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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 5 oo “ three months 2 50 Tki- Weekly—one year 5 00 " six months 2 50 Weekly— one year 2 00 “ six months l oo Single copies. 5 ets. To news dealers. ‘iH Qta. Subscriptions must in all eases 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. ) -W Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office. AUGUSTA, GA. FROM WASHINGTON. BUSINESS IN CONGRESS. Memorial to Chancre the Steamboat Laws—Spencer, of Alabama, Wants His Election Investigated—Morton’s Mississippi Bill Bitterly Discussed, Etc., Etc. Washington, December 16. — Senate. —The usual number of memorials and private bills were presented. Cockling presented a memorial of practical steamboat men and persons engaged in navigation, designating certain portions in steamboat laws which should be changed. In present ing the memorial, Conkling said he ; took great pleasure in laying this paper before the Senate, because it indicated particularly what changes should be made, and it also showed that the men engaged in steamboating had some regard for the safety of those traveling on steamboats. Spencer said that at the last session of the Alabama Legislature, a commit tee was appointed to inquire whether corrupt practices had been used to se cure his election to the Senate. As the Legislature which appointed this com mittee was not the one by which he was elected to the Senate, he had not i appeared before it to answer the | charges. He denied the charges of j fraud and corruption, and said the Le- | gislature which appointed this com mittee was elected by fraud, the same j as the one recently elected in Missis- i sippi. The Alabama election by which this Legislature was put in was like that in Mississippi. It was part of a conspiracy to overthrow lawful gov- j eminent in the South. He re- i cognized the Senate of the United States as the only body having authority to inquire into his elec- ! tion and his right to a seat in this chamber. He therefore offered a reso lution instructing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire whether George C. Spencer, a Senator in Congress from the State of Alabama, did use, or cause to be used, corrupt practices to secure his election to a seat in the Senate, and authorizing said committee to send for persons and papers, and sit during the holiday recess. Davis suggested that the resolution lie on the table and be printed. Conkiing said the Senator from Ala bama had been assailed, and he asked for an investigation by a Senate com mittee. He hoped the Senator from West Virginia would not ask a post ponement. Thurman said he knew nothing what ever of the ease, but it seemed to him that the resolution, as drawn, simply directed an inquiry as to whether the Senator himself had used corrupt prac tices. The broader question, as to whether the election was secured by fraud, was not covered by the resolu tion. Spencer said he would modify it to meet the views of the Senator from Ohio. The resolution was then modi fied to read as follows : Resolved, That the Committee on Privi leges ami Elections are hereby instructed to investigate into and inquire whether, in the election of Geo. E. Spencer as a Senator from the State of Alabama, there were used, or caused to be used and employed, corrupt means or corrupt practices, to se cure his election to the seat he now holds, nd that said committee be empowered to administer oaths, to send for persons and papers, io take testimony, to employ fcten arrapheis and such clerical assistance ui they may deem necessary, and to sit during the recess of Congress if considered advisable, and to report the resu tof their investigation as soon as practicable. The resolution as modified was agreed to. The resolution which passed the House to adjourn on Monday next to the 4th of January was amended by inserting January sth, and passed. It goes to the House for concurrence. Morton’s resolution appointing a committee to investigate the Missis sippi elections was discussed with con siderable bitterness, without action. Morton, calling up his Mississippi resolution, said he had a large number of documents written by a number of persons in Mississippi, detailing the circumstances attending the recent election. The statement he proposed to lay before the Senate was not of his own knowledge, but received from others. He reviewed the elections in Mississippi as far back as 1869. The last election was thirty-four thousand higher than any vote polled. The Democratic vote in 1875 was ninety-six thousand eight hundred and six agaiust forty-four thousand two hun dred and eighty-six in 1873. The Re publican vote fell off somewhat, but not in a corresponding ratio. He read letters showing intimidation in several counties. Bayard said this resolution, so far as he knew, was without a precedent in the Senate, and he would like to in quire of the Senator from Indiana (Morton) under what clause of the Constitution of the United States he found authority to make inquiry iu a case of this kind. Morton said he did not propose now to go into a constitutional argument upon this question. He had only to say that it had been decided hereto fore as in the Louisiana case. Besides, the Enforcement Act had been violated in Mississippi, and the blow had fallen upon the colored people, as it was in tended to. Bayard denied that the Louisiana case was similar to this. That investi gation was under a clause of the Con stitution which made the Senate the sole judge of the claims for seats in that body. If law had been violated in Mississippi, tho courts were open, and this was a government of law. Those courts were open for the indictment of offenders and for damages against those who wronged others. In those courts the remedy was to be found. It could not bo said that the political or party friends of the Senator from In diana in Mississippi had not a full and equal chance before the law, either in the United States or State Courts. The officers all over the State, from the Governor down to the constable, were of the Senator’s party, and if they could not punish violators of law, it was - sad confession for the Senator to make. When the new Senator from Mississippi came here with his creden tials, if there were grounds that he was not qualified, then the Senate could sit as judges, but until that time no action could be taken. When before in the history of this country did the Senate of the United States propose to take testimony in regard to the election of members of the other House of Con gress, as this resolution proposed to do? The Constitution provides that each House shall be the judge of the qualifications of its own members. The Governor of Mississippi asked for Federal troops before the late elec tion to keep the people of that State in awe. The correspondence between him aud the head of the Department of Justice was known to all. Gov. Ames failed to show that any cause existed Established 1799. for Federal interference. Mr. Bayard then referred to the late message of the President, and said there was not one word in it about Southern affairs. The Department of Justice had its agents down there gathering information for the guidance of that department; yet from that department there was not one word or suggestion as to these alleged wrongs. If these things existed there, it was remarkable that the President of the United States maintained dead silence on the subject. All this matter comes from the Sena tor from Indiana, who always seemed to have in his possession statements hostile towards the peace of the South ern States, some assertions without character against the whole people of that country. This was a revolutionary proposition. It was but another step in the march towards the consolidation of power which the peo ple or this country must see. This was the first time that the Senate of the United States sought to take testimony concerning the election of members in the other House of Congress. At the time these Southern people were found helpless and bleeding at the foot of the Senator from Indiana and his party, the Senators of hi3 (Bayard’s) side asked when the time was to come that the Southern States could be rehabilitated? The Senator from Inidana (Morton) was asked then, what warrant he found in the Constitution for his action, but he could give no answer. When asked if he would interfere with Louisiana or Mississippi any more than he would with New Jersey or New York, he an swered : “We claim tiie right to deal with these Southern States.” In the Senator’s own State of Indiana, there had been a great change in the popular vote recently. Morton said yes, and there might be a change in the popular vote in the Senator’s State. Delaware, soon. Bayard—Yes sir; but if my people ex press their ballot against me at the ballot box, I will not come here to ask the Senate to revolutionize my country. [Applause in the galleries.] The Vice- President announced that if it was re peated, he would direct the Sergant-at- Arms to clear the galleries. Bayard, resuming, said the Senate by giving assent to the propositon of the Senator from Indiana, would declare that elections in the States were to be judged by the Senate of the United States. Thurman said the resolution of the Senator from Indiana had not been re ferred to any committee. It was brought in by the Senator yesterday and con tained a preamble that, whereas, it is alleged that these disorders existed, he (Thurman) asked by whom it was al leged? Not by the President of the United States or any department of the Government, or by any paper before the Senate. It was alleged by the papers and the address which was in the piivate pocket of the Senator from Indiana. Did that Senator want to forestal the judgment of the Senate by going into an inquiry, which should not come to the Senate before 1877 ? When it came to decide upon the cre dentials of any person whrrmtgtTt -eome there claiming a seat from the State of Mississippi other Senators would be in the Chamber then to decide that ques tion, and this Senate had no right to forestall their judgment. He referred at some length to the Louisiana case and argued that it was no precedent for the action now proposed. In the Louisiana case the investigation was not ordered until after the creden tials of the persons claiming scats from that State were presented. It would not do for him ( Thurman) to say that this w r as an at tempt on the part of the Senator from Indiana to get up an electioneer ing document at the public expense, but when the Senator (Morton) asked himself what right the Senate had to pass such a resolution he would find it impossible to give himself a satisfac tory answer. He (Thurman) agreed with the Senator from Delaware that the courts were open in Mississippi, and if the Enforcement Act had been violated the offenders could be pun ished. • Morton said, in his opinion, this de bate on the part of his Democratic friends was simply extraordinary. It was in conflict with the wholo of their course in tho Louisiana case. He ar gued that the Louisiana investigation was ordered by the Senate before the credentials of the applicants for seats were presented, and he believed that the iuvestigation was ordered with the approbation of his friends from Ohio (Thurman) and Delaware (Bayard). Now they had discovered that there was no power to make an investigation, he (Morton) argued that the power to make this investigation was derived from several clauses in the Con stitution. That instrument said that the United States must guarantee a Republican form of government to every State. If the ballot Boxes were to be stuffed, as in Mississippi, the whole Republic would be overthrown. His friend from Delaware (Bayard) had said this was a revolutionary measure. It was not a revolutionary measure, but to guard against a revolution. The Senator (Bayard) said that if the Re publicans should carry his State he would not come here for relief. He (Morton) was quite sure that if the Republicans were to carry that State by the means which the Demo crats carried Mississippi, the last of it would never be heard. Democrats would let these outrages go on, and if Republicans made a fuss about it, then they were told that they were lighting the'fires of discord. Gordon, of Georgia, said he arose to correct, to some exteut, some of the impressions about Mississippi, which the Senator from Indiana had received from newspapers, but as he could not catch all the Senator said, he would like the debate to go over until he could read his remarks. The Senate meets to-morrow. Confirmations—Dunn, Judge Advo cate General; Burnham, Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury; Weils, Sur veyor of Customs, New Orleans; Rus sell, Collector of the Third Virginia; Orrell, Postmaster at Fayetteville, N. C.; Bragle, Salisbury, N. C.; Brooks, Cam den, S. C.; Lee, Chester Court House, S. C.; Gibson, Huutington, West Vir ginia. Report on the Sugar Drawback. The report of the Treasury Agent on the subject of the sugar drawback has been completed, and is now in the hands of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Burnham, who is giving it close attention, with a view of framing the conclusions of the Department. Many telegrams have been received by the Secretary, making inquiries on the subject. The Department will, as soon as practicable, issue regulations for the guidance of collectors of cus toms, aud all others interested. The Milledgeviile Recorder comes to band with a single local item, FOREIGN DISPATCHES. A Fight Between Malays and Bri tishers—Reported Resignation—The Dynamite Explosion—Valmaseda Re signs. Penang, December 14.—Eighty of the Tenth Regiment and one hundred and twenty auxiliaries attacked eight hun dred Malays in a stockade. The Ma lays were driven out, with fifty to sixty killed. The British loss was eight killed and twenty-five wounded. The fight occurred within five miles of of Perak. Paris, December 16.—1 tis reported that M. Leon Say has resigned. Berlin, December 16. —The number of dead from the dynamite explosion reaches eighty. Others of the injured are hopeless. Forty were buried Tues day, with some chests filled with frag ments of unidentified bodies. The total killed and wounded was one hun dred and eighty. New York, December 16.—A letter from Havana says it is deemed certain that Captain-General Valmaseda has sent his resignation to Spaiu, and Gen. Ceballos will take his place. Terrible Coal Mine Explosion. Brussels, December 16. —The was a terrible explosion to-day in a coal mine at Framieres, near Moos Fall. A force of men were at work at the time. The loss of life is appalling. It is reported that one hundred and ten miners were killed. Eleven have been taken out injured. The accident was caused by fire damp. The Man who Planned the Dynamite Explosion— Dresden, December 16.—William K. Thomassen, since his attempt at sui cide, has made a full confession at Bre men. He was born in New York, mar ried a New Orleans lady, lias four chil dren, the youngest a baby, lived in Virginia during the war and was en gaged in blockade running, whereby he grew rich. Since 1866 he has resided here and at Leipsie.and last at Strehlen, near Diesden. He appears to have lost his money and oecome embar rassed. He was twice in America dur ing the past summer. The last time he went without the knowledge of his family, and when he returned wrote his banker here that he had made ar rangements enabling him to pay his debts in December. He was highly es teemed by the people about here. Death of Thomassen —Additional Con fessions. Bremen, December 16.—Thomassen died to-day from the effects of the in juries inflicted by himself. He stated that his true name was Win. King Thompson, and that he was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y. His age is believed to be about thirty-five years. He confess ed that he was once captain of the ves sel Old Dominion, and that he changed his name in order to avoid being prose cuted for running the blockade during the civil war in America; that he bought the explosive material in the United States, and had it forwarded to his address, and that the clock-work attachment was manufactured in Ger many, and was set to explode the charge in eight days. Egypt and Abyssinia. London, December 16.—A telegram from Egypt says that on the demand of the British Government the Egyp tian men-of-vvar will be called from the Zanzibar coast, and the expedition to Abyssinia will confine itself to exacting satisfaction and then return. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A Big Lumber Fire—Found Guilty of Murder. Williamsport, Pa., December 16. This morning a fire broke out in Hotch kiss & Barber’s plauing mill, at this place, which spread to the lumber yards of Hebard & Farsman and White, Lentz & White. .The total loss is about $60,000 ; insurance, $30,000. Norristown, Pa., December 16.—The jury in the Curley murder case came into court this morning, and rendered a verdict of murder iu the first degree. Murderer Executed —No Whiskey Trials Yesterday at Indianapolis. Halifax, December 16.—David Rob bins, convicted for the murder of his wife, was executed. Indianapolis, December 16.—There was nothing done in tlfe crooked whis key cases in tho United States Court to-day. MASSACHUSETTS. Settlement with Creditors —Foreign Population of Bostou. Boston, December 16.—The creditors of J. B. Palmer & Cos., wholesale deal ers and manufacturers of clothing, have accepted 80 cents. The Medical Commission, appointed by the City Council to investigate the sanitary condition of the city-, report that nearly two-thirds of the popula tion of Boston are foreigners and their offspring, and of this proportion two thirds are Irish. Minor Telegrams. Nashville, December 16.—Returns from the Fourth Congressional District render the election of Riddle, Demo crat, certain. New Orleans, December 16. —Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, has appointed R. H. Marr to the United States Sen ate, vice McMillan, resigned. Washington, December 16.—The reg ular monthly cotton report of the Ag ricultural Department will not be ready until the latter part of the month. Chicago, December 16.—The National Transportation Conveutioa is in ses sion. Sixteen States are represented. The enlargement of the Welland and St. Lawrence Canal to secure an outlet for the largest vessels, was urged. Boston, December 16. — The forty third regiment, Tigers, Massachu setts Volunteers, celebrated the anni versary of the battle of White Hall, N. C., to-day, by a re-union and dinner. One hundred aud twenty-five members were present. Nashville, December 16. — The fail ure of Ewen, Pendleton & Cos., whole sale druggists is announced. Liabilities, $75,000. Hard times and the impossi bility of making collections is assigned as the cause. VIRGINIA. Re-election of Senator Johnston to the United States Senate. Richmond, Va., December 16. —The ihird ballot in tho General Assembly for United States Senator was taken at noon to-day, and resulted in the re election of Senator Johnston by a strict pirty vote, the Republicans casting a full vote, twenty-two, iu the House and six iu the Senate, for Gen. W. C. Wick ham, late Vice-President of the Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad. -A.TJQUST-A. Gl.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17,1875. FROM NEW FORK. No Further Respite for Dolan—Four Murderers to Hang To-Day in New fork—Suicide of a Beautiful Young Lady. Rochester, Decembeii 16.—The pri vate secretary of the Governor, to whom the matter was referred, informs the Governor that there is no good rea son for a further respite of Dolan, the Noe murderer. New York, December 16.—The ne groes Ellis, Thompson aud Weston will be hanged to-morrow with John Dolan. Ellen Wallaway, a beautiful young woman of nineteen, living with her mother in Brooklyn, suicided b$ shoot ing herself through the temple. Grief for the absence of her father, who went to Europe on account of financial trou bles, is the supposed cause. A Point of Law. New York, December 16.— 1n the United States Circuit Court, criminal branch, to-day, counsel for Charles L. Lawrence, indicted and extradicted for complicity in the great silk smuggling" frauds, moved that pleas of not guilty to counts in iudictinent charging him with passing false papers ordered to be eutered by the couit, be expunged from the records, on the grounds that a person extradicted for one offense could not be tried for another; and further, that President' Grant aud Attorney General Pierre pont. had ordered that. Lawrence be tried only for forgery. Judge Kene- \ diet denied tbe motion on the ground that the court, in ordering the pleas to be eutered, had complied with the pro visions of the statutes, and no instrno tions, no matter from what source, if in violation of law, could be entertain ed, and that the responsibility for the counts in the indictment charging ! other offenses than forgery, rested solely with the grand jury. SOUTH CAROLINA. Election of Judges by the Black and Tan Legislature—Two Negro Judges lndignation Expressed. Columbia, December 16.—A caucus of the Radical members of the State Leg islature was held last night, and the first business to-day was to adopt re solutions in joint session of both houses, and proceed at once to the election of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and eight. Circuit Judges for the State. The election resulted as follows : Associate Justice, Wright (ne gro). Circuit First Circuit, Whipper (negro); Second, Wiggin (car pet-bagger); Third, F. il Moses, Jr., (ex- Goveruor); Fourth, Townsend ; Fifth, Mackey ; Sixth, Carpenter ; Seventh, Northrop ; Eighth, Cook—all Republi cans. The election of Whipper, Wig gin and Moses—the first for the Charleston Circuit, the most important in the State—creates regret and indig nation among the best class of Repub licans and the people generally. Excitement in Charleston Regarding] the Election of Judges - A Nice Kettle ] of Fish. Charleston, December 16. —Great ex citement prevails here, in c onsequence of the election, by the Legislature, to day, of eigiit Circuit. Judges and one Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Wright (colored) was chosen to the latter position in the Charleston Circuit. Judge Reed, a moderate Re publican, is replaced by the black poli tician, Whipper, whom Gov. Chamber lain publicly denounces as utterly in capable and corrupt. Charleston is the most important circuit in the State. Ex-Gov. F. J. Moses, Jr., is elected in the Third Circuit, and the other circuits have been filled by the election of per sons less notorious, but eiflially obnox ious to the tax- payers. SPORTING NEWS. The New Orleans Races—The Favor ites Beaten in All Races. New Orleans, December 16. —Races —third day—The first race, a handi cap hurdle, two miles, was won by Ox more, Port Leonard second, and Laura third. Time, 4:01. The second race, one mile and three quarters, for all ages, was won by Cori ander, Volcano second, and Verdigris third. Time, 3:13)^. The third race, mile heats, best three in five, was won by George Graham, Ella Harper second, Kdburu, Pompey’s Pillar and Sweet Boy distanced. Time, 1:46, 1:46, 1;51, 1:23>4. Ella Harper took the first heat. .The favorites were beaten in every race. PERILS OF THE OCEAN. Distressing Shipwrecks—Loss of Life aud Sufferings .jf Survivors. New York, December 16. —Late New foundland papers state that the sloop Hopewell, with eight persons on board, which left St. Johns on the morning of November 29th for a harbor in Maine, was wrecked. The early part of the day was tine, but toward nightfall a heavy storm arose. The Hopewell proceeded as far as the vicinity of Cape St. Francis, when she ran upon Biscau rock about eight o’clock in the evening. All hands, with one exception, were lost. The survivor got on the rock and there remained until next day toward even ing, when he was rescued, after much trouble, by the steamer Hercules, which discovered th 9 poor fellow waving a handkerchief. He had been on the rock about twenty hours, at tho mercy of every sea, and was almost ex hausted. The same day the schooner Water Witch left St. Johns for Conception Bay and went to pieces iu the vicinity of Cape St. Francis at night. The shore line is almost perpendicular to the height of nearly six huff died feet. As the vessel was drived against the cliff those on board got on a ledge, where they clung all night. Those whose footing was the lefast secure were swept off by the sea.'; Thirteen out of the twenty-four persons on board were saved, each one being made fast to about one hundred Mthoms of line and hauled up to the faot| of the cliff by the settlers in the neighborhood, who dis covered the ship-wrecked crew by their cries. There were four females among the lost. Several other marine disas ters involving the logs of eleven more lives are also reported. Washington, December 16.—The sig nal service observer at Barnegat Beach, reports the following: The J. C. Bowers, a two masted ship, loaded with lumber and bouhd for Toms river, went on the shoals jvhile entering the inlet. She will probably get off in jured. To-day the gentle-iains patter op the skylight, aud all is s<|ft aud balm}’. To morrow the'strong D*ian may be seated on tho icy sidewalk; and calling for a war with Mexico.— fifee Press. A MODEL SCHOOLMASTER. ackford Squeers aril Do-the-Boys Hall in Nevada. [New York Times.] Dante, during his exile from Flor ence, remarked, in effect, that if there was one t hing which he hated more than another, it was to go up other people’s stairs. The remark not only indicated a lack of confidence in his legs, but it also hinted at an obstinate tendency on the part of “other people” to be absent from their offices when the lonely exile called on them. Of course, if Dante had lived at the present day, and been exiled to an American city, he would have patronized elevators, and had no occasion to lament the steepness of alien stairs. Still, even at RavenDa, the remedy for the evil of which he complained lay in bis own hands. He could have refused to call on any one who lived higher than the ground floor, or he could have hired a cheap daugh ter or an inexpensive wife to climb stairs and make collections for him, while he waited on the sidewalk below. Such is the astute practice of the mod ern Italian exile, and his simple but efficient plan for avoiding the necessity of climbing stairways with a heavy or gan on his back,-shows the progress of Italian thought since the days of Dante. History repeats itself. The hardships of Dante in exile have been experienced by a small boy in Alameda county, California. Master Stone has been com pelled to climb the stairs of an Alameda school house to an almost incredible extent, and the task has so enfeebled his legs and depressed his spirits that he has taken to his bed, and his kind lather has tried to comfort him by bringing him a novel and interesting injunction from a county court. The story, which furnishes an illustration of the educational methods pursued in California, carries its own moral with it, and is briefly as follows. In Alameda county there is a school presided over by a teacher named Brodt. Master Stone, while attending this school, left undone something that he ought to have done —say in connec tion with sums—or did something which he ought not to have done—per haps of the nature o§ “joggling.” At all events Mr. Brodt ordered him up for punishment. For some reason Mr. Brodt did not follow Solomon’s advice to spoil the child by sparing to rod, but prepared to spoil him by compelling him to ascend the school house stairs one hundred times, and, as the result proved, did spoil him, so far as his legs were concerned, to a serious extent. Master Stone obediently began his task; but having unintentionally omit ted three or four stairs ou one of his ascensions, he was immediately or dered to climb the stairs fifty times more. In so doing he stumbled aud fell. The teacher, justly irritated by this lack of moral sense on the part of Master Stone, gave him ten more jour neys to perform. These one hundred and sixty ascensions having finally been made, the boy returned to bis desk, aud Mr. Brodt dismissed the school, feeling that ho had developed a hitherto unsuspected genius for the cultivation of juvenile legs and the iu cultivation of moral principles in juve nile spinal columns. A short time afterward, while climb ing the same stairs on his way to the school room, the depraved Master Stone committed the brutal and re volting offense of “looking around.” He was promptly sentenced to ascend the stairs three hundred and twenty times, and it is rather odd that the teacher did not compel him at the same time to read aloud without ceas ing the scriptural account of the diffi culty in which Lot’s wife involved her self by a somewhat similar crime. Having finished his task, Master Stone resumed his seat, and not having the fear of Mr. Brodt before his eyes, and being instigated by the superfluous demon, who in legal documents is re presented as unnecessarily meddling with Californians, deliberately shrugged his shoulders. Twice three hundred and twenty is six hundred and forty. Eapidly making this calculation with surreptitious chalk on the inner surface of his desk, Mr. Brodt an nounced that the stiff-legged and rebellious Master Stone would instantly proceed to climb those penitential stairs six hundred and forty times. The hours lagged slowly on. The sun slid noiselessly down the snowy slopes of the Sierras, and evinced a determina tion to seek its couch in the broad Pa cific. In the “ Alameda Saloon,” at the mouth of School House Gulch, Sandy Jake and Conkey Sam exchanged so ciable shots with their revolvers. In short, the usual routine business of a Californian day was transacted ; and the hour for closing the school had nearly arrived when the exhausted Master Stone linished his six hundred and fortieth ascension, and returned to his desk. Humanity will probably shudder on being told that the wicked boy again shrugged his shoulders. 'lhe teacher made another hurried but ac curate calculation, and sentenced the offender to twelve hundred and eighty stairs. Fearing that his next offense would incur a sentence of twenty-five hundred and sixty stairs. Master Stone fled to his home, and invoked the in tervention of his father. It is creditable to Mr. Brodt’s mathe matical powers that he foresaw that the boy could not carry out his task in the course of any one day, and he therefore permitted him to climb only thirty stairs a day for six consecutive days. It is not quite clear what was to be done with the odd twenty stairs, but it is possible that Mr. Brodt made a mistake in his manner of dividing twelve hundred and eighty by thirty. Few men can solve abstrue problems in chalk with absolute certainty in the presence of an indignant California father who is notoriously “spry with his weapons.” However this may be, Master Stone was directed to make his thirty daily ascensions. He broke down the first day; went home a demoralized and dilapidated boy, and his father ap plied to the courts for an injunction forbidding Mr. Brodt to make any fur ther use of his newly-invented punish ment. The moral of this story is obvious. It is that the Alameda district sohool should be hereafter held on the ground floor of a one story house. Mr. Brodt would then be unable to compel boys to spend their youthful existence in going up and down stairs. The same end might perhaps be attained with equal certainty if Mr. Brodt were se curely tied to a sequestered tree, and his scholars permitted to devote an afternoon to amusing him in some in nocent and cheerful way. After which anew teacher could be imported, and a subscription taken up among the members of the Alraeda County Board of Education for arnipa salve and a free railroad ticket to Chicago for the inge-; uious Mr. Brodt. The Sayaunah News endeavors to prove that Boss Tweed has been re cently in that city. “Too thin.” AMERICAN COTTON GOODS. THE RECENT HEAVY SHIPMENTS TO ENGLAND. Our Manufactures Getting a Share of the Immense Foreign Trade. [New York Sun ] In a circular letter to several of the leading dry goods houses in this city, Edward and John Jackson, of Man chester, England, write encouragingly of the importation into that market of cotton goods manufactured in the United States, an enterprise that is at tracting considerable attention, espe cially among English firms. In this letter attention is called to the supe rior quality of American goods as com pared with the English, and to the fact that they are made of genuine cotton, are not weighted with stiffening and filling, and that they will wash and wear in a satisfactory manner. This communication, which is an ad vertisement of American goods by an English firm, is significant of the im portance which is attached to the at tempted revival of the exportation of American cotton cloth. Yesterday a Sun reporter called upon several agents for the cotton mills, “We are shipping largely,” said one. “It should be generally understood that Manchester, England, is the great headquarters of the world for cotton goods. Orders for China, India, Africa, South America and the West Indies are received here by way of Manches ter. So that it does not follow that because American fabrics are sent to Eugland they are to be sold in English markets. But they compete with Eng lish goods none the less. Before the war exportations to China, India and Africa were considerable. The cloths sent were the medium and coarser grades, from fourteen to thirty yarns. Three causes combined to almost de stroy the trade. First, our commerce was destroyed; then, during the war, our home mills were making such enormous profits at home that they would not look at the four or five per cent, they could make by exporting. But the chief cause of the decline in our exports, especially to China, India, and Africa, was the lact that England threw into those markets for a less price than we could adulterated goods. COTTON, CHALK AND STARCH. Here is a circular issued some time ago by a leading New York firm, show ing that in order to control these mar kets, the Manchester manufacturers in creased the quantity of size in drills and shirtings, until one-third of the weight of the goods was chalk or starch. Of course, such goods were worth almost nothing after being washed. This same circular shows that American goods contain only the size needed for their manufacture, and and are otherwise better than the Eng lish'. and proves that, taking the actual quantity of cotton in each, our cloths are fifteen per cent, cheaper than the English. Well, the merchants in China and India are finding out the frauds practiced on them by the Manchester manufacturers, and the demand for American fabrics is increasing. We can produce the grades of goods sent there—the medium aud coarser grades —cheaper than any other market in the world, aud there is good reason to think that we snail get our share of the 845,000,000 heretofore annually paid to England by China for cotton cloths. “Within four months there have been sent to England from the United States from eight thousand to ten thousand pieces of brown shirtings, made of from twenty-two to thirty yarns, and sold there, with cost and charges, to net shippers as high as they could have been sold here, some thing that was never done before. There was no loss, but the profit was small. Such is the depression.of the market here, that we are willing to make from two and a half to five per cent, if we can.” SUPERIOR GOODS. “We send,” said another agent, “the better classes of brown sheeting and shirtings and the best grades of bleached goods to England, and are competing successfully with English goods. There is no doubt but that our goods are superior in every respect to those of British make; and our prices to-day are at a point where wo can compete with the world. There are those who say that unless gold is at a high premium we could not afford to send goods to England, but in my opinion we could do it if gold was at par—that is if labor and all the commodities that go to make up the expenses of manufacturing the cloths came down equally with the gold. In fact, I think that then wo’d be more on an equality than wo are to day. Of course if wages and prices re mained as they are, and gold went down to par, we could not afford to ex port cotton to England. The exoite meut that the English manufacturers seem to be in, and the prominence they have given to the fact that we are send ing cottons to them, has had the good effect of bringing American goods prominently before the world, and as a result we are receiving orders from other than English markets. \a an example, the other day an American merchant reoeived an order from Ham burg for goods to go to South America. Thus the American manufacturers are bestirring themselves, A Fall River house sent an agent to Manchester last week.” “Mr. B. Claflin hits said that if his house had to pay commissions on their exports, they could not afford to make them,” said the reporter; “but, that, having a house in Manchester, his firm were able to make a profit. Does youy house find that to be the case ?” AMERICAN COTTON IN MANCHESTER. “Mr. Claflin buys of us and other houses, and so we, in faot, pay him the commission for selling the goods. Mr. Fairchild, the member of the firm in Manchester, has done much toward in troducing American cotton there; and the fact that he is there is of great ad vantage to the firm, of course.” Mr. Claflin said to the reporter there were no new features connected with the exportations. The conditions necessary to success were a dull mark et here and a high premium on gold. “When gold drops to 7>£,” said he, “we can’t make a cent by exporting cotton fabrics to England. X was talk ing with several of the leading Boston men yesterday, and they all said the same.'’ Experience as to Costly Highways.— The mammoth $10,000,000 structure than spans the Mississippi at St. Louis instead of increasing the business of that city, as anticipated, according to statements wifi not pay interest on cost during this generation. It has worked no change in local trade as yet, and grave complaints are continually making as to its mismangement, New Series—Vol. 28, No. 115 HAVEN’S CRUSADE. Opinions of Southern Methodists. [Richmond Enquirer.) Rev. Dr. John E. Edwards, who is one of the most fearless and able divines in the Methodist Church South, was found in his study. In closing a preliminary conversation, explanatory of our wishes, the doctor was asked what he thought of Bishop Haven’s position, and made the following state ment, which not only embodies his views on the latter point, but upon the school question and taxation of church property, also : “I am no politician. My relations to society, as a minister of the Gospel, scarcely allow me to do anything more than drop my ballot into the box at an election. I am disinclined, therefore, to express through the press any views I may entertain upon the political issues of the day. I do not hesitate, however, to say that I regard Bishop Haven as a nuisance. His views, I charitably hope, represent but a small portion of the great church with which he is officially connected. If I believed that his views, as expressed “in the joint meeting of the Methodist preach ers and the Methodist Sunday School Union,’ and as reported in the Boston papers, really represented the senti ment of the Methodist Episcopal Church North, so far from favoring any approximation to an organic union be tween the Southern and the Northern churches, I should deprecate fraternity itself as a calamity, and as involving a shameful compromise of Southern Methodism. “ The line of policy recommended by President Grant in relation to the tax ation of church property would prove as disastrous to religion and good morals as the thing is unjust and in iquitous in itself. There are two sides to the question, but one of which seems to have been considered by the Presi dent. Church property does not re ceive “the protection of the govern ment,’ but church property pays that to the Government which is infinitely more valuable than the dollars and cents it would pay in taxes. Taxation of church property would cripple the church in its benevolent enterprises to an extent that would be felt as a fear ful recoil on the Government itself. In my own jungmeuc, the President is as greatly wanting in sagacity in his recommendations as to the educational measures urged by him, and the tax ation of church property, as Gilbert Haven is wanting ordinary veracity where his prejudices are involved, or in his respect for common decency in good society.” Rev. S. A. Steele, the new pastor of Broad street Methodist Church gave an opinion concerning Bishop Haven only. Mr. Steele said : “The conduct of Bishop Haven in nominating President Grant for a third term will doubtless receive, as it cer tainly deserves, the universal con demnation of the Southern Methodist Church. It ought to bring the blush to the cheek of every Northern Methodist. What business has Bishop Haven, or any other Bishop, intermeddling with the political issues of the day? If this precedent is to bo followed, where will be the constitutional rights and liber ties of our people? Bishop Haven’s conduct would be less offensive, did he not represent a church which controls nearly a million of voters. Perhaps it will work good. It will open the eyes of the American people. It will evoke a resolve, that unquestionably slum bers in the bosoms of millions of our countrymen, to preserve the liberties of this country from ecclesiastical do mination. With all our hearts we con demn the unwarrantable, the abomina ble behavior of the Boston Bishop.” TAXING CHURCH PROPERTY. Tlie Amount of Property Held by the Different Denominations. [From the New York Herald.] In connection with that portion of the President’s message recommending the taxation of all church property throughout the country without excep tion, the public will be interested in knowing the amount of property held by each of the different religious de nominations in the year 1870, when the last national census was taken. It will be seen that the blow the President aims at sectarianism would fall most heavily on his own denomination—the Methodist—and that he has greatly exaggerated the amount of church property held by the different sects, unless, as is quite improbable, the total of $354,483,581, w'hich, according to the census, they owned in 1870, has trebled in the interval of the past five years. This total was divided up its follows: Methodists $09,854,121 Homan Gath lies 00,985,556 Presbyterians 53,265,256 baptists 41,608,198 Episcopalians 36,514,549 Congregationalists 25,069,698 Reformed Church 16,134,470 Lutherans 14,917,748 The remaining $35,000,000 being dis tributed between seventeen other de nominations. That these figures are correct is vouched for in a note at the foot of the table in the printed com pendium of the census, reading as fol lows ; The statistics of churches are be lieved to be substantially exact and to present a just view of the organization of the several religious denominations found within the United States. It is a coincidence that the Roman Catholics, who number just about one seventh of the population of the coun try, are credited iu the oeusus with possessing just one-seventh of the church property iu the United States. HAVEN^CRUSAUE. An Impending ltow in the Northern Methodist Church. [Wishinffton Special vDeo. 13) to the Cincin nati Euquii er. The religious war inaugurated by Grant, and abetted by Bishops Haven and Simpson, has already begun to react on his author. To-day the Wash ington Association of Methodist preach ers held a meeting, fourteen out of nineteen members being present, and unanimously condemned the policy of introducing polities into the pulpit on the part of their Bishops, and the scheme of turning religious enthusiasm into political uses on the part of Grant. Brother Newman was among the five absentees. This action, taken in con nection with the fierce attack on Grant and Bishop Haven made yesterday by Rev.l)r. Cleveland from the pulpit of the Foundry Methodist Chu r ob creates a profound sensation in religious circles here. Well informed people predict a serious row in the Methodist Church on the third term business. Church sociables are entertainments where everybody sits quiet, waiting for somebody else to say something. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21. 1878.) ail edit! ons of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates foi office. 20 cents per line each insertion. Monet may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. A little girl four years old, named Thomas, residing in Cartersville, was burned to death on Sunday last. Some desperadoes attempted to bur glarize the mill of Long & Pollard, at Hartvllle, recently, but were put to rout by a watchman. It supposed one of the negro burglars was wounded, as blood was found on the ground after they iiad escaped. At Van Wert, a son of Mr. Thomas Thompson,was practicing with a pistol, when, in returning the weapon to his pocket, it was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through his bowels and lodging, it is supposed, against his left hip. He lived but a day after the accident. Darien Gazette: Waen Gov. James M. Smith comes out over his own signature and declines to let the people of Geor gia use his name in connection with the uoxt Governorship, then we will think about believing it. Not till then. Griffin News: We are pleased to hear thfft a largo area of land has been sown in wheat this season, and we trust that other small grain will be put iu the earth iu proportiou. Such crops save a vast amount of corn and credit. At an election held by Oostanaula Lodge, No. 113, of Rome, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: E. G. Hough, W. M.; H. 0. Nor ton, S. W.; Halstead Smith, J. W.; J. W. Meakin, Treasurer; H. Harpold, Sec retary. The Rome Commercial relates a hor rible affair which occurred three miles east of Tilton, iu Murray eouuty, a week ago. Three disguised men visit ed the house of a one-legged man named Grossen, and one of them held the man up in bed and pointed out thy spot for the other to shoot him. His mother and sisters witnessed the whole scene. He was shot through the heart, and died instantaneously. Macon Telegraph : “The Augusta Constitutionalist has not reached this office iu several days.” That’s a fre quent complaint, friend Reese, from some of our subscribers up your way. But then you can’t expect post office men to be careful iu delivering news papers that oppose Boss Grant, when their time is monopolized in flooding the country with Radical literature. Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 231, F. A. M., of Savannah, has elected the following officers : W. S. Rockweli, W. M.; T. S. Wayne, Jr., S. W.; L. W. Lan dershine, J. W.; Rev. G. D. E. Morti mer, Ghapiain ; J. R. Polak, Treasurer; H. T. Botts, Secretary ; A. P. Adams, S. D.; S. Gazan, J. D.; W. G. Morrell, S. S.; J. S. Haines, J. S. The Atlanta Constitution, speaking of rumors regarding failures in Maoon, says the report that Col. Lawton, Treasurer of the Georgia Agricultural Society had absconded with $5,000 of the funds of the society, is untrue. The Executive Committee of the Society upon examination found Col. Lawton had $4,681.20 of the society funds. This is secured by his bond. The Constitu tion further says : “While under the excitement naturally produced by the failure of the Planter’s Bank and the house of Lawton & Willingham, many rumors have sprung up charging crime, yet, the high character of Coi. Lawton causes many to doubt the truth of these rumors. We have conversed with several gentlemen, and while they admit that there might have been mis management yet they do not believe him to be guilty of crime. The amount of Lawton & Willingham’s indebted ness is not stated, for they have not made any statement. The Planter’s Bank, it is said, holds $80,006 of their paper. Col. Lawton, it is said, had $25,000 invested in the bank. We learn that the claim of the Exchauge Bank for $47,000 upon the Planter’s Bank is disputed. The directors claim that they know nothing about it. Among those who loss by the failure of the Planter’s Bank is Rev. J. Mcßrydo, pastor of the Baptist Church, about SSOO, and a worthy shoe maker named Gray, a large amount. There is two sides to every case, and the publio should not make up a judgment until the other side can be heard from. In regard to the rumor relative to Mayor Huff, a prominent citizen of Macon in formed us yesterday that it was not true, and that with his unconquerable energy Huff would ‘pull through.’ ” SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken will assume charge of the Rural Carolinian with the Jauuary number. The Rev. Richard Furman, D. D., lec tured at Sumter, lust night, on Beauty. Mis. Elizabeth Abernathy, of Sumter county, celebrated her centennial birth day on the eleventh instant. The expense of running the govern ment. of Sumter county for the last fisoal year was $11,111.27. The three commissioners olaim to have traveled in the aggregate 4,829 miles. The Riohland Rifle Club of Columbia has tendered an escort to the Palmetto Guard of Charleston during their cele bration of the Fort Moultrie Centen nial. The Silver Cornet Band of Abbeville is making rapid progress under .the tutorship of Professor Lyßrand and will soon be ready to make a public appearance. The instruments are beau tiful and clear. The Ladies’ Benevolent Society, of Due West, recently presented the Rev. W. L. Pressly, pastor of the church in that place, with a line overeat. An Irishmau named Euros shot him self at Easley Station, recently, with a double-barrel guu, from the effects of which he died. He was conscious up to the hour of his death, but he re fused to give any information concern ing .himself, or the cause of his rash act. • Abbeville Medium: There has been great irregularity ir\ tha delivery of our country mail for several weeks past, especially along the hue of rail road. Now this must be corrected by tho post office officials or we shall know the reason why. If a man is not able to attend to his business he should give way to some else. Abbeville Advertiser: The murdered peddler, found in the neighborhood of Johc,ston’s, turns out not to be the ped dler. On the contrary, it would seem from, certain facts that it was a yellow man who had been working on the Air- Line Railroad, and was returning to his home in Aiken. As regards the perpetrators of the foul deed, how ever, no clue has been discovered. They have a spring in Tsxas which yields water resembling lemonade in taste, which is very pleasant and healthful. It does seem as if Nature is doing all she can to discourage whiskey dtinitfng in that State,