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The attention of the people of the
Ninth District is called to the fact that
they have a vacancy at West Point. If
they have any young man who wishes
to quit his plow handles to learn the
trade of war, there is now a chance.
The Third Avenue Savings Bank, of
New York, suspended, with $1,340,000
liabilities. It _is telegraphed that it
will not be able pay more than fifty
cents on the dollar. Like other “bust
ed” concerns, it will not likely come up
to the first promise.
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It would seem that Turkey, instead
of courting a peaceful solution of her
troubles, is now trying to provoke war
with Servia. She has already com
mitted warlike acts, and a fight ap
pears inevitable. It is difficult to un
derstand why she wants to embroil
herself in a conflict with the Servians.
Our peculiar friends, the Black Hills
Commissioners, are still getting along
indifferently with their purchase. A
party of yonng bucks of the tribes of
Spotted Lightning, St curling Bear,
Blue Thunder and Sitting Bull yes
terday attacked a pay train, fought it
for two hours, and captured a portion
of its cattle and horses. The commis
sioners are under a strong guard.
That is a beautiful little story we
publish this morning, entitled “One
Touch of Nature.” It does indeed
“make the world kin.” Something of a
parallel to this case was the stealing of
Charley Ross, who now has the sym
pathy of every mother in America.
Even the hardest criminals in the coun
try have expressed their grief for him
and his mother. At least half a mil
lion of dollars could be raised if that
would restore him to his parents.
The Freedman’s Savings Bank Com
missioners have promised for the for
tieth time to pay a dividend of twenty
per cent., beginning on the Ist of No
vember. We do hope they will keep
good this promise. This will disburse
$500,000, which will be mostly paid to
Southern colored people. It will great
ly help them. But no honest man in
America should ever cease execrating
the scoundrels engaged in this gigantic
swindle cf the poor black man. It is a
part of the assets of the Radical party.
This is moving day in Augusta, and
a frightful bore and bother it will be-
We saw a man yesterday who remarked:
“‘I go a little further out, get a little
snore house and pay a little more rent
every year.” But he was not fair. Rents
have fallen in this city 20 or 25 per
cent. There are a great many cottages
and a considerable number of large
houses not yet taken. In many cases
the reason they are not rented is they
are in bad repair. A few dollars spent
in paint would quickly draw a tenent.
There is no trouble getting off a house
which is in tip top order, especially if
there is water inside.
“ The Augusta Constitutionalist
tells us no news when it says that
Mayor Esies did not >hip any paupers
to Atlanta while he had to pay their
fare over the Georgia Road. But how
will it be hereafter ? Will the Consti
tutionalist please note our request for
the figures of October ?”—[Atlanta Con
stitution.
October hasn’t come yet. But will
the Constitution tell us how many pau
pers its Mayor has shipped off to other
towns during July, August and Sep
tember ? In that time we have only
sent one up the Georgia Road, and he
swore he had lived in Atlauta ever
since the Mulligau Guards were first
mustered into service.
Grant has made a great speech fully
fifty lines long. In it he eloquently
talks of the science of government,
freedom of speech, press, and thought.
He discourses most eloquently upon
free schools, and in religious matters is
the most orthodox Christian now in
America. Upon the subject of educa
t ion he boldly Jakes ground. Every
body, he says, including “Indians not
taxed,” must be allowed to go to a free
school. He condemns the Pagan re
ligion. he condemns sectarian schools,
but don’t say whether he is in fav®r of
hard money or shin plasters, or which
side he is on in the Turkish war. With
these exceptions it is the best speech
we ever saw.
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Thrown Away.—An inebriate indi
vidual staggered into the Detroit City
Hall and yelled out:
“Rah f’r Fou’tli July 1”
“Fourth of July, you dough-head!”
replied a policeman — “why, it’s Sep
tember.”
“I know lilc.”
“The 16th day of September.”
“Course’tis, an’ zhont Fou’th July
alius come ou shixteenth day of Zhep
tember ?”
“No, you idiot.”
“It zhont ?”
“No.”
“Zben what fool I am !” sighed the
inebriate, “to go’n frow ’way all zliis
tf'runk !”
And he staggered sadly out.
Parsed Brownlow says Gov. Ames,
of Mississippi, “knows about as little pf
the temper and wants of his constitu
ents as a mule does of mathematics.”
A Mississippian, who, it is to be feared,
is not entirely friendly to Gov. Ames,
says that the only possible inaccuracy
in that comment is that it may be un
just to the mule.
Answers given in an English school:
Don Quixote was written by Mark
Twain, and Robinson Cruse (sic) by
Milton. Polonius was a wizard, who
lived on an uninhabited island, till his
daughter Miranda, married a young
man named Caliban. Edward II was a
King of England. They dragged him
about, ehaving him with cold water till
he died. The feudal system was the
Curfew bell.
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®ljr Augusta Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
A BANK FAILURE
The New York Third Avenue Sav
ings Bank Suspends—Fifty Cents on
the Dollai —Liabilities $1,340,000.
N£\v York, September 30. —It is
stated that the Third Avenue Savings
Bank suspended and will not open to
day for business, and that application
has been made for a receiver. Since
last Thursday, all moneys received
from depositors have been placed in
envelopes with the names of deposit
ors thereon. These have not been en
tered on the bank book, and will be re
turned in full as far as can at present
be learned. Fifty cents on the dollar
is more than can be paid 10 depositors.
Since its incorporation, in 1854, this
bank sustained three runs : First, in
1808, whicn lasted four days ; second,
in 1871, and last, in January, 1872,
during which $4,000,000 was paid in the
ten weeks which the panic lasted. The
bank has never recovered from the ef
fects of the celebrated run, and its
present insolvency is simply due to the
impossibility of realizing the nominal
value of its investments. Its deposit
ors number about 8,000, and the
amount due them is about $1,340,000.
GRANT MAKES A GREAT SPEECH.
In Which He Discusses War, Politics,
Religion and Paganism.
Desmoines, September 30.—Grant re
sponded to a call, reading quite a
lengthy speech. He expressed gratifi
cation at recalling the days when they
bad suffered together to preserve a
government which they belived worth
fighting for, even dying for. We will
not deny to those who fought against
us any privilege under the joint gov
ernment which we claim for ourselves—
on the contrary, we welcome all such
to help build up waste places, and per
petuate our institutions against all ene
mies as brethren in a comtnoti heritage.
We are not prepared to apologize for
the past. To guard against a recur
rence of those days we must begin by
guarding against every enemy prevent
ing the prosperity of free Republican
institutions. Regarding polities he
read: “We are to have another con
test in the near future of our political
existence. I predict the dividing line
will not be Mason and Dixion’s, but be
tween patriotism and intelligence on
one side, and superstition, ambition
and ignorance on the other. Let us
all labor for the security of free
thought, speech, press, pure morals,
unfettered religious sentiments and
equal rights and privileges for all, ir
respective of nationality, color or reli
gion—encourage free schools, resolve
not to appropriate them to be applied
for the support of sectarian schools—re
solve that neither State nor nation
shall support institutions save those
where every child may get a common
school education unmixed with atheis
tic, pagan or sectarian teachings—leave
religion to the family altar—and keep
Church and State forever separate —
with these safeguards I believe the
battles which created the array of the
Tennessee will not have been fought in
vain.”
Sherman closed the speaking with a
humorous short speech, in which he
said he wished all the speeches made
here to-night could be printed in full
and scattered broadcast through the
South, to show the people there how
the soldiers of the North all feel to
wards them.
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Minor Telegrams.
Ninkogee, Indian Ter., Sept. 30.
One hundred outlaws, mostly from the
States, are in jail here waiting trial at
the next term of the court.
Dayton, 0., September 30.—Fifteen
thousand are in attendance at the Ohio
Fair. Goldsmith Maid attempted to
beat her own time. She made 2:30,
2:24)£, 2:40}4. Doble claimed the mare
was out of fix.
Boston, September 30.—The Jeffer
son Borden mutiny jury is out. —
Thought they can't agree whether the
crime was murder or manslaughter.
Indianapolis, September 30. — -Win. S.
Wood, President Greenfield Manufac
turing Company, Greenfield, lud., sui
cided. Financial troubles. Had his
life insured. Left a letter stating he
had forged a relative’s name to $5,000
Trenton, N. J., September 30. —Gov-
ernor Allen, aged 80 years, has been
stricken with paralysis.
New York, September 30.—Crowds
gathered at the Third Avenue Savings
Bank, but dispersed upon notice that
the bank closed pursuant to an order
granted by the Supreme Court.
LaFayette, Ind., September 30.
Marley & M&rshletter’s lumber yards
were burned. Loss, thirty-three thou
sand dollars.
Fall River, September 30.—Every
thing quiet. A large number went to
work. Others gave notice they would
resume to-morrow. All the mills are
runnirg.
Meriden, Vt., September 30. —Rev.
C. A. Graebert was found innocent of
the charge of improper liberties with a
young lady.
Montreal, September 30.—The suit
of the Canadian Institute against the
St. Surplice Cemetery for $2,000, in the
Guibord case, was dismissed, each
party paying costs.
New York, September 30. —The Board
of Directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, to-day elected Chas. B.
Wright, of Philadelphia and Geo. Stark,
of New Hampshire Vice President.
DRAWING OF THE MONTPELIER
LOTTERY.
Several Five ami Ten Thousand Prizes.
Alexandria, Va., September 30.—The
drawing of the Montpelier lottery com-'
menced, 40,000 tickets having been sold
and 50 per cent, wiil be paid upon sums
named in the scheme. Five hundred
thousand dollars will be distributed.
As far as progressed four SIO,OOO prizes
have been drawn, numbered 38,847,
18,863, 89,202, 30,268; and three $5,000,
numbered 42.527, 41,065, 65,102.
THE BLACK HILLS COMMISSIONS
A Savage Fight—lndians Making
Their Travelling Expenses,
Cheyenne, September 30.—Sixty In
dians attacked a hay train, guarded by
twelve men, at Bridges’ Ferry. A two
hours’ fight resulted iu the loss of thiry
cattle and four horses, and one white
man wounded.
It used to be gin-mill; then bar
room ; then bar; then saloon ; then
sample-room ; then exchange; then
parlors. Now it is “picture gallery.”
“Go around to Russ Coate’s Picture
Gallery,” says an advertisement, “and
take a drink of the best whiskey in the
world.” Very good. We expect to see
a groggery call itself a minister, or a
public library, or a home for the friend
i less, or an academy of sciences, before'
we die.
THE WAR IN TURKEY.
The Demands of Herzegovina —Turkey
Trying to Provoke a Conflict—lnva
sion of Servia—The Losses in the
First Battle.
Ragusa, September 30.—The Herzego- ;
vinian insurgents refuse to treat direct- j
ly with the Porte. They want the pow- j
ers to delegate a commission to make
and guarantee a treaty.
Vienna, September 30. —The general
opinion here is that Turkey is trying
to provoke a conflict. It is stated the
Skuptshina, by a secret vote, offered
Prince Milan three million ducats.
Portions of the frontier road to Trebi
que has been blown up, preventing
Turks from transferring provisions. A
conscription of horses is ordered in
Servia. Belgrade newspapers say five
hundred irregular Turkish troops en
tered Servian territory Monday, killing
some frontier guards. It is said the
Turks lost 327, insurgents 128 men in
the recent fight.
London, September 30. —The Aus
trian Consul General at Belgrade has
protested against the enactment which
extends the time for payment of bills
of exchange. A Vienna dispatch to the
Doily Telegraph asserts that anew
ministerial crisis has already begun at
Belgrade. The Morning Standard’s
Vienna special reports all the represen
tatives of foreign powers have demand
ed a cessation of the ambiguous policy
of Servia.
The Standard’s Vienna correspondent
says the occupation of the island and
little redoubt indicates Turkey’s inteu
tentiou to force au issue with Servia.
Paris, September 30.—The Le Tempts
says nothing is known in diplomatic
circles of the alleged Turkish circular
to the Powers, complaining of reported
violations of neutrality by Montene
gro, nor is there any knowledge "of the
intended occupation of a portion of
Servia by Turkey.
Vienna, September 30.—The Tages
press says the diplomatic agent here of
Servia handed the foreign ambassador
here a memorandum, enumerating Tur
kish violations of Servian territory.
Madrid, September 30.—Troops have
been sent to Adalusia to bunt down the
party of Communists, who are maraud
ing there.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Carlist War.
Madrid, September 30.—The Carlists
bombarded San Sebastian Tuesday.
Several persons killed. The rains pre
vent the concentration proposed by the
Alfonsists.
London, September 30.—A letter iu
the Times, from Paris, ha3 the follow
ing : An accredited opinion prevails iu
Madrid that Senor Canovas del Castil
lo is about to return to the Premier
ship. He is displaying marvelous ac
tivity iu order to lead back a concilia
tion Cabinet. The reason of his refusal
to reconstitute a Cabinet after winning
a victory on the suffrage question, was
his engagement with the Vatican to
restore the concordat in return for
the establishment of a Papal Nun
cio at Madrid, whereby to offset
the Papal Influences in favor of
Carlists by interposing a provisional
and more liberal government. When
the crisis with the Vatican threatened
he expected to free Spain from reli
gious difficulty. This solved, he hopes
to return with such moderates as con
sent to a convocation of the Cortes by
universal suffrage and to recon
cile Germany which was offended
by his attitude ou the religious
question by advocating the marriage of
King Alfonso with a German princess.
On the marriage question he will have
to oppose not only those who oppose
German influence, but the King’s family
and its partisans who favor the Mont
pensier alliance.
Sharkey, the Escaped Murderer.
Havana, September 30.—Sharkey, the
escaped murderer, is going to Spain.
The former decree fixing the current
value of foreign gold has been put in
force again.
THE FREEDMAN’S LOSING BANK.
Fortieth Promise of a Dividend.
Washington, September 30. —The
Commissioners of the Freedman’s Sav
ings and Trust Company will com
mence paying a dividend of 20 per cent,
on all audited claims the first of No
vember next, at their office here, upon
presentation of a pass book, or other
evidences of indebtedness. Depositers
residing iu this vicinity should present
their claims personally. All checks will
be drawn to the order of original de
positers. Assignments will be recog
nized only so far as delivery of checks
as originally drawn to the assignee goes.
WEST POINTS.
Appointment of Cadets.
Washington, September 30.—Among
the cadets found qualified and admit
ted to West Point were Thomas I.
Louis, of Louisiana; M. J. Jenkins and
Allen R. Gordon, of South Carolina;
John L. Goodall and Edward T. Jones,
of Tennessee; John H. Woods and Chas.
F. Pearis, of West Virginia. Vacancies
by failure of representatives to nomi
nate in the Third and Sixth Districts
of Louisiana; Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
of Virginia; Third and Fifth of South
Carolina, Fourth of North Carolina,
Third and Fifth of Alabama, Second of
Florida, Eight and Ninth of Georgia.
China and England—Cable Rates
Raised.
London, September 30.—The Globe
says there is no intention of immedi
ately augmenting the China command.
Should the necessity aviso vessels will
be withdrawn from Japanese waters.
The Donuu takes £38,000 of gold.
The cable rates will be raised Mon
day to one dollar a word.
Cardinal McCloskey.
Rome, September 30.—Cardinal Mc-
Closkey took possession of his title to
day in the Church of Santa Maria Su
pra Minervam. He entered the church
with 30 Dominican fathers and seve
ral prelates. After a short prayer he
seated himself in the Episcopal chair.
Dispatch from Valmaseda.
Washington, September 30.—The
Spanish Minister has received the fol
lowing from Cqba: No disembarkation
of the expedition of the Uruguay has
been made on this Island, notwith
standing the American newspapers
have published the contrary.
(Signed) Valmaseda.
Boston Races.
Boston, September 30. —The race at
Beacon Park between the stallions
Smuggler and Thomas Jefferson, for
two thousand dollars and the cham
pionship, was wop by Smuggler in
three straight heats. Jefferson was
withdrawn in the third heat on account
of lameness. Time,
AUGUSTA, GiA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1875.
REPUBLKhis SUICIDE.
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THE DESTRUCT if >N OF THE SOUTH
RECO [LING ( f THE NORTH.
A Retrospect of G >ry —The March of.
Madness—Retrib Liou-Tlie Only Sal
vation of the Coj itry.
[New York >ay Book.]
For seventy ye:; s the Democratic
party never shed o ; s drop of fraternal
blood, never conv ted a citizen for
treason, or even m ie a single illegal
arrest, and it was turned over to a
Northern sectional arty, iu 1860, with
out one dollar of Smblic or funded
debt! Think then.fh think, where we
should be now if LiScoln had not been
elected in 1860 ! W® should be at the
head of nations, with a
foreign commerce s#passing even that
of England; we slluild not only be
clothing the world Kith cheap cotton,
but doubtless acq f ing Cuba or S in
Domingo, or otherwugar regions, we
should be supplying jhe world with su
gar and coffee p3rh*)s, and adding to
the world’s welfareand the comfort
and well-being of Gj i’s creatures be
yond our capacity <y 'language to ex
press, and at the sa l > time iu the way
of rapidly making N ,v York the grand
centre of modern civ jzation as well as
of trade. But, amaz lg, and, to future
generations fact, inci dible, for fifteen
years we have done < r utmost to rum
ourselves and to so l terly blot out the
work of the men of 1776, that future j
generations, shall on v know that such
men as Washington, Adams, &c., ever
lived at all through pages of Euro- j
peau history. |
Some forty years *rgo certain men
appeared iu our mid-Sami proposed to
abolish the distiuctiiw of race and in
corporate the negro .jement iu the na
tion. The instincts ■ the people were
so outraged that the* beat these men
with rotten eggs, kiejged them into the
gutters, threatened ttSlynoh them, and
would have done so li/J not the “ edu
cated classes ” declaipd them “ harm
less visionaries,” ami protected them
from the wrath of theSisulted and out
raged people. Undfil this protection |
they went to works spread books,
pamphlets, tracts by liillions, over the
land, and, in concert lath British aris
tocrats and the Eunliean enemies of
Democracy, spent m lions of money'
and so deluded and debauched the
Northern mind, that ; 1860 they were
able to combine the Northern States
and take possession of -he government,
in order to use it as aj : instrument for
forcing the Southern people to accept
their “idea,” and inco> ‘orate the negro
element in the citizi jship, and thus
moDgrelize American nleiety.as we wit
ness in Mexico and S Ith America—in
fact, to bring a doom In the Southern
people vastly worse thin to be struck
by lightning or swaliEved up at once
by au earthquake, anl which at this
moment is in the fulifiride of accom
plishment. Social oral' overthrown—
the laws of nature t flated —the dis
tinction of race fasliio ed by the hand
of Omnipotence ignot and by mortals,
civilization is rapidly -dishing from
the Potomac to the Gu and one only
needs to examine the s /eral census re
turns to know when ].: -pulati on it: ■ if,
iu the great tropicopfor cotton and
sugar-growing centresAnust needs be
extinct, and the bestj|iid most fertile
portion of the country! arreudered up j
to the wild animals, [ireanwhile, the
enormous and unspefltable madness
and crimes of the nlji. th are every
hour coming home to 4 f
Southern productionjfwas the main
source of the national* prosperity; at
least two-thirds of theifurplus or real
ized wealth of the coufSry came from
that source, and yet, grvfct and merciful
Heaven, think of thfelmadness ! —an
army has been kept foi fen years in the !
South, and the people tftced a thousand j
millions to “abolish” t it production !
The result is, that the 'iorth is nearly
bankrupt and honeycoiajed with hor
rors unspeakable, and f tough clutch
ing the “almighty doll A” they trade
and speculate, and en|ly “our great |
national resources,” an dijacifly endorse
the ruin of th- •south, total uncon
sciousness of the comit 3 doom. They
are blindly walking on aPolcano, whose
thin crust may at any Amr give way
and launch them into dejßths of despair
and woe deeper than m ; 'tal plummet
or even that of hell aver sounded.
Grant re-elected, the “muation” con
tinued, the country left m drift to the
inevitable end, it is onhJY question of
years, months or days, vflen the whole
mighty structure of N4| hern society
will collapse, and for a ti’he chaos must
needs be supreme—the T.ighty paper
wealth will shrivel into nothingness iu
an hour —the bonds and Inortgages on
the bodies and souls of posterity will
fall asunder like flax toi&s'ied by lire—
vast masses of starving djjfga and women
will tramp over thecouu &y,consuming
every green thing in the JS-ukl, and per
haps destroying what tin* do not need
—in a word, as the crimes committed
ou the South for ten ye.djs past have
no parallel in history, sckU-he impend
ing punishment of the Jforth will be
without parallel in humasfi,Duals. They
invaded the South, its peo
ple, burnt their homes, si e their pro
perty, annihilated thei?:| Uapital, left
nothing but the bare la R, and then,
for ten years, kept an aiM r there and
forced a grossly animal did barbarous
race to rule over their cl n kith and
kin, thus striking dowJ, civilization
and Christianity as well *hs freedom
in one fell blow, and striding their ut
most to reduce the land cl? Washington
and Jackson to the bruttjr -avagery of
equatorial Africa. And toh thiuk,
that eternal justice, wl:/|i never fails
to punish nations ur <•/?. munities of
men, will exact the fuh|i' uialties for
such unspeakable ciinu:f if not re
pented of before it is tor Nations,
like individuals, must b * ! restored to
their normal condition orj|;:e, and if the
Astors, Stewarts, Yauderljl s, &c., were
to give half their fortune.l. to explode
the Northern madness aii;?S r< store the
White Republic, or Lincoln,
Ac., pretended to fight foi-Pit would be
tho best investment they jgler made in
their lives, for that is liiv |.|i l without
it the nations must need Uperish, just
as the Mongrel of us
are now rapidly dying. ?• <
Charles Dickens is dead;]|ut t he Ger
man prisoner, Charles femgheimer,
whom lie saw in the Ea: -t|vn Peniten
tiary at Philadelphia, tiiir j years ago,
and over whose punlshmejU by solitary
confinement he lamented! describing
him in “American Notes,” -if. “a picture
of forlorn affliction, and pistress of
mind” —still lives at the ||if seventy
five, and has just been set llack to his
old quarters for the sixth line for his
chronic offence of petty ||eft, which
has kept him in jail full iMf his long
life. ||
An lowa man bet ten dojirs that he
could ride the fly-wheel in if saw mill,
and as his widow paid tl|i debt she
remarked: “William was ;|i<ind hus
band, but didn’t know mucl;about fly
wheels.” fi
SOUTH CAROLINA.
LETTER FROM BARNWELL
County Commissioners—Osborne Va
mosed—Only Two Negroes Sen
tenced to the Penitentiary —Asa
Hazel Not Guilty —No Bill in the
Hennessey Case—Death of J. TANARUS, Al
drich, Esq.—Municipal Election-
Dots.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Barnwell, C. H., S. C._. Sept. 27,1875.
Neither of the County Commission
ers appeared at court, and since the
true bill found against Geo. E. Osborne
for official misconduct, it is thought he
has “vamosed the ranche,” and taken
refuge in good old Augusta,-as he has
not been seen hereabouts since.
The Board, though, have called a meet
ing at their office at Blackville on Sat
urday next, for the said purpose of is
suing warrants on the Treasury for the
payment of witness and juror’s tickets,
but we have it from good authority
that the said warrants cannot be hon
ored under two years, as there are no
funds in the Treasury with which to
cash them. Poor jurors—poor wit
nesses! Two weeks’ disagreeable duty
for nothing! And yet no bills were
found against the Board of Commis
sioners! But we rather guess these
honorable gentlemen will be allowed
another showing at the January term,
for the honest people of our county do
not intend “giving up the ghost” with
out at least another trial to ascertain
of what kind of material the said
“ghost” is made of.
Verdict and Sentences.
We stated in our last that at the
time of our writing the jury were con
fined on the Gray’s cross roads case.
It may not be out of place just here to
remind your readers that the above
case refers to the Leslie mob riot at
Gray’s cross roads during the last Court
House campaign, in which Mr. W. H.
Hewlett, au elderly gentleman, was
violently set upon by a body of heart
less negro fiends and unmercifully
beaten. Out of the many alleged im
plications, there were only four found
guilty of assault and battery, who were
lined by the court respectively SIOO,
$75 and sls, or six, four and three
months imprisonment in jail. We learn
they have appealed, and will take the
case to the Supreme Court. Elmore
Washington was sentenced to two
years hard labor in the penitentiary,
and Isaac McClennon to three years
similar service in the same place.
In the case of Asa Hazel, tried for
the murder of his wife, the jury, after
about twenty minutes, returned a ver
dict of not guilty, notwithstanding the
almost conclusive evidence of the phy
sician holding the post mortem exami
nation, that the woman died from ex
ternal violence. The prisoner, though,
dearly swore that he had never in his
life laid violent bands upon his wife.
He seemed at the time to have forgot
ten the story lie told your humble
scribe just after his incarceration, viz:
that he had beaten his wife butas he had
done so many times before, he had no
idea that he would on this occasion in
jure her seriously. Hazel’s counsel,
the distinguished Col. Robt. Aldrich,
proved to the jury that Asa’s wife died
of colic, having eaten just before her
sickness a peck of peaches, a side of
bacon, three large squashes, two water
melons, two pones of corn bread, a pint
of rice, and a string of fish. In fact,
there is no discount on “Bob,” and we
advise all who have murder cases on
band to “have au eye on him.”
The case against the prisoners charg
ed with implicacy in the murder of Mr.
Hennessey was thrown out by the
grand jury for want of sufficient evi
dence to sustain the charge.
Death of J. T. Aldrich, Esq.
A gloom was spread over our quiet
little village to-day in consequence of the
demise of one of our purest and most
highly esteemed citizens—J. T. Aldrich,
Esq. In losing a respected and valued
citizen, a pure minded and conscien
tious Christian, Barnwell has much to
deplore, while the legal fraternity is
called upon to sustain the loss of one
of its highest minds—a loss that will
be sorely felt throughout the entire
county. In respect to the deceased/
our courts will adjourm to-morrow.
Truly we may say, “another golden
bowl is broken, another silver cord is
loosened, and another soul has winged
its flight into the presence of its God.”
Mr. Aldrich leaves a wife and family,
by whom he was fondly loved, and upon
whom, during life, he lavished his sole
affection. To the bereaved family tho
entire community extend their heart
felt sympathy.
Municipal Election.
For tho first time during the past
four or five years an entire Democratic
ticket was elected here to-day, as fol
lows : Intendant, Dr. It. L. Hallon
quist ; Wardens, Dr. J. A. Duncan, Jos.
Bellinger, Esq., J. G. Cornehen, Esq.,
and J. W. Veronee.
Dots.
Wo are having entirely too much
rain—bad for cotton picking.
There are seventeen widows in our
little town, and only about seven widow
ers. An abundance of pretty girls,
though.
Business tolerably brisk.
A man on our streets yesterday swal
lowed a “chaw of terbaccer,” and had
to visit tho druggists. Nothing more.
Carolinian.
A few months ago it was announced
that the Emperor Dom Pedro 11. of
Brazil intended immediately to visit the
United States, but the affairs of his
Government prevented him from car
ryingout his design. Last Tuesday,
however, the Minister of Public Works
hauded iu a request to the Chamber of
Deputies to sanction the visit of tho
Emperor to Europe and the United
States for a period of eighteen months.
Dom Pedro is an enterprising and wise
monarch, and has reigned since 1841.
His two daughters married grandsons
of Louis Philippe. He himself is related
by marriage to the Sicilian royal family,
and his father was King of Portugal,
the throne of which he abdicated. Dom
Pedro 11. is a splendidly educated and
exceedingly liberal monarch. He has
favored every enterprise which had for
its object the development of Brazil,
has cordially welcomed immigration,
and is very popular with his people. The
only opposition which he encounters is
from the ultramontaine party, which is
not in sympathy with his liberal
schemes of development ; but lie has
managed the ecclesiastical question
with dignity and prudence, being a
good Catholic himself. Pom Pedro
will no doubt receive a warm welcome
in the United States, between which
aud Brazil very important commercial
relations exist.
Pottsville, Pa., September 30.—An
explosion at the Anchor Colliery killed
two. One fatally and several badly
hurt.
SCHURZ’S SOMERSAULT.
[Nashville American.]
We would rather not accept the Sus
picion of venality as the interpretation
or Carl Schurz’s somersault back into
the Republican party, aud his offoi" s
to assist into power in the State oi
Ohio, in 1875, the very politicians whom
he exerted himself iu 1872 to keep out
of power. It is perhaps quite natural
after all, that he should array himself
upon the side of the bondholders—a
very formidable proportion of whom
reside in Europe. He has recently re
turned from Germany where he spent
nearly a year visiting his relatives in
that country. During his absence he
has lived in an atmosphere not calcu
lated to render him antagonistic to the
fraud perpetrated by the American
Congress in violating the original con
tract at the instigation of stock jobbers
by paying the iuterest on the bonds in
gold, when such was not the original
stipulation in letter or spirit. The
foreign bondholders of course desire
the highest interest possible on their
bonds; notwithstanding that they have
been paid for them twice over in in
terest, and that they purchased them
at a much lower figure than they now
command under the gold appreciation.
The trouble with ex-Senator Sehurz
is that he represents rather the inter
ests of rich Germans in Germany than
the interests of poor German tax-pay
ers in America. In his pi evious visits
to the South he told us a great deal
about the importance of the industrial
development of our section. But he
knows, if not blinded by the clamor of
Eastern and foreign bondholders, that
industrial developments lias no chance
with the powerful competition of gov
ernment bonds, backed by the Gov
verument of the United States. If
he (Sehurz) would really enlighten the
people of Ohio, aud of the West
aud South, on this vexed question
of finance, he should, iu someone
of the nine speeches he proposes
to make iu Ohio, in behalf of the
Republican party, tell us why
the people should be taxed $20,000,000
a year to enable the Government to
lend the national banks $350,000,000 of
the people’s currency, upon which the
national banks pay no taxes. He need
not indulge any rhetorical poppy-cock
about repudiation and inflation, but
just explain the languishing industries
aud commerce of his adopted country,
with New York, the great money head
of the Union, gorged with currency,
and all the other sections of the coun
try pining with atrophy ! With all his
eloquence, he cannot give any satisfat -
tory answer to the reasonable demand
of the Ohio Democratic platform, that
the currency of these United States
shall be equal to the legitimate needs
of their commerce.
We cannot conclude better than with
the following quotation from an article
in Friday’s New York Sim. on the same
subject:
Mr. Sehurz will assume a very false
position when ho lends his name and
influence to the men who are responsi
ble for the present condition of the
finances and the currency; who in ten
years of peace have made no real eilort
to resume specie payments; who depre
ciated the legal tenders; who packed
the Supreme Court to undoe an honest
decision; who, likeSlierman, first urged
the payment of bonds in greenbacks
aud then substituted gold, by which job
millions were pocketed, and who have
contracted, expanded and tinkered,
just as specuh-.tiou could be made
profitable, by acts of Congress con
cocted iu Wall street. The Republican
platform in Ohio is a mere dodge and
wholly unworthy of confidence. The
tricksters who made it have since con
jured up a sectarian Lsue, and sought
to enlist religious prejudices as a cover
for their corruption and frauds. Mr.
Sehurz can gam no qredit and exert no
beneficial influence by an alliance with
un organization which he knows to be
rotten to the core, and which proscribed
with insult and outrage himself aud
others who had the manhood to de
nounce their most flagrant iniquities.
He cannot stop the current now Tun
ing against the Administration. It is
doomed to overthrow and disgrace.
... says the Herald of Health,
are not easily washed out of those who
have a florid complexion and are much
in the sunshine, but the following
washes are not only harmless but very
much the best of anything we know.
Grate.horse radish line; let it stand a
few hours in buttermilk, then strain
aud use the wash night and morning.
Or squeeze the juice of a lemon in half
a goblet of water and use in the same
way. Most of the remedies for freckles
are poisonous and cannot be used with
safety. Freckles indicate a defect in
digestion, and consist ’in deposits of
carbonaceous or fatty matter beneath
the scarf skin. Tho diet should be at
tended to, aud should be of a nature
that the bowels and kidneys will do
their duty. Daily bathing, with much
friction, should not be neglected, and
the Turkish bath taken occasionally, if
convenient.
Hydrophobia communicated by a
pasteboard dog is the latest medical
novelty. Two months ago a mad dog
was killed in a house after having bit
ten at nearly everything iu the room.
One of the things in which he buried
his teeth was a Jittle boy’s toy dog,
made of pasteboard. Subsequently a
man used this pasteboard dog to stop
the blood from a cut in his hand, and
so the virus went into his wound and
he died.
John Jones he is a banker bold,
A banker bold is he;
He put his money into boflds
And got his currency.
He nays no taxes, keeps no poor,
Nor helps our schools along;
He sits and clips his gold coupons.
And groweth rich by storm.
Is John Jones any better man,
Than Thomas Smith or me,
That he should get his pay iu gold
And us in currency ?
The Princess Domenica Ciarelli was
left a widow with two sons, and the
elder died. Almost crazy with sorrow,
the Princess was ready to fight the men
who brought the coffin, and protested
they should not carry away the boy.
In the interval of calm the younger
brother, left alone with the body and
the coffin, resolved to cheat the men
and help his mother to keep Domenica.
He hid the corpse in a closet aqd got
iu the coffin himself. $e was carried
to the church without discovery; but
at the church, nearly suffocated, he
groaned, and the coffin was opened,
but he died in a little while. Now the
mother is dead. All this in Paris only
the other day.
A well-dressed, nobby swindler, who
affects gold speotaples and kid gloves
and wears a cane, is damg the Masonio
fraternity of this State out of consider
able money. He calls himself Dr. G.
M. Ogden, and claims to be from Texas.
Inflated coat-tails, caused by the appli
cation of double-soled boots, ought to
be worn by the Doc.—[Oswego Palla
dium.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 49.
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.
A Thrilling Railway Incident in Ger
many.
A European correspondent, of the
Boston Advertiser tells this touching
story in a pleasing way:
It was a third-class carriage. She
was a pleasant-faced young woman,
going, I think for the first time after
iter marriage, to visit her parents in
her old home, to show them their two
line grandchildren. At least, this was
the little history I built up for her in
my own brain from a word or two that
I heard between her young husband at
the station, as he put her into the car
riage with an affectionate farewell. I
always watch with great interest the
farewell and greeting of my fellow
travellers, and have a fashion of think
ing out for myself the whole story of
their previous way. It is to me as if I
were permitted to open the second
volume of an interesting romance, and
allowed to read only one short scene
in this, and asked to guess as nearly
as possible from this one scene the pre
vious course of the story and the char
acters of the actors in it.
The youngest child was an infant of
about three or four months old—very
quiet and good; the other was a pretty,
restless little girl of three, who could
not be still a single moment, and kept
the careful mother busy by her quea
tfons and wants and childish! prattle.
She was not at all bashful, and soon
talked to us also in such a natural, co
quettish, condescending way that we
were quite in love with the charming
little lassie, and begged her mother not
to check her innocent advances to us.
When we had been traveling together
for two or three hours, and began to
feel quite like old acquaintances, while
the train was going at full speed, the
mother half rose from seat to place
the little girl, who had left her place
again, on the opposite seat. How it
happened I have never understood, it
was one of those accidents which seem
impossible, and, in fact, only happen
once in a hundred thousand timhs; but
just as she stood half erect, holding
her sleeping babe upon one arm and
her little frolicsome maiden somewhat
awkwardly on the other, the little girl
made one of her sudden, quick move
ments, and in an instant she was gone
from our eyes.
What a moment! The poor mother
stood fixed and rigid in exactly the
same attitude, her arms still, bent as
though around her child, gazing with
wide open, fixed eyes at the place
whence she vanished. She seemed lit
erally, suddenly turned to stone; with
the rest of us the case was almost the
same. How long this lasted Ido not
know; doubtless it seemed to us much
longer than it really was. Then the
young mother seemed to come to her
self, and made a sudden movement as
if she would spring through the win
dow after her vanished darling, now
far away. I caught her quickly fast
and held her while the kind young lady
who sat opposite to me took the baby
from her arms, and we all began to
talk together, no one listening to the
other, about what was to be done for
her. Somehow we managed in our ex
citement to do till that was possible; the
guard came, the train was stopped, and
the mother, without speaking to one
us, or even looking at us, left the train,
supporting herself on the arm of the
sympathising guard, while he held the
sleeping baby fast in the other.
Of course, the traiu must go with in
creased speed to make up for the mo
ment of delay, so there was no chance
for us to see more of the poor bereaved
mother. “Telegraph to us at next sta
tion,” said one of the railroad function
aries to the guard. “Yes, yes, to be
sure, do it immediately,” cried a dozen
voices, for in some mysterious way
the news had ruu through the train as
if by electricity, and a long row of
sympathizing faces watched from the
carriage the disappearing of the moth
er ami the guard.
“It will t ake her half an hour to reach
the spot, and it is just thirty-five min
utes now to the next station,” said the
stout gentleman in the corner, taking
out his watch and holding it open in
his hand, his eyes fixed upon it. He
had struck me as one of the most self
ish and disagreeable old gentlemen
possible; scarcely answering a polite
question from a neighbor, and then in
the shortest and gruffest manner pos
sible; he had seemed completely ab
sorbed by his newspaper and his snuff
box,not having noticed the little fairy
in any way except to glance at her
now and then with savage expression,
as her clear, childish laugh had dis
turbed his reading. Mow his whole
soul seemed fixed on the watch before
him, and he “chided the tardy flight of
time’’ again and again in words more
forcible than ornamental.
There was a young would-be dandy
In one corner; light, straw-colored
gloves, a slender cane, an infant mou
stache, and an eye-glass stuck in one
eye, seemed to be, in his opinion, tokens
of vast superiority over the other
travellers; and he spoke very little, ex
cept occasionally to make some super
cilious remark or ask some question
about third-class travelling, apparent
ly to produce on us the impression that
ho was a young nobleman or prince,
perhaps, in disguise, seeing for himself
how ordinary mortals fared. What a
change had come over him now; the
eye-glass hung dangling hither and
thither; with the kid gloves, of which
he had been so dainty, he had grasped
the dusty facing of the door, and was
straining his gaze, first backward, until
the poor mother was no longer to be
seen, and then forward to the next sta
tion, where news was to meet us.
Now at last we are there ; the train
halts, and one of the guards runs
quickly into the little office over which
“Telegraph” is painted. Everybody
who can possibly get his or her head
out of the window on that side thrusts
it out. There is a moment of intense
suspense ; here oomes the guard again
with a dispatch in his hand ; ho stands
about midway between the ends of the
traiu, and begins to read it out in his
clear, loud, official tones: “Child per
fectly sound ; alighted on a pile of
straw in a field, not two feet from a
stone wall.”
Then what a scene J” Every man at
the train windows has his hat off in a
moment, and is waving it and cheering
as if he would split his throat; every
woman is buried in her pocket-hand
kerchief, crying and laughing together.
The stout old egotist and the vain
young daDdy have thrown their arms
around each other, and are embracing
with that heartiness that belong to the
sons of the Yaterland, although they
never met before this morning. The
stiff old maid in the corner has shaken
my hands in both her own so many
times that I feel they are quite sore,
All the inhabitants of the little vil
lage come running ayound the train:
What is it? A,Yh e ? e I s he? Is it the
Kaiser himself, or is it the Kronprinz?”
they ask in bewildered excitement at
the sight of ours,
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.
Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express
or Postal Order.
Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Bejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonvmous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
But all the Kaisers and Kronprinzes
in Europe put together could not have
aroused the flood of feeling that surged
through that train. It was sympathy
with a sentiment far older than loyalty
—older than the King to whom loyalty
is due—which was stirriug every heart;
it was sympathy with a mother’s love !
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The editor of the Marietta Journal
says he is the only private now living
who belonged to Gen. Lee’s army.
The Courier says “the Atlanta Herald
has kept up its religious department
for three Sundays; but last Sunday we
find a full page circus advertisement
and the religious department on the
very next page. The Herald is the only
religious paper we know that takes in
circus advertisements.
It Is reported that Miss McNeely, of
Americus, committed suicide after the
death of Capt. H. L. French. We hope
it is not true, as she is to be pitied rath
er than blamed.— Columbus Times.
The report Is not true. Miss McNeely
has made no attempt to commit sui
cide, but was taken sick on Monday of
last week, and for several days it was
thought she would die. From last ac
counts she was convalescent. Miss Mc-
Neely is not a resident of Americus,
but lives with her parents near Ander
sotville, in this county.— Americus Re
publican. ,
Americus j ßepublican: She had been
sewing, aud laid it down in a chair with
a long needle pointing heavenward, as
it had got too dark to continue work.
A caller was announced who unfortu
nately sat down in this chair, and when
she asked an explanation of his strauge
conduct, he explained that he had
“only tried to grab a firo fly off the
ceiling.’ ’
Greensboro Herald: Those of our
planters who purchased commercial
fertilizers last spring with the option
of paying for the same in mifidling cot
ton at 15 cents per pound, will bear in
mind that the option ceases on the first
day of November. As the delivery of
cotton in liquidation of these claims
will be a saving of about 25 por cent,
to the farmers, it is presumable that
they will avail themselves of it.
The Atlanta Herald says Mrs. Mary
McCloud, “the relict of Colonel Francis
McCloud, died at Marietta on Sunday,
aged 88 years. This estimable lady had
lived to see eight generations of her
immediate family, the children of Mr.
Henry W. Grady, of this paper, making
the eighth. A t the time of her death
five generations of her family were liv
ing, all within a few miles of her home.
She died in the presence of her daugh
ter, who is herself a great-grand
mother.”
We find the following article in the
last issue of the Chronicle, the leading
insurance paper in New York: Gen.
J. E. Johnston, of the firm of J. E.
Johnston & Cos., Savannah, Ga., has re
signed the general agency of the Liver
pool and London end Globe Insurance
Company, his resignation to take effect
October 15th, 1875. This position Geu.
Johnston has held for nearly eight
years, aud has built up for the Liver
pool aud London aud Globe the largest
business ever done by any company in
the territory over which ho held control.
A flat refusal to comply with the arbi
trary and unjust demands of the com
pany caused and acoompanied his per
emptory resignation. The General is
not a man to be bullied or safely over
ridden. He has done his duty for this
company, and (June it faithfully and
well.
A Heart Moving Scene.
[From the Kentucky Freemason.]
One of the grandest spectacles
ever witnessed was put upon the stage
of the Masonic Temple, Louisville,
during the session of the Grand Lodge
of Masons. The hour of adjournment
arrived, aud Grand Master Jones an
nounced that the body would adjourn
without signs, as he had reason to be
lieve eavesdroppers were behind the
sceues. He urged the members to re
main, and all retained their seats. The
gavel sounded, the bell tinkled, the
curtains uprose, and before the aston
ished Grand Lodge sixty orphans
stood, wards of MasoDic charity. The
effect was electric. The very sight of
these fatherless ones moved strong men
to tears, and many eyes unused to
tears rendered a tribute to this si
lent appeal. A welcome song was sung,
the sentiment of which touched every
heart and tears fell down manly cheeks
like rain. There were other exercises
speeches, dialogues, songs, etc., all of
them adapted to the occasion, and each
in succession intensifying feeling until
the pent-up hearts could obtain no
longer, and sobs were audible all
through the vast hall. When the ex
ercises concluded there was a spontan
eous call, loud and prolonged, from six
hundred brethren of the auditorium
to send the girls down for a collection.
It was taken, and the treasury of the
“Home” was handsomely reinforced.
All opposition to this institution was
disarmed, and every one turned away
resolved to do something to build up
and render permanent an institution
whose first fruits were so rich.
Southern Journalism. —The Wash
ington Capital pays its respects to the
Southern press in the following com
plimentary terms:
A hegira of Southern newspaper men
and their families were in town last
week, returning from their collective
tout* Northward. They were well pleas
ed with the North, and the North re
ciprooated. Southern journalism is
looking upward. It was some months
ago that the News of Danbury puffed
up—like Solomon’s hog, with its un
derstanding-declared that no paper
in the South was worth reading, or ever
produced anything fit for republica
tion. The Vicksburg Herald is to-dav
copied three times as extensively as
the News, aud the Constitutionalist of
Augusta, Richmond Enquirer, and Her
ald of Atlanta, lully as often, while the
Courier-Journal is about the finest pa
per in America.
Charles D. Warner writes to Mrs.
Stowe, and Mrs. Stowe puts it in the
Christian Union, that he and his wife
acquit Mr. Beecher. So does public
opiuion in Nubia, where he spent last
winter, and we suppose they have the
New York daily papers before break
fast by Mr. Jewell’s and Tom Scott’s
fast mail train for the benefit of the
business letters of the New York mer
chants. Mr. Warner thought Mr.
Beecher might want to know how Nubia
stood, and he knew, and so he wrote.
Mr, Warner is bound to keep up his
reputation as a humorist. —ISpringfield
Republican.
Boston, September 30.—Lea & Shep
ard propose to pay twenty cents ou
the dollar. Liabilities over half a miG
lion,