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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year .$lO 00 “ six months 800 " three months a6O Tbi-Weekly-0116 year 5 00 “ six months 250 Weekly—one year 200 “ six months 1 00 Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers. 2>£ cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. • JAS. Q. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA. GA. CONGRESSIONAL. Memorials Presented— McMillan With draws His Credentials as Senator- Elect —An Important Bill Introduced —Nominations and Confirmations. Washington, December 9. Senate—Cooper presented a memo rial of book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, asking com pensation for their loss at Richmond and Louisville during the war. West, of Louisiana, presented a let ter from W. L. McMillan, of that State, asking permission to withdraw his cre dentials as Senator-elect from the State of Louisiana by the McEnery Legislature. West sent to the clerk’s desk and had read a letter recently published by McMillan, giving his rea sons for withdrawing his credentials. He submitted an order that the re quest for the withdrawal of the papers be granted, but objection was made by several Senators on the Democratic side, and it was laid over. Bogy introduced a bill authorizing the payment of duties on Imports in legal tenders and national bank notes. It provides that from and after July 4th, 1876, duties on imports may be paid in legal tenders and national bank notes or coin, at the option of the im porter. After Executive session, the Senate adjourned to Monday. There were a large number of nomi nations, including Chandler, Secretary of the Interior ; Pierrepont, Attorney General; Merrier, Minister to Beiguim; Gibbs, Minister to Peru ; New, Treasu rer ; Burham, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; Maj. Robert McFeely, Commissary General, with the rank of Brigadier; Col. Wm. McKee Dunn. Judge Advocate General, with the rank o' Brigadier, and all revenue officers aid postmasters who have been ap pointed during the recess. There were no new nominations. The confirma tions are Chandler, Pierrepont, New, a|d John C. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. FUrgery- A Crooked Postmaster —Offi- cial Rogues—Serious Conflagration— The Amerique’s Accident. San Francisco, December 9. —Lucius W. Pond, formerly a wealthy citizen of Worcester, Mass., has been arrested here on a requisition from the Govern -01 of Massachusetts, on the charge of fc rgery. sNoble, 111., December 9..—N. J. Ed monson, Postmaster, was arrested for robbing the mail. He was detected by a decoy letter. Saratoga, December 9. —Henry A. Mann, County Treasurer of Saratoga county, has been arrested. The com mittee find §IIB,OOO worth of notes signed by Mann without authority. New York, December 9.—Buildings 1, 2, 3 and 4, on Mission Place, were burned. Loss, §320,000. The heavy losses are: N. A. Taylor, paper; Dar row & Sons, book-binders: Donaldson Bros., lithographers, §170,000. The Mercantile Agency, House of Industry and Mission House narrowly escaped. Mail advices state that the main shaft of the Amerique broke three days and a half distance from France. Passengers rushed from their berths, but anxiety was soon allayed and they ietumed to sleep. Five hours after the China was signalled. Only thirteen passengers, including two ladies, de sired to leave the Amerique. The English company owning the China declined pay for their services. Cincinnati, December 9. —Lewis B. Brasher has been arrested for con spiracy to defraud the Bevenue. A Drunken Murderer—Fraud on the Revenue. Syracuse, N. Y., December 9.—Thos. Rogers, when drunk, struck his wife fatally with a hammer and badly beat liis daughter. St. Louis, December 9.—Robert C. Watt, a well-known citizen, charges Internal Revenue Supervisor Meyer with guilty knowledge of frauds prac ticed by the Gas Company on the Rev enue. Shoving the Queer. Lebanon, Pa., December 9.—A num ber of parties have been arrested for passing live and ten dollar counterfeit bills on the First National Bank of Peru, Illinois. Minor Telegrams. Columbus, 0., December 9.—The anti-tramp State Convention passed resolutions urging stringent legislation for their arrest, employment or banish ment. Chicago, December 9.—Lake naviga tion is closed. Little Rock, December 9.— A joint committee to investigate Senator Dor sey’s election reported they had ex amined a large number of witnesses without finding direct proof of bribery or corruption. Buffalo, December 9.—Lymburner & Torrey, dealers in iron and linings, have failed. Liabilities, $185,000 ; as sets, 8100,000. New York, December 9. — Jno. Dolan, sentenced to be hanged to-morrow for the murder of Noe, has been respited for one week to give time to investi gate new evidence. Motion for anew trial will be made. Washington, December 9. —Seventy- five men of the Department of Equip ment and Recruiting were discharged from the Navy Yard to-day. Richmond, Va., December 9.—The Richmond Whig has been purchased by Messrs. Wyatt M. Elliott & Cos., and to-day made its appearance under the new management. FROM ATLANTA. The West, 'Edwards & Cos. Failnre. Judge Hopkins Asserting the Majesty of the Bench. Atlanta, December 9.—The failure of West, Edwards & Cos. is still the ex citing topic. A. J. West and B. W. Briscoe, two of the firm, were committed to jail this afternoon for contempt of court in refusing to deliver books, papers and evidence of indebtedness to the receiver appointed yesterday by Judge Hopkins. Edwards escaped from failure to serve the order upon him. FROM NEW ORLEANS. Paying Interest on Bonds. New Orleans, December 9.—The State authorities give notice that inter est on the new consolidated bonds will be paid here and In New York without rebate, on and after the 15th Inst. There are nearly $600,000 in the Treas ury to the credit of the interest fund. At one of the colored A. M. E. Churches, in Columbus, Ga., the other night, a woman screamed: "Glory! Ise jest like sody water! Ise biling over! ” ... , * __ . • y ®}C CUnpisln Ccmshhiiionolisl. Established 1799. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. THE BRITISH LION GROWLS AT SPAIN. The London Times Warns the Dons — Prussian Politics. London, December 9.—The Times, commenting on the message, says: “If Spain cannot suppress the Cuban rebels; if the island must be half ruined, while she holds it; if she will not put an end to that institution which is the main source of the disturbance, it would be hard to expect the United States to let tha work of devastation proceed unchecked merely out of regard to the nominal sovereignty of Spain. Spain is on trial. The limits of her power to. restore order will be the limits of her rights.” Berlin, December 9.—The National Liberals in the Reichstag consent to political clauses in the bill amending the penal code. The Deutschland Tragedy—Statement of the Captain—Grant’s Message Commented on in Spain. London, December 9.—The Captain’s statement is this : “We left Bornhaven Sunday morning. A strong northeast wind prevailed. Threw the lead every half hour. The last lead thrown showed seventeen fathoms. Felt a moderate shock at 5;30 on Mondav. The engine backed immediately, but in a few mo ments a screw was lost and the ma chinery stopped. The ship commenced to strike heavily. Signalled several vessels which passed, including a steamer. Ordered all boats ready, and all were swung out but it was impos sible to lower them. The sea was too high. One lowered against orders, swamped with six persons. Another, with the boatswain was lowered, but at the same time a tre mendous sea swept many over board. The ship tilled slowly. The passengers behaved coolly. All were provided with life preservers. Deaths were caused by the high sea and cold, many falling benumbed Jfrom the rig ging. Passengers were ordered from the rigging to the decks of the brig. With the ebb tide the passengers de scended. A tug boat arrived at half past ten in the morning. One of the men committed suicide by opening the veins in nis arm. Many were rescued frost bitten and past recovery. Forty passengers and fltty of the crew are unaccounted for. Madrid, December 9.—The journals of this oity comment variously on the message of President Grant, but all hope that Spain will vanquish the in surrection ia Cuba by force, energy and persevetance. Detmold, December 9.—Paul Fred erick Emil Leopold, Prince of Lippe- Detmold, is dead. FROM WASHINGTON. A Special Counsel Warned—Off for Japan. Washington, December 9.—The At torney General to-day sent a telegram to Uuited States Attorney Dyer at St. Louis, saying that advices had reached him to the effect that special counsel Henderson had, in the course of the Avery trial, made an attack upon the President, and assuring the United States Attorney that the Department will not continue to pay special counsel for this kind of service. Gen. Geo. B. Williams, formerly Dep uty Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is at the Arlington, en route for Europe, in the capacity of Commissioner, of the Imperial Government of Japan to Eu rope. He is accompanied by two Ja panese officers of rank, Mr. Tomitoand Mr. Minami. We understand the mis sion to have reference to financial and commercial matters. FROM CHICAGO. The Babcock Trial. Chicago, December 9.— Gens. Sheri dan, Hancock and Terry, composing the Court of Inquiry, appointed at the request of Gen. Babcock to consider the questions raised in the prosecution of the whiskey cases at St. Louis af fecting his reputation, met to-day. They decided that the court should hold an open session. Maj. Gardner stated that, on account of the lack of witnesses, nothing could be done to day. Adjourned till noon to-morrow. JAPANESE WOMEN. Strange Customs Falling Into Disuse. The Japanese women are usually small and dumpy, but are often very beautiful, with small hands and feet, and are exceedingly neat in dress and coiffure. Their hair is not, as Is gen erally supposed, a true black, but is a very dark brown; in some instances is a pronounced red. Its blackness, and, unfortunately, coarseness also, Is pro moted by the custom of shaving the heads of children from their very birth. It is made to appear very black and glossy by the use of unguents and bandoline made from a mucilaginous plant. Like the other sex (and this custom is universal among people of every age in Japan), they bathe daily in hot water, a public bath costing only half a cent. Since 1868 the Government has prohibited the promiscuous bathing of both sexes,formerly common. The wo men above twenty years old, from time immemorial, have blackened their teeth with a mixture of galls and powdered iron; but the Empress does not, and many ladies are# now abandoning the fashion. The former custom of married women shaving off their eyebrows is also falling into disnse. The peculiar style of coiffure at once distinguishes a Japanese matden, wife, widow, or pros titute. All women are carefully educat ed in household duties; but the lower classes acquire very little book-learn ing, though nearly all women can read and write. The young ladies of the higher classes devote much time to fancy work, their bright-colored robes being embroidered with gay silks and gold. They are carefully taught from various books devoted to the duties of a wife, mother, house keeper. The three principal duties, as set forth iu a large volume entitled, “ Woman’s Great Study,” are ; 1. Obedience to parents when a child. 2. Obedience to her bus band when a wife. 3. Obedience to her eldest son when a widow. Half their education is in books of etiquette. There is no distinction made between politeness and morals. Lying, cheat ing, deceiving, slandering, and like vices are simply ” not polite,” and so are not permissible. Girls thus scrupu lously brought up make the best of women and of wives. The now con stantly enlarging intercourse between Japau and the Western Powers leads to the fiope that some of the refine ments of Japanese civilization will eventually reach other .countries. -A.XTGrXJSTA. GA.. IPEIDAY, DECEMBER. 10,1875. THE NEW CONGRESS. A Congress of Young Men and Law yers—Colleges Represented—The Southern Members. [From the New York Tribune ] The Forty-fourth Congress consists of 292 Representatives and 74 Senators, making a total of 3G6 members. To this number must be added nine terri torial delegates. In tlip Senate there are 42 Republicans, 29 Democrats, two Independents, and one vacancy. The Republican majority is now 11. In the Forty-third Congress it was 21. In the House there are 101 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 5 Liberal Republicans, 4 Independent Republicans, 4 Indepen dent Reformers, and one vacancy, the Democratic majority being 63. The Republican majority in the Forty-third Congress was 105. Of the 366 members 140 have served in previous Congresses, while the re mainder, 176, are with few exceptions strangers in Washington. It is a Congress of young rather than old heads. Avery large proportion of the new members are in the early stage of middle life, one of them being only 29, and only one being over seventy. All but seven of the new members are natives of the United States. Twenty one were born in New England, thirty two in New York, thirty-one in Pennsyl vania and New Jersey, twenty-six in the West, and fifty-four in the South. Three members were born in Ireland, two in Canada, one is an Englishman, and one a German. Sixty-nine of tho one hundred and seventy-six members received a college education. There are six graduates of Yale College, two of Washington and Jefferson, three of the college of New Jersey, two of the University of Ala bama, three of the University of Vir ginia, two of the University of Georgia, five of Union College, two of Hamilton, two of Bethany College, and one rep resentative fron each of the following institutions : Harvard, Madison, Wil liam and Mary, University of Vermont, University of Louisiana, Washington and Lee, Amherst, Bethel, Williams, Illinois, Wesleyan, University of Indiana, Georgetown, Genesee, Uni versity of Wisconsin, University of South Carolina, St. Mary’s, McKendree, Franklin and Marshall, Kenyon, University of lowa, Rutgers, University of Maryland, Waterville, Columbia, Duquesne, Asbury, and a few other colleges. There is one grad uate of the University of Giessen, Ger many, and one member (B. B. Doug lass) studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh. Avery large proportion of those who did not go to college re ceived a fair education in a common school or seminary. Two or three of the colored members from the South could not read until after the outbreak of the war. There are two graduates from West Point. Twenty-eight of the new members were Secessionists, and twenty-six of those served in the Confederate army. Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas; Mr. Hill, of Georgia, and others were members of the Confederate Senate, and seve ral Southern members took high rank in the Southern army. Twenty-six tnembeas were in the Union army, and one was in the navy. Robert Smalls, a colored member from South Caroliua, had a varied experience, serving in both arms of the service and on both sides. By trade a rigger and sailor, he was a pilot on a Southern steamboat, and succeeded in seizing the vessel and joining the Uuited States fleet off Charleston. He was put on the navy list of the United States, and was sub sequently appointed Second Lieutenant in a regiment of colored troops. The bar will have an overwhelming representation in the new Congress. Of the one hundred and seventy-six new members, one hundred and twenty two are lawyers, thirty-one are en gaged in mercantile pursuits, four are physicians, three are bankers, two are editors, six are farmers, and two are college professors. All but six of the seventeen new Senators are lawyers, Senators Chris tiancy, of Michigan, and McMillan, of Minnesota, having had perhaps the extended experience at the bar and on the bench. There are four ex- Governors—Mr. Both, of California, General Burnside, of Rhode Island, Mr. English, of Connecticut, and Mr. Randolph, of New Jersey. Only two of the new Senators have served an ap prenticeship in the House of Repre sentatives. These are Mr. English, of Connecticut, who served two terms during the war, and Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, who was in the House for a single term twenty-five years ago. Three of tho Southern Senators were In the Confederate army, and one was a Senator. Sam Lee, the Chinaman who is in jail at Eureka, awaiting the action of the Grand Jury upon a charge of house breaking, is hugely disgusted with his countrymen, who appear to have de serted him in the dark hour of his mis fortunes. He repeatedly sent for his Celestial friends, but none of them re sponded to his call, and a few days ago, while brooding over the ingrati tude of his Celestial brethren in a mo ment of desperation he seized a butch er-knife and severed his cue close to the scalp, and, as he handed the dis membered braid to Sheriff Gilmore, ex claimed ; ‘‘Dam Chinaman. Me all same now Melican man.” [Eureka (Nev.) Herald. ‘‘Papa, I want anew Bunker Hill,” said a West Side girl yesterday morn ing. ‘‘A new Bunker Hill! What un der the sun is that?” ‘‘Why, that’s the name of the latest Fall style of bonnet.” “It is, eh? Why do they call It that?” “Oh, I don’t know, papa.” “Well, what does it post?” “Only fifty dollars.” “Oh, I see now why they call it‘Bunker Hill.’” “Why, papa?” “Because it’s so high.” “Oh, you horrid, dear papa | Therel" —Chicago Tribune. A gentleman drove a sorrowful-look ing horse into town, and stopping in front of an inn, he requested a small boy to hold him a moment. “Hold him!” exclaimed the boy; “just lean him up against the post—that’ll hold him.” A noble fellow that tramp was who returned a five dollar bill he said he had found in an old vest a Norwich gentleman had given him. His honesty was rewar4 e d. with a one dollar bill, and the next dq.y tije ijve turned out to be a counterfeit. An editor illustrates the prevailing extravagance of people now-a-days bj’ calling attention to the costly baby carriages in use, while, when he was a baby, they hauled him around by the hair of his head, Providence seems to watch over the little man with a big wife, and teaches him that one of the principal conditions of domestic tranquility. is to always keep hie dander at low'tide. THE NEXT PRESIDENCY. Inflation or Grant. [Carl Schurz, in the Westiiche Post, Dec. 2.J We asserted, some time ago, that no sensible Democrat could hope to win in the next Presidential race with an in flation platform ; and that no sensible Republican could expect to win with Grant as a candidate. Some of our colleagues thought that we were a little too sanguine in this assertion. They tried to show that the inflation movement was by no means dead, and that efforts in the same direction would not be wanting, in spite of the defeats in Ohio and Pennsylvania. We are of the same opinion ; but we believe, nev ertheless, that those Democratic lead ers who, by their zeal for inflation, caused the defeat of their party, under which it still smarts, will have too little influence in the next Democratic Na tional Convention to force through again the programme which was de feated in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They will have to descend from their high horse and TRY A COMPROMISE POLICY, in which effort, as we are afraid, too many Hard Money Democrats will lend a helping hand. But, if they are not entirely struck with blindness, the Democratic party will be careful not to go before the people with au open in flation programme. The fact is likewise pointed out, that the Grant papers, by openly and boldly advocating a third term, forcibly de monstrate that President Grant himself and his intimate friends are far from giving up the idea of a re-election. This, also, we have never denied; we not only think it possible, but even probable, that strong efforts will be made on this side to force the re nomination of Grant upon the next Republican National Convention. But we believe, nevertheless, that these efforts will be abortive, as the class of politicians who support such a move ment belong to the scheming and mer cenary elements of the party, who will at the last moment hesitate to risk a certain defeat, as they cannot be igno rant about the current of popular sentiment in regard to this movement. We are, therefore, still of the opinion that such things belong to those im probabilities, WHICH BORDER ON THE IMPOSSIBLE. But if, after all, it should come to pass? If, indeed, the blindness of party leaders should go so far as to put the patience and pliability of the people to the utmost tension? Or if, on the one side, the Grant politicians, and, on the other, the daring inflationists, should succeed in capturing the respective conventions by wire-pulling? If, in deed, it should occur that the parties present to us the choice between an in flationist on the one side and the third term of Grant on the other, then the state of our parties would have reach ed the LOWEST DEGREE OF HUMILIATION, which the most timid patriotism could not endure. A choice between two evils is, under all circumstances, some thing humiliating. But just in the year of the Centennial celebration of the birth of our Union, which doubly revives tho memories of the better days of the Republic, and which, in the breast of every citizen, should awaken the noblest impulses, then just then, to be forced by the wire-pullers of the parties to choose between two evils, would be a disgrace to the Ameri can people, which will not be borne as long as there is a single way of escape from it. We still hear sometimes, from the lips of men to whom the well-being and the honor of the country are dear, the cry: Rather Grant than inflation! or rather inflation than Grant! But if, next year, the attempt should really be made to dictate such a choice to these men, they will ponder well the ques tion, whether such pernicious party doings would not create the greatest daugersfor the Republic, and whether it would not be the duty of every good citizen to shake off, at all hazards, the fetters of a leadership which is unscru pulous enough to place the alternative between two such evils before the peo ple. The indications that THIS SPIRIT OF DISSATISFACTION IS GROW- multiply from day to day. We find a striking example of this in the last number of Harper's Weekly. In an article, undoubtedly from the pen of Mr. George W. Curtis, we read: “It is sometimes said that the Dem ocrats may, after all, adopt an inflation platform next year ; and that then the army of Republican office holders would compel the rc-nomination of Grant on a Hard Money platform, and would coerce the friends of a sound currency, Democrats as well as Repub licans, to choose between Grent and inflation. But the Republican party cannot nominate President Grant on any platform, without; causing a bolt which would make success impossible. And, even if an open bolt could be pre vented, the moral indignation and the secession of Republicans in untold numbers would be in the way of the success of the party. Besides, there is no doubt that an immense number of Hard Money men in both parties would feel tha#the project for a third term, brought about by the patronage of the Executive, would be more dangerous than even the prolongation of the un certain and pernicious state of the finances under which we live at pres ent.” If an Opposition journal should ex press itself in such language, it would be of comparatively little importance. But Harper's Weekly has been known for a number of years as a journal which has not only been steadfast, but even zealous, in its defense and sup port of the Republican party. No pa per in this country did more for the re election of Grant in 1872. And if such a journal, tfil now the very paragon of party-fidelity, talkq of divisions and a bolt in case of the denomination of Grant, in a rnanner which amounts to justification in advance of a step which is so much abhorred by the spirit of party, it proves that the re nomination of Grant and the suicide of the Republican party would be ABOUT ONE AND THE SAME THING. Aud it is equally certaiu thut Harper's Weekly does not stand aloue in the Re publican press in proclaiming these views. The party-engineers kuow this just as well as we know it; and we be lieve we can repeat with confidence we did before : that the alterna tive between Qraqt ancj inflation is not a necessity; and that, if; forced upon us, the indignation of the people will find a way to break through this dis graceful alternative. p . Gmnibusses originated in Paris, in 1827. The other kind of busses, which are specially desired by young men and maidens, were discovered some years previously. —Bostor News. BURCH-DUNN. A High-Toned Colored Wedding in New Orleans. [New Orleans Republican.] The social event of the season in Creole colored circles was the marriage of Mrs. Ellen B. Dunn and Hon. J. Henri Burch, which occurred in this city on Thursday evening. The wed ding was at the St. James Church, on Roman street, and the church was crowded with friends long before the arrival of the bridal party, which came in carriages promptly at five o’clock. Visitors at the church were received by Messrs. Felix Antoine, Allain, Stamps, Dunbar, Roxborough, Corbin, McCarty, Ladd, Cauonge and R. R. Ray. These gentlemen were in full evening dress and performed their duties gracefully. As the bride and bridegroom were entering the church, atten led by J. T. Newman and Mrs. Georgtana Kennedy, the organ-keys, under the skilful fingers of Mr. Auguste Davis, of the Jesuit’s Chufch, breathed forth a grand wedding march, which had been com posed expressly for the occasion by him. The services at the altar were per formed by tbe Right Rev. Bishop John M. Brown, of Washington, District of Columbia, assisted by Rev. Chas. Burch, the venerable father of the bridegroom. Bishop Brown had come from Washington especially to attend the wedding. He is a distinguished preacher of the African Methodist Church, aud his presence added eclat to the wedding occasion. The bride i3 a stately looking lady, with a clear, nearly white complexion, and regular features. She is an ac complished musician and teacher, and has been a resident of New Orleans since many years before the war. She was the widow of the late Lieutenant- Governor Oscar J. Dunn, and is a wo man of more than ordinary intelligence and refinement. An account of the wedding without notice of the dresses worn would be to ladies the play of ‘‘Hamlet” with the prince left out. The bride wore an evening dress of gray gros grain silk, with court train, cuirass-cut basque and elaborately trimmed skirts. The back breadths were ornamented with knife-plaiting and crosswise flounces point d’Augleterre; the side showed very small gathered ruffles, while the front hurt had two rows of knife plaiting at the bottom, with flounces above bordered with three folds of silk, set slightly apart and confined by a lengthwise puff of silk and forming a long tablier. This costume was de signed and prepared by the most fash ionable modiste of the city, and it must be said that it wa3 gracefully worn by the bride. The coiffure consisted of puffs and curls, trimmed with natural flowers. To this was added diamond jewelry. Mrs. Keunedy wore an elobo rately trimmed gray silk, with coral jewelry and coiffure of puffs trimmed gray silk, with coral jewelry and coif fure of puffs trimmed with plumes. Mrs. Annie M. Swoils, of Washington, in pink costume. Miss Fanny Dunn, and many other Creole belles were present becomingly attired. Senator Burch, in other days, went to Baton Rouge as a teacher. He was sqpcessful as an instructor of the youth of his race. He was sent to the General Assembly from East Baton Rouge in 1870, and in 1872 was elected to the Senate in place of Reagan for the unexpired term. In 1874 he was re-elected to his present office of State Senator. In 1870 he established the Grand Era newspaper in Baton Rouge, which he still conducts with ability. He is a black man, dresses faultlessly, wears the Euglish style of whiskers, and makes a fine appearance. In the evening the parlors were bril liantly lighted from dark until mid night and crowded with visitors. Many valuable presents of silver and line glassware, ornaments, etc., were dis played. The confectionery, fancy and eatable, were furnished by Lapez. The music by Wulf’s band. During tho evening Senator W. J. Kelly, of New Orleans, Hon. S. B. Packard, Gov. Kel logg, Postmaster J. M. G. Parker, C. W. Boothy, and other well known gentlemen called to congratulate the bride and bridegroom. The lady took a position of honor at the head of her par lors, and Senator Burch was near at hand bearing his distinction meekly. The couple had received letters of con gratulation and regrets for not being able tp attend the wedding from Hon. Frederick Douglass and Geo. T. Down ing, of Washington; Lieut. Gov. R. H. Gleaves, of South Carolina; Bishop Way man, of Maryland; Col. Robert Harlan, of Cincinnati; Hon. James Hill, of Mississippi, and other persons, less known, of various States in the Union. In the church, at the receptions, and in all things pertaining to the wedding, there was nothing to mar propriety or curtail the pleasures of the newly mar ried and the visitors attending. It was a wedding of hearts aud hands, a bind ing together of elevated representatives of the colored race, a union of a man and woman who are good examples, by their attainments and manners, of what it is possible for others of the same blood to become. All who may wish well to worthy people will wish long life and happiness to Senator Burch and his excellent wife. The death, in Paris, of Eugene Schneider, the French statesman, re calls a funny incident of the Shah’s visit to the French capital. When his Majesty had been duly installed in bis apartments, his entertainers approach ed him with the inquiry: "Is there anybody in Paris whom your Majesty would be pleased to have presented ?” “Yes !” roared the lascivious potentate; “Schneider, bring Schneider.” Forth with M. Schneider, who was then Presi dent of the Corps Legislatif, was called, and, as he entered his Majesty’s presence, the Shah exclaimed: “Not that Schneider. The beautiful Schnei der, I mean ; Mademoiselle Schneider, La Grande Duchesse —i • 19m William B. Astor died worth some where from fifty to two hundred mil lions of dollars. He was probably never very happy, never having known even the pleasure of walking down Broad way and looking at the beautiful things in the shop-wiudows, and wishing he oould spare the money to buy them. Pardon us the egotism, but the proba bility is that, with perhaps scarcely more than two-thirds of his wealth, we have lived just as happy a life as he did, aud have never worked half as hard. %We can’t deny, though, that im mense wealth is a greqt bqrden to all qi us.—f Courier-Journal. m If children were well paid for all the work they do from the instant they be gin going alone, they might accumu late large wealth before the age of ten. One of Sankey’s songs is “Where are the Nine?” Out on the first base, we guess. THE NATIONAL BANKS. REPORT OF COMPTROLLER KNOX. An Elaborate Defense of the National Banking System—Why it Should be Sustained—The Lessons of Experi ence. Washington, November 30. —The fol- . lowing are extracts from the forthcom- ' ing report of the Comptroller of the | Currency: m “One of the principal objections urged against the national banking system is that it is a monopoly. More over, that it is a monopoly authorized and continued at the expense of the Government. The reverse of this is true, for the national system, so far from being a monopoly, has, in fact, uprooted the real banking monopoly, which has existed in this country from , the foundation of tho Government j down to a late day. Should the nation al system be unfortunately overthrown s that monopoly would be again and at j once revived by the repeal of the pro visions imposing a tax of ten per cent, upon the issues of Stats banks, which I provision is admitted to be one of the compensations of the war. Avery er roneous idea prevails as to the amount of profit derived by the national banks from their circulation, but to show that the profit from this source is not near ly so great as is supposed by many persons it is only necessary to take into consideration the amount of capi tal the banks necessarily invest in the United States bonds required to secure their circulation, with the.legal re strictions that govern their busi ness, and then to compare the combined income received by them on their bonds and circulation with that which would be received on the i same capital loaned on bond aud mort- i gage security, but free from the re strictions governing National banks. On November Ist, 1875, there was on | deposit with the Treasurer as security ; for the circulation of the National ■ banks, $367,549,412 in the various j classes of bonds of the United States. ! If from this be deducted the amount held as security for the notes of the National gold bank*, aud also the amount deposited in excess of that re quired by law to secure the circulation issued upon them, there will remain $361,498,112 of bonds, worth in curren cy, on the day named, $425,840,533. It is urged as a further objection to the National banking system, that the div idends paid to stockholders are greater than the earnings of other corpora tions. It is true that some National banks which have accumulated a large surplus or are organized in localities where the proportion of the deposits to the capital is large, or the rate of interest high, as in the Western and Southern States, do declare large divi dends, but it is well known that, as a rule, the rates of interest charged on commercial paper by the National banks, in their respective localities, are less than those charged by State banks, private bankers and individuals. But the dividends and earnings of the Na tional banks do not, as a rule, exceed by more than two per cent, the current rates of interest authorized by law in the respective States, and this additional amount of profit is surely not too great a com- 1 pensation for the risks and expenses incident to the business of banking, and to which capital loaned direotly on mortgage security is not subject. It has been proposed to withdraw the national bank notes from circulation, and to authorize an additional issue of $400,000,000 of greenbacks, the latter to be interchangeable in sums of SSO for Treasury notes bearing interest at the rate of 3.65 per cent, per annum, or one ; cent per day on each one hundred dol- j lars, and to repeal all acts tending to a ; resumption of payments in specie. The i greenbacks received by the Treasury ; in exchange for 3.65 notes are to be j used for the purchase of six per cent. 5-20 bonds, for the purpose of saving interest to the Government. The act of February 24,1815, as has been seen, authorized the issue of Treasury notes of the denomination of SIOO, bearing interest “to be computed at the rate of | one cent and one-half a oent per day,” and it also authorized tho issue of small Treasury notes, which were ex changeable in sums of SIOO for certifi cates of funded stock, bearing interest at seven ner cent. But Secretary Dal- i las says /l it was soon ascertained that the small Treasury notes fundable at an interest of seven per cent., though of a convenient denomination for com mon use, would be converted iuto stock almost as soon as issued.” The expe rience of 1815 will be repeated with the issue of additional green backs interchangeable for the 3.Q5 notes. These interest bearing notes are not at present of a standard sufficiently high for fundiug purposes, the law now being in force authorizing the issue of four and one half and also four per cent, bonds, and are, there fore, in this respect, unlike the notes which were issued in 1815, but the prin ciple of interchangeability will change the non-iuterest-bearing notes to be ex changed for them “almost as soon as issued.” The non-interest-bearing cer tificates of deposit now held by the banks, and amounting to $50,880,000, will at onoe be converted into green backs, and these, together with $150,- 000,000 of cash reserve, also held by the different banks and bankers of the country, will be speedily exchanged for 3-65 notes. These latter notes will be used by every clearing house in the country for the payment of balances, and a large proportion of the circula tion will then consist of the new inter convertible interest-bearing notes, so that the whole authorized issue of these bonds will soon be in demand. If the amount of interest-bearing notes be limited to $400,000,000, and a re serve of twenty-five per cent, in legal tender notes be held in the Treasury, the amount of the latter which may be invested in United States six per cent, bonds will be $300,000,000. This sum will purchase $250,000,000 of six per cent, bonds, assuming that the average premium is no greater than at present, 20 per cent. The amount of interest saved upon the $220,000,000 of 5-20 bonds retired will be $15,000,000, while the interest paid by the Government on the $400,000,000 of 3.65 notes out standing will be $14,600,000, the net saving to the Government being $400,- 000. But through this process the present tax on bank circulation, amounting to $3,250,000, will be lost, so that instead of saving $400,000 the Government will by this experiment bq actually the loser of $2,850,000. If, however, the issue of 3.65 notes shall bo increased to an amount equal to that of the legal tender and national bank notes combined, the loss in interest to the Government would be somewhat less than before stated, but equal to at least $2,500,000. It therefore seems evident that the substitution of the proposed expedient, in place of a sys tem which has been in successful opera New Series —Vol. 28, No. 108 tion for the last thirteen years will re sult in a loss to the Government instead of a gain. The national banks, as has been seen, are disposed to retire their circulation, and it is probable that during the next year a very large pro portion of it will be voluntarily surren dered. But if the proposition now under consideration should be adopted many of the banks would go into liqui dation and their loans to a very great extent be called in for the purpose of distributing their present capital and surpluses among theirs tockholders,who would without doubt generally organize under the State systems and as private bsnkers. By this course a large pro portion of the State taxes, now amounting to an average of about two per cent, on the capital, would be saved to the banks as a result of the conver sion of their capital or deposits into in terest-bearing notes, which, like other issues of the Government, would be subject to taxation neither by the na tional nor State authorities. Since the organization of the national banking system, in 1863, and down to October 1, 1875, Thirty-eight national banks has failed, with a total capital of $9,011,100, and with circulation amounting to $5,874,893. The experience of this country previous to the organization of the national banking system have shown that in twenty years an amount equal to its whole banking circulation was lost in the hands of the people, the loss by bills of broken banks alone being computed to have been at the rate of five per cent, per annum. There has been no loss whatever upon the circulation of the national banks, and no loss to the bill-holder can arise so long as the present laws shall remain in force. The national bankiug sys tem should not be repealed, but should be so moulded as to become and con tinue both profitable to to the people and advantageous to the Government. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Haverley’s Minstrels are drawing full houses in Charleston. There is to be a reunion of Kershaw’s old brigade at Camden shortly. Rev. E. R. Carswell has been called to the Baptist Church at Greenwood. Yesterday was observed as a mu nicipal thanksgiving day in Charleston. Companies H and K, of the First U. S. Artillery, embarked from Charleston for Newport, R. 1., on the South Caro lina, Wednesday. The motion for anew tiial in the case of Louis Dent (murder) has been denied by the Supreme Court at Co lumbia. A movement has started at Abbeville to have a 3how at the Centennial of a body of troops composed of the most distinguished officers and some private soldiers on both sides of the late war. The Governor has pardoned Thomas Wright, convicted of manslaughter at the February term, 1875, of the Court of Sessions for Beaufort county, and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Evidence has been presented favorable to the prisoner, which was not brought out on the trial. Abbeville Medium: The Bible agents in Columbia have been furnishing the editors with Bibles. This is “carrying the war into Africa.” An appropria tion of this kind for the benefit of the editors iu this county might very pro perly be made by our home agents. A bold attempt was made on Mon day morning last to burn the wheat house of Captain A. J. Clinkscales, at Abbeville. The house was fired In three different places, and had it not been for timely discovery would have beeu completely given to the flames. Green vide News: If Charleston and Savannah haven’t enterprise enough to draw their share of Pacific trade, then the interests of the more enterprising Middle and Southern cities ought not to be jeoparded by the balderdash of the Iyews and Courier. Edgefield Advertiser ; “ The crowd of citizens from the country on sale day was greater than we have seen for a year or more. Apart from the land sales, however, and the Tax Union meeting, there is but little of interest to chronicle. Everybody seems to boas poor as Lazarus when the dogs oame and licked his sores—literally—and, unfortunately, without Lazarus’ pros pect of eternal rest. The situation is a bad one. When shall we ever emerge from these low-grounds of sorrow ? ” Its in a nutshell, “ who would be free himself must strike the blow,” John Terry, of the Duntonsville sec tion, recently shot and killed a negro man named Jim Martin. This man had been renting land of Terry, and had not paid his rent. Terry went with a wagon, and the requisite authority, to levy upon certain corn and fodder belonging to Martin, for the purpose of securing hi@ rent, Martin not only resisted, but assaulted him fiercely, seriously hurting one of his wrists. Hereupon Terry rushed to his wagon, seized his shot gun, and shot Martin dead. J. K. Bachman, a correspondent of the News and Courier, has been ex pelled from his desk in the Legislature by a vote of 51 to 20, for telling some wholesome truths about the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Hamilton told the whole story when he said, “ Should the resolution be adopted, it would be equivalent to saying to the public that the House dreaded an ex position of its action. If the reporter be excluded, fear of the press will be the publio understanding therefor.”— That is just the trouble among the scalawags who have poor Carolina by the throat just now. They fear and hate independent newspapers. Wild Ducks. It is said that the three finest ducks for table use are the canvas-back, the red-head, and the butter-ball, probably beoause they feed on wild celery, while others generally feed on fish. The canvas-back is an innocent-looking fowl, industrious, and depends alone on his own labor for all the sweets of life, and would enjoy it hugely but for the intruders who haunt his presence, thus; The canvas-back dives under the water, and toils about the bottom till he makes choice of a bunch of oelery, which he takes in his bill an inch or two from the root, and hastens to the surface to enjoy the fruits of his labor, while the other two lie in watohful idleness ready for the plunder. The red-head, seizing the portion of the oelery close to the bill of the oanvas-baok, makes away with it, while the butter-ball gobbles down the other end, leaving nothing for the laborer except that small por tion which he held onto like grim death. In this wise the poor canvas-baok toils all the day long, from early dawn till dark. He could enioy part of the day in rest and perfeot happiness, but for those who seek every opportunity to eat up his very life substanoe. To Advertisers and Subscribers. °n AND AFTER this date (April 21, 1375,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advbbttsements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi office, 20 cents per line each Insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. • Correspondence invited from all sources and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. The Germans of Savannah will have a carnival on the 16th inst. Giles Driver Jr., of Pike county had a dispute with an uncle Clay Driver, in which the latter was badly cut in the neck. The affairs of the Harmonic Society in Mucon are being warmly discussed in correspondence through the columns of the Telegraph. Elijah Angling, a former engineer on the Macon and Brunswick Road, fell dead in his residence in East Macon, ou Wednesday. He had been in his usual good health up to the moment of his attack. Weightman Kennard, a youth seven teen years of age, hung himself at Savannah, it is supposed in a fit of despondency, caused by a failure to flbtain employment. A young man in Savannah called an elderly man a liar, about seven o’clock, on Wednesday night, and was severely stabbed in the shoulder by the person he insulted. The failure of West, Edwards & Cos. has created a genuine “sensation” among the Atlantess. Ugly statements have been made, and A. H. Thompson, the purchaser of the business, has been dispossessed,and Humphrey Castleman has been appointed receiver. About two o’clock on Wednesday morning a posse of officers arrested iu Savannah a man by the name of James Johnson, who is charged with the murder of James Williams in Jackson, Mississippi, and for whose arrest a reward or SI,BOO had been offered by the authorities of that State. He will be held subject to order. Hon. Wm. Anderson has presented his resignation to the Governor as Rep resentative in the Legislature from the county of Cobb, which was accepted. Mr. Anderson was made a minister of the gospel and assigned to duty in the North Georgia Methodist Episcopal Conference at its recent session in Grif fin is his reasod for resigning. Waynesboro Expositor: Our devil has been greatly exercised since Hijim made no mention of him in his procla mation. And Bro. Hubbard thinks, too, he’s been slighted, since the first three letters of his name, to-wit: H-u-b. spells the very centre of things.’ Exactly. The devil is never satisfied. Our devil was offered a treat to oysters but he would not accept any, except on the half shell. Several days since a Mr. Hobbs, while out hunting in Warren county, became enraged at his dogs, and com menced beating them with the breech of his gun,, holding the barrels in his hands. During the rnolee the hammer, either being down on the cap or else falling, discharged the load of one of the barrels into his abdomen, and he died immediately. Some railroad engineers talk of hav ing a demand made on Gov. Smith to require the return of James Fetner, the arrested engineer of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, on the ground that he was kidmapped out of the State of Georgia. If the original reports about Fetner are true, it is to be hoped the law will be allowed to take its course, wiihout interference from our authorities. Gov. Smith has appointed the follow ing gentlemen delegates to the Chicago Railroad Convention to represent the State at large : Charles Green, Savan nah; A. J. Smith, Brunswick; Robert Gignilliatt, Darien; R. H. Anderson, Hawkinsvilie; Joseph Clisby, Macon ; Thomas J. Perry, Rome; Henry An drews, Washington; B. W. Frobell, At lanta. A cow burglarized a fruit store in Atlanta a few nights since and as she was in a capital state of mind for eating, and as soon as the doors were locked she went to work. She swal lowed apples, ground peas, vegetables and oanned fruit with equal enjoyment. Parties who passed the store during the night heard a remarkable noise in it, as if some unknown arrival was doing considerable chawing, but they thought it was none of their business. E. M. Fitzgibbon’ a tailor and about sixty-Dine years of age’ was found at Buford dead, it is supposed from the effects of intemperance. It is said that he had been married twice and his last wife’s father lived in North Carolina, He claimed to have been a major in the Confederate army under Gen. Cleburne. His appearance and conversation showed that he had been a man of cul ture and refinement, but had given him self up to hard drink. At the session of the State Grangers in Atlanta, on Wednesday, the follow lowing resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the true object of this or ganization is, as taught in the ritual, the improvement of the farm, the increase of home products; that the farm be made self-sustaining; that the farm be made perfect in all its parts; a Grange in the true acceptation of them, presided over by a husbandman aided by a matron devoted to their calling, and educating the youth of the State; that labor is not only honorable, but necessary to the happiness and pros perity or the individual and welfare of the State. Resolved, That the objects of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry are not to trammel r derange commerce, or to hamper or in terfere in any way with the mechanic arts, but in every way possible to protect and aid the sa ue, nevertheless wo assert that it is altogether legitimate to so arrange, if possible, to lessen the burden of taxation in the way of commissions, etc., on com modities while in transitu between pro ducers and consumers. Resolved, That the Legislature be re quested to ena r> t a dog law for the protec tion of sheep husbandry in Georgia. Resolved, That the Secretary be instruct ed to lay the above resolution before both houses of the Legislature at its next ses sion. Darkey Grandiloquence —Here is a sample of actual occurrence in Wash ington Market, having been overheard by a friend, whom it pleased ao much that he took it down at the time: My colored friend, Georgo-Edward Fitz-Augustus, walked up to the wagon of a fat countryman, and, after peering for some time at his stock, inquired: “Are dose good taters?” “Yes, sir," responded the country man, “A tater,” resumed George-Edward Fitz-Augustus, “is inevitably bad un less it is unwariably good. Dere is no medeocraty in de combination ob a ta ter. De exterion may appear remark ably exemplary and beautisome, while de interion is totally negative. But. sir; if you wends de article on your own recommendation, knowing you to be a man ob probability in your transac tions, I, widout any furder circumlocu tion, takes a bushel ob dat superior wegetable.” When Eve brought wo to ail mankind, Old Adam oailed her wo-man; But when she wooed with love so kind. He then pronounced it woo-man: But now with folly and with pride, Their husbands’ pockets trimming The ladies are so full of whims, The people call them whim-mm*