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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year. $lO oo *• six months 5 oo three months 2 60 Tri-Weekly—one year 6 00 " six months 2 60 Weekly— one year 2 oo six months 100 Single copies, 6 cts. To news dealers, ets. 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.) Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office. AUGUSTA, GA. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. STORMS ON THE ENGLISH COAST. Great Loss of Vessels and Life A Turkish Ambassador Ordered Home. London, November 20.—Recent gales around the coast of Great Britain have been terribly destructive of life aud property. Lloyd’s agent at Do ver telegraphs he believed thirteen vessels had foundered on the Downs during the storm last night, and that forty or fifty lives were lost. It is es timated that from five hundred to six hundred vessels of all classes, are now anchored in the Downs off Deal, awaiting fair weather. The Morning Post has a report that the Turkish ambassador to St. Peters burg has been suddenly summoned to Constantinople. Death of a Cardinal. Rome, November 20. —Cardinal Pietro di Siiyestri is dead. The American Note in Spain —Further from the Storm—Failure. Madrid, November 20.—1 tis stated that all foreigners tried in Cuba for participatiou in the rebellion shall have counsel. The Cronista says the American note was discussed in the Cabinet yester day. Meanwhile, the situation is sat isfactory and promises a favorable and early settlement, pending the questions relative to the United States. London, November 20.—The first re ports of the loss of life and vessels are unfounded. The Pall Mall Gazette, however, announces that the coast be tween Yarmouth and Lowestoft is strewn with wrecks. Three vessels are ashore on Goodwin Sands. Sloaue & Richards, metal brokers, have suspended for $500,000. Valinaseda in the Field—Calcutta News. Havana, November 20.—Valmaseda went to the field of operations to-day. London, November 20.—The Times has a Calcutta special, which says the alarm at Rangoon originated by a band of robbers attempting to seize the arsenal. There were no political sig nifications. _ FROM TEXAS. Difficulties Between United States Troops aud Mexican Banditti. Galveston, November 20.—The fol lowing has been received from San Antonio to-day: “Major Alexander has arrived at Los Cueros, and reports that forty men of the eighth cavalry crossed this morning before his arrival, bv Randlett’s order, Major Clendenin having left for Ringgold to support McNally, who was driven by the Mexicans to the river. This was done in violation of orders given by me yesterday morning. I have di rected Major Alexander to return the troops to North Bank. He has an swered that it will be done immedi ately. Have carried out your instruc tions in regard to surrendering of the thieves and returning property. Major Alexander reports a large number of troops concentrating in front of him. “(Signed) Potter, Commanding.’’ It is by no means impossible that the Mexicans may take the offensive. Los Cueros is a notorious deu of Cortina and his robbers, and not less than one thousand men could be assembled there on short notice. FROM RICHMOND. Gens. Bradley Johnson and Imboden Have a Fight. Richmond, November 20.—Just pre vious to the departure of the 9:20 p. m. Northern bound train, an exciting scene occurred on one of the cars, be tween Gen. Bradley T. Johnson and Gen. John D. Iniboden. The latter, who was about going off on the train, was approached by Gen. Johnson, who, after telling Imboden he had been looking for him all day, administered sundry blows on his person with a cowhide. Imboden at once made at Johnson, when the latter drew a pistol, but before he could use it they were separated and both arrested. They were taken to the station house, and placed under bonds of SI,OOO for ap pearance at the Police Court on Mon day. The- cause of the assault is at tributed to evidence given by Imboden in the contested election case between Johnson and Kuight for seats in the State Senate. PROM MEMPHIS. Meeting of the Texas Pacific Conven tion—An Appeal for Subsidy. Memphis, November 20.—1n the Texas Pacific Railroad Convention there were full delegations from Arkan sas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Cincin nati; partial delegations from Lou isiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Ala bama and Kentucky. Governor Magof fin presided. Mr. Davis responded to repeated calls. The resolutions appeal to the people of the North country generally for aid, and ask Congress to grant the national credit for the con struction of the read. The convention’s proposal to add St. Louis to the list of professed termini was debated. It was finally resolved that the omission was not done in a spirit of opposition or hostility to that city. Adjourned. Friends of the road are sanguine of good results. FROM WASHINGTON. Robbery of the Mail—Postal Change- Promotion of a Naval Officer. Washington, November 20.—The Post Office has advices of the robbery of the mail on the Corpus Christi route, supposed to be by border Mexi cans. The mail ambulance, with its contents, was driven off by robbers. The Northern mail will reach here at 1:30 p. m. on and after Monday. Commodore Trenchard has been made a Rear Admiral. Sherman Going to Florida—Ames on Hand. Gen. Sherman goes to Florida to spend the Winter. Gov. Ames, of Mississippi was at the Interior Department to-day. Minor Telegrams. San Francisco, November 20.—The race has been postponed to the 25th. The complaint of Jas. W. Simonton against the proprietors of the Cali fornia Alta, for libel has been filed.— Damages $50,000. This suit is based on an article in the Alta, of September 2lßt, accusing the plaintiff of doctoring press dispatches and conspiring to break the Bank of California. New Orleans, November 20.— The failure of Wallace & Cos., wholesale dry goods is reported. Liabilities $75,000. Assets $500,000. ®l)i Augusta Constitutionalist Established 1799. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Robbery of an Express Wagon—Burn ing of a Saw Mill and Factory—Mur der and Suicide—Conviction of a De faulter. Chicago, November 20.— While the driver of the United Express Company was delivering a package, his wagon was driven off and robbed of $40,000 worth of goods. No arrests. Detroit, Mich., November 20. —The large saw mill of Reynolds & Emlaw, at Grand Haven, was burned last eve ning. Loss about $50,000. Cincinnati, November 20.— The fac tory of Harshman, McKenzie & Cos., at Union City, Indiana, was burned yesterday. Loss, $20,000. Erie, Pa., November 20.— Jacob Walneyors, aged sixty, killed his eldest daughter and himself. Louisville, November 20.— 1n the case of the United States vs. G. H. Burbridge, special supervising agent of the Treasury, with headquarters at New Orleans, pending since April, 1868, for $46,000, alleged deficiency, the ver dict was against Burbridge for $36,000. Bridge and House Burned—Miners Blown Up-Marine Disaster. Philadelphia, November 20. —The wooden bridge over the Schuylkill at Market street was burned. The fire originated from a defective gas pipe. Laconia. N. H., November 20. —The Avery building, fired a year and a half ago, and again last Sunday, was burned to the ground to-day. Pottsville, Pa., November 20.—Sev eral miners sat on a box of uitro-gly cerine which exploded. Three are dead another is dying. Boston, November 20. —The ship Favorite which arrived here to-day from Manilla, reports that on the first of October last, latitude seventeen de grees, no minutes and fifty seconds south and longitude seventy-one de grees, no minutes and ten seconds west, she saw a large vessel on fire and ran down to her, but she sank in about five minutes after reaching her. The Favorite cruised around the spot for two hours, but could not discover any trace of the crew nor learn anything to establish the vessels identity. FROM NEW YORK. More Failures—Absconding Debtors. New York, November 20. —Rosen- heim &Libman, dealers in fancy goods; the Union Braiding Works, and Mahon & Murray, dealers in peddlers’ supplies, suspended yesterday. Chas. B. Orvis, and Dexter Reid, two dealers in hardware, occupying a room in the same building, No. 52 Centre street, absconded, leaving debts behind aggregating from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. Bank Statement—Another Failure. New York, November 20.— Loans de crease $1,250,000; specie increase $1,250,000; legal tenders decrease $1,000,000; deposits, total decrease, $2,250,000; reserve increase, $1,000,000. Claudius B. Conant has failed for SIIO,OOO. Death of a Journalist—Suspension of Tanneries. Troy, November 20. —Wrn. Merriman, a newspaper man, andj Herald war cor respondent, is dead. Middleton, N. Y., November 20. Three hundred men are out of employ ment by the suspension of work on the tanneries. Caused by depression in the leather trade. Going to St. Louis. New York, November 20. —Mayor Wickham has appointed a delegation of' prominent gentlemen to the St. Louis Railroad Convention. The Beautiful Snow. Omaha, November 20.—Reports from the West 3how a very heavy fall of snow and severe storm extending from Laramie City, on the east, and beyond Corinne and Elks, on the west, during the past week. To-day’s train from the West was three hours late but all other trains are reported as running on time. AN ACCOMMODATING HUSBAND. He Gives Up His Wife to a Friend and Marries His Adopted Daughter. [Marshaltown Republican.! An ambitious little railroad town in this county was shaken from stem to stern by a society “happening” which recently occurred iu her midst. This event involved so wide a departure from the beaten track of human custom and divine mandates, that the moral sense of the community was greatly shoeked, and even the gossips lifted up their hands to disclaim against it. There resides in this town Dr. , who, until recently, did business as a druggist. His family consisted of a wife and an adopted daughter. The wife was an amiable lady in the prime of young womanhood, and the daughter an in telligent and engaging young woman, who acted as clerk in her foster father’s drug store. Boarding with the family was a literary gentleman of cultivated mind and taste, who occupied a room in the drug store, where he devoted much of his time to driving the quill. The family circle composed of these four moved aloug harmoniously until Cupid looked in upon them, and dis covering latent love in each human breast, he thence began making matches—not of the regulation kind, requiring four strokes to illumine the darkness, but that of binding genial hearts and hands. The literary man secretly cherished an ardent admira tion for the doctor’s wife, and the doc tor more than a father’s affection far hi 9 adopted daughter. Then followed a mutual discovery of these facts, a mu tual recognition of the secret passions, a mutual agreement to allow the course of love to “run smooth,” a mutual sep aration of the doctor and his wife—cul minating at last in the uniting of hands with hearts to suit their wishes. The doctor gave his wife to the literary man, and accepted the hand of his adopted daughter. They now form two families—the literary man having gone with his new made wife to join the Grangers on a farm not far distant. ’Tis said the doctor obtained a divorce from the first wife; that the latter mar riages were legalized in a quiet way; but this, if true, did not prevent the gossips from using the keen dissecting knife, and the affair awakened a greater sensation in the town than anything that has transpired since the Beecher- Tilton revelation. Supreme Court of Georgia. Atlanta, November 19,1875. AUGUSTA CIRCUIT. No. 7. Argument concluded. No. 8. Dortie vs. Dugas. Equity from Richmond. Salem Duteher for plaintiff in error Hook & Webb, contra. Pending the argument of Mr. Duteher the court adjourned until 9 o’clock a. m. to-morrow. REVIVAL IN ATLANTA. The Power of a Christian’s Dying Request—Ex-Judge W. F. Wright Talks to Sinners —An Unanswerable Argument for the Genuineness and Power of Christianity—Dr. Harrison as a Revivalist. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, November 19,1875. The writer attended the protracted service now going on in Dr. Harrison’s Church(First Methodist Church, At lanta,) one evening last week, and was deeply interested iu the service. Rev. W. F. Cook, pastor of Trinity Church, presided, aud read as a lesson for the occasion the history of the “prodigal son.” After reading he made a brief address, illustrating the more promi nent ideas of this most charming pas sage of Scripture. At the conclusion of his remarks others were invited to speak. Several spoke during the ser vice. Judge James Jackson, of the Superior Court, led off. One who hears the Judge speak in church, and who did not know him, would write him down as a first-class camp meeting preacher, and the ver dict would not miss the mark any great distance. There is a clearness of thought and a pathos of voice in his church talks that go right to the heart of the hearer, and convince him the unction from above is resting upon the mind and heart of the speaker. The greater part of the Judge’s ad dress was in reference to the religious experience of GEN. HOWELL COBB. The General’s father was a man of noted piety, as were all his children, except Howell. The lamented T. R. R. Cobb was no less noted for his emi nent piety than for his high legal at tainments. In his last sickness, and just before his death, the General’s father called all the family around his bed, aud said to each : “ Meet me in heaven.” “These words,” said General Cobb to Judge Jackson, soon after the war closed, “have followed me through all the changing scenes of my life, but I waut to confess to you what I’ve never acknowledged before to any one —not even to the wife of my bosom. I would like to believe and live as did my father, and I would like to die as he died, but I cannot comprehend or be lieve that the Great God of the Uni verse, the Master of Heaven, the Sun, Moon and Stars, could have become a little child a boy and a man.” After some farther conversation they sepa rated for the night. The next day Judge Jackson met the Hon. W. Hope Hull, now of your city, aud told him of General Cobb’s views, and asked him if he could suggest any book which would likely aff -rd conclu sive proof of Christ’s divinity. Mr. Hull said he knew the very book, and he named the Christ of History. This book was placed in Gen. Cobb’s hands, and by him carefully read ; so soon as he finished its study, yes, he studied it, he went to his office, (J udge Jackson was then a law partner of the General’s) and said to Judge Jackson “I do believe that Christ is God, the Savior of sinners, and my Savior, and if there is any church that will receive a man so unworthy as I am, I will join it at once. Soon after this conversation he made application and was received into the Baptist Church in Macon by Rev. E. W. Warren now pastor of the First Baptist church of Atlanta. Ex-Judge W. F. Wright made a ten minutes talk. Among other things he said, “You all know me; you know what my manner of life has been for years past; you know the places I once visited; the society I formerly mixed with. Five months ago “I was born again.” Have any of you seen me at the places I once fre quented; or with society I once sought? No. My evenings are now spent in the service of my Redeemer, or with my own family. Am I not altogether a dif ferent man? I appeal to you who know me, could any human agency have wrought this change? Am not Ia living monument of the power of Christ to save all who will come to Him for salvation ? I call upon all who hear me to believe upon Christ “for the very work's sake.” The Judge is one of the most zealous workers among the laymen of Atlanta, and is doing much good. It is out of your reporter’s line of business to find fault, but the singing in the meetings now going on in Dr. Harrison’s church is such a miserable failure that somebody ought to publish it, so that some body else may improve it. Dr. Harrison has long been recognized as administer of profound knowledge and unsurpassed eloquence, and now his hearers pronounce him the equal of Rev. Joseph Styles of the Presby terian church as a revivalist. There is a deep religious influence going out from those meetings, and though in the Methodist church, other denominations are heartily co-operating in the service, some times Baptists lead, sometimes Presbyterians, and sometimes otber denominations. Wingfield. The Athens Daily Paper. The daily edition of the Athens Geor gian has been discontinued for the waut of adequate support, after forty-one days struggle. It has held out about as long as we supposed it would. A town with less than ten thousand In habitants will not support a daily paper. A smaller town has never been known to do it well. But “new men” at the journalistic bellows must always make the effort to publish dailies in small towns before they can be con vinced they “can’t do it.” No amount of reasoning from experience will they listen to. “Experience is a dear school,” etc., as old Ben Franklin wrote, and amateur journalists mu9t pay the price. The weekly Georgian will be continued, and we wish our friend Carlton well. Whenever he sees old man Christy “fixing up” for a daily, he may be convinced that Athens is ready for the enterprise. He has as clear an idea of what Athens can do in the journalistic line as any one, and he doubtless would be glad to publish a daily if the town could support it. Now let brother Carlton stick to “well enough,” and we shall wish him great prosperity. He is a good fellow, and we like him. — [Rome Courier. On Thursday night Allen Womack and Green Cofield, two negroes, had a difficulty uear Antioch, in which Wo mack killed Cofield with a knife. Womack, after the murder, made his escape. A party consisting of two whites and several negroes, went in search of him, and on Saturday night surrounded a house, several miles be yond the Alabama line, in which they knew he was concealed. One of the white men, named Shepherd, entered the house and found Womack. He refused to be arrested, cut Shepherd severely on the arm, and was pressing him into a corner when Shepherd shot him with a gun and killed him. AUGUSTA, GA.. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 31, 1875 LETTER FRO* ATLANTA. The Gate City’s Progress and Her Needs—The Treasurer’s Trouble — That Tea Party—New Societies— Dots. [From our Regulai Correspondent ] Atlanta, November 19th, 1875. Occupying, as she does, an envious position in the front rank of Southern cities, and growing, as she is, with a widening, swelling, far-reaching growth, Atlanta needs pruning and shaping. To the left or right, beautiful buildings rear their bricky heads and present a business picture really enchanting, when you remember that she is only ten years old. Fitted with all the modern improvements, and richly dove-tailed with an ever-springing, ever-buoyant, ever-spiritful energy, and capstoned with marvelous enter prise, there are yet adjuncts to be sought for that will make her as she is destined to be, the New York of the South, Some of these essentials can only be brought about by the lavish hand of wealth and the measured circles of time. Rome was not built iu a minute, neither can we expect Atlanta to spring forth from an ashy chaos to perfection; but in her present condition—a city full of people, a built-up territory spreading like rip ples on a lake, and a great business growing greater daily—she needs and must have a market-house, a work house and a couple of bridges. The first is an absolute necessity, the second a great want, and the third would be a j blessing. It is thought all of these will be built in two years, If such could be the case, we could then invite you to ! Atlanta and feel doubly proud in show ing you the sights. .’Tis a consumma tion devoutly to be wished. THE TREASURY FUSS. Nothing of importance lias been made known forninst this trouble. Col. Jones’ friends are sauguine of squaring matters to the proprr trueness within the limit prescribed. The action of Gov. Smith seems to, meet with ap proval from the fact that it was a per formance of duty, and a precaution looking to the best interests of the State; and whilst ii looked hard on Jones, his best friends could not urge a single objection when the action was rightly and coolly considered. It is to be hoped that matters are not so bad after all, and that the even tenor of things may go on undisturbed. THE TEA PARTY. This unique affair, given for the benefit of the Young Men’s Library, promises to be one of the neatest, sweetest and most delightful entertain ments ever given in this city. I have described the modus operandi in a previous letter. A gentleman of Phila delphia has presented to the Presby terian table a Parisian bronze statuette of Sir Walter Raleigh. This piece will be voted to the most, popular President of the Association. One young lady will appear on the occasion iu a silk dress that was the bridal dress of her great-great-grandmo- her in 1775. NEW SOCIETIES. It is now proposed to organize a dramatic association aud a literary society in the city, The first named can be organized at once, as there is sufficient talent of the kiud here to give a performance that would startle even a professional. Among the per sons who would compose the literary society are named: Mrs. M. E. Bryan, of the Sunny South; Prof. Wm. Henry Peck, Gen. A. G. Gariington, Col. Jas. D. Stewart, Marcus A. Bell, Mrs. West moreland, Judge Biekely, Cbas. W. Hubner aud a host o:i newspaper men, reporters and correspondents. A society of this kiud, composed of the above members, would soon vie with tho Young Mens’ Library Association in strength and numbers. ANOTHER GOLD MINE has been prospected, and Gen. Burnes, Dr. Sam. Hape and Mr. Andrew Bates have organized a company with $20,- 000, and have commenced mining ope rations in earnest. The mine is situate iu Douglass county and is said to be a rich one. Is Georgia to be an El Do rado ? Yerily, the yellow wealth crops out In good spots, and there is no tell ing how much genuine richness we walk over with our plebeian shoes. UNITED REFORMERS. The mechanics hero are organizing a lodge of the above on ler. It is adapted to the working man as granges to far mers. Its object is to reduce and sys tematize prices of necessaries, moral elevation, etc. The order originated in the West, I believe, and is meeting with much favor throughout the coun try. It claims to bo impregnable to politics and cannot be used for any other purpose than its stated object. Quite a number of the mechanics here are moving towards the immediate or ganization of a lodge, and hope to reap great benefits. They say that it will kill the grocer’s protective association and all other combinations militating against the working man’s interests. It would no doubt prove a strong force, and may accomplish some good. Noth ing like trying it, you know, even if wo doubt its practicability. The order will bo carried into every city of the South. SQUIBS. John Bard—out-gone. The Royal Japs are to perform here next week. They are under the man agement of Fred. Berger, of the Ber ger Family Bell Ringoxs. It cost a young man five dollars to pucker his month for the usual whistle in our Opera House gallery. Colonel Sawyer, of the Evening Com monwealth, is to take charge of the Rome Courier, next month. The Col. is a gladiator among tho Romans. The foundations for the custom house, of rock and -cement, will cost about six thousand dollars. The burly burglar bamboozles bed rooms of the bourgeoisie and picks the plethoric pockets of the proud pa tricians here-away. The city is full of them aud they are like the rest of Atlanta people, deucedly enterprising The weather is gloomy. Rain to-day and fog at night. Mud is rampant. Martha. . ■ m —— “Victim”—Yes, women are unrea sonable, and you may have remarked that when one of them sits down in a new silk dress on a chair where a neigh bor’s child has carelessly deposited two cent’s worth of taffy, she will go on about it just as bad as if it wore two dollar’s worth. A Scranton physician has removed half of a patient’s tongue successfully. Alleiitown Chronicle. That’s good. Wo have just eight cents that says that if that physician will come to Easton and remove half the tongue that gets after us about two o’clock every morn ing, ho shall ride in a coach with six horses if he has any aspirations that way. —Easton Free Press, EDGAR A. POE. REMINISCENCES OF THE POET. Hon. J. H. B. Latrobe’s Address—Hia First Meeting With a Child of Genius—Poe’s Personal Appearance and Extraordinary Eloquence. [Baltimore Sun’s Report. | About the year 1832 there was a newspaper in Baltimore called The Sat urday Visitor, an ephemeral publication that aimed at amusing its readers with light literary productions rather than the news of the day. One of the efforts was to procure original tales, and to this end it offered on this occasion two prizes, ono for the best story and the other for the best short poem—one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for the last. The judges ap pointed by the editor of the Visitor were the late John P. Kennedy, Dr. James H. Miller, now deceased, and myself, and accordingly we met one pleasant afternoon in the back parlor of my house iu Mulberry street, and seated round a table, garnished with some old wine and some good cigars, commenced our critical labors. As I happened then to be the youngest of tho three, I was required to open the pack ages of prose and poetry respectively, and read the contents. Alongside of me was a basket to hold what we might reject. I remember well that the first pro duction taken from the prose pile was in a woman’s hand, written very dis tinctly, as, indeed, were all the articles submitted, and so neatly that it seem ed a pity not to award it the prize. It was ruthlessly criticised, however, for it was ridiculously bad—namby-pamby in the extreme—full of sentiment, and of the school then known as the Laura Matilda school. The next piece I have no recollection of, except that a dozen lines consigned it to the basket. I remember tiiat the third, perhaps the fourth production, was recognized as a translation from the French, with a terrific denouement. It was a poor translation, too, for, fall ing into literal accuracy, the writer had in many places followed the French idioms. The story was not without merit; but the Sir Fretful Plagiary of a translator described the charge of Sheridan in the Critic of being like a beggar who had stolen another man’s child and clothed it with his own rags. Of the remaining productions I have no recollection. Some were condemned after a few sentences had been read. Some were laid aside for reconsidera tion—not many. These last failed to pass muster afterwards, and the com mittee had about made up their minds that there was nothing before them to which they would award a prize, when I noticed a small quarto-bound book that had until then accidentally es caped attention, possibly because so unlike, externally, the bundles of manu script that it was to compete with. Opening it, an envelope, with a motto corresponding with one in the book, appeared, and we found that our prose examination was still incomplete. In stead of the common cursive manu script, the writing was in Roman char acters—an imitation of printing. I remember that, while reading the first page to myself, Mr. Kennedy and the doctor had filled their glasses and lit their cigars, and when I said that wo seemed, at last, to have a prospect of awarding the prize, they laughed as though they doubted it, and settled themselves in their comfortable chairs, as I began to read. I had not pro ceeded far before my colleagues became as much interested as myself. The first tale finished, I went to the second, then to the next, and did not stop until I had gone through the volume, interrupted only by such exclamations as “capital!” “excellent!” “how odd!” and tho like, from my compan ions. There was genius iu everything they listened to ; there was no uncer tain grammar, no feeble phraseology, no ill-placed punctuation, no worn-out truisms, no strong thought elaborated into weakness. Logic aud imagination were combined in rare consistency. Sometimes the writer created in his mind a world of his own, and then de sei ibed it—a world so wierd,so strange— “ Far down in the dim lake of Auber. In the misty mid-region of Wier; Ear down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Wier,” and withal, so fascinating, so wonder fully graphic, that it seemed for the moment to have all tho truth of a re ality. There was an analysis of com plicated facts— an unraveling of cir cumstantial evidence that won the lawyer judges—an amount of accurate scientific knowledge that charmed their accomplished colleague—a pure classic diction that delighted all three. When the reading was completed there was a difficulty of choice. Por tions of the tales were read again, and finally the committee selected “A MS. Tound in a Bottle.” One of the series was called V A Descent into the Mael strom,” and this was at one time pre ferred. I cannot now recall the names of all the tales. There must have been six or eight. But all the circumstances of the selection ultimately made have been so often referred to iu conversa tion that my memory has been kept fresh, aud I see my fellow-judges over their wine and cigars in their easy chairs—both genial, hearty men, in pleasant mood—as distinctly now as though I were describing an event of jesterday. Having made the selection and awarded the one hundred dollar prize, not, as has been said most unjustly and ill-naturedly, because the manu script was legible, but because of the unquestionable genius and great origi nality of the writer, we were at liberty lo open the envelope that identified lim, and there we found in the note, whose motto corresponded with that of the little volume, the name, which I see you anticipate, of Edgar Allan Poe. The statement in Dr. Griswold’s life, prefixed to the common edition of Poe’s vorks, that “it was unanimously de rided by the committee that the prize should be given to the first genius who lad written legibly—not another manu script was unfolded,” is absolutely un irue. Refreshed by this most unexpected change in the character of the contri butions, the committee refilled their glasses aud relit their cigars, and the reader began upon the poetry. This, Although better in the main than the prose, was bad enough, and when we had gone more or less thoroughly over ihe pile of manuscript, two pieces only were deemed worthy of consideration. The title of one was “The Coliseum,” the wiitten printing of which told that it was Poe’s. The title of the other I have forgotten, but upon opening the Accompanying envelope we found that the author was Mr. John H. Hewitt, still living in Baltimore, and well known, I believe, in the musical world, both as a poet and composer. I am not prepared to say that the committee may not have been biased in awarding the flfty-dollar prize to Mr. Hewitt by the fact that they had already given the SIOO prize to Mr. Poe. I recollect, however, that we agreed that under any circumstances the excellence of Mr. Hewitt’s poem deserved a re ward, and we gave the smaller prize to him with clear consciences. I belive that, up to this time, not one of the committee had ever seen Mr. Poe, and it is my impression that I was the only one that had ever heard of him. When his name was read I remembered that on one occasion Mr. William Gwynn, a prominent member of the bar of Baltimore, had shown me the very neat manuscript of a poem called “A1 Aaraaf,” which he spoke of as indicative of a tendency to any thing but the business of matter of fact life. Those of my hearers who are familiar with the poet’s works, will recollect it as one of his earlier pre dictions. Although Mr. Gwynn, besides being an admirable lawyer, was noted as the author of wise and witty epi grams in verse, “A1 Aaraaf” was not in his vein, and what he said of the writer had not prepared me for the productions before the committee. His name, I am sure, was not at the time a familiar one. Tho next number of the Saturday Visitor contained the “MS. Found in a Bottle,” and announced the author. My office iu those days was in the building still occupied by the Me chanics’ Bank, aDd I was seated at my desk on the Monday following tho pub lication of the tale, when a gentleman entered and introduced himself, saying that he came to thank mo, as one of the committee, for the award in his favor. Of this interview, the only one I ever had with Mr. Poe, my recollec tion is very distinct indeed, and it re quires but a small effort of imagination to place him before me now as plainly almost as I see any one of my audience. He was, if anything, below the middle size, and yet could not be described as a small man. His figure was remark ably good, and he carried himself erect and well, as one who had been trained to it. He was dressed in black, and his frockcoat was buttoned to the throat, where it met the black stock, then almost universally worn. Not a par .ticle of white was visible. Coat, hat boots and gloves had very evidently seen their best days, but so far as meuding and brushing could go every thing had been done apparently to make them presentable. On most men his clothes would have looked shabby aud seedy, but there was some thing about this man that prevented one from criticising his garments, and the details I have mentioned were only recalled afterwards. The impression made, however, was that the award in Mr. Poe’s favor was not inopportune. Gentleman was written all over him. His manner was easy and quiet, aud although he came to return thanks for what he regarded as deserving them, there was nothing obsequious in what be said or did. His features lam able to describe in detail. His forehead was high and remarkable for the great de velopment at the temple. This was the characteristic of his head, which you notice at once, and which I have never j forgotten. The expression of his face was grave, almost sad, except when he was engaged in conversation, when it became animated and changeable. His voice, I remember, was very pleasing in its tone, and well modulated, almost mythical, and his words were well cho sen and unhesitating. Taking a seat, wo conversed awhile on ordinary topics, and he informed me that Mr. Kennedy, my colleague on the committee,on whom he had already called, had either given or had promised to give him a letter to the Southern Literary Messenger, which he hoped would procure him employ ment. I asked whether he was then oc cupied with any literary labor. He re plied that he was engaged in a “voyage to the moon,” and at once went into a somewhat learned disquisition of the laws of gravity, the height of the earth’s atmosphere, and tho capacities of balloons, warming in his speech as he proceeded. Presently, speaking in the first person, he began the voyage, after describing the preliminary ar rangements, as you will find them set forth in one of his tales called “The Adventures of One Hans Pfall,” and leaving the earth, and becoming more and more animated, he described his sensations as he descended higher and higher, until, at last, he reached the point in space where the moon’s attrac tions overcame that of the earth, when there was a sudden bouleversement of the car and a great confusion among its tenants. By this time the speaker had become so excited, spoke so rapidly, gesticula ting much, that wheu the turn upside down took place, and he clapped his hands and stamped with his foot, by way of emphasis, I was carried along with him, and, for aught to the contra ry that I now remember, may have fancied myself the companion of his aerial journey. The climax of the tale was the reversal I have mentioned. When he had finished his description he apologised for his excitability, which he laughed at himself. The conversa tion then turned upon other subjects, and soon afterwards lie took his leave. I never saw him more, Dr. Griswold’s statement “ that Mr. Kennedy accom panied him (Poe) to a clothing store and purchased for him a respectable suit, with a change of linen, and sent him to a bath,” is a shenfcfabricatioo. What I heard of him again and again, year after year, is common with all English-speaking people, more and more, it is unnecessary to say, heard of him in terms of praise sometimes— sometimes iu terms of censure, as we all have done, until now, that he has passed away, leaving his fame behind him to last while our language lasts. I have grown to think of him only as the author who gave to the world “ The Raven,” and “ The Bells,” and many a gem, beside, of noble verse, who illus trated the power of the English tongue in prose composition, not less logical than imaginative, and I forget the abuse, whether with or without founda tion, that ignorance, prejudice or envy has heaped upon his memory. Unfor tunately, in the first biography follow ing his death, where the author, with a temper difficult to understand, actually seemed to enjoy his depreciation of the poet’s life, Edgar Allan Poe was seen by a malignant eye, and his story was told by an unkindly tongue, and the efforts since made by friends to do him justice are slowly succeeding in demon strating that there was in him an amount of good which, in all fairness, should be set off against that which we must regret while we attempt to palliate. To Foe there well may be applied the verse of one of the most gifted of our poetesses, addressed to a great name in a very different sphere : “The moss upon thy memory, no! Not while one noto is rung Of those divine, immortal lays Milton and Hhakspeare sung; Not till tho gloom of night enshrouds The Anglo-Saxon tongue.” New Series —Vol. 28, No. 91 THE SPHINX’S RIDDLE. GRANT'S POLICY FOR A THIRD TERM. The President’s Craft and Ability— His Remarkable Career and Future Prospects. [Philadelphia Tiroes.) The evidences of Grant’s purpose to make himself a candidate for another Presidential term multiply so rapidly, that he must be blind, indeed, who rejects the conclusion that there must be a desperate conflict within the Republican party before the third term ambition shall be defeated. It has been only too common for both political friends and foes of the President to underrate the man. He is not. of the ordinary mould ; none of the spawns of fortunate mediocrity. In states manship ho is a novice, nor does he deny or regret it. It is not his ambition, nor does he deem it a matter of public duty to master the breadth and depth of what the world has deemed the first 1 essential to successful govern ment. He believes that statesmanship is very good in its way, very handy to have about the house; provided, al ways, that it does not get too trouble some ; but it is not in his line; he could not master it if he would, and he would not if he could. He ruled great armies by general orders, and that he understands. He has ruled the Repub lican party in the same way, and why should ho defer to statesmanship when statesmen have been compelled either to bow to his commands or be broken on the wheel of his dis pleasure ? He can point to a Sumner, a Schurz, a Greeley, a Trumbull, a Cur tin, a Banks, a Grow, a Fenton, and a score of others who dreamed that there should come an era of statesmanship to supplant the arrogance of personal rule, and who dreamed only to fall before the victorious hosts who sus tained the autocratic President. But while he contemptuously discards statesmanship, alike in himself and in his Cabinet, an essential attribute to successful government, ho has more method in his conviction than is gener ally believed. He is great as a soldier, and greatest because he is unliko all his fellows in the field. Sherman has more genius; Sheridan could sur pass him in combined strategy and as sault,and Thomas was a reproach to him inasmuch as he never lost a battle, never made a military mistake, and never needlessly sacrificed the life of a soldier; but he was a very Colossus in leading an army though its own blood to substantial victory. He was assign ed the task of destroying Lee, and Lee testified to the inexorable purpose of his assailant at Appomattox. It mat tered not how many had fallen in the march, the rebellion was overthrown by the final discomfiture of Lee. When repulsed at Vicksburg, or in Virginia, the one thing that he never thought of was retreat, and when his ranks were thinned he called for recruits. And he won. He has been for nearly seven years in a position that he regards as simply the commander-in-chief of the Repub lican party, with the administration of the general Government in his hands as an incident of that command. He was called to it without his active partici pation in the political strategy that made him a candidate. It is due to him to say that he had to reconsider a settled purpose that forbade him leaving the life-estate of the General ship of the Army for the doubtful honor and certain vexation of the Presidency. He did not seek the office. His tastes, his ambition disinclined him to civil trust. And he had to de cide the embarrassing question of a Republican or a Democratic nomina tion when he began to entertain the dream of the White House. He was a Democrat by a instinct, by conviction, be the associations of a lifetime, and he was averse to Republican policy. He certified the Southern people within the wishes of President Johnson in his early contest with Congress, and ac cepted the Secretaryship of War, upon the removal of Stanton, in entire ac cord with the views and purposes of the then President. How he came to think and act otherwise will probably never be told, and it will be fortunate for the nation if the chapter shall forever remain unwritten.— But he did accept the Republican proffer to give him the Presidency, and was elected. He brought to the highest civil trust the will, the tastes, the imperious tone of the head-quar ter’s tent, and Republicans learned that the party might have wishes, but the wishes of the President were ever paramount, and it was idle to complain. In 1872 many of his ablest political lieutenants fell out of his line, but he called for Democratic recruits and got them. He won—not his party, but himself, as he then believed and as he still believes, and he has ruled nearly another term with out relaxing his personal domination in the least degree. He heard the mutterings against a third term, and was silent; he was pleaded with, but .was unmoved, and in his unimpassioned way he plodded on to ward the summit of his ambition. Even when the thunders of the people swell ed up to the overthrow of his party in two-thirds of the States of the Union, he answered the trembling leaders who begged for his declination, that the third term had nothing to do with It, and that another nomination of himself might be a necessity to save the party, as it was in 1868 and 1872. But the party leaders could not stand a repe tition of defeats, and New Hampshire, Connecticut and Pennsylvania spoke most pointedly against a third term, and then he broke his silence, wrote the white letter to win the applause of the galleries, but set in the oasket offered to the people the office holders’ jewel of a reservation in favor of public duty that even Washington did not deem necessary when he de clined a third terra. It was a cunning letter-one of Grant’s many most shrewd and far-seeing political acts, and it served its purpose. It retired Grant from view as a mill-stone upon the party, and the organs r ' orators of the party declared his declination to be sincere and absolute. When the battle became desperate between his ungrateful party and its enemy, he chose a most auspicious hour to come as the Blucher of the contest and save Hayes in Ohio by a speech of sublime cunning and effrontery at Des Moines, oq the school question. It was the master political stroke of Grant’s career, and it was given not a day too soon, nor a day too late. It was no fortunate blunder. It was the offspring of Grant himself, oalmly considered as to time, and place and matter, and it was a plank thrown out to a demoralized and sinking party that saved it from destruction; and when the November elections were over he grasped the twin-issue of the school question and hurled a thunder To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AMD AITEB this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent iree of postage. 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Rejected Communications will not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. of defiance against the dilapidated “rag baby,” as he practically said: “ I will run in 1876 in favor of hard money and free schools.” He has gathered up his distracted party when almost in[ the jaws of defeat; he has made his own issues; he has fashioned a Cabinet to suit his pretentions; he has inspired or gans with patronage and silenced hostile criticism by purchase, and he means to be the Republican candidate for Presi dent, and when he means it he means it to some purpose. “Mr. Grant is a very obstinate man,” said the estima ble lady who ought to know him best, and Republicanism may as well at once gird up its loins either to fight another battle under Grant or make a most desperate and doubtful battle for a new leadership. Forney ? s Washington Chronicle tells the story, and the Press and the organs generally will bow obediently. The true inwardness of the Grant administration is now open as noon-day, and it is to be Grant or a Democrat for next President. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. A horse fell into an unfinished well in Elberton forty feet deep, and was killed. A soldier in Atlanta was fined $25 for whistling and stamping at an opera house performance. The Macon Telegraph contains everj r day an account of several burglaries committed the previous night. Anew military company of sixty, has been formed in the Sixty-eighth Dis trict, and another of eighty in Lawtou ville. The alligator killed by Dr. Little’s party in the Okefenokee swamp has reached Atlanta, and may be seen at the office of the State Geologist. Col. B. F. Sawyer, editor and pro prietor of the Atlanta Commonwealth, has accepted an offer to go to Rome and take charge of the Rome Courier. It is thought that either Col. D. S. Piintup or Col. T. W. Alexander will be elected to succeed Hon. J. W. Wofford as Senator from the Forty-second. There is a band of Gypsies in Rome. There are, counting men, women and children, some twelve or fifteen souls in this band. Their principle business seems to be swapping horses and tell ing fortunes. Mr. John Bard has been released from jail. His friends were at last suc cessful in raising his SSOO fine and costs, and the amount was paid over to the sheriff. Mr. Bard left with his father for Montgomery, Alabama. Messrs. Wilder & Cos., of Savannah, cleared the American ship Union, Cap tain Greenleaf, for Liverpool Friday, with 3,226 bales upland cotton, weigh ing 1,470,302 pounds, and valued at $188,448.85. •Henry Sauls and a young man by the name of Rogers attacked Thomas Downing in Dooly county and beat him to death. Liquor was at the bottom of the killing. Sauls and Rogers fled from the county. Colonel Thomas F. Lowe, an old resident of Atlanta, and at one time Mayor of the city, died at Mt. Airy, on the Air-Line Railroad Road, Thursday night, of inflammation of the stomach. His remains will reach here at 9:40 a. m., and be interred iu Oakland ceme tery. Colonel Lowe was over sixty years of age.—Constitution. An interesting trial is now progress ing in Cobb Superior Court. On the 24th day of November, 1874, Michael S. Wheelan, of Marietta, was stabbed by W. B. Carnes and subsequently died. Carnes claims that he did the stabbing because he was fearful Wheelan would shoot him. There is quite an array of legal talent on both sides. Enough companies have assented to the Columbus City Light Guards’ pro position to form a regiment from Geor gia. Whether they go to the Centen nial or not, all are in favor of having a general eneampment next Spring at some central point, most probably at Macon, There It Is proposed to elect the necessary field officers, and decide definitely upon the excursion to Phila delphia. A correspondent of the Greensboro Home Journal, in reviewing the last State Fair, says : “If Gen. Colquitt wants to know what farmers think, just say to him that since he ran his machine without taxing your city peo ple or our country people, and used such economy iu all of its details, and paid all expenses and made money, we are perfectly willing that he should be the next occupant of the Governor’s mansion.” THE SAVANNAH RACE. An Augusta Horse Wins. The weather being pleasant, there was quite a large attendance at Thun derbolt Park Course Friday after noon to witness the trotting race for a purse of $250, iu which Savannah, Au gusta and Jacksonville horses were en tered. The race was conducted under the auspices of a committee of the Sa vannah Jockey Club, and was mile heats, best three in five, to harness. The entries were as follows : M. J. Doyle entered b. g. Faugha ballagh. P. Somers entered g. g., Robin Hood. W. H. Avery entered b. g., Sleepy Joe. C. W. Fields entered s. g., David Crocket. C. Kennedy entered b. m., Maud. J. W. Crawford entered g. g., Sand Hill. About half-past three o’clock the horses were started, and a good heat was the result—Sand Hill taking the honors In 2:51 % ; Robin Hood second, Sleepy Joe third, David Crocket fourrh, Maud fifth, Faughaballagh last. The second heat was won by Robin Hood In 2:57)4, with Sand Hill second, Sleepy Joe third, David Crockett fourth, Maud last, Faughaballagh dis tanced. The third heat was also taken by Robin Hood in 2.52, with Sand Hill, David Crockett, Sleepy Joe and Maud in the order named. The interest in the race began to in crease and bets were freely offered with heavy odds that Sand Hill, the Augusta nag, would win the next two heats. Some small bets were taken, but there was not a general disposition mani fested to “invest.” The horses were called for the fourth heat, and a good start was effected, Sand Hill winning in 2:42, the best time made, and distancing all his com petitors. SUMMARY. Sand Hill 1 2 2 1 Robin Hood 2 1 l dis Sleepy Joe —3 3 4 dis Pavia Crockett .4 4 3 dls Maud ...5 5 5 dis Faughaballagh 6 dis. Time-2:51%, 2;57% 2:52, 2:42. [News,