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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.” To Advertisers and Subscribers. and attkb this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent tree of postage. A.DVE.aTiSEMENTS must N* paid for when han aed in, unless otherwise stipulated. ? r suggesting Candidates for office. 20 cents perline each insertion. M o??oßhU y o b r e der! nitted at our risk by Exre * B OoBBEsrpNDKNCK invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonvmous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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,