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Address all Letters to the Constitu
tionalist office, AUGUSTA. Ga.
GOVERNOR SMITH.
Important Letter on tlie Situation-
Better Transportation Facilities
Needed —Rates Must be Lessened —
Strong and Clearly Stated Views on
the Transportation Question.
Atlanta, December 3.—Gov. Smith
has just addressed a letter to the peo
ple of Georgia, urging them to send
delegates to the convention which will
meet in Chicago on the 15th inst. He
says there is notbmg so essential to
prosperity as this matter of transporta
tion, and the true cause of our present
commercial impression may be traced,
in a great measure, to its inadequacy.
The cause may be attributed to the
want of the development of the
vast resources of this State. To
return to a gold circulation, we must
first restore our commercial prosperity;
we must sell more than we buy, and to
do this, we must adopt every proper
means to lessen the cost of product.
High transportation is a serious ob
stacle to development. The most
powerful and wealthiest nations of the
old world are those who have paid the
most attention to their highways and
the same is true to-day. England,
Russia, France and Germany are great
and prosperous, w r hile Spain, who
has done nothing for the improvement,
of her internal navigation, is a proverb
of political and financial insignificance,
and so of Mexico and Peru. The Gov
ernor says: Let us profit by the les
son. Gold, he says, is the result of
commercial prosperity, and not the
cause of that prosperity. To restore
our prosperity, we must look to
our great national highways of
trade, to the rivers and water lines
first, while other means of transporta
tion should not be neglected. He says,
the Government of the United States
is the only competent power to im
prove and control these, and they
should be maintained as free and pub
lic highways for the use of everybody.
We must look to the United States
Government for these improvements.
Opening these lines will go far
towards solving the question of trans
portation by a legitimate competition,
which will benefit the railroad equally
with other interests;hence, there should
be no false autagonisin between them.
He strongly deprecates the fight which is
constantly going on between the great
industries of the country. These in
dustries are not naturally antagonistic.
He says, we of the Cotton States have
no warfare to make upon any other in
dustry, but on the contrary, we should
labor for the advancement of all.
Georgia has no war to make
on the manufacturer or the iniuer,
or other sections, but on the contrary,
her true interest will be found in aiding
the advancement of a!I these, and to
this end, she should labor. He urges
all the different interests of the coun
try to send representatives to Chicago
to consult upon the questions and say
if the same sound, good sense which
characterizes the ordinary business
transactions of our people will be
brought to bear upon these questions.
It does more towards a solution than
all the fine spun theories of the present
generation. The letter speak this sen
timent of a large majority of the peo
ple in this State.
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
A Little More Time—Boiler Works
Gone Up —School Girl Killed—Sixteen
Year Old Boy Arrested for the
<Time—Navigation Checked by Ice.
New Orleans, December 3.—Williams
and Feuderson, murderers, have been
respited to December 31st, when they
will hang certainly, unless the Supreme
Court grants anew trial.
Cleveland, Ohio, December 3.— The
boiier of the sawing works exploded,
wounding two and fatally hurting ten.
Watertown, N. Y., December 3.
Sarah Ootikiing, aged fourteen, was
found dead in a piece of woods on her
way home from school. It was first
thought she was killed by a fall, but
there is strong evidence that a
sixteen year old boy named Ru
tor, failiug in*an attempt of rav
ishment, killed her with a hammer.
He was tracked from the spot and the
hainiper found which fits the indenture.
Rutor was ariested.
Cold Spring, N. Y., December 3.
All the ferries are discontinued north
of Rhinebeck. The steamer H. M.
Wells, was cut jlown by ice and was
beached at Barrytown. All were saved.
Chicago, December 3. — The body in
the barrel was identified as Mrs. Emma
P. Adams, wife of a prominent hard
ware dealer in this city. She was
buried on the 20th of November, and
exhumed under direction of Dr. Wilder,
for whom warrants are out.
God Help the Poor Miners.
Phii adelphia, December 3. —The
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company will, on to-morrow, di
rect the stoppage of thirty of their
forty collieries in this region, the re
maining ten having a producing capa
city of four thousand tons daily to
continue to supply furnaces and rail
ways in this vicinity. About five
thousand men and boys are thus
thrown out of work. Twenty-five in
dividual collieries will also suspend
during the week. It is thought
by December 15th the suspension will be
general, and over ten thousand people
be out of employment in the Schuylkill
region. A prominent coal operator
states, the miners have been very in
dustrious since the resumption last
June, and have also been unusually
economical, so that a great many of
them are prepared for the suspension,
which may not last over two months,
though fears are entertained that work
will not be resumed until Spring.
The iron trade continuing dull, or
ders have been issued by the Reading
Coal and Iron Company to stop work
at their various ore mines, where six
hundred men are now employed. It is
claimed enough ore has been mined and
stocked, ready for shipping, to supply
all demands until Spring.
Gen. Babcock To Be Tried.
Washington, December 3.—The Cabi
net were in session four hours to day,
principally occupied with the consid
eration of the President’s message
which is now complete, with the ex
ception of a few closing paragraphs.
They also considered the request of
Gen. Babcock for a court of inquiry to
examine the charge of United States
Attorney Henderson, at St. Louis, that
General Babcock was connected with
the whiskey frauds. Those who know
the result decline at present to make it
public, but there is reason to believe
the request will be granted, and the
detail of officers will be appointed by
the Secretary of War.
Big Fire in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, December 3.—By a fire
in the rear of the Methodist book con
cern, M. Fletcher loses 825,000 ; Don
aldson & Cos., lithographers, 818,000.
Gther occupants lose smaller amounts.
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SH)£ iAitaneta Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President’s Message.
Washington, December 3.—The Sec
retary of the Treasury will mail his
report to Collectors, to whom editors
will apply for early copies. It is said
the message will not be ready until
Tuesday noon. It will contain about
eighteen thousand words. Grant’s
messagf s heretofore have been about
ten thousand words. The sketch was
read iu Cabinet to-day and approved.
Look Out Violators—Bets on the New
Speaker—Ditto on Postmaster.
The report of the Chief of the Secret
Service of the Treasmy Department
from 1874, is as follows:
Arrests, two hundred and fourteen
for counterfeiting, violations of reve
nue and postal laws, etc.; eighty
three seat to the penitentiary; eighteen
waiting action of grand juries; seven
acquitted, and the balance turned over
to the State authorities, released on
bail or nol p/rosequied. Thirty counter
feit plates captured. Amount of fines
imposed, $20,886.
The respective friends of Kerr and
Randall have the same confidence.—
Neither side ventures heavily on bets,
though heavy men in that line are
herefrom Philadelphia and New York.
There are some fifty members whore
main non-committed. Randall’s more
sanguine friends claim his election on
the first ballot, and he will almost cer
tainly lead the field on that vote, and on
it will exhaust his strength he. Should
he after a few ballots neitherjbe able to
carry the caucus, Taylor, of Ohio will
come to the surface. He is popular as
third choice. The friends of Mr.
Cox are warm and earnest, and will
give him good adherence, but when
they leave him, as they ultimately
must, they will doubtless be the bal
ance of power, and will really control
tho organization. This is about all
they hope to do. They give no sign as
to their second choice. Major Banks
is still the favorite among the prophets
for Clerk, but encounters determined
opposition. He will doubtless poll his
full strength on the first ballot.
Adams, of Kentucky, and Dußose,
of Georgia, come next, with
Wederburn close up. The other
candidates have persistent support.
Col. Tyler, of Alabama, is not without
support outside of his own State,
which is solid for him. The other
positions are not so closely canvassed.
Col. J. M. Cavanaugh is making the
race for Postmaster lively. The first
pool to-night was: Randall, 7; Field, 10.
FROM NEW YORK.
O’Conor Still Alive—Supreme Court
Refuses to Pardon Murderers—
“ Convicts, Charity or Labor.’’
New York, December 3. —O’Conor is
very low.
The Supreme Court refuses to inter
fere in behalf of three negroes, who
murdered John Pedlar, or Dolan, who
murdered Mr. Noe.
At a meeting of the Board of Aider
men, yesterday, a petition was received
from the American Bricklayer’s Asso
ciation, asking for the passage of an
ordinance authorizing their employ
ment on the public works. It recited
that the association consisted of upward
of five thousand members; . that
not more than one-fifth of their
number were workiug, and that
they had passed through two
seasons of idleness; that the present
condition of business was such that
capitalists could not or would not
employ them; that they seek labor and
not charity; that they will not be able
to sustain their families during the
present winter, and that the city must
therefore choose between furnishing
them with charity or labor. The peti
tion closed witn the following sentence:
“We know that by becoming convicts
we can be assured of labor by the
State or city, and we hope we will not
be driven to that extremity.”
A. G. Mendel, varnish manufacturer,
suspended.
A small pyrotechnic factory exploded,
killing one.
Rondont, N. Y., December 3.—Navi
gation on the Hudson, hence North, is
closed.
Vineyard Haven, December 3. —The
schooner Hesperus, after losing four
men, rescued the crew of the schooner
Fred Warren, abandoned December 2d.
New York, December 3. —In the case
of Herman & Cos. vs. tiie Government,
for excessive duty on calf hair goods,
on the ground that they ought to have
boen admitted as composed wholly of
cotton, the verdict was for the plain
tiffs.
Rochester, N. Y., December 3.—Na
than Sprague, colored, two years em
ployed in the Post Office, was arrested
for stealing letters. Fourteen were
found in his possession,
Albany. N. Y., December 3.—Dr. Jas.
H. Armsby, an eminent surgeon, is dead.
New York’s Official Count.
Albany, December 3.—The official
count, gives Bigelow (Democrat), for
Secretary of State, 390,211 votes; Sew
ard (Republican), 375,401; Dusenberre
(Temperance), 11,103. The Board of
Canvassers cannot decide who is elect
ed from the Thirty-third District, vice
Congressman A. F. Allen, deceased.
The question is left op< i for Congress
to decide.
A Mayor Sustained.
Memphis, December 3. —ln the case
of the bondholders vs. the city of
Memphis, the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee decided that the million dollars
of bonds issued by Mayor Leftwich in
1868 was legal, but the excess of one
hundred and thirty-five thousand dol
lars was illegal, as he was only author
ized to issue one million dollars.
Secondly—That though the bonds
had been sold* at a greater dis
count than six per cent., the transac
tion was neither illegal nor usurious,
and the city can neither plead usury
nor scale the bonds. Thirdly, That
the city is compelled to levy taxes
necessary to pay the interest on bonds
used prior to 1875, notwithstanding the
new charter limits the amount to be
levied.
Abell Dead.
Baltimore, December 3. —Charles S.
Abell, son of A. S. Abell, proprietor of
the Baltimore Sun, is dead. He was a
graduate of the Georgetown College
and for several years a favorite con
tributor to the Sun. Aged twenty
seven years.
A fellow who got drunk on election
day said it was owing to his efforts to
put down party spirit.
Why should Mass of Kellogg’s Opera
Troube be a good sailor?—Because he’s
at home on the high C’s.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting
with things as they go.
■A.UGLTST.A.. GA.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
All Serene.
Berlin, December 3.—The reported
conference between Bismarck, Gorts
chakoff and the three powers which
they represent, are in perfect harmony
on the Eastern question.
Suez Canal.
London, December 3.—A Paris spe
cial says, the French Minister of For
eign Affairs states, that the reason why
the government refused to purchase
the Suez Canal shares when the prop
erty was tendered for sale to the min
istry was that Macmahon’s Cabinet
feared a war with Germany.
London, December 3.—C01. Owen has
resigned his position as the Centennial
Commissioner. Col. Herbert Sandford
aDd Prof. Archer, Director of the Edin
burgh Museum, have been appointed
joint commissioners.
More Turkey.
London, December 3.—The Pall Mall
Gazette's special telegram from Berlin
contains the following details in regard
to negotiations on the Turkish war
question:
“Count Andrassy, Austrian Prime Min
ister, has submitted to St. Petersburg
a proposal he was entrusted to draft
in it. He enumerates the form Turkey
should pledge to the insurgents, and
the guarantees the Great Powers
should demaud for their fulfillment.
Prince Bismarck and Prince Gortscha
koff have discussed the leading points
of this document and expressed their
approval therein. As soon as the Im
pel ial Governments definitively have
ac. epted the proposal the other Powers
of Europe will be invited to partici
pate.
Centennial.
Paris, December 3.—The municipal
ity of Paris has contributed six thous
and dollars towards the subscription
to send a deputation of French work
men to the Philadelphia exhibition
next year.
Fasliions.
Dresses fastened behind are growing
in favor daily. As these are inconven
ient when a lady has no maid, the ef
fect is given by putting buttons or
lacing cords down the back of the
basques or polonaises and concealing
the front fastening by bows of silk.
Nets for the hair are also gradually
coming into fashion again. They are
made of loosely woven soft braids, and
protect smooth knots of hair from the
rough winds.
The newest and most dressy suits of
black cashmere are trimmed with
many rows of steel or silver soutache,
or else with one row of wide black
braid plaided with silver or gilt.
Grelots and agrafes of passementerie
made of cords and tassela are now
used on pockets and down the fronts
of sacques and all kinds of wraps.
Pockets have come to be indispensa
ble, and these old-fashioned orna
ments are revived to beautify them.
The silver chatelaines, which retain
their vogue, are probably responsible
for the introduction of silver orna
ments, which appear in the form of
“throatlets,” or bands chased or formed
of links, wiiieh are clasped close round
the throat. There are also bracelets
and earrings to match these patterns,
aDd silver belts composed of riugs
through which velvet or ribbon is run,
and which is swung to the side and
used as a chatelaine, if desired. Avery
fashionable appendage to the dress is
the black velvet chatelaine bag, also
mounted on silver. It is always sus
pended from the left side, or the oppo
site one from that which holds the fan
and scent-bottle, and looks exceedingly
well when the di ess is black, or black
and white, in silk and velvet, and the
ornaments silver.
The suits for very small boys are
varied by making side-pleated blouses
with belts and square sailor collars, to
be worn with kilt skirts or with kuee
pantaloons; this is a simpler and more
convenient garment for every-day wear
than the jackets that require vests
with them. Dark cloths are the ma
terials used.
There is an effort to revive Knicker
bocker pantaloons for small boys from
five to eight years of age. These are
not made as full as formerly, aud are
sewed to a buckled band at the kuee;
the easy sloped edge of the Knicker
bocker then falls over , this baud and
conceals it. The efiect is much better
thau when the leg of the trowsers was
full and clumay-looking, with gathers.
Parisian tailors make suits of blue
diagonal cloth, with these pantaloons,
a regular vest, and English coat. —
The vest is single-breasted, has no
collar, forms two points below, is bound
all around, and is fastened by eight
buttons. The little English cut-away
coat is fastened by two buttons high
up on the breast, and slopes sharply
away to show the vest. It has a breast
pocket, and side pocket with flaps. The
back has but one seam, is open below
the waist, and the entire edge is bound
with silk galloon. French cassimere
suits, of mixed brown or gray, are sim
ilarly mado, but have stitched edges,
without bindings or pocket flaps. The
seams of the pantaloons are lapped and
stitched, instead of being trimmed with
braid as formerly. Indeed, the absence
of fanciful trimmings is as marked in
boys’ clothing as in the dresses just de
scribed for girls. The more sensible
plan of putting all the expense into the
best material and the most shapeful fit
is observed. Basket-woven cloths and
broad diagonal of brown, dark blue,
or green are chosen for best suits, and
of these colors green is considered
most dressy. These cassimeres are
used for school suits. Some of the
basket-woven and other cloth suits
are made with knee pantaloons that
have no fulness, and are closed at the
knee by two or three buttons and but
tonholes. The coats with these have
no collars, and are worn with the broad
Puritan collar of white linen. Buttons
of vegetable ivory are dyed to match
the cloth, and are strongly sewed on
through eyes in the centre. These are
in better taste and more serviceable
than the bullet-shaped metal buttons
once in vogue.
Boys’ sack overcoats are long and
straight-looking, though cut a trifle
sloping in with the figure. The dark
blue, brown, or green cloth, of which
they are made, must be pliable, and so
heavy that it does not need lining for
warmth, or any trimming but the
necessary bindings and buttons. Se
dan beaver is selected for dressy
overcoats.
Ulster overcoats for boys are made
of heavy chinchilla cloth, fur beaver,
and plain Sedan beavers; the rough fur
beavers are considered most desirable
for these long, serviceable overcoats.
The Ulster shape is too well known to
need description. It should reach to
, boy’s ankles, and be amply with pockets
i and a hood.
l What is mind? No matter. What is
; matter? Never mind. But what is
mind! Oh, its immaterial.
JAY GOULD’S TRIUMPH.
Effect of the Supreme Court’s De
cision in Favor of the Union Pacific —
The Government Kbpt Out of $85,-
000,000 for Twenty-Three Years.
[New York Herald, November 29.1
The sensation of the*day in Washing
ton has been the rende ring of the long
expected decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the Union Pacific
Railroad case which, os Attorney Gen
eral Pierrepont said in his argument
for the Government, involves indirectly
a money consideration amounting to
$200,000,000. Your money editor will
tell you how the stock of the company
fluctuated in Wall street in response to
the decision of the couft, notwithstand
ing that something oi'i the effect upon
the market had been f discounted” by
the fulfilled expectation of a decision
favorable to the company. But the
SCENE IN THE jjAPITOL,
here is worth a few wprds of descrip
tion. An eager and qnxious crowd of
spectators, Wall street) agents, lawyers
aud reporters besieged, the door of the
court room promptly at the hour of
noon, when the nine Judges, in all the
solemn dignity of their robes of black
silk, filed into their niae high backed
chairs upon the high bench and looked
down upon the semicircle of lawyers in
front, sitting in the yeiy spot where
Clay’s and Webster’s ; oratory awoke
the echoes of the chamjber when it was
the Senate of the United States. Iu
the few minutes preliminary to the an
nouncement of the lii'at opinion, the
Wall street operators dud agents fur
tively ran over their cypher keys that
they might make no :mistake in the
messages they were to!flash to the ex
pectant speculators at the New York
Stock Exchange, two) hundred and
fifty miles away, whfm the decision
for or against the i railroad com
pany should be announced. The
reporters brushed up fheir powers ol
memory, for they darea not take notes.
It is one of the rules ojf the Supreme
Court that no one save its attorneys or
clerks may put pen or pencil to paper
anywhere within its precincts. At
length the first opinion was announced.
Heads were thrust forward and hands
were curled about ears in the eagerness
to catch the title. It was some Wes
tern national bank versus a delinquent
debtor, and heads were drawn back
and ears untrumpeted again. A second
and a third opiuiou were read, the wait
ing crowd taking the infliction heroi
cally. At the fourth opinion necks
were craned forward once more and a
silence like that of death fell upon the
room when Judge Dav's said, “I am
assigned to read.
THE OPINION
in the case of the Union Pacific Rail
road vs. the United Stales.” On went
the reading amid a deep stillness.
When the Judge had reached the por
tion saying that the court would not go
back to the debates in Congress, the
strong point in Attorney General
Pierrepont’s argument for the Govern
ment, but would abide by the exact lan
guage of the statute and its evident
meaning, and when he said that had
there been no bonds guaranteed by the
United States, the Government would
never have hesitated to pay tho rail
road the full amount claimed, it was
evident that the decision was going
to be
IN FAVOR OF THE COMPANY,
aud some of the speculators slipped
out of court on tiptoe and so tele
graphed *to Wall street. But others
deemed it safest to wait, for the end of
the paper, the reading of which took
over half an hour. At length when
the final sentence was rpad, “the judg
ment of the Court of) Claims is af
firmed,” the whole crowkl scurried out
of the court room az she top of their
speed and fled down th£ long aisles of
the Capitol to the telegraph offices, lo
cated in tho-south wing, whence hun
dreds of messages were dashed off to
Wall street and to the; evening press
over the country. The decision applies,
of course, to all the Pacific railroads,
although the suit in thifi instance was
brought by the Union Pacific.
THE EFFECT
is to keep the Government out of about
$85,000,000 and the compound interest
thereon for about twenty-three years,
when the aggregate df principal and
interest—the latter not; compounded—
will be due by the company to the
United States iu ono sujm. The origi
nal principal of the bonlis issued to the
roads was ajout $65,000,000, which,
with simple interest ak six per cent.
Tor thirty years would make the total
obligation of the company at the expi
ration of thirty years $£30,000,000. As
there is no provision for compounding
the interest, the Supreme Couit decid
ing that the accrued interest and prin
cipal are payable in onelsum at the end
of thirty years, the United States will
have to lose about $2,0u0,00D meantime
in the way of compound interest and
at the end of thirty years have only
A SECOND MORTGAGE
upon the railroad for the enormous
sura of $180,000,000.
This calculation proceeds upon the
supposition that the Government will
not have been reimbursed by trans
portation done by this i ailroad. These
services have been only a fraction ol
the interest on the bonds up to this
time, and would only about offset the
compounding of interest, so that the
estimate of what the railroads will owr
the Government at the end of thirty
years will prove not far from correct
Brutal Murder.
[Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Johnston, C. C., an *A. R. R., I
December 3, 1875. j
Our community has Haen shocked a
the discovery of one o£ tho most dia
bolical murders that ’has ever bee
known in the annals of crime. It seem
that on last Saturday, a. foot pedler wa
seen passing through our county wit
goods. On Tuesday, the trial justice a
Johnston was informed that a deal
man had been found in Jhe woods dea
Smyley’s Mill. A coroner’s jury ws
summoned and repaired to the spe
where he had been found on Wednei
day morning,to hold an inquest. .Nea
a path leading through the woods, tb
dead man was lying, with the whole f
his face beaten in—his face, eyes atl
nose were entirely gone. On examii
-Ilg the witness, the unfortunate ma
was identified as the pedler seen on lat
Saturday. He was dressed in cordeny
pants, badly worn anil patched wia
black cloth. His coat-was gone, ail
also h ! s shoes. Near the murdord
man was found a small coat, anda
badly worn hat supposed to belongo
the murderer. It is thought that te
guilty parties will be detected. C,
It is harder to keep track of the sr
mon when you sit in the back partjf
the church, but then you get out flßt
and have the best chaace to seleca
good umbrella from the pile at |e
door.
(JUEEN VICTORIA.
John Bull Roaring Simply Because
Her Majesty Walked iu the Funeral
Train of the Father of Her Servant,
John Brown.
! [Col. Forney in Philaclelphia Press.]
London, October 27.—Queen Victoria’s
: favorite snd faithful servant, who was
also the favorite and faithful servant
of Prince Albert, is a gigantic High
lander named John Brown. The other
day old John Brown, his father, passed
out of the world, and his remains were
followed to the grave by her Gracious
Majesty Queen Victoria. This act, in
itself alike praiseworthy and innocent,
at least to the American visitor, has
roused the intensest indignation, and
John Bull is roaring through all society,
high and low, simply because the poor
Queen condescended to walk in the
funeral-train of the father of her favor
ite servant. You would be startled if
you could hear the innuendoes against
her Majesty in consequence of this
somewhat republican proceeding. One
of the widest circulating weekly papers,
the Sundaij Times , under the head of
“A Royal Prank,” breaks into a fierce
explosiou of rage, of which the follow
ing short extract is a specimen :
“The time has, we think, arrived when
someone should speak, and that bold
ly, on a subject which, however deli
cate, can no longer be overlooked. With
a full knowledge of the responsibility
which rests upon us in doing so, we
should be omitting a duty we owe to
the public if we refrained from calling
attention to the embarrassment which
is likely to arise if the Chief Magis
trate of the realm continues to exhibit
that lack of prudence which has lately
characterized her public conduct. We
may sarely say that a thrill of positive
astonishment went through the public
mind last week on reading the extraor
dinary prank in which the Sovereign of
this great nation has been indulging.
Some ten days ago a respectable old
Scotch croften went the way of all
flesh. His only claim to public no
tice consisted in the fact of his being
the progenitor of a morose-looking
gillie who, by some strange fatuity,
has worked himself into the position of
walking-shadow to the greatest Queen
in Christendom. And yet the obsequies
of this poor little Northern farmer,
but scarcely removed above the rank
of a common laborer, are honored by
the personal attendance of Her Ma
jesty, who followed the coffin from the
cottage to the nearest point where a
hearse can approach. In thus parading
herself before the world as a laughing
stock for the whole of Europe, we do
not hesitate to ssy that the Queen has
done one of the most ill-advised acts
which has marked her long reign. The
tongue of scandal is ever busy, and
“the fierce light that boats upon a
throne” will not admit of actions which,
however harmless or even laudable in
themselves, are derogatory to the na
tion represented in the person of the
sovereign. Recent circumstances with
reference to*the lamentable accident in
! the Solent have shown the public that
| the advice tendered to her majesty is
not always of the soundest, but
ii seems to us beyond compre
hension that these Court officials
! whose duty it is to arrange the
j Queen’s public movements should
have allowed her to place herself in
1 such an invidious position as that of
j chief mourner to John Brown’s father,
jWe are willing to make every allow
i ance for the Queen’s well known kind
iness of heart, and had the deceased
been a favorite old servant, the unusual
breach of etiquette might have been
allowed to pass; but even when that
poor excuse does not exist, the public
want to know why such unusual honor
is showered on an unknown Scotch
man, when an empty carriage and a
red-faced coachman are considered tHe
proper “mourning” for the greatest
and best men in the country when they
are borne to their final rest. It is
almost impossible to realize the effect
which will be produced on the un
thinking portion of the community
when they see iu every shop window
a certain cheap illustrated paper, in
this week’s number of which her
Majesty is depicted with a woe-begone
aspect following a coffin borne by four
bare-legged Scotchmen, and imme
diately preceding two brawny persons
in very scanty clothing, representing
the two eldest orphan Browns. The
most rampant Red Republican could
never have suggested an act more cal
culated to serve his views than this
unfortunate spectacle.”
THE LIBERIANS,
The Interior Settlements Abandoned
—The Inhabitants Seeking Shelter
at Latrobe—Their Destitution.
Washington, November 30.—Hem/
W. Dennis, Secretary of the Treasury
of Liberia, under date of Monrovia.
October 16, writes to the American
Colonization Society that all the inland
settlements have been abandoned and
their inhabitants are at Latrobe, the
greater portion of them having lost
their all except the clothing they had
on when they left their homes, and
that they had nothing to subsist upon
except what has been furnished by the
Government from Monrovia. But the
most painful intelligence is that on the
10th of October the Liberian |troopa
made an attack upon the large na
tive town which is within sight
of Harper, and were repulsed and re
treated in disorder, several being killed
and wounded, leaving in the hands of
the enemy three brass field pieces, with
: ammunition. The troops would not
' likely renew the attack without cannon,
and the Government is unable to main
tain so large a force there for any
length of time. Should they withdraw
the enemy would overrun the country.
He says : “It is reported that the na
tives are greatly encouraged and
strengthed by our loss, and that they
lost no time in opening fire on Latrobe
with the three cannon deserted by our
troops.” It is also stated that uprisings
of the natives occurred all along
the seaboard on the defeat of
the Liberian troops at Cape Pal
mas, and that they have in
several localities assumed so unfriend
ly an attitude that the owners of coast
ing vessels are contemplating their
withdrawal. English influence has
been active iu instigating the natives
of Cape Palmas against the Liberians,
and the arrival of every English steam
er from down the coast brings to the
enemy quantities of ammunition and
guns, and as a general thing the officers
and crews of these steamers openly
express their sympathy with the na
tives. Mr. Dennis says : “We are too
few in numbers, too far apart in com
munities, and too poor in means to hold
our position on this coast, unless aided
by some foreign power. It is not im
possible that, after all the expenditure,
sacrifice of life, and toil in founding
Liberia, it may be blotted out.”
A man named Surrette was murdered
at Cedartown, November 27th.
HENRY WILSON.
His Kind Feelings Towards tlie Presi
dent--The South-Sumner and Schurz.
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Daily Ad
vertiser]
Washington, Nov. 26.—During his
last illness Mr. Wilson talked freely on
a great variety of subjects with his
visitors and attendants. A few days
before his death, Postmaster-General
Jewell told him the President often
spoke of him, and always very kindly,
to which the Vice President replied :
“Tell the President that I thank him,
and that I have nothing but the best
of feelings toward him. Some of the
papers have tried to get up a quarrel
between us, but they utterly failed.”
Speaking of the President to Sir
George Bowen, ho said: “General
Grant has been greatly underrated by
many public men, especially by my
late colleague, Mr. Sumner. I had an
earnest talk with Mr. Sumner, in which
I did my best to convince him of what
I thought was his error, but I could
not move him.”
Being shown a newspaper suggesting
that he should be re-elected to a seat
in a Senate at the first opportunity, he
said: “I think they had better let me
alone. I am willing now to let the
ambitions of life all pass. Whatever
of life remains to me must be devoted
to other uses.”
The political problems of the day
occupied his busy mind a great deal;
and, notwithstanding the repeated in
junctions of Dr. Baxter to give himself
mental rest, he continued to discuss
them with visitors aud with his attend
ants to the last. “In my opinion,” he
said on one occasion, “the true policy
is to divide the South, bringing over to
our side the old Whig element. There
are 300,000 intelligent men iu the South
who might be brought over to tlie sup
port of the administration if a liberal
poliey should be pursued. If I had my
health and the necessary power I could
win them over to the administration in
ninety days. I know these men. I
have talked with them down there, and
know how they feel. But we have
allowed them to mass on us, and some
thing has got to be done, or they will
get possession of the government and
control it for the next twenty or thirty
years. I would give a place in the
Cabinet to a Southern man, and in
doing so I would select a statesman —
one who had brain, and in whom tho
South would have confidence, even if
he had been a rebel.”
He expressed the opinion that the
administration had missed an excellent
opportunity in not appointing Carl
Schurz to the portfolio of the Interior,
although ascribing to Mr. Chandler
great executive ability.
He seemed to be fully aware of the
extreme danger of his condition, and
yet never betrayed the least fear of
death. He told his attendants that
when he left the Washington House
for the Capitol, on the morning of his
atl ack, he apprehended death before he
could reach his destination. “But
even then,” said he, “I felt no fear or
anxiety. I felt that I should not pass j
out of the universe, nor beyond God’s
love and care.”
IN THE SPEAKER’S CHAIR.
Power and Responsibilities of tlie Po
sition—How Colfax aud Blaine Ruled ;
the House.
The Indianapolis correspondent of i
the Chicago Times, writes as follows to
that paper:
In power, but not in pageantry, the
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives is almost equal to the President.
In fact, in shaping, controlling or de
feating national legislation, his power
is of far greater magnitude than that
of tiie Chief Executive. Ordinarily, the
average citizen, not having reflected,
does not attach much importance to the
election of a Speaker; but, in view of
the facts stated as to his consequence
the making or unmaking the laws by
which the. Republic is governed, the
supreme importance of the election of
a Speaker is at once apparent. Thus,
the approaching conflict in Washing
ton ranks next to that of the
more imposing one to follow in
November, 1876. The Speaker not only
organizes all the working machinery of
the House of Representatives, but can, if
a bold man and thoroughly conversant
with the rules, absolutely dictate the
control of it, and almost manipulate
legislation itself. I remember distinct
ly how two men in other years were
the supreme rulers of the House of
Representatives, and practically di
rected legislation. I refer to Schuyler
Colfax and Thad Stevens. Colfax, be
ing Speaker, would “recognize” the
Old Commoner, as Thad was styled,
though the voices of a score of men
with better lungs and poorer brains
were bellowing in his ears. Old Thed
had a weak, petulent voice, and toward
the end of his career it became almost
indistinct. Yet if it had been pre
arranged between Stevens and the
Speaker that he should be recognized,
it was done upon his rising. The vio
lent presumption Is ttiat the Speaker is
utterly impartial, and being so, when
several members addressed “ Mr.
Speaker” simultaneously, he would
simultaneously recognize “ the gentle
man from Ohio,” h*s eyes happening
to fall upon him first. But things don’t
work that way in Washington. The
Speaker is powerful farther than that.
A quick and positive application of a
rule by the Speaker will somet’mes de
feat or carry legislation. Again, his
tardiness in applying a rule may have
a like effect. In an emergency he could
give positive form and force to a
specific character of legislation, which
might affect the destiny of the cour ry
for a hundred years, by calling some
one to his seat, and rushing pell-mell
to the water-closet. In Congresses
composed of young and inexperienced
members, such as the Congress to con
vene next week for example, a wide
awake aud earnest Speaker, with long
experience and thoroughly familiar
with the rules, can drown the fledgling
M. C. with the din of his gavel.
Blaine used, in controlling the cavo of
disturbed air, a compound in the fol
lowing proportions, viz; One part
parliamentary law and two parts
gavel; and yet he had to deal with a
much larger per cent, of experienced
legislators than comprise this Con
gress.
The best thing out—-an aching tooth.
A name for tight boots—a corn crib.
A bad habit to get into—a coat that
is not paid for.
Noses are fashionable, and have
always been followed.
What two letters of the alphabet in
dicate very cold weather ? I C (icy).
When is a horse not worth a shil
ling ? When it is worth less (worth
less).
True affection grows stronger as it
grows older. The same may be said of
an egg.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 103
DECLINE OF WALL STREET.
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
Panic is everywhere and dullness is
everywhere; the present is bad and the
prospect is worse; and, from the me
chanic out of work to the millionaire
out of profits, all men feel the pressure
of the hard times. But a poetic ven
geance is working out the decrees of
I destiny, and the hard times bear with
I heaviest pressure just on that spot and
i on that business which had most to do
i with involving the couutry in diaster—
| Wall street and the Stock Exchange.
Sixty-eight thousand shares of stock
sold on Wednesday; forty-eight thou
sand on Tuesday! What a world of
significance lies in these simple figures
—what a falling off from the flush
times when millions were made and
lost in a day, and Hamburg and Baden-
Baden paled on minds accustomed to
the fiercer excitement of the Gold Room
| or the Stock Exchange by day, and the
lobbies of the Fifth Avenue Hotel by
night.
Yet these figures do not tell the
worst of the story. If they represented
real transactions made by outsiders,
and if the brokers could net a com
mission of half a dollar or a quarter,
or even an eighth of a dollar a share,
there might be money enough for a
half bottle of champagne at lunch and
a tigerish suit of clothes, to attest the
festive nature of the broker. But all
the sales are made between the
brokers themselves, and the profit is
nil ; it is a mere swapping of jack
knives among those who have no cash,
and with winter coming on and coal so
very high, it is hard to tell what the
brokers will do. Unless the times
give promise of mending, the owl and
the bat will soon hauut t.he ruins of
Broad street, and the costly Exchange
will take its place among the relics of
a {by-gone day. We are sadly afraid
that not many regretful tears would
follow so untimely a fate, and we are
sorry to add that such a fate would not
be wholly undeserved, nor would such
a loss be wholly without compensa
tion.
Wall street did much to bring on the
panic, by constantly furnishing the al
lurement and the resources to specula
tion, by diverting the popular mind
from laborious and productive methods
of industry to the glittering chances of
sudden fortune. It is very hard to
draw the line which in business di
vides plain buying and selling from
speculating, and this again from reck
less and unprincipled gambling. But
there is no question as to which side of
the line Wall street stood on. It was
the gambling table of the nation, and
there never was a time when the real
and bona fide sales were not swallowed
up and determined by the vastly pre
ponderating amount of purely betting
transactions. Wall street drained the
whole country ; it had a feeler extend
ing to every bank vault, public trea
sury and cashier’s drawer, and the de
posits of thousands of the industrious
and frugal were swept out of sight at
every turn in the value of a favorite
stock.
People do not gamble in Wall street
now as they did ten years ago, and
even three years ago, because, in the
first place, they cannot get other peo
ple’s money to gamble with, and be
cause, in the second place, the game is
certain to go in favor of the bank. Peo
ple watch more closely now over what
money they have left, and, as no one
gambles in stocks with his own money,
the old source of lively business is al
most dry. But worse than this, per
haps, is the dead certainty that a keno
house, or even a bunko-steer, offers a
greater chance of fair play than a Wall
street deal. Practically all quotations
are within the control of a half-a dozen
men, and it is not to be wondered at
that the public, profiting, perhaps, by
a dear-bought experience, prefer to
keep out of the. reach of their combi
nations, since no outsider can any long
er claim to have any knowledge to
serve as a basis for j udicious operations.
But, be the causes what they may, the
shrinkage in Wall street transactions is
greater than that in any other business
of the country, and the Stock Exchange
can soon write “ Ichabod ”on its frolit,
for its glory seems to have departed
forever.
He Felt Easy. —Yesterday forenoon
a Vicksburg boy entered the shop
where his father works and excitedly
announced :
“Oh, pa ! oia’s awful sick !”
“What’s the matter?” asked the
father.
“Oh, she’s awful white, and she’s
shaking all over, and there’s lots of
women in there, and they say she’s
going to die!” •
“Can she talk yet!” inquired the
father, as he rolled down his sleeves.
“Yrs.”
“Well, we’ll take it kind o’ slow, then,
going home !” said the relieved man. —
Vicksburg Herald.
A little boy carrying some eggs home
from the shop dropped them. “Did
you break any?” asked his mother
when he told her of it. “No;” said the
little fellow, “but the shells came off
some of ’em.”
Said a Dakota Judge to the plaintiff
in a divorce suit: “Johnny, I ain’t
agoin’ to 4pquire inter circumstances
in this deleterious age. You say you
smashed the feller. You wouldn’t a
done it, as a man, without a reesing.
When a Fiji islander marries, the
first thing he does upon beginning to
keep house is to eat his mother-in
law. Asa conservator of peace, the
process, perhaps, is effectual, and it jp
also valuable as a measure of economy
when marketing is dear.— Boston Post.
Though the proprietor of a patent
mowing machine cares nothing for the
“old masters,” the appearance of his
picture among the wood-cuts in the
advertising columns of a country news
paper always stirs in his bosom a
kinder feeling towards struggling ar
tists.
A young husband picked up the pa
per at the breakfast table, and read to
his wife that the thermometer at Du
luth was eight degrees below zero.
“Yes, John, dear,” she affectionately
replied, “aud it’s most time I was pad
ding your coat tai's with saw dust.”
Said a Nevada lawyer, concerning a
man who had kicked his wife down the
stairs: “Gentlemen of the jury, he
h’isted her! Great heavens, he h’isted
her!' He—the brute, once, perhaps, a
man—raised his foot and applied it to
the form of her who, at the holy altar,
he had sworn to love and cherish.”
“The following “Ode to the Prairie
Wind” appears in the Burlington Hawk-
Eye as original, but it reads amazingly
like Joaquin Miller: “Oh, the blizzard,
the beautiful blizzard; freezing a fellow
from ear-top to izzard; making his face
as blue as a wizard, chilling the life
blood that flows from his gizzard;
blowing, snowing; cold as a lizard; got
up and get out of this, beautiful bliz
zard.”
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On and after this date (April 21. 1875.) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
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Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if< used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned. and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
It costs a mau one night’s lodging in
the city guard house—and 816.25 boot
—to shoot at a cow on the streets of
Albany.
Colonel Styles, of the Albany News,
is warmly advocating the cause of Gen.
Colquitt for Governor.
A veteran sportsman of Varnell, cap
tured thirty squirrels in one night’s
hunt.
The Librarian of the Young Men’s
Library Association at Atlanta has
been dismissed by the Board of Direc
tors of that institution.
A piece of enterprise has been shown
by the Washington Gazette in publish
ing its Christmas editorial in this
week’s issue.
The bond of Babe Cash, who is now
in jail for the murder of Col. Holland,
at Columbus, was reduced by Judge
Buchanan from three thousand dollars
to the original sum of fifteen hundred
dollars.
A number of families that left Stew
art county several years since to try
their fortunes in the West, have re
turned, forever, sadder and wiser.
The latest novelty at festivals is a
Gypsy camp. Columbus recently set
the example at the Columbus Guards’
entertainment.
Columbus Times: Hon. Henry W.
Hilliard and family 4 arrived in Colum
bus. Judge Hilliard will make his
homo in Columbus. We consider this
a decided acquisition to our city, where
Judge Hilliard has been so long and so
favorably known.
A boy fourteen years old, by the name
of Irgle, son of a widow woman, at
Douglassville had a gun in his had and
punched the butt end of the gun at a
dog, when by some means the gun
fired, the load of buckshot striking the
boy in the breast, making a ghastly
wound, from which he died.
Edward Dunn, a boy fourteen years
of age, was killed last week whilo out
rabbit hunting on the Kennesaw
mountains. A rabbit having entered a
hollow log, Dunn attempted to twist
him out, when he struck his foot
against the hammer of his gun, which
caused the gun to be discharged, tho
contents striking Ms loft arm aud shat
tering It.
Cartersville Express: An animal some
of us used to see in our boyhood days,
but now about extinct in Georgia.
Would it not be well for our Legisla
ture to import a few so that the rising
generation could have a glimpse at the
useful creature. Lard, a prime article
of use in the culinary department, is
made from this wonderful animal, not
to say hams, sides and shoulders, which
we now import from the West in huge
amounts, costing us just one-fourth of
our large cotton crop.
Gri [fin News: A few days since, wo
made mention of the sudden disap
pearance of Mrs. Barbara Cauthen, a
lady living near Orchard Hill, in Pike
county. She disappeared suddenly
from home two weeks ago,and although
the whole neighborhood was excited
and turned out and searched for her,
no clue of her or her whereabouts was
obtained. Monday, however, tho terri
ble secret was revealed, the missing
Jady being found dead by some child
ren who wero playing in the neighbor
hood, in a pine thicket, with a rope
around her neck, suspended from a
limb. She seemed to have been unable
to fasten the rope so as to swing her
body dear of tho earth, but was found
with one hand and one leg resting on
the ground, in a position, indeed, that
evidenced a determination to die.
Governor Smith, under date of tho
2d inst., has issued au order to tho
sheriff of Coweta county, which con
cludes as follows ; “That the execu
tion of the judgment of said Superior
Court against the said Stephen B.
Bilnkley be, and the same is hereby
respited from Friday, the 3d day of
December, 1875, to and until Friday,
the 31st day of March, in tho year one
thousand eight hundred arid seventy
six, on which last mentioned day, in the
absence of any legal order to the con
trary, you are hereby commanded to
do execution upon the body of tho said
Stephen B. Brinkley, in accordance
with the terms of the judgment of said
Superior Court rendered against him
as aforesaid.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Governor Chamberlain is to deliver
an oration before the University of
South Carolina, at Columbia, on the
21st inst.
Gov. Chamberlain has appointed Mr.
James A. Richardson as Sheriff of
Edgefield county, in place of Hardy
Wall, resigned.
The citizens of Laurens are moving
in the right direction in the formation
of anti-cotton shop associations. The
townships generally are going into it.
The gin house and contents (cotton
seed) of Dr. J. F. Eosor, were entirely
destroyed by accidental fire about nine
o’clock yesterday morning. The gin
house was located about a mile and a
half from Columbia.
Two thousand eight hundred and
nine balies of cotton were shipped from
the Chester depot during the month
of November. Total shipments since
the Ist September, 7,270 bales.
The Abbeville Press and Banner
learns that au effort will be made at
the present session of the Legislature
to expel Mr. Crittenden, editor of the
Greenville Enterprise and Mountaineer,
from the House of Representatives,
for sending a challenge last Summer to
A. Blythe.
The grading on the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad was commenced at
Cheraw last week. Capt. Ellis has the
contract from that place to Lynch’s
Creek, which leaves a gap of only sev
enteen miles on the whole .line not yet
contracted for.
James Thomas, well known in Abbe
ville as a bad man, shot and killed An
drew Allen, at Old Scuffletown, on Sun
day last. The difficulty resulted from
whiskey, the*e being a wagon of con
traband stuff at that place on the day
of the killing.
The racing promised to take place
on the 15th, 16th and 17th inst, on the
race track at the Agricultural Grounds,
in Columbia, bids fair to be the finest
racing seen in this city for years.
Visitors are expected from Charleston,
Charlotte, Augusta, Atlanta, Savan
nah and other cities.
At the regular meeting of Richland
Lodge, No. 39, A. F. M., held last
Wednesday evening, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: R. A. Keenan, W. M.; G. A. Dar
ling, S. W.; J. P. Sutphen, J. W.; G. M,
Walker, Secretary; B. I. Boone, Treas
urer; H, J. Hennies, Senior Deacon;
Owon Daly, Junior Deacon; J, P. Wil
liams, Tyler,