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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year $lO <*) “ six months ' 500 “ t three months 2 60 Tbi-Y eekly —one year 6 00 six months 2 60 • \\ eekly— one year 200 ‘ six months 100 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, 2% cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. Ihe paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGIN, . Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. 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. <*•*■ 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. Insure in the Mobile Life, and thus in the event of your early death secure to your family, or those dependent on you for a living, a sum much larger than you could have expectod to lay up by slow accumulations in many years. Provision for one’s family or dependents should .obviously be imme diate. Death does not wait for slow accumulations. A policy of life insur ance is the best afid safest protection you can get for them, and the Mobile Life is the best company to insure ip. 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. 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.