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The usual dish of horrors is served
up this morning, by telegraph.
Turkey promises reform. A certain
bad place is said to be paved with good
intentions.
The Carlisle are again on the ram
page. The chances now are that they
can hold out indefinitely and are proof
against subjugation.
There has been another “religious”
riot at Toronto. Such proceedings,
come they from whatever sect, are dis
graceful to civilization and humanity.
The spiritual mediums who juggle
publicly for cash, have come to grief
in New York. The vanishing of the
necromancers with the funds and sub
sequent smashing of their cabinet make
up a picture at once ludicrous and sug
gestive. j
The Financial Chronicle, under date
of October Ist, says:
It appears that the total receipts for
siven days have reached 80,263 bales,
against 47,064 bales last week, 36,709 bales
the previous week, and 18,676 bales three
weeks since, making the total receipts since
the first of September, 1875, 186,756 bales,
against 155,221 bales for the same period of
1874, showing an increase since September,
1875, of 31,535 bales.
Lottery schemes, whether under the
guise of benevolent intentions or other
wise, are at best doubtful transactions.
Nearly all of them have been tainted
with suspicion. The revelations in the
Montpelier Female Institute scheme
show the “ true inwardness ” of a ma
jority of these frauds, and the sooner
all such proceedings are forbidden by
law and broken up the better for man
kind.
The new Bank of Nevada has been
opened for business. It is reported
that Flood & O’Brien, the chief pro
prietors, “in order to exhibit their true
inwardness to the gaping multitude,
are going to scatter around on the
counters §10,000,000 in twenty-dollar
gold pieces. This will take 500.000
pieces, and a handsome impression will
no doubt be left the minds of the
impecunious. Flood & O’Brien have
succeeded thus far iu every undertak
ing. They smashed the Bank of Cali
fornia, got control of the bonauza
mines, and can now sit down on their
gold heaps with an infinite amount of
satisfaction.”
The Union-Herald says “ the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
noth withstanding the general depres
sion in business, makes a fine showing.
The gross receipts are §16,003.89 more
for August and September this year
than the same months last year. The
expenses §6,513.77 less, and net receipts
§22,516.66 more for above months this
than last year. This is the best evi
dence of good management that a cor
poration can produce.” We learn from
Mr. Pope that the actual damage by a
recent accident on the Wilmington
branch of tiiis railway will not exceed
§6OO. The first accounts were of the
“spread-eagle” order, and we cheer
fully correct the record.
The finding of a diamond of 150 ca
rats in the South African mines is an
event of unusual occurrence. The Pitt
diamond, befoie catting, weighed 110
carats, and was reduced to 136. It is
valued at §1.000,000. It was captured
from Napoleon at Waterloo. The Bra
zilian diamond, “ Star of the South,”
weighed in the rough 251)4 carats.
Another in Portugal is valued at §28,-
000,000, if genuine, as it weighs 1,680
grains. The famous Koh-i-noor weigh
ed 186 carats before re-cutting.—
The Sultan of Matan had a dia
mond of 376 carats which was
valued at §3,500,000. The Orloff
diamond of Russia is the size of a
pigeon’s egg and weighs 195 carats.
The most valuable diamond in the
United States was found opposite
Richmond, Va., in 1856. It weighs 27
carats. A slave in Brazil, with one
stroke of an iron bar, laid open a bed
of diamonds which were sold for
§1,500,000. It will be seen by this
comparison of different gems that the
newly discovered diamond is very valu
able, but will no doubt be much reduced
by catting.
The famous trotting mare, American
Girl, fell dead on the Elmira track yester
day. She was deeply mourned tlmn and
.there, the band playing a funeral dirge,
and the Association resolving to erect a
thousand dollar wanument over her.
Mr. Childs never wrote anything
m> ore sad and touching than the follow
ing tender effusion:
’ 0 While smoking on a powder keg,
dropped a cinder down;
Then rose like a meteor,
To wear the golden crown.
•Gone to meet the fellow who struck the
glycerine can with a sledge hammer.
“Nine widows of brave Revolutionary
goia.iers,” we are told, “are still draw
er, pensions at Hartford, Conn.” Very
likely. Whenever there is a demand
for such things, Hartford can manufac
ture wooden hams and Revolutionary
widows with equal facility.
East New York has been in a state
of feverish excitement, over the disap
pearance of a charming widow, and it
was feared that she had gone to meet
her socond husband; but the fever is
going down now. She has only gone
to Europe with her third.
Says an exchange : “Horse beef is
not eaten as much by the French peo
ljle a.s it was a year or two ago. The
mule i!’as now come forward.” Then,
U"abo ut time for the* jackass to take
to his heds, or begin to say his prayers.
Bret Hartfi’s novel will be out in 1880,
providing he writes one page every
three months, as he has done for the
past six; months. Mr. Harte isn’t lazy,
but he doesn’t wake up very early in
the morning. —Detroit Free Press.
Mr Dion de Marbelle, author, Galt
House, Chicago, who wrote to this of
fice inquiring the real name of Jennie
Tune is respectfully informed that the
lady is Mrs. David G. Croly, wife of the
esteemed managing editor of the New
York Graphic. Authors should be ac
quainted. Should Mrs. Croly desire to
know who Mr. De Marbelle is, she will
find us equally ready to give her the
information desired.
§!k Attgtista: Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
A GIGANTIC FRAUD.
Scandalous Revelations of a Virginia
Lottery—New York Sharpers Gull
the Fortune Hunters.
Alexandria, Va., October 4.—The
J Gazette says a committee of ticket
holders appointed to examine tickets
remaining in the wheel, after the draw
ing of the Montpelier Female Humane
Association last Friday morning, met
this morning in the room of the Asso
ciation in which the wheel after it had
been closed and sealed was deposited
for safe keeping. When the drawing was
over, as soon as the wheel was seen,
it was apparent that at least
a bushel of brass tubes con
taining tickets had been put in since
it left the stand, for they were at least
ten inehes higher than a mark that had
been put upon the wheel previously by
one of the ticket holders, though the
seal was unbroken and had the same
stamp that had been put upon it pub
licly. Tbey were those of the butt end
of a knife and a current gold coin
which could easily have been put upon
new wax. Iu an investigation which
ensued it was discovered that the
arrangement of the drawing had been
entrusted solely to parties from New
York, and that all the money aris
ing from the sale of tickets except
some six or eight thousand dollars
had been left iu New York, and was not
subject to the draft of the officers of
the Association. The parties present
then appointed a committee to proceed
at once to New York, and endeavor to
recover such of the money as could be
gotten hold of. After which they ad
journed, to meet again to-night. The
excitement on the street, in conse
quence of this discovery, was by no
means limited, and the subject was tbe
topic of general conversation. It is
believed that not a single dollar was
drawn by any bona fide ticket holder,
but that the whole of it has been
swamped by New York sharpers, who
are accused of the whole fraud.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Suicide, Murder, Explosion and Con
flagration.
Williamsport, Pa., October 3. —Abra-
ham Wingridner, a wealthy and in
fluential citizen, drowned himself in the
canal.
Philadelphia, October 3.—There was
an imposing mass meeting and torch
light procession by the Democrats last
night. Two negroes stabbed each
other in a street car.
Kingston, Jamaica, October 3.—Her
Majesty’s steamer Dryad burst her
boiler pipe, killing the second engineer,
two stokers and the chief engineer, and
wounding another person, who is not
expected to live.
Baltimore, October 3.—J. Frank Mor
rison, formerly night manager of the
Western Union Telegraph office, was
cut five times by a man named Tom
Bond. Morrison received a fatal wound
in his left side, which may prove fatal.
New York, October 3.— The building
known as the Body House, about one
hundred yards from the Po >r House
building, containing forty-one babies,
as many nurses, aud sixty-one female
paupers, is burned. Loss, §40,000.
Jamestown, N. Y., October 3.— The
steamers Jamestown aud M. A. Griffith
are burned.
Religious Riot in Canada—Fire and
Spontaneous Combustion.
Toronto, Canada, October 4.—The
Roman Catholic procession was accom
panied by a heavy police and military
guard. Stone throwing commenced
when the procession left the cathedral.
The police charged the assailants,
firing several shots. One or two po
licemen and a number of others were
seriously hurt, but none were killed.
Two thousand persons were in proces
sion. The crowd at some points num
bered eight thousand. All quiet at
nine o’clock. The city is perfectly
quiet. Niue of yesterday’s rioters were
before the police court, and were re
manded to Wednesday. The police
had ample preparations to prevent aa
apprehended attempt at rescue.
Philadelphia, October 4.—Burgin
Sous’ glass works burned ; 150 men
were ousted.
Lawrence, Mass., October 4. — Spon
taneous combustion destroyed the
Washington Mills. Loss, §70,000.
Shipwreck—Attempt to Kill a Priest.
Washington, October 4.—The Signal
Service Observer at Cape May, N. J.,
reports that the schooner David Col
lins, from New York to Washington,
sunk opposite the life saving station
No. 34, and another schooner off station
No. 33, this morning, with colors at half
mast.
Baltimore, October 4. —Albert H.
League, captain of a tug boat, ap
proached the sacristy of St. Patrick’s
Church while services were progressing
and attempted to shoot the pastor,
Father Gaitley, because, League al -
leges, Gaitley placed his (League’s)
daughter in an Indiana convent.—
League was held for the errand jury.
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Minor Telegrams.
Washington, October 3.—Tbe Gov
ernment sells a million of gold on
Thursdays during October.
San Francisco, October 3. —The Bank
of California closed at 1 o’clock, one
hour later than usual. Saturday’s de
posits exceeded checks half a million.
Congratulations were heard on all
sides. It is believed that the bank will
have more friends than ever.
Paris, October 3. —A letter of the
Miuister of Finance, explanatory of the
objectionable passage in his speech on
the 27th, has removed the difficulty
occasioned by his remarks. Perfect
unanimity prevails throughout the
Cabinet and Council.
Vicksburg, Miss., October 3.—The
Inter-State Levee Convention met
yesterday and was well attended.
Senator Bogy, of Missouri, was chosen
President and made an able speech in
behalf of the alluvial section of the
Mississippi valley. A committee will
be appointed to go to Washington and
urgently appeal to Congress to assist
in rebuilding the levees of the Missis
sippi valley.
San Francisco, October 4.—The
Nevada Bank opened. Large crowd
but no demonstration. The Bank of
California is doing business as usual.
No extraordinary call was made on its
resources.
Havana, October 4.—The Spanish
war vessel Tornado chased the Uru
guay into Port Royal, Jamaica, whei
her cargo was embargoed.
Boston, October 4. —Martha Hutch
inson received 812,500 from the Boston
Gas Light Compauy for personal in
juries received when her house was
blown up with gas during the great
tire of 1872.
The Jefferson Borden mutineers,
Geo. Miller and Wm. Smith, were sen :
tenced to hang January 14th. They
received the sentence without emotion.
Faix River, October 4. —Excess of
help has applied for work at all the
mills this morning.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Turkish Reforms—Cnrlists on the
War Path—A Big Diamond Found —
Spanish Politics and Brigandage—
The War iu Herzegovina.
Constantinople, October 4.—The
Porte decrees that agricultural popula
tions which peacefully follow their avo
cations be exempt from the fourth of
recently imposed tithes and relieved
from arrears of taxes up to the finan
cial year of 1873-74, the latter exemp
tion not to apply to well-to-do classes.
Communities are to be represented in
an administrative council by persons
chosen as enjoying their confidence,
reasonable demands of such represen
tatives to receive attention. A gradual
realization of these and other reforms
has been decided upon.
San Sebastian, October 4.—The Car
lists threw 150 shells into the city on
Saturday. The French are embarking
on a French man-of-war. The garrison
expects reinforcements.
London, October!.—The Cape steam
er reports a 150 carat diamond found
iu the South African diamond fields.
Madrid, October 4.—A decree has
been published re-enacting the election
law of 1870, which gives a deputy to
every 50,000 people by universal suf
frage.
The Government has determined to
send Senor Rubi, former Minister of
the Colonies, to Cuba, with unlimited
power to negotiate finances.
London, October 4. —Brigands stop
ped and robbed a railroad train be
tween Saragossa and Barcelona. Among
the passengers robbed were seventeen
American officers and sailors, supposed
to belong to the steamer Franklin.
A special dispatch from Ragusa to
the Times reports that the Turks have
been reinforced at Trebinje and Kleck,
and the insurgents are retiring towards
Gaschka.
Marine Disaster—John Bull in a
China Shop.
Copenhagen, October 4. — The Swed
ish steamer L. J. Bager, running be
tween Lubeck and Copenhagen, was
burned in the Baltic. Twenty-four
passeugers aud eleven of the crew
perished. The steamer was small, and
built in 1858 at Gottenburg.
London, October 4.—The Times has a
telegram from Shanghai in which it is
said Mr. Wade is still in Pekin. It is
reported that Hon. Mr. Grosvenor,
second Secretary to the Legation, will
go to England with dispatches. De
tails are unknown, but it is believed a
final settlement has been reached.
Shanghai, October 4.— Mr. Wade noti
fied the British Legation here that
negotiations at Pekin have averted
immediate war.
Resignation of the Servian Ministry—
The European Grain Trade.
Belgrade, October 4.—The Servian
Ministry has resigned. Perfect tran
quility prevails.
London, October 4.—The Mark Lane
Express, in its review of the corn trade
for the past week, says: “Late heavy
rains, strong breezes and reduced tem
perature have brought a wide extent of
laud into readiness for the plow, and
the opportunity has been freely used
here aud in France and Belgium. We
trust autumnal sowings will have a
better result than in 1874. The down
ward tendency seems to have stopped.
Country markets are firm, and iu some
places prices have advanced one shill
ing. is higher at Dantzig, aud
the Gei'man markets are dearer. In
Hungary firmness is maintained. The
winter and closing of the Baltic may
further enhance values.”
Servian Politics—Another Effort to
Crush Don Carlos—The Price of a
Bombardment.
Belgrade, October 4. — The Minis
try resigned in consequence of a
declaration of Prince Milan made at a
secret sitting of the Gouneil. A Con
servative ministry is forming.
Madrid, October 4.—The Epoca says
military operations in the North will
be resumed as soon as the Govern
ment will be able to send 80,000 men to
reinforce the army.
San Sebastian, October 4.—The
Cailists demand §IOO,OOO to discon
tinue tbe bombardment of the town.
FROM NASHVILLE.
Funeral Ceremonies Over Andrew
Johnson.
Nashville, October 3. — The memori
al pageant in honor of ex-President
Johnson was a full and complete suc
cess, without disturbance or accident.
The procession commenced moving at
2:30 p. r:i., and was the largest turnout
of the populace that was ever wit
nessed in this city. It was made up of
the military, civic, mechanics and liter
ary societies, and was two hours in
passing the capitol. The streets desig
nated as the line of march were crowd
ed with people at an early hour, and
at two o’clock there were at least 30,000
persons on the streets. All the pub
lic buildings aud a large number of
business houses and private residences
were draped in mourning. The Presi
dent’s salute of .21 guns was fired at
sunrise from tne Capitol Hill. All the
bells of the city and Edgefield tolled
from 7toßa. m. During tbe move
ment of the procession minute guns
were fired, and one every fifteen min
utes throughout the day, closing with a
national salute of 37 guns at sunset.
Ex-Senator Fowler delivered a memo
rial address at the Capitol this eve
ning. The address was very elaborate,
requiring two hours for its delivery,
and is a resume of the ex-President’s
private and political history from his
childhood to the grave.
Inauguration of Vanderbilt Univer
sity.
Nashville, October 4.—The Vander
bilt University was inaugurated to-day.
Yesterday sermons were preached by
Bishops Daggett and Wightman, and
to-day addresses were made by Rev.
Dr. Deems, of New York, Chaucellor
Lipscomb, of Geoigia, aud Governor
Porter of Tennessee.
FROM NEW YORK.
Smashing a Spiritualistic Show—Con
vention of Fire Department En
gineers.
New York, October 4.—A large crowd
assembled at Tammany Hall to wit
ness what was advertised as a spirit
ualistic seance. The operators de
camped with the proceeds. The rough
portion of the audience broke the cabi
net and other stage furniture.
The body of Benjamin who was
drowned with Dr. Poiteus has been re
covered.
The third annual convention of en
gineers of the fire departments of the
United States convened. H. Clay
Sexton, of St Louis, presided. Com
missioner Perry, of New York, advo
cated a Fire Combustible Bureau and a
bureau for the punishment of incendi
aries. A. C. Hendricks was elected
President. Among the Vice Presidents
is Thomas O’Connor of New Orleans.
AUGUSTA. GA., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1875.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
There was a frost in * Atlanta on > a
turday and Sunday mornings.
Mr. LeGrand Wright add James Bai
bour, of Columbus, took four shots at
each other Friday, in wf.jch the former
was slightly wounded its the hip.
Macon Telegraph: Ewing the past
two weeks over a hundred persons
have passed through on their
way to Florida to the winter.
Travel in that direct! f sets in early,
and, if it continues, Floi|da will not be
able to hold all who will;go there.
Rev. William Mclnt. ih has again
severed his connection iith the First
Baptist Church in Mac |i. He has ac
cepted the position of t Corresponding
Secretary of the Home Mission Board,
with headquarters at Mgrion, Ala.
Rome Commercial: feenry Sanders,
while unfortunately in a state of in
toxication, fell yestei, ay afternoon
from the Selma, Rome ;?4d Dalton Rail
road bridge across the fjjtowah, a dis
tance of thirty feet up<i|i rocks. Two
gashes were cut upon hi?, forehead, and
his spine was injured, i bout dark last
evening he was carried i: > the residence
of Mr. Kane, on Broad s reet, where he
at present lies. He cam to Rome yes
terday on the Kingston t ain. He says
he is from Cobb coune \ though his
family is in Cincinnati. / Xe was cross
ing the bridge on the raj. toad ties, and
fell when attempting \ pass around
the hand car ; the track? >eing worked
upon, the planks had I een taken up.
Dr. Hunt, who visited j im last night,
thinks his chances fori recovery very
slight, being very ap{■ ( ihensive that
his spine is broken. Sat lers is a man
about forty-five years . Id. and wears
iron-gray whiskers upon lis chin. He
had with him about nit j dollars. He
is being kindly nursed *and provided
for. i
FROM WASH IN ITON.
The Freedman’s Ban} Dividend—
What Will he J*ai* —Honors to
Johnson’s Memory- ’he Commis
sioner of Patents.
Washington, October f —Some news
papers have erroneous! stated that
the Freedman’s Saving; and Trust
Company will commence paying a divi
dend of 30 per cent, on t :e Ist of No
vember next. The com) my will pay
only 20 per cent. The ' [hole number
of open deposit accounts s §61,144. The
present liabilities are §2; ’55,749. The
amount of the first divide ad to be paid
above stated is §591,14; . There are
about 5,000 accounts of less than §1
and at least 15,000 t jeounts less
than §5 each. A3 the ( immissioners
will be much pressed to jet ready finr
payment by the Ist of N vember. No
claims should be pres nted or for
warded before that time.
The Navy Departtnen lias advices
that on the 27th all flag: in the harbor
at Honolulu were at I ilf-mast, and
that funeral guns were ired in honor
of ex-Presidcnt Johnson.
Hon. R. H. Duell assui od the duties
of Commissioner of Pate ts.
The Signal Service t degraph line
from Wilmington to Sn thville, N. C.,
authorized by the last C< i gress, is com
pleted and ready for bu aess. A cau
tionary signal station habeen already
established at the latterfpoint for the
benefit of the coast ship|dug interests.
SPORTING Ni|wS.
Nashville ami New V Irk Races.
Nashville, October 4.-- The fall meet
ing of the Nashville Bloc 1 Horse Asso
ciation opened to-day. he track was
iu good condition and t] e attendance
large. The first race wi; for two year
olds, mile dash. It was foil by Plenty,
Clemmie G. second, Gri third—time,
1:47)4. The second race; ?or three year
olds, mile heats, was ; von by King
Alfonso, Asterlitesecond, \lisdeal third
—time, 1:45,1:47%. Tin; thrdheat was
a dash of a mile aud an t ghth, and was
won by Weatberby, Re tnan second,
Newbern third—time, l:f %.
New York, October 4.-- The first day
of the Fall meeting of the Prospect
Park Association was he ;1 with a good
attendance. The race fo horses of the
2:24 class was won by ] lanche, Music
second, Comee third. ' he first heat
was won by Comee, sec nd by Music.
Time, 2:26%, 2:24, 2:23% 2:26%, 2:24%.
In the 2:40 race, four he ts were trot
ted, but on account of darkness was
postponed until to-m now. T. B.
French took first and tb rd heats, Bay
Jack second aud fouit \ Time, 2:34,
2:30, 2:33> a , 2:32.
Dr. Mary Walker calle on Brigham
Young the other day, nd informed
him that if she were his 1 rst wife, she’d
make his old harem so mely aud de
serted tbatevenCanada t. istles couldn’t
get a foothold on the sit thereof. Aud
he replied, “800 ! boo !”
The condition of Irela id is steadily
improving. Labor is in demand, emi
gration falling off, aud ’rime decreas
ing. The investments olthe people in
Government bonds andfaanks amount
to §340,000,000. f
Baudelaire and Murgjr dined at a
country inn. There was|i spider’s web
iu the window near thefei, and just as
they sat down a beautifi| green fly was
caught in it. Murger, will the impulse
of a poet, would havesa-fid this victim
from the hideous spider, lut Baudelaire
said: “Tell me, first, by Shat right you
deprive this honest spider of the food
he has gained by his toUjuid patience.”
A brilliant advertising exordium
opens with tbe observation that “ the
liver is the largest weyftshop of the
body.” It is also the #|urce of more
grumbling against the ;f reator than
anything else, and being./he theatre of
constant activities, naff; rally has a
spite against lazy peopl.|: It manifests
this spite in two ways-jU makes them
feel blue and look yelloC
Gen. Grant, please reap the following
extract from John (, i.iuey Adams’
diary: “Mr. Rairabert bi ,ught presents
of porcelain for my wi p, for Charles,
and another for myself,!; I refused to
receive them, it being a I principle which
I found to be necessary ?.o adopt from
the first day I becami a public man,
never to accept for mys if or my family
a gift while I held a i iblic office.”—
[Boston Post.
“Four little girls in Mi! vaukee are em
ployed by a certain: well known
wealty tobacco dealer to pick up what
ever tnay be found in Uaioons, on the
streets, and in the gutter, at. one cent
for every ten pieces, w wther large or
small. Every cigar si pap and dis
carded “quid” is picke< up, no matter
how dirty it may bo, r o matter who
has used it, or where it ib found. These
are used in the manufacture of both
“choice” Havana cigars and paper
chewing tobacco. Tbe longer and bet
ter “stumps” are unrolled and used for
the former purpose, while the “quids,”
short stumps, aud soaked and rotten
“tips” are made into obeying tobacco.
—[lndianapolis News. {
A NEW YEAR’S SERMON.
TO KNOW AND CONFESS.
BY REV. LOUIS LOEWINSOHN.
Wherewith shall I come before the
Lord, aud bow myself before the high
God!” Michah 6. 6. So I ask with
the words of the prophet Michah.
What are the contents of this feast ? The
solemn celebration of this day, what
should it express? Is it perhaps the
fear of death and the love of life? are ;
the numberless hopes and fears,
cares and wishes about the treasures
and pleasures of the earth, that press
us to overstorm the father of all *vith
petitions and prayers, that he may
fulfill our hearts desires? True, we do
pray “remember us for life.” We do
read in the prayers of the day, on New
Year’s Day, it is written down, aud
on atonement day, it is sealed, this one
for life, that one for death, this one at
his time the other one before his time!”
We do pray: “Write us down in the
book of life, blessing peace and plenty!”
But the true enlightened Israelite
knows, that he is a great deal too
shortsighted to express a prayer before
the All wise Father, he knows that God
understands it better, what is good
for us than we weak children of the
day; yet our prayers flow from the
child-like desire of our heart, troubles
and joys before our heavenly father,
and iu doing so, it finds consolation and
alleviation, as we read in our Hap
tharah of Hannah, after her prayer to
God, and her countenance was no
more sad. Our prayer to God, is a
proof of our filial confidence in God, in
whose hand we trustfully place our
destination, therefore do our prayers
close, not what we have prayed for,
but “let tliy will be done, O Lord !” Is
the overflow of prayers caused re
garding our destination, which is veiled
iu futurity, my friends? We are not
able nor shall we lift its veil, the se
cret things belong to the Lord our
God ! This is what we know and feel
to-dry as every other day.
But what does the E'ernal demand of
us to-day? To what does our conscience
prompt us to-day? What are the contents
and what is the expression which we
shall give to this solemn day? What are
we able aud what shall we do as Israe
lites on the first day of the year ? The
holy psalmist answers these questions
in the 50th chapter: 23d verse of his
psal ms.
“He who offers confession glorifies
Me, and he who orders his walk, will I
show the salvation of God.” We shall,
my friends, strictly examine our past at
the solstitial point of two important
parts of time, know and confess, what
God has given us and what use we have
made of the same, that we may gain
from the past a plan aud reflection for
the future, for the new presents we
may receive iu this new year.
“He who offers confession glorifies
Me.”
Confess first the divine mercy be
stowed on you. You, my friend, who eu
joyest the fullness of li’fe proclaim with
the psalmist: “Bless the Lord my soul,
and forget not all His benefits !”
You, my friend, who did arise from
the bed of sickness, and have been
saved from death. \ou,my friends, who
have been exposed to dangers and have
been saved aud stand this day before
God, proclaim with the psalmist: “You
have redeemed my life from destruc
tion, You have crowned me with loving
kindness aud tender mercies !”
But also you, my friend, to whom the
past year was poor in blessing, and rich
in troubles, from whom it has taken
precious things and given uothiug; also
you on whom the severest trials have
been bestowed—you are not able to be
grateful yet, too deep is your heart
bended, but you shall confess that
even in your suffering lies consolation
in your loss and if ever so great lies
gain. Remember the great word,
“By them that come nigh me, will I be
sanctified.” God bestows the heaviest
trials on those that are near His love
and perfection. Remember, further, J
that sorrow and trouble purify the gold
of virtue and the fear of God. Such
knowledge and confession we shall
bring as an offering; with such confes
sion we shall glorify God to-day. These
shall be the contents and the solemn
feelings of heart on this day, for such
confession is an eternal gain out of this
transient life; it is the spiritual fruit
from the withering tree of life.
But also to another side let us apply
our text. Let us know and confess,
free of self-love and pride. What ha ve
we done with all blessings we did re
ceive; how have we repaid God for his
mercy and loving kindness? Our wise
men tell us that the sounds of the
schophar are words of admonition they
call to us: “ Awake, ye slum
berers from your slumber, and ye
listless ones, from your indiffer
ence ! Examine your deeds, and
penitently return to the source of jus
tice and truth. O, ye immersed in
worldly employments and pleasures,
forgetting your true destiny; ye who
pass your days in vanity which cannot
profit nor deliver—O, remember your
Creator !”
Hard is such self-examination, be
cause it tears the shining robe which
covers our deeds; it shows all blem
ishes; but the Talmud teaches: “He
who sacrifices his self-love and pride,
and confesses his transgression before
God, he glorifies the Father in heaven
and on earth; ho purifies his life on
earth and benefits his life hereafter.”
Now, my friends, let us glorify God,
let us benefit our life with knowledge
and confession; let us confess how we
did repay God for His blessings; how
we have acted as men.
Now, the self-contented will answer,
I liave’sinned ; yes, I have sinned oiten,
but this is human ; I have also done
good, I havo performed good deeds.
VVe will not investigate the first, for
you confess you have sinned. I con
fess sinning is human, aud to pardon
the repenting is divine.
But how does it stand about your
good deeds ? As father and mother,
how nobly have you acted in your
house ? Has your house been a tem
ple of God. in which morning and eve
ning the usual sacrifices were brought
(prayer)? Have you taught and in
sisted upon your children, the young
priests aud levites, to sing praises at
the offering time ; or did you do as
Esau did, who, when hungry, ate,
drank and went off despising his first
birth-right? You also slept, ate, drank
and went oil despising Israel’s holy
missiou. Confess and honor God.
Has your heart been an altar of God,
upon which the perpetual fire of love,
peace and virtue burued like the high
priest Aaron, “a lover of peace and
persecutor of peace or was it a place
of bringing forth poison, strife and
hatred? O glorify God with such con
fession.
Have you, as fathers and mothers in
Israel, kindled the holy fire of religion
in the young hearts of your children,
who have been given into your safe
keeping? Have you preserved and
j watched the divine fire upon their new
altars ; or have you sacrificed on the
same the unholy fire, the fire of fash
ion and strange costumes, the fire <>f
abomination, and not the fire of Israel's
holy religion ? Have you, perhaps,
yourselves been such examples to
them? O glorify God with confes
sion, repeutauce aud amendment,
for remember when the taber
nacle was erected in the desert
and the new altar was ready for its
dedication, the two sons of the High
Priest did not wait on the divine fire,
but brought strange fire on the altar,
“ and the fire from heaven came down
and consumed them;” therefore confess
and repent, for only repentance can
change the decrees of God. Then
how have you acted as Israelites iu re
gard to Israel’s mission? What are the
monuments you have erected? Well
you may answer—“ I have given some
tiling to build a house for God.” Now,
my friends of the nineteenth century,
do you really believe that you can build
a house for God, or that God is in need
of a house ? The heavens and the earth
are not large enough for his glory, and
1 you bui!d a house for Him ? Oh, no,
not a house for God, but a house for
yourselves should it be. To this house
you should come on Sabbaths and holy
days, leaving the bustle and strife of
the world aud thinking of God. Into
this house you should come in order to
commune with God; here you should
come when your heart overflows with
joy, to thank God ; here you should
come when your heart is overburdened
from pain and trouble, to pray to God,
and to seek confidence in God; and have
you done so ? It should boa house for
your future wellfaring—but have you
considered it as such ? lustead of fly
ing on the Sabbath and holy days from
the bustle and strife of the world, you
seek it; and if your conscience awakes
at times within you, then you say we
must work and take advantage of the
time, but if you are taken sick do you
take advantage of the time? You must
work for your wife and children, but if
you are called off to-morrow, how will
you take care of them? Then you
say I will trust them to God, who
is the husband of the widow
and the father of the orphan. Now, my
friend, you proclaim to-day, “ Behold,
the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.”
You believe iu God, you trust in Him,
you confide in His care your wife and
children "or a lifetime, and you are in
consistent enough not to trust in Him
for one day in seven. O, honor God
this day with confession, repentance
and amending ! These are the expres
sions we should give to this solemn
day : Glorify God with thy confession,
order thy walk, aud He will show thee
the salvation of God !
Let the sounds of the shophar re
mind us to think over our ways in the
past year. Let us be reminded of the
vanities to which we have sacrificed so
much of the time, which is only so
short, without advancing the true ob
ject of life, for only by doing so we
will realize tbe blessing of the text:
“ Happy the people who understand
the awakening sounds of the cornet,!
They walk, O Lord, iu the light of Thy
countenance !” Amen !
The Son of an Eminent Georgian Dy
ing iu Prison.
A quarter of a century ago the name
of Wylie Williams was one that attract
ed much public attention. Its owner,
tbe son of one of Georgia’s most emi
nent citizens, is now about dying in the
Eastern Penitentiary, where he has
been incarcerated over twenty-five
years, and the following briefly told
history of his career will prove interest
ing: . ,
Wylie Williams, at a suitable age,
was placed in the preparatory school at
Yale College, but when he was there a
short time the President wrote to the
father of the youth, stating that the
latter was not susceptible of mental
training, and regretfully intimated that
his mind was not entirely sane.
Wylie was returned to his family,
and shortly thereafter a commission
appointed by one of the courts found
that his mind was affected. There
being no suitable institution in Geor
gia in which to have him treated, Wylie
was sent to the Pennsylvania Hospital
for the Insane, under the management
of Dr. Kirkbride. He was quite vio
lent, and frequently threatened that he
would escape from confinement and
then shoot Dr. Kirkbride, a predic
tion which he verified by breaking out
subsequently and lodging a ball in the
head of Dr. Kirkbride as the latter
passed along the road under a tree, iu
the upper branches of which the ma
niac had placed himself. Wylie was
arrested and tried for the attempted
killing of Dr. Kirkbride, but the jury
brought in a verdict of “not guilty, by
reason of insanity.”
The Judge (King) stated to the
friends of Williams that he should send
the latter to the Eastern Penitentiary
for safe keeping, but he would be dis
charged as soon as his friends were
ready to take him to a place where he
could do no further harm. That was
twenty-five years and more ago, since
which time Williams has never been
outside the walls of Cherry Hill Prison.
His friends and relatives, deeming the
Penitentiary as suitable a place as any
that could be procured, paid the ex
penses of an extra keeper, whose sole
duty it was to watch and care for the
insane patient. After the bieaking out
of the late war, in 1861, remittances
ceased aud Williams was placed iu an
ordinary cell among convicts, being al
lowed, however, the freedom of the
yard. An effort was recently made to
discover whether any of his family sur
vived him, and it was found that only a
brother of his is living, aud he has
been so impoverished by the results of
the war that he cau contribute nothing
myojthan sorrow for his unfortunate
brother Wylie. The family prior to the
rebellion was one of the wealthiest in
Georgia, but their whole wealth vas
swept away in that struggle.
Wylie is now about 60 years of age,
and is almost child-like. The one de
sire that has absorbed him for several
years is to revisit the old plantation on
which he was born and raised. It has
been his daily custom to sit iu the yard
with his face turned to the south, as ho
smoked his cigar. His health has been
gradually weakening for years, but re
cently he has been failing rapidly. In a
short time he will exchange his present
tomb, where he has beeu buried a life
time, for that last resting place where
he will sleep for eternity.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that
an Indian squaw who passed through
that city last week from the far West
had a chignon that looked very much
like the hair of the New York Herald’s
correspondent, who wrote a few weeks
ago that the Indians were very friend
ly.
The most enduring memory in Franco
of Chateaubriand, poet and novelist, is
among cooks, who have a way of serv
ing up beefsteaks as suggested by him
and bearing his name. A man’s name
filling the' kitchen has a monument
more durable than brass, especially in
Gaul.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 53.
(OTTO*.
A Review of the Situation—Rules for
Speculators—Why the “King” is
Low-Priced.
[Atlanta Constitution J
It is a most notable fact, that of all
the occupations that men follow for a
living, the one of buying and selling
cotton has the largest number of ap
prentices and novices, and the fewest
number of masters of their trade in the
world. This is why we constantly hear
men who have lost money on cotton
saying: “It is all luck—l had just as
soon bet on a game of faro.” The fact
is, that out of every thousand men
who deal in cotton, about ten under
stand pretty well what they are doing
and make money. The other 990 know
nothing about their business ; they buy
cotton because Jones is buying, and sell
because Brown is selling; and then when
they havelosttheir money by following
the business for which they had no
education or knowledge, they blame
their luck. The same luck would fol
low as a matter of course, in any occu
pation that a man expected to be
master of because he had followed it
a year. Such men always lose all the
money they invest iu cotton, either
right away or in a few years. When
ever a man who we believe knows
nothing about cotton asks our opinion
as to whether he had best go into the
cotton market or no, we generally tell
him he had best throw his money into
the fire, then it would be gone without
any labor or anxiety about it. Asa
proof of what we have stated is true,
we give a few quotations from Wight’s
Encyclopedia of Cotton.
No. 4—The broad question of supply
and demand are worthy of most care
ful attention ; but have, we think, less
influence iu regulating prices than is
generally supposed.
No. 7—The cotton crop is always sub
ject to great vicissitudes, and past ex
rience will show those iu the trade that
it is not wise to be too hopeful.
No. 19—It is useless to say that the
course of early receipts of the crops
have no effect on prices. For so long
as they are heavy the trade will not
believe in a short crop, and vice versa.
No. 26 —When supplies of cotton
either present or iu prospect are abun
dant or excessive, speculation will not
only be held in check, but the trade
will pursue a very cautious policy and
not stock themselves with cotton.
No. 31—The course of prices is main
ly a question of confidence, and not one
of supply.
No. 39—Nothing shows so clearly the
bad state of trade as a very long period
of cheap mone.y.
No. 44—The general depression which
has characterized the trade in cotton
goods iu 1875 has made the impression
that production of goods is going ahead
of consumption and that, although cot
ton looks cheap enough it may go
lower.
No. 71—For the speculator, no price
whatever, is safe,no matter how high or
how low. If lie is a bull he is never so
certain of a rise as when the price is at
the top, or if a bear, never so certain of
a fall as when the market is at the bot
tom.
No. 122—When cotton dealers and
speculators are very anxious for a safe
bottom price, they often try to persuade
themselves that it is safe, long before
the bottom is really touched. This is
always very dangerous, to follow our
desires and wishes rather than our rea
son, and it often ends in loss.
Gold.
There is less than $8,000,000 of gold
in the New York banks, and this is a
much less amount than they have ever
held since the war. It would be a very
easy matter to put the price up to
$1.20, but the bulls in gold have thus
far made more money by loaning it at
34 of one per cent, a day than they
could make by putting the price up.
The scarcity of gold causes sterling ex
change to be so low that it is hard to
sell enough to buy cotton for export.
Usually high gold means high cotton,
but this time high and scarce gold
means cheap exchange, and no demand
for cotton for export, and consequently
lower prices.
There has been less cotton exported
this month than any year since 1869,
and with a revival of export demand
stocks will become excessive in our
ports and will break down the price
much below what the cotton men of
this city believe will be the bottom.
Price.
Most persons believe that the large
crops of cotton are the cause of the
low price. We believe this is a mistake.
The true cause of the low price is,
there are too many cotton goods manu
factured at the North and in Europe to
supply the demand. These goods are
piled up everywhere waiting for custo
mers aud offered at as low prices as
they sold for when cotton was only 8
cents a pound. The goods sell so slow
that the makers of them will not buy
cotton at high prices and make more
goods, and this slack demand will con
tinue until confidence is at least parti
ally restored. It is always best for far
mers to sell their cotton as soon as
ready for market, and at tile nearest
place where buyers will take and pay
for it, aud as low as cotton looks now,
those who follow this rule will not re
gret it.
MONTHLY STATEMENT.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool and
afloat for that port, for six years, is as
follows :
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875
Stock....-... 521 499 704 615 731 713
Afloat 360 532 218 216 240 236
Total 881 1031 922 861 971 949
American cotten in sight and afloat
for Liverpool same time :
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875
Stock 151 156 103 180 228 422
Afloat 28 51 12 29 19 15
179 207 120 209 247 437
It will be seen from these figures
that there is more than double the
quantity of American cotton iu Liver
pool than there has been for six years,
aud still the crop was 340,000 bales
less the past season than it was the
year before. S. B. W.
“My friend,” said Rev. Mr. Kendall,
of Ooncojd, N. H., to a well-dressed
young stranger, who had volunteered
to stand by his horse while he stepped
into a bank, “my friend, I am obliged
to you; and when you are as old as I
am, and I am as young as you are, I
will do as much for you,” “But why
don’t you invite me in to drink ?” was
the rejoinder to the astounded preacher.
Nostrum vendors advertise in Eng
land a “sure cure for the op[ uai habit.”
This nostrum has been found by analy
sis to contain two grains per dose of
the sulphate of morphine, The dose is
to be taken three times a day. Thus
the victirq takes the equivalent of
thirty-six grains of opium in a day to
cure him of the habit of taking opium.
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On AND AFTEK this date (April 21, 1875.) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
free of postage.
Advebtisements 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
ir Postal Order.
Cobeespondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
ATLANTA CORRESPONDENCE
A “ Trained Journalist” in the “ Gate
City”—A Solemn and Impressive
Funeral—About the Pauper Ques
tion—The Good Templars at Gaines
ville.
[Occasional Corr. of the Constitutionalist,]
National Hotel, Oct. 4, 1875.
A “trained journalist,” like myself,
floating about the capital city for a few
days, is compelled to pick up items of
interest, and finally to pick up his pen
and write them down. So well pleased
am I with the parties who have re
cently “put a head” on the good old
Constitutionalist, and otherwise im
proved its character and general ap
pearance, that I feel constrained to
give them the benefit of my recent ob
servations here.
A Solemn and Impressive Funeral.
On yesterday afternoon I attended
the funeral services of Col. J. M. Cal
houn, of this city, at the Central Pres
byterian church, which was filled to
overflowing with a deeply interested
congregation, composed to a great ex
tent of the leading citizens of Atlanta.
The deceased was nearly seventy years
of age; was a lawyer by profession, aud
hid filled many offices of honor and
trust during his lifetime. He was for
four years mayor of the city, holding
that office at the time of its surrender
to Gen. Sherman. The procession to
the church on yesterday afternoon was
very long, and included the mayor aud
Aldermen of the city, the judges of the
Supreme Court, the Attorney-General
of ithe State, and judges aud members
of r.he bar. The services were quite
solemn and appropriate. The choir
sang “Rock of Ages,” “I would not
live alway,” (a favorite hymn with the
deceased), and “Friend after friend de
parts,” in a most impressive manner;
the Scriptures were read, prayer of
fered and a discourse delivered by
Rev. John Jones, who alluded iu fitting
terms to the character and public life
of the deceased. Rev. Yf. F. Cook
then offered the closiug prayer, after
which the greater portion of the con
gregation joined the procession anti
accompanied the remains to the ceme
tery. Col. Calhoun was a faithful and
honest public servant and a good citi
zen, and his death is quite a loss to the
community iu which he lived so long,
and for whose welfare he was always
ready to labor.
About the Pauper Question.
It is very evident that the papers of
this city are either quite stupid or per
versely inclined to misrepresent the
action of your city authorities in re
gard to sending paupers to this point
over the Georgia Railroad. Iu the first
place, they very well know that the
persons complained of are not paupers
of Augusta, but tramps that drift into
your city from all parts of the coun
try, Your Mayor does precisely what
the Mayors of other cities do iu regard
to such shiftless characters—he passes
them along to the next city. I have
travelled extensively at the North and
West, aud in all that section this prac
tice is common. For instance, a tramp
applies to the Mayor of Bangor, Mo.,
for aid, aud he is sent forward to Port
land ; from Portland he is transmitted
to Boston ; thence he goes to Spring
field and to Hartford, Conn., and then
to New York ; next he gets on to Phila
delphia, to Baltimore, to Washington,
to Richmond, to Wilmington, to Au
gusta, and then to Atlanta. Here he
will stay and become a pest and a nuis
ance, perhaps a thief and a murderer,
if Mayor Hammock is too conscientious
to send him on to Columbus. It cer
tainly is very strange—iu fact, an un
heard of thing—if Atlanta is the only
city in the whole country that keeps
all the tramps that come to it and is
too honest to send them along in the
direction of the “ Lone Star State.”
The Good Templars at Gainesville.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
held its annual session at Gainesville
last week, occupying several days with
its proceedings. I allude to it here
simply to state that the delegates
speak in the very highest terms of
Gen. C. A. Evans and Rev. Dr, Irvine,
of your city, who took a prominent part
in the proceedings. Their addresses
are spoken of as having been eloquent,
forcible and appropriate. The Grand
Lodge has appointed a committee to
ask the Governor to send a message to
the Legislature in favor of the estab
lishment of an asylum for inebriates in
this State; and also a committee to
petition the Legislature to have a
local option law passed. Both proposi
tions, I fear, will meet with considera
ble opposition, the first on account of
the expense, and the second because
the great mass of the people do not
favor such a measure.
Phi Gamma.
PERSONAL.
Clara Morris is Mrs. Frederick Har
riot
The Due d’Aumale is worth forty
millions.
Delano’s scalp will solve the Indian
question.
According to the Sandwich Islanders,
the Evil One is of the female persua
sion.
Tennyson has 200 sheep, and is,
therefore 199 ahead of Mary.—Courier-
Journal.
Satan rebuking sin—Kellogg con
demning Ames for calling for Federal
troops. —Chicago Times.
A Providence alderman caught a
night policeman stealing pears iu his
back yard the other night.
Here he is again: The houee of Tom
Collins is among those wrecked in the
storm at Galveston.
The widow of Maj. Gen. Halleck was
married in New York on Thursday eve
ning to Gen. Culiom.
“Keep ’em alive, boys, keep ’em alive;
dead men pay no bills,” is what an old
doctor said to a couple of young scions
just entering into practice.
A lawyer in Memphis, Tenn., was
fined $lO for contempt one day last
week, because he asked of the Bench,
“What kind of bait did your Honor use
while fishing among the mountains of
East Tennessee?”
Mrs. Hogan, of Baltimore, has got
SB,OOO from a railroad company for kill
ing her husband. The man may have
been worth it, but we are afraid that
such verdicts will lead some women to
encourage their husbands iu traveling
by rail.
There is a boy in town who doesn’t
kn,ow whether America was discovered
by George Washington or William
Penn, but he can tell you the names of
all the dime novels published during
the last five years.—[Norristown Herald.
Four different times during the pres
ent year has the American eagle been
whipped by roosters, and yet we are
toldl day after day that we must pre
serve cur reverence for the bird of lib
erty.