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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year HO oo “ six months 500 " three months 260 Tbi-W eekly —one year 5 00 six months ....!!!!! 250 Weekly—one year ! 200 six months 1 00 Single copies. 5 cts. To news dealers'. 'i x 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. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. 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. On and after this date (April 21. 1875,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. 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[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.