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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year - ...no oo “ six months 6 00 three months 2 60 Tri-Weekly—one year 5 oo “ six months 2 60 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months 1 00 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) r ##“ 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, To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND after this date (April 21, 187 R.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent iroe of postage. ADvaimsEMENTS must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated, ? r suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet in aybe remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. CckREBPONDENCE 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. 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.