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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months • 500 " throe months jSO Tbi-W'eekly—one year '..'.Y. 5 00 " six months •■•• • 2 Weekly—one year . 2 00 six months 100 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, ets. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The jpaper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN. J Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. The Sunday Constitutionalist. We will, to-morrow, Sunday morning, is sue an extraordinary edition, twice as large as upon any other day. It will contain telegraphic news from all points of the world, correspondence, miscellaneous arti cles, and the usual editorial commentaries. This edition of our paper is well nigh uni versally read by the population of Augusta and vicinity. Three and four times the usual number are sent out upon the trains leaving the city and sold along the roads leading therefrom. Advertisers will see from this statement of facts the advan tages presented of communicating with ninety per cent, of the reading portion of Augusta and the surrounding country. The reports from Friar’s Point, Miss., are as contradictory as those from Herze p ovina. The telegraphic dispatches sent us last eve ling were like the Charleston election— a little mixed. Gov. Smith having been prayed for by the negro Convention, we may hear of his taking to sackcloth and ashes in a few days. Harris, of the Savannah Neu>B, says the total number of gin houses destroyed by lire, last year, was ninety-eight and not thirty-eight, as we erroneously stated a day or two ago. The irrepressible Turner thinks gold can be gathered by the handful in Africa. A man who talks such nonsense as that ought to be sent to Milledgevillo previous to a trip to the Guinea coast. —■—- George Spesr, a negro aged Ik), who had a wife and live children, was hanged at Fayetteville, Ga., yesterday, for a beastly outrage committed last May. He died pro testing his innocence, of course. * A two column article on the Mont pelier Lottery swindle, from the Courier- Journal, would be mighty line reading. Hen Wood, of New York, could get up something attractive on the same subject in one or both of his papers. And now we learn that the Herzegovin ian leader, Ljiebobratich, is sick. His dreadful name must have struck inwards, just as it is said that Mr. Lincoln once had a severe cramp colic by swallowing an unusually bad joke. The Peabody Fund Trustees have elected Hon. Henry li. Jackson, of Savannah, to succeed ex-Gov. Graham as a member of the Board. The next meeting will take place on the first Wednesday in August, at the White Sulphur Springs, Va. The News and Courier states that the official vote for Mayor, in the recent Charleston election, was as follows : Cun ningham, 6.219; Wageneb, 4.017. Majority for Cunningham, 2,202. Now that the bat tle is over, the News and Courier says "let us have peace.” In refusing to honor the draft of the “Tennessee Car Company,” Gov. Smith acted in perfect accord with his adminis tration from the beginning. It was a swindling concern, bold and shameless. It is too late by several years to collect a bogus carpet-bag debt from the State of Georgia. The man who expects to get money upon such claicr s now must be a born fool or a deliberate knave. The colored conventioners seem to have f rgotten that the black people have pros pered more in Georgia than any other Southern State. Even Mr. Nordhoff, a Republican, admitted that. But if those busy-bodies, Turner, Jeff Long, et al., can persuade their brethren that there is a bet ter place for them than Georgia, so be it. All colored men or women who wish to em igrate can do so. Nobody will prevent them. "Prester John” writes us an excellent article on the cause of the ruin of cotton gins, ana gives an ingenious reason for many conflagrations. The Wilmington iN. C.) Commercial makes the point that pre vious to the introduction of the “improved” machines there was scarcely such a thing as fire in a cotton gin “supposed to be acci dental,’’ or “supposed to be incendiary;” and, further, that heretofore there was no more risk to an insurance company in a cotton gin than in an ordinary dwelling. At present, however, it appears that it is impossible to obtain insurance at all, the ‘ ’pick-faster-than-any-other” being regard ed as dangerous incendiaries. Ordinary gins, we are told, will run from ten to twenty years without the least accident, and in some counties not a gin has been burned in all that time; but now it is coru ifnoQ for live or six to be lost every winter. <► The “Hon.” Mr. Deveaux must be con siderable of a wag, if he is the author of a series of resolutions read in the convention yesterday, returning a vote of thanks to Gen. Toombs, Ben Hill, Gen. Gordon and ex-Gov. Brown. He may be justly styled the colored Mark Twain of Georgia. These resolutions breathe such tender affection for the Sage of Washington, the Eagle of Atlanta or the Ninth District, the Lion of Kirkwood, and the Fox of Bank Balances that we are disposed to reconsider our views with regard to the assumed hatred Borne by the Rev. H. M. Turner and “Col.” Th'omas Jefferson Long—“ Jeff” Long for s.Vwt —towards the white people. But as one test of fraternity is that of close companionship in the same couch, as hinted at by Turnx’vß, we presum® letters of re gret and decollation will be returned by Toombs, et. al., to these endearing senti ments of devotion and high consideration. It happened that Grant and Davis were in St. Louis at the same time last week. The St. Louis Times, whose comment we give elsewhere, thinks the President-Gen eral lost a great opportunity by not seek ing out the ex-President of the Confederacy and “shaking hands over the bloody chasm.” It does look like that sort of con duct would have been a stroke of genius and true sentiment, but, as Grant has neither the one nor the other of those quali ties, ho may not be to blame. He let his old war horses go, for a mere song, at pub lic sale, to strangers, and ho never claimed any grand inspirations beyond the power <of hard knocks. There is something to be said for the President-General, however. He may have been doubtful of his reception by Mr. Davis; his conduct might have been misconstrued; and we presume that he cordially hates the old Southern leader and scorned ,to play the hypocrite. Be sides, we know for certain that a slight he received from General Lee, just after the war, wounded him deeply and he has never forgotten it. It seems that Lee visited Washington in 1866. Grant, then General of the Armies, promptly, and with the best motives doubtless, called upon him as an act of respect. Lee never returned that courtesy, and Grant waa cut to the quick thereby. What could have induced so mag nanimous and noble-hearted a man MS Gen. t to have acted in this manner, we shall probably never know; but he chose to do so. and it may be that Grant, remembering that incident, determined that he would not caught in a similar predicament again. CMujustn Ccmsiitniionnlist Established 1799. FROM WASHINGTON. Caught in the Act —A Bureau Man in Default—Foreign Postage Regula tions. Washington, October B.—The Treas ury Department has been officially ad vised that parties in Cochrane’s Distil lery, one of the largest in Chicago, were caught in the act of withdrawing spir its unlawfully from the cistern room. Postmaster General Jewell has re turned. Action has been brought against G. W. Balloch on a sixteen thousand dollar irregularity in liis accounts as chief disbursing office of the Freedman’s Bu reau. By a provision of the treaty of Berne, packages for transmission through the mails between the countries embraced in that treaty are limited for written matter to eight ounces to two pounds and three oun ces for printed matter and articles of merchandise. This fact does not seem to be generally known in this country, the impression prevailing that the United States limit of four pounds is allowed. Packages weighing over two pounds and three ounces are daily arriving at the New York office directed to European countries but they can go no further and are sent to the Dead Letter Office in Washington, to meet the fate of dead matter. Fifty-three packages were sent to the Dead Letter Office to day by Postmaster James, from New York, only two of which the place of mailing was known. One of these was from Galveston, Texas, the other from Richmond, Va., and the package was directed to Judah P. Benjamin. THE MISSISSIPPI SQUABBLE. Chalmers Driving the Negroes—Al corn’s Notes on the Situation. Memphis, October B.—The latest dis patches from Friar’s Point state that Chalmers is driving Pease’s force from Jonestown and had them nearly sur rounded. Chalmers is determined to capture Pease. This will end the dis tuibance. Sheriff Brown is still at Helena. He denies having incited the liot, and has telegraphed Ames he would quiet the disturbance. Senator Alcorn telegraphed Attorney General Alcorn the following; “Having read several incorrect and sensational dis patches touching recent race troubles at Friar’s Point, I beg to assure you there need be no alarm for the peace of this county. Several hundred armed negroes had been incited by an ill tempered chief, marched on our town and were rapidly repulsed by the whites under the lead of the most prudent citizens who have been following the armed band of negroes and dispersing them with as little violence as possible and urging them to go home. The mob has been dispersed and I think will remain quiet. There is no question of politics in the excitement. The whites are to a man for defence. Those of the negroes who have been misled are fast being reconciled. A community of planters may be relied for kind treatment of the labororiug class. The whites have made no demonstration of hostility to ward the negroes of this county, but are anxious to cultivate the most friendly relations. My name has been most redicuously asserted in the mat ter. I trust you will not give credence to the share given me in this affair by telegrams. Respectfully, (signed), J. L. Alcorn. United States Senator. End of tlie War —The Negroes Threat en to Kill Brown- 11 Let Us Have Pease.” Memphis,, October 8. — The Friar’s Point war is considered at an end. The Ledger's Helena special says that Sher iff Brown is still there, but says he will not return to Friar’s Point, and that the negroes there threaten to kill him if he does. Many negroes from Coa homa county are in Helena. Chalmers is endeavoring to surround Pease and capture him, if possible. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Hanging of a Murderer—A Defaulter Brought to Taw—A “Fraud” in Limbo —Destruction of a Foundry. Boston, October 8. —Geo. W. Pember ton was hanged for the murder of Mrs. Bingham. Montreal, October B. — A true bill was found against the manager of the Jacques Cartier Bank for making false bank statements. Chattanooga, October B. — Henry C. Avery, arrested on the 6th inst. for at tempting to defraud the Government, waived an examination before the Com missioner, who fixed his bail at §IO,OOO. Failing to give bond, Avery was com mitted to jail, to await the session of the United States Circuit Court at Knoxville, on the fourth Monday of January next. Ashland, Pa., October B.—J. &M. Corner’s foundry was totally destroyed by fire last night. Loss, §30,000. The building and portions of the machinery were partially insured. The conflagra tion deprives a number of operatives of work during the coming winter. Pennsylvania Incendiarism. Pottsville, Pa , October B.—An at tempt was made this morning to de stroy the Wm. Penn colliery at Shenan doah. Before being extinguished the saw mill attached to the colliery was entirely destroyed. Charles Dorr, of Orland, Me., went to Bangor recently to buy a wedding suit. He regaled himself on peaches and ale on his way home, from the effects of which he died the next day, the one set for his marriage, and was buried in the clothes he bought for his wedding. Now that the negro leaders are agitating the subject of emigration to Africa, look out for an attempt on their part to collect the spare cash of Sambo and Dinah. The black man is very imitative, and a grand co-operation society for tfe purpose of civilizing their barbarous brethren and scooping up “ handsfull of gold ” is now In order. Asa preliminary to Ethiopian evangelizatlou, Turner and Long will very likely gather the duoats from conlidlng colored folks on this side of the wafer. T ? the black people give them a cent for any such purpose they will ere long awake to the truth of the adage that “ a fool and his money are soon parted.” Elsewhere, we publish the interview of an Atlanta Herald reporter with Mr. Wal lace Rhodes, touching Foster Blodgett and his proposed return to Georgia for trial. According to some mysterious inklings, it is said tknt “Fos” will make certain Democrats “squeal/’ Wo have heard that lie kept due bills, correa pon dence, etc, gathered during his day of pros perity, and the a:legation goes that men who publicly abused him privately shared his spoil. Weil, be this rs it may, let him come back and tell all he knows, FOREIGN DISPATCHES A $2,500,000 Fire in London—Herzego vinian Losses— Crisis in Bavaria. London, October B.— The Garden House iu Queen Anne’s Gate, St. James’ Park, was burned. Loss, half a mil lion sterling. Specials state that the Herzegovinian leader, Ljiebobratsch, is sick with fever at Ragusa. Estimates place the Herzegovese loss at 1,000 killed and wounded during the campaign. They still have 2,500, as determined as ever. A special to the Daily Telegraph from Vienna says news has been received from Munich that the King of Bavaria refused to accept the resignation of the ministry, and a dissolution of the Chambers is probable. Munich, October B. —The Ultramon tane party introduced a violeut address in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, and are calling for the dismissal of the present ministry. Synopsis of Mexican Affairs. City of Mexico, September 30.—Con gress met for the iirst time under the restored regime since 1857. President Lerdo de Tejada, in opening the ses sion, said: “We may congratulate our selves upon the undeviating progress of our institutions. Onr relations with the friendly foreign powers are satis factoiy. A Minister to the King of Spain has again been accredited. A treaty adjusting the boundary line be tween Mexico and Guatemala will soon be concluded. The Chihuahua and So nora Investigating Commission have brought their labors to a satisfac tory termination. The election of members of the Supreme Court has been held, and the result awaits the confirmation of Congress. The Federal District Courts are to be reorganized; and the subject of pub lic education will receive especial at tention. The ordinary payments of the Administration, eivil and military, are made with regularity. Peace prevails throughout the Republic, internal im provements are going on, and the har bor works at Mazatlan, Tampico and Frontera are progressing. The Presi dent’s speech was well received. ■ FROM NEW YORK. Moody and Sankey to Smoke Out Brooklyn Sinners—Arrest of a Sup posed Murderer—Duncan, Sherman *fc Cos. Withdraw Their Proposition. New York, October B.—Moody and Sankey commence in Brooklyn on Monday, October 31st, at the rink. The Fire Superintendents adjourned to meet at Philadelphia next year. A thief, twenty-six years old, was ar rested on the charge of the murder of Mr. Noe. He pawned Mr. Noe’s watch the day after the murder. Ou motion of Tweed’s counsel for further delay, the court gives the de fendant seven days to prepare. It is stated that Duncan, Sherman & Cos. have withdrawn the proposition made to creditors, only a few having accepted. Run on a Bank —Sentence of a Mur derer. New York, October B. —There was a run on the German Savings Bank, cor ner of Fifty-fifth street and Third avenue to-day. The President says the bank is sound, and the run was caused solely by the collapse of the Third Avenue Savings Bank. Henry Rex, the watchman who shot and killed John McKenna, aged twelve years, for calling him “Fritz,” was convicted of murder in the second de gree to-day, and sentenced to imprison ment for life. English Stockholders and the Erie Railroad. Judge Donohue, to-day, granted an order sanctioning the conclusions reached by the English stock and bond holders of the Erie Railway, sent over to confer with Receiver Jewett. These conclusions are that the bondholders, whose interest is in arrears, should have a voice in the expenditure of the net earnings, and that the foreign stock and bondholders should have some representation in the Board of Direc tors and that the Receivership should be terminated as soon as possible. The court authorized tiie Receiver to take such measures upon this basis as he deems advisable. SPORTING NEWS. 9 New York and Nashville Races. Jerome Park, October B.—ln the first race, one and a half mile dash, Picolo was tiie winner ; Josie B. second, and B. F. Carver third. Time, 2:45%. In the second race, two and a half miles, Aaron Pennington was the win ner ; Willie Burk second ; Shylock was beaten off. Time, 4:15%. Iu the third race, mile heats, Ilhado manthus won. Time, 1:48, 1:48%. In the fourth race, live furlongs, for two year olds, Y T irgiuius was the win ner. The mile heats were won by Weathersby ; Fairplay second. Time, 1:45%, 1:46%, 1:47%. In the third race for beaten three year olds, a dash of three-quarters of a mile, bailie Gardner was the winner, Sue Wynn second, and Vindicator third. Time, 1:16%. Nashville, October B.—The first race, for two year olds, was won by Gard ner’s chestnut filly ; Plenty second, and Clemmie G. third. Time, 1:46. Minor Telegrams. Chicago, October B.—The Board of Missions held a final meeting, which was devoted to short addresses, devo tional exercises and leave-takings. Philadelphia, October 8. —The mo tiod for anew trial of Vandervelt was argued. The opinion was reserved. Nashville. October B.—The Tennes see Central College iu this city opened to-day. Rev. Dr. Rusk presided, and Bishop Bowman delivered the address. Memphis, October B.— The Memphis Cotton Exchange has offered a pre mium of §I,OOO for the best bale of cot ton of the present crop, grown in any country tributary to Memphis, for ex hibition at the Philadelphia Centennial. Death of Contoi?, the Millionaire Confectioner. —John H. Contoit, a French confectioner, and for many years proprietor of Contoit’s Garden in Mew York, died in that city on Saturr dav, aged 88 years, leaving an estate valued fit §3,000,000, which he had amassed iu his business, to an only son, Mr. Contoit was exceedingly economi cal in his own spendings; yet he was far from being a miser. He arose daily at 4 o’clock and made his own fire. His food was of the simplest kind. He neyp? kept a coach, but preferred the democratic He said the jolt ing was good exercise. Jfe pever trav eled fifty miles from New Ybfk city, add fop the last ten years of his life did not cross eitbej.’ of the rivers. He had a particularity of always having aheut fifty thousand dollars in the Pacific Bank. AUGUSTA.. G A.. AT IT III) AY. OCTOBER 9 1875. COMING TANARUS(! JUSTICE. I Foster Blodgett < ning Back to At lanta to Give Hiiluielf Up—A Noto rious Case Aheal for the Georgia Courts —Will it W qtee Anybody Up ? [Atlanta H< -aid. Bth ] A Herald report! r called upon Mr, Wallace Rhodes lasi; night to get some information concert ing the notorious Foster Blodgett, win , it is said, has de termined to come b; sk to Mr. Rhodes sayi : “I saw Foster Blodgett a week ag< last Sunday, and I feel authorized in laying that before the Ist of Novembef he will come back to Atlanta and delf/er himself up to the officers of the < iirt, and announce ready for trial undtf the indictments now pending agains;|t:im.” “You are certain tint he will come?” “I am. It is his dfliberate and fully made-up plan. He Ays that he is now ready for the test, a%i is not afraid to go before a jury. HI feels that he can not move one way o | another as long as these indictmentsliang against him. The time of his colling will depend somewhat upon liis {lrivate affairs; but he will be here before the Ist of No vember.” j Mr. Rhodes furth- said, laughingly: “He might come w ,h impunity, if he didn’t choose to tnal a himself known. He is as gray as a h st year’s badger, and his best friend >r worst enemy wouldn’t know him.”j Another View o the Matter. There is another v ew of Blodgett’s plan, and the cause i that induce it, which lead to the suj position that his return is not altoget! er voluntary. It is said to be known to a few gentle men of Atlanta tha some time ago, Mr. John Pool, a pro ament citizen of South Carolina, and ifodgett’s father in-law, came to this city in quite a bad humor with Blodgltt. It is said that he consult* a leading lawyer here and | made certain points against Blofeett, and ask ed the lawyer if !& thought that Governor Smith would make a requisi tion for Blodgett, string that Cham berlain had agreed t| deliver him to Governor Smith upoi>|i requisition be ing made. It was presumed that Gov ernor Moses would jU.ve declined to surrender Blodgett jujpn demand, and, under this assumption it was thought Blodgett was resting secure. It is said that now, ,-*:tice Chamberlin has agreed to give hin| up, and Smith is liable at any time |,o demand him, Blodgett has conceh&d the idea of voluntarily Burreuder|ig himself and winning all the grace |L at such a sur render might give. Biipdgett’s friends say that Pool is mad because Blodgett is suing him for §25,00% loaned money with seven years’ interest; this, how ever, does not alter th 1 case. A prominent politicuju, in discussinc: the matter with us last [light, remarked that if Blodgett can 8 back, deter termined to make a ; asty fight, and tell everything he knee: , that he would raise a howl from one ; ud of the State to the other. Some little excitement was created some time ago bv a state ment advertised ei .ensively that Blodgett would pubic ) in the Green ville News “the unwritten history of the Bullock regime.” lit is said that his appearance on tni witness stand ( with his mouth widcf open and his tongue oiled will make filings noisy for a month to come. i A Little Game Til “ Draw.” [Virginia (Nev.) Gfroniele.] It was a pleasant an* right sociable little party that sat arolnd a little piue table in the rear of a (g ; street grocery night before last. Thefe were five men in the party, and on candle boxes, end up. A illuminated the board, enabling tlf. reporter (who had dropped in to ge% i pound of su gar) to see that each i*an had a num ber of white beans ii * front of him. They were playing cf'rds, .and kept pushing from one to sie other a big jack-knife, which tlufjr called “ the buck,” probably from the fact that it had a buckhorn han*%\ maybe, per haps. One man seemed to be doing most of the talking. Mis name was Sam Griggles. He talkll like a philos opher, and the reportei sat down on a beer keg and listened tqihim. Griggles on Wedlock. I tell you there’s no i§;e talking. The best thing a man can d”is to git raar tied. Gimme three an| bet you five beans. Bein’ single Fas its advan tages. See it and raisiLyou six. But the comfort a man tail s in havin’ a wife and a home of h® own can’t be told. Raise me ten, *gr? See it an’ call. Dammit, you’vqp got the pot agin, Jim ! Put a bit oLice iu mine an’ a dash o’ bitters. Yes.poys, a wife’s a good thing, you bet youffeottom dollar. Whew! Ten to conic;“n! Ail right, Jim; straddle your bli||l. Now, when a man gets through hi.“|*lay’s work an’ feels tired an’ worn outfevhat’s nicer’n to go home an’ find a %ood little wife waitin’ fur you readyfio throw her arms round yer neck an| —Oh, Lord ! ” Wedlock ou Giggles. A hush fell upon the corner grpeery as she walked in with afffiawl over her head and brought him cape on the side of the head that sent Sis cards flying and upset his cocktail. llpither of them spoke a word, but hejooked as if he had lost one foot of hi six as he fol lowed her out. Event the subdued snicker behind him coulln’t make him look meaner. | In Earnest. —We dim# the other day at a plantation. A litf[e boy, three years old, had been out- admiring the cattle on the place, /yglass of milk was given him, wdien, |rith a counte nance full of earnestnesf the little fel low asked, “Grandma, tnis steer’s milk?” “Hush! my chil<| you must hot talk at the table; chilcgen should be seen and not heard.” A|ter a while he asked for a glass of buttermilk, and taking advantage of a fell in the con versation, he resumed I know now; cows give gQr®etmilk, but steers give buttermilk; : $s this steer’s buttermilk?” It was use-fss to attempt gravity; the child literally overwhelm ed the whole party by tjfis precocious earnestness. — [Columbus^Times. An Innocent Question. —“Father,” asked a Vicksburg boy Vt the dining table the other day, ‘|ire you a big man?” “Well, I dunn,” musingly answered the parent; “Wily ?” I heard some man talking over at the hotel, and they said yoif were one of biggest men in town,” feWell, I sup pose I do stand pretty jfcigh,” replied the parent, looking ple;| ed and oon* sequential. There was ijfef a minute of silence, and then th%- boy added : “They said it was a wonder how you carried your feet arouiKj!” The boy can’t understand yet wl%* he should have received a box on fee ear which made his head roar for long hours. Vicksburg Herald. ’f A New York boy has in come insane from reading burglar anu&irate stories. WHAT RUINS COTTON GINS. [For the Constitutionalist.) Mr, Editor: Thousands of cotton gins are needlessly injured, if not entirely ruined, by one single cause. That cause is permitting moat or lint cotton (that is, cotton that has been once gin ned,) to be mixed with seed cotton and passed through the saws a second time. Such lint cotton catches in the teeth, clogs the saws, dulls the teeth, and bends or breaks them. It also bends or breaks the ribs, wears the boxes, and strains the whole gin so as to make it produce a bad sample, and speedily become almost worthless. It likewise increases the draft so as to distress the mules propelling the gin, and creates so much friction as often to set the gin house on fire. Thus can be explained the burning of many a gin house by the supposed spontaneous combustion of cotton. Hence every owner of a gin house should be very careful about where his inoat cotton is placed, also about per mitting the “flyings” or “hangings” to fall on his seed cotton. Above all should he bo particular iu preventing the ginner or his assistant, when re turning from the lint room, after “pack ing the cotton back,” as it is called, from having any lint on his cloth ing. The usual assistant at a gin to hand seed cotton and “pack back” lint is a playful urchin, who delights first to wallow in the lint room and then, without divesting himself of the lint adhering to his clothes, next to roll on the seed cotton. Oftentimes every boy, black and white, on a large plan tation, after a general frolic in the lint room, will immediately emerge there from and continue their wrestling, roll ing and romping over the seed cotton, with perhaps half a pound of lint stick ing to each one’s ragged or woolen ap parel. Such play is of course delight ful to the boys, but it is dear sport to the owners of the gin. In many gin houses too, while pacning cotton for market, much lint is mixed with the seed cotton, either by carelessness or by the wind. A gin is a costly machine, but it is not a delicate one, or easily put out of order if previously ginned lint is kept out of the saws. In fact a good gin rightly managed, should with but little sharpening and small repairs pick fifty bales of lint a year and last a planter of average longevity his life time, whereas most gins become useless or nearly so iu perhaps five years from the simgle cause I have indicated. No child ever ought to be allowed to enter a lint room where it can well be pre vented. Your readers may possibly hear from me again now and then, ou whatever subject inclination may prompt, if you shall feel at liberty to publish this scrawl of Prester John. A Stunning Welcome to tiie Seminary Girls. The Staunton (Va.) Vindicator “pokes fun” at the girls returning to the schools of that lively town in the fol lowing exasperated style: i Addrooo of welcome by the Vindica tor Seminary.—Dear GUIs —You nave returned to our, so to speak, parental care for another session. From the erect and prim parlor border to the liveliest little romper among you all. (Don’t scream, it’s only figurative.) You have returned from a world full of piu backs and other suares for the uuwary, but here you are safe. Within these sacred walls you may pin your dresses back until you stop the circulation and the unhallowed eye of man shall not gloat over it. (Man generally has two eyes, but you will find in your composition that “•eye” has a bet sound.) Every arrangement has been made to secure you against the intrusion of these pests of seminaries. No man shall enter these hallowed premises unless he brings a cast iron certificate from a presiding magistrate that he is your father or mother, or at least your aunt. At every interview the cook will be pres ent with a double-barreled gun, and at any attempt to hold your hand, the reckless invader will bo shot on the spot. Any day scholar who speaks to you of the German, or of the club, or shall mentiou to you she has a brother, will be expelled. With these precau tions, the Principal hopes to prevent the entrance of the fell destroyer. Your Principal cannot refrain from con gratulating you that you have not lost your appetites. Whatever you may lost during your absence, you have to thank Providence that they have been spared to you. And after all, my dear childron, what is geometry or trigonometry, or any other ometry to a good appetite. And then to think how many of the trials of life you are rid of by being in this sacred and pious institution. Other girls outside have to sit up and dance till 3 o’clock in the morning, and crimp their hair with red hot irons, aud cover their faces with powder aud their cheeks with paint, and take moonlight walks witli the boys, while you have only to sit here in quiet aud survey the placid features of your beloved principal. Separated from the world you have time for serious thought and to reflect on the follies of our fellowmen, and to remember that “man is born of women, is full of sparks and flies upwards,” or words to that effect. You will find it in your catechism. First class iu Physical Geometif’, stand up! _ _ Alluding to the failure of ttie Solo mon bank at Coulmbia, the Register suggests that some reputable taxpay ers might take steps to secure a rigid investigation into the matter. State Treasurer Cardozo has written a letter to the Coulmbia Register in which he explains how he came in possession of Mr. Hardy Solomon’s interest in the Union-Herald. He states that the pa per was owned by himself, Mr. Solo mon and three other persons, and that in April last Mr. Solomon, at his sug gestion, offered to transfer his interest in the paper in satisfaction of a claim of §3,000 which he, Mr. Solomon, then owed him. This offer, being agreeable to both parties, was accepted and the transfer made. How to Weigh a Load of Coal.— Weigher: “This load is too heavy; jump on there, Patrick, and take off a few baskets.” Patrick jumps on the load and shovels off coal qntil the weigher cries “stop,” and the purchaser of the coal pays for 160 pounds of Irish man which he does not receive.—[Pick ings. mm* • >tmi It would seem the era of damphool ery bad reached its climax in this com munity, when a person could induce the Governor of the State to lay the cornor stone of a piggery, and com. memorate his own marriage anniver sary by a pork-#nd-beans reception.— [Boston Commonwealth. A married man, aged 18, of Rye Beach, N. has eloped with a girl aged 16. CAPTAIN WARD’S WILL. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. How a Great Capitalist Lived and Died—A Money King Possessed by Spirits—His Monstrous Perversions —A Hideous Picture of Family Taints aud Discords—The Curse of Gold. * [New York Times. | Capt. Eber B. Ward was a man who would have been ranked by any one who knew him in his public relations only, as an excellent type of the enter prising, energetic and successful Ameri can capitalist. He built up a thriving and busy little town ; he owned or con trolled smelting works, rolling mills, and steel works, all of a very exten sive character ; he owned piue equal in extent to ten times the area of this island ; and he was either the sole proprietor or the controlling stockhol der in mines of iron, lead, silver, cop per and corundum in Michigan, Mis souri, Utah, Arizona and North Caro lina. He was a ship builder and ship owner, a president of two railroads and sundry industrial enterprises. H* j was the favorite candidate for Secre tary of the Treasury during the anti- Johnson movement, and was recog nized as a power in politics up to the day of his death, Altogether, Capt. Ward seemed one of the highest em bodiments of the practical, pushing spirit of our people—a man who had contributed as largely as any one liv ing to the material progress of his age, aud who had achieved deserved suc cess by sheer force of working energy and capacity for organization. In January last Capt. Ward fell down dead in the streets of Detroit. The breath was hardly out of his body w T hen two of liis sons by his first mar riage hastened to secure the services of eminent counsel to contest his will. The case was opened last month, and after some ten days of legal fence and judicial rulings on preliminary points, the private life of the Michigan mil lionaire is being revealed on the wit ness stand. It appears that Capt. Ward came of a family stroDgly taint ed with insanity: that he had both legitimate and illegitimate children who are confirmed lunatics. It has beer, shown that he procured a divorce from his first wife by gross fraud, and that two months after that achievement he married the young lady who is now his widow and the legatee of two millions of his property. There is, perhaps, nothing very surprising about the fact that this great industrial chief of the Northwest should have been a man of low passions and impure life. But it does seem a violent contradiction to the ordinary ideal of such a character that he should have been an abject slave to the delusions of spiritualism. The services of mediums were in voked by Captain Ward, not only iu regard to the affairsfo liis family; they were his constant recourse in matters of business. When he wanted advice on railroad affairs, he procured a con sultation with the spirit of Dean Rich mond, and none of his numerous min ing ventures were undertaken without an interview with the spirit of a Ger man geologist, who answered to the euphonious name of “Cabbage John.” This appears to have been Captain Ward’s iamiliar spirit. At the dicta tion of the deceased German, he sent out expeditions in search of silver, and he obeyed orders from the same source iu opposing the re-election of Senator Chandler. In the course of cross-ex amination the other day, a female me dium went into a trance in the witness box, and made some remarks iu Ger man, though she swore ou regaining consciousness that she did not under stand a word of that language. It may be inferred that this seizure was due to the interest which Captain Ward’s favorite Teutonic spirit, still persists iu manifesting in liis affairs. Had the deceased millionaire not taken the advice of the spirits about his will, his intimate relations with the unseen world would probably not have been revealed to the general public.— Ho certainly had fair warning while that instrument was iu preparation that there was trouble ahead. While the spirits of certain deceased relatives of his second wife wore engaged in dic tating the will, the spirit of his first wife seems to have come, unbidden, and interrupted the process by exclam ations of indignant protest. This lady had some reason for making herself disagreeable in ghostly circles. The spirits not only conspired to cheat her children out of their inheritance, but attempted to blacken her own charac ter. A floral wreath was painted by a blindfolded medium acting under the usual influences, and in the symbolical representation of Capt. Ward’s family therein given, one sou was omitted on grounds of illegitimacy. Ou the strength of this artistic piece of spirit business, the credulous millionaire repudiated the son iu question, and drove him to suicide. . , The trial which has furnished the oc casion of these extraordinary disclo sures is still iu progress, and a good deal of similar, if not more unsavory, matter is in reserve. The bitterness of feeling excited by the case seems to have extended to the lawyers engaged on either side. The leading counsel for Capt. Ward’s widow made a somewhat scurrilous personal attack, the other day, on the chief counsel opposed to him. That nothing might be wanting to complete the sensational details of the case, Capt. Ward’s eldest son, a confirmed lunatic, was with difficulty prevented from assaulting one of the lawyers engaged in opposing the claims of his branch of the family. Altogether, the story which is in process of revela tion at Detroit is one of those narra tives which would have been called monstrously improbable in fiction, and which has certainly no parallel in real life. The of a Milwaukee audience stood right up the other night when Prof. Gunning rang out the following : “ Time was when sloths of elephantine bulk browsed the trees of South Amer ica, and troops of mastodons and mam moths of more chan elephantine bulk roamed over North America, and mam moths and mammoth elks and tigers and bears iu Europe. At once, everywhere on the globo these great dynasties began to wane. The blood in the veins of nature seemed to be drying up. The megatherium of South America died out, aud its family lapsed into the little ant-eaters and armadil loes and sloths. The great cave bear faded out of Europe and shrqnk into the grizzly of the Rocky Mountains, Mastodons and mammoths perished in Europe and America, and their dynasty dwfndled into the smaller elephants which live to-day in Asia and Africa.” Grant’s Missouri farm runs him in debt. He ain’t as successful raising stock as salaries. In fact, Grant stock was never lower than at present. New Series —Vol. 28, No. 56 GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Marietta Journal: A sermon will be preached by Catharine Schertz on the •‘lngathering of Israel for the redemp tion of Spirit, Soul aud Body, to enter into Life Eternal,” at the Court House, on next Sunday evening, at 3 o’clock. We would be much obliged to Col. Styles if he would send us a copy of his paper we can read without the aid of a telescope. We have no telescope and must, therefore, insist upon the paper being printed better. Gov. Smith having received a peti tion from Coweta county to pardon Brinkley, the uxorcide, under sentence of death and to be hung on the 29th, on the ground that he was insane, has directed an inquiry to be officially made in the matter. A counter-peti tion has been received, asking that the execution proceed. McDuffie and Warren counties have had a prize fox chase, in which Mc- Duffie won. The next chase is to be McDuffie against—Augusta. In the chase just ran there were thirty-five men and horses aud twenty dogs. A correspondent of the Journal says it was the greatest sport they have had since the war. Covington Star: A young lady going to college in Covington, aud whose “papa” has the “stamps,” put on her calico dress and a homespun apron, and during the sickness of the lady of the house, cooked all the meals for a family of four for two days, besides do ing the entire household duties, such as making up beds, feeding the chickens, dogs, pigs, etc., and learned her Junior lessons well. Young man, that girl is a jewel. She is worth her weight in gold. Gainesville Southron: Col. Candler is pushing the fine residence of Gen. Longstreet right along. It will be a splendid building, situated in full view of the Blue Itidge Mountains, where the General and his family will get the full benefit of the breezes. Gen. Long street arrived home from New Orleans Saturday night, looking well and as brown as au ludian chief. He was equipped with gun, spade, grub hoe and a whacking big black Newfound land dog. This looks like he meant to hunt, kill and bury some of the unhal lowed old fogy prejudice hereabouts against him aud some others. Atlanta Constitution: The Supreme Court having affirmed the judgment of the Superior Court of Fulton county, in the case of the State vs. John Bard, found guilty of assault and battery upon Wm. Spencer, Esq., and sentenced to pay a fine of SI,OOO or serve twelve months upon the public works, the only relief that could be sought was to petition the Governor to remit the fine. This remedy was sought by ex-Gov. Sam Bard, father of convict, who sent a very urgent petition to the Governor, praying that his son be relieved of the line imposed by the court. The Governor, however, after examin ing the case as presented, and after the successive judgments of the Superior and Inferior Courts, found no warrant for any interference, and yesterday refused the petition for a re mission of the fine. John Bard is now at large, and is presumed to be in Mont gomery, Alabama. His bondsmen are responsible for his appearance here, and it is the duty of the sheriff to have his body in custody in default of pay ment of the fine. It is probable that im mediate steps will be taken for his ar rest and return to this State. The end of all other proceedings except com plying with the judgment of the courts is reached. Speaking of the Elberton Air-Line Railroad, the Gazette says: Some so licitation lias been felt aud expressed in behalf of this enterprise, because of late we have had nothing to say con cerning it. In making a trade amount ing to $150,000 or $250,000, it is very natural for the parties interested to move slowly and cautiously. It is the same with railroad corporations also. Negotiations for iron have been pending for several months, and are still pending, for the purpose of procuring iron for this rail road. A great deal of time is necessarily involved in a transaction of this nature, and success is not always the result; but we think a point has now been reached where the friends of our road may entertain hopes of its final completion at no very distant day. Of this we can assure its friends aud its enemies no efforts will be spared by its officers until the purpose for which the road was commenced has been fully accomplished, aud the remotest idea of failure is not entertained. GLORYING IN THElll SHAME. Two American Women who arm At tracting Attention in Paris, [Paris Correspondence of the Philadelphia Telegraph.] The weather continues to be perfectly charming, and the Bois de Boulogne is rapidly recovering its lost gayety. The drive around theiakeis thronged every fashionable afternoon, these being Tuesdays and Fridays. The live vic torias and elegant landaus of the demi mondaines are, of course, among the most remarked. Prominent among these is the superb equipage of the heroine of the Russian diamond scan dal,the notorious Mrs. Blackfort and her equally beautiful but less oelebrated companion, the heroine of a recent New York divoroe suit. Nor the honor of my country, I grieve to say that these two handsome, painted creatures are the most marked and talked about of any ladies of the same type in Paris. Mrs. Blackfort has already avowed her intention of dethroning Cora Pearl, and of succeeding to her evil sovereignty. Her portrait is in the window of every prominent photographer in Paris, and her faultless figure, long, almond shaped eyes, refined, half-melanoholy expression and painted lips, are al ready familiar to all loungers in the Bois de Boulogne on the Boulevards. She will be setting the fashion (heaven save the mark !) for all virtuous Chris tendom in a few months \n all proba bility. The clerk of the board or oounty commissioners of Greenville reports the indebtedness of the treasurer Ruuion) to be $9,720.01, lost in the South Carolina Bank and Trust Com pany. To be compelled to pay it over again, as the Enterprise and Moun taineer says, it is au almost insufferable burden to the county. The greatest hardship falls upon the teachers of the public schools. It is stated that the county commissioners will institute suit to recover the amount on the official bond of the treasurer. Fashiop note: Mrs. Nature is don ning brown, trimmecl with red and yel low.—-j Boston Post.] Yes, but it’s the same old dress she had on last year. Mrs. Nature must really take a back seat and read Jennie June. To Advertisers and Subscribers. ON AND after this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in. unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. PERSONAL. San Francisco has 352 unmarried fe male teachers. Grant has sold his mules. He didn’t even reserve one for the Interior De partment. Frank Moulton sticks to his frfends closer than a brother. He managed to make it convenient to drop into Til ton’s lecture in Boston, though he had heard it before in New York and Brooklyn. The rival oystermen in Connecticut are making b-oysterous demonstrations against each other. Dawes has gone to stump Ohio. He stumped Massachusetts for an an infla tionist last year, you know. Sunday shaving is prohibited in many Illinois towns, but the law will permit a man to take his seven dogs and go hunting on Sundav.—[Detroit Free Press. Miss Hatchett, the Illinois poetess, is being ridiculed by the punsters on having no handle to her name. What of it? Her verses are first chop. We arraign the Democratic party for its peculations. It has stolen Republi can principles.—[Lowell Courier. Bosh ! You never had any to steal. A Cincinnati husband who firmly contemplated suicide as soon as dinner was over, got fearful mad because his wife spilled some hot coffee on his knees. Mr. Coleman, who is mentioned as Delano’s successor, recently presented to the President a number of Holstein cattle, which have been shipped to the President’s farm. Grant, for the first time had a chance to realize the dullness of trade, in sell ing his St. Louis farm stock. He fluds a big salary, with perquisites, easier than a horse-farm. The Detroit Free Press thinks it the best way not to make a will at all. If you do make one the lawyers will prove you au idiot or a lunatic, and take the property for proving it. The Rev. G. Hugh, of Vermont, de livers his sermon in verse, and “dives luriously” at the sinners with dactyl and spondee, trochee, anapeest and tribrach. No sleeping under him. The three wonders of the world at present are: How fluff accummuiates in vest pockets, where the pins go to, and why, when a man comes out of a saloon he looks one way and goes the other. Marshall O. Roberts, of New York, aged 73, is to marry next Wednesday a beautiful young lady, whom he met six months ago on an ocean steamer, when conveying the remains of his former wife to their last resting place. Jenny June says the wedding is thought by New Yorkers to be in bad taste, to say the least. Two sisters, named Challis, have bought a newspaper in Martinsville, Pa., and are publishing vigorous edi torials urging the young men to marry. “Who will be the first,” inquires the Pittsburg Dispatch, “to put a Challs to his lips ?” It will be a ca’less fellow. G. Washington Childs neglected to write an obituary for Ned O’Baldwin, the Irish giant aud prize-fighter. The great obituary editor could not truth fully say, “He has climbed the golden stair”; but he might have said some thing neat and appropriate to the occa sion without meaning auything in par ticular. Bishop Hare, of Nebraska, is about to marry a Miss Wolfe, said to be one of the wealthiest young ladies in America. Of course it was proper that he should get an heiress; but is it not unusual and unlawful to furnish a Wolfe with Hare? Of course this Wolfe did not take this Hare without being asked. I am dying, Jacob, dying. But my policy’s ail right; I am ready, yes, I’m ready— I have fought out the good fight, I have always done my duty— Mr. Jacob, ain’t that so ? I would like to see the person Who is readier to go! I’ve refrained from advertising, And I've stood in no one’s light; Wben I went to the amusements I’was alone on Friday night. I am dying, yes, I’m dying— ( What’s the meaning of those yells ?) I am passing over the river Please to ring the fire-bells! Solving the Sectarian'Question The question of sectarianism in the publio schools of Chicago, which has oaused a good deal of bitter feeling in that city, was decisively acted upon a few days since by the local board of education. One of the rules for the management of the schools provided that the morning service should al ways begin with appropriate singing, reading of the Scriptures, and tne Lord’s Prayer. This was objectionable to the Jews, who are numerous and in fluential in Chicago ; to the Roman Catholics, who do not recognize the Protestant version of the Bible, and to the non-sectarians, who do* not want religion mixed with secu lar education; and all of these classes maintained that the reading of the Scriptures was contrary to the spirit of the constitution. Last week a motion was made to abolish this rule and sub stitute for it one that provides for ap propriate singing only, omitting the Bible readiog and the Lord’s Prayer, and it was oarried, with but one dis senting vote. This has called forth energetic remonstrance from some of the religious leaders, but several Pro testant clergymen, among them Rev. Dr. Swing and the Rev. Robert Collyer, sustain the action of the Board, some on the ground that it is only just that the feelings of those who conscientious ly oppose the Bible in the public schools should be respected, and oth ers (n the belief that the complete secularization of schools is the only safe policy. Chicago may yet acquire enough money to pay off those mortgages. The Indianapolis Herald says.: “It is esti mated that the Chicago grain gamblers have beaten Indianapolis and Northern Indiana out of a million and a half of dollars since the first of January last.” The store of F. Schmitt, the post trader in Coulmbia, was robbed again early Saturday morning of cigars and other goods, and, it is said, the trader himself was beaten. The Union-Herald thinks it passing strange that this store, located only thirty yards from the mili tary post, should be robbed so often. A college of hair-dressers has been instituted at Madrid, and a California contemporary asks if graduates receive a back-hair-laureate aegree. In Ohio, the other day, ex-Governor Woodford made a “ stirring appeal for hard money,” but not a man offered him a oent. Thaddeus Fairbanks and Charles F. Chickering are the only Americans who have liver accepted the nonsensical title of Sir.