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Another big London failure is an
nounced.
How about Grant and a third term now?
Would he carry lowa by 30,030 majority?
The Democratic roosters must retire for
repaiis. Better luck next time!
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And now the bank rate of London is
about to be raised. Cotton has to be paid
for, and rag money, so-called, is plentiful.
The Democrats of Massachusetts have
put John Quincx Adams on their ticket for
Lieutenant-Governor in place of Bartlett,
backed out.
The Pennsylvania election comes off
next week. There is now not the remotest
possibility of the Democrats carrying it.—
The bondholcers will take good care of
that.
If Col. S. K. Johnson keeps on making
such splendid showings for the Georgia
Railroad Company, some of the big corpo
rations in other parts of the country may
try to coax him away from us.
Mr. Gladstone announces that he would
not again take the Liberal leadership. Per
haps, like Charlotte Cushman, he is play
ing a fareweil engagement, which may
mean much or nothing.
Gen. W. F. Bartlett has declined the
Democratic nomination for Lieutenant-
Governor of Massachusetts. We and ire say
the news from Ohio had a cooling effect
upon him. Well, who can blame him?
Our Atlanta letter is very amusing. -
"Martha” has a frolicsome and fertile
fancy. If the militia court-martial at the
Gate City is to cost the State, as she indi
cates, $30,000, Governor Smith may get
alarmed and order the soldier boys to dis
perse.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway is a
iirst-class bone of contention among New
Yorkers who have sunk their millions in it.
We da re the lawyers will be the only parties
of any part who feel happy and confident
of a good rat picking. Well, let them pick;
it is none of our funeral.
A midnight telegram from Columbus,
Ohio, says there was strong doubt at the
Democratic headquarters about the election
of Hates at all, and if elected he has not
over two thousand majority. Bets had bet
ter be held on to for awhile. It would be
rich to hear of Bill Allen’s election, after
all. There are many counties to hear from
oflicially. At all events we have reason to
rejoice that it was not a crushing defeat if
defeat at all.
—
\JfE relish a good joke, even if it is at our
own expense, and here is one of the best
Hits of the season. “Wendell Phillips
speaks bf the Venetians using paper money.
The Now York Sun suggests that doubtless
Othello had just received his pay in that
eurreucy when he exclaimed, ‘He who
steals my purse steals trash.’ ” Perhaps,
however, if Othello had had more trash
and less jealousy he would not have made
an ass of himself and played the devil gen
erally.
The Savannah Surulay Morning Telegram,
of October 10th, contained the following
handsome notice of a hero in business:
"Gen. Johnston’s friends (and who is not
his friend?) will be very sure to call on him
when they wish insurance. They have
trusted him before in far more weighty
matters, and never were deceived, and
they will trust to his word as the best as
surance to be oflered now. He represents
a company now in no respect the inferior
of the best, and his friends, for his sake
and the interest he has iu that company,
will make it their favorite. No company
that would treat him badly need expect fa
vors of the South, who idolize him as the
greatest living Confederate. Certainly no
bettor company can be found than the
.Home Insurance Company of New York.”
l'rom the Charleston News and Courier
we clip the following item: ‘‘Messrs. E.
Sebri>u A Cos. sold yesterday, at auction,
$7,000 of the State of South Carolina stock,
issue of 1838. at 28%c. Mr. J. D. Ford sold
iifty old shares of the People’s Bank of
South Caroliua stock at sl.lO, $247.50 of con
solidation scrip, State of South Carolina
stock, at 47%c., Psl shares of the Wando
Mining and Manufacturing Company’s
stock at 2?a25c., two shares of ihe Bank of
Charleston National Banking Association
stock at 84%e., $36,000 Savannah and
Charleston Railroad eight per cent, second
mortgage bonds at one cent on the dollar,
and SIO,OOO of the South Caroliua Railroad
•Company’s open bonds at 55%e. The other
stocks advertised to be sold were with
drawn.”
It is simply horrible to think of four
more year a of Radical rule. True, the
South need not necessa ily care a great
deal about it, so tar as her own actual
prosperity is concerned. We havp only
known the General Government for the last
ten years by its meanness and oppression,
its tax-gatherers,carpet-baggers and Freed
man’s Savings Banks. We have, however,
a general feeling of pity for the starving
millions of the North, its prostrated
commerce and ruined industries, and
know that as long as the radical party is
kept m power that portion of the country
will go down, sink deeper and lower into
ruin. Perhaps the revenges of time are
not yet willing to arrest the misery and
■woe, and directs the carnival to proceed.
T.TE South has precious little interest
materially in the Ohio election. It owns
none of the bonds. It is like the Georgia
farmer, who, when told his State had been
turned out of the Union, replied: “I would
not have known it had you not told me. I
am too busy raising cotton to be bothered
about such things.” Our best plan is
to expect nothing from Northern politics,
but rather live a world within ourselves.
Let us take care of our money, raise our
own provisions, and not count upon a sin
gle favor from abroad. The West would
have voted differently had it lost our enor
mous provision trade as New England has
our trade for its fabrics. Th ' morey we
have sent them for corn, flour and bacon
has kept them iu such good spirits they
are still voting the Radical ticket and will
continue to do so as long as we keep our
smokehouses in Cincinnati.
The Democracy of Ohio are greatly in
debted to New York for their defeat. It
was a contest between the bloated bond
holding class and the laboring classes, in
which enough money wag used by the for
mer to defeat the latter. Wall street de
mands that it should rule the Democratic
party, and would much rather ruin
It than govern it. It has that
milk-and-cider, wishy-washy newspa
per, the New York World, under its
thumb, and directed it to oppose
the election of Gov. Allen with all its
miffht. We wonder how the World likes the
picture of the party in the Northwest,
beaten and demoralized to such an extent
it will not rally before the Presidential elec
tion. But Wall street cares nothing for
political parties; it is after more gold
bearing interest bonds if it turns the coun
ty into a second Desert of Sahara.
SBlje Augusta Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
ELECTION NEWS.
Grand Doubts About the Election of
llayes—A Midnight Te legram Chang
es Things—Hayes Only 2,000 Ahead
and Several Counties to Hear From
—lf Alien is Defeated, Not Much of
a Defeat.
Cincinnati, October 12.—Official re
turns from eighteen wards and pre
eincts in Hamilton county give Hayes
4,834, Allen 4,345. The whole Repub
lican county ticket is probably elected.
New lork, October 12.—General W.
F. Bartlett has declined the Democrat
ic nomination for Lieutenant-Governor
of Massachusetts.
Cincinnati, October 13.—Seventy-one
.of 85 precincts in Hamilton county
give Hayes 918 majority; G 1 precincts
give Young, Republican candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor, 2,800 majority
over Cary. The Republicans elect
their legislators, average majority
7,000. Hayes’ majority iu Hamilton
county reaches 1,500.
Returns from 565 precincts, nearly
one-third of the State, show a Repub
lican gain of 1,400.
Columbus, October 13. —Democrats
concede the State Republican by 15,000
majority and a fair majority in both
branches of the General Assembly.
Returns come in very slowly. It is
impossible to give accurate figures, but
both the Republican and Democratic
State Committees agree that the State
has not gone Republican by over 10,000.
The most signiticaut news of to-day is
an official dispatch from Ross county,
showing Allen has carried the county
by only 242, giving a Republican gaiu
of 405, which elects a Republican Sena
tor. Representative, Treasurer and
Judge. Absence of all figures on Lieu
tenant-Governor aud the Legislature
makes a definite statement regarding
them impossible. While it is not cer
tain, both committees agree it is quite
probable the Republicans have a work
ing majority in both branches of the
General Assembly.
Toledo, Lucas county, with one town
ship to hear from : Hayes, 5,773; Allen,
4,433.
Dayton, Montgomery county, com
plete, gives Alien 822 majority; Carey,
579.
LATER.
Doubts About the Election of Hayes
—lf Elected the Majorty is not Over
2,000.
[midnight.]
Columbus, 0., October 13. — A most re
markable change in the political feeling
has occurred this evening. At noon
the Democrats conceded the State to
the Republicans by from 10,000 to 15,-
000 majority, but this afternoon they
received private advices which consider
ably changed their figures, steadily cut
ting down Hayes’ prospective majority.
This evening the Democratic Commit
tee closed their headquarters to out
siders and have since been figuring on
the result aud now claim that Hayes,
if elected at all, will not have over 2,000
majority. This result the committee
claim is reached from figures re
ceived from their private corres
pondents in fifty-three counties and
35 counties to hear from; Thomp
son, Democrat Chairman says, they yet
hope to prove Alien’s election by a
small majority. The news has spread
like wild fire, and men who were con
fident to-day aud jubilant; over having
won considerable sums of money on
Hayes election, now fill the Republican
committee rooms anxiously inquiring
for uews. A. T. Wikoff, Chairman of
the Republican Committee, admits his
news of this afternoon will cut
down Hayes’ prospective majority,
but claims he has no news
at all in keeping with the news at the
Democratic rooms. He declares he
cannot see how it is possible to over
come Hayes’ majority. Republican
figures give the Republicans 9 majority
iu the House, not counting the 4 con
sidered doubtful, and 3 majority m the
Senate, with 4 members y et in doubt.
Later. —A revision of the Republican
figures gives Hayes a net gain of 8,431
iu 56 counties. On the other hand the
Democratic figures claim that Hayes
will not have over 2,000 majority.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Robbins; of a Post Office and a Virginia
Traveler.
Milford, Pa., October 13. — The post
office at this place was entered by
thieves last night, and robbed of about
SIO,OOO in money and fifty dollars
worth of postage stamps.
Indianapolis, October 13. — Jos. Mc-
Carty, of West Virginia, was robbed of
$1,700 last night, while standing ou the
platform oF the Indianapolis, Bloom
ington and Western Railroad, as the
train was leaving the depot, by three
men, who jumped on the train. Mr.
McCarty thinks the men followed him
from West Virginia.
Nebraska.
Omaha, October 12. — The Republican
State ticket is probably elected. Dodge
county is strongly Democratic. The
new constitution has been carried by a
large majority.
lowa.
Desmoines, la., October 12.— Returns
received by the State Register indicate
the Republican majority at least 30,000.
Chicago, October 12. —Returns from
lowa up to this hour show Republican
victories in nearly every county, and iu
most cases very considerable Republi
can gains. A large vote has been
polled, aud the local tickets are badly
scratched in a number of cases. Gov
ernor Kirkwood is elected by a large
majority, and the Legislature will have
an increased number of Republicau
members. .
Massachusetts Democracy.
Boston, October 13.—The Democratic.
Central Committee have placed Juo.
Quincy Adams out ou the ticket for
Lieutenant Governor, Vice Bartlett.
Democrats nominated—Chas. G. Da
vis, of Plymouth for Congress from
the First District.
Women’s International Christian As
sociation.
Pittsburg, October 13. —The Women’s
International Christian Association met
iu the Second Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Lawson, of Boston, was elected
President, and Mrs. John H. Wiuters,
of Dayton, Ohio, Vice President. An
address of welcome was delivered by
Mrs. Felix R. Brunott, the retiring
President. In the evening Mrs. A. G.
Byers, of Columbus, Ohio, delivered
the opening address. Avery full re
presentation from the United States
and foreign countries,
Don Carlos has ordered Gen. Sab alls,
his fugitive officer, to be shot on sight. We
dare say he will not get with in reach or a
Carlist bullet, Saballs was a brave but
unfortunate commander. If Don Carlos
loses many more of his chiefs, he may end
by shooting himself or getting shot. He
seems to have no mercy for the unlucky.
AUGUSTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Gen. Saballs in a Bail Way—Anticipat
ed Advance of tbe London Bank
Rate—Another Big Failure—Mr.
Gladstone’s Retirement—English
Naval News.
London, October 13. —The Madrid
Impartial says the French authorities
are seeking to intern Gen. Saballs, and
Don Carlos has ordered that he be
shot wherever found.
The general opinion at the Stock Ex
change is that the bank rate will be ad
vanced to-morrow. The street rate is
nominal, and transactions are subject
to the action of the bank.
To-day is settling day at the Stock
Exchange. The failure was announced
of Henry Strachan, stock and share
broker, No. 33 Throgmorton street.
His liabilities are said to be heavy.
The World says Mr. Gladstone has
assured his family he will never resume
the Liberal leadership.
An admiralty minute was published
yesterday exonorating Vice-Admiral
Tarleton and Captain Hickley from any
responsibility for the sinking of the
Vanguard. It also dismisses Evans,
Navigating Lieutenant of the Iron
Duke.
The admiralty minute which was
promulgated yesterday has called forth
much criticism by the London press.
The Times this morning, in a leading
article on the subject, says it is not
clear that the minute fully observes
the rule that the conditions of the ser
vice iu the navy ought to be upheld
without favoring of distinction. The
Daily News and the Telegraph also have
editorials on the subject, and con
demn the minutes. The Standard,
the Government organ, in its com
ments on the matter, says: “The min
ute will not secure a more public ap
proval than the portions of the Admi
ralty’s circular in regard to fugitive
slaves which the G -vernment found it
necessary to suspend last week.”
The Morning Echo says: “Mr. Hunt
is mistaken if he imagines that he can
satisfy the country by offering the nav
igating Lieutenant as a scapegoat.”-
Minor Telegrams.
Montreal, October 13.—Detective
Harry Davis, of New York, who cap
tured Nichols, abesondingbank mana
ger at St. Augustine, Fla., found $25,-
000 on his person.
Detroit, October 13.—The tug Miller
exploded her boiler and sunk. Capt.
Miller and child were killed.
London, October 13. —Private Shang
hai dispatches say British negotiation
are progressing favorably.
Baltimore, October 13. —It was Ar
thur Johnson, aged twenty years, of
this city, who jumped from the Monu
ment.
New York, October 13. —Judge Law
rence granted an order requiring Wash
ington A. lioebling to show cause, on
the 15th, why the order of arrest
against Duncan, Sherman & Cos., should
not be vacated.
St. Louis, October 13.—The old malt
house, corner of Sixth aud Leighton
streets, fell, killing two.
Atlanta, October 13.—A special to
the Constitution says Clarke Edmond
son, colored, brother to the one hung
last Friday iu Fayetteville, committed
rape upon Mis. W. L. Kennedy, of Fa
yette county, yesterday.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
Annual Report of President Orton.
New York, October 13.—The follow
ing is a synopsis of the annual report
of President Orton for the fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1875, presented to
day to the stockholders of the W. U.
Telegraph Company :
The gross receipts for the year from
all sources, except proceeds of bonds,
were $9,764,574.60 ; the gross expenses
were
229,159.83, being net profit. The bond
ed debt of the company, July 1, 1874,
was $5,946,900, of which $1,498,000 is
the 7 per cent, gold building bonds,
and $4,448,900 7 per cent, currency
bonds, which mature November Ist,
1875. The annual election of a Direct
ors of the cornpauy was held to-day.
The old Board was re-elected, with the
addition of John Duff, of Boston, iu
place of Geo. H. Mumford, deceased.
FROM NEW YORK.
Squabble Over the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad.
New York, October 13. —Between 2
o’clock on Monday and 3 o’clock yes
terday afternoon, holders of $23,000,000
of the bonds, stock and certificates of
indebtedness of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad had called at Fisk &
Hatch’s office, and stipulated to assist
in an effort to oust the Receiver ap
pointed by Judge Bond, of Virginia. Of
the $42,000,000 indebtedness of the road
nearly $40,000,000 are held iu this vi
cinity.
The Failure of W. B. Hunter & Cos.
New York, October 13. —The liabili
ties of Win. B. Hunter & Go., tea im
porters and Canadian commission mer
chants, $150,000. Meeting of creditors
to-day.
—i • i ~~
A Prize Fight Between a Man and a
Woman.
Tired of the monotony and common
place character of the usual drunken
rows and Sunday fights, the enter
prising South Trojans yesterday ar
ranged an entertaiunieut unique and
interesting. Mike Riley, a slender six
footer, aud Mrs. Heuihun, a woman
built very much like Mike, agreed upon
a prize fight, to decide which was the
worthier pugilist. Fourteen rounds
were agreed upon, aud Mike selected
his wife for a second, while Mrs. Heni
han selected her husband for her sec
ond. The preparations for the affair
were soon noised about, and a crowd of
over two hundred people assembled
near the nail factory to witness the
contest. Beth parties were in ex
cellent condition, as if they had
been in training for the season. Mike
knocked his fair antagonist down sev
eral times, and she returned the com
pliment amid the cheers of the de
lighted audience. The excitement was
intense, the contest close aud the con
fusiou considerable. After the fourteen
rounds had been rendered, it was as
certained that, although both had
bloody noses aud their faces resem
bled a map of some battle field, each
was as determined as ever and ready
to renew the sport. The referee de
cided that it was a draw battle, but
the spectators were satisfied that Mrs.
Henihau had the best of it. The hero
and heroine received the congratula
tions of their friends, the crown dis
persed and the valorous principals
wont home to recruit for the next en
gagement.
The Massachusetts Democracy have
entered upon anew agricultural pur
suit. They are now preparing to plant
Rice.—[Richmond Enquirer.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
George Watson, negro, was killed in
JMonroe county last Wednesday by fall
ing sixty-five feet to the bottom of a
well he bad been digging. His neck
and nearly all the bones of his body
were broken.
Elberton Gazette : The negotiations
for the iron to lay the track on the
Elberton Air-Line Road are progress
ing favorably, and it is of opinion a
point has been reached which renders
reasonably certain a speedy completion
of the road.
Macon Telegraph : Mr. Willy Whee
ler recently killed a rattlesnake over
six feet long, and which had fifteen
rattles. The snake crop this year in
Georgia has been unusually heavy,
which would not be the case if the hog
crop was not light.
Miiledgeville Recorder: The Morgan
Rangers is the name of anew Cavalry
Company, recently organized with Dr.
C. W. Snead for captain. The company
now numbers ninety-two, and is com
posed of men from Baldwin, Putnam
and Jones. The officers have been
commissioned by the Governor, and
the company expect to be fully equip
ped at au early day.
Athens Watchman: On Thursday eve
ning last two hearses, with a funeral
procession following, were seen upon
our streets, bearing to the cemetery the
remains of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Brum
by, husband and wife. Mrs. Brumby
died on Wednesday night, and Mr. B.
on Thursday morning It was truly a
sad scene to witness. United during a
long and honorable life, death not long
divided them.
Ben Hill has requested Hon. J. N.
Dorsey, Dr. H. S. Liadley and Prof.
George C. Looney to act as a commis
sion in a competitive examination of
candidates for a cadetship at West
Point, The commission will sit at
Gainesville, October 20th, at 10 o’clock.
A boy to be successful must be five
feet high, have good health, and an
ordinary Euglish education. Whoever
receives the recommendation of the
commission will get t he nomination.
Geo. Watson, a negro living near Ca
baniss, iu this county, is a well digger,
aud while engaged in digging a well
near the junction of Oemuigee and To
waliga rivers on Wednesday last, hap
pened to au accident which proved fa
tal. Ho had dug the well to a depth of
sixty-five feet, and having struck rock,
was engaged in blasting. The air at
the bottom of the well became so foul
as to suffocate him, and he asked to be
drawn up. When about ten feet of tbe
top he fainted, it is supposed, aud let
ting go his hold upon the rope, fell to
the bottom. Hi3 neck and the bones
in the upper part of his body were
broken. He was buried on Friday.—
[Monroe Advertiser.
Savanuah News : Tom Handy and
George Gordon were employed on the
Elliott plantation, and after being paid
off on Saturday afternoon, had gone
across the river to a score on the Bryan
county side. It seems that Handy had
loaned Gordon ten cents, and after the
parties had gone over the river, he re
minded him of it and suggested that as
he had the money he had better pony
up. Gordon thereupon pitched his
creditor a five cent nickel, when Handy
remonstrated with him, and insisted on
receiving the full amount of his debt.
Gordon refused to give the additional
five cents, and some words ensued when
he struck Handy. This increased the
ill-feeling, aud, after a few minutes
of quarreling, Gordon drew out a
knife and stabbed Handy in the throat,
inflicting a fearful wound, severing the
jugular vein. Handy walked into the
store a few yards off, and remarked
that he had been cur, and almost im
mediately fell to the floor. Before as
sistance could be rendered he expired.
Gordon, in the meantime, disappeared,
and has not since been seen. The
Sheriff of Bryan county and his deputy
started in pursuit of him on Sunday,
aud traced him as far as White Bluff.
It is supposed that lie has made his
way to South Caroliua, and possibly
may make good his escape.
A GULF STORM IN 1856.
The Terrors of the Gale on Last
Island Nineteen Years Ago.
[From the Memphis Avalanche.]
The late disastrous storm along the
coast of the Gulf recalls a tragic oc
currence of a similar character during
the fall of 1856, more than nineteen
years ago. At that time Last Island
was situated sixty miles west of the
mouth of the Mississippi, and not far
trom Barataria Bay, was a favorite
watering place and a resort for visitors
from New Orleans, to whom it was ac
cessible in a few hours’ time. For two
or three seasons previous its popularity
had been gradually increased until con
siderable building in the way of a large
hotel, numerous cottages, stables, etc.,
had been made.
Tbe island is a low sandy strip, 30
miles long and three or four miles
wide, almost destitute of vegetation.
Early on tbe morning of the 18th of
August, 1856, a gale set in, which, in
five hours’ time, caused the water to
raiso and sweep over the entire island
to the depth of eight feet or more. The
large hotel and other buildings were
blown to pieces and swept away, to
gether with the people who sought
refuge therein. Many were washed out
into the Gulf ou pieces of debris and
lost. A smali steamer moored at the
island had her upper works stripped ,
from the deck as clean p,s if cut away I
by mechanics. The hull of the vessel 1
rode out the storm iu safety, and
about 120 people who clung to it were
saved. About 400 persons altogether
were on the island at the time, and of
those who were lost, numbering about
275 souls, mauy belonged to the best
known and wealthiest families of New
Orleans. Since this fearful disaster
Last Island has been inhabited by only
a few fishermen. In the same gale a
steamship called the Nautilus, belong
ing to the Morgan line of Texas ves
sels, and plying between New Orleans
and Rio Grande river, was capsized
and lost some fifty miles from the
mouth of the Mississippi. Of 100
souls on board, including passengers
and crew, all perished except
one person, who was picked up afloat
on a log eight days after. Rev. T.
G. Twitched a prominent divine, was
among the lost. The French .ship Ma
nilla, loaded with a valuable cargo of
wines aud liquors from Bordeaux, was
blown from her anchorage at the mouth
of the Mississippi river ashore near
Timbalier Island, La., and her cargo
was scattered for many miles along the ~
marshy coast. A portion of her crew
was lost, and two or three dozen ves
sels were wrecked and lost in various
parts of the Gulf by the same gale.
The inhabitants of New Orleans were
thrown into grief and mourning by the
loss of friends end kindred, and recol
lections of the sad disaster will not be
erased in a generation,
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Enlivening Quality of a Circus
The Militia Court-Martial —Mr. Kim
ball Jubilant Over His Cotton Fac
tory-Successful aud Unsuccessful
Suicide.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, October 12.
The advent of the circus acted like a
charge of super-powerful emetic from
a villainous squirt-guu sent hastily on
the business aspect of Atlanta. The
town fairly shook with good humor,
and a broad grin scooted around every
corner with a giggling; abandon that
infused new life into every business,
limbered the stiff joints of the old in
habitants, sent a thrill of ecstatic happi
ness through the tender frames of the
young ones, and caused Sambo to fall
from the lofty altitude his rights had
given him into the lowly realms of
damnable idiocy. Long-treasured
halves and quarters whose ragged edges
of anxiety for the coming of the circus
were now carefully smoothed out and
counted over for the nine-hundredth
time; the quantum suf. of nickles of
those whose revenue came in fractions,
were fished out of tin banks and old
socks and mustered for service; and
people with empty exchequers sought
their friends and smilingly asked
for temporary loans. Hence the
big tent was crowded with old,
young, female and colored progression
ists. Everybody was there. The frosty
headed old cuss who had given nightiy
lectures to his sprouts that the circus
was a cesspool of diabolical immorality,
yet slid out by the backway with 75
cents frozen to his fingers; the young
lady who declared she wouldn’t have a
sweetheart who would visit a circus,
and who had crimpdd her front hair all
day for the purpose—she was there;
the old maid who had blessed the
preacher who preached against theatre
going and wished from her soul that
everybody had heard that sermon—she
was there, too. Yes, they were all there
—big, little and old, church-going,
arneu-saying, worldlings and saints.
And as I looked around upon that vast
bracelet of faces and watched the mul
titude of people as they clapped their
hands and tioorayed at the silly antics
of a stale clown and wriggled their
bodies in unreserved laughter at the
wretched jokes, methought it was a
deuced good thing to be a circus pro
prietor.
That Court Martial.
We have tried every possible way to
get out of holding a court martial to
try the offending officers of our bat
talion, but it really seems as if the cal
amity cannot be averted. It must come.
The Governor has held up bis ame
thysted finger and hinted at a terrible
expense; several officers have threat
ened to resign and one or two have al
ready done so; there is a decided lack
of unity and a discordant harmony
among the companies of the battalion,
but that court martial—that great,
pompous, General Piff, Paff, Poof court
martial must be held or else a big ring
slips off Atlanta’s enterprising coon
tail and the rich opportunity to blaze
into military glory is lost to los. Per
consequence a court of inquiry is now
in session—a preliminary preface to a
great work bound in blue and gilt, or
namented with dazzling sword and sold
to the State at the uniform price of
about $50.00 per day. A big sell, you
see—seldom sold in the rural hauuts of
Boston or Fort Valley. But you must
remember we live in Atlanta.
The court met yesterday, and per
fected itself. It is composed of Lieut.
Lowry and Lieut. Vanu Epps, of the
Governor’s Guards, Lieut. Patterson,
of tbe Cadets, and Lieut. Dabney, of
the Blues. These dignitaries appear in
full uniform, dangle their clanking
swords between their soldierly legs,
and are supposed to wear an air of
military grandeur and martial sublimi
ty during their sittings, which occupy
ail the spare space between the hours
of 8 aud 5 o’clock. They admit the
counsel of the accused, but he is not
allowed to raise the mansard roof of
bis mouth or articulate words of com
fort for his client. He is merely al -
lowed to sit there and feast his eyes
upon gold lace and trimmings, or sleep
the happy hours away.
As this tomfoolery will last about a
week, and cost the State about $5,000
per day, it will make a nice sum of
$30,000 to be paid by Georgia because
one of the officers of a volunteer com
pany couldn’t conveniently take his
company out on parade. There is
nothing like style whe*n you once get
used to it. What will be the result of
this combat in gay uniform is to be
guessed. Many think Lieut. Serutch
ins, the officer on trial, will be found
not guilty of any wilful negligence or
refusal to obey orders.
The Cotton Factory.
Mr. Kimball has recently returned
from a business trip to the East, and
has come home fully assured of the
absolute success of the Atlanta Cotton
Factory. He says the spindles will be
humming their tunes and the factory
will be in a “ weaving way ” by next
Spring. The machinery for this enter
prise will cost $125,000, and will proba
bly be obtained from Lowell, Mass.
The Suicide of Mr. Heard.
The suicide of Mr. James T. Heard at
Conyers ou Sunday morning fell like a
cloud on his friends here. Guilty or
not guilty, he had many warm friends
here, who regret the occurrence and
lament his death greatly.
A Would-be Colored Suicide.
In order to be in the prevailing
fashion, and the man who would’nt be
in the fashion is no man at all, and to rid
himself of a burdensome life and other
equally as bad debts, one Henry Lewis,
a colored hash-frescoer and beefsteak
carpenter, the other day, wrapped his
manly form around the contents of a
bottle of sleepy laudanum and laid
down upon his little bed to peg out.
He didn’t peg out worth a cent. A
convenient doctor was around, and a
patent double-acting stomach pump
elevated that astonished laudanum so
quick that the poor nigger didn’t have
time to write his last letter before life
had knocked the spots out of grim
death, and sent Henry to the kitchen,
there to soup-ervise the soup generat
ing process, which is his souperior
forte and souperlative ambition, in
stead of being soup-poenaed for the
great day. He was Mr. Caudle at his
house, which accounts for his rashness.
Martha.
> ii
Professor David Swing, of Chicago,
gives this opinion on the use of the
Bible in the public schools : “The Gov
ernment has no more right to teach the
Bible than it has to teach the Koran.
My idea is that the Government did,
in its earlier life, run according to a
sort of Christian common law, but now
the number of Jews, Catholics and in
fidels has become so greatly increased
that the Government has to base itself
squarely upon its constitutional idea,
that all men are religiously equal,”
CHEAP LIGHTNING.
Plans of the National Telegraph Com
pany.
[New York Special to Chicago Tribune.]
Alfred A. Cohen, of Sau Francisco,
Cal., President of the National Tele
graph Company, is now in this city.
In response to inquiries last evening,
Mr. Cohen said his company had been
formed with a capital stock of $25,000.-
000, of which $750,000 had been paid
in. The incorporators were William
Sharon, Michael Reese, Jas. R. Reeve,
William Burling, F. D. Atherton, C. M.
Kellogg aud Alfred A. Cohen. These
gentlemen were all residents of the Pa
cific coast, but as soon as the enter
prise was thoroughly under way
it was expected that there would
be a- good representation from
the East, a number of capitalists hav
ing signified their desire to participate.
The company has been formed for the
purpose of building and operating a
system of telegraph lines in the United
States and the Canadas. The plan was
formed a considerable time ago, and
the first steps were taken recently in
the organization of the company under
the laws of California. It had been the
intention to have accomplished some
thing in the shape of practical work
this fall, but the troubles on the Pacific
coast, growing out of the suspension of
the Bank of California and other insti
tutions, disarranged matters for a time
aud compelled the deferring of the at
tempt to put the Scheme into execu
tion.
Mr. Cohen, when asked why it would
not be more desirable to purchase a
controlling interest in an established
line, with a secured business, like the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
replied that he bad the highest regard
for the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. He did not believe that better
managers than that company possessed
at the present time could be fouud any
where. Yet, while testifying to the
worth and ability of the officers, he
found fault with the system upon
which the company was administered.
Telegraphy had not reached its legiti
mate field, and would not until it be
came the popular method for trans
mission of intelligence between the peo
ple. At present it was an expen
sive commercial necessity, not used
until circumstances compelled.
Telegraphy should take the place of
the post office and be to the masses of
the people what the cheap postal sys
tem now is; at least something akin to
it. The Western Union Telegraph
Company had been of great public
utility, and deserved the warmest com
mendations of those whom it had
served; but the question of buying a
controlling interest in it was a serious
oue which must bo fairly considered"—
To get a controlling interest in the
stock the purchasers would have to
begin buying at 80, and pay all the
way up to 90, or perhaps higher. The
actual purchase would involve the ex
penditure of about $40,000,000.
The National Company expects to
duplicate evqry essential detail of
equipment of the Western Union Com
pany at 25 per cent, of the sum winch
that company has expended. Wher
ever it is practicable, existing lines will
be utilized by the National Company,
but no line will be accepted as a pai t
of the system which is not essentially
under the control of the National Com
pany.
Some time ago negotiations were en
tered into for the acquisition of the
Atlantic and Pacific Company’s lines,
but they did not result iu anything.
If the Atlantic and Pacific Company’s
lines could be purchased at their actual
value, they w r ould no doubt be a de
sirable acquisition. No negotiations
were now pending.
PERSONAL.
Political trade-mark—s. —[New York
Herald.
Don Piatt says Tennyson is as ill
conditioned as a mangy bull dog.
Success is one of the few things
which the world never laughs at.
Tho hog crop for the year is esti
mated at 18,000,000 head. Tig thing.
A Montreal woman is in jail for hus
band-beating. So glad!
The leather dealers are going Into the
Centennial, heart aud sole.
Very few St. Louis women take more
than one bite at a peach.
A Memphis man sneezed 68,471 times
before the doctors could stop him.
The United States Senatorship of
Delaware has been a family matter for
70 years.
Gov. Ames says his life is in danger
in Mississippi. Ho is already as dea 1
as a mackerel without salt.
Rigor pushed too far is sure to mis >
its aim, however good, as the bow
snaps that is bent too stiffly.—[Schiller.
The Canadian women wear neither
bustles nor striped stockings, nor even
false hair.
Walter Grant, of Fitchburg, Mass.,
73 years old, had lately born unto him
his 21st child.
Win. Moore, of Baring, Maine, killed
every one of a flock of 12 ducks at a
single shot, the other day.
A benzine dealer who disappeared
from Montreal two months ago hasn’t
benzine since.
A New Jersey woman can blow a
mouth-organ for forty-four minutes
without once stopping for breath.
The Alabama Constitutional Conven
tion has a member older than the Con
stitution of the United States.
It doesn’t do to tar and feather a
Georgian. He at once gets out hand
bills, throws a blanket over him, and
goes around lecturing on “the deprav
ity of the American people.”
The surviving natives of Fiji wel
comed Sir Arthur Gordon, their new
Governor, with “military honors.”
Twelve hundred emaciated cannibals,
awkwardly tramping in unaccustomed
breeches, and shouldering muskets
they didn’t know how to use, must have
been a glittering and imposing pageant
indeed.
Cardinal Manning recently addressed
a meeting of Roman Catholics in Lon
don, held on the site of the new Cathe
dral, which it is stated will cost sl,-
500,000, and be one hundred years in
building. The Cardinal remarked that
Noah was one hundred and twenty
years in building the Ark, and that, he
thought, should prevent the founders
aud builders of the newCathedial from
giving way to despondency.
Pierre Bonaparte, who shot Victor
Noir a few years ago, has aged very
much since his trial, and is now re
siding in a small place at Luxemberg,
formerly his shooting box. The other
day, as he was driving through one of
the streets of Paris, he was greeted
with the cry of “accursed murderer,”
and took good care to have the driver
whip up his horses and carry him far
from the threatening demonstration.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 60.
BURIED FOR A MONTH.
A Trance Medium Among 1 the Indian
Jugglers.
A dispute has arisin in Spiritual and
Theosophic circles as to the possible
duration of a “mediumistic trance,” or
coma. The account which follows was
written for the information of Col.
H. S. Olcott, one of the disputants, in
the form of a private letter, by a gen
tleman who, at the time of its occur
rence described, was a Major on the
general staff in the British Army:
New York, Oct. 8, 1875.
Der Colonel Olcott : Since we
3poke on the subject of ancient Asiatic
necromaucy or magic, now understood,
I believe, as occultism, it occurs to me
to write you a short account of the
burial and resuscitation of a magician
in the East Indies, as I witnessed it.
Some years ago, when in India, I
visited the Rajate of Puttiala, wherein
resided a rich and powerful Baboo, by
name Lall Chunder. This gentleman
was fond occasionally of entertaining
his friends with various exhibition of
native cunning, including genuine ne
cromancy, and to this end invited a
magician of note, one Meechum Doss
to give an exhibition of his powers of
being buried alive and then exhumed
and resuscitated after some time had
elapsed. Meechum Doss was to re
ceive a considerable sum in silver
rupees for the performance, and the
time named by himself to be “quietly
inurned” was four weeks.
On a certain day the Baboo having
called his friends together in durbar
or court, they came from all parts on
elephants, camels and horses to wit
ness the show. The divan of the Baboo
was in the centre of a circle, while all
the greater and lesser magnates sat
around enjoying their hookahs, and
elated with the noise of the tumtum
wallahs and the excitement of the
nautch dancers, which were prelimina
ry to the main object of the exhibition.
Near the centre of the circle a grave
zealously guarded, some five or six feet
deep, had been prepared, and by it a
coffin was placed. In due time the
blowing of trumpets and the sounding
of gongs announced the" advent of
Meechum Doss. He was dressed, as
magicians usually are in the East, very
plainly, but very well; a middle-aged
man in fine linen, who looked as if he
fared sumptuously every day, though
curried rice eaten with the fingers was
doubtless his only food. He descended
from the gayly caparisoned elephant
on which he had traveled and made
many gracious salaams to the assem
bled crowd. Having invited a full in
spection of himself, the coffin and
grave, he praceeded to perform various
incantations by the aid of a fire which
he kindled, and into which he threw
what appeared to be aromatic spices,
he then spread over himself a garment
on which he pronounced magical
words.
All this time a committee, of which I
was a member, appointed for the pur
pose by the Baboo, was watching his
every move very closely. At length,
after various turns and twists of his
body, which were sometimes very vio
lent, he appeared to lapse into a rigid
state, with his eyes and mouth closed,
after which he fell back into the arms
of an attendant Mephistopheles who
accompanied him. He was now placed
in the coffin, which was securely closed
and sealed. Then commenced the pro
cess of lowering the casket somo five
feet, which was done in a manner that
would have excited the envy of New
York undertakers. The hole was filled
up and well battered down, guards pro
vided by Baboo Lall Ch under being
placed oyer it.
After the interment, notice was given
that exhumation would take place four
weeks thereafter, at which all were in
vited to be present. Thetum-tum wal
lahs and the nautch girl3 resumed their
operations and noise, and the immense
crowd dispersed in a very orderly man
ner on the camels, elephants and
horses.
At the time appointed I was again
present, when the same initiatory cere
monies were enacted as at the burying,
and everything was as before, except
that the people looked solemn and
talked in whispers, wondering among
themselves whether necromaucy could
make the grave give back her dead.
The sentries who had kept guard and
watch were paraded, and testified that
they had done so faithfully for four
weeks. The grave was then dug into
until the coffin was reached.
Everything was found in order out
side, and upon the coffin being raised
the seals, which were of metal, were
found untouched. The box was opened,
and there reclined Meechum Doss,
looking tranquil. He was taken out.
His body and face presented the chilli
ness and rigidity of death, but there
were no signs of decomposition. Ac
cording to orders given by him to his
family before burial, he was well sham
pooed from head to foot and given
some decoction to swallow upon re
turning animation, which occurred in a
very short space of time. External
heat appearing, the limbs became
gradually relaxed, and then the open
ing of the eyes, which had a sort of
somnolent appearance.
Shortly after the elixir had been
given him he stood up in his right
mind and salaamed to the committee
and those around him. When asked
how he felt, and where he had been to,
he said that Brahmah was good, and
that he had enjoyed close fellowship
with their Godships Brahmah and
Vishnu in the bosom of the sacred
rivers and on the tops of the moun
tains.
This was highly satisfactory to the
spectators, who began to congratulate
themselves that no Coroner’s inquest
was necessary; while others, of a devo
tional turn, would no doubt have con
sented to be buried alive forthwith if
they could but have been sure of en
joying the same distinguished pri
vileges.
The crowd were now loud in their vo
ciferations, some calling on Mahomet
and Allah, others on Brahma, Vishnu
and Calle and all the calendar of Hin
doo deities, which, by the way, is by no
means so large as another calendar of
canonized saints that I know of.
Meechum-Doss was now escorted in
triumph before the assembled crowd,
and the noise on all hands was some
thing terrific. The magician made
many salaams and affectionately em
braced his attendant.
Baboo Lall Chunder then caused
sweetmeats and pipes to be sent round,
while the magician was seated upon a
special divan prepared for him. His
handsome buckshish or present was
presented to him with much ceremony,
after which a herald doolared the*
games closed. The mqltitqde, which
had been seated qpon the ground tailor
fashion, now rose as one man and sa-*
laamed to the wonderful necromancer,
and then to their host, Baboo Lall
Chunder, who took delight in provid
ing entertainments of no ordinary
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character for the people. Thus ended
a most astonishing exhibition. I be
lieve that everything was conducted
in a fair and square manner, but of
course I was not present the whole
time of interment I can not bear abso
lute testimony that Meechum Doss was
not taken up during that time and re
suscitated.
I give you the matter as I saw it oc
cur, and it may at all events be pleas
ing to some to hear of the way in which
the Easterns amuse their friends, and
what the Magi even in these latter
days can accomplish. Yours, very
truly, Edwin Wyndham Lawry.
MARY AND HER LAMB.
The True Story of the Immortal Ani
mal, as Related by Mary Herself.
[Springfield Republican^
There are floating about in the great
ocean of literature stray chips of song
or story, which from their wit or wis
dom, or from some unaccountable rea
son, become popularized or cherished
more carefully than whole navies of
world-renowned authors. Their pa
rentage unknown, they come as litera
ry foundlings to our doors, and, once
admitted, command their place in our
affections. Among such is the poem,
‘Mary had a Little L imb.” There is
hardly a child in the broad land who
has not become familiar with the
verses, not a college student but
has sung them to a dozen different
tunes. It has been parodied, parphrasod
and translated into tho dead languages.
And yet scarce any one knows who is
the author or whether it is ficticious or
founded on fact. It is, perhaps, in the
truth of the story that tho secret of
its popularity lies, for it is the true ac
count of an incident that happened
sixty-one years ago, not fifty miles from
the Cradle of Liberty. Aud “Mary,”
a delightful old lady of three-score and
ten, still lives aud cherishes the mem
ory of the event. The writer, on a re
cent visit, craved from her own lips the
true story of the affair, and will repro
duce it as nearly as possible. “It was
when I was nine years old,” she said,
“an Iwe lived on the farm. I used to
go out to the barn every morning with
father to see the cows and sheep. They
all knew me, and the cows, old Broad
and Shorthorn and Brindle, would low
a good morning when I came to their
stables. One cold day we found that
during the night twin limbs had been
born. You know that sheep will often
disown one of the twins, and this morn
ing one poor little lamb was pushed
out of the pen into the yard. It was
almost starved and almost frozen, and
father told me I might have it if I
could make it live. So I took it into
the house, wrapped it in a blanket and
fad it on peppermint and milk all day.
When night came I could not bear to
leave it for fear it would die, so mother
made up a little bed on the settle, and
I nursed the poor thing all night, feed
ing it with a spoon, and by morning it
could stand. After this we brought it
up by hand, until it grew to love me
very much, and would stay with me
wherever I went unless it was tied. I
used, before going to school in the
morning, to see that the lamb was
all right and securely fastened for
the day. Well, one morning, when my
brother Nat and I were all ready, tho
lamb could not be found, and, sup
posing that it had gone out to pasture
with the cows, wo started on. I used
to be a great singer, and the lamb
would follow the sound of my voice.
This morning, after we had gone some
distance, I began to sing, and the lamb
hearing me, followed on and overtook
us before we got to the school-house.
As it happened, we were early, so I
went in very quietly, took the lamb
into my seat, wnere it went to sleep,
and I covered it up with my-shawl.
When the teacher came and of
the scholars, they did not notice any
thing amiss, aud all was quiet un
til. my spoiling class was called.
I had hardly taken my place before the
pattiDg of little feet was heard coming
down the aisle, and the lamb stood be
side me ready for its word. Of course
the children all laughed and the teach
er laughed, too, and the poor creature
had to be turned out of doors. But it
kept coming back, and at last had to be
tied in the wood-shed till night. Now,
that day there was a young man in
school, John Roulston by name, who
was on a visit to one of the boys, and
came as a spectator. He was a Bos
ton boy and son of a riding master,
and was fitting for Harvard Col
lege. He was very much pleased over
what he saw in our school, and in a
few days after he gave us the first
three verses of the song. How or when
it got into print I don’t know.” Thus
she ran on telling of the care she
bestowed on her pet until it grew to be
a sheep, and she would curl its long
wool over a stick; and it bore lambs
until there was a flock of five all her
own; and finally how it was killed by
an angry cow. Then she brought out
a pair of her little-girl stockings, knit
ted of yarn spun from tho lamb’s wool,
the heels of which had been raveled
out and given away piecemeal as me
mentos. No one can doubt that she,
whose youth was rendered famous by
ove for an unfortunate animal has liv
ed a life of beneficence and charity. With
a heart overflowing with love towards
all God’s creatures, she has indeed lived
to care for the needy and destitute, and
be a mother to the motherless. Aud
now, in a green old age, she is sur
rounded by those whom her warm heart
long since taught to cliDg to her and
follow as the lamb in her youth. When
at last she shall cross the river she will
find an eternal home in the green pas
tures and beside the still waters, where
the Good Shepherd feeds his lamba.
John Roulston died before entering
college. What the world lost in him
who wove into verse that immortalized
them both the story of Mary and the
lamb no one may say.
B King found himself the centre of a
conversational circle at Ilion, New
York, the other day, and here is what
an old acquaintance said to him : “See
here, Bill, I’ve known you for some
time. A few years ago I wouldn’t lend
you SIOO. lou were dreadfully poor,
Bill. You were appointed Postmaster
of the House of Representatives. You
lived high, Biil, and your salary was
not very large. To-day you are worth
half a million dollars. Of course it’s
all right, Bill: you and I are old friends;
we won’t quarrel, but don't vindicate
yourself any more when I am around.”
Considerable surprise is expressed
by many citizens of Fordham that the
committee having the matter of erect
ing a monument over the remains of
the poet Edgar A- Poe and his mother
indaw, Mrs. Clemm, have not taken
measures to place the remains of Mrs.
Poe by the side of her husband and
mother, Mrs. Poo died at Fordham, in
the house in which Poe wrote “The Ra
ven,” and her remains were placed in
the old family vault of the Valentines,
in the Reformed Ghuroh at Fordham.
Very few good writers are good tajk
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