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Address all Letters to
H. C. STEVENSON. Manager.
Dr. Helmbold wanders buehuriously
from real lire to insane asylums, and rice
versa.
The horse disease is rapidly spreading in
several counties of Ten ns yl vanla, near Mil
ford.
The North < arolina Convention has ad
journed. We trust it has accomplished
much good.
Our Philadelphia dispatch Ohronicles the
settlement of an important case which has
been for some years agitating the Presby
terian Church in this country.
The editor of the Savannah News says:
“Who is this festive Mr. Angers, of Geor
gia V” His proper name is A Eton Anqier.
son of the Georgia State Treasurer under
R. B. Bullock.
According to our foreign dispatches,
which you may believe or not as the whim
strikes, Servia and Turkey have agreed to
quit making mouths at one another across
their frontier
The faste-t ocean trip on record is that
recently made by the City of Berlin in 7
days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. When Kee
ly applies his motor to ships wo may ex
pect this to be a slow record.
We see from the Nashville American that
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railroad, of which Col, E. W. Cole is Pres
ident, has declared a semi-annual dividend
of 1/i per cent, upon the capital stock
of the N. C. &. St. L uis Railroad, which is
equal to 4% per cent, upon the stock of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and
and is payable on and after the 11th inst.
This is certainly very gratifying to those
who own stock in this road.
The Ohio election, which takes place to
day, is so Important an event that any
statistics bearing upon the subject must be
welcome. Ihe last four votes for Governor
were as follows:
1567.
R. B. Hayes 243,605
A. G. Thurman . 240,622
Aggregate 484,227
1369.
R. B. Hayes 235,081
G. H. Pendleton 227,580
Samuel Scott 679
Aggregate 463,340
1871.
B. F. Noyes 238,273
G. W. McCook 218,105
G. S. Stewart 4,084
Aggregate 460,462
1873.
W. Allen 214,654
B. F. Noyes 213,837
G. T. Stewart 10,278
J. C. Collins 10,109
Aggregate .448,878
The New York 'rimes’ correspondent at
Columbus, Ohio, speculating upon the
above figures, says: “From the foregoing
table it will be se m that the aggregate vote
has fallen off in each succeeding election,
and so has the Democratic vote. The Re
publican vote fell off from 243,000 in 1867 to
235,000 in 1869, and then rose to 238,000 in
1871. Then came a great fall of nearly
25,000 last year, which is mostly accounted
for by the Liberal and Temperance votes
drawn from the Republican ranks. Thus
Allen was elected by a smaller vote than
either McCook, Pendleton, or Thurman
received when they were beaten. Allen
received the smallest vote ever given a
Democratic candidate for Govei nor since
1865, when the cantankerous and unpopu
lar Morgan ran against J. D. Cox. Only
three times have the Democrats ever polled
more votes than they gave to Thurman.
In the State election* during the national
contest between Grant and Seymour,
Thomas Hubbard, their candidate for Sec
retary of State, had 249,682 votes, but Sey
mour did not come within 11,000 of that
number. Again, in 1872, Wiley had 251,780
votes, and Greeley 244,321. Wiley, Hub
b.vkd and Greeley only were ahead of
Thurman. The highest Democratic vote
ever cast was 37,126 greater than Allen’s
vote two years ago.
The largest vote ever polled by the Re
publicans was for Gov. Brough, in 1863,
when he received 100,000 majority over
VAI/LANDIGHAM. 11l 1868 GRANT had 280,167,
and in 1872 his vote was 281,832. The latter
vote is doubtless the extreme limit of the
Republican strength, and is 68,015 ahead of
the vote for Noyes two years ago, and it
drives a majority over the largest Demo
cratic vote of 34,672.
In contrast with the vote for Gov. Allen
two years ago is the vote for Gov. Haye sl
in 1807. While Allen’s vote was the sma: -
est given a Democratic candidate since
1865, the vote for Hayes was the largest
ever given to any Governor except Brough,
whose vote of 288,874 was phenomenal, con
sidering the smaller population of fourteen
years ago. A full vote of this Fall means
that the aggregate will be 500,000, or up
ward, and that number ought to be poll
ed. It would be strange if the great
est strength of either party should
be brought out, and there is no rea
son whatever to suppose that the ratio
of stay-at-home Republicans will be great
er than of Democrats. In a vote of 500,-
000 the natural result would be about 240,-
000 for Allen and 260,000 for Hayes, and if
there is such a full vote the election of
Allen will depend upon more than 10,000
Republicans leaving their own party for
the Democratic. Of course it Is impossi
ble for any man to foretell the result of an
election accurately. There are not wanting
many who profess such power; but, unfor
tunately, some of them prophesy things
just the reverse of others.”
This is the most favorable Republican
estimate wo have seen. Now, let us wait
and see how much of a prophet the Times
man is.
HOUGHTON INSTITUTE.
Card from Mr. Slieeut.
Houghton Institute, )
Augusta, £a., October 11, 1875. J
Editors Constitutionalist:
Dear Sirs: As I Imve no desire to en
ter iuto a prolonged discussion through
the public press with a lady, I refer the
settlement of the controversy between
Miss McDonuald and myself to the City
Council.
I can substantiate every statement
contained in my letter which appeared
In your issue >f last Friday, and am
prepared to furnish the strongest proof
whenever called upon by the Council.
Very respectfully,
J. Clthbert Shectt,
Principal H. I.
N ATION AL "FINANCES.
Washing ton, October 9.—Custom re
ceipts to-da\, 8551,273; for the month,
S 829 921; for t> year, §47,428.843.
v internal revenue receipts to-day,
257 956- for the monih- §30,366.57; for
the year, §31.465,863. Bonds held by
the Treasurer as security for national
bank circulation, §269,791,762, And for
deposits of public moneys, §18,782,200.
National bank notes received for re
demption ‘during the week, §2,796,309;
national bank notes outstanding at the
date, §346,769,853, of which amount
§2,640,000 is national gold bank notes.
@ll)C Atupste Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Bank Swindles—Whiskey Raid—Riot
and Ku-Kluxism in Pennsylvania.
Halifax, N. S., October 9,—The Bank
of British North America has been
swindled out of §27,000 by a man who
registered at the hotel as B. A. Bell, of
New York, on a forged letter of credit,
purporting to have been issued at the
New York agency.
New York, October 10. —The Internal
Revenue officers raided to-day on an
illicit still of 5,000 gallons capacity in
Brooklyn and captured it. The officers,
after effecting the object of the raid,
were followed by a mob and were
showered with volleys of stones, but
escaped uninjured. There were no
arrests. ,
Quebec, October 10.-rA. T. Adams, of
New York, was arrested while en
deavoring to pass a forged draft of
four thousand dollars ou the Bank of
British North America. Since his ar
rest he has confessed that he is one of
an organized gang of swindlers who
had decided upon making simultaneous
presentations of letters of credit where
ever such papers were accepted.
Pottsville, Pa., October 10.— There
was considerable shooting and breaches
of the peace at Shenandoah last night,
and at one time there were fears of a
riotous disturbance. Two men were
shot, one slightly, and another severely
wounded and cut in attempting to
make arrests. The chief burgees, a
constabie, and the police were fre
quently shot at, though without effect.
One dispatch states that over oue hun
dred shots were tired at the officers of
the law. Ou the principal street, where
the mob supposed the officers were
to-day, there was much excitement,
and the citizens generally anti
cipated another outbreak to-night,
and the Deputy Sheriff was compelled
to issue a proclamation this evening at
Mahoroy City. There were more in
cendiary fires, two dwelling houses and
three stables, being burned to the
ground. Three men were arrested for
inciting riot. A later dispatch states
that during the to-day (Sunday) ten
additional arrests were made for in
citing riot and incendiarism. The
farming districts east of Pottsville have
for several months been infested with
thieves, robbing farm houses, barns
and stores. At last night
two men were halted by an officer.
They started to run, and were fired
upon by the policeman, who wounded
one in the neck. He was captured in
a shed concealed. His confederate
escaped.
Pottsville, October 11. —At Shenan
doah, up to noon to-day, all was report
ed quiet, but affairs were in an unset
tled condition. Business is at a stand
still and precautions are being taken in
every direction to prevent another out
burst.
Death iu the Station House—Boiler
Explosion.
Atlanta, October 11.—J. D. Hardan,
a stranger from Alabama, died in the
station house this morning.
Bridgeport, Conn., October 11.—The
boiler iu Johp G. M cOker’s hat store
exploded. The engineer was killed.
Fatal Collision on the Hudson.
New York, October 11. —An unknown
schooner ran into and sunk the coal
barge N. L. Lee off the battery, on
Saturday night, and Capt. Cooper’s
wife and child, who were asleep in the
cabin, went down with the barge and
were drowned.
Burning of Hoisting Works and Ice
Houses—Arrest of Prize Fight Par
ticipants.
San Francisco, October 11. —The
Hoisting Works, on the Utah Line,
Virginia City, were burned. Loss,
§250,000. The shaft w’as 2,000 feet deep,
flie engineer hoisted out miners until
badly burned. Four men were below
when the engine was abandoned, but
they escaped through an old shaft.
Boston, October 11.—Four houses of
the Boston Ice Company were burned,
with 60*3 tons of ice. Incendiary.
A dozen participants of the fatal
prize fight have been held for trial.
FROM NEW YORK.
The Noe Murder—Circumstantial Evi
dence in the Case.
New York, October 11. —Three ad
ditional arrests have been made in the
case of the murder of James H. Noe,
a man who was with Dolan, the al
ledged murderer, on the day of the
tragedy, a woman with whom he had
been on the night before and a man
who had been in his company after the
murder. The woman confessed that
Dolan and his associate from West
Chester quit her on that Sunday, a. m.
at 4 o’clock. Dolan wore a light grey
coat so accurately described by Mr.
Noe, and returned about half past 9
with his coat collar turned up, his face
scratched and bleeding, his shirt front
bedaubed with blood and his vest torn.
He was greatly excited, returned to
bed and woke every few minutes. Hie
woman at noon entered his room with
the third man. Dolan in his feverish
sleep had thrown the pillow on the
floor and his head lay between Mr.
Noe’s gold watch and the pocket book.
Startled by his fright the woman threw
herself upon him and exclaimed, “Oh,
John, John you have killed someone !”
Dolan sprang out of bed and implored
them to say nothing, gave the woman
§5.50 of the money taken from Mr.
Noe to buy him a shirt. On her re
turn his accomplice had got rid of the
bloody garment.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Decision of an Important Church Case.
Philadelphia, October 11. —The long
contested church case, growing out of
the suspension, in 1868, of George H.
Stuart, Esq., of this city, by the Gene
ral Synod of the Reformed Presbyte
rian Church, for singiDg hymns and
communing with other churches, was
finally settled to-day by the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, in
favor of the Stuart party. The par
ticular case which has been decided was
the suit against the Fifth Reformed
Presbyterian Church of this city (Rev.
Dr. McAuley’s), to eject them from
their church property.
By this decision they retain their
property. The opinion of the court
was read by Judge Gordon, and is
one of the most important church
decisions ever given in this country.
The principles involved in this ease
will determine the suit pending against
the First Reformed Presbyterian
Church, ftcy. j)r. Wylie’s, and the sec
oud, Rev. Dr, and in favor of
these churches against the SyflQd.
Vant to hire a farm, anybody ?
President Grant’s Missouri farm, con
f4ojipg 793 acres, 450 of which are un
der cultivation, will be offered for rent
until the Ist qf November, the rent
asked being §2,500 per year, with the
privilege of one or live years.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Rupture between Holland and Vene
zuela—Turkey and Servia Cooling
Off—Burning of a Berlin Hotel —Ma-
rine Disaster—England and China—
The Prince of Wales Olf.
The Hague, October 10. —Diplomatic
relations between this country and
Venezuela have been broken off because
Holland refused to indemnify Venezue
la for alleged intervention by the Dutch
subjects in Curacoa on Venezuelan in
ternal affairs.
London, October 11.—The Daily Tele
graph fyas a special utatiug that Servia
and Turkey have mutually agreed to
withdraw troops from the frontier.
Berlin, October 11.—The Kaiserhof
Hotel, in this city, has been totally de
stroyed by tire. It was the finest
structure of the kind in Germany.—
Loss estimated at §1,000,000.
London, i October 11.—The English
steamer Biscay, belonging to the port
of Newcastle, was stranded off Jutland
while ou the voyage from Cronstadt to
Bremerhaven. Seven persons were
drowned. The Biscay was of iron.—
She was built in 1872, and owned in
London.
Shanghai, October 11.—Au edict has
appeared iu the Gazette, at Pekin, en
joining proper treatment of foreigners.
The important points that the English
Minister demands, however, including
the punishment of Margary’s murder
ers, are stili iu abeyance. Prospects
are now not so favorable for au ulti
mate settlement.
London, October 11. —His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales departs
from London on his visit to India at 8
o’clock this evening. He will be ac
companied as far as Calais by the
Princess Alexandra.
Progress of the American Cardinal —
Another Englisli Failure France
and England Combining Against
China—ltaly and the Centennial.
Rome, October 11. —Cardinal McClos
key will leave this city to-morrow. He
first goes to Paris; afterwards he will
visit Cardinal Manning in London and
Cardinal Cullen in Ireland. He has or
dered here a splendid marble altar for
the Roman Catholic Cathedral of New
York costing §40,000.
London, October 11.—John Sergls
Galutta, merchant, 8 Bloomfield street,
Freesburg, C. E , has failed for §750,-
000.
Santander, October 11.—A great fire
is raging near the railway depot.
Paris. October 11. —It is reported
that the British and French Govern
ments are in communication relative to
taking steps in view of the recent edict
regarding the Turkish debt.
Rome, October 11. —Italy will appoint
a committee of Italians residing in
America to act at the Centennial. The
Pope will send two mosaics
ing a Madonna by Raphael and St.
Agnes by Esutili.
The Dutch Squabble—Gen. Saballs
and Spain —The Concordat Again.
The Hague, October 11.—The Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs stated in the
Chamber of Deputies, to-day, that the
situation with regard to Venezuela was
not such as to cause disquietude, but
serious enough to counsel prudence.
London, October 11.—The Carlist
General Saballs goes to Switzerland.
Spain intends to demand his surrender
as a robber. The Spanish Minister to
the Vatican has presented a note to
Cardinal Autouelli relative to the con
cordat.
The European Grain Market.
London, October 11. —The Mark Lane
Express, in its weekly review of the
produce market, has the following :
“The weather is much broken, there
having been hail in some places, but
interruption to field labor has only
been partial. Dampness has inter
fered with threshing and the condition
of samples is generally bad. Upward
tendency in prices continued and busi
ness restricted. Averages compared
with 1874 are 2 pence lower, while in
France they are slightly dearer. There
is less doing at Odessa, but rates are
maitained. Dautzic is rather dearer.
Receipts of wheat from India are un
precedented. The quality is low, but
shipments pay. It places a vast
acreage at the service of England.
Minor Telegrams.
Richmond, October 10.—Judge Bond,
of the United States Circuit Court, has
appointed Henry Tison, Esq., of Balti
more, Receiver of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, under application of a
creditor for foreclosure of the first
mortgage bonds. General W. C. Wyk
ham, Vice President, has issued an or
der to all agents of the road in confor
mity with the appointment.
Washington, October 10.—The agents
of the Sioux Indians have been in
structed by the Interior Department
not to issue annuities belonging to their
respective agencies unless the Indians
had been counted. The agents are also
instructed to hold the Indians to their
requirements if they do not get any an
nuities until spring.
Milwuakee, October 10.—The prop
erty of J. P. Kissing, of this city, was
seized by the Revenue Collector for an
assessment of §60,000 against the Union
Copper Distillery Company, of which
Kissing was a stockholder.
New York, October 11.—Dr. 11. T.
Helmbold has been discharged from
Bloomingdale Asylum.
Trenton, October 11. —The late State
Treasurer, Sooy, and Geo. M. Patter
son, member of the late Legislature,
have been indicted by the Grand Jury
for embezzlement.
FROM RALEIGH.
State Canventiou Adjourned—Bright
Prospects for the Fair.
Raleigh, October 11. —The State Con
vention adjourned sine die, after a ses
sion of thirty-one working days. In
the last few days of the session many
important ordinances passed, amount
ing to a general emancipation of the
Legislature from the restrictions under
which it has labored since 1868, and
giviDg it larger powers. The public
debt question was not interfered with,
though several ineffectual attempts
were made to repudiate the special tax
bonds.
The State Fair commences to-day.
The hotels are rapidly filling up with
visitors. From present indications, the
Fair will be a grand success. There is
a larger quantity of niaehiuery on ex
hibition than ever before, while the
stock department is well represented
by a larger number of good horses en
tered for races and trotting.
The mosquito season is about over.
The few that remain do so out of pure
oussedness.
Bismarck’s two sons are bad boys.
They don’t mind their Bis.—|New Or
leans Republican.
On the whole, Grant’s long speeches
are not as good as his short ones. —
[New York Sun.
A.TTGTJSTA.. GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1875.
LETTER FROM WARRENTON.
The Town--Superor Court —General
Toombs on Finances and Politics
Speeches by Mathews, Dußose,
Walsh and Others —The Rhodes Cot
ton Planter—Unfortunate Accident.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist,]
Warrenton, October 7,1875.
Warrenton is one of the healthiest
and neatest interior towns in Georgia.
The Town Council composed of D. M.
Hall, Levi Fowler, E. P. Heath, W. H.
Barnes and J. A. Allen, are live, wide
awake men, and to their vigilance and
good sense the people are indebted for
the moral and hygienic condition of
the town. The business houses are
large and neat brick buildings, well
stocked with merchandise of every de
scription and managed by merchants
of experience and good credit, promi
nent among whom stand your former
fellow-townsmen, N. Gallaher, John D.
Wright and A. Leper. I mention these
firms simply from the fact of their be
ing former citizens of your town, not
because they are better or superior
business men than the gentlemen who
compose the fifteen or twenty other
firms of the place.
The Superior Court of the county
has been in session duriog the week,
and from the large amount of business
yet remaining on the docket will be in
session the entire week. I notice Judge
Gibson, of your circuit, ou the bench
during the past two days acting for
J udge E. H. Pottle, in consequence of
the latter having been of counsel in
several of the cases called. Judge Pot
tle is noted for his impartiality, good
order and the sound judgment display
ed in rendering his charge to juries.
With such men as T. N. Shuriey as
Sheriff, and a corps of polite and atten
tive bailiffs, everything moves on like
clockwork.
To-day Dave Pullam (white) and
Frank Johnson (colored; were sentenced
to ten years’ labor in the penitentiary
for burglary iu the night. Pullam is a
youth of 19, and confessed he was in
duced to commit the came by Frank,*
the negro. Rather a humiliating con
fession for a white skin.
During the adjournment to-day
(September 7th,) at noon, Gen. Toombs
delivered an Interesting address upon
11 nances and politics.
It being impossible for any one ex
cept au exceedingly expert stenogra
pher to correctly report Gen. Toombs,
I can only claim for the following sy
nopsis accuracy as to the general posi
tion and opinion of the speaker upon
finances. He asserted that gold, as a
standard of value, was as necessary as
standard weights and measures. Hon
est weights, honest measures and hon
est standard of values were protection
to all people. If a man sold goods by
a dishonest or false measure the law of
the land punished him. Man cannot
analyze money, and therefore great
power is put in governments to put a
standard value upon it; but, to call a
piece of printed paper money, when it
had no standard value, was a cheat and
a fraud, and the people should damn a
government that attempted it, as the
law would punish the man who used
false weights or measures.
He had all his life been in favor of
gold as the standard of value, and he
never did believe that two different
currencies could thrive together and
hence when a member of the ways and
means committee he sudeeeded In de
preciating silver and made the value of
coin less in value than gold. He was a
hard money man and always had been.
But he wanted it distinctly understood
that he did not approve of the hard
money plan as mapped out by the last
session of Congress. If a man was
prostrate with fever you would’ut ad
vise him to eat and exercise like a man
in good health. You would wait until
his physical condition improved before
you recommended strong diet. Ho a
return to hard money after a series of
years of inflation depended upon circ
umstances.
The South was not responsible for
the issue of greenbacks, nor for their
being made a legal tender. The act
making them a legal tender was uncon
stitutional, and he would so decide
were he upon the Supreme Bench. He
believed it a great wrong, but he be
lieved a return to specie payments in
1879, as contemplated In the act allud
ed to, was a greater wrong. And, for
once in his life, he was in favor of tak
ing the lesser evil, and making the
North stand by her contracts. Under
no circumstances would he support an
act that would bind any man to pay in
gold a debt that had been contracted
under an inflated currency. He was
willing, at the proper time, to set a
day from which gold should be the
standard of all contracts, but he never
would submit, and he advised his
hearers and the honest people of the
county not to submit, to such an out
rage as is proposed by the resumption
act alluded to.
Inflation was a delusion ; it was in
flation that whipped the Confederacy,
and he referred his hearers to his let
ter on finances in 1863, when the Confed
eracy inflation amounted to millions.
Inflation never increased values—it de
creased them. The people of Georgia
saw and experienced this during the
war when wheat sold for fifty cents In
gold or ten dollars in paper per bushel.
The South is the victim of all this spec
ulation in paper currency. She buys
her mules, corn, meat and merchandise
under inflation, but her cotton is al
ways sold on a gold basis.
He stands squarely upon the old
Federal, Whig and Democratic finan
cial platforms. He thought the posi
tion assumed by the Ohio Democrats
was a mistaken one. The country did
not want more paper money. There is
enough in the country to answer all
the legitimate wants of trades. It was
only necessary as an article of ex
change, and there was enough for that
purpose. He Illustrated by referring
to the New Yoik “settling house,”
where a hundred dollars frequently
pay or settle twenty different debts
of like amount.
The Warrenton band is out serenad
ing to-night. Speeches were delivered
by Gens. Toombs, Dußoso, Col. Ma
thews, Solicitor Lumpkin, S. F. Webb,
Hon. Patrick Walsh, H. W. J. Ham (the
irrepressible) and others. All the
speeches were cheering and hopeful of
an overwhelming victory for old Billy
Allen, the “next President.”
It would be Injustice to native in
ventive genius, and I would be derelict
to the interest of the farmers of the
South, to fail to notice the “Rhodes
Cotton Planter and Guano Distributor,”
to which my attention was fortunately
directed to-day. It is one of the most
simple and effective agricultural imple
ments I have ever seen. It opens the
land, drops the seed, and covers with
an accuracy and precision truly aston
ishing. One of its main plantation ad
vantages is that it can be mauiged by
a boy or any ordinary plow hand on
rough land. The machine was pateat-
ed by Lee Rhodes, a plain farmer, of
Warren county, who for the last three
or four years has been manufacturing
them in a small way for his neighbors.
Messrs. J. M. W. Cody & Cos. have ta
ken charge of the patent, and intend
having several thousand of them man
ufactured for sale throughout the
South. Au agency will be established
at Augusta this fall.
Mr. Sampson R. Culpepper, an aged
and good man, met with an accident
to-day, which in all probability, will
confine him to his bed until death
claims him. He had been in attendance
on court and was returning home in
his buggy. Some part of the harness
gave way, the horse commenced kick
ing and throwing his foot through the
dash-board inflicted a compound frac
ture of the frontal bone of the right
leg.
The grand jury will probably ad
journ to-morrow; if so I will forward
you a copy of their general present
ments which will be of interest to the
many readers of the Constitutionalist.
B.
General Presentments of the Grand
Jury of Warren County October Term
1875.
We the grand jury, chosen and sworn for
the October term of the Superior Court, ask
leave to make the following general pre
sentments :
We have, through our own body, from all
sections of the county, learned that the
roads f.re in good, passable condition, and
In many instances better than they have
been for years.
We have, through our committees, ex
amined the books of the office of Ordinary
and the Clerk of the Superior Court, and
find them all properly kept, very neat, and
all the records up to date, reflecting much
credit on the Clerk of the Court and the
Ordinary.
1 he dockets of each Justice of the Peace
In the county have been examined by us,
and no over charge found upon them, but
allproperly kept.
Upon examining the books of the Tax
Receiver, we find tne work complete, and a
fine valuation placed upon all property.
We And from the Tax Collector’s books
for last year there was due $2,721 00
Collected and paid into the Treas
ury 2,680 00
Leaving still due the county from
last year $ 41 00
And just here we would call attention to
the great irregularities [laving been prac
ticed heretofore by the Tax Collector in
giving out blank tax.receipts to any one, to
be filled out by them on days of election,
etc., and afterwards pay the money to said
Collector. We wish to enter our solemn
protest against all such proceedings, and
respectfully recommend that no Tax Col
lector hereafter ever do this thing again,
and that all moneys be paid to him, and
him only, at the time he Issues each receipt,
as the law directs
Upon examining the Treasurer’s books,
we find them not only neatly, but correctly
kept, and vouchers for all moneys paid out
by him.
Amount on hand for county pur
poses •' $272 18
Amount on hand for pauper fund... 274 00
Amount on hand for building pur
poses 82 60
Upon examination of the public buildings
we find the roof of the Court House in a
leaky condition and call the attention of
the Ordinary to having it repaired at once,
also to the needed repairs in tne Court
room.
We find the jail safe and well kept—neat
and clean, and the prisoners well provided
for.
The fence around the Court House is in a
dilapidated condition and recommend the
Ordinary to have it repaired as best he can
without too much outlay.
We further recommend that Samuel
Lumpkiu, Solicitor-General, be allowed to
retain out of any moneys arising from fines
and forfeitures the sum of fifty dollars for
his services in behalf of the State vs G. W.
Pelts and B. H. Joey, said Solicitor-Gen
eral having rendered said service to the
State in a Court of Inquiry before Judge E.
H. Pottle, and never having received any
compensation for same.
There is one subject to which the mem
bers of the grand jury feel themselves con
strained to invite the particular attention
of the citizens of the county. The crop|S of
the farmers, who compose the largest class
of the community, lie exposed until har
vested, both by day and night, to the dep
redations o! the unprincipled members of
society. It is impossible for their property
to be sale unless guarded by a healthy,
moral sentiment pervading ali classes.
How, then, is it possible to maintain such
a sentiment when strong inducements in
public advertisements are held out by mer
chants and traders to buy indiscriminately
or exchange for goods the produce of the
farmers, especiall when it Is known that
many of our laboring class succomb so
easily to temptation,the obvious result will
be the increase of crime and demoralization
of labor. We, therefore, most unhesitat
ingly condemn the practice of exchanging
goods for farm produce brought by the la
borer for sale, as promoting a low moral
tone in the community violative of the
right of property—iu other words, it does
but offer reward and encouragement to the
commission of theft. Believing that wher
ever there is a wrong there mu ,t be a rem
edy, wo call upon our Representatives iu
the Legislature to use their efforts for the
passage of a law applicable to this county
which shall restrain the practice and make
It a punishable offence.
In taking leave of his Honor, Judge L. 11.
Pottle, we tender him our sincere thanns
for his able and impartial administration
of the law. Also to Solicitor General Lump
kin for his kindness and attention to our
body. „
Wm. J. Walker, Foreman.
2. Malachi Norris, 13. David L. Byrd,
3. Joseph D. Smith, 14. Albert S. Ray,
4. Thomas M. Jones, 15. John L. Norman,
5. James S. Latimer, 16. Alfred J. Mayes,
6. Adam Carson. Sr., 17. John R. Swain,
7. Joshua Nichols, 18. Henry B. Shivers,
8. John T. Hall, 19. J ames M. English.
9. Alfred M. Long, 20. Mathew R. Hall,
10. Wm. T. Harper, 21 Samuel H. Fowler,
11. Nathan 0. Courson 22. Jacob A. Allen
12. Drury W. Rogers,
The Girls Giving Their Hair a
Rest.— The hair is to be worn down,
after the manner of the “Pre-Raphael
ite ladies,” as they are called in Lon
don. They originated the fashion of
loose hair, and the mode has yielded,
setting lower and lower, till to mass
your hair in a ribbon upon the nape of
the neck, after the whole length has
been plaited and then loosened out in
to the ripples produced by his confine
ment in close strands all night, is to
argue yourself not unacquainted with
the Lodon haut mode. The front locks
are short, and either lie down in a
“forehand fringe” or are “frizzed” and
hang over the eyes. The only depar
ture from the pendant frizzed or rip
pled hair is the style which bears the
unpoetio name “door-knob.” This is
simply and purely the hair of the
wearer, without any addition to its
luxuriance or want of luxuriance ; a
plaited knob midway between the top
of the head and the nape of the neck.
The belles of the day tell us that their
hair is “taking a rest.” The style will
last awhile they say—long enough to
improve their tresses. —The Metropoli
tan.
Failures.
Louisville, October 10—The credit
ors of Moag & Cos., of Montgomery,
Ala., have a report of their failure.
They owe §IOO,OOO here.
New York, October 10.—Wm. P.
Roberts, flour and grain merchant, No.
10 Front street, has made an assign
ment. His failure was the result of
losses on a heavy advance in grain.
The liabilities are said to be heavy.
A. S. Herman, dealer In woolens, at
No. 17 White street, has also made an
assignment.
The firm of George Keichenburg,
Morrell & Cos., cotton brokers, yester
day announced their inability to meet
their engagements. - Their liabilities
are not stated.
LETTER FROM LINCOLN.
Negro Conflicts—The Crops—How the
Farmers Talk and Act—Cotton vs.
Bread and Meat—Thomson.
[Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Goshen, Lincoln County, Ga., )
October 7, 1875. J
The quiet community of Liucolnton
village was somewhat enlivened last
Sabbath morning by the arrival of a
negro who had been severely cut by
another, the latter being brought there
under arrest. As to the fracas, it is the
same old story. Two negroes got to
quarreling last Sabbath on Mr. War
ren Tatom’s place, about five miles
from the village, and the end of it was
that negro No. 1 cut negro No. 2 on the
left side and arm with a pocket knife,
inflicting three or four very ugly
wounds. The latter, after being cut,
went up to Mr. Tatom’s house to re
port the matter, where he was followed
by the other negro, and rumor says he
opened his knife again to make an at
tack on Mr. TANARUS., and he being unarmed,
called for someone to bring his shot
gun, when a gentleman who was in the
house ran out with the gun, and the
negro, seeing him, started to run, but
the gun being brought to bear upon
him, caused him to halt very quickly,
and he was immediately tied and
brought to Liucolnton under arrest,
where he was committed to jail in de
fault of a SSOO bond. The wounded ne
gro had his wounds dressed by Dr.
Ferguson, who states that had the
blade penetrated a little deeper it would
have proved fatal. He was doing very
well at last accounts, and the prospects
are that his assailant will go to the
chain-gang for a few years.
Another case of a little interest oc
curred a few days previous to the
above. A negro woman, who had been
very noisy and troublesome to her hus
band, was taken in hand, and he gave
her a whipping to curb her. She came
to the village to get a warrant for her
husband, whereupon the gentleman
with whom she was working obtained a
warrant for her arrest, and in the place
of seeing her husband jailed, she is re
posing herself in that house of accom
modation, These two, with another
negro, are the only inmates of our
county jail, and as court comes on in
about three weeks it will soon be clear
ed again.
I have nothing new to report In ref
erence to the crops. Farmers are very
busy picking, ginning and packing cot
ton, and as the guano and provision
bills will soon fall due, no doubt a good
deal of cotton will be carried to market
within the n6xt three weeks. Cotton is
being picked out very rapidly, and the
prospects are that it will be out of the
fields sooner this year than usual.
In a recent visit from Lincoln to
Thomson, from observations and in
quires made, I discover that the crops
along the route are about like those in
the lower part of Lincoln—very poor,
and that only about half a crop of cot
ton will be made. Of course, there are
exceptions to this statement, but this
is about the general prospect. Avery
energetic and prosperous young farmer
told me, while in Thomson, that at one
time this year his prospects were very
fine for making fifty bales of cotton,
but that, since the long drouth, he will
only make twenty-five. The planters
generally are not very much encour
aged by the low price of cotton and the
short crops. To those who raise their
provisions at home this will not be a
calamity, but woe be unto those who
must buy their provisions for another
year. The most singular thing con
nected with the farming interests
throughout all these counties is, that
you can hardly find a man but that
will say to raise cotton to buy provis
ions is a ruinous policy; and yet, while
admitting that, they continue from
year to year doing the same thing, viz:
buying their provisions. lam glad,
however, to say that I think there will
be less corn bought next year; because
there has been a little more of it plant
ed this yeai’, but not near as much
will be made as ought to be.
I found Thomson to be a very thriv
ing little town, and much improved
since my last visit, which was over five
years ago. They have a very pretty
court house, two churches, a large Ma
sonic hall, and an engine company, and
rumor saith they have the finest brass
band in the State ; considerable busi
ness seems to be done there, if we
judge by the number of the stores. The
people are kind, clever and hospitable,
and I Bhould judge from my acquaint
ance with them, that it would be a very
desirable locality in which to live. The
place, unlike some others, is not yet
finished, and is no doubt destined to be
in after years a considerable country
town. As you know, Mr. Editor, the
town supports a newspaper, the Jour
nal, owned and edited by Messers.
White & Combes, and I give them
credit for getting out a very interest
ing and! spicy county weekly. It has, I
think, considerable circulation in Mc-
Duffie and Lincoln, and deserves the
support of the people, and will be a
very effective agent in building up the
town. Two former citizens of Augusta
are merchandising in Thomson,
Messers. Adkins and Sol. Sarliug, both
of whom keep clothiug stores, and
though not acquainted with either, 1
suppose they are doing well. The town
has two very excellent gentlemen as
ministers of the two churches, Rev.
Mr. Ellington, at the Baptist, and Rev.
Mr. Hamilton, at the Methodist, both
of whom are very much beloved by the
people. Taking it altogether, the vil
lage of Thomson is a very pleasant
and prosperous community.
SCALPED.
Shocking Ordeal for a Youg Factory
Girl.
Cincinnati, October 7.—Yesterday af
ternoon at Remington Station, on the
Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad. Car
rie Dawson, employed in a paper mill,
while standing near a revolving shaft,
was caught by her hair and the scalp
torn from her head stripping the skin
from the back of her neck to the eye
brows. A considerable time elapsed
before medical aid reached her, and it
was not deemed advisable to attempt
to restore the lifeless scalp to its for
mer place. To-day Dr. A. J. Howe, of
this city, commenced the restoration of
skin to the wounded girl’s head, by
taking a small piece of scalp from the
head of her sister, who gave herself
freely for her injured sister’s relief,
while another lady offered skin from
her own shoulder to supply what was
needed for the forehead. Supplies suf
fleent to start a growth of new mem
brane were taken from each of the la
dies, and while Miss Dawson’s condi
tion is dangerous, her physician enter
tains considerable hope of her recovery
and the success of his efforts to cover
her head with new skin.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 68
BONDHOLDERS AND BONDMEN.
Gov. Allen’s Plain Talk—His Idea of
Value—Coal and Iron as Opposed to
Gold—The Ballot and the Bayonet!
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, made another of
his practical and plain speeches at Lo
gan, Ohio, on the 28th ult., and the
Cincinnati Commercial furnishes a re
port of his remarks. We make the
following suggestive extracts:
A bond signed by the Government of
the United States for $5 and a bond
signed by the United States for SI,OOO
are both made up of the same stuff,
are fed upon the same pabulum, and
are dependent for their existence upon
the same nursing. A rag baby. Very
well. These gentlemen who put out
the greenbacks, after paying the
men who fought in the war, and
the widows of men who lie entombed
in the earth, and all the farmers
and laborers of the country in these
greenbacks, now turn round and say,
“Oh, these are nothing but rag babies.
We are done with this generation of
rag babies. We paid you for your beef
in rag babies, but we demand that you
shall pay us your taxes in gold babies.”
The bondholders don’t seem to recol
lect the fact that, if they can persuade
the people of the United States that
their little rag babies are of no ac
count, the people will soon see that the
big rag babies are of no ac
count, and perhaps these gentlemen
who are now figuring will find out
when it is too late that they have ac
customed the American people to
treating all these rags, big and little,
as rags, and they will sweep them
away. When men get accustomed to
treating the credit of the Government
as vile and worthless, and throwing the
evidences of its credits as loathsome
weeds away, how long will it take them
to require that the other kind
of babies, the other kind of credits,
shall be turned out to shift for them
selves? Why, of all the contrivances
of human genius to undermine the
credit of this Government, these fel
lows are using the most efficient, al
though they pretend that the Demo
crats want to repudiate. The Demo
crats have but two things to repudiate
—injustice and villainy. We repudiate
all that, we don’t care what form it
takes. We repudiate nothing that is
not tainted with crime from head to
foot. That is all. And that is the
ground we stand on. * * * Some
time ago our illustrious Chief Magis
trate, a great political economist and
profound philosopher in social circles,
said that “there,” meaning the gold
mines of California, “was our strong
box.” What a philosopher! Why, the
coal mines in the Hocking Valley
are worth more money, fifty times
over, than are the gold mines
of California. The soil of Ohio
yields more wealth in one year’s culti
vation than all the gold mines that
ever existed from the time of Solomon
down to this day. These fellows talk
about gold ! Why, a chunk of iron ore,
a bar of iron out of which the black
smith created the plow, these bars of
iron are worth thousands of millions of
times all the gold that the globe con
tains. Gold answers well for certain
purposes. It may answer very well to
minister to Idle vanity and the love of
ostentation. But a piece of iron min
isters to every man’s wants. It is
accessible to all ; beneficent to all ;
and, with the addition of a coal fur
nace under it, it creates the driv
ing power of the world these days.
The gold mines of California! —
They have about as much to do with
paying off the national debt as had the
grasshoppers that invaded the Western
country last year. [Applause and
laughter.] What makes the chief
wealth of the world? The chief wealth
of the world is in having something to
eat, for all the gold of Ophir would not
keep a starving man alive. A good ear
of Indian corn ground into a pone
would keep him alive, though. A man
that was frozen between two icebergs
would find no relief in the mines of Cal
ifornia, but he would find a great deal
from a good, warm coal fire in the
Hocking Valley. * * * I intended
when I came here, my friends, to speak
about the time that I have spoken.
[“Go on, Governor.”] Not but what 1
could continue, for this is a theme that
cannot be exhausted, but I have pres
ent on this stand two or three very
able speakers, who will fill up all that I
have left fuller and better than I could
do it myself. I have to speak—and I
am going to do it, no mistake about
that—every day until the close of the
ballot-box, in order to keep Grant from
closing it with the bayonet. (Applause.)
I will speak every day and contribute
my efforts for the restitution of this
country to honesty and integrity, and
the restitution of the happiness of the
people. This I shall do, mark you. I
once at the dead of night, in a struggle
of less importance thau this, swam the
Scioto river on horseback, aided by
hothing but the instincts of my horse
and a torchlight upon the river bank,
while it was ten feet above the usual
fording mark. Having done that, then,
I feel there is something within me now
which will bear me through in this
struggle for at least ten days lon
ger. It is of no great con
sequence which men are chosen,
only in so far as these men rep
resent ideas. And I want here to re
mind the brave men of Hocking County,
Democrats from their mothers’ breasts,
and doubtless intending to be Demo
crats in the future, that if you stay at
home on the day of election, your vote
amounts to nothing. You leave room
for a bad vote to go in in the place of
yours. I tell you once for all, without
going into these details, that the
future will turn altogether upon the
fact whether the ballot or the bayonet
shall be found in the ballot-box. That
is all. Let those New York bond
holders and these Treasury robbers
and some of these bankers go on and
have their way now, and after a while
you will have no other way left. They
will dispense with this cumbrous ma
chinery of voting.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Supreme Court News.
Washington, October 11.—Admitted
to practice before the Supreme Court:
Wm. U. Garrard, of Savannah ; Henry
J. Leovy and Armand Pilot, of New
Orleans. The Supreme Court will com
mence to call the docket to-morrow
under the 26th rule. The Attorney
General decides that Cowan oannot le
gally exercise the functions of Secre
tary of the Interior after to-day.
There are 663 cases on the Supreme
Court docket.
Washington, Ootober 11.—The an
nouncement of who has been appointed
Secretary of the Interior will not be
made to-night and the indications are
that it will not be until Wednesday.
A Troy firm make as good “Bass
ale” as Bass can make. Troy has just
as dirty water as the Thames.
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On and apteb 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 oents per line each insertion.
Money 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.
MYSTERIES OF THE TOILET.
How a French Woman Makes Herself
Bfeautiful—Passing for Thirty at the
Age of Fifty.
[The Metropolitan.]
I had the pleasure yesterday of “as
sisting”—that is to say, looking on, not
helping—at the toilet of a French wo
man, a genuine Parisian. I was a good
deal surprised, that I admit; and she
was a good deal surprised at my sur
prise. She imagined that the extremes
of artificiality arrived at in Paris—
making a sort of dual woman, as it
were, out of one—were known to us;
and she considers us semi-barbarians
since she discovered how much nearer
the natural state we are.
She began, my Francaise, by sub
mitting herself to her maid who, on her
Fart, began by subjecting her to a face
friction of elder flower water. This ac
complished, the previously sallow face
became of a clearer hue, an ivory yel
low. Every particle of impurity in the
pores had yielded to the influence of
the elder flower water, with which half
a goblet of warm water had been mix
ed. The throat, neck and hands par
took of this refreshing dew, adding a
listre to the freshness given by a tepid
bath of twenty minutes and a shower
bath of five, gone through a half hour
before the beginning of the mysteries of
dressing or the “getting up.”
Next came a rubbing of a scented iris
powder in the dark hair, which was
short—that is to say, not more than a
foot and a half long -and rather thick.
When the iris powder was brushed out
and carefully removed at the temples
and the nape of the neck, a delicate
creme, similar to cold-cream, but with
out lard—the juice of lettuce being its
main ingredient—was laid over the
whole skin of the neck, face and hands
and allowed to remaiu ten minutes.—
This, I was informed, was intended to
do'awaywith the contraction of the
features arising om want of sleep, or
had arisen from j much cafe noir at
dinner. I had hot observed any “con
traction des traits,” and thought within
myself how much fancy would do. The
Parisian informed me that camphor and
creme had a similar composing effect
upon the features, especially after the
fatigues of a ball.
The next thing done was the removal
of every trace of the creme with an ex
tremely fine linen cloth. This was a
skillful operation, for while rubbing the
skin into satin-like smoothness the
femme-de-cliambre did not make it red
or in any way roughen its surface. She
seemed to polish and in polishing to
whiten her mistress’s complexion.
The next process was the application
of veloutine, a compound of bismuth
and rice powder, having the flaxative
quality of the first and the delicaey of
the last ingredient. But, ah! the care
with which the maid applied the pre
paration. It was absolutely impossible
in being thus laid on to detect the pres
ence of any foreign aid. The skin had
the firm, clear whiteness of alabaster
with a suggestion of sunny lustre and
creaminess to subdue it.
Then came the grand affair of the
eye-brows. These were brushed with
a minute soft brush, with dark bristles
and a handle inlaid with mother-of
pearl, and the least tracing of fard in
dien from a small stone jar laid upon
them.
Under the eyes—very fine eyes, and
needing no aid from art—an estampe
of leather upon which the fard indien
was slightly rubbed, laid now a dusky
shadow which increased the brilliancy
of the eyes to a great, and, to my mind,
unpleasant degree. What was to be
come of this appliance in case of emo
tion I. cannot say. Perhaps a French
woman only cries when she chooses.
The neck and hands now partook of
the bismuth powder whitening, and
after that the hair was dressed very
low on the neck, frizzed a little over
the forehead, and with less addition of
false hair than has been customary for
years. A small natte of permanently
crimped black hair, looped up with a
white ivory comb cut in cameo medal
lions, made up this part of the toilet,
only one email ringlet being suffered to
play about the neck.
But it was when the large poignoir
was removed and the under toilet be
gan that astonisment claimed me for
Its own.
First, a corset, of course, you will
say. But, let me remark, there are
corsets and corsets. The one placed
above the delicate garment of flesh
colored raw silk, which takes the place
of linen with the elegantes of Paris, and
clings to the form so as in no way to
increase the size by bulk of folds
around the waist, was a corset of gray
silk, stitched with rose color and edged
with Valenciennes on the hips and about
the shoulders. But in the make of this
article of “female wear” there entered
art that amounted to genius. For, set
in at the hips and making the bustle,
were curved bones that stood out in a
swell of several inches and formed an
incorporate part of the oorset itself,
impossible of detection when the skirt
of the wearer was placed over it.
Then the flesh colored silk stockings,
the short cambric skirt with myriad
tucks, insertions and flutings of lace;
the delicate bottines of black satin; the
white muslin dress, without assistance
of color expcept a rose at the throat,
and made so extremely short in front
as to display the entire foot; the one
long hair pin with its head une grosse
perlefine and the careless drawing up
of the draping at one side to display
the underskirt of raw silk; this and the
toilet were an accomplished feat and
fact.
Let me not omit to say that the mus
lin sleeve was so extremely tight to the
arm that it seemed like a second skin.
It terminated two inches above a well
rounded yet delicate wrist, where a
quaint bracelet of West Indian beetles,
the cadeau of a lady admirer from
Cuba, completed the ornamentation of
so much studied simplicity.
It was really very pretty, and the
lady looking charming—let us say
thirty years old. Her age? Oh—well,
MV-
The Mayor of Wilmington. N. C., has
bit upon a novel method of ridding the
city of thieves. He has notified the
police that if robberies, which are of
frequent occurrence there, are not
abated by the Ist of October, he wiL
discharge every man on the force.
The New York World paragrapher
sighs: “Oh, for a plainly dressed wo
man!” He should be around when a
conflagration turns people out doors at
midnight in a hurry.
Yioe-President Wilson loves to chew
the orispy onion when sliced up in vin
egar, and he makes no seoret of the
fact, but he can’t be fooled into carry
ing a buckeye In his pocket to keep
rheumatism away,
* Tennyson has bought him two hun
dred sheep to pet and play with. All
we’ve got to say is to warn him to look
out for those old chaps with wrinkled
horns when he turns,