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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dailt—one year $lO 00 “ six months 6 oo “ three months 2 50 Tki-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 00 “ six months 1 00 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, 2% cts. Subscriptions must in all eases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to 11. C. STEVENSON. Manager. 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! - 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 To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND AFTER this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. 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 notioe taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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 ©re