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The political caldron in Massachusetts
continues to bubble.
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Moke horrors, of a beastly character,
are reported by telegraph.
Our peripatetic Administration is now
running the machine from Denver, Colo
rado.
Another lumber failure is announced.
Hard times seem to be going against the
grain of the wood dealers.
Our Atlanta correspondence is, as usual,
very entertaining. The sketch given of
“ Lieut. Buford,” and the adventures' of
that remarkable woman, will be read with
interest.
An alleged attempt to involve the United
States Government in the Guibord matter
has failed. So iar as Uncle Sam is con
cerned that is a case of nulla bona—no
bones.
The members of the New York Board of
Trade have arranged to ventilate the cur
rency question. When Butler takes the
lioor, Prof. Tice wi.l know that a cyclone is
coming.
The Chicago Board of Foreign Missions
is “desperately short.” Perhaps a little
more concern for the heathens at their own
doors and less for those abroad will be all
the better for the pockets and souls of
those whom it may concern.
Direct trade is to be inaugurated to
some practical purpose, if we may confi
dently rely upon the determination ex
pressed by the Louisville Convention of
the Mississippi Valley Associaiion.
The destruction of several tobacco barns
and their contents, in Tennessee, by spon
taneous combustion, is announced. Men
who immoderately use the weed may look
out, and the liquor drinker may console
himself that he is not the only possible vic
tim of a first-class explosion.
We have received a communication from
.Air. Hhecut, Principal of the Houghton In
stitute, anent the difficulty recently ad
verted to in a meeting of Council. The
lateness of the hour at which this docu
ment was brought in compels us to de
fer its publication.
The Augusta Exchange has added quite
an Important feature—the daily call of cot
ton, stocks, bonds, provisions, etc. Thi
inust add new zest and interest to the in
stituti in, and we hope it will be kept up.
It will establish the daily market value of
almost every merchantable interest in
town, and must necessarily add new life to
our men of business.
Never was there a greater mistake than
that made by Confederates to settle in Bra
zil, just after the war. With tongue and
pen, in our small way, we did what we
could to dissuade them from that project.
The telegraph states that tho U. 8. steamer
Swatara will shortly proceed to Para, and
bring these wanderers back. They will
probably return and acknowledge that, in
spite of many drawbacks, this is the best
country for them, after all.
And now the Count Andrassy, Austrian
Premier, is relied upon, through the back
ing of Germany and Russia, to pacify the
Turkish insurgents. We perceive that the
concessions promised by the Sublime Porte
entail a loss of $30,000,000 of revenue. This
is a grievous hole in the wallet of that im
pecunious power, and may necessitate the
curtailment of the Sultan’s harem. If the
leather of the Faithful will discharge his
superfluous wives and live, in a decent
manner, he may stand the terrible sapping
of his taxable resources.
An article in this day’s paper on “Negro
Colonization” is a rather remarkable docu
ment. The author is well informed on
.secret politics and promises us very rich
developments. We think, however, that
“Hypatia” commits a signal mistake when
she looks for any remarkable progress of
the colored people in an isolated or segre
gated condition. All history and experience,
not to speak of scientific deductions, ilatly
contradict this assumption. Whatever of
civilization the blacks have ever possessed
they received from contact with the Cauca
sian or Mongol.
The attempt of the negroes at Friar’s
point. Arkansas, to carry matters by arm
ed invasion will no doubt end as all similar
outbreaks have ended, in their overthrow
and discomfiture. Such uprisings are the
bitter fruits of Reconstruction, and no man
in this country is more to blame than Sen
ator AiiCOKN, that arch-traitor to his blood
and race, who has risen to power by black
votes. His daughter w r as among the fugi
tives, and, had not a prompt and vigorous
check been put to the insurgents, she might
have suffered calamities serious enough to
make her father wish he had died before he
bad disgraced himself. We trust the expe
rience of the past few days will open his
eyes to the shameful means he has used to
attain political proferm- nt; but there is a
vast difference between the devil sick and
the devil well.
We publish in the Georgia news column
the burning of three more gin houses,
making seven in all, which have been de
stroyed by the torch of the incendiary
since the beginning of the season. No less
than thirty-eight were burned last fall and
winter. Year after year the number is
growing larger. This crime should be made
punishable by death. It is now the favorite
method of revenge for the greatest as well
sis the most petty malice. No planter can
lie down at night with any assurance that
his gin house will not be burned before
morning. Whilst advising planters to place
a guard over them at night, we would also
suggest that no packed cotton, not even so
much as one bale should ever be stowed
there. So soon as it comes from the press
it had better be taken to the front yard and
thrown down until shipped to market. An
other and still better precaution should be
taken, and that is to insure for as near a
full value as can be obtained. A few dollars
expended in this way will mako,the whole
risk safe.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Horrible Outrages iu Massachusetts
aud Rhode Island.
LuwELL, Mass., October G.—A tramp
was ax rested on suspicion of the out
rage on Miss Langmade. His face was
scratched and his clothing bloody. He
Admits having left Suncook about the
time of the murder.
Providence, R. 1., October G.—The
house of Widow Dora Wilkinson was
entered by a window, and a young lady
sleeping with her was chloroformed.
The widow was dragged to an adjoin
ing room and outraged. When the wo
men recovered consciousness the men
had escaped.
A Fraudulent Claimant,
/Chattanooga, October G.—Henry C.
Avery, formerly of this vicinity, of
Texas since the war, was arrested for
pressing fraudulent government claims
tf over $20,000.
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Established 1799.
THE ARKANSAS EUBROGLIO.
Alcorn’s Daughter and Other Ladies
Fly from Friar’s Point—The Negroes
Driven Back.
Helena, October 4, 10:30 a. m.—Many
whites and ladies, including Senator
Alcorn’s daughter, are here from Friar’s
Point for safety. The negroes, 300
strong, came within a short distance of
Friar’s Point. Gen. Chalmers, who
commands the whites, moved out and
gave them ten minutes to disperse.
The negroes reorganized three miles
out, when they again dispersed, on the
approach of the whites. It is supposed
the negroes are waiting for reinforce
ments. Col. Burke and others have
gone down from here, and an effort is
making to organize a force to go down
to-night.
Memphis, October 6.— The following
to the Associated Press is just received:
“Friar’s Point, Miss., October sth, via
Helena, 3 a. m., October Gth.
“The Sheriff of Coahoma county
caused our town to be invaded this
morning by an armed mob of negroes.
We drove them back. We are fully
organized for defense, v ith Senator
Alcorn and Gen. Chalmers in command.
The Sheriff has tied the country. Send
us aid immediately.
“ [Sigued.j H. P. Reid.
Oeo. K. Alcorn.”
No Bloodshed Expected—The Colored
Troops Run Nobly.
Memphis, October 6. —The impression
prevails that there will be no bloodshed
at Friar’s Point. No steps have been
taken to forward men or arms from"
here. No organized body of men or
ganized will go from Helena.
Alcorn bad 70 cavalry and 40 infantry
with which he had driven off 200 ne
groes under Brown. The steamer Maud
arrived from Ileleua reports no fight
ing. The situation is unchanged.
Latest from the Seat of War—A Sei*i
oua Conflict Apprehended.
Memphis, October 0. —The following
is a special to the Appeal:
Friar’s Point, Miss., October 6.
“Have just arrived per steamer Julia
at 11 o’clock iu the morning. Citizens
are all under arms, and anticipate an
overwhelming attack from the negroes;
300 men can come here to deter the
negroes from furtner violence. Busi
ness is suspended. The citizens are in
a dreadful state of alarm. The negroes,
500 strong, attacked Friar’s Point yes
terday, but were repelled by white
forces under Gen. Chalmers. They
threatened to burn the town and murder
the white women and children. Fighting
commenced within three miles of Friar’s
Point, where the negroes made a stand.
Fighting was kept up to Clarksdale.
As yet there are no reliable statements
as to losses. Pickets just in report
fighting in the vicinity of Oak Ridge
Road. Eight negroes are reported
wounded in yesterday’s fight and one
white man. Sheriff Brown is now at
Jonestown, fourteen miles east of here,
reorganizing his party for the sup
posed purpose of another attack on
Friar’s Poiut. The negroes are said to
be rendezvousing in large uumbers. So
far as I can ascertain this is no party
movement, both Democrats and Re
publicans being united to resist
an incendiary effoi t on the part of Sheriff
Brown, who has been making and or
ganizing them into armed bodies, upon
the idea that whites intended to kill
them, when in fact the whites had not
uttered auy such intentions nor had
any meetings for such purpose, nor did
they hold meetings of any kind. lam
assured of this by Senator Alcorn,
Judge Harrison P. Reid and other pro
minent citizens, who believe that the
presence of aid would prevent
a fatal collision betw-een whites
and blacks. The former dread such an
occurrence, and will only act in defense
of their lives and property. This is the
last telegram that will leave here to
day, and is forwarded by special cour
ier to Helena. The courier will wait
there to know what action had or may
be taken by the citizens of Memphis.
Gen. Chalmers and his cavalry have
not yet returned to town.”
Memphis, October 6.—There is very
little excitement here in regard to ap
prehended troubles at Friar’s Point,
aud as yet no men have gone there.
FROM BOSTON.
Meeting of the Labor Reform aud
Prohibition Conventions.
Boston, October 6. —The State Labor
Reform Convention met here today
with 30 delegates, E. M. Chamberlain,
of Boston, presiding. A resolution that
it was inexpedient to make nomina
tions for State officers was tabled.
The Prohibition party met to-day at
Tremont Temple. The hall was well
filled. A number of ladies were pres
ent. Rev. D. C. Eddy presided. The
Committee on Resolutions reported.
Among the resolutions it was resolved
that the safety of the Republic and the
cause of Prohibition depends upon
making the party a unit for right,
which can both be secured by defeat
ing Alexander H. Rice. A committee
of 13 was appointed to nominate a Pro
hibition candidate for Governor. Jas.
L. Baker was nominated for Governor.
Nominations of the Labor Reformers
Greenbacks Advocated and National
Banks Denounced.
The Labor Reform Convention nom
inated Wendell Phillips for Governor,
Win. F. Bartlett for Lieut. Governor,
Israel Andrews for Secretary of State,
and J. B. Coffin for Treasurer.
Resolutions favoring a reduction of
the hours of labor, a system of factory
inspection, tire escapes aud protection
from dangerous machinery, were
adopted.
The platform favors the substitution
of 3.G5 bonds for 5.20’s and the making
of greenbacks a legal tender for all du
ties and all debts, and denouncing the
National bank system as one of the
greatest swiudles on a patient people.
The proceeedings were, at times,
marked by disorder, which caused
some of the members to refuse to act
with the majority.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Count Andrassy as a Peace Maker—A
Gap in tbe Turk's Exchequer—The
Matausas’ Accident—Return of Lord
aud Lady Dufl’eriu.
London, October G.—The Tagis Presse
states that Germany and Russia have
agreed to entrust Count Andrassy,
Austrian Premier, with the task of
drawing up reform propositions for the
pacification of insurgents in Turkey.
It now seems that the sea stove in
the Matansas’ forecastle deck. She
is otherwise uninjured. Her return was
merely a precautionary measure.
Lord and lady Dufferjn return to
Canada next Friday.
Vienna, October 6— lt is estimated
that the taxes remitted by Turkey,
under a recent decree, amount to $30,-
000,000.
AUGUSTA. GA., TH|IJRBDA.Y, OCTOBER 7, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
Chin-Music on the Currency—Refusal
to Reduce Tweed’s Bail.
New York, October G.— The Board of
Trade has arranged for public ad
dresses on the currency question in
Cooper Union by Hon. W. D. Kelley,
October 11; Gen Butler. October 14;
aud Col. W. M. Grosvenor, of St. Louis.
The bobbin factory at liuscock, N. J.,
was burned. Loss, $75,000. It was the
largest in the country.
The Supreme Court, general term,
confirmed Judge Barrett’s decision de
nying the motion to vacate the order
of arrest in the six million suit or re
duce the three million bail in the Tweed
ease. The court also reversed Judge
Donohue’s decision requiring a bill of
particulars as to fraudulent bills and
vouchers.
Proceedings of the Firemen’s Conven
tion.
Newl'ork, Oetobes 6.—At the Fire
men’s Convention the Committee on
Topics presented the following for re
port aud discussion by several com
mittees to which they were referred.
1. The importance of the permanence
of the position of Chief and Assistant
Engineer.
2. The evils of social visits for engine
companies by which towns are left
wholly or partly unprotected.
3. The importance of regulating the
sale of petroleum.
4. The danger of gasoliue, gas ma
chines and necessary precautions to re
gulate the same.
5. The duty of Fire Departments in
relation to the protection of property
from damage by water as well as from
burning.
6. The importance of arranging iron
shutters so that they may be opened
from the outside iu case of fire.
7. Uniformity of construction and
coloring of signal boxes.
8. The importance of a uniform sys
tem of indicating the location of street
hydrants or street lamps.
9. Which is tho most effective plan
for fightiDg petroleum fires.
10. The importance of thorough in
vestigation of fires, and rigorous pun
ishment of incendiaries.
A committee was appointed to con
sider the feasibility of the use of chemi
cal engines aud portable extinguishers
in the extinguishment of fires. The
Committee on the topic: “Does the
existence of any direct acting system
justify the release on that system atone
for extinguishment of fires without aid
of auxiliary movable fire engines ?”
reported that in their judgment no sys
tem of water supply justified a reliance
upon it to the exclusion of auxiliary
movable lire engines aud, least of all,
does a direct service system justify
such reliance, aud that no system can
safely dispense with aid of auxiliary
movable apparatus. The report was,
on motion, adopted. An opportunity
was then given to inventors aud paten
tees to exhibit their apparatus.
Meeting of the Peahody Trustees.
New York, October 6.—The annual
meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the Peabody Educational Fund was be
gun to-day. R. C. Winthrop, of Boston,
occupied the chair, and G. Peabody
Russell acted as Secretary. The ses
sion was private. Cfu motion a com
mittee, composed of Wm. M. Evarts
and Alexander Stuart, were appointed
to report suitable resolutions on the
death of ex-Gov. Graham, of North
Carolina, one of the trustees, who died
since the last annual meeting. Rev.
Dr. Sears, General Agent, then read his
report, which will be acted upon by the
Board to-morrow. The meeting ad
journed until noon to-morrow.
Secretary Fish is expected to-mor
row.
FROM LOUISVILLE.
Grange Meeting—Tobacco Fire.
Louisville, October G. —The Execu
tive Committee of tho National Grange
is iu session in this city. The Direc
tors of the Mississippi Valley Trading
Company are in conference with the
committee concerning direct trade, in
Grange products, with England.
Five tobacco barns iu Robertson
county, Tennessee, were burned during
the past week, involving a loss of
40,000 pounds of tobacco. The Courier-
Journal’s special says: “The fires were
occasioned by gases evolved from the
tobacco by peculiar atmospheric phe
nomena.” [Jess so. |
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Minor Telegrams.
Providence, October 6. —Most valu
able bank letters in Saturday’s mail
to Boston are missing.
Galveston, October G.—The bridge is
repaired over the bay. Trains are run
ning regularly. Aid is coming from all
directions and forwarded where most
needed. The storm washed the chan
nel. Liverpool steamers came to the
landing without lighters.
Cleveland, October 6.—Thomas &
Butts, lumber merchants, have assign
ed. Liabilities, $178,000.
San Francisco, October G.—The Board
of Trustees of the Bank of California
elected D. O. Mills President, Wm. Al
vord Vice-President, Thomas Brown
Cashier. The Advisory Committee con
sists of Thos. Bell, Wm. Sharon and
Jas. R. Keene.
Memphis, October 6.—Jefferson Davis
left at noon to-day fpr Hopkinsville,
Ky., his native place, where he delivers
an address at the agricultural fair on
Friday.
Atlanta, October 6.— Of the persons
recently poisoned at a wedding in Dal
ton, Ga., by icecream ilavored by peach
leaves, two died to-day and one iast
Sunday.
Boston, October G.—Holmes & Blan
chard, founders, have failed.
FROM ROME.
Coosa River Convention.
Rome, October G.— The convention
for the improvement of Coosa river and
connection of Mobile Bay with tho
Tenuessee river by a water route met
in this city to-day. Col. Jos. Hodgson,
of Mobile, was made temporary Chair
man. Hon. B. C. Yancey, of Georgia,
was elected permanent President. The
convention is largely attended by lead
ing citizens of Alabama, Georgia aud
Tennessee. The speeches of to-day’s
session demonstrate the practicability
of constructing the route at very small
cost, thereby giving uninterrupted
navigation for the whole year from
Southwest Virginia to Mobile Bay.
FROM CHARLESTON.
Cunningham Re-elected.
Charleston, October 6.—The munici
pal election to-day passed off without
serious disturbance. Full returns are
not yet received, but it is conceded
thq,t the coalition of Republicans aud
Conservatives have re-elected Mayor
Cunningham and their entire ticket by
at least 2,000 majority.
LETTER FROM!ATLANTA.
Belle Boyd and Har|*y Buford—Ex
traordinary Adventures of a Female
Soldier—A Cuban in a Pull-
Back —Cupid and Matts—Colonel Saw
yer aud H. J. Kimball —The State
Fair. 4
[From Our Regu'ar C*nespondent.l
Atlaj-I a; October G.
The names of Belle |insd Harry Bu
ford occupy a conspicuous place in the
history of tho late un|>i(|asantness, as
Confederate spies and Valuable aids to
a glorious cause. Pooif Belle, now in
California, was unfortifaate. She had
all the opportunities t|> make a name
that would go sounding down all ages;
but her fame was only V sudden burst,
passion-like, to finally |lie away. She
had a pretty face ant> that \xs her
trouble. Flattery spoiji her and she
did more gallant service under Cupid
than Mars. She has been, since the
close of the war, an inmate of an insane
asylum, in which her ■ iby was born.
With Harry Buford th>| ease was dif
ferent. She went into She army with
her husband, disguise! as a soldier
and won her way to j a lieutenancy
by sustaining an unblemished reputa
tion, valiant service in | tttle, and dis
charge of important offices of trust. A
Cubau by birth, she enltfted her sympa
thies in the cause for| liberty of the
South and right royally fdid she serve
it. Her sex was discovered by reason
of being wounded, at N->w Orleans, but
was known only to a few, afterwards
her sex was again discovered in Atlanta
when it became generally known and
of course compelled hereto abandon the
disguise. Iu September 1863 she was
again married (her former husband
having been killed) a|: the Atlanta
Hotel, on the site whole the Kimball
House now stands, to Cqptain T. C. De
Caulp, in presence of Dr. Jos. Thomp
son, A. F. Finney and Dr. Hammond
and others. Those named are in At
lanta now, and testify to the identity
of Harry and Mad. Loveta J. Velazquez
who is uow iu the city. Since tho
war closed, Harry ijllias roamed
nearly all over the woijfd. Having a
little son, about six years of age,
to support and ||ducate, she
has devoted many ye|fs to the pre
paration of a book to |e called “The
Woman in Battle.” InVthis remarka
ble book is recounted ait of her daring
exploits, by laud and se% while in the
service of the Lost Ca#o. The pro
ceeds of the sale of thi ; work will be
applied to the maintenance of herself
aud child. Knowing tliift Mad. Velaz
quez was in the city andijicsiring to see
and talk to the famous glarry Buford,
of whom I had read slI much during
the war, I called on her §i behalf of the
Constitutionalist and ns l r vie wed her.
She is a tall graceful otnan, some
thing over thirty I woull judge, with a
face somewhat masculin|sh. The cheek
bones are rather prominent, and she
has a delicate shade c|f down on her
upper lip that one of the
average young America’! first effort at
raising a moustache. H§r eyes, blue in
color, have a way of frightening up
and sparkling when sheLpeaks of her
native island, struggling Cuba. Al
though having passed igirougii all the
roughness of camp I life, among
soldiers of every grad*, who never
even suspected her l|ue sex, she
bears that modest detnt-fnor that be
longs to woman, and yo| can’t for the
life of you detect anything in her de
portment or conversation t hat would be
expected from a womat|who bad gone
through her many triaif and mingled
with so many men. In }|er apartments
she has many photographs of distin
guished men, Confederate and Cuban
officials, and one of herself iu uniform.
She showed me letters f|prn prominent
men in the North and SoAth commend
ing her and her book. (Mie from G. W.
Alexander, formerly commander of the
famous Libby Prison at ifichrnond, uow
editor and proprietor of j tho Washing
ton, D. C., Gazette, addressed to her as
“Dear Harry.” He krgiw her under
that pseudonym during (ao war. There
were also several from J. Clarke,
Jr., Philadelphia, Max A <|eler’s brother,
who has rendered her ggeat service in
the preparation of her b| >k.
She is an enthusiast otfthe subject of
Cuba. She believes firiMiy that, pro
vided the Island is Recognized by
England or America, tli|f the Cubans
will eventually win the li|lat. Since the
successful landing of v feels contain
ing guns and munitions,hat the army
has been strengthened a|d more victo
ries won. Over fi.e thousand Cuban
refugees are in Key Wes*, unable to re
turn to Havana, aud 1, jjat these pa
triotic refugees send a| their money
for the support of the §Cuban army.
She is anxious that the rimtheru press
should impress upon Iwutheru Con
gressmen the importanc|of using their
influence to have Cuba recognized as a
nation by our Governmej t. Then, she
says, tho ports of Sar.mnah, Charles
ton, Mobile, New Orleao and Galves
ton will be opened to an receive from
the Island large imports >? sugar, cof
fee, rum, tobacco, ciga; s, fruits, etc.,
which will tend to enrich- .he South and
make her that much moij) independent.
Madame Velazquez (I'rtainly loves
the South. She has donl a great deal
for it, and is willing to jfo more. Yet
there are newspapers,ktho Atlanta
Constitution for one.whicl have endeav
ored to have the publ 1 believe that
she is an impostor. Shi has convinc
ing proofs of her identic; .and refers to
such men as Dr. Thompson, Dr. Ham
mond and other well kmfyn men, right
here in the city. ami other
strong proofs that she i*> : the identical
daring Harry Buford, |vnd withal a
lady of unquestionable amputation, are
to be shown to any one ifho may doubt
her. The Constitution Should, by ail
means, retract its erronea us statement.
Mr. Salem Dutcher, Mg Randall and
Mr. Hewitt, of your city*, will perhaps
remember her. She rk'q-s to those
gentlemen aud certain y will identi
fy her as being the a! citable Harry
Buford. f
Brother KimlSill.
Col. Sawyer, of the Commonwealth,
having dissolved copaignership with
the Evening Herald, ri| s to remark
that notes calling for $I),000, hold by
Eliot National Bank on be State, are
presented for paymencl These notes
were born out of a nulhical concern
called the Tennessee aar Company,
that was supposed to halo existed du
ring the dark reign, Jad of which
Brother H. I. Kimball w*- the reputed
general manpuer. Car| were bought
and paid for i. om this |.ompany,” by
the W. and A. R. li., ofi which Foster
Blodgett was then superintendent, but;
according to the swori| statement of
the then yard master, ese airy cars
were never received. Simethiug over
$59,000 was developed l y this South
Sea bubble, which wasli pretty good
scoop up. Col. Sawyer Sis one of that
kind of men who is no** afraid to say
what he thinks,[and as hj has made the
city quake on other occ#ions, perhaps
this matter wiil receive As
Brother* IJimball is ahAnt froiq the
city, we dangle our legs over the fence
until he returns and says his say. In
the meantime, the Governor has tho
payment of the notes under considera
tion.
Tlie Coming Fair.
Atlanta will send a full representa
tion to the State Fair. Very few exhi
bitors are noted as yet, but tbe stream
of visitors promises to be large. Tho
presence of Hendricks, et. al, will lend
additional attraction, as the people de
sere to see and hear Northern aud
Western representative men.
Martha.
The Death of American Gir 1.
[New York Herald.]
American Girl, who died yesterday at
Elmira, was a horse more fortunate
than the vast majority of mankind.
Although she died, even in the compu
tation of equine lives, her career was
full of splendor and success. It was
bright and swift, like a comet, aud the
time of her circling course was calcula
ted with almost as much mathematical
accuracy as the orbit of a celestial
body. One-quarter of a second was as
important iu the measurement of her
speed as it would be in that of the tran
sit of was waited upon like
a princess; she lived in a stable which
was more comfortable than many
Italian palaces; when she appeared in
public it*was amid the acclamation of
admiring thousands, and she was worth
$25,000, which is greatly above the
commercial value of most men, except
ing Congressmen and legislators. Her
personal qualities were excelleut; she
was gentle, kind aud modest; victory
was never known to turn her head; in
deed, she often won by a neck, and,
with more consistency than many poli
ticians, she never was known to bolt.
The death of American Girl, like
that of Garrick, will sadden the gayety
of nations. So far as sorrow is con
cerned, the world couid have better
spared a better man. Wherever the
horse is loved this magnificent speci
men of the race will be lamented, but
regret will be softened by the superb
dramatic effect with which her career
was closed. As it was figuratively said
of Earl Chatham, Thaddeus Stevens
and other distinguished statesmen, so
may it literally be said of her that she
died in harness. Death aud Goldsmith
Maid were almost the only brutes that
could beat her. The old Queen of the
Turf has kept a full length ahead of
Death for nearly twenty years, till,
baffled in his attempt to catch her, he
entered invisibly in the Elmira races,
and, mounted on the w. g. Pale Horse,
distanced poor American Girl in the
first heat! This defeat broke her
heart; but let us trust that the rain
bow which, according to the high au
thority of the Associated Press, rested
upon the head of the dying mare, is
typical of her radiant future, If there
is, indeed, a horse heaven she has
gone to it. There she will meet
with Bucephalus, and with the
horses of Achilles, with Balaam’s ass,
liosinante, Dapple and all the mighty
steeds of antiquity, to sport with them
in fields of immortal bloom and feed
upon celestial oats. The ghost of
Alexander may be proud to mount her
and race against all other quadruped
shades, with infinity for a course and
eternity for time. When we remember
American Girl iu ber prime aud all
other good horses like Eclipse, Fash
ion, Flora Temple, Goldsmith Maid and
the stallion Patchen, then the terrible
satire of Swift’s “Gulliver,” where he
tells of the Houyhuhntns, or horses of
superior reason, who had been for ser
vants, seems deprived of much of its
stiug aud bitterness. The inferiority
of humanity to the equinal race ceases
to be so humiliating. Farewell, then,
American Girl! May the monument
which shall be raised to thy memory
fitly celebrate thy deeds aud virtues !
Well may it be said of thee, “Green be
the turf above th£e !” for in life never
was there a horse who stepped more
lightly upon it.
FROM WASHINGTON.
No Stock Taken in Guibord’s Bones—
Headquarters of the Government at
Denver.
Washington, October G. —Tho Navy
Department has received no communi
cation from the Institute Ganadien and
would give it uo attention. The De
partment proposes to take no part in
the Guibord controversy.
The President signed a number of
papers at Denver and forwarded them
by mail. There is no intimation of
their character, but it is supposed the
commission of the Secretary of the In
terio is among them.
Exiled Confederates to Come Home
Washington, October G.—The Svva
tara will shortly leave for Para, Brazil,
and will bring back and land at Port
Royal, S. C., the remainder of the Con
federate colonists.
Sporting News.
Nashville, October 6. Drizzling
rain. First race, two mile heats for
three-year olds—summary : George
Graham, 1,2, 2,1; Emma, 2,0, 1,2:
Valcano, 4,0, 3,3 ; Verdigris, 3, dis
tanced; Vindicator, distanced. Time,
3:46);j, 3:46>£ y 8 .
Jecond race—The mile and a half
dash was won by Arizona ; Millionaire,
second aud Fair Play, third. Time,
2:45.
The third race, mile and an eighth
dash, was won by Weatherby ; Kate,
second and Grenoble, third. Time,
2:04)4.
FROM CONCORD.
Funeral of Miss Langmade.
Concord, October G. —The funeral of
Miss Josie Langmade, the victim of the
recent terrible murder in Pembroke, to
day, was immense. A number of peo
gle attended the services, which, from
the nature of the event, were pecu
liarly impressive. Nothing ne.v has
been developed. No clue to the mur
derer has been discovered. The people
of Pembroke and detectives are ac
tively searching the woods in hope of
discovering the missing articles. No
new arrests wore made.
FROM CHICAGO.
Board of Foreign Missions Short of
Funds.
Chicago, October 6.—The Commis
sioners of the American Board of For
eign Missions met. Rev. Mark Hop
kins presided. The Treasurer’s report
for the year ending August 31st shows:
Expenditures, $450,238; donations,
$349,084; legacies, $89,702; indebted
ness, $49,323.
Philadelphia hotel elevators get
stuck between the stories, and they
have to tear up the floor, and haul out
the passengers. While they are getting
a fat man out, his oaths are written
down to hand to Sunday school super
intendents.—[Free Press,
NEGRO COLONIZATION AGAIN
Origin of “Forty Acres aud a Mule”—
The Black Man’s Chance for Suc
cess—Abraham Lincoln’s Solution of
the Race Problem—Some Startling
Radical Schemes.
[For tho Constitutionalist.]
That there is a determination on the
part of many of the more intelligent
leaders of the negroes in the South to
colonize somewhere outside the limits
of the United States.no longer admits
of a doubt. In many of the Southern
States they Have debated it secretly for
some time, and recently have openly
declared their intention so to emigrate.
This movement, when it does occur,
cannot be a surprise to any well read
or thoughtful man. Deceived by
promises of civil rights; finding no
equality of labor, of participating in
the higher pursuits of industry, or of
social position ; depressed by these
barriers to their progress, and with an
increasing death rate staring them in
the face, can it be supposed that those
who afe intelligent amongst them
will permit their less informed breth
ren to give up life’s prospects with
out a struggle, to secure some of
its blessings for their feliows and their
posterity? If there are any who do
suppose this, they know little of the
condition of the negro of the day, or of
the progress he made during and since
the war. We do not mean to say that
all have gone on with like progress, but
there are those who havebeeu studious
aud have acquired knowledge of his
tory aud of political rights, and these
know quite as well as tho better in
formed whites that immigration from
oppression, to a land which can be made
their own, and iu which they can estab
lish their own equal rights and secure
their own progressive development has
been the resource of every people of
the earth. That small communities by
availing of this resource have been the
founders of many of the present ruling
nations of the world, and specially as
regards the “colonies” of our own
country, resulting in the “thirteen”
which secured for us the opening of the
high national existence we now claim
to enjoy.
Equally well do their leaders know
that to remain idle and succumb to
their surrounding circumstances as the
Indians have done, and to see a further
increasing death rate, and to look for
ward to even a more rapidly dying out
than now marks the sure extinction of
the “ Indian tribes of North America
included within the limits of the United
States.” The knowledge of these facts,
the keen sense of disappointment in
failing to get something of a social
equality, disgust at the broken prom
ises of the Republican party, with the
goadings of (in many instances) an in
judicious press, are all stimulating
these negro leaders to colonize in an
other or other lands.
We are not of those who would en
courage, or aid iu any way, a large im
migration of the negro race. We have
lands broad enough, rich enough and
free enough for auy race of tho
human kind, and prosperity will re
ward industry wherever iudustry
puts forth its energies. To these lands
the negro should be welcome, but if he
accepts and finds that as he cultivates
lie is like the Indian to be cheated out
of them, it would be far better that he
should to a limited number at first
seek other lands where national poli
cies as broad and as comprehensive as
that which Great Britain has always
shown to her colonies should follow
and protect as faithfully, as boldly aud
determinedly there “ our colonies ”
wherever they may go as Great Britain
has protected hers in every part of the
world. One colony so protected would
be tbe means of elevating almost im
mediately the intellectuality of the
American negro race. The instincts of.
manhood, the knowledge aud apprecia
tion of truer freedom, the dignity and
pride of nationality would become de
veloped and the negro so long op
pressed by slavery and that worse
than slavery, a mockery of freedom
and broken hope,” would rise aud stand
prominently forth a man as Providence
doubtless appointed he should ulti
mately become. One such colony made
prosperous by protection would lead to
others, and thus, as with Eugland, mar
kets would be opened for our products
of industry, our agriculture, mining,
manufactories and mechanic arts. Many
of our people have been amazed that,
the negroes during the war, when all
intercourse was apparently cut off,
should have knowledge of President
Lincoln’s plans of colonization for them
as soon as they should be freed by his
proclamation ; but this amazement
ceases when they learn also that the
promise at first secretly made by the
Federal emissaries of “forty acres and
a mule” to each colonist was a bribe to
induce the negroes to enter into mili
tary service—not a bribe by, or through
Mr. Lincoln, or one that he had knowl
edge of, but it took the poor negroes
captive to the cause, and they found this
like other promises—broken, when the
end was served. President Lincolu did
however promise them the land in
exact quantities as provided in tho
homestead law. He afterwards invited
a committee of the negroes to call upon
him at the Executive Mausion, told
them he had secured the land, “three
million of acres of arable land”, that he
would secure them equal rights there,
which they “ never could get here.” That
the country was an excellent one suited
to their race, that it produced in abun
dance, that it had mines of gold of sil
ver and of coal, that there would be
work enough and every thing to make
them prosperous and happy, that this
land was in Central America only a
week’s sailing distance from tins coun
try, aud that he would pay their pas
sage thereto and supply them with pro
visions until a crop could be pro
duced. We have seen an “Executive
document,” a report of Mr. Secretary
Chase to Mr. Lincoln, certifying the
validity of the titles to and groat value
of this land, thus establishing the truth
of the negroes’information. We intend
to get (if possible) and publish Mr.
Lincoln’s speech at the Executive Man
sion to the negroes, if it be extant, that
they may clearly learn their rights to
this land—for if it was held out to them
as a bounty for enlistment it is due to
them, they should have it. Assertions
have been made by some of the negro
leaders that the land was subsequently
found to be of vast value for its gold,
and that by a connivance between those
who sold it to the United States,
through Mr. Lincoln and parties in tho
Government, after President Lincoln’s
death, tho negroes have been cheated
out of this also. The negroes have,
however, one sure reliance. The Demo
cratic party will soon control Congress
and secure to the colored race all that
Lincoln promised them, regardless of
auy efforts of the vendors of this [and
or the tricks of the Republican party to
divide it out as spoils tp themselves.
Hypatia.
Mabel Young’s mother is not m^d.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 64
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Decisions Rendered in Atlanta, Ga.,
October 5, 1875. —Hon. Hiram
Warner, Chief Justice —Hons. L. E.
Bleckley and James J ackson, J udges.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.]
James Whittle vs. Hugh Ball, Sheriff;
Ben,j. Samuels, et al. Buie to dis
tribute money, from Talbot.
JACKSON, J.
Where a house and lot in a village
has been set apart to Walton as a
homestead under the constitution of
1868, aud sold under judgments against
Walton, rendered in 1860, and the
money is iD court for distribution, and
is claimed by the judgment creditors,
and where the homestead had been
sold after Walton’s death by his wife,
with the approval of the Ordinary, the
executor of Walton assenting thereto
and joining in the deed by the authori
ty of the will, to one Baron, and
Baron’s wife had a homestead set apart
thereon, and she and her husband, the
Ordinary approving, seli to Whittle,
aud Whittle claims live hundred dol
lars of the money on the ground that
he bousrht the land for value, that
Walton’s estate is insolvent, aud that
he is subrogated to Walton’s right to
have five hundred dollars of the fund
set apart to him under the old ex
emption law:
Held. 1. That the wife of Walton,
after his death, had no authority to
part with the homestead, it being for
the sole use of hef aud her children
under the Constitution, and the law no
where providing for its sale by her;
therefore, Baron took no title from her
and Whittle none from him.
2. The policy of our law is not to
alieniate homesteads, and the statutes
relating thereto will be strictly con
strued, aud the rights of the purchaser
will be closely watched and never en
larged.
3. That the clear legal right of a
judgment creditor to the fund he has
brought in court, aud on which he has
an undoubted lien in law, will not be
forced to make way for a vague and
uncertain equity—if, under the facts,
any equity at all—especially on a
money rule, where all the parties in in
terest in regard to the asserted equity
are not before the court.
Judgment affirmed.
Little & Crawford; Blaudford & Gar
rard, for plaintiff in error.
Willis & Willis; E. H. Worril, for de
fendants.
J. M. Pratt, executor, vs. M. J. Atkins.
Buie to distribute money, from Ban
dolph.
Debts due prior to the constitution
of 1868, are in the nature of an incum
brance upon the homestead, like pur
chase money or money expended for
improvements thereon, and when the
homestead is -sold aud the money
brought into court by virtue of such
old debts, the old debts, though the
judgments thereon be younger than
judgments or liens on debts since the
constitution of 1868, will take the money
from the homestead iu preference to
such older judgments founded on debts
since said constitution.
Judgment affirmed.
H. & I. L. Fielder, fur plaintiff in
error.
A. Hood, for defendant.
George W. Mullins vs. the North and
South Railroad Company. Com
plaint, from Randolph.
JACKSON, J.
I. It is no defense to a suit by a rail
road company to recover subscriptions
to stock to plead that tbe road has
been seized by the Governor. The
charter is not forfeited, and the com
pany may still collect its subscriptions,
especially where suit is brought before
tbe seizure ; nor does it lie in the sub
scriber’s mouth to object to pay to the
company, when probably his default
contributed to the misfortune which he
would now plead against the company.
2. Though the stockholder cannot
make this defense, and the company is
entitled to judgment against him in this
action; yet is not the State entitled to
the money when collected, and should
not the solicitor general of the circuit,
uuder the direction of the court, take
steps to secure the balance of the fund
after payment of fees to plaintiff’s coun
sel. Query ?
Judgment affirmed.
H. &I. L. Fielder; B. S. Worrill, for
plaintiff in error.
A. Hood, for defendant.
F. M. Bradshaw vs. Hugh Hall, sheriff,
aud Patrick Gormerly, claimant, Rule
to distribute founds iu court, from
Talbot,
JACKSON, J.
Where several claim cases are pend
ing between several plaintiffs, and one
defendant and claimant, and one case
is tried and the property found subject,
and the claimaut proposed to test the
principle involved by bringing that
case to this court, and where claimant’s
counsel agreed with plaintiff’s counsel
in the other cases that they should not
be then tried, but await and abide the
decision on the case brought here,
claimant assenting in person to the
agreement, and the other cases, though
ready for trial, are not tried in conse
quence of the agreement, and where so
soon as the remittiter affirming the
judgment below is returned and enter
ed of record, the claimant withdraws
his claims in the other cases, and the
land has been sold and the proceeds in
court in the hand of the sheriff:
Held Ist, That the agreement, so
assented to by claimant in person, is
binding upon him, and the plaintiffs
should have been permitted to prove
it on the traverse iu issue on the rule
to distribute the fund.
2. That if claimant had not assented
in person, the agreement of his coun
sel, though not in writing, would have
bound him, the agreement having been
executed on the part of plaintiff’s coun
sel —and the court should have allowed
and considered the proof to that
effect.
3. That on the rule to distribute the
fund in court, in it being the nature of an
equitable proceeding, and the parties
being all before the court, the plaintiff
should have been allowed to show that
the deed from defendant to olaimant
was without consideration, and intend
ed to delay aud defraud creditors, and
void against them.
4. That on the before receipted
facts which are substantially admitted
to be true in the record, the court
should have ordered the fund paid to
the plaintiffs, and not to the claimant.
Judgment reversed.
Willis & Willis, for plaintiffs jq error.
H. L. Benning; Peabody & Brannon ;
Little & Crawford, for defendant in
error,
Williams vs. The State. Indictment for
larceuy, from Miller,
BLECKLEY, j.
1 Though, in a revision of the list
of persons qualified to serve as jurors,
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On and after thl3 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
0ff1'36, 20 cents per line each insertion.
Mon ey may be remitted at our risk by Express
or Postal Order.
Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
certain names already drawn as grand
jurors were dropped from the list,
these persons are, nevertheless, quali
fied to serve at the term of the court
for which they were drawn, and a bill
of indictmout found by them, with oth
ers, at that term, will not be quashed
because their names are not on t he new
list.
2. If it appear from the minutes of
the court that a bill of indictment was
found in the present year, an entry at
the conclusion of the bill, giving it date
in a future year, will be disregarded.
3. If one pretending, by way of arti
fice, to be an accomplice, but believed
by the accused to be a real accomplice,
perform acts, at the instance of the
owner of the goods, amounting to the
physical constituents of larceny, the
pretended accomplice represents the
owner, as to such acts, aud not the ac
cused, although the accused may have
concurred iu the acts and thought he
prompted them. Such acts of the sup
posed accomplice cannot be imputed to
the accused as legally criminal, inas
much as they really proceed from the
joint will of the owner aud the accom
plice, and not from the joint will of the
accused and the accomplice.
4. If one deemed an accomplice by
anot her who intends to commit larceny,
is really not so, but has only assumed
the character iu order to pass with the
other through the forms of the intend
ed larceny, so that detection and arrest
may be more certain, aud such false
accomplice, by direction of the owner
of the goods, deliver the goods to the
other, there is no taking without the
consent of the owner, and the offense
of larceny is not committed.
5. Nor is it larceny by the accused if
such false accomplice, not being ex
pressly directed by the owner, make
such delivery of his own motion, after
being by the owner to tell
the accused to come and get the goods,
aud after the accused has come for
them accordingly.
Judgment reversed.
I. A. Bush, by Jackson & Clark,
Heury C. Sheffield, for plaintiff in error.
James T. Flewellen, Solicitor General,
by A. Hood, for the State.
Wili am Boss vs. The State. Perjury,
from Bandolph.
WARNEB, J.
The defendant was indicted for the
offense of “perjury” iu the Superior
Court of Randolph county, and on the
trial therefor, the jury found him
guilty. When the evidence on the
part of the State was closed on trial,
the counsel for the defendant made a
motion to quash the indictment and
proceedings, and to discharge the de
fendant, on the ground that the alleged
false oath was taken before a United
States Commissioner in the investiga
tion before him of an alleged viola
tion of a penal law of the United
States punishable by the courts of the
United States, aud that the superior
court of Bandolph county had no juris
diction to try said case, which motion
the court overruled, aud the defendant
excepted. It appears from the evidence
in the record, that the oath of the de
fendant on which the perjury was as
signed, was taken before ”n~ United
States Commissioner on the investiga
tion of a charge preferred before him
of a violation of the enforcement act of
Congress by one Kenuey aud the ques
tion is, whether the State Court had
concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal
Courts for the trial of the alleged of
fense, or whether the Federal Courts
had the exclusive jurisdiction for the
trial thereof. The offense charged
iu the indictment, is an offense against
the public justice of the United
States—and whatever may have been
the conflicting decisions in the several
courts of the United States,, in regard
to the concurrent jurisdiction of the
State courts in similar cases, prior to
the adoption of the Revised Code of
the statutes of the United States, on
the 20th of June, 1874; there is now no
longer any room for doubt or discus
sion in relation to that question. By
the 5,392 section of the revised statutes
of the United States, it is declared,
tl at every person who having taken
an oath before a competent tribunal,
officer, or person, in any case iu which
a law of the United States authorizes
an oath to be administered, that he will
testify truly, &e., willfully aud contrary
to such oath states any material
matter which he does not believe to be
true, is guilty of perjury, and shall bo
punished, etc., and shall, moreover,
thereafter be incapable of giving any
testimony in any court of the United
States until such time as the judgment
against him is reversed. By the 629th
section it is declared that the Circuit
Courts of the United States shall have
exclusive cognizance of all crimes aud
offenses cognizable uuder the authority
of the United States, except where it is
or may be otherwise provided by law,
and concurrent jurisdiction with the
Distiict Courts of crimes and offenses
cognizable therein.. By the 711th sec
tion, it is declared, that the jurisdiction
vested in the courts of the United
States, shall be exclusive of the courts
of the several States. When a crime
is committed against the United States,
the party charged therewith is to be
indicted and prosecuted therefor in the
courts of the United States, and not in
the courts of the State. Where a
crime is committed against the public
justice of this State, the party charged
therewith should be indicted and prose
cuted in the courts of this State, aud
not in the courts of the United
States. In our judgment the offense
charged in the indictment contained iu
the record, was an offense against the
public justice of the United States, and
not an offense against the public justice
of this State, and therefore, the Supe
rior Court of Randolph county had no
jurisdiction to try it. aud the court
erred in not sustaining the defendant’s
motion to quash the indictment and
proceedings had thereon and to dis
charge the defendant therefrom. Let
the judgment of the court below be re
versed.
H. & I. L. Fielder ; L. S. Chastain,
for plaintiff in error.
James T. Flewellen, Solicitor Gen
eral, by A. Hood, for the State.
Mention is made by a correspondent
of the Boston Globe of a remarkaole
old spiuister at Martha’s Vineyard
named Nancy Luce. 6he devotes her
life to her hens, speaks to them, prays
to and for them, and feeds them out of
her hand, as they roost on and about
her bed. We regret to say that she
also writes poetry about them. The
following are some of the names which
she has bestowed upon these favorite
fowls; Teedie Tauny, Phobea Peades,
Eeelooglc Tickling, Joatie Yefie, Tenie
Dick, Teppetee Tappao, Tonoy Lily
Ottee Opheto, Tealso Medoolsy, Atter
ryree Opacky, Teatola Rosenie, Lavery
Lydandy, Galiinnie Inannie, and Vaiia
tee Finkotel
The power of woman is immense. A
poor cook will keep an entire family in
a broil, and break down the business o£
the most prosperous of men,,