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Montgomery, Ala., November 18. — The majority for the ratification of the new constitution will not be less than fifty thousand, and may reach sixty thousand. Only four counties in the State gave majorities against it. The remaining sixty-ono were overwhelm ingly in its favor. The Union League in Motion. New York, November 18.—The Exe cutive Committee of the Union League of America have called an annual meeting of that body at Philadelphia on December Bth, to consider national politics, public school interests and protective tariff. Democratic Victory In Chattanooga. Nashville, November 18.—A special from Chattanooga announce the elec tion of Mr. Fort, the Democratic can- j didute, for Mayor, over Mr. James, the present incumbent. The Democrats also elected the City Marshal and half of the Aldermen. The contest was very ex citing. There is great enthusiasm and burning of bonfires, while the Mayor elect is being hauled over the city on a hose carriage by enthusiastic firemen. FROM WASHINGTON. Bids for Bags—The Inter-Oceanic Ca nal— Immigration Statistics—Treas urer New Stopping Treasury Holes. Washington, November 18.—J. C. Feltman. of Albany, and John Light house. of Rochester, were the lowest bidders for mail bags. The Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal Com mission met at the Navy Department and examined the maps and report of the survey of the Napipi Atrato route. Lieut. Frederick Collins, who was in charge of that survey, was before the commission and examined at length as to the advantages afforded by that route. Adjourned till Saturday. Immigration for September at New York shows a falling off compared with September 18,1871, of 7,000, nearly one half. The committee to investigate the Second Comptroller’s office, regarding alleged fraudulent irregularities, has commenced its session. The Seeretary of the Navy will recommend tne organization of a small naval establishment at Port Royal, South Carolina. Treasurer New has paid into the Treasury $3,000 stolen therefrom since his administration. There were two thefts, one of SI,OOO and another of $2,000. The guilty parties were undis covered. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A Fatal Fire—More Whiskey Develop ments—Powder Mill Explosion. Craigvale, Ont., November 18.— Dennis Cunningham’s house was burned last night and four children perished in the flames. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham narrowly escaped. Sr. Louis, November 18.—James Fitzroy, chief clerk in the Assessor’s cilice, testified that he knew of the I coming of agents Brooks, Brasher, Yar gan and Gavitt some days before their arrival; informed the distillers and told them to strengthen up under orders from Joyce. The witness had a conversation with McDonald at the Planters’ House, in which McDonald said he wanted $5,000 to remunerate some parties in Washington for infor mation received from them. Witness raised the money and threw it over the transom of the door of McDonald’s room, as agreed upon with him. Wit ness was present when $4,800 was given by Joyce to MeKee at the Globe office. McKee said to witness : “Fitzroy, this is a sacred thing. You must keep it secret.” Witness replied he would do nothing to injure himself. St. Louis, November 18.—The McDonald trial is still progressing amid great excitement. The first wit ness, B. H. Engelke, rectifier, testified that he was urged by Joyce to pur chase crooked whiskey, and always re ceived advance notice of agents coming from Washington, and that Avery used to send the ring information of any danger. Witness testified to pay ing money for what was called the “ campaign fund.” From 1872 to 1875, the ring was composed of McDonald, Joyce, Fitzroy, McKee, Maguire, Pa trick Newcomb and Grosvenor, of the Democrat. The latter got SI,OOO to “ let up ” on Maguire when the latter was seeking the nomination for 'Mayor of the city. Joyce once said to witness, “My friend Babcock writes me there is hell to pay; we are in a scrape and must get out of it.” Wit ness admitted being a party to several indictments here, and had pleaded guilty to some of them, hut had not considered, and did not know what ef fect his testimony to-day w’ould have upon the indictments still pending.— Another witness testified to Joyce’s in dustry in collecting money for the ring. Gorham, Me., November 18. —Two mixing mills of the Oriental Powder Works exploded. None hurt. FAILURES. “Brick” Pomeroy and Other Bricks Tumble Down. New York, November 18.—Mark M. Pomeroy, editor of the Democrat, has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities, $140,000. Liningston & Cos., real estate brokers; Seiler & Maxwell, boot and shoe manufacturers, and Jonathan Frost, of the Springier House, sus pended yesterday. Boston, November 18.—A. & A. Jacobs & Cos., wholesale provision dealers, have suspended. FROM NEW YORK. Dedication of a Masonic Temple- Grant’s Iron Coffins Getting Ready for Spain. New York, November 18.—The new Masonic temple was dedicated to-day. General Taliaferro, Grand Master, officiated. Considerable activity prevails at the Gosport Navy Yard. Orders have been received from Washington to thorough ly fit out the monitors Lehigh and Montauk with all possible dispatch. Stye Augusta Constitutionalist. Established 1799. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Appointments Denied—Failure of a Branch House of Russell Sturgis— Germany Prodding up the Bishops —Conspiracy at Rangoon. London. November 18.—The appoint ments of Messrs. Halker and Geffard to the Attorney and Solicitor Generalship respectively, noted yesterday, are now denied. The failure of the Manila branch of the house of Russell Sturgis & Cos., is reported here. A special to the Pall Mall Gazette from Berlin states that the Prussian Govern ment is preparing proceedings before the ecclestiastieal Court against the Archbishop of Cologne and Bishop of Treves. The object is to depose them. Rangoon, November 18.—A conspiracy to seize the arsenal and burn the town of Rangoon has been discovered by the authorities. A great many Burmese have been arrested on suspicion of complicity in the affair. Confirmation of the Insurgent Victo ry—King Alfonso Resents Don Car los’ Cheeky Letter—Cuban News. London, November 18.—The Insur gent. victory at Gatschko has been fully confirmed. Madrid, November 18.—Gen. Quesa da has been commanded, by a Royal order, to henceforth receive no commu nication from Don Carlos, except an announcement of the unconditional submission of himself and his positions. Havana, November 18.—Five men, sentenced to be shot this morning, have been pardoned by the Captaiu General, at the intercession of Senor Rubi, the Royal Commissioner, and several ladies. The United States steamer Gettys burg has arrived here. Mill FROM LOUISVILLE. The City Hall Saved From Destruc tion—The Hay Seed Men in Council. Louisville, November 18.—The fire was confined to the tower of the City Hall. The loss will be less than the insurance, w r hich is $45,000. The National Grange convened to day. All the States and Territories, except two, are represented. Report of the Executive Committee of Grangers. Louisville, November 18.—The re port of the Executive Committee was discussed in regard to the business of different agencies. The report says some cities are doing a very large busi ness, and have in the aggregate mil lions of dollars, while in other respects they are unsatisfactory and fall short of the benefits which ought to be re alized. The commission system of the Order is said to be false in theory and unjust to members, and therefore, in the minds of the committee, an other method of selling is deemed neecssary for the good of the Order. Such a system the committee begs leave to submit as plans for a future day, and is satisfied it will meet with general approval. In conclusion, the committee recommends the employ ment of lecturers to canvass the coun try and make known the true aim and objects of the Order, thereby correct ing the wrong impressions which now exist in the minds of many worthy peo ple concerning the Patrons of Hus bandry. LOVELY WOMAN. Strong-Minded Females and Weak- Minded Males in Convention. New York, November 18.—The Woman Suffrage Convention met, Col. Thos. W, Higginson presiding. The annual report of the Executive Com mittee was read by Mrs. Lucy Stone. The report stated that during the year there had been evidences of substantial gain. The opening of Smith and Wellesby Colleges for women indicated a growing sense of ‘the need of better ed ucation for the sex. The successful working of co-education of sexes is fast removing all objections to the sys tem. Professional schools even are being thrown open to women. The move ment was also progressing steadily in other countries. Addresses advoca ting woman suffrage were delivered by Mrs. Emma Malloy, of Indiana, and Henry W. Blackwell. Resolutions were then presented reaffirming the princi ples of the Association and demanding equal rights for women. A European Railroad King. [New York Mail.] The story of the rise, reign and ruin of a great railroad king over in Eu rope, named Strousberg, has been among the late news items from abroad. In his days he has been a sort of George Hudson, with the differ ence that, instead of making money and wielding power by means of cooked accounts, as did Hudson, Strous berg grew rich and powerful by means of road-building contracts which his wonderful enterprise en abled him to obtain almost on his own terms. After a long and success ful course of railroad building iu Aus tria, the results of which have been vastly beneficial to that empire, he began a career in Russia on the full tide of that nation’s newborn zeal for internal improvements. There he se cured, by processes not perhaps always beyond suspicion, enormously profi table contracts, and under these con structed hundreds of miles of railways. His weakness appears to have been his willingness to take his pay iu bonds or stocks or similar securities instead of iu very hard cash. This plan, how ever, * greatly facilitated the get ting of contracts, although it compelled him inevitably to be a speculator. When Germany offered also an open field for his illimitable en terprise and ambition he went thither and did for that nation what he had done for Austria and Russia; miuiug money, as it were, with every spadeful of earth his army of laborers threw up. But, meanwhile, the great contractor had burdened himself inordinately with railroad securities, which, liowover slightly as representatives of value, were destined to die on his hands, like the jockey’s horse, and he found their weight heavier than his hands could bear. One speculative venture after another was tried and failed. Desperate schemes, of the forlorn hope style, were his final resources; and these failed, too. Then came the crash, and Strousberg fell. A prison at Moscow, litigations at Vienna, and enforced bankruptcy at Berlin, rounded off his railway kingship, and his sceptre has departed. Iu the train of his misfor tunes have come financial troubles to others, of course, and like a row of bricks, other operators, dependent upon or opposed to him have toppled down to destruction. Continental money markets have been disturbed seriously, and even London has felt the jar. And so another Railway King has lost his crown and kingdom. . SPAIN AND CUBA. WHAT THE LONDON “ TIMES ” THINKS OF THE AMERICAN NOTE. “One of the Most Peremptory Mes sages “ King Alfonso’s Ministers Cannot Alford Even to Dally A "Spirited Foreign Policy”—The “Times” Trusts American Common Sense Will Not be Offended by Span ish Pride. [London Times, November 3.] A war between the United States and Spain on account of Cuba would be all but inevitable if American dispatches could be construed as literally as those of European countries. No European Government would send such a note as that which President Grant lLas caused to be delivered to the Cabinet of Madrid, unless it were ready to fight; and any Government with a sense of self-respect would fight rather than yield to such dic tation. As there is, happily, little rea son to fear that President Grant means to be taken at his word, we may look at his demand quite calmly. The pre cise terms of it, as our American correspondent said yesterday, have not been made public, but they may be gathered from the well known views of the President. It seems that it was presented so long ago as September by Mr. Caleb Cushing, the American Min ister in Madrid. It stated that the insurrection in Cuba was only one degree less im portant to the United States than to Spain. While American interests are injured no redress can be obtained, except by a circuitous appeal to Mad rid. The cause of the disturbance, and consequently of the mischief inflicted on American citizens, the President thinks, is the existence of slavery and the dominion of Spain. He had hoped that Spain would have put an end to the quarrel of her own accord, but, since she has merely fanned the flames, he tells her what she ought to do. She ought to set Cuba free and permit it to become an independent republic. It will become free in spite of all her efforts to keep it in subjection. A continu ance of present relations has this dan ger—that it may some day force the United States to interfere. The Presi dent does not positively say that they will interfere, but he plainly gives Spain to understand that they might at any moment be left no choice, and that he has made up his mind how to act when an emergency occurs. ONE OF THE MOST PEREMPTORY MESSAGES. If suclt was really the language of the note, it is one of the most peremptory messages ever sent to a State, even of the second or the third rank! It is none the-less offensive because much of it is true. Slavery has done indescribable mischief in Cuba, as it does everywhere else. It has brutalized the slave owners almost as much as the bond men themselves, and it gives a peculiar savagery to the wasting contest on the Island. Many partisans of Spain are fighting for slavery rather than for the rights of the Crown. The colony also costs Spain far more than it is worth. But for the drain of men and money to put down the revolt, Spain would have long ago concluded the Carlist war. Nor has sho much chance of permanently reducing Cuba to a state of peace. If she could drive Don Carlos across the Pyrenees, and if she could add a few more millions to her debt, it would be easy for her, no doubt, to send such an army as would put an end to the revolt for a time. But the United States are so near, and disaffection is so easily fanned by a people with a genius for fillibustering, that such a pacification would be a mere reprieve. The cooler minds in Spain can scarcely expect that she will long retain Cuba, and, perhaps, they would gladly aban don it if the pride of the people would permit them. PRIDE FORBIDS SPAIN TO SURRENDER. But, in truth, that pride forbids any statesman or party even to hint at a surrender of so great a remnant of Spain’s once vast colonial empire. The Spaniards are still the same proud race as they were in the time of Philip 11., and, so long as Cuba is still theirs, fhey feel they can put on imperial airs despite recurring pronunciamentos, chronic civil war and a bankrupt treasury. Republicans, Alfonsists and Carlists all compete with each other, therefore, in loudly refusing to give up the “Pearl of the Antilles.” But even if they were less eager to keep it, they would resent the summons of a foreign Power to set it free. If anything would unite the Carlists and Alfonsists, it would be the necessity of defend ing Cuba against aggression from with out. King Alfonso's Ministers could not afford even to dally with such a threat as that which is said to have came from President Grant. He and they would be ruined if they were to take it even into consideration. The case is one of those in wnich courage is not a virtue, but a necessity; and they would be forced to resist the summons even if it had came from Prince Bismarck instead of Presi dent Grant. As yet they do not seem to have answered the note; but they can scarcely fail to make as haughty a response as if Spain were still the greatest Power in the world. “the loftiest phrases.” They will gratify the pride of the na tion by the loftiest phrases in the vo cabulary of Christian pride, and they will deal them out all the more freely because they can scarely believe that the United States intend to strike. Meanwhile, it is said, orders were given on the 25th of last month to prepare five iron clads and ten frigates for the Cuban station. Reinforcements are al ready arriving at Havana. These prep arations have caused much restlessness at Washington, aud the government is said to be also preparing its navy for action. Bight sloops-of-war are under going repairs, ten iron clads are “ready for outfit,” and the Navy Department hopes that the fleet will be well strength ened by the end of the year. If the United States were seriously deter mined to set Cuba free, there could be but one end to a contest with Spain. The richer, more vigorous, more com pact nation would, of course, ulti mately wiu. Spain’s fleet formidable. But it Is almost equally certain that the United States would not win at first. Weak and embarrassed as Spain is, she Itas more available fighting power at present, for her fleet is ready and it is really formidable, while by turning the war against the Carlists into a merely de fensive contest King Alfonso could spare a large body of soldier's for service in Cuba. The United States, on the other hand, would have to equip both an army and an effective fleet, and before that could be done Spain might gain some cheap glories. Nor can King Alfonso’s ministers dismiss the reflection that if Spain must lose Cuba it would be better for her to lose it in a contest with a great power like the United I A.TJGRJSTA.. TLItTRSD-AY, NOVEMBER 19, 1875 States than In a series of skirmishes with half-armed insurgents. IS THE NOTE “SPREAD-EAGLEISM?” But we do not anticipate that the result will be so grave. Perhaps the contents of the President’s note are less fiery than they are represented to be by the American press. Perhaps he has used threatening language loosely. American diplomatists have been known to do so, and there is no reason to believe that President Grant has a mastery over the delicacies of political speech. If Mr. Caleb Cushing had any hand in the composition of the note, it might easily betray a little “spread eagleism” without doiiig violence to the rhetorical reputation he won by his reply .to Sir Alexander Cock burn’s judgment on the Alabama claims. But the more probable explanation is that President Grant is not unwilling to try whether the pros pects of the party or of a third term can be brightened by a “spirited foreign policy.” A largjt party in the United States would certainly like to annex Cuba, aud another large party would be glad to see it. formed into an independent republic. The insurrec tion hinders American trade so much that peace is loudly demanded by many of President Grant’s countrymen who care little what may become of the island. All those classes would be gratified if the President should give Spain peremptory notice to quit, aud if she should obey. THE GOOD SENSE OF AMERICA INVOKED. But the success of such an experi ment will depend partly on the degree of skill with which the note has been framed, and partly on the behaviour of Spain. If it has left a sufficient means of dignified escape, all may be well, for the Government of the United States will not have hound itself to do any thing, and yet it will helve hinted that some day it may do a gn*a t deal. Cheap hopes of one day governing Cuba may have a certain j electioneering value ; but the diversions may be dis astrous to President 13-rant’s party if the note has been sl> insulting as to draw forth a deflai’t reply. We cannot believe that the good sense of the American people >vould permit them to be provoked into a war for Cuba by any pitch of Spanish haught iness. The majority of them will re flect, when they coolly look at the dis organized state of Cuba, that they would only increase their present diffi culties by the annexation of so unruly an island. We refuse to believe, then, that the warlike preparations in the United States faithfully express the de liberate intention of the President or of the people. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Four burglaries in Mason on Tues day night. Macon’s door mat fiehd has been sent to the penitentiary, j A slight fire occurred,- on Tuesday night, iu the Muscogee Mills, at Co lumbus. In consequence of the sickness of one of the principal performers, the Mont gomery Operatic Troupe failed to ex hibit at Columbus. William Hall, of Atlanta, rented his farm at Round Mountain, near Rome, with the stock upon it, to a Mr. Wilson. The tenant levanted after disposing of the stock. Four negroes have %uen arrested in Stewart county charged with robbing three stores and burning (hem iu Lump kin last week. They enceavored to im plicate some white men but failed. The negroes are in jail. F. E. Burke, the Cashier of the First National Bank of Americas, exhibits a pear of the Bartlett variety, which measures six inches iu circumference. It was taken from a tree that is now very full and ripening, and of the second crop. I S. D. Hamburger, who for the past two years and a half has been book keeper for the house of H. Myers & Bros., of Savannah, has suddenly dis appeared, and an examination of his books revealed a number of clerical inaccuracies. Mark Hammons aud Isaac M. Brown low, who, with their families, went to Texas about six yeais ago, ha,ve re turned to Cumming, with the determi nation to make it their future home. Emmett Dodd has also returned to his old home in the same place. Thos. N. Lewis, a thriving young merchant, and Miss Louis), J. McLean, one of McDuffie’s most- lovely and accomplished daughters, iwere married on the night of the 11th, at the “Ham ilton Manor,” the home of the bride, which is situated only a pleasant ride from Thomson. The remains of midshipman E. K. Mallory, of the Confederate Navy, were exhumed recently from the cemetery at Columbus and taken to Portsmouth, Va., and placed in the family burial ground. He was buried in 1874. What was left of the body was put in a hand some coffin, and it has already left for their final destination. The father of the deceased, who lived in Portsmouth, died a short time since. A sailor named McDonald, from Nova Scotia, killed himself on Tuesday night by taking a dose of arsanic at Macon. There was upon his person a piece of card board, on which was written in pencil the following address: “G. D. Ernst, 318 Pearl street, New York.” There were also two ferrotypes in his pocket. One was a picture of himself, and the other a group of three—himself, an other man and a lady—all* apparently genteel looking people. Both the pic tures were taken by a New York artist. Macon Telegraph: “The wholesale robbery of cotton, hogs, chickens aud every other article of value in the coun try, by lazy and villainous negroes, de mands some more potpnt treatment than the tortuosities of the law can af ford. Farmers give thei'r laborers one half of all they make, aibl not content with that, they seem beat upon steal ng the other half. In Lfe, Dougherty, Baker, Terrell, Raudol|>h and other counties the evil has grown to bo ruin ous and insupportable. It is there actually a question of bread and ex istence, to the planters.” Atlanta Herald: Senator John B. Gordon received a long letter from Hon. A. H. Stephens an day before yesterday, iu which t|uit gentleman stated that he was tjo very much unwell that he had Mule hopes of getting to Washington next March. Mr. Stephens then requested Gen. Gordon to repair to residence in Crawfordville at once, tis he desired to consult him upon some matters of im portance. In response to this urgent call General Gordon left yesterday morning for Crawfordvifle,where he is at the present writing. We sincerely trust that Mr. Stephens will soon be able to resume his seat in Congress. His friends were somewhat, disturbed on yesterday as to his condit ion. SENATOR BAYARD. POLITICAL VIEWS AFTER A VISIT SOUTH. Discontent Subsiding’ with the Increas ing General Prosperity—Finance—A Policy for the Democratic Party. [Wilmington (Del.) Correspondence of the New York Tribune ] Senator Thomas F. Bayard has a beautiful country seat a few miles from this place, overlooking the Delaware river. I visited him there to-day, and had a long talk with him. Mr. Bayard is tall, lithe and active, young in years and younger still in looks, having brawn as well as brain. In conversation, he is sprightly, pass ing rapidly from one subject to another, and using terse expressions. In man ner he is not so reserved as most of our public men are, and he soon puts his visitors at ease. He has recently returned from the South, where he has met and conversed with many promi nent men, and the political interests and industries of that section were naturally uppermost in his mind, when our conversation began. He bad been received everywhere, he said, with extreme kindness. He had made speeches at Richmond, Raleigh and Macon. There was much less sec tional jealousy than there had been.— Southerneis were glad to welcome Northern men among them, and to let them know that the South had been misrepresented by those of the carpet bag stripe for political purposes. As an evidence of this, Mr. Bayard said that Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had been treated with marked respect.— This showed the absurdity of the bloody-shirt stories which were con stantly flaunted before the country by the administration people as evidence of the South’s disloyalty and the unfit ness of its people to govern themselves. At Macon, Ga., there were upon the platform besides himself aud other speakers, Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut, who represented the Centennial Exhibition’s interests, and General Colquitt, of Georgia. In the course of his remarks General Hawley said he had met General Colquitt upon South ern soil before, but it was under dif ferent circumstances from those which now surrounded them, and from that meeting he had the best cause to recollect General Colquitt. It was in an engagement at Olustee, Florida, where he left one thousand eight hun dred of his men, besides leaving rather precipitately himself. That night a meeting of ex-Confederate officers was held, to which General Hawley was invited. After the object of the meet ing (to build a home for Confederate orphans) had been stated, there were loud calls for General Hawley all over the house, but unfortunately he had gone to Atlanta. THE COLORED PEOPLE’S CONDITION. In speaking of tlie colored people of the South, Senator Bayard said he believed that the Democratic party could not and did not rely upon any portion of their vote. They were too solidly bound together by the secrets and oaths of their societies to vote any ticket but that which these societies put into their hands. Therefore the safety of the South depended entirely upon the white people’s maintaining their political organization, undisturbed by factions or merely personal am bitions. He would advise them'* to re lax no effort to maintain their organi zation until their equality in the Union under the Constitution had been thoroughly secured. Everywhere and from all classes he heard expressions of satisfaction that the institution of slavery was at an end. The superior economy of free labor was adftitted on all hands, and while the interference of the carpet-baggers and adventurers still, in some degree, prevented the kindly adjustment of the new relations between the races, yet mutual good feeling was rapidly and surely assert ing itself, and producing its natural results of peace, good order and secur ity. If left to themselves and undis turbed by the suggestions of the Republican politicians aud the officious interference of the government, the antagonisms of race would almost entirely disappear. The colored people finding their rights of person and property and political privi leges uninterfered with, and, indeed, protected, by the local government, no longer would assert them violently and with threats of appealing to Federal power. The Civil Rights bill had proved to be a dead letter iu the South, and no one seemed conscious of its existence. The colored people every where in the South recognized their social inferiority to the whites, and sel dom endeavored to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the vari ous clauses of this bill for claiming higher social privileges. He had been told by a steamboat captain on the Savannah river that once or twice colored people had endeavored to get passage with the whites, and he obeyed the law in each instance, but it was proved in every one of these instances that the colored men had been made the catspaw of some carpet-bag politi cian, or of some business rival. The people of the South are making rapid progress in recuperating their shat tered industries. INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY. “ Everywhere iu Virginia, North Car olina and Georgia, and where the peo ple of the South have been suffered to regain control of their local affairs, the greatest improvement in the appear ance of the country and industrial pro gress is manifest. All the way from Washington to Richmond the restora tion of the face of the country by good tillage, fencing and improved farm buildings, is delightfully apparent. In Georgia the advance in prosperity is remarkable, and with such advance ment the people feel proportionate en couragement to perform all the duties of good citizenship. Such facts should speak eloquently and forcibly against the policy of force and proscription re commended by President Grant and the Republican party, aud which came so near being adopted by the last Con gress. In agriculture the people of the South are doing well. They are rapidly appreciating the value aud nar cessity of diversified industries, and of varying their crops so that the acreage of cotton will be curtailed in favor of the various grains, and cattle-grazing receives its due proportion of atten tion. CURRENCY AND THIRD TERM. “Upon the subject of the currency and finance in general there is very little fixed opinion among the masses of the Southern people, and sound information is assuredly needed. Being totally without banking facilities or circulating medium of any kind at the close of the war, utterly impoverished and wituout capital, especially bonds of the United States Government, national banks of issue could not be organized, and local banks of issue on the basis of any other kind of capital were made impossible by the United States statute taxing them out of exist ence. Hence there was a great cur rency hunger, which in some localities still exists, and which it has been sought to satisfy by the issue of due-bills and tokens by railroad and car raauu’acturing companies, city railifcad companies, and the like. Such due-bills aud tokens are used freely as a circulating medium all over the State of Georgia. I rely upon the good sense of the Southern people to perceive that it is to their interest to bring the currency, as soon as possible, to a specie basis, and to maintain their good faith to perform their duties as citizens of the United States in upholding the honor and creditof the Government. Everything, therefore, that tends to encourage good feeling between the sections, and assists the people of the South to re gain their prosperity and interest in the well-being of the country, secures aud consolidates the sentiment against theories of inflation and repudiation. “General Grant is certainly seeking to be renominated for the third term, and those who depend upon him at all in politics are afraid to declare against him, notwithstanding any unpopularity he may have with his party. It is a plain fact that no man who desires or expects Gen. Grant’s favor has ven tured to make a public declaration against his nomination for a third term. It is my belief that Gen. Grant is as much determined upon the third term as he was upon tho first, and even more so. We all know the dogged de termination of the man, and he will insist upon a third term even at the cost of the dangerous and unworthy resort to sectarian aud religious strife as an issue in the canvass, as suggested in his Des Moines speech. His course in Louisiana aud his propositions to tho Government of Arkansas all show how daring and utterly unscrupulous are his methods of accomplishing his political ends. His summary decapita tion of Pease, aud his other appointees in Mississippi, because of their refusal to sustain Governor Ames in his war upon the liberties of that people, is a fine illustration of his regard for civil service reform, and shows what we may expect in tho future iu the event of his re-election.” THE BEST POLICY FOR .DEMOCRATS. In regard to the National Democratic Convention in 187 G, Mr. Bayard said : •‘Discussions in regard to its action would be at this time, of course, prema ture. The duty of the Democratic party in the mean time is to maintain its organization by insisting upon an adherence to its time-honored and con stitutional principles. Its great object should be to obtain the confidence of the country, and the only way to do this is to prove that they deserve the confidence of the country. There should be no avoidance of any important issue, and the personal ambition of candidates should be totally disregarded, and the interests and welfare of good govern ment should alone be kept iu view. The Democratic party should not only seem to be, but be in fact, the trustworthy guardian of the nation’s honor and credit and of the just interests of every citizen.— The country is sick of the low tone which has characterized President Grant’s administration in almost every department, and the better classes of his own party are as sick of it as any of us; but, unless they feel sure that a change of administration is to produce real reform and not expose the country to new dangers, they will probably take no action against his re-election. I think that General Grant’s re-election, in the face of his utter unfitness for the place he occupies, aud his marvelous incapacity to appreciate the high na ture of trust of power and its respon sility, would cause me to despair of the capacity of our people for self-govern ment, and, indeed, of the continuance of civil and religious liberty in this country.” Mr. Bayard spoke in very compli mentary terms of Gov. Tilden. He said Gov. Tilden had done a great deal for New York State. Such work entitled Gov. Tilden to all praise and to high reward from the Democratic party. All this time Mr. Bayard had not spoken of himself; but when he was asked how ho regarded the proposition to place his name at the head of the Democratic ticket next year, he said : “lam no bidder for office. lam stay ing at home, leading an honest life and trying to be right.” “ You would ‘ rather be right than bo President,’ ” said I. “ That is just the situation,” said Mr. Bayard. — Wlro Is Responsible for Fraud ? The Journal of Commerce charges the Government with responsibility for the whiskey frauds committed on the rev enue, because a Federal storekeeper weighs every pound of grain used iu distilling ; a Federal gauger measures every gallon of spirits made. If these men do their duty, fraud is rendered well nigh impossible. While they con nive at violations of the law, all the stamps, registers and various other cheeks which human ingenuity may de vise, are powerless to prevent decep tion. Every new precaution on the part of the Government only stimu lates the inventive faculty to over reach it. The “vigorous prosecution” of the bondsmen of more than forty store keepers and gaugers caught in the swindle, will make men cautious about giving security for officials whom they do not strongly think to be honest; but no person meditating the commis sion of a fraud will hesitate long out of regard for the pockets of his bonds man. A “vigorous prosecution” of the detected storekeepers and gaugers will be most to the point; but the Govern ment has not done more, save in a few instances, than turn its unfaithful ser vants out of office, Every one of these men should be punished to the full ex tent of the law. The Commissioner need not flatter himself that the forty thieves he has caught are all of that class out of the two thousand three hundred who have an equally good chance to rob. His Advice.—A farmer living just out of Vicksburg was reading in an agricultural paper, the other day. an article headed—“Be Kind to Your Cow.” He went out to milk with a heart full of kindnets, and, as he sat down, he whispered: “So, boss— stand round—good creature—hoist a little, there, you intelligent, kind hearted old bossy.” About two min utes after that, his wife heard him yelling and whooping, andassheian to the door, he called out: “ Bring me the axe, Maria, and the spade, and that big club, there, and the butcher knife, and that shot" gun, for I’ll be darned if this old hellion shall ever live to kick me in the jaw again!”— Jlcksburg Herald. New Series —Vol. 28, No. 89 LETTER FROM CHARLESTON. A Specimen Radical Solicitor —The New City Council—A New Paper to be Started—Amusements. [From our Regular Correspondent.] Charleston, S. C., Nov. 17th, 1875. Doubtless your readers are all aware of the fact that the most important circuit iu our State is represented by a solicitor whose acquirements in law are about equal to his claims to respect ability. With the influx of the Bowen popular tide, there floated upon its surface one C. W. Buttz, a waif from the North or East. About three years ago, Mr. Buttz was elected to the office of Solicitor of this circuit, and in his official capacity as the representative of the State, in criminal prosecutions, he has totally failed to induce that confidence in the people which is always bestowed upon a meritorious officer. In a recent Important murder trial, the title of which, for obvious reasons, I conceal, the Solicitor remarked devel oped the fact that the deceased was separated from his family, and thereby fixed upon his memory the stigma of harshness. Why did the Solicitor make this declaration, and why was the case conducted in such a lukewarm and insipid manuer, are questions that are constantly asked. The answer is not difficult to give. A prominent politician defended the prisoner, and to your correspondent’s mind those few words contain a solution of the questions. Our new City Council has been duly inaugurated and gone into office. All the city officials have been chosen, and of course the disappointed candidates are loud-mouthed iu their denuncia tions of a policy which has confined them to the retirement of private life, while the chosen ones are united in their praise of the discernment and sound judgment evinced by the new Council in their distribution of the loaves and fishes. In my last letter I mentioned that strenuous exertions were being made to establish another daily paper. Since then, the project has taken some defi nite shape, for I perceive that notice is given of an application to charter the Charleston Publishing Company, under whose auspices, I understand, the newspaper is to be issued. The “Troubadours” have been play ing here lately to full and apprecia tive audiences. Their mirth-producing power is as remarkable as their natu ralness in their different castes of character. Emanuel. South Carolina General News. Rev. Allan McCorquodale, of Bishop ville died on Sunday last. His widow is very sick. The grand jury of Georgetown re turned ten indictments against one board and eight against another of the County Commissioners of that county. Col. Aiken, President of the Agricul tural Society, answers tho complaints of the New Era, in which that paper attempts to throw mud at the manage ment of the Fair. At a recent meeting or the citizens of Bordeaux Township, various names were put in nomination as candidates to be recommended to the Governor for the vacant post of Trial Justice, and Mr. Lewis Harmon was elected. Abbeville Medium : “ Abbeville coun- ' ty ‘ruled the roast’ at the State Fair last week, and, in addition to the capi tal prize of three hundred dollars as a county, bore off more individual pre miums than any two counties in the State. This shows what a litflo enter prise will accomplish.” A Mercantile Protective Association has been formed by the merchants of Donnaldsville, Due West and Honea Path, with the following officers: T. A. Hudgens, Honea Path, President; J. M. Cochran, Due West, Vice Presi dent ; J. McMosely, Hodges, Secretary; James Agnew, Donnaldsville, Treas urer. On the 20th ult., the barn house of J. M. Dennis, Esq., of Bishopville, was discovered to be on fire, and in a short time, with all of its contents, amount ingin value to something like five hun dred dollars, was utterly destroyed. His dwelling house and other outbuildings would have been burned also, but for the extraordinary exertions of the neighbors to save them. News and Courier, 18 th: “To-day being the last of the General Sessions term, the persons convicted during the session will be sentenced by Judge Head. The term has been a remarka bly heavy one, some eighty odd cases having been disposed of, embracing almost every crime in the calendar; but there has been no convictions of the higher order of offenses.” FROM PHILADELPHIA. Tlie British to Get Some Good Meat and the Best of Oysters. Philadelphia, November 18.—The steamer Illinois took a quantity of dressed beeves, sheep, poultry and oysters, which it is proposed to deliver fresh in Liverpool by means of the re frigerating apparatus. - Turf News. Charlotte, November 18.—Mile dash —Springlet, 1; O’Neil, 2 ; time, 1:49%. Mile heats—Egypt, 1; Harkaway, 2 ; time, 1:48%, 1:48%. Two miles—Mary Long and Vanderbilt, dead heat; time, 3:55%. Desired an Exhibition. [From the Virginia (Nov.) Enterprise] A Chinaman at Truckee, being detect ed the other day in an attempt to steal a piece of rubber hose, was kicked around the entire block by the irate owner, and after he had thoroughly ex haused himself and worn out the seat of the Celestial’s pantaloons, John calmly propounded the following question: “Wha for! You no likee lendum?” A Young Start in Life. [Boston Globe.] Robert Collyer, in his lecture last night, told this story: He was at a children’s party one Christmas Eve, and on seeing a little boy sitting in one corner who was not dancing, he ap proached him, and asked him why he did not join the others and dance. “I’m not danthing,” said the boy solemnly, “because I don’t think danthing ith the great end of life.” A Mystery Indeed. [Liberal Christian.] Mamma thought it right to refuse the child something upon which his heart wa3 desperately set. Finding that there was no hope for him, the youngster burst into tears, and ex claimed: “Why, then, what did they bora me for?” To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will b sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in. unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi . office, 20 cents perline each insertion. Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. YON BULOW. HIS OPINION OF WAGNER AND LISZT. Tbe Music of the Present and the Fu * ture. I New York World.l In answer to a question as to whether the Wagner school is making much headway in Germany, Dr. Von Bulow said that Wagner has many imitators, but none worthy of being classed with him. His imitators, so far, have shown no special talent, at least in the line of composition for the stage, and have, therefore, had very little success. But the influence of Wagner is making itself widely felt in the performance of classical works. The Doctor then be gan to tell of Wagner’s great genius and eloquence, and related how, some years ago, he was present with him and Liszt at Zurich, when the conversation turned upon the movements and nuances and Interpretations of Beetho ven’s iast sonatas, and especially of the last sonata in C minor, Opus S, played here by Rubenstein, “ and, therefore,” added the Doctor, “ the only one I shall not play here.” Liszt and Wagner differed in their interpre tations of this work, and Wagner got so excited that he jumped up and made a most eloquent and vigorous speech in support of his views. He spoke so well that he convinced Liszt, who gave in on the spot and acknowledged him self in error. The ioctor explained the difference betweea the old and njw schools of music by quoting an anecdote of a Minister of State under Louis Philippe, who had just gone into office and was asked iin what respect his administra tion would differ from the preceding one. “Mon cher,” he replied, “nous ferons exactemeut la memo musique, seutement nous tacherons de la faire mieux.” “And this,” said Herr Von Bulow, “is the case with us. In Wag ner’s heart the richest melody in exist ence is in Beethoven. When Wagner conduc ts an orchestra he does not cor rect the indications of Beethoven, he only completes them.” Wagner is of opinion that Beethoven’s music has still to be made popular and intelli gible by the real interpretation, but in interpreting it is necessary to read between the lines and discover the complicated polyphony and make it clear to the ear of the listener. Dr. Von Billow then explained that poly phony (the giving of three or four meiodi ?s at once) is the special feature of the new classical school, and that one of the difficulties it has to encoun ter is the training of tbe human ear to the perception of two or three melo dies at, the same time. This is now more easy than it was in Beethoven’s time, for then the instruments were not as perfect as now, and iu rendering Beethoven’s musio in our time we can give notes that the instruments in his time did not have. Dr. 'Von Bulow spoke admiringly of Beethoven and called him “the Colum bus of she new school in music.” Wag ner, he thought, was to some extent a follower of Gluck in dramatic truth and in perfect accordance of sentiment and tune. Gluck, however, he said, was a poor musician, of whom Handel had spitefu ly remarked, “My cook under stands more of counterpoint than Gluck.” Herr Von Bulow next spoke of Liszt: “ I cannot give to Liszt,” he said, “ the same place I give to Wagner as a composer for orchestra. His principal merits are in composing for the piano, and in this lino lie has had pupils like Raff, who Is well known in this country. Liszt’s instrumentation is splendid. He is more harmonious than Berlioz, and less extravagant. In the Dante sym phony, it is true there is a great noise, but this is no reproach ; besides, it is a solitary exception. But Liszt cannot attain the same plane as other great masters, because his music is based on homophony, and not on polyphony, which is the special character of the German music. Besides, Liszt’s life la against his being a great composer; .he is too much in the world. Great Composers cannot be society men, or men of the world. Look at Bach ; he was like a hermit, and Beethoven’s deafness, which was a great curse, was still, in some respects, a blessing. Hearing too many voices outside you, you cannot heed the voice of God within you.” The Italian school, Dr. Von Bulow thinks, is iu decadence. It has been corrupted by Paris, as the French school, was corrupted by contact with others. “ Internationalite," said he, meaning the mingling together of dif ferent styles, “is the corruption of all art —ax least in music. Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ is real Italian opera, but Donizetti was less happy in ‘La Figlia del Reggimento’ when he became vul gar and a precursor of Offenbach.” Continuing,the Doctor said he should greet an Italian composer who had studied the good Italian schools, but he saw no promise of such a one. The Italians are making a feeble effort to imitate Wagner, but in fact they mock him because they do not understand him. They avail themselves of the effects of German music, but they do not know how to use them. When they performed “Lohengrin” and “Tann hauser ” they failed. “ Onee Italy wa& the cradle of art,” continued the doc tor, “ and therefore, as an Italian jour nal recently said, it is no wonder all their musicians are asleep.” Of the new opera, “ Die Folkungen,” recently brought out la Leipsic and criticised in a late number of the World, the doc tor said it was a weak imitation of Wagner, and probably reached the dignity of “ respectable rubbish.”— Apropos of this, he quoted the follow ing, written by himself in a friend’s album in England: In art hate respectability, And respect ability. Supreme Court of Georgia, i Atlanta, Nov. 17,1875. j AUGUSTA CIRCUIT. No. 1. Argument concluded. No. 7. Wm. H. Gallaghan, adminis trator, vs. Timothy R. Vaughan, ad ministrator. Year’s support, from Richmond. Joseph Ganahl, for plaintiff in error. Frank H. Miller, contra. Pending the argument of Mr. Miller, the court adjourned until ten o’clock a. m., to-morrow. — [Constitution. The wife of old Jones, on Carondelet street, has been cultivating her mind. Jones says he wishes she wouldn’t. For instance, she read that article in the Scientific Monthly proving that cali coes and cheap goods of that descrip tion are poisonous, and she worries him to death by and eclaring that if he wishes her to live c 0 raise children he must prevent ’ u er untimely demise by dressing v tl6r in silk.—[New; Orleans TimtZy - * 1