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The Sunday Constitutionalist.
We will, to-morrow, Sunday, issue an
extraordinary edition of the Constitu
tionalist. Four columns will be ad
ded to its regular size, and nearly twice
the number of copies run off from the
press. The Sunday Constitutionalist is
read by everybody in Augusta and vicinity,
and it presents a line opportunity for adver
tisers to make known the goods they have
for sale, their wants, their business, and
indeed any and everything they may wish
to communicate to the public. Aside from
the telegraphic dispatches from all por
tions of the world, the local and commer
cial news, it will contain a special assort
ment of miscellaneous articles. In order
to properly set up and class fy advertise
ments, we hope our friends will send in
their favors at as early an hour to-day as
possible..
Tiie pious Claflin must answer for
smuggling frauds. So says the Judge.
It now looks as if Spain had an Idea that
the Washington authorities meant busi
-11038 in their squint toward Cuba.
And now the coal miners of Hocking Tal
ley want more rag money for their labor,
and have “ struck ’* to get it.
Dr. St ousberg’s failure seems to have
had the same effect upon Russia that Jay
Cooke's collapse had upon the United
States.
The latest returns from Wisconsin are
very favorable to the Democrats. The Re
publicans are not panning out as well as
the first repprts indicated.
Mrs. Moulton has planted another dag
in the breast of Mr. Beecher. She was
dismissed from Plymouth Church, but her
Parthian shot was a fearful one.
The Pope has taken pretty high ground
with Alfonso’s Government. If Alfonso
falls out with the Holy Father, perchance
L ou Carlos will get on the rampage again.
It la quite a compliment to American
engineering that a New Yorker, who raised
the sunken fleet of Russia at Sebastopol,
should b? officially requested, by the
British Admiralty, to put In a bid for the
recovery of the Vanguard.
The Charleston News and Courier, of yes
terday, f-ays Mr. H. H. DeLeon sold at
auction, on Thursday, $15,000 first mort
gage bonds of the S >uth Carolina Railroad
at $9) a share, and $2,000 of the same bonds
at $90.25.
We give our usual interesting letter from
Lincoln county this morning. The cor
respondent corrects an error about Judge
PorrLE leaving the bench with too much
celerity to adjust with dignity, and run
ning to the window looking for a cyclone.
His watch, perhaps, had run down, and he
was only taking reckoning from the po*
sition of the sun.
Merc ntile matters seem to be very
unsettled at Macon. C. A. Nutting has re
signed the Presidency of the City Bank,
and J. J. Gresham elected in his stead. W.
J. Lawton has resigned the Presidency of
the Planters’ Bank, and B. L. Willingham
elected in his stead. Private rumor says
one or two prominent produce and provis
ion houses have collapsed, and that there is
a gener.nl want of confidence in the town.
The earthquake at 10 o’clock Monday
night pretty much shook the entire State
of Georgia. The force which was required
to do this is scarcely conceivable. Were all
the steam,horse and water powers now un
der control of its inhabitants concentrated
into one single and simultaneous effort,
they would have no perceptible effect upon
the earth. It is the consciousness of this
that makes men tremble at the earthquake
—produced, as it is by a power foreign, un
fathomable, inconceivable!
The Indictment of Orville Grant,
brother to the President, and Babcock, Se
cretary to his Excellency, for comp'icity
with the St. Louis whiskey ring fraudß,
iias an ugly look for the accused parties.
They were arraigned on the testimony of a
man who, probably, to save his own bacon,
turned State’s evidence. Of course, this
and .not relieve the companions of his guilt,
but as it general thing, the fellow who turns
State’s evidence is thebiggest rascal of all.
Meanwhile, the case is before the law and
need not be prejudged. Babcock himself
repels the whole transaction with scorn.
Turkey has had a warning from Russia
that persecution of Christians must cease,
or else the Great Powers wifi know the rea
son why. To give an idea of the barbari
ties of the Ottoman potentate and suffer
ing of his Christian vassals, we quote as
follows from the address of Michael, the
Greek Metropolitan of Servia: “Listen to
outrages, never perpetrated either by sav
ages or ferocious beasts. In the latter half
of the nineteenth century, in spite of Chris
tian civilization and every human feeling,
coni in view of the great and mighty ones
of earth, they have impaled livirg human
beings, have roasted rajahs alive! And now,
when for the last time the rajahs, in de-
spalr, resort perhaps to arms, either to put
an end to their sufferings or to die, is it
right for the great and cultivated nations
of Europe to look quietly oa or keep silent
in total indifference? Have not these peo- i
■pie in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Old Servia
—in fact, a martyr people—have not they
in their distress deserve i the
of Europe as well as the Grecian piple,
which fifty years ago, England, Franco and
Europe hastened to succor? More than
any other people did the Serviaus fight the
Ottoman, defending Europe against the
Turkish invasion. The Servian people shed
their blood In torrents on every battle field
in behalf of Christian civilization. Breth
ren and sisters, you are surrounded by
happiness aid freedom in your homes; re
member well all these circumstances. Ee-
and ponder upon it; aid us in our
unspeakable distress, whether in the name
of our Mlavic descent, or of the holy Chris
tian Church, or finally, of humanity! The
Servian nation in Bosnia dr Herzegovina is
resolved either to conquer national free
dom or die as heroes, to be but led beneath
the ruins of their homesteads.”
Savannah News ; Will Dr. Janes
please keep the tally-sheet? Here is
the eighteenth since the Ist of Sep
tember: The gin house of Mr. A. M.
Wright, of Newton county, together
with the gin, press, engine, and eleven
bales of cotton, was burned last week.
The earthquake on Monday night
was felt throughuut the whole State of
Georgia, so far as we have heard from.
Says the Macon Telegraph: "Just be
fore ten o’clock Monday night, the city
of Macon was visited by an earthquake
ohoek which was felt perceptibly In
overy portion of the city, though its
heaviest force appears to have existed
oa College Hill, where the tremor was
felt in every house.
Columbus, Ohio, November s.—Most
of the coal miners in Hocking Vailvey
have struck for an increase of ten cents
per too,
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Established 1799.
THE ELECTIONS.
WISCONSIN.
Rise in Democratic Stock.
Milwaukee, November s.— Returns
from remote towns are unfavorable to
the Republicans. It will require an
official count to determine the result.
Ludioglon is probably elected by 1,000
majority. The rest of the Republicans
are defeated.
KANSAS.
Partial Returns.
Kansas City, November s.—The
Kansas City Times has returns from 76
of the 103 Legislative districts in Kan
sas, which show the election of 39
straight Republicans and 37 opposi
tion, classed under the head of Demo
crats, Independents and Reformers.
Last year, only 26 members went into
opposition caucus, showing the con
test this year had been considerably
closer than then. The Democrats also
elect a Senator in the district where
there was a vacancy, and also elect a
District Judge in the Fort Scott Dis
trict, being one of three vacancies.
NEW YORK.
Bigelow Stock Rising.
Albany, November s.—The returns
received by the Argus give a majority
for Bigelow of 16,798, with the prospect
of a further increase.
MINNESOTA.
Better News for the Democrats.
St, Paul, November s.—The Legisla
tive returns are as yet meagre, but the
Democrats appear to have gained, eo
far, four or five members. This, if not
offset by Republican gains, will make
the Legislature v-ry close.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Voice From Mississippi—Babcock
Repels the Whiskey Fraud Indict
ment.
Washington, November s.—The At
torney General has a dispatch that
District Attorney Mills, whom he de
scribes as the Administration candi
date, has been elected to Congress
from Mississippi by 9,000 majority.
The Attorney General has no advice
of the indictment of Gen. Babcock and
Orville Grant, at St. Louis. Geu. Bab
oock remarked he did not care to take
any notice of the report. It should be
verified. The Star says Gen. O. E. Bab
cock, Private Secretary to the Presi
dent, says, with reference to the spe
cial dispatch from St. Louis to the Cin
cinnati j Enquire?', stating that he has
been indicted by the grand jury at St.
Louis for conspiring with the distillers
of that city to defraud the Govern
ment out of the taxes on crooked
whiskey, that he does not believe any
indictment has been found against him
for several reasons. In the first place,
the news of his indictment appears in
.an opposition paper; in the second
place, he has never had any intimation
from any source, that his name was to
be presented to the grand jury; and,
finally, that he knows nothiug of, nor
has he ever had, any connection, di
rectly or indirectly, with the “ whiskey
ring.” Until he receives reliable in
formation that such action has been
taken by the grand jury, lie, of course,
will have nothing to say of the man
Fitzroy who, it is stated, turned State’s
evidence. He knows nothing of him,
although he believes he did see him
once, and only once, in St. Louis—
neither does Secretary Bristow.
Commissioner John li. Valentine has
been appointed United States District
Attorney for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
FROM CHARLESTON.
Gov. Chamberlain Promises Reform-
Gen. Gordon’s Views of the Late
Elections.
Charleston, November s. —The re
ception to Gov. Chamberlain by the
Chamber of Commerce to-day was the
occasion of the largest gathering of
that body that has been known for
years. In reply to congratulations
upon the wholesome effects of the re
forms of his administration upon the
commercial prosperity of Charleston
and the material interests of the State,
Gov. Chamberlain reiterated his pledge
to give good and honest government to
South Carolina, and expressed deep
gratification at receiving the co-opera
tion of the business men of Charleston.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, was inter
viewed by a News and Courier reporter
to-day u’poD the result of Tuesday’s
elections. He attributes the Demo
cratic reverses to the fact that the cur
rency issue diverted public attention
from the corruption and maladminis
tration of the Republican party espe
cially In its Southern policy. He said
the Republicans would be glad to fight
the battle of 1876 upon new issues and
it does not matter with them much what
these new issues are, whether they be the
currency, the acquisition of Cuba or a
war with the people—anything rather
than their own record. The National
Democracy will make a serious mistake
if they permit any of these new issues
to be brought into the Presidential
canvass next year. He said: ‘‘l am
satisfied, however, that after the lesson
of Tuesday, the National Democracy
will not make the currency question
either paramount or prominent, and
that both wings of the Democratic
party on the currency question and the
Liberal Republicans will unite in 1876
in favor of the Constitution, local self
government, and an honest economical
administration.”
Minor Telegrams.
Atlanta, November s. —The Atlanta
Constitution exploring party left Homer
vilie, Ga. to-day for Okefenokee swamp.
The party numbers 22 fully equipped.
Professor Little, State Geologist, ac
companies the expedition.
St. Paul, Minn., November 5. —The
navigation of the Red River of the
North was closed last night by cold
weather. Several steamboats are re
ported frozen up between Moorhead
and Winnepeg.
PRINCE HOG.
The Pork Packers In Convention.
Keokuk, lowa, November s.—At the
adjourned meeting of the Pork Pack
er’s Convention a large number of
points were represented. Resolutions
were offered in favor of the discon
tinuance of buying on commission, and
prescribing a deduction for unmer
chantable hogs. Reports were made
by delegates from different portions,
indicating a crop equal to last year’s.
No serious results are opprehended
fiom hog cholera.
-A.TTGLTSTA., GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Egypt Gets a Blow—Compliment to an
American—Russia Warns Turkey—
The Pope and Spain.
London, November 5. —The Daily News
has a special telegram from Alexandria
saying that the inhabitants of Koka, on
the White Nile, have revolted and de
feated the Egytian troops, killing a
hundred of them. The Government
has dispatched reinforcements thither.
Col. Gowen, of New York, who
raised the wrecks of the Russian fleet
in the harbor of Sebastopol, has been j
officially invited by the British Admi- ■
ralty to put in proposals for raising
the ironclad Vanguard, sunk off Wick
low Head.
Vienna, November s. —The Neue
Freie Presse says: Iguatieff, Russian
Minister at Constantinople, has had an
interview with the Grand Vizier, in
which he threatened an armed inter
vention of the Great Powers if Turkish
persecution of Christians continues.
Madrid, November 6.— The Diario
Espagnol says the Vatican has sent a
note to Madrid, which expresses ap
proval of Cardinal Simeoni’s conduct
regarding thecircular note, insists upon
an execution of the concordat, refuses
to recognize the royal Placet, attributes
civil war to religious tolerance aDd de
mands that the Bishop of Urgel be
tiied by ecclesiastical judges and not
by an ordinary tribunal.
Election of President of the French
Assembly.
Versailles, November s.—Duke
D’Audiffret Pasquier was elected
President of the Assembly by a com
bination of the Left with a portion of
the Right. This is regarded as a de
monstration against the Bonapartists.
Plain Talk to the Sultan—The Great
Powers in Accord—Denunciation of i
a Bank —Dr. Strousberg “ Jay-
Cooke’s” Russia.
Constantinople, November 5. —Gen.
Ignatieff, Russian ambassador, had a
long interview with the Sultan yester
day, and represented to him the mal
administration of the country, discon
tent of the population, dilapidation of
of the finances and consequent urgency
of reform.
St. Petersburg, November s.—lt is
seini-officially announced that Russia
had sent no communication regarding
Turkey to the signatories of the treaty
of Paris as reported. There is a good
understanding, and continued exchange
of views between the Powers rendering
such communication unnecessary.
London, November s.—The Times, in
Its financial article this morning, de
nounces the operations of the Co-opera- !
tive Credit Bunk as a scandal and dis- I
grace to the city, strongly Intimating |
that it Is swindling the public by dint j
of its unconquerable audacity and an
unscrupulous dissemination of puffs.
It fosters schemes like the Keokuk and
Kansas City Railway, which asks for
loan of two and a half million of dollars
when it was ordered to be sold for debt
last May.
The failure of Dr. Strousberg, the
great railway contractor, seriously
threatens Russian commercial credit.
Many failures have already occurred.
Banks are in a state of fear which reacts
on the London Money market.
FROM NEW YORK.
Significant Spanish Purchases.
New York, November s.—lt is an
nounced that the Spanish Government
has forwarded to the agents in this city
orders to buy up and ship at once pro
visions and ammunition to the amount
of §500,000. Money for this purpose
was contributed in Havana on the 20th
ult., upon receipt of telegrams from
Madrid to the effect that American in
tervention was feared, and that all that
could be done to deter it was ad
visable.
Losb of a Schooner—Direct Cable
Charges.
The schooner George S. Hart, from
Boston for Savannah, was abandoned
at sea in a sinking condition October
31st. The crew were brought here.
‘The Direct Cable opens at midnight.
The tariff is 75 cents (gold) per word.
Capture of a Whislxey Still —Claflin &
Cos. to he Held for Smuggling Frauds
—Mrs. Monlton Drops a Bombshell
into Beecher's Camp, and Is Dis
missed from the Church.
New York, November s.—Several
Deputy Marshals, after being driven off
once, succeeded in capturing an illicit,
still in full blast in Brooklyn.
Judge Benedict decided the motion
to quash the criminal indictment
agaiust H. B. Claflin & Cos. in silk smug
gling frauds. He stated his opinion.
The indictment contains four counts :
First, that of concealing smuggled
goods; second, facilitating their trans
portation; third, facilitating their sale.
The fourth count of the indictment
makes general allegations of violations
of law. This was vague and cannot be
sustained, and the motion as to
this count was sustained; but as to the
other three counts the motion to quash
was denied and the indictment sus
tained.
There was a meeting of the members
of Plymouth Church on the oases of
Mrs. Francis D. Moulton and Deacon
West, who had been notified by the
Examining Committee of an intention
to drop them from membership for
non-attendance. Deacon West was not
present. Mrs. Moulton was present
with her Attorney, Pryor. Sixty mem
bers of the church were present, one
haif of whom were ladies. Pryor read
an answer written and signed by Mrs.
Moulton, concluding as follows : “My
absence is an enforced one and is
caused by the crime of adultery com
mitted by Henry Ward Beecher, pas
tor of this church, with one of his par
ishioners which I know to be a fact
through Mr. Beecher’s confessions
to me and through the con
fessions of Mrs. Tilton and through
the conclusive evidence of the
crime from other sources. I appear
before this church in loyal obedience
to the summons which I have received,
and I hereby declare my disposition
and desire to discharge ail the duties
devolving on me as a member that are
consistent with ray knowledge of the
adultery of the pastor and his false
swearing with regard to it.” A silent
vote was then taken and the name of
Mrs. Moulton dropped from the Ply
mouth roll of membership. It is 6tated
there has been a committee appointed
by the Congregational Association of
New York and Brooklyn to inquire on
the part of fthe Society into the truth
or falsity of charges against Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. The committee,
it is said, will enter upon the discharge
of the duties at once.
St. Paul, Minn., November s. —Rev.
S. Y. McMasters, D.D. L.L.D., rector
of Christ’s Church here, and well known
in Protestant Episcopal circles through
out the country, died to-day after a
long and painful sickness.
LETTER FROM LINCOLN.
The Earthquake Shock—Vie Crops—
Negroes Stealing Corn a<l Cotton-
Sowing Small Grain—h;ale Day—
Judge Pottle in a Thunderstorm—
Dissatisfied with a Yerdiut,
ICorrespondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Goshen, Lincoln i<o., Ga.,
November 3,1875. j
Avery distinct and prolonged shock
of what was supposed to hii|ve been an
earthquake was felt iu thii section of
the country on last MorlJay night,
about 10 o’clock. It was afjeompauied
by a low rumbling noise, something like
distant thunder, shaking |she houses
very sensibly, and causing he windows
to rattle. The duration of; the shock
was at least, if not more tfsan, fifteen
seconds. If it had been a little more
severe, it would have been to
have injured brick houses.*' Many per
sons were alarmed, and wi&h a few ex
ceptions every one who asleep was
awakened. On Tuesday, it vas the sub
ject of conversation all ove:; this portion
of the country, and we 6?e awaiting
anxiously to hear from thfs country at
large that we may know w!|ethei it was
felt elsewhere, and if any llamage has
been done. When it was krst heard in
my house, the sound resembled that
made by one shaking a doer, violently,
and was thought for a Second to be
someone attempting to open a door,
but we discovered it waj something
else, and immediately t|ie thought
flashed across my mind th ,it it was the
shock of an earthquake. |tt seemed to
produce very singular feelings, and I
have no hesitation in saying I felt quite
uneasy for even fifteen n|inutes after
ward, for I knew not wimt else was
coming, and remembering that this bad
been a remarkable year in many re
spects, I somewhat feared the worst
had not come, and though?, possibly we
would have a return of it, which would
be more serious. Not a fe:? persons on
first hearing the sound supposed their
houses were on fire, and arose from
their beds and looked outiuf their win
dows to see if such was |iot the case.
After coining nearly through such a re
markable year, as respectt| natural phe
nomena, and now being visited lastly
by an earthquake, the question very
naturally is propounded io our minds,
what are we to expect neift?
The Crops.*
In several sections of t|is county. I
hear of some very flue Hops of corn
having been made and gathered. lam
told that Mr. L. C. Coleman, one of the
Deputy Sheriffs of this ’county, who
does not own a very lajge farm, has
gathered 1,000 bushels o? corn on his
place recently. Another farmer, a
young man, who runs \ a one-horse
farm, has made 240 bushes from seven
acres. Mr. N. W. Stevenson, the fa
mous Petersburg boatmafi, claims that
he will make a fine cropfof corn; also,
Mr. Zack Willingham. Tkfsae, however,
are not exceptional oasis, but only a
few Instances. Generally speaking,
very fine crops of corn htfve been made
iu this section. ?
Negroes Stealing Corn|and Cotton.
Great complaints are tjjjing made by
the planters just over jthe river in
South Carolina, against the negroes
for stealing their corn arid cotton after,
and even before, it is gathered. It ha3
reached such a point diiat they are
compelled to watch th|ir corn in the
fields, and while watclmg it there,
their barns are broken open and
robbed. It is suppos’d that they
are organized into band, for
the reason that the- negroes are
always posted as to win her a man is
at the house or in the Add. The river,
however, is not a bar C> their making
depredations on this sick); for they fre
quently make raids 04 the river bot
toms on this side, carrying off as much
corn as they possibly can. It is said
that over the river every farmer has
dropped every other part of farm
work and gone to gathering the ooru,
so iearful are they thijt they will lose
it if it remains in the Qeld. Until re
cently a man named Cajle had what is
called a “floating liqtjbr battery” on
the river, and the negroes would steal
corn and cotton and it off to him
for liquor, but on complaint being
lodged with the Ordinary of this coun
ty his license has taken away.
Now that this incentive to steal has
been removed, it is isoped there will
not be so many deprivations carried
on. Some of the whites over the river
are of the opinion tfiat if It were not
for the mean whites thy negroes would
not steal half as much as they do—that
they are put up to it by these white
men.
Sowing Small Grain.
From what I can gjather, I learn
there will be more sinall grain sown
this year than last. ;Fully as much
wheat and more oate’whl be planted.
Farmers generally aiD sowing their
grain now, as they c (s. get the oppor
tunity. f
Lincoln Sal!; Day.
was regular sale day In
the county, and some ’and was sold. A
very valuable tract, belonging to the
Cantelon estate was dii bosed of at about
$4 per acre. The ftract coutained
about 800 acres, soije of which is
fine river and creek b .'ttom lands, but
the place was In a dilapidated condi
tion, which accounts for Its being sold
so cheap.
Judge Pottle in a Thunderstorm.
I would like to correct a mistake
made in writing to yo : |, recently, about
the conduct of Judge,JPottle during the
little storm we had (iuring court. He
did not leave the befell aud go to the
window because he Wi*b frightened, but
to eye the elements aid see the indica
tions. I mention this because I would
not even seem to misrepresent any
one, In even a very small matter. Judge
P. is a Christian genth man, and though
he has been in one tornado, he is not
easily frightened about such matters.
Dissatisfaction With a Verdict.
Complaint is being made about the
manner in which the State prosecuted
a ease in our reoent court, and also as
to the alternative all wed in lieu of the
sentence. It appears? that the State, in
prosecuting a negro who was under as
sault with intent to murder, introduced
only one wituess (the|defense introdu
cing none), when it brfd several, one of
whom was a very important one, the
Introduction of whorf would have In
sured his conviction of the offense
charged, whereas h<£ was only found
guilty of stabbing. % The Judge sen
tenced him to months’ hard la
bor on the chain gai g, and the ques
tion was asked if there was any alter
native. The Judge stated none at the
time in open court. Rut now the negro
is at large, working for the same gentle
man with whom he worked when he cut
the negro in questior, and rumor saith
he was either paid c it with a nominal
fine or hired out f<. r a nominal sum,
and if the latter, he 1 ; not confined and
is at liberty to eacaj: oat any time. I
give these facts as r- Hated to me, and
give no opinion ae 14! who ought to be
censured, but to say the least of it, the
practice is questionable. There is no
comparison between the present con
dition of the negro in question, who, be
it remembered, has been found guilty
of a criminal offense and a sentence of
twelve months on the chain-gang. All
punishment should be corrective, but if
this is the extent of the peualty for
stabbing, there is nothing at all in it
that men will fear, which is likely to
deter them from repeating the offense
of this man, or committing others in
the catalogue of crimes. Two other
negroes were found guilty of the same
offense, and after being sentenced to
six months each on the chain-gang,
were either paid out or hired out in the
same manner. But this was a more
aggravated case. Yours, &c., C.
THE COTTON CROP.
Ellison A Co.’s Review’ —Interesting
Calculations.
Washington, November s.—Ellison &
Cos., of Liverpool, in addition to their
usual monthly report, have issued a
review of the cotton trade of Europe
for the season of 1874-75. This takes
the place of the annual circular of Ott
Trumpler, of Zurich, which has been
discontinued. A comparison of the de
liveries of cotton in Great Britain and
the Continent for the first five sea
sons does not show that the con
sumption of the Continent is gain
ing ground upon that of Great
Britain, when the consumption was
less last season than in any of
the previous four, and may be taken
as a mere passing variation such as
the Continental figures also show.
Judging from the weekly deliveries, the
falling off has been about the same in
both cases during the season just
closed. From a number of estimates,
including the natural increase of spin
dles, the effect of the factory act and
other circumstances bearing upon con
sumption of raw material, it is found
that the requirements of Europe for
1875-6 will be three per cent greater
than last season, or 5,752,000 bales
of 382 4 5 pounds. To meet this de
mand the report says : “The area sown
this season in America is about 8,755,-
000 acres, or 233,000 acres representing
about 100,000 bales less than the aver
age of the previous three seasons. The
season does not promise to differ ma
terially from the average of 1875. The
yield is not likely’, therefore, to show
any very important variation from
4,000,000 bales. Whatever the size of the
crop may be, American spinners will
require about 1,300.000 bales. This
would leave 2,700,000 bales for Eu
rope, out of a total of 4,000,000
or 2,800,000, out of 4,100,000. On the
basis of these figures, a reasonable es
timate of the import into Europe for
the season will be 2,750,000 bales. The
average import from India, duriug the
past two seasons, has fallen short of
1,500,000 bales, and this Is the highest
figure we feel justified in adopting for
1875-76. With a continuance of the
present scale of prices it is more likely
than not that our estimate will not be
reached. Brazil will probably send us
no more than last year—say 560,000
bales, but the supply from Egypt may
reach 400,000 bales.
Smyrna and the West Indies, &c.,
will probably furnish abrrcrtr the same
as in 1874-75, consequently they put
the total supply at 5,480,000. This es
timate is worked out by some elabor
ate statistics, so as to show that at the
end of September, 1876, the stocks in
the portb will be 176,000 bales, of 389
pounds less than in 1875. In other
words, that the balance of unused cot
ton at the end of next season will be
about 240,000 bales, exclusive of the
stocks at the mills. These calculations,
based, as they are, on long averages
and intimate knowledge of the trade,
are accepted as foreshadowing the
facts as closely as can be expected.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Marine Disaster—Fatal Fire—(Grant’s
| Brother and Secretary Indicted for
Whiskey Frauds.
Washington, November 5, 10:15 A.M.
; —The Signal Service Observer at Bar
! negat inlet reports a two-masted schoo-
I ner ashore on North bar—winds north
west and fresh low tide.
A Are this morning destroyed two
frame shanties, and three colored chil
dren, 10,12 and 15 years of age, were
burned up.
Cincinnati, November 5. —The Cin
cinnati Enquirer's special dispatch from
St. Louis sajs the announcement is
made that the United States grand
jury have found an indictment against
ex -United States District Attorneys
Patrick and Krum, ex-United States
Marshal C. A. Newcorabe, Orville Grant,
brother of the President, Gen. Bab
cock, the President’s private Secretary,
and others. The greatest excitement
prevails. The indictments charge them
with conspiracy with St. Louis distil
lers to defraud the Government out of
the taxes on au immense amount of
crooked whiskey. The indictments
crow out of testimony before the grand
jury of Jos. M. Fitzray, late Deputy
United States Collector. Fitzray was
indicted by the previous grand jury,
and lately pleaded guilty to the charges
against him. He is said to have been
the Treasurer of the St. Louis whiskey
riug, the most gigantic combination
ever made to cheat the Government.
Arrest of a Counterfeiter—Boiler Ex
plosion.
Philadelphia, November s.— Mc-
Grath, the counterfeiter, was arrested
on the steamer Indiana. He had en
gaged to work his passage out.
PiTTLBtIRO, November 5. —The boiler
of the steamer Tigress exploded, and
three firemen were badly scalded.
RAILWAY NEWS.
Sale and Reorganization of a Sick
Road.
St. Joseph, Mo., November s.—The
Eastern Division of the St. Joseph and
Denver Road has been purchased by
the Bondholders’ Committee for SIOO,-
000. The west section will be sold to
day. Anew company will be formed,
under the name of the St. Joseph and
Pacific Road, and completed.
Rattling the Dry Bones of the Missouri
Pacific Railway.
New Yore, November 5. —The stocli
i holders of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road Company held an adjourned meet
ing, with J. Van Schaick presiding.
One-half the ontire capital was repre
sented. Resolutions were unanimously
adopted requesting the present Board
of Directors to resign. A committee
was appointed to procure the resigna
tion of the Directors and to name their
successors. The committee were in
structed to co-operate with the county
of St. Louis in getting an assignee on
bankruptcy, if it becomes necessary, in
order to get the lease to the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Company can
celled.
■
RAILWAY KINGS.
TWO NOTABLE EXAMPLES.
The Career of Dr. Strausberg— How a
Famous Developer Exploited Kings
and Cabinets—His Downfall—Remin
iscences of the Famous Deorge Hud
son—“ The Earth Has Bubbles as
the Water Iftuth, and These Are of
Them.”
[Courier-Journal.]
Dr. Strausberg had contracts of the
most ambitious and extended charac
ter. The Danubian principalities look
ed to him for the development of a
railway system which would indefinite
ly add to the importance of their fer
tile country. Russia, that rich field of
enterprise, just awakening to the im
portance of the new agent of civiliza
tion, had been taken possession of by
him, and his importance seemed to be
daily growing. He lived in Berlin in
the magnificence so affected by the no
bility of this new power of the age,
who derive their patents from the vir
tue of steam and the ennobling quality
of ducats drawn as subsidy from States.
He had discovered the long-looked-for
secret of converting iron into gold
Such was the popular estimate of his
wealth that, in the severe winter of
1869, when he gave ten thousand
thalers to the poor of Berlin, there
was an expression of surprise that he
gave no more. The Democratic pa
pers were open in terming his donation
a mere bagatelle. Strausberg belongs
to those spirits to whom no enterprise
seems too great. Like the projector of
the Suez Canal, M. de Lesseps, he had
the nerve to encounter the red tape of
continental bureaus ; he had the genius
to cleave through the rooted prejudices
of the men who stand around them
like a guard of medievalism. There is
something grand in the career of a
continental financier who must be a
diplomatist, and, ae Strausberg is, a
scholar. Perhaps the same faculty of
gorgeous lying is not required as in a
country where romantic features are
to be spread abroad to captivate the
imagination of sordid people who
have money to invest. There is not the
same facility of gullicg a public eager
to earn fabulous sums by a small
outlay. The continental financier does
not rely so much on finely engraved
bonds, with the flourishing and luxuri
ant signature of a bald-headed Presi
dent, indorsed by Senator Dilworthy
and the congregation of a church. He
rather must deal in figures, he must
make his deposits and give his securi
ties for the safety of an investment be
fore it is placed before the people. In
short, It requires more capital to suc
ceed than a gold watch chain, a
glib way of talking to people, in an off
hand way, of a fabulous capital, and
the gorgeous scenery through which
the Bungtown Railway will pass. If
Dr. Strausberg has irretrievably fallen,
he has been at once the most success
ful and unsuccessful speculator of the
world. He is either a gigantio villain,
or he is a Hercules, who has succumbed
under heavy tasks.
A parallel to his history, in its mag
nitude, may be found in the history of
George Hudson, the English railway
speculator and director. It was dur
ing the few years preceding and subse
quent to 1845 that the great railway
mania of England swept over the coun
try, surpassing even the great South
Sea bubble. All the lithographers of
the United Kingdom were unable to
supply the demand for charts and
plans. Over six huudred projects were
handed in to the Board of Trade in the
year 1845; the capital required for the
construction of these roads amounted
to about a billion and a half of dollars,
and more than a hundred million dol
lars had to be deposited before the acts
could be applied for after approval by
the board. This was the storm direct
ed by George Hudson, at that time in
the prime of life, in the forties. He
had risen from the position of appren
tice to a linen draper, and become the
companion of rulers; his magnificent
mansion in London was thronged by
men of influence, who acknowl
edged him as the spirit of the
age. Luxury and power went hand in
hand with him. His receipts from
speculation at times are said to have
amounted to as much as one thousand
dollars per day. The linen draper’s
apprentice was frequently elected lord
mayor of York, constituencies forced
him into Parliament, and at the height
of his power one huudred and twenty -
flve thousand dollars were subscribed
to erect a monument to him. Unfortu
nately when the bubble was at its
prettiest it broke, the fairies withdrew
their protecting power, and the prince’s
raiment in which he was clad turned
again into rags. The collection of
crested carriages at his door drove
rapidly away, the footmen with the
padded calves even turned up their
noses, and Mr. Hudson retired to
France, and of late years was reported
living in straitened circumstances
on potage maigre, But it seems he
crept back home in 1871, aud the ne
crology of that year bears the brief
announcement, on the 14th of Decem
ber, died at his residence, Charton
street, belgrave road, aged 70 years.
Geo. Hudson, all poweifui in commer
cial circles thirty years since as railway
king.
It would seem that the position of
railway king is a perilous one. It is
something that invites to fraud, aud is
attractive to spirits who find their true
sphere in ruling. It is something alto
gether too big to be played with by
small men. It is an easy matter for
the public to be deluded about the
character of a man who sets up as dic
tator in this business. Some of the
States have already taken hold of the
railways in the way of constitutional
regulations, and where the Government
may advance its own prosperity by
assistance, it may acquire a further
claim to regulation by so doing. Take
away some of the elements of cooking
and watering stock, cut off the mysteri
ous method of engineering reports
wherein “hard pan” is the ominous
feature, and there will be fewer explo
sions among the railway kings from
sheer inflation. We will have better
linen drapers and business men, and a
better class of railway rulers.
An advertisement is of value, not In
proportion to its size, but in accord
ance with its prominence and the com
pleteness with which it expresses an
idea. The mystery of writing adver
tisements consists mainly in saying, in
a few plain words, exactly what it is
desired to say—precisely as it would
be written in a letter or told to an ac
quaintance. Let the prominent line be
so arranged as to catch the eye of the
class of persons likely to be interested.
When this is done the rest will be read,
although set in small type.
An investigation is being made by a
committee in Columbia into the condi
tion of affairs between the city and the
Carolina National Bank in relation to
the city hall.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 79
A MODERN PROPHET’S SIN.
A Woman Made to Believe that Her
Salvation Depended upon Deserting
Her Husband for Another Man—Ro
mance in Earnest.
[From the New York Sun.]
Samuel T. Soper, a wealthy farmer,
of Farmingdale, Long Island, was taken
to Ludlow Street Jail yesterday, charg
ed with elopement, seduction and crimi
nal intimacy with his niece, Mrs. Sarah
M. Pearsall, of this city. The lady’s
husband, Win. H. Pearsall, who lives in
Fifteenth street, has sued in the Queens
County Supreme Court for damages in
$50,000. Soper is sixty-three years of
age end his niece is twenty-six. Pearsall
married the niece on the 12th of August,
1869, and, as he swears, lived happily
with her until the 7th of last Septem
ber, the time of the elopement. Mrs.
Pearsall visited her uncle, Soper, in
Farmingdale, on the sth of September,
with the understanding that her hus
band was to join her there on the fol
lowing Tuesday. On that day Pear
sall ascertained that his wife and her
uncle had started on Saturday for the
West. Mrs. Soper, the aged wife of the
uncle, professed not to know why or
for how long the pair had gone. Pear
sall followed, and overtook them in the
house of E. P. Soper, in Wayne Center,
N. Y. Pearsall declares that lie demand
ed his wife of her uncle, but the uncle
refused to surrender her, saying, ‘‘You
are too late; she has been my wife for
the past three day> : .” The wife also re
fused to return to her husband.
Intercession Demanded.
Pearsall says that he then a9ked El
vin Soper not to permit such behavior
iu his house, and the uncle promised
to intercede with his brother to have
him surrender the niece to her hus
band. He said he had prepared sepa
rate rooms for his brother and niece,
being well aware that they were not
man and wife, but they bad, neverthe
less, occupied the same room. On the
next day, according to Elvin Soper’s
assertion, he implored his brother to
abandon his purpose, but the old man
was obdurate, and Elvin was obliged
to expel him from the house. Theuce
the pair went to the house of another
brother, Egbert Soper, and, repeating
their assertion that they were wedded,
remained until some time between the
14th and the 18th of the month, Mr.
Pearsall asserts that he did not follow
them, but returned home heartbroken.
He Informed the members of his family
of what he had discovered, and after
his wife and her uncle had returned to
Farmingdale, his wife’s brothers, Well
ington and Randolph Soper, visited
their sister, and, after much resistance
from her, took her to her aunt’s home
in New York. There she remained a
day or two, and then returned to her
uncle’s house, and has since remained
there.
The Hnsband Thrown Out of Doors.
Once since this, her husband says, he
visited the house lu Farmingdale, but
Mr. Soper violently threw him out of
the door. Mr. Pearsall says that Soper
is a maniac on the subject of religion.
He calls himself a Perfectionist, and
believes he is a prophet, or chosen
child of God, and is incapable of com
mitting sin. He has considerable in
tellect, and has amassed a fortune. He
has inculcated his peculiar views upon
the mind of the neice. She Is said to
have been so Impressed by her uucle’s
revelations to her that iu July, when
her only child died, she Implored her
husband to send for Mr. Soper, that he
might restore the boy to life.
Mr. Pearsall says tha£ his wife was
made to believe that she was jeopar
dizing her soul by living with him, as
he was ‘‘guilty of the unpardonable
sin.” By an alliance with Soper, not
only would her salvation be assured,
but she was to become, like him, a
prophet. By such arguments he per
suaded her to elope with him, and, upon
their return to Farmingdale, he put
his aged and faithful wife from him,
by convincing her that she, too, had
committed the unpardonable sin, which,
Mr. Pearsall explains. Is the “sin of not
believing the old man's nonsense.” The
young niece and the old uncle having
cleared the way of all obstacles, as the
story goes, grew impudent from suc
cess, and varied their evenings’ enter
tainment by visiting the discarded wife
in the so.itude at the dead of night, ex
horting her to seek forgiveness.
It is said that Mrs. Pearsall’s mother
is willing to swear that her mother con
fessed to her that she had lived in
adultery with her uncle, and insisted
that she, too, had become a prophet.
Soper’s Arrest.
Mr. Soper unconsciously assisted in
his own arrest yesterday. The warrant
was made for Queens county, but it
was afterward ascertained that he
lived a little beyond Farmingale, in
Suffolk county, aud for days the offi
cers were unable to catch him in
Queens county. Yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by his aged wife, he vis
ited the oity, going to the office of
Downing & Stanbrough, in Broadway,
who are the attorneys for Pearsall.
Soper was about to relate his story, but
Mr. Stanbrout. h informed him that his
par ner was hired for the complainant.
When the couple took their leave, Mr.
Staubroug'i sent an officer and Soper
was arrested. In the Sheriff’s office he
was told that his bail was set at $7,000,
but he refused to look for boudsmen,
and said he would decline bail if offer
ed. He would stay in prison twenty
years before he would hire sounsel,
either, he said. His wire was com
placent. “These things have to be
suffered for Christ,” she said; and her
husband added, ‘‘and in all Christ’s
sufferings he never employed a law
yer.”
Soper denies all the aseusations, say
ing that Mrs. Pearsall was intrusted to
him by her husband, who had abused
and ill-treated her. He asserts that he
has eighteen confessions written by
Pearsall, which will throw anew light
on the case.
Macon Telegraph: Tuesday after
noon, Miss Floretta Mason, daughter
of Mr. Tim Mason, of Longstreet, Pu
laski couuty, was killed by being
thrown from a horse. A youDg gentle
man was making a call upon the fami
ly, and had hitched his horse near the
house. Miss Mason got on the horse
to take a ride, when the animal ran
away and threw her against a tree,
killing her instantly. She was a very
charming young lady, about fifteen
years of age.
Sumter Republican : We learn from
reliable authority that a white man by
the name of John Clark, formerly a re
sident of this county, shot and killed a
negro, Joe Richardson, in Lee county
on Monday last. It seems that the
negro went to the residence of Clark
and called him out for the purpose of
raising a difficulty. In the dispute that
took place between them the negro
called Clark a d — d liar, when the lat
ter shot him, the wound proving fatal.
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THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.
Characteristics of an Eccentric No
bleman—A Singular Mania for Build
ing,
t London Figaro.]
Few even of his nearest*neighbors
have the slightest idea how he spends
his time. He is never seen at court,
and fashionable aristocratic circles
know him not. So far as society is
concerned, he is dead to the world, and
even the few visitors to Welbeck Ab
bey seldom set eyes on their host. He
surrounds himself with an atmosphere
of the closest mystery, and no one,
peer or commoner, is permitted to
penetrate into the secrets of his life.
Even his own solicitors, the firm to
whom is intrusted the legal man
agement of his enormous estates,
are never allowed an interview'
with him, and in aristocratic cir
cles it is habitually—but, as will
be seen hereafter, erroneously—assert
ed that the only person who is per
mitted to see him is his confidential
valet. His hat Is of an unusual height;
a long, old-fashioned wig reaches down
to his neck; wet or fine, he never stirs
out without an umbrella; hot or cold, a
loose coat is always slung over his arm;
and, whether the ground be dry or
muddy, his trowsers are invariably tied
up below the knee with a piece of com
mon string, in exactly the same fash
ion as is adopted by a navvy at his
work. His mind is as active and his
intellect as acute as those of almost
any of his brothers in the peerage. He
is now just 75 years of age, having
been born on the 17th of September,
1800. He is, of course, enormously
wealthy. Four or five years ago his
annual income was upward of £300.0C0,
and since that time it has very consid
erably increased. He is a very large
owner of land round about Welbeck
Abbey, where he usually resides, and
he has besides enormously valuable
property in London, chiefly in the dis
trict of Marylebone, besides very large
estates In Northumberland, in Det by
shire, in Caithness, and Ayrshire. His
Grace has never been married, nor, to
the best of living belief, has at any
time been smitten by a woman’s
charms. His ruling passion is an iuvet
erate love for building. At Welbeck
Abbey alone, for many years, there
have been imployed upward of 500
masons, aud a like number of smiths
aud joiuers, besides the staff nec
essary for the ordinary wok of
the estate. His Grace is his own
architect, and all his plans are
laid out in the most mechanical man
ner. Before he will allow a rnw
building to be commenced he makes
the designs, and causes to be construc
ted, often at a cost of some hundreds
of pounds, a large model of the work to
be put in hand. Ir the model does net
please him he destroys it, draws new
plans, aud has a fresh model made.
During the progress of the work, he
suyerlntends it iu person. His Grace
is, by experience, very clever in build
ing matters. He cau detect the most
minute fault, even such trifling defects
as would escape the eye of the prac
ticed and experienced workmen. If a
fault cannot be remedied ny alteration,
he causes the building to be. without
ceremony, razed to the ground, and the
wotk commenced afresh until it is done
i o his satisfaction.
He has a deeply rooted dislike to the
observations of the outside world. He
has even sought, by various clever ex
pedients, to hide the old Abbey of
Welbeck, where he constantly resides,
from casual passers-by, while the ap
proaches to the Abbey are entirely
subterranean. There are upward of
fifteen miles of tunneling round Wel
beck Abbey, and no one can approach
the house without traversing some of
them. This most extraordinary ar
rangement has taken many years to
Hcoomplish, but it is now complete.
Some of these subterranean passages
are constructed upon the most ad
mirable principles. They are all well
ventilated from above, and are lighted
up by natural or artistic means by
day and night. In order to take
away the monotonous effect of these
underground passages, his Grace
has built, in some cases parallel with
the passages, other open corridors cov
ered with glass, while at distances of
every few yards are to be found statues
and other works of art, piaced in niches
in the wall. He possesses an extensive
stable. He has upwards of fifty hun
ters bred from the best stock in the
land, and this although he has not for
very many years followed the hounds
himself. A gallery made of iron and
glass, and a quarter of a mile in length,
has been constructed in order that the
horses may be exercised in damp wea
ther; his riding school is a magnificent
affair, with a lofty glass dome, and he
has besides carriage houses, huutiDg
stables, and carriages of every descrip
tion. His kitchen and culinary of
fices are constructed on an extensive
scale, although there is only his Grace
to cook for, as when he (occasionally)
gives dinner parties, the food is sent in
from elsewhere. Yet the Duke is most
simple in his diet. He takes regularly
but two meals a day, and at eacn he
has half a chicken, one chicken being
killed and prepared for him each morn
iLg. He never eats animal meat, and
yet be enjoys perfect health. He passes
much of his time among the workmen,
but will seldom go near a stranger.
Many people write to him, but he sel
dom tir never gives a reply. He is a
member of four Loudon clubs—
Boodle’s, Brook’s, The Traveler’s and
White’s—but never goes near them.
He gives large hunting and shooting
parties to different members of the
English aristocracy, but never sees nor
converses with them.
Macon Telegraph: We learn that Mr.
C. A. Nutting, who has so long and
ably managed the affairs of this B.iuk
as its first and only President, has vol
untarily resigned the Presidency, and
the Board have elected John J. Gresh
am, Esq., to fill the vacancy. Mr. Nut
ting still letaius his place as one or the
Board of Directors. The resignation
of Mr, Nutting wa9 reluctantly accept
ed by the Board of Directors, but his
mind was made up and there was no
diverting him from his intention. It
was not until this was manifest that
Judge Grcshtm consented to accept
the Presidency. The bank, under us
new administration, will, we are satis
fied, continue to flouiish as it has done
since its organization. It has always
shown a liberal disposition toward tne
merchants of Macon and has been ever
ready to accommodate them, whenever
it has the funds on uand to do so. It
is as strong au institution to-day as
ever it was, and will continue in the
confidence of the people.
Albany News: Mr. Jeremiah Walters
died at his residence, near this city,
Thursday morning, ‘2Bth October, 1875,
at 8:30 a. m., after ton days’ illness,
aged 67 years.