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Details of the recent storm in England
reveal great horrors.
According to the telegraph dispatch, an
entire town in Ohio has been wiped out.
GniXD preparations are being made at
Richmond to honor tne memory of Gen.
Pickett and Stonewall Jackson.
Failures continue to be announced. The
printer may as well keep this as standing
matter, to be published as a daily bulletin
till forbid.
A Row among New York politicians is
announced, ending fatally for one of the
combatants. We are uninformed whether
“gin-twist” was at the bottom of it, but
presume that beverage had something to
do with it.
Mr. Kelley's speech on the currency,
published this morning, was originally de
livered at Cooper Institute, New York.—
When applied to for a copy of his Macon
address, he handed our reporter the slip we
print from, which ho stated was substan
tially a reproduction of his ideas.
The Atlanta Herald says Hon. L. N
Trammell goes on record as the only
man on earth who did not know all about
“Rill” Allen’s defeat before it happened.
Grant knew it, Gordon knew it, Ben Hill
knew -everybody but Trammell knew it,
after the event.
Apropos of Gov. Hawley’s speech, the
Atlanta Herald tells the . following pro
fane, but good anecdote:
Discussing the principle of secession, he
said: “ The tight over this principle may
not be finished yet. We Connecticut peo
ple may take a notion to carry our little
State out of the Union; and then you peo
ple would object and kick up a war.” At
which an old “rebel,” into whose soul the
balm of peace had not been poured, yelled
out, in an evidently sincere way: “No sir ;
by G— d we wont; take her out whenever
you get ready!”
A MISER’S DEN.
A Horrible Scene of Loathsomeness
and Misery—A Chinaman Worth $40,-
000 Rotting in a Sub-Cellar.
|S,-n Francisco Sunday Ledger.]
Now and then one picks up an old
book and reads about some noted mi
ser, whose excess of meanness has
made him historical. Ban Francisco
can boas* of a miser beside whom all
others are insignificant. Last night a
Ledger reporter went with a special of
ficer to see the most horrible specimen
ef a man that lives on the globe to-day.
“ You inusn’t he startled at what you
see,” said the officer as they turned up
Jackson street. The two wended their
way through the Chinamen, and soon
turned into an alley near Dupont
street. “ This is the most horrible
hole that ever existed in God’s crea
tion,” remarked the officer again, and
they turned into another alley running
up from the first. The place was very
narrow, and the building leaned over
at the top for a better acquaintance—
it seemed a sort of architectural socia
bility. The place was lined with
Brothels and Opium Dens. •
The lowest class of Chinese prosti
tutes inhabited the rockeries, and their
fat faces peered from the windows,
while they showered a torrent of vile
obscenity upon the officer and his com
panion. The stench of opium came up
from the dens, and the air of the mis
erable lair of vice and filthiness was
thick with a thousand disgusting
odors. The alley narrowed at the end,
while the fumes of smoke grew thicker
and the women viler. Lamps, made of
wicks floating in a bowl of grease,
threw a struggling, hazy light over
the
Scene of Absolute Wretchedness.
Now and then a poor, emaciated
Chinaman glided like a ghost from one
of the dens and slid off in the haze.
Meu and women staggered from one
entrance to another, and through the
chinks of the sidewalk and gratings,
half-closed with rubbish, could be seen
half-naked wretches lying about low
tables, stupefied with drugs, their
their bodies collecting the poisonous
vapors of the cellars, and their minds
floating away in paradise.
“ This way,” said the officer, and he
stepped down into a black hole which
looked like a place to throw refuse.—
The reporter followed him down the
stairs, and then the officer lit a candle
end. The place was a dirty oellar,
about ten feet square, and innumer
able rats were darting over the floor,
which appeared to be ground and old
boards. The walls dripped with mois
ture, and the damp vapors were nearly
stifling.
“ Is this the place ?”
“ No.”
“ Where, then ?”
“ In the next cellar below.”
The officer lifted some boards in a
corner, and a rush of still fouler air
came up like the exhalations of a dis
secting sink.
‘•Come On.”
The officer began to go down the
ladder, and asked the reporter to fol
low. it seemed like going down into a
grave infected with death. It was not
the proper thing for the reporter to
hesitate, however much he wished to,
and so he followed the officer down into
the hole. Here the candle barely burn
ed, and the officer lighting another,
banded it to his companion. The upper
cellar seemed like a front parlor com
pared to this. A sickening stench,
more fetid than the opium dens, and
more loathsome than the brothels, per
vaded the place like a misty substance.
The reporter placed a handkerchief to
his mouth and breathed through it.
The walls were tricking with moisture,
and the floor was slippery with slime.
In a corner was the object of the offi
cer’s visit.
“What Do Y’ou Think of That?”
The officer put his candle down to
ward the spot, and its rays fell upou
the face of the old man—so old that
there was no means of telling how long
lie must have been born. He lay upon
some loose boards, with a piece of dirty
blanket thrown over him. The skiu of
bis face was drawu tight to his skull,
and a few straggling white hairs fell
back from his scalp. His body,
wherever seen from under the blanket,
was
Covered witli Loathsome Sores,
at which the rats nibbled, as they
scrambled over him. Now and then he
moved his limbs, and the horrible feast -
ers fell off for a moment and returned
immediately. When the light fell upon
his face he opened his eyes for an in
stant and closed them again. His
hands were those of a skeleton, and
the rats were gnawing at his Augers,
yet he seemed not to notice it. The
time seemed to have passed for him to
His teeth were all gone, and
\s almost met in his mouth.
*sf foul water was near his
Jm ich he had been using to
thirst.
Joes he eat?”
said the officer, and poking
B with a stick, he showed the
■kt.e belies which he had picked
■ thrown aside.
id lie was a miser, I believe?”
■.e lias SIO,OOO in the bank.
B e alley above ground was
H>e air, which half an hour
so horrible to breathe, now
| icious in its freshness.
7 soon on field and hill
*’inds shall whistle cliili,
. M\.kliia call their Ilocks to
■ ' from frost and snow,
eek for lands where blow 7
R mrns of a balmier weather."
Established. 1799.
FROM RICHMOND.
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Preparations for the Obsequies of
Gen. Pickett and Unveiling of the
Jackson Statue.
Richmond, October 23.—The remains
of Gen. Geo. E. Pickett reached this
city to-day at noon, from Norfolk, in
charge of a committee from that city,
Petersburg and and Richmond. They
were met at the depot by a number of
prominent citizens, and quickly escort
ed to the capitol w’here they will re
main in state until to-morrow p. m.,
when they will be taken in charge by
the veterans of his Division and other
officers and men of the Confederate
ai my and navy, the military of Rich
mond, including the colored troops,
who have asked to be allowed to par
ticipate in burying the deceased, civic
societies, etc., and escorted to Holly
wood Cemetery for interment.
The preparations for the ceremonies
on Tuesday next, in honor of the un
veiling of the Stonewall Jackson statue,
are progressing most extensively, and
indicate that the demonstration will be
one of the grandest, if not the grand
est, ever witnessed in Richmon-1. It is
estimated that the population of Rich
mond, on that day, will be nearly, if not
doubled. Military and civic organiza
tions from different portions of the
State, as well as outside, have signified
the intention of being present,.and the
colored military of the city, in this
case, as in that of Gen. Pickett’s obse
quies, have asked and received per
mission to participate, and will be as
signed positions in the grand pageant.
FROM WASHINGTON
Light House News —Treasury Statis
tics.
Washington, October 23.—The Light
House Board give notice that the front
beacon on the south range of Amelia
Island, Fla., will be entirely painted
black in November.
The President, Belknap, Robeson,
Jewell and Babcock are spending the
day in Baltimore.
The Treasury now holds $368,119,917
of United States bonds to secure na
tional bank circulation, and $18,760,000
to secure public deposits. The nation
al bank circulation now outstanding
amounts to $311,158,128, of which $2,-
610,000 are notes issued to gold banks.
Custom receipts to-day, $158,231.15 ;
to date, $8,516,389 ; total for the fiscal
year to date, $53,179,228. Internal rev
enue to-day, $298,031; total for the
month to date, $7,300,331; total for the
fiscal year to date, $31,829,537 ; nation
al bank notes received for redemption
to-day, $170,000 ; total receipts for the
week, $3,337,160.
Capture of Counterfeit Money—No
Clue to the Deficit.
Treasury detectives captured $150,-
000 in counterfeit money belonging to
Nelson Dreggs, one of a gang captured
at Centralia, Ills. There is no clue to
the $2,000 short in the Treasurer’s De
partment.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two Meu Poisoned—Burning of a
Town—Fatal Row Among New York
Politicians.
Macon, Mo., October 23.—Dr. B. F.
Sherman and Samuel Parker went into
a drug store. Both fell iu the street
and died in twenty minutes It is sup
posed they were poisoned at the drug
store. The Coroner is investigating.
Vermillion, O , October 23.—The
town was wholly burned. Eleven bus
iness blocks are iu ashes. Loss, $75,-
000. Two men were arrested charged
with incendiarism.
New York, October 23.—During a
quarrel last night, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, between Thos. 11. Ferris and
Edward Haggerty, two well-known
Democratic politicians, as to the pros
pects of tao election in the Fourth Sen
atorial District, which is contested by
ex-Congressinan John Fox, Tammany
nominee, and ex-Congressman John
Morrissey, running on the independent
ticket; Ferris was shot in the grein by
Haggerty and seriously, if not fatally,
wounded. Haggerty fled.
Marine Disaster.
Quebec, October 23- —Tho Captain of
the steamship Lake Nepigon, just ar
rived from Liverpool, reports a fear
fully boisterous passage, gale succeed
ing gale, with heavy head seas, iu
which the vessel sustained consider
able damage on the 14th. She en
countered a perfect hurricane with
high dangerou? sea running. In this
gale the Captain was lashed to a mast
fourteen hours directing the vessel.
During this storm John McOnichis, the
steward, was pitched against upper
deck combing of the companion way
and killed.
Sudden Death.
Norfolk, Tazewell Taylor, Esq., a
prominent member of the Norfolk Bar,
while attending court iu Hampton yes
terday, fell dead from apoplexy. De
ceased was about sixty-five years old.
and greatly respected by all who knew
him.
Burned to Death—Shipwreck—Killing
of a Fugitive—The Josie Langmade
Affair.
New Haven, Conn., October 23.—The
dwelling of Mrs. Susan Bradley, in Che
shire, was destroyed by lire. Mr. aud
Mrs. Peter Murray,asleep iu the second
story, were burned to death.
New York, October 23.—The brig Ju
lia Esson, from Halifax several months
since, for the West Indies, never reach
ed her destination. She was passed
September 7th, at sea, bottom up, and
all bands are supposed to be.lost.
New Orleans, October 23.—Francois
Fort, a fugitive from justice from New
Orleans, was killed yesterday near
Racelaud, by Deputy Sheriff Thiberge,
while attempting to escape after being
arrested. Fort was charged with com
mitting rape on a little girl five years
old, iu this city. The Coroner’s ver
dict charges Thiberge witli murder.
Concord, N. H., October 23.—La
Fage, suspected as the murderer of
Josie Langmade, made another desper
ate attempt to escape. He was placed
in irons to-day. The impression of his
guilt is List gaining ground.
PROM ALABAMA.
Excellent Features of the Proposed
New 7 Constitution.
Montgomery 7 , Ala., October 23.
Auditor Smith, the only State Execu
tive official who is a Representative,
has published a letter warmly support
ing the new Constitution. He states in
his official capacity as one who has
charge of such matters, that the maxi
mum amount to be paid out of the
State expenses in case the new Con
stitution shall be adopted, will save an
nually, as compared with the old, $265,-
000. The change proposed in the
school system, he says, is a wise meas
ure, and will increase the amount avil
abie for pay of teachers. Nearly all
the white Republicans of the State are
for ratifying the new Constitution.
FROM GALVESTON.
A Famous Equestrian Feat.
Galvestou, October 23. —At the Waco
(Texas) Fair to-day R. A. Ford rode
sixty miles in two hours and forty-nine
minutes, the fastest time on record by
five minutes. After dismounting forty
two horses, he made the last mile in
two minutes and seven seconds. He
rode common Texan horses.
3teg*tia Constitutionalist
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Progress of Wales and William—Von
Arnim’s Case —The English Floods —
A Cuban Shot.
Port Said, October 23. —Her Britan
nic Majesty’s ship Serapis, with the
Prince of Wales and suite on board, en
route tor India, has arrived here.
Emperor William will depart from
this city, on his return to Germany, at
3:30 o’clock this p. m.
London, October 23.—The Pall Mall
Gazette has a special dispatch from Ber
lin, which says it is reported that Count
Von Arnim’s sentence will be commuted
to a fine.
Details of the floods and storm arc
given. The brig John and Isabella was
lost near Stonehaven, with twelve of
the crew. Two large vessels off Peter
head, wiLh ail on board, were lost. This
makes five vessels, with all aboard,
within a distance of forty miles in two
days.
Indepencia, Cuba, October 23.—Rafael
Martinez was court-martialed and shot.
Decline of Tnrkisk Bonds,
Paris, October 24.—Turkish securi
ties have declined on the bourse in con
sequence of the rumor that a Servian
diplomatist agent has left Constantino
ple.
Lord Dufferiu at Home.
Ottowa, Ont., October 23.—Lord Duf
ferin, Governor General of Canada, ar
rived and received an ovation. He re
sumes the Government from this date.
THE LOTTERY FRAUD.
Report of the Committee-
Alexandria, October 23. — The report
of tho investigation committee of the
Moutepelier lottery made this evening
shows that only 7,000 of the tickets
were sold in New York and 5,000 at the
offices here. 7,800 tickets were put iu
the wheel after the drawing, among
them those sold in this office. The
committee say notwithstanding that
there has been a most glaring fraud
practised upon the' ticket holders.
Your committee from all the evidence
they could obtain are unable to desig
nate the guilty parties, but we think
these officers of the Association to
whom were entrusted the details of the
management of the Alexandria office
have not exercised that watchful care
over their agents as we think they
should have done, and through their
negligence gross frauds have been
committed aud we call upou the Presi
dent aud Directors of the Asso
ciation to make a thorough
investigation of the affairs of this of
fice and give the result to the public.
Mr. Metcalfe claims to be the regular
ly appointed agent of the Association
through an appointment from the
Secretary of the Association, Mr. Ais
trop, but in fact, while we find Mr.
Metcalfe was tho published agent in
the Association in New York, yet we
find that no moneys were ever sent to
him direct, and as he states he re
ceived all moneys, some SIO,OOO, from
Mr. Alexander, who, we believe, was
really general manager in that place.
In regard to tho delay in making this
report the committee say that it was
occasioned by the faint hope we had of
obtaining some information by which
we would be enabled to present to you
the guilty parties concerned iu this
fraud. Rut we are frank to say that
thus far all our efforts have been of no
avail.
FINANCIAL.
A Big Factory Failure—Resumption
of one New York Firm and Assign
ment of Another.
Wooster, 0., October 23.—McDonald
& Cos., manufacturers of agricultural
implements, have made assignments.
Liabilities $500,000. Two hundred per
sons thrown out of employment.
New York, October 23.—Butlenek &
Cos. have made arrangements with
their creditors to continue business.
Warren & Wyman, book dealers,
made an assignment.
The Ames Plow Company in Trouble.
Boston, October 23.—The Ames Plow
Company is temporarily embarrassed.
Its liabilities are $218,247; assets,
$542,891. At a meeting of creditors, it
was thought that reasonable extention
would enable the company to pay iu
full and go on. The failure of Robert
Tilton, woolen manufacturer and pro
prietor of the SpriQgfield Mills, at
Cavendish, Vermont, has occasioned no
little excitement in tho wool trade of
tliis eity. His IBoston indebtedness is
quite large. This is the result mainly
of purchases of wool in this market.
The total liabilities are about $140,000.
FROM ST LOUIS.
Squabble Over a Telegraphic Wire.
St. Louis, October 23.—The Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company
stretched a wire on the bridge here
yesterday p. in., to connect their lines
with the city and shortly after the
Bridge Company cut it down, The
Telegraphic Company claim the right
to use tho bridge uiqier an act of Con
gress, but tho Bridge Company having
a contract with the Western Union
Telegraph Company, granting them
exclusive right to use their structure,
refuse to allow the Atlantic and Pa
cific Telegraph Company to make use
of it.
Departure of Missionaries,
New York, October 23.—Rev. A. N.
Andrews and wife, Rev. Daniel Staver
and wife, Mrs. Win. and Miss Pratt,
Miss Parsons and Mrs. Pond, mission
aries, who are sent out by the American
Board of Foreign Missions, took their
departure for Europe this p. m. in the
steamer City of Chester.
Editor Indicted for Libel.
Springfield, October 23.—Hon. Fred
Geruig, representative in the General
Assembly and editor of the German
Free Press, was indicted for libel for
publishing an article reflecting upon
County Treasurer Perkius and editor
of the State Journal It grew out of a
political controversy.
The Turf.
New York, October 24.—1n the $2,000
match, Thomas L. Young took the
first heat. The second one was a dead
one and Young wa3 withdrawn on the
third. Time, 2:19)*. Sensation
winning the race.
The suggestion that ladies’ dresses
may be made of the newlyly-discover
ed unbreakable and elastic glass
prompts the hope that it isn’t the trans
parent kind.
It is estimated that six thousand
speeches were made in Ohio during the
canvass. Wind enough was expended
to drive the wind mills of Holland for
a century.
No one but a close observer of hu
man nature has noticed that lovers
always bite the tdp of the gate pickets
as they stand to say a few words more
before separating.
A son of Brigham Young, with the
wild name, Don Carlos Young, has en
tered the School of Engineers, in Troy.
By the peculiar extent of his family
circle, the old head Mormon is enabled
to be represented in nearly every col
lege of both continents.
Colfax lias found his level at last.
He has been elected judge of a Mich
igan baby show.
Iu Albion, Mich., a magician, after
spending $35 in posters, had an au
dience of three persons.
AUGUSTA. CUA., SUN'DAY, OCTOBER 24, 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Dr. Leftwich and the Drama——The
Danger of Extremes —Verdict on the
Macon Fair —“A Good Thing; hut
Don’t Do It Again”—Court News-
Theatrical Items—Politics, etc.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, October 22d.
The recent denial of that wicked yarn
about the late Edwin Forrest and Dr.
Leftwich, in which the former was said
to have burst into tears on hearing a
sermon of the latter on theatre-going,
recalls to mind that famous tirade.
The Doctor is pastor of the Central
Presbyterian Church here and has a
wealthy congregation. He is said to be
a very smart man. Was born in Vir
ginia and educated in Philadelphia and
thereabouts. He preaches a fair ser
mon—somewhat flighty in his meta
phorical soarings, and now and then
covers his best points so effectively
with hifalutin words aud verbiage from
the classics that they are lost to his
hearers, save a few of the litterati.
And withal he is no friend or the
drama. The drama is the objec
tive point of all his intense hatred.
He assails it with all the venom he
can muster both in the pulpit and
out of it. Nearly every sermon is tinc
tured with this unnatural antipathy,
and he sprinkles his conversation
copiously. To him the drama is the
great sin—the sin of sins. It is the
genuine cesspool of iniquity and is
corruption in its rottenest state: The
man or woman who would so allow
herself to be tempted by the devil to
attend the representation of Shaks
peare’s sublimest tragedies or purest
comedies commits a crime so heinous
that Satan himself would blush at it.
That man or woman goes ticketed for
tiie hottest corner of Hades. No
atonement, no penance, no suffering
can wipe out tho blot, and they arc
lost. Such is his opinion of theatre
goers. He may be right and he alone
may be saved. But in my opinion he
is a fraud. Hard name to apply to a
minister in good standing, of a good
old church; but why beat about the
bush aud call it difference of opinion !
Mr. Forrest truthfully said that his
abuse of the drama was an ad
vertisement. To prove it, when the
Black Crook came along this good man
should have arisen in his sacred pulpit
and descanted on the damnable dis
play of female pins and the outrageous
absence of \V inter clothing, the SataDic
beauty of wicked faces and the rounded
but sin-tainted charms of the actresses,
don’t you know that some of the most
pious brothers of his congregation
would have risen right up in their seats
and yelled for “two reserved seats?”
When the younger portion of his
church hear the drama painted in such
terrible colors the little boys and girls
have A greater desire than ever to take
just one glimpse at the mimic stage.
Well, as the great Bard of Avon says:
All the world’s a stage.
And men and women merely players.
Atlanta worked up a good grin yes
terday and greeted the Centennial
representation, who were passing
through the city on their way to Nash
ville. Gush and champagne flowed
freely, and about a thousand dollars
worth of stock was scooped up. At
night Judge Kelley delivered an ad
dress to a moderate audience on
money. As you know, he is for green
backs as a national currency and for
his own use. His speech was listened
to with much attention, and had a
good effect.
From the Fair,
Visitors to the State Fair are re
turning. They report the Fair a good
thing, but not a success. The Agricul
tural Society ought to know by this
time that, iu order to draw a crowd —a
big crowd —they should present at
tractions to suit all classes of people.
There’s horse-racing for instance.
Whilst its practice is not down in the
Sunday-school catechism, it is a sport
in which thousands of good honest
people engage, and there are lots of
people who go to a Fair just to take a
sly glance at the mettlesome horses.
Hence it was a grand mistake on tho
part of the society to omit that aud
other similar attractions from their
programme.
Jury Lists.
Now this court is in full blast. Judge
Hopkins dealing his justice right aud
left, and offenders shaking in their
boots, the making up of juries is about
the most tiresome and vexatious busi
ness you can scare up. Excuses and
dodges are manufactured at short no
tice, and men get sick suddenly.
Nevertheless, tho juries are formed and
the world moves on.
There is such a git-up-and-git way
about Judge Hopkins that causes the
progressive citizen to play his cards
carefully, and when he excuses a man
you may bet high that it was a mighty
good excuse rendered. When a crimi
nal is carried before him, he generally
shuts his eyes and waits his sentence.
There is no use fooling around, for if
there is the least evidence that he is
guilty he is just as sure of getting
his reward as a nickel is for a ginger
cake.
The other day a man was arrested
for some offense, but seeined very in
different about it. When asked why
he felt so cheerful he replied that he
would be tried by some old Justice of
the Peace and would get off light. He
was told that his case would go before
Judge Hopkins.
“ Great Jupiter ! is that so V”
“ Of course it is,” replied tho Con
stable.
“ Then good bye for ten years, dad
burn it !”
Ainusementical.
Haverly’s Minstrels have generously
tendered a benefit to the Ladies’ Me
morial Association here. They per
form on Thursday night. This troupe
is undoubtedly the finest, except the
San Francisco, in America.
Rose and Harry Watkins open here
Monday and Tuesday nights. They
are well known down South.
The City Election.
The question of the abolition or the
continuance of the public schools has
been made an issue with the candidates,
and the prospect is good for some live
ly work. Undoubtedly the great mass
of the people are in favor, tooth and
toe-nail, for keeping up the schools at
all hazards, but the wealthy minority,
who send their sons and daughters to
schools and colleges in other States,
under the fallacious impression that
no good can come out of Nazareth, are
deadly opposed to their continuance ;
hence warm times are imminent. It is
claimed by the school party that up
wards of $40,000 would be sent out of
the city annually to educate children
abroad in case the schools should go
down. There is another party—a sort
or milk-and-water element—who favor
the keeping up of the lower grades of
schools and the doing away of thehign
schools. The school party rallies and
answers this by claiming that if the
high schools were abolished the entire
fabric of free education would fail, for
the reason that the lower school would
be looked upon as poor schools by
many and hence a withdrawl of sup
port and children.
The idea of free education as illus
trated by our present system of public
schools is truly a grand one. It is the
free and generous welcome of knowl
edge to our children without respect
to social and religious distinctions.
Rather let the doubtful idea of re
trenchment begin anywhere else than
disturb the grand and harmonious
workings of the truly beneficial institu
tion. Martha.
JUDGE KELLEY ON FINANCE.
i
The Nature of Money—Popular Ap
preciation of Greenbacks —A Morse
Crisis in Germany tliau in America
—Currency the Creature of Law-
United States Notes not a Full Le
gal Tender—Functions of a Circula
;tlnir Medium—Neither Inflation nor
Contraction Desirable—An Increase
not to be Confounded with lnfiatiou
—Requirements of a true Currency.
The Nature of Money.
I proceed to the question, What is
money? Gold is not; silver is not; nor
is paper. Yet all these now are, and
have been used as tiie material of
money; but they are not iu themselves
money. They have been used by na
tions; and the value, the measure, the
alloy of the metals have been frequent
ly changed without changing the money
value of the coin. Our silver dollars,
each in succession, has differed in
weight from the other; the value of
ofir gold dollar, measured by the weight
of gold in it, was changed by the Mint
law of 1873; so that no fixed amount or
gold or silver, to particular measure of
fineness in gold or silver, tiie particular
weight of gold or silver einbotiied iu a
coin is money. They have all been
Changed; they may all be changed,
they will all be changed us circumstan
ces demand a change. Money is a na
tional institution. It is a creature of
latr. [Applause.] It is expressed in
the United States iu dollars, cents and
mills; it is expressed in Great Britain
in pounds, shillings and pence; it is ex
pressed in France by francs; it is in
each and every country that which is
legal tender iu payment of debts. That
is its crucial test. That which will not
pay a note iu bank or save property for
sale under execution by the Sheriff or
Marshal is not money. It may be cur
rency, it may perform many of the
uses of money; but the cruieal test of
money is that which will pay alf debts
within the limits of the country in
which it is ordained, whether between
man and man or at the commands of
tfie; law. Let me illustrate.
Mr. Kelley then alluded to the Bank
of Venice, whose notes were above par
for nearly 500 years, aud the authori
ties* were finally obliged to prohibit the
paper of the bank from going over 20
per cent, above par. Mr. Kelley thought
thait a crisis would not have overtaken
the bank to this day if Napoleon had
not* destroyed it and its system of
credits. He had been told by Thomas
Baring, of the banking firm of Baring
Brothers, that during the crisis in Lon
don in 1847, not a pound could be bor
rowed on £60,000,000 sterling of silver,
because silver was a legal tender only
in payment of debts of 40 shillings and
under; the man at the bank or at the
exchange wanted a legal tender money
with which he could pay debts. In 1864,
in Calcutta, £IOO,OOO were offered for
small loans, but not a rupee could be
bad; Because silver was the legal ten
der gold would not pay debts. In com
mercial crises what a man wants is a
legal tender—something that will pay
a judgment in court or a note at bank.
In 1373 the banks, iu exchange for de
posits of greenbacks and National Bank
notes, gave what they said was a great
deal better —they issued certificates of
the combined banks, the money to be
forthcoming at their convenience; and
these certificates people were obliged
to sell at 3, 4 or 5 per cent, below their
face value in order to procure the “ir
redeemable paper” which tho banks
wished to restrain the issue of. A cer
tificate involving the wealth of every
bank in New York fell far below the
greenback,and gold came tospliug down
to meet the greenback until they came
within 6 per cent, of each other. [Ap
plause.]
In Germany to-day you can pay
debts with silver; but after the Ist of
January you cannot. The reason is
thi?t money is the creation of law; the
accumulation of gold in Germany, as
the war penalty, compelled the Gov
ernment to demonetize silver. The re
sult was that Germany, iu order to get
rid bf the demonetized medium, sold
silver coins by the ton at five per cent,
below the rate at which she received
silver under her treaties with Italy aud
four;other States. Germany, so strong
with’ her five milliards from France,
that two years ago she decreed gold as
her legal tender, is in a commercial
sense worse than our own. It is the theo
ry ,oi our financial philosophers that
paper drives gold out of the country.
Yetj the notes of the Bank of France
areilegal tender. The Government re
ceives them iu payment of taxes and
dues, aud yetgoldaud silver and paper
float consistently throughout France,
and without the depreciation of any
one of the three kinds of money.—
They are all legal tender. Mr. Kelley
said hfe had to-day learned by tele
grams from the highest official au
thority, that the circulation of Franco
consists of gold and silver legal tender
1,259 000,000 francs, and “irredeema
ble” legal tender, 469,000,000 francs,
and there is not a penny of discount
upon 10,000 or 50,000 francs of that
“irredeemable bank paper.”
Wh/ Greenbacks are at a Discount.
Tpe reason that the legal tender
nob 3 of the United states Government
are gelling from 16 to 17 per cent, dis
count is not that the people of this
country have less confidence in the
faith of their Government and their re
sources titan have the French with re
gard to their Government; it is because
in this country our paper is not a full
legal: tender. [Applause.J No man
carries or expects to receive gold to
pay a debt; gold is virtually demone
tized. Yet when you go to the Custom
House to pay duties, greenbacks are
repudiated. Thus the greenback is
made a thing of speculation. Mr. Kel
ley then referred to the history of the
Legal: Tender bill. When it was before
the Lower House greenbacks were to
bo full legal tender; receivable by Gov
ernment for all dues and demands, and
payable by the Government to every
citizen in liquidation of auy debt or de
mand: existing in the country. But the
Senate listened to the credit dealers of
America and Europe, and amended the
bill so as to require the interest on
bonds to be paid in gold and the duties
on imported goods to be paid in gold,
in order to meet those obligations.
Thaddeus Stevens shed tears when he
announced to a small circle of friends
that ilie country had to be surrendered
or tho wishes of the banks complied
with— and they had yielded to the Sen
ate. This crime, or, if it was not a
ennui', this blunder made the Gold
Rooni, and such operators as Jay Gould
and Fisk possible; without it they
would have been Impossible. [Ap
plause.] In that Gold Room sit the
vampires of the world upon the circu
latli;; medium, the life blood of Ameri
can <iule and commerce.
“Oil,” says some, “your money is
natiejaal; what about the money of the
world when its balances are to be set
tled ■’ There is no money of the world.
There never can be money of the world
until the world shall be under one
government. [Applause.] Every one
knows that international balances are
settled in commodities, against which
bills of exchange are drawn. You send
to Ei gland in one of yourfine steamers
a million dollars in double eagles. They
are money when you put them on
shipboard; when you land them on the
wharf at Liverpool they lose the
character of money and become mer
chandise. Now, what are the functions
of money ? It is the tool by which
property is transferred from person to
person. You have a suit of clothes
that i want. I have nothing to give
you ia trade that you would want. You
transfer that property to me on the
receipt of what you say is its value in
dollars and cents and ,so throngh all
operations, from the poor child buying
a basket of coal at four or five times
the price per ton for which the com
fortable man, who buys it by seven or
ten tons, gets it. Money is the tool
which eliminates barter from our in
tercom se and makes a rapid commer
cial change possible. It is called a cir
culating medium, and it is never money
when it is not circulating or ready to
be promptly circulated if opportunity
offers. It is called a circulating medium
because its function is to pass from
hand to hand, to facilitate exchange,
to be ever in motion. It is, aud
may well be, compared to the life
blood of the nation; there should be
enough to give employment to all the
the energies and activities of the peo
ple. The amount should not be re
stricted. Asa full and vigorous man,
whose veins are filled with blood in
nicely adjusted proportions, which cir
culates from toe to brain and finger
end, is ready with strong arm and ac
tive legs to move on aud do something
for himself and society, so when in the
community money iu nicely adjusted
quantities can be had, trade moves ac
tively, aud individuals increase their
wealth by rapid exchanges, and the
body politic becomes strong, and the
revenues of the Government increase.
[Applause.] If the volume be inade
quate or be reduced to an inadequate
amount, private credit takes the place
of money. They who cannot get money
to carry on the enterprises in which
they have engaged, borrow the credit
of their rich neighbor, the banker, and
pay interest, and that interest is added
to the cost of production, and is paid
by the consumer, or taken from the
profits of the producer. [Applause.]
Hence it is that bankers aud money
lenders are always eager to contract
tho legal-tender money of the realm,
because when it is scarce they can sell
their credit at high rates aud make in
ordinate profits. [Applause.] Not
only so to-day, but it has been so in all
times.
Nor must the currency be iu excess.
If there are more plows and reaping
machines, aud hammers and turning
machines, and spindles and looms than
can be used by the farmers and those
engaged in the manufacturing indus
tries they remain as dead capital. They
eat up the interest, and as his necessi
ties impel him to sell, through depre
ciation, the few in excess may he used
to depreciate the value of all. And so,
if we make money so abundant that it
could not be used, then every dollar
added to the volume would lessen the
value or purchasing power of every
dollar of which it was composed, be
cause that would be inflation [ap
plause], a thing often charged upon
mo, but which I have abhorred, since I
came to understand the credit system,
as I was entering upou manhood, and
I entered, though a boy, upou the
stump iu defense of Jackson in the war
against the bankers. Great contraction
is bad, large inflation is bad ; extreme
inflation far worse. [Applause.] You
must not confound every increase of
currency with inflation. There may at
any time be very large expansion with
out a cent of inflation. There are re
curring seasons in each year when
more money is wanted than at others.
There are recurring seasons when the
legitimate demand for money in trade
shrinks.
Requirements of a True Currency.
What we want is a system of money
that will adjust itself to these varying
demands, and to say that to issue
money enough to meet the season for
moving the crops is inflation is to per
vert the term. Gen. Grant, in his mes
sage of December 1, 1873, admirably
illustrated this point. What we need
is a currency that will contract and ex
pand so as to furnish trade with the
tools it needs at each varying season
of the year. Is such a system of
money possible ? Yes, it is, and its
adoption would be one of the most ben
eficial reforms ever made by an intelli
gent people. [Applause.] It has the
sanction of reason. It is sanctiondd by
such men as I have quoted—Chase and
Greeley. The treasury, to have relied
on gold to have carried on the war,
would have undertaken an absurdity.
Where were tiie resources to carry on
the war? The Government was with
out credit. It had asked of all the
world a loan of $5,000,000 at 1 per cent,
a mouth on Treasury notes. All the
world loaned it $2,500,000. There were
none willing to take the balance of the
loan at that high rate of interest.
Did the statesmen of that day—
Abraham Lincoln, and the men who
sustained him—hold with tho credit
mongers of these times, that nothing
but gold was legal tender ? Had they
so believed, they must have surrend
ered to the Confederacy without firing
a gun. They turned to the Constitu
tion of the United States and coined
the credit of the country and gave the
people greenbacks. [Applause.] They
had been dyiug for the want of a
medium of exchange ; it had paralyzed
the country and we were rotting away
to death for the want of a circulating
medium. If we would be a free and
prosperous people, we must emanci
pate ourselves from the few who own
the gold of the country. [Great ap
plause.] I am glad you indorse my
iuuaoy. [Applause and laughter.] But
this money was not to be convertible
into gold ; it never was to bo redeema
ble, it was to be convertable into in
terest-bearing obligations of the Gov
ernment, and the first act of repudia
tion was when, at the instance of the
banks and credit-mongers, that pro
vision of the law was stricken out, so
that they who had taken greenbacks
with the understanding and with the
express provision that they could put
them in interest-bearing bonds, were
deprived of the power of doing so.
In 1863, men who were in business
at that time will remember some facts
connected with the tightness of the
money market. Money became very
scarce. The war was going against us.
The enemy were in Pennsylvania and
around Washington. Men gathered
up their valuables and were concealing
them. Yet there was no financial panic
through the community; all went
smoothly; and why ? Because the
people had $59,000,000 lying where
they could draw it without disturbing
the loans of any bank; without disturb
ing the business of any town or city,
aud they drew $69,000,000 from the
Treasury without producing a ripple
in financial or commercial circles.
That is what we say the convertible
bond system would do. It would
give elasticity to the country. When
money was iu excess it would fall into
the Treasury; when money was needed
it would flow out of the Treasury to
the people. The speaker here read an
extract from Secretary Chase to sus
tain his assertion. Mr. Chase soon
after left the Treasury, and Hugh Mc-
Culloch became Treasurer, aud there
were no more savings banks for the
people.
My plan is that the Government
shall issue the money of the country;
that it shall issue bonds, convertible
and reconvertible, bearing interest at
3.65 per cent., or 1 per cent a day on
SIOO, fixing that rate of interest be
cause the most illiterate man could
count the number of days his money
was loaned and know how much inter
est was due him. That as fast as na
tional bank notes came in to the Gov
ernment, it shall retain them, and
when it shall have received S9OO or
$9,000 of the notes of any bank, it
shall send back to that bank the SI,OOO
or SIO,OOO of bonds that it held to se
cure them, and, in the same instant,
issue a like amount of greenbacks in
like denominations. [Applause.] This
would not disturb the banking system,
because, where they now have only 90
per eeut of their capital to bank on for
a certain amount withdrawn, if the
bond that secured it was returned, they
could go to Wall street, and sell it for
SIOO or $125 aud have that much more
money to bank upon. It would not
produce a crisis iu any way; it would
be the work of years, for these notes
came in to the Government very slow
ly. It would take place like the
changes of nature, unknown to man,
save to the clerks in the Ibauk and the
treasurer charged with his duties. I
would have those notes receivable by
the Government for those bonds. I
would prohibit it from issuing another
gold-bearing bond for any purpose
whatever. [Applause.)
HAYING CHILDREN AND HAVING
NONE.
By a Conservative.
IN. Y. Examiner and Chronicle.]
The newspapers tell us of a man out
West who has a handsome wife, and
she has presented him with twenty-two
children. Aud iu these days of child
less couples aud siugle chicken bloods
it is really refreshing to meet with a
case where attention, though it be
somewhat extreme, is paid to the Divine
command regarding fruitfulness and
multiplication.
Let Mrs. Grundy turn up her nose,
but all the reasons for true womanly
pride rest with the queeu of the noisy
nursery —she whom God repeatedly
honors with the royaly of motherhood.
And again, we know that our heroine
respects the solemn words, “Thou shalt
not kill!” It is bad enough that a wife
should not be ambitious of that which
is woman’s true glory; that when God’s
angel comes to her with the “Hail, thou
that art highly favored,” she should
hear the salutation with discontent
rather than with joy, regarding no one
as “blessed among women” but her
who is never to feel the touch of tiny
hands upon her cheek. But when God
has appointed her to bear children who
may be blessings to the world —if, in
stead of saying, “Behold the handmaid
of the Lord; be it unto me according
to thy word,” she answers the angelic
salutation with rebellien, and would
destroy the young life within her, we
cannot but shudder.
We may venture to assert that the
joyous dame of our story is all the bet
ter looking for her twenty-two jewels.
The paths of health and beauty are the
paths of nature, not the ways of fash
ion. Take the finest-looking well pre
served old lady of sixty-five or seven
ty, and you will generally find that she
has had her half-dozen children, while
her sister who fought against the laws
of her being has long since broken
down. “Women iu the perils of child
birth” do not encounter half so many
dangers as the votaresses of pride and
ungodly fashion.
Nor let us fail to congratulate the
happy father of this multitudinous
household. True, it will take hard
work to provide for so many little
mouths—but was ever a great and no
ble work accomplished without trial?
The only thing to be remembered is,
that tho raising up of twenty-two
George Washingtons, Martin Luthers,
Queen Victorias and Florence Nightin
gales, is something which is worth hard
work.
Some may suggest that often child
ren turn out poorly, and so the parent’s
toil is lost. It is true, that there are
risks to be run. But uo man was ever
really the poorer for having a large
family. He has to get up a little earlier
and work a little later, but that does
not hurt him. Of course, champagne
suppers aud fast horses are out of the
question, and his wife will be short on
silk dresses. But will not the love of
many little hearts make up for the ab
sence of all such superfluities and lux
uries? The children can always be pro
vided for in some way. The God of the
young ravens keeps count of the little
mouths, and he will provide something
for each. Of course, the other boys
will have to commence very soon to
shift for themselves, but such a neces
sity is not half so bad for them as hav
ing too much spending-money. And
the older girls will have to re-vamp the
old bonnets and turn the old ribbons
and fix over the old trimmiDgs, instead
of ruuuing to the milliner’s for every
little thing. But this learning how to
make ingenuity takethe plaoeof money
will make them no worse wives, not
even if they marry millionaries.
Is it not a fact that so far as regards
education, and tho other things essen
tial to the highest style of manhood
and womanhood, those who have large
families always manage to bring up
their children as well as thoso who have
but one or two to care for? And we
may congratulate the children in their
haviDg so many brothers and sisters.
They will perhaps jostle each other a
little. But the habit of giving up to
each other, which they will be compell
ed to learu, will be far better than in
dulgence iu selfishness, and they will
grow up to be more attached to each
other, and to have a stronger family
feeling, than if they had never been
obliged to sleep three in a bed.
Iu the Old Testament children are
spoken of as blessings. And those
ancient seers understood matters just
as well as the oracles of Vanity Fair.
Perhaps not all our married friends can
aspire to the exceptional happiness of
the couple mentioned above; but in
the case of each married pair, if their
characters are worth repeating, the
round half-dozen is as little as can
meet the dernauds of duty to them
selves aud to the world at large.
In a Canadian suit for breach of
promise, it was shown she sent him
eight letters a day.
A New York architect will not allow
that Mullett knows enough to build a
decent looking fence.
Suukey’s song, “ Ninety and Nine,”
is so popular that it will probably be
up to par presently.— N. Y. World.
An English philosopher comes for
ward and remarks that the earth is
2,253,541 years old. None of us were
there and we can’t knock a single year
off.—Detroit Free Press.
A Paris hair-dresser has been fined
100 francs for stealing a quantity of
hair off the head of a young lady who
had submitted herself to his care for a
ball. That ought to make hersuited.
The question as to whether it is
spelled whiskv or whiskey is still de
bated. The Chicago Times virtually
decides the question by remarking that
nine men out of teu take their whiskey
with “ e-ase.”
Emir Sidi Jussuf Zin Alkhaldi has
vacated the Arabic chair in the Uni
versity at Vienna, and gone back to
Jerusalem. The boys got on easily
enough, but the Professor’s name was
too much for them.
Pittsburg is going to erect a monu
ment in memory of the author of “ Old
Dog Tray.” The organ grinders should
contribute liberally.
General Spinner estimates that there
are 2,000,000 lead nickles in circulation,
and so if you get one you needn’t feel
flattered about it.
The Detroit Free Press figures that
a political speech four hours long,
with a brass band, etc., changes ex
actly 1,556,784 votes to the other side.
Hackman are the best hearted fel
lows in the world. They never see a
man making his way home at night
without asking him to ride.
Theodore Tilton sports a green neck
tie.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 67
ELOQUENCE.
BY H. H. B.
The following: bit of drollery has ap
peared in the Independent:
Iu the Autumn of 1830 I attended a
Methodist camp-meeting in the interior
of Georgia, and heard a sermon which
I have never been able to forget or de
scribe. At the earnest solicitation of
friends I have attempted several times
to write it; but it cannot be put upon
paper. The main force of it was in the
snuffing and spitting and groaning and
hoimd-after-a-fox sort of yelp and
whine, to which no pen can do justice.
It must be intoned to be appreciated.
I have preached it a thousand times
for the amusement of friends, and have
been satisfied with my effort. Lhave
used it as a remedial agent in exorcis
ing the demons of hypochondria, and
have never failed “to send them down
a steep place in the sea,” or somewhere
else, to the great relief of the sufferer.
The speaker had just been licensed,
and it was his first sermon. In person
he was small, bullet-headed, of a fair,
sandy complexion, and his countenance
was indicative of sincerity and honesty.
His remarks evinced great reverence
for the works of God as manifested in
zoology and natural history, and he
“ was taking up the Bible iu regular
order for the first time iu his life.” He
had gotten as far as the history of
Noah, the Ark, the Flood, etc. Be
sides, “just before his conversion he
had been reading Goldsmith’s ‘Ani
mated Nater,’ and the two together, by
the aid and assistance of the Sperit,
had led him into a powerful train of
thinking as he stood at his work-bench
day iu and day out.”
But whatever his seimon may have
been, it was his own : “ As it was iu
tiie days of Noah, so shall the coming
of the Son of Man be.” After com
menting upon that portion of Genesis
descriptive of the flood, he “warmed
up” suddenly, and broke out in the
following strains :
“Yes, my brethren, the windows of
the heavens was opened-ah, and the
floods of the-g-r-e-a-t deep kivered the
waters-ah, and there was Shem, and
there was Ham, and there was Japheth
ah, a-1-1 a-gwiue into the Ark-ah.
“And there was the elephant-ah, that
g-r-e-a-t animal-ah, of which Gold
smith descrices in his ‘Animated
Nater’-ah, what is as big as a house
ah, and his bones as big as a tree-ah,
depending somewhat on the size of the
tree-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the Ark-ah.
And the heavens of the windows was
opened-ah, and the floods of the
g-r-e-a-t deep kivered the waters-ah,
and there was Shem, and there was
Ham, and there was Japheth-ah, a-1-1
a-gwine iato the Ark-ah.
“And there was the hippopoptamus
ah, that g-r-e-a-t animal-ah of which
Goldsmith describes in his “Animated-
Nater’-ah what, has a g-r-e-a-t horn-ah
a stickin’ right straight up out of uis
foreward ah six feet long, more or less
ah, depending somewhat on the length
of it-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine inta the Ark-ah.
“And there was the giraffe-ah, my
bretheriu’, that ill-contrived reptile of
which Goldsmith describes in his ‘Ani
mated-Nater-ah, whose forelegs is
twenty-five feet long-ah, more or less
all, depending somewhat on the length
of ’ern-ah, and a neck so long he can
eat hay off the top of a barn-ah, de
pending somewhat on the hithe of the
barn-ah, a-1-1 a gwine into the Ark-ah.
And the heavens of the windows was
opened-ah, and the floods of the great
deep kivered the waters-ah; and there
was Japheth-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the
Ark-ah.
“And there was the zebra, my
brotheren-ali, that b-e-a-u-ti-f-u-1 ani
mal of which Goldsmith describes in
his ‘Animated Natur’-ah,what has three
hundred stripes around his body-ah,
more or less, depending somewhat on
the number of stripes-ah, and nary
two stripes alike-all, a-1-1 gwine into
the Ark-ah.
“And there was the anaconder-ah,
that g-r-e-a-t sarpint of which Gold
smith describes iu his Animated Nater’-
ah, what can swallow six oxens at a
meal-ah, provided his appetite don’t
call for less-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the
Ark-ah. And the heavens of the win
dows was opened-ah, and the floods of
the great deep kivered the waters-ah,
and there was Shem, and there was
Ham, and there was Japheth-ah, a-1-1
a-gwine into the Ark-ah.
“And there was the lion, brethren
ah, what is the king of beasts, accord
in’ to Seripter-ah, and who, as St. Paul
says-ah, prowls around of a night like
a roarin’ devil-ah, a seekiu’ if he can’t
catch somebody-ah; a-1-1 a-gwine into
the Ark-ah.
“And there was the antelope-ah, my
brethren, that frisky little critter-ah, of
which Goldsmith describes in his ‘Ani
mated Nater’-ah, what can jump
seventy-five foot straight up-ah, and
twice that distance down-ah, provided
his legs will take him that fur-ah, a-1-1
a-gwine into the Ark-ah, And the
heavens of the windows was opened
ah, and the floods of the great deep
kivered the waters-ah, and there was
Shem, and there was Ham, and there
was Japheth-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the
Ark-ah.”
Just at this point ho stopped speak
ing a few moments, wiped his fore
head, turned back his wristbands, ran
his lingers through his hair, spit and
rubbed his boot in it, drank a little wa
ter, commenced on a lower key, and
proceed as follows :
“ But time would fail me, my breth
ren, to describe all the animals that
went into the Arlc-ah. Your patience
and my strength would give out before
I got half through-ah. We talk, mj
brethren, about the father of Abraham
and the patience of Job-ah ; but it
strikes me they didn’t go much ahead
of old Noer-ah. It tuck a right smart
chance o’ both to gether up that go
pher wood and pitch and other truck
for to build that craft-ah. lam a sort
of carpenter myself, and have some
idea of the job-ah. But hammer, and
saw, and maul, and split away on that
ole thing a hundred and twenty
year-ah, an’ loakin’ for his pay in an
other world-ah—l tell you, my breth
erin. if the Lord had a-sot Job at that,
its my opinion he would a-tuck his
wife’s advice inside of fifty year-ah.
Besides, no doubt, his righteous soul
was vexed every day, hand ruunin’,
with the filthy communications of the
blasphemious set that was always a
loaferiu’ and a-sauuterin’ around-an,
a-pickin’ up his tools and a-misplacin’
’em, and a-calliu’ him an old fool or
somethin’ worse-ah ; and, to cap the
climax, ho was a preacher, and had
that ungodly gineration on his hands
every Sunday-ah. But the Lord stood
by him and seed him through the job
ah ; and when everything was ready he
didn’t send Noer out to scrimmage an’
scour and hunt all over the wild world
for to git up the critters and var
mounts that he wanted saved-ah.
They all come to his hand of their own
accord, and Noer only had to hand ’em
in and fix ’em around in their places
ah. Then he gathered up his own
family, and the Lord shut him in, and
the heavens of the windows was
opened-ah.
“But, my bretheren, Noer-ah had
use for patience after this-ah. Some
of ’em, accordin’ to Goldsmith’s ‘Ani
mated Nater-ah,’ was carnivorous and
wanted fresh meat-ah; and some was
herbivorous, and wanted vegetable
food-ah; and some was wormlvorous,
and swallowed whole things-ah; and
he had to feed everything accordin’ to
his nater. Hence we view, my breth
eren-ah, as the nater of the animal
wasn’t altered by going into the Ark
ah, some of ’em would roar and howle,
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ami bark, and bray, and squeal, and
blate the whole indurin’ night-ah, a
drivin’ sleep from his eyes, und slum
ber from his eyeiet-a.li; and at the first
streak o’ daylight the last hoof of ’em
would set up a noise accordin’ to Its
nater-ak, and the bulla of Bashaa
wer’nt no whar-ah. I’ve often wonder
ed how their women stood it. Scripter
is silent on this pint-ah; but I think I
know of some that, would a-been vap
ory and nervous upon sich circurn
stances-ab, and iu an onguarded mo
ment might a-said somethin’ besidea
their prayers-ali.”
Here the speaker stopped again, spit,
took water, etc., and hastened to a con
clusion.
“My bretkereu,” said he, “one more
word for old Noer-ah, and I will draw
to a close-ah. After the outbeatln’
time he had first aud last, for so many
hundred year-ah, if he did, by accident
or otherwise, take a lettle too much
wine on one occasion-all, I think less
ort to a-been said about it-ah. Be
sides, I think he was entitled to one
spree-ah, as he made the wine hls
self, and, accordin’ to Scripter, It
makes glad the heart o’ man-ah.
“ My bretheren, as it was in the days
of Noer-ah, so shall the coming of the
Son of Man be-all. The world will
never be drowned agin-ah. It will be
sot a-flre, aud burnt up, root and
branch, with a fervieut heat-ab. Oh !
what will wretched aud evil 3inuers do
on that orful day-ah ? They wont feel
fit for to live, nor for to die-ah. They
will be put to their wit’s end, and
knock and straddle around in every
direction-ah. For all at onct, my
bretheren-ah, they will behold the
heavens a-darkenin’-ah, the mountains
a-meltln-ah ; and everything, I think,
will be in a confused and onsettled
state.
“ May the Lord add his blessing.
Amen !”
Harriet Bepcher Stowe didn't raise
any oranges to sell thi* year. The boys
raised them s week in advance of her.
Cheerful. They are betting in Lon
don that the Prince of Wales wifi be
assassinated before bis return from
India.
New bonnets are made to be worn
both ways. Unhappy woman ! Called
upon to bear her reverses in the weak
est spot.
“Now, the wolrd does not seem to be
so much a blank,” said a Bridgeporter
the other day, as he led home a brlndle
dog someone had given him.
The Newport News says many of the
summer residents propose remaining
there until the first of November.
Hope they won’t catch the epizoot.
“Haven’t you got cheek ?” was the
response of a Meriden four-year old
boy, when his teacher, at his first day
in school, asked him if he could read.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
Churches To-Day.
First Baptist, Green street—lo:3o a.
m., Kev. E. It. Carswell ; 7:30 p. m.,
Rev. H. K. Tucker, D. D.
Second Baptist, Kollock street —
10:30 a. m., Kev. W. L. Kilpatrick;
7:30 p. m., Kev. W. M. Verdery.
First Ward—lo.3o a. m., Rev. W. M.
Verdery; 7:30 p. rn., Rev. M. P. Cain.
Curtis Chapel—l o’clock p. m., Rev,
J. H. Kilpatrick.
Presbyterian Church—lo:3o a. m.,
Bev. H. H. Tucker, D. D. ; 7:30 p. in.,
Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D.
St. John’s (Methodist) —10:30 a. m.,
Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D.; 7:30 p. m.,
Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick.
St. Jame’s Church —Preaching morn
ing and night as advertised. Monday
night, official meeting. Tuesday uight,
association meeting. Thursday nihgt,
prayer and praise meeting.
Jones’ Chapel—Sunday school at 9
a. m. Preaching at night by Rev. W.
3. Headwright. Special services every
olght.
St. James— lo)4 p. m., Rev. W. H.
Davis; 1% p. in., Rev. W. H. Mcln
tosh. D. D.
Asbury Church— lo)4 a. m., Rev. D.
E. Butler ; 7)4 p. m., Rev. E. R. Cars
well.
Christian Church— lo)4 a - ,u -> Bev.
W. H. Mclntosh, D. D.
Thankful (colored)— a. m., Rev.
W. B. B. Cason; 7)4 P- m., Rev. Ed
mund Morris.
Christian Church —Preaching at 10 %
a,, m., by the Pastor, Z. T. Sweeuey.
Subject, “Truth in its relations to
human conduct.” Sunday school at 9
a. m. Prayer and Society Meeting,
Wednesday night at 7)4 o’clock.
Presbyterian Church—Services this
morning at 10:30. Sermon by the Rev.
H. H. Tucker, D. D., Chancellor of the
University of Georgia. At night at
7:30, by the Pastor; and Wednesday
evening, at 7:30; subject, The Apocaly
pse.
St. Paul’s Church—No morning ser
vice. Sunday school at 3:30 P. M.j The
Bev. Mr. Kramer will officiate at 7:30
this evening.
Y. M. C. A.—Appointments for this
day and week : Masonic Hall, 4:30 p.
no., Marion J. Verdery ; Jail, ‘2 p. in.,
J H. Armstrong, J. S. Bean, Jr., Wm.
J Blair; Hospital. 3p. m., Geo. Bryan,
Geo. Brown, W. H. Barrett; Ellis street,
3 p. m., Jas. H. Cranston. B. F. Be
tliune, R. M. Barnes; Bethesda, child
rens’ meeting, 2:45 p. in., Henry Crans
ton, W. J. Crauston, S. Miller Willis;
Factory, 4p. m., E. R, Derry, Nathan
Davis, W. Fred Eve; Widows’s Home,
Friday, 29th October, 7:30 p. m., H.
Clay Foster, Thomas H. Gibson, J. J.
Hickok.
Reported Attempt at M urder.
Several weeks since, a young man
named Levy, residing on Broad street,
near Monument, was, it is said, attack
ed by several negroes who attempted
to kill him as he came out of his house
early in the evening. The villians
stubbed Mr. Levy several times, but
fortunately none of the blows inflicted
did any more damage than destroying
his coat. His cries alarmed the black
villians, who made good their escape.
As Mr. Levy came out of his house
early last eveniug, he was again at
tacked by several negroes, who at
tempted to kill him by stabbing him
wi ,h knives. Levy reports that he drew
hie pistol and fired several times at the
men, but cannot tell with what effect,
and the assailants again made good
their escape. The police were informed,
and arrested Louis Greeu and Peter
Cooper two negro boys on suspicion.
Levy alledges that the only way he can
account for their determined attempt •
at murder is, that when the Civil Rights
law was promulgated, he had an alter
cation with some negro boys and whipp
ed several of them. The matter will
be judicially examined.
Father Butler Shipwrecked.
The following letter, addressed to the
Rev. Father Duffo, was received on the
22d instant, and handed us‘ for publi
cation :
Steamer Montana,
Off Queenstown, October 4th.
My Dear Father Duffo, P. C.:
I left Liverpool on Thursday last
(September 30th.) The second night
we were out a heavy sea broke through
the deck; the vessel began to fill with
water. No possibility of closing the
hole. We were obliged to put back,
and here we are. All our baggage is lost f
I really do not know when I will be
leaving again. I never was in such a
sad plight before. The many things I
had picked up for the church are all
lost. It is very sad indeed. Pray for
me that I may yet roach safe.
Youis in haste,
Theobald W. Butler.
<•*—
The Clerk of Council has issued a
notice of great interest to draymen.