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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year *lO 00 six months 6 00 ** thre<\ months 260 Tri-Weekly-ouo year 6 oo “ six months 260 Weekly—one year 2 oo " six months in Single copies, 6 ets. To news dealers, nVi cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGltf. Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON. J *3- Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA. GA. FROM NEW YORK. A SAD STORY OP SHIPWRECK. Details of the Sunnyside Disaster. New York, December 2.— The details of the Sunuyaide disaster show that the mate had not got over fifteen or twenty feet from the steamer, with his life boat full of people, before it cap sized. A terrible scene ensued. There must have been eighteen persons in the boat. The mate swam ashore, but the others that were saved swam, back to the steamer. In all probability all that were lost were drowned from the cap sizing of the life boat. Their shouts and cries for aid must have been heard for a long distance. “As quickly as possible,” says the mate, “I took a boat from the starboard side, and, with our head waiter and deck boy, tried to get around to the people in the water; but heavy ice prevented. Cries for help continued. In about ten minutes all was still. We launched the big "boat from the upper deck, which was eveu with the water, the vessel at that time being two hundred feet from shore. I took the boat with the second engineer and finally reached the capsized bout, tihe was bottom upward, and a man lay on her on his back, with his feet in the water and ice, nearly dead. We took him on board the steamer, put him in the pilot’s room, and covered him with blankets. Then I heard a noise on the outside of our port wheel house, which was only two feet out of water. VVc worked the boat through the ice to the spot where the cries came from, and found an elderly lady, who groaued out that she was lying on the ice about five feet from the wbeel house. Her body was partly in the water, her arms hold ing her up. She was still alive. With great difficulty we got her in the boat, and took her to the steamer, put her in the wheel man’s room, and cov ered her with blaukets, but she died about two hours'after. We then went to work to construct a rope ferry from the steamer to the shore. At this time at least sixty persons were crowd ed together on the hurricane deck aft. The wind was blowing hard,*aad the air was bitter cold. We got the line ashore and succeeded in getting all off in safety. After they had been on the deck for two hours, we placed them in the boat and pulled the boat along by the rope. On reaching the shore they climbed up the rocks and made their way to farm houses in the vicinity where every attention was given them. Failure —O’Conor’s Condition sup posed to be Hopeless. New York, December 2.—P. and B. Lawrence, stationers, have suspended. New [Yukk., December 2—O'Conors condition unchanged. Physicians say his chances of recovery are small. Charles O’Conor Sinking—lmportant Action of the Chamber of Com merce. New York, December 2.—Charles O’Conor is gradually sinking. The Chamber of Commerce has ap pointed a committee of five to consider the effect of a longer continuance of the Cuban struggle on commerce and whether the Chamber should memor alize Congress on the subject. Horrible Revelations of Turkish Bar barity—Spain Stirring Up a Hornet’s Nest. * New York, December 2. —A private letter from Ragusa, from a lady who is an eye witness of the sufferings of Herzegovinian refugees represents them as in a condition calling for im mediate relief. Thousands of them, she says, must die before help can come. Her husbaud saw the headless bodies of Christians in the streets of a Herzegovinian town, while headless bodi< s of women were floating in the river Save, and in the streets oi the town swine were feeding on the corpses of Christian women. The writer makes an earnest appeal for these Christian refugees, who, she says, were compelled to flee from their homes on account of the persecutions of the Turks. The following editorial article ap peared in the Spanish newspaper El CrouSta, published in this city, on the 3l)th ult.: “We see by the latest news papers from Madrid that the Council of State has given its decision in regard to the capture of the Virginius, declaring it was a good prize aud that the Gov ernment had a right to exact the return of that vessel by the Government of the United States, and as that could not be done on account of the vessel having sunk after it went into the hands of the American authorities, the Spanish Government had a right to claim her value. We believe, In view of this decision that our Government will at once claim from the Govern ment at Washington the value of the vessel, and that that Government will hasten to hand it over with the same alacrity as was shown by us in respect to the £BO,OOO which was given for the survivors of the crew of a private vessel. FROM CHICAGO. A Bankrupt Railroad —Mysterious Discovery. Chicago, December 2.—The Chicago and Illinois River Railroad Company has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities, £1,500,000. A barrel delivered to the United States Lxpress by an unknown express man, addressed to Thomas Green & Cos., lowa, contained the body of a very handsome woman, twenty-two years of age, and a still-born child. The truck man who took the barrel to the express office has been found. His story is that he received it from a house in one of the most aristocratic portions of Chicago. Chicago, December 2.—The identity of the woman packed in a barrel is still undiscovered. The tiuckman, when arrested, identified two men who pro cured his help, who were arrested. They asserted they had done body snatching business. The body was taken from a barn. A ,warrant is out for Dr. Wilder, who is implicated. FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Aii Old Confederate Tabooed by Colored Royalty. San Fhancisco, December 2.—Capt. Waddell, who arrived from New York, in command of the Pacific mail steamer City of San Francisco, to take her on her first trip to Sydney via Honolulu, being threatened with arrest by the Hawaiian authorities on a charge of piracy for the destruction of the Hawaiian bark Harvest, during his operations against the Arctic Whaling Fleet in the Confederate steamer She nandoah, Capt. Lachlin will take his place temporarily, pending arraug nients to secure Waddell’s freedom from molestation by the Hawaiian au thorities. ffl)e Sbwjttgta CoßßiHutiomilisi Established 1799. FROM WASHINGTON. Governor Ames Withholds Credentials of Congressmen--Naval Appoint ment-Army Notes—Aid for Liberia— A Centennial Programme. Washington, December 2.—lt is stated that Governor Arnes withholds creden tials from Mississippi Congressmen. They will participate in the caucus, but cannot act in the House without them. Commander George C. Retney has been assigned to the command of the naval forces on the Rio Grande. The steamship Alaska will probably be ordered to the coast of Liberia. Wm. M. Evarts, as orator, and If. W. Longfellow, as poet, have been selected for opening the Centennial. A grand son of Richard H. Lee, of Virginia, will reud the Declaration of Independence. Maj. Jas. Belger, Quartermaster, has been relieved of duty in the Depart ment of the Gulf and ordered to report to the Commanding General of the De partment of the South for duty as Post Quartermaster at Atlanta, Ga. Capt. G. C. Smith Assistant Quartermaster has been relieved from the Department of Texas and ordered to Arizona.— Capt. C. Comly has been ordered to the Department of Texas as Chief of Ordi nance. Capt. H. P. Phipps has been ordered to the Department of the Gulf as Chief of Ordinance. It is now stated that the Indian Commissionship has been tendered Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey. Gen. Babcock Wants to be Investi gated. Washington, December 2.—Gen. Bab cock had a lengthy interview to-day with Attorney General Pierrepont with reference to the associatian of his (Gen. Babcock’s) name with the pend ing trials in St. Louis. His object is to endeavor to have an opportunity given him to be heard before the grand jury, or in some way to confront the charges that have been made, and he therefore j appealed to Judge Pierrepont, as the; representative of the prosecution in these cases, to consummate such a plan. The Attorney General has re ferred the subject of Gen. Babcock’s request, by telegraph, to the U. S. At torney at St. Louis. A letter from Gen. Babcock to the President, after a statement of circum stances already telegraphed, concludes; ! “I respectfully demand a court of in quiry, and request that an immediate investigation be ordered.” Kerr and Lamar. It is generally remarked, in connec tion with the chairmanship of the Democratic caucus, that the selection of Col.' Lamar for that position was made at the suggestion of Mr. Kerr, though he knew at the time that the proposed President had committed himself to Mr. Raudall. The spirit of fairness -aud generosity exhibited by Mr. Kerr in this matter but typifies the elevated character of the man. Gambling Over the Speakership—La mar President of the Caucus. Washington, December 2.—Pools to night—First, Randall, $10; the field, $5. Second—Randall, $18; field, $lO. Third —Randall sl2; field $lO. There were not over two hundred people at the pool selling. They are mere nibblers. Pools sell—Raudall,s3o; field, S2O and Randall S2O; field, S3O. One pool sold—Kerr, Ist choice, $6; Cox, 2d choice, $10; the field with Randall on it, i sls. A few pools sold for Clerk, Banks, $5; the field, $3. The selling may be come hotter and indicate something as the night progresses. Hotel corridors are almost impossible. Col. Lamar, of Misfissippi, was select ed to preside at the Democratic caucus. He stated that he had uot received his credentials, but has a telegram from the Secretary of the State of Mississippi that they will be sent to him here. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Perils of the Sea—Fatal Railway Ac cident. Oswego, December 2.—lt is ascer tained that the schooner J. G. Jenkins foundered Monday uTght in a gale. All were lost. Buffalo, December 2. —The eastward Atlantic express, hence at 1:50 yester day afternoon, collided with a freight train. Two persons were killed and one fatally wounded, aud many were seriously hurt. The fast mail was de layed two hours. The engineer suc ceeded in stopping his train only fif teen feet from the wreck. Havana, Jieoember 2.—The steamer Ambora, from Galveston and bound for Liverpool, is here in distress. The nature of her trouble is uot stated. Wrecked Steamers —Fatal Boiler Ex plosion —Bursting of a Water Pipe- Wreck of a Schooner—Burning of a Church. Detroit, December 2. —The steamer Jackki and her consort are reported ashore on Lake Michigan. New Harmony, Ind. —A portable engine boiler exploded, killing Wilson, the engineer, Solomon Enlow, a law yer, and badly scalding several per sons. Brooklyn, December 2.—The Ridge wood water-main burst this morning. Gobble stones and earth were thrown to an immeuse height. A horse car sunk in the excavation caused by the rush of water. The passengers and horses were rescued. The accident was caused by frost. Boston, December 2.—The steamer Allentown wont to the rescue of the schooner Frederick Warren Chase. — The crew represented her perilous condition, and wanted to be taken off. The Allentown anchored close by, but the schooner disappeared, and it is feared she foundered at night. Louisville, December 2.—The Broad way Baptist Church was nearly ruined by fire. .Loss, $70,000. The pastor’s library, valued at $7,000, was de stroyed. A Dreadful Outrage—Purloining of tlie Oldest American 800k —An An gry Husband Burns His Wife to Death. Milford, Pa., December 2.—Chas. D. Whetmore has been arrested on a charge of incest. Boston, December 2. —The sale of the Bay Psalm Book was enjoined by the Old South Church, who claim it. It mysteriously disappeared from their library. It was the first book publish ed in this country. New York, December 2. —Patrick Tooley, angry with his wife about cook ing a steak, poured a can of kerosene over her, lit a match, and set her afire. The woman is dead. Philadelphia, December 2.—Presi dent Soott, of the Pennsylvania Rail road, admitted to-night that the com pany had purchased the old navy yard property and that it would be utilized as much as possible for railroad pur poses; that it was not only valuable for that, but could be used for com mercial purposes. Just what would be done with it has not yet been deter mined by the company. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Marine Disaster—The Eastern Ques tion—Spain’s Reply' to the American Note—Failures in London. Paris, December 2. — The steamer Pauline Virginie Dejazet, reported that the steamer Amarazee was seen off the coast of Sicily. A tug has been sent to search for her. Berlin, December 2. — lt is reported that Austria has sent a draught of reforms to be recommended to the Porte. Russia will reply on Gort achakoff’s return from St. Petersburg. London, December 2.—The Daily News’ special from Madrid gives the contents of a recent Spanish ‘note to the United States: “Spain promises gradual emancipation of the slaves in Cuba, increased freedom of commerce, besides foreigners, when arrested, shall have an immediate hearing and legal redress shall be obtained for past in justice.” Another special to the same journal says that great aDxiety exists in Madrid regarding the reception of the note at Washington, as it embodies Spain’s ultimatum. Yesterday was settling day at the Stock Exchange. There were rather more failures than usual. The largest was that of Braggiotti Bros., stock and share brokers, whose liabilities are estimated at $350,000. There were also five other failures of less importance. Success of Egyptian Troops—The War in Spain—Surrender of a Turkish Garrison—Montenegro Warned. Aden, December 2.— Egyptian troops occupied the districts of Juba and Kis mays, disarmed the Zanzibar forces and hoisted the Turkish flag. Madrid, December 2.—A Cabinet council decided upon the formation of two armies, five divisions each—one in Navarre, under Gen. Martirez; the other in the Basque provinces, under Gen. Quesada, Vienna, December 2. —The Sclavonian states that the Turkish garrison at Ga ranako, consisting of two battalions, had surrendered. Berlin, December 2. — lt is stated that Turkey protests energetically to Mon tenegro against Montenegrins takiug part with Herzegovina, and the Powers support the protest. London, December 2. —The weather this vicinity is cold and snowy. CROOKED WHISKEY. Developments in the Trials—How Re venue Marks Can be Obliterated. Milwaukee, December 2. — The de fence in the case of Taft and Weirner introduced testimony, designed to show that stamps could be removed from packages aud figures representing the j number of gallons altered. A Bode, a I chemist, and others swore that there j are preparations by which ink can be ! removed from paper without disfigur- j iug. A keg or high wines that had ; been stamped an hour before was brought into court and a man pulled j out the tacks, removed the stamps, and ! took out the ink marks that had been made by gaugers. More Lame Ducks—Startling Devel opments -Expected. Indianapolis, December 2.—John W. Bingham was in court, in charge of the St. Louis Marshal. The forfeiture of his bail was remitted. Bingham then entered a plea of guilty to all of the live indictments, and was released on his own recognizance to await sentence. Gordon Bingham is critically sick. Hi ram B. Snyder also plead guilty. It is supposed they will make full disclos ures, aud startling developments are expected. FROM NEW ORLEANS. Statement of a Broken Bank. New Orleans, December 2.—Official statement of the Bank of America: As sets, sol9,ooo;'liabilities. $338,000. The liabilities include SIBB,OOO due deposit ors, and $50,000 due the Importers and ; Traders National Bank of New York, j It is estimated that the assets will ! yield from ten to twenty-five cents on | the dollar. Minor Telegrams. Albany, New York, December 2 Hon. Ira Harris is dead. Syracuse, New York, December 2. Reuben W. Stroud, Canal-Commission er, is dead. Philadelphia, December 2.— The old navy yard here has been sold for a million of dollars. The purchaser is supposed to be interested in the Penn. Central Road, but declined to say. Atlanta, December 2. — Brinkley, the wife murderer, was respited to-day till March 31st, 1876. Her Three Beaux, |Toronto Globe ] A good-looking servant girl of Win nipeg had three beaux to her striug, viz: A military man, policeman and an ordinary white man. She had arranged matters so that separate evenings were set aside for each of the ardent young suitors, and three different courses of love ran quite smoothly. Ono unlucky evening, however, all three suitors chanced to drop ia one after another. An interval of very desultory conver sation and embarrassing phrases ter minated by the pattering of a female foot on the stairs. “Here’s missis,” exclaimed the girl, and the three gen tlemen bolted into three adjoining rooms, and all was supposed to be well. But "the missis” happened to want something in the room where the ordi nary citizen was, and she encountered Mr. Citizen right there. “What are you doing here? What do you mean by being in this room ?” indig nantly inquired the missis, and she superadded the threat, “I’ll send for the police.” Mr. Citizen, calmly point ing to another door, remarked ; -‘lf you want the police he is in there.”— The missis flew to the other door, found the policeman, and poured out the second vial of wrath upon him, thus : “You’re a nice policeman, ain’t you? What do you mean by this con duct? I declare I will send for the military.” “Madam,” retorted the po liceman, “nothing is easier; if you want the military you will find him in there,” pointing to the third door. Military didn’t wait to be unearthed; he promptly came forth and saluted.- There was a slight scream and a pat tering of the female ascending foot on the kitchen stairway. The three suit ors came away without the usual cere monies at the gate. Seven women in Buffalo, who started out on a crusade among the saloons, report no gain for the temperance cause. “We are sent here by Jesus,” the leader said to the first bar-keeper encountered; and he smilingly re plied, “The introduction is satisfactory, make yourselves at home.” In another place, after praying, they were invited to drink. AUGUSTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875. RADICAL RULE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The City of Columbia—lllustrious Post Bellum Ex-Governors—Moses and “Pharaoh” —A Talk with Gov. Chamberlain—What He has Done and Is Doing for the State—The Legislature—lts Personnel —T li e Congo and the Octoroon—Charcoal Sketches-The Tax Bill. (Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Columbia, S. C., December 1, 1875. A pleasant run of eighty-five miles, and in five hours’ time, brought me from Augusta to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. It is charmingly situated on the Congaree river, in the heart of the upland country, lias wide streets, beautiful drives, aud in spite of the torch of Sherman and the still more terrible army of carpet-baggers which followed him and native rogues whom they called up, still boasts of handsome homes, beariug external evi dences of a high grade of civilization. But a stranger cannot help suspectiDg that each gilded cage he passes per haps contains unclean birds, hatched by the administrations of Scott or Moses. Be this as it may, the city bears unerring marks of solid advancement since my visit to it nearly two years ago. It will perhaps interest Gee. Tecurn seh Sherman to learn that Main street has been built up much finer than be fore he burned it, from end to end. In place of the low one aud two-story houses which supplied material for his incendiary torch, there are now blocks of three and four-story houses. Much of the money filched from the Treasury of the State was invested in real estate in Columbia, and hence no mean paral lel can be drawn between its fortunes and Atlanta. south Carolina’s illustrious post bel lum EX-GOVERNORS. There are two of _these —Scott and Moses. Scott came out of office with enough cash and property to keep his head above water. He still lives in Co lumbia, is a gentleman of leisure, with the consciousness that his administra tion has faded too far out of sight for investigating.committees to get hold of enough facts to disturb him in his peaceful walks. When F. J. Moses, his successor, re tired from the Gubernatorial chair, once occupied by McDuffie, Hayneaud Pickens, he started a billiard saloon aud faro bank. But a man may be com petent to successfully run a State gov ernment aud prove a disastrous failure as a faro dealer. So it was with Moses. Asa “Pharoah engineer” he is said 1o be a teetotai failure. He still lives in the elegant Preston or Hampton Mansion, for which he agreed to pay $40,000, but failed to ante but $15,000, and which is now drawing nigh unto the sheriff’s hammer for this aud other debts. Among the “other debts” is a small item of say $21,000 to a Philadelphia furniture dealer, who had the distinguished honor of supplying his Excellency with a complete outfit of household and kitchen plush velvets, mahogany pots and skillets. I uot met His Excellency— indeed, h<uT> not been looking for bim this time, as I once did, and hence he has not told me all these things, but his neighbors are brimful of stories about: his financial, carnal and moral affairs.: And there is SENATOR PATTERSON, just sold out by the Sheriff, aud Ncagle in sore straits. Both of whom hav ing failed to raise the wind since Cbam berlaiu was elected Governor, are not getting along as swimmingly as they 1 once did ; aud I am told a whoie raft of magnificent dead-beats “ whose eyes stuck out with fatness,” a few years ago, can be pointed out looking lean, lank and hungry, and heartily wishing Chamberlain in h—l!. With Missis sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ala bama closed against them, and the opportunity gone in South Carolina, there is the greatest danger that they will have to go to some honest employ ment. GOV. D, H. CHAMBERLAIN. I called upon the Governor this morning, and was most courteously and politely received. Whatever else may be thought and said of him, he has the manner of a born gentleman, and will quickly convince you that he is of superior education. A native of Mas sachusetts, if he ever had Puritan blood it has been destroyed in his countenance at least by enlightenment. Sitting there before me, I found a man of perhaps forty-eight or titty, with a good head, slightly bald, a prominent though frank and open countenance, and dressed with scrupulous neatness. To the whole State, Radicals and Democrats, be is a very Mephistopheles. The more rabid Radicals, especially those who regard him as in their way to preferment or the State Treasury, denounce him as a traitor to their party. The balance of that party say, “Well, all you assert may turn out true, but let us wait and see.” The Democrats, knowing he was Attorney General under Gov. Scott, when the grandest, roguery was committed in the annals of civilization, can’t, or won’t, or don’t understand why all these professions, and not only profes sions, but acts of honesty of his. They admit that he has been a wonderful disappointment—that he has, from the beginning of his administration, dis countenanced and vetoed every meas ure of rascality started by his party, and that he has so far made as good a Governor as could possibly have been chosen from ,the ranks of the old native population. For all this, many of them think that it is the cat playing with the mouse, fearing that he is playing some deep game which they do not understand. It is hard to think, however, that he wishes to leave the office of Governor and sink into ignominy and shame like his immediate predecessors. He is too great a man for that. Chamberlain foresaw, when Moses was Governor, that reform : in South Carolina was necessary or existence here impossible. The State had be come a scandal to the family of States. From one of the most virtuous and purest it was a fallen daughter. The whole family demanded that she quit her ways of sin and return to the walks of virtue. It was determined that she should, whether she wanted to or not. The opportunity was given the Radicals to thus reclaim her, and they were plainly told, if t oey declined the task, they would be made to give way to the Democracy. Chamberlain’s first task was to crush and put that knavish little rascal, Moses, out of office. He had little trouble in doing so. and getting the place of Governor. Stepping into the elevated place, he saw the most disgusting sight ever witnessed by an American Executive, or perhaps ever witnessed since Caligula installed his horse Consul of Rome. Corruption most foul and putrid permeated every department of State, county and mu nicipal governments. Common thieves filled every office. The Legislature was composed of such birds as fill the jails and penitentiaries of the world, aud more still the Judiciary, from the Supreme Court to magistrates, was no better. Judges, juries, attorneys for the State everywhere stood ready to accept bribes and make decisions ac cordingly. There was scarcely a mem ber of the Legislature or an officer of the State government who could not have been convicted and sent to the State prison for from three to twenty years. They openly boasted of their villainies, and came up to Columbia under the new Govenor they had elec ted, and whom they all supposed to be one of them, expecting to continue their old avocations, and were dumbfounded to hear him say after he was inaugu rated. “I was in dead earnest when I told you during the campaign that I intended reform ! The days of your wholesale and retail plundering of this people are over.” It is said that they have tempted him in evey way, offer ing any per centage of plunder he might name. But he has sternly re fused, and most religiously stuck to what he told them at the beginning. Up to this hour, with the aid of the handful of Conservatives in the Legis lature, and a handful of honest Radicals, he has defeated every scheme of ras cality which has been started, and in the counties they have felt him none the less. The result is plainly perceptible. The State has risen from utter despair to the brightest hope. When Moses re tired, she could not borrow five dollars upon a million bond. There is now a market for her securities, and a portion of her taxes is devoted to the payment of honest debts which before was not the case. This is in all truth what p. H. Chateberlain, the carpet-bagger from Massachusetts, has done and is doing for the Prostrate State. I think it nothing wrong for us Democrats to give him due credit for it. It would have been impossible for even Wade Hampton or Gen. Kershaw to have ac complished more. And could either have controlled the overwhelming rab ble majority against them so success fully ? I doubt it. THE LEGISLATURE —WHAT IT IS COMPOSED OF. On Monday, of last week, the regu lar Winter session of the South Caro lina Legislature commenced. After leaving the Governor, this morning, I w’ent up stairs, and, turning to the right, presented my card to a coal black, corn field negro, who said he was the door-keeper. “ Give that, to the Speaker, and tell him I want a pass.” “ Jis walk right in. Long is I is here you don’t need no udder pass dan dat kard.” All right, much ob liged,” and in I walked to a really mag nificent chamber, luxuriantly furnished with three-ply Brussels carpets, black walnut furniture, six dollar china spit toons, and so on. On the right, up the centre, and blending with the left, was a great cloud of black Representatives, with perhaps thirty per cent of mulat toos and octoroons, some of the latter assimilating so nearly to the pure Cau casian color that you had to look closely or inquire of a member who they were. Just here I will remark there is a deep prejudice and bitter antagonism, as in Sau Domingo before the massacre, growing up between the free Congo and the mulattoes. The House is composed of one hun dred and twenty-six members. Of this number thirty-five are white and seventy-two colored. The white Re presentatives are mostly from the hill country, with a few exceptions. There are one or two white members from Charleston, among them George A. Trenholm, who has a wonderful influ ence over the Radicals. There are seven white men in the Senate. THE OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE. The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, my friend the doorkeeper is black, the pages are black, the super numeraries are black ; indeed, every officer and employe of the House, with the exception of one or two sub-clerks who work under negro bosses, are black. The complexion of R. B. Elliott, the Speaker, would make charcoal blush. The President of the Senate, Lieutenant Governor Gleaves, is a ne gro, and the leader of the whole Legis lature, Senator Beverly Nash, must Lave been dipped seven times in tar. So that tho so-called war of races is not strictly confined to the Caucasian and the African. THE WHITE MEMBERS Occupy the extreme left of the Cham ber looking from the door. They are a line looking body of men, and seem to Le, to a very great extent, true re presentative Carolinians. I was glad to learn and to see that they no longer look on in silence, as they did a few years ago, but take a lively interest In eTcry measure, and when schemes of plunder are sprung, as they are every hour in the day, light them at every step, and when failing, rush to the Governor and ask for a veto, which they aie certain to get. The tax bill was up to-day, and six sestions wore passed, It provides for the levying of 10)£ mills for present State and county purposes, and 2 mills, making Y 2% in all, for paying some of the bills incurred by Gov. Moses, or rather 4 mills collectable in two years in equal installments. The bill will pass to-day and go to the Governor. I think he will veto it, as he did a sim ilar bill the other day, containing really less objectionable features than this one. Jean Yaljean. Eow a Dead Hog Killed a Man.— The Pensacola (Fla.) Gazette says : “A negro man in the adjoining county of Baldwin killed a large hog in the woods. He opened the animal, removed the entrails and devised a method of car- the pork which was altogether sui generis. This manner of transpor tation was effected by tying the hind legs together, passing his head between them, and, the heavy carcass being in front, easing the weight on his neck by lifting the fore legs with his hands. It is presumed that he got along remark ably well until a rail fence got In his’ way, and in order to climb this he needed his hands. Accordingly he re lieved them by lifting the hog over the top rail and letting it drop on the other side. It is presumed that he proposed to follow the hog, but he didn’t. A few days since a congregation of buzzards attracted attention to the locality, where the negro man was found hang ing on one side of a rail fence and the hog on the other, the weight of the animal evidently having pressed his neck down on the rail until he was choked to death.” “I don’t know,” said a young lady meditatively, as she glanced at an ele gantly dressed rival who was sailing out of church Sunday morning with all the airs of an empress, “I dpn’t know, but it seems to me that every time she gets anew stuffin’ for her bustle, she sorter acts as if sorrer oouldn’t hurt her.” STRANGER THAN FICTION. — + — The Connubial Infelicities of a Re surrected Wife—The Extraordinary Death, Burial and Exhumation of Mrs. Robinson. [New York Mercury ] The other afternoon, a handsomely dressed lady, accompanied by a gentle man, stepped into a lawyer’s office on Warren street. The lady might be slightly on the shady side of thirty, and her appearance betokened conscienti ous attention to the table in an excellent boarding-house. She had fair hair, blue eyes, a delicious mouth and perfect teeth. Her companion had a slight stoop in the shoulders, mutton-chop whiskers, a delicate nose, gray eyes, and hands like a shoulder of lamb. He was excessively modest, and the lady did the interviewing. “I come,” she began, “to see if I can quietly get rid of my husband. “I don’t want no noise about it, but 1 want to have it done quick, and to pay a fair price for it— none o’ them extras and unforeseen ex penses, you know,” and she smiled mysteriously. “Is this gentleman your husband ?” asked the lawyer, looking at the drooping masculine. “No,” not “ex actly,” said the lady, “but he hopes to be when he has a right to marry me. He is going to pay for thejdecree.” “Where is your husbaud—does he object?” queried the lawyer. “O, he’s in the city, and he does’nt object,” in confir mation of which the lady produced a sheet of paper attested by a notary pub lic, setting forth that George Robinson, being unable to live longer in harmony with his wife, agreed to a divorce, etc., etc. The lawyer was amused with the case, and by judicious questioning, ob tained from the lady the history of her married life. Miss Margaret Hardy was, seven years since, one of the belles of Rugby, in Western Yorkshire, Eng land. The maiden’s affections were concentrated upon one George Robin son, and to him, with the full approval of her parents, she was married on Christmas day, 1869. The first year of matrimonial life was one of uninter rupted happiness, and in the course of the moons a son and heir wae born to the Robinsons. Alas! the tiny stranger did not take kindly to existence, but sickened and died, leav ing the poor mother paralyzed with grief. She took to her bed, aud re fused to be comforted. She would neither eat nor drink, and in a short time became a living skeleton. Finally, she, to ail appearances, died. The poor young creature was by the ex press command of her father interred with her rings upon tier hands, and there was a good deal of unfavorable comment among the town’s people on this “criminal waste.” The jewelry particularly excited the cupidity of the parish clerk, and he made minute in quiries concerning the probable value of the buried rings. Finally, three days after the funeral, at the lone hour of midnight, he crept cautiously to the new-made grave. Having re moved the earth and unscrewed the coffin, he proceeded to take off the rings, but from the contracted state of the lingers was uable to effect his felonious purpose. Thereupon, with his pocket-knife, he commenced to amputate tho fingers, but he had scarcely reached the bone of the wedding-ring finger when, to his astonishment aud horror, tho corpse bolted nearly upright in the coffin, at the same time uttering a wild and dismal scream. The clerk imme diately started homeward with his hair bristling on end. Meantime the poor woman, who had been unconsciously buried in a death-like trance, alarmed at her extraordinary situation, direct ed her steps to her husband’s resi dence, and knocked loudly at the door. Robinson’s consternation, when he be held his wife in her shroud aud grave clothes may be imagined. He howled "murder” and “police,” attracting a startled crowd to his residence. Then it became evident that Maggie Robin son had indeed returned from the cold, damp grave in veritable living flesh and blood. Afterwards the Injured finger and the state of the grave pointed suspicion to the parish clerk; but, having saved the woman’s life, he was allowed to go unpunished, and the matter was permitted to rest. Finally Mrs. Robinson, to escape morbid curiosity, implored her hus band to emigrate—a step he was very unwilling to take, because, as Mrs. Robinson avers, he was over heard-aud ears with another young woman in the place.” Ultimately the wife’s importu nities prevailed, aud tho couple came to this city in the summer of 1872. George has earned a respectable liv ing, and his wife and he occupied, up to a few weeks since, a commodious floor on Sixteenth street. It appears, however, that he has been becoming gradually estranged from his wife, and Maggie felt that there was a “woman in the case.” Recently he was sick for a fortnight, and she intercepted the following letter from his whilom flame in England: Yarm, October 9, 1875. —Dearest, Dearest George : I rite this to enform you that I wud ha thote you wud ha goten ridd of her long before this. I wud come to you my darling rite away but who shud I bee, nothin whatsum ever neither tfife nor and dear George you wud not like to see me that an her alive. Oh George it was a misserable day when old Jack Hall [the avaricious sexton.—Ed.] dug her up, how happy we mite a been; but I will cum out if you say so for oh dear George I love you very much as you know, tom Darnton has offer’d twice to wed me but oh dear George I don’t love him like you. I have saved twonty five pounds, but I hope you send the money for me to come then I know you mean what you say. Broder Jack has had measles a second time and I am first rate and stouter and oh George how happy I wud be if we were together one heart one home. I (am) sure I wud like the voyage for I been on the sea and liked it first rate, but I wud come anyhow if you get ridd of her. Oh dearest George do rite soon and tell me all as I am so unsettled in my mind. Yours sincearly Annie Stewart. Mr. Frank Bronson, Mrs. Robinson’s boarder, became speedily acquainted with the contents of the letter, making only the brief comment, “Well, let him get rid of you, and then I have no ob jections to occupy his place.” There was an angry consultation, to the con clusion of which the boarder was sum moned to assist. The result is as has been described. A quiet decree will be forthcoming, and no doubt four people will be thereby licensed to become happy. _ When a man in the act of showing off a thoroughbred mule to a party of ad miring friends, is persuaded by the sudden movement of the animal’s hind legs to describe a series of somersaults through the air, it is always a subject of lively interest to the spectator how he will avoid the absurdity of landing on bis head, New Series —Vol. 28, No. 102 ONE RIGHT OF A WIFE. “John,” said I, one night, to my hus band, as I put my basket of sewing away preparatory to retiring, “John, as you go down, to-morrow morning, I wish you would stop at Mrs. West’s door and leave her §5 from me.” “Five dollars !” and my lord looked up quite astonished. “For what ?” “Why, she is collecting money to aid that society she is secretary of, and as I always felt interested in it, I told her I would give her $5.” I said this with quite a show of as surance, though I really felt quite uneasy as to the reception of my re quest, for John is rather notional in some of his ways; however, I had been cogitating some matters, lately, in my own mind, and determined to make a bold stand. “Well, Sarah,” at length came the reply, “you need net count on my doing any such thing. I don’t approve of that society at at all, and not one cent of my money shall go to help it.” “I give it out of my money,” said I, growiug bolder; “I only ask you to leave it at her door for me.” “Your money ! What do you mean?” “I mean what I say—my money. Have I no right to spend money as well as you? I don’t approve of the Masons, but that does not hinder you from spending money and time for them as much as you have a mind.” John looked at me quite amazed at my sudden outbreak. You see, I had always been the most amiable of wives. Then he broke out quite triumphantly. “Gome, now who earns the money that maintains this family?” “You and I together,” said I. “Together. Well, I should liko to see the first cent you have earned in the seven years we have been married. Together! Well, I call that pretty rich.” My spirits were visibly declining under his ridicule, but I kept on as boldly as I could. “When we were married you thought, or pretended to think, yourself very happy in assuming the care of board and wardrobe. I didn’t ask it of you. You asked me to be your wife, know ing well all that meant.” “As nearly as I remember,” inter rupted John, “you were mighty ready to accept me.” “Granted—to save argument,” said I, coloring. “Well, we stood up in church togeth er, and you promised to love, cherish, etc., and so did I.” “And obey, too,” said I, “but you, in return endowed me with all your world ly goods, and the minister pronounced us man and wife; and so we have lived.” “Yes,” said John complacently; “and as I look back over the time, I think I have done what I agreed, and made a pretty good husband, I really think you ought to be thankful when you see how some wives live.” “Well,” said I, “I think I have been a domestic, prudent wife, and I don’t feel one atom more of gratitude to you for being a decent husband than you ought to feel to me for being a decent wife. Is it any more merit that you keep your marriage promise than that I keep mine.?” “Sarah, you positively are very acri monious to-night. Don’t you think we had better go to bed?” “No, sir. Well, meantime, we have laid by money enough to buy this house and still have some in the bank.” “Thanks to my hard work !” chimed in John. “More thanks,” said I, “to the perfect good health we have always had. We made all those promises for better or for worse. Now, it has been better with us all the time. Had you been sick or honest misfortune befallen you, I should have managed some way to reduce our expenses so that you would feel the burden as light as might be. Had I been sick, more care would have fallen on you. But we helped each other save, and now I claim an equal right with you in spending money.” “Whew. Why, that is treason. But go on.” “If wo occupied the respective po sitions of superior and subordinate, I should do what I do for you for a fixed stipend, and no questions should be asked as to the use made of it. Being equals, I will not ask compensation as a servant; but because the contract we have made is lifelong and not easily broken, I do not therefore call it very magnanimous in a prosperous man to accept these services and render in turn only my board and the least amount that will creditably clothe me.” You see I was growing irate. John’s temper, too, was evidently on the rise. “What do you mean by services? Housework? lam sure a home is as much for your satisfaction as for mine; and I am sure the tailor does not leave much of my sewing for you to do.” “I don’t complain of housework nor of doing your sewing, but I do think the burden of little Johnny has fallen on me.” “It strikes me,” said he, with a pro voking complacency of tone, “that if you earned his living you would have less to say about the burden falling on you.” “John,” said I, “answer me hon estly. Do you work any harder or any longer now than you did before he was born?” “I don’t know as I do,” said he; “I always worked hard enough.” “Well, and so do I. But now as to Johnny. I presume you will allow yourself haif owner of him, as the law allows you entire control over him. How much do you do for him?” “I maintain him. I do my part.” “No, John, you are wrong; you don’t do your part. From the first, you never have. Did not weary months go by in which you bore no part whatever of the burden ? ” “ Well, that is curious complaining ; what would you have me do ? ” “ You might have got a servant, in stead of letting all the housework fall on me; or you might have kept a horse so that I could ride out and enjoy fine weather; but that is all past now.” “ I should say that it cost me enough for the doctor, nurse, etc., without talking about keeping a horse.” “ True, it cost enough; but I am talking about the division of the bur den. Was the part you bore in the payment of those bills equal to my part in the matter ? Would you have taken my place for that money if it were to have been paid to you, instead of those who eared for you ? I think not.” “ Didn’t I have all his clothes to buy ? ” “No, sir. I went without new clothes of any sort for a season, and the money saved from my wardrobe supplied all that was needed; and I might add that all his other clothes have been got in the same way.” “Well, really, I had no idea how much of a martyr you were. Next you wiU be clothing me in the same way, 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. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express c r Postal Order. Correspondence Invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. He w thankful I ought to be for so cal culating a wife!” “Now, in these two years,” said I, continuing in the face of his sneer, “all the care and confinement consequent on attending the child have fallen on me. I have managed some way to ac complish my housework and sewing as I used. I cau hardly think how it has been done. Did it ever occur to you to think how many times I have been tc church since he was born ?” “You wouldn’t expect a man to take care of a baby, would you ? That isn’t a man’s work.” “Isn’t it?” said I bitterly; “then I wouldn’t have a baby. I have been to church just four times, and then some visitor had stayed with Johnnie. How many times did you ever get up in the night to soothe him when he has been sick and fretful?” “How do you suppose,” said he, “I could work by day if I didn’t get my nigiiit’s sleep.” “Just the same way that I do when my night is broken, exactly.” “Well, Sarah, what is the drift of nil this talk, anyway? for I don’t see any use in prolonging it.” “Well, then it is my original state ment —that as I did my part o? the family labor and took all the care of Johnny, and you are a man in prosper ous circumstances, I am entitled to as much money for that as if I were em ployed and paid by the month for the same work and I have a right to spend money for things that don’t suit you, if I please, to do so; and I may add,” I said, with a sudden vehemence, “that it is mean and contemptible in you to try to oppose or forbid my doing so.” John said no more. I saw by the look in his eyes that he was quite angry, and so was I. That was the first time in our married life that we failed to kiss each other good-night. Indeed, I felt guilty, though I hardly know why, but it was late before I fell asleep. The next morning all was serene. No trace remained of the evening’s storm, but nothing was said about the obnoxious subscriptions. Next day I met Mrs. West, and she thanked me very much for doubling my money. Dear John ! He diu’t mean to be un kind, but be had never stopped to think about such things. When his next settlement came, and he slipped a §2O hill into my hand and said, “That is for your private purse,” I really thought he was the best husband in the world. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Savannah is trying to rival Macon In the number of burglaries reported. No arrests have been made. Mrs. Harrell, of Columbus, who was shot at by a negro, it is reported, com promised the case for twenty-five dol lars. Some of the hangers on In tho Savan nah custom house, are to be “reduced” to tho rank of private citizens. No doubt they could easily be spared. Atlanta elected a straight out Demo cratic set of Councilmen on Wednes day, thus checkmating the Indepeu ents and Radicals. The Griffin News gives tho latest “society” news. It says : “The colored bon tons are excited over the approach ing nuptials of Hunchback Jake and Sally Bradfleld.” Nichols Weigers applied to magis trate Russell, in Savannah, on Tues day, for a marriage license. The fel low wished to marry a negress, and the coveted document was denied him. The would-be miseegenationist could not be made to understand why the law should prevent him from marrying whom he pleased. Dr. Bowen, an inmate of the Mil ledgeville Asylum, died recently. Ho has been an inmate of the asylum for several years. Before he became in sane he was a missionary to Africa, and published a book on that country. He was a gentleman of and au author of some distinction. . The Columbus Times, in reporting several eases of burglary which hap pened recently, says ; Everybody |had better lock up, and keep a watch—for burglars and thieves are lurking about the city. Macon, Augusta and Mont gomery come in for their share, and we cannot expect to escape their visits.— There Is a slight mistake madein in elud ing Augusta, as we haven’t had a bur glary in a month. Mount Moriah and St. Augustino Lodges, (colored,) of Savannah, work ing under the Grand Lodge, of which J. R. Love is Grand Master, have dis solved all Connection with said Love’s Grand Lodge, and have united them selves with the Grand Lodge for Geor gia, ol! which John H. Deveaux is Grand Master, and was dispensated by said Grand Lodge on Tuesday evening last. The Monroe Advertiser, under the caption of “Cheeky,” gives the news papers in Atlanta a “sidewinder.” It says: “Judge Hopkins, of the Atlanta circuit, a few days since, intimated a desire to give up his office on account of ill health. Scarcely had the words ‘died upon the breeze’ when the Atlanta dailies gave the position to Solicitor General Thomas Glenn, and the Solici tor’s office to Mr. Van Epps; and this was done without consulting the Gov ernor, who, according to the old fash ioned rule, had the power of appointing officers. Really, gentlemen, we do not see any need of a Gubernatorial Con vention next year. Just name your man for Governor and settle the ques tion.” The Junction Branch Road, connect ing Savannah and Charleston, known as the Junction Branch Road—the line connecting the Atlantic and Gulf and Savannah and Charleston Railroads, thus securing a through connection with the North via Charleston and the Northeastern Railroad, and to the Southwest via Port Royal aud Augusta Railroad and Georgia Railroad to At lanta, was opened on Tuesday. The road is four and six-lengths of a mile in length, and skirts the city of Savannah on its western boundary, tapping the Atlantic aud Gulf Railroad, about two'miles from its depot. It ts laid with rails from the Bethlehem Works, Pennsylvania—the very best class of iron rails, fifty pounds to the yard, and with fish bar joints. The route crosses the Ogeeehee Canal, Sabine Fields (Telfair estate), the lands of Minis, Sloan, Groover aud others. Notwithstanding the fact that the en tire line has been graded and laid within the short space of five weeks— probably the shortest time in which the same length of railroad has been laid in tbe South, the work has been thor oughly and efficiently done. A Cincinnati editor has had a Bible on his shelf for seventeen years, aud during the entire period he never sus pected that it was anything else than an old copy of Johuson’s Dictionary,