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##“ Address all Letters to the Constitu
tionalist office, AUGUSTA, GA.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
KERR NOMINATED.
Lamar's Speech.
Washington, December 4—The cau- ,
eus was called to order by Fernando j
Wood, on whose motion L. Q. C. j
Lamar was chosen presiding officer : j
On motion of Hollmand, of Indiana,,
banning, of Ohio, was made Secretary.
On taking the chair, Col. Lamar ad
dressed the caucus as follows:
Gentlemen :In calling me to this
position of responsibility and distinc
tion, you have conferred an honor
which I appreciate most highly and
for which I thank you most cordially.
We here are confronted with a crisis
in the history of the Democratic 1
party and of the country, which ,
brings to our party grand opportuni- j
ties, but is at the same time freighted
for us with solemn responsibilities,
and if we do not improve these oppor
tunities and rise to the measure of
these responsibilities, the fruits of the
great political revolution which has
brought us here to-day, will be for us
like the fruit which grows upon the
shores of the accursed sea. Ihe peo
ple of this country by overwhelming
majorities of States and majorities in
States, have placed the Democratic
party, after a long period of exclusion
from power, in possession of the most
important department of the Federal
Government. When I say important, I
do not mean that the individual mem
bers are invested with imposing pre
rogatives or great personal distinction.
The departments of patronage, those
which hold' and command the glitter
ing prizes of governmental emoluments
and honors are the co-ordinate branches
of the Government, which are
still under the control of our
political opponents. The mem
bers of the House of Representa
tives have no patronage whatever be
yond that of reoppoiutmeat of a mili
tary or naval cadet, and their compen
sation is barely adequate to a life of
Republican complicity and prudential
economy. There are many officers in
the gift of the people andof the executive
far more profitable, and In the public
esteem, far more distinguished than
that of a seat in the House of Repre
sentatives; but this branch is never
theless, under our matchless system of
Government, the corner stone at once
of our fabric of liberty, because it is
the only department of the Federal j
Government, directly responsible
to the people of the country, and re
ceiving its powers directly from their
hands—all the other branches of the
Government are two or three degrees
removed from the people in the mode
of their selection or in the nature of
their responsibilities. But while the
House of Representatives is thus im
mediately responsible to tho people all
tbe other branches of the Government |
are responsible to this body. The peo
ple of the country have charged us,
have charged the Democratic party in
the House of Representatives with the
duty of bringing these co-ordinate
branches of the Government to their
just responsibility, and thus by an un
erring instinct, or by a keen intelligence,
have blended together oar duty, our
interests and our inclinations. There has
been for some time in tbe public mind a
conviction profouud and all pervading,
that the civil service of this country has
not been directed from considerations
of public good, but from those
of party profit aui for corrupt, selfish
and unpatriotic designs. The people de
mand at our hands a sweeping and
tl 10 rough reform, which shall be con
ducted iu a spirit that will secure the
appointment to places of trust and re
sponsibility the honest, the experienced
and the capable. There is also an im
perative demand that a vigilant exam
ination be made into the administra
tion of the public revenue of the coun
try, both in its collection and its dis
bursement. That all the public ac
counts shall be scrutinized by us, as it
is the solemn privilege and duty of
tho House to do, and that corruption be
ferreted out and wrong doers, no matter I
how high or low, shall be fearlessly ar
raigned, and fully exposed and punish
ed. There is a growiug and irresistible
sentiment in the country that, under
the specious theory of protecting and
fostering particular industries and in
terests, a system of miscalled revenue
laws has been in operation, detrimental
aud-blastiug to all the other great in
terests of the country, and maintained
at the expense of the general revenue,
and to the injury of the great majority
of tho people; and of those classes the
farmers and laborers, who are least
able to bear the burden of oppressive
laws. One of the highest and most
pressing demands upon us wifi be, not
only to insist ou briuging down the ex
penses of the Government to the needs
only of economical administration,
but to perfect and adopt such
a system of taxation as wifi bring
iu the required revenue with the fewest
restrictions upon commerce and with
the least burden to the people, and
that burden equitably distributed and
skilfully adjusted. Owing to the exi
gencies of one of those great interne
cine conflicts incident to the life of
almost every country, and also to a
pernicious system of legislation, our
people, our business investments, our
commerce and ali the diversified in
terests of the country are suffering
from the evils of au irredeemable cur
rency. In meeting and grappling with
the difficulties of this vital and per
plexing question it will be our duty
to take care that nothing is done which
would impair the good faith of the
country or tarnish the public honor or
lower or disturb the credit of our
Government, but we are to remove
those obstructions which bar the
progress and check the prosperity
of the American Republic. It is our
duty as Democrats. It is tbe duty and
is to be the glory of the Democratic
party while it controls the House to see
that the national debt is paid in full,
and that the currency of this Demo
cratic Republic is made equal with that
of any nation on earth. Upon the part
of those who have been invested with
the political power and destiny of our
country during the last ten or fifteen
yoars it has been a frequent remark
that the era of constitutional politics had
closed; that questions of constitutional
limitations and restrictions were no lon
ger to hinder or delay the legislation
of the government in its dealings with
financial, economical or social subjects,
which were, it was assumed now, the
only matters worthy of public atten
tion; and, yet, amidst their grand”
boastings, the Forty-third Congress
found themselves faced with the
gravest questions of constitutional law,
reaching down to the fundamental sys
tem and involving not only the relations
of the State to the Federal Govern
ment, but that of the people and their
own government. The grandest
aspiration of the Democratic party is,
and its crowning glory will be, to re
store the Constitution to its pristine
strength and authority, and to make
SQlje SiSip Ccmstihvticmnfot.
Established 1799.
protector of every section and of
eVery State in the Union and of every
human being of every race, color and
condition in the land. Apprehension
and distrust of one part of the
nation that that portion of the South
-1 eru people who were arrayed against
| thesauthority of tho Federal Govern
ment in the late war would be an ele-
I ment of disturbance to the Ameriean
1 Union has mainly disappeared, and is
! evidenced by your election. In its
stead has grown a more fraternal feel
iug, which regards us of the Southern
States as fellow citizens of the same
great nation, and ou the other hand the
people whom I am one, are here to-day
by their chosen representation ready to
honor any draw upon their patriotism, l
or tLeir faith iu the glory and tho ben
ficent destiny of American institutions,
[applause.] * The experiment which
lias been introduced amongst us,
based upon confidence in the workings
of local self-government, and intended
to solve the difficulties connected with
recent social and political transforma
tions, shall have an open field and fair
play. No hindrance shall be placed in
the way of its vigorous development
and its amplest success. [Applause.j
It has
mental politics has passed away; but,
gentlemen, there is one part of this
Union—that part which I know best—
which asks for the great moral nutri
ment to a spirited and noble people.
We want a Government that we can
love and revere, and serve from the
motive of reverence and love. We
huuger for a patriotism which shall
knit all the people together in a
generous, and loving brotherhood, and
which shall be as broad as the territory
over which the national flag floats. Let
me say here that no government, no
nation can prosper without thjs vital
fire. It is the sentiment which acting
upon free institutions, and reaching
through them upon a people, consti
tutes their public spirit and political
genius.
Gentlemen, we are here as Demo
crats, members of a political party
which has a long and glorious history.
Let us in our duties, this winter, recall
and revive those principles, the aith
ful maintenance of which by the fa
thers of our country secured it for so
long a period, the confidence and sup
port of the people. Let us seek to
renew the prosperity to advance the
greatness and glory of our country.
Let us resolve to win the confidence,
the affection of the whole American
people for our party, by showing them
that we, its preseut representatives,
have statesmanship, patriotism and
strength cf purpose euough to deserve
that confidence and affection. Let us
not forget that the great victory of last
Fall, which brought us here and which
gives us these opportunities and great
responsibilities, was achieved not alone
by Democratic votes, but with the co
operating efforts of patriotic and un
selfish men of all parties, who, wearied
and alarmed by the unceasing evils
resulting from corruption and mal
administration, choose to call us
to the duty of checking these
evils and oleuriug away these
corruptions. If we are wise, we
shall so rule ourselves and so servo
our country as to retain the confidence
of these voters. Reforms are urgently
needed ; let us wisely make them. A
renewed prosperity is everywhere earn
estly desired ; let us, by removing un
just discrimination, by imposing a
rigid economy, by restoring a sound
currency, by securing the equal rights
of all States, and all the people make
the Democratic party the author of a
new prosperity. So wo may begin for
our party anew and glorious career in
which its history shall be once more
as formerly the story of the Union’s
greatest grandeur and the people’s
universal happiness and contentment.
(Great applause).
Balloting for Speaker and Clerk—Ran
. dall’s Remarks.
The balloting did not commence until
4 o’clock; at halt-past five adjourned to
seven.
Mr. Kerr was nominated Speaker by
the caucus.
F.rst ballot—Kerr, 71; Randall, 59;
Cox, 31.
Second ballot—Kerr, 77; Randall, 63;
Cox, 21; Saylor, 1.
Third ballot—Kerr, 90; Randall, 63;
Cox, 7; Saylor, 1.
During the morning Mr. Wood an
nounced himself in lavor of Kerr, and
on the third Mr. Cox asked his friends
to support the successful candidate.
There were four ballots for Clerk:
Adams, 47; Crittenden, 40; Saylor, 7;
Shober, 10; Banks, 22; Du Bose, 16;
Archer, 7; Whitehead, 7.
Mr. Randall said, “ Mr. Chairman, let
the wish of the majority be the voice
of all. From this moment the differ
ences among ourselves must be at au
end, and thus preseut a united front to
our adveisaries. Our mission on this
floor must be, as far as we all are able,
to restore the Government to its con
stitutional purposes and to expose the
corruptions of the administration. A
word more of personal character to
those around who have so steadily sup
ported me. They have lost their choice
but have gained a long life friend. I
now move that the nomination of
Michael C. Kerr be made unanimous.”
Minor Officers Nominated.
James Stuart, of Yirgiuia, was nomi
nated for Postmaster; Rev. J. L. Town
send (Episcopalian), of Washington, for
Chaplain; Thompson, of Ohio, for Ser
geaut-at-Arms; C. H. Fitzhugh, of
Texas, for Door-Keeper.
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
New York, December 4.—Charles
Conner, billiard player, is dead.
Nashville, December 4—The Demo
crats of the Fourth District have nomi
ted H. H. Riddle for Congress.
Louisville, December 4.—George
McLeod has been appointed Receiver
of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lex
ington Short Lino Road vice Samuel
Gill, who is suffering from aberration
of the mind from brain fever.
San Francisco, December 4. —Grass
Valley had a ten second earthquake.
Boston, December 4 —Forty of the
strongest men headed by President
Shepard, bolted the Republican mayor
alty convention, organized separately
aud nominated Mayor Cobb. The
Democrats also held a meeting but
made no nomination.
MATRIMONIAL.
Bloody Work of a Husband.
Cleveland, December 4.—An en
raged Englishman, named Wm. Aiden,
cut off his wife’s head with an axe, and
mortally wounded his step-daughter
and a woman who came to her assist
ance, with a hammer.
Escape of Boss Tweed.
New York, December 4. — Tweed has
escaped.
AUGUSTA. GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Majority Rule in the Caucus.
Washington, December 4—The tra
ditional two-third’s rule of the Demo
cratic Conventions does not enter the
caucuses of the party. A majority
nominates. There is no change iu the
situation this morning beyond in
creased anxiety and less positive asser
tion.
Anticipated Resignation of Jewell—
Ward Declines Cominis
—Babcock to be Court-Mar
tialed.
The Star says: “In the opinion of
those qualified to know, there is good
reason to believe that Postmaster
General Jewell will retire from the
Cabinet within a few weeks.”
Marcus L. Ward declines the Indian
Commissionership.
Tiie President has ordered the fol
lowing detail for a Court of Inquiry iu
the case of Gen. Babcock: Lieutenant
General Sheridan, Major General Han
cock and Brigadier General Terry.
The court will convene in Chicago, 111.,
on Thursday, December 9th.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Abyssinian Protest Against the Infi
del—Earl Derby’s Opinion of tbe
Course of Egypt—Battle of the Ca
bles.
Vienna, December 4—lt is rumored
that Abyssinia Princes, through mis
sionaries, ask the assistance of the
United States against Mohammedan
invasion.
London, December 4—The Daily
News announces that Parliament will
not be called earlier than usual.
A deputation waited on Earl Derby
and urged intervention to prevent
Egyt from annexing Abyssinia. Derby
doubted Egypt’s intention to annex
Abyssinia. Financial reasons would
render it unwise. It is believed Egypt’s
violation of Zanzibar’s rights was the
result of a mistake.
There is a rumor that the Anglo-
American Cable Company desire to
augment preseut rates. The Daily
News to-day, in its financial article, has
the following paragraph on what pre
sumably relates to this rumor:
The boards of directors of the Direct
United States Cable Company yester
day refused to accede to certain de
mands of the Anglo-American Tele
graph Company relative to tariffs. The
result will probably be a renewal of tho
contest between the rival companies
and a low tariff.
Fog in London—Searching for a Lost
Steamer—Sale of Cattle.
London, December 4 —A dense fog
interrupts street, and railway traffic.
Queenstown, December 4.—The
steamship Ville de Brest, of the Gen
eral Trans-Atlantic Company, has sail
ed from this port to seek her sister
ship, L’Amerique, before reported dis
abled.
Toronto, December 4.—At a sale of
short horns, draught horses and Cots
wold sheep yesterday, the three high
est prices paid were $4,500 for “Seven
teenth Duke of Audrie;” SI,OOO for a
“ Kirkleighton Duchess Eighteenth,”
and $3,700 tor “Oneida Rose.” The to
tal sum realized was $79,000.
CROOKED *WHISKEY.
Result of the Trials.
Milwaukee, December 4—The jury
iu the Taft-Wiemer case returned a
verdict of guilty.
St. Louis, December 4.—The jury,
after four hours consultation, returned
a verdict of guilty ou one count of the
indictment, the other three having been
pronounced bad by the Court. Avery
left the Co\irt. No additional bond
will be required for the preseut. Coun
sel gave notice of a motion for anew
trial.
Fierrepont in the Whiskey Trials. -
Pierreport telegraphed the Attorney-
General at St. Louis, instructing him
that the appointment of the Military
Court is in no manner to stay any pro
ceedings that the court authorities may
determine upon as being proper in the
case.
FROM NEW YORK.
Mrs. Moulton and Plymouth Church.
New York, December 4.—A1l matters
were referred to the Examining Com
mittee of Plymouth Church. Mrs.
Moulton’s letter was not read, because
it had been distributed to the news
papers for publication. Without fur
ther action on business the meeting of
the church adjourned.
Bank Statement.
New York, December 4. —The bank
statement shows loans decrease one
million ; specie decrease one and one
eighth million ; legal tenders one and
three-eighth million; deposits decrease
Pve and one-eighth million; reserve
decrease one and onejeighth million.
FROM ATLANTA..
Renfroe Appointed Treasurer.
Atlanta, December 4—Hon. J. W.
Renfroe, of Washington county, was
appointed State Treasurer to-day.
The Vicksburg Herald says : The
other day a Vicksburg father finding it
necessary to reprove his son, gently
said : “Don’t stuff victuals into your
mouth that way, my son; George
Washington didn’t eat after that fash
ion.” The boy accepted the reproof
without comment, aud, after pondering
for a while, he remarked to himself.
“And I don’t believe George Washing
ton licked his boy for finding a bottle
of whiskey in the shed when he was
hunting after a horseshoe, either.
It is said there are more lies told in
the sentence, “I am glad to see you,”
than in any other six words in the
English language.
A woman Is composed of two hun
dred and forty-three bones, one hun
dred and sixty-nine muscles, and three
hundred and sixty-nine pius.
A fool iu a high station is like a man
on the top of a high mountain —every-
thing appears small to him, and he ap
pears small to everybody.
Old lace is the object of the latest
fashionable mania, and the factories
are running double time to supply the
demand.— Alabama State Journal.
The New York Times has struck an
other libel suit. They make good over
coats to keep a paper warm through
cold weather.
It has been discovered that the ave
rage life of a flea is eight mouths, and
when you see a man scratching back
against the edge of a woodshed door
just tell him that he is waisting time.
—Detroit Free Press.
MATRIMONY.
MRS. BELINDY JONZE ON THE
SITUATION.
A Very Tart and Slightly Personal
Letter—The Men Shown Up—Woman
the Pivot Upon Which the World
Turns.
Augusty, G v., December 2,1875.
Mr. Randill:
Deer Sir—You ort not to have writ
that piece agin matrimony and put it in
the papers on a Sunday morniu; cause
you made all the wimrnen folks of Au
gusty mad and set ’em to fussin’. I
don’t think you need be frettin’ your
self, nor the poor wimmen neether, for
goodness knows! ther’s little enuff
marryiu’ now days, anyhow. I don’t
believe ther’s been more’n half a dozzen
weddins in Augusty In the last two or
three years. They’s most as sceerse as
hen’s teeth ! and people like to go to
other peeple’s sometimes, if they don’t
want none o’ there : own. We had a
weddin at our howse lonce’t, and had a
punch bole as big as a wash
tub, and kopt a lillin it, and a
filliu it, and a fillhi it, till all the
wine gin out (about five or six gal
lons,) when I got so sorry for the poor
fellows that keptcommin’ back to see if
ther’ was any more, that I went to my
ole man and told turn about it, and
how mortified I was. He said shaw !
you needu’t fret about that. If you
kept on fillin’ it up till daylight it.
would still keep gett-n’ empty. Well!
1 felt easyer after tha-$; cause I knew he
kuowed—and I was glad to see that
he thort they had enuff. I know
another thing about anatrimoney too !
I know that if the matri-s have got
plenty of the money t.her, ain’t no diffi
culty about fiudin’ the husbands. That’s
somethin’ that the patri-s can swoller
in thebiggist kind of Allopathicy doses,
and like ther whiskey;—the bigger the
do3e the better they like it, and the
more they take the more they want.
And I can jest tell you ! the men is so
stuck up now days that they set
awful high prices on themselves- f-
They wont hardly look at a
woman to marry her unless she
is worth about fifty or a hundred
thousin dollars. Don't you talk about
wimmen selliu theirselves to the highest
bidder! Poor things! taint many of
’em gits any bids at all now days.
And even if they did ther would’nt
be much choise between ’em, for
money nor nothin else, according to
my notion. But choise or not, we
wimmen have got to take ’em (for bet
ter or for worse) as we find ’em and
not as we would have ’em, mity few of
’em but what’s worse than the wim
men they marry, much as you buse us !
I tell you one thing I notice about you
men, (naimly Mr. Albert Rhodes aqd
his friends facts and Aggers). It’s the
“ money ” that makes the shoe pinch.
Tain’t nothin else that makes ’em
hurt so, and I notise another thing
that *you are mity liberal in your al
lowance to yourselves. Just to think
of one man spendin three thousand dol
lars on his lone self, and not a livin
soul to share it with! Stingy ole
thing! To think of one man setsn
down and eatin one thouzin fore
hundred and sixty dollars worth of
stuff all by himself without a livin
soul to help him. Whew! I wonder
where he could pack it all. Stingy,
greedy old thing! I jest know if that
feller was a keepin’ house he wouldn’t
want Ids wife, to spend half that much
for her share of the pervisions. Why
that would feed me and my ole man
and a half dozzen chudern, and all the
niggers and ther freuds in the kitchin
besides. Five hunderd and sixteen dol
lars for amusements! Well, I’d like to
know what kind of amusements them
was that could cost so much. For it
only takes about twenty dollars a year
to all the ’uiuseraents for our
whole family, toys and all, and to pay
for two or three extra darkies to help
carry the children to the circus at that.
I wonder if that feller don’f go to the
theater every night and Sunday, too!
Talk about spendin’ six hunderd and
twenty-fore dollars ($624) for two rooms!
That’s awful! Why, that would pay
for a whole howse lent ia this part of
the country. Well, now; when you
come to S4OO for a man’s clothes! That
don’t seem to be quite so onreazonable;
for I know a young man in Augusty
that gits S6OO a year, and he don’t have
to pay no room rent, and no board,
and don’t have to pay but $3 a month
for washing, and don’t hardly ever go to
the theater and circus or parties, and
he says S6OO a year aint nothin for a
fellow,” but it comes mity nigh elotbiu
me and all my childern, and we look
about as well as most folks! But I
dont like to say too much about the
money we spend on clothes, for we
have to have a plenty of clothes and it
takes a site of money to buy ein. I
know I git mity tired askin for it and
my ole man says he wishes he could
git it as easy as I do. Don’t I wish he
could ? And wouldent I be glad to give
it to him !!! But for all I do bother
him about money I jest know he would
not sell, swap, or gin me away for
ail the world. And I know he’s glad he
aint a rusty, crusty, ( tabbed olebattch
elorr, (he’s crabbed enuff now—but was
a heap erabbeder when we first mar
ried. Dont know what he would have
been if he hadnt got married,) For he
looks too happy when he comes home
tired at night and finds a warm bright
fire for him to toast his feet by, while
I toast a slice of bread for him, and
pour out his tea and hold the saucer
for him while he is drinkin it; all sittin
so snug round the fire and a nice
little baby asleep in the crib ! And
you tell rue that my ole man aint better
orf than a mizziribie scynickiful ole
battchelorr! I tell you he is! And lie’ll
tell you so his self, I jest know you
wos lookin throo somebody else’s spec
tikles when you writ that piece, and
you ort to be more keerful how you
talk about marrid folks, for taint every
body that knows what a zemplary wife
you’ve got. And you need’nt be wastiu
of your breath a writin or of your
paper a preechin—for as long as the
world lasts ther will;be marrin & givin
in marridge. That’s Somethin that pee
ple aint a goin to udee nobody else’s
word for. They \?ard, to see for their
selves, and I beleeva them that dont
marry are a heap eorryer 1 ban them
does. And I beleevo it is better for a
woman to try & git along with a poor
husband, than to be worryin & frettin
cause she aint got no husband at all, at
all. And if a man aint happy you
know it sounds so much more respeck
tible for a man to have a wife. I de
clalr you ort not to be tell in young pee
ple they ort not to git marrid. I dont
know about other folks, but I am glad
to be able to scribe myself,
Yous most resoecktibly,
Mrs Belindy Jonze.
P. S. I have been waitin severail
days to see if some of them men that
everybody knows tas got good wives
wouldn’t take you up and give you a
good pen-lashing, bet. I don’t hear nor
see a sound! Then I thort Bhure I’d
hear somethin from some of them edi
cated wimmin that I heerd sputter so
about it, but I don’t see nary letter. It
may be that they ar feard of you, for
you ar amity smart feller and most
always git t’>e best of every argimeat.
But I aint afreard of you, cause I aint
rltin for smart aud I know I’m rite and
want to shame you for tellin people not
to git married. Them happily married
men folks must be keepin silent cause
they like to have all the blaime lade
ou the wimmin. They always did
from Adam down. T’aint fair. Its
well the poor things have been able to
bear and forbear. You men folks can
go and get your city fathers ; what’s
the reez a n you don’t want no city moth
ers ? My sakes! I don’t see wkata
gittin into you all! If we are sich
dredful creeturs and so hard to git
along with why dont you petition
your little Mayor to banish every
living female from the city of Augusty
and git him to build a great
highe wall round your pressious
selves for a protection agin us? Say!
w!a/ don’t you do it ? But if you do do
it, ’twont do to trust the key to nary
man inside, or ary woman outside.
You’ll heve to git a bliud man to throw
it in the river when nobody warnt look
in. Then you could all do as you please.
Your homes would be all your own.
There wouldn’t be nobody to bother
with you and nobody to find fault with
you, (and nobody for you to blaime).
You wouldn’t have to slip off your
boots at the front door and go sneekin
up stairs. But you could jest take
your fiil of your “Club partys,” and
your “Card partys,” and your “Bllly
ard partys,” and your “Dinner partys,”
and your “Barbekew partys,” and your
“Delirium tremendous partys,” and
if in less than a month every man in
town didn’t send for his wife—(be she
good or bad), and she, poor kreeter,
didn’t go trottiu back to him, then my
name aint Belindy Jonze.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Crawford is to have a tournament on
Christmas day.
Conyers is moving for an addition to
her cemetery.
Palmetto has organized a Young
Mens Christian Association.
The Georgia State Grange will con
vene in AtlaLta on tho Bth inst.
C. Herbst, the late Librarian of the
Youug Men’s Library in Atlanta, is vis
iting friends in Macon.
Savannah contributed eleven candi
dates to the penitentiary on Friday.
They wore all darkies, and had been
sentenced to terms from one to five
years.
We regret to learn of the demise of
Judge Spencer Marsh, one of the oldest
citizens of North Georgia, who died at
his residence at LaFayctto Tuesday
night at 9 o’clock.
Newnan Star: There will be no hang
ing to-day, owing to the inclemency of
the weather. Due notice wifi be given
through the papers when the entertain
ment will come off.
Now that Brinkley’s has been respi
ted until the 31st of next March, it is
supposed that the ease wifi bs presen
ted before the Legislature at its meet
ing in January for the purpose of ask
ing a pardon of that body.
The Gin House and Mill belonging to
Messrs. Robert M. Smith, Burton
Brand and Hammond, of Logans
ville, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night. 83 bales of cotton were bnrned.
Loss estimated at over SIO,OOO.
Enquirer-Sun: Hon. Henry W. Hil
liard, with his family, has removed to
Columbus, and now occupies the resi
dence of the late Judge G. E. Thomas,
on Rose Hill. His beautiful step
daughter, Miss Mays, whose superb
voice is noted throughout the State, is
with the family. Col. H. has engaged
in the practice of law with Capt. J. M.
Russell.
The Gainsevilie Eagle Is after after a
newspaper correspondent sharply, say
ing that “A donkey that will stand be
hind a non deplume and spit venom at
us through thecolumnsof a newspaper,
we consider as innocent as the animal
spoken of iu Holy Writ as the proper
ty of Baalam. Now won’t you come
out and let us see your ears, Mr. ‘Voter
and Tax-Payer.”
An old negro living in Columbus,
swears he is one hundred and eighty
two years old. He says he was born In
Africa, and when a mere child, while
out in the woods eating bannas, Gen.
Washington came over in a sailing ves
sel and captured him. After his arrival
in the United States, he waited upon
the General, until one day he got mad
and sold him to a gentleman in this
city.
On Friday afternoon, Simon Mirault,
a well known colored man, fell dead on
board the steamship Leo at Savannah,
where he was engaged at work. Dr.
Knorr was notified, and held an inquest,
which resulted in a verdict of death
from providential causes. The de
ceased had been suffering from heart
disease for some time. He was nearly
seventy years old.
Atlanta Herald: The Augusta Chron
icle and Sentinel, a day or two ago, con
tained the following in a letter to that
paper from Atlanta: “Some time ago
the Commonwealth —an evening paper
of Atlanta, at that time published by
Col. Sawyer—contained some very se
vere attacks upon Gen. Gordon, one of
them peculiarly caustic and severe.
The authorship of these articles has
been attributed to Col. P. W. Alexan
der, Gov. Smith’s private secretary, and
to Mr. F. H. Allfriend, who, it is said,
is the friend and biographer of Hon. B.
H. Hill. Both of these gfentlemen and
the editor of the Commonwealth denied
the truth of the charges, but the Col
quitt-Gordon party are still very sore
concerning the pieces, and think they
were designed to injure their leaders.”
The Chronicle and Sentinel surely is
mistaken in stating that the authorship
of these articles on Gordon were de
nied by Colonel Sawyer, Mr. Alexander,
or. Mr. Allfriend. We have the highest
authority for stating that they were
written by them. That authority is
Mr. Allfriend, who acknowledges to
have written the editorials on the elec
tions in which Gen. Gordon was refer
red to as the “adolescent politician who
had usurped the place of a statesman.”
And the article referring to the “Kirk
wood Congregation,” with other ele
gant phrases of the same sort, and
containing the slander about Governor
Seymour’s visit to Washington, was,
according to the statement of Mr. All
friend. written by Colonel P. W. Alex
ander.
There is a gloom in deep love, as in
deep water; there is a silence in it that
suspends the foot, and the folded arms
and the dejected head are the images
it reflects.
Ann Eliza Young exclaims, “ Oh, they
are great economists, those Mormons I”
and yet no oq knows better than Ann
Eliza how they go for the pretty dear.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Another Excitement—The Youg Men’s
Library Embroglio—Charlie Herbst
—The Treasury Matter—The Brink
ley Case—The Serio-Coinico Yiew of
Okeefenokee —Dots.
I From Our Regular Correspondent,]
Atlanta, December 3d, 1875.
The election being over and the
Democratic ticket for Aldermen splen
didly elected, another whirl of excite
ment is in order. We have it. The
Board of Directors of the Young
Men’s Library held a meeting yester
day, and discharged the Librarian.
This action has incurred great displeas
ure among frequenters of the Library
and members of Association.
Charlie Herbst w*as a faithful and
competent officer. From its inception
to its now splendid condition, he took
the liveliest interest iu its welfare. In
deed I might say in all truth that his
whole heart was in the work. Early
and late he labored to keep the rooms
in best of order. He is well educated,
a connoisseur of art, aud a lover
of literature. There is just
enough of the Frenchman in him
to make him polite without over
doing the thiug. In flue, he was all
that could have been required for such
an office. But this Board, or rather
this half-board—for all the members
were not preseut —forgetting his valu
able services in the past, has dis
charged him. And why? No charges
were preferred, and their only reason
was “learning the boys to hate the
Yankees.” Now, that’s the kind of a
reason these men give for chopping off
the head of the most efficient man they
could find for the position. The conse
quence was that Herbst felt so hurt
that he quietly left the rooms made
beautiful by his excellent taste and
skillful hands, and left the city. In the
meantime, this Board of wise men
ordered an election for the vacancy
this afternoon, but at the meeting the
matter was postponed until next
month. It Is said that strenuous efforts
will be made to get Charlie Herbst
back. There are numerous candidates
for the position. It pays a salary of
fifteen hundred dollars a year, and the
duties are not heavy. Among the
more promising candidates are Messrs.
Smyth Clayton and Charlie Hubner.
Mr. Hubner is a well-known Southern
poet, a lover of pure literature, and
being a newspaper man, would, no
doubt, 1111 the position satisfactorily.
Added to these qualities, he is a per
fect gentleman, polite and of an ac
commodating turn, which has made
him scores of friends, who would re
joice at his election. Many other can
didates will bo presented at the next
meeting, and if Mr. Herbst cannot be
induced to again take the position,
there will boa hot race.
The Board of Directors merit severe
censure for their hasty and unwarrant
able action, aud should be required to
apologize to Mr. Herbst or to send in
their own resignations.
THE TREASURY.
Jones having been ousted at last, the
filling of the vacant chair is a question
inviting discussion in all points of the
State. The Governor who always looks
before leaping and who stretches every
move on the Executive checkerboard
with a wonderful care, has not hit upon
the person as yet. Rumor, that incor
rigible old dame, says that Hon. J. W.
Renfroe, of Washington county, is the
coming man, and that he has already
secured his bond. It is quite likely
that Renfroe will get it. He is said to
be in every way qualified for the posi
tion. Col. Jones is preparing a heavy
document for the public. In this paper
he proposes to make thiugs lively. Id
the interim, tho money rolls from
Tax Collectors and other sources into
the hands of the Comptroller.
Col. Jones bears his oustment coolly.
He gave a private reception at his cu
riously built house, to Dr. Dimitry, the
lecturer, the other night, and you could
not have detected that the poor fellow
had just recently lost the big office of
Treasurer of Georgia. But that’s the
way to take misfortunes after all!
BRINKLEY.
This man, who brutally murdered his
wife iu Newnan some time ago, is th(
most fortunate of criminals. He has
been sentenced to be hanged, but has
been respited so often that his funerai
is delayed as much as poor Guibord’s.
His counsel claim that he is, and has
been for twenty-five years, an insane
man. The State’s counsel say he is as
sane as anybody and as responsible for
his acts. He manages to keep his neck
out of the halter any way, even if he
was through the whole category of re
spites, mandamus, etc., etc. His is a
peculiar case—a life hanging as it were
on the slenderest thread—only a step
from lire to death—friends eager to
save him even though his hands are
dyed in the blood of his wife. The
people, anxious to have justice in the
premises, are satisfied to wait for the
hanging if it takes all summer. His
last release is to the 31st of March, ’76,
when he will launch—or be again re
spited.
DRAMATIC.
Hall’s Dramatic Combination art
playing here to fine houses. They give
a performance as is a performance,
and every member of the company is a
star.
On the 20th Ben De Bar appears here
In the Shakspearian character of “Fal
staff,” that fat, boastful and mendacious
knight, who was the boon companion of
Henry. Prince of Wales.
On the sixth, the incomparable Hav
erly’s Minstrels give one performance.
This troupe is a great favorite here.
THE OKEEFEENOKEE.
The exploration through this famous
swamp by the Constitution’s party is
the occasion of much mirth here by
those who treat the affair lightly. Now
and then the large show window of the
Constitution bears a large sketch drawn
by Hyde the artist, of some swamp
The Herald follows with welj drawn
cartoons caricaturing Hyde’s faithful
pictures. One of these cartoons rep
sent Billy’s Island as a bit of mud
floating on the water, a persimmonless
persimmon tree, astraddle of the bare
branches is Colonel Clarke, who has
thus far escaped the dangerous fangs
of a murderous ’possum who is seen
rushing vehemently up the tree. The
gallant Colonel is pictured with frenzy
in every lineament, aud a note book in
bis hand. The famous Hegeman boat
is seen folded up and sticking out of
the pocket of his linen duster. Hemp
hill can be observed in the distance
bringing up reinforcements which con
sist of a sprinkling pot aQd a paper
collar. A few strokes of a mischievous
pencil make the swamp an uninviting
locality.
Notwithstanding, however, all this
fuss, there are many who feel great
; and genuine interest in the exploration,
regarding it as a great aid to the State
in thus fully showing the real condition
of the well-known but almost impen
etrable swamps.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 104
NOTES,
Bridges W. Smith, Esq., has been
j tendered the position of city editor of
i the Herald , and will enter at once upon
1 his duties.
“ Lifeline" Miss Augusta Evans’ new
novel, is having a tremendous sale
here. .Dictionaries, the Talmud, Sans
crit, thunder and lightniug, are also in
demand.
The burglarious gentry have vam
osed. They are waitiug for precaution
ary measures to cool oil.
The weather is cold, with occasional
slight sprinkles. Martha.
THE SUPERNATURAL.
A CLERGYMAN ON GHOSTS AND
DEMONS.
[Cincinnati Gazette.]
Those who heard Mr. Conway’s lec
ture on the Devil were informed that a
belief in demonology was not indige
nous to man, and that the superstitious
which arose in course of time were fast
being dispailed under the influence of
scientific research. That all men of
learning are not of the same mind has
just been proved by the appearance of
a remarkable book, entitled “Glimpses
of the Supernatural” (New York: G. W.
Carleton & Cos.; Cincinnati: Robert
Clarke & Cos.) Its author is no Spirit
ualist in the modern acceptation of the
term, but a highly ritualistic clergy
man of the English Establishment, Rev.
Frederick G. Lee, D. C. L., Vicar of All
Saints’, Lambeth. Dr. Lee believes
thoroughly in the Catholic Church, in
which he includes both the Roman and
his own. Ho claims that there have
always been witches, ghosts, haunted
houses, and persons demonically pos
sessed. The advent of Christ lessened
their number,'and the presence of the
Catholic Church lias kept down their
increase. Demons and perturbed hu
man spirits haunt houses where great
crimes have been committed, and also
lonely forests and mountain tops.
He quotes Addison and Blackstone
to support his positions. The former
says in the 110th number of the >Specta
tor: “I thiuk a person who is terrified
with the imagination of ghosts and
specters much more reasonable than
one who, contrary to the reports of all
histories, sacred and profane, anoient
and modern, and to all traditions of all
nations, thinks the appearance of
spirits fabulous and groundless.”
Blackstone, it is well known, de
clares that, “to deny the possibility,
nay, actual existence of witchcraft and
sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict
ihe revealed Word of God in various
passages, both of the' Old and ew
Testament, and the thing itself Is a
truth to which every nation in the
world hath in its turn borne its testi
mony.”
Fortified by these and similar au
thorities, Mr. Lee thinks it wicked and
foolish skepticism to deny the reality
of possession, witchcraft,J etc., and
shows also that the Catholic Church
has always believed in it. He prints in
full the very long form for exorcising
persons possessed of devils still in use
in the Church of Rome, and attacks
modern spiritualism as anew form of
ancient demonology. He refers with
out censure, and possibly with ap
proval, to the numerous burnings of
witches in by-gone centuries, and en
deavors to support his theories by a
large number of alleged facts, old and
new. Some of these are very curious,
and, judging by the ordinary rules of
evidence, seem well attested. Yet, if
accepted as true, there is no reason
why all supernatural stories that are
not lacking in evidence should not bo
credited. Passing by the record of the
thundering legiou; the strange, and ap
parently miraculous interference with
Julian’s attempt to rebuild the Temple
at Jerusalem, which even the skeptical
Gibbon cau not satisfactorily dispose
of, and a long array of mediaeval won
ders, we have some very interesting
modern marvels. One which occurred
forty-five years ago is well attested.
The Rev. Mr. Perring, a Vicar iu the
outskirts of London, lost a son seven
teen years old. The body was put in a
vault under the parish church. Two
nights later the father dreamed that
his son appeared to him in a blood
sprinkled shroud, his countenance
marked by an expression of pain, and
cried, “Father, father ! come and de
fend me. They will not let me rest
quiet in my coffin.” The next night he
had nearly the same dream, and in the
morning went to the vault. Tho clerk
pretended to have lost the key, but he
forced his way in and found that his
son’s coffin had been removed from a
recess in which it lay, to the floor. The
lid was loose, and ou examining the
corpse, it was discovered that every
tooth iu the head had been drawn. The
young man had a fine set of teeth, and
the clerk’s son, who was a barber
dentist, had stolen them for nse in his
business.
Dr. Lee quotes many accounts of
persons who were impressed with the
belief that friends at a distance had
died by seeing their spirits, among
them the case of Lord Brougham, who,
in 1799, while in a bath-tub, saw the
spirit of a friend who had died in India
on that very day. Seven years before
they made a compact, signed with their
blood, that the first Who died should, if
possible, appear to the other. Lord
Brougham mentions the circumstance
iu his recollections, written only a few
years ago, but tries to explain It away.
The Tichborne dole,,given to the poor
for centuries, was withdrawn about one
hundred years age. There was an old
prophecy that when this took place, the
old house should fall and the family
name would become extinct from the
failure of heirs male; the extinction
being preceeded by a generation of
seven sons, being followed by a genera
tion seven daughters and no son. This
came to pass, as the readers of the fa
mous trial of the claimant will remem
ber. A white bird makes its appear
ance whenever any head of the Oxen
ham family, of Devonshire, is to
die. This was first observed iu
the seventeenth century, and
recurred as late as Christinas, 1873.
The sound of the beating of a drum
betokens death in a noble Scotch fami
ly, and was heard a few years ago when
the head was visiting in England. He
received news a day or two later that
his wife had died. In another family of
rank a female figure dressed in brown
appears as a death warning. To the
members of an old knightly family in
the west of England, there always
comes, before the death of its chief,
the sound of a heavy carriage with
maDy horses, driven round the paved
court-yard of the Elizabethan mansion.
“It is equally notorious,” adds Dr. Lee,
“that iu a certain noble English family,
the form of a spectral head appears as
a sign of death to any member of it,
and invariably so when the chief of it
dies—a fact which the editor has been
assured of io writing from a member of
a junior branoh of the same.” A black
dog serves as a warning to a family in
the east of England, and has
as late as 1801,
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The death of Thomas, Lord Lyttle
ton, in 1779, is one of the most curious
and inexplicable of these supernatural
phenomena, and comes down to us
from so many witnesses that it is as
hard to deny the facts as to explain
them. He was a witty profligate, and
one night, on retiring to bed, saw or
dreamed that he saw, a fluttering bird,
and afterwards a woman appeared to
him in white apparel, warning him that
he should die in three days. One ac
count adds that she was a woman
whom he seduced, and who had com
mitted suicide. He tried to laugh the
the matter off, and with a gay com
pany, went to his country house. It is
said in one of the narratives that the
servants had secretly altered all
the clocks and watches in the
house. At all events, on going to
bed shortly before midnight, ou the
third day, in apparently fair health,
he suddenly fell back dead. Some
have affirmed that he killed himself,
but of this there seems no proof. The
theory is also inconsistent with another
occurrence hardly less strange, and
equally well supported, A Mr. Andrews,
one or Lord Lyttleton’s guests, had
gone home the previous day. He had
been in bed about half an hour, and
was,aß he imagined, wide awake. Sud
denly. his bed curtains were pulled
open, aud ho saw Lord Lyttleton in his
chamber robe and night-cap. Ha
thought it a trick, but got up to re
ceive his speechless visitor when ho
found that he had disappeared. He
rung the bell for his servant, but ho de
clared he had let no one in, and the
house and grounds were searched iu
vain. Lord Lyttleton was dead at the
hour of the singular visit. Dr. Lee re
fers to several contemporary versions
of the affair, aud he himself quotes
one furnished from the family papers
by the present Lord Lyttleton.
in regard to haunted houses the book
is peculiarly rich. Lady Hobby, of
Bisharn Abbey, in Berkshire, whoYived
in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, had a lazy
dunce of a son who used to blot his
copy-books out of sheer malice. She
puuished him severely for this, and one
day hit him-so hard that ho died.
Tradition goes that her x’etnorseful
spirit has since haunted the house, and
especially the room in which the unfor
tunate blow was administered. Thirty
years ago, in taking down an old oak
window shutter, a packet of autiquo
copy books of the sixteenth century
were discovered pushed into the wall
between the joists of the skirting, and
several of these books on which young
Hobby’s name was written was covered
with bolts, thus supporting the ordinary
tradition. Creslow, in Buckinghamshire,
is one of the many old houses in which
the rustle of a long silk train aud a
majestic walk are heard at night. Some
times the noise is such as ir a desperate
struggle were going on. This is con
fined to a certain haunted room very
rarely used. About 1850, a gentleman
who has occupied the position of High
Sheriff of the county, tried in vain to
sleep there. He was not superstitious,
and used every precaution against
trickery, but, though he saw nothing,
he heard enough to make him resolve
never to try the room, again. The foot
steps and rustling were kept up at in
tervals through mneh of the night. Dr.
Lee says the incident “may bo de
pended on as authentic.” Ghosts have
been seen iu the Tower of London. Mr.
E. L, Swifte, keeper of tho Crown
jewels from 1814 to 1852, was sitting at
supper, in October, 1817, wheu, he says:
“I had offered a glass of wine and
water to my wife. On putting it to her
lips, she paused and exclaimed, “Good
God, what is that?” I looked up and
saw a cylindrical figure like a glass
tube, seemingly about the thickness of
my arm, and hovering between the
ceiling and the table. Its contents ap
peared to be a dense fluid, white and
pale azure, like to the gathering of a
summer oloud, and incessantly rolling
amd mingling within the cylinder. This
lasted about two minutes, wheu it be
gan slowly to move before my sister
in-law, then following the oblong shape
of the table, before my son and my
self; passing behind my wife, it paused
for a moment over her right shoulder
—observe there was no mirror op
posite to her in which she could
then behold it. Instantly she
crouched down, and with both
hands covering her shoulders, shrieked
out, “Oh, Christ’ it has seized me.”
Even now, while writiag, I feel the
fresh horror of that moment. I caught
up my chair, struck at the wainscot
behind her, rushed up stairs to the
other children’s room and told the ter
rified nurse what I had seen. Neither
my sister-in-law nor my son beheld
this appearance. I am bound to add
that shortly before this strange event
some young lady residents in the
Tower had been suspected of making
phantasmagorical experiments at their
windows, which, be it observed, had no
command whatever on any windows in
my dwelling. Let it be understood
that to all which I have herein set
forth as seen by myself I absolutely
pledge my faith and my honor.”
There is a haunted room in Glam’s
Castle, access to which is now cutoff
by a stone wall, and none are supposed
to know where it is except Lord Stroth
more, his eldest son, and the factor on
oße estate. Fearful noises are heard
within it, and the sights are supposed
to be equally terrible, as, after looking
in, a late head of the house fainted aud
would never tell what he saw. There
is a tradition that some refugees in the
olden time were locked in the room and
suffered to starve by the Btrothmore of
the day. It is said that their bones lie
there still, and these were what the late
lord saw wheu he opened the door. A
lady occupying another room was one
night startied by seeing a figure in
armor walk across her chamber after
she had gone to bed.
We might multiply our citations had
we room. Dr. Lee is obviously a sin
cere believer in what he writes, and
maintains that no other position than
that which he holds is compatible with
genuine Christian belief. Though not
a member of the Ohuroh of Romo, he is
in, apparently, accordance with its
dogmas in everything except acknowl
edging its exclusive authority and the
sovereignty of the Pope. He does not al
ways give names, but says thatjhe omits
them only out of regard to the feel
ings of his informants. As far as second
sight and fulfilled presentiments go,
there have been many occurrtnce3 par
allel to those which he relates, but
when he descants on witchcraft and
spiritualism, his dates are much less sat
isfactory. Many readers will pooh at
all he says, and quote Moore’s lines, in
spirit if iaot in fact:
Ye shall have miracles, aye, soun l ones
too,
Been, heard, attested, everythin a H U t true.
Some few will accept most that they
are told, while others will find their
perplexity well expressed in Shakes
pear’s
There are more tilings in neavenaud earth,
Horatio. .
Thau are dreamed of in your lour] phi
losophy.