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FROM NEW YORK.
THE TWEED SENSATION.
The Boss Sill at Large—Further Par
ticulars of His Hegira,
New Yoke, December 5. —A diligent
search was make for Tweed last night.
He, in charge of officers, wecft to his
home to visit his wife. He wished to
see her alone, and was seen no more.
Different cities have been telegraphed
to look out for him. Twenty minutes
after his escape was known, word
reached every police station in the city.
There is not the slightest clue. Ten
thousand dollars reward is offered.
Tweed’s house was searched from
top to bottom, but no trace of the fugi
tive was found. At the back of the
house there are other houses, and to
have escaped Tweed must have passed
through them. Mr. Tweed’s son was
in a very excited condition when he
learned of his father’s escape. He
pulled his hair and exclaimed that he
was ruined, as did also Mr. Douglass,
son-in-law of Mr. Tweed.
The statement of Deputy Hogan cor
roborates the foregoing. Warden Dun
ham admits having taken Tweed out to
dine some three or four times while he
was in his custody, as Tweed was com
plaining of a terrible headache. The
bond given by the Sheriff for the prop
er and faithful performance of his du
ties is for 850,000, and that of Warden
Dunham, 820,009. Tbe general impres
sion seems to be that some of Tweed’s
friends have placed him on board a
steam tug, which wiiii place him on
some vessel bound for a foreign coun
try. It is not positive whether an
indictment for forgery has been found
against him, and his extradition is
therefore an open question. The trial
in the $6,000,000 suit was to have com
menced to-morrow.
It has been ascertained that Tweed’s
private secretary was last seen at his
stopping place, a few minutes before
bis departure on tbe ten o’clock train,
and said he was going to Boston and
would return Tuesday. He, however,
carried a large trunk. It was rumored
at the 59th street police station last
evening that, on Saturday, from four
to five o’clock p. m. a tug was noticed
cruising in a mysterious manner in
East river, off 59th street. Nothing
was noticed by which it could be iden- j
titled.
Inspector Dilks believes Tweed is on
the ocean. There is good reason to be
lieve that he made his escape mauy
hours before reported. It is generally
believed that Warden Durham and
Keeper Hogan were privy to the,escape,
and that Tweed embarked on some
private craft on the East river, in
which he is now sailing for a foreign
port. The Tweed cases, which were up
to-day, were postponed.
How Tweed Escaped.
‘New York, December
noon paper has the following regarding
Tweed’s flight:
“The most probable theory is that
Tweed escaped in the bark Lord Clar
endon which cleared November 14th,
for Queenstown. The story is, that a
relative of Tweed, not residing here,
and known to but few in this city,
reached here some three weeks since
and purchased the bark Lord Claren
don, a line vessel of excellent sailing
qualities. The theory is that the Lord i
Clarendon was chartered for Tweed by i
his relative who sailed on her. It is
said a vessel looking like her has been
seen off East end of Long Island. It
is supposed Tweed was conveyed on
board by a steam tug laying in East
river on Saturday evening and was
taken on board the Lord Clarendon.
The Dame of the Arm which cleared
the Lord Clarendon is not in the direc
tory.” / ff” <j
Taiinage and the Public Schools.
New York, December 5. —There was
an immense audience at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this morning to hear Tal
mage’s sermon on the Bible in public
schools. He denounced all men and
all sects that would take the Bible out
of the public schools, and said it never
would be done while enough of Ply
mouth rock was left to furnish flints to
make the tires of true patriotism burn.
He was frequently applauded. There
were at least five thousand people
present.
Escape of Prisoners.
New York, December 6.—A number
of prisoners escaped from Raymond
street (Brooklyn) jail last night, includ
ing John and Thomas Loughrey, coun
terfeiters of five cent nickles.
Report of a Cuban Filibuster.
Col. Rasada, who was in command of
the last expedition to Cuba in the Uru
guay, last night made a report to the
Cuban Association. He stated that the
vessel was wholly unfit for the service.
Her machinery was cld, in poor condi
tion, and the propeller worked so bad
ly that the utmost speed the steamer
could attain was little over fifteen
miles an hour. When the vessel had
set out on her voyage it was discovered
that the supply of coal was insufficient,
and later, provisions began to fall short.
The people on board suffered greatly
from these causes, aud also from exces
sive heat.
When they reached Cuba, nine men
were landed in a boat to reconnoitre,
but the place was so dangerous to ves
sels that it was impossible to land any
part of the cargo or any soldiers. Mean
while, the Spanish authorities had been
informed of their presence, and they
had to make utmost speed to Jamaica.
The arms furnished were of an inferior
quality. He blamed the agents in this
city for negligence in fitting out the
vessel.
Postal Decision—Babcock Indicted.
Application to compel the mails to
carry third class matter at a cent an
ounce has been refused. Judge John
son rendered a decision denying the
application, holding that the law was
perfectly valid and constitutional, and
that while the postoffice laws are reve
nue laws within the meaning of the
statutes, they are not laws for raising
revenue within the provisions of the
constitution.
New York, December 6.—The Tribune
has the following dispatch :
St. Louis, December 5. — The grand
jury in this city found an indictment
against Gen. Babcock, on Friday last,
for his connection with the whiskey
ring. Owing to the absence of the
District Attorney it was not announced
in court yesterday, but will be, without
doubt, to-morrow.
ON TO CUBA,
netting tbe Tabs Ready.
Portsmouth, N. H., December 6.
Orders have been received at the navy
yard to immediately fit for sea the
Tieonderoga now laid up here. The
Marion has not been ordered to Libe
ria, but still awaits orders. A draft
for fifty seamen from the Charlestown
navy yard arrived here yesterday for
this vessel.
eijc Constitutionalist.
Established. 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Fatal Mining Explosion—Another Fail
ure—Egypt and Abyssinia—Spain and
Uncle Sam-Spanish Volitica—Death
of Bismarck’s Intended Son-in-Law
—News from China and Japan—De
feat of the Turks.
London, December 4. — A terrible ex
plosion took place on Saturday in the
Powell Dufferin pit, near Tredgar.—
Twenty miners were killed. Ten have
been taken out seriously injured.
London, Decembers.—William Spat
ton & Cos., linen manufacturers an'
wreckers, of Belfast, Ireland, and this
city, failed. Liabilities, 81,500,000.
The Times’ telegram from Alexan
dria says that Egypt does not wish to
annex Abyssinia. She merely wants
security against violation of her fron
tier by Abyssinia.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a re
port that the Khedive has ordered fif
teen thousand men to march against
the Abyssiniuns.
A special to the News from Vienna
reports that the Turks have succeeded
!n supplying the garrison with pro
visions.
Madrid, December s.—Mr. Cushing,
the United States Minister, has had a
long conference with Senor Collantes,
the new Minister of Foreign Affairs.
It is understood that the negotiations
continue to be satisfactory.
Madrid, December 6. — Heavy snot
continues to retard military operations
in Guipuzcoa.
Spinola has been appointed Mayor of
Madrid.
Electoral tickets will be distributed
through Spain from the sth to the 10th
of December.
The Spanish legation aft Lisbon has
been raised to the rank of an embassy,
and Senor Castro appointed ambassa
dor.
Berlin, December s.—Count Wendtz
Von Eulenburg, who was betrothed to
Prince Bismarck’s daughter, is dead.
San Francisco, December s.—The
steamer Gaelic has arrived, from Hong
Kong November 3d, and Yokohama
11th. The Japanese frigate, comman
ded by Captain Itoa, has started on a
cruise in American waters. She touch
es first at San Francisco. No immedi
ate action will be taken by Japan
against Corea. The British Minister
in Yeddo is making strenuous efforts
to prevent the selection of Americans
for positions of trust under the Japa
nese Government. There is continued
trouble between foreigners and Chi
nese. American missionaries and la
dies have been assailed by mobs in
Nankin, and an English lady was at
tacked at Jakau.T he telegraph build
ers have again been driven from their
work near Fuchan, and the Amoy offic
ials protest their inability to control
the populace. The attempt of China
to control the Formosa aborigines has
been abandoned. An imperial decree
conceding free intercourse on stated
occasions of foreign ministers and
heads of departments of Pekin has
been published in the official gazette.
Ragusa, December 6.— lloouf Pasha
has succeeded in throwing provisions
into Garansko, but the Insurgents as
sert he was subsequently defeated near
Gatsehko, losing one thousand killed
and wounded.
Terrible Explosion and Loss of Life.
London, December 6.—The Pall Mall
Gazette this afternoon contains the fol
lowing brief but startling news item:
“An awful explosion occurred to-day at
the Swaithe main colliery near Barns
ley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It is feared that more than two hundred
lives are lost.”
Colliery Explosion.
London, December 6.— The colliery at
which a dreadful explosion occurred
to-day belongs to Mitchell & Cos., one
of the largest in the southern part of
Yorkshire. It is joined by underground
workings with Edmunds’ main colliery,
where twelve years ago yesterday over
three hundred persons perished. The
works extend for many miles, and are
entirely worked with safety lamps,
under very rigid discipline, and were
considered safe. At 6 o’clock a. m.
about tbree hundred men and boys de
scended and commenced work as usual.
At half-past nine a terrific explosion
occurred. The exact position of the
explosion is unknown, but miners in all
parts of the pit were startled by a loud
I report, followed by large volumes of
smoke, and after damp. Those who
were able rushed to the pit bottom, but
the drawing cage was displaced. Soon
as possible volunteers organized to
search for the dead and dying and those
, who had escaped. After being down
for some time the volunteers reported
about noon that they met with great
difficulty.
They saw many who were alive, but
unconscious. It is impossible to give
i the number lost. It is feared the first
j report (200) will be confirmed, though
: the managers of the colliery hops many
will be saved. Operatives in all the
collieries of the district are on the spot,
ready and anxious to do all that is pos
sible for the relief of the sufferers. All
the local surgeons have arrived. All
those rescued thus far are seriously
burned or injured. Hundreds of men,
women and children are congregated at
the mouth of the pit, and as disfigured
bodies are drawn to the surface, the
scene is of the most heartrending char
acter.
Military Frolic at Charleston.
Charleston, December 6. —The de
parture of the First Artillery, which
has been stationed here for the past
three years, was made the occasion
for a farewell entertainment to Gen.
Vogdes and his officers, which was
given at the Charleston Hotel to-night,
by the officers of the Washington
Light Infantry, German Fusilers and
Palmetto Guards. Gen. Hunt and the
officers of the Fifth Artillery, which is
to relieve the First Regiment, were
among the guests. The festivities
were marked by the utmost good feel
ing.
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Races at Savannah.
Savannah, December 6. —Entries for
races over Tenbroeck Course closed
to-day with forty entries. Thirteen
stables represented.
Minor Telegrams.
Nicholasnille, Ky., December 6
Five business houses were burned.
Los3, $30,000.
Baltimore, December 6.— The Balti
more and,Ohio Railroad allow a draw
back of three cents per one hundred
pounds on grain brought here from
Western points through their eleva
tors for exportation.
Fall River, December 6.— A1l the
mills are quietly at work under the
ten per cent, reduction.
Burning Coal.
Brooklyn, December 6. —An Elevator
belonging to the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal Compauy, with two hun
dred tons of coal is burned.
AUGUSTA. GUY., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1875.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Solons in Session—No Message
Yet—Appointments—Kerr’s Speech.
Washington, December 6.-Senate.-
The Senate was called to order, Ferry
In the chair.
McPherson called the House to order.
MeEnery’s certificates were read and
laid aside. The Mississippi delegation
received their credentials, signed by the
Lieutenant Governor. The call of the
roll is progressing. There is a numer
ous crowd.
The Senate adopted the usual resolu
tion to notify the President and House
of Representatives that a quorum of
the Senate has assembled and were
ready for business, and then adjourned,
after a statement of Anthony that it
was not probable that the message
could be received to-day.
F. A. Moore was appointed Door
keeper of the reporters’ gallery of the
Senate.
Upon taking the Chair Mr. Kerr spoke
as follows : “Gentlemen of he House
of Representatives—l am truly grati
fied for the honor you have conferred
in calling me to this exalted station. I
profoundly appreciate the importance
and delicacy of its duties. I shall,
doubtless, many times need your pa
tient indulgence. I pray that you will
grant it, and with nothing but kindly
feeliDg toward every member of tUe
House, I promise ttiat in all official
acts I will divest myself to the utmost
of my ability of all personal bias and
observe complete fairness and impar
tiality towards all, and towards all the
great and diversified interests of our
country represented in this House.”
Two hundred and eighty members
were present. In swearing in members
Messrs. Morey, of Louisiana, and
Goode, of Virginia, were asked to stand
aside, as they were contested. A mo
tion to refer Morey’s credentials, after
a warm debate failed, and he was
sworn in. Mr. Goode, after a short
discussion, was also sworn in.
Lamar offered a resolution, declaring
the following officers of the House:
Clerk, George M. Adams, of Kentucky;
Sergeant-at-Arms, John G. Thompson,
of Ohio; Door-Keeper, Lafayette H.
Fitzhugh, of Texas; Postmaster, James
M. Stewart, of Virginia; Chaplain, Rev.
J. L. Townsend, of Washington, D. C.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Kerr and Randall—The Rash for Pap—
Downing’s Scalp in Demand.
Washington, December s.—Represen
tative Kerr received many of his friends
to-day, who called to congratulate him
on his nominati in for the Speakership.
All parties concede his fitness for the
position.
The remarks of Representative Ran
dall in caucus, and his motion to make
the nomination unanimous, are every
where spoken of in terms of commen
dation. Surprise is expressed that the
West and South carried all the offices.
For the two or three hundred subor
dinate places, there are at least one
thousand applicants, not a few of
whom are already at work to secure
the respective positions, including
clerk, assistant door-keepers, messen
gers, document folders, pages and bath
room attendants. A dozen or more
applicants want the privilege of keep
ing the restaurant, which for some
years has been in possession of George
T. Downing, colored.
Beauregard Bound—Grant and Reve
inue Collectors South—Sporting Man
Suicides.
Washington, December 6.—Tbe Su
preme Court in the ease of the Balti
more and Potomac Road vs. the Sixth
Presbyterian Cburch. Judgment below
affirmed.
Beauregard & May vs. Case, receiver
of the court fuqjis. There was ordinary
partnership formed under the laws
of Louisiana by which Beauregard
was bound, and that under this statute
the verdict against each for his third
of the debt, which still exist, was cor
rect.
The President declines to interfere
in the recent consolidations of the rev
enue collection lists South.
Major Hope, a well known sporting
man, was found dead in bed with a
bottle of laudanum by his side. He
had just completed arrangements for
opening a bank.
Schell to Nominate Where the Next
National Democratic Convention
Shall he Held.
At an informal interchange of opin
ions of the members of the National
Executive Democratic Committee at
tbe Arlington House to-day, present:
Messrs. Schell, President, of New York;
Thompson O. Randolph, of New Jer
sey; McDonald, of Indiana; McHenry,
of Kentucky; Barnum, of Connecticut;
Moore, of Alichigan; Barr, of Pitts
burg; Eaton, of Kansas, with A. D.
Banks, of Mississippi, their secretary,
Mr. Schell, who is Chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, was
authorized to use his discretion in call
ing the latter committee together with
a view to designating the time and
place for holding the next National
Democratic Convention.
FROM CANADA.
A Dreadful Accident—Two Priests
and a Woman Burned to Death-
Discovery of a Wreck.
Montreal, December s.—On Satur
day, Rev. Father Murphy, editor of the
True Wlttiess, gave his famous lecture
on “Papal Infallibility,” and with Rev.
Father Lynch, a talented youDg priest,
lately from Ireland, drove out to Back
river, seven miles from Montreal, and
stopped at La Jeanesse Hotel. At night,
after retiring, a fire broke out in the
hotel and Fathers Murphy and Lynch
and Madame Champagne, a lady sleep
ing on the third flat, were burned to
death.
Halifax, December 6. —Capt. Sibao,
of the Vivid, reports that he saw, on
November 21st, a wrecked steamer on
the middle shoals off Beaver Harbor,
with two masts and a black funnel above
water.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Marine Collision —A Lost Steamer.
Baltimore, December 6.— The brig
E. A. Barnard, which sailed from this
port on Saturday for Trinidad, returned
for repairs, having collided with an un
known schooner.
Apprehension is felt for the safety of
the Itasia, which sailed from this port
on tbe 25th of April. She was spoken
on the 3lßt of May thirty miles south
of the equator, and not since heard
from.
A late letter from Cheyenne says:
“Tne election here last week was ex
citing. The ladies all voted and swept
everything clean.” How natural that
the women should ail go to sweeping
after they had voted.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Causes of the Democratic Defeat in
New York City—The Story in a Nut
shell—Tilden Leaves the Patronage
to Grant Republicans and Andrew
11. Green —TUe Reduction of Labo
rers 1 Wages—Tammany’s Strengtli.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
New York, Nov. 21.1875.
It is said that Lord Houghton, an
English gentleman of taste and good
breeding, at present sojourning in New
York, expressed his astonishment at
the tone of the Metropolital press dur
ing the present political canvass. No
wonder that he did so. The best men
in the city were assailed ae malefac
tors, while some of the worst were ex
travagantly praised. Municipal events
of the past five years, supposed to be
the best attested as well known facts,
were perverted, misrepresented, and
subjected to an entirely new relation.
Men who had grown rich as notorious
members of the Treed Ring were
held up as apostles iof reform, while
those who warred on Tweed and effect
ed his overthrow and punishment were
the targets for all the eloquence of
billingsgate and more than fish-wo
man’s abuse. It is a suggestive com
mentary that the newspaper which
served Tweed and Oakey Hall the most
steadfastly in the days of their power,
proved to be the loudest advocate ot‘
their aims aud principles in the late
remarkable canvass. This was the
Herald. Its reporters were sent out all
over the city to hunt up charges against
reputable citizens, and failing to make
a case, or even the semblance of one,
to invent accusations, elaborate them,
repeat them, furnish them to the bar- \
room politicians, and thus set them in I
regular motion. Falsehood took the 1
place of truth, and the stimulated |
veualty of Printing House Square en- i
joyed its revel to the utmost.
By purely fortuitous circumstances,
with which they had no more to do ,
than the man in the moon, the defarna- j
tory newspapers chanced to be on the j
winning side. The faction of Demo
crats, who have no fellowship with the
Regular Democratic organization since
Char'es O’Couor, John Kelly and Sam
uel o. Tilden, with other honest aud
courageous men, rescued the party
from the grasp of the thieves, now
formed a coalition with the Custom-
House Grant Republicans, and, owing
to the circumstances alluded to above,
that coalition was successful. Briefly
summed up the story is this : Loose
party management on the Democratic
side, and unscrupulous but clever strat
egy on the part of the Republicans.
Tilden went into power a year ago
with 50,000 Democratic majority. An
able lawyer, a fervent agitator for re
form. Mr. Tilden undoubtly is ; but it
may be doubted whether he is as great
a politician as a counsellor. When he
became Governor, he found over two
thirus of the patronage of this city in
the hands of the Republican party and
the enemies of the Democracy. Among
these, Comptroller Green, of whom the
Governor has some mysterious fear,
was the most malignant and treacher
ous. Had these office-holders been
pure men, devoted to the public ser
vice, instead of being, a9 they were and
are, marplots and ingrates on the one
hand, and the tools and slaves of
party on the other, their retention in
power might have been regarded as a
rare recognition of civil service reform,
aud a heroic hardness of heart against
the claims of his own party by a Demo
cratic Governor. But this will hardly be
asserted by the most, intrepid Repub
lican. With one or two exceptions, the
public departments of this city are pre
cisely in the same hands they were in
when Air. Tilden went to Albany with
50,000 Democratic majority, and let it
be remembered 42,000 of that same
majority were given to fiim in this city
alone. What has he dohe for his party
here? Absolutely notk.ng! It is the
proverb that Republics are ungrateful.
The reverse is sometimes the ease.
These very Radicals aud renegade
Democrats of the Comptroller Green
stripe, whom Mr. Tilden has retained in
office, set a trap for the Democratic
city officials elected at the same time
with the Governor himself, and with an
ingenuity worthy of high admiration
they worked at it, covered it up, and
prepared all the approaches to it with
first-rate strategy—until, flop ! into it
walked the honest, unsuspecting Demo
cratic officials in question. They soon
found a hornet’s nest about their ears.
A simple resolution did the business.
It was resolved that after a certain
day, in view of limited appropriations,
and with proper regard to economy
and retrenchment, the laborers on the
public works of the city snould receive
40 cents a day less, or $1.60 instead of $2.
Whew ! Down came the laborers in
thousands, ready to fight for their
rights; muttering curses and swearing
vengeance on the Democratic Mayor.
The Outs now saw’ their opportunity.
“Put us in office,” shouted they, “aud
we will not only raise your wages to the
former rate but put all your unem
ployed friends to work, and see to it
that the poor man has a jthanco to turn
a penny as well as the wretches who
hold big offices and who would drive
you and your families ;to the poor
house 1” The Trades’ Unions took up
the cry; the Workingmen’s Organiza
tions joined the chorus ; the Democra
tic faction outside of Tammany Hall
shouted itself hoarse over the wrongs
of the poor laborers; and a commu
nistic reign of terror seemed to be im
pending over the Metropolis. The
Grant Custom House Republicans, who
had really caused the whole trouble
now got ready to avail themselves of
whatever might turn up. The old fol
lowers of Tweed were hobnobbing with
such distinguished Republicans as
Senator Conkling, Collector Arthur,
Tom Alurphy, etc. The bargain was at
last made. The spoils were distributed
beforehand, and the party, whose
Pharisaical boast is “ Great Moral
Ideas,” entered into a disgraceful coa
lition with men whom jhey had de
nounced for years, and w.&.ose fortunes
had been in disastrous eclipse ever
since Tweed went to the penitentiary.
This is the whole store in a nutshell
of the late Radical triumph in the
Democratic city of New York. Tam
many’s average vote on the 2d of No
vember was fifty-two thousand, while
the average vote of the Radical /mti-
Tammany coalition wat| seventy-five
thousand. An analysis of "dative party
strength based on the late election
would sum up about as follows:
Whole number of votes 140,000
Stay-at-homes 12,000
Tammany Democrats...... 52,000
Republicans ? 42,000
Anti-Tammany Democrats... 15,000
Disaffected Tammany La
boring Class 19,000
Now tnat the demagogues have used
the deluded laboring class, they will
turn their backs on them. In point of
fact they are powerless to help them,
while in point of principle they are ut-
terly insensible to the laborers’ weal or
woe, or anybody else’s but their own.
Indeed, the reaction is already setting
in, and the workingmen are even now
beginning to execrate the politicians
who duped them into opposition to the
Democratic party in the late election.
Vindex.
HITTING FORNEY HARD.
A Point at Which Rascality Becomes
Funny.
The New York Nation contains the
following severe attack upon Col. For
ney, w hich ought to bring him home
very speedily:
The Anglo-American Times, a very
good paper published in Loudon, has in
the number received by the last mail,
an article, almost ecclesiastical in its
tone, entitled “Col. John W. Forney and
the United States Centennial Exhibi
tion,” in which the writer gives way to
the most extraordinary rejoicings over
the appearance of the Colonel in Eng
land as American ‘lnternational Com
missioner to Europe.’ We wish we had
space to quote some of his dithyrambs
over this auspicious event. They would
greatly amuse some of our readers. We
are sorry, however, to have to make
known the fact to the Anglo-American
Times, and to our English readers, that
the dispatching of the Colonel in an
official character is looked upon by the
best portion of this country as an un
pardonable indiscretion on the part of
tbe Centennial Commissioners, and as
a sticking illustration of the disregard
even of the appearances which famil
iarity with corruption has bred even in
men who are themselves as honest.
Twenty-five thousand dollars of the
Pacific Mail corruption fund were
traced to the Colonel’s capacious pock
ets in the Congressional investigation
last winter, but he has never given
himself the trouble to notice the charge,
and his failure to meet it ought of
course to have disqualified him for any
place of dignity or emolument, and,
above all, for that of an international
commissioner. Nor is this the first case
of the kind in which the Colonel has
been implicated and exposed; in fact,
we believe it is the third. He cer
tainly got $4,000 of the money of
the Georgia ring, headed by Bullock,
when they were trying to get Congrqps
to set aside the State Constitution, in
order to enable them to continue their
game of fraud, before Bullock’s flight
from justice. It is, indeed, almost a
matter of public notoriety that the
Colonel has had a hand in most of the
great Washington jobs, and his Euro
pean mission is therefore a national
disgrace, for which the Centennial Com
missioners owe an apology, not only to
the public, but even to the Indian ring.
When tbe Colonel lifted up his tuneful
voice in LondoD, a few weeks ago, in
“vindication” of General Schenck, many
honest Americans laughed through
their tears, because there is a point at
which rascality becomes funny.
What General Johnston Thinks of It.
• A St. Louis correspondent of the New
York Sun, who met Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston in that city, on the occasion
of the recent Texas Pacific Railway
Convention, writes as follows :
I met (Jen. Joe Johnston at the Lin
dell Hotel on Monday evening. He did
not hesitate to express his disapproba
tion of the scheme to subsidize the
Texas Pacific Railroad. He said that
of course he was in favor of a Southern
route to the Pacific, but that he did not
believe in either the expediency or the
propriety of extending Government aid
to the enterprise. He thought that the
Southern people should stand by their
ancient landmarks, and follow the
teachings of their illustrious statesmen
of the past. The Democratic party
was on record over and over again as
against all subsidies, and it could not
afford to stultify itself. The South
might be benefltted by the construc
tion of a genuine Southern Pacific
Railroad, but her people should not
insist on legislation which in principle,
they believe to be wrong and conducive
to monstrous steals like the Credit
Alobilier. He did not believe that the
Texas Pacific, under its present auspi
ces was really and truly a Southern
road. He had observed a map of the
proposed route in the rear of the stage,
and that plainly said to the Conven
tion that St. Louis, and not the South,
was the eastern terminus of Tom
Scott’s Transcontinental line.
I have heard similar view’s expressed
by other distinguished Southerners.
They are beginning to see that a road
from St. Louis to San Diego, leaving
Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans
in the cold, may not be of so much
benefit to the South as to St. Louis and
Tom Scott’s railroad combination.
Spurgeon Dissatisfied with the Evan
gelists’ Wobk. —The famous London
preacher, Spurgeon, has announced his
dissatisfaction with the work that was
done there by Aloody and Sankey. In
addressinf the London Baptist Asso
ciation, he went so far as to say that
he “ wished he could find the converts
made duriug tbe last revivalthat he
could not bear of their being “turned
into disciples, which was a pity ;” and
that it “ would take something a hun
dred times greater than that revival to
move London.” He then talked about
those who “ dear brother” and “dear
sister” people with as much unholy
honey as they can, and when they have
got them sufficiently far out indoctrin
ate them with a spirit as far remote
from Jesus Christ as possible.”
You’ll build the fires or I’ll be a wid
ow,” is the way the Fat Contributor’s
wife talks.
A Wisconsin schoolmaster whipped a
miss of sixteen for putting up her back
hair in school hours.
Mr. Gawrzyselski is lecturing in In
dianapolis. Sorry for the man had to
introduce to the audience.
A daughter of Singer, the sewing
machine man, has made her debut as a
burlesque actress in San Francisco.
Anew custom has just been intro
duced, and that is to issue wedding
cards bearing the words “No Pres
ents.”
The London literary critics seem to
think Lome’s poem pretty good for a
Marquis. That’s letting him down
easy.
The Rev. Forbush, of Cleveland,
says that he doesn’t believe in yelling
devil in order to frighten him into
being good.
Prof. Proctor was advised by cable
the other day that he was the father
of boy twins. He won’t lecture on
those suns, tho’.
A King’s jester was once asked,
“What kind of a place do you think
heaven to be?” “A place,” he said,
“whore naught but good is spoken of
the neighbor.” “And in what,” it was
again asked, “does its supreme happi
ness consist?” “In the feeling that no
one will slander me there, and that, if
I have any faults, it will be so unfash
ionable to speak of them that I and
all will soon forget them.”
NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE
Fourth Day’s Proceedings.
Saturday, Dec. 4,1875.
At the close of my letter yesterday,
the following order was reached:
Local preachers elected deacons:
Augusta district—A. C. Davidson,
Crawfordville.
Athens district—Nicholas Z. Glenn,
Watkinsville.
Gainesville district —L. L. Reid,
Gainesville; W. M. Duncan, Blairsville;
J. C. Bell, Cleveland; J. J. Methvin,
Nacoochee.
Dalton district—G. W. Moore, McLe
more’s Cove.
LaGrange district —W. S. Foster,
Bowdon; W. J. C. Timmons, Bowdon; J.
H. Callahan, Whitesville; Owen H.
Smith, Whitesville.
Atlanta district—Warren D. Payne,
Atlanta.
Griffin district—J. F. Holmes, Barnes
vilie.
Elberton district—David L. Parrish,
Bellton.
LOCAL PREACHERS ELECTED ELDERS.
Athens district—James A. Baugh,
Putnam county.
Gainesville district—George K. Quil
lian, Cleveland.
Dalton district—J. M. Moore, MoLe
more’s Cove.
LaGrange district—John T. Whita
ker, Whitesville.
Atlanta district—James Propbit, De
catur; Elijah H. Clarke, Decatur.
The application of John Bonner for
deacon’s orders was not accepted.
ORDERS RECOGNIZED.
Joseph T. Crowell, deacon Methodist
Protestant church. Bowdon.
W. M. Chapman, elder Missionary
Baptist church, Putnam county. Left
the Baptists because he believed in
open communion.
H. L. Harvey, elder, Old School Pres
byterian church, Atlanta.
Owen H. Smith, elder Hardshell ; Bap
tists.
J. Rembrandt Smith, elder, Baltimore
Conference ; Isaac G. Parks, continued
in class of deacons for one year.
J. F. Mixon, continued as elder.
A t 12 o’clock the legal Conference
held a session, W. H. Potter in the
chair.
H. J. Adams, treasurer, submitted a
report, showing a balance in hand of
$134.35.
Rev. G. J. Pearce asked the appoint
ment of a committee to examine his
claims against the LaGrange Female
College, and Caleb W. Key, J. M. Rich
ardson, J. F. Lowe and J. E. Godfrey
were appointed. The committee were
instructed to report at next session, if
found impracticable at this session.
Three shares of the Central Railroad
stock were ordered transferred to the
endowment fund of
EMORY COLLEGE.
The Conference opened this morning
with religious services conducted by
Rev. J. E. Evans.
J. Lewis, Sr., was granted a superan
nuated relation.
S. A. Mitchell was discontinued at his
own request.
The President of the Conference was
requested to appoint Rev. E. W. Speer
to a professorship in the State Uni
versity.
The characters of the presiding el
ders and preachers of the Augusta,
Athens, Elberton and Gainesville dis
tricts were passed.
F. C. Timmons was admitted on trial;
this makes the third brother in this
Conference. S. C. McDaniel, a frater
nal messenger from the Congregational
Methodist Church, was introduced, and
delivered a brief address, expressing
the brotherly regard of the church he
represented. Dr. A. G. Haygood offer
ed a series of resolutions in response,
and recommended the appointment of
fraternal messengers to attend the next
annual meeting of the congregational
churches.
METHODIST STRENGTH IN AUGUSTA AND
RICHMOND COUNTY.
The statistical reports of the pastors
in Augusta and Richmond county make
the following exhibition—members,
Sunday School children, and money
raised:
St. John’s 286 members.
St. James 646 “
Asbury 563 “
St. Luke 43 “
Richmond Circuit 571 “
Total ..2,109 members.
There are some churches in the coun
ty not included In the above calcula
tion.
St. John has 179 Sunday school
children, St. James has 604 Sunday
school children, Asbury has 286 Sun
day school children, Richmond Circuit
has 273 Sunday school children, St.
Luke has 86 Sunday school children.
Total, 1,428.
St. John raised $4,100 00
St. James raised 3,563 65
Asbury raised 2,233 26
Richmond Circuit raised 1,035 00
$10,931 91
St. Luke not reported.
There are some churches in the
county not included; they belong to a
mission.
The Conference has collected, during
the year, about SB,OOO for Missionary
purposes. There are nineteen Mission
aries employed in the territory of this
Conference, and they have added about
500 members to the church during the
present year. There are 2,922 members
living on missionary ground. A mis
sionary meeting was held in the Meth
odist Church at seven o’clock p. m., at
which addresses were delivered by Dr.
O. L. Smith, of Oxford, and Bishop
Keener.
Dr. Smith lead off and asserted that
three things were necessary for suc
cessful missionary work, i. e.: “Grit
(moral heroism he afterward called
grit), grace and greenbacks.” The doc
tor made a plain, pointed, convincing
argument in favor of organized mis
sionary effort.
Bishop Keener followed with many
keen sentences —so sharp that they
penetrated not only the hearts, but the
pockets Of his audience, and succeeded
In a handsome collection.
There is considerable speculation as
to where the preachers will “go next
year,” but it is only speculation, as
the present cabinet “ don’t leak.” Ru
mor says “the Bishop keeps his own
secrets, and even the cabinet has only
twilight.” Many of the preachers
have had a tough year, hard work and
poor pay. One young man, reported
as a “fair preacher and a most earnest
worker,” has received for the support
of himself and wife, $l4O.
GRIFFIN NOTES.
J. E. Godfrey preached an impres
sive sermon on the subject of “God
manifest in the flesh” or Christian life.
At night the regular communion ser
vice was neld. The church was crowded.
It was one of the most impressive
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 105
scenes I ever witnessed. Some two
hundred or more partook of the Lord’s
Supper. Rev. W. M. Crumley, J. B.
Payne, H. H. Parks and others officiat
ing. The prayer of Rev. J. W. Knight
at the close was one of the most pow
erful ever listened to. While it par
took of his peculiarities, it made a
deep impression.
An interesting meeting of the Wid
ow’s and Orphan’s Aid Society was
held, Rev. C. A. Evans, President, in
the chair. The clerical members pay
$3 and the lay members $1 each, to
support the widows and orphans of
deceased ministers who died in the
work. The case of Mrs. Joshua Park
er was brought before the society.
Some S6OO will be raised.
Upon makiug|his report as.President
of Emory College yesterday,* Dr. O. L.
Smith made a noble speech. He ex
plained that he voluntarily retired from
the Presidency because he preferred a
lower to a higher position. He heartily
co-operated with the new President.
The faculty and trustees were In
thorough accord.
Among the lay delegates present we
omitted to mention the presence of
Hon. Warren Aiken of Cartersville,
and Levi Brotherton of Dalton.
A letter was received from Rev. B. J.
Johnson, asking a superannuated rela
tion, which was granted.
APPOINTMENTS.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
C. A Evans to St. Johns ; tl. H. Parks
to St. James; F. A. Kimball to Asbury;
C. W. Key to St. Luke’s; W. L. Wooten
to Jones’ Chapel; and T. A. Seals to
the Richmond Circuit.
The next Conference will meet at
Sparta.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There was a heavy fall of snow last
week between Hemingway’s Ferry
and Dogwood Neck, in Horry county.
The Good Templars of Martin’s De
pot, Newberry county, gave a series of
fine charades last week.
A number of convicts escaped from
the stockade, on the Spartanburg and
Ashville Railroad recently. Some have
been captured near Wellford, and others
are sulking through Greenville and
Laurens counties.
The Revenue officers of the Third
District made a large seizure of to
bacco at Greenville on Thursday. Be
sides the one thousand four hundred
pounds of tobacco, there were taken
two teams, consisting of two horses,
two mules, two wagons, harness, etc.
A Christmas cake for the Baptist
Sabbath School at Aiken is said to be
very handsome. It was made by John
Hahn & Cos., of Augusta. It has beeu
placed ou exhibition in Henry Weasel’s
show windovv in Aiken.
Major C. D. Melton, of Columbia, died
on Saturday. Major Melton was born
in York county in 1819; studied law in
the South Carolina College, from which
he graduated in 1843. He entered the
Confederate service at the breaking
out of the war, and rose to the rank o!
Major. For the last six years he was
engaged in the university as professor
of the law school. The faculty of the
University of South Carolina, at a
special meeting, passed resolutions of
respect.
November Crop Report.
The following is the report of the
Augusta District for* the mouth of
November:
Augusta, Ga., December 6. 1875.
To the President and Board of Directors
of the Augusta Exchange:
Gentlemen— -We respectfully submit
the following report for the month of
November, as to the prospects and con
dition of the cotton crop in the district
allotted to this Exchange. Our report
is baseJ on fifty-four replies from
twenty-six counties. Average date of
replies, November 30th.
Question Ist—Has the weather for
gathering the crop been more or less
favorable than last year, since Novem
ber Ist?
Answer—The weather since Novem
ber Ist has not been quite as favorable
for gathering the crop as last year,
owing to more frequent rains during
the last half of the month.
Question 2d—What proportion of the
crop has been picked, and when will all
be gathered?
Answer—As an average, about nine
ty-three per cent, of the crop is reported
as picked, and all will be, or should be,
gathered by December 15th, if attended
to.
Question 3d—Will the yield in your
county be greater or less than last
year? State increase or decrease.
Answer—Two counties only report a
small increase over last year. Three
counties same as last year. The bal
ance a decrease ranging from ten to
fifty per cent. The average of our re
plies point to a yield of eighteen to
twenty per cent, less than last year.
Question 4th—State any material
facts regarding the yield not covered
by the above.
Answer —While the quantity of seed
cotton picked has in many localities
exceeded the expectations of a month
ago, the yield of lint or marketable
cotton has not been Increased. It is
almost universally stated that ij, has
taken about twenty-five per cent, more
of seed cotton to make a pound of lint
than last year. The proportion of low
grades and stained cottons is unusual
ly large.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servants,
L. L. Zulavsky, Chairman; J. J.
Pearce, F. W. Reid, R. W. Heard, L. C.
Nowell, A. M. Benson, Win. M. Read,
Committee on Statistics and Informa
tion.
Mr. Beecher says the time Is eomiDg
when all men shall be good; when even
a politician shall be a Christian man.
He doesn’t give the date.
m< m
One modiste in Vicksburg has in hand
wedding dresses for fourteen young la
dies. Who says Mississippi hasn’t en
tered upon anew life ?
“Isn’t your husband a little bald ?”
asked one lady of another, in a store,
yesterday. “There isn’t a bald hair in
his nead,” was the hasty reply of the
wife.
A young lady from the rural dist
ricts entered a dry goods store, the
other day, and asked for a pair of
stockings. The clerk politely asked
her what number she wore. “ Why,
two, you blasted fool; do you suppose
I am a centipede, or have a wooden
leg.”
The poor of Norwalk, Ohio, are very
reasonable people. They are thankful
to reoeive donations of cold buckwheat
cakes and worn out door mats.
William B. Astor never insured his
property.
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The Cradle Tomb.
Snribner'B Monthly for October has the
following touching poem, by Susan Coo*
lidge, on one of the royal tombs in West
minster Abbey.
t
A little rudely sculptured bed.
With shadowing folds of marble lace
And quilt of marble primly spread,
And folded round a baby’s face.
Smoothly the nimble coverlet.
With royal blazonries bedight,
Hangs, as by tender Angers set,
And straightened for the last good-night.
And traced upon the pillowing stone
A dent is seen, as it to bless
That quiet sleep, some grieving on*
Had leaned and left a soft impress.
It seems no more than yester lay
Wince the sad mother down the s'air,
And down the long aisle, stole away,
A ad left her darling treasure there.
But dust upon the cradle lies,
And those who prized the baby so,
And decked her couch with heavy sighs,
Were turned to dust long years ago.
Above the peaceful pillowed head,
Three centuries brood; and strangers peep
And wonder at the carven head;
But not unwept the baby’s sleep.
For wistful mother-eyes are blurred
With sudden mists, as lingerers stay,
And the old dust is roused and stirred
By the warm tear-drops of to-day.
Soft, furtive hands caress the stone
And hearts o’erleaping place ami age,
Melt into memories and own,
A thrill of common parentage.
Men die, but sorrow never dies!
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.
Of common share in grief and loss,
And heritage in the immortal bloom,
Of love, which, flowing round its cross,
Made beautiful a baby’s tomb.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
There were only three deaths in Ma
con last week.
Hon. W. A. Huff, of Macon, has sus
pended.
The Mayor’s Court at Macon appears
to have plenty of work.
William Mitchell’s house in Macon
was destroyed by Are ou Saturday.
Incendiary.
Macon Volunteers, Company B, have
received fifty breeeh-loading rifles of
the Winchester pattern.
A correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph has been visiting Mercer Univer
sity, and speaks very highly of that in
stitution.
Langdon T. Chervis, an agent of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company, at
Marietta, has been arrested, charged
with defrauding the company.
The Directors of the Young Men’s
Library Association at Atlanta, have
published a statement which clearly es
tablishes the fact that the discharged
Librarian was an unfit person. Like
Treasurer Jones, his cash account was
somewhat muddled.
Tom Persons, who lives near Box
Springs, on the Southwestern Railroad,
while going home last week, received
such injuries from a fall of his horse
that he died in a few hours. The horse
stumbled to the ground and rolled over
on the rider, crushing him.
The former bill against Bagley, of Co
lumbus, charged with the murder of the
late Marshal Murphy, was abandoned,
owing to a defect. The new indictment
preferred against him was returned as
a “no bill.” Under the laws of Georgia,
the two returns of two “no bills” are
equivalent to an acquittal. If the
Grand Jury at the next term returns a
“no bill,” Bagley will be declared guilt
less of the offense under the law.
The latest news from the Okefenokeo
expedition comes via Homersville, and
repesents that the party cut a ten foot
way across the Okefenokee swamp.
The Hegeraan boat went through finely.
The work was accomplished in five
days. One severe night was spent in
the swamp, a neavy rain falling all the
time. The party came out well but
hungry. The way is now clear for the
engineers following.
The inaugural ball of the Mark
ham House, la Atlanta, will come
off on the 23d lost. The ball will
be given under the auspices of
the Governor’s Guards, and in
vitations have been given to the mili
tary officers of Augusta, Macon, Savan
nah and Columbus. Col. Markham has
given $750, and the Guards $250 for
the supper alone. This SI,OOO supper
will surpass anything of the kind given
in Atlanta for a long time.
At a political meeting of colored men
held in Columbus, a well known colored
blacksmith advised them to go to the
polls and vote quietly and orderly; ho
insisted they should not receive money
for their votes, but should do as the
better class of white men. He warned
them that the Republican party was
forever dead in Georgia, and that they
must now be content to remain good
citizens, and vote with the interest of
the country. His speech was reoeived
with prolonged cheers.
Atlanta Herald (sth): Yesterday
afternoon, Governor James M. Smith
appointed Hon. John W. Renfroe, for
merly of Washington county, but, more
recently, general book-keeper in the
Comptroller-General’s office, to the po
sition of State Treasurer ad interim,
vice Hon. John J ones. Captain Renfroe
went down to Washington county a few
days ago and made his bond in that and
adjoining counties from among his old
friends who have known him since his
childhood. His bond is ample, and ho
made it without the least trouble. The
employees and others around the State
Department, who had occasion to know
Captain Renfroe, speak of him in the
very highest terms, and are quite
pleased with his appointment. His se
lection, from the many other applicants,
by Governor Smith, but betokens his
sharp, shrewd sagacity in making his
appointments of men to office under
his administration. Capt. Renfroe filed
his bond and received his commission
at a late hour yesterday afternoon.
The small boy was sawing wood in
the back yard, when a brilliant thought
struck him. Going to the house he
remarked suggestively; “Ma, Bill Jones
is goin’ to get a turkey to-morrow, over
to the Corners. I guess he could get
two pretty cheap.” The response came
very promptly : “You, John Henry, git
yourself back to that woodpile, and
don’t be saying nothin’ to mo about
turkeys. I’d like to know who it ’twas
laid abed for two weeks after’ last
Thanksgiving making me a world of
trouble and fuss. There won’t be no
suoh fcoliu’ around this year. You
hear me !” Sadness hovered over that
youthful brow.—Rochester Democrat.
— ■
“Why,” said a Highland clergyman
to one of his flock, “do you always
sleep in your pew when I am in the
pulpit, while you are attentive to every
one I invite ?” “Because, sir, when you
preach lam sure it is all right; but I
can’t trust a stranger without keeping
a good lookout,”