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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year $lO 00 “ six months 500 " three months 250 Tbi-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months 2 60 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months 100 Single copies, 6 cts. To news dealers, 2% ets. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON. ) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. Four thousand troops embarked at Bar celona, Spain, for Cuba, yesterday. The Spanish Government is making an extra effort to crush rebel don. In the Atlanta Constitution the City Mar shal publishes, in very fine type, six col umns, embracing 345 city lots to be sold under executions issued by the Council, for municipal taxes due for the year 1875. That’s progress. The Mollie Mc'Juires, of Pennsylvania, executed one of their choice jobs yester day in kindling a fire in Graiber & Kim ble’s collery, shooting at the watchman when he tried to put it out, and guarding the lire until it burned out the works. In publishing Mr. Shecut’s communica tion, which we do precisely as he wrote it, we have simply to say that the report made in the Constitutionalist was an abstract of Council proceedings and this paper has no responsibility for any reported “at tacks” made upon him. “Martha,” the regular Atlanta corre spondent of the Augusta ( institutionalist, writes splendid letters from the capital. They are full of news, spice and wit, and are always interesting. If she can’t be king we vote her queen of newspaper corre spondents.—[Sumter Republican. We have a vague dispatch about the resignat on of Gen. Lagrange, Superinten dent of the San Francisco Mint, in conse quence of his name being mixed up with Navy Paymaster Finney's defalcation. This Gen. Lagrange came to Georgia with Wilson’s raid, and after the war married Mrs. Lizzie Andrews, of Macon. The world has six wars on hand at this time. In Turkey, in China, Liberia, Spain, Cuba, with Sheriff Brown and Senator Alcorn closing the rear, or file closers, to speak in military parlance. The war of the Senator and Sheriff was fought out and stopped before anybody got the hang of it —even before Gov. Ames had time to tele graph Grant for troops. It was about the poorest excuse of them all. The attention of the Rev. H. M. Turner and his Convention are directed to the news from Liberia this morning. Civil war has broke out there between the American born citizens and the natives. A fight took place on the 17th of September in which fifty were killed and wounded, and a great bat tle is expected. It may be that Turner is recruiting for the Liberian army. If he will go himself a vote of thanks ought to be given him. As several honored citizens have been mentioned as candidates for the Mayoralty, we understand that the name of Mr. James A. Gray has been prominently proposed for that position. Wo have also heard the name of Hon. John Davison extensively canvassed as member of Council for the Second Ward. Mr. Gray as Mayor and Mr. Davison as Chairman of the Finance Com mittee would make a strong team. Fur ther nominations are still in order. There was a wedding yesterday in our royal houshold. The beautiful Josephine Jewell, daughter of the Postmaster Gen eral, stepped from pure unsullied maiden hood into matrimony. Should this para graph meet her eye we request her to use her influence with her father in stopping the removal of the Post Office from Jackson street, Augusta, Richmond county, Ga., to one block below. If she will do so we will indite her twenty-seven .verses commenc ing— Beneath the blue New England skies, Flooded with sunshine a valley lies, But these skies aie not so blue As Josephine’s eye’s of azure hue. The ease of poisoning of a wedding party at Dalton was a most singular as well as lamentable affair. The physicians have traced it to the peach kernels used in the preparation of the wedding cake. We never before heard of peach kernels being poi sonous. As only brief telegraphic details are at hand we presume there is a more rational explanation to come. Several deaths have occurred and sixty persons are more or less dangerously sick. The wedding was that of Miss Lilly Ander son, which took place on the 30th of Sep tember, from which it is seen that the deadly ingredient of the cake is slow in the performance of its terrible work. In the local columns, on the fourth page, will be found a full report of the Negro Im migration Convention, which was ia ses sion at the City Hall yesterday and last night. It was not composed of farm la borers, for whose benefit it was called, but made up of such turbulent colored men as Jeff Long and Turner, who have spent their lives in town, and who have had much to do with politics since the war. Turner made a violent speech, during which he ad vised the colored people to go to Africa. We hope he will depart among the first. Ex-Postmaster Belcher, who is a man of very conservative ideas, threw cold water upon the scheme, and told the assemblage that Georgia was the best country his race would likely ever get to. Jeff Long and Turner hate the white people, and this move is made, not for the purpose of bene litting the colored, but injuring the white race. — The Friar’s Point war may be declare 1 closed. Gen. Chalmers came across the followers of Sheriff Brown and ordered his men to fire a volley over their heads. This had the desired effect, running them back. The negroos again rallied and took posi tion behind a bayou, where th y were Hanked and “ well peppered,” as the dis patch says. The doughty hero of the in surrection, Sheriff Brown, “ got detached from his friends early in the trouble,” made his escape with a whole hide, and “has no personal knowledge of the fight ing.” It is no doubt regretted that he “got detached ”so soon. We are fully prepared to believe that he could not swear of his own personal know edge that there was any fighting at all. It is the old, old story of ringleaders getting ignorant black peo ple into trouble with the whites and then deserting them. The later dispatches tell of some blood shed in Mississippi in suppressing the negro outbreak. We had hoped tint the turbulent, not to say demented, creatures, would dis perse without the necessity of killing, but it seems lives have been lost on both sides. There the negroes had no more cause of grievance than in Georgia , save that Sena tor Alcorn, in a public speech, denounced the black Sheriff, Brown, as a thief. The country in which all this trouble is occur ring was originally a dense canebrake with forests of immense trees, impenetrable to man, and inhibited by bear, deer and reptiles. There were few white people before the war in the counties of Coahama, Tunica or Washington, but large plantations and a great many negroes. The relative strength of the two races has not materially changed since, nor has any visible progress been made in enlightenment. As the colored people outnumber the whites twenty to one, their leaders naturally thought it safe to try conclusions in a fight, with the result *ve are receiving this morning. SlttfusM Constitutionalist Established 1799. WAR NEWS. THE WARM NOW GOING ON IN THE WORLD. The War in Cuba —Pour Thousand Spanish Reinforcements. Barcelona, October 7.—Nine hundred troops sailed for Cuba, and three thou sand more are embarking. The War in Spain. Madrid, October 7.—The Carlists have apparently abandoned the cannonade of San Sebastian. It is officially an nounced the Carlist Gen. Seballs has gone to France. The War in Turkey. Paris, October 7.— La Liberie says the Turkish army has been instructed to confine operations to the defensive. Civil War in Liberia —A Battle Fought on the 17th September—A Great Bat tle Expected. London, October 7.—The Times has the following: War has commenced at Cape Palmas between Liberia and the aborigines under command of several educated natives. There was some fighting on the 17th of September, in which fifty were killed and wounded. The Liberian Government has dis patched troops from Monrovia to the scene of action, and a great battle is daily expected. Friar’s Point Insurrection—Gen. Chal mers Routs the Negroes—Sheriff Brown “Gets Detached Before the Fight”—One Volley Closes the War, Helena, October 7. —Sheriff Brown, the instigator of the trouble in Coa homa county, at Friar’s Point, says he got detached from his friends early in the trouble, and went afoot to Austin to get the Sheriff of Tunica county, a white man, to go to Friar’s Point and peaceably settle matters. Brown don’t talk warlike. Chalmers frightened the negroes from their first position by firing over their heads. They formed again behind a bayou, which Chalmers flanked, and this time peppered them. They fled and disappeared. Brown has no personal knowledge of the fighting. Memphis, October 7.—Chalmers con tinues the pursuit of the negroes under Gen. Pease, (colored). Frank Scott, (white) was ambushed and fatally wounded by negroes. White Demo crats and Republicans are a unit in op posing the uegroes. The above is the Memphis Appeal’s dispatch and is the latest. Friar’s Point, Miss., October 7.— On Tuesday Col. Buck charged an ambush, killing 8 and wounding one, who doubt less is dead. He captured 3, who ate in jail. Chalmers has 250 men not yet returned. Fifty of his men remain at Clarkes ville to watch negroes in that section as several places are threatened. About 100 armed citizens are here, who picket the town. The white people hardly know what to do. Their homes in the country are unprotected. Should negroes offer violence there would be a fearful state of affairs. The whites are determined to desperse all mobs, but are prudent and act on the defen sive. \ HENRY CLEWS & CO. Testimony of Benj. H. Clieever. New York, October 7.—The examina tion of Benj. H. Cheever, creditor of Henry Clews & Cos., before the Regis ter in Bankruptcy, developed the fol io wing : Clews spoke to me repeatedly of establishing a banking house in Washington. He finally told me he was endeavoring to obtain the United States agency. He wanted my aid, and promised to pay me liberally ; stated the value of this agency ; promised to give me one-quarter of the entire pro fits, as my correspondence will show. I was to render him all lawful services in Washington and elsewhere, showing his standing as a banker, &c., until the agency was obtained, then to aid him here and in London. I conferred re peatedly with Secretary Delano, Sena tors ConkliDg, Anthony, Sprague, Pome roy, Morrill, Logan, of Maine, Sumner, Vice-President Wilson, Speaker Blaine, Generals Banks, Butler and others, in cluding Senators Sherman, Chandler, Windom and Ramsey. I was to aid as much as possible getting disbursements through this agency. I introduced Mr. Clews to Cushing, and an arrangement was proposed as to deposits for foreign consulates. Fifteen million dollars was mentioned in this conversation. Judge Louis Dent, a lawyer, and related to the President by marriage, was to have one-eighth of the entire profits for services as counsel, and after the con sumation of the plan as counsel for the agency in Washington. Mr. Clews of fered Dent $25,000 to come to New York as counsel to advance the inter ests of Mr. Clews. Ido not know what legal services he performed, and do not know that he ever ceased to have an interest in the business. Mr. Cheever did not recollect writing to Clews, urg ing payment for services, and mention ing that he (Cheever) had partners to share with him, but did recollect writ ing he had partners sharing one-fourth his profits, and supposed up to a cer tain date that Dent was a partner. He did not inform members of the admin istration, Senators and Congressmen of these agreements. THE MEXICAN CLAIMS COMMIS SION. Awards of Sir Edward Thornton. Wasbington, October 7. —In the Mexican Claims Commission, Sir Ed ward Thornton, Umpire, made the fol lowing awards: To Francis Nolan, sl,- 000, with interest, damage to crops by troops; Alexander R. Barrington, $12,- 000, with interest, claim similar to No lan’s; S. K. Parsins, $5,000, without interest, claim for killing claimant's father by Mexican authorities; John McMurty, for use of mules, $2,040, with interest; Benjamin Weil, $285,000, with interest, for seizure of a quantity of cotton by Mexican military authorities; Jacob Campbell, $12,267, value of for age taken. The following claims against Mexico were dismissed : Legardi, Hill, Lacosti, Dines, Clavel, Blurbenkron, schooner Anua or Swan, King & Ken nedy, Cotter, Mackmauus, Mahone, Pacheco, Crathers, McGorty, Wallace, Phipps, Lisner, Welch, Palacio and Chase. The Montpelier Lottery was a wilful and a deliberate steal The victims surely will not let the matter rest with a profusion of healthy denunciations. Every man con nected with it should be arrested and sent to the penitentiary. It is a little astonish ing at this late day that State Legislatures will grant charters to lotteries. They are rarely ever anything else than cheats. But the Montpelier concern stands alone for filching every cent paid in. It is usual to allow a few prizes to be drawn which are paid. The Board of Health now graciously in forms us that only one case of yellow fe ver exists at Mobile. How many has been there this fall is left to conjecture. THE CHARLESTON ELECTION. Fraud Triumphant—A Large Major ity for Cunningham. [Express. Wagener Organ.] The election is over, and the result is what might have beeu expected. The polls at every precinct, from an early hour, were in the hands of bold and turbulent mobs of Cunningham’s hire lings, many of them wearing a red badge denoting that they were special police. As we stated in yesterday’s issue, these police were selected not for their possible efficiency as peace-officers, but for their strong partisanship in the in terest of Cunningham. They crowded close to the ballot boxes, and prevented many Wagener men of their own color from voting who didn’t care to get their heads broken or be carried off under some pretext to the guaidhouse. The most disgraceful scenes that ever were witnessed at an election in any city were enacted at every precinct. Drunken men, with badges designating them as peace officers, exercised their functions by crowding off peaceable voters and battering the skulls of those who had the manliness to resist with their hickory bludgeons, and then tak ing them, besmeared with blood and limp as if they were lifeless, to the po lice station, as tigers take their prey to their den. In almost every altercation which oc curied the special police (appointed by direction of the Election Commission ers, and their appointment left to an interested candidate !), with their pon derous bludgeons, did more to intensi fy the excitement than to preserve or der. Aud it was intended so. Sheriff Bowen’s deputies, who were present at the polls were as sheep among a flock of wolves. In Ward One, voting proceeded with comparative quiet until about 9 o’clock, when the Cunningham roughs assem bled en masse, and with the assistance of the special police, took possession of the passage ways and harried every colored man whom they suspected of bearing a Wagener vote, and this so disgusted many that they refused to vote at all. In Ward Two, the Cunninghatnites held possession of Union Star Engine House precinct through the whole day, forcibly driving away scores of voters with their murderous clubs. The polls in Ward Three were com paratively orderly, but both at Palmet to Engine House and Market Hall there were occasional disturbances. In Ward Four the three polling pre cincts were scenes of rowdyism, bru tality, bribery, repeating and bare faced fraud. At StoDewall Engine House Maj. Willis was arrested for openly buying votes, holding the money in his hands in full view of the special police, and crying for bids with the volubility of an expert auctioneer. Af ter practicing this shameless business for two or three hours, an order was issued for his arrest, but backed by the special constables and others he resist ed the officers, and kept on with hi3 nefarious traffic until the Mayor, by re quest of the commissioners, proceeded to the precint, and aided by Deputy Sheriff Ostendorff and a posse, suc ceeded in arresting him. He was car ried before Trial Justice Hutchinson and promptly released on giving secu rity for his appearance. We learn that Justice Hutchinson, in releasing him, acted in obedience to the verbal order of Judge T. J. Mackey, who was con veniently in the city in anticipation of just such cases. At Hope aud Comet Star engine house precincts in this ward, repeating was carried on to such an extent that many Wagener men turned away from the polls in disgust without voting. At each of these precincts the special po lice were the most active peace disturb ers, aud blood flowed freely under their repeated clubbing of opposing voters. At the Hope engine house Mr. Cun ningham’s special police acted as a ral lying committee, and dragged men away without waiting till the managers of election decided their right to vote. There were nothing but Hunkidories there. They (the special police) grab bed Mr. D. F. Gleason, and had him in their power until a couple of regular police rescued him, he having inter ceded where some of the specials were mobbing a Wagener man. In the afternoon, from four to six o’clock, there was nothing but repeat ing, there being no showing for Wag ener voters. They took and tore off the badges from tho deputy sheriffs, and threatened them bodily harm. The friends of Gen. Wagener could not have anybody arrested under any circumstances; they had no protection whatever. The Cunningham special police took from one of the tables at the polls the tickets in the possession of the Rallying Committee, and tore off the name of Gen. Wagener which was around the table. The precincts in Wards Five, Six, Seven and Eight, had similar expe riences, though on a smaller scale. The special constables of Cunningham were everywhere active, and helped on the gigantic fraud which re-establishes the power of the ring and makes Charles ton the champion mob-controlled city. The fraudulent vote cast yesterday cannot have been less than two thou sand, and we sincerely believe that it was all cast for the Cunningham ticket. One of the Election Commissioners made the remark that “he could say for the supporters of Gen. Wagener (including the special deputies of Sheriff Bowen) that he did not see one of them guilty of a disorderly or riotous act, or acting in any other manner than as peaceable citizens.” On the other hand, an active worker for the Cunningham ticket, remarked publicly, at the close of the day, that “he regretted having aided the victori ous side, and would rather take his place ten times over among the de feated Wagenerites. He had seen such damnable frauds, such open bribery, such shameless repeating at the polls he had visited that he was disgusted and sick at heart.” He said “he could have voted a thousand women with bonnets, if he voted them for Cunning ham.” Such w T as the election of yesterday— a stupendous fraud —an unprecedented outrage on a free people—an expres sion not of the popular will, but mainly of the official viciousness with which the worst elements of the community are en rapport. The Conduct of the Election. [Nows and Courier, Cunningham Organ.] The election, yesterday, we are glad to say, passed off very quietly, and for this we have to thank tho Commis sioners of Election. There were some fights, as usual, but the chief danger which threatened tho city passed away, when it was made evident that no in terference with the Managers or elec tors would be allowed, and that the Commissioners had at their command a force sufficient to ensure the execution | of their orders. What was intended aud AUGUSTA. GAI FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1875. expected was patent||.o every one when Sheriff Bowen senA his first letter to the Commissioners, Lid only the knowl edge that the Commissioners would not recede an inch frothe position they had taken, coupled itb. the resolve of the citizens that the .voters should not be bullied by machv '-made tipstaves, caused the Bowen ,etion to restrain their deputies and cave the city in comparative peace. L'his, in itself, is a moral victory. Agy oat step has beeu taken when usurpations of authority by Radical officials ire promptly re buked and summarih made abortive. We believe that joth parties are entirely satisfied will the conduct of the Commissioners >§.' Elections, from first to last, and no <jLmmissioners, in our judgment, could! have been more vigilant, vigorous an<:| impartial. It is a blessed thing to l J able to say that in two successive elections, in Charles ton, the commissioners have been everything that the public could desire. m* • Tließome, Ga., FairilTlie Water Con vention Atlanta, October .I— The Agricultu ral and Mechanical Exhibition at Rome, Ga., this week, has b ln largely attend ed. Exhibitors and iisitors are pres ent from several Nor-leru States. Hon. H. G. Eastman, of Nil; York, delivered the annual address. ; Rome, Ga., Octobo, 7. —The Mobile and Tennessee Watei Route Conven tion adjourned to-day! after adopting a resolution recommem| ;ag to Congress aud the Legislator;if of Tennessee, Georgia and to aid in the connection of Efe Alabama and Tennessee rivers. Alfo endorsing the four great water routes proposed by the Windom CommiMee, and calling upon the Government to select this city as the site of tini 3 proposed south western arsenal. fi The Yellow FeAflr at Mobile. Mobile, October a meeting of the Board of Health last evening, the following publication was ordered to be made in the ci*y papers: That the Board have no ij qowledge of the existence at present of any case of yel low fever in the city The last case they have any repo p of originated September 27th. Tin few cases that occurred were confines to one locality. No disposition to s] read has been manifested. The Boai- l have taken all precaution deemed ne<issary to disin fect the locality in question. (Signed) Geo. Akd |hum, M. D., President B Jird of Health. —■— - •■<*. I Poisoning at lalton. [Special to the C< jUtitution.] Dalton, October 6, M. — Two of the persons who fell eitgc after attend ing the wedding sup|f?r following the marriage of Miss Li 11/ Anderson on the 30th ult., died to-d-fy. Others who were pifsent and poi soned at the same tint ire now lying dangerously ill, and i£ay die at any time. All, Including the physicians, now concede that the%oisoniug was produced by the extract of peach leaves, or kernels, usedijn flavoring the custard at the supper. Over sixty persons inf'dl were affec ted with the dangerolli illness. This has been the greatest wholesale poison ing over known in this l Action. H. tll ji ; THE TUB Nashville R ees. Nashville, October —Track fine. Ia the first race, mile 1 eats, Asterlite won, Brakeman secom > and Marshal third. Marshal took th j; first heat and Brakeman the second j Time, 1:45, 1:46%, 1:46%, 1:47%. h the second race, two mile dash, N( /jbern was the winner, Vottigeur sect iji and Fanny Malone third. Time, ;|34%. In the third race, gentleman’s, i.% mile dash, Col. Alex. Donaldson w ia, Maj. J. W. Alexander second and Squire J. S. Owen third. Time, 2:20 The Great Lottery Swindle. Alexandria, October 7 —The Gazette of this evening says th f, the Examin ing Committee of tho M ihtpelier Asso ciation Lottery have Amoved what some of them considere ?an injunction of secrecy, and the res lit is that the correctness of what tl ej Gazette has said about the swindle Has been sub stantiated in every partic liar. The same paper says it turns out bhat the plate upon which the tickets, i signatures and all, were printed, was all wed to remain in New York, and that all the prize numbers except two wei > held in New York. Peabody Fu and. New York, October 6. Ifcuart, oi Vir ginia and Riggs, of D. C. irrived. Ses sion private. Ship Ma 'j Flower, of Greenoak, for Boston, lc ided with pig iron foundered. Crew si ved. Burmali and I; iia. Simla, India, October ! .—lt is offi cially announced Burn ih uncondi tionally allows an esco t of British troops to pass through 1 irmeze Terri tory. ANOTHER PRECINCT HEARD FROM. * Gen. Lagrange, of the nt, and the Pinney Defalcation. San Francisco, Octobef 6.—General Lagrange, Superintendent of the Mint, resigned in consequence c% tho connec tion of his name with Pi uey, the de faulting paymaster’s cleri Turkish Public i ebt. Constantinople, Octoj er 7. —The Porte has decreed that a and after January next interest on ind redemp tions of the public debt e paid half cash and half five per cep . bonds. Marriage of Postmast i Jewell’s / Daughter. Hartford, Conn., Octol ;r 7.— Three members of the National Cabinet as sisted at the wedding c Postmaster General Jewell’s daught r, Josephine, to Auther M. Dodge. A Glasgow Faillce, Glasgow, October 7.—Cfliwn, Steven son and Williamsons, sijrar refiners, failed. Liabilities heajy. Several Greenock houses are inves* ed. i—■ * Hard Money Coifing, London, October 7.—Thf Maine took £50,000 of specie for NewgVork. “ Aunty, did God mak- that man ?” whispered a little four-yc A old to his companion, in the Jamaicj Plain horse car, as he looked askance at Mr. Wall Lee, one of the new launc :ymen from the flowery kingdom, who s it opposite. “ Certainly, my dear,” wa : tne reply ; “and why do you ask uch a ques tion ?” “ Because, auntgy he didn’t make the hinges to lb eyes on straight.” | The only man not spo|od by being lionized was the Prophet niel. HOUGHTON INSTITUTE. The Reply of Mr. Shecut to the At tacks Made Upon Him. Houghton Institute, Augusta, Ga., ) October 26,1875. ) To the Editors of the Constitutionalist : Dear Sirs: In your report of the proceedings of the City Council in your issue of the sth iust., you state that “a letter was read from a lady teacher, preferring in a grievous tone, grave charges” against myself as Principal of the Houghton Institute. While, iu your issue of that date, you do not mention the name of the lady teacher. I am aware that you refer to Miss Jane S. McDonald, who, before the re cent election of teachers, held the po sition of First Assistant in the Female Department of the Institute. In my card which appears iu your issue of to-day, I stated that I had requested a copy of the letter read before the Council, from Hon. T. W. Carwile, and would reply to it in your next issue. Knowing that great iu justice had been done to me by the publication of tho letter, and that I had a perfect right to ask a copy, I renewed my re quest to the gentleman, who refused to comply on the grounds that the same lady requested a copy of a letter writ ten by myself to Dr. Ford which was declined, and that “my course lay through the City Council, and not through tho public press.” The letter to which Mr. Carwile refers was an offi cial one written to Dr. Ford as Chair man of the H. I. Committee, whom I authorized to furnish Miss McDonald with a copy. As I have been attacked through the public press, in reporting Council proceedings, I certainly feel called upon to defend myself through the same channel. Is it just, I ask to to prefer charges against one reportori ally through the public press without specifying them, and then refuse him a copy of the same? I am compelled, therefore to depend upon the extracts of that letter, as published iu your paper, for my reply. After mentioning that Miss McDonald had given “the greatest possible satisfaction,” the report goes on to say “Some time since certain text books were introduced into the Hough ton Institute, which, upon examination, she found repugnant to her feelings, and she did not desire to teach them. She communicated her wishes to Mr. Shecut, and he said the books must be used; and certain passages which she wanted to pass unnoticed, he said should not be passed over. From thence forward Mr. Shecut very openlv showed a dislike to the lady, and in some instances, as the letter goes on to say, actually acted in an ungentlemanly manner. He wanted her removed from her position, and to effect this end has been using all the means in his power.” I presume that Miss McDonald refers to the introduction of Goodrich’s His tory of England into the Grammer De partments of the Institute. The case is as follows: Some time last winter, I ex pressed the opinion to Mr. Hillyer, then Chairman of the Committee, that the interest of these departments re quired the introduction of a history of England to be used in connection with that of our own country. He coincided with me, aud authorized the introduc tion of the same. After having ex amined several authors, I concluded to introduce “Goodrieh’s History of Eng land” as best adapted to the advance ment of the pupils. The book was ac cordingly introduced, and my action endorsed by Mr. Hillyer. Before the introduction of the work, however, I made known my intention to Miss Mc- Donald, who did not object. Sometime after, having used the book, she ap proached me and desired to know if I would not exchange the history then in use for some other, stating at the same time that its teachings were false aud contrary to her religion. I informed her that it was beyond my power to set aside the action of tho chairman of the com mittee, and that as a large number *of the boys and girls had bought their books a change would be too expensive for them. I requested her to point out the offensive passages, when she re ferred me to an amusing anecdote about St. Dustan, related simply to interest the pupil. She then told me emphati cally that she would not teach the book. I informed her that, as Principal of the Institute, it was my duty to require that all the text books were used, un less otherwise ordered by the commit tee, and requested her to consider the question well before acting. I left her with tho hope that nothing unpleasant would arise from her refusal, and waited a considerable length of time before taking action. She informed me that if she was forced to teach the history she would instruct her pupils according to her own view of the sub ject. In the meantime I received several messages from the patrons desiring to know why the history was not taught their children. I then stated to Miss McDonald that as she still refused to teach the work I would be compelled to refer the case to the committee for their action. I then learned that Miss McDonald had informed her class that I was endeavoring to force her to teach falsehoods. Furthermore, that she had on several occasions introduced her re ligion into her teachings, stating to her pupils that the Roman Catholic Church was the only true church, and even ad vising her pupils to attend and see for themselves. These facts I have from those under her tutalage. It was then that I reported the whole case to the committee, who, after consultation, as I have been informed by the chairman, censured her course, and decided that the history should contiuue to be taught in the Departments, but that Miss D. should be relieved of the teaching. This decision was rendered in the first part of the present year, and the case so rested until the close of the session. There are several other instances that I could give, were it necessary, of Miss McD.’s introducing her religion into her teaching. After, and before the above mentioned un pleasantness occurred, I conducted my self in the most gentlemanly manner to wards Miss McDonald. I here call up on her, or any one else, to mention one instance in which I acted otherwise. On the other hand, Miss McDonald showed great disrespect to me as Prin cipal, by setting aside my authority and countermanding my directions to the pupils. I call upon her to state how I showed a dislike to her. She has openly expressed her dislike to me before her pupils. You state in your report, further, that Miss McDonald “ conclusively proved by letters of recommendation ” that she had “ giv en tho greatest possible satisfac tion,” &c. I have been Principal of tho Institute for a number of years, and I have never considered her competent to fill the position she held. In my reports to Council I have inti mated frequently that the teachers were not graded according to their merits. At the last election of teachers an ordinance was passed assigning the grading of teachers to the committee. I was requested to present my views as to their proper assignment. This I did. The committee assigned Miss Coffin to the position of First Assistant F. D., and Miss McDonald to the Primary grade. Results will show whether or not this change was beneficial. During the greater part of last session Miss McDonald’s department numbered only about eight or ten pupils. There pro gress was very slow. Often have I received complaints from patrons. Under Miss Coffin the department now numbers seventy-four, and the pupils are progressing rapidly. This change the committee made. They were all ' present except one. In conclusion, I can not understand why Miss McDonald has attacked me. Any unprejudiced mind is bound to acknowledge that I did only my duty. I can substantiate all that I have here written. Mr. Hard as often stated to myself and others that he did not consider Miss McD. a com petent teacher. It is with great reluc tance that I give publicity to these facts, but feel that I am called upon to defend myself against the charges as reported in your paper. I thank you, Messrs. Editors, for this privilege allowed me, aud regret that I am compelled to occupy so much of your valuable space. Very respectfully, J. Cuthbert Shecut, Principal H. I. Big Eaters. [From tho Mobile Register. Two young men—regular famine breeders—met last night, at 10:30 o’clock, in Hammerson’s restaurant, for the purpose of testing their gastronomic powers. L. has been known to swallow 74 raw oysters at a clip, and it was he who made the wager that he could eat more raw oysters than any man in Mobile. S., who has a stomach of stu pendous capacity took the wager, and they went to the counter and told Ham merson to open all the raw oysters he had in his saloon, as they were going to eat on a wager, and didn’t intend to stop short of six dozen each. Hammer son said he had none raw, but could supply them with all the fried they wanted; so they seated themselves at a table with the judges and called for six dozen fried. In ten or fifteen minutes the first instalment of two dozen was brought iu and the battle began. S. took the lead, and iu two minutes one half dozen had entered the valley of the shadow of death ; another half dozen was given him, and they, too, vanished, and still another, until he had actually swallowed three dozen and eight, while L. had only got away with eleven. L. saw it was no use, and threw up the sponge. He says his bill amounted to only a few dollars, while S.’s doctor’s bill will not fall short of SSO. Only think of it, three dozen and eight Bon Secour oysters stowed away in a man’s bread basket, besides the condiments, bread, water, etc. Such a dose is enough to give an alligator dys pepsia, and how S. can navigate with such a cargo is a question the future will have to decide. Boarding-house keepers had better beware of these famine breeders. A Little Episode in the Street—A Joseph and His Wife. There was an interesting scene on Sixth street, San Francisco, recently, which collected a large crowd, and which from appearances seemed to have resulted from some domestic de rangement. A well-dressed gentleman accompanied by a gorgeously-plumaged lady was driving along that thorough fare, when a second lady suddenly bounded from the sidewalk and seized the horse by the bridle. The gentle man commenced lashing the animal and manifested a determination to drive on and escape at all hazards while the lady, with wonderful pluck, retained her hold and effectu ally interrupted the progress of the vehicle. At the height of the ex - citement the lady iu the carriage jumped out and disappeared around the nearest corner with as much agiiity as a fashionable pin-back would admit of. Then the gentleman seemed to take a calmer view of the situation, and was visibly cowed as the lady who had intercepted his drive clambered into the carriage and remarked: “Now, Joseph, you drive straight home.” The crowd wondered what it was all about, but neither the lady nor the gentle man deigned to afford them the slight est explanation. Minor Telegrams. Louisville, October 7.—At a meeting of stockholders of the Louisville and Nashville Road, Martin, the President, and Fink, Superintendent, resigned. E. D. Standiford succeeds Martin. Pottersville, October 7.—The watch man of Graiber & Kimble’s colliery was shot at by incendiaries while try ing to extinguish a small fire they had made in the mine. The fire got beyond his control. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Three hundred men aud boys ousted. Attributed to Mollie MacGuires. Columbus, October 7.—An obscure disease killed 1,000 hogs in this vicinity within a month. Detroit, Mich., October 7.—Severe northeaster on Lake Huron. Several vessels ashore. Hartford, October 7. —Rev. Mr. En glish, a Baptist Minister, traveling for his health, was found dead in bed at the house of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Montreal, October 7.—The charge of rape against Abbe Chabort, was with drawn. He will be tried simply on a charge of assault. Cobourg, Ont., October 7. — A unioD of British and American Templars was consummated here to-day. Title of new society, “ United Temperance So ciety.” Lowell, October 7.—John Maher, a tramp, arrested as the possible mur derer of Miss Langmau, was discharg ed. He could not have beeu at the scene of the outrage. Clearfield, Pa., October 7.—The jury acquitted Siney but convicted Park of riot and conspiracy in connection with the coal miner’s strike. Berlin, October 7.—The Ecciesiasti cal Court has deposed the Bishop of Breslau. San Francisco, October 7.—Penney, the defaulting Paymaster’s Clerk, threatens revelations that he says will make a fluttering among the politicians as regards the influences which retain ed Penney in his position, if the inquiry is pressed too hard upon him. Salem, Va., October 7.—Alfred Penn, an old and respected citizen of Now Or leans, and for many years President of the Union Bank of that citv, died here to-day. He was the father of Lieut. Gov. D. B. Penn. Norfolk, October 7.—A negro man was shot and killed to-day at Kemp viile, Princess, Anne county by a young ; man named Herreck. The negro in sulted Herrick’s mother. New York, October 7.—John Gorham, President of tho Gorham Silverware Factory, of Providence, has failed. His liabilities are $600,000. New Series—Vol. 28, No. 65 DELENDA EST CARTHAGO. A DECAYING METROPOLIS. Wliat New York Has Lost by the War —Some of the Results of Radical Re construction-Tremendous Shrink age of Values—The Wrath to Come— Ichabod! Thy Glory Has Departed! We find in the New York Stockholder , a journal that is supposed to be pecu liarly well informed concerning such matters, some facts and figures that illustrate in a very startliug manner the decline of New York as the great commercial metropolis of the country. It is estimated that the 13,000 acres of land on Manhattan Island are mort gaged at the average rate of 8160,000 per acre, or SIO,OOO per plot of 25 by 100 feet—all mortgaged with the excep tion of some few estates like the As tqrs' and others, computed to embrace less than one-tenth of the total area. Deducting liberally for the property not under mortgage, it may be said that 10,000 acres of the island are under mortgage at the rate of $160,000 per acre, making an average of mortgage debt of sl,6oo,ooo,ooo—within one-ninth as much as the entire interest-bearing debt of the United States Government, and paying, with interest proper, taxes and incidental expenses, a rate of inter est nearly double that of the United States debt. The general rate of inter est on mortgages in New York is 7 per cent. The land is taxed over 2)4 per cent,, and the lawyers and brokers get perhaps as much as 1 per cent, in the changes of securities or in expenses of foreclosures. The city has thus to con front an annual burden of 10)4 P er cen tum, or $165,000,000, with respect to its engagements to pay money secured by mortgage upon its lauds. In. ilush times such as prevailed a few years ago this burden was borne lightly. The city handled a foreign commerce, equal at its highest to about $1,000,000,000 annually. A profit of 10 per centum on this paid $100,000,000 per year, providing for considerably more than half of the mortgage inter est payable upon city lauds. Manu factures in the city amounted to $342,- 000,000 per annum, upon which, after paying for the raw products, the pop ulation earned through its labor and profits at least $150,000,000 per annum. Thus all the mortgage debt was more than provided for without recourse to the profits of the commerce in domestic products—of which New York is the chief distributing point for all the At lantic border—to meet the cost of what she draws from the country for daily food, etc. The cost of what the country sup plies New York for food may be ap proximately estimated at $200,000 per day, at 20 cents the ration for 1,000,000 people, amounting to $103,000,000 a year. Thus, with brisk foreign and domestic commerce, and their city industries in full play, her people stood stoutly up and thrived under a burden for food and interest of $268,000,000 per an num, or of $260 per head for each man, woman and child, of their population. No other community in the world ever earned anything like this amount of money. The aggregate annual product of the above specified industries in New York a few years ago was $292,000,000. All of than have meantime shrunk one half, some of them three-fourths, while others have almost entirely ceased. It may be safely estimated that at the present rate of produc t of these in dustries their annual yield would not be over $120,000,000. There is a shrink age of $172,000,000 on $292,000,000 in the products of one city—abridging the disbursements for wages and the trade in materials to that extent. But affairs have sadly changed with New York. Her foreign commerce is lessened somewhat in volume, but that diminution is nothing to the shrinkage in profits. Importers who made 10 per centum on their business in flush times are now glad to get 5 per cent, or even 2)4 per cent., and as to the exports handled there is no 10 per cent, of legi mate profit in business as factors, and the producing interest of the country, these hard times, will no longer con sent to have undue charges piled up against tho merchandise consigned to the seaboard for export. They will prefer to send it to cheaper ports. As to manufactures, they have dwin dled to less than one-half of their for mer volume, and some trade may be said to have almost utterly died out. Let us look at a few examples among the trades which made up the annual production of $342,000,000 four years ago, as given by the stockholder: We were then earning a quarter of a mil lion dollars by making awnings and tents, a million in belting and hose, a half million in billiard tables, four millions in book binding, a half million in boats, ten mil lions in ship-building and repairs of ships, a million and a half in paper boxes and two millions in wood packing boxes, three mil lions in brass work, twenty-two millions in building and as much more in building materials, nine millions in carpentering, seven millions in carriages and sleds, a half million in chromos and lithographs, forty millions in clothing, four millions in confectionery, four millions in cooperage, four million’s in drugs and chemicals, a million and a half in engraving, three mil lions in tire-arms, twenty-one millions in furniture, seven millions in furs, a million in glassware, two millions in gloves, two millions in hoop skirts, seven millions in jewelry, six millions in marble and stone work, two millions in millinery, a quarter of a million in gold pens and pencils, a million in perfumery and cosmetics, two millions in plumbing and gas-litting, fifteen millions in books and job printing two millions in saddlery and harness, three millions in sashes and blinds, a million in silverware, a million in straw goods, five millions in tin, copper and sheet-iron ware, a million and a half in umbrellas, two mil lions in upholstering, seventy-five millions in articles of war, a half million in orna mental wood brackets. Yet New Yorkers could still live and pay to the country the $103,000,000 per annum for the daily food consumed in their city. But what shall be said of the appalling burden for interest and taxes on mortgaged land, $165,000,000 per year? It is enough to state that its proportions are gigantic and that it has been piled up by kiting specula tions in real estate, the parties to which, taken altogether, never were worth in solid capital one-tenth of the amount of the annual interest they have im posed upon the people who dwell in the city, the lands of which these persons have been speculating in. No 13,000 acres of land in one body in the world is worth one-quarter of the amount for which that area in New York is mort gaged. There may be a mile square about the Royal Exchange in London which worth $160,000 per acre, but even this statement is doubtful, Our New York contemporary sees no remedy but an immediate and thor ough resettlement of values of city lands, and the adjustment of mort gages accordingly. It will grind up, to be sure, speculators in real estate, but better that this class be abolished entirely than that every honestly toil ing man in the city be kept under this tremendous burden—for this interest has to be paid, if it be paid, through productive labor of some sort. Better To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND AFTER this date (April 21. 1875,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be seat free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in. unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. M oney 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. for those who are interested by way of solid investment In New York real es tate that this frightful cloud upon their property be dispelled, for it is only a matter of time when commerce will desert a city where it must be taxed to pay 10)4 P er centum per an num on 13,000 acres of land at $160,000 per acre. RUSSELL’S REVENGE. A Double Wedding and a Double Fu neral in Pennsylvania. [Roseville Correspondence of the Philadel phia Telegraph.] About five years ago William Rus sell, a farmer, living a few miles from this village, was left a widower, with one child. The care of the farmer’s house then devolved upon his daughter Harriet, aged sixteen years. A girl named Mary Stokes, about the same age, was employed to aid in the house bo’d work. Miss Russell discovered that her father was paying the atten tion of a lover to the girl. The farmer’s daughter dismissed the Stokes girl from her situation in the family. When Russell learned of this proceeding he immediately brought the girl back, and told his daughter that she was to remain there as long as she chose. The daughter thereupon left the house, and went to work at sewing iu the neighborhood. Mary Stokes finally left Russell’s and a few days afterwards Miss Russell resumed her old position in her father’s house. Living in this village was a highly respected young carpenter named Hor ton Hurst. His father owned# farm adjoining that of the Russells. Some years ago a difficulty arose between the two farmers about the proper loca tion of a line fence. A long, bitter and expensive lawsuit followed. Farmer Hurst was finally successful in the suit, and died two years ago. Russell hated the name of Hurst, and when, some three years since, he made the discov ery that his daughter and the son of his old enemy had formed an attach ment for each other, and were actually engaged to be married, he threatened to disown Harriet if she did not at once renounce the idea of wedding young Hurst. She made the sacrifice in obe dience to her parent. About three months ago Russell as tounded his daughter by telling her that he intended to soon mary the girl Mary Stokes, and bring her back to the farm-house. Harriet assured him that when he brought his wife home he would find his daughter gone. Friday morning the old farmer, tell ing Harriet that he would return with his wife in the afternoon, drove away toward the home of Mary Stokes. Tho daughter placed the house in readiness for the return of her father, and about uoon started for Roseville. She left behind her, on the bureau in her room, the following letter addressed to her father: Dear Father: I have always tried to be a dutiful daugther to you, but the act you intend to do to-day is more than can I submit to,as I have more than once told you. You choose a compan ion above me. I hope she will be as true to you as I have been, and that you both will be very happy. Do not think I am writing this with a light heart, although in leaving the home of my childhood I go to find a home with one I have long loved and whose wife I expect to be iu a few hours. God bless you, father, and good-by. Your once-loved daughter, Hattie. Upon reaching this village Miss Rus sell was met by Horton Hurst.. They proceeded to the house of Mrs. William Filley, a sister of Hurst’s, and about 8 o’clock in the afternoon were married by the Rev. Mr. Young, of the Metho dist church. Afterward they went in company with Mrs. Filley and a young gentleman, a friend of Hurst’s, to the village tavern, where it had been ar ranged to take dinner. They were nearly through the repast, which had been very like a wedding feast, when the door of the dining room was burst in, and farmer Russell, pale with rage, and a singular glitter in his eye, sprang into the apartment. His daughter arose hastily and ran toward him with outstretched arms, but he threw her aside and sprang upon her husband. “You scoundrel 1” he exclaimed, “You set my daughter up to leave her home!” He grasped Hurst by the throat, but the young man threw him off and com menced backing toward the door. Rus sell seized a knife fiom the table, and getting between Hurst and the door, attempted to stab the young man. Hurst received the thrust in his arm, and seeing that the old man was bent on murder, drew a revolver and warned him to stand back. Russell did not heed the warning, and continued to make deadly lunges with tho knife. Hurst received many of these in tho arm and shoulder. Hurst’s sister es caped from the room during the me lee, and the young men present seemed to be paralyzed with terror. At last Hurst pushed his assailant back from him and leveled the pistol at him. His wife at this instant sprang between the men just as her husband’s pistol was discharged. The ball entered her brain, and she fell to the floor and expired without saying a word. The report of the pistol brought a number of persons into the room. Hurst had fallen on his knees beside his wife’s body, and after several times frantically appealing to her by name to look up and speak to him, he rose to his feet, and beforo a hand could be extended to prevent him, shot himself through the head, and ho fell dead beside his wife. Russell seemed stricken dumb by the fearful soene, and was led from the room like a child. As soon as the excitement that fol lowed the news of the tragedy could be somewhat allayed, the bodies of the young married couple were removed to the residence of Mr. Filley, followed by hundreds of people. In the evening an inquest was held by James Powell, Justice of the Peace. Russell was arrested and held iu $2,000 to await the action of the grand jury. A verdict that Mrs. Harriet R. Hurst met her death by the accidental discharge of a pistol, and that Horton Hurst came to his death by his own hand while tem porarily insane, was rendered. In Lafayette, Ind., last Wednesday, a little girl was bitten by a dog, and when an officer came to kill the animal the mother flew into a rage and told him to keep his hands off as the child and dog were both hers. “ Father, Bring Home Your Money To-night,” is the name of anew tem perance song. The New York Commer cial Advertiser suggests that somebody ought to write a sequel entitled, “ Or, If You Can’t Come Yourself, Send it, Father.”—[Boston Advertiser. Four wild pigeons and seventy-five men, with guns, passed North, Satur day afternoon,— [Danbury News. Josh Riflings says: “Give the devil his due reads well enough in a proverb; hut what will become of me and you if this arrangement is carried out,”