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TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year ....$lO oo six months ,■ /!.. 5 oo " three months 2 50 Tiu- Weekly— one year 6 oo “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 00 ■' six months l oo Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers. 2 Vi ots. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance The paper will be disaontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,3 tsr Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office. AUGUSTA, GA. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Spanish Items. London, December 28.—The Times gives prominence to the following : We are glad to be able to corroberate the contradiction of the statement that Spain has violated tho obligation of neutrality by enlisting Italians for the army in Cuba. A Paris dispatch says that Queen Isabella has the measles. A Madrid dispatch confirms the re port of the death of Deßodas. The army from Catalonia numbering 40,000, has arrived at Navarre. Important from Madrid. New Yoke. December 28.—A special to the Herald from London says: The officials in Madrid having refused to forward the following dispatch, it was transmitted to this city through an other source: “There are indications of the near advent of serious diplomatic complications. There is a strange ru mor afloat in trustworthy quarters, which alleges the near advent of Euro pean intervention in Cuba. The na tions which may coalesce for this pur pose are not named. The United Stat-s Government is probably forewarned of the fact, as I am assured that lengthy dispatches in cypher are passing be tween Madrid and Washington.” The Pope’s Nameday. A Rome special says that yesterday, being the Pope’s nameday, there was a series of receptions at the Vatican. Numbers of the Papal staff, and their commanding officers, received the Pen- j tifieal benediction kneeling. Holland and Venezuela. St. Thomas, December 16.— The Dutch war steamer Princess Marie arrived on the 12tli, and left the next morning for Curocoa. It is rumored that questions between Holland and Venezuela will be settled diplomatically. A Disastrous Hurricane. Madrid, December 28.- A dreadful hurricane on the Phillippine Islands occurred on the 30th of November. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost, 6,800 dwellings were destroyed and many cattle perished. The crops are ruined. British Successes. London, December 28.—A special from Penang to the Times says the Eng lish now hold all the important points in the neighborhood. The Maharajah Lela has taken refuge in Siamese terri tory. The British power is supreme. Only the murderers of Mr. Birch are ?u arms. Thiers—The Press Bill. Faris, December 28. —Thiers has written a letter reserving the right of choosing between the Senate and Cham ber of Deputies if he should be elected to both Houses. He adds that all ho wishes for is the establishment of the Conservative Republic. The Assembly continues the con sideration of the press bill in detail. An amendment has been carried de priving Prefects of the power of sum marily forbidding the sale of journals in the streets. The consequence will be to cancel orders now in force by which the sale of seventy-five journals in the streets is prohibited. From China. San Francvsco, December 28.—The Hong Ivoug press says considerable dissatisfaction is felt among the Ameri can residents of Tien Tsin and Pekin at the order of Admiral Reynolds sending the United States steamer Mouocacy to Shanghai for repairs, while the unsettled state of affairs in Yunnan continues. The failure of Messrs. Russell & Sturgis, merchants of Manilla, is con firmed. Liabilities, $2,000,000. CANADA. After Tweed —Commercial Relations— Strike of Canal Hands—Settling with Creditors. Quebec, December 28.—Two detectives were on the track of the person whom they believe to be Tweed. They were obliged to abandon the chase for want of funds. London, Ont., December f B. — The Chamber of Commerce passed resolu tions recommending the adoption by the Government the policy of inciden tal protection as tho most beneficial for the country under present circum stances; also for a renewal of reciprocal trade relations with the United States. St. Catharine, Ont., December 28. The Italians at St. Davids, whom the contractors brought out to work on canals have joined the Stone Cutters Association and refuse to work until their scale of prices is accepted by the contractors. St. John, N. 8., December 28.—A final settlement has been arranged be tween E. D. Jewell & Cos., and their creditors. The latter had agreed to accept twenty cents on the dollar cash and ten cents on time, the sum requir ed to pay this compromise being $510,- 000. The cash was ready, but a diffi culty arose in reference to security for the time payment. It is understood that E. D. Sutton’s nDtes, endorsed by H. E. Wilmore, of Providence, R. I. and E. G. Dunn, of St. John’s are accepted f<r $170,000 dollars, payable in install ments of two or three years. CINCINNATI. Bishop Haven’s Third-Term Nomina tion Considered. Cincinnati, December 28.—The regu lar weekly meeting of the Methodist preachers considered the Bishop Hav en matter. Of the first resolutions offered was one declining to express an opinion on the third-term and deplor ing Haven’s course. Another set ex pressing amazement and alarm over such a small matter and denying Hav en’s right to speak for the whole Church and utterly opposing any con nection of Church and State were also presented. After a lively discussion, finally tho whole matter was laid on the table, which is probably the end of the affair here. —■ NEW ORLEANS. Drawing: of tlie Louisiana Lottery. New Orleans, December 28.—The golden drawing of the Louisiana Lot tery took place yesterday. The fol lowing numbers drew the principal prizes: No. 582 won one hundred thousand dollars; No. 16,709, fifty thousand dollars ; No. 2,249, twenty thousand dollars ; No. 11,105, ten thousand dollars ; Nos. 3,918 and 18,468 each drew five thousand dollars, and the following twenty-five hundred dol lars each : Nos. 768, 1,898, 6,004, 11,470. Fatal Shooting:. New Orleans, December 28.—E. L. Pierson, a member of the Legislature from Natchitoches, was shot and in stantly killed on Sunday by Mr. Cos grove, editor of the Vindicator. The difficulty grew out of an abuse of pierson by Cosgrove in his paper. CAutjusf n Constitutionalist. Established 1799. FROM WASHINGTON. Currency Statements—Postal News and Other Items .:om the Capital. Washington, D2oember 28.—The amount of additional National Bank notes issued since November Ist *s $1,761,280. The total amount since the act of July 14tb, 1874 is $12,715,975. Ex-Govemor NeweM, of New Jersey, President of the Natio 1 Council of the Union League of /merioa h issued a notice countermanding the meeting ordered to* be held in Pb:'a delphia next month and convening th = sub-Committees at the Astor House in New York on Thursday July 6th at noon. No meeting of the Cabinet occurred to-day, and unlos something special occurs there will be none this week. The retirement of $644,550 legal ten ders is ordered on account of the Na tional bank circulation usual during the-month. Outstanding legal tenders now are nearly $372 C 30,01 J. Theodore M. Vale will succeed Col. Bangs as Superintendent of the Rail road Mail Service. Bangs’ resignation takes effect in Pebruaty. The general postal union treaty going into operation in France on the first of January next, the postal union rates of five cents per half ounce on letters, two cents for postal cards, two cents for newspapers each if not ex ceeding four ounces and two cents per two ounces for other printed matter and patterns of merchandise will Hke effect on the date named for corres dence from the United States addressed to France and Algeria; and, also, for correspondence addressed to Spain in cluding the Balearic Isles, the Ca nary Islands, the Spanish pos sessions on the Northern coast of Africa, and the postal estab lishments of Spain upon the western coast of Morrocco. The postal union territory wiil then include the whole of Europe without exception, together with Asiatic Russia, Asiatic Turkey and Egypt, and of course the United States also. Zaulo Poole, the child acrobat, has been taken from the custody of his brothers and placed in that of Mr. Gatcha, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, until a suitable homo cau be provided. The Post Office Department has re ceived the following cable from the British Postmaster General: “ Money orders advised on lists from the United States largely exceed the usual amount. Please remit £30,000 on ac count. The Intervention Story at Washington. It is asserted in prominent circles that if, as reported from London, “ there is a near advent of European intervention in Cuba,” our Government would inform such powers as might combine for this purpose that their course would be highly offensive to the United States, as it would imply a de sign of controlling affairs in localitie:- contiguous to this country, thereby in juriously affecting our commercial and political interests, and for this reason, apart from other considerations, the United States would continue to act in the spirit of the Monroe doctrine. CHARLEY ROSS. The Latest Clue to the Stolen Boy. Boston, December 28.— Dispatches from Concord and St. Albans state that a lad answering the description of Charlie lioss was placed on tho Mon treal train at Nashua, last night, by some men who failed to provide him with a ticket, no gave another name tit first, but finally said that the men had mado him tell a fictitious story, and that his name was Ross. He said he had lived in Philadelphia ; that he had been cariied away while playing with his bother Eddie, and that his mother’s name was Annie. His ap pearance and story have so strongly impressed the persons having him in charge that they will communicate with Mr. Ross. GOVERNMENT FRAUDS. Allowed to Plead Guilty—Arrest of a Whiskey Rectifier, Chicago, December 28. —Tho Times has information that District Attorney Bangs has received instructions from Washington to allow all parties under indictment here for defrauding the Government to plead guilty, and to in sure them immunity from the peniten tiary. St. Paul, Minn., December 28.— Jonas F. Brown has been arrested and his stock, worth $35,000 at Minneapolis, seized for failure to make returns and pay t-he special tax as a rectifier. Minor Telegrams. Richmond, December 28.—Lewis D. Crenshaw’ is dead. Aged 58 years. Baltimore, December 28.—A private dispatch from New York announces the death of ’William Crichton, for merly one of the most prominent and active merchants of Baltimore. Cincinnati, December 27.—The hogs slaughtered to date number 328,950. Same time last year, 328,265. Worcester, Massachusetts, Decem ber 28. —The suspension of James A. Smith and G. W. & J. A Smith, Wool en announced. Liabili ties variously estimated at from three hundred to six hundred thousand dol lars. The assets are unknown. Marine Items. Washington, December 28.—The Sig nal Service Observer at Sandy Hook reports that the bark reported ashore this morning is the Gentoo, Capt. Sta ples, from Calcutta, August 22d, for New York. She is on a stone pile. He also reports the schooner Kate Romwell ashore on the 26th, but is now off and in tow of the wrecking steamer Lackawana. London, December 28.—The steamer Ville de Brest arrived at Havre yester day with the passengers from the dis abled steamer L’Amerique, which is at Queenstown, fur Havre. Found Guilty. Boston, December 28.- -The jury in the case of Abraham Jackson, the noted defaulter aud forger, rendered a ver dict of guilty on all the counts of the indictment. Waddy Thompson. Memphis, December 28. —The charge of forgery against Waddy Thompson was dismissed. The charges of felony will be heard January 12th. Another Steamer Sunk. Memphis, December 28. —The steamer Fort Gibson, hence for Pine Bluff, snagged and sunk, yesterday, in Bayou Metre, with a cargo of one hundred tons of assorted merchandise. ATTGUSTA. GA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1875. FROM NEW YORK. More Beecherlsm—Removal of Canal Auditor Thayer Asked. New York, December 28. —Frank Moulton has instituted suit against Henry Ward Beecher for $50,000 dam ages. The complaint sets forth a ma licious prosecution. Mrs. Tilton wifi be a witness in the case. Atbany, December 28. —The Board of Cotr’'ssiouer3 of the canal fund adopt ed a requisition upon the Governor to suspend Franc's S. Thayer, auditor of the canal department, and appoint a suitable person to perform the duties, if it shall appear to him that Thayer has violated his duty in regard to the public monies. THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Full Deta sl s —A Horrible Story. New York, December 28.— The fol lowing particulars respiting the dyna mite explosion at Bremerhaven are from the Weiser Zeiiung : It appears that just before the Mosel was about to sail a cart containing four cases and a barrel wes being unloaded for ship ment. Suddenly a terrible explosion occurred. The effect was horrible. The quay was then thronged with people, partly belonging to the steamer, partly spectators and paiily passengers, who had remained there to take a last farewell of their friends. An eye witness, who stood under the gang way of the Mosel, on hear'ng the terrific report, saw a number of black lumps flying about in the air, whilst very few of the persons on land remained visible. Apprehending a boiler explosion, he threw himself flat on deck, where he received a volley of sand, broken glass, fragments of flesh, bones, etc. The devastation on board the Mosel was terrific. No skylight was left. The cabins of the starboard and port were either crushed in or bulged out by the pressure, or alto gether smashed. The side plates of the ship were burst. The ports with their glasses and rivets were forced in wards, and the whole ship was be smeared with blood and stuck over with pieces of flesh and other hu man debris. Iu the hold, and in all parts of the ship, were found arms, legs, and other portions of the human frame. Thus the lower hold received some limbs through the open hatchways. The sides of the hatchway were burst by the pressure and the front of the naviga tion eabin on deck stove in. The whole ship was littered with glass shreds, which even filled the dishes from the steam kitchen as they were being served to the ’tween deCk or steerage passengers. The tug got off comparatively unhurt, being so much more below the quay line than the Mosel, still the whole of its deck was destroyed. The crew came off with a mere fright only, the engineers and stokers having been hurt slightly. On land where the package had been unloaded a hole had been produced from six to seven feet deep, and the whole place was strewn with limbs, shreds of dresses, etc., in large reeking pools of blood. You might see here an arm, there a calf, in testines, mutilated busts, etc. Amongst the most horrible details of this calamity is the fate of the Etmer family, who were seeing off one of their sons to California. The father, mother, sou and son-in-law are dead, also the daughter-in-law had her arm and her child its hand blown off. The case which exploded had been in the care of the carrier, Westerman, of Bremerhaven, and was accompanied on Ps way to the steamer by a Mr. Ttimford, of whom it is said all trace has been lost. ALABAMA. Meeting of the Legislature. Montgomery, December 28. —The Alabama Legislature mot .to-day. The Governor’s message is devoted entirely to matters of State interest, and makes no reference to National affairs. A re port from the Commissioners to settle the State debt will be made in a few days. BOGUS ADVERTISING. A Heavy Verdict Against Ben Wood. [New York Herald, Dec. 24.] Tho case of the city of New York against Benjamin Wood was tried be fore Judge Donohue yesterday. Tho suit was brought by the city authorities to recover $6,230.4(3, with interest from April, 1872, which was alleged to have been wrongfully obtained for pretend ing to advertise the proceedings of the Common Council prior to April, 1872, iu the Daily News. The advertising for which the money was received, it was claimed, was never done, and the bill therefore pushed through the Auditor’s department of the Controll er’s office on false vouchers and affi davits. Stephen Augell, the Examiner of Piintingand Advertising, attached to the Controller’s office, had been direct ed to examine the vouchers put iu by Wood, in order to discover whether the advertisements charged for had been printed. He consulted Mr. Lynch, the foreman of the News, and obtained from him the file of tho paper for 1872. Not discovering the advertisements, he reported that they had not been print ed. A false file of the paper had been gotten up containing the advertise ments, but it had not been put together carefully enough to deceive any one. Mr. Wood came into court and was sworn as a witness for the defense in the case. All the questions excepting one were ruled out, however, because Mr. Wood had refused to bring the files of the News into court. During Mr. Wood’s examination Judge Dono hue took occasion to reprimand tho counsel for the defense for the expres sions he let fall. No other witnesses were called, both sides resting their case with the examination of a single witness. Judge Donohue, in charging the jury, referred to the useless adjourn ments and delays of the defense. It was in the power of Mr. Wood to pro duce the files of the paper to show whether the advertisements were print ed or not, but he had chosen not to produce them. The jury retired at about 3:30 p. m., and returned within five minutes, announcing a verdict in favor of the city for the full sum claim ed, which, with interest, amounted to $7,581.17. Several suits of a similar nature will soon be prosecuted. “We publish a red hot paper this morning,” as an enterprising Western editor remarked the day after having been burned out. ' Edwin Forrest’s mansion in Phila delphia has been sold for $98,000. It is to be turned into a club house. A FAT IRISH BOY. A Remarkable Ciise of Obesity-An Interesting Lad-;-His Reception in Hospital—Successful Treatment. Dublin, December 10,1875. A case has lately been brought under the consideration o ’ the Dublin College of Physicians which is so remarkable in many ways as to;seem to deserve a wider notice than that of the purely professional circle. It is a rapid and extraordinary development of fatness in a boy. HISTORY OF THE C/ SE. The patient—for ,: ‘p atient” he really was —was the sou of poor parents. His father was a stone cutter, and the boy was to be brought up to the father’s trade. At the data of the medical treatment of the cuse he was about seventeen years of age, only four feet five inches in height, and his weight was 128> 2 pounds*:. His diminitive stature gave him ;!,he appearance of being literally as broad as he was long. His cheeks were Corid and bursting with fat, overlapping his nose, and well nigh burying his blue eyes, which yet seemed to be bursting from their sock ets. His under chin fell on the front of his chest, and thick, brawny folds lay between the back of the head and his shoulders, quite obliterating all ap pearance of neck. There was a marked accumulation of fat Across the chest; the belly (as he lay in bed) was spread out on either side of him, and projected beyond his knr ?s. The thighs and legs were not in proportion to the upper parts, and it wes visible that the fat predominated in the head and neck and front of the trunk. The posterior regions were small by comparison ; the corresponding muscles were both small and inefficient, and much of the diffi-. culty which ho experienced in standing or sitting was, no doubt, owing to the condition of those m uscles. HOW HAD HE BEEN FED ? He never had the means of pamper ing his appetite had he been so in clined. His food consisted chiefly of potatoes, cake, bread and tea. He was not fond of sugar. He was not of a lazy or indolent disposition, although since the development of his obesity he had, not unnaturally, passed much of his time in sleep. His father was short and stout, but could not at all be called fat. Neither was his mother. He was one of thirteen children, not one of whom had manifested any ten dency to obesity. ii / PPLICATION FOE TREATMENT. In January, 1874, he was first brought by his mother for medical ad vice. She stated that for the preced ing three or four months, he had been getting so fat that lie had not been able to do any work’, Practising the paternal trade—stone cutting—when lie stooped he got j “caught in the chest,” and could ndt give a second blow to the chisel. His remarkable ap pearance elicited such lively sallies from the students that neither en treaties norc&mmands could persuade him to remain and submit himself to treatment. A month later he was again taken by his mother and locked up in the room o" one of the resident pupils, to protect hikn from the in quisitive gaze and sarcastic remarks of a curious crowd. Four and twenty days after his ad mission to hospital he found the means of escape. At this tithe he could fairly movo about. Last April he had him self become alarmed kit liis condition, and he promised his nfiother that if ad mitted into hospital he would remain, or, as ho put it, he * “ would not run away again”—a superfluous promise, since he was quite Unable to stand, much less run. Except on three or four occasions he ha I not left his bed for nine months. He-was conveyed to the hospital in a cart lying on his side on a bundle of straw. The cart was “ backed ” to the hospital steps, the “ tailboard” removed/’the shafts raised aud he was slid down the incline plane into the arms of two of the hos pital attendants, whol carried him to bed. EXTERNAL /PI EaRANCES. The general color of his skin was reddish, but the feet and legs were of a purplish hue, passing into blue. On pressure those livid ports became quite pale aud very slowly recovered their bluish tinge. HIS MEN f/L CONDITION. He had none of the amiability with which fat persons are usually credited; on the contrary, he wits very irritable and subject to violent fits of passion. He was VERY SENSITIVE? TO COLD, though so fat, and suffered much in frosty weather, the extremities being quite livid. The abundance of volatile fatty acids given off from his skin made his vicini ty unpleasant, and proved a serious ob stacle to leoch treatment. To mitigate this, warm baths were used, and the bouyancy of fat persons was well illus trated in this instance measurement. The following measurement may be interesting : | Inches Circumference of oranhfin 22% Circumference under cl 25 Circumference of arm, ni>ar axilla 13 Circumference of wrist C 3 ; Circumference around cifost 39 Circumference around vyjiist 39 His average - pulse: beat was 28.5, circulation feeble, action of the heart weak, rapid, but not irreg ular or attended with Abnormal sounds. his vital capacity, as measured by Casfpla’s spirometer, was 56.6 cubic inches. : The respiration was shallow and rapid!, although there was no pulmonary obstruction; its av erage rate was 32.2. I FEELING OF UiEIGHT. < His own account of fiiuiself was that “ the weight of his ifelly was break ing his back,” and tjiat he felt this most when he tried to f" sit up straight on himself,” and that ihe “grab in the back” was increasing daily. His usual and most comfortable ; position in bed was lying nearly roun j on his face, the belly spread out before him, his ehiu resting on his forearm; in this way he felt least pressure of wfie abdomen on the back. j? TREATMENT. Into the medical treatment of the case it is unnecessary to enter. It will be sufficient for medical readers to be informed that the agents employed where large doses of: liquor potassce and the liquid extract of the focus vesciculusus. [ These remedies wen§ used both sep arately and in combination. * \ ITS EFFECT. When admitted to ],tf& hospital he could barely lift his haij.d to his mouth. On the eighteenth day’ he could sit up in bed. In forty-one]; days more he I could walk the corridor with the aid of a stick. At the end of another six weeks he walked a distance of three quarters of a mile and back. The strangest part of the case, perhaps, is, that when he left the hospital he was one and a half pounds heavier than when he entered. The explanation is, that the loss in adpose matter was re placed by muscle. The increase of muscle was apparent in the changed shape of his lower paUs, in his enor mously increased power of standing, walking and kicking; the grasping power of his hand had almost doubled. It may be observed tbat his weight might, absolutely speaking, be at any time considered moderate. One hun dred and thirty pounds is not excessive for a boy of seventeen; but it may well be considered excessive in this case with respect to the almost dwarfish stature of the patient. Moreover, it was not the weight, but the enormous fatness which was really excessive. DUELLING. Its Absurdities—How It Does Not De cide—The Way to Save Life. [Baltimore Gazetted Mr. Woodward, of Winnsboro, South Carolina, owned a yellow dog of a rov ing aud predatory cast of mind ; a dog of active habits, possessing large in formation concerning adjacent hen roosts and smokehouses. Mr. Cloney, of the same city, had forbidden that yellow dog to come upon his premises ; he had warned Mr. Woodward to make more economical use of his dog’s time hut without effect. Whereupon Mr. Cloney arose and dew that yellow canine with the strong hand of irre sponsible power. Mr. Woodward did not waste his time in unmanly sorrow, but hastened to wipe out in gore the wrong inflicted upon his honor. The loss of a dog is dishonor, and death is better than dishonor. Mr. Cloney, nothing loth, having now killed the dog, is quite ready to attend to the case of his owner. So these two gen tlemen repair with their seconds to Sand Bar Ferry, tho scene of the re cent fatal duel, and arrange the pre liminaries of a meeting, which is hap pily prevented by the intercession of friends. And all this took place while Mr. Tilly, shot in a duel through the stomach and bowels, was dying in agony in the same little city, and for giving his slayer with his latest breath. Laying aside the clearly-defined questions as to the morality and legality of the duel, ought not the ab surdity of such things as this bring it into ridicule and disrepute ? A duel is, perhaps, better than a Southwestern vendetta, or a brutal street fight, or a political “horsewhipping.” It is even better than a gentlemanly assasination; but this is not saying anything iu its favor. The great objection to it, out side of the moral or legal aspect, is that it is an appeal to arms to decide what never gets decided. It always leaves behind it life-long hatreds aud heartburnings among the friends and relatives of the parties, ready to flash out into deadly feud. The thing which it is called upon to do is the very thing which it eminently does not do—decide. This much may, however, be said in its favor. Its courtesy and punctilio fit it in some degree for the healing of bitter quarrels. Two men, smarting under mutual injury or insult, desire each other’s blood. They cannot, if they would, approach eacli other with tenders cf peace and good will. But as soon as one of them calls in a friend and sends a challenge, tho affair has passed completely out of his hands; and when the challenged party names his friend, he also is in other hands than his own. Now, if these seconds happen to be men of high character they will not let their men light over a mere trifle. They are cool men of the world, and feel responsible to public, opinion, which, in some quar ters, is, unfortunately, stronger than the law on this subject. They can, by virtue of their power, take steps to ward reconciliation, which the parties themselves could not take; and thus it has ofteu happened that an old quar rel has turned into a lasting friendship by a challenge sent and accepted. The trouble is that seconds often do not have tills high character, and have, beside, a scant allowance of brain; and another difficulty is that society— which always holds up its hands and shrieks with horror at a fatal duel — always sneers more or less openly at one amicably adjusted. Fortunately, Mr. Cloney and Mr. Woodward, in the great Wiunsboro’ yefiow-dog duel, had sensible and true-hearted men for sec onds, and so the affair ended without the shedding of human gore. A Tale of Blood. A long, loan, hungry yellow dog was observed running down tho street yes terday morning with a large piece of meat in his mouth. He had hardly disappeared around the corner before a big ragged negro, with a long butch er knife, hove In sight. Seeing a white man near by, he called to him : “ Hello, boss! Seen anything ob a yallar dog wid a jint ob meat in his raouf ?” “ Yes.” “ Hi, golly ! Which way did ho go, boss ?” “ Around the corner there. You had better feed your dog, or keep the door of your -smoke house shut. Tho dog looked like he hadn’t iiad a square meal iu six months.” “Golly, boss, you don’t know nuffin’ ’bout dat dog; an’ you know preshus little ’bout dis nigger, too! Smoke house ? Ge-ru-sa-lem! Ise got no smoke house —nor meat nuther ? Dat yallar dog dun gone an’ run off wid all de meat ’twixt dis chile an’ starbation. He just histed the fid offen de pot and stuck his nose in do hot bilin’ potlicker and snaked that joint of meat out ’fore you could say ‘Jack Robinson!’ I jest want to sot my eyes on dat dog once mo’! I’ll fix him !” “You are going to kill him, are you?” “ See hyar, boss ! You ’spose I’se gwine to kill de only dog I’se got in de worl’? No. sah, I’se a mighty big fool when I gets mad, an’ I’m powerfully aggervated, but l’se got more sense dau dat—but I’ll fix him—l’ll match him for his smartness !” “ What are you going to do with him?” “ I’se gwine to cut his tail short off wid dis butcher-knife!” “ What good will that do ?” “It will larn him some sense, I reckon.” And the enraged darky passed on in pursuit of the object of his vengeance. The Washington elm at Cambridge, under which Washington stood when lie took command of the Continental armies, is decaying rapidly. Tho exca vations of the municipal government for sewer building have so cut and undermined its roots that the famous tree is in danger of falling at any time. A STRANGE LIFE CLOSED. Death of Alanson Palmer at the Wil lard Asylum for the Insane—From a Millionaire’s Position to the Poor house—A Singular and Melancholy Life History. | Buffalo Courier.] One who acted an important part in the long ago history of our city died ; on Saturday night last in the Willard Asylum, at Ovid, Seneca county, a State institution for the insane. We speak of Alanson Palmer, once the mil lionaire whose vessels were the proud est that plowed the great lakes; whose landed property was vast in its extent; whose hand seemed to turn to gold everything it touched; but who was yet destined to drag through nearly the years of a generation as a living ifionurneut of the mutability of fortune, groping into extreme old age with no vestige of his former wealth, with in tellect darkened, and, indeed, in the full sense of the expression, “ a very weak old man.” Wo can only sketch a career which, if written in detail, would prove {i most interesting recital al though a bail one. Alanson Palmer was a self-made and, perhaps we might add, a self-ruined man. He was born in Eastown, Wash ington county, Maryland, May 29th, 1794, and came with his father’s family to the then village of New Amsterdam, now the city of Buffalo, in 1806. Subse quently they removed to Eighteen Mile Creek, iu this county, where the future millionaire and pauper worked on a farm until such time as lie was sent to learn the tanning, currying and shoemaking business, at Smith’s Mills, now known as White’s Corners. 1 here he remained only four months, leaving his trade to enter the army, at the age of eighteen, as a substitute for his elder brother, who had been drafted. In 1813 he returned to his trade, hut after working four months longer he again abandoned it and, comiug to Buf falo, he entered the employ of Mrs. St. John, who kept a tavern on Main street, opposite the site at present occupied by the Tifft House. Later, and after the war had closed, he became a clerk for Wm. Hodge, whose store was located at what would now be the corner of Main and Utica streets, and after re maining with him for a time the young man took half the stock of goods, with which ho started a store at Eighteen Mile Creek. He continued there until 1817, when he returned to Buffalo and began the grocery business in what is now the Kremlin block. Alanson Palmer’s cash capital at that time was just sl3; but he was naturally a busi ness man, shrewd to calculate and energetic to carry out. His trade in creased, and from that time until the final and fatal crash great prosperity seemed to attend his every venture. In 1817 ho was married to Puttie Swain, daughter of Daniel Swain, of Boston, this county. Five years later she died, leaving no children, and in 1827 he was again married to Julia Mateson, who bore him five chilreu, of whom the survivors are Charles W. Palmer, late of Buffalo, and Mrs. Julia Cleveland. Fortune continued to favor him with her pleasant smiles. His wealth rolled up untill he became one of the richest men of the whole section of the coun try. According to his own estimate, he was worth §2,000,000. The Ameri can Hotel, for which ho gave SIOO,OOO, was one of his purchases. The Alan son Palmer and the Julia Palmer were among the imest vessels on our inland seas. His equipage was the grandest seen upon tho streets, and he was look ed upon as tho Croesus of our then infant city. But at last the change came. Grand speculations developed into nothing, costly bubbles burst, leav ing nothing but empty air, and Alanson Palmer’s riches took wings which hur ried them irretrievably away. On the ' 4th of May, 1837, he made an assign ment to Horatio Warren, his brother in-law, and Col. Alfred Cleves. His ruin was utter and complete. Of his lost fortune not even a shadow re- i mained. The blow was more severe than his mental faculties could sustain, | and the balance of his long life became useless to himself and to the world. Not even the means of subsistence re mained to him, and he became a public pauper, for years an inmate of the Erie county almshouse. Of all his faculties the only one which seemed to remain unimpaired was his memory. The old ; man loved to talk of the very early history of Buffalo, reciting many quaint and interesting circumstances. Many anecdotes of Alanson Palmer’s life might be repeated, but they would only lengthen out a chapter that is at its best gloomy. Many of our readers will remember the old man making his slow way about the city streets clad in his poorbouse garb, a melancholy pic ture of the work of adversity. Duriug the construction of tho addition to the County Asylum ho was removed to Ovid, where his history of over eighty oue years has ended with his death. Jenkinsonia. This much-discussed-but-nover-do cided question of Blonde vs. Brunette is now being revived here—the revival representatives being wives of two foreign Ministers now here. The bru nette is Senora Mantilla do Los Rios, of Spain, who is a perfect type of ma ture Andalusian beauty. She wore, at Secretary Fish’s dinner, a white satin ball-dress, with a sweeping train of crimson velvet, both almost covered with rich point lace, wliilo her black hair was arranged with pearls and dia monds, and each of her solitaire ear rings was a small fortune. Flashing black eyes and manners of majestic grace, excited general admiration. Austria has sent us, as the wife of her diplomatic representative, Madame la Comptesse de Hoyos, nee Comptesse de Herberstein. He is descended from one of the oldest Hungarian families; and she—a native of Upper Austria — is a true type of Teutonic beauty. Tall, slender, graceful and spirituelle, she wore a delicate shade of pink silk, elaborately made, and trimmed with rare old point-lace, with sprays of diamonds on her breast aud left shoulder while a costly cluster in her auburn hair flashed the prismatic colors, in harmony with the diamonds which composed her ear-rings, necklace and bracelets. She has the rare gift of tongues—speaking German, French, English and Italian—and is a rare ac quisition to society here — Washing ton Chronicle. Tho personalty of eight citizens of Liverpool who have died during the past twelve months represent, in the aggregate, upwards of £4,000,000 — Robert Gladstone, £300,000 ; James Houghton, £500,000 ; Richard Hough ton, £500,000 ; Charles Turner, M. P. f £700,000 ; James Tyer, £200,000; R. L. Jones, £300,000; J. J. Rowe, £400,000; and H. Dawson, £1,500,000. This is pretty well for a provincial town, which is not even a city. New Series—Vol. 28, No. 106 TERPSICHOREAN TRIUMPHS. ROYAL HONORS TO THE TAGLIONI FAMILY. Sketch of the Lives and Achievements of the Great-Ballet Dancers—A Bril liant Scene in the Berlin Opera House. [Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.] Beriin, November 25. A celebrated personage in Berlin has been having a grand jubilee over the fiftieth anniversary of his profession, and as his name is well-known in America a description of the proceed ings, with a slight sketch of the family, may not prove uninteresting. More than three years ago, at one of the grand balls, a fine looking, elderly gentleman, surrounded by three hand some women in lively conversation with the Crown Prince, attracted my attention. Upon inquiry I learned it was the celebrated ballet-master, Paul Taglioni, with his wife and daughters, all well-known personages iu Berlin society. On the 4th of this month the concert hall of the opera house presented a beautiful sight. The room was hand somely draped and lined with tier upon tier ot fragrant flowers. Upon either sides were tables loaded with presents from the friends of Taglioni, and from his associates and admirers from all the theaters of Germany and Austria. A great troupe of artists, dancers, and singers were present, and among the most interesting the little flock of chil dren, pupils of the master, who fill up the great ballets. Taglioni entered the room accompanied by his wife and two daughters, one daughter now the Prin cess Windischgratz, and formerly a ballet-dancer almost as celebrated as her aunt, Maria Taglioni, for whom she was named; the other, Auguste, mem ber of the Royal Theatre. DECORATIONS AND PRESENTS. After taking the seats prepared for them, Superintendent von Hulsen con gratulated him, while the choir sang “God Salute Thee,” and handed tho gray-lieaded master the order of the crown, with a letter from the Emperor. Three cheers rang through the house, and Fraulein Granzow, a worthy suc cessor of Taglioni and Elsler, sprang forward with a roguish grace and pinned tho order upon the master’s coat. Congratulation after congratu tion, and present after present, fol lowed iu quick succession. From the members of the stage came an lonic column of wrought silver, forty inches in height, whose capital bore the figure of Terpsichore. Upon the front of the richly wrought base was a portrait of the Taglionis in bas reiief, encircled by a golden laurel wreath, upon the other side the names of the donors. A gol den band wound round the shaft of the column, which bore in white letters the names of his most celebrated ballets, these are : The Hamadryden, Alphea, Electra, The Island of Love, Satauella, Ballauda, Don Pasquela, Flick and Flock, Ellinor Morgano, Fantasca, Sar danapal and Militaria. Fraulein Wed derin, in the name of the ballet-girls, presented an elegant silver vase. One of the little blonde-haired children stepped forward, and, with a charming little speech, present ed, in the name of the children, a silver writing service. Music Director Hertel, the friend and co-laborer of Taglioni, gave a handsome silver drinking cup, and with it, instead of a speech, a hearty kiss to the receiver. Herr Salo mon, in the name of the solo personals of the theater, gave a table service ornamented with laurel leaves. Herr Doering, tho oldest member of the stage, gave a similar one. The Duke of Anhalt sent the order of Albert, the Bear. The Crown Prince a vase and ring, the Empress a handsome cup. The superannuated members of the ballet corps, who are pensioned, sent a mag nificent vase. Telegraphic dispatches came from all quarters in honor of the day, and one that pleased him most heartily w r as from Fanny Elsler. At the end of the festival the old master tried to express his thanks, but could ouly say a feiv words in a trembling voice, and these, as usual, were humorous. He had “lived fifty years in Germany, and for that reason words failed him.” In the eve ning representations from different bal lets were given in the opera house. The Emperor was present, and after every act Taglioni wes called upon the stage, with unending cries of applause, and pelted and fairly smothered with bou quets and laurel wreaths. THE STORY OF THE DANCERS. The celebrity of the Taglioni family began with Philip, who, iu tho end of the eighteenth century studied his art by Coulou iu Paris, made his debut with great success there, and was then called to Stockholm to reform the then style oY ballet in that capital. He made the dancers leave off their shoes with heels, the ladies lay aside their silk short dresses, and banished the pow dered wigs with queue, and all the principal features of the society dress of Louis XIV. time, iu whioh, until the beginning of this century, the zephyrs and goddesses in mythological plays appeared upon the stage. This unfit ting costume he replaced with purely Grecian drapery. Taglioni was now called to the Court of Westphalia to amuse its ci-devant King, Jerome, whose court knew no higher duty than to make the evening surpass the day iu dance and merri ment. After the downfall of Napoleon which put an end to Jerome’s splendor, Taglioni gave up an engagement in Cassel to go to Vienna, where he was received with open arms. His stay there was lengthened into years ; there he achieved his greatest triumphs y and there he composed the daDces and bal lets which so fascinated and bewitched our mirth-loving fathers and mothers, and which to-day remain unrivaled, un less we except the works of his son, Paul Taglioni, of Berlin. Who does not remember “La Sylphide,” “The New Amazon,” “Lodoiska,” “The Lit tle Wife of the Danube,” “The Gipsy,” “The Swiss Milkmaid,” “Sea Waves,” etc. For ten years he directed the thea tre iu Warsaw, which he reckoned the happiest part of his life. Not until 1852 did he resign his profession and ask for rest. He returned to his native country and built a villa upon Lake Como, over the door of which he had inscrib ed— i: Mon Desoi.” Soon after a heavy misfortune befell him in the loss of his eyesight. An operation restored, in a measure, tho left eye. His wife, who had always been his faithful adviser, sickened and died in her eightieth year, and the old man wandered unhappily from daughter to son, from Paris to Berlin. When the Franco-Prusssian war drove him from his daughter’s house in Paris, he returned to his villa on Lake Como, and died ou the 11th of February, 1874, in his ninety-fourth To Advertisers and Subscribers. 0n AND after this date (April 21, 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates fot office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources , and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. MARIA AND PAUL. His daughter, Maria Taglioni, tho celebrated danseuse, and sister of the hero in the late festivities, is too well known to need but a passing notice. She was born in 1804, during her fath er’s residence iu Stockholm, and was prepared by him for the stage, and made her appearanee under his aus pices ou the stage in Vienna, then in Stuttgart and Munich. In 1827 she ap peared in Paris, where she remained a fascinating and glittering star in the theatrical world until Faony Elsler eclipsed her. In 1832 she was called to Berlin, and from there made a tour through Germany, France, Italy, Rus sia aud England, being, received every where with the greatest applause. She married Count Gilbert de Voissins, and retired for some years from public life. Before the death of her husband she appeared again on the stage in 1844, in “Diva,” in Paris and England, aud shone with her youthful splendor. She then retired to her possessions in Ven ice and a villa on Lake Como, wLiero she now lives, at the age of seventy, happy in the affection of two children —tiie son an officer in the French army, and the daughter, Princess Trubetzkoi, the wife of the Russian Consul at Mar seilles. Paul Taglioni, also educated in Paris in the celebrated college Bourbon, made his appearauco on t he stage at Stuttgart at the age of seventeen, with his sister Maria, who was then twenty. Ho was so well received that he was called directly to Vienna, and danced before a circle of the best artists iu “Zenure” and “Azor,” aud was awarded the highest praise. His reputation was already established when ho appeared in. Paris with his sister, but from this time on be stood at the head of his profession, and tho best theaters in Europe sought to win him by tho offer of extravagant sums. He arrived in Berlin at the time grand preparations were being made to celebrate tho nup tials of Prince William (the present Emperor), aud was immediately called to take part in the representations in the theater of the New Palace at Pots dam. His success was wonderful, aud lie was engaged at the Royal Opera House in Berlin, where ho appeared in his allegorical ballet of Briol’s, “The Triumph of Love,” with the celebrated Galster as Venus. The beautiful dan seuse triumphed also iu real love, for she won Taglioni’s heart. They were soon after married, and she lived to share his fame. Her face, still hand some with lines of age, and silvered hair, looked proudly ou at her hus band’s well-merited honors during the late festival. taglioni’s triumphs. Taglioni now became the lion of the day, aud no court festivities could bo arranged without his helping hand. Even his presence seemed to inspire every one with new life. He was a young, handsome man, full of grace, and possessed, besides his eminent tal ent for dancing, a lively, fruitful fancy that showed itself in his poetical bal lets. Uniting with this quality an ami able, kind disposition, ho was hon ored aud beloved by all who knew him. In 1836 he arranged the ballet “Undine,” from the fable of Fouque, for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. This choreographic creation excites tho greatest admiration, and has always been considered one of his best works. His ballets are produced on every stage, where he himself triumphed in all the principal cities of Europe and all the large cities of America, where his graceful wife shared the honors with him. After his return from the scene of his triumphs, St. Petersbug strove hard to secure his services for life, but Berlin was his chosen home, and hero he has ever remained. His daughter Maria made her debut iu London with tho most brilliant success, aud remained a bright star in her profes sion until she abandoned the stage to marry the Prince Windischgratz. His socond daughter, Augusta, devoted herself to the drama, and appear ed in Vienna as Francisca, in “Wi ona von Barnhelm,” with marked suc cess. She has, however resigned her position, aud is now dovoting herself with great zeal to arclueological studies, for which, it is said, she possesses un usual talent. The name of Taglioni dies out with the father. One son alone was born to him, Charles, who, having no inclination to tho profes sion of Ids parems and sisters, pur sued his studies with so much ardor and so much success that he was call ed t<> fill the position of diplomat at the courts of Naples, Munich and Paris. Accepting au invitation from the Khedive of Egypt to tho opening of the Suez Canai, ho wrote an inter esting work in regard to it. In tho last war he was on the Emperor’s staff at Versailles. Tho anxiety of tho campaign threw him upon a bed of sickness. When apparently recovered he returned to his father’s house, where he was again stricken down, and died quite unexpectedly in the bloora of early manhood. Paul Taglioni, though sixty-seven years of age. has many years of active file before him, if he lives to boas old as his father, and doubtless will produce many more ballets. Tlie Steamship “Stonewall Jackson.’ It was announced a few days since in a Boston dispatch that the ship “Stonewall Jackson” had made a suc cessful trial trip. Mr. D. D. Kelly, the well known shipbuilder of East Boston, who is the builder of this vessel, has addressed a communication to the Bos ton Post, in which, in response to in quiries, he furnishes the reasons why he named her the “Stonewall Jackson.” He says : “The political hunters for place have for a long time prevented that union and harmony of sentiment between the North and South which should at all times prevail, and have done much against true patriotism aud the interests of tho merchants, me chanics aud laborers of our common coun try. Jackson was one of tho truly loved men of old Virginia. His faults, if any, must be forgotten by every true American, by the shining brightness of his noble character as a man. lam by birth and sentiment a son of old Mas sachusetts, and could anything be more appropriate than for our people to ex tend the hand of true fellowship in 1876 to the old mother of Presidents, Vir ginia? You will plase excuse this loug note, for the Stonewall Jackson is my last ship. I commenced with the Old Hickory, and end with the Stonewall.” “Pa, are you in favor of the Bible in the public schools?” asked a West Side youngster at the breakfast table the other morning. “Why, of course I am,” responded the father, pleased that such an important subject should engage the attention youthful offspring. “What makes jmu ask such a question, my son?” “O, nothing,” rejoined young hopeful; “only I thought maybe you wasn’t, as you never have had one at home.” The urchin dodged, but hq wasn’t quick enough.