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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year. $lO oo " six months 5 00 ** throe months 2 so Tki-Weekly— one year 6 oo “ six months 2 60 Weekly—one year 2 oo six months 1 00 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers. 2’-£ cts. Subscriptions must in all eases be puid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAB. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGltf. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) tsr Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA, GA. FROM ST. LOUIS. RICH DEVELOPMENTS. Hen Babcock in the Toils—Some Very Ugly Circumstantial Evidence—His Correspondence With the Bosses of the Ring. St. Louis, November 30.—The Avery prosecution has closed with some tes timony of a general character. The cor respondence shows that Gen. Babcock received many dispatches from parties implicated. The following was read : Washington, Dec. sth, 1874. Col. John A. Joyce, St. Louis: I eanDot hear that anyone has gone or is going. | Signed] Babcock. After a long debate, the telegrams >vcre admitted, as follows: St. Louis, Oct. 25th, 1871. Gen. 0. E. Babcock: Poor Ford is dead. McDonald is with his body. Let the President act cau tiously on the successorship. [Signed] John A. Joyce. St. Louis, Oct. 27th, 1873. Gen. 0. E. Babcock: The bondsmen prefer the man they have recommended. An expression from the President to his friends here will secure everything. Let the President do for the best. De pend upon McDonald and myself to stand by his actions to the last. (Signed) John A. Joyce. St. Louis, October 28,1873. His Excellency U. S. Grant: We have the honor to recommend Col. Constantine Maguire for Collector of Internal Revenue of the iirst dis trict of Missouri. Signed, John A. Joyce, William Patrick, C. A. Newcomb, John McDonald. St. Louis, October 28,1873. Genei'al Babcock: See dispatch sent to the President. Wo mean it mum. [Signed] Joyce, St. Louis, March 14, 1874. General Babcock: Start for San Francisco to-morrow night. Make D call off his scandal hounds that only blacken the memory of poor Ford and friends. Business. [Signed] J, St. Louis, October 27, 1874. General Babcock: Have you talked with D. Are things right and how? Answer. [Signed [ T. St. Louis, Dec. 3, 1874. Genei'al Babcock: Has the Secretary or Commissioner ordered anybody here. (Signed.) J. St. Louis, Feb. 3, 1875. General Babcock: We have official information that the enemy weakens. Push things. (Signed.) Sylph. St. Louis, April 23,1875. General Babcock: Tell Mack to see Parker of Colorado, and telegraph to the Commissioner to crush out the St. Louis enemies. (Signed) Ghit. A somewhat lengthy discussion then took place—Judge Krurn, for the de fense, contending that three counts of the indictment against his client were insufficient, and should be quashed. Gen. Henderson, for the prosecution, replied, and admitted that one of the counts was insufficient, but maintained the others were good and binding upon the defendant. The court sustained Judge Ivrum’s positiou as to two counts, and said he should instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty as to them. The other counts were held to be good, and the defense then proceeded with their side by in troducing three letters of a social character, which had passed between Joyce and Avery, and tending to show that they were in the habit of using such familiar terms as Billy and Aleck, Joyce’s middle name and Avery’s Christian name, in writing to each other. Depositions of persons in Wash ington relating to the good character of Avery were also read. This done, Judge Krum announced that to be the case for the defense. The arguments will be heard to-morrow. A BLAST FROM BOREAS. Severe (Tales and Unprecedented Cold Weatber at the North. Boston, November 30.—The gale ox tended along the New England coast. The velocity here, at one time, was sixty-live miles an hour. A large school house at Waterville was unroofed while the school was session. The children escaped without serious in jury. Detroit, November 30.—A furious northwest gale and intense cold weath er prevailed. Several ~ vessels were ashore and broke from their moorings. The barge Wauregan is on the reef. Captain McKenzie, his wife and two children, and the crew, are supposed to be lost. Boston, November 30. —There is un precedented cold weather for the sea son in all sections of New England. Thu thermometer is from four to twen ty-two degrees below zero. Milford, Pa., November 30.—The thermometer is two degrees above zero. The Delaware is frozen over. Port Jarvis, N. Y., November 30. The canal is closed from Hinesdale to Allenville. All boats will reach tide water to-day, when the canal will be closed. Buffalo, November 30. —The boats are all right on the Erie Canal. The weather along the line is from three to five degrees below zero. New York, November 30.—The mer cury fell thirty-eight degrees in the past twenty-four hours. Detroit, November 30.—News of the wrecked barges Wauregan and Sweep stakes has been received. The Sagi naw is closed in by ice. Hazelton, Pa., November 30.—The weather has been intensely cold here since yesterday afternoon, when the moronry began to fall very rapidly. It reaehed two degrees below zero during night, and at noon to-day was but five above. Minor Telegrams. Wheeling, November 30.—Articles of impeachment against E. A. Bennett, Auditor, have been adopted. Albany', N. Y., November 30.—Ex- United States Senator Ira Harris is very low. Columbus, 0., November 30,—Gov ernor Allen has appointed Millikin Treasurer elect, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Treasurer Welch. Providence, November 30.—Batteries B, T and L, of the Fifth Artiilery, with the regimental band, left Newport this evening for New York en route for Charleston. Savannah, November 30.—The Sa vannah and Charleston Railroad was completed to-day to Savannah, giving the road for the first time an inde pendent track for the entire distance between the two cities, ®l)e Augusta Constitutionalist. Established 1799. FROM WASHINGTON. Sliober Stock Rising—Judge Advocate Holt Retires to Private Life. Washington, November 30.— Hon. Fraucis E. Shober, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Democratic Con gressional Committee of the Forty second Congress, has great strength for Clerk of the House. Judge Advocate General Holt has re tired on his own account. Gen. Dunn has been appointed Judge Advocate. Ex-Speaker Blaine and the Presiden cy-Proposed Constitutional Amend ment on the School Question—Cam eron Moving on Grant. iSpecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.) Washington, November 29. — Ex- Speaker Blaine as a Presidential candi date does not like the idea of the third term people getting ahead of him on any of the popular issues. Mr. Blaiue is now out with a proposition which he says will settle the public school agitation for ail time. He proposes the following as a constitutional amend ment : “No State shall make any law re specting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, shall be under the con trol of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised ever be divided be tween religious sects or denominations.” The country has had some reason of late to hope that the party with which Mr. Blaine is identified were disposed to cease tinkering with the Constitu tion. But it is evident now that such hope is delusive. No one dreamed that there need be any “public school agita tion” until the idea was broache 1 by the Republican party leaders. It has been seized hold of first by President Grant in the interest of his third term, and now by Mr. Blaine, which indicates that whether or no the people are to be forced to make it an element in the next Presidential campaign. Cameron Against Grant. For some months past there has been no secret made of the fact that the President and the Camerons are “out.” The President has for some time been aware that it was entirely due to the intrigues of Gen. Cameron that the anti-third term resolution was put through the Pennsylvania Repub lican Convention last Spring. This was in revenge for the refusal of the President to allow Gen. Cameron to control at will the Federal patronage for Pennsylvania. Lately a movement has been started by Gen. Cameron to provide for the election of the Pennsyl vania delegates to the National Repub lican Convention as early as next March. The object ol this is to secure au anti-Grant delegation or a delega tion which can be used for the Came ron clique exactly as it may further their interests. The friends of the President in Pennsylvania are at work to checkmate this move, and lively times among the Pennsylvania Repub licans may be anticipated. Already the opponents of the Cameron faction in the-State are talking about the necessity of sustaining the President. The result will be apt to show how much real strength the third term has in Pennsylvania. More Mexican Troubles—Babcock Swears He is Innocent—The Damag ing Telegram. Washington, November 30. —Inform- ation from the Rio Grande represents that trouble from cattle stealing is as bad as ever. Mexican raiders have a contract to deliver eighteen thousand head at Monterey, and expect to steal them from Texas. Soldiers sent by the Mexican Government to the fronter to prevent raids often desert to the cattle thieves, thus increasing in stead of diminishing depredations. Cortina himself was detected shipping cattle from Bagdad to Cuba, and cattle bearing marks of Texas owners. It is also known that cattle stealers are engaged in smuggling goods into Texas. The office hours of the Executive Departments hereafter will be from uiue to four o’clock, by order of the Cabinet to-day. Washington, November 30, 1875. Hon. D. P. Dyer, United States District Attorney , St. Louis, Mo.: Sir:—l am absolutely innocent, and every telegram which I sent will appear perfectly innocent the moment I can be heard. I demand a hearing before the court. When can I testify? (Signed) O. E. Babcock. The President has tendered the Com missiouership of Indian Affairs to ex- Congressman Win. H. Upson, of Ohio. A Democratic caucus meets at two o’clock Saturday in the hall of the House. The uso of the hall goes to the party which makes the Speaker. The following is tho dispatch the handwriting of which was identified as that of O. E. Babcock: Washington, D. C., Dec. 13,1874. General John McDonald, St. Louis: I succeeded. They will not go. I will write you. [Signed] Sylph. J. telegraphs Babcock, December 3, 1874: Has the Secretary or Commis sioner ordered any body here ? Contested Seats. Contested seats: From Florida—Fin ley vs. Walls ; Alabama—Bromberg vs. Haralson ; Louisiana —Spencer vs. Mo rey, and Breux vs. Darrall; South Car olina—Lee vs. Rainey ; Virginia—Platt vs. Goode. FROM NEW YORK. Condition of Charles O’Conor—He is Still Alive but in Great Peril — Reported Battle in Cuba. New York, November 30. — Charles O’Conor is still alive and sleeping soundly, but recovery is considered very uncertain. He is afflicted with paralysis of the stomach by inaction, the stomach being starved. Before going to sleep he spoke lucidly to his friends. The Cubans have information that the Spanish General Sabos Marin has been twice defeated by the revolution ists. Marin himself was mortally wounded. FROM PORTSMOUTH. Activity in the Navy Yard. Portsmouth, N. R., November 30. Activity in this navy yard is increasing. Au extra force will be taken on to-mor row in the construction and engineer departments. The steamer Marion is about ready for sea. - A Horrible Outrage and Swift Retri bution-Burning of Engines. Franklin, La., November 30.—A ne gro, aged twenty, outraged a white girl five years old, and was hanged to a tree in front of the Court House. Belleville, Canada, November 30. — The engine house of the Grand Trunk Railway station was burned, with ten engines. Loss, $150,000. AUGTJSTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Celebration of Alfonso’s Birthday at Havana—lndictment of Yon Arnim— A Cold Snap in England—Skupts china Come Again. Havana, November 30.—Alfonso’s birthday was celebrated by a military and firemen’s parade. Berlin, November 30.—Von Arnim has been indicted for treason. London, November 30.—The weather is inclement, aod snow general in the south of England. Belgrade, November 30,-The Skupts china reopened to-day. A Gloomy Outlook In Khokand— Trouble Brew ing in China. London, November 30.—A Vienna special says there is no reassuring news from Khokand. It is feared a majority of the smaller Russian gar risons have been massacred. Khokand is surrounded by natives. A Shanghai dispatch says the com mission met a traveler who warned them that a large force had assembled at Yunnon, and resistance to the in vestigation of the murder of Mr. Margary might be expected. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Death from Hydrophobia. Philadelphia, November 30.—A child eight years old, died hero of hydrophobia. It was bitten by a dog that had bitten two other of the own er’s children. Commutation of Sentence—Conflagra tions—Discovery of a Culprit’s Re mains. Ottawa, November 30.—The death sentence of Dr. Davis and wife, abor tionists, has boen commuted to im prisonment for life. This is rendered necessary by tho aid they give by their confession in the conviction of Miss Gilmour’s seducer. Wheeling, November 30.—Washing ton Hall was burned. Tho Masons oc cupied the third floor. Two Bremen had their limbs broken. Loss, $50,000. The hall was occupied by tho Legisla ture. Oberlin, 0., November 30.—Two gro ceries and one book store were burned. Loss, $5,000. Milford, Pa., November 30.—The remains found among tho ruins of a barn in Lebanon township, destroyed by fire, are believed tq be those of Frances Stuart, a female notion dealer, who was recently lodged in Strouds burg, (Pa.) jail for shooting at and attempting to rob a farmer, and who set fire to the Court House. She made her escape by jumping from the win dow. Fire in a Pickery—Fatal Mining Accident. Lowell, Mass., November 30.—There was a fire in the picker building of the Tremont and Suffolk Corporation. Loss on the building and cotton stored, $50,- 000. Fully insured. The fire caught from the friction of machinery. Pottsville, Pa., November 30.—Last night, at Buckvilie Colliery, Tuscarora, an accident occurred by tho breaking of a chain attached to tho hoisting wagon. Tho wagon came down with great force instantly, killing Hugh Sharp and Patrick Mclntire. Four other miners were badly wounded. CROOKED WHISKEY. Forfeiture of Bonds—A List of Guilty Parties. Indianapolis, November 30. —In the whiskey case, J. W. and Gordon Bing ham were called, and the joint appear ance bond of $25,000 forfeited. Gordon Bingham, of Evansville, is sick, and J. W. Bingham is at St. Louis, where he was surrendered by his sureties on an other indictment. The following per sons plead guilty : Col. Geo. S. Simon son, John E. Phillip, Harrison Miller, David M. Lewis, Geo. Hagan. Geo. F. Crisp, Christopher Cochonor, Mr. Mum fort and Dennis Reilly. VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON. His Remains Lying in State at Natick. Natick, November 30.—The remains of the lato Vice-President lie in state in the Town Hall to-day. Notwith standing tho intense cold, large num bers visited the place to take a last look at their honored townsman. The funeral services will occur to-morrow. Vice Presidential Anatomy. It is interesting to note the reports in the different papers of the post mor tem examination of Mr. Wilson. In one, for instance, we read of the “sinu osities of the brain; the chorion flexus; the hypostasis of the heart being nor mal, and the liver congealed.” Another tells us of the “sinews” of the brain, of “small calcereaus deposits in the doritic valve of the heart,” and the “perican deal fluid of the normal stomach” which (the stomach) “is congested throughout with slight evasions or abrasions at several points of the py loric portions of the normal.” Another tells us that the “heart” was “normal,” and “gall-bladder, kidneys, spleen, and other viscera nominal.” And for this are we editors!— Exchange. We have been engaged in the study and practice of medicine in all its branches for more than twenty years, and yet we never heard of such pecu liar diseases as the Vice-President died of, nor did we ever meet up with so btrange an anatomical structure as his. We never enjoyed the privilege, how ever, of dissecting a Vice-President. In this respect our education has boen neglected.— Washington (Ga.) Gazette. Since the reduction of salaries in In dianapolis newspaper offices, a very desperate condition of affairs has set in. No Indianapolis journalist can now rent a house without paying in advance, such has been the loss of confidence experi enced by the landlords of the place, and, worse yet, the veracious Sentinel avers that rents are very high. Says that paper : “Even a room large enough to accommodate the dimiuutivo small talker of the Courier-Journal would cost him more per month than he could realize on his talent in this market.” In an emergency like this, something ought to be done. A cold Winter is approaching, and the brain-workers of the press up there, after paying the insatiate landlord, will have nothing left wherewith to buy food. It would be well if a portion of the union depot could be partitioned off for an Inter- State Journalistic Souphouse, the brain workers of cities in other States fur nishing the means of carrying it on, and the indigent historians or Indiana polis “punishing” the soup.— Courier- Journal. , The publishers of Bessie Turner’s novel are compelled to announce that all outstanding orders will be promptly attended to as soon as the pressure of Sunday school librarians lets up a lit tle. NO MORE SLEEPY FLAGMEN. A Watcher on the Rail that will Not be Drunk in Time of Peril. [New York Sun.] Messrs. David Rousseau and Wm. C. Smith have invented safety signals that neither sleep nor got drunk, nor be sub ject to tho ungearing to which compli cated mechanisms are liable, and the invention has been put in usq in the Grand Central depot. It was inspected by a number of railroad men, yester day. Passengers from the Grand Central depot may have noticed a little room, glass-walled and like an oriental window, high up on the inside of tho wall of the Forty-fifth street side of the depot. This is the eyrie from which the official styled the dispatcher starts the outgoing and signals the incoming trains, and keeps thp track clear lor them almost beyond: the possibility of accident. His tools are indicators that mark the progress of trains by electric circuit. He has hanging on the wall, under his eye, an indicator, cpnsistiug of a magnet and two gongs. When one gong rings, he knows that a train is below Fifty-ninth street, coming in, and that it will be unsafe to start an other train until the iirst has cleared the danger point. His other mechani cal device is a telegraphic key-board, containing twenty keys, establishing an electric circuit, communicating safety or danger with both the officers of the depot, and the engineers of the trains. A Hudson river sraiu is to start within twenty minutes. The dispatcher touches a key that l ids a doovman to thiow open tho depot entrance doors for passengers. At five minutes before the starting time, another key is touched, and that signals baggage masters to cease checking, and is re peated in tho waiting room in order that passengers may >be hastened. If his indicator shows that the tracks are clear, the starting drder is given on time, and a minute later the train moves out. Suppose that just after the train has gone, the dispatcher’s gong indicates that au incoming train has reached Sixty-fourth street. Ho touches a key' connecting with the signal boxes be yond the “cross-over,” a red signal is flashed in the face of the engineer of the incoming train, and he slacks up and gives the other train the right of way. The train itself is the flagman. Within a few rods of each signal box under the rail is a circuit breaker, con sisting of the poles cf an electric wire in a vulcanized rubber casiug, which keeps them apart when no train is passing, but is squeezed in by the weight of the cars, bringing the poles in contact. This communicates with the signal box beyond the cross over, loosening a spring that causes a round disc, painted red, to make half a revo lution. The engineer speeds his lo *o motive forward when he sees the wiiite signal, which is merely the disk facing him edgewise, but comes to a stand still when it turns a ted face towards him. The same contact performs twy. other functions, establishing communi cation with the signal boxes on the other side of the cross over, displaying the danger line, and strikes the dis patcher’s gong. Thus, both the dis patcher and the engineer of endangered trains are duly informed. Besides these, there is a switchman at the cross-over, with every appliance for signaling trains and regulating switches. The next point on the road where the signals perform an important part, is at the junction of the Hudson river and Harlem roads in Mott Haven. An in-bound train on the former strikes a track signal a mile from the junction, telegraphing its approach to the opera tor in a signal cabin. He touches a key that sets the danger signals for a mile up the Harlem road. The train passes the point of danger, and then runs over another traok [signal that rests the “all right” signal along the 1 main line. One great merit claimed for tho new invention is that it always gives a dan ger signal before it gives one of safety', and that it is impossible to make a safety signal unless the track is clear. Every train protects itself for a mile in front and in rear. ■ Miss Telfair’s Will Probated. Our readers have been informed of the fact that the admission to probate in solemn form of the last will and testament of Miss Mary Telfair would be resisted by certain heirs of the es tate, and the caveats as tiled have been published in the Morning Neivs. Yes terday the matter was settled so far as the Court of Ordinary is concerned, as will be seen by the following brief re cord of the ease, which we present herewith: The petition to prove the will of Mary Telfair, in solemn form, was filed June 17, 1875, was caveated by G. Noble Jones, Alfred Cuthbert and Mary G. Harrison, and also by A.T. Wetter, guardian ad litem for his chil dren. On November 1, 1875, the case came on for hearing before the Ordi nary, and was continued until Novem ber twenty-seventh, and thence to the 29th, wheu, after hearing testimony and argument, pro and con, the said will was admitted to record as proved iu solemn form, as will be seen by the following order: Chatham County, Court of Ordinary. —ln re, will of Miss Mary Telfair, caveats of G. Noble Jones, etal. and Augustus P. Wetter, guardian, etc. In above cause the respective caveats are overruled, and the will is admitted to pro bate as the last will and testament of Mary Telfair, deceased. (Signed) Jno. O. Febrile, Ordinary C. C. November 29th, 1875. George Noble Jones and Alfred Cuth bert, by their attorney, Judge W. W. Montgomery, filed the necessary bonds and took the ease on au appeal to the Superior Court.— Savannah News. A gentleman was seated before the Cafe Riche, in Paris, when a young artist passed with a companion. “I will bet you,” said the artist to his friend, “I will drink that gentleman’s coffee, and he will thank me for doing it.” “You are crazy.” “You will see.” “You know him, then.” “Como and see the proceeding for yourself.” Very solemnly they approached the gentle man. “Sir,” said the artist, “I am an inspector of the bond of health. If I ask for coffee they will give me without doubt a very good cup, for they know me. You, sir, whom they do not know, are served like the rest of the world. Will you permit me to taste your cof fee?” “Certainly,” said the gentleman. “This is really good. The government has great care over the people. The police cannot be too watchful over the public health.” The artist drank the coffee, and having finished it said politely, “They do things properly at this cafe; this is exist llent coffee.” He bowed, and left the gentleman to pay for the coffee he had not had, but pro foundly grateful for the care of the government. “HARTE ZEITEN” Financial Stringency in Vaterland—A Conquering and Thrifty Nation on the Verge of Bankruptcy— One of the Results of the French War—France the Most Prosperous Country in the World. IN. Y. Times.] The cry of “ Harte Zeiten,” or hard times, has become almost as common in Germany as in the United States. This is the more remarkable, as busi ness affairs with her defeated enemy, France, are by no means in a very de pressed condition. The conqueror, laden with the spoils of successful war, groans under financial difficulties, while the conquered enjoys more than usual prosperity. Each mail from Germany brings reports of business failures, of depression in trade, of workmen out of employ, of much pro duction and little consumption, and, in short, of most of the troubles which are afflicting us. The depression par ticularly affects the iron interest of North Germany and the maritime com panies of the commercial cities, such as Hamburg and Bremen. It has reached, however, many other interests, uud great numbers of working people are thrown out of employ, while small traders find their business exceedingly reduced. For this depression in North Ger many there is no explanation to be found in a vitiated currency or a public debt. The financial position of Prussia has always borne the marks of the wise influence of the founder of the monarchy, Frederick the Great. The simple rules of economy have always guided the Prussian Administration. They nearly always spent less than they got. The Hohenzollern know how to obtain valuable services for small pay. They have rigidly kept down expenses, until now a Government Beatnpte is one of the most poorly paid persons in Germany. Asa consequence, tho Prussian debt has never been a burden, and the whole “budget,” or expenses of Army and Administration are scarcely more than half our own. The last war almost paid for itself, and the average taxes of all North Ger many are about one-half of those paid iu France. Still, everywhere is busi ness depression. The truth is that Germany has been going through the same experience which we have had here. The building of railroads has developed rapidly every portion of the Fatherland, and created a great increase in production. It is true that there never can be too much production, but there may be an excessive production in a particular branch. Germany joined the general march of the world in metallurgic in dustry, and aided to create more of iron manufacture than the world needed. Then, with increased manufacture and the sudden fortunes made first by it, tliere rose a sudden and natural growth of speculation. To all these causes of industrial and commercial excitement was added to the French in demnity, which acted upon the busi ness and exchanges of Germany, aided the sudden creation here of paper money. AIL kinds of prices suddenly rose, and, with them, extravagance and speculation increased. Labor be came more expensive, and salaries were gradually raised. Berlin became as costly a place to live in as New York. A great stimulus, too, was given to maiitime matters by the success of German steamers in competing with those of Liverpool for the emigrants to America. All things for a while wore as they were here during the war. But now the reaction has come. Specula tion has wasted the savings of themid lo classes. Industry is weighted with its own products. With some of the strongest iron companies, the stock has fallen nine-tenths. Workmen aro clamoring for labor. Emigration has diminished, and thus crowded the Ger man markets with unemployed laborers, while tho steam-sliip companies have fallen into embarrassments, through the lessening of their receipts from emigrants. Great stacks of woolen and other goods are on hand for which there is no demand. And yet wages remain high, and provisions are dear. bn the other hand, in France, calami ty has brought prudence. Speculation has been arrested, and all classes have learned to save, and production has gone on of such commodities as are in most demand. Though taxes are heavy, times are not so bad iu France as beyond the Rhine. The old French economy and the industry of the peo ple, with the natural productiveness of tho soil, have come in to save France, and, despite her defeat, she is at this moment the most prosperous country iu tho world. Tlie Daughter of a Hundred Earls. A New York correspondent tells a romantic story of a young lady now residing in the metropolis who may be seen daily passing through the streets, or riding on the street cars from her home to the suburbs, with a roll of manuscript in her hand, on her way to the offices of the magazines or the weekly papers, trying to dispose of the productions upon which she is depend ent for her daily bread. She is the daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough, whose London residence is on Caven dish Square, as the owner of the superb estates aud palaces of Exton Park, Oakrnan and Cottesmore, in Rutlandshire, but his brilliant daugh ter, Lady Blanche (whose baptismal name, as will be seen by reference to any recent edition of “Burke’s Peer age,” was Blanche Elizabeth Mary Anuneiata), is lost to his sight, if not to his memory. Her mother was the deceased wife of the Earl of Erroll. Her two brothers aro Viscount Carapden- and Lord Edward, and her two younger sisters are Lady Georgina and Lady Frances. While iu her twenty-first year she fell iu love with a youug organist named Murphy, and, contrary to the wish of her family, she married him. The mesalliance of the daughter of so great a house was a surprise and horror to the Earl, who, iu his wrath, disowned her, forbade her returning to the ances tral halls, and cut her off from all the heritage of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy soon experienced the trials of penury and in London, and four years, or within the first year after their marriage, they arrived in New York, where they again felt the pressure of straightened circumstan ces. But Lady Blanche was persevering, and some of her sparkling manuscripts soon found acceptance, and brought her a little income. Among other thiugs she contributed to the Galaxy a series of brilliant essays on English high life and the English aristocracy, which attracted much notice. Illinois lost 28,348 soldiers and sail ors during the war. BERGH ON FOX-HUNTING. Thomas T. Kinney, Esq., President New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: Dear Sir : You will, I am sure, par don me, as the representative of the senior society in America for the pre vention of cruelty to animals, for call ing your attention to a dangerous and cruel “sport,” as it is called, namely, “fox-hunting,” which has just been presented to the admiring suffrages oi the farmers and other laud-owners of your State. This impudent and aggressive relief to indolence is of aristocratic liueage, and to the feeble mind of the average London clubman in particular presents great attractions; firstly, because it is of very high “ton,” and, secondly, that it exposes his perfumed body once a year to the semblance of physical exposure. It is true that royalty itself, as well as “meaner thiugs,” does sometimes engage in tins “noblesport,” just as it does in pigeon shooting, cock-fighting and bull-bait ing, but then, iu my opinion, the greater the offender the greater the offense. I don’t know whether the frugal and in dustrious people of New Jersey quite understand this elegant innovation, but, in a few words, it is this : On a given day a number of habitual idlers issue from their do-nothing abodos, and meet at a stated locality in close proximity to what is termed a “ tap,” or, iu American phraseology, a “sam ple room.” The convention, all mounted on horses, and having imbibed suffi cient air and liquid, starts for an open field, followed by a numerous pack of hounds, which locality, on being reach ed, a terrified fox is liberated from a box, and the dogs, horses and men scamper, pell-mell, after the miserable animal. Now the fox, exercising that cunning for which he is distinguished, generally takes that route where his pursuers can do the most damage to hedges, gardens, and crops, the conse quence being that those noble “sports men” usually leave behind them an irregular track, characterized by its widespread devastation. In these predatory incursions, it is true, the “dashing huntsman” is sometimes brought in contact with something harder than his head ; and the “in ferior animal,” as the horse is erron eously called, often gets disabled ; but intelligent sympathy, as in bull-fight iug, is always with the horse. Sufficient injury having been done to the farmer aud tho landlord, the precious pack of men and hounds re turn to their usual covers, dragging along a wretched fox as a trophy, and the following day the sporting papers paint the “daring and exhilarating scene” in glowing colors ; just as the “Hackensack Hunt” was done. It is almost superfluous to add that a “high old time” usually terminates these meets, whereat meat is of secondary consideration. This pernicious pastime should be “ nipped in the bud” by the farmers of New Jersey, and that illustrious Celt named Donohue, who “entertains hopes that these fox-hunts, now in augurated, may soon become an estab lished institution iu New Jersey,” should be emphatically told that if either he, or his followers, the gallant Classon, Purdy, Skinner, Levy, Blas son, or Brennan and Murphy, of Dickel’s Riding Academy iu New York, as well as all other similar tresspass ers. are discovered again engaged iu such depredations they will be prompt ly arrested by the police ; or, failing which, then by tho aid of some swifter traveling agent, known to and feared by certain other malefactors, who prac tice their sporting proclivities in the night time within the country houses of retired citizens. I am yours, very faithfully, Henry Bergh, President. FOX, THE PAN TOM IM IST. He Retires Fi’om tlie Stage. The New York Sun of Saturday morn ing says: George L. Fox, the great clown, ap pears on the stage this evening for the last time this season, and there aro grave reasons for fearing that it is his last appearance before the public. For tlie past, two weeks his health has been failing daily. His whole life is bound up in the stage. On it he has spent the most of his time since he was five years old, and now he seems happy only when on the stage, and before au audience. About a week ago, Mr. Fox became impressed with the belief that it was his duty to address the adionce every evening. In vain did the managers try to reasou him out of the notion, and as a last resort, whenever he opened his mouth to speak, Master Topack, who takes the part of monkey, bounded upon the stage, and by judi cious thumpings and antics diverted his attention. This enraged him at, first, but, he soon became accustomed to it, and looked upon it as a part of the routine stage business. On Thanksgiving afternoon Mr. Fox played before a very large audience, and after the act iu which he took part was over, he went to his hotel, the St. Omer, near the theatre, and stepped out on the balcony. While he was there a company of boys, “playing soldier,” passed, and Fox called to them to halt, and then reviewed them. The boys cheered, a crowd collected, and the old actor, becoming much ex cited, hurried to his room and returned with boots, hats, brushes, and what ever he could pick up, and began to thiow them at the crowd. A big policeman arrived, and Fox hit him between the eyes with a pair of boots. Fox was then taken into his room. Last evening he was cheerful and rational. He performed his part in the pantomime with much of his old-time spirit, and was enthusiastical ly called before the curtain. He bowed, gave his mo#t characteristic grin, and, doubling his arms, said, “I wish some doctor would feel oP my muscles.” Then slapping his leg, ho added, “Not much paralysis here.” On Monday he will go. with his wife and daughter, to tho residence of his brother, the Hon. James Fox, of Cam bridge, Mass. An Albany county man, while milk ing one of his cows, hitched its tail around his leg to keep it from switch ing in his eyes. He had cause to re pent doing so, however, after being dragged half way across a ten acre lot, and was only released by the timely arrival of his son with a sharp knife. The cow is now minus half its tail. Michael Lock is the name of a Howard county fool who paid a vagrant clairvoyant five thousand dollars to show him where a one-hundred-thous and-dollar treasure was buried on his farm. While Mr. Lock was gone to Kentucky with a bucket of Howard county earth to replace with sacred soil the sibyl and her husband got up and dusted. —Indianapolis Herald. New Series—Vol. 28, No. 101 THE BOOK AGENT’S BRIDE. AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF THE MATRIMONIAL PROBLEM. An Unprecedented Case—The Philoso phy of Special Assassination- How a Book Agent Wooed and Won a Wife —A Warning to Parents. [N. Y. Times.] The town of Horseheads, in this State, has suddenly become famous as the scene of the elopement of a young lady with a traveling book agent. Such an event is believed to be entirely without a precedent, and it necessarily confers as wide a nototoriety upon the town in which it occurred as the most elaborate earthquake could have con ferred had it swallowed the greater part of the people of Horseheads, hav ing, of course, previously well shaken them. It would bo fruitless to inquire in the columns of a daily newspaper why the human mind is so constituted as to uniformly desire to kill a book agent. Such an inquiry belongs to the province of psychology—though in no existing text-book has it been fully and properly discussed. The fact that men, without exception, thirst for the blood of book agents is perfectly well established, and we may therefore reason from it, without troubling our solvss to discover whether this im pulse is congenital, or is developed by tho conditions of civilized life. The meekest man, when summoned to his parlor to meet a determined-looking stranger, who instantly urges him to subscribe for “Smith’s Pictorial His tory of Art Among the Esquimaux,” involuntarily asks himself whether tbe satisfaction of braining tho man with his own specimen volume would not be cheaply purchased at the cost of the gallows ; and tho most gentle of housewives, as she violently slams the door in the face of the agent of Brown’s “Humorous Travels in the Holy-Land,” mentally resolves to ask her brother, the lawyer, whether boiling water is a deadly weapon in the eye of the law. How was it possible that, in spite of this unanimous sentiment in regard to book agents, one of that fraternity should have succeeded in inducing a young lady to elope with him ? Of course, the pair fled secretly in order to escape the indignant and horrified gaze of the public of Horseheads. But by what magic arts did the book agent so com pletely conquer the natural instinct—in regard to boiling water—of the partner of his flight ? It is idle to suppose that he concealed his true character. No book agent can do that. Even if he had shunned all allusion to subscription books until the very moment when the fair one told him she was his, he would inevitably have replied: “Then let me put you down for five copies of Brown’s “Travels,” with gilt edges and illuminated covers.” No ! he must have carried on his woo ing avowedly under the banner of the “Great Oshkosh Publishing Company,” and with his carpet-bag of specimen volumes always at his side. When he urged the sincerity of his passion, he must have read to her the convincing statement that “ smart agents can make fifty dollars a day with our new sub scription books,” and told her that if she would get her parents, brothers and sisters, and acquaintances to sub scribe for a volume each, the money would be strictly appropriated to house-furnishing, with the exception of a liberal commission to be paid to her as pin-money. Undoubtedly he pre sented her with elegant copies of all the works published by his firm, and when he clasped her to his bosom did not fail to assure her that his heart beat for her alone, although the fact was not perceptible to her in conse quence of his carrying his subscription lists in his breast pocket. The girl may have been young, and unaccustomed to admiration. When her lover asserted that he would prefer ten per cent, com mission with her as his bride, to twenty per cent, and the exclusive right to the best territory in the country without her, she may have welcomed it as tho languago ol' passion and romance. At any rate, she listened to his pleading, and is now that hitherto unknown phe nomenon, a book agent’s bride. Wo need not doubt the reality of the affection existing between this unique, pair. The book agent hath eyes and ears like other men, not to speak of a superfluity of cheek and tongue. May he not also have affections and sentiments of a tender and romantic character? Doubtless, he will bind his wife, so to speak, in red silk aud plenty of gilt jewelry. It is quite pos sible that, under the influence of do mestic happiness, his fiercer nature may be tamed. He may cease to way lay funeral coaches in order to urge the occupants to subscribe for Robinson’s “Comfort of the Afflicted” in gilt cloth, and may spare the solitary widow whom he would once have compelled to subscribe for ten copies of “Mormon Iniquities.” Perhaps the marriage of this book agent may be the beginning of the end of the sys tem which he has hitherto represented, and the time may be near at hand when book agents, tamed and soft ened by marriage, will abandon their cruel vocation, and the memory of it will remain, as does the memory of the buccaneers, only in blood-curdling stories, bearing such titles as “Red beard, the Book Agent of the West.” Since tho reduction of salaries in Indianapolis newspaper offices, a very desperate condition of affairs has set in. No Indianapolis journalist can now rent a house without paying in ad vance, such has been the loss of confi dence experienced by the landlords of the place, and, worse yet, the veracious Sentinel avers that rents are verv high. Says that paper: “Even a room large enough to accomocate the diminutive small-talker of the Courier Journal would cost him more per month than he could realize on his talent in this market.” In an emergency like this, something ought to be done. A cold winter is approaching, and the brain workers of the press up there, after paying the instatiato landlord, will have nothing loft wherewith to buy food. It would be well if a portion of the union depot could be partitioned off for an Inter-State Journalistic Soup house, the brain-workers of .cities in other States furnishing the means of carrying it on, and the indigent histo rians of Indinapolis “punishing” the soup. —Courier Journal. The other day, when a Detroit grocer spelled sugar “s-h-u-g-e-r” a friend pointed out the word and remarked, “That word isn’t spelled quite right.” “Ha! I see,” laughed the grocer, “one would think I had no education.” And he crossed it out and wrote s-h-u-g-o-r. ■—Free Press. “Isn’tyour husband a little bald?” asked one lady of another, in n store, yesterday. “There isn’t a bald hair in his head,” was the hasty reply of the wife. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21, 1875,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. ° r suggesting Candidates fot office, 20 cents per line each insertion. M or Posnf^Orderf 114 ® 41 at ° Ur risk by Express 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. A TALE OF TWO CITIES. A Fast Young Memphian in a Dual Role. [Memphis Avalancho.J N About eight years ago, a young man known to his companions as Will Bor den flourished in Memphis, as cashier of the Gas Light Company. He was handsome, dressed stylishly—iu fact a little “ loud ” —and those who knew him best could testify that he was that ir resistible personage iu the eyes of fool ish young ladies who judge from out ward appearances, a “fast young man.” He went, though only occasionally, in the “best society,” and a few times dur ing the season appearing at tho theatre with some fair one who was charmed with his handsome face and figure, aud the grand display of fine clothing and diamonds ho was certain to mak<£ It was with the soiled doves, whose wings are brightest under tho gas-light, that young Borden was most “at home.” His was one of the noted names heard within that circle. No one so handsome as he; no one so lavish of money for late suppers and carriage rides; no one so generous with presents. How these heavy expendi tures could be maintained was ono day explained by a little deficit that, for many months smothered by deft manipulation, at last appeared on the company’s books. The charm ing Will was a defaulter for nearly two thousand dollars. He was permitted to go free, for his mother, who lives in Louisville, and had a few thousand dol lars, compromised with tho irate com pany, and young Bordeu shook the Memphis dust off his elegant patent leathers, and returned to the home of his childhood. Memphis lost sight of the gay ex-cashier until yesterday’s Avalanche announced in its news columns that “William Bowden,” of Cincinnati, had married Miss Maggie Williams,” of this city, and in its telegraphic dispatches that Joseph Mitchell & Cos., boiler makers of Louisville, had discovered a deficit of five thousand dollars in Jtheir ac counts of Wra. A. Bowden, the confl tial clerk, who has been stealing from them for four years. It appears that “ Wm. Bowden ” and “ Wm. A. Borden” are identical. Miss Maggie Williams is a noted member of the demi-monde. So our ex-Memphis “ fast man ” turns up once more, this time in the dual role of the new-made husband of his “ flame ” of years ago, and a five thous and; dollar defaulter. Yesterday Bor den disappeared. Detectives, acting on information from Louisville, were looking for him —a fact which no doubt hastened his departure. Uncompromising Honesty. [From the Detroit Free Press.] The other day a man with a gaunt look halted before an eatiug stand at the Central Market, and after a long survey of the viands he said to the woman: “E am a poor man, but I’ll be honest if I have to be buried iu a Pauper’s Field.” “What’s the matter now?” asked the woman, regarding him with suspicion. “No one saw mo pick up a twenty dollar bill here by this stand early this morning, but, as I said before, i’ll be honest.” “A twenty-dollar bill—pick up!” she whispered, bringing a bland smile to her face. “I suppose,” he continued, “that someone passing along hero could have dropped such a bill, but it seems more reasonable to think that tho money was lost by you.” “ Don’t talk quite so loud,” she said as she leaned over the stand. “You are an honest man, and I’ll have your name put iu the papers so that all may know it. I’m a hard working widow, and if you hadn’t brought that money it would have gone hard with my poor little children.” “If I pick # up money by a stand I always give it up,” he said as ho sat down on ono of tho stools. “That’s right—that’s honest,” she whispered. “Draw right up here aud have some breakfast.” He needed no second invitation. The way ho went for cold ham, fried sau sage, biscuit aud coffee, was terrific to the woman. “Yes—l—um—try to—be—yonest,” he remarked between bites. “That’s right. If I found any money belonging to you I’d give it up, you bet. Have another cup of coffee ?” “Don’t—care—fidoo,” he said, as ho jammed more ham into his mouth. Even courtships have au ending. The old chap finally began to breathe like a foundered horse, and pretty soon after that ho rose from the table. “You are a good man to bring my lost money back,” said tho woman as she brushed away tho crumbs. “Oh, I’m honest,” ho replied; “when I find any lost money I always give it up.” “Well, I’ll take it now, please,” sho said, as be began to button his coat. “Take what?” ho asked. “That lost money you found.” “I didn’t find any. I’ll bo honest with you, however, if I ever do find any around here!” “ You old liar I Didn’t you say you found a &20 bill here ?” “ No, ma’am. I said that no one saw me pick up such a bill here !” “ Pay mo for them pervisions !” sho yelled, clutching at his throat. “ I’ll be honest with you—l haven’t a cent.!” he replied, as ho held her off. Sho tried to tip him over into a bar rel of charcoal, but he broke loose, and before she recovqred from her amaze ment he was a block away and gallop ing along like a stage horse. The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks that many a man would be willing to wait six years for such a burial as Gui bord had. No doubt there are mauy men in Louisville who would be glad to have a good, secure resting place of cement and scrap iron against the troublesome experiences of the day of judgment. But they would need*tho cement mostly on the under side, to protect them from approach below. “Shy as a fawn, blushing as Aurora, shrinking as the mimosa, fainting, almost, at the coarseness of her sur roundings,” is what the lightning re porter of a San Francisco paper says ol! a young girl who is in jail in that city. The offense with which this gen tle creature is charged, is stabbing a man four times and then pounding him on the head with a brick. A little fellow, who was at a neigh bor’s house about noon the other day, watched the preparations for dinner with a great deal of interest, but when asked to stay and eat something, ho promptly refused, “Why,yes, Johnny, you’d better stay,” said the lady; “why can’t you?” “Well, ’cause,” said tho little fellow, “Ma said I mustn’t, unless you ask me three times.” They in vited him twice more right off,