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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year $lO 00 " six months 5 00 '• three months 2 50 Ter- Weekly— one year 6 00 “ six months 2 60 Weekly— one year.... 2 oo " six months l oo Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, 2% ota. Subsoriptiona must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be diseontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, ! Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) JC&~ Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist offlee, AUGUSTA, GA. FROM WASHINGTON. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. Business in the Senate and House— Morton Centralized—Resolutions Re garding the Mississippi Election — The Whiskey Frauds —General Am nesty Proposed—Economy—Etc., Etc. Washington, December 15.—Senate. —West introduced a resolution direct ing the Committee on Contingent Ex penses to report what amount is due McMillan and Ray as contestants. Cooper gave notice that be would, on Tuesday next, ask the consideration of resolutions commemorative of the lire and services of his late colleage, An drew Johnson. Morton introduced the following res olution: Whereas, It is alleged that the late elec tion In Mississippi for members of Con gress, State officers and members of the Legislature was characterized by great frauds, violenee and intimidation, whereby the freedom of the ballot was in a great measure destroyed, and a roign of terror established, ballot boxes stuffed, and spu rious tickets imposed upon voters, so that a popular majority of more than 25,000 was overcome, and in its place was given an ap parent but fraudulent majority of more than 25,000; and whereas, the Legislature thus chosen will have the election of a Sen ator to represent that State in this body; and whereas, if these allegations are true, a great number of the citizens of the Uni ted States have had their rights under the Constitution and laws of the United States wickedly violated; therefore, Resolv and, That a committee of five Sena tors be appointed by the Chair to investi gate the truth of the said allegations and the circumstances attending said election, with power to visit said State in their in- j vestigations, to send for persons and pa- j pers and to uae all necessary process in the j performance of their duties, and to make a i report to the Senate before the end of this session of their investigation and And ngs ; At the request of Mr, Bayard, of i Delaware, the resolution was laid over i until to-morrow. Mr. Morton also submitted the fol lowing : Resolved by the Senate, The House of Rep- | resentatives concurring. That the people of the United States constitute a nation and are one people in the sense of national writ ing. Resolve t, That the Government of the United States is not a compact between the States in Uieir municipal and corporate characters, but was formed by the people of the United States In their primary ca pacity—that the rights of the States are defined and guaranteed by the Constitution and not by any outside theory of State sovereignty, arid the rights of'the States cannot be enlarged or diminished, except by an amendment to the Constitution. Resolved, That the rights of the States have the same sanction and security in the I Constitution as the rights and powers of ■ the National Government, and that local \ domestic government by the States with-| in the iimits of the Constitution is an es- \ sential part of our free Republican system. ] Resolve i. That the doctrine that a State | has a right to secede from the Union is inconsistent wiihthe idea of nationality; \ is in conflict with the spirit and structure i of the Constitution, and should be regarded 1 as having been forever extinguished by the suppression of the rebellion. Stevenson, of Kentucky, submitted i the following . Resolved, That the Secretary of the I Treasury be, and he is hereby requested; to ! transmit to the Senate copies of all letters, telegrams, orders and instructions relat ing to the organization and prosecution of allege 1 infractions of the Internal Revenue 1 iws at St. Louis, Chic >go and Milwaukie, if not deemed incompatible with the public interest. After a long argument and much ob jection from the Republican side Steven son withdrew it. A large number of prominent bills were introduced, when, after executive session, the Senate adjourned. House.—Several financial and postal bills were introduced and referred. Randall introduced a bill removing all disabilities imposed by the third sec tion of 14th article of the amendment to the Constitution. The bill was set for Tuesday of next week. Immediately after the reading of the journal Rainey, of South Carolina, introduced a bill to abolish the committee on Freedman’s Affairs of the House, Holman, of Indiana, offered the fol lowing resolution: Resolved, That in the judgment of this House, in the present condition of the financial affairs of the Government, no sub sidies in money, bonds, public lands, en dorsements, or by pledge of the public credit, should be granted by Congress to associations or corporations engaged, or proposing to engage, in public or private enterprises, ami that all appropriations from the pub ic Treasury ought to be lim ite 1 at this time to such amounts only as shall be imperatively demanded by the i public service. Adopted—Yeas, 223; nays, 30. Springer, of Illinois, offered a reso lution declaring that in the opinion of the House, the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term, has become by universal concur rence a part of our republican system of Government, and that any departure from that time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with evil to our free institutions. Adopted—yeas, 232; nays, 18. Among the nays were Haralson of Alabama, Hoge of South Carolina, Hyman of North Carolina, Nash of Lousiana, Smalls of South Carolina, Walls of Florida, Walis of MUsissipi, and White of Kentucky. On motion of Blaine, Rainey’s reso lution abolishing the House Committee on Freedmen’s Affairs was agreed to. By Mr. Robbins, of North Carolina— A resolution reciting that the tobacco trade is liable to derangement by rea son of the uncertainty in regard to legislation concerning the tax on to bacco, anil that it is desirable to quiet apprehensions on that subject, and de claring it is tbe purpose of the House to allow no modification of the present tax on tobacco to go into effect before the first of July, 1876. He moved the previous question on its adoption. Reagan, of Texas, remarked that there was nothing in the resolution that the House was called upon to deal with. It might be a very appropriate resolution for a town meeting, but not for Congress. Robbins remarked that the only pur pose of the resolution was to assure tobacco dealers and growers that the tax would not be interfered with be fore Dext July, so that they might know what to calculate upon. Cox said he would not tie his hands by voting for such a resolution. It should be referred to a committee. The House refused to second the previous question, and the resolution was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The House passed a concurrent reso lution to adjourn over from next Mon day till Tuesday, the 4th of January. Adjourned till Friday. Babcock Writes to the President—The Court of Inquiry Dissolved. The President received the following from Gen. Babcock: Chicago, 111., December 12. 1o the President: Sib: Since my lequest for a Court of In quiry, as the orily apparent means open to me at the time, of refuting the charges ma e against me at St. Louis, a bill of in dictment lias been found in the United (Slates C >urt, and l shall consequently be Established 1799. afforded a means of vindication before that tribunal. I, therefore, respectfully suggest that the order convening the Court of In : quiry be revoked, as I trust that my case mav be reached at an early day in the Uni ted States Court. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, O. E. Babcock, Colonel of Engineers, U. S. A. The President acceded to thq. re quest and the following order was issued from the War Department: Washington, D. C., December 15. The Court of Inquiry, appointed in special orders No. 216, of December 4th, 1875, Irom this offlee, to assemble at Chi cago, 111. is hereby dissolved, and the mem | bers and Judge Advocate will return to ' their stations. By order of the President of the United States. (Signed) E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General. Nominations, Confirmations and other Items. Nominations : J. B. Stickney, District Attorney for the Nortnern District of Florida; D. B. Corbin, from South Carolina; H. B. Whitfield, Northern Mississippi; R. W. Kealy, United States Marshal for Sontbern Alabama; W. F. j Prosser, Middle Tennessee. Confirmations : Ringgold, Appraiser of Merchandise, New Orleans; Clarke, ' Postmaster, Eufaula, Alabama. No Louisiana Judge is among the nominations. The President’s private secretary said incidentally: “We have not settled your Judge down there yet,” Appointments in the House of Repre sentatives. L. H. Fitzhugh, Door-keeper of the House of Representatives, has com pleted his appointments. J. W. Jen nings, of Texas, is his assistant; H. W. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, Superintend ent of the Folding Room; A. R. Reese, of Georgia, Superintendent of the Doc ument Room; C. C. Aleshire, of Ohio, Assistant Superintendent of the Docu ment Room; Lafayette Fitzhugh, of Texas, Document File Clerk. The assistant door-keepers are divided among the different States as fol lows : New York, three ; Arkansas, two, and one each to Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Indi ana, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and one from the National Soldiers’ Home. The clerks in the folding-room are di vided as follows: Tennessee, two; Texas, two; Georgia, two; Pennsylva nia, two; and one each to Ohio,"Ala bama, Louisiana, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, California, Connecticut, West Virginia and Illinois. Miscellaneous Items. In the Supreme Court, Dudley M. Dußose, of Georgia, was admitted to practice. A dispatch from Dyer to Pierrepont, says there will be no more important whiskey trials until January. VIRGINIA. End of the Senatorial Contest in Caucus—Renomiuation of Senator Johnston. Richmond, December 15.—The morn ing session of the caucus was spent in discussing numerous propositions look ing to the adoption of some new rule regulating the manner of voting. A resolution was finally adopted rescind ing the rule previously governing nomi nations, providing for the nomination of all candidates before the next ballot, dropping the person receiving the lowest vote on each succeeding ballot until a choice is made, and allowing no renominations. Adjourned till one p. m. The excitiug contest for United States Senator, which has occupied the time and attention of the Conservative legislators of Virginia for four days, was brought to a close this afternoon, ia the renomination of Hon. John W. Johnston, the present incumbent. Under the new rule adopted at the morning session of the caucus, seven candidates were placed in nomination and balloting was resumed. Four bal lots resulted in the dropping of Judge Christian, Hon. John T. Harris, Hon. A. H. H. Stuart and ex-Gov. Smith, successively, in the order named, leav ing the field to Senator Johnston, Hon. John Goode, Jr., Representative of the Second Congressional District; and State Senator John W. Daniel. The roll was called for the next bal lot, the forty-fourth, amid the most profouud silence. This ballot resulted as follows: Johnston, fifty-five ; Dan iel, forty-five ; Goode, thirty-nine.— Upon the announcement of this vote, and that the name of Mr. Goode would be dropped, the excitement became so great that some minutes elapsed before the roll for the forty-fifth ballot could be called. Quiet being finally restored, the roll was called with the following result: Johnston, seveuty-five ; Daniel, sixty-four—Johnston receiving only three votes more than the number re quired to make a nomination. The Chairman announced the result of the ballot amid great applause. Adjourned sine die. A second ballot was taken to-day in both Houses for United States Senator, resulting the same as yesterday, but to-morrow’s ballot will result in the re election of Senator Johnston. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Forgeries Discovered—The Wheeler & Wilson Fire. Cincinnati, December 15.—Forgeries of the names of firms and individuals doing business at the United Stock Yards have just been discovered. Several banks were victimized. The imitation of the signatures was so close that reference to the books was required to detect how many of these checks are out, and to what extent the banks and brokers were swindled is unknown. Bridgeport, Conn., December 15. The building of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company occupied the whole block, covering two acres. The flames spread with great rapidity. At eight o’clock the whole establishment was a sheet of fire. About nine o’clock the walls fell, knocking down a dozen spectators, half of whom were taken from the ruins dead and seriously hurt. Two hundred skilled mechanics are out of employment. The new building of the company, erected seven years ago, is uninjured. Found Guilty on Three Counts. Indianapolis, December 15.—The ju ry in James K. Hill’s case returned a verdict of guilty on the first, second, and third counts, and not guilty on all the others. A motion for anew trial ! will be heard to-morrow. i Richmond, Va., complains that, not j withstanding the General Assembly is in session, not a theatre is open. The inference is obvious. People find all the comedy and farce they want up at : the State House. An eating house in New Jersey still reads: “Coflee and eggs fresh laid by Mary Jones.” The hungry man cares but little for punctuatiou, and Mary j is doing well. AUGUSTA. GLA... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1875. THE WHISKEY BINGS. About Illinois Crooked Whiskey— Late Developments. New York, December 15—To-days Times has the following dispatch from a special correspondent detailed to in vestigate the whiskey frauds in Chicago. To-day for the first time it has become known with positiveness that there was a gigantic whiskey ring with its headquarters in Chicago, similar in all material respects to the whiskey rings of St. Louis, Milwaukee. Evansville, and probably New Orleans. It has been impossible heretofore to make that statement with any degree of cer tainty, owing to official complications calculated to suppress developments. There has been nothing but sur face indications since the first seizure. The grand jury found indictments against only a few of the distillers, rectifiers and gaugers. It went no deeper and there was nothing but the present disposition of every community to suspect all persons that justified the association of higher official person ages with the revenue fraud. There has also been a persistent effort on the part of interested persons to spread the impression that the levenue frauds in this city were merely the result of individual and independent efforts that is that there was no combination out side of each individual distiller with his gauger and no central and syste matic organization for plunder extend ing to the higher revenue officials and implying an official guarantee of pro tection against exposure arid punish ment. This theory has been generally ac cepted heretofore, and received con firmation in the character of the in dictments returned. It is now reason ably certain that the theory is entirely false, and that the revenue frauds have been worked out by the same means and through the same machinery, and with tbe same systematic division of spoils, as in St. Louis. The facts seem to justify the assertion that had it not j been for the recent change in the office of United States District Attorney in this city, this phase of the Chicago whiskey frauds would never have been publicly developed. — SOUTH CAROLINA. Meeting of the State Tax Union. Columbia, December 15. —The Tax Payers’ Convention met last night. Full delegations were present from.twen- 1 ty counties. Resolutions were adopted to-day recounting the extravagance j and corrupt administration of the State and county government since 1868, re cognizing some amelioration under Gov. Chamberlain, and recommending the continuance of tbe Tax Unions throughout the State, to furnish sources for the reformation and re- , demption of the State ; also, calling at tention to the disregard of the provis- j ions of the constitution as to registra tion, and recommending the registra- I tion of all qualified voters through the ; Tax Union, to protect the purity of j elections. The Convention adjourned I this evening, to meet at the call of the President and Executive Committee. The Columbia Jockey Club Races. Charleston, December 15. —At the first meeting of the Columbia Jockey Club ; to-day, the first race, colt stakes for j three year olds, mile heats, resulted j as follows : Jack Trigg 2 11. Spring let 12 2. Second race, one and a half mile dash. Lottie Moore first, Abdel Kore second. FROM CHICAGO. Meeting of the American Board of Transportation. Chicago, December 15. — The Ameri can Board of Transportation and Com merce opened its third annual session at the Grand Pacific Hotel this morn ing. John F. Henry, of New York, the Vice-President, called the convention to order and read a letter from Mr. Quinly, stating that he would be unable to attend this convention. The Secre tary read his report, which treats of the great decrease in the rates for transportation in late years, due to the brisk competition between the great lines and to the efforts of the friends of cheap transportation. An invitation to visit the Board of Trade was accepted, and the convention adjourned until two o’clock. MARINE ITEMS. Vessels in Various Quarters. New York, December 15.—A cable dispatch dated December 14th says a vessel named the Terrier which arrived off Scilly to-day, from Newfoundland reports having passed the French steamer L’Amerique, from New York for Havre, before reported with her shaft broken on the first of December in lati tude 50; longitude 18. London, December 15.—The brig Ne ponset, from Wilmington, North Caro lina, for Glasgow, which put into Fayal November 20th lost her sails and had a seaman washed overboard. She is now repairing. The steamer Indies from Alexandria reports that on the 3d, off Cape St. Vin cent, Portugal, she passed a bark—rig ged steamer in tow of a schr. rigged steamer, both of the same company, funels painted red with black top, pro bably the L’Amerique in tow of the Volk de Brest. MASSACHUSETTS. A $30,000 Deficiency in the Dartmouth College Library—Republican Ma jority in the Boston Municipal Elec tion. Boston, December 15 — A deficiency of thirty thousand dollars has been discoovered in the accounts of Daniel Blondsell, the deceased Treasurer of Dartmouth College. His family have placed their property at the disposal of the College. Mayor Cobb was re-elected by two thousand and five hundred prurali ty, The total vote yesterday was two thousand aud twenty-seveu hundred,, with one exception the largest ever cast The Republicans elected eight Aider men and forty-nine of the common Council. The Democrats elected four Aldermen and twenty-five of the com mon Council. _ Minor Telegrams. Poughkeepsie, December 15. — The Upper Hudson is closed again. Springfield, Mass., December 15. The State Grange adopted a resolution in favor of taxing church property and Savings Bank deposits. Boston, December 15. — The Mer • chants’ Savings Bank to-day reduced the rate of interest to five per cent, to take effect after January first. This action is substantially the same as has been previously adopted by nearly all the Savings Banks in the city. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Man Who Planned the Mosel Explosion—Tle Archbishop of Cologne. 1 I Bremen, December 15.—1 tis ascer | tained that the passenger who owned I the case of dynamir,q is named Thomas i sin. He confessed |ie constructed the 1 chest which explod a (I,and had arranged | the clock work to explode it after the lapse of a certain tir*ie. The police have examined his workshop and found some of the packit£<; material, but no explosives. s Cologne, December 15. —The Arch bishop of Cologne !qft this city yester day and is not expected to return. It is understood that ho delegated his powers to a subordinate Catholic eccle siastical. Paris, December 15.—The Geographi cal Society elected Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys a corresponding member. Clamoring for Work— A Commune Formed in Montreal. Montreal, December 15.—Over eight hundred starving men surrounded the City Hall to-day, and called loudly for the Mayor, who appeared and delivered a brief address, dining which he as sured them he would ask Council to do all it could to provide them with work. The men seemed discontented, and said they could not wait long. A com mune has been formed and trouble is apprehended. FROM NEW; YORK. Tweed's Six Million Suit—Grant Ac cepts an Invitation —Consecration of a Bisbop. New York, December 15. — The six million Tweed suit is set for the first Monday in January. Grant has accepted the invitation of , the New England Society to be present on Forefathers’ Day, December 22. Rev. Jno. Henry Hobart Broun, S. T. D., of Cohoes, was consecrated Bishop of Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, in St. j John’s Church this morning, Bishop Potter presiding. m— —• Gentlemen’s Fashions. [From Harper’s Bazar. 1 The business suits worn for morning and general use by gentlemen are of English and Scotch cloths in dark sombre brown and gray shades. Many plaids, vague and indistinct, but of larger size thau those-of the summer, are chosen for such suits and for travel ling. The prevailing style for these plain suits is a double-breasted reefing sack for the coat, with a single-breast ed vest buttoned very high and close, and pantaloons of the same material cut larger in the leg than formerly. Indeed, with each season we have to record that coats are made longer and trowers are larger. Instead of sack coats, the Newmarket walking coat is sometimes used. Lines of red or of orange are occasionally introduced in the sombre plaid cloths worn by gen tlemen. The semi-dress suit worn at day re ceptions, visiting, driving, at church, concerts and theatre, as a coat and vest of dark blue, brown or black i cloth, with pantaloons of the same or ! else of light gray cloth, or stripes of black and white. The double-breasted frock coat is made very long, and may be bound with silk galloon or merely j corded in neat aud tasteful fashion, I The single - breasted vest has a j notched collar, and buttons medium low; there is a special shape for the vest of frock coats different from all I others. This suit is considered most dressy when the pantaloons are of the cloth used for the vest and coat, but there is so little variety in gentlemen’s attire that many prefer the gray or striped pantaloons. Very fine diago nals are preferred to ah other figured cloths for semi-dress suits. There is nothing now to record in gentlemen’s lingerie. Shirt fronts are in shield shape, without pleats, but made of the linen doubled with an inner layer or third ply of very coarse linen. A row of stitching or of fine cord finishes the edge of the plain fronts of shirts for ordinary wear. For full dress occa sions, a slight vine of needle-work or a row of hem-stitching B added. The standing English collar; is the prevail ing style, aud this is \vc*rn higher than ever; the band at the back is exceed ingly broad, and the fronts are rolled over in a way that is m|ie pronounced than becoming. Shirt cuffs are square cornered, and not as broad as those of last Summer. Broad flatly folded scarfs are worn with high-cut single-breasted vests, and the shirt front is almost entirely concealed. These are most liked when made of plain black gross grain, but there are many striped, figured and brocaded scarfs; the latter have super seded the polka-spotted scarfs lately worn. Made-up scarfs iu sailor shape are again revived, and are by many preferred to the wider scarfs. Bias Windsor neckties like those worn by ladies are chosen by gentlemen who know how to tie their cravats; for those who do not know there aro made bows of large size tied in easy fashion, so that they do not look stiff and set, as every thing ready made is apt to do. Few gentlemen in tiie city wear boots, as they are too little exposed to snow and mud to need them, and the fashion of wearing shoes in the sensi ble English shapes prevails. For the street and ordinary day wear are dou ble-souled buttoned gaiters of calf skin, with broad soles, low square heels, and wide, squarish toes. For the evening and for dress occasions generally, are calf skin gaiters with kid tops, made with lighter soles, and toee not so square as the day shoes that are meaut for walking. Gentlemen’s dress silk hats have yeomen bell, crown six and three-fourth inches high, with brims sharply curved in D’Orsay style, and one and seven eight inches wide. The undress hat to wear with business suits is of black felt, with round Derby <jrown five in ches high, and brim with D’Orsay curve. 1 ?. ® The newest seal-skin caps have very high crowns, with a rolled band that may be turned down over the ears. The most stylish of these is the Cos sack, with high, square-top crown, crushed in or indented like those of Alpine hats. When a man expires wffhout making any provision for the payment of his doctor’s bill, it is uncommonly hard for the doctor to go to church and listen to a prayer for the release of that man’s soul from purgatory. A revival is raging at Amandaville, Ky., under the management of a local Talmage, who says : “Iknow lam a fool, and I glory in it; just such as I am, God sent to knock the socks from under the sinners’ heels V* Hah, see here ! Will y:>u treat your New Year’s caliers to wines, or merely to coffee and cold water? LETTER FROM ATLANTA. Mr. Penlleton in the Gate City—His Ovatioi There —The Great Failure— A Local Squabble—Notes—Cheap Living hat Beats Chicago. [FromOur Regular Correspondent.] Atlanta, December 14th. The visit of the Hon. George H. Pen dleton, o Ohio, to Atlanta has seduced from thelairs of patriotism spontane ous ebulltions of glorious gush, which bubbled from the busy bosoms atween bursts ofcloquence and shouts of ap plause. We took him to see the Gov ernor, acd clothed that visit with the stillest formality and erected dignity. When we had lathered him well with Executive soap, we chaperoned him around hie busy boulevards and point ed our enterprising finger at the gurg ling water works, the cussed Custom House, trie marvelous Markham House, the stupendous State House, and capped tbe climax by pulling tbe port ly politic.au to the purling precious ness of the potent Ponce de Leon Springs. At night we tuned up our harps, troubled our troubadours and surreptitiously serenaded in the still ness of tie star-gemmed night. When we had lamboozled him into the belief that we jould get up a Boston Peace i Jubilee on the shortest notice so far as | music wifi concerned, we puckered our | progress.ve mouths, as boys do in the j gallery, and whistled for him to come out and enlighten us. He came out blushingty' on the arms of Ben Hill and other w>rthy and gallant escorts, and made a speech that was as neat as a 1 new chaubermaid and as full of sensey pith as an elder bush. He seemed to have shaken that speech of all nonsense and sent is to us hot. It skimmed over the limpid waters of balderdash, flew out of tbe humid air of gaseous gush, 1 and took a bee-line for honesty and well meaDingness. He paid a passing tribute to Georgia’s greatness, hit Grant a sockdologer anent his sectarian and religious movement, and finally wound up gracefully and burly, without the usual aud ever-expected allusion to the hazy fact that Atlanta was the Chicago of the South ! A thin veil of disappointment was drawn by this omission over the eager expectations of the serenaGers, but they evidently concluded that he certainly forgot it, as they ambled off to their progressive couches without vouchsafing that Pen dleton was an old fool. Mr. P. was well treated during his stay here. I can’t admire this jumping head-over-heels into ecstasies at the approach of a notable, but candor com pels me to record the fact that the Atlantattidinariaus did the neat thing with the Ohio statesman. His speech was a model one for future comers, and shows how nicely one can make a few remarks fittingly without going into* a minute analysis of political doctrines, Constitutional liberty and fundamental principles and all that sort of stuff. Geu. Gartrell and Judge Lochrane overflowed at the close of Pendleton’s remarks. The General offered three cheers for “Pendleton, the next Presi dent!” Oh, git out! THE FAILURE. At lat the creditors have effected an arrangement with West, Edwards & Cos., the sorrowful suspenders, whereby they will receive 50 cents on the dollar, which is a little better than nothing. The thing having come down to system, the exact status of the firm’s affairs is put down at: Liabilities, $318,776; assets, $271,800. Long time and much litigation prevent the realization of much on some of the assets. We are now ready for another failure. Next! WHY THIS THUSNESS. The anonymous growler—that mys terious individual who usually thrusts his knowing head through the city papers aud demands justice or blood, is now having a tussle with a sort of Ginx’s baby case. You see when a fel low wants to expose for sale his peanuts aud apples on our street corners, per mission has to be obtained from the City Council, merely as a matter of form perhaps. The other day two Italian noblemen, catching a whiff of the enterprising inspiration that floats around loosely in Atlanta and with that desire to become famous—a charac teristic of the maccaroni mashers—pe tioned the council for privilege to erect stands, one upon the corner of Lloyd and Wall streets and the other on De catur street. The Decatur street man was allowed the happy freedom and the other refused. Whereat the anony mous contributor is exercised. No earthly reason for the distinction could be made, unless in favor of the man on Wall street as his stand would have been on a street less frequented than the other and consequently less in the way oi pedestrians. The A. C. now swears that the Mayor and Aldermen are incompetent to discharge their several aud laborious duties. The papers themselves are somewhat silent on the subject, although it is rather a serious matter, when you come to look at it. NOTES. Charlie Herbst left last night to take charge of the Macon Library. He will bring it out of the kinks. Col. Thad. C. Jowitt, the handsome and stylish foreman of Pughe’s print ing office of your city, gracefully swept into Atlanta Sunday. He seemed to be well pleased at the improved appear ance of the city and took quite a fancy to the Markham House, especially room 39. The weather is fine, cold, crisp and curious. Coal at 35 cents per bushel. CHEAP LIVING. In a recent number of the Constitu tionalist (it takes the sweat out of me when I get through writing that name) I notice a long account of how a man named Ned supported his family in Chicago on an income of $lO a week. Thero are large families here who live on much less, and they live better than Ned. Economy is the pivot on which turns the happy domestic world. It is the key stone to fortune, but it’s thun der to practice. The families I speak of do not live so well by the exercise of economy as good management. Their larder is at all times well supplied, they wear good olothes and work very little. Their moneyed income is leas, in some instances, than one dollar a week, and yet they live sumptuausly. They are colored families, however, and they manage their burglarious visits splen didly ! Martha. A little variation in the form of a let ter made a venerable preacher, who said that “clergymen should work and play, too,” utter in print the remarka ble doctrine that “clergymen should work and play ’loo,” Adam was thrown into a deep sleep when Eve was made, and many years afterward Cain went into the land of Nod, where he was married. Sleepiness washereditary in the first families. THE AMERICAN CROMWELL. LATEST PHASE OF HAYENISM. Are We to Have a New Protectorate? —Firebrands in Politics—What the Issues of the Next Canvass May In volve. [New York Herald.] Bishop Haven has made a sensation. We have had no declaration from any prominent man for a long time that has made the impression of his fervid declarations on the question of the Presidency. The telegraph did not do the Bishop justice. This cold, peremp tory electric wire is a sore destroyer oJ all kinds of rhetoric and “zeal.” The meeting which was signalized by the extraordinary performance of his re verence, and which may become his torical, was held in the old historic town of Boston. It was a preachers’ meeting. An address had been made on “ Bismarck and the Pope,” a favor ite topic for Protestant declamation. In this address the speaker, whose name was Wells, said that Grant was the “saviour of his country,” and the people could not “ dispense with his services.” The declaration was heard amid loud cheering, and Bishop Haven arose. He saw in Grant, who was pro-slavery enough before the war, “the great hero of human free dom.” Then, according to the repor ter, he exclaimed, in stentorian tones, “I believe that President Grant is the only man who could conquer the ene mies of human freedom. I herewith, in the name of the American people and true Christianity, nominate Ulys ses S. Grant, our present worthy Presi dent and defender, to a third term in the office of the President of the Uni- j ted States.” Then the Rev. Dr. Bates I put the motion in regular form, and j the proposition of Bishop Haven was unanimously adopted, not a dissenting vote being given. The impression that this nomination was the movement of a rather talkative and not altogether discreet Methodist Bishop, and that he spoke for himself alone and not for his audience, is dis pelled by the formal action taken by the meetiugin “unanimously” adopting the nomination. We must, therefore, consider this Boston demonstration as the formal nomination of Gen. Grant for the Presidency for a third term” by a convention composed of “two hun dred and thirteen ministers and about one hundred laymen;” and, according to the Tribune, “an unusually large number of the most intelligent and in fluential members of this denomina tion.” The Methodist Church, it must be remembered, is one of the most im portant, as it is undoubtedly the lar gest, of our Protestant bodies. It is peculiarly indentified with the nation’s progress, with the settlement of our Western world, with the develop ment of a true and pure Christian spirit and a conscientious patriotism. The history of Methodism in this country is a history of effort and achievement, in spite of toil and mis ery, the hardships of a frontier life, of struggles with a rude civilization and of struggles far more terrible with the merciless Indian savage. There is no religious influence in this country so powerful as that of the Methodist ; enureb; for, while the believers In the j Roman Catholic creed may be more numerous, they are alone. The Meth- ; odists have the natural sympathy of i the other Protestant churches, with j whom the Catholics are in antagonism. j Consequently it would be folly for us j to ignore as an unexpected, evanescent sporadic movement a nomination from a convention composed of more than j three hundred members, clerical and j lay, of a church so powerful and nu- I merous, acting under the inspiration of a trusted Bishop. Looking at this movement from its largest sense, we see more and more reason for viewing it with gravity. First, we have the speech of the Presi dent at Des Moines. This speech would have been extraordinary from any Chief Magistrate, but from a President who “never speaks,” who is celebrated 1 for his silence, it becomes more remark- j able. In this address the President ! virtually says that an agitation of reli- j gion will take the place of that agita- , tion of slavery which only ended in a fierce and bloody war. Then came the letter of Mr. Blaine, the accepted lead er of the Republican party, and him self not without hopes for the Presi dency, throwing the same firebrand into the canvass. This was followed by the Message, with its proposed amend ments in the same vein. Now we have the nomination of the Presi dent for a third term by a “most intelligent and influential” convention of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States —a denomination of which the President is an ostenta tious if not a particularly devout mem ber. When we see these suggestive and unusual circumstances following one so hard upon the other what can we think? This is the only practical movement that thus far has been made toward a canvass, the nominations for which must be determined in a few months. The Democrats have been waiting for the Republicans to begin and make as many mistakes as possi ble. The Republicans have been wait ing expectant for the Sphinx to speak and explain the riddle of the succes sion. The two parties have stood an tagonistic, like Laertes and Hamlet in the fencing scene, waiting for the ad vantage, when suddenly the President comes upon the stage, a candidate for the third term, nominated by a respectable convention—much more so, we fear, than any political convention will be—and* upon a platform which has the published sup port of the leader of his party —the platform of “No Popery.” This is the real meaning of the movement in Bos ton. It is the formal opening of the campaign for the Presidency. It puts Gen. Grant first in the field, and be hind him the power of a great church, and the undoubted sympathy of a large part of the Protestant churches of the United States. For this is a question that in no way appeals to the reason of our people. Once strike the chord of religion in the breasts of any people, no matter how sensible and practical, and the reason no longer responds. It becomes a matter of deep emotion, of passion, of fervent belief. All other thoughts merge into this one thought, which rests, after all, upon the holiest feelings of our nature—our trust in a divinity, our hopes for a life of ever lasting peace, ft is well, then, that Bishop Haven should ask the question, “Shall tho Puritan or the Cavafier be tho ruler!” It is well that .the professor who pre ceded him should exalt the President as “the saviour of the country.” Since we are to have a campaign of religious agitation, let it be upon tho basis of the only campaign of similar character which wo have in our Anglo-Saxon his tory—namely, that which began and ended with the career of Oliver Crom- New Series—Vol. 28, No. 114 well. It is well that the super-loyal Bishop should summon up the memo ries of the Calalier and Puritan. Grant foiled in his various flanking move ments for a third term; foiled in St. Domingo, in the Alabama business, in Cuba and in Mexico, now moves upon the religious pine. He shows by this very movement that he thinks he can win by no other. He sees that there is no war spirit that will respond to any ; cry against Mexico or Spain. He takes up the banner which Crom well laid down centuries ago, and makes an appeal to that fierce senti ment of religious apprehension and belief which has always a strong hold on the Anglo-Saxon heart. Ho appeals to a sentiment which modern states men have always disdained to invoke, a sentiment that has never been men tioned in connection with politics, ex cept by political demagogues who cared nothing for the means by which power was gained so they enjoyed power. Nor do we underrate the force of this new position. Once bring religion into our politics and our people will divide as they never did on Mason and Dixon’s line. The dividing line will be in every State, in every town; nay, perhaps, in every home. It will be with us as it was in the days of Cromwell. We shall have fierce, un reasoning fanaticism in our politics, and a Protector over us, beginning to “protect us as a third term President, and ending only when it pleases his military and religious followers to dis miss him from power. The argument which makes Gen. Grant a “necessary President” now will make him so for a fourth or a fifth term as well. It would then be no more a departure from custom to make him a perpetual President or Lord Protector, as the Puritan Cromwell was called, than it is now to talk of a third term. mi 9 DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK. Serious Perplexity—A Powerful Body without Great Leaders —The Repub lican Advantage—Conservatism of Southern Members. [Special to Baltimore Sun.l The Democrats, both in the Senate and the House, appear to cleverly re cognize the fact that the present is a critical epoch in the history of their party, and that the Presidential con test of 1876 will in reality be fought and won upon the floors of Congress in the next six months. This feeling has had the effect to make the Democrats unusually cautious and conservative, both in speech and act, the large body of new members pursuing as commend able a course in this respect as their older colleagues. Yet the indications crop out constantly that this is only the calm before the storm. Many of the new members are of a class of men who are anxious to distinguish them selves. Not a few of them are men of an inferior calibre, to whom the nomi nations were given simply because at the time no one had any idea that they would be elected. It is not to be dis guised that the Democratic majority is a heterogeneous mass, and when the work of the session fairly sets in the leader who will be able to hold that majority in hand will be a Napoleon in deed. The minority is able and vigi lant. Lod by such an artleut and skill ful parliamentarian as Blaine, it hopes to play with great success the part of “ stirring up the animals.” The inex perienced new members, impatient of leadership or restraint, will be very apt, uuder provocation, to retort in language and sentiments which the cooler heads would avoid, ami which will at onoe be seized hold of, distorted and magnified by the unscrupulous minority. Thus it is doubtful whether even the flat of the caucus will be powerful enough to bridle the tongues of the im prudent, aud unfortunately the jeal ousies which always prevail more or less among men in public life are very rife among the Democrats at this time. After the announcement of the caucus was made on Friday, a member said openly that he was capable of judging what was right for himself, and he did not intend to be bound by any caucus decisions which did not meet his indi vidual approval. It does not lessen the difficulties which environ the Dem ocrats that there are several Presiden tial and Yice-Presidential candidates among them, the former, however, it is belived, being confined to the Senate side. Each of these has his own friends and adherents, who naturally think that the views of their favorite should be adopted as the policy of the party. But, so far, there has been but the faintest outline of policy to be pursued further than that sundry investigations are considered as settled on. Later, probably not before the holidays, it is hoped that after formal conferences of both the Senate and House Democrats, whether in joint or separate caucus, is yet to be determined, some plan of leg islation and of the general conduct of the party in the two Houses may be agreed upon which will meet so much of sanction as to constitute the pofioy of the party, and be so regarded by the country at large, irrespective of the vagaries of individual members. Aud here it may be repeated that the dis position to oonoede individual opinions are muoh stronger among Southern members than among those of the North and the West. The Southern members have no candidates for Pres ident or Yice President among them selves, and it would be a blessing to the party if the same could be said of their colleagues from the other sections. An Indignant Subscriber'. Maysville, December 9,1875. Mb. Epitor; My paper still comes around by Atlanta and up the Air Line Railroad seventy-five miles, instead of coming by way of Athens, am i I get it on Saturday instead of Tuesday. This has been the case for the past two years occasionally I would yet a paper at the proper time through by Athens. I wrote you on the subject some two weeks ago. Hope you got it and will notice it, if not you may expeot to hear from me often or until I discontinue my paper, which I don’t want to do if I can get it at the proper time. I like the paper. Respectfully, Madison Strickland. P. S.— You editors of the Constitu tionalist had better employ me to come down and cuss out old Grant’s postmasters. I am sixty-four years old, weigh two hundred and three pounds, and oan cuss out a whole camp meeting in the woods, and am a true Democrat, and am strictly opposed to Radicalism or any of their other issues. I have done some of the tallest cussing for the past two years on acoount of not getting my paper at the right time, and lam in good practice, and now propose to cuss out a host of postmas ters. Hoping to hear from you, I am res pectfully, M. S. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND after this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist wil* be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in. unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foil office, 20 cents per line eaon insertion. Money may be remitted atour risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Voting at the Catholic Fair in Atlan ta is becoming exciting. Judge Hall is holding Calhoun Supe rior Court this week for Judge Wright. The latter presides in Upson, Griffin wants her city charter abol ished, and a less expensive form of municipal government substituted. The Southwestern Railrfiad Company has declared a dividend of $3.50 per share. The total will amount to SIBO,- 000. Two little children of Mr. H. W. Price, of No. 16, Central Railroad, were poisoned Saturday night from eating cheese. They recovered. Rev. A. G. Haygood, D. D., has en tered upon his duties as President of Emory College, at Oxford. The prayer meetings in Athens are still well attended, and no abatement of interest in them is manifested. A letter for Miss Lucie P. Harris, Augusta, is held iu Atlanta for postage. Also, one in Maoon for Miss J. W. Bess man, Augusta, for the same cause. A telegram was sent by the New York police to the police of Savannah on Monday to look out for Win. M. Tweed as it was supposed he was iu that city. The Savannah and Charleston Rail road Company are building a fine freight depot on East Broad street, near Charlton, in Savannah. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad is again advertised to be sold. Sealed bids are invited by the Directors up to twelve o’clock m., of January 25th. The South Georgia Annual Confer ence of the M. E. Church convenes at Americus to-day. Bishop Doggett will preside. The Macon Telegraph denies the sus pension of W. A. Huff. This news gives pleasure to Mr. Huff’s many friends throughout the State. Mr. Conley, of Jasper county, made 3,150 bushels of corn thi3 year on thirty acres of land, which is au average of 105 bushels, or twenty-one barrels, to the acre. Mr. John L. Conley has been com missioned Collector of Internal Reve nue for the Fourth Georgia District, ince’ Jacob Brown, removed, and will enter upon his duties to-day. Atlanta enjoyed a hot air balloon as cension on Monday. A performer con nected with a circus—now, by tho force of adverse circumstances, wintering in that burg—took a short aerial voyage. Rev. Geo. G. Smith, of the North Georgia Conference, has about com pleted his “ History of Methodism.” It is to be revised and annotated by Bishop George F. Pierce before publi cation. The proposition of Messrs. West, Ed wards & Cos., of Atlanta is for a com promise, at 35 cents on the dollar, ten oents within ten days, and the balance in equal payments of one, two and three months. On the night of the 10th inst. the gin house of Mr. Joel M. Dean, of Walton county, was burned, together with a considerable lot of cotton and cotton seed, belonging to himself and Mr. J. E. Biggers and W. F. Hood. Incen diary. A few days ago, a fatal affray occur red in Butts county. Samuel Mays and Seal Hall quarrelled and Hall shot at Mays twice with a shot gum without effect, whereupon Mays drew a pistol and blew out his opponent’s brains. Hall is said to have killed several men. The attendance in the public schools of Columbus during the past year was 1,153—620 whites and 533 colored—an increase over the preceding year of 61. The cost of the schools was $9,684 —for the white schools $8,029, and for the colored $1,655. Average cost per scholar, $8.39. In the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce the other day it was admitted that none of the grocery or provision mer chants had made iuoney the past year*, on account of tho low prices they were compelled to charge. The Atlanta merchants say there must be a reform or they cannot exist. James Holbrook, of De Soto, while trimming a post for a fence with an adze on Thursday last, made a mis stroke and cut his leg just below the knee, making a severe and painful wound. For the information of the surviving veterans of the Mexican war, we would say that Major John O. Ferrill, the Or dinary of Savannah, will, in compli ance with the request of General W. S. Walker, President of the Association of Mexican Volunteers, open a list at his office. The list is formed for the purpose of beiug presented to Congress with the view of obtaining a pension. Athens Watchman: The Hon. Win. D. Anderson, the able and efficient Repre sentative of Cobb county, haviug joined the North Georgia Conference, and been sent to Eatonton station as a preacher, has resigned his seat in tho Legislature. The Governor has order ed an election to fill the vacancy, aud several distinguished gentlemen have been named for the position—Gen. Hansell, Col. Waddell, Gen. Philips, and others. R. E. Burt, Sheriff of Dawson county, recently arrested Lewellen Beck, for the murder of a Mr. Chambliss, of Chattooga county, about two months ago. Beck is a terrible desperado, who has been robbing and stealing for years past. He has served a term or two In the penitentiary. When arrested he had two revolvers on his person, and was at that moment making threats to “ put out the light ” of the individual who dared attempt to arrest him. Miss Alice Reid, in a compositon on “Newspapers,” read before the Craw fordville Female Academy, thus speaks of the Augusta press: Augusta Con stitutionalist, a paper edited by the gif ted Randall, author of “Maryland, my Maryland,” and his corps of able as sistants, which is probably the ablest and most elevated weekly published in the South. Its weekly edition is a per fect Cyclopedia of information, which no well informed family can afford to be without, for its every number is worth the years subscription price. Or you can take its neighbor, the Chronicle & Sentinel, a real live paper, though vene rable for age and grey hairs, with its corps of able editors and contributors. Asa daily it stands peerless in the Stat 9, and, perhaps, gathers up a lar ger amount of news than any other daily, which is not to be wondered at when you take Into consideration the peregrinations of one of its able and accomplished editors and proprietors, whose genial, intellectual face and ohubby figure may remind you of a large yam potatoe as he rolls, seeming ly, in walking, and whose pathos and fervid expression betray bis Celtic origin. (Miss Alice seems to think the Constitutionalist is not a daily, well as a weekly paper. |