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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO 00 “ six months 5 00 “ three months 2 50 Tri-Weekly—ono year 5 00 " six months 2 60 Weekly—one year 2 oo “ sixmouths l oo Single oopies, 6 cts. To news dealers. 2% ots. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FKANCIS COGIN. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to , H. C. STEVENSON. Manager. The Grand Vizier has become a veritable “Sick Man of Europe.” It is very much to be feared .hat the Waco’s passengers have all perished. Messrs. Walker and Henderson, of Bal timore, well known in our commercial cir oies, are in the city. Whiskey frauds continue. New peniten tiaries will have to be built if this thing sweeps the whole Held of rogues. Very bad weather, followed by rising rivers, Is reported in England and France. Floods are looked for. The South Carolina State Fair is said to be unsuccessful. Mr. W. M. Lawton de- livered his admirable address to some fifty or sixty persons. The Edgefield Advertiser says: “Mayor Estes has made a report, published in both of the Augusta dailies, which—to an out sider—seems thorough, complete and manly. The Columbus Times’ editor is after the “ intelligent compositor ” who made him say that Mrs. Westmoreland was “on the night hook” when he wrote “on the right track.” Editors should read their own proof, and revise it, if necessary. Another survivor from the wreck of the Pacific has been picked up. He states dis tinctly that the cause of disaster was col lision with a ship under full sail. There must have been some very bad night watching on one or both vessels. Referring to Moncure D. Conway’s lecture on the Devil, the Courier-Journal aays: “So graphically did he depict the party with which Chicago is so familiar that reiterated applause testified the prompt recognition by the audience of their old friend.” Hopeful views are given of Vice-Presi dent W’ilson’s case, but we somehow ap prehend that he has not many days to live. Ho has already had a stroke of paralysis, ami is in a very unsatisfactory condition to withstand a second grave blow to his health. Still we trust our fears are un founded. O’ Maiiony, the former Head-Centre of Fenianism, who is popularly supposed to have had a gay and festive time out of the cash subscribed by poor Irish men and women, for an ostensibly patriotic pur pose, has come to the surraoe again in a law suit which iooks to the procurement of certain funds said to be in the hands of Belmont & Cos. Defalcation has reached the Western Union Telegraph Company, the cashier of that corporation at New York having been faithless to his trust. Like most men who have committed theft, he endeavored to right one wrong by perpetrating another. It looks like the whole commercial fabric was rotten, and developments of this char acter will become very frequent this win ter, if all signs do not fail. The Griffin News puts on war-paint and goes for “one Sawyer” thus: “We feel called up m to say that ifjthe editor of the Oimmonwealth or the author of the article, be he who he may, had the least refereace to the editor of this paper in said editorial, he is an egregious slanderer. Now let the “official” author of the article float to the surface, and if we be not disappointed in our man, we contract to ventilate his past record so thoroughly that he will shine and stink like a rotten mackerel in moon light.” The Macon Telegraph, talks sense In this fashion: “Mr. Okton tells his directors that the Western Union Telegraph never was making so much money as now. Near a million dollars profits in the quarter ending October 1, and more business In Oc tober than in the same month last year. So it is a safe time to make those conces sions in prices that have been suggestively promised. One dollar, the highest rate for a message of ten words to any part of the United States—Why not ? And the news papers—they are having rather a hard time to make both ends meet. A conces sion on their constantly increasing busi ness is quite in order.” FROM NEW YORK. A Telegraph Company’s Cashier De faults—He Bucks up Against Wall Street Gamblers and Gets Smashed —Another Failure—Elizabeth Roane. New Yoke, November 11.—Leonard Cox, Cashier of the Western Union Telegraph Company here, defaulted to the amount of 813,000 by misappropri ation of the Company’s funds. Specu lation in Wall street, with an expecta tion of returning it when he won, is the cause of his downfall. It is thought his friends will make the defalcation good. C. W. Eliis & Cos., Bankers and Bro kers, of Broad street, notified the Pro duce Exchange yesterday they were unable to meet their engangements. It appears Ellis was the “Bull” in the corner in October lard. The firm deals both in securities and produce and also does a banking business. The suspen sion is caused by the refusal of a firm to pay up the amounts due on their shortage. The young mistress of Thos. B. WThit ney, who committed suicide on sth Av enue Tuesday evening, is supposed to have been named Elizabeth Roane. It is said her friends reside in Richmond, Virginia. The Fenian Ex-Head Centre Wants Cash from Belmont. New York, November 11.—The old case of John O’Mahoney, Fenian Head Centre, against Belmont & Cos., bankers, of New York, to recover 819,752 in gold, with interest to date, was up to-day in the Supreme Court of Brooklyn, on motion of defendant’s counsel for an order granting leave to file amended answer, which he argued would be only just to his client. The decision is reserved. The Stock Exchange, at a meeting to-day, suspended two members for cutting under regular commission Another member was expelled for frauds. There is music in all things if men. only had ears. Louisa Alcott is dead “sot” against striped stockings. Anew English opera troupe has been formed in Boston. Large numbers of cattle are sent from Iceland to England. A bet won on Buchanan’s election has just been paid In Alabama. Russia has adopted anew principle of equity, making railroads responsi ble for damages to employes. The street cars in Detroit go so slow that the people wildly cry for sleeping cars to be attached. A venerable hen, eighteen years old, owned in Madison county, Tenn., was recently assassinated by hogs. <xl)e 'Antinstn Constitutionalist, Established 1799. THE WRECKED STEAMERS. Another Survivor of the Pacific Pick ed Up—Cause of the Disaster —No Tidings of the Waco’s Passengers. San Francisco, November 11.— Another survivor from the Pacific has been picked up from a raft. He says the Pacific was struck by a ship under full sail. Capt. Howell was drowned from this raft. Galveston, November 10.—The tug Buckthorn has returned. She saw one of the Waco’s boats considerably burn ed, which floated off, and some pieces of cabin furniture. There was no trace of the passengers or crew. Drowned Chinamen and Lost Treasure San Francisco, November 11.—The Pacific had thirty-five Chinamen in the steerage and six in the cabin. The treasure in private hands was SIOO,OOO. Petroleum Supposed to Have Caused the Waco Disaster. New York, November 11.—Super vising Inspector Low says the Waco had no certificate to carry petroleum. If it can be proved she carried it the matter will be placed in the hands of the United States District Attorney. Sketch of Capt. Howell. Cincinnati, November 11. —A Mem phis special says Capt. Howell, the lost commander of the Pacific, recently wrecked off the Oregon coast, was the youngest brother of Mrs. Jefferson Da vis. He resided in New Orleans several years, served as midshipman in the Confederate navy, and was lately pro moted to command of the Pacific for gallantry in rescuing shipwrecked per sons in distress during a gale. He was nearly thirty-eight years of age. Details of the Waco Disaster. Galveston, November 11. —The mate of the ship Caledonia, which was lying immediately astern of the Waco, states he was on deck of the Caledonia on the lookout, when he heard au explosion and felt a shock. Looking in the di rection of the Waco, he saw she was enveloped in flames. About half an hour later he heard cries for assist ance, and saw five or six per sons in the water. A few minutes later he saw two persons afloat on a fender or piece of wood. The mate made preparations for sending all as sistance possible by getting out life lines and life buoys. The sea was run ning so high at the time it was impos sible to launch a boat. After hearing the explosion he watched the steamer closely, and states, after the first few minutes, the fire lost the force and character at first noticed. Statements of men on vessels nearest jthe burning steamer all agree as to seeing five or six persons in the water also hearing frequent explosions on the Waco, which was no doubt cases of oil. All officers and experienced seamen are of opinion it was impossible for a boat to have been safely launched from the Waco on account of the rapid spread of fire and the terrible sea that was running. There is nothing later from the West. Capt. Sawyer, agent of the line, has been out since yesterday morn ing with a good crew. They will ro main outside as long as there is any hope of saving one of the passengers or crew. FROM WASHINGTON. Illness of Vice-President Wilson— His Condition Serious but not Ne cessarily' Hopeless. Washington, November 11. —There are contradictory opinions regarding Vice-President Wilson’s condition this a. m. He was restless duiiug tiie night, placing his hands on his heart and head and, at intervals, had spasmodic ex tensions of the arms. He had urinal but no foetal action. Whiskey and opiates have been injected under the skin. He is now drowsy and indisposed to conversation. Dr. Baxter said, at 11 o’clock, that he was resting more com fortably and thinks he will recover. Wilson himself said he felt more natu ral. Hon. Henry Wilson Gets Shaved and Feels Better. Washington, November 11.—At 1 o’clock Mr. Wilson was shaved and dropped into a quiet sleep. He slept until toward evening, and took some nourishment. The treatment now will be of a tonic character .commencing with valerianate of quinine. Dr. Baxter ex pects to have him out in a day or two. Decision of a Great Land Claim —Ap- pointment and Resignation—lnter nal Revenue Statistics. Attorney General Pierrepont has de cided that the act of Congress of April 27, ISI6, confirmed to Hugh and John Maxwell the grant of ninety-six thou sand acres of land at the forks of Black River, Missouri, made to President Maxwell in 1799 by the Spanish Gover nor. This large tract of land, situated in Reynolds and Iron counties, Mis souri, is therefore declared to belong to the claimants, represented here by Warwick Tunstell. Wra. W. Civites, Chief Clerk of the General Land Office, has resigned. Wm. G. Riley, of Virginia, has been appointed Consul to Zanzibar. The President returned this morn ing. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows the actual amounts received into the Treasury from all sources, exclusive of loans and treasury notes, from and after June 30. 1871, to June 40, 1874, inclusive, was 843,956,383.41. The report gives a full history of taxation and details of its collection. The Roman Catholic Church Awarded a Great Sum of Money. Washington. November 11.—Sir Ed ward Thornton, umpire of the Mexican Claims Commission, has awarded in the case of the Roman Catho lic Church, represented by Thaddeus Amat, Bishop of Monterey, and Jos. S. Allemany, Archbishop of San Francisco, vs. Mexico—properly known as the Pious Fund case. The fund dates back to 1735, and the original donation was to the Society of Jesus. In 1842 Santa Anna decreed the fund into the Treasury, engaging that the Gov ernment should pay forever six per cent, interest to beneficiaries. These payments have been omitted. The umpire decides that Mexico shall pay the claimants 8904,700, gold. FROM NEW ORLEANS. Jefferson Davis Accepts a Presidency. New Orleans, November 11.—Jeffer son Davis has accepted the Presidency of the American Department of the' Mississippi Valley Society, of London, tendered him by the President of the organization. The object of this move ment is to direct attention to the de velopment of commercial, agricultural and mineral resources of the Valley of the Mississippi. Mr. Davis will devote his entire energies to the work in this country and Europe. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. French Politics—Spain and Rome Coming to Terms. Paris, November 11.— Specie de crease, 3,518,000 francs. The National Assembly will to-day begin debate on the fourteenth clause of the electoral law, which will decide the method of voting. M. Dufaure is expected to open for the ministerial policy, Gambetta replying. Thiers, Buffet and Ricard are also expected to speak. Rome, November 11.—The Vatican’s reply to the Spanish note was sent to Madrid yesterday. The Vatican ac cepts the declaration of the Govern ment that it is desirious to come to an understanding and has given the Papal Nuncio at Madrid instructions to nego tiate. Bad Weather in England and France —The Grand Vizier 111—Recovery of the Queen of Holland—Turf Notes. London, November 11.—The weather in England and France during the past week, has been very stormy. Heavy and almost incessant raius have fallen in many parts of both countries and flooded vast tracts which are threaten ed by rising rivers. The Liverpool autumn cup was won by Activity, beating nineteen horses. In the race for the Liverpool cup, Peto was second and Genuine third. Constantinople, November 11.—The Grand Vizier is seriously iil. The present political state of affairs causes uneasiness in Bulgaria. The Hague, November 11. The Queen of the Netherlands is slowly im proving. The Ville de Paris’ Situation—Fatal Explosion in Belgium—More Turkey. Havre, November 11.—The Ville de Paris remains in the same position.— It is impossible to proceed to the ope ration of docking owing to the continu ance of tiie gale. Preparations are making to discharge the cargo. Seraing, Belgium, November 11.—An explosion of fire damp occurred at the Mariaboye colliery. Ten men were killed and one hundred hurt. St. Petersburg, November 11.—The Golos newspaper says of a recent arti cle in the Gazette that it confirms the peaceful sentiments and the universal agreement of the Great Powers on the Turkish question. ECCLESIASTICAL. Proceedings of the Episcopal Con gress. Philadelphia, November 11. —The at tendance at to-day’s meeting of the Church Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States was much larger than yesterday. The morning session was occupied in the discussion of the subject of the nature and extent of Episcopal authority. Elaborate and interesting papers on the subject were read by Revs. A. M. Vinton, of Boston, and John Fulton, of Indian apolis. Addresses on the same subject were delivered by Rev. -T F GnrHami, oi uamden, N. J.; Rev. C. K. Nelson, of Annapolis, Md.; Rev. D. K. Goodwin, of this city, and others. At the open ing of the evening session, Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D., Bishop of Cen tral New York, read a paper on “Pa rochial system of free preaching,” claiming free preaching to be a feature of a completely equipped national church. Francis Wells also treated on the same subject. The volunteer speakers were Rev. Dr. Edward B. Boggs, Rev. Julius H. Ward, Rev. J. E. Grarnward, Rev. Dr. Langdon, and Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng. The latter con sidered the Congress one hundred years behind the time in beginning to discuss free pleaching now. Rev. Dr. Boggs advocated the general Convention pass ing a law giving the Bishop power to establish a mission in a parish where the rector was unwilling to prosecute the work successfully. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A Family Poisoned—More W'kiskey Frauds—Storm on the Hudson — Burning of a Sea-Side Hotel. Louisville, November 11.—The fam ily of Charles Massey, Jr., of Fords ville, Ky., was taken suddenly ill. The son, daughter and wife died. Strych nine or arsenic was found in a well used by the family. Other members of the family are recovering. Cincinnati, November 11. —How & Hubbell, H. 11. Hamilton, Arnah & Cos., and W. T. Marshall, rectifiers, have been indicted for whiskey frauds. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., November 11. — A heavy wind prevailed along the Hud son river last night. The steamer Drew is ashore near Stockport. She lies high and dry, with her wheels out of the wa ter, but it is thought she is not serious ly damaged. Another steamer, with a large number of boats in tow, is ashore. Portsmouth, N. H., November 11. — The elegant Oceanic House at Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals, was burned early this a. m., together with most of the cottages on the island. As seen from the Custom House here the Atlantic House and Ancient Church were savod. The cause of the fire is unknown as it is impossible to reach the island owing to a heavy gale and rough sea prevailing. The hotel was Insured for about 8143,000. The chim ney is the only remant of the Oceanic House left standing. A tug started for the ShoalsHbut was obliged to put back. The fire was distinctly seen from this city. Losses by the Oceanic nouse Fire. Boston, November 11. —The loss by the burning of the Oceanic House and other buildings, at Star Island, is esti mated at 8200,000. The hotel was in sured for 850,000, and the furniture for 875,000. Among the insurance is the Virginia, of Virginia ; Manyunk, of Pennsylvania; Delaware, of Wilming ton, Del., 815,000 each; Franklin, of Philadelphia, 83.500; Pennsylvania, of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Old Dominion, of Richmond, 82,500 each. Fatal Gas Accident—The New Eng land Storm—Railway Accident. Detroit, November 11.—Gas from the flue of the Pullman Car Company’s works injured nine workmen, two of them fatally. Boston, November 11. — The storm In this yesterday and last night did considerable damage, in addition to the marine disasters already re ported. Middleboro, Mass., November 11.— Edward Murphy and hia mother, both under the influence of liquor, attempted to cross the Fountain Railroad last night in a wagon. The balked and the young man was instantly killed by an approaching train. The mother escaped. The Georgian says Professor Mont gomery Cumming, the successor of Prof. Broun in the Chair of Natural Philosophy, arrived at Athens last Saturday, and will immediately enter upon his duties. AUGUSTA. GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1875. MISSISSIPPI’S VICTORY. Native Rejoicings Over Tuesday’s Work—A Good Legislature and Peaceful Prospects Generally. [Correspondence of the Cincinnati Com mercial.] Jackson, Miss., November 3. As the election returns come, ths magnitude of the white line victory be comes apparent. At this writing it is a question whether the Republicans have carried a single count y in the State. The official returns will doubtless give them a few couuties, but they had aa well have retired from the contest a month before the election, so far as substantial fruits from their cam paigning is concerned. I had not been in the State twenty four hours until I saw how it was go ing. In the first letter 1 wrote to the Commercial, two weeks ago, I predict ed a victory for the whites, and reiter ated it nearly every letter since. Be fore the impetuous determination of the whites to carry the election at every hazard, I knew that the thirty thousand Republican major ity would amount to nothing. The whites carried the Legislature by a majority of not less than thirty on joint ballot, and have elected five out of six Congressmen, to say nothing of the clean sweep in county officers aDd the election of their candidate for State Treasurer. The late Congressional delegation stood five Republicans to one Demo crat. The delegation now stands five Democrats to one Republican, and even this solitary Republican is not to a certainty elected. The official returns may leave him out. The Legislature had a Republican majority of about twenty on joint bal lot. The Democrats have reversed it and a little more, so that it will be reliably Democratic on joint ballot by thirty majority. It is a clean sweep, a perfect revolu tion. But the so-called revolution is perfectly understood here. It was the result of the frenzied determination of the whites to carry the election at every hazard, and they carried It.— Their programme did not contemplate ballot-box stuffing, or anything like that, but simply to operate on the minds of the negroes—convince them that the property-holders were in re bellion against negro rule, and would stand it no longer, unless that rule was set up again by Federal bayonets. The negroes, no longer supported by the Federal power, as they conceived, gracefully accepted the inevitable and in large numbers either voted the white ticket or refrained from voting. The Legislature. From what I know of the candidates nominated by the whites I have not the least doubt but what the incoming Legislature will be the best one that has assembled in Mississippi since the war. The whites really made an hon est effort to bring out their best men, discarding, in many instonnea, the old line of politicians, and putting forward’ men or capacity, worth, intelligence and property. Really, there was no comparison between the nominees of the two parties. The Republicans did not show a capacity to improve by past experiences. Indeed, it was not expec ted that they could, for a stream can not rise abeve its source. Au incompe tent elites of voters will invariably se lect an incompetent class of legislators. That has been demonstrated times without number. In the District of Columbia, under t-lie very nose of the Government, the negroes elected such a worthless lot to office, and kept at it so persistently, that the taxpayers could find relief only in the abolish ment of the Distriot government, as then constituted, and a change in its form. Yet the colored people in the District are far more intelligent and capable than their class in Mississippi. Here wo have the densest, of dense ig norance. To suppose that the property holders would rest quietly under this sort of thing year after year was to suppose that they had less of human nature than we And in other parts of the world. lam not approving of their manner of getting rid of negro rule as they call it. lam merely suggesting that we make allowances to humim nature. There were a few good men among the Republican nominees for the Legis lature, but the most of them were a sorry lot, made up of plantation ne groes, barbers imported from the North, white carpet-baggers without a dollar’s interest in the State, and na tives who became Republicans one day and candidates for office the next. It was such a slate of candidates as would be repudiated in Ohio by five hundred and seventy-five thousand majority, provided the vote was as full as at your last election. Understand me, there were some good men among them, but the most were a sorry lot. Had the Republican party, so-called, carried the State, the Legislature would not have been an improvement on the last one, and which was a very inferior body of law makers. A well balanced man could not go among them without a vague feeling that something was wrong, that such men were not calculated for law makers. A full-blooded negro is not an exceedingly intellectual person at best, and when his uatural stupidity is heightened by a want of all knowledge except which he has learned between cotton rows, when in fact he can not read a sentence in the language or sign his name, the question arises in the im partial mind, how can this man be a success as a law maker? The incoming Legislature will eon tain comparatively few negroes, not above thirty in number, and the body will be strikingly superior to anything Mississippi has had in the way of law makers since the war. But wisdom does not always accom pany intelligence. Whether the new Legislature is wise or not, we. shall know more in six months from to-day. They can do much harm or much good. Any attempt to curtail the rights of the colored people will be looked upon with suspicion. An attempt to re-enact the Black Code of 1867, or anything like it, would be fatal to the interests of Mississippi. On the contrary, should the Legislature take a wise, moderate and conciliatory course, the verdict of the world will be in their favor. Of one thing you may be certain— they will, immediately upon assem bling, cut down expenses and taxation, right and left. They will inaugurate general reform, which is sadly needed. The State government has been carried on at an expense of at least forty per cent, more than it needed to have been, and this extravagance will be checked, Printing Swindle. The new Legislature will put a stop I to this, and not an hour too soon. By means of “official advertising” and “printing of the laws,” the tax payers have been unmercifully swindled. Indeed, we have positive assurances that the new Legislature will Inaugu rate reform in every department of the Government. If they do this thoroughly and without favor or affection, we shall have another instance of the truth of the oft-repeated proposition that a State is best governed by those who own it. The New Senator. Already speculation is rife as to who shall bo Alcorn’s successor. Assuredly it will not be Alcorn himself. He is about played out in the estimation of both parties, and after the expiration of his present term in the Senate will have an opportunity to give his undi vided attention to the growing of cot ton on his magnificent plantations in Coahama. Alcorn is rich. Before the war he owned nearly a thousand ne groes, and still has very large lauded possessions. Although a valiant South erner during the war—and his interests in the South were suoh that we are not surprised at this—he took the Repub lican chute after the struggle, and was elected Governor by the colored peo ple. Then he went to the Senate, his term expiring one year from next March. He and Ames are enemies. Taking advantage of this, the Democrats ran Alcorn as a sort of an independent can didate for Governor against Ames two years ago, hoping thus to catch the col ored vote ; but the device was a mis erable failure, Ames being elected by 20,000 majority. Just now Lamar is the favorite for Senator—L. Q. 0. Lamar. He was chosen to Congress from his district yesterday without opposition, and is to-day, perhaps, the foremost man in Mississippi. The new Senator, whoever he may be, will be elected in January. Temper of the Whites. The whites are in jolly temper. You will not soon again hear of “ race con fiicts” in Mississippi. The whites, having now everything their own way, will lay aside their horse pistols and Winchester rifles, and return to the flowery paths of peace. I could see this even before the polls were closed. As dispatch after dispatch came in from different voting places, showing that large numbers of colored people were voting the Democratic ticket, the prospects of bloodshed diminished. In the morning there were the gravest ap prehensions of a riot. At noon this ap prehension had nearly worn away, and by 3 o’clock quite so. I could feel a change in the very air. I cannot convey to you the intense gratification of the white people at the result. This jollification exceeds the descriptive power of language. One white man. meeting an acquaintance, grasps his hand and says about this : “Glory, don’t we feel good, though ? Now no more riots and lighting ; thank God, we will have peace. Business will revive ; confidence is restored. I feel now that my property is worth something.” All have something to say about the advance in the price of property. 13ycij man thluko ho io worth at lount twenty-five per cent, more than before the election. So many said to me last week: “Why, if the Radicals carry this election I can’t sell my plantation for a dollar and a half an acre.” Now they don’t want to sell. Liberal Contributions. The liberality with which the proper ty-holders have come down with the cash to aid in carrying the election ex ceeds auything I ever knew in a State campaign. Every man seemed to take the personal interest in it that he would if it was his private affair. One man in this city planked down a check for $2,500 to begin with, and nearly doubted the amount before the close of the polls. Yet he is no politician, never ran for an office, and cares little for politics in the general way. But lie is a large property-holder ; taxation was eating up his profits, and a change became a positive necessity. In six years, in Mississippi, taxation has in creased 500 per cent., and property has depreciated 200 per cent.; therefore, the rebellion of property, and the re solution to carry the election at all hazards. Thousand dollar contribu ,ions from the planters and tax-payers io accomplish this result were fre quent. Oue old man, in the southern .D irt of the State, sold his cotton crop, ind remitted a check for one-half the proceeds, to be used in the “ rescue ” of the State. The aggregate county contributions vere very large—that is, contributions to be expended in the counties. The vord usually accompanying the gifts rnn about this way : “Take this, use it SB you please, but carry the election.” Jhat was the keynote—carry the elec ton. If votes fiad to be bought out right, why, buy them. The total amount given for campaign expenses in this campaign would ag gregate an immense sum. On the other hand the Republicans had no funds except the contributions from the office holders. The great pirtv at large—that is, in the North— did not come to their aid to the extent o’ a dollar, regarding it, perhaps, as a lopeless case-from the first. The rank aid file of the party in this State hav irg nothing to give, so the expenses of tke campaign had all to be borne by tie State office-holders. I really be lbve the Democrats had one hundred dollars at their command where the Republicans had five. Next. Now that the election is over let us hope that the people, white and black, wll give their attention to the savjug oi the magnificent cotton crop which wiitens the landscape. Not half the’ cdton is picked. The people have run wld with politics, letting their cotton lo>k out for itself. This has not been udversally true, for some old planters, Ina fit of desperation, got out their old slut-guns and swore they would kill thi first cotton-picker, white or black, wlo attempted to leave his work to go to a political meeting of any descrip tion. Fhe crop is very fine, much larger, perhaps, than can be gathered. There isa great, an unceasing demand for laiorers. Pickers are paid one dollar per hundred for picking, and a steady hand can make from a dollar and a baf to three dollars a day. Iverybody can get work here that wants it—that is if he has a mind to go intp the field and pick cotton. I have noi seen a tramp or a beggar in Missis sippi. Put that down to the credit of the State against a good deal on the otiier side of the page. H. Y. R. Oranges are cheap in Columbus. The Erquirer says: “Mr. Chas. E. Hoch stnsser sold 20,000 to an Atlanta firm at i cent and a half each. The town is wel stocked with them. By retail ther bring about two to three cents, acording to quality.” The splendid new steamship City of Atlmta, which takes the place of the Maihattan on the New York and Chefleston Steamship Line, arrived at Charleston Tuesday. THE DEVIL. HIS BIOGRAPHY AS SKETCHED BY MONCURE D. CONWAY. He Seems to Have Originated in a Per sian Fable—Notes of His Traits —He Appears to be Always Lean and Hun gry. [Chicago Tribune, Bth.] Mr. Moncure D. Conway lectured be fore a large audience in MoCormick Hall, yesterday, on “The Devil.” The lecturer, who is a gentleman of middle age, tall, spare, full-bearded, and dignified, with a pleasant manner and easy delivery, was greeted heartily when he came forward to the desk. He did not know of any reason why child ren should not bow their heads respect fully when the name of the devil was mentioned. Probing beneath the sur face of philology, they would discover that demon and deity were originally synonymous. The Latiu word Deus was corrupted in the English deuoe, and the Egyptian devil was regarded as a God. In some copies of the old Bible they found the curious injunc tion, “Thou shalt not be afraid of any bugs by -night.” This was simply a contraction of the word bugaboo, with which all children were familiar. Beel zebub related to Baal, and, in short, all such words and names, when investi gated, showed a regular affinity. In the early ages the alleged fall of angels from heaven was taken in a lit eral sense. Jupiter, it was held, took nine days in falling, and was, naturally, rather hurt by the fall. Lucifer com ing down, fell upon his feel, which, no doubt, was the cause of his cloven hoof. [Laughter.] Primitive man found himself encoun tering in Nature a will antogonistic to his own. He thought himself sur rounded by strange influences, which he classed as spirits. Man had lived to learn better. The crowd of gods and goddesses of the Pagan ages were now regarded as the mythology of Na ture. They had outlived their day, and were now but the records by which philosophers studied the history of the progressive mind of man. In none of the earlier sacred books could they find/i devil—a being speci ally and solely malignant—a creature of unalloyed wickedness. Everything then in religion was figurative. Clouds were described as flocks of swine, and the lightning was classed as a fiery serpent. Those shapes were conceived of simply as powers and forces. Each was half good, and the other half the reverse sometimes afflicting and sometimes benefltting man. The reason why there was no devil in the early books was because none was needed then. The gods considered themselves as being quite equal to any emergency that might arise in the way of wickedness. [Laughter.] But when the happy family of gods and goddesses was broken up, they split into two factions—the deities and tho demons —both being then regarded as forces of alternate good and evil. It was held that the demons—fallen an gels—were not wicked in their natures, but were impelled to do evil from an unappeasable hunger, even as the shark follows its prey to satisfy what natu ralists call an insatiable appetite, not from any natural cruelty of disposi tion. Any harm done by the demons was considered as accidental upon their appetite. The superstitious, to appease them, offered gifts, which led to the early sacrifices, such as whole burnt offerings and matters of that descrip tion. To the ancients the deities ex pressed all that was pleasant, the de mons all that was unpleasant. The former represented sunshine, the latter sunstroke. The first mentioned repre sented serene skies, the demons repre sented the thunder and the lightning, the sirocco and the tornado. Primitive man foune himself begirt by the obsta cles of Nature, and it was only when his mind became more developed, and when he armed himself to cope with such difficulties, that his mind became clearer on the subject of the super natural. Finally, after many ages, he succeeded in reducing all those obsta cles which crowded on his infancy into one grand whole of unpleasantness, namely, the devil. This was the sum and substance of man’s early idea of natural obstacles. For generations man won a preca rious livelihood from the hard bosom of Nature. He looked around and saw all creation about him hungry. There seemed to be a spirit of hunger abroad. The birds and fishes appeared to be so scauty, man came to the conclusion that there were invisible and voracious beings abroad, who wanted everything within their reach. Thus the dxagonand the ghoul—the earliest painted forms of the demons—had both immensely developed mouths, showing the idea of intense voracity. The vampire was chiefly a Slavonic superstition, but it extended into Germany, and in some districts of Prussia a corpse is never buried without plenty of food in the coffin so that it may not arise to prey upon the living. This idea had even reached the enlightened shores of America. Not long ago a Mr. Wil liam Rose, living in Rhode Island, had the body of his daughter dug up and her heart cut out, so that she might drink the blood of the living members of the family! This was considered a specific in family con sumption. In fact, the homely name hobgoblin—of British origin—simply signified a ghost that gobbled. [Laugh ter.] When the British officers went to India to view the solar eclipse, the natives kindled immense fires for the purpose of blotting out the sun, so that the foreigners might not steal it. The officers, however, trampled out the fire and renewed their work. So might enlightenment ever trample upon error and superstition in every land, so that science might prosper. [Loud ap plause.] The natives also threw out into the street every particle of food in their houses, in order to bribe the devil not to steal their sun ! [Laughter.] A strange thing about the whole matter was that devils were always de scribed as lean. Whoever heard of a fat devil? Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Caesar his comment on “lean Cassius,” and added, “Such men are dangerous.” Marc Antony attempted to defend Cassius, but the great con queror replied : “Would he were fat ter 1” [Great laughter.] Argan fables made devils out as being fair to look at in the front, but hollow in the back. Some of them were so thin and so hol low that they cast no shadow. The lecturer went on to enumerate the diverse superstitions of many coun tries, and said that in the East the plague was considered a demon. So terrible was the fear created by it that the natives lay down to die in abject cowardice. An Eastern fable tells how a traveler met a woman on the wayside en route to Damascus. He asked her whence she came, and she replied: “From yonder city. lam the plague. Ten thousand people lie dead in the New Series —Vol. 28, No. 84. streets of Damascus. Of these I have slain 1,009, and fear killed all the rest.” The idea of the present devil first originated in Persia, where the philoso phers considered that the universo was divided into two hostile camps by a great wall, one camp held by a god and the other by a devil. Once invented, the devil made rapid strides. [Laughter. | He could not be laid. It relieved the Deity of all that was bad in nature, and it gave man an excuse for his misdeeds. |Laughter.] In the latter point of view, the devil might be considered a remarkable suc cess. [Laughter.] In the Book of Job there was not one word of evil against the moral charac ter of the devil. [Laughter.] He is always mentioned with great respect, and if any lawyers that were present would excuse him, he might say that the devil figured in the Old Testament as a kind of prosecuting attorney. [Roars of laughter.] The lecturer, at this point, showed many sketches of the devil, which were very interesting. He described all about the supposed habits of those demons, and created great merriment. Mephis topheles had been made to say, in “Faust,” when the people were calling for money, a cry not unfamiliar at this day, “111 get my printing-press and give them plenty of paper money.” [Laughter and cheers.] The residue of the lecture went to convey the idea that there was no per sonal devil, and that all good men who labored faithfully to serve their kind, would meet their reward, no matter how many demons stood between tbem and eternity. [Long-continued ap plause.] BRIGHAM’S PREDICAMENT. Why He Resists Ann Eliza’s Claim for Alimony. [New York World.] The position of Brighatn Young at the present time is by no means an en viable one. So ill that to move him would be to kill him, he is under guard at his own house, and the supervision exercised over him is so rigid that his clerk was fully justified in the re mark that the Government was “ run ning things now.” He is cut off from the society of his apostles and sub jected to hourly visits of inspection from the officers, who exclude from his room every one but his doctor and nurse. A sick-bed where the patient 13 uncheered by the presence of his faithful wife is sufficiently distressing— a fortiori that sick-bed which is un cheered by the presence of several faithful wives. In the Prophet’s case there is lack of sixteen women’s nursing, there is dearth of sixteen women’s tears. Yet the Prophet is by no means despon dent—by no means inclined to comply with the decree of the court and pay alimony to Ann Eliza, his better seven teenth; he manifests rather his inten tion of taking up his bed and walking mtu tho pouiientiary as soon as his health permits. This is possibly the part of principle; it is certainly that of prudence. If he yields now and pays alimony to one wife and counsel fees to two lawyers, sixteen other wives and thirty-two other lawyers may descend upon him. In Ann Eliza’s plea it was contended that about one-fifth of the husband’s income was the amount usually granted as the wife’s allowance. If this plea should be sustained the connubiid prophet would find himself compelled to pay seventeen-fifths of his income, and so be reduced to financial perplexity scarcely less than that in which is involved that other head of a polygamous religion and State, the Sul tan. Small wonder, therefore, that he holds out. The “Zeb Vance Whiskey.” The Friend of Temperance, with the fanaticism which characterizes too many of the temperance people and papers, is up on its ear about the brand of whiskey mentioned above. It wants Gov. Vance to “denounce this scanda lous use of his name,” and hints that if he does not the temperance people won’t support him for Governor. The Statesville Landmark takes the ques tion up, and while Hussey’s caustic pen rips the hide from the Friend, it shows how utterly preposterous its proposi tion is. The truth about the matter is, that some of the temperance folks— well meaning people, too, —are any thing but temperate. They have plenty of zeal but no judgment; such do their cause more harm than good. They should remember the scriptural injunctions, “Be not righteous over much,” and “Be moderate in all things.” —Charlotte Observer. FROM BALTIMORE. Proceedings of the Medical Associa tion- Baltimore, November 11.—The Med ical Association elected the following officers : E. M. Snow, of Rhode Island, President; N, A. Walker, Yale College, J. Foster Jenkins, Vice Presidents ; Secretary, Elisha Harris, of New York. Baltimore, November 14.—1n the Medical Association meeting a letter was read from the of the Centennial Medical Commission, at Philadelphia, in behalf of the committee of arrangements of the Commission, re questing this Associarion to appoint 10 delegates to represent it at the session of the International Medical Congress, to be held in Philadelphia, Septem ber the 4th to September the 9th, 1876. The request was acceded to, and the following appointed as such represent atives: Dr. Joseph M. Toner, of Wash ington, D. C.; Dr. C. F. Folsom, of Massachusetts; Dr. J. S. Billings, of United States Army; Prof. Stephen Smith, M. D., of New York; Dr. C. D. White, of New Orleans, La.; Hon. F. G. Thomas, M. D., of Savannah; Dr. J. R. Kedzie, of Lansing, Mich., Dr. Jas. A. Stewart, of Baltimore; Dr. John Logan, of Sacramento; Dr. H. A. Johnson, of Chicago. The Columbus Enquirer, in speaking of hard times, says: “They are harder by so much talk about them. It is just as easy to speak brightly aqd hopeful ly Instead of being forever in the dumps and inflicting yoqr harrowing tale on unsympathetic ears. Good humor be gets the like. No one is made happier or better by indulging in the sulks. Battle against the hard times. It is of no avail to cry that things are at a stand still, and then fall back su pinely waiting for an advance. Every man by pleasant, inspiring words and actions can aid in producing a revival. It will come quicker for the exertion made to create it. The more of hope and action the people have, the sooner it will come. It can never be expected to come for those who are forever weeping and dismally croaking. Al ways find something to do and there will be no time to crave dark and dreary hours, or inflict them on others. To Advertisers and Subscribers. Os AMD after this date (April 21. 1875.) all edit: ons of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi office. 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special uews paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turn ad, and no notice taken of anonymous lette rs, or articles written op both sides. GLEANINGS. Fashionable this year to have boy babies. To be beautiful it is only necessary to be healthy. There are men so lazy they will not even build castles in the air. Men are geese, women are ducks, and birds of a feather flock together. A Lehigh quarryman dreamt his wife was a boulder, and hurled her from bed. This is the season when, instead of telling a bore to “ dry up,” we simply say, “ Eat a persimmon.” Non-explosive kerosene has scored its first Chinaman at San Francisco. He tried to light a fire Melican way. Nothing takes such firm hold of man as the habit of tobacco chewing, unless It is the claw of an angry wo man. For obvious reasons, corporal pun ishment has been abolished at Vassal' College since the pin-back dress eamo in fashion.—[ Chicago Tribune. The Grand Central Hotel is the first of the great Broadway houses to re duce day rates to $2.50. They must all come down.—[AT. Y. Graphic. A fair one says she knows what she’s talking about, and that it just doubles the value of a kiss to have to borrow it from under a big mustache. She gets out her furs and winter adornments now, and though she’s a member of the church and doats on tho clergymen, her remarks on moths are frequent, and painful and free. A Scranton thief, detected in steal ing a revolver, fled Into a Catholic church, and was arrested in front of the altar, pretending to be praying. The stolen pistol was found under a p ent near where he knelt. Douglas Jemdd says. In his “Hedge hog Letters,” that “respectability is all very well for folks who can have it for ready money; but to bo obliged to run in debt for it is enough to break the heart of an angel.” There Is some talk about the Ameri can Jockey Club giving a grand Cen tennial purse of $20,000 for a race of four-mile heats. There is no reason why such a project should not be car ried. It would undoubtedly prove a great success, A Boston butcher sent a piece of meat to an old maid’s cat regularly every day for four years, and now she leaves him a legacy of SIB,OOO. If a butcher is any way tender-hearted and kind, ho can have legacies thrown at him by the dozen every year. If you are introduced to the Sultan of Turkey, don’t yawn. One of five delegates who had an audience with him the other day forgot whero he was, opened his mouth, and said; “He lium,” and he was sitting on the curb stone twenty-five seconds afterward. The mind reels in contemplating the narrow escapo which tho Prince uf Wales had In sailing for India. Only ten minutes before the Serapis was to leave her dock it was discovered that there were no pint bottles of champagne among the stores!” Goodness gracious! A Vicksburg merchant, having been annoyed for many evenings by negroes loafing around his store, poured a quantity of nitric acid on their accus tomed “roost” the other evening and stood back to await results. The loafer who first arrived sat calmly down, but soon moved uneasily, and rose up and went away In a hurry. The second didn’t sit so long, and the third one passed down the street saying: “I kin stan’ most anything; but when it comes to carpet-tacks I have to riz’ on ’em !” At the Georgia State Fair the pret tiest baby was awarded a cooking stove. The real danger of giving a stove to a baby is that some day when his mother is out he may put it in his mouth, and then he would have to swallow a tea-kettle before she could get supper.— New York Herald. Corn cobs are extensively used in Europe for fire-lighters. They are first steeped in liot water containing two per cent, of saltpeter, and after being dried at a high temperature, are satu rated with fifty per cent, of resinous matter. These lighters, which are sold at from three to four dollars the thou sand, are employed with advantage and economy in private houses and for lighting furnaces. A Vicksburg negro applied to a citi zen the other day for a little advice, asking: “ Mr. Thompson, would you lend Cuff Jones S4O if you was me?” “ Well, what security can ho offer ?” “ A mortgidge.” A mortgage ? Why, what ha,s he got to mortgage?” “Dal’s what bodders me. Mr. Thompson. I knows he don’t own nuffin but de duds on his back.” “ Well then, how can he give y®u a mortgage ?” “ Dat’s de queshun, Mr. Thompson. No, he can’t do it, and I’se made up my mind dat he can’t have de money unless he gives me his note of hand!” — [Vick burg Herald. A Black Eye for the Cincinnati Southern. [Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 7.) The municipal Code provides that In a city olt the first class (Cincinnati), the levy of taxation for municipal purposes shall not exceed sixteen mills. The Southern Railroad law provides that four mills shall be levied to pay the in terest on the ten millions of bonds, which, we may add, are already sold and the money invested. The City Council, which represents the bum ming and plundering element, has struggled to procure a levy of the maximum tax permitted by the Code, and, in addition to four mills for the Southern Railroad. The County Au ditor, with the advice of the Coun ty Solicitor, resisted the urgency of the City Council, the persuasiveness of the City Solicitor, the blandish ments of the Trustees of the Southern road, and the arguments of influential citizens and able lawyers. The Su preme Court of the State has sustained the Auditor, reaffirming the opinion of the County Solicitor. The levy of six teen mills, all that is permitted by law, will be made, and the interest on the bonds of the Southern road must be paid out of this levy. It comes to this, that the city government, in order to run along smoothly on a taxation of twelve mills in addition to the road tax, must be managed economically. If we will spend our millions in a great railroad enterprise, we must cut down our ordinary expenses that we may be able to do so. Thus far the Southern road expenditures have served to in crease rather than repress public ex travagance. The time for repression has come. The gentlemen appointed to attend the convention relative to the Southern Pacific Railroad, to be held at St. Louis on the !23d inst., have signified their ac ceptance of the appointments. Last week the general complaint was “too much dust;” it is reversed this wee*' 'nto "too much mud,”