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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 5 oo “ three months 2 60 Tri-Weekly—one year 6 oo " six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 00 " six months 1 00 Single copies, 6 ets. To news dealers, ‘i'A cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.J 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,