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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 500 ** three months 280 Thi- Weekly—one year 5 00 “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year * 2 oo “ six months l oo Single copies, 5 cts. T® news dealers, eta. Subscription* must in all oases bi paid in adfante. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAB. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGiN, ' Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON, ) tit Address all Letters to the CONSTITU TIONALIST office, AUGUSTA, GA. FROM NEW YORK. A Suit Commenced—Trial Postponed —Reduced Freight Rates —Inquest on the Body of the Murdered Jew ess. New Yobk, December 22.—The suit of the people of the State vs. Wm. C. Kingsley, A. C. Keeny, Wm. A. Fowler, E. J. Lowber and A. M. Bliss, alledged as fraudulently obtaining §456,125 from the city of Brooklyn in the Hempstead reservoir job, has been commenced. The trial of C. L. Lawrence, indicted for complicity in silk smuggling, has been postponed to the next term. The reduced rates of freights West went into effect to-day. The inquest on the body of Sarah Alexander, the murdered Jewess, has been concluded. The prisoner, Ruben stein, was present with his counsel The jury, after a half hour’s delibera-’ tion, found the murdered girl came to her death by violence at the hands of Pesach N. Rubenstein, and that the death of the child was consequent upon that of its mother. Pox, the Pantomimist, Adjudged a Lunatic. The Sheriff’s jury, at Boston, have pronounced Geo. L. Fox, the panto mimist, a lunatic, and he has been committed to an asylum. Mr. Fox j leaves a wife and young daughter in a 1 most destitute condition. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Pennsylvania Desperadoes—lncendia- j ry Fires—Shooting—Poisoning—II- j licit Distillers. Pottsville, Penn., December 22. The special police of the Reading Rail- 1 road Company are guarding the tracks j aDd trains in the vicinity of Mount Carmel, to-day, being called there sud denly to protect the company’s proper ty In consequence of the appearance of a gang of desperadoes, who boarded a passenger train last night and fired on j the conductor and brakeman, hittiug I the latter in the leg, and then com menced beating the conductor. Several passengers came to their rescue and j succeeded in driving them from the J car. The excitement is intense. Al- ! though great efforts have been made, no arrests have as yet been effected. Patterson, N. J., December 22.—The Catholic Church at Passaic was burnt to-day, by an incendiary. Loss, §15,000. Detroit, December 22. —The convent buildings and a grist and shingle mill, at Cross Village, with their contents, were burned. Philadelphia, December 22.—Catha- j vine Zurgley, shot through the head by j her husband, is dead. Baltimore, December 22.—Elizabeth ! Eitman, a little child, and John Henry Lauterbaek, aged nineteen, died this inoruiug from eating pound cake bought at a confectionery shop in this city. Pittsburg, December 22. —John L. Hoffman, Conrad Hoffman and William Bowers, comprising the firm of Hoff man & Cos., distillers at Butler, Butler county, have been arrested and were brought here to-day, charged with illicit distilling. Alexander Harvey and David King, are also under arrest, the former charged with frauds in con nection with distilling, and the latter with fraudulently using warehouse bonds. Boston, December 22.—An explosion occurred in South Boston in which a ' Jarge number were*wounded and sev eral killed. The large gas main run ning under Federal street bridge to South Boston, along the water’s edge, j under the pavement on Federal street ; exploded, making a loud report and j tearing up the pavement one hundred l and fifty feet. The street was thronged with people at the time and many were buried under the debris. Crosby’s giaiu warehouse was badly shattered and wall have to be taken down. The foreman was instantly killed. It is supposed that several persons were blown into the water. Several of the dead have already been taken out. The wildest rumors prevail. WASHINGTON. The Fort Sung Affair—Postal News— The President Visits. Washington, December 22. —The commission to investigate the Second j Comptroller's office regarding the Fort Sugg Tennessee affair, concluded the testimony and are making a report. The commissioners are entirely re ticent. The report will probably reach the Secretary early next week. Great j interest attaches to the report. ihe Postmaster General has ordered mails on the new line of Ward & Cos., between New York and the ports of St. lago and Cieufuegos, commencing December 30th, and monthly thereaf ter. The European mails leave New York on the 25th iuft.. on the Elysia, of the Anchor Line. The President has gone to New York to attend the New England Society dinner. Minor Telegrams. St. Paul, Minn., December 22.—Rev. John Ireland was consecrated Coadju ter Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church for the diocese of St. Paul. There was great ceremony. Westchester, Pa., December 22. The Bank of Brandywine, in this city, closed doors to-day. The directors are in session. No particulars. Milford, December 22.—T0-day at noon the thermometer indicated sixty eight degrees in the shade, and ex posed to the sun, eighty-three degrees. Such a day at this season of the year is beyond the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. Chicago, December 22.—The state ment of the Directors of the Commer cial Loan Company is inaccurate. The assets, which can be made available sooner or later, are about §405,000. There is §IOO,OOO due the company, which cannot be collected. Probably eighty-five cents will be paid. The company did a large deposit business. The suspension will fall heavily on the poor. San Francisco, December 22. —Owing to the severe strictures of the Victoria press on the loss of the steamship Pa cific, Messrs. Goodall, Nelson & Perkins announce their intention of withdraw ing their ships from that line. An Assemblyman from San Francisco has introduced a resolution asking the appointment of a legislative committee to devise means to prevent in future similar disasters to the loss of the Pa cific. He supported the resolution in a speech referring to the loss on the coast in the past few years of ten steamers and one thousand and five hundred Jives. There are said to be four hundred schools in Wurtemburg where pupils draw from nature—mostly from bar pels. 'Xlj.e QLigugk CpnstHuiionaUsi Established 1799. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Various Items from Various Quartrrs of the Globe. Washington, December 22.—The Em peror of Brazil will probably leave for the United States in April. He will visit the Centennial and travel exten sively over the country. The Emperor’s daughter D. Isabel will act as regent during his absence. Havana, December 22.—A number of the highest military officials in Cuba have requested Capt. Gen. Valmaseda to sign an order allowing them to leave ihe Island and return to Spain with him. He has refused. Lisbon, December 22.—A Portugese guDboat has been ordered to St. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea, on ac count of a negro insurrection. Madrid, December 22.—Gen. Cabal lero de Rodas. formerly Captain-Gen eral of Cuba, is dead. Gen. Echagne has been appointed to the command of the army of the Left. London, December 22.—The Standard publishes a telegram from Paris an nouncing that Prince Pierre Bonaparte has issued an address as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, from Corsica. Rome, December 22.—Dispatches from Naples report the eruption of Mount Vesuvius increasing. Extensive eruptions are expected. London, December 22.—1 t is stated there is reason to believe that twenty boys perished in the flames and were burnt at the training ship Goliath. FROM CHARLESTON. Message to Gov. Chamberlain. Charleston, December 22 —The Presidents of all the National and State banks in Charleston, together 1 with the principal mercantile firms, joined in sending the following dis- - patch to Gov. Chamberlain to-night: “Irrespective of party, desiring peace and protection for per sons and property and believing that a blow has been struck in the late judicial election, threatening ruin to the people of the ! State, we tender you, for this commu-’ nity and the State, our thanks for your action in refusing to sign the commis sions. We thank you, and will do all we can to sustain you in what you h ive done.” Lyinau Beecher and the “Greek Slave.” [Christian at Work.] The clergymen of Cincinnati had formed a clerical union, composed of ministers of all denominations, which met every week for the discussion of questions pertaining to the welfare of the church and the community. At that time Power’s “Greek Slave” had been imported from Daly, and was about to be placed on exhibition in the city, which was the former home of the artist, where he commenced his profes sion by making wax figures. Among his earliest productions was the “In fernal Regions,” which‘nightly attract ed vast crowds to witness its horrors. A roaring furnace, flashes of lightning, huge serpents issuing from rocky caves, grinning skeletons gnashing their teeth, aud every terrible sight and sound that the imagination could conceive had been invented. One would have scarcely thought that the same mind could have created such images of beauty as A afterwards did in the “Eve,” “Fgeria, and other beautiful works of art. In regard to the “Greek Slave,” it became a question as to the propriety of mem bers of the church attending the exhi bition. The question of theatres, cir cuses ana other exhibitions had been discussed aud they had all been ruled out of the list of Christian amuse ments. Now, anew question was brought before the Association, a world-renowned work of art in the shape of a nude female chained to a block. Du Buff’s “Eve,” which had previously been exhibited, and was considered of great merit, had been denounced as of immoral tendency. The Clerical Union, before pronouncing upon the “Greek Slave,” thought proper to appoint a committee to ex amine and report upon the same. One of the members of the Union, who had been a practicing physician, denounced it anatomically as an impure representation of the human form, and calculated to minister to a prurient taste. Others thought “to the pure all things are pure,” aud no evil could ro sult from looking upon the human form represented in chaste marble. One of the members was an amateur artist, aud had in his s' udy a fine collection of works of art. Dr. M was enthu siastic in its praise, and any one, ho thought, was destitute of aesthetic cul ture who would oppose its exhibition; and, whatever, the decision might be, he would recommend his friends to see it, believing that it would tend to the cultivation of a pure and refined taste. The committee consisted of Dr. Beech er and the writer. We accordingly visited the room where the statue was on private exhibition to artists and gentlemen of the press. Silently the Doctor viewed the figure from all points with the critical exactness of a Paris in deciding who was the fairest of the Here, however, there was no 'comparison. The silent statue stood alone to be juged on its own merits. After having satisfied himself suffici ently to a make a faithful report, we were on the point of leaving, when the proprietor of the exhibition recogniz ing the distinguish visitor, asked him what he thought of the “Greek Slave.” He instantly replied: “I think you had better put some clothes on her; I fear she will take cold.” It was then mid winter and the weather was intensely : cold. At the next meeting of the Union the Doctor made a report, in which he stated it as the opinion of the commit tee that “it certainly would nottnerease the purity and piety of the people to visit the show; but, said he, “if we in terdict our people we shall only iq crease their desire to see it, as in the i case of our mother Eve, for,” said he, ‘ if there had been no interdict in re gard to the tree of knowledge of good and evil it would be standing untouched to the present time. Such is our na ture, even in a pure state, that what Is prohibited becomes at once an object of interest and desire. We had better let it alone and giyp qo advice in re gard to it.” Harrisburg, Penn., December 22. The representatives of seven synods of different religious denominations of Pennsylvania are in session here, to consider the best means of preventing the desecration of the Sabbath, and preserving the Lord’s Day as one appointed for rest. It is reported that Santa Claus will put nothing in striped stockings. In 1840 the first experiment in pho tography was made in Paris by Da guerre. AUGUSTA. GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23,1875. C’OL. LAMAR ASSAULTED. [Savannah News, Dec. 22d.j During Monday evening, an occur rence at the Court House, shortly after the adjournment of the Superior Court, was generally discussed, and by many with considerable feeling. It was stated that as the Solicitor General was walk ing out of the corrider at the President street entrance, he was approached by Mr. Philip M. Russell, Jr., who, it is alleged, was accompanied by several members of his family, and who, after some abusive language, struck him in the face. The only two witnesses to the attack, besides those concerned, that we encountered, were very reticent, and hence we decided to make no mention of the affair until it should be brought before the court, which course, we learned, would be pursued. The matter of the assault was brought to the attention of Judge Tompkins, of the Superior Court, yesterday, and the following is a verbatim report of the proceedings, which will enable the pub lic to form an opinion regarding the affair. Upon the opening of the court, after the usual preliminaries, Col. Albert R. Lamar, the Solicitor General, arose aud said : May it please the Court: Before the grand jury retires I desire, in my place and as the first officer of this court, to make the following statement; Yesterday, as I left the court room during a recess, I was assailed on ac count of official aGtion by Philip M. Russell, Jr., Isaac Bussell, Warren Rus sell, Jr., Warren Russell, Sr.,R. Wayne Russell, Philip M. Russell, Sr., and Thos. J. Sheftall. I was followed by these parties from the court room and accosted on the street just at the court house house door. I was abused by Phillip M. Russell. Jr., in the most op probious terms, and struck in the face by the same man, while the balance stood around with their hands upon their arms. If I had attempted to use the privilege that the law accorded me j on this occasion, I had not been here * now to make this statement to the court. If I had yielded to the impul ses of a man, and of the moment, I j would not now be here. If the pre meditated attempt to assassinate me had been successful,it would have been only accomplished in order that crime and criminals might go unwhipped of justice. The only hands ever laid upon me, even in anger or reproof, save this man’s, have long since been stilled by death, and in the deep humiliation which I feel I have but this consolation —that a father and a mother are not here to share it. If I had yielded to the impulses of a man when time for preparation had been given, and had sunk the officer in the man, I would have been ar raigned at the bar of this court to-day for the violation of that law which I have solemnly sworn to maintain and uphold. I have determined, if your Honor please, at my own instance, and by the advice of wiser and cooler heads than my own, to ask that the majesty of the law be vindicated in its officer rather than that an officer of the law should attempt to vindicate the sanctity of the law in his own person. As Judge Tompkins turned to ad dress the jury, Mr. Philip M. Russell, j Jr., arose and said : May it please the court Judge Tompkins—l desire to hear nothing. Mr. Isaac Russell—lf your Honor please, I Judge Tompkins—No argument is necessarj’. I desire to hear none. Turning, then, to the grand jury, Judge Tompkins charged them as fol lows : Mr. Foreman and Gentleman, of the Grand Jury: Your atteution and that of the court having been in this solemn and un usual manner called to the offense charged upon certain parties, four of whom are attorneys at law, it becomes your duty, and more—your privilege, indeed—to investigate the charge. It is neither for me nor a petit jury now to say anything concerning this grave charge ; but it is for you, under your oaths as grand jurors, fully to investi gate it. You have sworn, as grand jurors, to take cognizance of all such matters and things as are brought to your attention, either by the State’s of ficer or otherwise. This matter has been brought to your attention in a very unusual and impressive way by the highest prosecuting officer of the district. He has risen in his place in court and charged certain parties with assailing him for the reason that he had prosecuted properly, and perhaps vigorously, where the law demanded it. If, as prosecuting officer of this court, the learned Solicitor General had so far forgotten himself as to have 'persecuted, under color of his office, the highest and most able magistrate in the State, and a member of the highest and most respected family in the city, still it would have been an un mitigated and outrageous offense for him to have been assaulted in the way in which he says it occurred, for the laws and doors of this court were open to the person persecuted, and he should have come here and gone be fore you for redress. This statement of facts having been made known to you by the Solicitor General, it is your duty to investigate the charges, and to call him and such other witnesses as he may designate, and, if the allega tions be true, to make a presentment for riot. Gentlemen, Ido not leave it to your discretion or sense of justice, but, as the highest officer of this court, 1 charge you that it is your duty to make this investigation. Whatever may be the result of your investigation is another matter, or what the petit jury may do after a bill is found is another matter. But if such things as the Solicitor General has laid to the charge of these persons are to be tolerated in this community, we might as well raze the walls of this coqrt house, let the officers of the law resign, and turn over the administra tion of criminal jystice in this county to other hands, The jury may retire. Mr. T. R. Mills, Jr. —May it please your Honor, I would like to confer with a member of the grand jury in regard to another case. Judge Tompkins—Mr. Mills, your request is most inopportune. Let the jury retire. A reference to the regular court proceedings will show that the parties named yidve specially presented by the grand jury on the charge of riot. They appeared in court after the present ments were read and tendered bonds in the sum of §I,OOO each for appearance at trial, Subsequently they were ar rested on u peace warrant issued by Judge Tompkins at the instance of Col. Lamar, aud gave bonds also in this case. An irreverent lowa boy describes cro quet as “nothing but ‘shinny’ with its Society clothes on.” “CRUCIBLE.” Ex-Mayor A. Oakes Hall’s Debut on the New York Stage. New York Herald. Dec. 19. The Park Theatre was thronged last night by an audience full of curiosity to see the new play of “Crucible,” and witness the debut of Mr. A. Oakey Hall as an actor. The occasion was one of great interest, for the appearance on the stage of a man (ike Mr. Hall is something not often ieen, and the re | suit was wholly unexpected. The plot of the piece is weak, ai;d the language stilted, aud if the piiucipal character was in the hands of any one else it would enjoy a very brief run. Mr. Hall’s appearance before the footlights was warmly greeted, and hp seemed quite at home in his new vocation during the first act, but as the action of the piece progressed he apparently lost that poise so essential to success* in the dramatic art, while the scope of his character really gave him very ijttle opportunity for the display of dfamatic fire and power. There were no Wrong nor thril ling situations to strike the spectators or fasten their attention, while the de noument is so tamely wrought out that it became meaningless and insipid. The dialogue is at times witty and crisp, and there are a few good scenes. The nervousness of a first tfight was natu rally against Mr. Halt in making any decided impression, bat with time he will, no doubt, achieve what all his friends desire—success. The audience was peculiar, and not at } all like those usually seen at a theatre on a “first” night. Two rows of the seats in the parquet were occu pied by actors, and behind them were I many seats, occupied[by members of i the legal profession of all grades. Both ' of these classes came;to satisfy their ! curiosity—the first to criticize one who i had often critized them —while the le- ! gal luminaries were there to satisfy 1 themselves whether the successful lawyer would prove a Successful actor. This portion of the audience was pro bably the most severe critics present. Scattered over the parquet could be seen many well knofm journalistic faces, and they, too!j were critical, though disposed to bo kind and con siderate to one thek might claim as a member of (their Guild.— The theatrical managers present of course came to judgej for themselves of the merits of th?i new play and the new actor, and it. Was curious to notice the looks they exchanged as the piece progressed. Thy liberal sprin kling of politicians throughout every part of the house wa’> also another notable featu"e of the audience, and they were unsparing in their comments as the curtain fell for the last time. But the call for Mr. Hal’ and the de- | maud for a speech was : a hearty aud j electrical one, for all seemed anxious to hear from him softie remarks in ‘ reference to the play aftd the new de parture he had made in life. When Mr. Hall came before j,he curtain he I seemed to be embarrassed aud nerv ous, which was only natural under the circumstances. Twirling his cap in his fingers, he said : f “I have begun to-night to be no longer a speech-maker, ? excepting in so far as I speak the wo> ds written by others; I now ask your consent to al low me to fulfill my Words. But I thank you—l thank yoji with a very full heart. lam now ijo longer here a convict, except, as I fei;r, in your esti mation.” ( An Efficient Missionary. • [Detroit Free‘Press.] Saturday morning sandy haired young man, six feet tljree inches high and looking almost like a walking shadow, called at the jpentral Station, and after solemnly blowing his nose, he remarked: i “This is an awful wiefeed town.” “Well, there are sorfie wicked people here,” replied the Captjiin. “Vice and malice wajk hand in hand up and down every street and avenue,” continued the stranger as he doubled up and sat down. “Well, I’m sorry,” Replied the Cap tain. “I wish everybody would be good enough to melt away ejad dissolve in a blaze of glory. ! “But the wicked shall be rebuked,” said the stranger as lie put his foot down, “and the minions of Satan shall be put to flight. j “I want a ticket tej that entertain ment when it conies dff,” smiled the Captain. ( “I have walked far t(f meet Satan and conquer,” replied the stranger. “Point me out the wickedest Und vilest quar ter of the city, and tUero will I take my stand and do battlel” “You’d better husk jyour own corn and let wickedness alobe,” replied the Captain. “What brougjit you here aud where are you going ?”j “My friend, the Lord'sent me here to battle against wickedness, and I’ll fight till I die. I want tcyjo right out and find the strongholds Satan and deal them sturdy blows unj.il they cry for quarter and victory is iliine.” After borrowing a chew of tobacco the stranger left the station and soon made his appearance At a saloon on Beaubien street. * “Here doth Satan re(gn,” he said to the bullet-headed man behind the coun ter. j “No whiskey without the cash,” re plied the bar-tender. \ “Whiskey! whiskey! j you degraded minion of Satan!” replied the tall man. “Know ye that I have come hereto canter Satan out of th s place, and let in the light of knowie ige and good ness!” “Slidel” growled the barkeeper, point ing to the door. . “Thrice dyed in wickedness,' pledge me that you will at oncj; turn from the evil of your ways!” snouted the tall man, as he danced aroifnd. “Here you go,” said *he bar-tender, making a rush at him. ‘ But he didn’t go. ]-£e knocked the man of drinks into a corner, and kicked him after he was dowin, and when a crowd gathered he stood on the steps and said; i “Ye wicked and qq'lioious, I have come among you to finock Satan off his feet, and I’ll purify this town or perish in the attempt!”^ The police took him! to the station, and to-morrow he will be judged ac cording to the deeds dftne in the body. ———~ We should every nig|t call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered to-day? Wlfat passion op posed* What temptations resisted? What virtue acquired ; ; Qur vices will abate of themselves if tfhey are brought every day to the shrift,-—[Ametr. She was a beautiful Creole, and young into the bargain and, as she sat in a New Orleans horse-car some fiend in human shape tried fo cut off her hair, and actually escaped with one of her long black tresses. It was a hair breadth escape. PHENOMENA OF DEAD FACES. There is no longer any doubt of the fact that the faces of the dead change iu expression even as do those of the living. The subject is a ghastly one, and should perhaps only be treated by a Poe, a Hawthorne, or a Victor Hugo; but it has a side of human and scien tific interest—one which the physician and the philosopher should examine. It may bear upon that dreadful and not sufficiently investigated subject of j premature interments, and upon the propriety of cremation, and of willow basket coffins, which last subject brought together a'gay and fashionable crowd at Stafford House, and gave rise in London to innumerable witty epi grams, rather lighter than the occasion demanded. Here is one of them : When I start for the Styx, (and nobody knows How the message will come), must I quietly yield, < And be sent by express like a lot of old clothes? Or be packed up in moss, like a present of game, In a wicker-work coffin of cheapest design— While on a wired tag is iny ago and my name! (Oh! bless me, ye gods, if that isn’t fame!) If 1 were old Charon my place I’d resign Ere I’d ferry across—no matter who’d ask it— Such a badly-packed, badly-filled, rickety basket.’’ However, the author of the above did not contemplate, perhaps, the pos sibility of his supposedly rigid face smiling at his own wit when old Charon should refuse him as freight or ex pressage, even as petite vitesse or oth wlse. But dead faces do smile—they blush, as did Charlotte Corday’s after her head was cut off; and the annals of the French Revolution are full of horrible stories of eyes which winked, shed tears, or shot angry glances, and of lips which smiled, scornfully or resign edly, ere they kissed the fatal basket into which they were tumbled. The explanation of this was, that the guil lotine’s sharp and sudden administra tion left the brain well charged with blood, and it could continue its func tions for a dreadful moment after the body had ceased to belong to it. If this is the guillotine is by far the most cruel of all the arts of decapita tion. The Spanish garrote, which by one fell screw in the back of the neck paralyzes all sensation at once, is far more merciful, although no ore who has been subjected to its tender mer cies has ever come hack to tell us if there bo not one instant of intense ag ony, as there probably is. However, to return to the phenom ena, all who have looked upon the faces of the dead have beon struck with that change of expression which comes over thorn in twenty-four hours. That glorified and happy look! It is, thank God, almost always a happy ex pression—one which seems to say that the words of the prayer book were well chosen, and that “he rests from his la bors.” Byron refers to if, in his im mortal way, in the well known lines: “He who hath bent him o’er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay’s effacing lingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that’s there. * -x- * * * So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed.” All this is well known, and has done much to strengthen the Christian’s hope, and to enable us, who have buried our dearest treasures, to combat the Giant Despair; but there has come another and a more difficult problem to solve —one which revives the old tra ditions of ghouls and vampires; one 'vhieh was not pleasant to contemplate at dead of night, and that is that the dead have been seen to smile. It came first from the battle-field, or, rather, the most startling of recent an ecdotes on the subject was that of a aurse at Sanger’s Station during our .ate war, who declared that two dead men whom she had laid out the night before had smiled perceptibly amid their cerements as a wounded sutler was narrating some of his wrongs. Now, the idea of a sutler having any wrongs, of having done otherwise than j perpetuate them, was au idea calcula- j ted to create a smile beneath the ribs of Death; but the surgeon was very much struck by the gravity with which the nurse told the story, and he looked at her with some anxiety, for he thought she had gone insane from over work. She was not a hired nurse, but a lady volunteer, and of remarkable coolness and intelligence. She, however, bore his scrutiny calm ly, aud begged of him to examine the two dead soldiers before they were consigned to hasty and inhospitable graves. He did, aud found them quite dead. She always adhered to her story, and does to this day. The next anecdote is perhaps as re markable. It comes from a Western city, aud has been mentioned in one or two medical works. This story is of a lady of about thirty-eight years of age, a remarkably beautiful woman, aud the mother of four children, three sons and a daughter. She had suffered much from the unreasonable jealousy of her husband, who, although he loved her much, had one of those ungovern ably jealous temperaments which Han nah More has delineated in her charac ter of De Montfort, in the “Flays of the Passions.” She was a woman of remarkable propriety of conduct and patient with his infirmity; an excess of goodness not often found in the inno cent, who are not fond of being sus pected, as a general rule, Her best friend and constant defend er was the sister of her husband and the wife of the family physician. It . was to her interference that the poor lady owed what peace she enjoyed for the last few years of her life. She was attacked by heart disease and suffered greatly, but was able to go about and to drive out for several months. Dur ing the progress of this illness her hus band took up a terrible jealousy of the family physician, his own brotherdn law, a fact which h® did not communi cate to his sister, the physician’s wife. One day the poor invalid, while driv ing, felt a paroxysm of pain coming on, and told her coachman to drive to the house of the doctor. He did so. She got out, went in, and finding him with other patients in his office, received a draught of digitalis, or some other well-known remedy, at his hands, and partially recovered. But having to leave her immediately to take care of the other patients, he called his wife and left her in charge of her sistep-in jaw, tejling her to take care of her and see her to her carriage as she was in a precarious condition. The two ladies talked together for half an hour, when the sufferer arose and declared her in tention of going home. She had just got to the door of her carriage when she fell dead on the sidewalk. She was of course brought back to the doctor’s office, where, after every effort to re suscitate her had failed, her husband was sent for and her limbs were com posed ia death. When the jealous man arrived his fury knew no bounds. He accused the dead in opprobrious terms; he accused the doctor of having ruined his domes tic peace; he raved like a madman; nay, he even refused to have the remains brougbt to his own house, and declared that his wife might be buried in the streets for all he cared. This awful scene was ended by the arrival of the eldest son, a young man of remarkable character, decision and energy. He took his father home and locked him up and caused the remains of his moth er to be also brought home, and made arrangements for her burial. On the second day after her death, as she lay in her coffin, her children weeping around her, and her husband, pale and haggard, the greatest sufferer of all, stood at her feet, the doctor’s wife, the sister-in-law arrived. It seems that she had fainted from the shock of seeing her sister die, aud had herself been carried off to her own room, so that she had not known of the dread ful scene in the doctor’s office, nor of her brother’s new access of fury; so she began quite unconsciously to tell him and the children of her last con versation with their mother. As she did so the poor jealous maniac began to tremble aud relent. “Were you with ' her during that visit to your husband’s i office?” said he. “Yes. every moment,” said the loyal woman. They all looked at the dead woman; j as they did so the rigid mouth relaxed j and the two rows of white teeth be- j came visible; the smile grew; it was sarcastic and mocking, but it was a smile; the husband looked at it with eyes which started from his head; the youngest boy fell down in a fit; the ! eldest son, still remarkable for his self possession, put his hand on the cold, pale brow. “Are you alive, dear mamma?” said he; the smile changed; it grew iufiuitely tender and sweet, and the mouth closed as it had opened, mysteriously. He ran out of the room, exclaiming, “She lives ! I will go for the Doctor.” ; During this time one witness remain- ; ed chained, as he afterward said, to his I post of observation, it was tho second i son, a boy of fifteen. The father had j moved to pick up the poor youngest boy who had fallen in a fit; the aunt! was consoling the youngest child, a girl, yet too young to understand the dread ful scene, yet destined to be haunted by it for life; so that their accounts of the phenomenon were various and somewhat contradictory. But The second boy, Theodore, did not take his eye from his mother’s face. He and Augustine, the eldest, confirmed each other’s statements to the doctor, aud Theodore said that as the smile died away a slight shudder seemed to pass over the face. The doctor found her to be quite dead, and after, of course, every pre caution being taken agaiDst premature interment, she was buried in her grave, where, let us hope, she rest in peace. It would seem as if that smile was the dead womau’s revenge, as if she said : “My spirit shrunk not to sustain The searching throes of ceaseless pain.” . . “Then let life go to him who gave. I have not quailed to danger’s brow When high and happy, need I now?” The next best authenticated story comes from tho records of the Franco- Frussian war. It seems that one of the red cross nurses, one of those Mercy Merricks, perhaps, with whom Wilkie Collins has made us familiar, had among her pa tients a young man, an exceedingly handsome young fellow, whose nation ality she could not find out. He was in the Prussian uniform, yet not, she thought, a Prussian. He had been struck by a spent ball, they supposed, aud was paralyzed and speechless. Oc casionally he would open his eyes and gaze at her with a troubled expression, and she noticed that the eyes were very beautiful, black, aud soft as vel vet. In her ministrations she got to understand the language of these poor eyes, aud found out when he was pleased or disappointed at what she was doing. One day she took up his coat, and feeling in the pocket she fouud a letter; she looked at him aud the eyes said “read it.” It gave her the key to tho situ ation, and she derived the idea that he could hear and understand her if she talked to him, so she would sit and talk and ask questions, and he would answer with his eyes. She got at the idea that he was a young English diplo mat, who had been sent down to the scene of war to protect someone; that he had been received into the Prussian Army as a favor to facilitate his work; that he was engaged in this work when he was struck down. She had much to do, this Mercy Merrick with her red cross, but she found time every few hours to come back to her patieut and to tell him the story of Saarbruek, of Strasbourg, of Sedan, and to find from the shifting lustre in his eyes if he were pleased or saddened. One day she took up his watch and chain and examined his seal. The eyes grew pain fully bright and auxious; the idea struck her that she would take the im pression in wax. She did so, and fouud the motto and crest of a well known English family. Then she sat down and wrote a letter home, for she, too, was English. The patient lingered and listened, but never spoke. He grew better, how ever, and could smile; a singular uqfile, brilfiant, eloquent and fascinating. It went to the heart of the red cross nurse. Perhaps she had suffered, and loved, and waited, and hoped, and had knowy the anguish of hope deferred. The poor paralysed hand gained finally a little power, aud one evening as she took it ia her warm, energetic, gener ous palm it gave a feeble pressure. Sympathy is a famous physician. He has oured many otherwise mortally wounded. But, alas! he was not to cure the young English diplomat. One night, as the red cross nurse lay down to her well-earned sleep, the male attendant who had care of the paralyzed Eng lishman came and kqockedat her door. “He iß*dying,” said he, “and his eyes are very wild.” She dressed herself and went to him. The unspoken language between those two had become a spiritual communi cation, She read his thoughts. Did he wish to have a lock of his hair cut ? Yes, for her; his watch and chain, and a certain ring on it, were to be returned, when sfie could find tfie owner, and his charge—the work which he had to do when he was strioken down—she must find out if it were done, and if he was known to have been faithful to the end; yes, she would do it all. And he gave her one wonderfql look, a look which was actress; one smile, fike suqlight; his bright eyes said more gratitude in one glance than lips could say in a month; then came a film over them and they went out forever. The next day as tfie red cross qqrse New Series—Vol. 28, No. 120 stood looking at his dead face, an Eng lish physician arrived. “I am looking for young Estcourt,” said he, “the man of whom you have written to England, who owned this motto and seal.” “There he is,” said she quietly. “Poor fellow, poor fellow; a hard case,” said the physician. “Do you know his story? Sent over to protect two eminent ladies, one a princess, who got caught in a country house here be tween the two armies. Russian com plications and all that sort of thing. He behav&d singularly well, showed enormous tact, courage, and chivalry too, for one of them fell desperately in love with him. He was taking them toward Beriin where they wished to go, when he was struck down by a French ball; a party of stragglers sur rounded them, set 'on probably by a i cousin of his, who has always been his foe.” “Did the women escape?” said the red cross nurse. “Yes; and are full of anxiety to hear of their preserver and friend,” said the | Doctor. The nurse laid her hand on the dead man’s forehead. “I wish he could have lived to hear it,” said she. And as she said that the dead man smiled—that smile which she knew so well—and, strong-hearted woman though she was, she fainted and fell on the floor. When she came to herself the Doctor t was holding some hartshorn to her nos trils. “It was not imagination!” said she. | t “No,” said he, shaking his head, “it j was a miracle.” The annals of cholera years, of the plague, of other epidemic diseases, are full of curious stories of the supposed dead, and we seem as yet to have fear fully little of that line of demarcation which marks the dead from the living. Those surgeons who go on battle fields have many curious stories to tell of the phenomena of dead faces, and to those who have only the ordinary sad expe rience of sorrow there is much that is wonderful about it,/The sudden growth or resemblances, as that of a child to one parent or another, sometimes an entire change of face, as if the person ality had been changed—all these things have struok the observer often. That mask of death called catalepsy produces that change also. One young girl, subject to this mysterious disease, would become so like an intimate friend that all her family were struck by it. They were totally unlike when well, but as she came out of her fit she would immediately begin talking of this friend. It seemed as if her own spirit had va cated her body and that of her friend had taken its plaoe. A young German Countess, who had beautiful hair, died of a lingering dis ease, and was burled at her own re quest with the long golden hair lying loosely about her like a veil. A few years afterward her remains were ex amined, and the long hair was found to have been carefully braided as German girls braid their hair, and what was still more inexplicable, the ends were tied with some blue satin ribnon which a sister remembered had been attached to some garlands whioh lay on the cof fln. The German painter, Leutz, had either seen this braided hair or had heard of it in the town where it occur red, and had been deeply impressed by it. The only oonjeoture had been, of oourse, that the poor girl was buried alive, but that was hardly possible, for the features were in a singular state of preservation and very composed, the hands folded on the breast, aud the shroud in perfect order. Nor would a woman braid her hair (an act calling for great composure) if she found her self buried alive. Being German hair, it probably braided itself, Another phenomenon, more easily explained by physical reasons, is the fact that dead faces blush. It is not common, but probably has happened within the experience'of most physi cians, that color oomea back to lip and cheek for a few hours, even after the palor of death has asserted itself. It is said to have occurred iu the oase of Philip La Bel, whom poor crazy Joanua carried about so long, and adored so hopelessly; perhaps it was one resson why she could not believe him head. Of course, this has found its way into poetry, and there i3 au old story of ; Provence, in the dialect, dating baok 1 as far as Glemenee Isaure and the j golden violet, of a young girl's corpse blushing when her lover entered the room. But the saddest of all phenomena is the most common one—the marble rigidity, the mask of death. Nothing can so stun the senses or chill the heart as that.; hut the subject de mands attention as one of those, un usually repellant, it is true, but, like the philosophy of dreams, not suffi ciently understood. Though iutimately connected with our imperfectly de veloped possibilities, both as intolleo tual and physical machines, whose springs are hidden, whose abnormal developments--as in the strength which fever gives, or the sharpened power of ear or eye under the influ ence of strong nervous excitement, the power of going without food wheD disease supports the frame—all show remarkable reserve of forces not sus pected in health ; and the more curious and not so well-defined extraneous powers of the mind—variously desig nated as magnetism, clairvoyance, and the like—aU point to the fact that the animal we call man is a very mysteri ous and as yet imperfeotly compre hended thing, and that we have yet to find out a great deal about our own human nature—both when it lives, which is the greatest of miracles, and when it dies, which Is a lesser one. Wagner’s Terrible Failure. [Paris Correspondence of the New York . Herald. | “The music of the future” has failed at Vienna. That Is, Wagner, after bringing out the “New Tannhauser” and “Lohengrin,” discovers that the Wagnerian revival has resulted in a loss of $5,000. The people who were opposed to Wagner were many more than those who were in his favor, though he was by no means without a very turbulent support. But while Wagner professed in all humility to be devoted merely to the pleasure of the Viennese,* he and his wife disgusted every one with their arrogance and their insulting treatment of the artists. They professed to stand somewhere in a position between the singers and the orohestra ; but realiy displeased both. The first nights were well patronized, but the attendance soon fell off. The anti-Wagnerian party, under the load of Speidel, who yallecT the ballet music of the ■>‘New Tannhauser” re voking, have a great triumph. It is by no means certain now that Wagner will in May next return to Vienna to bring out the unabbreviated “Die Meistersanger.” — t mm i An old maid out in Indiana olaims to be vergin’ qu to 130, To Advertisers and Subscribers. 1 On AND after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. A.I.VEBTISEMENTB must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. ,w P^itel 7 O b rdor“ itt6d at OUr risk by E *cres Coeksspondknce invited from all sources, and valuable special news pasd 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. Finnegan, the Columbus murderer, is sick. The Memorial Association of Colum bus had a concert on Monday which re alized nearly 0300. The total number of bales of cotton received at Covington depot from Sep tember Ist to December 18th, 1874, was 6,419 , and from September Ist to’ December 18th, 1875, 7,105. Excess for this year, 686. It is hard to understand the “true inwardness” of the action of the En quirer-Sun of Columbus, in copying items from the Constitutionalist and giving credit for them to our Broad street contemporary. Jos. F. Comer, of Clrrke county, with two colored boys, made this year upon thirty acres of land thirty bales of cotton, sixty barrels of corn, two hundred bushels of potatoes, one hun dred and twenty bushels of wheat. At a meeting of Macon Lodge No. 5, F. A. M., held last night, the following officers were elected: J. \y T . Truman, W. M., James Boon, S. W., B. Lowen thal, J. W., Joseph E. Wells, Sr., Treas urer, T. L. Messenburg, Secretary, R. F. Burden, S. D., F. E. Saunders. J. D. C. H. Freeman, Tyler. The Rome Courier nominates Gen. W. Montgomery Gardner, of Rome, for State Treasurer. By electing him, the Courier says the Legislature would perform a grateful act of justice to a gallant and faithful officer, who gave up his profession in the old army to devote his life and services to his na tive State. Luddeu & Bates, of Savannah, en deavored to attach the baggage of the Do Bar Company for the rent of a piano, hired by a company of which D’Orsay Ogden was agent five years ago. The draft was on an open ac count and barred by the statute of limitation, so the justice decided. Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 22, A. F. M., of Athens, has chosen the followin o ' officers : S. C. Dobbs, W. M.; H. C. Briant, S. W.; J, W. Brown, J. W.; Y. H. Wynn, Treasurer; 1. M. Kenney, Secre tary; G. Jaoobs, S. D.; J. R. Crane, J. D.; R. S. Blackwell and Thos. R. Wil liams, Stewards; J. G. McCurdy, Tyler- Rev. E. D. Stone, Chaplain. L. W. Downs, of Oconee county, made this year eighty-one bales of cotton with nine mules, one thousand and eighty bushels of corn, and meat enough for the white families of the place; besides clearing up land, fencing and ditching a farm entirely out of repair. The work was commenced February Ist, the farm having come into this gentle man’s possession only a short while before. Macon Telegraph: Wo saw, at the Macon and Brunswick shops, the wreck of the engino which exploded just below Buzzard Roost, on the 10th of the present month. It is the worst wreck that we ever saw, and one that it is impossible to describe. There is scarcely a fragment of the boiler left attached to the engine. Many of the flues were torn out. while others ap pear t,o have not been moved. One of the axles was wrenched off, and a driving wheel was turned completely over, with the flange on the outside of the track, and none of the connections were broken, but simply twisted by the somersault which the wheel had made. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. James Herriott used a knife on Robert Blake recently, iu Columbia, aud ran away. Columbia Union- Herald: We are au thorized to statd that the reward offered by the Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta Railroad Company for the arrest of engineer James Fetner has been paid by the Company, An editorial in the Greenville News, on “ the situation,” concludes as fol lows : We have come to that point where these things must stop—where order must be restored to society— where the white man must assert him self—where the negro must bend or break before the race that never yet has suffered itself brought under the domination of another. There is no more room for soft talk in this matter. We must say to the colored race give way or die. We cannot, as a raco, al low misguided slaves of yesterday in the hands of scoundrels, so declared before mankind, to rule over us. We canno t escape the terrors of the situa tion, if we would. It is made up for us, and we must meet it with every in stinct of civilized man, every incentive of honorable exiatenoe, and are sworn to an inexorable self-defense by every guerdon that awaits honest manhood, and every shame that shows us, for ail time, the whipped menials of scoun drels and ex-slaves. Bores. In Hark Twain’s preface to his “Sketches,” he says he is not intending to make an advertisement, “but be cause these things seemed instructive.” If it vsrere possible to instruct some in the merely palpable and needful pro prieties of life, it would be a most worthy charity and public benefit to endow and incorporate a company whoso charter should empower it to employ a force, invested with police powers, aud charged with the special duty of arresting offenders and reading and expounding to them Twain’s “Office Bore.” And about now, when doors are intended to keep out the cold, and stoves to heat rooms to a comfortable temperature, it is that the thing is most needed. For it avails nothing that, “Everybody shuts the door but you,” and, “Please don’t spit upon the stove,” are posted so con spicuously as not to be escaped, ' The only people whose dull sensibil ities and native vulgarity make such uotices necessary are the last to attend to them. Such intolerable asses never reflect upon the inconvenience it makes to leave a door open. And they will sit by the hour and eject streams of to bacco juice upon a heated stove, pleas ed at the hissing replies and drinking in the sickening fumes with which their disgusting habit is filling the room, oblivious of every law of decen cy. politeness, health, and all the while "Please don’t,” etc., staring them in the face. These same are they who col lect in front of business houses, churches wad street corners, and spit, and sptt, and spit, until a reeking pool of their nauseous effluvia, disgusting to the sight and befouling to the con tact, renders the place only less in viting than a promenade along an open sewer.— Nasdville American. —i ■ i An old bachelor, who writes concern ing the manner of bringing up children, has discovered that a child can write as well with the left hand -as with the right—before learning to writs with either hand.