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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
PRESS THUNDER ON DON CARLOS.
The Spanish Pretender Severely Criti
cised —The Prince of Wales to be Or
dered Home in the Midst of Jollifica
tion—The Turks and Insurgents
Preparing for another Struggle-
Submission of Gorman Priests.
London, November 19.—The Daily
News says : “ Don Carlos owes his re
spite from punishment to the Cuban
war. He makes a supposed difficulty
between Spain and the United States
the occasion of exciting the pride of
his countrymen.” The Telegraph says :
“It is impossible to imagine a more
fraudulent and futile proposal. It is
at once an affront and an act of folly.”
The Pall Mall Gazette says : “It is full
of bombast and reads like a hoax. It
seems to indicate the Pretender’s de
sire to find an excuse to retire from the
conflict.”
The Crown Prince of Denmark Is
seriously ill.
It is reported that the Cabinet sent
a telegram on Sunday advising the
Prince of Wales to ifeturn.
Bombay, November 19. —The Prince
of Wales arrived at Broada, and was
magnificently received by the new
Guikwar.
London, November 19.—A special to
the Times says that the Turks are
massing their forces for another at
tempt to victual Goransko. The Turks
have already fifteen thousand men.
The insurgents have been reinforced by
six thousand men.
A special to the Post from Berlin says
one hundred priests and ten canons of
Rhineland have given notice of their
submission to the Eclesiastical law.
Herzegovina Out of the Moslem’s
Power.
London, November 19.—The Times
says editorially that Herzegovina is
fairly out of the Sultan’s grasp. As if
destiDy had settled it by conference of
the Powers, peace can only be brought
about by extinction of the Turkish au
thority/ But if the disturbed provin
ces were once in the safe keeping of
Austria, the Powers might take a leis
urely survey of tho situation and pro
vide for the future.
London, November 19. —A special to
the Pall Mall Gazette from Berlin says :
Negotiations are progressing with the
Great Powers relative to the Turkish
difficulty, based on an understanding of
the preservation of the status quo in re
gard to Turkey. The Porte has notified
the foreign powers of an impending issue
of a circular detailing reforms it pro
poses, and stating guarantees offered
for the execution.
Berlin, November 19.—A list of Ger
man exhibitors at the Centennial Exhi
bition at Philadelphia, numbers eleven
thousand and four huqdred. The
Presidents of the provinces, at the sug
gestion of tho Empress, are collecting
all articles connected with treatment
of the wounded at the time of the war.
They will be exhibited together. One
of the objects of Interest will be a com
plete train fitted out expressly to trans
port sick and wounded.
Italian Railroads—The English Turf.
Rome, November 19.—Terms of pur
chase by the Government of the upper
system of railroads have been ar
ranged. The question will be submit
ted to Parliament. Thirty-two mil
lions sterling are involved.
London, November 19.—TheShrews
berry eup was won by Prodigal, Flying
Scotchman second, and Libby Agnes
third.
FRANCE.
The Monument to Liberty—Grand
Fete in Honor of America-Large
Subscriptions to the Fund.
Paris, November 19.—A grand and
very successful fete was given to-day
at the Palais d’lndustrie, by the Franco-
American Union,the object being to give
greater publicity and extend subscrip
tions for a scheme for a monument to
Liberty in New York harbor, A com
mittee of the Union, accompanied by
several distinguished personages, trav
ersed the building, inspecting objects
of the maritime and fluvial exhibition.
A brilliant concert followed, in which
the band of Garde Republicane partici
pated. Another concert of vocal as
well as instrumental music was given.
The Star Spangled Banner was sung
amid great cheering. The fete termi
nated this evening with an illumination
of the Palais (Vlndustrie. A represent
ation of the proposed monument form
ed a leading feature of the illumina
tion. Minister Washburne, Consul-
General Torbert, Mr. Eaton, ex-
Minister Sickles, the Marquis of
Rochambeau, M. Alexis de Tocqueville
Oscar de Lafayette, and several depu
ties in the Assembly, representatives of
the Press, and altogether about six
thousand spectators were present. The
subscriptions are progressing very fa
vorably. The Grand Lodge of Free
Masons in Palis and most of the lodges
in France have subscribed large funds.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Fertilizer Men Want “Demnition
Cash”—S. T. "Wallis to Contest the
Election.
Baltimore, November 19.—A meet
ing of manufacturers of fertilizers
adopted a resolution that fertilizers
should be sold for cash or satisfactori
ly endorsed paper, and that barter for
cotton and other products should be
abandoned. A committee was appoint
ed on permanent organization to report
to the meeting at the first Thursday
of May in Baltimore.
S. Teakle Wallis has given notice of
contest for the office of Attorney Gen
eral. Mr. Wallis will contend that the
election in the city of Baltimore is
invalid on account of frauds.
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Minor Telegrams.
New York, November 19. — The Di
rectors of the Panama Railroad Com
pany have resolved to proceed at once
with their new lines of steamers.
Port Jervis, N. J., November 19.
The residents of Pike county, Penn
sylvania, have organized a colony of
natives of Alsace and Lorraine in that
county.
Omaha, November 19.—The operator
at Evanston, Wy., reports snow three
a half feet deep and it was still snow
ing. There is a great deal of dipthe
ria in the city, and old and young are
alike afflicted.
Little Rock, November 19.—The
Senate to-day passed the House bill
appropriating $16,000 for the Centen
nial. The bill now goes to the Gover
nor. The bill passed both Houses
changing the time of the meeting of
the General Assembly to the second
Monday in January every two years.
A Sunday lecture course has been
undertaken in Milwaukee, but isn’t ex
pected to pay much dividends.
SBlje Augusta Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
THE GREAT REVIVAL.
Moody and Sankey Evangelizing
Brooklyn—l m mouse Meetings—
Thousands Being Converted —Many
Preachers Assisting—Henry Ward
Beecher Not Present.
New York, November 19.—Moody
and Saukey are holding their final
meetings in Brooklyn. To-night, the
Rink is crowded to suffocation. An
overflowing meeting is going on in the
Simpson Church, in charge of Mr.
Needham, the Evangelist. Vast num
bers are in the street unable to get into
either building. This morning at eight
o’clock, when Mr. Moody led in the
prayer meeting, thirty-five hundred
persons were present. This has been
the average attendance during the last
three weeks. After this service, the
pastors of Brooklyn met and voted to
continue the daily union meeting. In
the second Presbyterian Church, a
large women’s meeting was then
held under the direction of Mrs,
Needham. Mr. Moody began an in
quiry meeting in the Simpson Church
at ten o’clock this forenoon and
continued it until four o’clock. He then
went to the tabernacle to give his usual
Bible readings. The multitude gath
ered was so great that the gates of the
building had to be locked half an hour
before Mr. Moody came. An overflow
ing meeting was held in an adjoining
church by Mr. Needham. Thou
sands left jvho were unable to
get into either building. Mr.
Moedy spoke forcibly on Faith and
closed with a most touching prayer,
which melted the crowded and almost
breathless assembly to tears. Mr. Wm.
E. Dodge aud many from abroad were
present. The chief power of the Brook
lyn revival has been felt among the
young men; hundreds have been hope
fully converted. The young men’s
meetings are to be continued every
eveniug under tho leadership of Mr.
Hall of Washington, D. C. In
return for the blessings of God
upon this feature of the work,
Mr. Moody proposed yesterday a
thank offering, to be contributed to
sustain the Brooklyn Young Men’s
Christian Association. About 810,000
have been paid in or pledged already.
The funds necessary to pay for all the
public services, printing, etc., have
all been raised. The committee on
arrangements, Messrs. McWilliams,
Marvin, Wickes, Pratt, French, Trask,
and A. S. Barnes have issued over
8125.000 worth of tickets of admission
to the rink and to the young men’s
meeting at the Tabernacle within the
last ten days. It is estimated that
over three hundred thousand persons
have attended upon the meetings of
Moody and Sankey during their visit to
Brooklyn. The number of converts, it
is of course very difficult to determine.
It is very large, and it will now be left to
the pastors of the different churches to
look after these converts, and also to
carry forward the revival work so
auspiciously commenced. The Taber
nacle Church, Dr. Talmage, Dr. Seud
der’s church, Dr. Cuyler’s, Mr. Steele’s,
Mr. Lyman’s, and several other
churches, report a deep religious in
terest. Some very remarkable conver
sions have taken place. There has
been a perfect, unity of action among
the pastors of the different denomina
tions. Mr. Moody will not close his in
quiry meeting till midnight. To-morrow
morning, he aud Mr. Sankey leave for
Philadelphia, where they commence
their labors on Sunday morning. They
have won their way into the hearts of
all classes in Brooklyn. Mr. Needham
will preach in the Riuk on Sunday
afternoon, and it will then be closed.
In the estimation of the Brooklyn
committee, whose Chairman, Dr. W.
McWilliams, furnishes these facts, the
labors of the two Evangelists have
been attended with most gratifying
success.
New York, November 19.—The Board
of Trade have appointed the following
delegates to the National Convention,
to be held in St. Louis on the 23d inst.,
to consider the construction of a Pa
cific Railroad through the States and
Territories of the Southwest: Peter
Cooper, Geo. W. Opdyke, Wallace P.
Groom, John J. Anderson, Watson
Saudford, and Chas. E. Huntington.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Poison —Crooked Whiskey and Confla
gration.
Philadelphia, November 19. —Two
apprentices attempted to poison their
master, a colored shoemaker. They
were tired of him.
St. Louis, November 19.—The evi
dence has developed nothing new.
Several letters from McDonald to Com
missioner Douglass wero read declar
ing there were no frauds in St. Louis.
They provoked mirth iu the court
room.
St. Louis, November 19.—The evi
dence to-day is merely cumulative. No
novel facts were developed. McGreere
publishes a card, whitewashing the
politicians, except Avery. For the de
fense, General Sherman, Major Rain
water, of the Police Commissioners,
Congressman W. H. Stone, W. W.
Sandford, a merchant, John A. Scud
der, President of the Memphis and St.
Louis Packet Company, Captain Isaac
Jones, Daniel Abd, and others, testi
fied to McDonald’s good character in
this community. .
New York, November 19.—The
steamer D. R. Morton, plying between
New York and Staten Island, burned
to the water’s edge yesterday after
nooa when two miles from Staten
Island. She was run ashore, and the
passengers, numbering between thirty
and fifty, were rescued by small boats
without Injury.
Dubuqe, November 19.—The lowa
Lumber Company’s mill, three miles
from this city, was burned last night,
with fully two million feet of lumber.
Loss on the mill, $25,000; on the lum
ber, $40,000. The file is still burning.
A Cheeky Murderer Hanged —Suicide
—Burning of Elevators.
Rochester, N. Y., November 19.
John Clark, was hanged. He ascended
the scaffold smoking a cigar.
St. Louis, November 19.—W. R.
Davis, ex-Mayor of Carrollton, 111.,
blew his brains out at the funeral of
Paul Wright, who shot himself here a
few days ago.
Buffalo, November 19.—The Hazard
Elevator and Excelsor Transfer Eleva
tor were burned.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Uncle Sam’s Navy Preparing for
Emergencies.
Philadelphia, November 19.—Orders
have been received at the Navy De
partment at York to hurry the comple
tion of the equipments of the new
sloops of war lying in the Delaware
and put a number or monitors iu readi
ness for action.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Protectiug American Citizens—Reve
nue Changes—Government Income.
Washington, November 19.—Ameri
can citizens, on trial before Cuban
courts martial, have hereafter the
privilege of selecting counsel for their
defense.
The President has issued orders con
solidating revenue collection districts.
The following are Southern districts,
with the name retained: Collector,
Robert M. Proud, third and fifth Mary
land ; Isaac J. Young, third and fourth
North Carolina ; Thomas Powers, first
and second North Carolina ; L. Cass
Carpenter, first and third South Caro
lina ; James T. Bucker, fourth and fifth
Kentucky ; Robt. F. Patterson, seventh
and eighth Tennessee ; Samuel B. Cliff,
fifth and sixth Tennessee ; Henry M.
Cooper, first, second and third Ar
kansas.
Col. Young, who is now Collector of
the Third and Fourth Districts of North
Carolina, has been informed that there
is too much nepotism in his district.
The Commissioner, at the suggestion
of Young’s supervisor, demands certain
dismissals.
Internal Revenue receipts for July,
August, September and October, com
pared with last year, show two and a
half millions increase. This November
will probably show an increase of a
million and a half over last. Customs
for July, August, September and Octo
ber show three millions falling off.
The steamer Hartford replaces Wor
cester as Flag Ship of the North Atlan
tic squadron.
Washington, November 19.—A pri
vate letter was received to day, by a
Cabinet officer, from Minister Cushing,
direct from Madrid, in which he alluded
generally to European topics and other
matters, but made no allusion whatever
to any causes which would have a ten
dency to disturb the peace now exist
ing between Spain and the United
States. This letter was read to the
President.
It has been ascertained that private
telegraphic correspondence, which re
cently took place between President
Grant and General Sherman, was with
reference to matters on which the Pres
ident desired to be informed for use in
the preparation of his annual message.
The correspondence had nothing what
ever to do with the Cuban question, as
surmised in a recent special dispatch.
THE TURF
Races at Charlotte, N. C.
Charlotte, N. C., November 19.—One
and one-eighth mile dash—Springlet
first, Hartland second. Time, 23.
Half-mile heats—Mollie Darling first,
O’Neil second. Time, 57, 56%. Mile
dash—Abdelkoree first, Century sec
ond. Time, 1:54.
FROM MOBILE.
Rejoicing Over the Political Victory-
Chances for the Largest Cotton Crop
Since the War.
Mobile, November 19.—There is great
rejofring over the victory fvr the Con
stitution in Mobile. One hundred guns
were fired in its honor this afternoon.
Well informed cotton men say the
present cotton crop, if it can be gather
ed, will be the largest since the war.
BEN BUTLER.
False Report of His Handing In His
Spoons.
Boston, November 19.—1 t was ru
mored that Ben Butler is dead. A man
named Butler died at Salem to-day,
which probably gave rise to the report.
Thank You!
“ Richmond,” the spicy correspond
ent of the Warrenton Clipper, in a let
ter to that paper, speaks of us in the
following complimentary style;
I read with some degree of pleasure
a “ leader in the Constitutionalist of
last week under the above caption,
which I believe is calculated to do more
good in the way of inspiring confidence
between man aud man, than all the po
litical editorials that have ever been
written. At all events, it certainly has
& tendency to make us more hopeful
by presenting to our view tho bright
side of the picture, especially as we
have all been so long gazing on th.o
dark side. Tho Constitutionalist is
evidently on the right track and on the
road to prosperity, if we may judge
from appearances and the way its pro
prietors plank up the spondulix, be
sides the editors are workers, else the
earthquake would not have shook
them in their sanctum at the dead hour
of midnight, when all honest folks
were at ease in bed.”
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Atlanta, November 18, 1875.
AUGUSTA CIRCUIT.
No. G. Argument concluded.
No. 8. Mixon vs. Pollock. Complaint,
from Burke. Argued.
John J. Jones, for plaintiff in error.
John T. Shewmate, contra.
No. 4. National Bank of Augusta vs.
Southern Por. Manufacturing Com
pany. Assumpsit, from Richmond.
Argued.
Frank H. Miller, for plaintiff in error.
Barnes & Cumming, contra.
No. 7. Guilmartin & Cos., et al., vs.
Stephens, et al. Equity, from Rich
mond.
Henry W T . Hilliard, Hook & Webb,
John T. Shewmate, S. Warren Mays,
for plaintiffs in error.
Frank H. Miller, contra.
Pending the argument of Mr. Hook,
the court adjourned until ten o’clock
a. m. to-morrow.— Constitution.
Some men have no sense, or tact, or
discretion, or sensibility, or politeness,
or feeling, and such an one is the persi
flagist of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who
remarks savagely: “There is a girl in
Charlestown who has four legs. And
yet we dare say she expects tired men
to give her their seats in street cars
when she is going home, after a dime
shopping expedition.”
m
He didn’t look like a beggar, but he
had his plans all laid before he struck
Vicksburg, and he cleared a hundred
dollars here in two days. He didn’t go
around whining : “ Please, sir, for the
love of God,” as most or them do, but
he walked up to a man, called him
“ General ” to start with, and the shin
plasters came in faster than he could
take them. The only five men in town
who didn’t contribute, were men whom
he inadvertently addressed as “ Cap
tain.”— [ Vicksburg Herald.
Some people won’t let well enough
alone. Take, for instance, the Jersey
City man who, having been sentenced
to a fine of $5 and costs, applied for a
reconsideration of the case and got
three months in the penitentiary.
AUGUSTA. GLA.., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1875
GEIBOKD BUBIEfi IN PEACE.
TRIUMPH OF CIVIL AUTHORITY.
The Catholics Offer No Resistance—
They are Sullen but Quiet—The
Grave to be Cursed Next Sunday —
The Priests Expected to Secretly
Remove the Remains;,
[Special Dispatch to the New York Times.]
Montreal, November 16.
Shortly after twelve ;• o’clock to-day
the remains of Joseph Guibord were
interred in the Roman Catholic ceme
tery at Montreal. The burial ceremony
was allowed to proceed quietly, aud it
is now’ confidently hoped that the
famous Guibord trouble Is at an end
forever. The warning, of the riot of
September 2 was not thrown away on
the authorities here, ai;.d every possi
ble precaution was taken to insure the
carrying out of the mandate of the
highest tribunal of Greet Britain. The
civic and military authorities were on
the alert from early morning, and
every precaution w r as taken to insure,
in tho first place, the . peaceful opera
tion of the law, and in the second,
public traUquility. The decision not
to use the great stone sarcophagus
was made at the earnest solicitation of
the Mayor and because of the mechan
ical difficulties which presented them
selves. It was resolved instead to fill
the grave with Portland cement and
iron cuttings.
Yesterday afternoon the writ of man
damus, which had been obtained, was
filed in the Seminary <;>!! St. Suipice, by
M. Doutre, who argued the case beforo
the Privy Council. At the same time,
the accustomed burial fees were offer
ed to Mr. Ohoquette, the Secretary of
the Fabrique. He refused to receive
therm saying : “ I am not authorized
or allowed by the church to receive any
money for the burial of Joseph Gui
bord.” This, among other things, was
taken as an indication that an effort
would be made to prevent the burial,
and to enforce the law and to prevent
trouble, all the available military force
of the city was ordered under arms.
This was also the case with the city
police. This morning, shortly after
daybreak, the streets of the city were
filled with crowds of citizens and sol
diers, who were all hufrrying to the
Cbamps de Mars, the principal public
square of Montreal. A -thick fog hung
over the town, and the streets were wet
and sloppy from the snow and rain,
which continued to fail during the
whole of the day. At eight o’clock the
military on duty had all assembled
in the square. They ware fully armed,
and had been served with twenty
rounds of ammunition. After the
various battalions had iformed in line
and wero ready for matching orders,
the Chief of Police held consultation
with the Mayor, and in accordance with
the instructions of that official put
himself at the head of one hundred
picked policemen, armed with Snider
breech loading rifles..; This force
marched to the Protestant cemetery,
and surrounded the stone vault in
which the body had laid so long. The
Institut Canadian was Represented hy
M. Boisseau, and he, on; behalf of the
society, received the coffin containing
the remains. As soon > as that cere
mony had been performed the military
were ordered to march from the Champ
de Mars. Reaching the Protestant
burying-grounds they joined the police,
and the procession marched toward
the Catholic cemetery in the following
order: A troop of cavalry, followed by
a company of policemen; the hearse,
surrounded by policemen ; a number of
carriages containing officers of thelusti
tut Canadien and representatives of the
press; the Montreal field battery of
four guns and seventy-five men; the
Montreal garrison artillery, armed with
rifles; the Prince of Wales Rifles; a
company of sappers and miners; the
Hoehelega Light Infantry, and the Vic
toria Rifles, making a total of about
two thousand five hundred men. The
procession marched silently along the
road to Cote des Neiges, the men being
ankle deep in the snbw and slush,
•which was continually farming. Dense
crowds of rough and' sulleu-looking
men lined the roadway and followed
behind the troops, but ihey made no
effort to interrupt tho march, and
walked on as silently as the soldiers.—
For four miles around the mountain
the procession and tho crowd walked
on in tiiis way, the oppressive silence
being broken only by the steady splqsh
of the foot-falls on the slush.
At the entrance to the Catholic Ceme
tery an immense crowd of men and
women were found collected, but as the
hearse approached they fell back right
and left, and it was then discovered
that the massive iron gates of the ceme
tery had been removed by the authori
ties, thus preventing any effort which
might have been made to obstruct the
passage. The hearse entered, accom
panied by the police and carriages
only, the military remaining outside
the inclosure. Arriving at the grave it
was found guarded by a company of
policemen, and surrounded by an im
mense but silent crowd. The work of
excavation had been commenced early
in the day, the grave being dug directly
over the coffin of Mme. Guibord, and
everything was in readiness when the
hearse arrived. Quickly and quietly
the woru and worm-eaten coffin was
lifted from its carriage, and deposited
in the thick bed of Portland cement
which had been thrown into the
bottom of the grave. The police
who had escorted the dreary proces
sion from the city had formed a hollow
square, and, with rifles in their hands,
kept back the crowd. The bones of
Guibord were deposited without cere
mony. The burial was in every way a
civil one, the first of the kind that has
ever occurred in a Roman Catholic
cemetery in Canada. A3 soon as the
coffin had been laid in the cement.
Father Roussellet, Cure of the Parish,
in the garments of his office, went to
the foot of the grave, and, addressing
M. Boisseau, as the representative of
ths Institut Canadien, said, in French :
“ Have you identified this as the coffin
containing the remains of Joseph Gui
bord ?” The answer was, “ I have.”
“Has the grave been dug four
feet deep, according to the rules?”
asked the priest. “It has accord
ing to the regulation of the Fab
rique,” was the reply. “Then,” con
tinued the clergyman, “I suppose I
must permit the burial to proceed.”
He then turned away, and the work
men began to fill in the grave. Barrel
after barrel of cement prepared for tbe
purpose was poured upon the coffin.
Then iron clippings aud fillings were
thrown in to render the mass, solid and
to prevent drilling. More cement was
then poured in. Through it strips of
iron were interlaced, forming a net
work about the coffin. The whole mass
was covered by a layer of broken stones
and then by eight inches of cement.
Above this the earth formed a mound
some two feet high.
During the time which it took to do
I this work the orowd stood about silent
and almost motionless, but just as the
last shovelful of earth was being
thrown on the mound a wild-eyed
young man forced his way through the
line of police, and, going up to the
grave, he uncovered his head and in
French said, with great emotion : “He
was my master. I am a printer. He
-.aught me rny trade and I will make
;he sign of the cross for him—for
Joseph Guibord.” He then crossed
iimself and quietly left the inclosure,
le was not molested as he passed
trough the crowd. After this incident
Lad occurred and the mound had been
pseked down, the police were formed
in line aud marched away, the crowd
of curious spectators left the cemetery,
aid only a few friends and members of
tie Institut Canadien remained stand
ing near the place where Joseph Gui
bsrd was buried. Subsequently the
Mayor ordered a detachment of police
to guard the grave through the night.
During tho evening the military was
ordered off duty, and to-night the city
is quiet and thg people cairn and free
from excitement.
On Sunday next, according to the
present arrangement, Bishop Bourget
wil curse the grave which was made
with so much trouble and after so much
litigation. No one doubts, however,
tiat he will curse an empty sepulchre,
foi, notwithstanding all the precautions
wlich have, apparently, been taken to
prevent such an occurrence, it is gen
erally behoved here that the body will
b$ secretly removed by the priests.
Thero seems to be an understanding
tint the members of the Institut Caua
dim will not object to this. They have
succeeded in having the body publicly
buried in consecrated ground, and,
unless it is publicly molested or re
moved, they will take no further steps
in the matter.
THE PRUSSIANS IN AMERICA.
Wlat the Crown Prince is Going to
Do Here—A Queer Teutonic Cock
and Bull Story.
[Cincinnati Freie Presse.]
William will visit tho Phil
adilphia Exhibition next year, the
eahe informs us, and at the same time
it is announced that German war
veisels will accompany him. This looks
very suspicious. Bismarck has not
gene to Italy, but has retired to
Virzin, on the pretense of being sick,
bit all the world knows that he is
engaged in getting up a big coup d’etat.
It is pretty well known that he, for
some time since, has had an eye on
America, and that he will seize the
earliest opportunity to make a con
quest of this country. It has not
estaped the attention of this far-seeing
statesman that Rome is laboring to
ob;ain a permanent foothold in this
cojntry. Tills he seeks to prevent.
Moreover, Bismarck is on a sharp
lockout for America. He has, no
doubt, been informed per telegraph
of the contemplated plot of “Mr.
Haike” against his life. Therefore,
sone important events may be looked
for in tho coming year. It is evident
tint a Prussian invasion of this coun
try has been in contemplation for the
past few years. During the past two
years thousands of able-bodied young
nren, liable to military duty in Ger
many, have been swarming to these
shores, and it is evident that they are
seat here by the military authorities to
organize themselves here secretly and
be prepared to strike the moment the
signal is given. Why, German military
organizations, by the battalions, are
openly formed in this country before
oar own eyes. The exhibition next
yiar affords a welcome opportunity to
snuggle thousands of German soldiers
and officers into this country in the
guise of workmen and persons em
ployed for the exhibition. They wili
quietly await the arrival of the Crowu
Irince aud the German fleet.
It is quito significant that Krupp will
aonrl some of his heaviest aud most
dangerous guns to tho Exhibition, and
most of the German space in the Exhi
bition building has been reserved for
Lie reception of arms and munitions of
var.
When everything shall be In readi
ness the Crown Prince will make his
appearance with his fleet and at once
proceed to Philadelphia to communi
cate with the Commanding General.,
who, probably, is already in this coun
try in the guise of an agent for the
Exhibition. He will then start for
Washington, and during a visit to the
White House will suddenly distribute
his numerous suite among the different
departments, aud before the people
have time to realize the situation, the
President and Cabinet will bo taken
prisoners. Military detachments will
at once be forwarded to occupy Balti
more, Boston, Cincinnati and other
cities, to prevent any uprising in its in
cipiency.
The leaders of the Radical element
will be secured, and while the German
battalions keep in check all revolution
ary attempts, the whole country will
become Germanized in a brief period.
The American civil service will be ef
fectually reformed by filling the public
offices with non-commissioned Prus
sian officers. The English language
will be abolished aud the Low German
will take its place as the official lan
guage of the country.
With the application of the rigorous
discipline of the Prussian army, Bis
marck, in a brief period of six months,
will be master of the new world as well
as of the old. Of course, the enforce
ment of this rigorous discipline will re
quire the summary punishment of all
rebels, who will each be promptly exe
cuted in accordance with the judg
ments of the courts of martial law.
High Price of Coffee the Result
of a Corner. —According to the Ameri
can Grocer, which ought to bo pretty
good authority, the high price of coffee
is the result of a “corner.” That paper
says, however, that the attempt of the
speculators to maintain the price at a
point altogether unwarranted by the
natural law of supply and demand may
fitly be classed among the speculative
manias of the past—the Darien scheme
and the South Sea bubble—while for
absurdity, to use no more severe a
term, it may be ranked with the great
tulip mania itself. The termination of
these notable precedents of human
folly is matter of history, and the end
of the coffee mania, which is near at
hand, will show that the moral which
they pointed has not been so profitably
studied as it might have been.
Atlanta Herald: The resignation of
Hon. John W. Wofford, the Senator
from the Forty-second District, will
surprise his many friends. We have
no idea as to what it means, and hence
cannot comment at length. The State
is loser by Wofford’s resignation, and
we are disposed to lament until further
notice. It is so unusual—so impossi
ble a thing for a modern politician to
resign his office, that we cannot under
stand the present movement.
STRUCK DUMB.
EXTRAORDINARY SILENCE OF
THE ST. LOUIS PRESS.
Some Pertinent Questions to News
paper Men—A Moral Earthquake all
Around Them and no Record of It—
‘•Oh, Why Art Thou Silent, Thou
Voice of My Soul!”
[Chicago Tribune.]
What ails the St. Louis papers ? For
weeks past the Government has been
investigating and prosecuting frauds on
the revenue in that city. Avery gener
ous proportion of the population of
that city has been indicted, and a large
number more are under surveillance
for “ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain” in dealing with “crooked
whiskey.” Some prominent people
have already gone to the penitentiary,
and others must shortly follow. The
courts ai’e running night and day to
accommodate fhe Government. No
man trusts his neighbor any longer.
No one knows where the bolt wlli next
fall. Every whiskey shop is agitated.
Every distillery trembles. Lawyers,
editors, merchants, Government of
ficials, private and public people of all
sorts, kinds and colors, even dead men,
have been scooped into the net, and
the work is still going on. Every
newspaper in the country, out
side of St. Louis, is filled with the
details of the regnant sensation
of the day. State governments and
the National Administration itself
stand by in mute surprise, wondering
what will come next. And yet the
newspapers of St. Louis do not seem
to be aware that anything is going on
in that city beyond the daily inspection
of the Big Fifteen-Million-Dollar
Bridge and the daily grists of the Po
lice Court. Search their columns
through and you find no mention of
crooked whiskey,of arrests, investiga
tions. indictments, prosecutions, and
penalties ; no obituary notices of those
who have been caught in the vise ; no
lamentations for those who are evi
dently doomed ; no sorrow over the
misdeeds of the past; no bright hopes
for the future ; not even an allusion to
the matchless oratory of -the much
mulcted Joyce. All his pre-Peniten
tiary rhetoric was wasted upon the
people of St. Louis, and he went to
“ the prison walls that hemmed in
Galileo, Columbus, Tasso, and Na
poleon,” unheralded by the St. Louis
papers. They know not even that
“ the rain falls lightly on the
mountain, the sun shines warm
ly on the plains, and the flood even
now is settling into its former bed,
where the crystal waters shall again re
flect the green foliage of the oak and
the sycamore, and the gentle breezes
and birds shall make merry music in
the cathedral aisles of a generous
nation.” And such a plaintive pastoral
as this, that Corydou might have piped
to Phyllis, tending his flocks beneath
umbrageous elms, was wasted upon the
desert air, likewise his proud prophecy:
“I shall breast the pelting storm and
lift my head clear and bold to the
coming sunshine of truth and redemp
tion.” Truly the prophet is not with
out honor save in his own country, and
the martyr Joyce goes to the Penitenti
ary with a halo about his head, the
whole country admiring his farewell
speed), and yet no one in St. Louis
knows it. And others must come and
go, and who in St. Louis will know it?
She hides her head in the sand, like the
ostrich, and fancies no one sees her
because she sees no one.
What is the meaning of all this?
What has come over the spirit of the
St. Louis newspapers? Their discus
sions of the Skuptchina, of the Herze
govinians, and of the operations of the
Kahn of Khokand, are able and elo
quent ; but why do we hear nothing of
the operations of Con Maguire, and
Con Megrue, and Con-Cannon, and pos
sibly of still more Cons to come, con
cerning whom they concur in con
tinuing unconscious ? It cannot be
that they are ignorant of what is going
on in their midst. This would betray
most lamentable ignorance and want
of enterprise, and that they are not un
enterprising is shown by the fact that
they aro oven now agitating the posi
bility of a war between England and
Malacca, and the possible consequences
of the proposed inundation of Sahara.
Are they so utterly demoralized that
they are paralyzed and panic-struck as
they contemplate the fearful corruptions
which have so long festered in that
wicked city? Or, still rnoro startling
supposition, have they, too, been up to
the elbows in iniquity? Have they
been in whiskey that is crooked? Do
they also fear “the prison-walls that
hemmed in Galileo, Columbus, Tasso,
and Napoleon?” Are their eyes, like
those of the lamented Joyce, fixed
“where the crystal waters shall again
reflect the green foliage of the oak and
the sycamore, and the gentle breezes
and birds shall make merry music in
the cathedral aieles of a generous na
tion?” This solemn, blank, and omi
nous silence is painful—especially pain
ful to their professional brethren else
where, wh£, in the general wreck and
crash, are eagerly waiting for some ti
dings from the St. Louis newspapers.
We hope they are not singing so small
because they, too, have been overtaken
in the general smash.
Barnum has been lecturing at Chi
cago, and he tells the following story :
In his museum, a gentleman and
daughter stood gazing at the Siamese
Twins. The showman said they were
tho most remarkable phenomenon in
the known world, were born in Siam,
etc. “Brothers, I suppose ?” remarked
the gentleman, interrogatively, still
looking with wonder at the tied-ups.
“Yes, sir, brothers \ natural brothers,
too,” said the showman. “My dear,”
said the visitor, religiously, turning
to his daughter, “think of the goodness
of Providence in thus linking tjvo
natural brothers together, instead of
two strangers.”
“You don’t seem to have any aim—
any ambition,” said that celebratod De
troit judge. “Yes, I have,” replied the
prisoner. “Where is it, sir; where is
it?’" asked his honor, leaning forward.
“Did you ever hear of Cicero taking
free lunches? Did you ever hear that
Plato gambolled through the alleys of
Athens? Tell me, sir, did you ever hear
any one say that Demosthenes slept
under a coal shed, or on a bale of hay?
If you wanted to be a Plato there
would be fire in your eye; your hair
would have an intellectual cut; you’d
step into a clean shirt, and you’d hire
a mowing maohine to pare those finger
nails. Sir, you have got to go up for
four months.”
Oxensteim did wrong in calling his
son’s attention to the fact that the
world is badly governed. Ever since
that it has been nothing but grumble,
grumble, grumble, until now a decent
man has to be connected with a church,
a railroad company, a banking institu
tion, or something of that sort, before
he can steal and be respected.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 90
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
Short Crop of Cotton—Death of Old
Settlers—Planting Wheat Instead of
Cotton—Sighing for “ Egg Nogg ”
and Turkey.
Rutledge, Ga., Nov. 18,1875.
Since my last there have been many
changes in the weather —some heavy
frosts, considerable cold, rainy weath
er, interspersed with some fine bright
days. Cotton picking is nearly over
with for this season. The crop has
been very much cut off by the frost.
The heavy Spring rains caused late
planting and the early cold weather
killed all the late bolls or made yellow
cotton. The short crop and low prices
have caused the farmers in this section
to fall far short of their expectations.
In many instances the guano was in
the ground and cotton planted before
the young floods of April and May,
which beat the ground and washed it
away, until the guano was all gone and
the cotton had to be replanted, which
made it late, and had lost the assist
ance of the fertilizers to mako it open
early.
Our community was visited, last
week, very seriously by the old grim
monster—Death. He carried away two
of our old and best citizens. On Tues
day, the 9th inst., Mrs. Jennie Davis,
aged about eighty-five years, departed
this life, one of the best and most
motherly woman in this country. Ev
erybody who knew her loved “ Aunt
Jennie.” She leaves a husband about
the same age, and several children, with
numerous grand and great-grand child
ren, besides, a large circle of friends, to
moan her loss. She had been an exem
plary member of the Baptist Church
over fifty years.
On Thursday night, the 12th Inst.,
Mr. Blisha.B. Brewer died of paralysis
and conjestion of the brain, aged about
fifty-five years. His illness was very
short—only about two days. He leaves
a wife, six children, and several grand
children, besides the whole community,
to mourn his departure to that “bourne
from whence no traveler ever returns.”
Mr. B. was a good citizen, a first-class
farmer, and had few enemies.
The farmers in this section are sow
ing and preparing to sow extensive
crops of wheat. They seem to be com
ing to the knowledge of the truth, and
study the[,r own interests. At least
they are preparing to make a living
at home and quit working for the
“hard money and rag baby” specu
lators. It does not make much
difference with the farmers whether
the gold predominates or the rags
take the lead, for there is a very
small amount of any kind distributed
among them ; it does not matter how
much cotton they make, after their
supply bills and guano accounts are
paid, there is nothing left for the pro
ducer—ninety-nine out of a hundred
fall in debt at the end of the year, with
not a dollar to buy a Christmas turkey
or whiskey enough to make an egg
nog. Some will say the farmer ought
to raise his turkey. But if he plants
cotton and buys corn to feed the tur
key, it costs him at least sls to have a
good fat gobbler at Christmas. Such
things as turkeys and chickens cannot
be raised on Western corn, it gives
them the cholera and they all die for
the want of It. The only salvation for
this country is for the farmers to use
less guano and make less cotton and
more grain. R.
Grant's Anti-Catholic Crusade.
[Nashville American.|
Mosby is known in Washington as
the “ original third-term man,” and is
at the head of an organization in the
South formed for the purpose of advo
cating Grant’s re-electioh. There is
also a secret society known as the
Anti-Catholic organization. This so
ciety is pledged to the President. Cir
culars are being sent out to the lead
ing men throughout the country ask
ing them to co-operate. The Chicago
Times' Washington correspondent has
obtained one, and gives it as follows :
Nationality no Bar to Membership—
Confidential—Dear Sir : In view of
the intolerant, persistent and aggros-'
sive efforts of Romanists in their avow
ed determination to subvert the Gov
ernment of the United States, and to
destroy our civil and religious liberty,
I desire to submit to you the following
questions ;
1. Are you a Protestant from princi
ple and from choice ?
2. Are you in favor of preserving con
litutional liberty and maintaining the
Government of the United States?
3. Do you regard Romanism as the
enemy of civil aud religious liberty ?
4. Is it not in your opinion unwise
and unsafe to appoint to civil, political
or military office in this country men
who owe alliegiance to the Pope of
Rome, and who have sworn to obey
him ?
5. Are you in favor of maintaining
the principles of one general, unsecta
vian, free school organization ?
6. Are you opposed to all attempts to
use the public funds for any sectarian
purpose whatever ?
7. you in favor of putting into
office honest and true patriots who are
best qualified to fill the positions,
regardless of political parties?
8. Are you willing to be governed
by these principles in your political
actions?
9. Are you willing to unite with
others who hold these principles and
henceforth devote yourself, yoar for
tune, and your sacred honor to the
protection and perpetuation of civil
and religious liberty and this great
American Union?
10. Can you, upon your sacred honor,
without equivocation or mental reser
vation, answer all these questions in
the affirmative.
11. Can you furnish the names, ages,
residences and occupations of the men
who are willing to become organized
under and be governed by the above
principles ?
If you are desirous of obtaining fur
ther information on the subject refer
red to in questions nine and eleven,
please communicate with the person
from whom you receive this circular.
Please consider this circular, its con
tents and its source, strictly private
and confidential.
All calm and beautiful she lay upon
her dying couch. It was a sad and
mournful .scene, and as the relatives
and friends of the dying maiden gath
ered around the deathbed, she opened
her eyes, and, clasping her hands,
exclaimed : “ I never wore a pin back!
I die happy 1 ” and then expired.
Street car companies are reasonably
progressive, but there is still one step
for them to take. What is wanted is
some man of polite manners to stand
on the platform and introduce the con
ductor to ladies before that functionary
puts his hand round the waist to help
them on. To be hugged without an
introduction isn’t right.
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On ijjn ajteb this date (April 21. 1875.) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
free of postage.
Advertisements must be paid for when han
ded in, unless otherwise stipulated.
Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi
office. 20 cents per line each insertion.
Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express
or Postal Order.
Cobbespondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Seven burglaries in three nights
don’t speak well for Macon’s polioe
force.
The Albany Guard has donned a fine
new uniform of cadet gray trimmed
with blue.
Many citizens of Columbus have
asked Hon. S. B. Cleghorn to accept
the nomination for Mayor.
The Savannah military are making
extensive preparations to celebrate the
holidays on the light fantastic toe.
George Black, a negro, fired at the
engineer of one of the Arlington trains
because he ran over a dog. He was
arrested and jailed.
Phil West, one of the most promi
nent citizens of Lee county, died on
Tuesday afternoon. He was buried
with Masonic ceremonies.
Judge Tompkins, of the Superior
Court, in Savannah, recently, ordered
that a table be set apart for the use of
the representatives of the press.
Mrs. Elisha Howard, of Colquitt
county, gave birth to three children in
eleven months—a pair of twins ten and
a half months after the birth of the
first child.
Jerry a cook, employed by Mr.
Scheuman, in Griffin has made three
different attempts to burn out bis
employer. He was caught at It and
jailed on Tuesday night.
A negro convict, in Marietta, whose
time has expired, refuses to leave the
chain gang at work on the railroad, but
wears bis stripped clothes, eats and
works, and thinks it is a good enough
place for him—and probably it is.
Rome Courier : “In the Atlanta City
Council proceedings, under the head of
petitions, wo find: ‘Of Mr. Grady, to
open a bar-room on Peters street,
granted.’ This is certainly not Henry
W., but he is the only Grady we ever
heard of.”
A farmer near Dalton, while asleep
on Thursday night, was chloroformeu,
and robbed of nearly SIOO in money.
The same night an attempt was made
to repeat the operation in several dwel
lings in Dalton, but the rascals were
frightened away.
Warrenton Clipper : Our town is on
the improvement all the time, as at
tested by the fact that we are continu
ally organizing some new and beneficial
enterprise. The latest step in this
direction is the organization on last
Monday night, by the young men of
our town, of a Reading Club, with the
object of securing to its membership a
general literary knowledge.
There are now nineteen public schools
in operation in Muscogee county. Of
these, twelve are for whites, and seven
colored. The average attendance on
each 28.50. The pro rata share of the
whole State fund is $3.50 per scholar
for the three months.
A correspondence took place between
the different railroads and the City
Light Guard of Columbus asking on
what terms the Georgia centennial
battalion would be passed to Philadel
phia. The answer from the Central
Railroad was that no abatement in
price would be made.
To-day is the day set apart by Judge
Crawford, of the Superior Court, at
Columbus, for the reception of the re
port of the committee appointed by
Judge Johuson on Gen. Benning’s me
morial. Hon. A. H. Chappell is the
chairman of the Committee on Reso
lutions, and at 12 o’olook precisely the
report will be reoeived. After the re
port, appropriate eulogies will be de
livered by different members of the
bar.
Donder and Blitzen.
[Columbia Register.]
The Atlanta Herald prints an anony
mous letter received from Washington
by Senator Gordon. The Constitu
tionalist, of Augusta, copies it with
comments, and the Union-Herald fol
lowed with other comments yesterday
morning. The writer says he is “a
good Democrat, but poverty and a
starving family have compelled me to
accept a subordinate situation from
the Government; and to keep my place
I have been obliged to pretend to be
the strongest of Radicals.” After
this unsavory introduction, the writer
brings on a blood and thunder
sensation —“certain fanatics at the
North have formed themselves into
secret societies, aud intend to come on
here (Washington) in great numbers on
the Ist December, under pretense, &o.
* * * * Their real object is to mur
der every member of Congress who has
been elected by the shedding of negro
blood, and I think they include iu this
number every member from the South
who is a Democrat,” &c., &c., con
siderably more of the same Blue Beard,
Guy Fawkes stamp. The Constitu
tionalist is willing to “wager some
thing handsome that the writer is
either no Democrat at all, or else one
out at the elbow and in want of a job,
though richly deserving of a fire in the
rear,” and the Union-Herald “will
wager fifty dollars that the author of
this and another letter conveying
charges against a certain Southern
newspaper Is no other than
R. H. Kirk,” the man who figured as
trial justice in the case when Patterson
was feebly proceeded against some
years ago for bribery and corrupt in
securing his election as Senator, and
who subsequently has written as cor*
respondent all sorts of things, aud iA
now, it appears, in a small office
through his influence. How that may
be and whether he is the “Bull Run” of
the Chronicle and Sentinel (not the Con
stitutionalist, as the Union-Herald mis
takenly says), we have no means of
knowing. We can only say that Bull
Run’s artioles have a Kirkish look. We
must protest, however, if it be he,
against fcis passing himself off as a
Democrat. He is a Rad. of a despica
ble dye, and the bet of the Constitution
alist is perfectly safe.
Talking of correspondents, it ia all
important that respectable journals
shall only employ responsible persons
for news and correspondence. Fel
lows of a certain oast, who hang round
and eavesdrop, who represent them
selves as Demoorats of the first water
among Demoorats, and who can out
rad the rascalliest rad iu Radical cir
cles, should be given a wide berth.
This very man Kirk was described to
us last winter by a Republican as a $5
man—i. e., he was a man who, for that
amount, wpuld write for or against
any thing or person; who, in fact,
wrote his diatribes, carried them about
in his pocket, and offered them to
newspaper men for a Y. Such men
bring disgrace upon a respectable and
honorable business.
Mrs. Livermore says girls are not
particulai enough about the man they
marry. Mrs. Livermore is right. Many
a young girl has become wedded to a
man, and found out, when too late,
that he couldn’t whitewash a bedroom
without streaking the walla,