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FROM WASHINGTON.
GRANT-HENDERSON SQUABBLE.
A Review of the Matter—What is
Thought of It in and Out of Official
Circles.
Washington, December 11—Mr. Glo
ver declines acting for the Government
vice Henderson, dismissed.
The statements made in the following
paragraphs are derived altogether from
conversations with Cabinet officers, and
present only an official view of circum
stances recently happening in connec
tion with the whiskey fraud trials:
Up to a very late hour this afternoon
no appointment of special counsel, to
All the vacancy occasioned by the re
moval of Gen. Henderson, had been
sanctioned by the Government. The
United States Attorney at St. Louis,
this afternoon, forwarded the name of
an eminent lawyer for the position,
and his designation awaits the ap
proval of the Department, which
cannot be obtained until after a con
ference between the President and the
Secretary of the Treasury and the At
torney General. This will probably
take place to-morrow and the result
will be promptly telegraphed to St.
Louis. While according to the tele
gram of yesterday from the Attorney
General to the Government Attorney
at St. Louis the selection of special
counsel was referred to him, the nomi
nation of Mr. Glover was suggested on
account of high estimate of the ability
of that gentleman held in the Depart
ment of Justice, and theie was some
disappointment that other matters pre
vented the acceptance of the office ten
dered.
A telegram from Mr. Glover, received
to-day by the Attorney General, reads
as follows: “Conflicting professional
engagements prevent my accepting
your appointment. I have wiitten.”
The wishes of the Department of Jus
tice in this particular are but to one
point, and that is the selection of coun
sel who shall be equally fair and fear
less in the discharge of his official
functions, and in this expression of
views the President, Secretary Bristow
and the .Attorney General entirely ac
cord, with the additional inclination
that should two lawyers of equally
professional eminence bo presented for
appointment to the responsible office,
they would rather have a gentleman
of different political opinions from the
adininistratien than one politically in
accord with the President. Attorney
General Pierrepont, in conversation
this evening upon tne subject of these
prosecutions said die President was
ardent in bis demand for counsel who
should be absolutely fearless in the
discharge of the duties attending his
office, and would not be satisfied with
anything short of the most vigorous
and impartial prosecution of the work
entrusted by the Gevermnent to his
hands. Upon the topic of the deter mi
nation reached by the Cabinet meeting
yesterday to dispense with the services
of Mr. Henderson, there is a free and
unreserved expression of opinion
in the highest official quarters
and members of the Cabinet
say that the vigor of that counseller in
pressing to the utmost his prosecution
of offenders receives nothing but en
dorsement. The construction of cer
tain parts of the language of his speech
in the Avery case was that it is per
sonally offensive to the President, and
unwarranted by any circumstance aris
ing in the trial. This opinion is de
clared to be general among the Cabinet
officers, and Secretary Bristow, who, it
had been intimated, might not be dis
posed to thoroughly acquiesce in the
determination to dispense with Gen.
Henderson’s services, did so as heartily
as any other member of the
Cabinet. The statement may be
upon proper authority that wheo
the Attorney General presented at the
outset of these trials the name of Gen.
Henderson as special counsel to assist
the United States Attorney iu the con
duct of the cases, on behalf of the
Government, Judge Pierrepont was not
aware of any differences of past origin
that still remained between the Presi
dent and ex-Senator Henderson, and
when at a late period in the trials the
Attorney General consulted the
President as to the way the President
had concealed the fact of any possible
trouble existing, the President re
plied that he had but one object in
the selection of any party to represent
the Government in the matter, and
that was fearless attention to the
duties requisite to the office. There is
very little comment upon the action ol
the" Court of Inquiry in not at
present pursuing the investigation
for which it was organized. This
in the highest judicial circles is
considered perfectly proper, and the
feeling here is in entire harmony with
the action of the court of inquiry,
which will be acquiesced in by the Wur
Department, There is here, as else- j
where, a general and very animated
conversation upon the latest results of
trials, with varied comment upon
the discharge of the special counsel.
The Attorney General has unhesitat
ingly given his opinion in regard to the
dismissal of Mr. Henderson lrom fur
ther conduct of the cases, and says
that Mr. Eustow, in this as in other
matters, fully concurs with him as to
the propriety of the action taken by
the Government. Several joint tele
grams, signed by Judge Pierrepont and
Secretary Bristow, have been recently
sent to St. Louis referring to the pend
ing trials. The subject of the indict
ment gf General Babcock has had little
attention here to-day in comparison
with the charge of counsel in St. Louis.
It is submitted in official quarters, in
response to suggestions that it is possi
ble that the House of Representatives
may be disposed to investigate the cir
cumstances attending the trial, that
every act on the part of the govern
ment will bear the fullest examination,
and an investigation by direction of
Congress would be far from unwelcome.
There is now the hardest comment
upon trials in all quarters and outside
of high official circles. A great variety
of sentiment is expressed upon tho re
moval of Henderson.
Appointment of Indian Commissioner
The lieneva Award.
The Hon. Joseph Smith has assumed
charge of the Indian Bureau.
The bill introduced in the Senate on j
Thursday by Mr. Conkliug to repeal i
the twelfth section of the act organiza
tioa the court to distribute the Geneva !
award, so as to allow Insurance Com- j
panics to participate in that award, is
not intended to allow tho claims of
foreign companies. When the bill or
ganizing the court was beiDg perfected
by the Senate Judiciary Committee,
two years ago, one of reason urged for
inserting the 12th section excluding in
surance companies was that stock
holders in many of our companies were
f oreigners and it would not be proper
to allow them the benefit or the award.
f Cincinnati, December ll.—The hog
slaughter this season will be 2.393.74,
against 2.530.43 last season. .
@l)e 'Augusta lCcmstrhrticmnlir.t
Established 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
ANOTHER STEAMSHIP CALAMITY.
Explosion of Dynamite—Many Persons
Killed and Wounded.
Bremen, December 11. — The North
German Lloyds have received the fol
lowing telegram:
“Breherhaven, December 11. — After
the steamship Mosel had embarked her
passengers for New York to-day in the
outer port, the boiler of the tug Sim
-Bon, lying opposite, exploded, killing
fifty persons and wounding many. The
Mosel was so badly damaged that she
cannot sail to-day. The Mosel was to
have taken passengers of the ill-fafbd
Deutschland, of the same line.”
New York, December 11.—Messrs.
Oelrichs & Cos., agents of the North
German Lloyds, in this city, have re
ceived the following dispatch from the
company’s offices in Bremen : “A great
explosion has occurred at Bremerhaven
of a ease of dynamite on the quay, be
longing to a passenger’s baggage.—
Maoy lives were lost. The steamer
Mosel is slightly damaged, but we ex
pect to sail her to-morrow. It is not
yet known whether the killed and
wounded were passengers by the
steamer.”
Bremen, December 11. —It is now
certain that the explosion was of a case
of dynamite, belonging to the personal
baggage of a passenger. But few de
tails have been received. It is pre
sumed the actual passengers suffered
but little, but fatalities were chiefly
among those accompanying them.
Aid for the Centennial Statue—Turk
ish. Matters—Troops for Cuba.
Paris, December 11. —The munici
pality of Paris voted a subscription of
of 2,000 fraues to the fund for the Cen
tennial statue to Liberty in New York
harbor.
Vienna, December 11, —Proposals of
the three northern powers in regard to
Turkish reforms have been amended
in accordance with views definitely
agreed to.
Madrid, December 11. — Fifteen hun
dred troops leave Cadiz for Cuba on
the 15th.
Central and. South American News.
Panama, December 2. —The political
tempest in Columbia has in a measure
ceased. Private letters from Guya
quil speak of the expulsion of the Jesu
its from that country by popular de
monstrations. The finances of Peru
are gloomy. The Government and
banks may be said to be virtually bank
rupt. There was a great fire at Ma
liergo.
The Opinion Nadanal, of Lima, pub
lishes a story that an immense quantity
of human remains have been taken
from one of the walls of the old San
Andreas hospital. Between 4,000 and
5,000 skeletons are said to nave been
discovered. The San Andreas hospital
was built in 1557. The South Pacific
Times, in quoting the story of
the Opinion Nadanal, says: “The
impression generally prevails that these
bones belong to victims of the inquisi
tion. They appear to be from fifteen to
two hundred years old, and from their
appearance led to the belief that
bodies were thrown into the opening
between the walls. All the skeletons
appear to be clothed.
Farther About the Mosel Disaster.
Bremen, December 11. —It is now
supposed that a case of dynamite was
being smuggled aboard. Two passen
gers were killed. The steamer suffered
no damage, because sflfe was some dis
tance from the scene of explosion.
Comments of the Cuban Press on
Grant’s Message.
Havana, December 11. —The Voz de
Cuba, commenting on that part of the
President’s message which relates to
Cuba, says Gen. Giant’s language
seems to have been chosen to wound
the susceptibilities of Spaniards. He
seems to like playing with fire. He does
uot know the temperment of the
Spaniards any more than Napoleon did.
The Diario censures the tone of the
message which was published while
negotiations were pending between the
United States and Spain. It praises
faintly the President’s refusal to
acknowledge the Cuban insurgents as
belligerents, and says that the part of
the message relating to Spain is stu
diously obscure. Finally the Diario, at
the conclusion .of two eolutnus and a
half of criticism, says: “We believe
| Gen. Grant has disgusted the iusur
j gents and has wounded Spanish pride
in his unfounded assertions. His en
tire message is contrary to the spirit of
the American people, who eminently
desire peace, and has satisfied no one.”
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Railway Accident—Fliglit of a De
faulter— Burning of a Copper Mill
—Extraordinary Attempt to Levy
Blackmail.
Waterville, Me.. December 11.—A
pay train ran into a hand ear on the
Main Central Road, killing two per
sons.
Saratoga, December 11. —Ex-Treas-
urer Mann has suddenly disappeared
from Baiiston, and it is thought that he
has lied.
Bridgeport, Conn , December 11.—
The copper mill of the Ansonia Brass
and Copper Company, at Ansonia. w T as
burned this morning. Loss, $20,000.
Boston, December 11.—A remarkable
attempt to blackmail F. Geldowsky,
one of the largest furnituro dealers
here, has culminated in the exposure of
a plot and arrest of Ezra J. Goodwin, a
private detective and chief conspirator.
Goodwin induced a former employe of
Geldowsky’s to swear that the latter
hired him to set fire to his (Geldow
sky’s) factory in 1871, in order to de
fraud insurance companies. Goodwin
claimed to represent the companies,
and, armed with a false affidavit, de
manded $42,000 of Geldowsky or ex
posure and arrest. The latter secured
the secured the services of detectives,
and, ostensibly agreeing to pay a por
tion of the blackmail, entrapped Good
win in a room at a hotel, where he was
arrested. He is now in jail in default
of $5,000 bail. William Fogg, who
■ made the false affidavit, was also ar
! rested. He came from Florida in order
, to carry out the scheme.
Murder Most Foul.
New Brunswick, December 11, —Dr.
Chas. Dunham, a prominent physician
of this place, was murdered, robbed
and his body thrown into the canal on
Thursday night last.
FROM ATLANTA.
The West, Edwards & Cos. Case—Judge
Hopkins Triumphant.
Atlanta, December 11.—At dark Ed
wards, of West, Edwards & Cos., de
livered the books, assets, etc., to the
receiver, under order of Judge Hop
kins, of the Superior Court. West and
Briscoe, the other partners, were re
leased from jail. The creditors, at. a
meeting, are now considering a propo
sition for compromise.
AUGUSTA, GA., STJJNTDA.Y, DECEMBER 12, 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Big Failure—The Modern Style of
Gouging Creditors More About
Herbst—Amusements—Dots.
I From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, December 10th.
The big failure has developed anew
phase. My previous letter was found
ed on the statements made in my hear
ing by Mr. West, of the firm, and by
others who seemed to be in a position
to know. It now turns up that the tax
books show that Mr. A. H. Thompson,
who was said to have purchased the
stock at the handsome sum of sixty
thousand dollars, pays only a poll tax !
Hence, that sale was a transparent
dodge. This and other transactions
have worked up a sympathy among the
general public for the unfortunate cred
itors. The principals in this financial
farce are in jail. Considering the high
position this firm once held in the com
munity, well might one exclaim, “What
a failure was there, my countrymen !”
THE LIBRARY AFFAIR.
The letter you referred to me for my
consideration, from a Mr. Julius L.
Brown, a director, (whoever Mr. Julius
L. Brown is) has been received. He
claims that 1 have done great injustice
to the Board of Directors of the Young
Men’s Library Association, inasmuch
as I, “in my eager desire to be the first
to tell of Mr. Herbst’s removal,” com
mented upon their action. If one
would take the trouble to ask the opin
ions of two-thirds of the members of
the Library, or inspect the lists of
members asking for his return, he
would find my statements were not
only correct, but tbat I expressed the
sentiments of the majority. As for the
lack of interest of your Augusta peo
ple in the affairs of our library, Mr.
Julius L. Brown is certainly foggy.
The library is one of the grandest in
stitutions of Atlanta, and perhaps the
finest in the State. Hence its matters
are of interest to everybody. Whilst
I am at all times ready and willing to
accord to each and every one—even to
Mr. Julius L. Brown— the justice de
served, I am unwilling to see so faith
ful a servant as our ex-Librariun has
proved himself kicked unceremonious
ly out of a position he was so emi
nently qualified for, by an ill-timed
movement of the tendons of horrible
prejudice.
AMC9 EMENTICAL.
The Holman English Opera Troupe
opened here last night to a good house.
It is a first rate troupe. The singing is
line, and the stage costumes rich and
elegant. Girofle-Girofla was the opera,
and although plotless and tame, it is
full of good music, aud brings out the
chorus in its whole strength. As they
visit your city, you may feel assured
they give a good performance.
Adelaide Phillips and Opera Troupe
sing “Martha” here on the 15th. Adel,
is too well known to require aide in
advertising. Do you see this pun?
The paraphernalia of a traveling con
cern, that has been exhibiting through
the country as the Grand Cal
isthenic Combination, was brought
lu this city yesterday. The per
formers are in a destitute condition,
some of them being compelled to apply
at the station house for a place to sleep
last night. They will probably give a
balloon ascension here In order to raise
funds to take them North.
NOTES.
The weather is of that deuced cool
ness that draws on flannel aud adds
fuel to the fire.
In consequence of the recent loss of
sight in one eye and the threatened
loss in the other, Mr. B. W. Smith is
prevented from going on the Herald as
announced. The night work of the
position would prove fatal to his siglit.
The usual number of fire alarms
ring out on tho freezing midnight
breeze, and we turn over in our pleas
ant couches, leel tho walls and if not
warm, the balmy sleep once more takes
us off and the fire can go to blazes.
The travel to Florida is tremendous.
People from all parts of the country
are attracted thither by cheap lands
aud genial climate. The number of
pleasure seekers and invalids is on
the decline. Martha.
RIOT IN MISSISSIPPI.
A Difficulty between Whites and
Blacks—Tragic Conclusion.
Vicksburg, December 11.—A riot is
reported at Bolling Fork, thirty-five
miles above, growing out of an attempt
of negroes to rescue one who had been
arrested. Seven negroes, including
two of the leaders, were killed.
Memphis, Tenn., December 11. — Tho
origin of the riot at Rolling Fork, Is
sauquena county, Miss., on Saturday
night, November 27th, was this: A
party of negroes assembled at the vil
lage and were drinking and carousing.
One of them pushed against a youth;
whom he met iu the street, using rough
language at the same time. The
youth drew a knife and inflicted
a scalp wound on the negro. He
then fled to a store for safety.—
The negroes became very much ex
asperated, aud vowed vengeance. To
prevent this a warrant was obtained
for the youth, charging him with as
sault with intent to kill. But before it
could be served the negroes broke into
the store, beat the lad severely with an
iron bar, and finally one of the party
shot him in the thigh. At the report
of the pistol the negroes ran, but the
whites had begun to assemble, and,
fearing a general riot, pursued and
captured ten of them, put them in the
station house and placed a guard over
them. DuriDg the night one of the
guard, not upon duty, came out on the
porch with a gun on his shoulder, and
was ordered away by the sentinel on
duty. As he turned, his gun, which
was cocked, struck against a win
dow and was discharged. The ne
gro prisoners thinking that they
were being fired upon, stampeded
and the guard opened upon them an
indiscriminate firing, wounding two of
their own number and two negroes, all
slightly, but the prisoners escaped. On
Sunday the most intense excitement
prevailed there, as it was learned that
Noah Parker and Arthur Brooks, two
notorious negroes, were trying to orga
nize the negroes for an assault on the
place, and the whites were organized
under Rev. Mr. Ball, a Baptist minister,
who arrested Brooks and Parker, aud,
in the attempt to rescue them, the ren
contre reported last night occurred.
Milford, Pa., December 11.—Navi
gation of the Delaware and Lehigh
Canal closed to-day.
Chicago. December 11. —Babcock gave
$7,000 bail for his appearance in St.
Louis.
Washington, December 11.—Speaker
Kerr was serenaded to-night. He spoke
briefly. Senator Wallace made some
general remarks.
“TEN DOLLARS A WEEK.”
How Ned aud His Family Lived Re
spectably in Chicago on a Salary No
Larger than That—A Lesson for
Married People.
[Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.]
Chicago, December 6, 1875.
I might say, and not be far out of
the way either, that fully fifty thousand
persons in Chicago are actually
PICK-NICKING- IT,
that is, putting up with the inconve
niences of the June day pic-nic of the
August camp-meeting, without the
special excursion to the country of the (
former, or the special religious per
quisites of the latter, while the salaries
of the clerks, the common clerks of
salaried men and mechanics, since the
panic, have not exceeded an average of
TWELVE DOLLARS A WEEK.
But from what I have personally ob
served most of the men with families
are getting along -quite as well as un
married men, unless sickness or other
special misfortunes overtake them, and
even then it is a question whether the
former class do not ike sooner over
come those difficulties.
An old friend is so poor that a se
cular or spiritual mongage would hard
ly affect him; so very poor that every
miserable little centf is hoarded and
cherished as though it would at least
help purchase eternal salvation. He
was once a treasury clerk at Wash
ington, and I had known him while he
was living here in ele
gance. Later, after the cruel war was
over, and elegant people became some
thing of a superfluity even at Washing
ton, he became an attache of a Du
buque daily. Some misunderstanding,
terminating in a quarrel, ended
his newspaper connection in that
city, and he came to Chicago,
like so many others, wait
ing for something to materialize. He
secured a position cfti the little Mail,
then an infant, which] being an evening
paper, as is the custom, possibly the
necessity, paid but the ghost of a
salary; but with what he had, and
what he had saved, Lad been able to
build a neat little cottage and provide
for a family of four. The fire, which
you have seen and heard mentioned
occasionally, wiped this all out. The
newspapers had use : for only old and
tried employes, and advertising can
vassers, and my frien l was out of a job.
In the general helter-skelter that fol
lowed I had lost sight qf him until a
few days since, when l ascertained that
he had not got down like a good rnauy,
but that he had been willing to work,
as lie said, “get right up aud hump his
spinal column twenty-five hours out of
twenty-four.” He was strong, and
could fling a good deal of paint over the
lumber palaces that phoeuixed shortly
after the fire, and managed to live
quite comfortably until the panic came,
and after getting on somehow without
employment for a time, finally engaged
wit h a painter at 810 a week. Since
that time he has supported his family
on that munificent salary.
And I
DINED WITH THIS DIVES.
“ For heaven’s sake,” I asked, after
having finished a meal good euougk
for any one, “ how do j’ou manage to
get along so nicely V”
He radiantly pointed to his wife, and
she rattled the matter off this way :
“ Well, you see, Ned came home aud
told me ten dollars was the most he
could get; it was forty at Washington;
aud we talked the matter over, aud
made up our minds it would do some- j
how—do a good deal better than living |
off our friends or getting in debt—ll
wish I could make ajl young married i
people fear that awfu?! thing, debt !—so j
I eume here and hireu these two rooms, ■
which cost us 81.50 a week. The sleep- j
ing room is large enough for our bed, i
and stow away a ft w things snugly,
while the children sleep ou the sofa
there. It’s a bed-lounge, and opens
out at night. We haven’t but that one
stove, of course, and twenty-live bush
els of coke, which costs us three dol
lars delivered, with cars lasts us two
months ; while we get all the shavings
and kindlings we want at the cooper
shops for carrying them away. Kero
sene costs only sixteen cents a gallon,
aud lasts a month. By taking ten
pounds of ‘ hocks,’ even when pork is
so high, we get them at four cents, and
they make three or four nice meals, a
day or two apart, and we have a re
frigerator in the hall for keeping per
ishable food. Ned found where we
could get nice pieces of meat, beef, at
five cents a pound, if we take ten
pounds. We buy it for ‘mince meat,’
of course; but out of that amount we
get a steak or two—we have to pouud
it some to make it tender !—aud some
times we have what the Germans call a
Hamburger steak, that is, the meat
chopped fine like sausage, flavored
delicately with onions, and boiled rap
idly; besides‘stews,’‘boils,’ and plenty
of “hash,’ which isn’t very bad when it’s
clean and cooked nicely. Sometimes I
vary the ‘mince-meat’ and boil a few
pounds, adding a little pork to give it
delicacy and flavor; boil it all day until
it is almost jellied,; Then I season it
with a little butter,: pepper, salt aud
just a drop of Halfofd; set it away in a
cloth bag over nigh*?, and in the morn
ing we have some of the nicest ‘beef
cheese’ you ever tasted.”
I sampled the “beef cheese,” and even
after a hearty meal its delicacy sub
stantiated the statement.
“Sometimes, when we were very short
of money, Ned resorted to the little
FICTION
of buying five cents’ worth of good
meat for his cat. We haven’t a cat,
but we’ve got four hungry mouths, and
the pound or pound and a half of
meat we got that way did us a great
dedl of good, especially if we were a
little hungry for meat. You see, if the
butcher had known it was for our own
use, it would have only bought half a
pound. But the cat legend always
brings a good, piece. Sometimes we
get so
reckless
as to have chickens, and even turkey,
but we have to watch the market for
these. Just after Thanksgiving I
bought eight chickens and a nice tur
key for one dollar down on Market
street. It was Sat urday evening, the
dealer had ten tons on hand, and it had
begun to rain; but it snowed before
morning, and I had four dollars of
choice food in the house. Didn’t we
poor people go for those chickens,
though 1 We make our own bread and
what pastry we can afford to indulge in.
Two barrels of good winter wheat flour,
which cost delivered $7 per barrel, last
us just one year. We don’t use either
tea or coffee, and our milk here costs
us only twenty one cents a week, as a
pint a day answers, nicely.
I siw that the culinary department
was successfully managed, but begged
to kaow how manf hundred dollars a
year they were obliged to expend for
clothing.
“How many hundred dollars? My
sakes alive! We haven’t spent one
hundred in two years !”
Seeing that I looked perplexed, she
looked at Ned as much as to say, “Shall
I?” and Ned, looking at her as if to say,
“Do as you like,” she did as she liked,
as women generally do.
“Well, I kept Ned pretty well patched
up for a year or more, made over his
and my own very old clothes for the
children, and then,” laughing at Ned,
“we resolved on.
“STRATEGY.
“We knew that there were thousands
of people in a city like this who, if
rightly approached, and given assur
ance that they were not to be humbug
ged, had, and were more than willing
to give, the kind of assistance we need
ed. So Ned went down to the 'Tribune
office and had inserted under the head
of ‘Miscellaneous,’ last July,” (“Sun
day, June 20,” interrupted Ned, who,
from habit, is exact about date and
figures), this advertisement, which cost
us just about eighty cents.”
•Here Mrs. Ned brought the slip which
had been clipped from the Tribune, and
which I give as an evidence of the
truthfulness of the narrative:
“Wanted —by hard-working needy
person, cast off clothing of some gen
tleman. Recipient will confer with do
nor, showing need and respectability.
Address P. 75, Tribune office.”
“We got all manner of answers to this
advertisement, some in a witty vein
asking us whether we could loan a lit
tle money at ten per cent, a month, in
quiring whether we weren’t sorry that
our ancestors had crucified Christ,
whether we owned the German Nation
al bank, and whether we couldn’t get
a better dodge than that. There was
just one helpful answer, that from a
man who couldn’t write our language
correctly, and who signed himself,
evidently with much labor, ‘your un
known friend, , professor of
music.’ Well, Ned called on him. He
was a little Dane, and, after Ned had
told him who we were and how we
were trying to get along, with his chir
rupy little wife, he made up such a
bundle that Ned could hardly get
home with it. There was a little of
everything in that bundle, and a great
pile of serviceable things altogether.
With what he got, and what the little
professor has actually forced upon us
since, we- are clothed comfortably—
all of us—and are well provided for
| the winter.”
“But what do you do for amuse-
I ments?”
“Well, Ned is
AT HOME EVENINGS,
and we have songs with the children,
play chess or cribbage, read and talk
over the news of the day ; we take a
daily paper ; we have Dickens’ com
plete works illustrated, and they do
seem to grow better with each read
ing ; Bulwer’s, Disraeli’s, Scott’s,
Thackeray’s works, aud a few other
books; and we are really cosy and
happy, Because we have made up our
minds to take things as they come,
and, like Mark Tapley, be jolly over it.
Besides, on this 810 a week we have
saved 8180 since the panic. When it
amounts to 8200 we shall pay half
down on a good lot. We can get one
very cheap in the middle of the winter,
if we can pay half cash, just outside
the limits, become property owners,
and before the gray and grumble
comes, have a shelter for the long,
rainy days!”
I confess these revelations startled
me. Here was a good-sized family,
living realty comfortably, undoubtedly
happily, and on ten dollars a week —
what the average young man, married
j or sirgle, feels compelled to distribute
| among the unproductive hangers-on of
1 society—and besides this laying the
| basis for a competency, if not a for
tune, all the time keeping up with the
spirit of the age in intelligence, in in
| formation, and iu ordinarily beneficial
literature, aud through their earnest
ness, happy temper, because of it aud
its honesty and good citizenship, mak
ing better tho world for their living in
it.
It is humanitarianism that assists in
making such efforts possible and popu
lar.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN DOVE.
The Suicide of the Daughter of a
Wealthy Man.
IN. Y. Sun, 3d.]
The suicide of Miss Alice Myers,
daughter of the well knowu Broadway
real estate ageut, Meyer S. Myers, of
619 Broadway aud 421 West Twenty
second street, has just been made
known. She wab only sixteen years of
age, aud was beautiful and accom
plished, and a favorite in society. A
few wteks ago she returned from Eu
rope, tvhere she had been traveling in
questof health with the family of a
well khown lawyer. It was on this trip
that symptoms of melancholy first
became noticeable, and her friends then
learned that she had been disappointed
in lore. Every effort was made to
arouse her interest in the novel
scenes about her, but without
success. During the voyage home
she was discovered when about
to spring overboard. Subsequently
she was carefully watched. After the
young woman’s arrival in New York
various expedients werfc tried to arouse
her from the now settled melancholy
that had worn her down to a shadow
of hei former self. She seemed to be
come interested in the charity fair for
the benefit of the Mount Sinai hospital
that is to be opened Monday next.
She consented to assist at the fair, and
went to several of the meetings of the
managers. This was regarded as a hope
ful sign by her friends, although at one
time she told her mother that she should
not bother to get a dress for the fair,
as she would soon be dead. On Tues
day morning of last week Miss Myers
arose from the family breakfast table,
saying that she was going up stairs.
On her way up she took off her gaiters
so as not to disturb her brother, who
slept up stairs. She then walked to a
rear window in the third story and
jumped from it to the ground. A Miss
Williams, who was visiting at a married
friend’s house in Twenty-third street, in
the rear of Mr. Myers’ residence, saw
her take the leap, and the family of
Mr. Constant and other persons who
live iu Twenty-third street heard her
screams after she fell. Miss Myers’
arms and legs were broken and she
1 injured internally. She died in great
, agony three hours afterwards. She
was buried on Tuesday last.
A Massachusetts clergyman volunta
rily knocked #I,OOO off his salary “in
view of the hard times.” He probably
saves twice that much In shoe leather
and anxiety about collecting the re
mainder.
A romantic Chicago girl has offered
to marry lied Cloud, the big chief, and
he is just white man enough to inquire
how many bonds and how much real
estate her father has lying around
, loose.
AMERICA’S GREAT POET.
G. Washington Cliilds, A. M„ of
Philadelphia.
[Detroit Free Press.]
I have been grieved to notice fre
quent sneers aud slurs iu your valuable
paper at G. Washington Childs, A. M.,
of the Philadelphia Ledger, aud Ameri
ca’s brightest and grandest obituary
poet. I presume that these sneers aud
slurs emanate from jealousy, because
you have no obituary poet on your own
paper. You do not know Mr. Childs,
A. M., as I know him, or else you would
say everything in his favor aud nothing
against him. Mr. Childs, A. M., did not
exhibit any particular love for obituary
poetry until he was twelve years old.
Many persons have been led to believe
that Mr. Childs, A. M., is anew star in
the blight firmament of poetry. Such
is not the case. His oldest efforts com
pare favorably with his latest, aud he
was scarcely sixteen years of age when
his fame was made. Before securing
control of a journal of his own he was
greatly restricted and hampered in his
efforts to show the world that obituary
poetry was the greatest of literary
efforts. Often and again, when he had
toiled for two or three nights to bring
forth a bright gem of sparkling rhyme,
the proprietor of the paper would kill
it on account of its length, or because
there was something in it to interfere
with the religious or .political policy of
the paper.
Mr. Childs, A. M., early conceived the:
idea that no respectable death could be
disposed of in less than thirty-six four
lifie veises, and it is only of late that
the brief and comprehensive six and
eight line poetic notices have been iu
favor with him. His first efforts were
more solemn, and did not have that
racy, enterprising gush now so promi
nent in all the Ledger obituaries. The
following is one of his early contribu
tions:
“Strike the dark-toned bell
Another soul has gone to—
Meet its maker. Another sleeper sleeps,
Little Willie has gone where the buffeting
winds of this cold world
Won’t never give him the ear-ache again.”
Mr. Childs, A. M., had no particular
rut, as Longfellow has, but could write
all around a subject, making each line
rhyme, or having two rhymes to a lino.
His versatility was the wonder of the
office, and the feed-boys almost daily
expressed the wish that they might die
so that he could write them up in a
four-line verse. The following was
written by him over thirty years ago
the death of a lame man, who was
kicked to death by a horse;
“Sad was the fate of Thomas H. Jelley,
And it came without any warning;
Kicked by a norse three times in the
Head, he went to heaven in the morning.
Such is grim death. It overtakes us when
we least expect it. To-day we may be
lich and respectable—to-morrow we are
in eternity, where the sound of angelic
harps is hoard forever more. Amen.”
Mr. Childs. A. M., used to write ali
the editorial matter for the Ledger
when he first took that paper, but he
soon discovered that his great forte
and his greatest popularity was at the
obituary business, aud he hired fifteen
men to do the political writing, while
he gives his entire attention to honor
ing the departed in rhyme. Nothing
pleases him more than *o enter the of
flee in the morning and find thirty or
forty orders on the book for obituary
verses, and he is never so out of tem
per as when good little boys aDd girls
refuse to fold their little hands and die
of dysentery.
It has been asserted in your paper
that G. Washington Childs, A. M.. kept
a large stock of obituary poetry on
hand. Such is not the case.. He never
gives a notice any thought until he sits
down to his desk. Notices dashed off
by the engineer in his spare moments,
or contributed by the mailing clerk and
the boy having charge of the folding
machine, are sometimes used iu part,
but merely to accommodate his ambi
tious employes, and to prove to them
that he dosen’t want to monopolize the
whole business.
- Mr. Childs, A. M., had a very touch
ing thing on the death of James Bu
chanan, and as it has been forgotten
by a majority of the public I hereby
reproduce it :
“Oh! sexton, toll the bell!
Oh! digger, dig a grave!
James Buchanan has passed away,
And to him a harp is gave.
“He gradually fell away,
And finally breathed no more;
And though his body is only clay,
His spirit on high doth soar.
Gone to enjoy himself in that climate
where pains and aches never enter
in. We can’t be too careful of our
selves on earth.”
I have seen it stated that the war
was a great aid to G. Washington
Childs, A. M. in his struggle for fame.
It was of some help, but he depended
more on local diseases and colic than
upon the bullets of the Confederate
States to bring him laurels. I will here
drop in one of his best notices on a dead
soldier;
John Anthony William Ilascomb,
Was a soldier in Tennessee,
But a cannon ball caved in his ribs,
And he went to eternity.
John Anthony William Baseomb,
Is now playing on a harp,
He’s up among the shining ones,
A looking sweet and sharp.
Gone to meet his stoop-shou Mered father,
who passed from a lame leg to Heaven
just one day too early to help celebrate
Fourth of July.
I know that G. Washington Childs,
A M., has his faults, as who has not
but in the main he is tender-hearted,
forgiving, and means to do right; and
this attempt to drag him from his
proud poetic eminence is unjust in the
highest degree.
Very respectfully,
John True, LL. D.
Late pressman to G. Washington Childs,
A. M.
FROM RICHMOND.
Balloting, for the Senatorial Nomina
tion.
Richmond, Va., December 11.—There
were two more ballots this afternoon,
being fourteen in all. The last ballot
stood: Goode, forty-four ; Johnston,
forty-three ; J. R. Tucker, thirty -six.
Adjourned to Monday morning. This
fillibustering will probably be continu
ed until Tuesday, when the direct vote
for United States Senator will be taken
in joint session of the General Assem
bly, as required by law. The name of
State Senator Jno. W. Daniel was pre
sented to the caucus to-day, but im
mediately withdrawn. It is evidently
the intention of his friends to keep him
back for the closing contest. He is
very strong and will make a good run.
“You have had a chance to see a
good eal of us Americans,” pompous
ly observed a swallow-faced New
Yorker to Lord Houghton the other
day. “Pray tell me, sir, what you think
are our most striking characteristics.’
“Impudence and indigestion,” quietly
replied his lordship.
New Series —Vol. 28, No, 110
WHO ARE THE HEATHEN.
WONG CHIN POO AT CONCERT
HALL.
The Gifted Celestial Discusses Con
fucianism, Buddhism and Christiani
ty—An Elaborate and Scholarly Re
view of Religious Principles.
[Philadelphia Times, Bth.l
Owing to the rain storm, but a small
audience greeted the heathen orator,
Wong Chin Foo, who lectured in Con
cert Hall last evening, upon “The great
religions of China and Japau,” and
contrasted Confucianism and Buddh
ism with Christianity. His English is
fluent and forcible, and without any
foreign accent. He wore the costume
of a “red-button” mandarin, as China
bestows that title upon all her learned
men, the degree of proficiency being
indicated by the number and color of
the buttons. On the platform sat his
college mate, Moung San-win. His lis
teners were so pleased with his grace
ful and easy manners that after the
lecture they crowded around the ros
trum to shaffe hands with him, au
operation adverse to Chinese customs,
but to which he sociably submitted.
The following are extracts from tho
discourse :
Ladies and Gentlemen : I rejoice
very much, this evening, to feel so free
to express to you sentiments which, If
presented in other lands, would. I fear,
excite a great deal of prejudice for
themselves; but we are in one of the
greatest countries of the world, and
where men can freely and fully express
their ideas. Let us reason together
upon one of the most important sub
jects of the time. There are more than
five hundred millions of people who
have never heard of the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, according
to your Sriptures, what is to be done
with all these? Is it possible for a
great and merciful God to care for one
portion of the human family and neg
lect the other ? I could see nothing
reasonable or just in God’s sending
three-fourths of the human race to
hell for no other reason than the dif
ference between their honest convic
tions and those of the rest of men.
God has given to the various nations
a way to salvation fitting their respec
tive peculiar needs. A prevalent idea in
this—l am at a loss to know how it origi
nated—is, that the Burmese and Chi
nese have no proper idea of a Supreme
Being. Why, before Germany or France
or England knew the art of civil living
—when their people were clad like the
wild Indians of the West, then China
and Hindoostan were as highly civi
lized as they are to-day. They knew
the art of printing, and thousands of
years ago some of the most useful in
struments of modern times were in
vented by them. Is it possible that
such people could bow down to wood
and stone, and not know the difference
between the Creator and His creatures?
I admit we have Images. I lately saw
an intelligent gentleman kneel before a
cross; I did not disturb him, knowing
that he was communing with his God.
When he arose I asked : “Why do you
kneel to a cross of wood instead of
to God ?” He told me that that cross
represented the sufferings of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and recalled to him the
whole Bible; he did not reverence the
wood as wood, but as a sacred memo
rial. Iu our temples we have images ;
to remind us of God’s greatness and
the more readily to inspire fear and
humility in our hearts. We, like you,
have the Ten Commandments of God;
but we have not your first command
ment, because the Chinese, unlike the
Jews to whom yours was given on
Sinai, never fell into idolatry. Aud
yet the Jews were in direct com
munication with God. Here are
ours: First, thou shalt not kill the
smallest creature; second, thou shalt
not steal; third, thou shalt not infringe
the laws of chastity; fourth, thou shalt
not lie; fifth, thou shalt not caluminate;
sixth, thou shalt not revenge injuries;
seventh, thou shalt not excite quarrels;
eighth, honor thy father and mother;
ninth, preserve faith in the Holy
Wriliugs; tenth, believe in immortality.
The golden rule of Confucius is the
same as the great Christian command
ment, except, like everything else in
China, which is on the opposite side of
the earth, you know, it reads back
ward, thus: “Whatsoever you would
that men should not do to you
do you not to them.” The Chris
tian religion would not take in,
China; neither would Confucian
ism in this country—especially our
rule: “Grieve not because thou
art not promoted to high offices.” You
live in order to do well; wo live in
order to live well, loving our fellow
man, practicing morality, never think
ing of death till the hour comes, and
when it does come, if our lives have
been good, we are prepared. People
believe the Chinese Government the
most tyrannical in the world; that the
Emperor has sole control over the lives
of his subjects. It is not so. The Em
peror cannot break our laws, and they
protect the natural rights of all men.
If, after a rule of three years, the head
of a city does not improve his people
in morality and intelligence, he cannot
ba promoted-, and if a school teacher du
ring the same period, make a similar
failure with his pupils, he loses his po
sition. In China we never knew slavery
until of If*tn years when Spain, Portu
gal and Italy carried off our coolies and
little children to sell them in the West
Indies and elsewhere. Trace back the
history of China for four thousand
years, and slavery will not be found on
its pages. There all men are equal, as
they are here ; but we distinguish be
tween the ignorant and intelligent.—
Learning is so highly regarded in China
that a man with a blue button on his
cap can travel all over the country :
without a penny in his pocket, and
when he passes all must .stand aside
and respect him as one from whom
they have something moral and intel
lectual to learn ; for no seminary in
China dare issue a diploma to a man
of known immorality. The moral is
considered far above the intellectual.
In making this distinction we obey
Confucius, who says we should associ
ate with none who are not equally in
telligent with ourselves, lest we become
degraded to their rank. The great
doctor also says: “ Let the pub
lic schools be carefully maintain
ed ; and let children be early in
structed in morals.” As the pa
rents give birth to our bodies, so,
we believe, our school teachers give
birth to our souls. Many say that we
have no religion, but only moral princi
ple. In our opinion, moral principle is
religion. To Bhow the similarity of the
Buddhist with the Christian religion I
will read an extract : “The oracle com
manded Yisbnu to become a mac and
be born in the city of Matra, or Bud
dha.] Yisbu replied : ‘I will become in
carnate in the house of Sadie, and will
issue forth to mortal birth from the
womb of Devaci (a virgin). It is time
I should display my power and relieve
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the oppressed earth from its load.’
When Devaei became pregnant her
countenance was radient with celestial
light. Brahma and Seva, with a host
of spirits, came to her and sang : ‘ln
thy delivery, our favored of all women,
ail nature has cause to exult. How ar
dently we longed to look and behold
that face, for the sake of which we
have come to exult; how ardently
we longed to look aud behold
that face, for the sake of
which we have coursed round the three
worlds.’” “Put not upon thy neigh
bor’s head a hat that hurts thine own,”
says Buddha, who stands as Christ
does, an intercessor between the Al
mighty Father and man. Can we not
infer, therefore, that man, by following
such principles as these, may inherit
the kingdom of heaven? What is a
Christian? If I understand, it is to be
like Christ. Christ was a good man—a
man without sin—therefore, to be good,
you must imitate Him. The Buddhist
law, “Thcu shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy strength and all thy mind;
witn thy whole heart aud thy whole
soul, and thy neighbor as thyself,” is
also the Christian law. The speaker
censured the Presbyterian article of
faith which excludes from hope of sal
vatioft all who are not Christians. Let
those who censure us study our religion
and morals, find tbeir faults and show
them to us. If reason prove them
right and us wrong, we will concede;
hut, iii this age of reason, never other
wise. Confucius wou over his hundreds
of millions, not by the sword, but by rea
son. His followers number four hun
dred million of the four hundred and
fifty million people in China, one-half
of the thirty-six million in Japan, near
ly all the fifty-three million ia Corea,
and one-third of the forty-five million
in Tartary. You cannot help admiring
that great man, because he reasons.
Through him those four great territo
ries have been preserved thousands of
years in happiness. Ladies aud gen
tlemen, I thank you.
The speaker quoted copiously from
Confucius and Brahminical writers,
showing highly interesting analogies
between Christianity and heathenism.
He caused great laughter in relating
how customs in China are directly op
posed to those of America, even as the
one country is the antipode of the
other. His suavity and eloquence
made such an impression that it was
with difficulty that he disengaged him
self from the friendly throng that be
sieged him when the lecture was over.
FROM NEW YORK.
Preparing for the Presidential Cam
paign.
New York, December 11.—Tomor
row’s Times will contain the following :
. Fifth Avenue Hotel, (
New York, December 11. )
The Bepublican National Committee
will meet on Thursday, January 13th, at
10 o’clock, a. m., at the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, for the purpose of fixing
the time and place for holding the
Republican National Convention for
the nomination of President and Vice-
President.
Signed E. D. Morgan, Chairman,
Wra. E. Chandler, Secretary.
Sheridan. — Gen. Sheridan’s horse on
which he rode to Winchester is not
dead yet, an i consequently its skeleton
will not be exhibited at the Centennial,
as report said it would be. “One of
Sheridan’s men ” writes to the Spring
field Republican that the horse “Ri
enzi ” is in Chicago, still in good order,
barring a little rheumatism in one of
his legs, and adds : “ Nothing could in
duce the General to consent to the ex
hibition of the noble animal which
saved the day for him at Cedar Creek,
and it might be advisable for the man
who should propose such a thing to
him to wear a breastplate iu the slack
of his pantaloons temporarily.”
Clay—Fillmore—Greeley.—A citi
zen of Lexington has in his possession
a quill of a condor which has a history.
It was given to Henry Clay in 1824.,
with an injunction never to cut it until
he was elected President, when ho was
to write his first mesage with it. In
case he were not elected it was not to
be cut until a“Constitutional President
wrote a Constitutional message for all
| the States.” Alter Mr. Clay’s death it
was given to Millard Fillmore; but he
was likewise unable to use it. During
the last campaign the owner determin
ed to give it to Mr. Greeley should ho
be elected. The quill, which is still
uncut, is over three feet long, and is as
large round as a man’s thumb.
What a nice lot of boys the Prince of
Wales is meeting in India. There’s Sir
Jamsetjee Jeegeebhoy the Jam of
Nowauugger, the Thakur Sah of Biio
waggur, the Rao of Cutch, the Dewar
of Pahlanpore, the Nawabs of Juna
garh and Radhanpore, Meer Ali Morad
Khan, of Khairpur, the Raj Saheb of
Dhrangadra, the Rajah of Rajpeepla,
the Mahrajahs of Edgar and Mysore,
and Sir Salar Jung. Beware of tho
lockjaw, Wales.
On a Kentucky rapid transit line, re
cently, a passenger stopped the brake
man as he was going through, aud
asked, “How fast does this train go? A
mile au hour?” “It goes fast enough
to suit us; if you don’t like the rate of
speed, get out and walk,” was the re
joinder. “I would,” replied the dis
gusted passenger, settling back in tho
corner of the seat, “but my friends
won’t come for mo until the train gets
in, and I don’t want to be waiting
around the depot for two or three
hours.” The brakeman passed on.
“You here again, sir? remarked a
Brooklyn magistrate to an inebriate
who was leaning dreamily upon the
arm of an officer, ready to fall as soon
as he let go. “’Scuze me Judge,” re
plied the victim, “ I’ve been vazzinated
four (hie), five times, an’ juz I spoz’d,
's too much, ’s too much.”
—i ■ i
The Rev. Mr. Gibbs, of Augusta, Me.,
recently delivered a lecture on news
papers, in which he took the ground
that editors are very much like the
little girl whose curl hung down in the
middle of her forehead: whtn they are
good, they are very, very good, and
when they are bad, they are horrid.
“These are mighty bad financial
times, doctor,” said one of our real es
tate agents to a druggist yesterday ;
“fill this bottle with laudanum for me.”
That man still walks the streets of
Patterson, but the toothache has left
him.— Patterson Guardian.
An lowa clergyman informed his
congregation in a sermon delivered
Snnday before last, that the Apostle
Paul, though brim full of Christian joy
and confidence, was never known to
smile. Then he never saw a cross-eyed
woman trying to watch the move
ments of a fly,