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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO 00 “ six months 5 00 “ three months 260 TRi-WKKELY--one year 5 oo “ six months 260 Weekly—one year 2 Ou “ six months TW 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. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN', ! Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalism office. AUGUSTA, GA. 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 To Advertisers and Subscribers. 0: * "P after this date (April 21, 1875.) all ddltions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. AjAeßTlsements must be paid for when han ded In; unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates fot 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 specialnews paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. the 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,