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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
France—Great Britain—Spain.
London, December 23.—The Tele
graph's dispatch from Paris says the
drowned by the sinking of the Loulsi
ane iuclude only one passenger. The
rest were of the crew.
The Gordon elected to Parliament
yesterday was Sir Alexander Gordon,
Conservative, for East Aberdeenshire,
and not Lord Advocate Gordon, for
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities.
Madrid, December 23.— El Oronista,
the ministerial organ, states that the
Government has decided to send heavy
reinforcements to Cuba.
British Troops in India.
Singapore, December 23.—The Brit
ish troops in Malacca have arrived be
fore Kintah. where the Maharajaho
Ismal and Lela oppose them with con
siderable force. Gen. Calborue asked
for reinforcements.
More Suez Canal Shares to be Sold.
Cairo, Egypt, December 23.—1 tis ru
mored that the Khedive is negotiating
for the sale of Egypt’s founders’ shares
in the Suez Canal. The Government of
Great Britain and M. D’Lesseps, re
presenting a combination of French
capitalists, are the 1 idders. The latter
has ottered nine millions of dollars for
the shares.
The Reforms in Turkey.
Berlin, December 23.—1 t is stated
that the principal feature of the Great
Powers’ proposition relative to reforms
in*Tuikey, is that the ambassadors of
i: • neutral powers at Constantinople
* nail exercise a permanent control in
the execution of the reforms in the
provinces.
VIRGINIA.
Receiver Appointed--An Earthquake--
Railroad Convention.
Alexandria, December 23.—John A.
Fisher has been appointed receiver of
the Richmond and Atlantic Air Line
Road vice Buford, by consent.
Richmond, December 23.—A ten
second earthquake occurred here, im
mediately followed by a briefer oue at
forty minutes past eleven o’clock last
night. Much alarm was felt. The
oscillations were from south to north.
The shocks were felt at several points
in the State.
The shocks felt here last night were
veritable earthquake shocks and no
mistake. No comparison can be made
with any similar antecedent event, inas
much as it was the first ever experi
enced hereabouts. The statements of
persons residing in different sections of
the city coincide in the main as to the
vibrations, duration and force of the
shocks.
A short time after the cessation of
the shocks, the streets were alive with
frightened and excited people. Many
made their way to the newspaper and
telegraph offices, to learn the extent
of the phenomena, while others of a
more nervous temperament remained
iu the streets for hours, not daring to
re-enter their houses for fear of a rep
etition of the shocks, but the remaind
er of the night pasted off without any
further disturbance.
Telegrams from various points iu
Virginia report shocks similar to these.
Norfolk, December 23.—The stock
holders of the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad met here to-day and
i el-elected Gen. Wm. Mahone President
for five years, and the old Board of
Di rectors.
A Railroad Conference.
New York, December 23.—A commit
tee of merchants appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce, to secure a re
duction of freight rates from this city
West to the Boston rate, met Wm. H.
Vanderbilt, Vice President of the New
Y>>rk Central Railroad to-day. The
object for which the committee was
Appointed having been attained by the
reduction of rates yesterday, the dis
cussion was in regard to the New York
roads preventing in future discrimina
tions as against this city. The Chair
man of the committee was William E.
Dodge. He said the merchants did not
as|: for a low rate, but they wanted a
peiinanent basis fixed. He expressed
th* gratification of the committee at
the prompt manner in which the rail
roads had compjied with their request.
Mr. Vanderbilt after giving an ac
eotiut of some conferences held by the
raifroads in relation to the fixing of a
permanent basis of freight rates, de
nied the report published that the New
York Central Road was not protecting
th<| interests o! New York city. He
re; -i a dispatch from Colonel Tnos. A.
Scott, in which that gentleman stated
bis road would at all times act in per
fect harmony with the New York lines
in deciding what might be found neces-
Bdi’v to meet commercial interests.
Mr. C. C. Dodge staged the Baltimore
anu Ohio and Pennsylvania Roads had
steamship lines, and merchants order
ing goods from Europe, could make a
rate both bj- steamship and rail straight
to the West. He wanted to know
how this could be met by New Turk
roads. Mr. Vanderbilt replied that his
road did not propose to build or
opeiate steamships, but that they
would make through rates with any
steamship company running to New
York iu competition with any steam
ship and railroad lines to other cities.
Jackson S. Schultz said that one of the
great difficulties of the New York roads
was that the municipality of New York
charged them the highest rates for
every privilege they received, while
Baltimore and Philadelphia granted to
their roads every thiug in their power
to give, and that New York merchants
should labor to secure a more liberal
policy on the part of the city to lines
centering here.
A Mexican Revolution.
San Francisco, December 23.—A dis
patch from San Diego confirms the re
port of anarchy in Sonora, Mexico. A
revolution is iu progress aud the Yaqui
Indians are in revolt. Gov. Pesquiera
has levied a special tax to carry on the
war. The revolutionary party, it is
reported, are about to invade Sinaloa.
Business is prostrated. No further dem
onstrations have been made by the
banditti at Campo. The presence of a
force from San Diego keeps them tem
pororily quiet, but they threaten re
venge for the shooting and hanging of
their leaders in the recent raid. Couz
Lopez has been in command of the
banditti since the death of Gharez. The
Mexicans living on the border, witb
few exception, are in league with the
banditti. A cavalry company will
leave here to-morrow for San Diego.
a i >
The Border Troubles.
San Francisco, December 23.—Gen.
Schofield has ordered Company G,
First Cavalry, to San Diego, for border
service. Six hundred armed revolu
tionists have crossed the border from
Mexico,
®)]£ Augusta Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Report of Meridianal Observations—
Postal News and Other Items.
Washington, December 23. —Lieuten-
ant Commander F. M. Green, having
completed the observations for longi
tude by telegraphic cable between Ha
vana and Key West, has arrived at
Kingston, Jamaica, where he will meas
ure the meridianal distance between
that place and the Island of St. Thomas,
as soon as the raius cease. His pre
liminary reduction of the observations
between Key West and Havana gives
the longitude of Havana as differing
but three-tenths of a second from ob
servations made under the United
States Coast Survey Office in 1868.
The following is a Southern special:
The following agents of the Post Office
Department have been dropped : C. S.
Bell, of Missouri ; Henry Booth, of
Georgia ; G. B. Chamberlain, of Geor
gia ; W. T. Cox, of Texas ; A. P. Hug
gins, of Mississippi; and Z. D. Rams
dell, of West Virginia.
Special Post Office agents reappoint
ed, with headquarters : L. M. Farrell,
Atlanta, Ga.; W. L. Hunt, St. Louis ; S.
D. Brown, Louisville ; Tbornas B. Long,
Salisbury, N. C.; J. R. Jolly, New Or
leans ; W. P. Edgarton, Little Rock ;
John Frey, Atlanta, Ga.; James B. Min
uis, New Market, Tenn.; T. P. Shal
cross, Wheeling, W. Va.
Pierrepont says there is no truth in
the report that the President favors
the pardon of Joyce.
Bristow decides that the costumes
for the Carobellian De Kakin Society,
for the procession on New Year’s eve,
cannot be admitted, duty free, under
the head of regalia.
BOSTON.
A Compliment to tlie Memory of
Stonewall Jackson—Casualties of the
Gas Explosion.
Boston, December 23.—The bark
Stonewall Jackson sailed for Norfolk,
Va., to-day. Three thousand persons
visited her. There was a salute and a
grand ovation as she passed down. A
Boston lady left in the cabin a costly
wreath lettered with Jackson’s dying
words, and a gentleman presented an
elegant picture of Jackson, by a Bos
ton artist.
Six are known to be killed by yes
terday’s explosion. Fortunately the
draw-bi idge had been open for some
time, and three or four hundred peo
ple, on their way home from work for
South Boston, were detained on this
side. Had the explosion occurred a
few minutes later the loss would have
been fearful. It is supposed the pipe
burst during the cold weather and gas
had accumulated under ground.
KENTUCKY.
Railroad Accident Preparing for
Mardi Gras.
Louisville, December 23.—A passen
ger train on the Louisville, Nashville
and Great Southern Road ran into a
freight train near the Short Line Junc
tion. Frank Moore, engineer of the
passenger train, was seriously injured.
The passengers escaped.
Arrangements are progressing to
celebrate Mardi Gras by an immense
street procession and a ball masque.
Minor Telegrams.
Montreal, December 23.—Fifteen
hundred extra men are working on city
improvements at seven cents an hour.
Baltimore, December 23.—William
Rose is dead, aged seventy-nine. He
was one of the proprietors and editors
of the Baltimore American for forty
years'.
Guelph, Ont , December 23.— Henry
White (colored) was hanged for wife
murder.
Arrangements for a Centennial Cele
bration. 1
Cincinnati, December 23. — A large
meeting was held at the City Building
to-night and initiatory steps taken for
a grand celebration of the inaugural of
the Centennial year on New Year Eve
midnight. It is proposed to celebrate
the event by illuminations, ringing of all
the bells in the city and firing of cannon
through the principal streets. Mayor
Johnson was requested by the meeting
to issue a proclamation inviting all
citizens to participate iu the carnival.
Great interest was manifested and the
meeting adjourned till next Tuesday
evening, when the arrangements for the
event will be perfected.
The Late Duel.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.l
The late fatal duel fought on Thurs
day last between George E. Ratcliffe
and Charles D. Tilly, residents of Au
gusta, Ga., ac Sand Bar Ferry, three
miles from Augusta, has attracted con
siderable attention iu this city as it was
stated that one of the party, George E.
Ratcliffe, was a Marylander.
It has been found on inquiry tbat
this gentleman is a native of Baltimore,
a son of Quinton W. Ratcliffe, residiug
at 215 Saratoga street, and a grand
nephew of Daniel liatcliffe, Esq.,
the well-known lawyer of this
city, and a former resident of
Washington, D. C. The father is
now couliaed to his bed prostrated
by the shock, and has heard nothing
iu regard to the unfortunate occur
rence, except what has appeared in the
papers. A telegram has been sent to
W. H. Chew, who acted as the second
of Ratcliffe in the duel, and who was
his partner iu business, but no answer
has as yet been obtained.
George E. Ratcliffe was born in this
city, aud is now thirty-five years of
age. After the close of his school
days he became a clerk in the whole
sale liquor store of Chas. 11. Myers &
Bro., No. 72 Exchange Place. At the
breakiug out of the late civil war he
enlisted in the Confederate army, in the
First Maryland Regiment, served
through the whole ■war, and at its close
was a member of the famous Mosby
Brigade. After the war he went to St.
Louis, and there served as clerk for
three years. He then moved to Au
gusta and entered into partnership
with W. H. Chew, as cotton brokers.
In this business he was engaged at the
time of the duel. The facts, as taken
from the Augusta papers, indicate that
the unfortunate affair was forced upon
Mr. Ratcliffe, his course being very
calm and temperate, and ail tbat could
have been expected under the circum
stances.
Gen. Fremont who, twenty years ago,
had “ a glorious mustache,” aud part
ed his hair in the middle, is now, ac
cording to a correspondent, “ a little
weazen-faced, dried-up old man, resur
rected from his premature grave occa
sionally only througn the name and the
letters in print ot his accomplished
wife.”
FROM NEW YORK.
Tramps Provided for—Ex-Mayor of
Rochester Dead—A Lightning South
ern Mail Train —Murder and Suicide
—The Hudson River Open.
Port Jervis, December 23.—The
Board of Supervisors of Orange county,
which fed 18,000 tramps last year has
erected temporary workhouses in each
town and enacted a law sentencing to
from five to sixty days hard labor every
tramp applying for relief.
Joseph H. Dicker of the Liberty Sul
livan Cos., shot his wife and cut his
throat, financial difficulties being the
cause.
Rochester, N. Y., December 23.—Ex-
Mayor Wilder of this city died in San
Francisco. He was an ex-Congress
man.
New York, December 23.—The great
southern mail route via Baltimore,
Washington. Lynchburg, and Knox
ville, has established a lightning ex
press train, by which the through
southern mail and New York papers
reach Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon,
Jacksonville, Fla., Montgomery, Mobile,
New Orleans, Nashville and Memphis.
This fast train leaves New York daily,
except Sunday, at 3 p. m., from the foot
of Courtland street and Des Brosses.
The longest run made by any car in
the world is claimed to be made over
the great southern mail route by the
through palace car running between
Baltimore and New Orleans connecting
with the train leaving New York daily
at 9 p. m.
Newbury, N. Y., December 23. — The
Hudson is open hence to New York.
The Course of Cotton.
[New York Bulletin, Dec. 21st].
On the bulk of the business trans
acted since our last review, the seller
has again had the advantage. The
movement, however, was not very
large, either in actual cotton or iu a
speculative way, while toward the close
the gain on values began to disappear
and sales were only possible at some
shading. Liverpool has been watched
with rather closer attention than for
some time past, and to a certain ex
tent our market has responded to the
variations as cabled from day to day,
but the main influence was undoubted
ly the supply of cotton present aud
prospective. Early in the week, al
though the run of receipts was full at
the principal ports, an offset was found
in tone of the report from the
National Exchange which seemed to
be generally construed as unfa
vorable, but each day brought in
supplies with great freedom, far
exceeding all previous estimates, and
finally, with the movement at the in
terior towns indicating a probable con
tinuation of free receipts the coming
week, values softened all around. All
classes of operators have been moving
with much caution and there is an
evident doubtiul feeling on both sides
of the question, which is not likely to
be settled until after the turn of the
year, especially as the receipts to the
close of this month are considered a
good basis for calculating the extent of
the crop. We think, however, the ten
dency has been toward an increase of
the “bull” element, based on the general
statistical position and the' hopes of a
better consumptive demand, domestic
and foreign. let many “bears” can be
found in fully as sanguine mood as
ever, and predictions of the rate reach
ing are still to be heard quite
frequently.
Iu "spot” cottons during the week
there has been a fair aggregato busi
ness doing, but of a somewhat irregu
lar character’ and the market was at
times quite unsettled. Spinners, as a
rule, adhered pretty closely to the old
hand-to-mouth policy, and though a few
may have been hurried somewhat by
the fear of losing certain desirable lots
on a stiffening market, not many pur
chases were made to lay away. Ex
porters have been in very ’ good at
tendance, and now and then evincing
some anxiety, with a fair though not
particularly large amount of stock
taken. The attention of all classes
of buyers has been largely con
centrated upon the fine and choice
grades, and these proving in very scant
stock, have developed much strength,
with a small fractional advance made
from strict good middling up. Low
grades, however, were not only neg
lected, but plenty and freely offered,
with a probability that a buyer willing
to close quickly on any quantity would
have been met at something off current
quotations. There has been plenty of
stained available also, and on this the
rate was reduced pearly about per
pound, with no subsequent recovery.
Parcels free on board at the Southern
ports have been sparingly offered, and
in some cases held at very extreme
rates, but quite a little business was
negotiated at 12%c., 15-32d. freight,
about the best to be obtained.
For future delivery there has been
considerable irregularity, with one or
two opportunities for working up a lit
tle excitement, but only of momentary
character. Most of the leading opera
tors appear to be “out” for the moment,
waiting developments, aud the occa
sional rally soon subsided for want of
general support. During the early por
tion of the week, after a slight break
at the opening, there was a gradual
working up toward a higher range
along the entire line, but more par
ticularly the distant months, which
held its own until about Thurs
day. Confidence was based on
the call for “ spots,” the firmer
cables from abroad and the belief that
crop indications were less favorable
both on private and public information.
A great many “shorts,” too, linding
matters looking adversely, and the end
of the year approaching, were inclined
to cover and withdraw, and this also
acted as a stimulus. The receipts at
the ports, however, were in the mean
time piling up an aggregate for the
week far beyond calculations, and
about Thursday matters took a less
buoyant turn, which ultimately result
ed iu a reaction under evidences of too
much cotton at all points, aud reports
that the supply would be unchecked
during the coming week.
The Rochester Democrat tries to
tempt punsters by saying that the shoe
makers will undoubtedly get up a strike
unless insteps some good man to bring
about a reconciliation, but we are not
going to be drawn into the trap.
It’s enough to drive an editor insane
when he thinks what headlines could
be built over veracious, simultaneous
and exclusive announcements concern
ing the exact present whereabouts of
old man Bender, Charlie Ross and
Tweed.
It must not be inferred that because
the newspapers are full of whiskey just
now, the editors are in a similar con
dition. At this hazardous season of
the year the industrious journalist re
freshes himself with nothing stronger
than boiled ice-water.
AUGUSTA. GAI. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1875.
LETTER FRO Jl ATLANTA.
The Convention qfuestion—The Big
Failure—-The Librarian Affair-
School for Womei| —Xmas in a Va
riety of Shapes—ll|ipless Lovers.
[From Our ItegularConespondent.]
Atlanta, Ga., December 22.
The question of thf calling of a Con
vention by the incoming Legislature to
frame anew Constitution is just now
being agitated by th<! Radical leaders
here. The movement is perhaps one
of the many strategics resorted to by
the party to bring the scattered rem
nants together, to iniiuse a spasm of
new life, and to form) some means by
which the strength oft the crew can be
definitely determined!
They claim that t?ie perverse and
reckless elements of the Democratic
party are endeavoring to make a con
certed effort to induce the Legislature
to call the Convention for the purpose
of framing anew Constituti >n. They
think iu all essential features the pres
ent Constitution the i>hst Georgia ever
had, and the effort to-‘supplant it by a
new one comes from men who failed
to get offices under it, from men who
are dissatisfied with a'l political work
not done by themselves, and
from men who hate it because
it pronounces Georgia an inseparable
part of the American Union, and be
cause it ordains liberty, justice, free
education and equal tights. For ob
jects neither wise not patriotic, these
Democrats would involve the State in
agitation and expense, without the
slightest prospect of improving our
fundamental law. These Radicals claim
to have been friends of the present
Constitution from its inception ; knew
it was legal in origin and wise in pro
visions; loved it because of its liberal
ity, broad nationality and fealty to the
Union it heartily affirms; that it is a
standing admonition against sectional
ism, partiality and injustice, and all
that sort of thing. They advise their
party to defeat it by entering solemn
protests against the call of a Conven
tion, to elect Republicans whenever
they can be elected, and to do all else
in their power that will restrain the
‘call and defeat the objects of these
perverse and reckless elements of the
Democracy. How thi.4 stupendous ef
fort will succeed, remains a matter ot
time and circumstance) Iu the mean
time, the reckless elements should be
on the qui vive.
THE BIG FAILURE
has at last reached a head and the case
disposed of. Mr. Ball, ivho was said to
be a party to the affifr, in deceiving
the public by his connection with the
house, has proven himself clear of all
charges, and the affairs now assume
a respectable shape, ’albeit Messrs.
West, Edwards & Cos. have been ad
judged bankrupts. Lei us rejoice that
the thing is over.
ELECTION FOR LIBRARIAN.
The Board of Directors of the Y. M.
L. A. held their usual meeting last
evening, and from among a score oi
more of anxious aspirants for the office
of Librarian failed to elect. The elec
tion was postponed. The acting offi
cer seemed to be the {favorite candi
date. t
THE WOMAN’S v'flOOL.
Fora long time Mrs. Maria Jourdan
Westmorelaud has beefs laboring bv
pen, and voice to organize a “School
of Education and Industry for Women.”
The subject attracted considerable at
tention for the reason: tbat it was a
bold movement for so small a city as
Atlanta, and because, it was thought,
it could never be of any practical nen
efit. But Mrs. Westmoreland, with
womanly obstinacy and' manly perse
verance, has at last succeeded despite
the prejudices of those of tender sen
sitiveness, and last night the society
was organized. Judge L. E. Bleckly,
of the Supreme Court, was elected
President; Mrs. Westmoreland, Vice-
President; Mrs. Geo. W. Adair, Treas
ury, aud Mrs. S. E. Gabbet, Secretary.
Committees of House Furnishing, Col
lections, Situations and Finance were
appointed. •
The object school is to pro
vide for the education of women, to
give her a home, and to lit her for all
stations in life. Book-keeping, tele
graphing and many other trades and
accomplishments will be taught. Sev
eral merchants have agreed to employ
lady book-keepers who receive instruc
tion from this school. May it succeed.
CHRISTMAS.
Tho tantalizing toot of the tin trum
pet tickles the tympanum; the peppery
pop of the fugitive firo-eracker gives
rest to the hoots and howls of the hor
rible harem-scarems who find enjoy
ment in prowling around the boule
vards; the harrying to and fro of fond
papas and fonder manas with their pre
cious loads of notions and nonsense
fill betoken the near approach of
Christmas.
The vim, the joy, the expanse of the
great day is cramped by the unavoi
dable prevalence of hard times and the
unmistakable absence of lucre. The
burden which in bygone days was vont
to bump the vertebra of frost-fringed
Santa Claus by its precious weight has
dwindled to light proportions and as
a natural sequence there are squads of
the little folk who stockings will hang
to tho mantel.
The merry freed man ambles noc
turnally in quest of that which he may
devour, but finding naught retires to
his brown-stone shanty and weeps at
the prospect of no Christmas, and the
unwise negligence of people in locking
their smokehouse doors.
The garrulous goose hangs high—in
price, whilst the toothsome turkey
pipes his gabblo at an alfitude far be
yond tho reach of the rabble. The
signs are bad, and the chances favor a
dull day. Even the advent of Rex and
his gleaming cohorts a wakens but a
faint joy. His day, which falls on
Christmas, senior, will be a failure so
far as display is concerned. Fact is—
times are tight! I don’t mean to say
that times are in a state of mental ab
beration superinduced by limitless
libations of the extract of Coin, but that
the purse-strings are contracted aud
what little money is in them must go
for absolute necessaries and not non
sense. We long for a c-uauge—small
change. We yearn for a plenitude of
wealth —a surfeit of currency that we
may take the merry old god that per
sonates Christmas, and have a jolly
good time as of yore.
RATHER ROUGH.
Saturday night a couple at Stone
Mountain, whose love “laughed at
locksmiths and braved parental frowns,”
ran away to Conyers and were made
“won.” The hotel being full, they were
forced to remain up all night in the
parlor ! Next morning th- y came here,
and were afforded accommodations at
the Campbell Rouse. On Monday they
deemed the danger all over at home
and returned. All was forgiven, but
the remembrance of sis ting up all
night in a cold parlor on the first
night clings with a chafing vehemence
to the uow happy groom, Sox.
COCK-FIGHTING.
A Singular Defense of Chicken Dis
putes—Admiral Rous’ Letter to the
Editor of the London Times.
Sir: A motion in the House of Com
mons to increase the punishment to her
Majesty’s subjects who indulge in the
most ancient aud royal amusement of
cock-fighting induces me to trespass
on your columns. It has been argued
that it is a wise policy to forbid this
sport, owing to its cruelty. On this
principle, why not make pigeon shoot
ing illegal, when fat Herods, standing
over the traps, slay the innocents?
Why not legislate against hunting,
coursing, fishing? In the latter amuse
ment, what can be more brutal than
impaling worms on hooks, or trolling
with live bait to catch pike? Playiug
with a fine salmon on your hook is a
pleasant pastime, although the victim
differs in opinion. Neither is there
much to be said in favor of grand
battues, where hundreds of birds aud
ground game escape mutilated to
live a miserable life, or to bo eaten by
rats. All these amusements must of
necessity be cruel, but they are sanc
tioned by the upper classes, and the
cruelty is ignored. With respect to the
champion of the cockpit, is it a greater
boon for a young cock to be well fed
and reared to fight a battle, if victori
ous to be petted for the remainder of
his life, witb half a dozen little hens for
his comfort, or to cut his throat early
in life to satisfy the appetite of a car
niverous man? And this man, who
daily, is an accessory to the murder
of youth in the shape of veal, lamb, and
spring chickens, prides himself on his
amiability, and in the House of Com
mons expatiates on the cruelty of allow
ing pugnacious birds to contend in fair
fight, to tho admiration of thousands
of good, honest men, who delight in
such specimens of first-rate pluck
and courage. A vegetariau may in
dulge in such romance, or a Fakir who
declines to wash or comb his hair for
fear of disturbing a happy family. It
must be clear to every man that, in
this country, there is one law for the
rich and another for the poor. The
snob sticks to the former, but the
thoroughbred gentleman stands by the
poor man. In ancient times the game
cock was considered an emblem of
divinity by the Syrians and Greeks.
When Themistocles besieged Dalmatia,
he commanded that two cocks should
be fought in the open view of bis army,
and exhorted them to behave as these
stout-hearted creatures fought. Pom
ponious Mela, the historian, as
serted that the Roman Empire
did not begin to decline until
cocking had fallen into disrepute
among its governors. He proves that
Severus was not able to conquer Brit
ain until lie bad rendered his principal
officers passionately emulous of glory
by exhibiting a main of cocks every
day before them. The soothsayers
warned Mark Antony to take heed of
Caesar, because his cocks were always
beaten by him. The great Gustavus
told the King of Denmark he had no
cause to fear the Imperialists, since
they had given up cocking and were
devoted to drinking and dancing.
Christian, King of Denmark, said:
“Were I to lead an army against the
great Infidel o#Constantinople, I would
choose none but cockers for my com
manders, and none but lovers of the
sport for soldiers.” Our Henry VIII
built a stately pit in Whitehall, where
he often disported himself among his
most noble and loving subjects. The
dying speech of Sir T. Urquhart, who
was wounded at the battle of Naseby,
was: “My king and a good cock I
have ever loved, and like a good cock
in my sovereign’s service I gladly now
expire.” A Mr. Wilson, in the last cen
tury, advises all men who take delight
in this delicious and pleasant pastime
never to forsake or alienate themselves
from it, so long as it shall please the
Almighty to bless and prosper them ;
and he adds that we are bound to en
courage cock-fighting among ourselves
aud to discourage it among all foreign
nations. If cocking, which formerly
was a grand sport with the great no
bles of this kingdom, be now a
sin, lam an old and hardened sin
ner. Iu 1827, in command of the
Rainbow, I brought ten English-bred
cocks from Sydney to Malacca, and
fought ten battles with a Chinese mer
chant who had defeated all the Malays.
We won every battle, and I would go
two hundred miles to see a main be
tween tho Cheshire Piles aud the Lan
cashire Black-breasted Reds, if there
was no legal prohibition. Any amuse
ment which creates alliances and aug
ments friendly acquaintance adds to
the strength of the Empire, for united
wo stand; and the monotony of human
life is relieved by every salutary diver
sion.” I finish by a quotation from an
ancient writer:
“We, in our short-sighted wisdom,
deem ourselves superior to our pro
genitors, and ridicule their pastimes
and pursuits, forgettiug that in a few
years another generation will hustle us
off the stage, and will revenge our
treatment of our ancestors by treating
us with similar indignity.”
H. J. Rous, Admiral.
Haven and Grant—Mr. Lafferty’s
Opinion of Them. — The Richmond cor
respondent of the New York Herald
furnished his paper with a number of
interviews with Richmond ministers in
reference to Haven’s renomination of
Grant, and among them the following
from the Rev. J. J. Lafferty, of Rich
mond : “My opinion of Bishop Haven’s
nomination of General Grant is that it
is bad for Haven and bad for Grant.
Now, Haven is a nuisance at home anti
abroad. His ambition is notoriety aud
nastiness. He is a condensed can-can
in a white cravat. He pirouettes at any
angle to tickle the pit. His measure of
success is the blushes of decency.
Grant has a bad groom in Haven. The
Bishop has damaged the third term.
Haven has no following among his
church. He disgusts the men of con
sequence among them. They must
now submit to be tarred with the same
stick and confess themselves a gang of
politicians, or deodorize the church
and lustrate its altar. If Haven’s
church don’t echo his blast for Grant,
then Grant’s fugleman has ‘done it just
ono time too often, Samivel,’ Gilbert
Haven hag struck the wrong end of
the match.”
Irishmen in South America. —lt is
not generally known that there is a
large and prosperous Irish settlement
in the Argentine Republic, in South
America. In one of the provinces,
Bqenos Ayres, there is a population of
nearly four hundred thousand, of which
nearly half is Irish. It is a rich grazing
country, and the most extensive farm
ers in the province are Irishmen, who
hold immense tracts of land arid carry
on a wool trade that rivals Australia.
In 1869 they clipped one hundred
million pounds of wool,—| Boston Pilot,
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Two negroes had a stabbmg affray in
Atlanta Wednesday night.
The Fair of the Ladies Memorial
Association at Thomson was a com
plete success.
The ladies of the Atlauta Benevolent
Association giving a dinner
to the poor.
Macon is still troubled with burg
lars. One of the burglars, a negro, has
been arrested.
A plaint comes from Columbus that
the Court House is solemn and still as
a graveyard.
Bishop Doggett, of the M. E. Church
South has gone to Virginia and Bishop
Keener to New Orleans.
Mrs. Mary J. Cowles, aged fifty-five
years, died at her residence in Thomson
Saturday morning of pneumonia.
Toccoa has received up to date 2,725
bales of cottou; shipped, 2,134 ; on
hand, 231; prices quoted, 11%@12.
Henry Wright, a burglar, broke jail
in Stewart county and escaped to Co*
iambus, where he was captured.
Since Frank J. Cohen assumed con
trol of the local columns of the Rome
Commercial a marked improvement is
perceptible.
The monumental festival at Colum
bus has proved a grand success, as
such affairs usually do when the man
agement is entrusted to the fair sex.
Nevvnan Hicks, of the Georgia Rail
road, shipped yesterday one hundred
aud fifty tons of re-rolled rails to a point
below Covington to replace old rails
there. The track of the Georgia Rail
road is in splendid order. — Atlanta Con
stitution 23 d inst.
The Muscogee county grand jury
having recommended the purchase of
a pack of “ track dogs ” for the pur
pose of hunting offenders against the
law, the newspapers of that section
very properly condemns such a pro
cedure.
Griffin News: We saw a young man
yesterday who had attended to his
business closely this year, and the re
sult is tbat, with two hands, he is out
of dobt, has plenty of corn and meat
aud twelve bales of cotton left. This
is the kind of farming that pays.
The Atlanta Republican says that Mr.
Akerinan demanded a trial of “Gen.”
Joe Morris, tne negro said to be the
leader of the late insurrectionary
movement, but the Solicitor General
announced tbat he had no case against
the prisoner iu that matter, and there
fore he was not prosecuted. Morris is
said to be still held in jail at Sanders
ville charged with an offense commit
ted in another county.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gen. M. C. Butler and Col. F. W. Ca
pers will address the people at Edge
field Court House on the first Monday
in January.
The young men of Greenville will
celebrate Christmas by a prize pigeon
match.
The ladies of the Catholic Church at
Sumter have inaugurated a Christmas
Fair for the benefit of their church. It
will continue all the week.
The dwelling house of James Bland
ing, in the fork of Black river, Claren
don county, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th instant, together with its entire
contents.
At the late session of the State
Council, F. of TANARUS., held at Florence, Mr.
H. W. Finlayson was appointed Dis
trict Vice President for Cherterfield
county, in place of Rev. J. E. Carlisle
resigned.
The gin house of Mr. John Frost, six
miles from Sumter, was destroyed by
the incendiary’s torch, Monday night,
between nine and ten o’clock, together
with fourteen bales of cotton, cotton
seed gin and other contents.
Wm. R. Oake, a soldier of the 26th
lowa Infantry, who was with Sherman’s
army when it passed through Cheraw
in 1865, writes to the postmaster at
that place to say that he has a cap
tured and abandoned Bible which he is
desirous of returning to the owner.
On Wednesday of last week Lorenzo
Thomas shot and killed Angus Mc-
Quage, both white men, on the Charles
Irby place, iu Marlboro’ county. The
parties became involved in a difficulty
growing out of the loss of some cotton,
which Thomas accused McQuage’s
brother-in-law of stealing. After a
tussle the parties separated, and Mc-
Quage went off a short distance, picked
up an axe and started back towards
Thomas. As he was advancing Thomas
shot him, the ball entering his body
just below the breast bone and coming
out behind. After being shot McQuage
continued to advance, and knocked
Thomas down twice with the axe. He
then walked off a short distance and
fell dead.
lSpecial Dispatch to the News and Courier.]
Columbia, December 22.—The wildest
excitement prevails among the Radi
cals to-day, and threats and curses of
the bitterest kind are hurled at Gov.
Chamberlain. No direct or organized
action, either in or out of the Legisla
ture, has been taken, although the ex
tremists talk wildly of impeachment,
and suggest all manner of means by
which they may bend or break the in
flexible Governor. But he is still too
strong, in the House and Senate, for
those threats to take tangible form.
Moses deolares his intention of imme
diately suing out a writ of mandamus
in the Supreme Court, to compel the
Governor to issue his commission.
To add to the discomfiture and rage
of the Radical crew, already wrought
up to a pitch of desperation by the re
fusal of the Governor to commission
Whipper and Moses, the Governor
signed the supply bill to-day, without
returning the Little Bonanza. There
was a howl of rage when they found
that their game was blocked again,
and even after the calendars were
cleared and the work all disposed of,
both Houses hung on until 5, p. m., in
the hope that their cherished Little
Bonanza would come back to them as
a law. No such luck was in store for
them. The Governor remained ominous
ly silent, and instead of adjourning
for the holidays as was expected, both
Houses have adjourned till to-morrow.
If the Governor vetoes the Bonanza
bill.it will be on the ground that the
Legislature violated their part of the
understanding, in raising the tax and
in smothering the Big Bonanza. the
bill is vetoed, the Radicals will use
every esbrt tq pass it over the veto.
They no longer conceal their warlike
intentions. They mean to light the
Governor to the deatfi.
Leslie’s Bonanza, the Barnwell-
Rlaokvillo bill, also remains unsigned,
and will be vetoed without doubt. The
great question is, can the Governor be
sustained, and every exertion is losing
made by the Conservatives to collect
their abseqt members
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 121
A ROYAL STORY.
The Princess Louise and Canon Duck
worth —AnObdurate Girl—The Hand-"
some Tutor —A Queen Perplexed—
How the Marquis of Lome Married,
and How an American Girl Didn’t—
Lome’s Troubles.
jßoston Herald.]
The Departure of the Rev. Canon
Dnckworth, A. M., for India, as a mem
ber of the Prince of Wales’ suite and
chaplain to the royal party, bears no
particular outward significance, but his
appointment to that coveted position
recalls reflections, in which love, con
vents, a girl’s hot-headedness, a man’s
firmness in honorable decision, a forced
marriage and marital misery for one,
and gradual promotion and honor for
the other, in a sovereign’s displeasure
and approval, form the warp and woof
upon which the story weaves. In its
details it may be near to you. The
Princess Louise, before she became the
Marchioness of Lorne, and while yet
under the immediate eye of her royal
mother, was found a tutor iu the person
of a rather obscure yet thoroughly in
tellectual curate, the Rev. Mr. Duck
worth, A. M. He was then, as he is now,
A YOUNG AND FASCINATING MAN,
with dark eyes and hair, winning man
ners and soft voice. A fine vocalist,
everything aesthetic found in him a cor
dial patron, and he was in great favor
with the royal family, the younger
branches of which were under his care.
Asa consequence, the handsome prin
cess was soon much more engrossed
with thoughts of her tutor and his
well-cut face than pages of philosophy
or intricato tenses of verbs. Her feel
ings ripened into affection, which she
did not hesitate to show. While in
Scotland she, frequently, in company
with her brother Arthur, Duke of Con
naught, visited her tutor at his humble
inn, and after taking tea the evening
would pleasantly pass iu singing and
social conversation, a proceeding harm
less enough iu its way if the young
lady was not a royal princess and
guided by an affection for her tutor
which she has sought to gratify. This
love soon became too potent and toS
strong for the curate’s sense of proprie
ty, and he considered, in view of the
circumstances, that it was his
duty to inform the Queen. This he
did iu a delicately worded letter, in
which, with consummate art, he tried
to shield his pupil as far as possible,
but suggested another tutor for the
Princess should be procured at once.
The Queen was very much troubled at
the hint contained in Mr. Duckworth’s
brave communication, and when the
Princess was called and spoken to, the
strength of her passion showed itself
as she declared that she would “either
marry him or go into a convent.” Her
manner of saying and firmness in
maintaining it left no shadow of doubt
as to her intent in the matter. Her
love was her life, and in it she determ
ined to cast her destiny. There seem
ed indeed no loop-hole through which
influences might be directed with a
view of changing her determination.
The Queen was in a quandary, the royal
mind perplexed for a royal fate. There
was no unmarried Prince in Europe
with which England cared to wed.
Majesty and its advisers were floored.
The matter of marrying the curate
was, of course, out of the question,
and the question of a couvant was
soberly considered. At Cluer there is
situated a convent conducted by the
high churchwnterest
in the Church of England, and so high
as to be almost out of sight to
an ordinary church man. The discip
line is extraordinarily strict, the life
monastic in form and rigid in daily
duty. In fact, it seems to have been a
convent kept from forgotten centuries
of ancient England. It is, of course,
headed by a mother superior. To this
establishment the Queen determined to
go and examine into its system, so if
the worst came to the worst, aud
Louise should seek a eonvent, the
place would have been decided on.
Commands were given to the mother
superior that the visit should be kept
a profound secret. No sister was to
know who the guest was within the
convent walls. JSo her Majesty came,
and while examining into the convent
discipline, a sister passed in one of the
long covered corridors, and in passing
made the most profound obeisance,
bending nearly to the ground. The
Queen, turning quickly to the mother
superior, said:
I thought I commanded that my
visit should be unknown to any one.”
“ Your orders have been obeyed ; the
reverence made by the sister was to me
as superior of theorder ; no one knows
of your Majesty’s visit.”
This incident aud answer were hardly
calculated to pour oil on a troubled
conscience, but whether it had any de
termining influence is not known. In
the meantime the plan of marrying the
love-smitten princess to a nobleman
had been broached and considered
feasible, if the groom to be captured
was of sufficient rank. Of necessity it
must be the eldest son of a duke, the heir
to the highest nobility next to the orown.
The plan approved, the young men
obtainable were talked over. Whether
the young noblemen then in London
knew of the queen’s intentions, is not
known outside, but oertainly their ac
tions at the time of the Queen’s return
from Cluer and the consideration of
the plan of marriage would confirm
that supposition. Lord Hamilton, the
future Duke of Abercopn, started for
Ireland, and his engagement to Miss
Curaen, who was staying at his father’s
residence, was immediately announced.
Lord Hartiugtou, the Duke of Devon
shire that is to be, and the oomiug
Duke of Kent, also left London.
THE MARQUIS OF LORNE
alone remained, and he was summoned
to the royal presence. As the coming
Duke of Argyll, the highest of Scottish
nobility, he was far better for rank than
any half-penny prince of a two-penny
principality. Then the marriage might
l>e turned to account in cementing the
loyalty of the Scotch to the fortunes of
the crown. So, as a sequal after a
proper time, the Duke ot Argyll be
came royalty's father-in-law. The
princess was argued and pushed into
consent, not being very enthusiastic.
The announcement was received in va
rious ways; by the people with aston
ishment, by the Scotch with joy, and
by the royal family with feeling and
expressions that were anything but oor
dial approval. The Brmcess Beatrice,
who at once saw that she was the fu
ture walking companion to the Queen,
the jone woman of the family, was
furious, remarking contemptuously
when she heard it, that there
was “no one left for her but
Fred Grant or a young man, from
Lewis & Allenby’s,” (a large -London
cjry goods store). But the matter was
settled and the obstinate princess be
came the Marehiopess of Lome in due
time, The tutor, now Canon Duck-
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worth, having acted in such a straight
forward, manly way, won naturally, no
end of royal favor. While the love
and position of the princess might have
saved him any penalties for running
away with Louise—which she was re
ported quite eager to do—still his pro
motion in a State-governed church
would have been irretrievably checked,
probably lor life; and chances for hap
piness in the face of royal displeasure
are terribly few in England. The canon,
and no doubt future archbishop, did
just what was manly, Christian and
best. Various favors were shown him
at once, and on the death of Canon
Kingsley, great man’s valued posi
tion in Westminster Abbey was given
to Duckworth. His appointment to the
suite of the Prince of Wales is the
latest exhibition of this favor in memo
ry of his action.
lorne’s life since his marriage
with royalty can hardly be said to have
been a happy one for him; its cause
force—might point the same way for
his wife, although his just published
book, which is illustrated by his artist
spouse, gives a slight indication of
harmony of situation. Yet. whenever
he attends court, ho enters the palace
at the entrance reserved for noblemen.
He sits below the salt at the royal
table; he is known only as the Marquis
of Lorne, and it is to be presumed that
the Princess Louise does not care, as
she has force of will sufficient to have
him treated as the husband of a royal
Princess, or else go herself as the
Marchioness of Lorne, the to-ibe-Duch
ess of Argyll. And perhaps another
straw that would point to his marital
life as one of ruffled wretchedness, is
found that the past to him is a thorn.
Whenever he thinks on his conditiori
he cannot help remembering the beau
tiful American girl to whom ho was
devoted with all the devotion of a true
lover. His attentions were thoroughly
constant to his ideal, as found iu Miss
Bradhurst, whom he met for tho first
time at the Court of Berlin. Miss B.
and her sister, both of whom are very
beautiful, and both, now married, were
favorites wtih the Crown Princess of
Prussia, the eldest daughter of Queen
Victoria. Consequently those two Amer
ican girls were constantly at court and
were much admired. Lome being in
the royal capital at the time, visited
court, where he met and was captivat
ed bv the tall pale beauty. Margaret
Bradhurst, decribed so well in these
liues that one might readily believe
they were written of her :
O! s tveot pale, Margaret, O! rare pale, Mar
garet,
What lit your eyes witli tearful power,
lake moonlight on a falling shower?
Who lent you, love, your mortal dower
Of pensive thought and aspect pale, your
melancholy sweet and frail
As perfume of the cuckoo-flower?
But Lorne’s love was soon known at
home, and parental injunction was laid
upon further proceedings by the com
mand that money was the primal re
quisite for an Argyll. So Lorno came
home on his orders from Argyll, went
through London, and, staying there,
met his fate. Margaret was left in
quite an unmanly fashion, while the
ducal coronet had
“Gone, glimmering through the dream of
things that were.”
Another straw which points the way
the wind blows comes to London from
Florence, where the Princess Louise is
said to have
FOUND A RIVAL
for the charming Duckworth in the
person of Dick Connolly, the sculptor.
Now Connolly, who is really a garcon
d’esprit, affects the wild looking artist,
a form eccentric genius always takes
for personal display. His hair is long,
his eyes large, bis voice rather soft, his
hand and foot rather comely, and his
face is considered handsome. His
dress is usually of the artist type.
Well, when Louise was in Florence she
visited his studio, and repeated her
visit a number of times during her
stay, informing Connolly that ir she
had remained there any length of time
she would have made him give her
lessons in his art and hers. Such is
the story, a royal romauce in real life, a
real romance of royal life. Lorne lives
and has a hard time of it, while the
princess perhaps envies the canon’s
plebian position and his unwou love.
Margaret is married, and Lorne is
nothing to her, only a presence which
has passed away, a dream forgotten in
the light of later days. Duckworth is
on his way to power and position, the
only ons who secured anything in the
issues of the royal row. To him fell
the prize.
A Remarkable Article.
The January number of the Catholic
World contains a remarkable article
upon President Grant’s speech at Des
Moines, lowa, at the Convention of the
Army of the Tennessee, on September
29. It finds that all Grant Said of the
relations of Church and State and of
the contest which ho predicted might
occur between '‘patriotism and intelli
gence aii the one side, and superstition,
ambition and ignorance on the other,”
is in perfect aocord with tho teachings
of Catholicism. “Tho speech expresses ’*
says the Catholic World, ‘‘better than
many imagine, the common sentiments
of the American people,” and of Grant
it declares, “all must admit that he is a
true American, formed and moulded by
the events in whioh he has moved, and
truly representing the country and the
times,” It affirms that ir Grant’s re
commendations in the speech are
adopted, the Church will be content.
The article is very ably written, and
the prooess of reasoning, by which the
I residen t is made to appear the cham
pion of the Homan CathoJio theory of
the common school system, is decidedly
ingenious.
Tiie Greed for Office at Washing
ton. —Mr. John G. Thompson, of Ohio,
is weary of public life. He was elected
Sergeant at-Arms of the House of Rep
resentatives only a few days ago, and
already the pertinacity of the hungry
office seeker has made life a burden.
Ho said to a sympathizing Ohio editor
recently: “If I had known the vexa
tions which this position would bring
upon me, I would have stayed out in
Ohio, where peace was tinkling on the
shepherd’s bell and ringing with the
reapers. I have no patronage, and yet
impression is abroad that I have. I
can only appoint three assistants, whose
duties are similar to those of book
keeper and cashier, and yet I am pulled
and hauled by every applicant from
California to Maine. The fellows smile
incredulously when I tell them that I
have no plaoes, aud those who know
that I have none to give are ready to
kill me because I can’t help them in
other departments.”
Bishop MoNierny (Roman Catholic),
of Albany, has ordered all the priests
of his diocese to refuse absolution to
any members of their congregatiou who
participate ia “round” daueee,