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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO 00 “ six months 5 00 “ three months 2 60 Tbi-Weekly—one year 6 oo “ six months/!. 250 Weekly—one year 2 00 “ six months 1 go Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, cte. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, ! Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON. ) Addkess all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. The Sunday Constitutionalist. We will, to-morrow, Sunday morning, is sue an extraordinary edition, twice as large as upon any other day. It will contain telegraphic news from all points of the world, correspondence, miscellaneous arti cles, and the usual editorial commentaries. This edition of our paper is well nigh uni versally read by the population of Augusta and vicinity. Three and four times the usual number are sent out upon the trains leaving the city and sold along the roads leading therefrom. Advertisers will see from this statement of facts the advantages presented of communicating with ninety per cent, of the reading po> tion of Augusta and the surrounding country. California shook with an earthquake yesterday. Have you heard anything from Ohio yet? The letter of E. P. Clayton to Mr. Aus tell, of Atlanta, should excite the sympa thy of all for the misfortunes of his house. The California earthquake yesterday made a mistake in locating. It should have set up business in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. “What’s the name of your bull yearling?” “Bill Allen ?” “He wasn’t elected,” “ I haven’t named him yet, tnen.” Two poisoners met with summary death at Clinton, La., yesterday. A man was shot in the woods and a woman hung on the Court House Square. According to the Madiid Epoca news paper, Spain has fully determined to cut loose from the gov- lament of the Vatican in her religious matters. All the railroads leading from Pennsyl vania to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, could have declared a six per cent, passenger dividend the day after the election. — Cuyahoga county defeated ancient Wil helm Allen. There was always some thing treacherous about Indians, and old Cuy has not proven an exception. Of the thirty babies born in Augusta on the 12th, not one of them will be named Bill Allen. The plain reason is they were all girls. His defeat had nothing to do with it, whatever. New York houses continue to steadily go down under the pi assure of the times. Per haps a few more Radical victories will ar rest the destruction, and then again, per haps not. • -•- The best explanation we can gi ve of the late Democratic defeats is, this is an “off year.” But we don’t want the year to get off too often. Next year, for instance, we want it to be on hand, entirely. Grant has been to Colorado. While there he presented a stud-horse to a man “for the purpose of uniting the party.” Some body "had given him the horse and he was mean enough to refuse to pay the freight on him to St. Louis. We attributed the defeat of Bill Allen to the New York World. This seems to have been a mistake, for we have since learned it had only thirteen subscribers in Ohio, and they had all been disfranchised for grand larceny. How much Cincinnati bacon will yoq be able to buy next year? That town polled a heavier vote for the Badical ticket the other day than the weight of a drove of hogs. Guess we’ll contract on bacon from this out. There are too many Radical ' ‘skippers” about it to be healthy. Little Adelbekt Ames again ! We were highly in hope of not hearing from him any more, in at least six months. He thrusts himself forward, however, through the United States Marshall in a dispatch to Pease, the language of which would be ap proved by the Grand Turk. His rebellious subjects having sworn loyalty to his per son, and entered into solemn pledges of peace and good will, he has graciously sus pended military operations against them. His minister plenipotentiary at Washing ton will so inform his most exalted and gracious master. Poor old Radical Cincinnati! It always hated tho South and the Southern \ eople. It has stuck to that party and seen Chicago burn and pass it i 1 growth, St. Louis re ducing it to a foui th-rate concern, and even Louisville will leave it in the lurch in a few years. Its merchants are world-wide known as picayune skinflints, mistrusting everybody, its people at large as narrow minded bigots in politics and religion, and exceedingly vulgar In manners. The high est education a man ever attains there is to kill and clean hogs! They have coarse complexions, large feet, and would skin a Ilea for its hide and tallow, especially if they could shove the tallow off for butter. Trade opened well in the fore part of the week, but dulled off at the dos\ There was an active demand for cotton yesterday at for Good Middling. There is no reason why the elections this week should have a feather’s weight with our commerce. It is our special business now and for all time to come to raise enough provisions to Jive upon and save from thirty to forty mil lions of dollars worth of cotton every year with which to buy the necessaries of life. ILet’s quit buying the corn and bacon from Radical Ohio. That move on our part would quickly elect all the Bile Allens running. The vote of the Northwest next year wilt greatly depend upon the amount of trade the South sends there. If little, then the very ground will swell up with Democratic voters. The dispatches published this morning, say 'that Hates is elected Governor of Ohio by 4,000 majority, that the Senate is Radical by 2 votes and the House by 12. The dispatch from Washington to the Bal timore Sun, that it was not a party tri umph, that it was financial, hard or soft money, and that upon a tri il of strength between the parties, pure and simple, would result in a Democratic triumph by 40,000 majority, is important. Washington politicians who are not carried away by the noise of the hour, so say. Had the peo ple of Ohio been called upon on the 12th to face the question of four more years of Radical rule of the Federal Government, the result would have been far different. The real issues upon which the Presidential battle wili be fought were but remotely introduced into the Ohio election, and the people not aeked to determine them. It was a light on the skirmish line before the siege train came up. Nor was it a defeat, all this aside. It is the small ad vantage of 4,000 in a grand total vote of 500.000, the Democracy coming out of the battle with 30,000 more men than they ever had before. The change of only one vote in every hundred will turn the scale, and it is the Republicans who are losing ground now and the Democrats who are gaining strength all over the country by the elapse pf time. @lje Slwgitsta Constitutionalist Established 1799. THE OHIO ELECTION. Hayes’ Majority 4,ooo—The Republi cans Have Two Majority in the Sen ate and Twelve in the House. Columbus, October 15. — Neither the Republican nor Democratic Committees have received any additional returns this morning. The Senate is still in doubt. The result cannot be deter mined until full returns are received from Wood county, where it is report ed the counting is delayed by fraudu lent votes polled. Later.— The news just received from Wood county claims that heavy frauds ,were. practised in Perrysburg, which will probably necessitate the throwing out of votes polled there. If this vote is counted Hayes’ majority in the coun ty will be 469, and it elects one Repub lican Senator. If thrown out, Hayes’ majority in that county will be 732, and both Republican Senators elected. In either case a Republican Representa tive is elected, which gives the Senate to the Republicans by two majority and the House by twelve majority. Hayes’ majority will probably now be over 4,000. The Ohio Election—Not a Party Vic tory—lts Effect on Coming Events. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Suil] Washington, October 13. — The Ad ministration adherents were very loud to-day in claiming the result of the Ohio election as an indorsement of the Administration. This is stoutly de nied by the anti-administration Repub licans, who say that the issue on which they won was hard money. They as sert that on a question of indorsing the course of the Administration, Ohio would go for the Democrats by 40,000 majority. It is admitted by the more intelligent and less prejudiced class of Republicans that the election of Hayes : cannot be in any sense regarded as a party victory. The great paramount issue was the question of sound money, ! and there is no doubt that Hayes’ ma jority is more than made up by Demo cratic votes. The effect of this election, it is con ceded, will reach very far. It cannot fail to have a disastrous effect on the Democratic prospects in Pennsylvania, and it will do much to weaken the chances of Mr. Randall for Speaker. It will bring forward very prominently Governor Tihjen for the Presidency, and it effectually squelches the aspira tions of Governor Allen in that direc tion. It will also tend to widen the differences and increase the bitterness between the leaders of the hard money Democracy of the East and tbe leaders of the inflation Democracy of the West. It and the Republican victories in the other States which held elections yesterday, establish the further fact that the Democrats are not going-to have any walk-over in the Presidential race. It looks now as if the Democracy was in no better con dition chan in 1868. Although, as said above, the result in Ohio may not be a Republican victory, it is certainly a Democratic defeat. The history of the Democratic party in the last ten or fifteen years shows that when its pros pects have been of the brightest they have been invariably marred by the in judicious acts and utterances of those who assume to direct its destinies. It is now time that the people should hesitate when such men come to the front. Toledo, 0., October 15. —A special to the JSlade says Wood county gives Hayes 469 majority. Also that both Republican candidates for Senators are elected. Columbus, October 15—Midnight.— Returns are received from all the coun ties, which are considered correct as can be obtained until the official re turns are received by the Secretary of State. These show Hayes’ majority to be 4.753. The official returns may vary this count 300 either way. The Re publicans have a majority of seventeen in the House of Representatives, and three majority certainly and possibly four in the Senate. The balance of the Republican State ticket is probably elected. The official returns must de cide the respective majorities. The in terest in the election remained at fever heat until the returns from Wood county to-day settled the political com plexion of the Senate. FROM WASHINGTON. Meeting of the Cabinet. Washington, October 15.—The Cabi net met at 12 o’clock to-day. Assistant Secretary Cadwahader represented the State Department, and Assistant Secre tary Cowan the Interior Department. Department Report of Cotton. The Agricultural Department reports an improvement in the condition of cotton during the past month as indi cated in Alabama, Louisiana and Ar kansas. The depreciation in Missis sippi is slight, from 98 to 96, occasioned by storms. The destructive equinox tial storm wasted and stained much fibre in Southern Texas, reducing the State percentage of condition from 94 to 88. In North Carolina and Tennes see September was cold, and the har vest is late, with less (favorable pros pects of a top crop. A reduction of percentage of Georgia from 76 to 71 is caused by storms and the in creasing prevalence of rust. South Caroliua is three per cent, lower from similar conditions. In several counties of Florida the caterpillar has been in jurious. Taking a survey of the whole field, the reduction of condition since September returns is an undoubted fact, though the depreciation is slight as compared with October returns of last year. Crop prospects are worse in South Carolina, Georgia and Flori da, but decidedly better in all States from Alabama westward. The per centage of condition is as follows: North Carolina, 85; South Carolina, 77 ; Florida, 70 ; Georgia, 71 ; Alaba ma, 94 ; Mississippi, *96 ; Louisiana, 90; Texas, 88 ; Arkansas, 103 ; Ten nessee, 90. Appointment. The President signed the commission of Win. S. Alexander, Postmaster at Jacksonville, Ala. The Cabinet was two hours in ses sion. Routine business. No appoint ment of Secretary of the Interior. Earthquake in Jamaica. Washington, October 15.—The Sig nal Office reports a severe earthquake at 1 a. m. of the 15th at Kingston, Ja maica. Earthquake in California. San Francisco, October 15.—A sharp shock of an earthquake was experi enced here about 6 o’clock this evening. Vibrations from east to w r est. Advices from Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco, mention the occurrence of a similar shock there. No damage re ported. Seven persons in one Nashville family have harelips. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Spain and the Vatican. Madrid, October 15.—The Epoca, of this city, has an editorial article ex planatory of the note recently sent to the Vatican. “The note,” says the Epoca, “points to the religious condi tion of Europe, and makes the deduc tion that Spain cannot be exceptional. It expressed a wish to negotiate for the modification of some of the articles of the Concordat of 1851, which can never be executed.” The Spanish note in reply to the Vatican is conciliatory. The Ministry explain that they were defeated. The note asks the Vatican to consent to a settlement on as broad a basis as pos sible. Gales on the English Coasts. London, October 15. —There were heavy gales around the coasts of Great Britain yesterday. Tho telegraph has already announced the wreck of several coasters, and the loss of a number of lives. The AVar in Turkey. Constantinople, October 15.—The following news is official: A force of 2,000 insurgents have been defeated by Turks. One hundred and sixty were killed. The rest took refuge in Monte negro. Seventeen villages hitherto strongly insurgent have submitted to Turkish authority. Violent Debate in the Bavarian Par liament. Munich, October 15.—A violent de bate occurred in the Bavarian Cham ber of Deputies ou the address intro duced on the Bth inst., by the Ultra montane party, calling for the dismis sal of the Ministry. Deputy Freitag (Ultramontane) re proached the Government with display ing insufficient independence in its re lations with the Imperial Government. He also stated that if the Governmnt displayed less fear of being domineered they would easily find allies in the Federal Council in opposition to Prus sia. His speech was liberal and tem perate. He closed speaking because of the insults of the opposite side. Fi nally the address was passed by a vote of 79 to 76. —a FROM NEW YORK. More Failures—Butler ou the Finances —lndictment of Dolan. New York, October 15.—Moses L. Herman & Cos., woolen dealers, at No. 22 Walker street, failed yesterday. Li abilities $200,000, and .assets $95,000. The principal member of the firm is a brother of the Herman who suspended Wednesday. Harris Rothstern.a hatter, yesterday made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. • Liabilities $37,069.58, and assets $l2O 45 Gen. Butler lectured on the finances at Cooper Institute. The Instilute was filled. The grand jury have indicted Dolan for the murder of Noe. On Cotton Exchange to-day suspen sion of the firms of C. J. Methurn & Cos., C. B. Camp and Dufais & Ebert was aunouced. Liabilities not stated. These failures were caused by a rise in cotton. LITTLE GOV. AMES. A Fool Dispatch to Washington. Washington, October 15.—The fol lowing was received here to-day: Jackson, October 14. To Hon. 11. li. Pease, Washington: Military operations have been sus pended by Gov. Ames, based upon the most full, ample and minute assurances of the leading citizens of the State that there shall be peace and a fair and free election. They would not undertake to answer for the lawless, but they guar antee to aid the civil officers in the ex ecution of the laws. The Governor ex presses himself wholly satisfied with the assurances given, and believes that they are made in good faith, and will be carried out to the letter. An im proved feeling prevails, especially among the whites, and a general desire for peace prevails among all citizens. Good citizens are greatly encouraged. [Signed] J. L. Lake, Jr., U. S. Marshal. The Attorney General stated at the Cabinet meeting that he is in receipt of information which he deems au thentic, to the effect that both parties in Mississippi have agreed to terms which will prevent further troubles in that State, and a peaceable election is confidently anticipated. Brutal Outrages. Binghamton, October 15. —Minnie German, aged 9 years, while walking with a younger sister, was waylaid and outraged. The children’s screams brought two ladies to their assistance. At the same time a party of men came up and tbe ruffians escaped to the woods. Subsequently <t young man by the name of W. Lovert was arrested and identified. The officers had trou ble in keeping the people from him. The girl may die. New York, October 15. —Tbe colored Coach Drivers’ Association, while re turning from a pic-nic, were assailed by rowdies. Two were killed and seven assailants arrested. Atlanta, October 15. — Edmonson, the negro that raped a white woman in Fayette county, was captured iu this city to-day. THE FATE OF PRISONERS. Shot to Death ami Hung at Clinton, La. Baton Rogue, October 15.—George Antoine, of New Orleans, and John Isair were arrested here yesterday by deputy sheriff Woodward, charged with being accessory to the poisoning of Dr. J. W. Sanders, and taken by a deputy sheriff and posse towards Clinton. Re ports here say John Isair was shot to death on the road, and his sister-in law liungin the Court House square there. Mrs. Isair is here but was not disturbed. THE TURF. Lulu Fails to Beat Herself. Rochester, October 15. — Lfilu ran against her time of 2:14, making three trials. Time, 2:16‘ 2 , 2:14%, 2:16. Lu cille, Goldust and Thos. L. Young ran. Best time 2:21. Albion Jockey Club. Nashville, October 15.—Track heavy. In the first race, mile heats, Sue Wynn winner; Truesilale second. Time I:sG>£. Second race one and a half mile dash, Sallie Gardner winner; Ari zona dead heat between Fannie Malone and Damon for third place. Time 2:45. Fall of 1,000 People. Greenfield, 0., October 15. —The seats around the race track fell with 1,000 men, women and children, severe ly injuring a large number. AUGUSTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875. THE OHIO ELECTION. A BUNDLE OF OPINIONS-YOU PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE. A Bugle Note from Pennsylvania. Democratic Committee ) Rooms, Philadelphia, j . October 13,1875, 2 o’clock a. m. ) To the People of Pennsylvania: The indications are that the friends of reform are defeated ii|i Ohio. It has been a gallant and boljji light by the people of that State against the money of the Federal Treasui v(and the money of the banking institutions of the coun try. It has been an issue between the honor and integrity cf the masses against official power. We sympathize with the men who have fallen in de fense of those sacred rights guarauteed to them by the Constitutional laws of the country. By the power of their own money, raised from them by op pressive taxation, they have fallen. But the issues presented in the con test which has transpired in Ohio are not those which are before us in Penn sylvania. The people of Ohio are au ag ricultural people. The great staples of Pennsylvania consist of her iron, her coal, her manufactories and me chanical industries; these have first felt the baleful influences of a profli gate government and a ibad system of national legislation. Wa, of Pennsyl vania, have been the first to feel the rod of oppression and tyranny. The people of Ohio have yet!to learn what it has been our misfortune to realize; had they but have been sensible of the wrongs we suffer, the power of the money of tho Federal; Treasury, and the corrupt and demoralizing practices of the who used it could never have beaten down the honest yeomanry of Ohio. What, therefore, is our duty as Penn sylvanians? The disasters of our friends iu Ohio should encourage us to combat this insolent foe with a deter mination and zeal that nave no limita tion. The obligations ive owe to our selves, to our country, to our families aud to the cause of goc ? d government imperiously demand thii of us. The desolation of our manufacturing indus tries, the depression oft tho wages of labor require that we should enter into the approaching contest with all our courage, with all our energy and a set tled determination on our part that nothing shall be left undone which the emergency requires at our hands. We cannot afford that the hard earnings of a busy life of labor shall be exposed to the executioner’s hammer, nor can we stand aud endure that terrible burthen of taxation which is exacted from us. Let us go into this contest under the broad banners of reform. Let us stand by the organization that has been formed and the resolves adopted by the Democratic Convention at Erie. Let us merge every personal consider ation and look only *o the common good iu the relief of a suffering and distressed people. Let us battle for our homes aud firesides before the mercenary power of a mercenary gov ernment shall rob us of them. Fellow-citizens, the issue before you may be the last one between the power of incorporated wealth on one side and the integrity and honor of the popular masses on the other. Let those who are attempting to impoverish and ruin you understand now thiit the hour of determined resistance sias came, and that it is your purpose to make that manly resistance which-’the emergency of the occasion requires. Hendrick B. Wright, Chairman Democratic State Commit tee. % Reform the only Hope of Democracy. [N. Y. Herald.] This disreputable canvass and dis astrous election have blighted the fair est hopes of the Democratic party.— With its worst elements! led by a dema gogue like Governor Allen, with Gov ernor Tilden running the party in this State to promote his ambitious person al aspirations, and tho’ prospect of a bitter quarrel and bandying of recrimi nations between their followers, the immediate prospects bt the party are not brilliant. The Democratic defeat in Ohio carries, as its inevitable conse quence, a Democratic defeat in Penn sylvania, and a diminution of the Dem ocratic majority in New York by the new hope and courage that will be in fused into the Republicans.— There is but one way to retrieve these misfortunes. There is no salvation for the Democratic par ty but by making Administra tive reform the paramount issue, and reuniting the party in a strenuous opposition to the abuses which have prevailed in President, Grant’s admin istration. It was absurd to raise any other banner than one inscribed with reform; but we trust it is not too late for tbe Democracy to be consolidated on that basis. The inflation issue has united the Republicans on the currency questions and widened the breach be tween the Democrats. The only hope of the party lies in the action of the House of Representatives when Con gress assembles. If the House devotes itself to investigations and exposures, if it succeeds in dragging a great mass of hidden corruption to light and cover ing the administration; with disgrace, tho Democrats may yet; fight their way to power as the champions of reform. There is no hope for the party on any other issue. Not Much of a Showier After All. [Columbia (S. C.) Union-Herald (Rep.).] Ohio elects Hayes by ten thousand majority. The effect of this election upon the spirit of the two parties will be altogether out of proportion to tho real significance of it. Republican editors will place the State in the column of those sure for their candi date iu 1876, while the Democrats will sorrowfully remove it from their list, where it has since 1873 been a chief or nament. The true place for it, how ever, is in the doubtful bolumn, unless later returns should swell the majority to thirty or forty thousand. With a voting population which, in times of excitement, may be swelled to six hun dred thousand, the change of one vote in a hundred will give an election to one or the other party by ten or twelve thousand majority. Avery slight mis take in making platforms or nominat ing candidates would peril Republican success. An Inflated Political View. [N. Y. Times (Hep).] The decision in Ohio must be follow ed by similar verdicts m other Dates. The Republican party alone can be de pended on to steer the nation clear of the financial ruin to which demagogues like Allen and Cary vbuld inevitably conduct it. That party does not con struct two different boss of principles for two different sections of the coun try. It does not offer hard money to the East and rag money to the West and South. It braves unpopularity in many parts of the country in order that it may preserve the national honor untarnished. It can never have a harder fight to wage than that which was brought to an end yesterday in the State of Ohio. A comparatively small portion of the bonds is held in the West and South. There the bondholder is too often looked upon as a “bloated aristocrat” who lives upon the hard earnings of the poor. After a victory there, there ought to be no doubt about Pennsyl vania, and none about New York. It would be an indelible disgrace to Penn sylvania if she took sides with the in flationists at the very moment when even in Ohio the demagogues were re jected. New York, loaded down with John Kelly and Tammany, can still less afford to cast in her lot with the party which is substantially for flooding the country with spurious money and swindling the national creditor. A Know-Nothing Hurrah. [Cincinnati Gazette (Rad.).] The full Catholic vote did not save the Democracy from ruin. Either that vote was not as united as it was pledged to be, or there was not enough of it to go very far. They sang a Te Deum in Rome over the massacre of St. Bartholomew, but there will be no joyous celebration in the Sistine Chapel of the result of the Ohio election. Shocked But Not Vanquished. [Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) ] The State election yesterday was marked by events of the most extra ordinary character. The Democratic ticket was assailed, and the platform upon which it was nominated, bitterly opposed by the organs of the so-called Democracy of New York. They urgently called upon the people to beat our nominees aud to elect our Republican opponents. That it had some influence on the result is beyond question. There are thousands of Democrats in Ohio who formerly lived in New York and who keep up a connection with their old homes through the medium of New York papers. We thus lost very con siderably through this Eastern inter ference in our politics. But this was not all. The wealthy Democrats of New York contributed large sums in behalf of Hayes and against the re election of Gov. Allen. In the mean time, he had words of encouragement from Republicans, such as Wendell Phillips, Wm. D. Kelley, Benjamin F. Butler, Peter Cooper aud others. This indicates that we have now anew is sue which is destined to radically change the permanent organization of parties. We are but in the beginning of anew era of American politics. We have inaugurated, and only inaugura ted, the fight of the oppressed masses, of the tax-payers against the privi leged classes that are represented by National Banks, gold-bearing bonds aud gold gamblers. It is not to be supposed that such a powerful combi nation can be suppressed and brought to terms by the result of a single elec tion, let it bd what it may. The peo ple who have engaged in this struggle have enlisted for the war. They know it may be long, aud are certain it will be desperately contested. It required a quarter of a century’s agitation in Great Britain before the repeal of the corn laws was effected—before the la boring masses could obtain untax ed bread. A similar period was re quired for Catholic emancipation and passage of tho reform of the represen tation in Parliament bill. The war against African slavery lasted a third of a century before, by the follies of its opponents, it was crowned with suc cess. What is called the greenback movement is as certainly destined to succeed as the other great questions which we have alluded to above. It is only a question of time. The contrac tion of the currency will be stopped. There will be an increase of it sufficient to meet the demands of business. The increase will be iu Government legal tenders. The National bank notes will be retired ; their place will be supplied by greenbacks. The bonds of the United States will be taxed by the Federal Government as other property is taxed. Tho interest-bearing debt will be re duced, and the non-interest-bearing one will be increased. This we shall proclaim in the hour of victory or in the hour of temporary defeat. A Daily Post Across the Atlantic- We are promised a pigeon post be tween Europe and America. This won derful project, which, if successful, is destined to supersede in a measure the submarine telegraph, will be accom plished by means of an “ocean-homing bird” of great docility and intelligence, which has lately been found in Iceland, and which has already proved its ability to fly at the rate of 151 miles au hour. The birds live only in wild, rocky regions, and the land telegraph or common errrier pigeon will be re quired to supplement their labors. A pair of these birds, in a recent experi ment, brought dispatches from Paris to a lonely part of Kent, Eng land, ten miles from London, in less than one hour aud a half, and tbe dis patches were forwarded from that point by press carrier pigeons, the whole dis tance between Paris aud London being accomplished iu exactly one hour and a half. The owners of these birds are now engaged iu training aud propaga ting them, and propose to establish a daily mail next summer between Amer ica and Europe, the whole distance to be traversed between sunrise in one hemisphere and sunset in the other. If the trans-Atlantic experiment is suc cessful, the birds can be brought to this country and domesticated in some rocky region of New England, whither they will bring in European letters, printed in miniature, within twenty four hours of their date. General Telegraphic News. Newburyport, Conn., October 15. Hon. William Cashing, the youngest brother of Hon. Caleb Cushing, is dead, aged 52. Boston, October 15.—There was quite a run on the Home Savings Bank. The bank paid all who came without exact ing the notice. London, October 15. —Advices receiv ed here announce the Dutch ship Wil lem Poolman, Capt. Yalck, last from New Castle, June 3d for Portland, Oregon totally destroyed by fire at sea. Crew saved. Augusta, Me., October 15.—A fire in the steam mill of the Kennebec Land and Lumber Company, east side of the river. The mill with its valuable ma chinery and two lumber houses was consumed. Loss, $50,000. A derrick fell, fatally injuring Herbert L. Beale, and severely injuring Chas. Diplock, members of the Pacific Fire Company. Three brides found a New Haven in Hartford, Wednesnay. A man’s word is worth $1 gold, when sent by cable. HARD TIMES. THE CAUSE OF HARD TIMES PRACTICALLY DISCUSSED. . Short Metre vs. Long Metre. [Nashville American.] While a great banking monopoly ex ists, receiving the profits of almost double the capital it possesses, wring ing immense profits from the govern ment, from rich, from poor, from all, there can be no prosperity. So long as corruption aud peculation shall exist in every branch of the gov ernment, so long as steamship and railway lines subsidize the government to be subsidized in turn, so long as Legislators and Vice-Presidents com bine to form great companies to de fraud the government, so long as there is reckless extravagance and profligate expenditure, so long there will be no return to a State of prosperity. So long as government fosters a privileged class of protected manufacturers to feed and grow fat from the profits of the field, the workshop, the store—the manifold occupations of the unprotect ed many—the business men, the la borers, the farmers, the professional men, who pay tribute to the protected, almost equal to the profits arising from their vocations, so long will business languish and trade grow weaker and weaker. So long as Government, by every act, favors the East at the ex pense of the South aud West, the North at the expense of the South and of the great masses of all sections, so long as everything used in protected manufac tures is admitted duty free, and every article manufactured for the consump tion of the masses is taxed for the benefit of the protected, so long as one section bears all the burthens and receives no benefits, there can be no healthy business, no sound trade, no prosperous industries, no adequate production, no prop er return for labor, no sound finance, no sound currency. Hence while the j currency should not be neglected the ; Democracy should attack the Ilepubli- j can party upon these great vital issues, ! which lie at the foundation of the Gov- j eminent, at the base of society, and un- j derlie all healthful industry. Thus it ; will restore prosperity aud sound trade and sound currency, by restoring the conditions under which alone prosperi ty is possible. Skirmishing on the out skirts, skimming the surface aud fail ing to reach the bottom of our politics, the Ohio Democracy have sustained de feat. It now remains for the National Democracy to lay the lesson to heart; and out of disaster to bring success to the party, peace, wise administration and prosperity to the country —not abandoning, but in its fullest sense, with the broadest understanding of the entire field, just beginning the crusade against monopoly. A Manufacturing City. [Washington Chronicle.] Columbus, Ga., is putting in a claim for being the most enterprising manu facturing city in the South. It is situ ated on the left bank of the Chatta hoochee river, at the head of naviga tion, more than a hundred miles south west of Atlanta, a rather less distance west of Macon, and equidistant be tween it and Montgomery, Ala., and about two hundred miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. With the latter it has connection by means of a tolerably good water channel, along the river passing its front, aud the Apalachicola, further down. It is on the western border of Georgia—Alabama being di rectly across the river a few miles, say twenty, below the half-way point of the distance from the Florida boundary on the South, to that of Tennessee ou the north. The population of Columbus, in 1870, was 7,401, and the county of Muscogee 16,603. The presumption is that at the present time there are in, in the city alone, 10,000 souls. For a long time Columbus has been known as a fine manufacturing point. Upon the river front she has remarka bly fine cotton factories and several miles of splendid water power still un occupied. There are two other cotton mills in the heart of the city, engaged in producing valuable and special lines of goods. These, altogether, consume eight thousand bales of cotton, deliver ed almost from the fields in which grown, and, iu some cases, literally gin ned from the seed at the factory. Then, there are stove works in success ful operation; machine shops and foun dries in full blast, producing every thing that is required by the best kind of skilled labor, be it a plowshare or a steamboat; and a bagging factory is soon to go into operation. So much, in a general way, for manufacturing. We doubt if any Southern city can make a better showing, whether large or small. Now let us look at some other mat ters, outgrowths of the fact that this plaice has been made an industrial hive where labor is respected. The banks have maintained their integrity, and there are three of them, and two savings institutions in the bargain. These indicate the thrift, economy and prosperity of the working classes. The insurance companies are strong and well conducted, and prompt iu settle ment. The public schools challenge comparison with any in the Uuited States. Light draught boats are pour ing the rich products of Georgia, Ala bama and Florida into the lap of Co lumbus, and river transportation com petes with that of several railroads; so that the carrying business is conducted fairly and cheaply. The surrounding country produces cotton as the great staple; but, latterly, the cereals have become very abundant. Five hun red bushels of corn are now made where only fifty were produced five years ago; oats, on@e almost unknown, is now a common crop. Every farmer has his rye, wheat, cane and barley patch, and also his pea fields and there are many barns filled with home-made hay. Mowing and reaping machines have ceased to be curiosities. Small farms are the order of the day, the dwellings on which are dotting the val leys and the hill sides. And, to crown all, in the poetical language of the Times, from which we have been glean ing the above, “the suggestive strain to our familiar ears of negro melodies, is heard again in the cabin and corn field, fond reminders of ‘auld lang syne,’ full of significance and of promise.” Long ago—long before that period, when war, with its ruthless and deso lating influences, laid its hand upon the South—we remember well how lovingly a relative, one who lies now quietly resting in the churchyard, at Colum bus, would depict the grand future of the city of his adoption—and, knowing the value of his opinion when living, we are now prepared to endorse the concluding sentiment of the Times, when it says: “All that we need is, cheerfulness, enterprise, con fidence in ourselves and the future of our city, and the prosperity of the past, we so much lament, will, dwindle into insignificance in comparison with_our future.” New Series —Vol. 28, No. 61 HARD MONEY. A Couple of Connecticut Statesmen Discuss the Financial Situation. A Danbury man was looking at his yard Thursday afternoon. He was looking at it in such a way as to easily attract the attention of any neighbor who might have a lot of unemployed time on hand. Such a party pretty soon joined the observer, and immedi ately took an all-absorbing interest in the contemplated improvement. From this subject they rapidly drifted into finance. “Pretty tough times,” observed the neighbor. “Yes, they are that, an’it’ll be tough er before we’re over it, 1 imagine,” was the answer. They were both sitting on a saw horse under an apple-tree, near the back door, when this conversation commenced. The owner of the prem ises was chewing on a bit of straw, and the neighbor was mechanically pulling tops from the plantain in reach. “ What do you think of this money question which has got into politics this year ? ” inquired the neighbor. “ I think it will be settled, one way or the other, before another Presiden tial election is over,” replied the own er. “You see, the matter is being ’*• “ Ezekiel! ” pronounced a sharp voice from the stoop. “ Well, what is it ? ” he curtly in quired. “ I wish you would got me a pail of water.” “In a minute—as I was sayin’, the matter is bein’ pressed with unusual force. Tiiere lias been this effort for years, to come down to a specie basis, but nothing definite has been reached. Now, I imagine this campaign will set tle it.” “You believe specie to be the best currency, of course.” “ Certainly ; what does the iucrease of paper money amount ” “ Ezekiel 1 ” came the voice from the stoop. “In a minute—all the paper you might print from now till ” “Ezekiel!” “Thunder and lightning, Maria, what is the matter?” he possibly ejaculated. “I want you to get me a pail of water; I’m waiting for it.” “I’ll get it in a minute if you’ll just hold your breath. You might, as I said, print money till doomsday, an’ if you ain’t got the gold to back it, what is it goiu to amount to ? As far as ex change is concerned, among ourselves, I will admit that paper—” “Ezekiel!” “Good gracious, Maria, what do you want?” “I want a pail of water; I’ve told you a dozen times. If you don’t hurry up with it you’ll have to go without din ner.” “Where is the pail,” snapped the an noyed husband, seeing it in her hand. “It’s a pity if I can’t get a chance to say a word without being put out every minute.” Seeiug him rise up, she sat the pail down on the stoop and retired, and he, helping himself to a fresh straw, said : “As I was sayin’, paper is well enough among ourselves as a matter of ex change, but what are we going to do for imports ? We can’t get along with out gold then. And what are we going to do when this money is called in, if we haven’t gold enough to redeem it ? Now suppose, for instance, that I had ten—.” “Ezekiel!” came the voice again, but he did not hear it. “ —thousand dollars in cash, and supposin’ I wanted to use forty thou sand dollars. What do I do ? I take—” “Ezekiel! why on earth don’t you stop that gab of yours, and get me a pail of water ?” “Yes, yes ;in a minute—an’ I take my paper on the market for that amouut. Here is ten thousand dollars in cash, you see, and here is the — woosh —gar —ooh! ” And just here the gasping husband was awed into silence by seeing his neighbor dash over the fence in a drip ping condition. The forty thousand dollars on paper was not there, as might have reasonably been expected ; but a pail of indifferent water was there, hurled with all the force and fury an exasperated woman is capa ble of. And as the choking expounder of specie as a basis reached out spasmod ically for his breath, the interested neighbor, with fully two-thirds of the contents of the bucket in his hair and under his coat collar, sped across the lots with a vehemence that was really marvellous as an exhibition of speed, and with a silence in regard to the cause which was born of twenty years of married life. A NEW TRICK. Two Costly Messages by Telegraph. [Baltimore American.l Michael J. Ash, doing business at No. 124 Light street wharf, was yesterday swindled out of $223 under singular circumstances. A man, about twenty eight years of age, pretending to be a messenger of the Franklin Telegraph Company, appeared at the store of Mr. Ash, and handed him two telegrams purporting to come over the wires of the above-mentioned company. The dispatches were signed “ Wheeler,” Washington, and as a certain Mr. Wheeler, of Washington, is a customer of Mr. Ash, the latter had no doubt of the genuineness of the dispatches. The telegrams were addressed to “ Michael C. Ash,” one of them being as follows : “ If you have some good second-hand anchors on hand, let me know it, please. I can give you a good figure for them. Wheeler, Washington.” The other telegram read as follows : “ I also want a good condition chain, about fifty feet long. Wheeler.” The man handed Mr. Ash a book, asking him to place his name under a certain figure, as an acknowledgment of the receipt of the telegrams. Mr. Ash did so, but later investigation showed that he had appended his sig nature, not in the book, but on a cheok for $223. The bogus messenger had skilfully placed a blank check under a page of the book, and only the edge of the check could be seen. This was done so cleverly that it escaped detection. Later in the day an officer of the Na tional Union Bank told Mr. Ash that he had a great notion to refuse pay ment on his check for $223, as the sig nature was different from that in whioh Mr. Ash’s checks are usually signed. In answer to inquiries, Mr. Ash was told that a man, answering the description of the bogus messenger, had presented a check calling for the amount above mentioned, and Mr. Ash learned that he had been imposed upon. The man was apparently a German, five and a half feet high, and weighing about 140 pounds. Jack Frost is in a Kentucky jail. 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 notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. North Georgia had frosts on the 13th and 14th, wilting, withering, chilling and killing every green thing of the genus vegetable. Rome Courier: And when Foster Blodgett returns shall we look for Rufus B. Bullock? And shall Blodgett be welcomed with a banquet at our State Capital ? Marietta Journal: The picker-room of Roswell Factory caught fire the other day, and but for the pluck and energy of those in control the entire concern would have been reduced to ashes. * * They are getting numer ous, Col. Forsyth, of Rome, has dis covered in Paulding county a rich cop per mine, which will realize S6O to the ton. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, President of the Soldiers’ Association, has issued the following call: “The Survivors’ As sociation of ex-Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Georgia will meet in Ma con on the 19th day of October, 1875, at 12 o’clock a. in. All Conferate sol diers and sailors in Georgia who feel an interest in the social and benevolent objects of the association are earnestly requested to attend. The Executive Committee will hold a preliminary meeting in Macon on the 18th, and every member of the committee is re quested to attend. Albany News: The cotton crop of Southwestern Georgia is evidently fall ing short of our estimates, if the re ceipts to date are to be accepted as in dices. Our cotton statement shows a much greater falling off than 25 per cent., and we have no reliable informa tion that planters are holding back their crops in proportion to the deficit in receipts. It is true that the crop is later, and is not being gathered as rap idly as last year, aud it may be that this is mainly the cause of the short receipts. It would, however, be ex travagant to insist upon more than three-fourths of a crop. Covington Star: We saw a pair of gourds, last Monday, which a Newton county beauty learned to swim with. It might be well to state that we did not see the girl during the time she was exercising her muscles in the wa ter. Wish we had. * * Col. S. K. Johnson, efficient Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad, has postponed running that fast train from Augusta to Atlanta, on account of the illness of one of the officers of the road. The Colonel desires that all the officers of the road take the ride, even if they have to be strapped to their seats in order to keep their scalps on. The En terprise will give due notice of the time and day when the lightning train will pass Covington depot. * * * * A Covington lady desired a setter pup. Her husband brought her one and she named it Ed. Ed has been at the lady’s house just two weeks. Up to this time he has killed nine little chickens, chawed up one mattress, carried off two pairs of shoes and destroyed one parasol and three pairs of stockings. The pup has also run every cat from the place and ate the pig's tail off, be sides poking its mouth into every dish and plate of eatables which has been cooked on that place. No eggs have been found since the first day the dog arrived. In a month Edward will be large enough to kill sheep, and then the good lady will have a few hours of peace. HANGED AT EIGHTY. A Texas Octogenarian Dies Upon the Gallows—Game to the Last and Full of Blasphemy, [Dallas (Texas) Commercial.] Mr. Lambkin, who is just in from Granbury, gives us the particulars of the hanging of old man Mitchell, and the killing of Jeff Mitchell, while at tempting to convey poison to his father. The readers of the Commercial are fa miliar with the particulars of the kill ing of the Truitts, and the arrest aud conviction of Nelson Mitchell for mur der in the first degree. Although every effort was made to secure the commutation of the sentence, Gov. Coke was grim in his refusal, and on Friday last the officers proceeded to put the sentence into execution.— Mitchell, who is a man of eighty years of age, made several attempts to com mit suicide on Wednesday night, by hanging himself with a chain that he had wrenched from the door, but hi3 heart failed him. He Spent the Night in Cursing the Sheriff aud officers, and on Thurs day night a guard was placed in his cell to prevent self-destruction. On Tuesday night the guard about the jail discovered an armed man crawling toward the jail, and not knowing how many others there might be, fired. The next morning the lifeless body of Jeff Mitchell, yonngest son of the doomed man, aged about 21, was found ou the ground, the whole top of his head blown off. He was armed with a double barreled shot-gun, and had a brace of Colt’s revolvers buckled around him and all heavily loaded. In his pocket was found a large vial of laudanum, wrapped with rags, which he was evi dently conveying to his father. The oldjmau asked that the body be brought into the jail that he might see his son and was much affected. Near by, his horse was hitched, his hat and shoes tied to the saddle. The Execution was attended by nearly five thousand people. A little after one o’clock the wagon containing the doomed man, seated on his coffin, proceeded to the gallows. The rope was tied with the hangman’s knot, and the aged mur derer arose to address the crowd. His address was directed to the young, and he took occasion to assert his inno cence in the strongest terms. Ee de nounced the Truitts ; said they had swindled him out of SI,OOO, and had caused all the trouble. The murder of his eon he denounced in the most bit ter terms. During his speeoh a quarrel in the crowd came near creating the greatest excitement, but was finally quelled. The old man spoke for near a half hour, said he was ready to die, and then ordered the sheriff to proceed with the execution. He was Pluck to the Last, and died without the least exhibition of fear. The Mitchell-Truitt tragedy has created the utmost excitement in Hood county. The results may be summar ized as follows: The killing of the two Truitts, of Jeff Mitchell, while convey ing poison to his father, the hanging of the old man,-two men (Shaw and Owen) in the Penitentiary for life, and Wm. Mitchell and Milt Groves fugitives from justice, with the hand of every man against them and a price upon their heads. Truly, it is a terrible cul mination of a petty quarrel. The oonfesaiou of the executed mau is in the hands of his attorneys, ancj Will be printed in a few day.