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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. *T>aily—one year $lO oo “ six months. 5 GO *• three months 2 50 Tbi-Weexly—one year 6 oo “ six months 2 50 Weekly— one year 2 oo six months.. l oo Single copies. 6 cts. To news dealers. 2)4 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 COGltf, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA, GA. DEATH OF HENRY WILSON. THE CLOSE OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE. The Vice-President Suddenly Expires —Senator Ferry President of the Sen ate-Preparations for the Funeral. Washington, November 22.—The Vice-President died very suddenly at 7:80 this morning. He rested well last night, awoke at 7 a. m. and expressed himself as feeling bright and better; sat up in bed to take his medicine, lay down on his left side and expired in a few moments without a single struggle. Senator Ferry is President of the Sen ate pro tempore. The Cabinet is in extra session. Later— Fish will represent the Cabi net at a meeting of Senators and Judges of the Supreme Court, at noon, to arrange for the funeral. After which the President will issue appropriate orders. The Supreme Court adjourned until to-morrow. No opinions to-day. Flags here and northward are at half mast. The .President's Order. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, November 22. f It is with profound sorrow that the President has to announce to the peo ple of the United States the death of the Vice-President, Henry Wilson, who died at the Capitol of the nation this morning. The eminent station of the de ceased, his high character, his long ca reer in the service of his State of the Union, his devotion to the cause of freedom and the ability which he brought to the discharge of every duty stand conspicuous and are indellibly im pressed in the hearts and affections of of the American people. In testimony of respect for this distinguished citizen and faithful public servant, the various departments of the Government will be closed on the day of the funeral and the Executive Mansion and all the Ex ecutive Departments in Washington will be draped with badges of mourn ing for thirty days. The Secretary of War and of the Navy will issue orders that appropriate military and naval honors be rendered to the memory of one whose virtues and services will long be borne in recollection by a grate ful nation. [Signed), U. S. Grant. By the President, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. Adjournment of the Courts—Honors to His Memory. Nearly all the courts of the country adjourned in respect for Wilson. The Supreme Court of the United States will transact no business this week. Delegations have been appointed from various places to come to Washington to attend the funeral ceremonies. The first brigade of Maryland National Guards have tendered their services to the President as a guard and escort. Particulars of the Vice-President’s Last Moments —The Post-Mortem Examination Apoplexy the Cause of His Death. The Vice-President passed a quiet day yesterday. He heard of Senator Ferry’s death about 8 o’clock which de pressed him very much. Before he re tired to bed he alluded to it several times. He retired at half past nine. His sleep was sound and peaceful. At three this morning his rest was disturb *l by a pain in the chest, which was re lieved by rubbing the chest with an anodyne which had been prescribed. He again slept. He woke precisely at seven o’clock. He said he had slept soundly and was much refreshed. He sat up in bed took a glass of bitter water, which had been prescribed.— Shortly after he arose and walked about the room. His attendant noticed a change in Mr. Wilson about a quarter past seven. He was then lying in bed drawing short, hurried breaths, moving about uneasily, his limbs twitching convulsively. Phy sicians were called. It was noticed that his breathing grew shorter and weaker with each breath, and as the attendant moved round the bed to sup port his head, he gave one long gasp and expired. Pour times last night (before twelve o’clock he called for water and drank a glassful each time. 2f ight before last he complained of his old trouble, with pain at the base of t.he brain, and remarked he must have m , 're determined treatment, but said noticing about it to the Doctor. Last night, between six and eight o’clock, he said: ,4 lf the Doctor were here, I would h.tve a blister applied to.the back of my neO-k.” From eig’ht to half-past nine o’clock, his attendants manipulated him, pinch ing himthoronghly. He never liked to be rubbed. There is no evidence in the face that Mr. Wilson suffered severely. His face wears the usual pleasant ex pression. A post mortem examination was made by the doctors, who came to the conclusion that he died from apo plexy. The result of the examination of external appearances showed noth ing unusual. The brain weighed forty nine ounces. The sinuses of the brain were full of black fluid. There was a blood deposit of lymph on the surface of the cerebal hemispheres of the con sistence and color of the brain and uorm&l cyst, the size of a pea, in each choroid plexus; also atheromatous deposits in the arteries at the base of the brain, and In the anterior and middle cerebral arteries. In the spinal cord there was nothing abnormal in color or consistence. A microscopical examination will be made hereafter. In the lungs there were old pleuritic adhesions on the left side and calcareous deposit, the .size of a pea, in the middle lobe of the right lung. The lungs were congested. The condition of the heart was normal except a small calcareous deposit in the aortic valve, Pericardial fluid was normal. The stomach was empty and congested throughout, with slight erosions or abrasions at several points. The pyloric portion was normal. The liver was congested and somewhat fatty, with a small cyston on the up per surface. The gall bladder was full of bile, but normal. The kidneys weighed eight ounces. Each was con gested with one or two small cysts and cicatrices of similar cysts. The spleen was large, dark and otherwise normal. Other viscera normal. Tho cause of death was apoplexy. Mr. Wilson’s Temporary Successor. The special session of the Senate, called in April last, after an exciting caucus, selected, by a majority vote of ■one, Th° raa9 W. Ferry, of Michigan, as against JHenry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, the competitor for the place. There has been no change In the Sen ate since all the nC w . members partici pated in the caucus aCbberation which brought about the nominal oo * There is no doubt that if the Senate, at ft® next meeting, does not reverse its selection of last April, Mr. Ferry will be the presiding officer. The re- 1 Established 1799. vised statutes contain the following: “In case of removal, death, resigna tion, or inability of both President and Vice-President of the United States, the President of the Senate, or if there be none, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being, shall act as President until the disa bility is removed or anew President elected.” The Escort of Honor. The Baltimore fifth regiment of the Maryland National Guard will act as an escort from Washington to Wilson’s place of burial. Sketch of His Life. He was born at Farmington. N. H., Feb ruary 16,1812. His parents being extreme ly poor, he was apprenticed at ten years of age to a farmer in his native town, with whom he continued eleven years, during w hich period he was sent to school at ir regular intervals, amounting in all to about twelve months. He early formed a taste for reading, and from a private Horary in the neighborhood borrowed aud read on Sundays and in the evening by firelight aud moonlight, in the course of his apprenticeship, nearly one thousand volumes, chiefly of history and biography. On attaining his majority he quitted Far mington, and with all his possessions in a pack on his back walked to Natick, Mass., where he hired himself to a shoemaker until he had learned his trade, at which he worked for two years when, having ac cumulated some money, he returned to New Hampshire and studied for a while in the academies at Stafford, Wolfsborough and Concord. His plan of education was cut short by the insolvency of the person to whom he had entrusted his savings, and he returned to Natick and resumed work as a shoemaker in 1838. In 1840 he took an active part in the Presi dential canvass, and made upwards of sixty speeches in behalf of Gen. Harrison, the Whig candidate. In the live years he was three times elected a representa tive from Natick to the Legislature, and twice a State Senator from Middlesex county. In the Legislature he was soon known as an active and zealous opponent of slavery, aud in 1845 he was selected in conjunction with the poet Whittier to carry to Washington the great anti-slavery peti tion from Massachusetts against the an nexation of 'J exas. In the same year he in troduced in the Legislature a resolution declaring the unalterable hostility of Mas sachusetts to the further extension and longer continuance of slavery in America, and hor fixed determination to use all con stitutional and legal means for its extinc tion. He supported this resolution in a speech, which was pronounced by the lead ing anti-slavery journals to be the fullest and most comprehensive on the slavery question that had yet been made in any legislative body in the country, and it was adopted in the House by ninety-three ma jority. He was a delegate to the Whig National Convention of 1848, and on the rejection of anti-slavery resolutions by the convention he withdrew from it and took a prominent part in organizing the free soil party. He purchased at this time the Boston Republi can, a dally newspaper, which he edited for two years. In 1849 he was chosen Chairman of the Free Soil State Committee of Massachu setts, a post which he actively filled tor four years. In 1850 and again in 1851 lie was chosen a State Senator, and during both terms was President of the Senate. In 1852 he was made President of the Free Soil National Convention at Pittsburg, and Chairman of the National Committee of the party. In the same year he was the Free Soil candi date for Congress in the Eighth District of Massachusetts, where the majority against the Free Soilers exceeded seven thousand live hundred, and faiied of an election by only ninety-three votes. He was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1853, not only by his own town of Natick, but by the town of Berliu, and took a prominent part in the deliberations of that body. In the same year he was the Free Soil candidate for Governor, and was oofeated. In 1856 he was elected to succeed Edward Everett in the United States Senate, and shortly after taking his seat made a speech advocat ing the repeal oi the fugitive slave law and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and in the Territories. He has ever since been conspicuous in the Senate as an earnest advocate of anti-slavery measures. For a brief period in 1855 he was associ ated with the American party; but on the adoption of a pro-slavery platform by the National Council of that party, he with drew from it and took an active share in organizing the Republican party on the basis of opposition to the extension of slavery. When, in May, 1856, Mr. Sumner, his colleague, was assailed by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, Mr. Wilson in a speech to the Senate denounced the act as a “brutal, murderous, and cowardly assault.” For this he was challenged by Mr. Brooks, and declined to accept the challenge on the ground that duelling is a barbarous prac tice which the law of the country has branded as a crime, but stated at the same time that ho believed in the right of self defense in its broadest sense. During the four following year3 Mr. Wilson took part in ail important debates in the Senate, and made elaborate speeches, remarkable for fullness and accuracy of statement, on Kansas, the treasury note bill, the expenses G>t the Government, the tariff, the racitie Kailroad, and many otner topics. His speech in defense of free labor, in reply to Senator Hammond of South Carolina, March, 1859, attained an immense circulation through the free States. In January of the same year the Massachu setts Legislature re-elected him to the Sen ate by nearly a unanimous vote. On the assembling of the Senate in March, 1861, he was made Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, a post which the civil war rendered one of unprecedented labor and responsibility. In this capacity he intro duced and carried through Congress, dur ing the extra session of 1861, the acts to au thorize the employment of five hundred thousand volunteers, to increase the regu lar army, to reorganize the military sys tem, ancl various others of nearly equal importance. It was said by Gen. Scott that he dM more work in that short session than all the chairmen of the Military Com mittees had done for twenty years; and in a letter, dated January 27, 1862, Mr. Cam eron, the Secretary of War, says of him: "No man, in my opinion, in the whole country, has done more to aid the War De partment in preparing the mighty army now under arms.” In the regular session of 1861-’62 Mr. Wilson introduced the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Co lumbia, and also the measure for abolish ing the “ black code.” He was one of the most prominent actors in the Reconstruction of the South, and therefore responsible, in a great measure, for the dreadful misfortunes, sooially, com mercially and politically, which have be fallen the country. In 1872, he was nomi nated for the Vice-Presidency on a ticket with U. S. Grant, and elected. During the past few years, he came out in open antag onism to the President’s policy and strove to rally the old Republicans against him. His feelings seemed to soften toward the South in tho same proportion tnat they hardened against Grant; but, while re commending acts of grace and mercy, he never relinquished the ideas embodied in the XlVth and XVth Amendments, though he wont so far, in a published letter to advo cate that the white people of the South should be allowed to govern their respec tive commonwealths. Some months ago, Mr. Wilson had a stroke of paralysis and never fully recovered from its effects. His death was not altogether unexpected, though it came when he seemed to be on the road to a partial recovery. Mr. Wilson was, in our opinion, a fanatic on the sub ject of the negro; but his fanaticism was sincere. May he rest in peace! FROM RICHMOND. The Johnson-Imboden Squabble Richmond, November 22.— Gen. Brad ley T. Johnson had a hearing before the Police Court, to-day, for assaulting Gen. J. D, Imboden with a cowhide, ou Saturday night. He was fined twenty dollars and placed under bonds in one thousand dollars, to keep the peace twelve months. Gen. Imboden left Saturday night to attend the Railroad Convention, at St. Louis, when arrested. Ho was bailed until December 2d, and not till this morning, as at first telegraphed. New Oblkans, November 22.— Gov. Kellogg has reprieved, for one week, J), R. Fendenson and Bill Williams (cololoi 1 )* sentenced to be hanged. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Losses by the Storm—Narrow Escape of the iron-clad Iron Duke—Spain aud the Pope. London, November 21.—Fourteen lives and many vessels were lost ou the east coast. The brig Elizabeth and bark Fairy Queen, were lost with all on board. The main sluice of the ship Iron Duke, which sunk the Vanguard, was acci dentally left open. Large quantities of water rushed in. The artificer of the ship closed the sluice with water up to his neck. At one time, a signal that the vessel was sinking was displayed. A letter from Rome to the Times states that, besides a long note from the Vatican to Spain, on the 12th, Spain had previously received a secret note from the Vatican which had not yet been printed. Crops. The London Mark Lane Express' weekly review of the corn trade nays: Rain has indefinitely postponed much autumnal sowing in England, and with the bad condition of samples and con tinued large imports, many markets are a shilling cheaper, but farmers are reluctant to accept lower rates, even for poor samples. When foreign arriv als slacken, as soon they must, and rents are paid, a better trade at more remunerative prices seems likely. It appears that French reports have been too favorable. No sowing has been done in some districts. This has hardened the price of wheat in Paris and the provinces, although flour is somewhat cheaper. Prices in Belgium are firm and in Holland stationary. In Germany the markets are inactive aud generally unchanged, although at Dantzig and Vi euna, and, Hungary quotations are rather lower. The Rus sian markets show no change. Bismarck Well Again. Berlin, November 22.—Bismarck was iu Parliament looking better than ex pected. He makes a speech to-day. Havana, November 22.—The Minister of Santo Domingo arrived here and has been received by Oaptain General Val maseda with great honors. A coacn provided for him, was escorted by troops with a baud of music to and from the Government Palace. The re sult of this visit is, that a treaty of peace, friendship, maritime commerce and extradition between Spain and Domingo has been signed. The In surgent leader Carlos Garcia has been surprised and shot. The Captain Gen eral has left for the interior and arriv ed at Las Cruces. His head quarters will be in the field. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Conflagration—Fatal Explosion—Judge Lynch at Fort Valley, Ga.—Fate of a Monster. Harrisburg, Penn., November 22. The Harrisburg Trotting Park, with nine horses, was burned to-day. The fire was the work of an incendiary. Pittsburg, November 22.—Morehead & Co’s blast furnace exploded, killing one person and wounding three, prob ably fatally. Fort Valley, Ga , November 22. John Brown (col.) was arrested while attempting to rape a highly respectable young lady. He had knocked out some of her teeth and filled her mouth aud eyes with dirt. He was taken from the custody of the Sheriff and hanged. Nashville, November 22. —Allen Gwynn (colored), learning that two ex penitentiary convicts intended stealing his horses, collected a posse of white men, who watched his premises. The thieves approached ; one was killed and the other escaped. C. O. Brooks bliot fatally, Ben Tar water, at Gardner’s. Tenn. Brooks charged Tarwater with the seduction of his sister. FROMNEW YORK. Suicide of a Cashier—Drunken Row- Fatal Boiler Explosion—A Congress man Sued for a Subsidy Grab. New York, November 22. —Edward Lovey, Cashier of the Devoe Oil Works, shot himself through the heart. Two hundred laborers employed in Beigen’s Tunnel engaged in a drunken row. All kinds of weapons were used. Twenty-eight arrests were made. The boiler of Dye’s Poudrette Facto ry exploded. One man was killed and one futally hurt. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company are sueing ex-Congressman John G. Schumaker, of Brooklyn, for thirty thousand dollars, alleged unlawfully paid him by the company’s agent, Richard B. Irwin, for services in pro curing a subsidy for the company in 1872. THE GUIBORD CASE. The Grave too Shallow—lt is Pro nounced Profane Ground. Montbkal, November 22.—The Cure of the parish of Notre Dame has given public notice that Guibord’s grave is illegally shallow. Yesterday, the Cures of the Roman Catholic Churches of this city, an nounced the reception of a pastoral letter relative to the interment of the remains of Joseph Gulbord In conse crated ground. The pastoral says: “For we have truly declared, lu virtue of Diviue Power, that we exercise, In the name of the Pastor of Pastors, that the place where this rebellious son of the Church has been deposited Is sepa rated from the rest of the consecrated cemetery, to be no longer more than a profane place—an ordinary piece of ground.” FROM CHICAGO. Locomotive Men Going into Life In surance. Chicago, November 22.—The United Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, in session here, have adopted a plan of mutual life insurance, elected officers and adjourned to Baltimore next year. FROM SAN FRANCISCO. 4 Speculative Cauard Exposed. San Fbanoisgo, November 22.—The acting Mexican Consul scouts the re port that a treaty between Mexico and the United States has been drafted to be submitted Congress, ceding the ter ritory north of the twenty-sixth paral lel as a compensation for United States claims. He says that the report has been circulated for purely speculative purposes. • nci si— —— A New York man has cured himself of the filthy nabit of tobacco chewing, by tasting an apple every time he felt inclined to partake of the degrading weed. He had been perfuming and frescoing stoves for seventeen years, but the fruit worked an effeotual curs. AUGUSTA. GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1875 THE MEXICAN OUTRAGES. Important Dispatches from Gen. Ord —He Recommends Vigorous Meas ures—The Mexican Raiders to be Treated as Pirates. Washington, November 22.—General Ord, in command of the Department of Texas, under date of September 10th, sent his report to the Assistant Adju tant General of the Military Division of the Missouri, giving a lengthy ac count of the border operations of the Mexican banditti, most of which has been anticipated by the press publica tions. The report closes with the fol lowing significant suggestions : “It seems to me that the circumstance of the plunder of the stock ranches in the Rio Grande, are almost iden tical with the piracies committed on our commerce at one time by the Algerines, who fled in safety to their own ports with their prizes there. The offenseswere committed on the open sea, and here they are com r mitted with the same ease on the open plains. In both cases, the pirates found a ready sale for tlieir captures iu the ports where their expeditions were fitted out, namely, Algiers, Tripoli, &c., for the Moors ; Reyrasa, Carraago, Meir and Guerero for the Mexicans; and in both cases, the pi rates were rewarded by promotion and honors. Patrolling the country along the Rio Grande wfth a view to inter cepting raiders before they can reach the river with he stolen herds in their possession, is as if we had tried to stop the depredations upon our commerce by the barbs by scattering our ctuisers along the north coast of Africa, with a view of intercepting some Algerine pirate be fore he could get within three leagues of land, with his American prizes. The success of Capt. McNally, of the State troops, in striking the party of Corti na’s men, in possession of a stolen herd, recently, wan due to his acci dentally capturing two straggling robbers, who, by the use of the only effectual means known in such cases, but not legitimate enough for regulars to apply, were compelled to betray the position and strength of their band. I have good reason for the belief that the order from the Mexican Government for the arrest of Cortina vrm due to the order for the movement oi a naval force to the Mexican border, as Cortina was not the only leader ofi raiding bands and the others are still at their old business. Some more effectual means must be adopted than sending troops aud sailors to look on while our people are being despoiled and mur dered, for it is very evident that the sailors and soldiers, however willing, can do nothing if confined to this side of the river, and an order to make re prisals, with the means to carry out the order, has sometimes resulted iu indemnity, as well as* security. FROM ST. LOUIS. The Whiskey Frauds. St. Louis, November 21.— Amended indictments have beea presented in the United States Courts against Wm. McKee and Constantine McGuire, and one against them Jointly, Other in dictments have been found, but against whom is not yet ascertained. In the whiskey fraud trial yesterday, Wm. McKee, of the Globe-Democrat, flatly contradicted the testimony of Fitzroy and McGru x He says that neither LeavenwortH nor Joyce ever paid him money for campaign purposes, aud that he had no personal knowledge of the existence of ihe whiskey ring, except from rumor. ; Constantine McGuire, revenue col lector from 1873 to 1875, testified that he had no connection with the whiskey ring, never received any money, nor had any understanding with McDonald or others regarding this subject. Marshal Newcomb, United States Marshal from 1869, day before yester day testified that he hover had any un derstanding with ai.y of the whiskey ring, and never received money from them or anything of value. He knew nothing of McDonald’s placing any ob stacle in the way of investigation by him (Newcomb.) Wm. Patrick, United States District Attorney from 1873 to 1875, testified that he had never Lad any conversa tion with McDonald or Joyce, or any any one which connected him with the whiskey ring. Nevdr received money from such a source. “ Gen. Boynton, correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, testified that lie would not believe McGrue under oath when personally interested. The de fense rested here, and then adjourned to Monday, when the counsel will sum up. St. Louis, November 22.— McDonald was found guilty on every count, in the indictment. Minor Telegrams. United States Senator Orris 8. Ferry died at South Norwalk, Ct., Saturday afternoon. Advices from China to the 14th inst., Btate that the Chinese crew of the German schooner Ana mutinied and murdered the captain and mate. The British brig has arrived off Galveston. The captain and crew, nine In number, ah had the yellow fever. Three of the crew died in Cuba; the rest are convalescent. The Sankey and Moody revival meet ings commenced at Philadelphia yes day in the old Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot. Between ten thousand aud eleven thousand persons were present. Col. John McLean Taylor, senior Major of the Subsistence Department, Is dead. Brick Pomeroy denies that he or his paper has suspended, aud threatens libel suits. I Dr. Wm. H. Hure, Bishop, was taken suddenly §ll while preaching. Montbkal, November 22.—M. P. Ryan, a produce dealer, has failed for 8100,000. i Savannah, November 22.—The steam ship City of Havana, from New York, bound for Havana, put into Tybee for repairs, having broke the main cross head of the engine, on Friday at noon, twenty-five miles northeast of Frying Pan Shoals. ON TO.f iPBAt A Monitor Ordered to be In Readi ness —New Orleans the Base of Operations Against Havana. Cincinnati, November 22.—A New Orleans special says the monitor Can onlcus has been ordered to prepare for sea at a moment’s notice. Her pro visions and ammunition are aboard. Officers and men art. forbidden to come ashore. It is reported that Commodore Cooper reports favorably of New Or leans as a base of operations In oas@ of difficulty with Spain, ASMODEUS IN ST. LOUIS. The Press in the Whiskey Ring. (George Alfred Townsend’s Letter to the New York Graphic. 1 The frauds in St. Louis may have amounted to $5,000,000 or $10,000,000. Of this amount a large percentage, in stead of going to the Government, was paid in regular salaries and irregular but frequent “strikes” to Joyce for the others; little men were “tipped;” big distant men were made to answer for dummies to extort more money. But it is perfectly clear that if the revenge ful Joyce had any testimony to impli cate men high in position he would have dragged them all to the peniten tiary with him. Indicted with McDon ald and Avery, who are defended by General Ben Butler, and with Maguire, the collector, are William McKee, edi tor of the Globe-Democrat, and his nephew, Mr. Ray, who was a gauger. It may be a surprise to you to see the press mixed up in a whiskey-smug gling case, but, in a newspaper quarrel, not of a very reputable character, this whole subject of frauds on the revenue at St. Louis came to light. Goo. W. Fishbaek, whom McKee ran rivalry with, is forty-seven years old, and a native of Batavia, Clermont county, Ohio. He is of Virginia de scent, the son of a lawyer and Judge, and was brought up to the law, but wearied of its monotony, and became market and steamboat editor of the Missouri Democrat. The Democrat had been founded about 1850, by the union of two other Van Buren papers, and was designed to be the organ of the Blairs, Benton and Gratz Brown. Its editor, McKee, was a native of New York city, the son of an Irish sea cap tain, and the younger McKee entered the office of Maj. Nash’s New York Courier and Enquirer, in 1830. He was a printer at the case with W. S. Abell, of Baltimore, and the founder of the Philadelphia Ledger, and he moved from New York to St. Louis, in 1841, and has been ever since a pub lisher. In 1855 Mr. McKee married a daughter of Samuel Hill, of New York, and at this time was the owner of one of the largest and most successful dailies in the West, and the associate of young Fishbaek. McKee’s papers in St. Louis have been successively the Barnburner, the Signal and the Democrat. Abel R. Cobin, the Presi dent’s brother-in-law, published the St. Louis Argus somewhat earlier than McKee’s period. Duff Green was also a St. Louis editor in his day, and Tom Allen, who published the Madisonian at Washington, made that city his home and married a wealthy creole there. McKee and Fishbaek, after working in harmony for several years, dif fered on the question of sustaining Carl Schurz and the bolters’ ticket of 1871. McKee preferred to be a regular Republican, and bought Fishbaek out at the high valuation of $400,000. Fish back went to York,but grew weary of inactivity, and returning, repurchased the paper at a very high price. It was just at the turn of the tide of prosper ity, aud the property rapidly depre ciated, particularly after McKee start ed the Globe in opposition to the De mocrat, and made it the more spicy paper of the two. He built this paper up on the Associated Press franchise of a ruined German daily not worth a cent, but for which a speculator named Pulitzer received $40,000. Both the Globe and the Democrat lost money, and there is not a prosperous paper in St. Louis, except the Westliche Post, Schurz’s German daily. But McKee had hidden resources, as the tale was told, while Fishbaek had only his bank account, and that was looking lean and consumptive. He determined to make McKee buy his paper out by attacking him on the whiskey ring side. So Fish back communicated with the Treasury, put his reporters on the ring, tracked up the whole conspiracy, and in due time attacked McKee as the recipient of SI,OOO a week hush-money from the Sc. Louis whiskey ring. The Treasury hailed just long enough to allow Fishbaek to sell his paper to McKee for $300,000, and then proceed ed against the whole cabal—not count ing Fishbaek. So there is very little honor about the performance anywhere. McKee is defended by Dan Voorheos, the sentimental rhetorician from the Wabash. It Is to be hoped, on the score of McKee’s ago and past honor able activity, that he can show his in nocence very completely and be reliev ed from the association of these smug glers. He had a property a few months ago esteemed to be the leading Repub lican journal west of New York in value and circulation. In these whisky cases, as usual, woman have played their parts. Sev eral of the officials indicted found no higher use for their money than to squander it on illicit relations. Broken socially and pecuniarily, they teach the million many old lessons that money acquired by treachery and felony is the seed of the devil’s taxes. At Jefferson City, wearing a convict suit, making shoes, or wooden ware, or smith’s work, or breaking stone, Joyce has entered upon his sentence. The Missouri goes turbidly past, under a burning sun, in Summer; the land scape is wild and tawny; there are scarcely any female prisoners but ne groes. What a destiny for soldiers, and men of trust and family 1 I appre hend that Joyce will escape and leave the country —but whence ? "As good to die and go, as die and stay." ‘‘The “mysterious disappearances” in Uew York can very frequently be ex plained. The journals of that city published lengthy accounts of the sud den disappearance of Mr. George Gris wold, a wealthy citizen, one night last week, after having attended a banquet with some friends. He alighted from a carriage near his home and nothing was heard of him for two days. As he had some valuable jewelry on his per son and a large amount of money, it was thought he had been knocked on the head and thrown into the river. A great noise was raised over the sup posed foul deed, but it turned out that (Jriswold had banqueted too well and fell on the sidewalk after he got out of the carriage, was found by somebody and taken to a friend’s house. His doctor, the papers say, “refuses to tell the nature of the disease.” It is related that Count Yon Moltke was returning home late at night at Rostock, and missed his lodgings. After several unavailing attempts to find his way he suddenly stopped short, and, approaching a by-stander, asked : “ Can you tell where Count Von Moltke is staying ? ” “ Yes,” said the man, and he gave the proper directions. “ Ah ! ” said the Count, “that is what I thought myself.” What was the matter with the re owned strategist ? The fckammell & Bros., of St. Johns, N. 8., are half a million dollars. THE NATCHEZ HORROR. A Woman Attacked and Torn by Dogs - Full Particulars of the Heart- Rending Catastrophe. [Natchez Democrat, 16th.j The people of Natchez were on Sun day morning last shocked beyond de scription by the announcement that Mrs. James Fagan, an estimable and industrious lady of this city, in humble life, had been, at a quarter after 9 o’clock that morning, attacked by three ferocious dogs, and so torn and mangled that her death was imminent. Mrs. Fagan was an humble, indus trious aud hard working woman, wife of Mr. Jas. Fagan and mother of a family consisting of two girls and one boy. The family resided at the east ern end of State street, next neighbors to Mr. Wm. Abbott. On Sunday morn ing, her cow not having returned in due time, she went iu the direction of the bayou, just beyond her residence, to look for the cow. At about a quarter after 9 o’clock the barking of several dogs, mingled with screams, were heard in the neighbor hood of the bayou, between Mr. Gas trill’s residence, on liomochitto street, and the late residence of Gen. Clark (Routhland), in an easterly direction.— In a few minutes a colored boy, name not known to us, employed by' Mr. H. C. Eustis, who was attracted by the barking and screaming, passed along Homochitto street, coming towards town and crying out that a woman had been almost eaten up by dogs, designat ing at the same time the location. The boy, when he reached Mr. Eustis, des cribed to him what he had witnessed. He said he had been attracted by the screams, and going to the spot, found a lady (Mrs. F)., in a drain or gully of the bayou, her head only bting out of the water it contained, and her body submerged, and three dogs, which he described, ferociously being and tear lag at her; he had, on seeing the situa tion, driven the dogs away, for some distance, and then came immediately after having done so to notify Mr. Eustis and get help. Mr. Eustis, immediately after hear ing the boy’s narration, proceeded to the spot. There he found poor Mrs. Fagan, submerged, as we have said, in the water of the gully, up to her neck, and her face (all then visible above the water) most horridly lacerated, the dogs having evidently made a most fu rious attack and taken out whole pieces of flesh. This was probably about twenty minutes after the dogs had done their dreadful work. When Mr. Eustis proposed to help the poor woman out of the water, she, with heroic modesty, disclosed the horrible work the dogs had done, saying to him (Mr. E.) that the dogs had stripped the clothing from her person, and requesting Mr. Eustis to get a shawl or blanket to cover her before she would get out of the water. What agoniziug torture she must have endured in this asser tion of her modesty can only be im agined when it is known that, after Mr. Eustis had sent to Mr. H. M. Gas trell’s house (the nearest to tlie scene), and got a blanket, and she had been taken to Mr. Gastrell’s house to die, as the sequel proved, from her terrible wounds, despite every attention on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Gastrell and the ministrations of some of the best phy sicians, Drs. Metcalfe and McPheeters, it was found that not only the poor woman’s face had been torn to pieces, but that her breast and arms and limbs had been almost stripped of flesh; and yet she lay there in the water, this poor, bleeding, lacerated woman, a martyr to most excruciating agony for the sake of womanly mod esty. Mr. Gastrell, Mr. Eustis and others took the poor woman to Mr. Gastrell’s, residence, and there, before two o’clock after having received the last sacra ments of her church, she died. About the spot where she had been discover ed and rescued, alas, too late, were found evidences of a most fearful con test between the poor victim and the ferocious dogs. Her shawl, strips of her clothing, of which she had been almost entirely denuded, and great pieces of flesh from almost every part of her body, were found within a short dis- j tance of the place, scattered in every direction. Gentlemen who afterwards went to the scene of the terrible tragedy, tracked the dogs up the right bank of the bayou for a considerable distance. The boy who first came upon the scene describes the dogs as a white spotted bull dog, a black dog with white neck, and a black dog with long hair, and wo hear that Mrs. Fagan her self, who never lost consciousness from the finding of her to her death, concurs , with the boy exactly in the description. Since writing the above we have seen Mr. Eustis himself; he tells us that the ; boy left his residence at about half past eight o’clock, to take some cows over to Gen. Clark’s Routhland place; that on the way he heard the dogs, and looking in that direction saw Mrs. Fagan’s hand being pulled to and hither by them; that the boy then came to him (giving the alarm along the way) and told him, Mr. Eustis that "the dogs were eating a woman up.’’ Mr. Eustis hastened to the place indi cated and there found Mrs. Fagan very much in the condition above described. Mr. Eustis corroborates substantially the account already given of her modest refusal to be taken from the water until a covering was obtain ed for her person. Her own statement, Mr. Eustis tells us, is that she found the” dogs (describ ing them as we have stated) furiously attacking her oow, which had not been up for two days, and she attempted to keep .the dogs off the cow, when they set upon her, and the rest of the sad story is already told. The fate of a candidate is thus mir rored by the truthful rhymer of the New York Commercial Advertiser : “On a platform made of plank, there they stood poor timid Blank, for passers-by to scrutinize and scan ; and the party papers said, Blank was level in his head, and the office fitted nicely to the man. But the opposition press called on Blankly to confess how he came to have that money in the bank ; how he poisoned a neighboring well, sent the family all to —: how he lied, how he gambled, how he drank. How he used his hired help, called his mother-in law a whelp, and was down on the Bible in the sohools; how his father wasn’t sane, how his grandmother was lame, how his family run to scrofula and fools.” At a ball in Baltimore, not long ago, a pistol dropped from the pocket of a young man, and the young lady with whom he was danoing was shot in the leg. Of course you couldn’t ask young men to leave their pistols at home when they go to balls, and if young ladies, on such occasions, would wear pantaletts made of stove-pipe, there woqlcl be no need to ask them, New Series—Vol. 28, No. 93 GLEANINGS. About this time look out for comic almanacs. A gentleman of strong attachments —the Sheriff. It is pretty well settled that Shake speare was not Bacon, but the question now is, Was he an Irishman ? \ ? ictor Hugo was once accused of having changed sides more than once. He 'replied : “ J’ai grand! ” (I have grown). Bystander: Keep the lid on, old man, or you’ll make it leak ! Milkman :No fear ; reckoned on rain, and brought it out over proof. A Nashville tombstone bears the in scription, “ His accounts were square to a cent.” He was either a pauper or a good hand at figures. “ What is the dog barking at ?” ask ed a fop, whose boots were more po lished than his ideas. “ Why,” said a bystander, “ he sees another puppy in your boots.” Miss Braddon Intends to visit this country and give a series of readings. If this will keep her from writing two or three terrible novels in the mean time she should be doubly welcome. Odd mistake in the Lockport Union. For “Jennie Butler and the devil,” read "Jimmie Butler and the Owl.” We never saw any tiling worse than that, except some recent election returns. It is now considered the correct thing, if you own a thoroughbred steed, to have him photographed. In this res pect, getting the carte before the horse is quite admissable. Guibord himself did not make much fuss about being burled. He said that if he could walk for fourteen minutes in a red shirt, with a brass band in front of him and a target carrier behind him, he would sell out cheap. Man (with hands In pockets): “Seen anything of a job o’ work, lately, John?” Other man (with hands in other pock ets): “Saw one t’other day, but didn’t like to ask, ’cos they might ’a said yes.” —London Fan. A variegated runaway couple—the man lame of a leg, very black and ugly as sin, the woman white, blind of an eye and mother of three children, were in Lafayette the other day, hunting a Justice to unite them.— [lnd. News. “ I never get mad at a fool,” was the cutting remark of a man who fancied himself affronted by another. “ That accounts for your always being on such amicable terms with yourself,” was the rejoinder. John Bright opposes the fashion of wearing mourning, “ which is always costly, and, as worn by many women, hideous.” Very sensible; but the young widow who looks well In black will continue to have her own way. We regret it exceedingly; but history demands the truth—Mrs. Edinburg’s baby is bald. —Rochester Democrat. Why pass over in silence the fact that the dumpy little puttyish lump of a thing has skin all over it—and is tooth less ? A business house in Columbus has conspicuously displayed in its show window a man’s skull, and printed in large letters across the forehead these words of warning to the daily swarm of traveling salesmen: “This was a Drummer.” When you see a man wearing a glossy new hat, and at the same time having on a ragged coat and broken shoes, pants with too much spring at the bot tom and too little thickness at the knees, you may know he has been bet ting on elections. It is demonstrated that the weight of the earth is five quintilious eight hundred and fifty-five trillion tons, yet some people think they tilt it up when ever they walk abroad. Some of the Chicago street car lines have posted notices in their cars read ing: "Counterfeit nickles not taken for fare.” When a corporation gets so particular as this, it is time people saved their counterfeit currency to patronize circuses. They were talking of a death yester day, when one man asked : “What were his last words?” “He didn’t say any thing,” was the reply. “That’s just like him,” said the first man, with an approving nod. "There was no gas about him. He was all business.” “ I say, Sambo, where did you git de shirt studs ? ” “In de shop, to be sure.” " Yah, you jest told me you hadn’t no money.” “ Dat’s right.” “ How did you git ’em, don ? ” “ Well, I saw on a card in de window, ‘ oollar studs,’ so I went in and collared ’em.” Ohio Valley Neivs. “Yes. sir,” remarked a sanguine speculator to a capitalist whom he was endeavoring to captivate for an invest ment; “yes, sir, my project is the weightiest on record.” “No doubt,” dryly responded the moneyed man, “and that’s why you’ll find it hard to carry it out.” A lady came Into the post office yes terday and stopped before the picture of Mr. Tilton, on the wall, apparently highly pleased. After a few minutes of enraptured contemplation, she ex claimed enthusiastically: “Well, I wonder if he’s really coming here. I’d like mighty well to see him.” And, ad dressing a bystander, “Is it for wo men, too?” —Lawrence Democrat. Mrs. Scott-Slddons, at one of her readings in “ high-toned ” Cambridge, Massachusetts, the other evening, openly rebuked her audienoe because they applauded her humorous and non sensical selections, but made no de monstrations when she read from Shakespeare. Perhaps it was because she read nonsense better than she did Shakespeare. While the Rev. Collyer is declaiming In favor of unlimited matrimony, In every large newspaper o fllce in the country there sits a sad young man, with a high forhead, writing regretful letters in answer to hundreds of appli cations for employment. There is no vacancy except in the head of the reverend declaimer, and the multipli cation of the race just now seems to be the multiplication of hordes of useless incompetents, who oouldn’t do work if they were to get it. We dislike to see so many young and middle-aged men standing on the street corners, about the hotels, and around public places, in idleness. Talk with some of them—they are gloomy and sad, and are waiting for jobs to turn up suitable to their tastes, They tell you they are hoping for happier days and pleasant work, Young man, life Is a reality—there will, if you do not mind, be a oloud beneath your sky and a veil about your heart. Just take it for granted that there will be no better time than the present; that there will never rise brighter suns, blow softer breeaes, smile sweeter flow ers, or dawn happier days. Then go to work, no matter at what, only take hold and aot!—Howard Star, To Advertisers and Subscribers. ON AND after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. ADVKRTr sE MEN T s must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet maybe remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected* Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Rome had a S6OO burglary on Friday night. Only two deaths of residents of Ma con last week. The Baptists in Dahlonega are agitat ing the formation of anew association. There is considerable typhoid fever in Gainesville, and several deaths. The newspapers throughout the State complain of a want of fractional cur rency, especially of fifty cent notes. A daughter of Isaac Pendley, in Cuai ming, Forsyth county, committed sui cide last week. Mrs. J. B. Baird, daughter of Gen eral Colquitt, died at Kirkwood on Sat urday last. Judge Hopkins, of Atlanta, is about to resign as Judge of the Superior Court. Solicitor General Glenn will probably succeed him. Mr. Reese Crawford has resigned as Solicitor of the Muscogee Circuit, and Mr. Grigsby E. Thomas has been ap pointed in his stead. The citizens of Griffin, are preparing, irrespective of denomination, to enter tain the members of the North Georgia Conference. As the session promises to be one of unusal interest, a large number of visitors is anticipated. The criminal population of Macon have dropped the burglary business, and taken to incendiarism. On Satur day night Walff’s paper warehouse waa burned down by the rascals. Ten or fifteen emigrants who passed through Atlanta some two. weeks ago for Illinois returned yesterday, satisfied that Georgia after all is the best place to live in. Columbus Times: It is that Gov. Smith has decided not for the third term, for in this section of the State Gen. A. H. Colquitt is the people’s choice, and the voice of the people will be heard. The LaGrange Reporter remarks: Gov. Smith has offered a reward of SSOO for the person who burned the gin house of Hon. C. C. Duncan, in Hous ton county. Is this the only burnt gin house the Governor has heard of this year, or how ? Gov, Smith, having received an offi cial report from the Commission of Physicians, appointed to examine S. B. Brinkley, the wife murderer, reporting him sane, directs the Sheriff of Coweta to carry out the death sentence on Friday next. Already the City Light Guards of Columbus have received answers from eight of the military companies of Geor gia, acquiescing in the formation of the proposed regiment to go from this State to the Centennial, and favoring the encampment In the spring.* The latest replies are from the Light Guards of LaGrange and the Oglethorpe In fantry of Augusta. The Okefenokee fishing party are having a splendid time. The latest ac counts represents that trout were caught as rapidly as they could be lifted into the boat, and some of them were larger than the shad usually sold in Atlanta. An immense turtle waa also seen, and another alligator waa killed. Rome Courier: The information is that a large and inereased area of wheat is being sown In this section of Georgia. This work is also being ac complished with a great deal of pains In the prearatlon of the land. We are glad to make this statement. It is cer tainly time that our farmers should be convinced of the importance of making their own provision supplies at home. The memorial services in honor of Gen. H. L. Benning oocurred in the In ferior Court room, in Columbus, on Saturday. Judge M. J. Crawford pre sided, and Col. Chappell read the re port of the Memorial Committee. Judge Porter Ingram, Judge J. F. Poer, J. M. Russell, G. E. Thomas and C. R. Rus sell made eulogistic speeches. In con clusion, the memoriai was then adopt ed, a page in the minutes was devoted to enrolling the memorial, and a copy was ordered sent to the family of Gen. Benning. Great feeling was manifest ed in the audience at the delivery of the speeches, and many were affected to tears. The delivery of the various speeches occupied two hours. The arrangements for the centen nial tea party, whioh comes off at the Markham House, at Atlanta, on the 23d and 24th inst., are about all com pleted. The thirteen original oolonies will be represented as follows: Vir ginia, Mrs. Lewis Clark ; Georgia, Mrs. G. W. D. Cook ; Maryland, Mrs. H. M, Cottinghara ; South Carolina, Mrs. Miles Turpin ; North Carolina, Mrs. John B. Peck; New Jersey, Mrs. Louis Scho field ; Rhode Island, Mrs. E. F, Hoge ; Connecticut, Mrs. H. I. Kimball; New York, Mrs. Louis de SauUes ; Pennsyl vania, Mrs. Dr. Sells ; New Hampshire, Mrs. Wm. Markham ; Massachusetts, Wm. Goodnow, Mra. Dr. J. M. Johnson will assist Mrs. Cook at the Georgia table. The ladies in charge of the tables have agreed to attend in Centennial cos tumes. A prize will be given to the ladies who make the most successful reports from their tables. The Centen nial cups and saucers are of unique and novel design. The banners for deoorating the tables are to be pre pared under the supervision of the oommittee from the Library Associa tion. The refreshment table is to be in charge of Mrs. E. Rawaon aDd Mrs. Oliver H. Jones, assisted by Col. O. H. Jones. The following gentlemen have been commissioned by Grand Worthy Chief Templar J. G. Thrower, of Atlanta, during the week ending November 20th : J. M. Douglas, Resaca Lodge, No. 216, Resaca, Gondon county; W. E. Raynolds, Union Point, No. 319 Union Point, Green county; C. Dowman, Pleas ant Grove, No. 312, Altanta, Fulton Cos.; M. H. Lewis, Summerville, No. 140, Midville, Burke county; C. M. Witcher, Glade, No. 51, Point Peter, Oglethorpe county; D. T. Holloway, Jonodab, No. 394, Jug Tavern, Walton county; N. H, Beall, Ebenza, No. 290, Louisville, Jefferson county; F. A. Boring, Shiloh, No. 427, Kennesaw, Cobb county; H. J. David, Quillman, No. 428, Maysville, Hall county; Rev. W. B. Rutherford, Bethlehem, No. 305, Camps Mill, Jack son county; R. E, O’Donnally, Hamil ton, No. 228, Atlanta, Fulton county; Abner W. White, Dawson, No. 386, Columbus, Mnsoogee oounty; L. C. Mc- Calmau, Lone Star, No. 373, Carrollton, Carroll county; P. H. Calhoun, Wil liams Chapel, No. 466, Morrow station, Clayton county- J. Wylie, Quillian, District Deputy for the Ninth Con gressional Distriot, vice W. A. Williams resigned. The grand officers reports a general temperance revival all over the jurisdiction. S. H. Shepard, of the Eighth District, J. K. Thrower, of the Fifth District, and J. H. Coram, of the Second District, are preparing fojf Distriot Conventions,