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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
DEFEAT OF THE TURKS.
Selim Pacha Drubbed—The French
Assembly—Wrankling Artists— Spain
and Brother Jonathan.
Cettinge, November 16. —1n the vic
tory of the insurgents over the Turks
at Gatschko, the insurgents suffered a
loss of only fifty-seven killed, including
one chief and six officers, and nmety
six wounded. They captured a pro
vision train, fifty tons of ammunition,
and three hundred rifles.
Paris, November 10- —The motion in
the Assembly to postpone the consid
eration of the municipal law until after
the election was opposed bytheßepub
lica is, who accuse the Government of
a cfesign to influence the elections
thro ugh the Mayors, v.ho, under exist
ing laws, are appointed by the Gov
ernor. M. Buffet refused to abaudou
the Mayors, to whom the Government
Is indebted for devoted services. The
elec ions will be free and straight
forward. The Government has a right
to rriake known and support its opin
ions' at elections. The party of the
Bight cheered these utterances enthu
siastically. The Left, regarding the
speech as a defense of the system of
official candidates, showed irritation.
Postponement was carried by a large
majority.
The lesult is considered very impor
tant and antagonistic to the Republi
cans, as the present Conservative and
irresponsible Mayors will manage the
eleejions. A third reading of the
Eleq ion bill has been fixed for Friday.
Lis don, November 16.—The esti
mated damage to London and its
neighborhood is fully $5,000,000.
A special from Cettenge says Selim
Pacha retreated to Gatschko, losing
one thousand killed, and their baggage,
aimrfunition and several cannon were
captured.
Fioeence, November 16.—1n the libel
suit bf Connelly vs. Healy, growing out
of a letter to New’ York, charging art
frauds, Healy was sentenced to a fort
eight’s imprisonment and a fine of one
thousand lire, and the manager of the
Tourist newspaper to eight days’ im
prieoment and a fine of five hundred
lires, for publishing the libel. Both
parties appeal.
Madrid, November 16. — La Cronista
believes the questions between the
United States and Spain, relative to
the treaty of 1795, will result in an
agreement.
The Peace of Europe—Progress of
the Prince of Wales.
St. Petersburg, November 16. —The
Official Gazette says Europe was never
in a more favorable position for a
peaceful settlement of any difficult
question. Three powerful Emperors J
are striving, assisted by other powers, ;
for the peaceful solution of the Herze
govinian troubles.
Bombay, November 16. —The Prince
of Wales has returned, probably to
visit Ceylon. The Serapis goes to Cal
cutta.
Don Carlos Writes a Letter to King
Alfonso.
Madrid, November 16.—Gen. Subiri,
aid-de-camp of Don Carlos, arrived at ;
Haro from Durango, where the Carlist
war delegation is sitting. He was the
bearer of a letter from Don Carlos to
King Alfonso, which was delivered to
Gen. Quesada. An aid-de-camp of the
latter has been dispatched with the
letter on an express train for Madrid.
Tfce funds have risen in consequence j
of rumors favorable to peace.
EXIT GUIBORD.
An Unhappy Ghost Quietly Disposed j
of.
Montreal, November 16.—The volun
teers have just started from Champ de
Mars] en route for the cemetery. The
police armed with carbines are also on
their way. Guibord was quietly buried.
Particulars of the Funeral and Inter
ment.
Montreal, November 16. —The mili
tary programme was carried out by j
half-past eight o’clock. The streets
were crowded with spectators, ffhe j
grave was prepared at the Catholic
Cemetery in the presence of a couple
of boys’ the police and sextons. At ■
ten o’clock the soldiers and members
of the Institute approached at the
Protestant Cemetery, the soldiers form
ing a hollow square, the frients of the
deceased entering. The coffin contain
ing Guibord’s remains was brought
out. The troops shouldered arms,
and the funeral procession start
ed, which at that time consisted
of a couple of cariiages. The police
were the sole guards. The military |
were far behind, but the streets were
crowded with people of all classes, in
cabs, carts and on foot. Great quiet !
prevailed when the procession entered
the Catholic Cemetery. The crowd
came from all directions and ran up ;
all the avenues towards the grave. The
Boldiers did not enter the yard. The
police formed a large square around
the grave and kept the crowd back,
while the coffin was brought from the
hearse, looking somewhat dilapidated.
It was borne by four men and placed in
the bed of cement and the grave was
filled up. Some remarks were made by
the friends of deceased, which were
booted at by some roughs. Nothing
was said on the side of the Canadian
Institute. Threats to dig the body out
of the grave, if occasion offered, were
so openly made that the President of
the Institute asked the guard over the
grave for twenty-four hours until the
cement hardened. A cold rain hurried
the crowd away.
Minor Telegrams.
San Francisco, November 16.—The
great race for $30,000 in gold, four
mile heats, occurs on Saturday.
Little Falls, N. Y., November 16.
Burke & Hely, bankers, have failed.
Liabilities, SIOO,OOO. Burke’s bank of
Utica, connected with the firm, will be
compelled to suspend for a few days.
Omaha, November 16.—The breaks in
the Western Union Telegraph wires
between this point and California have
been repaired, and the line is now in
complete order between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts.
St. Louis, November 16.—The trial
of General John McDonald, ex-Super
visor of Internal Revenue, is progress
ing.
New York, November 16.—1n the
three ball billiard tournament of
twenty-one games, three hundred
points, the first game was won by
Cyrtlle Dion, who beat Joseph Dion
thirty-five innings; Joseph, two hun
dred and thirty-five.
Philadelphia, November 16.—Man
damus has been asked for by the Park
Commissioners to compel the City
Council to appropriate $1,000,000 for a
park, and has been refused by the
court.
Rome, November 16.—The Italian
Chambers met to-day.
24ttgttsto Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Postmaster Pease Gets a Crumb of
Comfort —Treasurer New Concludes
to Stick General Department
Items—The Mississippi Conundrum
Discussed in the Cabinet.
Washington, November 16.—The
order suspending Postmastei Pease, of
Vicksburg, and Postmaster Stearns, of
Holly Springs, is revoked.
Treasurer New’s partner in Indiana
polis being partially restored to health,
the Treasurer has reconsidered his in
tention to resign.
Jewell knows nothing of the reported
change of the Postmaster-Generalship.
The Department of Justice decides
that district attorneys must initiate
proceedings in violations of customs
laws irrespective of their own judgment
as to the ends of justice, and then re
port to the Secretary of the Treasury
aud take his direction as to further
prosecutions.
The President has commissioned
George Deitrich as postmaster|at Cal
vert, Texas.
The Cabinet discussed Mississippi
affairs. They do not understand who
is to blame for the state of affairs in
that State. An investigation by honesty
men is proposed, whose report, it is
hoped, will restore harmony among
the Republicans.
Wilson was restless last night, but is
better now.
FROM ALABAMA.
The New Constitution Carried —Dis
count of the Beef-Eaters.
Montgomery, November 16.—Enough
news has been received here to warrant
the statement that the new Constitu
tion has been ratified by a large ma
jority. Perry county, a large negro
county and Republican generally by
three thousand majority, gives one
thousand majority for Ratification. The
Constitution was generally acceptable
to both parties, and the Custom House
aod Federal officials failed in their
efforts.
Mobile, November 16—Mobile goes
for the ratification of the new constitu
tion by eight hundred and seventy-four
majority. The majority in the county
will probably reach twelve hundred.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Earthquake in San Francisco—Crook
ed Car Conductors—Tweed Snubbed
—Marine Disaster—Murder aud Sui
cide —Conflagration,
San Francisco, November 16.—A
sharp earthquake at eight o’clock yes
terday evening.
Brooklyn, November 16.—A half
dozen street car conductors were ar
rested with false bell punches.
New Orleans, November 16.—John
McNamara, car driver, was shot dead
by John Dowling, who was put from
the car for refusing to pay.
Albany, N. Y., November 16. —The
Court of Appeals dismissed Tweed’s
appeals. He gets neither reduction of
bail nor bill of particulars.
Hal t fax, November 16.—The vessel
Epcs Farr, of Glocester, arrived from
the Banks damaged. She lost four
men.
Irwins, Pa., November 16.— Fourteen
buildings, including ten stores, were j
burned. Loss, $50,000.
Boston, November 16.—Orria Mar
shall, who shot his wife on Saturday,
was found dead. He left a letter al
luding bitterly to his wife’s frailty.
Troy, N. Y., November 16.—Jane Cas
tello died from burns. Her drunken
husband threw a kerosene lamp at her.
Providence, R. 1., John Powers,
printer, was arrested for shooting at
his wife. He attempted suicide by
cutting his throat.
Steamboat Collision.
Galveston, November 16. The
steamships Clyde and Morgan collided
in the lower bay. The Clyde is at the
wharf with her bow torn, but cargo un
injured. The Moigan was stiuck abaft
the wheel. The collision is supposed
to have been caused by a heavy
norther.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
The Newspaper Squabble.
San Francisco, November 15. —The
court, in the Bulletin vs. the Alta Cali
fornia libel suit, granted a motion
striking out a portion of the complaint
relating to the Bank of California.
This prevents the Bulletin Company
from making good the truth and ac
curacy of their reports regarding the
bank and its late President.
FROM ATLANTA.
Ho! For St. Louis.
Atlanta, November 16.—The dele
gates from Atlanta to the Railroad
Convention at St. Louis, on the 23d,
will leave Atlanta Saturday evening,
November 20th.
FALL RIVER.
A Gloomy Outlook—Prints Declining
in Price and Wages Reduced.
Fall River, November 16. —Owing to
a falling off in the prices of print cloths
of nearly seven cents per yard since
September sth, manufacturers have
appointed a committee to visit Eng
land and arrange for the exportation
of fabrics. Another reduction of ten
per cent, in wages has been voted.
FROM LOUISVILLE.
The Negro’s Spiritual Welfare.
Louisville, November 16. —The Epis
copal Board of Missions is discussing a
plan to bring the negro race within the
pale of the church. The Board seems
to think the Catholic Church is in a
fair way- to do this.
Dr. Hall says that every adult person
weighs a pound less in the morning
than at night. During the daytime, a
man can go down town and get away
from his wife’s tongue for a few hours.
There is anew song entitled, “Don’t
go Near the Bar-room, Father.” We
have not heard it, but we presume it
bases its plea upon the representation
that there is a good big jug-full in the
house, and represents the superior
facilities for being put to bed when the
parent addressed gets drunk at home,
like a gentleman.
. Experiments have been made at
Bordeaux for the employment of cork
in gas for lighting. The results were
so favorable and so economical that it
has been decided to fit up works for
lighting the town of Nerac on that sys
tem. The waste obtained from cork
manufactories is distilled in retorts,
and the flame thus obtained is said to
be brighter and whiter than that from
ooal gas.
AUGUSTA. Gj±.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
A New Cashier for the Telegraph Com
pany-Church News—The Air-Line
Road Report.
New York, November 16.—Henry W.
Ward was appointed Cashier of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
The Methodist Episcopal Board of
Missions appropriated $14,475 to Italy;
$17,400 to Japan; $2,500 to new work in
Mexico.
The meeting of the first mortgage
bondholders of the Atlantic and Rich
mond Air-Line Road heard a report of
the Committee of Trustees appointed
to look after the interests of the road.
The report recites a number of litiga
tions in which the road has been
involved, and states that a decree has
been obtained in the United States
Circuit Court for the Northern District
of Georgia, appointing a receiver and
directing a sale of the road in order to
pay the interest due on the bonds. The
report also says that all that is now
necessary before selling the road is to
obtain those portions of it situated in
North and South Carolina, and recom
mends that the bondholders pay $6
per bond in addition to $2 already paid.
A resolution was adopted to the effect
that the report of the committee be
accepted.
Railroad Injunction.
Judge Donohue granted to-day tem
porary injunction restraining the Pana
ma Railroad Company aud trustees
from establishing a line of steamships
between this port and Aspinwall, and
between PaDaina and San Francisco, or
making contracts for the purchase or
building of steamships or other vessels
to run between the places named in
connection with the defendants’ road
across the Isthmus, it not being within
the scope of their charter.
Grading Grain.
The Committee on Grain of the Pro
duce Exchange to-day announced the
following details of a plan for grading
grain, under the rules recently agreed
upon between the New York Produce
Exchange and the railroad companies.
First, of all bills of lading for grain
shipped to this market by rail on and
after December Ist, 1875, should con
tain the following words: “To be graded
and delivered in accordance with the
rules of the New York Produce Ex
change,’’ unless shippers desiring to
preserve the identity of their grain as
provided for in the joint circular of
the railroad company issued under
date of November Bth, 1875; second,
all shipments of grain on bills
of lading from which the words
“ To be graded and delivered in accord
ance with the rules of the New York
Exchange ” are omitted, will be sub
ject to a uniform charge for lighterage,
to be agreed upon by lightermen of
trunk lines, of not less than one and a
half cents nor more than three cents
per bushel. Lots of less than five cars
will be delivered from the track on ar
rival ; third, all grades of grain will be
lightered free in accordance with the
rules, and certification will be issued
therefor by the railroad company ; 4th,
the fee for inspection and verification
of track weights will be, until further
notice, fifty cunts per car.
[Signed] Franklin Edson,
Chairman.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Action of the Trustees in Regard to
the Students’ Board.
Editor Constitutionalist : The
Trustees ©f the University of Geor
gia greatly distinguished themselves
in their action regulating the rate of
board to be paid by the students. They
have demonstrated that, though men
of broad views and capable of grap
pling with knotty questions of state
craft and philosopdy, they do not
“despise the day of small things.”
Being painfully impressed with the
belief that parents and guardians are
incompetent to attend to their own
business, and incapable of determining
the amount and character of the ex
penditures which their sons and wards
can afford while at college, the Trustees
have generously come to their rescue,
and gratitously offered the patrons of
the University the benefit of ther supe
rior wisdom in such matters. In pur
suance of this philanthropic and highly
praiseworthy object, they have adopted
a resolution requiring each student,
under penalty of expulsion, to pledge
himself not to pay over twenty dollars
per month for board and lodgiDg. This
liberal allowance, I believe, includes the
item of fuel and lights. It will be
seen that, though solicitous that the
parents’ money shall not be squandered
in the reckless gratification of luxuri
ous tastes, the stipend is sufficiently
large to satisfy any young man of
moderate appetite and of reasonable
demands in the line of creature com
forts. Birds on toast two or three
times a day and champagne for dinner
are by no means essential to the diges
tion of the classical student ; nor are
beds of eider down at all necessary to
his repose after a wrestle with Homer
or Euclid. Many a youth has lighted
his pathway to learning aud fame by
the flickering rays of a tallow dip or
pine knot. Why, then, indulge in the
useless extravagance of gas or kero
sene?
I am credibly informed that the
Trustees have waived their right to
limit the young men to specific prices
for dyeing their moustaches, blacking
their boots, purchasing “goobers,”
etc. For their generosity in granting
them unrestrained liberty in these ex
penditures, the students are no doubt
duly grateful.
But, Mr. Editor, retrenenment is the
order of the day, and if parents in their
blind folly permit their sons at college
to enjoy some of the comforts they
were accustomed to at home, it is well
that the authorities of our University
should take the matter in hand and
sternly insist on reform !
One of the famous “Blue Laws” of
Connecticut prohibited a man from in
dulging in the luxury of kissing his
wife on Sunday. This is universally ad
mitted to have been a most wise and
salutary statute. Now, if the Puritan
legislators could with propriety assume
control of the domestic conscience, why
should not the Trustees of the Univer
sity require the students to live on
“ bacon and greens ” and sleep on
shuck matresses if they so will it?
True, it is not ascertained that the
University Solons all confine themselves
to the absolute necessaries of life ; but
the youth of the land should be taught
self-deuial, and no reasonable parent
will object to the method by which the
lesson is inculcated by the learned
Board of Trustees.
Old Franklin.
Up aud down stairs. YouDg Mistress
(at the parlor door): Eiiza, what is the
bell ringing for so violently? Cook
(below): “It’s only me, mum. I want
you down in the kitchen a minute.
THE STAR OF ULYSSES.
' ’
Horoscope of General Grant by As
trologer Lister—Everything Lovely
and No Thi^dTerm—Jupiter, Saturn,
Mars. Venus and Mercury Proclaim
It —Old Sol Allots Thirty-four More
Years to His Excellency.
A Herald reporter spent yesterday
afternoon among the stare. The outer
gate, which separated him from thrngs
worldly and things celestial, was located
at No. 329 Sixth avenue, and its key
was in the hands of a man— Lister by
name—who is a professor of astrology.
After ascending a flight of stairs the
reporter pulled a door knob, and a
little later was ushered into the astrol
oger’s presence. The room was quaint
and peculiar. There was but one win
dow iD it, and that was veiled by cur
tains of lace. In the dim uncertain
light which pervaded the apartment,
the reporter saw only that he was in
the presence of a tall, elderly but
athletic man, and that upon either side
of him was a ponderous globe. His
ears heard only the ticking of a clock.
As his eyes became more accustomed
to the light the reporter observed that
the room was neatly furnished, and
well supplied with pictures and books.
The professor himself was a peculiar
person, hale, hearty and rugged, despite
the fact that his hair was exceedingly
gray. His eyes were keen and pene
trating, and his manner courteous and
dignified. His face was cleanly shaven,
save a small tuft of beavd wihch grew
underneath his chin and receded below
the collar of his shirt.
There was something in the appear
ance of the Professor, however, which
not only excited interest-hut also com
manded respec’, and the reporter felt
that he was actually in the presence of
a disciple of Tiberius, or at least face
to face with a descendant of the old
Saracens of Spain.
“What did you call on me for?” was
the question the Professor asked.
“To find out something in relation to
the President of the United States,”
was the reporter’s answer. “To settle
by astrology here, at this very moment,
forever the question of a third-term.”
“Ah, sir,” responded the Professor,
shaking his head gravely, “the power
aud influence of the President will be
gin to wane about the fourth of March,
1876. I predicted the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln September 29, 1864,
seven months before it took place.
Under this date I wrote a letter to the
Boston Herald, in which I said ; ‘A deep
base plot will be formed against the
person of the President as shown by
the planet Mars. This planet indicates
deatn from pistol shot.’ You can refer
to the files of the Boston Herald and
there read what I predicted. I predicted
the career of Vice-President Wilson
twenty years ago, and if you refer to
his speeches made during?the last cam
paign you will find he states than an
astrologer seemed to know him by
heart. And now as to Giant.”
The Professor then rassacked a huge
pile of papers and produced a manu
script and the diagram published here
with : “ This is the President’s horo
scope,” he said. “ Several years ago I
wrote to his father, Jesse Grant, and
obtained from him the exact hour of
our Chief Executive’s birth. I learned
from him that Ulysses S. was born
April 27th, 1822, at about six o’clock a.
m. I wrote the letter and deduced my
conclusions long before Grant was nom
inated for the Presidency for the first
time. I consider his to be one of the
most remarkable, and, at the same
time, most fortunate nativities that has
ever come under my notice. We find
five planets in the oriental part of the
heavens —viz., the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn,
Venus aud Mercury. The sun in con
junction with Jupiter is the most
fortunate condition under which any
one can be born. The moon
was in favorable position with Venus,
and Mercury, the intellectual orb, form
ed a good aspect with Mars. The
twenty-fourth degree of the sign Taurus
was rising at his birth; hence Venus
became his ruler, aided by the sun aud
Jupiter. The sun indicates dignity,
wealth, power and honour, while the
other planets just named, when in con
junction with the sun, indicate rapid
advancement in life. Th--> position in
which Venus was at the time of his
birth indicates that he is kind, but de
termined; social, but virtuous. Mer
cury aud the moon, both ia the tropical
signs at the time of his nativity, indi
cate that he is fond of distinction and
always takes care of number one; that
he is very igenious, acute, inquisitive.
The location of the planet Jupiter in
dicates that, though
Determined to cany out ids purposes,
he is kind and even magnanimous to
those whom he has subdued. The
location of Saturn shows that he is a
man of great caution and quaint origi
nality. Let me now look upon the
position of the sun, the life-giver. The
location of the sun at the time of his
birth indicates a strong constitution
and long life. The most critical periods
of his life will be in his seventy-third
and eighty-seventh years. It is more
than probable that he will attain the
age of eighty-seven. Though the
planets show him liable to fire, fire
arms and explosions, it is almost safe
to say that he will die a natural death,
because the sun at the time of his birth
did not form an evil aspect with Saturn
or Mars.
“But, if you please,” said the re
porter, “tell me what is the matter with
the planets ? You assured me a little
while ago that something was wrong ;
that Grant’s chances for political po
sition were rather slim ; that he would
begin to disappear from public notice
after March 4tb, 1876. Please inform
me how it is that the planets, after
shining upon him for two terms, won’t
shine upon him for a third ; or, in fine,
interpret for me, if you can, the rela
tions between Grant, politics and celes
tial mechanics.”
The Professor didn’t hesitate a mo
ment for an answer. Had he antici
pated the reporter’s coming, as well as
hi 6 interrogatory, ho could not have
responded more promptly. “ Since
the birth of President Grant no
thing serious has occurred to change
the mutual relations of those
planets which shone upon his cradle
Batura is a planet which represents
honor, position and popularity. The
transit of Saturn will soon occur. After
it takes place the conditions under
which Grant was born suffer a marked
change, and, at the moment the transit
occurs, the popularity, power and
influence of the man will begin to
steadily decline. You cannot under
stand the significance of this transit,
perhaps, but every astrologer does, and
it cannot come to pass without influ
encing, in one way or another, all born
under it.”
The reporter had already engaged
the Professor for along time, and as
he could learn nothing more definite
from the gentleman than what is given
above, he withdrew.
THE CENTENNIAL PROFITS.
Enormous Prospective Receipts of tlie
Railroads.
[Philadelphia Correspondence of the New
York Herald.J
Taking the lowest estimate of three
millions of visitors, an enormous
amount of railroad travel will be
necessary, and the arrangements of
the companies will have to be made on
a proportionate scale. At a low esti
mate, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will bring from and take back to
New York city one million passengers;
from Pennsylvania aud Western New
York, four hundred thousand persons;
from its many and far-reaching con
nections in the West, Northwest and
Southwest, certainly one-half the pas
senger traffic, which would be six hund
red thousand passengers—a total of
two millions of passengers.
It is estimated that the transporta
tion of these passengers both ways
will equal about seventy-five million
passengers carried one mile, or almost
twice the passenger business of all the
year 1874 between New York aud
Pittsburg. If the charges be one and
a half cents pet mile, the gross receipts
will be $11,250,000, or (allowing fifty
per cent, as profit) a revenue of
85,675.000 for the lines of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company between New
York and Pittsburg oDly. Moreover,
as the gentleman who makes the esti
mates states, these figures cover “only
the lines operated by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company between New York
and Pittsburg; their extensions west
ward far exceed in miles the
main line _ east, reaching, as they
do, to Cincinnati. Chicago, St. Louis
and the far West into Michigan.’’
All those lines bring their share
of travel to Pittsburg. It is no matter
for wonder that the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company should have contributed
to the Centennial fund. The balance of
travel from the West and South not
going over the Pennsylvania Road and
the railroad to New York, will concen
trate at Baltimore, from the Baltimore
and Ohio and Southern railroads.
Thence they will be brought to this
city cn the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad. This will be
likely to reach seven hundred and
fifty thousand passengers, or com
ing and returning, one million
five hundred thousand passen
gers carried one mile. The gross
receipts of this railroad would there
fore be $3,000,000 for this work at two
cents per mile. At their ordinary rate
o* three cents per mile the net revenue
would be $2,250,000, deducting fifty per
qent.
MINGE ROANE.
Gorgeous Funeral of a Lost Woman—
A Sample of Fast Life in New York.
[Times, 13th J
The funeral services over the re
mains of Elizabeth G. Roane, the
unfortunate young woman who com
mitted suicide on Tuesday night by
shooting herself with her lover’s revol
ver, in their rooms at No. 180 Fifth
avenue, were conducted at an un
dertaker’s establishment in Sixth
avenue yesterday afternoon. The
object of choosing the place was
undoubtedly to secure as strict privacy
as possible, for the rooms in which she
had lived were in a very public place,
and there were hosts of her friends
who were as anxious to attend her
funeral as Mr. Whitney was to avoid
their presence. Early in the day the
intelligence of the locality had spread,
and great numbers of anxious inquirers,
mostly women, questioned the under
taker about the time of the services.
He, however, acting under strict orders,
gave definite information to no one,
and only Mr. Whitney’s friends were
admitted to the rooms where the
corpse lay. In the afternoon the street
was lined with curious lookers-on,
among whom were many evidently
mourners, who had drawn up in ele
gant coaches, and whose dress indi
cated luxury and extravagance. About
3 o’clock the services were begun.
The body lay in an elegant
and costly casket, heavily trimmed
with silver, aud bearing a silver
plato with the inscription: “Minge
Roane, died November 7, 1875, aged
twenty-one years.” Around the room
were arranged so many floral tributes,
cclumns, crosses, cushions, anchors,
etc., that when they were taken away
they filled three carriages. The coffin
was also covered, and the face of the
dead surrounded with flowers. The
cards accompanying the flowers sent in
bore many female names, and many of
the names of Mr. Thomas Whitney’s
friends. Mr. Whitney, his father and
perhaps a dozen friends made up the
party of mourners.
Rev. Dr N. W. Conkling, Pastor of
the Rutgers Presbyterian Church, con
ducted the services. After reading the
Scriptures he made a brief address,
dwelling chiefly on the terrible lesson
conveyed by death, and the Yvarning
that should be conveyed by so sudden
a death to those who survived. A
touching prayer concluded the brief
ceremonies, and the funeral cortege
slowly wended its way to Greenwood
Cemetery. A dispatch announcing her
sad fate was sent to her relatives imme
diately after her death, but up to last
night no answer had been received.
Some Account of Her Life.
Richmond, Va., November 13.—The
proper name of the unfortunate girl
who committed suicide at No. 180 Fifth
avenue. New York, was Minnie Roane.
She was a native of King William
county, in this State, aud belonged to
one of the most noted F. F. Y.’s. Her
parents were related closely to the
family of Hon, William Roane, a
former Governor of Virginia, and her
grand uncle was a Judge of the State
Court of Appeals, and at one time a
United States Senator. Her mother
died while herself and a sister named
Belle were yet quite young, to which
may probably be attributed the cause
of their misfortunes and terrible
fates. About six years ago these two
girls, Minnie and Belle, ran away
from their home jn King William
county, with the avowed purpose of
beginning a life of shame and misery.
They were pursued, however, and with
the aid of some distant relatives, living
in this city, were eaptured and return
ed to their home, where, for a time,
they were kept under the strictest sur
veillance. As soon as this was relaxed
they escaped again, and bent upon
leading a life of sin they entered houses
of ill fame in this city. Minnie left
here nearly three years ago and went
to St. Louis and from thence to New
York, where her history since is well
known; her si3ter went to Baltimore
and threw herself from the window of
a hospital in that city and was instant
ly killed. A brother who was employ
ed in a drug store in this city took
chloroform, from the effects of which
he died. The family history is replete
with terrible catastrophes and misfor
tunes.
COLONEL SCOTT’S MISNOMER.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD, SO-CALLED.
> A Probable Attempt to Deceive the
South Champagne and Birds on
Toast at St. Louis for St. Louis.
[New York Bu’let'n j
We learn through a United States
Senator from a Southern State, that
the Southern Legislatures have, in
every instance, instructed their Sena
tors to vote, at the next session of
Congress, in favor of Government aid
to a Southern Pacific Railroad.—
Whether these instructions have been
given in each instance in favor of Col.
Scott’s scheme we are not informed.
No means have been spared to influ
ence opinion at the South in favor of
that route. Gen. Beauregard has been
retained in that special interest; and
it is to be presumed that his efforts
have not been entirely in vain. It is,
however, a matter of the first con
sequence to the South that it should
know just what is to be asked in
their behalf. Col. Scott’s scheme is
in no sense a Southern road. It gives
the South the go-by, making a west
ern and southwestern circuit of the
Southern States, really calculated to
draw trade from that section, rather
than to develop it. It is a total mis
nomer to call it a Southern Pacific
road; but mere names are sometimes
potent; and his pseudonym is calcu
lated to lead the South into clamoring
for the very thing it does not want.
We can easily understand how some
of the border cities of the Southwest,
which Mr. Scott’s road proposes to
touch, should be earnest in the advo
cacy of that project; and for this reason
we are not surprised- at the strictures
of the Louisville Courier-Journal upon
our recent remarks on this question.
But the South will not be long iu dis
covering that a road which touches its
territory only at its most northern
boundary, can be of no advantage to
the ten cotton States it passes at such
a distance.
Our Louisville contemporary inti
mates that we are indifferent about
whether the South has a Pacific road
or not, because we have expressed an
opinion against the Government aiding
any such enterprise. We are opposed
to the Government lending its credit to
any more railroad enterprises, hirst,
because the Government has no busi
ness to bolster up schemes which can
not command confidence on their own
merits; next because Government aid
begets political and corporate corrup
tion; next, because it fosters vicious
speculation; and, next, because, if do
nations of domain and endorsements
of bonds are to be renewed after the
signal break-down of railroad specula
tion in 1873, we show ourselves inca
pable of profiting by the severest les
sons of experience. But wnile thus
generally opposed to more Government
aid, we are especially so against a
scheme that demands the regium doiium
under false pretenses. It is argued
that to make the Government sponsor
of Col. Scott’s road would be an act of
political wisdom, inasmuch as it would
show a spirit of generosity towards
the South that would tend to the heal
ing of rancorous memories. What an
admirable specimen of sugar-coating!
But how much healing wo’uld such an
act effect when the South discovered,
as it ultimately would, that this gener
osity was not intended for it, did it no
good, prevented the possible building
of some other road that might be of
great service to it, and that the real
object was to render available a few
hundred miles of railroad in the wilder
ness, foolishly built in the times of rail
way mania and which must become a
total loss to its speculative construct
ors unless the Government can be
made responsible for it? We are in
clined to think the South would, in
the long run, conclude it had been
shrewdly practised upon by Northern
speculators, and that, under the pre
tense of political generosity, it had
been made a party to anew national
burthen, to its special injury. To all
intents and purposes, this is a scheme
to benefit Northern speculators; and
we cannot imagine how the South can
be hoodwinked into supposing it has
any other concern with it than to pay
its share of the additional taxation that
must be saddled upon the country to
pay the expenses of maintaining it.
These pretenses are too hollow to stand
the scrutiny to which they will be sub
jected. If there be really good reasons
why the South should have a railroad
running through its heart and connect
ing with the Pacific coast, it is only
necessary for good, practical railroad
men of resource and character to place
the question before the public purely
on its merits, and with due guarantees
that it will be constructed with hon
esty and economy, and there will be no
lack of means to build it. There must,
sooner or later, be a central Southern
road of this kind. If Col. Scott suc
ceeds in committing the Government
to this border route, the realization of
the route that would really benefit the
South must be indefinitely deferred.
If the South demurs to waiting until it
can have a road to suit its wants, con
structed upon proper conditions, it cer
tainly cannot afford to accept the al
ternative of backing Mr. Scott’s pro
posals.
—i m tmt
A Doubtful Case. —A Detroiter had
his hair cut the other day, and after
the barber bad finished the head was
the worst looking job ever turned out
in Detroit. The man was hopping mad
as he looked into the glass, and he
roared out:
“Why, you blamed fool, you don’t
know anything about hair-cuttiug!”
“Dat’s so, boss,” said the owner cf
the shop, coming forward. “I told him
to take your head to learn on, but it
don’t ’pear to me dat he’il ever make
much of a barber!”— [Detroit Free
Press.
I have been asked by some if I was
goffig to answer some of the arguments
of the opposition. Answer? Ten thou
sand times no! I have something
better to do. If a man attends to his
business he succeeds; if begets into
controversies he spends his strength
for naught, and fails. Even Job, who
could withstand a scolding wife, could
not stand the arguments of the three
men who came to him. YouDg con
verts, give a deaf ear to controversy,
and hasten to the great work God has
for you to do.— D. L. Moody.
Let the female angel cease to be ag
itated. Men will rave at the pinned
back skirts, but so they will, and rave
at other fashion. There was the kan
garoo droop, the Grecian bend, the
Tilton skirts, the beil crinoline, the de
collette bodice, the long stomacher—
everything, way back to the ruffs of
Queen Bess or the barrel hoops of
Queene Anne, has been sneered at after
the same manner. And yet, men have
a sort of sneakiag fanoy for the dear
little creatures after all.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 88.
| BEYOND HUMAN ENDURANCE.
; A Terrible Struggle Between Wrest
lers—Their Muscles Becomes Use
less and Both Men Succumb.
[New York Times ]
A good many of those present at the
Greco-Roman wrestling match last
Tuesday night were not satisfied with
the result of the affair, but it was un
avoidable. For upward of four hours
M. Christol and Professor Miller were
actually engaged in terrific struggle.
To the auditors in front of the stage
their efforts may not have seemed so
terribly fatiguing, but those who were
ia the immediate vicinity of the wrest
lers will bear witness to the contrary.
Both men were putting forth every
effort to win. Miller, as a rule, resorted
to defensive tactics, but his occasional
efforts to throw his antagonist were
characterized by undoubted muscular
exertion. His powerful frame was
exerted to the utmost. The rhomboid
muscles and the latissimus dorsi of the
breast were torn in numerous places by
the violence of his exertions. Nor was
( hristol’s condition any better. Again •
and again would he seize Miller around
the neck and shoulders, and with all
his strength attempt to hurl him to the
floor. At the critical moment his grip
would loosen and the man would slip
l rom his grasp. Time and again were
Miller’s neck and shoulders seized by
the muscular Frenchman, and with any
other man serious effects would have
resulted.
On such occasions their labored
breathing and the swelling of every
muscle betokened the violence of their
• fforts. M. Christol is not a very pow
erful man, but he possesses undoubted
knowledge of the science of wrestling.
What Miller lacks in skill he makes up
in massive frame and wondrous
strength, of resistance. Hence his
determination to act as far as pos
sible on the defensive. Hoping to
tire out his opponent, he himself
succumbed, and had the contest
continued through the night neither
would have secured another fall.
The reason for this is apparent: Nature
could no longer withstand the shock,
and, though the will was strong, mus
cles lost their power and the men could
do nothing. The triceps muscle, which
works the hinge joints of the elbows,
and the muscles of the forearm, which
strengthen the wrist, are no longer ser
viceable. The muscles controlling the
lingers lost their sensibility and their
usefulness. While the deltoides and
the biceps are still strong, compara
tively speaking, they are no longer
useful without the aid of the others.
Neither of the men could retain his
grip, and unless the grip was main
tained the lock was useless.
To continue the struggle under such
circumstances would have been sense
loss, to say the least. In their eager
ness to win, and doubtless actuated by
an excitement begotten by long strug
gling, the contestants at first expressed
a willingness to continue the contest,
but they finally yielded to good ad
visers, and the referee was authorized
to decide the match a draw. In this
decision he was supported by Mr. Jas
O’Neil, judge for Prof. Miller, and Mr.
Emil Regnier, judge for Christol. The
first round, lasting two hours and a
hair, resulted in favor of Christol; tbo
second was won by Miller in thirteen
minutes; the third had continued for
over an hour and a haif when the
contest closed. Then, at 1:45 o’clock
in the morning, the second wrestling
match between the two men came to a
termination.
It confidently expected that another !
match will be made. Yesterday both I
men were suffering considerably from
the effects of their protracted strug
gle. Their bruises were so serious that
it was impossible for either man to
raise his arms to his head. A few days
of rest and proper care will, however,
work a cure, and then they will be as
noxious as ever to renew the contest.
That Christol will challenge Miller
again there is no doubt, nor can the
latter refuse to accept.
Errors in Printing.
The Cleveland (Eng.) Mercury and
Courier, in an article on the “Gentle
Art,” pays its respects to a class of
persons that exist in this country as
well as in England. We do not sup
pose that there is a newspaper pub
-1 sher in the United States who has not
at some time received a marked copy of
his journal, showing the number of
grammatical errors contained thereiu,
accompanied by a letter requesting a
situation. Asa general rule, publishers
are practical printers, and the smart
fellow receives no notice for his pains.
We commend this article, which we
clip from the London Printing Times
end Lithographer, to the perusal of
that class of people:
Probably one of the worst businesses
under the sun is that of a printer. His
every deed seeks the light of day.
Those of the lawyer lie in dark boxes
and between musty shelves—the doctor
places his indifferent handiwork in the
earth—the tradesman has but his
customer to please, and in satisfying
him his work is ended. But the printer
—every ignoramus spells over the
work of the printer. Fellows, who
would find it impossible to put twenty
letters together gramatically will point
out with glee a fault in his work—
indeed, it is usually this class of Indi
viduals who make it a point of finding
out every little discrepancy. Did the
public know the thousands of different
characters, different letters and atoms
comprised in a printer’s every day
life—did they but know the variety
of altogether foreign subjects he
has to set up, read, correct and revise
day after day—they would wonder
how he kept out of the lunatic
asylum. But practice makes perfect,
and constant friction has rubbed off all
the rough edges from tne character of
the man of letters—nothing takes ef
fect upon him—he can view errors of
the most frightful description with
calmness. After all, what is an error,
grammatical or otherwise ? Simply so
many times out of place, that’s all, and
quite enough—but not enough to upset
the equanimity of the printer.
Long John Wentworth says he will
stop patronizing any paper which says
a word against the new patent ladies’
garters. He knows that they combine
beauty and convenience.
Parson Brownlow observes that when
a family must steal their wood and
borrow their provisions, in order to
wear high-toned clothes, it is time that
someone kick the head of the family.)
“ There may be such a thing as love
at first sight,” remarked a Detroit girl
as she twisted a “ friz ” around the
curling iron, “ but I don’t believe in it.
There’s Fred, I saw him a hundred
times before I loved him. In fact I
shouldn’t have fallen in love when I
did if his father hadn’t given him that
house and lot.”
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and attkb this date (April 21, 1875.) all
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THE NEW YORK SMUGGLERS.
Significance of the Conviction of Col.
Des Anges.
1 Chicago Tribune.]
The conviction of Colonel Des Auges
in New York city is a significant one.
He was an official in the custom house
there, and was indicted for smuggling
certain silks. His whole previous
record as a man and a soldier made the
charge incredible. His friends pro
tested that he was innocent as a child
not a single paper epoke harshly of
him, and public opinion voluntarily
granted that "suspension of judgment”
so often asked and so rarely got. Yet
a jury has found him guilty. Having
worn the stripes of a high officer in
our army, he must now put on the
stripes of convict garb. His conviction
was doubtless a disagreeable surprise
to the members of the indicted firm of
H. B. Claflin & Cos., for the silks
he is charged with helping to
smuggle are the very stuffs which
afterward were bought and sold
by this firm. The process "was simple
enough. A certain Harry Lawrence,
since absconded, imported a score of
cases marked as cotton goods. One
of them contained cotton, the others
silk. The Inspector, Des Auges, had
been privately notified which box to
mark for inspection. He carefully
chose the one in which the cottons
were. The sample was examined, and
the whole lot duly passed. Lawrence
took the twenty cases and paid for
them as cotton. The silk was then
placed in the hands of a firm which
was nominally engaged in tbe wine
business. This firm sold large quantl
ties of silk to the buying partner of H.
B. Ciaflin & Cos. at prices below the
bare cost of producing and import
ing tie goods. It is claimed, how
ever, that the purchase was made
without any idea that the silk had
been illegally entered. On the other
hand, Mr. Claflin told a reporter of the
New York Tribune that a house which,
did not buy smuggled silks would be
driven out of the trade, aDd that he
been advised by a prominent custom
house official—was it Des Anges?— to
purchase goods offered him in these
secret ways. It does not seem quite
creditable, in view of this frank state
ment, that the partueis of the firm
should have maintained a child-like
innocence in reg.ird to the silks that
were bought and sold at rates too low
to coyer the bare cost of honest goods.
Still, it is certainly to be hoped that a
great firm like this will be able to show
in court that its hands are clean in the
matter, and that it has never stooped
to cheat the Government or its country
for the sake of a few flimsy dollars.
The trial of Des ADges is, of course,
entirely distinct from that of H. B.
Claflin & Cos. He might have been
guilty a thousand times without their
being guilty once. He was indicted for
connivance at smuggling. They have
been indicted for having in their pos
session goods which they knew to be
smuggled. The two charges are thus
wholly apart. At the same time, the
conviction of the ex-inspector shows
that the goods in question were really
smuggled, so that the only question
left is, whether or not H. B. Claflin &
Cos. knew this. We may rest assured
that the point will be fairlv decided,
aud that neither a high posifiou not a
vulgar desire to smirch a good mimo
will play any part in preventing justice,
The smuggling and the whiskey rings
must both learn that the National
Government is stronger than they.
RUM AND POLITICS.
Wendell Phillips on the Situation-
Some Very Strong Talk.
[N. Y. Times.]
One of the great perils which in
Saxon races beset constitutional liberty
was found in the power of the liquor
dealers. Gladstone was thrown out of
the Ministry by the brewing interest.
This nation had made its flag respected
wherever it floated; but we had never
shown yet the capacity of Republican
ism to govern great cities. The spirit
of the nineteenth century was the ag
gregation of great masses in citities.
The problem of to-day was how to make
life safe and comfortable in them.
London, with its police, was safe.
You might fill your pockets with gold
and walk up and down the Strand all
night, you would come homo safe. If
you tried the same experiment in any
street either side of Broadway, your
life would probably be the forfeit. The
history of this country was proof, thus
far, of the failure of Democracy to
controls a great city. The release of the
metropolis from the hands of knaves
was not the result of a system or a
law, but simply a popular revolution.
In a great city there were poor and
degraded classes who could be made
ready tools of rum-drinkers and poli
ticians,
Mr. Phillips dwelt earnestly on the
tendency of the Anglo-Saxon races to
drunkenness. He complained of the
thrifty progress of the nineteenth
century, which made it possible for a
man to earn enough in a day to enable
him to keep drunk for a week. The
dangerous classes now beiDg made by
rum skulked away in times of peace,
but they emerged in times of trouble,
and became ready tools in the hands of
demagogues. He would not speak for
New York, but he knew Philadelphia
had been ruled for years by chief
magistrates directly chosen by and
under the control of the criminal
classes.
The labor question was treated by
the lecturer not in its sentimental
aspects, but only in relation to the
ballot box. The moment the people
were divided into two parties—on the
one side wealth, on the other labor or
poverty, there was an end to Demo
cratic institutions. There must be
intermingling and equality. Jefferson
provided for the dangers of this cen
tury by preventing the transmitting of
power or wealth. We were, however,
dawning on anew century, and
new dangers were coming. But Jef
ferson never dreamed of the marriage
of brains and wealth that has taken
place. Charlemagne’s power died with
him. The Papacy never faded out be
cause it was founded on the seoret of
wedding power to brains. It had no
son or grandson. The New York Cen
tral never faded out because it was
power wedded to brains. It had no
grandson, no succession, no relation in
office—it was and organized volume of
wealth directed with a single purpose.
This was something terrible to wrestle
with—the accumulation of wealth that
led to the possibility that a single man
by a wave of his hand might dissolve
Legislatures.
A man in Alabama died from having
his teeth knocked out with a hatchet,
and here comes that wicked Spilkins,
of the New York Commercial Adver
tiser, aad remarks that he died of axe
dental causes. It’s a tooth-robbing
announcement—it is, by gum,