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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 500 “ three months 2 bo Tei-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year " ’' 200 “ six months 1 00 Single copies. 5 cts. To news dealers’ cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, ; Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. Lee & Shepard now propose to pay 20 cents on the dollar. City Subscribers who have, or who will change their place of residence, are requested to send address to the office of publication, 43 Jackssn street. 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. >*•*■ 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. ■ 1 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. j< ®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. — - 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. I 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,