered too much
after the Radical “flesh pots.” The
“thirty pieces of silver” proved too
alluring for their ill-taught souls to re
sist. But thougli this expediency pol
icy has brought the ducats to their
pockets, these editors wrould have done
both wisely aud well had they studied
that axiomatic truism of Franklin,
“ honesty is the best policy,” and prac
ticed it. The paper would then have
had even a larger circulation than it
now enjoys, as well as the gratitude
and love of every true Southern man.
As it is—the veil being rent and the hy
pocrisy exposed—the people are dis
gusted and outraged.
Just as it i3 now the Constitutional
ist is the paper for South Carolina. If
we could only take you up bodily and
land you in Charleston, it would be as
great a boon to down-trodden Carolina
as the Pillar of Fire was to the Israel
ites of old. Men need instruction
light to guide them over the perilous
course of politics. And, by Heaven,
we don’t want any white-hearted, knee
shaking leadership. We want men of
principle and character, who have
opinions and are not withheld by fear
or favor from expressing them.
Why, look you, the Democrats of
South Carolina are the men that sup
port the News and Courier, not the
Radicals aud negroes. I’il guarantee
there are not three hundred Radical
and negro names together, either as
subscribers or advertisers, on the
books of that paper—or any other
“Conservative” paper in Soutli Caro
lina, for that matter ; and yet, for the
few lordly negroes and Radicals, whose
feelings might bo hurt should these
papers “speak right out in meeting,”
Democrats have to support a paper
that does not daro vindicate true
Democratic principles. We have had
about enough of this sort of thing,
and already there Is loud talk among
the Tax Unions about starting an or
gan in Charleston or Columbia which
will be a true expoueut of Southern
sentiments.
The approaching term of Court, which
begins on Monday next (20tli instant)
promises to be quite lively. Besides
half a dozen officials who are to be
prosecuted for all sorts of malfeasances,
we have two murder cases for trial at
this term. One for the killing of
Michael Hennesey, and the other for
the beating to death of his wife by a
negro. The defendants in both cases
are negroes, and it is worthy of remark
that in almost all the murder eases be
fore our County Courts negroes are the
defendants.
The dry spell has been at last broken
and we are having plenty of rain, which
plays “Old Scratch” with the cotton
pickers. Fritz.
CARL SCHURZ.
He Rallies to the Rescue of Ohio Radi
cals.
Cincinnati, September 21.—The fol
lowing call is addressed to Carl Schurz:
“ Cincinnati, September 20.
“ To Hon. Carl Schurz:
“The main question under discus
sion, in view of the approaching elec
tion in this State, is, whether the coun
try shall advance or recede on the road
to specie payments. The popular de
cision will assuredly have a serious in
fluence upon political organizations,
business interests and public policy.
“We are mindful of your superb ar
guments in the Senate on behalf of a
sound currency, and as merchants and
business men we invite you to come to
Ohio and present in public speeches
your views upon the cause at issue,
which we esteem to be that of national
honor and common honesty.”
Reply of Schurz,
St. Louis, September 20.
Gentlemen : —I simply obey a call of
duty in complying with your invitation.
I shall be ready to address the citizens
of Cincinnati on the evening of Mon
day, September 27th.
(Signed) C. Schurz.
Mile. Tietjens will make her appear
ance in this country at Steinway Hall,
New York, on the 4th of October.
Lawrence Barrett and Miss Cham
bers are the leading spirits of a troupe
at present very popular in the far
West.
Signor Mario Gigliucci, who married
Miss Mozly, is a son of the Countess di
Gigliucci, better bnown in England as
Clara Novella,
The Cincinnati Grand Opera House
has been re-opened with anew version
of “Ultimo.” This is the base of the
“Big Bonanza.”
John Ellsler has opened the new
opera house at Cleveland, Ohio.
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
“ PROGRESS ” AND DISHONESTY.
Compounding Felonies—How to Fos
ter Crime—Why the Country is Par
alyzed—Wanted : Old Fogy Princi
ples.
[Philadelphia Chronicle.]
A heavy defalcation in Louisville, is
the last sensation in that particular
line. The offender this time is a Mr.
Marshall, who like the parties who
took the Public School coal in the First
ward, is willing to make restitution.
In this Louisville case, endeavors are
making to hush the matter up, because
the defaluter is a man in high position
and from his own means and the aid of
ftiends, is willing to restore the ab
stracted money. It is impossible to
conceive of any course better calculated
to foster just such crime, as that of
which this gas company cashier is
guilty. Its almost universal prevalence
is to be greatly deplored. Men who are
entrusted with the handling of the
money of individuals, corporations or
the public have uo more right to appro
priate it to their own use than to put
their hands in the pockets or tills of
others, and heip themselves to what
they may chance to find there. If a
regular thief, or, in fact, almost any
man, steals fifty dollars from another,
and, being detected, offers to make res
titution, he is rarely let off so easily.
It may be urged that this man Mar
shall did not intend to steal, and that
but for the discovery of his default he
would possibly at some time have made
it good, while the man who purloined
the fifty dollars had no such good inten
tions. Thtre is not an iota of force in
such reasoning. This cashier’s thievings
were, in all probability, the result of de
liberate forethought. He knew that lie
was using, for his individual purposes,
money not his own, and to hold which
sacredly he had given his'solemn pledge.
The regular thief steals where and
from whomsoever he can, with a rea
sonable show of safety. Nobody is
supposed to place confidence in him.
The official defaulter, on the other
hand, is usually a man selected for his
supposed probity, and generally by
friends who are ready to become his
surety for the faithful performance of
the trust reposed in him. When he
steals he violates one of the most sa
cred of human obligations. The pro
fessional thief enters into no such
solemn contract, either with his indi
vidual friends or society at large. His
pilfering hand is against every man,
and the law, when he is detected, tried
and convicted, deals with him accord
ingly. Not so with the defaulting of
ficial. His wrong-doing amounts only
to a deficit which he or his friend are
willing to make good, if it so happens
that the exposure comes before the
time wheu the amount abstracted is
greater than their ability to replace.
We repeat, therefore, that leniency to
wards defaulters of Mr. Marshall’s
class is one of the best possible meth
ods of fostering crime of that peculiar
class, and as long as it is indulged, just
so long will the custodians of other peo
ple’s money be encouraged to appro
priate it to their own use.
“Results of the War.”
[Scribner for October.]
We do not look for a sudden revival
of business any longer. If our diag
nosis of the case is correct, there can
be no sudden cure. We of this genera
tion will hardly live to see the country
genuinely prosperous. Great masses
of property are to be abandoned. The
capital stock of multitudes of corpora
tions will be sunk, aud their property
will pass into the hands of bondholders
and creditors, at such a price that they
may possibly be made remuneratively
useful. Hundreds of millions of in
vested funds will practically cease to
exist. The things in which these funds
have been invested cannot be used, and
they might just as well have been
thrown into the fire. Thus the means
of living have been enermously reduc
ed among capitalists, and more men
need work to do than used to need it.
With this fact on one side, we find set
over against it the other fact, that, of
the multitude who had adjusted their
industry to the conditions of war, only
a part are needed under the conditions
of peace. Tens, twenties, fifties are to
be counted out of the mills, the fac
tories, tlie shops, and sent either into
idleness, or into some other field of in
dustry. In other words, our national
industry is to be re-adjusted.
The cities and centres which have
grown so rapidly will naturally cease
to grow. The large cities will grow,
perhaps, as London grows, by their at
traction for men of wealth, but the men
of enterprise will not crowd into
places where there is no work or re
ward for them. The boys will stand
by their father’s farms better than they
have done, and hundreds of thousands
of men and women who have left the
farm and the farm-houses must return
to them. It is pleasant to reflect that
a living can be won from the ground,
and that agriculture holds a certain
cure for all our troubles. Mr. Gree
ley’s old advice, “Go West, young
man,” was based upon a philosophy
whose soundness the people of this
time cannot question. The tendency in
his time was to overdo business, and
that tendency went on, to the distress
ing results of which all of us are the
witnesses and the victims.
It is pitiful to see men and women
lying idle. It is pitiful to see them in
great masses thrown out of employ
ment. We wish they could be made to
understand how hopeless the situation
is for at least half of them—how neces
sary it is that they should seek em
ployment in agricultural pursuits, in
lives of industry adapted to the pres
ent circumstances of the country—in
anything and any place except that
which is proved to be insufficient for
their needs. This change must come,
and the quicker it comes the better for
them and the better for the country.
Let us leave nothing to the political
doctors. They cannot help us with
any of their schemes, except by giving
us an honest financial system. Even
this cannot work the miracle of making
people consume more than they want,
aud of supplying work where it is not
needed. The American people are not
lacking in shrewdness, patience, adapt
iveness and industry, and the good
time will come, though it is likely to be
long delayed.
“Indignation Fatigued.”
[N. Y. Tablet.]
It is wicked to abuse a trust, and
whelm the fortunes of others in rum,
by illegitimate transactions; but so
accustomed has the mind of this coun
try become to the commission of such
wrongs by our bankers and others,
that the sensation caused by a com
mercial crash has no element of
revulsion in it. It is so also in Eng
land ; and the Collie investigation is
said to have been put off, and wifi
probably have the go-by, because it
will necessarily reveal the practices of
bankers generally, and they cannot
bear the light.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 42
THE LOST YANGUARD.
A British Irou-Clad Sunk off the Irish
Coast —All on Board Saved— British
Naval Discipline.
The following particulars of the
dreadful collision off Bray Head, Ire
land, which resulted in the sinking of
the British iron-clad Vanguard, are
taken from the Dublin papers of Sep
tember 3d :
On Wednesday, shortly before mid
day, six. of the seven iron-clads, which
all through the week attracted such a
host of visitors, weighed anchor in the
Kingstown Koads and steamed in the
direction of their new destination—
Queeastown harbor. Two hours later,
the Vanguard, one of the finest of
these leviathians, was rufl into and
sent to the bottom by her consort, the
Iron Duke.
The details of this great naval ca
tastrophe, which will create intense ex
citement throughout the entire empire,
are few and sparse, the officers and
men of both vessels preserving a reti
cent silence which baffles the most eager
inquirer. As if to make confusion
worse confounded, while all accounts
concur in representing the accident as
having taken place at ten minutes to
one o’clock in the afternoon of Wednes
day, the official telegram of the Admi
ralty fixes the event at twelve hours
later. However, after collating ac
counts obtained from the best authori
ties, the following appears to be the
most probable account of the occur
rence: The ships left their anchorage
at about half past eleven o’clock and
steamed towards Queenstown. Scarcely
had they left when they were envel
oped in a very dense fog. At a quar
ter to one o’clock in the day, about an
hour and a half after leaving the roads,
the fleet were off Bray Head. The look
out of the Vanguard, which was then
going only five or six knots an hour,
suddenly saw through the fog a large
merchant ship right ahead.
To avoid a collision with this vessel
the Vanguard ported her helm. The
result of this manoevre was to present
the broadside of the ship to the bow of
the Iron Duke, then about a cable’s
length behind. The Vanguard’s officer
must have thought there was time to
get o.ut of the Iron Duke’s way, but he
was mistaken, for suddenly the Van
guard’s people saw through the fog
the jibboom of the Iron Duke not fifty
yards off. Both captains gave the word
to reverse engines and back, but it was
too late, and the Iron Duke ran into
her consort with tremendous force,
striking her amidships with her plow or
ram, and dashing in her side almost
from keel to bulwarks. The bows of
these vessels are, we need scarcely say,
provided with iron “ rams” for
the express purpose of sink
ing an opposing vessel at a
single blow, and the event showed
that the Iron Duke was only too well
fitted for her deadly task. Her iron
beak grouud to powder the armored
broadside of the Vanguard, and in a
second the water poured through the
orifice, the engine-fires were extin
guished, and the vessel began rapidly
to fill. There were some 450 human
beiugs on board the Vanguard, and as
the waters rushed into the hold their
situation was a terrible one. There was
no time to even think of saving prop
erty, and it is understood that not a
single article, valuable or otherwise,
belonging to the ship, was rescued
from the wreck ; in fact, officers and
men arrived upon the deck of the Iron
Duke possessed only of the clothes in
which they stood, and whatever jewelry
or valuables they may have had about
their persons before the occurrence.—
There was no time to run down to re
move clothing or other property, and
nobody thought of doing so, all be
ing intent upon self-preservation.—
The utmost discipline and coolness
prevailed, although hope is said
to have deserted the crew; but
they looked what seemed an inevita
ble fate sternly in the face, and the
stronger men endeavored to support
and cheer their weaker shipmates.—
Both vessels were powerful rams,”
but the Iron Duke was by far the more
powerful of the two, and the fearful ef
fect of her crushing weight upon the
broadside of her consort may be im
agined. The first-named vessel suffer
ed insignificant damages, her bowsprit
and foregear, or “ head-gear,” as it is
called, having only been carried away,
while the Vanguard succumbed, with
guns, ammunition, accoutrements,
large stands of small arms, and in fact
with all the appointments of a first
class man-of-war, whose construction
cost nearly £500,000. The sunken ves
sel has been occupied for several years
as the guard-ship at Kingston. No
lives have been lost and the crew es
caped unhurt, with the exception of
three men who received some contu
sions during their transit to the Duke.
The wails of a favorite dog, who alone
met a watery grave, were heard above
the general din.
At the time of the collision it appear
ed that owing to the density of the fog,
the Iron Duke and Vanguard, at all
events, were not proceeding at a speed
of more than five or six knots an hour.
On leaving the man-of-war roads in
Dublin Bay, the squadron steered north
of the Kirk Light in order to get into
the deep sea track, and afterward the
ships headed southward. On nearing
Wicklow Head the lookout on board
the Vanguard perceived a large mer
chant vessel looming a short distance
ahead, and in order to avoid running
into her, the order was given to put the
helm hard a port. Capt. Dawkins, of the
Vanguard, was on the bridge amidships
when the catastrophe occurred, and
being in a state of much anxiety, was
carefully “coursing” the ship. At first
sight of the extent of the damage
done, it was believed impossible that
the vessel could long remain afloat.
The water rushed in through the aper
ture, and with a hissing, seething
sound, forced its way through the ship
in all directions. Captain Dawkins,
like an experienced sailor, instantly
had every man at his post, with per
emptory instructions to remain stand
ing by their duty to the last. The re
sult was the maintenance of the most
excellent order. With calmness and
regularity the boats were lowered, and
proper preparations were made for
transferring the crew on board accord
ing to seniority of station. In the
meantime the Iron Duke, which had
become hidden in the fog after the col
lision, again appeared in sight, and also
lowered her boats# and, of course, her
officers and men assisted to the utmost
patent.
The first batch of men ordered to de
scend to the was composed of
the lower yank ; the last to leave the
ill-fated ship were Capt. Dawkina and
Commander Landy. Naturally enough,
the interval of tim e between the collid
ing of the vessels and the sinking of
the Vanguard was nearly all occupied
iu transferring the crew by the bouts to
the Iron Duke. No tirqc was left to
any one for saving property. Yalua-
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
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free of postage.
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Announcing or suggesting Candidates' for
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Correspondence invited from all sources,
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Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
bles, clothes, all had to be abandoned,
in some cases, of course, with great re
lucance. Many of the unfortunate men
had considerable sums of money iu
their lockers.
Nothing could be seen yesterday but
the topmast heads over the water, the
royal masts being housed. The Van
guard went down in eighteen fathoms
of water, the Kish light bearing west
by northwest, eight miles from tha
place where she at present lies. *
FATAL VANITY.
An English Belle’s Experiment to
Remove Moles—Applying a Dead
Man’s Hand in a Stable at Mid
night.
[New York Mercury.]
An extraordinary story of gross su
perstition and ignorant credulity has
been communicated to the Mercai'y's
London correspondent fromLofthouse,
a small town in Cleveland, Yorkshire,
England. Since she attained woman
hood, three years siuce, Miss Sallie
Booth has been reckoned the belie of
the small town, and has been much
courted and flattered by young men of
her rank in life. She was the daughter
of a poor farmer, and had received a
very primitive education. She had
gipsy-looking black eyes, aquiline nose,
brilliant white teeth, and smail hands;
but there were two moles on her upper
lip, from which c ’arse, black hairs con
stantly sprung. Many of her admir
ers affected to see no end of beauty in
these moles, but spiteful girls spoke of
Sallie Booth’s moustache, and the irri
tated beauty tried all sorts of quack
depilatories to eradicate what she
thought facial blemishes. Meanwhile
Miss Booth captured
An Aristocratic Lover.
lie was the son of Captain Wharton,
of Shelton Castle, and had acquired an
unenviable repution at Harrow public
school for irregularities of a dissolute
type. Farmer Booth held his farm
under Captain Wharton, and the licen
tious young man therefore had easy
access to the girl. While the girls of
the place grew green with envy when
they saw Sallie Booth walking forth
with the “gentleman lover,” older peo
ple predicted that no good would come
out of it. Captain Wharton unavail
ingly remonstrated with his son, and
then warned Fanner Booth of the un
scrupulous character of his son’s ad
vances to Sallie. But the father was
as proud of the connection as his
daughter, and openly boasted of his
future son-in-law in the alehouses of
the place. Before long the intimacy
between the pair exceeded proper
limits, and Sallie importuned Harry to
marry her. The request did not educe
the expected enthusiasm; yet he lan
guidly said that he had no objection
to marry her if
“Those Horrid Moles”
were removed from her lip. In the
spring, in the hey-day of their ac
quaintance, he had pronounced them
pretty ; now their removal was a sine
qua non to matrimony.
Five-and-twenty miles from Loft
house, at small village called Seamer,
there resided an old woman reputed to
possess supernatural powers—always
exercised, howerer, for beneficent ends.
To old Nanny Hunter Miss Booth pro
ceeded and submitted her case. After
retiring for “prayer and meditation,”
the sibyl informed her that 'here was
but way to obliterate the moles, and
that was by touching them with
A Dead Man’s Hand
at midnight in a dark room—the hand
to be held in contact with the lips untii
it grew warm ! It was a crucial opera
tion, yet, revolting as it was. Sallie re
solved to “go through it” the first op
portunity.
It was some weeks before a dead man
turned up to be experimented on by
Miss Booth. But on the last night of
June the body of a seaman was washed
ashore off the alum works and the
corpse was conveyed to be stable of a
neighboring public house and locked up
until the inquest. Sallie at one pro
ceeded to the inn, and acquainted the
old ostler with the story of her moles
and the Seamer wise woman’s prescrip
tions, offering him half a sovereign to
aid and abet her in applying the swol
len flabby hands of the unknown corpse
to her face when midnight came. “She
was as
Bold as a She-Lion,”
said Bob Suggett, the ostler, in tellin g
the story afterwards ; “she went right
into the deep darkness of the stable,
and I heard her rustliog among the
straw as she groped for the dead man’s
hand, while X stood, feeling queer-like,
outsidb the door. It might have been
five, or it might have been ten min
utes, when she guv such a screech as
might ha’ wakened the dead. Then she
yell, yell, yelled like a locomotive whis
tle, and I tuk to my heels and ran.”
Landlord Coulson and his patrons
listened with awe and amazement to
the ostler’s story, and proceeded to the
stable with a lantern. The corpse sat
bolt upright, white and jelly-like as a
new-scalded pig, and Sallie Booth held
on to its shoulders, giggling and grin
ning and laughing. The spectators
were
Pierced with Horrorl
But as they stood motionless and si
lent, and saw the girl embrace the
clammy corpse and cry; “Kiss me, Har
ry, darling, the moles are gone,” they
became satisfied that they saw before
them a gigantic misfortune that had
merged into madness. When the land
lord approached to take her away she
dropped down with a piercing shriek,
and swooned away. She was carried
home by four men on the stable door,
and almost as soon as she reached her
father’s house the pangs of premature
labor supervened. The waif was never
oonsoious of existence, and the poor
mother was removed during the latter
part of August last to York Asylum
hopelessly insane. Yet nothing has
been done toward punishing the Sea
mer sibyl, or the ignorant accomplice,
Bob buggett,
MORE FAILURES.
Suspension of a Montreal Bank and a
New York, Flour House.
Montreal, September 21. — The Me
chanics’ Bank, of Montreal, has sus
pended.
New York, September 21.—W. L.
Halcomb & Cos., flour merchants, No.
34 Moore street, failed yesterday.—
$20,000 liabilities.
Montreal, September 2i.—The Me
chanics’ Bank suspended iu conse
quence of defalcations. The statement
sva the interests of depositors and
bill holders will be protected.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., September 21. —
Several horses at the driving park are
affeoted by a disease similar to epizoo
tic, It seems to be concentrated in the
throat, causing much distress. Reports
from the interior state that the disease
has broken out in several towns.