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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $ lO oo “ six months 500 “ three months 250 Tki-Weekly—one year 5 00 six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 oo six months . 100 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, iVi ets. 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. J^pKSON,; Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. There has at last been a small battle between the Insurgents and the Turks, in which the latter surprised and lost four hundred men killed. The one-horse revolution in Sonora was suppressed by one battle, five hun dred to the side, p. p., nothing added by the club, bets even, pools ditto, fifty killed, the whole concluding with mar tial law. It was played according to the rules governing Mr. Sheridan. The highly civilized and advanced people of Ohio were night before last engaged in the disreputable business of lynching a man — one Schell, who had murdered a woman. The Gov ernor, who is none other than a man named Bill Allen, will hardly call for troops upon this occasion. The Pope of Rome has recalled his Xunc-io sent to the Madrid Government, who made demauds upon it that were summarily rejected, and has sent a successor. This is construed as a backing down by the Holy See. These demands were that the Protestant re ligion should not be tolerated in Spain. New York has a well pronounced case of yellow fever. It is too late in the season to spread. That scourge has let us off light this year, contrary to the predictions of a great raft of people, among whom are some army surgeons about Wasliingtsn who tele graphed in June that it would be gen eral along the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The horse disease is spreading in New Jersey. The telegraph strangely enough calls it cerebro spinal menen gitis, and says that fourteen out of every hundred have died. We knew a Middle Georgia doctor, whose remedy was to slit open the skin down the back and bum liberally with a hot poker. The remedy was heroic—first rate —but the patient always died. We had a pleasant call yesterday afternoon from Dr. H. H. Carlton, edi tor and proprietor of the Athens Geoi'glan. We hope his stay in the city will be a pleasure to him. The Georgian will be issued as a daily on the Ist of October. It has our heart felt wishes for success. The city of Athens and the rich country surround ing it ought to be supported well. Dr. Carlton is a brilliant writer and one of the most genial gentleman connected with the Southern press. The summing up of the grain crops of the United States by the Depart ment of Agriculture, for 1875, makes a very favorable showing. It will be seen that the corn crop is set down as the heaviest ever grown in the country, if it matures; and this is asserted not withstanding the heavy overflows in the Northwest, which are reckoned in the calculation. The crop in Georgia is put down at 90 per cent, of what it was last year, which is a surprise to us. A majority of the States are over the average. We are glad to see that the South is making a prodigious effort to raise all the provisions it consumes. St. Louis is in earnest about getting up a National Railroad Convention. It seems to us that much good can be ac complished by this meeting. It is well known that nearly every road in the country other than a trunk through line is running at a loss. The hard times first began to tell upon them. They have suffered as much as any de partment of business in the whole country. It would take six or seven years of the most prosperous times to back the money lost. The North ern States have far too many of them, and even in the South few have paid any dividends in three or four years. 'The railroad magnates can get to gether, compare notes, talk the whole matter over, and if they are sensible men, they will merge, abandon and ex tend until they are adjusted to the ■commerce of the country. Gambetta goes upon record as say ing that the Bonapartists will not at tempt to seize the Government this winter, and dare not tamper with the army now. He is perfectly safe in say ing so, for the times are not propitious for such a movement. The Prince Imperial is as yet a boy, and the French will have neither a woman or a cypher for a ruler. They prefer King Stork to Dumb Log every time. In this respect they have ever imitated the Romans, whose Kings and Emperors were all great men. Whatever may be said of their crimes and usurpations, they were, from Romulus and Remus to Augustine, all illustrious statesmen and heroes. The sou of Napoleon will have to arrive at the age of mature manhood, and even then show a full capacity to rule before he can as cend the throne. And after that lie will have to possess the ele ments of true greatness, in order to maintain his position. There is no people harder to rule, no Empire which so unceremoniously dethrones its mon nrchs. They love order, and yet de mand a very active, progressive gov ernment. In ordei to maintain his hold upon power, the Emperor is Often obliged to go to war without pretext or justice. This was the case with Louis Napoleon and the late war with Ger many. His army had been idle for fifteen years, and every subaltern in it demanded an opportunity to win the batofi of a Field Marshal. The Bour bons an<J Republicans demanded it for the reason it would present, in all probability, an opportunity—which it did—of dethroning ,bim. Bismarck a year ago stated in the toman Parlia ment that Napoleon was forced into it against his desire or judgment. But he had no other alternative than to fight or abdicate. ®k 2tttgttstd| Constitutionalist. Established 1799. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Spanish Government and the Pope. London, September 25. —The text of the circular addressed to Spanish Bish ops by the Papal Nuncio at Madrid is published. It says he has been di rected to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of the State of the Holy See to the Spanish Govern ment upon the Papal attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new constitution proposed for Spain. London, September 25.—A special dis patch to the Daily News from Madrid says the Pope’s recall of the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Simioni, and the im plied disavowal of his acts, have occa sioned considerable surprise. Monsig nor Repella is more liberal than his predecessor. Surprise of the Turks—Gambetta and the Bonapartists. Vienna, September 25.—Telegrams state that Dervish Pasha was surprised near Raono and lost 400 killed. Gambetta is quoted as saying : “The Bonapartist Deputies may be doubled in the next Assembly, but they cannot seize the Government or tamper with the army. London, September 25.—The Times’ financial article says the tone of the market for public securities has been dull, inconsequence of lower prices re ceived from all German exchanges, where it is stated the attitude of Rus sia on the Eastern question is causing little anxiety. Corn is dull, but hold ers rather firm; there has been no fur ther change in prices. The fair weather continues in districts where harvesting is not completed, and good progress has been made this week. The foreign and colonial produce markets continue extremely quiet, though there has been an improved demand for West India sugar. The American bark Forest Queen, Capt. Burns, from Port Ludlow for Havre, foundered off Rio de la Plata. London, September 25.—The Pall Mall Gazette’s Berlin special says the Porte declines making any concessions till the insurgents render complete sub mission. The insurgents refuse to sus pend hostilities until the great powers guarantee eventual concessions. The proceedings of the Consular delegation stand still. Consuls ask instructions from their respective Governments. The Deputies of the Left. Paris, September 25.—The Deputies of the Left have resolved to return to Paris the Ist of October, to prepare for work the coming session, particularly the Electoral law, which will be first discussed. The decision of the Cabinet advocat ing the voting by arrondissements pro duces a strong sensation among the Deputies of the Left Centre. A rupture between Dufaure anti the Left Centre is certain. No effort will be made to break the union of the factions of the Left. From Montevideo- Montevideo, September 25.—A Gov ernment manifesto declares it will make every effort to purify. It promises a reduction of paper money aud to reform the system of taxation, the creation of a national debt. Extradition of a Swiss. Madrid, September 25.—Springly, a native of Switzerland, was delivered to the United Stat es, which had demanded his extradition. Springly will embark at Cadiz for New York. United States Crop Report—The Aver age Yield for 1875. Washington, September 25. —The De partment report of the Department of Agriculture says of the corn crop: Could it be thoroughly ripened its ag gregate would exceed any previous crop and the yield per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses by overflow of bottoms and satu ration of heavy flat soils, such losses proving less than the usual damages by drouth and insects, woile the rains have greatly benefited the crop on drier aud higher soils. Nearly every where corn is late in maturiug from one to two weeks. The general high condition is still maintained, the aver age being one per cent, higher than in August. The State averages are : Maine 105, New Hampshire 100, Ver mont 98, Massachusetts 100, Connecti cut 108, New York 99, New Jersey 111, Pennsylvania 108, Delaware 100, Mary land 106, Virginia 112, North Carolina 101, South Carolina 87, Georgia 90, Florida 83, Alabama 111, Mississippi 116, Louisiana 85, Texas 89, Arkansas 103, Tennessee 114, West Virginia 107, Kentucky 103, Ohio 97, Michigan 101, Indiana 83, Illinois 95, Wisconsin 60, Minnesota 72, lowa 92, Missouri 111, Kausas 109, Nebraska 73, California 95, Oregon 100. Minor Telegrams. Watertown, N. Y., September 25.—A fire last night entirely destroyed one section of Taggart & Davies’ paper mill and sack factory, with a large amount of stock. Cause, explosion of a kerosene lamp. Loss, $20,000. In sured. One man killed by suffocation. New York, September 25. —In a suit, in the Supreme Court, ou a foreclosure of a seven hundred thousand dollar mortgage on the Bleecker Street Rail road, Dr. J. W. Ranney, one of the stockholders, was appointed receiver. Wm. C. DuDjed filed an assignment for the benefit of creditors, Wm. L. Lud low assignee. Liabilities, $35,568 08; nominal assets, $9,215 18; real assets. $1,441 27. The Insurance Convention elected the following officers for next year: Row, oY Michigan, President; Pills bury, of Michigan, Vice President; H. Rhodes, of Massachusetts, Secretary. Belleeontaixe, O m September 25. The people hung Schell last night. The guards made no resistance, Schell pro tested his innocence. The National Railroad Convention. St. Louis, September 25. —The ex ecutive committee to arrange the pre liminaries for the National Railroad Convention to be held here next month held another meeting here yesterday, and adopted a resolution asking the President of the Merchants’ Exchange to appoint a committee to co-operate with the executive committee ; also ask ing the Merchants Exchange to invite other commercial organizations throughout the country to send to the convention delegates who favor tho ob ject in view. A resolution was also adopted asking the Governors of the various States to send the convention a number of delegates equal to the Con gressional delegation of the respective States. Tho municipal authorities of many cities will also be invited to seud delegates. An address will be issued setting forth the object of the conven tion aud the benefits which must result to the country from the construction of the proposed railroad. CONTRACTION AND INFLATION. Letter of Acceptance of Judge Per shing. Pottsville, Pa., September 25. Judge Pershing’s letter accepting the Democratic nomination for Governor is published. Concerning the financial question he says; “New issues are presented for the consideration of the people, the question of currency at tracting the attention of the thoughtful. Its final settlement rests with Congress and the President. The legal tender issue has become incorporated into the business of the country, and its consti tutionality been affirmed by the Su preme Court of the United States.— I am opposed to inflation in its true sense, and inflation is not demand ed by the Erie platform. That platform opposes any further contraction of the currency at this time of financial dis tress, when our workshops, mills and manufactories are closed, and thou sands of men willing to work are out of employment. To expand the volume of currency when the people are incur ring debts, and to rapidly contract it when the time for payment has come, will prove ruinous to every business enterprise. The attempt to force the country to a resumption of specie payments under the provisions of the act passed by the last Congress will only intensify the distress which now everywhere prevails. We must cease exporting gold to pay interest on our indebtedness abroad before specie payments can safely be resumed. I fa vor such a volume of currency as the legitimate demands of business and a revival of the industries of the coun try may require. Experience will best determine this, anu it is to be hoped that an adequate standard or test for regulating the amount of cur rency may be established by our rep resentatives in Congress. I adhere to the doctrine always held by the Demo cratic party, that gold and silver con stitute the true basis for bank note circulation. The question as to this is not the same as that of a paper cur rency. That is itself made by the sov ereign power a legal tender, and there fore is money.” FROM WASHINGTON. North Carolina Cherokees —The Chicago Custom House. Washington, September 25.—Hon. R. B. Yance, of North Carolina, James Stevenson, of Washington, D. C., and A. T. Davidson, of Ashville, North Carolina, have been appointed as Com missioners to appraise the lands re cently recovered to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. The new Chicago Custom House Commission have submitted their re port to the Secretary of the Treasury. They recommend the strengthening and completion of the concrete founda tion ; also, that certain parts of the building be taken down. In referring the report to the supervising architect of th# Treasury the Secretary di rects him to proceed with the reconstruction at once. He will bring the building as near as may be to a uniform level before hard freezing weather, when he will suspend building work and adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect the building thoroughly from exposure to the weather during the coming winter. Be fore resumption of work in the Spring the Supervising Architect will carefully revise the plans of the building, redis tributing the weights and lightening the structure as much as practicable, iu accordance with suggestions and re commendations contained in the report, and also reduce and cheapen the char acter of the stone cutting on the super structure. He will select for the Su perintendent of this building the most competent and trustworthy man ho can obtain, and will charge him specially with seeing that all the contracts with reference to material are rigidly enfor ced, and that all material furnished is carefully inspected. Murders and Suicide. New Albany, Ind., September 25. Mrs. Catharine Rontler was found with her skull crushed in in her partially burned cottage. Her divorced husband was in the yard with his throat cut. Rentier, who had delirium tremens, was sheltered by Mrs. Rentier. Philadelphia, September 25.—The body of Albert W. Markley, of Cam den, missing since Thursday, was found on the bank of the Delaware river. Supposed suicide. Hudson, N. Y., September 25. —Capt. W. P. A. Stranahan, Captain of the steamer City of Hudson, shot himself while seated on his mother’s grave in the Episcopal cemetery, at Athens. Since the recent robbery of his boat he has been depressed, which is the sup posed cause. BOSTON HELPS TEXAS. Letters of Thanks. Boston, September 25.—The following was read to-day: Galveston, Texas, September 24. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Mayor of Boston: Wheu I returned to Galveston from Boston I proclaimed, not only to Gal veston but to Texas, that no city in the Union could equal the one over which you preside iu generous hospitality, unbounded charity and official integri ty. Since your munificent charity to the sufferers of the Gulf coast of Texas the univeisal prayer of the sufferers and sympathizers throughout the State is, “God bless Boston.” [Sigued] R. L. Fulton, Mayor. FROM NEW YORK. A Case of Yellow Fever. New York, September 25.—A sailor, belonging to tne brig Waburn, from Matanzas, is in the Brooklyn hospital with yellow fever, and not expected to recover. Before becoming speechless he said the Waburn came from Matanzas with a cargo of sugar, which she discharged at quaran tine. Several cases of yellow fe ver were on board during the passage. The patient was taken to the hospital Saturday last. The nature of the dis ease was only discovered on Thursday. Search was made for the infected ves sel without success. Fine Trade in Chicago. Chicago, September 25. —Prominent dry goods jobbers here report the lar gest business for the past week ever before in same length of time. The fall trade proving very heavy. Country rnerehants throughout the Northwest are buying freely. The outlook of busi ness is very promising. Miss Ford n of Baltimore, has adap ted to the American stage “La Fille de Roland,” by Henri de Bornier, a play that was received in Paris with great favor. AUGUSTA, GLA.., S TOSTDA-Y, SEPTEMBER 26. 1875. I HOODWINKING TlfeE NEGRO. - H — i- TkeWay Ames Playi 1 if? on "Shep” — A Good One by St ; iat|r Alcorn. Illustrative of hov. thf negroes are led about by the nose by| unprincipled men, Senator A Icon o‘* Mississippi, who is now in Washifgtah, relates an amusing story. Duiing |his last can vass against Ames f<|: tie Governor ship of the State, llierf was a very eager contest. As Alcfrn Imployed up ward of 1,000 men on • is plantation, it was feared by the , Amis men that they would all vote foi th*ir employer. Upon the plantation i an pld patriarch by the name of “She */ho was the property of Alcorn be oreithe war, and who had the most of nis]ife seen ser vice on the Alcorn Jactation. One day a small-sized, i ipuer-mannered carpet-bagger came up |to Alcorn’s plantation, and went around secretly electioneering among le negroes. He discovered that “She ” fas a leader among them all, and u iletri he gained them over it would R unless to look for votes for Ames on thl plantation. He fell into couversat >n jyith “Shep,” and gathered from hi i tije scanty de tails of his past lift B|j then went away without saying a ymijji to “Shep” about the election, Several weeks aft t tat, and a short time before the lec: ion, a large letter postmarked V asl; Ington, and resplendent with red a als and official stamps, came to the Aj mi 1 i plantation addressed to “Shep.” tv as an event iu the old man’s lire. ' m eiintr of his favorite secret society wis at once called and one of th- pr siding offi cers who could read ?as detailed to open and read the awt inspiring docu ment. It was as fijllov i : s “ Executive Mansio: . Washington, D. C., Headquarters o th|s Army and Navy and Glorious C mm wealth. — My Dear Shep ; Alt! >ug*i you live at a great distance fr m ne, and al though you are only 01*1 o many col ored children, yet I 4nc': all about you. You were born >n ; plantation near Lynchburg, iu Vi; Gnia. You were owued there by ii tan by the name of Charles Some; . >ome years before the war you v >re sold to Mr. Alcorn in Mississippi. L k tow J ~lius, Robert and James H ary Augustus, your boys, as well as ; sap Ann Jane, and Roxana Virginia, ; >ur daughters. You see, Shep, that a hoi gh I am a very great man, I kno r a|l about my children. I have a vattmful care over you all, and have . pi jin to make you all happy. I want ’ouito vote for Gen. Ames for Governor ■bisffall,and,mv dear Shep, I will give y u |iy reasons for so wishing. In the trstl place Gen. Ames is my officer in y* ur State, and 1 want you to obey him. M|. Alcorn is an old slaveholder; youi mu|t not vote for him. If Gen. Atr s ih elected I propose to cut up Mr. i coifi’s planta tion and give it to the sla'|eß, who so many years worked fo< hisi for noth ing. I will give you,; lay dear Shep, your choice out of tl > lo i wtieu the plantation is cut up. If) n t forget to do all you can to get ote i for Ames. Good-bye, my dear She . Your friend and iem factor, U. S' Grant. “The great General o the army and navy, and commander c tin > common wealth.” This letter carried “8 ep ' complete ly by storm. An ange from heaven direct could not have ; onvinced him that the letter was not j onv the Presi dent. He voted for An; s, ind carried upwards of 500 votes w; h h|m. The above related i: cidiu.c is only one of the many ways ii ed by unscru pulous politicians to ; hoodwink the simple-minded and gull- >le hegro. AS A MARRIA: 'rE [MARKET. A Slackness Caused b. tlii' Insuffici ent Incomes of tlie Yolmg Men— Monstrous Extravaifa icelof Female Dress. ! ! The Bombay Gazette, f tqo 14th ult., thinks that the Indiar mother must often look back with a; foil* l regret to those days when the mil ,rin|onial mar ket was not overstock and, [and when suitors were more plent ultimo spinis ters. Her memory, p rhal/S, carries her back to her own day s ofc girlhood, when, from the mornei , sb;e sailed at Gravesend, to the .not distant hour when she was happily * ispksed of in the far Mofussil, all raa 3 creation was at her feet with whate* *r wealth men had to offer in exchan e but for her , smiles. Those were the j ays when sol- 1 diers, civilians, and mer iau;ts hunger ed aud thirsted for ma :uq?e. There was no shilly-shally t >oi|t popping the question in tho e Igood oid times. The great difficult {■ was to prevent a superabunilunb of pop ping from too many loie-i >rn swains together. But things a?3 a tered ma terially for the worse no|', a ,id there is a tightness in the India! n atrimonial market of this presentiye;|r of grace which, we verily belieje, {will drive some mothers to despai* if {events do not speedily arise to rei :orfi the repu tation of India as a gc >d -market for the girls. Considering he: very thiu disguise that parents n wn lays think is necessary to shroud t ieis conuubial designs in from soeiet a: large, it would be absurd to pre' me 'a delicacy which nobody secs on th; gr |at domes tic questions of marrying ar and giving in marriage. The alternati e I >r a young lady without fortune is f rh ;,ps the life of a poor relation, of a; gc verness or companion. Sensible gii st be the ma trimonial question from l bi siness-like point of view, and are cojj tei t to marry and be happy ever aftij w; rd, as we sincerely wish they may! >e. However, if sensible girls cannot fi eel the sensi ble men to make thinji i Smooth be tween them, a difficulty nijses that is not readily to be surmeu teji, and it is in the vain efforts to clin j tjhis hurdle in the course mati minial that some parents tumb 3 ;to the ground with grievousj groans over the manners of the tirfies which render such acrobatic ?atis a pain full necessity. The fact m that young men cannot marry in Inc a |:ny longer with those prospects of ; oabort which in older days made V 3m speak of matrimony as a some hing awfully jolly. What with the ' ise in prices, the’ debased rupee, the frightful ex travagance of feminine ashious, and the parsimony of the C >vm-nment of India, which has abolis ed hundreds of appointments and Gut 1 ov ! , o the sala ries of so many more, r > young man with his senses about hi *, will risk the maintenance of two perilms— possibly an eventful dozen. ThurfM ss Quihye is left lamenting on the ih< re of celi bacy while Capt. Mull a’|igates h 3 s own canoe on the open oqpan there, avoiding the quicksands represented by waving tresses, brq it {eyes, and twinkling ankles that in ;h|ise days of state economies bring n mjto poverty and rags. Mr. Lowe’s C jmpetition walla, who asks the Gove n merit for a compassionate allowance, Wherewith tn educate his children, is ; o • exaggera tion of the poverty of tl i lay. Mun dreds of married men in India at this moment are fighting the battle of life with very little—we might almost say without any ammunition. A misery loug ago unknown in in India, that is to say genteel poverty, is common enough here now, and debt is now in curred in India not so much through extravagance as under necessity. Natu rally, when watching the shattered wrecks of matrimonial ventures about them, the young and wary gentlemen of the country sheer clear of such sig nals of distress; whence, we repeat, the memory of the mother for the past, and the decadence of a trade which dealt chiefly in beauty. In justice, however, to the young men from the Mofussil, we must say that the mon strous extravagance of female dress has much to do with their avoidance of marriage. Ten-guinea dresses and three-guinea bonnets, coming fast and furious on one another to answer the demands of church, dances, and din ners upon them, are enough to bring any modest income to untimely grief; but such is the rage for dress to-day, that we constantly see girls wilfully frightening away their lovers with t heir gorgeous robes rather than deny them selves the gratification of flaunting them iu the faces of other women. This may be pleasure for the moment; but it certainly does not induce proposals. In short, between dress and her lover, the girl falls to the ground, which is a pity, for nature doubtless intended her, but for Worth and his kind, to be a gracious wife, and the happy mother of children. BACK FROM THE GRAVE ! A Husband Returns After Five Years Absence, and is Not Received With Frantic Joy by His Supposed Widow. Five years ago Benj. S. Grosvenor lived in Dowagiac. In June, 1871, he left home for the pur( ose of going to St. Jo to butcher. He did not return, and his wife could only learn that he got off the cars at Niles but did not reach St. Jo. She heard nothing of him until the following September, when, in a huckleberry marsh near Buchanan, a body was found so badly decompos ed that the features were unrecogniz able. Some of those who saw it were positive that it was Grosvenor, and sent to Dowagiae for his wife to come and view the body. She went down and was met at the depot by a dentist of Dowagiac who had been to see it, and told her he was positive it was Grosvenor, as he recognized the teeth from some work he had perform ed on them. She went down to see the remains, and though she could not pos itively identify them as her husband, all the indications looked that way, and a day or two after she wept over the grave of her husband, as she supposed. Not long after a son, who was lying very sick when the father went away, died also, leaving her with one child, a little girl. She left Dowagiac and came to this city, and is now cook in the Grand River House. From that time she has lived a widow and believed herself such, though she says that there was always a presenti ment in her mind that they had all been deceived and that her husband was still alive. But her friends were confident that he was no longer living, and as the yeais passed by without tiding of him, she had to give up hope and only at times would doubts arise in her mind. Any doubt she might have felt was not shared by others, and it was supposed that he had been mur dered, and she has received a number of letters from detectives—one from Europe—offering to ferret out the mys tery and bring the murderer to justice. She had some reason to hold her doubts, for her husband, i,when absent before, had threatened to stay away until he had acquired a competence, but she did think that if he carried this threat into execution he would have written to her. Tuesday night at midnight a man got off the cars and presented himself before her. It was the lost husband. He had gone to Missouri and had been living there. He had not yet become rich, but got su:k of the country and retured East. His wife was indignant at his leaving a sick family as he did, and leaving her to work for herself, without letting her hear from him— though he says he did write, but the letters miscarried—that she gave him a reception more cool than that which is popularly supposed to te the thing in such cases, and rather intimated that as she had got along very well without him for five years, she could keep on doing so. This somewhat dis mayed him, and he went to see a brother near Saginaw, and is there still. There is no chance for any remarks about Enoch Arden, for the whole af fair is decidedly matter-of-fact, and there is no second husband, though she says there might just as well have been, and her tone seemed to express regret that the matter did not have this romantic complication. She does not seem specially glad that he has re turned, and seems inclined to let him do the best he can for himself, being well contented with her present inde pendent condition. It is not safe nor profitable for a man to desert a reso lute woman with an industrious dispo sition, for the chances are that he will be glad to yet return and ask favor of her. —Jackson Patriot, Sept. 13. A Texas Bed Bug.— A Shermau man, who was out in the country buying grain, stopped at night at a dilapidated farm house. After a fierce contest with the bugs and mosquitoes, he had fallen asleep. He slept about an hour when he was rudely awakened. The old far mer was standing over him with a cocked revolver, one of the farmer’s stalwart sons had him by the heel and was in the act of jerking him out of bed, while the hired man was tossing the pillows around with a three-tined pitchfork. “What have I done ?” he hoarsely asked. “Keep cool, stranger,” replied the farmer, “some of the boys thought they heard a Denison beg bug chawing up the shuck mattress, but I guess it must have been wolves out in the time ber they heard ; you can go to sleep again.” But somehow or other he could not— [Sherman Register, Miss Kellogg will open English opera in New York on the 11th of October. Her troupe will comprise Mrs. Van Zandt, Miss Beaumont, Miss Montague and Messrs. Maas, Carleton and Peakes. There is a rumor that Mrs. Zelda Seguin will also be one of the company. She will be a valuable acquisition to the company. The Stamford (Conn.) Advoc ate says “ Mr. Edwin Booth is steadily recover ing from the injuries received by the recent accident, but it is unlit’ely that he will be able to appear qpon the stage for many months to gome. FOOD FOR POWDER. The German “ War Play.” [Chicago Tribune. The cable dispatch from Liegnitz, in Silesia, which appeared in Monday’s issue of the Tribune, not only gives a very graphic and animated picture of the three days’ sham battles of a Ger man army, but it also furnishes some very suggestive reasons to account for the superiority of the German army to the French in the recent Franco-Ger man war. The kriegspiel, or “ war play,” lasted three entire days, and the troops bivouacked upon the field of battle during the third night. Two en tire army corps were pitted against each other, and their operations in volved every detail of the labor and hardship of the real battle except the killing, and at the close the troops were as jaded and fatigued as if they had been engaged for the same length of time against an actual enemy. The plans of the mimic battle were laid out with the most minute exactness, and the Emperor, the Princes, and the Generals of the army were in every part of the field, examin ing and criticising with reference to praise or blame after the action, and in addition to this the troops were also critically watched by distinguished foreign officers. Perhaps the best tri bute to the efficiency of the army is the fact that, while foreign officers were unanimous in commending the discip line, activity, and precision of the evo lutions, the Emperor and his Generals were not altogether satisfied with all the operations, showiug the exacting standard of military science which is required by the military de partment. The troops on this occasion were required to make long and fatiguing marches both by day and by night, to dig trenches, to carry heavy burdens, to ford rivers, to build bridges, to storm almost inaccessible heights, and to perform every possible movement and endure every possible fatigue which would have been necessi tated had the battle been an actual in stead of a mimic one, and all this not for an afternoon, but for three days, day and night, without intermission, and without regard to weather. It was not the show of a gala day to amuse the people or gratify national pride and military glory, but the actual work of a campaign, with all its tediousness of routine as well as its arduousness of physical work, devised to keep the army upon its war footing, and ready to take the field at a day’s notice. There was nothing of the holiday maneuvering of the English militia, or of the summer afternoon show of the French. Another feature of the German military life, as illus trated in this battle, is the impossibili ty of exemption from this duty. Com mutations and substitutes are of no avail. Every able-bodied man, from the Crown Prince to the lowest peas ant, must do his duty himself, and bear his share of the labor and fatigue. Shirking is impossible, and every man, therefore, is not only a soldier, but a soldier who stands ready for the duties of a campaign on call, and is inured to its hardships by constant exercise of the roughest description. Now, contrast these operations of the German army with the annual ma neuvres of the French army. For the success of these maneuvres a plesant Sunday afternoon in leafy June is es sential ; likewise a pleasant park into which the regiments leisurely march. The troops are then drawn up in line, with the cavalry on the wings, the artillery in front, and the infantry in the rear. What space they do not oc cupy is filled with crowds of specta tors—men, women, and children out for a holiday afternoon show in holi day attire. After the troops are drawn up in line, the Grand Marshal and his aids, gorgeously caparisoned, ride into the park amid the roar of artillery and the cheering of the multitude, tickled with a straw. They pass among the various divisions, and then ride up and down the lines, the troops presenting arms. Then there is more cheering. The Hags are waved. The bands play. The troops go through the manual of arms. The gay uniforms, glistening of arms, waving of banners, the sunshine, trees and flowers and fountains, the viva cious and enthusiastic crowds, make up a very brilliant picture to the eye. The troops go through with this plea sant pastime, and then march past the Marshal and the crowd, and then back to the barracks, and they are ready for war! The German maneuvres are a week of incessant toil, with every de tail of an actual campaign except the loss of life. The French maneuvres are a summer afternoon’s pleasure—a holiday show —to divert the Parisians and keep them quiet and contented. The two systems need no comment as to their availability and effectiveness for military purposes. Gravelotte and Sedan furnish the tests to be applied to them. Very Hard Play At That. [Cincinnati Gazette.] France is approximating her military system to that of Germany. The re serves have just been called out for a drill of twenty-eight days. Saying nothing of the los3 of the soldiers’ labor for that time, the cost of keeping the men and their deserted families will reach 7,500,000 francs, or about $2,500,000. The corporations for which many of the soldiers have been work ing refuse, with few exceptions, to con tinue their wages, and the expense therefore falls on the public. The call includes all able-bodied men up to forty years of age who are not in active service. The papers are growling, tim idly but unmistakably. Neither is all lovely in Germany. The physical grounds of exception are very few, and the continuous maneuvres very severe, and the number of sick shows that many are unable to endure the drill. Military glory may have its attrac tions for monarchs, but it certainly heaps most grievous burdens on their subjects. A GIRL’S LIVELY TTm AGINATION. A Tale Full of Drollery—Wliat Came of Taking Little Sips of Brandy, The Paris correspondence of the London Daily Telegraph contains the following: A tale full of drollery comes from Cambrai. On Saturday night prodi gious alarm reigned in that city. The telegraph worked without ceasing, and mounted gendarmes careered in every direction. Their orders were to stop a van, clearly described, in which would be found several acrobats and three kidnapped children. A little girl esca ped had given the alarm. She came home very late, dreadfully bruised, her eves blackened, and scarcely able to walk. A big dog, to which she was much attached, led her. The parents and neighbors, greatly disturbed, ask ed an explanation, which, with New Series—Vol. 28, No. 45. tears and spasms and mental ag ony, the little girl delivered She was playing on the glacis with her dog when a van came past. The Fair of Cambrai had lately taken place, attended by many acrobats and gyp sies, and the van belonged to a party of these. A woman got out as it stop ped on the glacis and seized the child. In spite of her struggles she was hand ed over to a man who took her up and put her in the vehicle. There she re cognized three other children belong ing to the town. The man put a bottle in her mouth, and made her drink some opiate, no doubt. But the dog had stuck to his mistress, and she had not let go tiie chain. Between them they prevented the door shutting, and presently the faithful cur dragged his mistress out, and she fell into the road, bruising herself, as could plainly be seen. The van people didn’t wait for such a troublesome victim, but hurried off. This story was much interrupted by the fainting fits of the mother. When she could be safely left, half a dozen zealous neighbors hurried to the police office. The Coinissary arrived and heard the little martyr for himself. Then ensued that galloping of gen darmes which I have mentioned. There were persons incredulous, of course; for such there always are everywhere. To the anger and disgust of the city, these people pointed out that the Fair had broken up ten days before; that not a van or au acrobat had been beheld in the last week. Roused to more aggressive incred ulity by the wrath of true believers, they declared the little girl to be a little story-teller. After this no one would talk to them any more, and in Coventry they reflected on their wick edness. But the worst of it is these ca lumniators are proved right. The naughty little girl confesses that she found a bottle of brandy, that she gave a glass of it to her brother, and took the rest upon the glacis with her dog. Then she sipped and sipped, in the blaze of sunshine, until, in fact, she could sip no more, but roiled among the stones, to her great damage. And then she went to sleep and dreamed all that story of the van. Waking, with a dreadful headache and two black eyes, she pondered how to explain these ac cidents to her mother. The dream came handy for this purpose, and was used. But now the parents called her story-teller, and treated her accord ingly. With needless emphasis they protested that brandy had never en tered their house. The Commissary of Police was struck with such warmth of denial. He called the little girl again, and she wept sore in hopeless puzzle between her own falsehood and her mother’s. So the Commissary took on himself to make a perquisition, and a quantity of brandy did he find, of which no satisfactory account was forthcoming. There seem to be several morals that attach to this little story. Motherless. Three little golden heads at an upper window and a long line of carriages in the street below. Nurse holds baby up, who laughs and claps his little dimpled hands as his eye is caught by the nod ding plumes on the hearse; and pre sently the procession moves down the street, and mother has gone away for ever. The men from the undertaker’s remove the traces of the funeral; the parlors are in their wonted order, ex cept, perhaps, the curtains are not looped as gracefully, the furniture is not disposed as tastefully, and the little ornaments and bijouterie are not in their accustomed places. In mother’s room there’s a chill and prim air about everything, so different from its usual look of cosy comfort. A bright June sunlight is gleaming through the half-opened blinds, but it does not seem to give warmth or cheer. The toys are brought out, but the chil dren soon tire of them. There’s some thing gone—they scarcely realize what. By and by baby begins to fret, and nurse gets cross. Poor little darling ! mamma’s pet! how tenderly she would have soothed him with soft iullabys. And then papa comes home and gath ers the little flock around his knee, and tries to tell them something of the beautiful home to winch mamma has gone; but they want her sadly here; they cannot think why the Good Father should want her so much. Financial Condition of the Eastern Railroad. Boston, September 25. —The Evening Journal makes a statement of the Eastern Railroad Company’s finamial condition. The statement claims the expense of a floating debt of $2,200,000, and an aggregate total debt of $15,000,- 000. It further claims an increase of a hundred per cent, in the capital debt in three years, while for the same time there has been an increase of only 24 per cent, in the annual gross earnings TIIE SONORA REVOLUTION. A Battle and Suppression. San Diego, September 25.—The revo lution in Sonora was ended August 23d by an engagement near Alta between the Government troops and the revo lutionists. The latter were defeated, losing fifty killed, wounded and pris oners. About 500 were engaged on both sides. Martial law has been pro claimed until affairs are quieted. Personal—Negro Murderers. New York, September 25. —Madame Titiens, prima donna, and Chas. Brad laugh, British Radical, have arrived here. A negro named Areston, arrested on a charge of assisting in the murder of Abraham Weissberg, a Jewish peddler, in Westchester county, turned State’s evidence and confessed that he and two other negroes, named Ellis and Thomp son, did the deed. Lost in the Gale of the 18th. New York, September 25.— Ship Western Empire, Captain Bertie, from Pensacola for Grimsley, waterlogged in the hurricane of the 18th, and was abandoned. The Captain and orew landed at St. Vincent’s Island, Apa laeeicola Bay, ip boats, In landing, a boat capsized, and seven were drowned. The remainder, seventeen, landed at Pensacola, destitute, nil ■ The Horse Disease Spreading. New York, September 25.—The horse disease is rapidly spreading throughout New Jersey, The disease is pronounoed of the cerebro spinal menengitis type. Number of deaths, fourteen per cent. Mrs. Drake, remembered by the older class of theatre-goers, died in Kentucky on the 2d instant. Her acting was re markable for its power and intensity, and she was chiefly noted for her Lady Macbeth, Margaret of Burgundy, Madame Claremont in “A Mother’s Vengeance,” Evadne and similar pafts. He last appearance was in Cincinnati, in 1868. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND AFTER this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. WIT AND HUMOR. Mrs. Snipe, of Texas, made her hus band quail before her. Gamey ! The Empress Augusta wears white pique at the French watering places. Doolittle would give a man who is married two votes. How many to a man who has committed bigamy?— [Lowell Courier. When one gets mad at an aristocrat in Washington it comes very handy to say to him: “I know you—you sold gingerbread during the war.” A correspondent sends us a “small piece of Morton’s bloody shirt.” The material seems altogether too thin for fall wear. “He strained at a gnat and swallow ed a calomel,” was little Johnny’s ver sion of the text yesterday.—[Rochester Express. It is hard to tell which will bring the most pleasant expression into a wo man’s face—to tell her that her baby is heavy or her bread light.—[Easton Free Press. “He was an elder in the Methodist Church, and the leader of the village brass band.” is the touching conclusion to an obituary which an Indiana paper gives a deceased subscriber. A man would have preached in Vir ginia City the other day had not a rock struck him between the shoulders. This is the nearest thing to Sunday services they have had there in five years. , They are going to put up a lieadstont* at the grave of Capt. Cook just as soon as anybody can be found to point out the grave. Meanwhile, the committee will hold your subscriptions. When Ida Lewis rescues a man, she does’nt hold his head in her lap until he revives. Several members of Con gress risked their lives off Lime Rock this season, under the impression that she did. She looked out of the window at the lowering skies and flying leaves, and remarked, with a little shiver of de light, “Time to think about that winter bonnet and them new furs.” The Danbury News isn’t a dead jour nal yet, by any means, but continues, at intervals, to hit the nail on the head with astonishing force and precision. It says; “What this country really needs is a good five cent cigar.” A man was seen on the avenue, yes terday, shaking and quaking violently, and his face one immense mosquito bite. It was afterwards ascertained that he had spent the summer at one of the so-called watering places in the in terior of New Jersey. Sam Ward, the Rex of the Vestibule, is in town. It is said that he proposes to entertain his friends at a dinner, the prominent feature of the “menu” being pig’s ears. All the Pacific Mail folks will be invited, including Donu Piatt. A New York policeman, out in the country on a vacation, has worn out six clubs on an old stump. That’s the nearest thing he can get to knocking some peaceful citizen down with his baton. Robert Collyer frankly says that he doesn’t believe any canal boat captain will ever become good enough to reach heaven, and now won’t there be some big fighting when two boats get fouled! The King of Holland is not a miser. The other day, when a laborer stopped the royal carriage from going into the river, the King handed him forty cents and smiled a smile worth thirty-five cents more. There are, according to Mrs. Craw shay’s calculation, 900,000 women in the United Kingdom for whom there is no chance of marriage. What a pity, truly. The handkerchiefs are “the prettiest and flimsiest bits of lawn and lace im aginable.” But what will the poor girl do if she should happen to take cold in her head? The Providence Journal regards the proposition in the North Carolina Con stitutional Convention to disfranchise felons as a blow aimed at negro and other Republican suffrage. There are seven generals, five colo nels and one judge in the field as can didates for Governor of Georgia. This, of course, does not include the majors and captains that are holding back to manipulate the State convention. Red Cloud was interviewed the other day. He said: “Heap wolf white man. Injun nobody. Red Cloud going to git plug hat and be big as anybody.” It is probable that Lougfellow will found a poem on the brilliant speech. Mrs. Robert Taylor, living near Greenville, Va., has been insane for some time past; but lately, complain ing of a pain in her head, she drove a large nail into it. She concealed the fact for some days, and when it was discovered, the doctor had great diffi culty in getting the nail out; but Mrs. Taylor’s mind had been entirely re stored „ by this extraordinary opera tion. One of our tavern keepers actually blushed when a departing guest, on paying for a night’s lodgiug, kindly pressed another half dollar into his host’s hand, with the request to give those bedbugs one square meal, any how.—[San Antonio Herald. When Bismarck’s daughter meets her future husband at the front door, and demands, with a mitrailleuse in each eye, “You, Wendlzuenlarberge, why didn’t you bring them hair pins ?” he will reach the top story before she gets the name out of her mouth. Think about marriage as we piease, there is no pleasanter sight than a newly-wedded couple walking home from church on the first Sunday, with the bride’s mother in the rear thought fully adjusting the bustle and back bows of the happy daughter.—[Dan bury News. Fulton Times: A dollar is a large price for a watermelon,” said a pur chaser to a vender of this fruit, as he was paying for one the other evening. “You wouldn’t think so, mister,” said the dealer, “if you had set on the fence with a shot gun in your hand every night for three weeks,' watching the patch.” They call them the “pull-backs” out on the frontier, when eastern, ladies jump out of the cars or stages, and the usual aot of adjusting the bunch of things on the hips creates vast merri ment among the gaping crowds at the stations. Pity that the world must have its ill-mannered barbarians as well as its gentle aud modest Chris tians. Speaking of the checks now worn by gentlemen, a London correspondent thus abundantly evidences that capri cious fashion is not confined to the gentler sex. “I believe,” he says, “that some of the plaids are so large that a gentleman has two pairs of trowsers— one worn in the morning, the other in the evening, to show the entire pat' tern,”