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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 6 oo *• three months 2 50 Tei-Wkekly—one year 5 00 “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 oo •• six months 100 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, IXA1 X A ots. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) W Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA, GA. 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. in ■ 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,