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FROM WASHINGTON.
Another Conspirator to be Hauled Up
—Coin in the Treasury—Report of
Public Printer—A Pat Take—Typos
Get Sixty Cents per Thousand Eins,
or Four Dollars a Day of Eight Hours
Long—Suit Against ex-Treasnrer J.
A. Magruder—Avery, Minister to
China, Dead—Etc., Etc.
Washington, December I.—Babcock
received a dispatch from District At
torney Dyer, St. Louis, that the next
case involving a question of conspiracy
is set for December 15th.
Debt statement: Decrease for the
month, £480,078; coin in the Treasury,
£74,500,000; currency, £12,000,000.
The report of the public printer
shows the total cost of printing, bind
ing, lithographing, etc., for year ending
September 30th is one million and a
half Besides this, printing Congres
sional Record cost nearly £89.000, com
positors allowed sixty cents per thou
sand or £4 per day of eight hours.
District Commissioners have brought
suit against ex-Treasurer James A.
Magruder, Board of Public Works and
bis bondsmen, ex-Gov. A. R. Shephard,
K. A. Shinn and H. M. Sweeny, for fifty
thousand dollars. The amount received
by Magruder and party, and disbursed
by him, was e ver fourteen and a halt
million dollars,
A. E. Wilson, of Louisville, Ky., has
been appointed chief clerk of the
Treasury, vice Avery. Officials have
nothing to communicate in reference
to the statement that Buriel had been
summoned to court to answer about
the Yirginius affair. They say it is
likely the information is correct.
The State Department has advices
that Avery, American Minister to
China, died at Pekin, 18th of Novem
ber, but no particulars.
Caucusing for Speaker.
Washington, December I.—Willard’s
Hotel was the resort of a large crowd
of persons to-night, a number of whom
were personally interested in the elec
tion of officers of the House, and the
remainder drawn thither by curiosity.
The respective friends of Raudall and
Kerr represent each as ahead, though
nothing positive can be ascertained on
the subject at present, as there are
only about ninety members of the
House in the city.
Pool Selling oh the Coming Man.
At the Imperial Hotel there was a
crowxl to witness the selling of pools
on the Speakership. The highest price
bid for pools was fifty dollars. The
betting ran most curiously. Randall
starting off as the first choice, betting
even for him against the field. Kerr
was then sold for fifty dollars as first
choice against the field, and finally the
field sold for fifty dollars with only
forty dollars bid for first choice. The
pool selling is to continue during the
remainder of the week, and candidates
for Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms and Door
Keeper will also come in to the scram
bler hereafter.
Cox in the Field,
Representative Cox, who was left out
by the pool sellers, is also in the field
and has so far as known fifty votes to
commence with or enough to turn the
scale for either of the other competi
tors for the Speakership. To-morrow
Messrs. Randall, Kerr and (ox will
meet to settle the officers of the cau
cus, and to make other necessary ar
rangements for the meeting next Sat
urday.
Fast Trains.
Washington, December I.—The fast
mail leaves New York this eveuiug,
and will reach St. Louis in thirty-four
to thirty-six hours. The present time
between the two cities is forty-six
bouts.
Decapitation and Reduction.
One dozen of the Patent Office Clerks
were dismissed yesterday. Others are
notified of a reduction in their salaries.
Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court argued to-day
the case of the Western Union Tele
graph Company vs. The Western and
Atlantic Railroad Company, and across
appeal from the Circuit Court for the
Northern District of Georgia. The
question involved is whether a con
tract made by the Telegraph Company
with the State as owner and manager
of the Railroad Company, in August,
IsTO, hy which the State was to have
the use of a wire along the line of the
road from Atlanta to Chattanooga
for the transmission under certain
conditions of messages on the business
of the road was a contract of sale or
lease. Under a subsequent sale of the
road by the State, the wire was in
cluded iu the inventory of the road
iind appurtenances, and the State hav
ing paid the Telegraph Company the
cost of construction and equipment of
the wire as provided in the contract,
the Railroad Company set up a claim
to the wire and forbid its use by the
Telegraph Company, and proposed to
resist by force the severance of the
wire by the Telegraph Company from
the stations along the road. The latter
company then brought this bill and
was defeated below, the Court seeming
- > ad' >pt the theory of a sale as insisted
upon by the Railroad Company.
The Last of Wilson.
Natick, December I.—The day was
bright and cold. The funeral ser
vices took place at Mr. Wilson’s
house.
Natick. December I.—At the conclu
sion of private services at the house of'
the remains of the Vice-President, they
were removed to the Town Hall, where
public and Anal ceremonies took place.
The services were conducted by Rev.
Francis N. Peloubet, assisted by Rev.
A. E. Reynolds, Rev. J. S. Whedon and
Rev. Edmund Dowse. After the bene
diction by Rev. Mr. Peloubet, the re
mains were conveyed to the hearse and
the procession formed. The line
of march embraced nearly every street
in town and it was not until four o’clock
that the hearse reached the grave in
Dell Park Cemetery. The Grand Army
Post Baud formed a square about the
lot, while the military escort were
drawn up in line, and in the drive-way
mourners and invited guests having
assembled in body, the band mean
while playing a solemn dirge, the casket
was gently lowered to its final resting
place.
Rev. Mr. Peloubet spoke a benedio*
tion, the relatives and friends took a
last look, dropped a few flowers upon
the casket-lid and the last rites attend
ing the demise of Henry Wilson, the
Natick cobbler and illustrious Vice-
President of the United States, were at
an end. The town was crowded with
people during the afternoon. After the
ceremonies ended, the military escort
immediately departed for Boston. The
day is clear and cool.
Another Herod in the Field.
Kingston, Jamaica, December I.
A Hiudoo employed at the Constant
Bpring estate, beheaded five children
from religious frenzy.
®jc Stuihlf# Cmtstitationaliet
Established 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Fishery Complications Religious
Troubles in Spain—Russia and Kho
kand.
London, December I.—The Standard
says in consequence of the recent con
ference between English and French
commanding officers of the North Na
val American Stations, it is hoped that
all soreness consequent upon the inter
ference of the French in the New Found
land fisheries wifi be removed.
Intelligence from Toleda, Spain, says
the authorities have closed the Prot
estant Church there and expelled the
pastor and schoolmaster.
The St. Petersburg Gabs says inces
sant raids on ltussiau territory prove
the necessity of the occupation of the
remainder of Khokand.
France Speaks.
Paris, December I—The Assembly
Adopted the Electoral bill. The bill
was amended so as to allow represent
ation to all colonies except Cayenne
and Senegal.
Spain Heard From.
Madrid, December I.—Cushing is at
present telegraphing a reply from his
Government to the last Spanish note.
The dispatch is considered very satis
factory and dissipates the recent ap
prehensions.
Interesting from London.
London, December I.—ln the trial
of the Wainwright brothers, for the
mudrer of Harriet Lane, both were
found guilty. Henry was sentenced to
death, and Thomas to seven years’of
penal servitude.
The Turkish Harrison in a Tight
Place
London, December I.—The Times, in
its second edition, this afternoon, pub
lishes a special telegram from Daniloo
grad, which states that military opera
tions are impeded by heavy snows in
mountains round about Goranacks.—
The insurgents are well provisioned
and tolerably sheltered, while the be
sieged Turkish garrison is reduced to
extremities.
NEW FLORIDA ROUTE.
Big Dinner —We were not Invited.
Savannah, December I.—The Junc
tion Railroad, connecting the Savan
nah and Charleston roads with the
Atlantic and Gulf road, was completed
to-day, and trains passed over. A large
delegation from this city met the dele
gates from Charleston, at the jnnetion,
aud the two trains came on together.
The competition of this line gives
through rail connections from the
North to Florida, and Southern Geor
gia, via Savannah, aud also another
through rail line to Atlanta, via Au
gusta. A dinner will be given this af
ternoon at the Pulaski House, in favor
of the occasion.
FROM NEW YORK.
Prohibiting a Lottery—O’Connor’s Sit
uation.
New York, December I.—The polbe
prevented the public drawingof a lot
tery for the erection of a home for the
homeless children. The drawing was
conducted privately.
At a late hour last night O’Connor’s
physicians held out hopes of recovery,
providing he suffers no relapse.
The Insanity Dodge.
New York, December I.— Scannell
has been acquitted of murder on the
ground of insanity and sent to the
Utiea Asylum.
Look Out Pool Sellers ?
The grand jury made a presentment
calling for the suppression of pool sell
ing on races, regattas, elections, etc.
FROM BALTIMORE.
The Southern Transportation Com
pany.
Baltimore, December 1. — A special
meeting of the stockholders of the
Baltimore and Southern Steam Trans
portation Company was held to-day,
to take into consideration the best
means of closing the business of the
company. A resolution was adopted
turning over the property to the direc
tors to be used for the benefit of
creditors. Total indebtedness, £120,000.
Mr. D. J. Poley, President, stated that
the steamers would be run as usual.
The steamers of the company ply be
tween this city, Charleston and Wil
mington, N. C.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Railroad Accident.
Cincinnati, December I.—A freight
train on the Central went
down au embankment. The engineer,
Win. Thomas, was killed. The engine
and ten cars were wrecked.
Poughkeepsie, December I.—The
steamer Sunnyside was sunk by ice.
The clerk here thinks four or five per
sons were lost.
Roundout, N. Y., December 1. —The
Sunnyside ran between Troy and New
York. She sank in fifteen minutes.
Lo! the Red Indian.
St. Louis, December I.—A Republi
can Kansas special says advices from
Denver, report that troops have been
ordered from Forts Lincoln and Union
to the vicinity of Cameron, New Mex
ico, where the Apache Indians had re
volted some ten days since. It appears
that one of the Apache Chiefs refused
to take rations offered him by the Gov
ernment Agent, aud after some words,
the Indian drew a revolver and shot
the agent through the heart. The af
fair caused great excitement and after
the Indian was placed in irons, the rest
of the tribe made a general disturb
ance. There are grave fears that a
general outbreak of Apaches and Utes
will take place. Much anxiety is felt.
Fire at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, December 1. —The
Round House of the Indianapolis,
Bloomiugton and Wesliu Railroad
burned with eight engines. Loss £75,-
000.
m ;
Minor Telegrams.
Chicago, December I.—Senator Lo
gan has acute rhumatism of the brain.
It is serious.
San Francisco, December I.—A dis
patch from Tucson confirms the report
of the defeat of Sonora revolutionists.
Louisville, December L—The Na?
tional Grange continues its session
another week, A resolution ordering tho
establishment of a Court of Appeals
for Grangers was adopted.
Washington, December I.—The death
cf Benjamin P. Avery, Minister to
China, is reported.
Milwaukee, December 1. — Schlitz and
Brigenthal, rectifiers, convicted of ship
ping goods contrary to jaw, ajid were
sentenced for four months in the coun
ty jail, or one thousand dollars fine, each.
A.TJGTJSTA..GKA... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, ,1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
A Political Earthquake—Chances of a
Radical Mayor—The; Candidates—
Reign of Burglary—Hon. Alexander
Dimitry’s Lectui*e. *
[From our Regular Correspondent.)
Atlanta, November 30, 1875.
The city is stirred up. From the
bottom strata of her crimson founda
tion to the loftiest point of her tallest
lightning rod, around which kissfully
play the blissful breezes brewed on
Kennesaw’s cloud-touching summit,
there are unmistakable signs of a
sausage-meat condition of tilings. The
even tenor of its progressive way is
disturbed. There are obstacles filling
the grooves of enterprise, wherein is
wont to majestically roll the ponderous
wheel of ennobling enterprise. The
bustling populace are as so many
scrambled eggs—that doubtful con
glomeration of the good, bad and coolly
indifferent—and need constant stirring
to destroy the defects of one and bring
out more boldly the virtues of the
other, provided an egg is possessed of
virtues. However, this is all figura
tive.
The fact Is, there is a flrstrate chance
for the election of a Radical ticket to
morrow. You see the Democrats have
ju3t rocked along easily, considered the
opposing party a barbarous relic only,
but the barbarous relic was too busy—
They hustled their forces together, and
inscribed their classic names upon the
registration books until the said books
were heavy with the breath of ourang
blossms that bloom in the midst of
Africa’s burning sands. Then when
Mr. Drowsy, Democrat, drew near, and
over the rim of his spectacles, saw
this manumit majority, his eyelids
flew apart as an oyster opes his shell,
his lips ambled to a prodigious pucker
and he gave volumiuous vent to a
whooping whistle. That escape of
suddenly surprised steam was heard
far and near. It was the tuneless toc
sin for a terrific tussle. It wound its
warbling warmth around the cold cot
tages of the common cuss, and its ge
nial glamor glowed in the high halls of
the hifalutin. Its warming notes rang
out loud and long through every street
aud lane, the high-ways and the by
ways, and circled the suburbs with the
certainty and effectiveness of a ring
worm. Therefore, as a natural se
quence, there was a gathering of the
clans. The proud old Democracy pro
claimed in tones rivalling those of
Stontor, that every man who lived un
der its fair ascutcheon should register
at once. liip-roaring and now rabidly
rampant Radicalism, promulgated its
potent pronunciamento, aud called
upon its few but fearless followers, to
go and do -likewise. Villainous vehi
cles volunteered to transport the mem
bers of either party to the registration
window, and the towu was lively
on this the last registration day.
THE TICKETS.
The Democratic ticket is composed
of good men, chosen by the people.
The other ticket bears the names of
men who have chosen themselves and
hanker after office. Possibly this last
ticket would be elected to-morrow had
not the Democrats worked so hard
to-day. The Radical or “ People’s
Ticket,” as it is called, finds many sup
porters among the lukewarm Demo
crats, because they say they will vote
for anybody rather than support mem
bers of a ring. A ring! Great Jupiter!
a ring in our midst. Shades of Tweed
and Sweeney, can such things be? A
ring existing, with all its venomous
corruption, right here in a city whose
limits are almost within earshot. Ah,
some people can see everything. They
can see hair sprout spontaneously from
the most immaculate hash. These
cold-blooded wielders of Democratic
influence, like the wife of Blue Beard,
stand gazing down the long road of
independence, and every cloud of dust
reveals a ring to help them out an
“impoverished condition.” By means
of their foggy foresight they foresee
dire damage to the great city should
this ring hold sway. Poor fellows ! It’s
a pity —deplorable, to be sure—we
didn’t have a ring here, just to allow
this independent party a chance to
ring in.
To-morrow will be lively again. The
election promises to be exciting as the
various candidates are determined.
The guzzling gurgle of giu-twist and
the beautiful bubble of beer will
mingie with the voice of the van
quished aud victorious, and the cold
comforts of the city calaboose will
await the bacchanalian revellers as the
observing stars peep out to-morrow
night.
BURGLARY.
So great has been the dark depreda
tions of this class of our citizens that
Mayor Hammock has issued a procla
ma ion offering a reward of one hun
dred dollars for the arrest with proof
to convict of any person guilty of the
offense of burglary in the night time.
Between the setting and rising of the
glorious sun, the burglarious gentle
man stalks forth and appropriates
such articles as lay within his far
stretching reach. They are as thick as
mosquitos in August and just about as
troublesome. Every night they lessen
the load of some victim and hide away
to their sequesters unhung, but not
unwept if uuhonored and unsung. A
favorite pastime with them is to ele
vate the unsuspecting window and
slide in among the provisions. They
seem to have quite a fancy for this
kind of pelf. But they are not very
particular. They would take as good
care of a diamond pin as they would of
a canvassed ham. Nothing as yet has
been devised by which their apprecia
tion of other people’s property can be
effectually squelched. A good dose of
buckshot might do the thing if we
could only find one of them long
enough at a time to try the hazardous
experiment. They are very careful not
to expose themselves.
LECTURE.
Dr. Alexander Dimitry, of New Or
leans, lectures to-night fop the benefit
of the Young Men’s Library. Subject:
'■The Fitness of Creation for the Exist
ence of Man.” In my humble opinion
he will have about one hundred hearers
to-night, but of that hundred, there
will probably bff about two who will
listen attentively aud appreciate the
learned doctor’s lecture. This deep,
solid stylo won’t do. We don’t care a
straw about the fitness of creation for
our existence, nor any other man. Give
us something light and digestible
something jn keeping with the age. Let
the few whoge tagtes incline to the
solving of unsoluable problems of sci
ence, the study of metaphysics, and
the listening Lq of musty dissertations
on dry subjects, go their own wqy; but
when you call out the people—the
great mass—give us Saxe, Gough. Anna
Dickinson, or Anna-body else who can
talk to us in every day talk and
erase, not oreate the wrinkles on our
mugs. Martha.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The Vice-President and Bitter Water
- Hensatioual Report that He was
Poisoned—The Speakership Scram
ble —Arrival of Members —Mr. Ste
phens Missed—Ferry's Successor —
Chandler on the Rampage—Frauds
—Babcock and Jewell —Odds and
Ends.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C., Nov. 27, 1875.
The proper honors were paid to the
deceased Vice-President on Friday last.
Although it was a most iuclemeut day,
there was a large turn-out of the local
military, under command of General
Emory, aud of distinguished officials in
carriages, forming a most imposing
cortege, which escorted the remains to
the depot, whence they ware trans
ported to Baltimore, where they were
received with befitting solemnity. Oae
of the evening of this city pub
lished a startling rumor to the effect
that the Vice-President was poisoned
by mistake, the theory being that the
“bitter water,” of wldch he partook
just after he arose, contained strichnia.
No one, however, credits the story. It
is set down as a sensational canard.
Much comment has also been excited
on account of the haste with which the
surgeons proceeded to make the
autopsy, that being commenced within
two or three hours after his dissolu
tion.
All the prominent candidates for
Speaker and Clerk are now on the
ground, each of coarso, fondly im
agining that he is the coming man.
It is hard to predict with any
sort of certainty who will be elect
ed. One man will assure you that
Kerr’s hard money doctrines together
with his incorruptible integrity will
win the day, while others, with equal
faith and zeal, will point to Mr. Ran
dall’s gallant fight against the Force
bill last winter, and his many claims to
be a leader, and predict his triumphant
election. Cox aud Wood have their
supporters, but the contest has evi
dently narrowed down to Kerr and
Randall.
Many members have arrived and
more are coming in every day. It has
been said that Hon. Mr. Stephens, of
Georgia, will be too ill to be present at
the opening of the House and may,
probably, not be here at all. This will
be a matter of regret, not alone to
brother members, who will miss his :
clear head and able statesmanship, but
to the whole country, who recognize in
him almost the lastsurvivor of a race of
intellectual giants who flourished in the
earlier days of the present century.
It is confidently to be hoped the roport
will prove unfounded. One of the
most noteworthy facts in connection j
with the incoming Hawse is that a
majority of its members are new men.
They are, for the most part, men who
have their political reputations to
make. This may well be considered a !
fortunate circumstance at this junc
ture, since they can the more readily i
adapt themselves to the changed con
dition of our country, and therefoiA
act untrammeled by the issues and
political theories of the past. Radical
papers have alroady begun to foretell j
the terrible measures which would be 1
passed by the Democratic majority. ;
They simply go upon the principle that j
they (Democrats) will follow the ex- ,
ample of the Republicans and make !
asses of themselves, au assumption
entirely unwarranted and ridiculous.
No nomination has ever given more
universal satisfaction than that of Mr.
English, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Senator Ferry, of Con
necticut. In the affections of tho De
mocracy, he stands upon the same
footing as Thurman, Bayard and Til
den, and is a worthy colleague of the
noble Eaton.
Z. Chandler, Bsq., recently of Michi
gan, is still on the rampage. “Pip and
Joe,” in “Great Expectations, ’ never
looked with more anxious eyes for the
return of “Mrs. Joe” than do the poor,
trembling clerks await each day the
dreadful tidings that their daily bread
and butter has been sacrificed to the
omnivorous appetite of the Hon. Zack.
Poor fellows! it’s bad enough to depend
upon the uncertain favor of princes or
the gratitude of republics, but’ to be
thrown upon the tender mercies of the
ex-Senator from Michigan is indeed
hard fate. The Secretary is ridding the
Patent, Indian and other bureaus under
his control of the lukewarm Republi
cans, of all who refuse to devote a
portion of the pittance doled out to
them to the bribery fund, called by
courtesy “election expenses”), and, iu
fact, all who refuse to bow their heads
iu abject submission to the Baal of
Radicalism. Under the rule of tho
party in power a man who accepts a
position, however humble, must do so
at the sacrifice of his' independence;
must become an automaton iu the
hands of party managers like Ed
munds, and, in fact, be reduced to a
mere machine. All this is wrong—rad
ically wrong. In nothing is civil service
refoim more needed. It remains for
our party to make the change and to
prove that a man may be its useful,
independent servant, without being its
abject slave.
The frauds in the Pension Office will
soon be brought to light. This bureau
is said to be altogether ; the most cor
rupt under the present administration.
Its officers are a set of old fogies who
have attached themselves to the bureau
like barnacles, and cling to it with as
much tenacity as those animals do to a
ship. Most of them never saw a battle
field in their lives, except perhaps
through a long range telescope, and
therefore have not the slightest sym
pathy with those brave men who fought
for the cause of the Union. The length
of necessary to get a claim through
the Pension Office is exactly in an in
verse ratio to its amount, If the claim
is large and there is a chance for a
“make” it is rushed through like a
streak of lightning, but if it happens
to be a small claim in favor of some
indigent wounded soldier, who cannQt
afford to do without it, why tho case of
Jarndyce v§. Jarndyce is not a circum
stance to the delay and investigation
which is deemed necessary. The
“modus operandj” is somewhat as fol
follows; The soldier must first furnish
a certificate of the surgeon who dis
charged him. If he happens to be dead
the applicant has an inarease of trouble
and expense, sinoe be ’must then hunt
from Maine to California, to procure
certificates of his discharge from no
end of captains, majors, colonels and
generals, all involving expense and de
lay, until the poor fellow either gives
up his case in despair or finds, when
allowed, that fees and costs have re
ducefi it to almost nothing. When a
goldier applies for an increase of his
pension then the heart the Pension
Office waxeth glad; foy ;:hen detectives
must be employed, wfio feel such a
profound interest in Unde Sam’s affairs
that they are willing to devote day and
night to his service whefi liberally paid
for it. Physicians must be feed, in
order that they may certify upon their
professional honor, whether the appli
cant has ever, since his discharge, been
able to rock the baby’s cradle or do
“chores” around the house. If he (the
soldier) has been flat of his back for
the space of eighteen months, unable
to do anything except open his mouth
or wink, he stands a fair chauee, but if
ho has ever been seen toting a stick of
stove-wood for his wife or trundling a
wheelbarrow, woe to his petition, for it
is ten chances to one that it will
be tied up with a piece of red string
and be “cast into the uttermost depths”
of the pension records, there to await
the final resurrection.
Tho public here are rather more
than half convinced that O. E. Babcock
and Orvil Grant have a hand in the
St. Louis whiskey frauds. Old Bris
tow is after the whole lot, aud writes
to U. S. Attorney Dyer, to “ kill and
spare not.”
It was thought that perhaps Post
master General Jewell would resign, as
the President rather snubbed him in
the Mississippi postmaster cases, but
as the promised commissions have been
withheld, tho opinion gains ground that
Mr. Jewell holds the winning cards.
Robeson lias been making a fearful blus
ter for a week or two, but it is all “fuss
and feathers.” Nobody is excited ex
cept himself, and we suppose it will
end, like his former demonstration, in
a sudden and fearful demand for ship
timber, which some good Radical con
tractor will bo allowed to fill at the
highest figures.
The death of Senator Ferry gives the
Democracy three more votes in the
Senate.
In my next I shall give your readers
some idea of the location and general
contour of Washington, together with
a few comments on the manners and
customs of its inhabitants, the public
buildings and other points of interest.
In the meantime, I sign myself.
John Quill.
A \ r outlifnl Smoker.
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette:
I submit herewith a case well kuown
in Bradford J unction, 0., which, while
exhibiting probably the earliest age at
which a taste for tobacco smoking has
been acquired, may suggest something
as to the relationship existing between
appetites natural and acquired, and at
the same time prove of interest to
those disposed to observe the hygienic
effects of tobacco on the human sys
tem. A baby boy was weaned with
considerable difficulty at the age of
two years. All tho usual substitutes
provided to bamboozle urchins in such
cases were indignantly rejected by our
subject; food was refused, and what
with hunger aud constant fretting he
suffered nervously and his health failed
to such a degree as to occasion serious
alarm. He too, from an ex
cess of saliva on mis little stomach, a
disease which mammas probably more
fully understand than does your bach
elor correspondent. For the pur
pose of temporarily pacifying him,
his father, an inveterate smo
ker, occasionally yielded to the
child’s ontreaties, by withdrawing the
cigar from his own mouth and allow
ing tho boy to puff at it for a short
while at a time, in his own way. It was
observed from the beginning that the
new found substitute for the matornal
fount invariably gave entire satisfac
tion; the stomachic complaint disap
peared; the child acquired an appetite
for food, and began to thrive. But the
appetite for smoking increased even
more rapidly. From a few little imita
tive puffs at the beginning the child
grew into smoking a whole cigar a day,
and increased the number until in a
year or so he consumed from ten to
twelve cigars daily. It was noticed that
he suffered in health, suffered nervous
ly, and lost flesh; and that mentally he
had little of the healthy curiosity or
fresh interest iti tho little things around
him characteristic of children of his
age. The quantity was gradually re
duced to four or five cigars a day, and
he continues now at that number, with
every appearance of good health and
bodily growth. C.
Bradford Junction, Nov. 27.
Iron Clads Moving.
Philadelphia, Docember I.—lron
clads at League Island, ready for sea,
will leave to-morrow morning in tow of
yesssls. which are to accompany them
to Norfolk. The fleet will consist of
nine or ten vessels. Among the ves
sels to sail are the Powhattan, Talla
poosa, Alliance, Alert, Huron, Dis->
patch, Passaic, Nantucket and Wyan
clott,
V* •ginia Legislature in Session.
Righil >nd, December 1. —The Legis
lature met in annual session to-day,
the Governor’s message was read. It
is a voluminous document, covering
nearly forty printed pages.
Sheridan Burned.
Detroit, December I.—Steamer Phil
Sheridan was burned. There were no
lives lost. She was valued at thirty
thousand dollars.
Bank in New Orleans Suspended.
New Orleans, December I.—The
Bank of America has suspended. The
directors resolved to put the bank in
liquidation at once.
Earthquake in New Hampshire,
Keene, N. H., December 1. — Two
slight shocks of an earthquake occur
red this morning. No damage done.
Alabama to Have a New Constitution.
Montgomery, Ala., December I.—The
official vote for and against tfie new
constitution was counted to-day. The
majority for ratification is fifty-six
thousand four hundred and forty-ffive.
The total vote cast is one hundred and
fourteen thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.
They say it was a rare and touching
sight at the Dayton, Ohio, depot the
other day, to see a Democratic ex
candidate for Attorney General chased
through three cars by q reyolyer, with
qn irate female behind it.
A girl in Berks county, Pennsylvania,
only twelve years old, rises at 4 a. m.,
milks thirteen oows, and prepares
breakfast for the family. Her parents
are probably dead, and some generous
persons are keeping her out of charity,
Housekeepers with marriageable
daughters should remember that senti
ment is too frail a thing to survive even
a twilight tete a tets in an apartment
pervaded by the smell of boiled cab
bage.
Of the 5,000,000 Jews estimated to
be on the face of the globe, 120,000 are
assigned to America, 46,000 to Fraqcp,
300 to Ireland, 25 to Norway. One out
of every seven inhabitants of Poland,
and one out of every twenty-five of
Hamburg, Roumaaia and Austria are
Hebrews.
MANUFACTURE OF COTTON IN
THE SOUTH.
Responses to Queries.
LETTERS FROM MESSRS. ADAM JOHNSTON,
F. COGIN, H. H. HICKMAN AND WM. C.
SIBLEY, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
[Northeast Georgian.)
Office of the Augusta Factory, )
Augusta, Ga., November 20, \
E. D. Newton:
My Dear Sir : Your favor of the 17th,
and also the paper has come to hand.
In reply, would say I am no newspa
per writer, as my time is wholly taken
up in manufacturing.
We have had a very dull time in that
business the past two years, but I think
we have seen the worst of it. There
has sprung up a large export demand
for goods of late which has cleared the
markets of brown goods, and will
cause an increase in prices. Tho mills
I represent have sold ahead of pro
duction several weeks aud are run
ning to their fullest capacity, and in
my judgment, we need have "no fears
of an over production of cotton goods.
Very respectfully,
F, Cogin, Supt.
Richmond Factory, Ga., J
November 21, 1875. f
My Dear Sir:— l cannot avoid reply
ing to your very friendly communica
tion of the 17th instant, and I do so
with the greatest pleasure, as I am a
Southern man by birth and by feeling.
I have no experience as you suppose
in manufacturing in Europe. For the
last twenty-five years of my life I have
devoted my mind and attention to tho
manufacturing of cotton and wool in
this State, and I have found manufac
turing, when attended to with knowl
edge and prudence, to be as safe as
any other regular pursuit.
During this period I have frequently j
had this matter of makiug yarns for
export to Europe discussed. I never
have seen the day when I thought for
a moment, it would be done—nor can
it now be made a business of profit. j
Aiways carry in your mind that, as
manufacturers, we are highly protec- j
ted by the tariff upon imports and do
mestic market for what we make.
The domestic market is now over-stock
ed, and hence the daily lowering of
prices to make sales.
We must either burn tho surplus, as
the Dutch did their coffee, or try to
export the same as we are now doing—
in which, we are aided by the fifteen
per cent, premium on gold. I have no
idea the first yard has been exported
at a profit ; it is only a make shift to
enable the factories to work and ob
tain a living price in tho protected
market.
You may ask, well, why this state of
things? I will give you my opinion:
England is the great commercial power
of the world. The staid and potential
character of her government, the
justice and equal measure of her laws,
giving entire security to person and
property, has made her the world’s
banker. Her free trade banner has
made her the storehouse of almost
every production, whether it be the
wool of Australia, the gold of India,
the diamouds of the Cape Coast, or the
wheat of Oregon—all find that store
house : for consumption and re-ex
portation attracted them by cheap and
rapi 1 transportion, cheap money aud ex
emption from all import duties. Were
the cotton from the * United States,
from India, (landed in the United
States short bound and at as low a
freight as from tho United States,) from
Egypt and from the Atlantic and
Pacific costs of South America, all to
find a market, this being the case, is it
a reliable statement to say, having the
cotton at our doors, ‘We buy it cheaper
than the Manchester man ?” It is not
the case as a rule, very far from it. You
must not rely too strongly on ootton
being cheaper here than in Liverpool.
Again, the English spinner can mix his
cotton, (India, American, etc.,) and re
duce the average of costs.
Mill owner’s capital to do the busi
ness, first-class paper, finds a mhrket
in England to-day at three per cent,
per annum, “gilt edge,” iu Augusta,
one per cent, per month.
The duty, freight aud charges on
machinery imported into tho United
States is about fifty per cent..; this
brings it upon about a par with that
made in the United States. Now, sup
pose that an equal difference exists
with the cost of buildings, and you
have the situation of the Manchester
and American manufacturers.
The one has the cotton of the world
upon the spot to choose from, cheap
capital, oheap machinery and buildings
and the markets of the world. The
other has the blessings of the tariff
and a home market. I should like to
enlarge upon this and its effects upon
the planting and shipping interests of
the United States, and I am admon
ished that this is a field for others. I
enclose you a Liverpool paper, which
will give you the data you wish. The
yarns exported from England are gen
erally thirty cents, thirty-two cents qnd
forty cents, and yon wifi notice ootton
being quoted at seven and a half pence
for fair American yarns sold lrom
eleven to twelve and a half pence equal
to twenty-two and twenty-five cents.
When I made an estimate for the
cost of goods, J included every possible
charge except interest on the capital
invested. My experience hqa been,
that working good potton, (which is
always the oheapest), the loss is eleven
to twelve per cent., aud to spin yarns,
cost from seven to eight per cent. This
includes commissions for selling and
loss of interest, and by the same rule,
to make shirtings and sheetings ten
cents per pound. I have looked very
closely at the returns of the model in
stitutions that regularly come before
the public with detailed statements,
and sq fay as J can make out, this is
about the cost with them, and if wrong,
would be much pleased to correct it.
I say nothing about cheap labor. A
man at £1 per day and another £2—the
one at $1 per day may be best off, as it
may purchase him more comfort than
the £2. Giye us in these United States
good pqrentql government, just and
promptly administered laws, and we
would soon have confidence and a con
vertible currenoy, with less rates of in
terest for capital. With this, agricul
ture would raise its head, and other
interest, move onward and upward.
And if to this free trade could only
be addedj these Southern States would
aoon be in a condition to export yarns
to England; I fear not before. You
may consider these views behind the
age, but they are just what I think to
be true. Adam Johnston.
Office of Gbanitevillk Manufactur- j
ing Company, at Bank of Augusta, >-
Ga., November 23,1875. }
E. D. Newton, Esq.:
Dear Sir : Your letter of the ffth
inst, is before me and contents noted.
I have also paper of the 17th, and
notice “ \Yhat we wish to know.”
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 102
I beg to say that I weave all the yarn
I spin, and therefore I am not posted
at present on cost and wants of yarn. I
will see if I can give you any informa
tion on the subject in a few days. If I
can, you will hear from me.
Very truly yours, H. H. Hickman.
Augusta, Ga., November 21, 1875.
E. D. Newton, Esq.:
Dear Sin: Yours of the 17th is at
hand. In reply, I would state Ido not
care to canvass the subject. I think
Mr. Bloomfield’s views are correct.
Respectfully, Wm. G. Sibley.
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FOX HUNTS.
A Blast at Bergh.
IN. Y. Herald.]
If Mr. Bergh has ever visited the
scenes he describes, he must have as
sociated with some very queer speci
mens of the “London Club men,” or
the “habitual idler.” “Feeble mind”
and “perfumed body” are not pretty
epithets to apply to the Dukes of
Beaufort or of Grafton, to the mem
! bers of the Pytchley or the Quorn, or
tl>e long list of gentlemen whose names,
although they may appear in parlia
mentary annals or on the lists of noble
charities, are forever damned in Mr.
Bergh’s eyes and subjected to his
scornful vituperation because they are
to be seen weekly during the
hunting season in a godless sheet
known to the unregenerate as Bell's Life
in London, which advertises, under
date of November thirteen, the follow
ing “meets” in the United Kingdom,
viz : Five stag hounds, one hundred
and thirty-five fox hounds, eighteen
harriers, all, according to our letter
writer, largely attended by “feeble
minds” and “perfumed bodies.” It
would be impossible in the limited
space of this article to correct all the
mistakes or misstatements in the little
extract we have given of Mr. Bergh’s
notion of a fox hunt; but one can ima
gine, for instance, Mr. Talboy’s expres
sions both of face and feeliugs, if, after
a ringing “view halloo,” “dogs, horses
and men scamper pellmell after the
miserable animal.” Dear Mr. Bergh !
if you had ever chanced to have had
the luck once in your life to flud your
self, well mounted, in an easy country,
with negotiable fences, smiling along
over grass land in the “first flight,”
you would have been spared an awful
exhibition of yourself in the way of
writing about what you do not under
stand.
Who own a good steed they know how to
bestride,
Tho’ blind to the fences and brook deep and
wide;
With nerves that ne’er falter, whatever the
pace,
Let what may delight others, their joy is
chace!
Our letter writer, in his lycanthropic
zeal, may, perhaps, forget that the fox
is the most destructive of vermin; the
farmers, therefore, who join in the
hunts he denounces have a reason for
joy beyond the pleasure of the chase
in their protected poultry yards; and,
really, in considering the abstract
cruelty of fox hunting, it does not
seem of great moment whether the
vermin is hunted and destroyed by the
dogs, or whether caught by the leg in
an iron-toothed trap during the night,
he should linger in torture until he is
clubbed to death by a farm servant in
the morning.
It seems almost needless to defend a
noble sport which has done so much
to improve the breed of horses and to
strengthen tho nerve and give vigor to
the frame of men in England ; but it is
well to remember that the grand old
Duke of Wellington was a celebrated
fox hunter; that the gallant cavalry
whose resistless oharge at Waterloo,
whose brilliant riding at Balaklava are
things of history, wore led and officered
by men who had learned their riding,
theirgpolness and their pluck in many
a hard run with the Pytchley, the
Quorn or some of the hunting meets
which take plaoe four times a week
during the season all over the United
Kingdom.
Newspaper Borrowers.
Time: Saturday morning, eight
o’clock. Scene: The breakfast-table.
A rap is heard at the door, and the
newspaper is for a few moments opened
before the fire. “Come, John, it won’t
do to dry it long, for I see neighbor
Snooks is sending his son after It,”
Another rap at the door,
“Father wants to know if you will
just lend him the newspaper five min
utes; if you ain’t done with it, he will
send it right back. He only wants to see
if the brig Star has been heard from,
what our Tom went in,”
“Tell your father the brig is npt re
ported,”
Home he trips, and speedily he re
turns.
“Mother wants to know who was
buried yesterday; can’t you leud it to
her just two minutes ?”
“Tell your mother that all the deaths
this week are Mr.——, and a child of
Mr,
In*a few moments another tap.
“Sister Susan wants to know if any
body is married ‘this week, and uncle
Josh wants to know what the news is
from Virginia, and Aunt Snooks wants
to know if there is any more pretty
stories about that Jarvis woman; if
you can’t spare the paper, why can’t
you just write down what there is,
just ’cause I don t want to keep run
ning back and forward so—”
“Here, my lad, take this paper to
your father, and round to all your un
cles and aunts, and have it back, what
ever is left of it, next Saturday morn
ing at eight o’clock precisely, when you
come to borrow the next,”
Ten applications on Saturday by
borrowers, aU sent to neighbor Snooks,
with a particular eautiou to return it
there when done with it. Monday
morning a rap at the door, and the boy
with the paper ia ushered in, “Mother
says it is too much plague to keep the
paper all the week, people keep com
ing after it so,”
Hard Times in the Gay Capital.—
Paris, notwithstanding that glamour
of faith which resulted from the pay
ment of the Prussian debt, has come to
see very hard times. Not only are the
poor affected, but the fashionable world
also. This shows that the cause is a
deep one,
Worth, the man milliner, who was
to Paris fashion buyers what a General
is to an army, has lost very heavily by
the pressure upon his business by the
stringency of the times; and though
his horses prance as daintily, and ho
buttons his pearl-colored kids as lack
adaisically as ever. It Is feared that
financially he Is embarrassed to a great
great extent. But, if gossip ia to he
trusted, he has lost mainly thtough the
failure of fashionable Amerioans during
our present panic.
Logan Still Lingers.
Chicago, December I.—Logan is a
little better but still critical,
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On AND AFTER this date (April 21. 1875.) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
tree of postage.
AnvEEnsEMENTs must be paid for when haa
tied in, unless otherwise stipulated.
Announcing or suggesting Candidates lot
office, 20 cents per line each insertion.
Money maybe remitted at our risk by Express
or Postal Order.
Correspondence Invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Kjuected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The religious revival in Athens con
tinues with unabated fervor.
C. I. Hughes has been appointed
Postmaster of Thomaston.
There were thirteen prisoners be
fore the Atlanta Police Court ou Tues
day morning.
William Collins attempted to shoot a
Mrs. Harrell in Columbus on MoiWay,
but missed his aim. He was jailed.
Five negro hog thieves were cap
tured in Columbus on Sunday by a
shrewd policeman who disguised him
self as a negro, in order to effect their
arrest.
The members of the Immaculate
Conception Church of Atlanta purpose
holding a fair.’ It will commeuce ou
the ninth instant.
All regular practicing physicians and
surgeons in the counties of Hancock,
Warren, Glasscock, Jefferson, Johnson,
Laurens, Wilkinson and Baldwin, have
been invited to meet with the physicians
of Washington couDty, on next Tues
day for the purpose of organizing a
medical society.
Rev. Moses Brazeal, and his | two
sous, Reese and Charles, Quamly
Walker, Joe Solomon, Sharper Solo
mon, Nat McCormick, Matt Kemp and
Bob King, all negroes, have been
arrested at Irwinton, charged with
“Ku-Kluxiog” several of their black
neighbors who disagree with them,
politically.
On Saturday last, Master Eddie An
derson, a nephew of Colonel Alston,
of Atlanta, was loading the left barrel
of his shot gun, having thoughtlessly
left the other barrel, which was loaded,
cocked. In ramming the powder home
the loaded barrel exploded, the shot
ploughing through his face, putting
out one of his eyes, and possiblv both
of them.
Atlanta Constitution: Matters were
exceedingly quiet about the Executive
office yesterday. Concerning treasury
matters there was nothing to be
gleaned further than that Mr. J. A.
Richardson and Mr. W. B. Lowe were
named as aspirants for the vacant office.
The Govenor has given no public in
timation as to whom he will confer the
trust upon, but it is certain that he
will select the coming man within
the next two or three days,
In the meantime, Captain Jones is
preparing to deliver up the office. He
refuses to make any public statement
at present,
Newnan Star: The very latest from
the Brinkley case is, that Judge
Buchanan, who is now holding court in
Columbus, refused, on Sunday last, to
hear a motion for a new trial, A bill of
exceptions to this decision, was sent
down la*t night by Mr. Rhode Hackney.
This he will doubtless refuse to sign.
A mandamus writ has already been
prepared in anticipation mf Judge
Buchanan’s decision, which will be
presented to the Supreme Court to
compel Judge Buchanan to sign the
bill of exceptions. Should this be
granted, it will stay the execution be
yond next Friday, but it is very doubt
ful. Mr. Brinkley, of Memphis, was
expected here to see his brother last
night.
Atlanta Commonwealth: Tho num
ber of escaped convicts since January
last is fifty-nine, only seven have been
recaptured. John Howard has lost thir
teen in four months out of an average
of thirty-five. j. T. and W. D. Grant
have lost fourteen and recaptured four
ot*fc of an average of two hundred and
twenty-five. F. J. Smith has lost
eleven, has killed one and has recap
tured three. Dade Coal Company has
lost but one man, Wiley Redding, out
of two hundred and fifty-nine. North
eastern Railroad have lost three out of
thirty. Henry Stephens has lost six
out of fifty, and has recaptured four.
Fields, McAfee & Cos., have lost two out
of one hundred. Henry Taylor, out of
forty, has lost none.
HIFALUTIN.
A Specimen of Mobile’s Fine Writing
—Punctuating a Windy Editorial.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Mississippi is blessed with a candi
date for the United States Senate
whose election will produce some re
markable results. Senator Alcorn’s
term does not end until March 4, 1877,
but as the State Legislature holds only
biennial sessions, his successor will be
chosen this winter. Ho has aspirations
himself, but probably no chances. The
candidate aforesaid is General Winfield
Scott Featherston, about whom wo
know nothing pro or con, but whoso
election, according to the Motile Regis
ter, will be celebrated by a whoop which
the throats of 10,000 Indians could not
produce,and which would drown even
the hurroos and cudgei-whacks of au
old-time Bonnybrook Fair. * The (white)
people of Mississippi,” says the writer,
“from the hill-tops of Marshall to the
glittering sands of the Gulf, from the
dark, shadowy cane-brakes of the Mis
sissippi Kiver to the sunny prairies of
the Tombigbee, would send up one
long, wild shout at the election of this
distinguished citizen and soldier.” The
Register says those are “golden words,”
but they seem to hypercritical persons
to be alloyed to such a degree that they
are little more than pinchbeck. If they
are oorreotly described, golden words
are little better than greenback
dollars. It is very easy to write
such stuff. ’Even our ’prentice
hand could do it. Listen. If Smith
kins is elected constable, the people of
Illinois, from the precipices of Cook
county to the yellow mud of Cairo,
from the foaming torrents of the canal
to the storied temples of Nauvoo, from
the flower-sprinkled lead mines of
Galena to the towering peaks of our
prairies, from the broad lakes that
lave the reedy shores of Calumet to
the bounding billows that sweep with
riot and roar under the fiftean-million
dollar bridge, would howl and yell and
whoop and shriek, uotii axchangels
faint and devils smile. There! These
mu3t be golden, diamond-studded, pearl
edged words, according to the Register's
standard. After that, what compari
son oan there be between the Senatorial
chanoes of Featherston and the cou
stabular chanoes of Smithkins ?
A oircus is about to visit Memphis,
and the Flanet, organ of tho colored
people, warns them against it thus:
“Teachers, tell your pupils. Preachers,
impress it on your congregations.—
Fathers and mothers, tell your children
to U;t this show go by; there will bean
other next year.”
A pretty and.sensible young lady re
marked in the presence of seven bare
faoed young men the other night, “that
it just doubles the value of a kiss to
have to burrow it from under a mus
tache." The next morning one of our
druggists sold seven bottles of a pre
paration to encourage mustaches, iu
less than half an hour after opening
| his store, —Norristown Herald,