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There is an ominous dispatch this
morning about German finances.
Grant has not named Delano’s suc
cessor. He had better select Jeffer
son Davis for the place.
The Mormons have been prosecuting
their religion in Canada under what
may be termed slight adversifies—such
as rotten eggs, rocks and the like.
New York has contributed $3,808 for
the Texas sufferers. Boston sent
$5,000 several days ago.
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The horse disease is disappearing
from New Jersey. It is now telegraphed
that no fatal case occurred.
We publish the details of an awful
tragedy at Rossville, Penn. “From the
altar to the grave is but a step,” is a
tiite old saying, and in this case has
an awful verification-.
M. J ules Rival has written us a very
entertaining letter from Paris, which
will be found in another column. We
shall be glad to have many favors of
the same sort.
The Commissioners for the purchase
of the Black Hills are succeeding but
indifferently. Instead of meeting with
Indians willing to sell out their right
to the country for $25,000, they are
threatened with breech-loading mus
kets. They have refused to again go
into council upon the subject, unless
some conditions precedent are agreed
upon. They had best be very particu
lar or another Gen. Canby massacre
may bo the result.
The Fall River strikers are sobering
down and going to work like sensible
people. These are no times for strik
ing for prices, and strikes. It is a
question of bread and meat with land
lord and workmen, and buckle and
tongue with everybody. It is simply
impossible for proprietors to pay the
wages obtained four and five years ago,
for if they did they would soon be
swamped and unable to pay anything
at all.
Washburne —whether Elihu, Burt,
Pete, John, Bill, Bob, Dick, General,
Colonel or Captain, we don’t know—
but Washburne has formed a French
alliance “to erect a monument on an
island of Long Island, to commemorate
American Independence.” Washbkrne's
statue should go ou the top by all
means. We have enough Washburnes’;
indeed, to build the whole tiling with—
Washburne base, Washburne middle,
Washburne top, and, after it’s finished,
will have plenty of Washburnes to
spare.
A letter recently published in this
paper from Barnwell Court House,
from our correspondent “ Fritz,” has
caused quite a sensation in South Car
olina. The Columbia Register says, in
response to the editor of the Green
ville News, that he “ made a slight mis
take in attributing that correspondence
to its accomplished editor, Mr. Ran
dall. He did not write it, and conse
quently could not have felt the joy
which you poetically ascribe to him of
having the dearest wish of his life grati
fied, etc.” The Register is correct. We
are not in the habit of writing our
“ fofeign correspondence ” in the back
office. The letter referred to was a
bona fide document, and came from a
high and responsible source.
The Atlanta Constitution's reporter
had a most interesting interview with
Geu. Austell, who has just returned
from the North. The views given by
this shrewd observer and practical man
aro published elsewhere. We note,
among other things, that Gen. Austell
estimates the number of persons out
of employment in the North at enor
mous figures. Many of these unfortu
nates may drift down iiere, and only
get out of the frying pan into the fire.
Mayor Estes has a patent method of
“passing them along”—according to
the report of some Georgia journals—
and we advise all contemplating a trip
in thid direction to abandon the idea
and get a support out of those who
have made them what they are.
The civil war in Turkey grows warm.
This morning’s dispatches say that
Servia has ordered everybody except
Chiefs of Departments to hold himself
in readiness to march. This looks like
that country will become immediately
embroiled in the war. The Herzego
vinians demand that taxation shall be
limited; that they be allowed to testify
before tribunals, and that their police
shall be native born. By which we see
that up to the present time, the Turk
has treated the Christian as. a serf. We
do not blame them for revolting from
such rule, and hope they will succeed
in Mirowing off the Moslem yoke. It is
a pity that Russia was not permitted,
in 1854, to put an end to Turkish rule
iu Europe. The fight was then not
settled, but simply adjourned to a fu
ture day.
The Chicago Custom House has
been examined and condemned. It
was one of the jobs of the discharged
architect, Mullins, around which a
nicely poised ring w r as formed for the
purpose of palming off rotten limestone
and worthless concrete upon the Gov
ernment for as good as granite. But
like one of Col. Brain’s pavements it
was liable to wash away in any hard
shower of rain. Bristow kicked Mul
lins out cf tho house and then sent a
■committee to look after this and other
plans of his, and found more or
less shenanigan underlying, running
through and cropping out. There are
too many Mullinses these days for
the general health of the public cash
of this country. It needs a good many
qjf their funerals.
Hje mgusti Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Notes About the Federal Capital.
Washington. September 28.—The dif
ficult}' with this country over Minister
Bassett’s harboring insurgents is aven
ged-
The Powhatan will not go to Ilayti.
Washington, September 29.—Tho
Signal Observer at Cape Hatteras re
ports that the steamer Foley, with the
Rebecca Clyde in tow, passed north.
Washington, September 28.—5304,584
legal tenders have been retired, being
80 per cent, of the national bank notes
issued during the first part of the
month. Outstanding legal tenders,
$373,941,121.
A twelve-incli steam whistle on the
light vessel off Chatham, Mass., during
thick weather will blow five seconds,
followed, after an interval of twenty
two seconds, by a biast of three sec
onds, followed by an interval of thirty
seconds.
Nothing has transpired regarding
Delano’s successor.
GERMAN FINANCES.
Tightness iu the Money Market.
London, September 28.—The Dailg
News' financial article lias the follow
ing : The condition of the German
money market has become most pecu
liar. Accounts from Berlin speak of
extraordinary tightness in money there.
The minimum iu the discount market
has advanced to five per cent., or
quite up to the bank rate of dis
count. The withdrawal of bullion
from the Bank of Prussia has
been on such a scale as to raise
the expectation that the bank rate
of discount will be advanced. Ger
many is carrying through a great trans
formation iu lier money system. This
tightness is the price paid. In addition
to substituting a uniform gold stand
ard for the varying silver standards
which formerly existed —an alteration
which will come into operation on New
Year’s day next—and a uniform system
of token money, the Government has
simultaneously altered the whole of
the currency and banking legislation.
It is the foregoing changes the pinch
of which is now felt.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Speech of Senator Wallace.
Clearfield, Pa., !■ ept. 28.—United
States Senator Wallace, in his speech
to-night, charged the condition of the
country on Republican mismanage
ment. The country could not resume
in 1875, because no preparation
has been made for it, and the condi
tion must precede the statutes. Tho
Erie platform does not mean indefinite
postponement of specie payments, but
it’s whole thought is for ease to an
overtaxed people.
We have paid over $3,879,000,000
since 1805 more than the whole debt of
Great Britain. Give the people time to
rest from this exhausting labor. Econ
omy iu the administration must open
the door to resumption, and we ought
to save the money paid tho National
Banks on their bonds by exchanging
bank currency for Government notes.
The path of the Democracy is to save
your money to pay your debts. The
true money of a Republic is hard
money. We reach the latter through
the former, but the people must have
time to recuperate their exhausted
energies. State finances and State is
sues occupied much of the speech.
Minor Telegrams.
New York, September 28.—The horse
disease is rapidly abating. It has not
been fatal in any known instance.
Subscriptions in this city to the re
lief fund for the sufferers by the Texas
cyclone aggregate $3,808, which have
been forwarded.
Ned O’Baldwin, the Irish giant, was
shot twice by his partner, in a liquor
store. Mortal.
Baltimore, September 28.—Colum
bus S. S. Crook, aged forty-five, of the
firm of Sinclair & Cos., upholsterers and
paper hangers, cut his throat.
St. Louis, September 28.—Mr. Davis
returned from Colorado, much im
proved in health.
New York, September 28.—A youth
of twenty, convicted of breaking into
his parents apartments and stealing SB,
was sentenced to twenty years in the
penitentiary.
Omaha, September 28.—The mail
train on the Cuicago, Burlington and
Quincy Road, consisting of two bag
gage and three passenger cars, went
down aii embankment 30 feet high. One
person was killed and 50 hurt. All but
two are doing well.
BLACK HILLS* NEGOTIATION.
The Commissioners in a Ticklish Situ
ation.
Red Cloud Agency, via Cheyenne,
September 28.—The Commission de
cided not to meet the Indians again un
til they determine what they will do.
The chiefs have been holding a council.
Much turbulence among young men.
Frequent shots around the agency night
and day.
THE FALL RIVER MILLS.
Resuming Work—Matters Quieting
Down,
Fall River, September 28.—Work
men were unmolested to-day. The
mills are working about the same as
yesterday. The workmen ar§ making
certain propositions, which it is hoped
will be accepted by employers and the
Fall works resumed.
Philadelphia Civil Rights.
Philadelphia, September 28. —There
will probably be a suit for damages
growing out of the refusal of the Mount
Moriaii Cemetery Association to re
ceive for burial the remains of Henry
Jones, colored, the well known caterer
of this city.
TnE News and Courier announces the
death of James T. Aldrich, Esq., which
took place on Sunday night, at quarter
past ten o’clock. Mr. Aldrich was one
of the leaders of the Barnwell Bar, and
a highly respected citizen of the State.
The tidings of his death will be re
ceived with general sorrow.
■
Atlanta Constitution ; The sail tellingecion
reached us yesterday of the death of Maj.
Thompson Allen, at the old homestead in
Banks qpunty, on Friday last, the 17th
inst.. of ulceration of the stomach, from
which complaint he has suffered for several
years. Ho was buried on Sunday with Ma
sonic honors, attended by one of the larg
est a seniblages of persons ever collected
in Banks county. He was born on the 20th
day of September, 1820, near the Hudson
river, in that portion uf tho county of Ha
bersham, now in the county of Banks.
• It is formally announced that Messrs.
Moody and Sankey wifi go to New York.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
atht city and congratulate the people of
1 that.
AUGUSTA, GcJN., SEPTEMBER A9. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Situation in Turkey—Affairs Be
coming More and More Complicated
London, September 28. —Tbe Herze
govinian Insurgents demand a limita
tion of taxation, admission of evidence
of Christians by tribunals and police
selected from inhabitants.
Ragusa, September 28.—The general
position of affairs in the insurrection
ary districts is unchanged. Turkish
communication is only maintained by
a strong column. Insurgents are in
creasing but lack supplies.
Belgrade, September 28.—A1l public
functionaries, except chiefs of depart
ments are notified to hold themselves
in readiness for military service.
The Landwehr cavalry of the district
of Belgrade is ordered to the frontier.
A special dispatch to the Times from
Vienna says that nothing is known
there in the best informed circles of
any ultimatum from Turkey to Servia.
The Prince of Wales.
London, September 28.—The Serapis
has proceeded on her voyage to Brin
disi where the Prince of Wales is to
embark for India.
From China.
London, September 28. —A Shanghai
dispatch says the Chinese government
shuns the effectual performance of
terms and Minister Wade will leave
Pekin October 13th, unless a satisfac
tory settlement is couceded.
The Eeho says the government has
ordered considerable augmentation to
the artillery at Singapore and Hong
Kong.
Piano Music for Americans Heathen.
Liverpool, September 28. —Among
the passengers by the Parthia is Hans
Von Bulow, pianist.
An Irish Flood.
Cork, Ireland, September 28.—The
river rose several feet, inundating a
portion of the city and flooding the
country for miles around. There are
similar accounts from other portions of
Ireland.
Another Canadian Failure.
Montreal, September 28.—Lanque
doc, Trotter & Fournier, butchers,
failed. Liabilities, $120,000.
Montreal, September 28. Indict
ments against 15 anti-Vascination and
13 Guibord rioters were laid before the
grand jury to-day.
Religious Troubles in Canada.
Toronto, September 28.—Michael
Christie was committed for trial on a
charge of firing into a crowd during a
Catholic procession. Bail refused. Post
ers are out calling upon Orange young
Britons to organize unless Archbishop
Lynch be persuaded to forbid the pil
grimage next Sunday. Serious conse
quences aro apprehended.
Cardinal McCloskey.
Rome September 28.—Cardinal Mc-
Closkey received a letter from Cardinal
Cullen announcing the entire Irish
Episcopate assembled at Maynooth
adopted resolution congratulating him.
on bis elevation to the Sacred College.
Mormon Religion Under Difficulties.
London, Ont., September 28.—The
Mormon apostles, to the number of 200,
have formed a congregation here. Their
meeting last night was broken up by
disorderlies.
The British. Turf.
London, September 28. —The Great
Eastern Railway handicap, at New
market, was won by Coeruleus ; Slum
ber second and Cataclyson third.
Vienna, September 28.—Servia, re
plying to Turkey’s complaint about
Servians invading Bosnia, declares her
self unable to restrain her people any
more than Austria, who lias not pre
vented one thousand Croats from join
ing Herzegovina.
BeJLgrade, September 28.—The reply
of the minority of the Skuptschina to
Milan’s address demands the immedi
ate declaration of war.
Franco-American Centennial Monu
ment.
Paris, September 28.—A committee
was formed called the Franeo-Ameri
can Union, with Washburn President
and Marquis Noalles and M. Bartholdi
Honorary Presidents. The object is to
erect a monument on an island in Long
Island Sound to commemorate the hun
dredth year of American Independence.
Marine Disaster.
London, September 29.—The Ida
Bristol, for Pensacola, put into Ply
mouth leaky. Arrived at a British
port the Empress, frym Bull river, with
the loss of the mainmast and sails
split.
A Leeds Foundry Burned.
London, September 28.—The Victoria
Foundry at Leeds was destroyed by
lire. Loss, $200,000. Fifteen hundred
are thrown out of employment.
Madrid, September 28.—Gen. Dor
regarav is ill, and has quitted Estella
and gone to the baths of Lorio, on the
Bay of Biscay. The report is con
firmed that Don Carlos dismissed Gen.
Saballs from his command. Gen. Cas
telio lias succeeded. The Alfouistscon
tinue to push operations in the neigh
borhood of Oyarzun and Hernam. A
further contingent of two thousand
soldiers will embark for Cuba the first
and second prox.
The Carlist War.
Madrid, September 28. —Reported
dissensions occurred among the Car
lists’ leaders, Dorregaray, Mendara
and Perula, which Don Carlo3 himself
was unable to reconcile. The Carlist
leader Gamundi has been defeated at
Castello, iu Catalonia.
A Break in the Direct Cable.
New York, September 28.—A break
has occurred iu the direct cable on the
fishing banks between Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia, which is supposed to
have been caused by the anchor of a
fishing schooner. Steps will be imme
diately taken to repair the break.
London, September 28. —The authori
ties of the direct cable announce that
the break is iu shallow water and that
the repairing ship goes out immedi
ately. _
FROM THE ALTAR TO THE GRAVE.
A Terrible Tragedy —A Bride Shot
Dead by Her Husband—The Hus
band Kills Himself.
Roseville, Fa., September 28—Win.
Russell, a widower living with his
daughter, introduced to the house a
girl named Mary Stakes, about whom
there was some scandal. Russell left
the house, purposing marrying Stakes.
The daughter left and met Horton
Hurst, an engagement with whom the
opposition of Russell had broken off.
Hurst persuaded Miss Russell to marry
him. They were eating their wedding
dinner with friends at a tavern when
RuSsell entered and attacked Hurst
with a knife. Hurst drew a revolver,
the daughter threw herself between
the two and was shot dead. Hurst,
seeing her dead, shqt himself, falling
fifeless by her side,
MUNICIPAL |iFFAIRS.
* {
Hon. Charles Este aqd the Mayorally
—ln Case of a (, naiige, the Best Se
lection as His SjcciVsor—The Right
Man in the Big t Place —Will Cin
cinnatus Leave'. Hif Farm to Save
Rome ?
Editor Constr uti|nalist : I see
intimated in your i pajfsr a possibility
that Mayor Estes will not consent to
be his own suecesj or.* It seems to me
there is much ftn te |'i the view pre
sented by many oi hi* friends that as
he has commenc* 1 the great enter
prises for which 1 s Id ministration is
and wifi continue \ ) 'l; distinguished,
he should go throt jh vitli them, lead
they, either to dib* straus failure or tri
umphant success, vita rich returns to
the city iu iuc ea.-> ed population,
strength and weait i. ;£rhe Mayor and
his policy shouL ncV be judged by
present prospects, or |hese are shad
owed now by the : aril financial cloud
which overcasts t /erf enterprise and
everybody with its j loe|n. The immense
work he lias alreat / accomplished, and
tiie inevitably lur e f|ture advantage
to the city, when hisf but temporary
depression shall 1 avA passed by, are
the true criteria bj wli eh to judge of
the leading feat urt ; of! lis bold and far
seeing policy. The? *uti Ire will vindicate
his judgment aid forecast; and
win for him and hii I ad niniatration the
plaudits of the ei ire ! community. It
is to be hoped, tin ref< re, that he will
consent to serve i util* his great work
of improvement is flashed. He in a
man of unquestiot ;d |ihrewdness, en
ergy and financial: abaity. But, if he
is not to be his ow successor, then it,
becomes exceeding r important to the
citizens of Augus i i|> consider well
and deliberately ii ho (that successor
shall be. He certs nht ought to be a
man of much expe enfe, large brains,
and first-class tin metal ability. We
have many excelh it |nen who could
fill the office accept iblj? to the people
and creditably to thQnselves; but all
of these, or at leas a large proportion
of them, perhaps, avf not the com
prehensive capacity feV managing the
finances that will >e %io urgently de
manded in the , resint emergency.
Every man has his ov|i peculiar capa
bilities and aptitudi , aid there be many
who have large c pafity for almost
any and everythir |ut are wholly
wanting in that ren ullible intellectual
element which enal eslrne to deal with
and manage mouct a yd. other values
with safety, eeonon y aid success. In
deed, there are ver fel meu who have
this gift (for it is a j. iftfx) any consider
able extent. Now an#.; then we find
one possessing it in an Imminent degree.
Such an one I have in joy mind’s eye,
who has long bee ajjresideut of this
city; and if he ou?l be prevailed
upon to quit bis el seclu
sion, as lie did oi aepefore, when ho
served this county i bl;| in the Senate
of Georgia, lie won 1 ijako a first-rate
Mayor, and prove mi&self fully equal
to all the demands ■ t me present im
portant crisis in ou nVmicipal affairs.
Hon. Jno.Davison is Ini person to whom
1 refer, and while it islelieved the po
sition would be disti itilul, certainly not,
desirable, to him, y< t if these trouble
some times of gre; pel uniary distress,
felt b} corporations asivell as individu
als, he could hard!} refuse to serve the
city of Augusta and to her the full
benefit of his excel; ntfiound judgment
and superior finane and Ikill and know!- j
edge. Joe Brown icier said a truer
tiling than that “ t. e fnau who knows
how to take care of ref-own means and
increase them, will, otjwer things being
equal, be the saf■ t *aau to entrust
with the means <> ofilers.” Colonel
Davison has been t e irchiteet of his
own fortune, and mf ever been con
sidered one of t.i e Ablest financiers
around the Council iotrd of the Geor
gia Railroad md lartking Company,
and this is saying u > ifttle for him, for
that Board of Diree orf. is composed of
meu whose financia aUlity ranks with
the first in the wlol*> country. Col.
Davison’s capacities; ;|nd accomplish
ments would emineiSti}# fit him for pre
siding, and presidnlg f.vell and grace
fully, over the nd flourishing and
ever glorious old ci y it Augusta.
•
LETTER PRO I JILTLEDUE,
Gathering of the Cl Defiant Bache
lors—Death—lnq! o'Aiments — Rise in
tlie Valueof Land Die Hkies Bright
ening. - $
[Correspondence of 1 e Constitutionalist.]
Rutledge, Sep Mi*>er 27th, 1875.
The cotton crop it tf ing gathered in
very fast, and is s I(.| or shipped as
fast as it can bo [|in|ed and packed.
The highest, price |ieje has not been
over 11 1 J cents, b*t, lis going fast at
that. Everybody is fieediug money.
Business is becomligfbiisk ; the mer
chants are receiviilr Y-cheir fall goods
and selling them rijiii ly. The places
where they sell r< <| v. liskey for cash
are becoming live if j 'ter a long hot
summer of quietudtl 'J Ue cotton money
is now freely spen% r|i Saturday eve
nings, while the “ li- ys ” and “nig.
gers ” have lots of J m
The matrimonial n|ket is very dull
in this beat. Tin efare several old
bachelors around lv rej-vho come under
the $25 tax law pas. if by the last Leg
islature, “That a mil over 25 years
old, and not marrio* , ,‘*iould be taxed
$25 a year until he O'Gmariy.” Some
of them say they w ufl prefer to pay
the tax. If they a- i t|mte, I shall give
their names. |
Died, on tho 21s! otl., little Bobbie,
oldest and last son f Id. B. and Annie
Ethridge, aged (5 ■ e.frs and 4 days.
Bobbie was a brighj I*tie boy, petted
by all who knew hi r for Ids lamb-like
kindness and an die disposition
always in a good’ )B*ured, sprightly
mood, with a bright olen countenance,
ready for a plousas# answer to any one.
It lias only been a t&x months since
Mr. Ethridge lost 1 isllittle baby boy,
less than a year oh f’his last sad oc
currence leaves hir-; oily one child, a
sweet little girl. T icq whole commu
nity deeply sympa. fcii*,e with tho be
reaved parents. |
lintledge is becon’ m|; a car manufac
turing port. Mr. S dfey Crossley has
built a fine crank c nl at his carriage
factory for Mr. H. V . iCoggins, the su
pervisor (4 the teh {j '-.‘l'li liui*. The car
is a neat cab ai*|| funs light and
smooth, with very i tt*e motive power
to get up good spe L ?
Land is going u this neighbor
hood very fast. Oi< tf oomsedge fields
that sold last Fall fj rlbree dollars per
acre changed hands! other day and
brought seven doiiaas; >er acre. It had
been lying out for ilvt ity years, grow
ing up in briers an fp re trees, when it
sold for three dollali er acre, but this
year it will make alb avy bale of cot
ton to every two ao|?.& There has been
several changes ill tiie ownership of
land around here i|;clutly, all private
transactions. . 1 i
Times are brighteiiiig in this portion
of the S t .ato The low price
of cotton is the rldl drawback, but
t,liere is more cortl trade than usual,
which will balance iftal. R.
LETTER FROM PARIS.
Life on the Ocean Wave—The French
Line —Why it is the Most Popular-
Good Eating and Gay Society—Death
and Burial at Sea—The Story of a
Deserter—The Beautiful City.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist,]
Paris, September, 1875.
It was on the steamer Pereire that I
crossed the Atlantic. By giving the
preference to the French iine, I did not
differ from the majority of travelers,
as the cabin passengers’ list readies
always a higher number on the Trans
atlantic Company’s steamers than ou
any other.
One of the several causes why that
company is so largely patronized is be
cause the table is furnished with the
best dishes, every day, prepared in a
different style and with all sorts of deli
cacies. This is an important question
for any one who is used to travel on
the sea. He knows his appetite shall
be twice greater. If, on the contrary,
he has none, then he wants to be tempt
ed by diversity.
A crowd of people, larger than usual
was on the Pereire when we left New
York. I noticed it, and had very soon
an explanation of this when I saw
among the passengers a venerable gen
tlemen surrounded by many persons
showing marks of deep respect; and
then I neard it was his Eminence, the
new Cardinal McClosky, Archbishop of
New York. The first excitement passed,
his Eminence was not more than any
other sinner; he was easy, kind, modest,
courteous, answering to ail his interlo
cutors, talking without pretension or
pedantry. His dress had nothing pe
culiar except under the collar of his coat
you could perceive about half an inch
of his red cravat. His episcopal ring
was not more conspicuous on his finger
than the one any gentleman wears (for
instance the one sported by my friend,
N. F. de Waal, the able Secretary of
several companies and societies in Au
gusta).
To have his Eminence amongst us
was an honor, but it was certainly a
pleasure to meet numbers of pretty and
lovely ladies, who by certain laisser
aller have made very short tho eleven
days of our trip. Believe my experience.
There is no drug or medicine against
sea sickness, and tho only cure is a
good table with a gay company. Never
too much of it! *
The first day spent on a steamer is a
frozen one. No friendship, no interest
ing conversation, everybody on the
look out! The second day the ice is
melted. The third they are all friends,
every one has published by the only
press used ou board —the mouth
and tongue of the people having
nothing to do—his history, his
situation, his life, the object of his
voyage. Tho last day many aro sorry
to have to tell good-bye to such good
friends, obliging neighbors, old ac
quaintances of eleven years-—no, I mean
eleven days!
On a steamer going to Europe must
be found tbe most striking contrasts.
This gentleman not happy, that other
poor, in distress, sometimes sent back
by charity. This one praising America
above all, the other proclaiming that
country uncivilized and remorseless.
That induces me to toll you the story
of a man I noticed standing always by
himself, looking poor, sad and dumb.
That silence made me more desirous to
penetrate the mystery, aud I took the
quickest way. I asked him. “He went
to Mexico witli the French army, he
was a soldier aud had served ten years.
One day lie had a rendezvous with a
Mexican girl, where he went of course
without any official mission or permis
sion. When ho came back his regi
ment had left the camp quite unexpect
edly and a troop of Mexicans was iu
sight where tho French wei’e before.
Our soldier ran iu the woods and be
came a deserter. After many dangers
lie crossed the frontiers and found em
ployment iu Texas, Arkansas, Califor
nia* and other States, but nostalgia
had invaded his heart and his brain.
He has never laughed once since that
time, and in the first city he could
meet a French Consul he went and
accused himself as a deserter. The
Consul listened to him and replied:
‘You have no papers to prove what you
say. I have nothing to do in the mat
ter. Go!’ Then lie marched aud
marched, as the wandering Jew, work
ing in every place, saving money enough
to carry him to the nearest city where he
would find another Consul, and begin
ning again to work, save and wander.
Every time hurrying to denounce him
self and meeting the same answer. At
last one took on him to send communi
cations to the French authorities and
secure a free steerage passage for this
new kind of solicitor.”
Now we are about to arrive. The
coast is in sight. The heart of every
body beats last, aud this old soldier
feels his own breaking too, but he
comes to be convicted, to be sent to
hard labor for a number of years, 15 to
20, perhaps to be shot. I heard him
say. “Better to be shot on my land than
to live anywhere else.” I shall never
forget ins face, his look, his tone. La
belle France lias an irresistible attrac
tion for all her children, but I never
saw an example like this, and I thought
it was worth recording.
Another sad incident of the voyage
was the death of the stewardess, but
not by accident. She died of an inter
nal inflammation. She knew she had to
leave this world and one hour before,
late in the evening she asked to use a
white sheet to wrap her body instead
of a rough sail cloth. At the next sun
rise, after a requiem mass said by Rev.
A. Trevis, of lowa, she was thrown
over-board in a white sheet. The iron
attached to her feet sent her to the
bottom. It did not take a quarter of
a second to disappear. The waves had
tiie same color as before. The steamer
was going her full speed, and it was
all over with tiie deceased.
The following day was exceedingly
pleasant. Tiie sea was as quiet and
smooth as a looking-glass. Neverthe
less a young married lady fell sick on
tho deck and was carried down to her
cabin where she staid the balance of
the trip. The public rumor on board was
that if wo had no new accident, not
withstanding the death of the stew
ardess we would arrive with the same
number of human beings. This was a
rebus hard to guess for any passenger
who had not noticed the sick person.
How will be received this anecdote?
In France, it can be said and admitted
anywhere. In England it would be
shocking.
For the only time, we had intense
fogs the last day. We could not see
beyond us thirty yards. It was dan
gerous and consequently we had tho
pilot on board very late. We must
have passed near several without being
seen. Tbe one who came was number
3. You don’t see the importance of it
but I do, as it was the number I had at
one pool and that brought 280 francs
in my pocket. Those pools are a
general custom on the steamers ; they
create some excitement aud are a pre
text for drinking champagne after the
result is known. You know how it is.
Every city has a limited number of
pilots. There are 40 in New York and
28 at Havre. The same number of
tickets are issued at a fixed price,
and the winner has the full amount.
Those pilots have a big number paint
ed on their sails, and when oue is in
sight, everybody, armed with spy
glasses, tries to discover the number.
It is an interesting and anxious mo
ment.
Number 3 lauded us at Havre
safely. lam twice obliged to him. We
found the French employes of the Cus
tom House and the porters very noisy.
They could do as well and talk less
We leave the Custom House and the
streets seem very narrow. It is the
inevitable first impression when com
ing from the United States where they
are so broad, principally in Augusta.
Two hours later, we are in Paris
I will write you another letter about
that wonderful cit} 7 . Only one word to
day, and reserving all: Paris is more
charming than ever—good dinners,
visits, cold baths, theatres, rides, ex
cursions to the country, etc., etc., etc.
Time is flying away. That does not
prevent me from thinking of Augusta,
of the friends left there, and it would
be possible to find a few minutes to
spend very pleasantly in reading the
Constitutionalist, if Col. Stevenson.
Had kept his promise and forwarded it
to me. Unfortunately, lie forgot to do
it every day since I left. Please ac
cept that scolding, en passant, and ac
knowledge receipt. J. Rival.
PROFITS OF RETAILING LIQUOR.
Tiie Most Lucrative Business—One
Hundred Per Cent, on Lager Beer —
Six Hundred Per Cent, on Poison
Sold in the Slums.
[New York Sun.]
There is probably no line of business
in New’ York, or perhaps in any other
large city of the United States, where
the prohibition law is not in force, in
which so much competition is encoun
tered as in the retail liquor trade, iu
New York tiie business consists chiefly
of two branches. One represented by
bar-rooms, including the gorgeous
Broadway gin palace, as well as the
less pretentious “corner liquor” store,
where Bourbon and rye whiskeys,rum,
gin, brandy aud wines are sold, as
well as a considerable quantity of ale,
and a little lager, flat and unpalatable.
The second by the rapidly multiplying
lager beer salaous, wdiere spirituous
liquors are not in much demand, and
cool, foaming lager constitutes the
staple drink. Of the former class there
are unnumbered dealers in the front
ranks of the trade, In the latter the
Tribune rum-shop unquestionably takes
tho lead. Mr. Bial, of the firm of Ros
ter & Bial, figures his profits at 100 per
cent, and this may be taken as a fair
sample of the returns expected by ail
liquor dealers in New York, though
there is auother class who make much
more.
The proprietors of the Tribune sa
loon willingly gave the following in
formation: They sell no American
lager except George Euret’s, for which
they pay $lO per barrel. Each barret
contains 400 glasses, which, at five
cents a glass, amounts to $20 —the ex
pected profit of 100 per cent. The im
ported lager, Bavarian beer, which is
the only kind Koster & Bial sell, con
sisting of Culmbacher, Erlauger and
Kitzinger, is purchased by the barrel
at the rate of eighty cents a gallon, and
retails at ten cents a half-pint glass, or
$1.60 a gallon. All spirituous liquors
retailed by tho glass afford about the
same profits.
Besides their Tribune saloon, the firm
have at 480 Chatham square probably
tho most extensive beer-bottling es
tablishment in the United States. Here
they put up from 800 to 1,000 dozen of
Ehret’s lager every day. The bottles
are sold at ten cents each, and contain
two glasses, so I,hat no extra profit is
made for the trouble and expense of
bottling, proving the justness of Mr.
Bial's remark, that, the most profitable
way to sell any kind of liquor is to
retail it by the glass across the bar.
Imported Bavarian beer is sold at $2
a dozen, giving a profit of not quite 109
per cent. Beer that is sold quickly
always gives a larger profit a glass,
says Mr. Bial, because there is more
foam and consequently less beer, while
if sales are slow the beverage becomes
Hat and necessitates filling the glass
to the brim. The firm always expects
to take in from S3OO to SSOO a day.
Their average is about S4OO, giving a
daily profit of S2OO, or, assuming that
they close on Sundays, $62,000 a year,
out of which they had to pay the tall
tower SB,OOO rent, leaving a remainder
of $54,600.
An immense quantity of beer bottled
by tiie Tribune rum-shop proprietors is
sent to the Southern States, both in
winter and summer. Ou tiie labels of
the bottles of the Bavarian beer the
tall tower gets a gratuitous advertise
ment, and the tens of thousands of
beer drinkers in the South daily see a
very excellent representation of the
edifice erected in honor of Horace
Greeley, with the words “Culmbacher,”
“Erlanger,” or “Kitzinger,” over it, and
doubtless they look upon it, not wholly
erroneously, as a rum-mill of colossal
proportions.
But profitable as the retail liquor
trade is, very few of those who follow
it meet with the success that has at
tended Koster & Bial, because none
except them have the advantage of
carrying on their business beneath Jay
Gould’s tall tower.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM
DEATH.
Colonel Anthony Still Lives with a Sev
ered Artery A Problem for the
Doctors.
The Rochester (Now YorkJ Democrat
announces the arrival in that city of
Col. D. R. Anthony, of Leavenworth,
Kan., who was almost mortally wound
ed about four months since by a pistol
shot by Embry, the editor of the Leav
enworth Appeal. The Democrat says:
There are many things connected
with Colonel Anthony’s case which are
of public interest, and hence it was that
a report er of tbe Democrat and Chroni
cle called upon that gentleman last
evening. He was found at the resi
dence of his sister, Miss Susan B. An
thony. Our representative was cor
dially received by Miss Anthony, and
by her introduced to the Colonel. He
was reclining upon a couch in a cozy
little sitting-room, and about him were
gathered several of his relatives and
friends.
Notwithstanding the fact that Col.
Anthony has been so near death’s
door, his face and figure show no
emaciation. He is a tall, finely-formed
mail, and appears to be tho embodi
ment of manly strength. It will b<? re
membered that the bullet which gave
his wound severed the main artery of
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 47.
the right breast. It was a
long time impossible for him to recover.
The majority of the surgeons in Kan
,sas advised ligation, but l)r. Gross, the
celebrated surgeon of Philadelphia, re
commended compression. Following
this advice, two surgeons stood over
Col. Anthony for ten weeks, alternating
I every other hour, compressing the
artery with the linger. The compres
sion was removed two weeks ago. On
inquiry of our reporter as to the pres
ent condition of the wound, Col. An
thony said:
“Well, Eastern doctors do not agree
with those out our way in relation to
the nature of the wound. I should
think I was visited by at least twenty
surgeons, some of them noted in their
profession, and they all agreed that the
artery only was cut. Yet Dr. Gross,
his son, and Dr. Agnew, all celebrated
surgeons of Philadelphia, give me an
other theory. Dr. Moore, of this city,
by whom I was examined to-day, ex
plained my caso exactly as they did.
These gentlemen say that the sub
clavian vein is also cut, and that the
blood passing through this aperture
from the artery to the vein is returned
immediately to the heart. The scien
tific name given this ease by the sur
geons is arterial-venous aneurism. The
difference in the opinion of the West
ern surgeons was that it was simply an
arterial aneurism. One surgeon only
in Kansas differed from the rest, and
he said it was an aneurismal varix.
Reporter—How does this theory of
our Eastern surgeons affect the proba
bility of entire recovery?
Col. Anthony—lt renders it more
doubtful. The case is one which can
be reached by no medical treatment,
and no surgical operation can be of any
avail save ligation, which all concede
should not be undertaken except as a
last resort in the attempt to save life. I
may ultimately recover completely. It
is, however, a question of time.
At this juncture Col. Anthony re
quested our reporter to place his ear
against his breast, when the rushing
sound of the blood, forced by the pul
sation of the heart through the apera
ture in the artery, could be distinctly
heard. It sounded not unlike the noise
of the working of a steamer at a dis
tance.
“Two weeks ago,” the Colonel con
tinued, “the compression was removed,
and then I first began to hear that
sound. I commenced eating as usual
about that time, and have gained at
the rate of a pound a day since then. I
now weigh one hundred and fifty-seven
pounds. My former weight was one
hundred and eighty-six pounds. The
jar of the journey did not injure me in
the least, so far as I can see; and, in
fact, I feel much better than when I
ieft home. There is, of course, an un
usual feeling in my breast, arising from
the movement of the blood through the
aperture. The nearest comparison I
can make is that it feels like a heavy
palpitation. Of course, at times it
makes me very nervous. There is no
other case like it in the country. Cases
of aneurism are very rare. There are
but a dozen or so in the United States.”
“ SMASHING.”
llow Vassal* Girls Make Love to Each
Other.
[Buffalo (N. Y.) Express.]
I wonder if any of your readers have
ever heard of the practice of “smash
ing” at Vassal’ College. If not, I fancy
that many might be somewhat inter
ested in hearing about one of thatmost
curious freaks ever indulged in by
sboolgirls. I know, whereof I speak,
for have been for over two years a wit
ness of this wild species of insanity.
When a young woman at Vassar sees
another whose appearance, general
style, talents or eyes (especially the
latter) she admires, instead of seeking
her acquaintance in an orthodox man
ner, straightway she announces to her
friends and cronies, with the most
mysterious and confidential air, that
she is hopelessly, completely, entirely,
utterly “smashed”—iu fact, “dead
gone.” Then follows a series of the
most idiotic performances. “Smash”
notes are written, (legant flowers,
boxes of candy, costly books, etc., are
sent by the“smashee”to the “smasher;”
appointments are made in darkcoridors
to kiss each other good night; smirk
ing and ogling are iu vogue in the
dining-room and in the chapel. This
state of affairs is kept up for some
time—length of time depend upon the
violence of the attack. Then the
“ smash ” develops into an astonishing
friendship, or the parties drop one an
other by mutual consent. It is not un
common to hear some bright girl say:
“ Oh, I am so ‘ smashed ’ on Miss So
and-so. I just adore the ground she
walks on. 1 have the 4 palp ’ so when
I see her that I can scarcely stand
up.” I have known girls whose
great powers of intellect could not
be denied, who stood at the head of
their classes, to make absolute fools of
themselves over other girls. I have
seen git Is cry themselves sick because
their loved ones smiled more favorably
on some rival than on them. I have
known of $6 boxes of eonfectonery and
sls boquets being sent through some
zealous friend by the victim to the vic
tor. And speaking of these tokens of
pure unadulterated affection reminds
me of something quite funny.—
The offerings are often more
practical than poetical. Dishes of
pineapple, hot lemonade, fried oys
ters, etc., are common, and one young
woman of an intensely practical
turn of mind sent to her adored one a
hot boiled sweet potato ! It is quite
the thing at Vassar to have the reputa
tion of being a successful “smasher.”
One enterprising young woman boasted
of her three hundred and fifty victims.
She was a Maine girl, and her charm
lay in the fact that she was quite gen
tlemanly in appearance. Very few
reach the zenith of two dozen, and if
one were to successfully aspire to more
than that I think she might say: “Now
let thy servant depart in peace.” I think
also that under the circumstances
it would be the most laudable petition
she could possibly put up. Now. Mr.
Editor, that 1 have shown the ridicu
lous side of this matter, I might con
tinue to discuss in mournful numbers
of the serious side, of the arguments it
furnishes for co-education; but I have
some spark of kindly feeling ieft for
your readers, therefore I will spare
them the ghastly recital.
A Vassar Girl.
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A BUSINESS TALK.
What Geu. Alfred Austell Says of the
Business Outlook at the North—The
People of the South Have Little to
Fear from Northern Panics.
Gen. Alfred Austell, President of the
Atlanta National Bank, and one of tho
shrewdest financiers and fiuancial ob
servers in tho South, yesterday re
turned from a trip to New York. A
reporter of the Constitution had a brief
conversation with him, the leading
points of which are herewith pre
sented :
A Quick Trip.
Tho General remarked that he had
made a really flying trip home, as he
left New York on Saturday afternoon
at 3 o’clock and arrived iu Atlanta this
(Monday) morning at 9 o’clock, the time
beiQg just forty-two hours. He came
through Baltimore, Washington, Rich
mond aud via the Air-Line Railroad to
Atlanta.
Condition of Affairs North.
Reporter—General, how did you find
bussiness affairs iu the North ?
Geu. Austell—Well, sir, the condition
of the North is just about this : They
have been upon the top of the house
ever since the war aud now they are
having to come down. Tho shrinkage
of values throughout New England and
New York city has been immense.
Rents of property have fallen off from
their maximum at least 50 per cent.,
and there are more houses to rent in
New York than I ever knew to be tho
case before. Jobbing bouses and cir
cles are not doing much, as. the lines
of trade are being concentrated iu tho
wholesale circles. There is very little
money there except iu the hands of a
few, and they demand the very best
securities before they will let it go out
of their possession.
Reporter—What is the geueral sen
timent there upon the currency ques
tion?
Gen. A.—The moneyed men consider
that it would be national suicide to in
flate the currency because they know
that there is enough money already
afloat to answer all the demands of tho
commerce of tho country. Yet, there
aro some there, too, who are in favor
of expansion.
Reporter—lt may be all very true
that there is quite enough money for
all the necessities of commerce and
trade, but those who most need the
use of it eanuot get it.
Gen. A.—But if the have somethiug
to give for it they can get it.
Reporter—ls their labor, their ca
pacity to produce, manipulate and
manufacture, worth nothing? , .
Gen. A.—Most assuredly; but there is
no demand for their labor since produc
tion and manufactures have already
outrun the possibilities of consumption.
There are more goods already made
than there is demand for, and while I
was in New York cases of calicoes wero
sold as low down as $4.25, which was a
ruinous price. Much of theso goods
aro not worth upon the market hardly
what tho raw material cost at first
hands.
A Startling Fact.
Reporter—What, then, are these non
self-supporting peoplo to do? llow aro
they to live?
Gen. A.—They must be taken care of
by the public. I was told that there
are a million and a half of people in
the New England States and New York
who will have to be taken care of by
the people of tho country this winter,
as they have no means of a livelihood
except their labor, and for that there
is and will be no demand. Besides all
this the city debt of New York is $137,-
000,000, the result of which is high
taxation. Property is valued at two
thirds its cost, aud upon this there is
a city tax iu New York city of three
per cent., making the property value
less to a great extent. Any one can
forecast the result of this state of
aflairs. As I tell you, they must come
down into the basement and climb up
again. They will, as I told one of tho
leading men, have to see hard times
just as we did. They have been doing
business since the war upon the infla
tion which is ’ brought about. They
found themselves with three thousand
millions ol dollars more money, iu
greenbacks aud bonds, than they had
before, all our negro property and
wealth being lost to us and thus gained
to them. But they have lost all their
war fortunes, real estate has fallen
from fancy figures and they are now
compelled to come down to “hard pan”
in everything.
Tlieir Dependence.
Reporter—Are they not expecting a
revival of trade this winter?
Geu. A.—They are depending upon
the West and South to bring iu sorno
trade. They calculate to get our cot
ton cheap. Goods are now cheaper
than when cotton was from 5 to 11 cents
per pound. If they cannot sell the
goods they make they cannot pay big
prices for cotton, aud they think that
the price of this crop will go down to
10 cento. Contracts are made now to
deliver cotton there in November for
from 12% to 12% cents per pound.—
Last year we made upwards of four
million bags of cotton aud yet the peo
ple can’t consume all the goods made.
Matters will not be bettered much by
the present crop.
Reporter—The South will not feel
the effects very seriously, wili it ?
Gen. A.—No, for we are better off to
day than the North. They have their
paupers and their peoplo out of work,
and must provide for them. We are
an agricultural people and produce, by
which, if a man has anything made he
can sell it. If he has it, there’s a mar
ket price for it. Such people are always
safe, but those who cannot make and
honee have nothing to sell must suffer.
They must steal, commit crime, or be
provided for by public charity. We
have produced that which is staple and
there is plenty of money to buy it, and
we will sell and profit by our industry.
Our prosperity is measured ouly by
our industry. This you may rely upon
as an axiom to the Southern people.
About Home Matters.
Reporter—What do you thifik, Gen
eral of our home out-look?
Gen. A.—Our condition is in every
way promising. We are far better off
than the Northern people, all things
considered. Our Georgia 7 per ceut.
bonds are commanding par in New
York to-day. We owe less money than
almost any other set of people in the
Union and made our crops this year
with 50 per cent, less money tha'n in
any year since the war. What wo want,
to do is simply to practice economy,
husband our resources and deveiop
our industries. I don’t think the South
has anything to fear from the prostra
tion and panics in the North; we’ll sell
all we produce, whether at high or low
prices makes little matter, for we’ll buy
what we need at proportionately higfi
or low figures.
After some further general observa
tions in line with tho above, the coir*
versation terminated.