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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO 00 “ six months 5 00 three months 2 50 Tbi-Weekly—one year 5 00 “ six months [ 260 Weekly—one year 2 oo " six months 100 Single copies, 5 ota. To news dealers. 2K ots. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in ad Vane*. The paper will be dibeontinued at th# expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. 1 FRANCIS COGIN, {Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) <W Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office, AUGUSTA, GA. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Earl Derby Explains the Suez Canal Purchase Peru’s Debt Proposed Reconstruction of the Erie Railroad Company. Edinburgh, December 18—The Earl of Derby was formally installed as Rector of the University of Edinburgh and delivered his inaugural address. In the evening he made a speech before the Working Men’s Conservative Asso ciation, in the course of which he al luded to England’s relations with Egypt. He denied that the Suez Canal purchase signified a reversal of England’s policy on the Eastern question, and disclaimed any desire on the part of the Govern ment to establish a protectorate over Egypt. He declared that the only ob ject of the Government was to obiain additional security and uninterrupted access to India. London, December 18.—A default has been made in the payment of the cou pons of the Peruvian debt. London, December 18.—Hurst and Watkin, the Committee of the Erie bondholders in England, propose the following scheme to be carried out under foreclosure, by a committee of which Governor Tilden will be invited to take the Chairmanship: Tbe plan proposes to give the bondholders voting power until the position of the undertaking is retrieved, and a reduc tion of fixed liabilities to a level with the net revenue by reducing onerous rent charges, ari l also by reducing en- j gagements of interest on Erie first and second mortgage bonds, as fol lows: Holders of first mortgage bonds and id sterliug six per cent, bonds shall receive mortgage bonds of the same class for interest at present rates to March Ist, 1876—thereafter, until 1880; interest to be payable in gold at six per cent., and after that time, at seven per cent.; but the company shall be entitled to redeem prior to 1880 at 105 Erie second mortgage, including inconvertible bonds. Two classes of gold sterling mortgage bonds, running ninety years to be substituted : First, for sixty-six per cent, of the principal, carrying interest at six per cent, and payable in bonds of the same class from the dates of the default until March, 1877, and thereaf ter in gold ; Second, for forty per cent, of the principal, carrying four per cent, interest and payable only out of the net earnings until 1881, and there after five per cent.* Dividend on prefer red stock to be reduced to six per cent. Assessments to be levied at the rate of three dollars in the hundred on prefer red stock and six dollars in the hun drt I, and on ordinary stock sharehold ers receiving for amounts thus paid, third mortgage bonds, to bear five per cent, interest, payable only from the net earnings and also shares in the recon structed company. A meeting of the bondholders is called for January 4th, 1876, to consider the foregoing proposi tion. WASHINGTON. National Bank Statement. Washington,. December 18.—The Treasury now holds $364,690,112 in bonds to secure bank circulation, and 318,626,500 to secure public deposits. The National bank circulation out standing is 3343,938,278, of which amount 82,127,750 are gold notes; Na tional bank notes received for redemp tion to- lav, 8626,325; total receipts for the week endiug to-day, 33,413,675. Consulting: on the Whiskey Cases. There are no new developments in the whiskey cases out. Secretary Bris tow aud Solicitor Wilson have been in close conference on the subject to-day. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Murderer Hung:—The Montreal Riot ers—A Case of Importance to Mer chants—An Express Robbery. Little Rock, December 18.—B. W. Thompson was hung yesterday at Lew isburg for the murder of Mrs. Stover, a widow. Thompson confessed the crime, but said he did it at the instigation of the son-in-law of the deceased. On the scaffold lie was cool and collected and smoxed a cigar before putting on the black cap. He bid good-bye to the crowd aud kissed his hand to the la dies. Six thousand people witnessed the execution. Montreal, December 18.—The Re corder this morning sentenced four of the rioters at the City Hall to six months imprisonment at hard labor. The police were kept on guard and destitute working men are now pre vented from gathering in large crowds. Work has been promised some of them. New' York, December 18. —Dicken- hoff, Roffloer & Cos. sold 827,000 worth of goods to a Mr, Ahlborn, aud after collecting 816,000 had him arrested, charging him with obtaining goods by misreprcsentatiog his pecu niary condition. A motion in the Su premo Court in Chambers, to-day, to discharge the defendant brought up the question whether merchants, after trusting to the representations of per sons seeking credit, could compel them to make good their representation un der a penalty of imprisonment. The question was decided in the affirma tive by Judge Donohues, by a refusal to vacate the arre3t. St. Louis, December 18.—Early this morning the United States express car on the St. Louis, Kaphas City and Northern train en route here was en tered between Ferguson and Jenuings stations, some ten or twelve miles from here. The messenger, Charles Kincaid, was thrown into a large packing chest and locked up and the safe robbed of from ten to twenty thousand dollars in money and bonds. TEXAS. Cattle and Horse Stealing—Threats of Citizens to Cross tbe Border. Galveston, December 18.—Advices from Fort Clarke, Texas, of yesterday’s date, state a party of Mexicans crossed the river below San Filipe, and stole eight hundred head of cattle and fifty horses from Stricklan & Slaughter.— The citizens are raising companies and threaten to cross the river. Great ex citement prevails. The citizens of San Filipe to-day called on the military au thorities at Fort Clark for assistanc e. stTlouis. Babcock’s Case. St. Louis, December 18.—General Babcock has been sent for and is ex pected here to-day to plead and have his case set. It will doubtless be cer tified up to the United States Circuit Court, January term, and come on after those of McKee and Macguire. The report circulated here that some im portant documents to be used against Babcock has been purloined from the desk of the Clerk or the United States £ourt proves to he entirely unfounded. ®|C Auguste Constitutionalist, Established 1799. FROM NEW YORK. Meeting of Alabama Bon dh oldera New Yobk, December 18.—A meeting of bondholders of Alabama bonds was held here to-day. The Committee ap pointed at the previous meeting pre sented a volumnious report in relation to the direct and ebt, which is stated at 814,718,178. The total deduction from this amount is 82,786,000, leaving a balance of 812,032,178. The Commit tee propose, that in relation to the past interest, up to January Ist, 1876, the State give bonds payable in thirty years, interest to commence five years after date. It also proposed that on the direct debt interest should be paid at the rate of three per cent, for three years, and five per cent, for twenty-seven years. The report shows that the resources of the State, if pro perly handled, are sufficient to very easily pay this amount on the direct indebtedness. An executive committee of three was appointed to manage and represent the interest of the bond holders before the Alabama Legisla ture, iu an effort to receive a better compromise than that offered by the circular of the Commissioner of the Sinking Fund. It was resolved that one-eighth of one per cent, be charged on the bonds represented, as an assess ment to defray the expenses incurred by the committee. SPORTING NEWS. The New Orleans Races. New Orleans, December 18. —At the Louisiana Jockey Club meeting on the fourth and last day, the weather was clear and cool and the attendance fair. The track was heavy from Thursday night’s rain. First race—Howard Stakes, for two year olds; 825 entrance P. P. with 8500 added—second horse to receive 8100 and the third 850, one mile. The race was won by Malmistic; Mediator sec ond, Tecalo third, beating Charley Rowett, Harry Edwards, Crab Orchard, Ashby and Amanda Warren. Time, 1:53. Crab Orchard led at the start and until entering the home stretch where he was collared by Malmistic who won by a neck. Second race—Consolation purse of 8300 for beaten horses; first horse, 8225; second, 350; third, 825; one mile race, was won by Kilburn, Puss Broadnax second, Jennie Rowett third. Time, Kilourn led at the start, and woo by three lengths. Third race—Club purse of 31,000, for all ages; first horse, 8800; second, 8200; four mile heats. Sam. Harper won in two straight heats, with George Graham second. Col. Milligan, Ox more, Pompey’s Pillar and Falmouth were distanced. Time, 8:01, 8:33. Mr. Pendleton in South. Carolina. House of liepresentatives. The House met at 11 a. m. The reports of various committees were ordered to lie over for future con sideration. The usual number of notices of bills were given. \Hon. T. A. Davis, of Charleston, in troduced the following preamble and resolution, Whereas it is known to many of our citizens that the Hon. Geo. H. Pendle ton, of Ohio, is iu Columbia; therefore, be it Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair for the pur pose of inviting the distinguished gen tleman to a seat upon the floor of the House o l Representatives. The resolution was adopted, and the Chair appointed on that committee Mr. Davis, Chancellor Johnson and Mr. Orr. While the committee was making ar rangements to carry out the wishes of the bodj', the Hon. Mr. Pendleton en tered on the arm of ex-Gov. Bonham, and took a seat within the bar. Mr. Davis, of the committee, informed him of the action of the house, aud, with the other gentlemen of the committee and the distinguished stranger, ad vanced to the front of the Speaker’s desk, and introduced him to the Speak er, who invited him to a seat at the desk, and introduced him to the body, all the members standing at their desks. Gen. Elliott said : Members of the House of Repre sentatives, I have the distinguished honor of presenting to you the distin guished citizeh of Ohio, the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton. Mr. Davis said the House would like to hear from Mr. Pendleton, a Demo crat of the old Jeffersonian stripe; and as the House was in the best of humor, Mr. Hamilton moved that the House go into a committee on the state of the Union. This motion was adopted. Mr. Pendleton said : Mr. Piesident and gentlemen of the House of Representatives and fellow citizens of the United States, you will appreciate the proprieties of the occa sion and the feeling that I have to-day in being present for the first time in the capital of South Carolina, and yes terday, for the first time, in treading her soil, require that I should confine myself merely to an expression of my thanks for the honor you have done me and for the opportunity of seeing this Legislature iu session. lam re joiced to be in this old commonwealth and see its prosperity that will be re newed, and is being daily renewed. I shall take back with me to my north ern home a grateful remembrance of it. I thank you very much, gentlemen, and will tbe honor during my life. The members then ascended to the speaker’s desk, and were severally in troduced to possibly the next President of the United States. —Columbia Union- Herald, Dec. 17. “I’ll give five dollars to this church, if you’ll send someone up here to get it,” was the remark that came from a stranger in the gallery of a Portland church last Sunday, iust before the benediction was pronounced. All the deacons and elders present made a lively scramble for the gallery stairs. On Tuesday last a special telegram from Oka, au Indian village on the Ot tawa river, Canada, says the Protestant Indian Church was completely wrecked by a crowd of French Canadians, Ro man Catholics; the roof, steeple and walls being leveled to the ground. One man was badly injured by the bell falling on him. Flowers nearly always begin to fade and droop after being kept for twenty hours in water; a few may be revived by substituting fresh, but all may be restored by the use of hot water. For this purpose place the flowers in scald ing water, deep enough to cover about one-third of the length of the stems. By the time this is cold the flowers will have become erect and fresh. Then cut off the shrunken ends of the steins and put them into cold water. AUGUSTA. GA.. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1875. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. A Wicked World—How to Fail Artistic ly- Farrow—Machine Poetry—Dots. [From Our Regular Correspondent.] Atlanta, Ga., December 17. What a wicked, wicked world this is! Every day or so the maturing mean ness forces its way up through fa voring fissures in the sin-shortened crust and we stand aghast. Can such things be, we exclaim! Echo, that frolic some little devil that shadows like a detective all your ill-pleased excla mations, mockingly answers yes, and worse a-coming. Who would have thought that when the public prints announced the failure of West, Edwards & Cos., aud margined that announce ment with a deep border of sympathy, that the sharp ends of justice wouid be unceremoniously poked into a brilliant bubble of conspired corrup tion and a scene not down on the bills presented to public view! Yet it has. Every now and then the affair takes a darker hue, aud now we behold a vil lainous convocation that would make the hirsute sprigs on Boss Tweed’s head assume the perpendicular. It comes to pass in this book of re velations that the whoje failure was a fixed thing. I'ou see, fellows opened here on a small scale. In or der to give them a seeming sound ba sis and secure credit, Col. James M. Buel (so the bill filed by claimants showeth), who is uncle to Edwards, and who was also President of the Georgia National Bank, gave his check for 825,000 to the house, which was ex hibited and the money drawn. But on the same day, mind you. this sum was deposited iu bank to Buel’s credit, a transaction that goes to show a little game. It being understood that Buel was a partner and had put so much money in the concern, their credit was good almost anywhere, aud they scooped up more goods thafti Carter had oats. Then Buel induced B. W. Briscoe to pretend like he had bought his interest, which Briscoe did. So you see what a game was played. Buel is now a party to the affair, and he will no doubt receive the punishment his nefarious conduct merits, if proven to be as the bill alleges. WANTING REAPPOINTMENT. Bro. Farrow is anxious to be reap pointed to the position of United States Attorney in Georgia, The setting of his sun draweth nigh, and he desires to shine some more. In a short time his term expires, and his enomies are at work bringing every bristling point to bear against him. No mau in Georgia has been more outrageously slandered than Farrow. The bitter blasts of freezing calumny have blown terrifi cally about his official ears ; mammoth mountains of abject abuse have been heaped unmercifully upon his head; avalanches of agonizing slander have covered him, yet he has lived through it all. He ought to have the place. We know none but a Republican can git L it, and Farrow is as good as any of them. Among his claims he says that, during his three years’ service, he has convicted over three hundred criminals, whereas the whole of his predecessors only convicted ninety-three in seven years. He prom ises good work in the coming cam paign, and to do his whole duty as an officer and as a member of the Repub lican party. It is quite possible that he will be reappointed. A POETRY GRINDER. There is a man here in Atlanta who can just knock the socks off G. Wash ington Childs in the line of cemetery poetry, ne is not partial, however, to this kind of rythmical gymnastics, aud only grinds it out to order. Among the people who live by their pen—l don’t mean butchers—none can slaughter jingling rhyme with more genuine cold bloodedness than the man I speak of. I suppose he has grown cal lous by constant apostrophizing and sudden sonnetizing. But he makes a respectable living out of it. For in stance a young man falls in love, and when a man is in love, there is no more use trying to get a respectable stanza out of him than there would be in try ing to tell the truth. Well, this young man applies to our Poet. Two dollars aud a half never fail to bring on the divine afflatus and a poem with love and dove on every corner and a double heart in the centre is forthcoming in stanter. Then my young lady has busied herself in knitting a pair of slippers and feels as if it would be an outrage to transmit them to the unsus pecting lover without a verse or so of poetry. Another job for the Foet, and with presentation speeches and letters for the ignorant, he lives. But his masterly effort in the graveyard line is what I intended to mention. As an evidence of his proficiency I may say that it is understood here that Theodore Tilto offered him something less than ten thousand dollars and a year’s subscription to the Golden Age to wiite him an o-Beecher-wary notice of a friend of his, but the offer was per emptorily declined on the ground that obituary poetry was only child’s play. Nevertheless he gets oil some good things in that line occasionally. Here is one on a colored individual, aud is short to a fault: His name was Pompey Snider; His mule has now no rider. I’ll make room for just one more in order to give a wider range in which to show the extraordinary genius of this marvelous man: Sound the mourful hewgag, Strike the old buzz-fuzz; He’s bound to get his deserts If anybody does. He left us on the night train— He took a sleeping car, And told the old conductor He wasn’t going far. But he’s mistaken in the ticket— The coupons don’t return— So he was put off at the station Where all the sinners burn. Gone to meet his mother-in-law, who was everlastingly hustled out of this com munity by the sudden hurry of a package of dynamite to go off on a tree excursion, and w hich w is surrep titiously inveigled in the pistol-pocket of her garment. An,d I could on exhibiting these moral glycerine packages of blank and unblank verse until next Centennial, but I am too sad to lift the veil higher. On some other occasion, when my heart-strings are not so loose as now, I’ll accomodate you, BREVITIES. The duel reported to have come off at Sand-Bar Ferry has sent the eager blood flying through the veins of the Hotspurs hereabouts, and they rejoice at the revival of the chivalric practice. Half a dozen brides and of course as many grooms were at the Markham House yesterday. Instead of one, several bridal-chambers are needed for the superior accomodations of that house. Boarding houses are getting in order to accomodate the coming Legislature. It is one of the sweeteiit phases of nature to reorganize a boarding house. Weather raw and cold, with occasion al playful attempts to! be sprayful. Now and then a damp dHzzle worries a cuss word from those have to get up in the middle of |the night to see if the back gate is properly latch ed, but a good old-fashioned rain seems to hang fire. •' Martha. DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH. A Field Day in the Hoqse—No Third Term—Republican Squirming. [Washington Correspondence New York Herald.] The hour of Democrade triumph and Republican discomfiture f was at hand. The majority had grown (indignant, and particularly Springer, of Illinois. The tall form of the gentleman from Spring field was seen towering above his desk as he vociferated, “Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!” and every head was turned toward the Clerk, whea the words “Washington,” “Presidential office,” “second term,” and the like, struck the ear. At once there was airush for seats by the Democrats, who crowded in from the cloak rooms and lobbies, while the Republicans were too | surprised to think of what policy The crops of newspaper reporters, scenting a rich scene and a first ejass sensation, jumped down from the gallery to their desks and planted themselves with pencils and division lists to score the killed and wounded. Expectation lit up every eye. Heretofore; the majority had l een the victims ai the division list, but now the Republicans were to put themselves down “yds” or “no” for Grant and the third term, and live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish by the monosylable they should now pro nounce in answer to tho Clerk’s call of the roll. \ Springer, in offering the resolution, moved the previous question, and so shut off all debate. Still standing in his place, looking like an ogre to the affrighted Republicans, he demanded the yeas and nays, which were offered by the sufficient number of applicants. The confusion having prevented a gen eral hearing of the resolution, its read ing was repeated and the words “ Re solved, That in the opinion of this 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 this time-honored ‘custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our institutions ” sound ed like a death warrant, which it doubt less will be for the political future of some of them. During this second reading the Republicans got a chance to draw breath. One of their number sprang to his feet and moved to ad journ, but the motion was lost by a loud and ferocious “No” that must have been heard by the people down on Pennsyl vania avenue. The Democrats were not quite through with the business theyhad ia hand. Revenge was sweet. They had their opponents in chancery, and were going to make all things even. Ad journment was out of the question for a few minutes. Strangely enough the demoralized minority, ever so compact and cool in previous contests with the other side, missed their chance at this moment to filibuster. With the motion to adjourn lost, they could have moved to adjourn to a particular time, and so have staved off a vote for the day, if not indefinitely. But the fact is they lost their head, literally and politically, for their leader, ex-Spbaker Blaine, thought more of flight than of strategy and left the rank aud flip of their own resources. The scene in the group of Republican members had now become painful to witness. Environed by the Democrats and watched by the galle ries, f.ho devoted band was the picture of despair and desperation. They evinced their anxiety in shifting un easily from seat to seat, in rising aud going about from one place to ahother in pursuit of advice ; in twisting their beards, and iu nervous clutching of the hands. The roll call began; a dozen or more broke and ran to the cloak rooms. As the Cierk reached the name of James G. Blaine there was a hfish and a deep momentary stillness. The name was repeated, but no answer coming, and the hurley form of the gentleman form Maine being invisible to the thousands of eyes directed toward his vacant chair, a titter, a laugh, and then a broad guffaw greeted the inglorious absence of the Republican captaiD. Taking time by the forelock, he had waited not for the announcement of his distin guished cognomen, but as soon as the Clerk had reached Gen Banks among the B’s, the ex-Speake=* beat a rapid retreat to the cloak room and was seen no more iu the House until the little unpleasantness was over. General Gar field was among the panic-stricken fu gitives who ran at the first fire, but he recovered his self-possession, re formed in good order, marched back, and, on. the going over of the roll for absentees, he valiantly re corded himself against a third term. The agony was now nearly over. A pause ensued as the clerk footed up tiie result and announced two hundred and thirty-two votes against a third term, and eighteen in favor of a third term. The Democracy are jubilant over their triumph, and Springer is the lion of Washington to-night, as he doubtless will be for the rest of the session. The eighteen third termers are likewise, but less gloriously conspic uous, although many of their Republi can colleagues envy them their pluck, as a day of reckoning must come for all of the discomfitted minority who voted against a third term, and will have to explain themselves at the White House. The spectre of forfeited patronage aud revoked appointments peers from be hind the record of to-day's vote. The happy eighteen need fear no one now in the long list of officeholders in their districts. They can dictate to their con stituents what terms of service they may choose. They are of various hues, it is true, but the fact will serve to con firm the historical truth that “the col ored troops fought nobly,” Of the un flinching eighteen, six are of the bone of the great contention. The roll call of third termers is in brief as follows : Nathan R. Bradley, Michigan; Solomon L. Hoge, South Carolina; Dudley C. Denison, Vermont: Jay A. Hubbell, Michigan; Jere. Haral son, Alabama; John A. Hyman, North Carolina; John R. Lynch, Mississippi; Henry O. Pratt, Iowa; C. D. McDoug all, New York; Robert Smalls, South Carolina; Charles E. Nash, Lousiana; Alex. S. Wallace, South Carolina; Hor ace F. Page, California; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; Harris M. Plaisted, Maine; G. Wiley Weils, Mississippi; John D. White, Kentucky; Richard H. Whiting, Illinois. Among those who voted against the third term were H. C. Burchard, a Re publican from Grant's own town of Galena, Illinois, The list of all the anti-third timers given in the press re port of the proceedings of Congress will repay perusal and reveal some singular inconsistencies to people dwelling under the shadow of the White House. At the termination of the voting Blaine came back to his seat, and was heard a few minutes later in some new matter. He frankly avowed that he had dodged and explained that he could not vote either way without ap pearing, in the one case, to be ambi tious of being Grant’s successor, and in the other of displeasing his friends. Springer, when complimented on his master-piece of strategy and asked how he had come to introduce the resolu tion, said: Gentlemen— l am a Methodist, but I am opposed to a third term. So when Bishop Haven down there in Boston the other day put Grant up for another term, I thought I would show the country that all Methodists were not for Grant, and I wanted to see just how Congress stood on the same q uestion. REMARKABLE DUEL. An Incident of the Rebellion. On the 12th day of June, 1863, I witnessed a duel between Captain Jones, commanding a Federal scout, and Captain Fry. commanding a Rebel scout, in Greene county, East Tennes see. These two men had been fighting each other for six months, with the fortunes of battle in favor of one and then the other. Their commands were camped on either side of Lick Creek, a large and sluggish stream, too deep to ford aud too shallow for a ferry-boat; but there a bridge spanned the stream for the convenience of the traveling public. Each of them guarded this bridge that communication should go neither north nor south, as the railroad rack had been broken up months before. After fighting each other for several mouths, and contesting the point as to which should hold the bridge, they agreed to fight a duel, the conqueror to hold the bridge undisputed for the time being] J ones gave the challenge, and Fry ac cepted. The terms were, that they should fight with navy pistols at twenty yards apart, deliberately walking to wards each other, and firing until the last chamber| of their pistols was dis charged, unless one or the other fell before all the discharges were made. They chose their seconds, aud agreed upon a rebel surgeon (as he was the only one in either command) to attend them in case of danger. Jones was certainly a fine looking fellow, with light hair and blue eyes, five feet ten inches iu height, looking every inch the military chieftain. He was a man the soldiers would admire aud ladies regarded with admiration. 1 never saw a man more cool, deter mined, and heroic under such circum stances. I have read of the deeds of chivalry and knighterrantry in tho mid dle ages, and of brave men embalmed in modern poesy; but, when I saw this man Jones come to the duelists’ scratch, fighting, not for real or supposed wrongs to himself, but, as he honestly thought, for his country aud the glory of the flag, I could not help admiring the man, notwithstanding he fought for the freedom of the negro, which I was opposed to. Fry was a man full six feet high, slender, with long, wavy, curling hair, jet black eyes, wearing a slouch hat and gray suit, and looked rather the demon than the man. There was nothing ferocious about him; but he had that self sufficient nonchalance that said, “I will kill you.” Without a doubt, he was brave, cool, aud collected, and although suffering from a terrible flesh wound in his left arm, received a week before, he mani fested no symptoms of distress, but seemed ready for the fight. The ground was stepped off by the seconds, pistols loaded and exchanged, aid the principals brought face to face. I never shall forget that meeting. Jones, in his military, boyish mood, as they shook hands remarked that— A soldier braves death for a fanciful wreath When in glory’s romantic career. Fry caught up the rest of the sen tence, and answered by saying— Yet he bends o’er the foe when in battle laid low. And bathes every wound with a tear. They turned around and walked back to the point designated. Jones’ second had the word “Fire,” and as he slowly said, “One—two—three—fire!” they simultaneously turned at the word “One” aud instantly fired. Neither was hurt. They cocked their pistols, acd deliberately walked towards each other firing as they went. At the fifth shot, Jones threw up his right hand, arxl, firing his pistol iu the air, sank down. Fry was iu the act of firing his last shot; but, seeing Jones fail, silently lowered his pistol, dropped it to the ground, aud sprang to Jones’ side, taking his head iuhislapas he sat down, and asking him if he was hurt. I discovered that Jones was shot through the region of the stomach, the bullet glancing around that organ, ani coming out to the left of the spi nal column; besides he had received three other frightful flesh wouuds in other portions of his body. I dressed his wounds, and gave him such stim ulants as I had. He afterwards got well. Fry received three wounds—one breaking his left arm, one in the left, aud the other in the right side. After months of suffering he got well, and fooght the war out to the bitter end, and to-day are partners in a wholesale grocery business down South, doing a good business, and verifying the senti ment of Byron, that “ A soldier braves death,” etc., etc. Trusting that the above truthful nairative will be a lesson to some peo ple, North ’and South, that stayed on the .outside and yelled, “ Seek dog !” and are still not satisfied with the re subs of the war, let me subscribe my sell a reconstructed Confederate Surgeon. The design of the new city seal of Charleston, S. C., is a Billy goat ram patt. It is an allegory, intended to convey the idea that a city which has been compelled to stand what Charles ton has stood since the war can digest most anything. Jay Gould is spending a part of his fortuno in taking singing lessons. It shows the prudence and forecast of the mac. If he should ever be reduced to penury he would accept a position in some church choir sooner than go to the poor house. “Have you any nice fresh farmer’s eggs?” inquired a precise old lady at a groaery store. “No, ma’am,” replied the practical clerk, “but we have some very good hen’s eggs.” She took three to tty. CHRISTMAS AT ARLINGTON. As Robert K. Lee Saw it Twenty-Five Years Ago. A picture of Christmas scenes at Arlington House, nearly a quarter of a century ago, is very satisfactorily given in a letter from Gen. (then a brevet Colonel) Lee, addressed to his eldest son, Custis, now the President of Wash ington and Lee University. The letter, lost in the vicissitudes of the war, has never before been in print. At the time of its writing Col. Lee was on duty as engineer officer in charge of the defen sive works in Baltimore Harbor, a position which he held in the interval betw’een his return from the Mexican war and his appointment in 1852 to be Superintendent at West Point. In these years the family circle was often united at Arlington, the home of his wife, where her father George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of the first President, was then still living, and in the enjoyment of health. There are, of course, many details not given in the letter which would have made our realization of the Christmas scenes more complete, as there are a few which, forming part of a family letter, are immaterial, but we are afforded a charming sketch in the narrative of the father to his absent son, and no.v j that the Christmas cheer is no longer I spread at Arlington we may look back Jo its enjoyment beyond the chasm of | the war with especial interest. The j letter says : Arlington, 28th December, 1851. We came on last Wednesday morn ing. It was a bitter cold day," and we were kept waiting an hour in the depot at Baltimore for the cars, which were detained by the snow and frost on the rails. We found our grandfather at the Wiishington depot, Daniel and the old carriage and horses, and young Daniel on the colt Mildred. Your mother, grandfather, Mary Eliza, the little people, and the baggage I thought lpad enough for the carriage, so Roo ney and I took our feet in our hands and walked over. We looked for the Anne Chase, in which to get a lift to Hoop’s Hill, but congratulated our selves that we missed her, for she only overtook us after we had passed Jackson Citv, and was scarcely out of sight when we turned up the Washington turnpike. The snow im peded the carriage as well as us, and we reached here shortly after it. The children were delighted at getting back, and passed the evening in devis ing pleasures for the morrow. They were in upon us before day on Christ mas morning, to overhaul their stock ings. Mildred thinks she drew the prize in the shape of a beautiful new doll; jAngeliua’s infirmities were so great that she was left in Baltimore; and this new treasure was entirely un expected. The cakes, candies, books, etc., were overlooked in the caresses she bestowed upon her, and she was scarcely out of her arms all day. Rooney got among his gifts a nice pair of boots, which he particularly wanted, and the girls, I hope, were equally pleased with their presents, books and trinkets. Your mother, Mary, Rooney, i went into church, and Rooney and the twins skated back on the canal, (Roo ney having taken his skates along for the purpose), and we filled his place in the carriage with Miss Sarah Stuart, one of Ma’s comrades, Minnie Lloyd was detained at home to assist her mother at dinner, but your Aunt Ma ria brought her and Miss Lucretia Fitzhugh out the next day, and, Wal lace Stiles and his brother arriving at the same time, we had quite a table full. The young people have been quite assiduous in their attentions to each other, as their amusements have beeD i necessarily indoors, but the beaux have j sucessfully maintained their reserve so far, notwithstanding the captivating advances of the belles. The first day they tried skating, but the ice was soft and rough, and it was abandoned in despair. They have not moved out of the house since. To-day the tw T ins were obliged to leave us, and when the car riage came to the door Minny Lloyd and Sarah Stuart reluctantly confessed that their mamas ordered them to re turn home in the first carriage. We have only, therefore, Wallace and Ed ward Stiles and Miss Lucretia Fitz hugh in addition to our family circle. I need not describe to you our amuse ments, you have witnessed them so often; nor the turkey, cold ham, plum pudding, mince pies, etc., at dinner. I hope you will enjoy them again, or some equally as good. The weather has been bitter cold. I do not recollect such weather (I can only judge by my feelings) since the Winter of 1845. I have not been to Washington yet, but will endeavor to get over to-morrow. lam writing this to mail then. The family have retired, but I know I should be charged with much love from every individual, were they aware of my writing, so I will give it without bidding. May you have many happy years, all bringing you an increase of virtue and wisdom, all wit nessing your prosperity in this life, all bringing you nearer everlasting happi ness hereafter! May God in His great mercy grant me this, my constant prayer. I had Jreceived no lettter from you when I left Baltimore, nor shall I get any till I return, which will be, if noth ing happens, to-morrow a week, sth January, 1852. You will then be in the midst of your examination. I shaii be very anxious about you. Give me the earliest intelligence of your standing, and stand up before them boldly, man fully ; do your best and I shall be sat isfied. * * * * # * * R. E. Lee. *The venerable George Washington Parke Curtis. t A younger son, known by this pet name In the family. t “ Agelina ” was evidently a doll, thus superseded by a newer and more comely favorite, on w'hom “infirmities” had not fallen. The Philadelphia Press man has a knack of taking in a situation at a glance, Of Mississippi, he says: “ Mississippi lies to-day fresh and vir gin from the hands of God as when in primeval aeons, the waters swept the face of the earth and gave it to man with anew soil ready for his hands.” An Algerian theory is that the angel of death seizes a dying man by the hair of his head and carries him up to paradise. The idea is one full of beauty and poetical justice. No man, without doing violence to his feelings, can be lieve that a bald-headed sinner will en ter the kingdom cf heaven. Have you heard the new salutation ? It has become customary of late, among the patrons of liquor stores, when desirous of inviting a friend to partake of a Social glass, to say: “Let’s go and catch Tweed.” New Series—Vol. 28, No. 117 GRAVE HORRORS. Ghastly Gropings of the Ghouls — Wholesale Robbery of Cemeteries in Evansville. [From the Evansville (Ind.) Journal, 7th.] We live upon each other. A careful investigation of the philosophy of life disclosed that when one man rises above the dull level of his fellows, there is some unfortunate devil in the antipodes who is proportionately de pressed. This is an elastic nature that we have been fettered with, and where a pile rises to majesty, the materials are from the base and leave a rude hole behind. So it is that when one man out of fifty ceases to work, the forty-nine work harder in proportion. So it is that our health is protected and our lives prolonged by the. shortening of the life by the physician who saves us. So it is that the bodies of our fiiend3 serve as mounting steps for our rise and success. For this princi ble the bodies of the dead are stolen for dissection, that health may prevail, though desecration bring the fortunate end about. But we come to the subject—of dis section. The Argus yesterday con tained an article upon a suspicion that hung odorous upon the air about the Medical College. It may be that the affair is a misapprehension. The dis secting room proper is not located in the college. But with this we have not to deal. A horrible hint comes to our reporter—a hint amounting to a certain assert ion—that the stealing of bodies from the cemeteries of this city has become almost a wholesale enter prise. Those who have loved ones buried need not fear, however, for there is a certain sense of propriety maintained, and the bodies snatched | all come FROM THE potter’s FIELD. The unfortunate, unknown poor, who are carted unwept to a public grave, are those w r ho furnish the dissecting knife with material. There are none who feel disposed to object to this.—- Even the officers of the law are indis posed to make the detection and punishment of body-snatchers a por tion of their occupation. The medical schools must have subjects, and the friendless and unknown are, by com mon consent, yielded up as the proper material. But it becomes a crime abominable to contemplate, that the obtaining of bodies for this purpose should be made a business, and that a regular system of robbing graves and furnishing bodies to different adjacent towns should have found an abiding place here. One who is in the situation to know informs us that there is little doubt but that the bodies of the poor are regu larly stolen immediately after burial, and that very few corpses of paupers remain twenty-four hours afterward. The pauper whose lifeless corpse has gone to its mother earth in a day, al most regularly ornaments the dissec tion-table at night. With the fall of darkness the Vandal appears, and the new-made grave is quickly despoil ed of its mortal treasure. It requires no art to make the disturbed sod un suspicious. The clods of a new-made grave are easily counterfeited. “And then, what becomes of the bodies?” A ride in a spring cart and to the dissecting room, and there science finds its consolation for disobeying the law. “And then?” And then, cut up into indistinguisha ble pieces, the body cast into a conve nient sewer, and thence into the river. Ah! what a morsel for the fish! But it is only a fair turn about, and sooner or later the fish comes home to the table. Why not then advertise them at the dining places as a “man-fed fish,” a3 we advertise “corn-fed oysters.” This is not an article drawn for a horror or a sensation, but founded on what is known to be an absolute fact. “It is not a rare occurrence,” added our informant, “that the bodies of the dead paupers never reach the grave.” Dying in out-of-the-way hovels, uu cared for, it i3 an easy matter to strike a bargain for the worthless mortality. Avery shrewd outlook is always kept for subjects. Only a week or so ago an unfortu nate woman died, who had no friends, and whose husband had deserted her. A regular order for her burial was issued, we understand, by the proper officer; but rumor came hurriedly along and whispered that the body was never buried. The husband, whose affections seem ed to have, in a measure, returned with her death, insisted upon knowing, and, with determination, presented himself before all the officers, and traced the body to the undertaker. Then he sought the sexton of the cemetery, who swore the body had been buried. But the grave was not examined. Who knows how many graves may be lying empty to-day? Around how many mounds have we trod with almost sympathetic lightness, unknowing that no sacred dust hallows the humbler dirt! A HORRIBLE JEST. While upon this subject we may re late a story showing that comedy lurks even in tragedy, that the echo of laughter penetrates even to the grave. Some time ago—it is not necessary to state when, nor even where—a certain physician was detailed to receive and take charge of a subject engaged for that evening. About eleven o’clock a wagon drove up and the body was de livered, and the wagon drove off again hurriedly. The physician, taking the corpse by the shoulders, began to lug him into the doorway at the foot of the steps. Just as he did so an official (whose name is forgotten) turned the corner of the square, and saw by the moonlight the young doctor lugging (as he thought)an intoxicated man into the house. The doctor meanwhile had got the corpse in the shadow and stood it up on its feet against the wall, waiting for assistance to carry it up stairs. He was in a jolly humor (ugh !) and while he waited for help, the official walked up. The doctor called him in, and in a spirit of horrible jest, introduced him to the corpse as his friend, Mr. Smith. The official, never doubting it was a drunken man, bowed, and then the doctor tried to step aside to smile. As he did so, the corpse lost its balance and fell toward the official. As the dead man’s face left the shadow and came into the moonlight, the official was horror-struck to find the cold, hard face of a corpse glaring into his. With a cry of horror he started baok and ran, while the corpse fell to the floor and rolled out on the pavement. Young ladies who are accustomed to read the newspapers are always ob served to possess winning ways, most amiable dispositions, invariably mak ing good wives, and always select good husbands. To Advertisers and Subscribers. Om A I P ***=? this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will he 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 eaon insertion. M or f^stoi y Order mitt^>at ° Ur rlsk by Expresß Cobbespondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications wili not be re turned. and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. SOCRATES AND CHRIST. • t LECTURE BY PROF. WM. EVERETT A Comparison of the Pagan Philoso pher with the Founder of Christian ity, by a Member of the Harvard Faculty. [Philadelphia Times.) Prof. William Everett, of Harvard College, lectured before a large audi ence, at Dr. Furness’ church, Twelfth and Locust streets, last evening. Hia subject was “Socrates and Christ,” and he began by saying that the Chris tian religion is the religion of a man, and all its ministers and votaries agree in tracing it back to the life and teach ings of a man, Jesus of Nazareth. They are content to stand or fall with Him ; they ask nothing better than to have the Word which He spoke judge them at the last day. Herein Christianity merely agrees with all other re ligions that have power among men. They all appeal to persons— authors, founders, saints, martyrs—to men in whose lives they are embodied, and the man becomes the religion. It is no longer a rule, but a model they follow; not a doctrine, but a life. Christianity claims that her Founder was the best of men, and insists that all religion rests for its hold upon the world on its greatest and best of men. The majority of Christians claim that their great ideal obtained His para mount excellence by virtue of a union with the divine essence. The lecturer said that he would meet those who de nied the claim of the Christian Church for a superior loftiness and purity of ideals on the ground of transcendent humanity alone. It is denied that the perfect man ever oame on earth, and it is denied that Jesus was He. He is compared with Buddha, Confucius and Mahomet in a patronizing way. Iu choosing saints to match with Christ, those who reject Him have to be very careful. For His life and teachings have exercised such a vast influence that almost every hero and saint that has come after Him has owed uumberless elements of His life-giving force to the Nazarene; and most of them would re ject as blasphemous any idea of rival ing Him. So many of those who reject Christ come back to Socrates that he seems to be the only one outside the Christian pale who is worth holding up as a model. After describing the con dition of Athens at the time of Socra tes, Ms surroundings and education, the lecturer said of him that his spot less life and sententious maxims are recorded in a strain of delightful home liness by the most practical and shrewd of his followers, and he is exalted as a hero and a saint, a martyr to the cause of virtue; “and yet I think men must read backward who prefer the master of Xenophon and Plato to the master of Peter and John.” After de scribing the methods of the two teachers, the wit and subtlety of Soc rates, who addressed himself to the in tellect alone, and his lack of tender ness, as compared with that of Christ, who addressed himself to the heart. Prof. Everett said that the morality of Socrates is essentially Greek, while that of Christ is of no nationality and universal. Socrates worked out the theory of self-interest, well understood, while Christ taught the doctrine of self sacrifice. Socrates taught that woman to be a companion to man must have abandoned the modesty of her sex, or else be a divinely-inspired monster, while Christ was before all men in His church assigned to domestic and saintly woman. In all Socrates’ exhortations to virtue there is no word of hope for him or her who stumbles; Lope and forgiveness for the sinner while on the long, hard road to virtue is no purt of his system. The Athenian philosopher professed that he could not teach his pupils anything. No teacher could im pait anything that was not iu the man himself. He spoke of his angelic at tendants, and referred his disciples to the Greek oracles and divin ers. How different was the course of Christ! He answered questions, solved difficulties and furnished strength to the weakest. He authori tatively declared Himself gifted with a personal intercourse with God. In short, Socrates did the best on earth; Jesus opened heaven. Will those who uphold Socrates as equal to Christ allow him to be judged by those writings which profess to exhibit him in his loftiest moments, when he soared to tiie divine heights of philosophy with a few chosen friends ? Christians stand by John—will they stand by Plato? They love to dwell on his power of eliciting truth by questions. Will they let me show his inconsisten cies, his disingenuousness, his favorite adoption of the sophistical art that he is supposed to have refuted? They love to dwell on the cell and the hem lock. I do not ask if they dare compare that philosophic repose to the sublimity and pathos of Caivary, but did they ever read about the orgies of the ban quet ? They love to quote how nobly he insisted that it is nobler to suffer wrong than do it. Did they never read where the same Socrates brings the right and wrong down to the level of the pleasant and profitable? Will they read from his ideal commonwealth how he would deal with woman and the marriage tie; lfbw he would let the invalid die as worthless, and kill the vicious as hopeless ? Asa last ground or comparison what has been the result? When Socrates was ac cused of corrupting the youth3 his enemies pointed with truth to some of his dearest friends and special follow ers who had proved a curse to the city, alike in publio and private. This charge is indignantly and justly met on the ground that he had repeatedly warned them against their evil courses, and that the only good part of their lives was passed in his company. It was not the fault of Socrates if those whom his doctrine threw back on themselves proved unequal to his load. But whan I am calmly asked to value him as a hero and saint, by the side q£ Him whose life and death first made the Apostles what they were, and then successively converted Jew, Greek, Roman and Pagein, who has re modeled virtue and founded the new age on the wreck of the old, I feel it is an insult to my common sense to be requested to rank the master of Alci biades with the Master of St. Paul. You may excite your imagination with the thought that the shock of an earthqueike is the pulsation of a fever ish planet, but if you want to conjure up something truly sublime and terri ble, just think of Robert Browningand Martip Farquhar Tupper jointly en gaged on a five-act tragedy. Every husband thinks that he can tame a shrew except the poor fellow that has her. The poet who “ Would not die in Autumn ’ is out again, The worst of it is that he wiU not die at any time.