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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year *lO oo “ six months 6 00 “ three months 250 Tbi- Weekly— one year 5 oo " six months 2 50 Weekly— one year 2 oo " six months l oo Single copies, 5 ots. To news dealers, 2 M cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JAOKSON,) *9“ Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA. GA. FROM WASHINGTON. Wilson Improving—Removal of Clerks - Hurly-Burly in the Departments— Political Gossip. Washington, November 13.—The Vice-President’s health is still improv ing. He received several friends to-day. Secretary Chandler will recommence the work of removing officials this week. Much consternation prevails in the departments. The heads of departments are hurry ing with their annual reports. The President has not yet commenced the preparation of his message. It is officially stated that additional calls by the Treasury for the redemp tion of old outstanding bonds will de pend on the sale of the new bonds abroad. Washington, November 14.—Reports reach here that prominent Republicans in Virginia are working for a reorgani zation of their party in that State. A change in the Richmond postmaster ship is said to bo contemplated as the leading incident of the reorganization, by which the Independents and Repub licans are to unite. Judge Morton is spoken of as the successor of Miss Van Lew, while the ex-Confederaie General Heth is on the programme for revenue collector in Richmond. Other changes are also contemplated. So far, the par ties in the new movement have acted privately, being engaged at present only with preliminary movements. The number of candidates for the elective offices in the House of Repre sentatives, apart from the Speakership, is constantly increasing. Already the Democratic members have received printed circulars from the candidates, asking for their votes. Private parties are also importuned for influence in their behalf. Each candidate has nu merous friends seeking subordinate ap pointments to office, and hence there is much activity in working for their respective candidates. There are at least four candidates for Clerk of the House of Representatives, from the South, and these have numerous de pendents. Resignation and Appointments—Naval News—Customs Regulations—Treas ury Statistics—Grant Writing His Message. Washington, November 15.—James Lockey, Deputy Commissioner of Pen sions, has resigned. Robert F. Campbell has been ap pointed Collector of the Third District of Texas. Commodore Cooper, commanding the Pensacola Navy Yard, telegraphs that all quarantine restrictions have been removed at that place. Collectors of customs will be ordered to reduce their forces to curtail ex penses. The appropriation of collec tion of customs is deficient $600,000. The President has commenced the preparation of his message, and will receive no visitors until it is completed The Treasury has called $12,750,000 bonds of ’64, and $5,000,000 of 1864 and 1865. May and November interest ceases 15th February. This closes the refunding for the $500,000,000 five per cents. The Post Office Department esti mates are $77,415 in excess of last year’s appropriations. Expenditures last year for transporting mails were, to eight huudred and seventy-one rail road routes, $9,250,000; eighty-nine steamboat routes, $800,000; seven thousand three hundred and twenty t hree other routes, designated as “star routes,” aggregating 192,000 miles length, $5,275,000, Total cost of in land transportation, this year, esti mated at $16,500,000. The Commissioner of Internal Reve nue, iu his report ou savings banks or provident institutions, where deposits under $2,000 by one person, are exempt from taxation, suggests that the amount exempted be reduced to SSOO. Supreme Court Decisions. In the Supreme Court, the case of Henry Brenner and H. S. Moore vs. Le roy P. Walker and others, from the Northern District of Alabama came up. The decree below was sustained, with the costs. The opinion on the appeal from Judge Bradley’s decision in the Grant Parish cases was not completed. It was found difficult to frame an opinion which will command the sanction of a majority of the justices in all its points. The question of importing Chinese women for immoral purposes was set for January 11th. The Baltimore &, Ohio Railroad. Baltimore, November 15. —John W. Garrett submitted the annual report. The total revenues of the road, includ ing the main stem and western divi sions, for the fiscal year ending Sep tember 30th, are $14,426,552, showing a and i crease as compared with 1874, $500,- 090; compared with 1873, a decrease of $1,250,000; compared with 1872, an in crease of over $750,000; compared with 1871, an increase of nearly $2,000,000; compared with 1870, an increase of $3,500,000. Net earnings, $4,500,000. Entire mortgage indebtedness in cur rency and sterling, $28,750,000. The surplus fund exceeds the mortgage in debtedness over $5,350,000. The re port shows a steady increase of through tonnage East and West. The passenger earnings show an increase of SIOO,OOO, notwithstanding the railroad conflict. The report says; “In view of the protracted and extraordinary inactivity of every branch of business aud the universal depression of manufacturing industries of the country, these results will be regarded with satisfaction. When it is further considered iu combi nation with the united and prolonged attacks of the great trunk lines upon the business and interests of the Balti more and Ohio Company, daring which time, rates entirely unremuuerative were established for the transportation of freight, particularly between the seaboard and Western cities, the results are not only satisfactory but gratify ing.” _ CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Sentence of Counterfeiters—Perils of the Chain-Gang. Providence, JR. 1., November 15. In tiie United States Circuit Court, Geo. E. Butterworth and Maria J. But terworth, indicted for passing counter feit United States currency, George plead guilty and was sentenced to five years in the State prison. The indict ment against Maria was nolle pros. Richmond, Va., November 15.— Henry Odwier, one of the officers in charge of the chain-gang, in attempting to arrest an escaped negro, was assaulted by him with a shoemaker’s knife, receiv ing twelve cuts about the head, neck and upper part of the body. Some of the wounds are serious, and may result fatally. The negro was subsequently arrested. E. E. Mason, of Pickens county, for merly of Atlanta, is engaged in building a mill on Paaolette river for Rev. T. J. Parle. Wtft Augusta Cousiiiutiounhst Established 1799. KING COTTON. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Comparison With Last Year—How the States Stand. The official cotton crop report for November makes a direct comparison of the product of the year with that of 1874. As former reports of the condi tion have indicated the States border ing on the Atlantic, all show a reduced product, and those in the Mississippi Valley an increased yield. Prior to November 1, killing frosts had ap peared in the more northern States of the cotton belt, in some counties of Northern Georgia and in the district north of the Tennessee river iu Ala bama. Elsewhere the cotton plant was uninjured and generally in vigorous growth on the best lands. In one parish in Louisiana —Claiborne —it is claimed that a week’s continuance of fine weather would increase the local yield several hundred bales. There is much inequality in the progress of picking. In some counties of Georgia and Alabama the harvest is nearly over. In Mississippi the work has been delayed L>y the political difficulties and by sickness. In Wash ington county two-thirds of the crop was ungathered, and it was feared that Christmas would find one-fourth still in the fields. Fine weather has been the rule, with a few exceptions; but iu Louisiana much fibre has been lost of stained by storms. Tbe effect of the great September storm in southern Texas proves less disastrous than was at first represented. The amount of lint in comparison with the weight of seed cotton is quite variable, ranging from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent., but, so far as reported, appears to be less than in 1874. The State per eentfiges representing the aggre gate quantity as compared with last year, are as "follows : North Carolina, 91; South Carolina, 76; Georgia, 74 ; Florida, 60 ; Alabama, 102 ; Mississippi, 111; Louisiana, 100 ; Texas, 114 ; Ar kansas, i:35 ; Tennessee, 119. The crop of Arkansas is a good one, but the fig ures are increased more by the fact of last year’s poor yield than by the ex cess of this year’s crop. These figures point to a small advance upon last year’s aggregate, if November and De cember should be favorable to the opening and picking of the top crop. JOSEPH GUIBORD. Another Funeral to Occur- —Tlie Troops Ordered Out —A Fight Antic ipated. Montreal, November 15.— T0-day, Mr. Doutre went to the proprietors of the evening papers and obtained a promise from them, not to publish any thing to-day relating to the prepara tion for Guibord’s funeral, which takes place to-morrow at noon. Mr. Doutre fears it the preparations are published beforehand, rioters will take steps to harass the procession and cause blood shed. Mr. Doutre, this forenoon, for mally entered a writ of the Supreme Court calling on any one of the judges of the Superior Court to issue an order for the funeral. It has been decided not to use the sarcophagus. The body will be buried in a wooden coffin alone. The Commissioner of the Dominion Police has ordered out the military, numbering nine huudred and sixty-five men. All of this force will be requ red as some five thousand people are expected in the cemetery and though the troops have received orders to keep all persons out of the grounds who have no business inside, the order can only be a dead letter. All the members of the Institute Canadien will go up heavily armed. The feeling of the people is anxious and uneasy. No notice was taken of the matter in any of the Roman Catholic Churches yesterday. MEXICAN OUTRAGES. Americans Robbed and Murdered by Banditti —Dost Offices Burned —Mail Carriers and Inspectors of Customs Murdered—Will the General Gov ernment Protect Its Citizens? Brownsville, Texas, November 15. The Federal grand jury, in their re port, say : “ That from Brownsville to the Pecos river, a distance of six hund red miles iu length and one hundred in width, to the Neuces river, all the American rancheros have been ordered to leave their homes by Mexican raid ers, on pain of death ; and that one hundred thousand head of stolen cattle are driven to Mexico an uQually by Mexican marauders.— Numbers of Federal officials have been assassinated, post offices burned, custom houses robbed, mail carriers aud inspectors of customs killed while in the discharge of their duties, and the perpetrators of these crimes have gone unpunished, aud general inse curity of life and property prevails on the border. The jury found eighty indictments, and urge decisive actiou on the part of the State aud General Governments to punish criminals and protect the inhabitants against the Mexican banditti. STORMS. Squally Weather East and West. Heavy snow storms prevailed at Plattsburg, Whitehall aud other points in Pennsylvania yesterday, and fears are felt of an early close of navigation. Omaha, November 15. — An extraordi nary storm is reported along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, west of the Green river, last night. Sleet fell in such quantities that the telegraph wires are reported as large around as a man’s wrist. Snow to the depth of one foot had fallen at Bitter Creek, and was still falling at ten o’clock this morning. The storm is moving east. Telegraph communication west of Green river was broken all day to-day. There is no storm east of Lamarie City, and trains are running on time. Omaha, Neb., November 13.— Tho storm reported yesterday, struck Chey enne last night, leaving five inches of snow and passed east, reaching here at two o’clock p. in. to-day. Snow has fallen over the entire lino'from Omaha to Ogden a depth of from two to twelve inches. The weather in every place throughout this region is reported ex tremely cold. FROM NEW YORK, Investigation of the Waco Disaster. New York, November 15. — An inves tigation of the Waco’s cargo shows she had neither petroleum nor kerosene aboard, but had 300 cans of refined pe troleum stowed ou the upper deck, part aft and part forward, and distant 100 feet from any fire. No other in flammable freight was aboard. AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Sentence of Assassins—The Eastern Question Again—. Spanish News- Flood and Shipwreck. Rome, November 14.—Luciaui, Frezzi, Arnati, Zarint and Marelli, who were on trial, charged with complicity in the murder of Rafaele Sonzogno, editor of La Capitate, have been convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for life, Scarpetti, who was also tried for the same charge, was acquitted. Vienna, November 14. —Herzegovina will soon send a deputation to present a petition to Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg, embodying their wishes. St. Petersburg, November 14.—A1l the troops in Southern Russia are said to be in readiness for active service. Berlin, November 15.—1 tis emphat ically denied that the movements of Russian troops are connected with warlike preparations. Madrid, November 15.—The Carlists, attempting to prevent Quesada from fortifying in the District of Rioja, met with a reputed heavy loss. Halifax, November 15.—The ship Calcutta, from Quebec for Liverpool, was lost ou Gross Isle, with twenty two of the crew and a lady passenger. The captain, three men and a boy were saved. London, November 15. —The river Folka, near Dublin, burst its banks, submerging thousands of acres. Spain's Reply to the l nited States — English Sporting News—Railway Accident —Refusal to Pray for the French Republic. Madrid, November 15.—The Corre spondencia states the reply of Spain to tbe recent note of the United State in regard to the treaty of 1795 will defend the rights of Spain with energy but moderation. It will express a hope that in her desire to maintain good re lations between the two countries Spain will meet with reciprocity. London, November 15. — Joseph H. Sadler, of London, beat R. W. Boyd, of Gateshead, for £2OO and the champion ship of the Thames. Sadler announced that he will never go into training again. Stockholm, November 15. —In a rail way collision between Liuko Eping and Lionkeberg, six persons were killea and twelve hurt. Paris, November 15. — The Lonnie arrived at Rochefort and all the sailors were arrested. The Proyres du Nurd states, that the clergy of Rouboix refused to chant the prayer beginning with the words “Domine fac salvam Rempublicam,'’ on the 7th, as requested in the circular of the Minister of Public Worship. FROM LOUISVILLE. Sentence of Ku-Klux Prisoners. Louisville, November 15 —The Ku- Klux prisoners, Smoot and Olan, who have been on trial here, haviug been found guiity, were sentenced respect ively to five and three years imprison ment. Meffert, who was convicted with them, Is not yet sentenced. The jury have recommended leniency in his case. Counsel for defense asked that tlie Court allow the prisoners to be sent to some other penitentiary outside of Ken tucky, for various personal reasons af fecting the family and relatives of the sentenced parties. The Court, however, saitl it knew nothing of these reasons, and could not send them to any other prison. FROM CHARLESTON. South Cai*olina Bonds—Official State ment. Charleston, November 15.—Informa tion having reached Columbia that a report prevails in New York that the new consolidated bonds of South Car olina, which were issued in exchange for coupons alleged to have been fraud ulently outstanding, would be repudi ated by the State, tlie Governor and Comptroller General and State Treas urer authorize the contradiction of the report, and express the belief that no such purpose is anywhere entertained, or can be legally accomplished even if desired. Miuor Telegrams. Philadelphia, November 15. — A large number of business men, embracing delegations from all branches and Ex changes, arrived on a special train from New York and spent several hours ex amining the Centennial buildiugs. Atlantic City, November 15.—A schooner ran on the bar at two o’clock. A life saving crew had gone to her as sistance. Philadelphia, Pa., November 15. —In tlie United States Circuit Court, in the suit of the Peuusylvania Sait Company vs. Cupples et at., Judge McKennan has ordered an injunction restraining a sale, by defendants, of Manhattan patented lye put up under Sterns’ patent. FROM ST. LOUIS. The Whiskey Fraud Trials. St. Louis, November 15. —The trial of McKee and Maguire is set for Decem ber 15th. Y r oorhees defends them. Avery will be tried Wednesday. But ler defends him. Thirteen distillers and rectifiers, seven gaugers and store keepers have plead guilty. Mr. Dix, who used to be Governor of New York, is laid up witli a sore heel, and only a horse with the epizootic knows how to pity him. Hair-dye is no respector of persons. Tho use of it killed a Baltimore million aire the other day while he was trying to catch a second wife. Emily Faithful, in speaking of pois onous calicoes, says : “Wo had better give a wide berth to violet ground and white figures, or a brownish-yellow pattern.” Don Pedro, of Brazil, will bring two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds when he c nnes to visit this country. He is going to give them away to young men who part their hair in the centre. During the earthquake In Memphis, on the 27th, a woman ran up to a police officer on the street, and pleaded guilty to having stolen four yards of ribbons. After the excitement had passed she denied it. The frogs are going down into nine feet of water this Fall, and are lining tlxeir nests with cotton-batting and lay ing in twice the usual amount of coal. You can look out for a winter which will bend shade trees double and freeze the life out of hitchiug-posts. An Osceola (Pa.) woman went out to hunt her drunken husbaud, and found him lying in the gutter. She gave him ' several raps with a piece of board be fore she discovered that she was “cor recting” another woman’s husband. She takes no pleasure In having the subject mentioned now. A BOY’S BRUTAL MASTER. RESCUE OF A LITTLE ACROBAT. The Manager of “Prince Leo” at Tivo li Garden Arrested—Mr. Bergh’s Humane Work—A Stage Perform ance Interrupted—A n Account of the Cruelties Practiced on the Boy. INew York 1 itues.J The people who have had occasion, recently, to pass the entrance of the Tivoli German Gardens iu Eighth street, near the Bowery, have doubtless been attracted by a poster, proclaiming exhibitions within by ‘ Prince Leo, the wee acrobat.” They who have entered the gardens and pass :d through the saloon to the theatre in the rear have seen “ Prince Leo ” in the person of a very small, delicate boy, who has been performing wonderful tight-rope acts to the mingled astonishment and indig nation of the audience. “ Prince Leo ” performed at the Tivoli for the last time Saturday night, when he was res cued from the cruelties of his situation by officers under the direction of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The attention of the officers of the society was directed to this case by complaints of several persons who had witnessed the acrobatic performances, and more particularly by the com plaints of employees of the theatre, who alleged that Walter Leonard, the man having charge of Prince Leo, was habitually cruel and abusive. Tlie com plaints led to an investigation, which occurred last Friday night, when Su perintendent Jenkins and Superintend ent Hartfleld, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, were of the audience at tho Tivoli. Prince Leo was introduced at about 9 o’cloek in the evening, and put through his acts by the man Leonard. The first performance was on the horizontal tight rope stretched across the stage upon cross-trees. The officers say that the boy trembled from head to feet as he was compelled, taking a heavy bal ancing pole of gas pipe in his hands, to walk forward and backward on the rope, and go through other perform ances common with tight-rope walkers. This trembling was visibly increased when lie was brought forward to be blindfolded. His muscles twitched spas modically, and his countenance v/as ex pressive of the utmost terror. But Leon ard was ruthless, and binding a hand kerchief tightly over the little fellow’s eyes he again lifted him to the rope and sent him off on his perilous trip across the stage. The worst part, how ever, came in the second act, when a small rope was stretched from ceiling to the floor, a distance of about sixty feet, at an angle not Jess than forty five degrees. Up this steep incline, grasping the line with his toes and holding in his hand the balancing pole, the child laboriously aud painfully crawled. There was no stnile on his face such as boys are apt to wear when they are doing that which is to win them admiration and applause. His face depicted the intenacst fear. Reach ing the top of the rope, he stretched his right foot backward, grasping the rope between his first and second toes. A second later he was sliding with frightful velocity down the steep de scent, bringing up with a rush in the arms of Leonard. There was no net ting to catch him iu case of a fall, and the only arrangement looking toward safety had much better have beeu dis pensed with. Only a brute of a man could bring himself to make use of it. It consisted of a fine cord, not so large as an ordinary clothes line, one end of which was tied tight about the boy’s abdomen. The other end, after pass ing through a block above, was care lessly held by Leonard. The slack of this cord was at least six feet, so that if the child had fallen either while as cending or descending, lie must almost inevitably have beeu cut iu two by the sudden jerk. This was substantially what Messrs. Jenkins and Hartfleld saw, and this they consider was enough to justify the arrest of Leonard and the rescue of the boy. Judge Donohue granted two warrants, the one an injunction de manding Leonard to show cause why the child should not be taken from him, and the other charging Leonard with assault and battery on Prince Leo. The arrest occurred on Saturday night, and was conducted by Superintendents Jen kins and Hartfleld, assisted by officers in the command of the latter. The performance was about half through when the officers, who had been sitting in the audience, leaped upon the stage and seized Leonard and the child. The sudden raid created some consternation among the company of actors and act resses behind the scenes, and also among the people who witnessed it from the auditorium. But when the surprise had slightly subsided and the cause of the disturbance became known, there was a round of hearty applause and cheers. Leonard, accompanied by the boy, the officers and Mr. Bergh, was at once taken to the residence of Judge Donohue, in Sixty-sixth street. The Judge, after an examination ordered Leonard to give his own bond for S3OO to be present for the trial of the cause in the Supreme Court Cham bers, this morning, at 10:30 o’clock. The boy was given in charge of the Sheriff, with orders that he be produced at the trial. The society will produce at the trial a number of witnesses, who will show conclusively that Leonard is not a fit person to take charge of the child; that he has repeatedly beaten the boy and kicked him a* rehearsals, and that his conduct towards him is uniformly brutal. Medical testimony will also bo introduced if necessary, to show that the boy has already received perma nent injury to the muscles of his abdo men and spine from the severe strains to which he had been subjected. The officers of the society have no doubt that the boy will be given up to them, in which case they will put him into some good homo. The boy was taken from a Home in Philadelphia by Leon ard, who represented to the managers that himself and wife wanted to adopt him, to bring him up with every possi ble confort. Leo—for that is the name by which the boy is known—is seven years old, of under size, and puny physique. His limbs are very small, and his every motioD, except when under the eye of his master, is characteristic of weari ness. His face is remarkably sweet and interesting, and he is a very intel ligent boy. He has never been to school, and has not yet mastered the alphabet. His recollection of bis early life is slight and confused. He says that his father was a German, that he drank to excess, and that he abused him when drunk. His mother must have been a rag-picker, for Leo says that he remembers assisting her some times in the assorting of her rags. How long ago it was, and when it was, he cannot say. Nor had he yesterday the faintest idea as to the time he had been with Leonard. He waa asked whloh he would prefer, rag-picking or tight-rope walking. “I’d rather pick rags,” he replied, “for then I shouldn’t get licked so.” From the testimony of the employes at the Tivoli, and from the boy’s meagre story, it appears that it has only been by means of cruel beatings that the little boy has been taught his difficult feats. One of the ballet girls said yesterday, “It was only Saturday morning that I saw Leonard whip little Leo terribly. He told him to perform anew and very hard feat. Leo tried to obey, but was overcome with fear, and fell to the floor when half way through. Without stopping to see if the boy was hurt, Leonard beat him and kicked him. We girls interfered and tried to stop him, but he swore at us, and beat the boy all the worse. The next time Leo tried the feat he got through all right, and Leonard told him to take care that he did not fall again.” It is doubted if Leonard comes to court this morning, and Superintendent Jenkins cares very little whether he does or not. His main purpose has been accomplished iu the rescue of the boy. The case of little Leo is only one of perhaps a huudred in this city. The society means to reach all these cases, and would be glad of information of any atrocity practiced on children. The society has, during the short time of its existence, accomplished a great deal for the unfortunate children of New York, and has proved itself quite worthy the title it assumes of “The Children’s Friend.” GLEANINGS. It is appropriately suggested that His Royal Highness shoot the poet. None but cowards habitually color their beards. The brave die but once. —[Lowell Courier. In this dim world of clouding cares We rarely know, till ’wildered eyes See wtiite wings less’ning up the skies, The angels with us unawares. — [Gtrald, Massey. “United we stand,” said a belated ine briate, as he supported himself against a lamppost; and the lamp-post treated him'with silent contempt. Boy, when you slide on the long banis ter of tlie front hall stairs, and go down to the bottom so fast that it burns you clean through your trowsers, that’s fric tion. It lias been asserted, and never con tradicted that no observant boy can fasten his thoughts on his Creator, who sits opposite to a cross-eyed woman in church. The man who doesn’t read the ad vertisements In a newspaper Is like the traveler who passes along a strange road without consulting the guide boards. A circus elephant picked up an aider man at Benniugton, Vermont, tlie other day, and shqok SSOO of the city money out of the 'man’s pockets. Nothing short of an elephant could have done it. We are requested not to mention the name of the man who, in taking out his handkerchief, drew out of his pocket a pawn ticket for a derringer, a counter feit half dollar, aud u policeman’s whistle. More cause of complaint against the Western agents of the Associated Press. Not a word of tho fact that Wisconsin grasshoppers tire preparing their Win ter quarters and have laid in a large stock of Ulster overcoats. Now is the time when you see in the suburbs parties of three or four small boys on the war path for the matuti nal chippy—one boy carrying the gun, and the rest merely going along to carry the game., you know. “Was the crowd tumultuous?” In quired one man of another, who had just come from a mass meeting. “Too multuous,” replied the other. “Oh, no just above multuous enough to com fortably till the hall.” An Arkansas man ate a pint of saw dust a few days ago on a bet. An in telligent physician, who was called in, told him that he would have pain in his lumber region if he stuck to such board as that. There isn’t but one pair of lavender pants in Atlanta, and the young man who owns them is almost buried under invitations to open a menagerie, with himself as the chief curiosity.—[Newt Orleans Bulletin. The brave anonymous writers who are always wanting newspapers to give people lits, are requested to go out and give their own fits. Stab in-the-back writers are not particularly agreeable sort of people. A revival is raging tit Amandaville, Ky., under the management of a local Talmadge, who says: “ I know lam a fool, and I glory in it; just such as I am God sent out to knock the socks from under the sinners’ heels ! ” The Prince of Wales will shoot tigers while in India, and an Indian poetsays “ He w 11 beautifully shoot Many a royal tUer brute— Turning on their back they’ll die, Shot In the apple of the eye!” It doesn’t do for a fastidious man to marry one of those too gushing crea tures who are utterly untainted by the conventionalities of society. A Cleve land man recently consulted a divorce lawyer because his wife ran into a room full of company, with a turkey bone in her mouth. The true American spirit still lives, in spite of all that croakers may say to the contrary. The following interview took place between two Brooklyn lads recently: “Lien’ me five cents, Bill; gi’e it back to you termorrer?” “Can’t do it, Charley ; Centennial’s cornin’ and I’ve got to save up.” Yesterday morning, we regrot to learn, the colored cook of Col. John Smith lighted the fire with some non explosive oil, and the neighborhood was immediately startled by a report like that of a park of artillery, etc., etc. The funeral takes place this afternoon. —San Antonio Herald, Bth. The Detroit Free Press refers to angels in their “azure robes,” and noth ing in the world but whi'e whiskey smuggled across the river from Canada could have ever induced such a flight of fancy. An angel in a blue shirt twanging away on a golden harp is in deed a picture. —Hew Orteans Bulletin.- A respectable young man who wishes to win his way in the world by honest industry, and feels that it is high time somebody set an example of reducing prices from their exhorbitant war standard, advertises himself as an ac complished astronomer, and offers to lead young ladles in search of undis covered asteroids, at $lO a week. P. T. Barnum advertises all his show property for sale at auction. If any one is in need of a hippopotamus or a few hyenas, now is a good time to buy. Among the articles of adornment ad vdrtised we notice, “two red elephant plumes.” A red elephant without a plume is incomplete, and if we have a reader whose red elephant is una dorned, we would urge him to send in his bid. EDWIN FORREST. An Interesting Conversation with His Divorced Wife. The New I'ork correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle has lecently interviewed Mrs. Sinclair, the divorced wife of Edwin Forrest. Until Mr. For rest’s death she received $4 000 a year from him as alimony, and since his death, though he studiously ignored her name in his will, her right of dower In the estate has been admitted by the courts, and by a compromise with the executors she received $95,000 iu money and securities, thus placing her above want for the remainder of her days. Mrs. Sinclair resides with her brother in-law, Henry Sedley, a journalist. The following is a portion of the interview: “ You have had, in some respects, a troubled life, madam,” I remarked. “ This rest and contentment must be doubly acceptable to you.” “ I have had a great deal of trouble duriug my life,” she replied ; “ much more than the public at large know anything of. But that is all passed now, and I am very happy.” “ Do you count this the happiest pe riod in your life ?” I asked. “No, I do uot,”she replied promptly. “ The first five years of my married life was perfect happiness. My husband was then young, was prosperous, had few or no annoyances ; his talent was appreciated and he was devotedly fond of me. Our relations were unmarred by any differences, and it seemed as U we could never be other than happy. That was the Elysian period of my life. Since then, however, I have experi enced my full share of trouble.” “Will you tell me the story of your engagement to and marriage witli Mr. Forrest V” “It was a very simple and ordinary courtship. I became acquainted with Mr. Forrest on the occasion of his first visit to England. He spent two years in England and ou the Continent, dur ing which time our correspondence con tinued, terminating in our marriage in 1837, on the eve of his return to this country. His success abroad secured him a most cordial and flattering recep tion on his return home, ali of which tended to keep him in excellent humor and contributed largely to the great happiness I enjoyed as his wife.” “You lived with Mr. Forrest, I think, twelve years ?” “Yes; five years of sunshine and hap piness, and seven of clouds and trou ble. He returned to England on a second professional engagement, and then he encountered rivalry and oppo sition that provoked and annoyed him. He gave way to his temper, and from being an affectionate and considerate husband became frequently tbe re verse. He was endowed with a violent temper; but in his early life and during the first years of our married career he controlled this temper perfectly, and was always amiable and kind. Bur when he began to meet with profes sional difficulties, he relaxed the curb on himself, and displayed bis arrogant and despotic tendencies at home as well as abroad. Then arose jealous ies between us, aud fault-findings, with criminations and recriminations, and the storm that troubled us after seven years’ duration, broke out iu all its fury.” “At the end of these seven years of stor m your separation was by mutual consent, was it not?” “Yes; we parted to prevent constant quarreling. Mr. Forrest took me in a carriage to tho residence of our mutual friends, Mr. and Mrs. Parke Goodwin, and left me there As we were leaving the house I spoke to him about a por trait of himself, which he had had painted for me. He said that belonged to me, and that I should have it. It was placed in the carriage, and I carried it away with me, and have it yet. Yon der it is now”—indicating the portrait hanging on the wall. “It was painted at the time when he was at his best, in the prime of his life, when he wa3 at the height of his fame and undisturbed by rivalry, and at a time, too, when he was enjoying a little respite from his professional labors. I consider it the finest portrait of him that ever was painted. It has a kindly expression and an amiability about it that no other picture I have ever seen of him pos sesses, and which wholly disappeared from his countenance later in life. I love to remember him just as that pic ture represents him.” “During this separation he main tained you, did he not?” “Yes, he continued to maintain me until tho beginning of our litigations.” “That was in 1850,1 believe?” “. Yes ; our litigation began in 1850, but it was not until 1852 that I secured a verdict against him granting me a full divorce, with $3,000 a year alimo ny, subsequently raised to $4,000. Dur ing this period he refused me any sup port, and when tlie verdict was obtained he appealed against it, withholding the alimony, and contesting its payment at every point and on every legal quibble through all the courts up to the Court of Appeals, It was not until 1862, ten years after the verdict, that I secured the final and unanimous opinion of the Court of Appeals in my favor. It is a great satisfaction to me to recall that through all tills protracted litigation there was, at no stage of it, nor in any court, a single decision adverse to me. I was successful as well on the minor Issues raised as on the general and final result.” “Then at the end of the twelve years of legal contest the alimony that had been withheld was paid to you in bulk ?” “Yes, it was all finally paid ; but not until I had obtained judgment against Mr. Forrest’s sureties, and fought them through all the courts, as I had pre viously fought Mr. Forrest.” “Did you ever meet Mr. Forrest, or have any communication with him after this litigation?” “I never saw him afterward, and never communicated with him. In his will he utterly ignored me, not even mentioning my name.” “You put in a claim for dower in his estate, I believe ?” “ Yes, and that was decided in my favor. It is but just to say that his ex ecutors treated me with the greatest respect and consideration. Of course they could not admit any claim without the aotion of the courts of Philadelphia. But when the Orphan’s Court of Phila delphia, which had jurisdiction in the matter, decided in my favor, they made no further resistance.” “ You were not yourself originally educated for the stage, I believe?” “Oh, no, I never entertained any idea of professional life until my separation from my husband. Pending that sepa ration, and before I began my suit for divorce, foreseeing that I might be thrown upon my own resources, I pre pared myself for the stage, studying diligently during those two years. I made my debut under Mr. Brougham’s management as ‘Lady Teazle,’ in the old Lyceum Theatre, in New York. New Series —Vol. 28, No. 87. While managing the Metropolitan In San Francisco I employed the best talent aud the most eminent stars that oonld be procured. Mr. Forrest was then fa mous, and I went so far as to sacrifice my own feelings and make overtures to him. of course, through a third party, to visit California. As an inducement for him to come I offered to relinquish, temporarily, my management, promis ing to absent * myself from the city while he should be there. But he would not listen to the proposition. From San Francisco I went to Australia on a starring expedition, and thence to Eng land, where I played a portion of two seasons at the Haymarket Theatre, meeting with good success. Then the condition of my litigations called me back to New York. An application had been made to the court for temporary alimony, which was granted, and my counsel suggested that it would be bet ter for me to retire from the stage, which I did. I have never resumed the profession.” “ After your first separation from your husband, Mrs. Sinclair, were no efforts made to secure a reconcilia tion ?” “Our original separation was a very business-like affair. We mutually agreed to live apart in order to avoid the jars which our incompatibility seemed to occasion when together. Mr. Forrest made provision for my separ ate support, and used frequently to call upon me, and manifested a good degree of interest in my welfare ; but a mutual friend busied himself, ostensibly, in trying to effect a better relation be tween us, but really in widening the breach. To him is largely due all that subsequently foil nved. Ido not, know that we should ever have been recon ciled by his interference ; yet I do not think we would have been absolutely estranged and separated without that meddling.” Our conversation, from this point, took a less personal nature, having no interest to the general reader. A Destructive Fire. About half-past 11 o’clock, Saturday night, the premises in King street, oc cupied by Messrs. J. R. Read & Cos., were discovered to be on fire, and the alarm was promptly given. The fire brigade arrived quickly on the scene, but not in time to prevent a very disas trous conflagration. The fire was evi dently the work of an incendiary, who probably entered the premises from a gate on Beaufain street, which led to the rear of the store. It was set under the staircase which leads to Barnard’s photograph gallery, on the second floor of the building, and was evidently well set, as the flames gained rapid head way. The building occupied by Messrs. Read & Cos. was completely gutted by the flames, while the adjoining build ing on the south, occupied by Edwards & Cos., book auctioneers,was but slightly damaged. The loss iu stock and real es tate will fall little short of SIOO,OOO, and was only partially covered by insurance. The stock of Messrs. J. ft. Read & Cos. had just been replenished for the fall trade, and was valued at about $50,000. It was insured for $40,000 in the fol lowing agencies: Colburn & Howell. $5,000; W. B. Heriot, $5,000; E. Sebring & Cos., $10,000; Hutson Lee, $10,000; A. 11. Hayden, SIO,OOO. The Are did not reach the first floor of the building, but the flue stock of lace and dry goods was almost completely ruined by the water with which it was necessary to deluge the building. The third floor and the front, room of the second floor was occupied by Mr. Barnard, the well known photographer, who lost one of the finest and most complete stocks of photographic material in the South. His studio contained the negatives of all the places of prominence and in terest in and around the city, and those also of probably two-thirds of the residents of Charleston, embracing the collection of nearly twenty years. The stock was valued at not less than $15,000, and was insured for $6,000, in the agency of Messrs. E. Sebring & Cos. It was totally destroyed. The rear of the second floor of the building was occupied by Dr. Theodore F. Chupeiu, the dentist, whose stock, consisting of valuable surgical instru ments and furniture, was also com pletely destroyed. Loss, about $7,000; Insurance, $4,000. The building be longed to Mr. E. J. C. Wood, of Aiken, and had been recently renovated and repaired. It was valued at about $lO,- 000, and was iusured for SB,OOO - $5,000 in the agency of Messrs. Colburn & Howell, and $3,000 in that of Mr. Hutson Lee. The buildiug next south of this store was occupied only on the first floor by Messrs. C. B. Edwards & Cos., book auctioneers, who had recently moved in. Their stock was injured by water. The loss is about SI,OOO, being fully covered by insurance. The build ing belongs to the estate of Hart, and is valued at about SB,OOO. Only the third story is injured by fire, and the loss, it is thought, is covered by the insurauce, $2,000, in the agency of Messrs. E. Sebring & Cos. It is proba ble, however, that the entire building will be renovated and repaired. The handsome store of Messrs. Carrington, Thomas & Cos., next north of Read’s store, escaped injury, as did also the store occupied by Mr. W. J. Trim, at the corner of Beaufain and King streets. —News and Courier, Monday. The Death or Father Jacquemkt.— An extract from a Montreal paper con taining an account of the sudden death of the Kev. F. X. Jacquemet, whose apostasy from the Catholic church caused a little stir in Baltimore last spring, gives some particulars of his death, heretofore reported in the Sun. On the 20th of October he wrote a let ter to Archbishop Bayley, thanking him for the charity he had evinced for him before and after his renunciation, and making a formal act of recantation and contrition. On the morning of the 22d he was found dead in his bed. The coroner’s inquest determined his death to have been caused by a rupture of the aorta, the great artery of the sys tem. He was to have started a few days after for Texas, where an asylum had been procured for him with some Franciscan fathers. —Baltimore San. Karr.—M. Alphonse Karr, the French man who is the author of the celebra ted phrase: “lam in favor of the abo lition of the punishment of death-let assassins begin!” has just treated the question of capital punishment, and after enumerating the hundreds of sail ors, miners, workmen who have per ished in the exercise of their calling, the numbers of persons who have died by their own hands or by privations during the last year, he says only eleven persons were executed ; “ consequently the profession of assassin is, of ail known professions, the least dangerous and the least unhealthy.” Christmas is coming, and when the roll is called that morning every little child should be able to answer, “Pres ent. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND AFTER this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Columbus has 741 voters registered. Only seven deaths in Macon last week. Mule thieves are lively around At lanta. The Macon police have captured a door-mat fiend. Atlanta complains some of her negroes “ have too much jaw. ” J. A. Beeks, the oldest merchant of Grriftln, has retired from business. The Seaport Appeal favors the em - ployment of official court stenograph eirs. Col. George M. Lawton’s house, In Griffin, was destroyed by fire on Satur day morning. Insured! Gainesville sends forth this wail: “Do send us a minstrel troupe. We are dying for a hearty laugh.” The ladies of Columbus are ener getically at work in raising money for a monument in memory of the Confed erate dead. Up to Friday night, 12th Inst., Co lumbus had received 20,007 bales, against 22,791 in 1874, showing a de crease of 2,964. Gov. Smith, in the case of Brinkley, his ordered another board of three physicians to examine into the ques tion of his sanity, and report on the 23d inst. Atlanta is concerned about the capa pacity of her hose nozzles. Augusta firemen own the patent for throwing more water than any other F. D. iu Georgia. A reporter of the Constitution “inter viewed” some of Atlanta’s prominent citizens about the plans for collecting taxes, aud an annual collection ap peared to find most advocates. In that portion of Lee county border ing on Mtickalee Greek, northeast of Starkville, the plantations for miles have lost t'wenty-five per cent, of their crops, for the last several years, by the thieving of the negroes, who carry their stolen produce to these “dead falls” and sell it for a mere pittance. Macon Telegraph: John McDonald alias John Hasdai, was tried before Judge Best yesterday on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. The tes timony was insufficient to convict. Fanny Clark was a witness in the case. She behaved so impertinently during the examination that the Judge fined her five dollars for contempt. Geo. M. Dallas Geams, Andrew Jack son Geams and James K. Polk Geams, well known gentlemen of Bartow county, are t riplets, and were born in Forsyth county in the year 1845. The oldest one—of course he is but very little the oldest—when eighteen years old weigh ed but 58 pounds, though at present he pulls the scales down at the number of 160 pounds. Their mother gave birth to ten children. Athens Geo r rgian : It is not often that one sees such a manifestation of religi ous feeling as has been shown for the past week in the prayer meetiug rooms of our city. These meetings, as is well known, have been regularly carried on for some time, and this week the arrival of Mr. Monday, the reformed gambler, now eminent revivalist, has added new interest to the exercises. A reporter of the Atlanta Herald met a gentleman the other day who bad just had a long talk with Foster Blod gett, over in poor Carolina. He thinks that Blodgett is likely to turn up in Atlanta on auy of these tine mornings. We are willing to stand on the asser tion that Blodgett will be in Georgia in less than sixty days, either upon his own accord, or upon a demand from the Governor. Blodgett says that he has about concluded not to publish his book, descriptive of the scenes in the Bullock regime, as he does not think it would sell outside of Georgia ; and, be sides, we think that he can make more money by not publishing, than he could by publishing it. He is very much dis couraged by the political outlook. Ho says that the Radicals will probably carry South Carolina, next year, under press of the Radical canvass, but thinks this will be the last time the State will ever go with the Republican party. We pray that his prophecy may prove a true one. A Hawkeye-tem. I From the Burlington Hawkeye.i It is a terrible thing to tell, but how can we help it? Thursday night a charming young lady who lives out on North street, being on a lark with sev eral other charming young ladies, put on her brother’s clothes and walked around the block on a wager. That is, she started to walk around the block, but at the first corner she met a wild Irishman very drunk and belligerent. Frightened nearly out of her wits, she forgot that she was a man pro tem., so she gave the tipsy man one of her sweet smiles to soften his rugged heart, and tried to go past him. But the insulted roisterer indignant ly demanded of the supposed man whc in thunder he was grinning at, hit her a dip under the ear that knocked her half-way across the street, and when she got up, shrieking and whoop ing as only a woman could shriek and whcop under such circumstances, he pasted her a most ugly one right under the eye, and she hasn’t got through seeing stars yet. Neither will she go to church to day, and neither again will she take that green patch off her eye for a week, and neither also will she play man any more until she learns better than to be sociable or concilia tory with a stranger on a great big nine-story drunk. You can’t always tell how cross it does make some men when they fill up. thiTphcenix. A Nice Woman Not to Murry. [From Piatt’s Letter.] Looking through the triangular glass that; exists between the compartments, ve saw the Phoenix sitting on the seat opposite, coolly smoking a cigarette. She wore a gray ulster, with a peaked felt hat, with gloves and boots to match, and was—well as we eould determine —about twenty-five years of age. Her hail' was light chestnut, and seemed to be abundant. Her eyes, by far the finest feature, were large, lustrous and eithei dark gray or hazel, and we could not determine. Her Roman nose, in exquisite proportions, had that cold, delicate outline and thin nostrils that indicate the bird of prey, be it in Letty or Vanderbilt. A short upper lip was in keeping, while the mouth, though full and fair, confirmed the impression tiie nose had made. The cheeks and full jaw were rather heavy, and the whole face told of a Judith that would go in on Holofernes with assurances of distinguished consideration, with a knife ready to sever her jugular hid in her bosom or bustle. We would as soon think of making love to Lady Macbeth or Vinnie Ream’s Lincoln aq this female American eagle,