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Constitutionalist Office, 12:15 a.
M __ The news from South Carolinaset
t, _ tb - matter so far as the election of
giMFTON is concerned, the Board of
Canvassers admitting their waut of
authority to interfere with the votes
for Governor and Lieutenant-Govern
or. As they still claim the right to
gjpervis* the returns for the other State
officeis, Presidential electors, members
of Congress and the Legislature, they
hive been served with an order from
the Supreme Court, returuable to-mor
r isv, to show cause why they should not
b v strained from exercising any ju
dicial functions in relation to said re
t Until this Court, which consists
J. M' Ses, Sr., A. J. Willard, white,
and J. J. Wright, colored, settles the
qu'-stion of the powers of the State
Bond, the canvass of the returns for
Tildes and Hayes is at a stand still.
L'ne admission of Hampton s election
is the iirst back down of the miserable
Radicals and will be soon followed by
a general collapse of all their claims.
The written invitation of the promi
nent Democrats now in New Orleans
t,i the Republicans, now or to be on
the spot, to overlook the work of the
Returning Board, satisfies us that
there will be a fair count in Louisiana
of the votes actually cast, and that
th re will be no throwing out of any
parishes, “bull-dozed” or otherwise.
There is uo further uews from Flor
ida. All dispatches agree in placing
Tildi.n’s majority at at least 1,200.
The end is very near. The Radicals
have got just about as much of this
thing as they want.
Let Us Have Peace !
HOW MR. TILDEN VOTED.
lie Oasts a Strain:lit Democratic Ballot,
and is Loudly Cheered.
[NewYork World.|
At 8 o’clock yesterday morning Gov.
Tilden arose from a refreshing sleep,
and atO o’clock ate a hearty breakfast,
after which he received several friends
who called upon him. Among them
were Horatio Seymour, Mayor Wick
ham, Smith Ely, Jr., and many others,
including some ladies. At 11:30 he I
went to "the polling place of the 23d
elec ion district of the 16th Assembly I
district, No. 246 Third avenue. A j
lYorld reporter asked him how he in
tended to vote. “I will vote the
straight Democratic ticket from stem 1
to stern,” said he.
“But, Mr. Tilden,” said the reporter,!
‘ it has been suggested that you wilt j
vote for the Republican electors, outj
nt courtesy to your opponent, Mr. J
Hayes t”
“Why should 1?” was the quiet re-j
ply, “no one can reasonably expect!
that. When I see all these poor work- ;
irumen who are out of employment,;
and who are anxious for a retrieval of I
the hard times, and a return once more j
• f honest men to office, doing all in S
tneir power in furtherance of the cause
which I represent, and which I have
promised to uphold to he fullest ex
tent of my power, I could not very well
do otherwise than give them the benefit
of my ballot, to which, as a citizen aud
a resident of this city, I am entitled.
I could not conscientiously vote for Mr.
Hayes, because I believe tbat his elec
tion would be but a prolongation of
the reign of corruption throughout the
country; and as for Peter Cooper, !
against whom personally not a word of |
disparagement can be uttered, well, I
neli. ve be is mistaken as to his ideas J
ou die question of the currency, and I
therefore f could not consistently de- j
posit my ballot in his behalf. My duty [
as a tax-payer compels me to vote, and j
my duties to my Democratic principles ,
force me to vote none other than the ,
Democratic ticket throughout, and I
■duili do it without a single scratch or !
erasure.”
“Could this give an opportunity for
your opponents to comment upon the |
pr •oticty of a candidate voting for him
self T.
“Well, my dear sir, I am used to j
hearing my opponents say almost any- j
thing about me, aud whatever they ;
nicy say I shall not be surprised at.
Why, it is as much as auy person’s in
divi iuai reputation is worth to run for
any office iu opposition to the ltepubli
-1 via party. Prom a candidate for the
ihesidency to a candidate for district
alderman, their whole canvassing is
lone in the shape of printed ko.els, and
the no less bitter personal abuse. The
fact that, the Republicans do not think
it proper that I should vote for my own
causa is no reason why I should pot do
<3o.**
This remark was heartily cheered by
uerowd which bv this time had collect
ed around Mr. tfiiden. One man called
for three cheers for <# otjr next Presi
dent,” and this call was responded to
' .th a vigor that startled attention for
some blocks roundabout.
Mr. Tilden then stepped up to the
' Uiog table and deposited his ballot,
in answer to the questions of the. in
m vtior, liegaid his name was Samuel
•1. Tilden, aud thu-i ho resided at No. 18
Grtmercy park. He remained for the
*paca of fifteen minntes the vicinity
and shook hands with all of hjs sup-
P u ters who presented themselves.
Among these was a veteran of the war
of 1812, named Thos. Folsome, aged
eighty-three. He took off his hat m
ue presence of the Governor, but Mr,
Tilden gently bade him but it back on
again, saying; “It i3 I who should take
off my hat to you.” Mr. Tilden then
returned to his carriage, the crowd,
meanwhile, cheering lustily.
Cuban News-
Havana, November 14. — The follow
ing is a translation of the procla
mation issued to-day, signed b>
Captain-General Jovellar and ifartinez
Campos, General In Chief;
Abt. Ist. Deserters front our army
who are actually in the rank* o.
the enemy will bo pardoned if they
surrender themselves to the proper au
thorities. They will resgme their pla
ces in the army, where they will serve
until the legitimate term of their *Ol
vice bas expired, ,
Akt. 2nd. All deserters captured af ‘
ter December 31st, will be shot.
London, November 14.—-Count An-
Jrassy is ill at Pestb,
3|ttote Constitutionalist
south Carolina.
A( turn <ii the Board of C mvassera—
Postponement of the Stale Pair.
[Special to the Constitutionalist 1
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14, 1876.
Ihe Board of Canvassers met t j-day.
4 he chairman announced that a notice
had been served upon them that a writ
had been applied for in the Supreme
Com r, to eDjoin them from acting ju
dicialjy upon returns and to compel an
issuance of certificates of election upon
returns made by the county boards.
'The Supreme Court issued a rule to
show cause on Thursday next why
they should not be prohibited from
heating protests as regards members
of the Legislature.
Montgomery Blair, Randolph and
Parker, of New Jersey, lugersoll, of
Connecticut, A. H. H. Stuart, of Vir
ginia, and Senator Gordon, of Georgia,
are in attendance.
The State Fair has been postponed
to December sth. W. H. M.
A ltadical Proposition Rejected.
Ch arleston, November 14.—A Colum
bia special to the News and Courier says
the Republicans had made a proposi
tion to give the State to Hampton and
Hayes, which the Democrats rejected.
Action of the Supreme Court—Arrival
of Prominent Democrats.
Charleston, November 14—The Su
preme Court—full bench—issued a rule
requiring the Beard of Canvassers, to
answer Thursday why writs of pro
hibition should uofc issue restraining
them from judicial functions, and con
fining them to ministerial functions
only.
Nothing has trauspired since the ac
tion of the Supreme Court this morn
ing. The Democrats are cheerful, and
everything is quiet. The Republicans
concede Hampton’s election. The ac
tion of the Rjard of Canvassers render
it impossible to get figures of the re
turns.
Columbia, S. 0., November 14.—Amo
tion was made by the Democratic coun
sel before a full bench of the Supreme
Court, praying that writs of prohibi
tion aud mandamus be granted re
straining the Board of State Canvass
ers from exercising judicial func
tions in the election of electors, mem
bers of the Legislature, members of
Congress and Solicitors, and confining
them to ministerial functions only, and
lestraining Dunn, Cardoz) and Hayue,
candidates for Comptroller, Treasurer
aud Secretary of State, and nominees
for re-election to these offices, from sit
ting as judges of their own election.
The Court issued a rule requiring the
Board of Canvassers to answer Thurs
day why writs ehoul 1 not issue. The
board of Canvassers had decided them
selves that they had no jurisdiction
over tho election of Governor aud
Lieutenant Governor aud hence no
question was raised respecting them.
Columbia, November 14 —The follow
ing prominent Democrats are here:
Ex-Gov. Parker, of New Jersey ; Sena
tor Randolph, of New Jersey ; Hon.
Montgomery Blair, of Maryland ; Hon.
A. H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, aud Hon.
G. A r . Fox. All is quiet, and tho Demo
crats are cheerful.
Minor Telegrams.
New York, November 14. The
Tunis' Tallahassee special says Huger
had arrived yesterday afternoon, and
taken command of the troops.
Washington, November 14. —The
tone of the Northern papers regarding
the result is unchanged.
Madrid, November 14.—Two lives
were lost at the burning of the Cicero
Theatre.
Philadelphia, November 14. —.-Max
Cohen, the alleged defaulter of a firm
in Meminger, Saxony, was arrested ou
debarking from the Indiana, and held
for extradition.
Montgomery, November 14.—The
Legislature convened to-day, and
nearly every member was present. The
Democratic caucus nominated S. W.
Cobb for President of the Senate, and
Hon. N. N. Clements for Speaker.
House message to-morrow.
Washington, November 14.—There
wax a full Cabinet to-day, for the first
time iu seyeral weeks.
Secretary Cameron, Senator West
and Caleb Cushing called on the Presi
dent to-day.
Boston, November 14.—The third
Church Congress of tho Protestant
Episcopal Church opened this morn
ing with preliminary communion, in
St? Paul’s church. Bishop Paddock
called Congress to order, aud delivered
the opening address. Rev. Samuel Os
crood o’* Yew York, read a paper on
“The 3 True Place of Art in Christianity.”
Portland, Me , November 14.—Tho
1 bark Roberts from Wilmington, N. C.,
for Hull, was towed hero after ground
ii!cr outside of the breakwater. The
Roberts slipped three anchors and un
shipped her rudder. Ihe bottom is
| supposed to be damage!.
Washington, Kove/pber 14.—1n the
Suprsoie Court to-day counsel for
Madison Doom, now iu jail at Augusta
i county, V a., uudr sentence of the Dis
trict Court of the Uniteu fetates for
j violation of the civil rights acts of
March, 1875, submitted a motion for
leave to file a petition for habeas corpus,
for the purpose of determining whether
I legally in custody. The court
| took papers, a#d in granting or refus
ing the motion, will gjva an important
opinion on the law.
Elections is gftEfKorr.—“Are you a
voter afiked iiis Honor, a* th,e ufst
man swung into place.
.•Yes sir, and I’ve got the worst case
| ui colkj’iu Detroit,” was the reply.
•‘I can't help your colic any. You
needn’t come out hero expecting that
we keep a drugstore as well as a police
court. You probably swallowed a sec
tion of stone sidewalk last night while
whooping around in your drunken cou-
I *'“,juge ’lection is most here,” observ
ed the prisoner, as he rolled his eyes
heaven ward. .
; is the fated day, answered
the court.
“Just scratch out the p*o*ee4ipg la
rav case and let me go,” pleaded fcie
prisoner. “I want to bo ‘round when
Haction goes off, and I’m sorry I got
Henry Ailagaa, its against the
I i aw to get intoxicated, but yet Ido not
want to see an elector locked up UQtfl
after his vote has gone into the box.
T’ll let you go, but if you even wink at
syb’sky between now and Tuesday I
j give you straight ticket to the
House of Correction {’’-Free Press.
1 A primary election was held lxi Car
roll county lasi; week for county officers.
LOUISIANA.
Tilden’s Official Majority Republi
cans Claim the Governor —Arrival of
Prominent Men, etc.
New Orleans, November 14.—Repub
licans state that they have information
that East Baton Rouge has gone Re
publican by 300 majority. The D mo
crats claim it by 600. Tables publish
od up to Saturday uightof the city vote
j put down 9,700 majority for the Demo
crats. The official count shows 10,016
majority for Tilden. Additional returns
from parishes do not materially change
Hie results as telegraphed Saturday.
The Democrats appear to have about
8,000 majority. The Republicans, how
ever, still claim they have carried the
State, and Packard will be the next
Governor of Louisiana.
L. Q. C. Lamar telegraphed from
here to a friend that the people of New
Orleans, though profoundly agitated,
are quiet, and there is not the slightest
purpose to disturb the public peace.
The proposition to place the counting
of the vote under the supervision of
honorable men of both parties from a
distauce, meets the cordial concurrence
of the entire community. In addition
to the gentlemen before reported as
arriving here, the following have also
reached the city: Ex-Governors Curtin
and Bigler, Hon. Sam J. Randall and
M. P. Hardy, of Pennsylvania; Col.
Juo. C. Buroh, Maj. T. O. Conner, J. M.
Keating and W. H. Carroll, of Tennes
see; and O. Ottendorfer, of New York.
The Democratic committe have com
plete returns made up from duplicate
lists of the supervisors, showing Til
den’s majority in the State 8,107, by
which majority they claim they have
carried the State. The returns show
Nicholl’s majority to be nearly 9,000.
This city is very quiet. The politicians
are anxiously awaiting the action of
the Returning Board, which, by law, is
required to meet ten days after the
election.
New Orleans, November 14.—The
Democrats assembled at New Orleans.
They have formerly invited the Repub
licans to assemble there at the Presi
dent's request, to meet them for regis
tration, with the view of carrying out
the object desired.
The following explains itself:
New Orleans, November 14.
To Hon. Stanley Matthews . Jas. A. Gar
field, Jno. A. Logan, Win. D. Kelly ,
John A. Kasson, Irving Ditty, John If.
Shoenberg, Win. M. Ecarts, E. W.
Stoughton, Jno. A. Dix and others:
The undersigned arrived here yes
terday, in answer to a telegram from
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee,
dated New York, November 10th. We
are informed you have come here at
the request of the President of the
United States to see that the Board of
Cuuvassers make a fair count j
of the vote actually cast.
While in the late canvass
you gave your support to Messrs.
Hayes aud Wheeler, as candidates for
President and Vice-President, aud the
undersigned gave their support to
Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks for tiiose
offices, they feel assured that all good
citizens, of all parties, regard an honest
count and true return of the vote ac
tually cast of greater moment than the
success of any candidate for office, and
are ready to do all that honorable
men should do to secure such a return
of tbs vote cast at the late election in
Louisi ma, which assumes more than
ever before a national importance,
and upon which, in this crisis, may
depend the very existence of constitu
tional government. The undersigned,
therefore, in view of the unhappy
controversies which have heretofore
arisen from the action of the Return
ing Board of the State, whero its ac
tion could uot, in auy event, change
the result of a Presidential election,
aud in view of the and( sire of all good
men that effect should be given to the
will of the majority, as lawfully ex
pressed, respectfully ask yoq, op such
of you as are present, to meet and con
fer with them, personally or through
committees, as may be deemed most
wise, in order that influences as we
possess may be extended and exerted
in behalf of such 4 canvass of the
votes actually cast, as by its fairness
and impartiality shall command the
respect and acquiescence of the Arneri
can people of all parties.
Yours respectfully,
John M. Palmer.
Lyman Trumbull.
Wm. R. Morrison.
Samuel J. Randall.
4- G, Curtin. .
Wjl BiqLftii.
j. E. McDonald.
J. R. Doolittle.
Geo. B. Smith.
G. W. Julian.
M. D. Manson.
Joi'N Love.
Henry Watterso*.
J. W. Stevenson.
H. D. McHenry.
Oswald Ottendorfer.
ife. StallQ.
ewis V. Bogy.
James 0. Brodhead.
Q- GfMW:
J ohn Lee CAfcSopp.
Wm. T. Hamilton.
W. V. Sumner.
Many of the gentlemen addressed
have not yet arriyei} here,
(yurs was the first paper in Georgia
to adyo.cajte tfie ejection of Tilden aa
the Democratic nominee for President
of the United States. —Columbus En
qurer. I Will you please give your
dates?]
Columbus Enquirer : Returns show
this year over 209 miles of bag
ging haye sold in Columbus, and
the demand is sjtiljl iayge. This esti
mate averages six yards to fcfie bale.
Columbus will certainly get §s,QoQbsles
of cotton. A considerable amount of
cotton has been received from new
points, such as Dawson, besides Schley
and other couuties.
The claim of Miles G. Dobbins, of
Atlanta, against Coweta county, for
$14,060, principal *pd interest, has
been compromised by the' ooqnty pay
ing $7,900, which is said to be the
amount of the actual principal ad
vanced, with interest at 7 per cent.
Thus ends a vexatious controversy and
law suit involving the right of the Or
dinary of Coweta to issue bonds for
county purposes.
The* Enterprise says: Thomas county
has shown tfhaf stje can do, and her
record is a good‘one ou everything.
The Boston Grange had thirteen com.-
petitors for the best acre of corn at the
fair. The yield of thirteen acres made
up an aggregate of 629 bushels and 19
quarts. They had a member who en
tered five acres that produced 203
bushels and 24 quarts; two acres that
produced 132 bushels and 16 quarts,
making an aggregate at twenty acres
of 965 bushels and 27 quarts. Why
canft one farmer make twenty acres
1 produce this amount?
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE LATEST PROM ACROSS THE
WATER.
The Eastern Question.
London, November 14.— A Reuter
dispatch from St. Petersburg says the
Czar has ordered the mobilization of a
part of the Russian army. A circular
of Prince Gortschakoff, the Russiau
Premier, to the Russian representatives
abroad, explaining this measure, says
the Czar does not wish war, and will,
if possible, avoid it. He is, however,
determined that the principles of jus
tice, which have been recognized us
necessary by the whole of Europe,
should be carried out in Turkey under
efficacious guarantees.
Constantinople, November 14, —Sev-
eral English officers of the corps of the
Royal Engineers have arrived here.
The third million Turkish pounds of
the new paper currency is about to be
issued.
The Post, in a conspicuous paragraph,
confirms the report that Russia is
about to mobilize her army. It is also
stated that Russia intends, after Janu
ary, to levy all her taxes in gold. This
increases her tariff twenty per cent.
Most special correspondents take a
gloomy view of the situation. The
Post's Berlin dispatch reports that Rus
sian journals say war is determined on.
Belgrade, November 14. —The Rus
sian Codsul General here has informed
Gen. Tcheruayeff that the Czar forbids
his return to Russia. Gen. Tcherna
yeff will go on a leave of absence to
Vienna to-morrow.
London, November 14.—A special dis
patch from Berlin to the Pall Mall Ga
zette says Russia has given large orders
to Berlin houses for military exports.
Should Russia persist in her warlike
policy there is reason to believe she will
be specially isolated. Germany is un
derstood to be pledged to observant
neutrality as against Austria, witii an
engagement to watch Polish provinces,
and presumably to assist in repress
ing any Polish rising.
The Times to-day has a strong pro-
Russian leading editorial article on the
Eastern question. It first notices the
slow progress toward an agreement
about the conference, and it bases facts
which are clearly not promising for its
success, but declares that the worst
symptom is the disposition to prescribe
beforehand conditions incompatible
with ideas of negotiation and compro
mise. It cites as thus inconsistent
with the idea of conference the stipu
lation that there must he no limitation
of the Sultan’s sovereign will, but
those who labor for peace, it says, will
not lose heart because the prospect is
not perfectly clear. The Times con
demns part of the British policy, and
says if Austria and Great Britain had
known their interests last year
they would have averted an
extension of this difficulty by promot
ing what was then a comparatively
easy settlement. It then proceeds to
forecast the future in this wise; “Sup
posing the armistice expires without
a conf. rence, or the conference fails,
the Czar would declare war, disavowing
probably a desire to add to the Rus
sian dominions, or auy other object
than securing good government for his
Sclavonic brethren. Many would say
this was mere hypocrisy and false
hood, but it is clear that England could
fiud no pretense until much more had
happened than the outbreak of such a
war for such an avowed purpose.”
The time might come when we, de
claring to the Sultan our regret at the
iueyjtablo partisans of his domiuious,
might be obliged tq (jeinamj that he
should resigu Constantinople to a
power able to take care of it. The
Times says it does not suppose it would
eoipe to this. The Czar would stop be
fore he proyqked a grisis calling for
England’s intervention, with’ Setvia
aggrandized and independent, and with
lloumanla independent aud aggran
dized south of the Danube, in exchange
for territory ceded to Russia on the
north. He would stop, well con
tented with what h& had done jn
a work, the completion whereof
must be left for another time;
but what a result this wonld be of a
policy having for its first note the
maintenance of the independence and
integrity of the Qttoinan Umpire.
What vfo fiaye described Is the proba
ble course of evept§ to whjch we must
look forward, If the armistice expires
without peace beiug proclaimed, with
out sayiug that under no circum
stances could a shot be fired from
English paunnon, Thjs much may
be unhesitatipgjy qlqclapa—tbpt if
Austria took up ' the war from
Servia’s faffing hands, English opinion
would no njore iustjfy qrtped opposi
tion to Russia tbku it did justify artqed
opposition to Servia; and the diplo
macy of Russia would show itself
altogether deficient in the sagacity
attributed to it if it did uot so de
scribe tffe objects of the war
aud restrict 1 its operations so
as to prevent the occurrence of any
sufficient reason for our interference.
The Pall Mall Gazette, this p. m., re
ferring to the fast paragraph of the
Toregoing article, says with ouch evi
dence as this afford| of tiie attitude of
Eugjand. Russian opinion is only tod
likely to - be content; that it wifi be ut
terly and most dangerously mistaken,
we need not say. But a mlstakeof this
kind has already, once in the history of
the two nations, been defined too late,
and In any ca§e jt is disquieting to find
that Russia fa entering upon a difficult
and critical negotiation, under aS‘prc>-
fotjifd 9 deifisfon as TQ tfie temper of
this .country 99 tkajt pfegipftfited
the Crimean war..
The Times’ article concludes with an
argument in favor of a ooDi’erence not
committed to invevitable failure. It
believes that guarantees satisfactory
to and possibly to Turkey,
may be arranged, if Russia rejected all
attempts ut wnicb the Times
does not believe lively. Ragland Would’ i
be free in the future, and have the sat
isfaction of knowing she was not re
sponsible for the failure. The exper
iences of the past discredited the sug
gestion that Turkey might resist the
proposals recommended by the joint
authority of Europe, but should it be
realized, Russia would be only too
ready to act a* (dje executive officer
of a confederation of European powers.
Foreign Miscellany.
London, November l4. — Large spec
ulative purchases of sugar continue to
be made, mainly beoause of the defi
ciency of the beet-root crop. On the
Stock Exchange Russian securities are
greatly depressed; almost to the estefit
of a panic. They have fallen four pir
cent, from this monlng’s quotations.
Rome, November 14.—The report iu
the Cologne Oaeette about the proposed
proceedure of the Italian government
in tfie evpnt qf thg death of the Pope,
is pronounced a baseless fabricatfon.
Ravbe, November Metz
ger, who arrived here, from New Vora,
on the steamer France, was acciden
tally drowned at the steamer’s dock.
PISTOLS AND PELAGIANISM.
THE REMARKABLE CAREER OP
IRENE HOUSE.
Peculiar Effects of Murder Upon a
Pretty Woman—The Revolver as a
Reformer A Convenient Way of
Getting Rid of a Husband Without
Remorse.
[N. Y. Times. 1
Mrs. Irene House, being filled with
gratitude for her acquittal and over
flowing with love for her fellow-beings
—with, of course, the exception of that
unfortunate class, her husbands—an
nounces that she iutends to devote the
rest of her life to the philanthropic
work of lecturing upon the evils of di- 1
vorce and the merits of Christianity.
She is determined never to rest until
she succeeds in having “ divorces
abolished for every cause all over the
United States,” and in procuring sue!/
a change of the school laws as will ffiy
sure the'Religious instruction of tUe
pupils, “senthat si*' caips-ot get hold™
their minds/ or lives.” These noble
purposes speak volumes in praise of
murder as an improving moral in-*
fluence. Prior to the shooting of the
late Mr. House, Mrs. HoUse was com
monly looked upon as a gay, worldly
woman, without any Jdfjmte aim in life.
Now we find that a 3ipgle murder has
changed the whole Cjfrrent of her life,
and made her capably' of becoming a
professional philantlmjpist and an ar
dent advocate of her special variety of
Christianity.
It will be generally conceded that
Mrs. House is an expert in divorce.
She has been divorced herself, aud she
has lived for years as the wife and in
timate friend of a busy manufacturer
of divorces. If there is any woman
living who is in a position to estimate
the true value of divorce, that woman
is Mrs. House, and if she condemns
divorce as a clumsy and antiquated
remedy, wholly inconsistent with the
spirit or the age, we may be sure that
she has good masons for so doing.
It will not be difficult to imagine the
arguments with which Mrs. House will
advocate the abolition of divorce laws.
Though the late Mr. House advertised !
that the divorces furnished by him j
were not to be paid for until they were !
delivered to the purchaser, they never- 1
tholess cost a good deal of money. If
we estimate that in an ordinary divorce
suit of the House pattern, one lawyer
at SSO and two witnesses at $25 each J
are required, the additional incidental
expenses would bring the-total cost up 1
to $100; aud at seasons when the mar- !
ket value of perjury is high, the cost!
would be still greater. Now, Mrs. :
House’s method of|breaking thejmatri
inouial yoke is ridiculously cheap in j
comparison with the old-fashioned
plau. A passably good revolver i
can he bought for $7 50, and a j
single-barrelled pistol, which, except I
in difficult cases, would ordinarily be
quite sufficient to kill the largest bus
ba*d, oau he had for a dojlaj?. As to
incidental expenses, Mrs. House’s own
experience has shown that they are
absolutely nothing, unless the husband
is carelessly shot on a valuable carpet.
Doubtless the fair lecturer will not fail
to impress upon her hearers that when
a husband is to be slaim he shoqld be
lured into the back yard, where he can
die without doing any injury to the
furniture. The funeral expenses are,
of course, paid by the friends of the ;
deceased, and the happy widow has no
concern with the Coroner’s fee. The
vast superiority, in point of cheapness,
of the pispol oytJf the puuataysonffi
legal processes in which Mr. House
dealt, is thus plainly evident, and when
Mrs. House demonstrates this fact to
her audiences, they cannot but admit
thp justice of her objection to divorce.
Moreoysr, the pistol is infinitely
more certain than a decree of the best
court iu all Indiana. The difficulty with
the old-fashioned patent decree was
that impertinent courts outside of In
diana, would sometimes set |t asid§ qq
the frivolous* plea ofperjury, and thus
seriously injure the plaintiff. There is,
however, no setting aside of the decree
of the pistol bullet. Eveu if the New
Jersey court which lately tried Mrs
House had founcj that sue nod taken
aii unwarrantable liberty in shooting
her husband, the latter would not have
becq re|uqtated in his marital riqfitQ,
A (lead husband can never be 'revived
by any possible judicial decision, and !
hence the woman who shoots her bus- 1
band obtains a degree of confidence
aud peace of mind which no deqrqe eff j
divorce qould eyer give her.
While Mrs. House’s opposition to di- |
vorce laws, aud her advocacy of the I
cheap and simple pistol as their sub |
stituie, (joufiftenqs jfself tq evef-y qii-;
prejudiced mind, her scheme for the
improvement of the public schools Is 1
uot altogether satisfactory. She as
serts that Christianity should be in- i
stilled into the pupils “as thoroughly 1
as fue ajphafiet{*? tffit she siys not' a
word about pistol praotice. It might
be imagined that iu writing “Chris
tianity” instead of “pistol practice,”
she had made h sliu of thp pen; hqfc
she bas elsewhere shown thatshd re
ally meant to advocate the teaching of
Christianity. Now, a little rejection
tqgst gonv|noe finy tfiat jn ordsl tQ pre
pare a girl to murder her future hus
band she should be taught the use of
the pistol. She might also be taught
Christianity as au elegant accomplish
tnent, but it would be of comparatively
littje use to hey. Mrs. House toutfc
modify her scheme of instruction so 43
t 6 give the pistoi due prominence, or
1 ejse tfie practice of hnsfiapc| ahnotiqg
wjll fie qArried oq in so qlunqsy and un
workmanlike manner as to hring jt
tuto disrepute,
When so admirable a woman as Mrs.
House proposes to become a public
teacher, no orthodox person can per-
ceive without regret that her theology
is defective, Shs esprqssly says that
'fh.fi the fhtflta ahd etna add evus of life
can be entirely overcome’’ by educa
tion. This is precisely the sad and
erroneous way in which “the Pelagians
do vainly talkand if Mrs, Hooeo
teaches this cjoctriqe, b .ho will teach
that the Church of England ‘ aqd ail
Cillviuistjc bodies regard as a danger
ous Jf jjhQ wi#e ipefety an
ordtna'-y woman—a quiet, respectable,
pioqs matron—her Pelagianism might
be comparatively harmless, but in a
woman so good and great as she un
questionably is, the slightest departure
from orthodoxy is to be regretted
Mrs. House is the most emipea], mur
deress of the present day, find her
fame in that respect imposes upon
her the obligation to be in al] respects
worthy of it. We may feel gratified to
her for pointing out to us a more ex
cellent way than the divorce spit, an<J
there is not a up uaueriaker
ip the land who will not feel under per
sonal hbligations t 6 a lecturer whose
arguments so directly tfihd to increase
the number or inquests and to give
uew life to the coffin business; but
when we reflect that instead of urging
that school-girls should be taught to
use the pistol, and should learn what
are the most vulnerable spots to hit a
husband, she proposes that they should
be taught the Pelagian heresy, we can
not give to her lecture enterprise that
warm support which would otherwise
be its due.
EXTENSIVE COTTON FIRE.
Twenty-Fire Hundred Bales Burned
[Savannah News, 14th.]
At 8:40 p. in. last night an alarm of
fire was sounded from box 23, situated
on the corner of West Broad and Rail
road streets, which was caused by the
discovery of fire in a truiu of cottou
standing in the yard of the Central
Railroad. Tho train upon which the
cotton was first discovered on fire was
standing next to another train, also of
cotton, and but a few feet from the
guano warehouse, which is situated in
the middle of the yard, in which was
stored about 100 bales of cotton and a
large amount of fertilizers. There were
in the yard standing on end some ten
Jhqijsand bales.
/ The wind beffig high, the fire was
•Pfoon communicated to the second train,
aud also to the warehouse, which was
soon destroyed, the sparks flying all
over the yard, and placing the whole
vast amount of cotton stored there iu
imminent danger of destruction, Only
the superhuman exertions mer
chants, clei%i, officers and employees
of tRe road, and the fire department
prevented this threatened catastrophe.
•The colored people acted nobly, and
went to work with a will, and rendered
valuable assistance in saving a vast
amount of property. • * v \
The' following is the near as
could be arrived at in the confusion in
cident to a large cotton fire; Ten open
cars of forty bales each, loaded and
reacty to be transported to the Central
Railroad wharf, four hundred bales;
fifteen cars containing twenty-five
bales each, which had arrived last
night, three hundred and seventy-five
bales; one hundred bales stored in the
guano warehouse, and about twelve
hundred and fifty bales which had been
headed up in the yard for delivery,
! making in all about 2,125 bales.
Besides the cotton, five cars of
assorted freight from the West,
1 consisting oT bacon, whisky, etc., were
destroyed, besides a large amount of
fertilizers in the warehouse aud a large
quantity of lumber lying along the
tracks watting delivery. It is impossi
ble to ascertain the origin of the fire,
but It Is supposed that it caught on the
car lying near the guano depot. The
tire is still burning (2:30 a. m.), though
now under control. During the fire
some villainous rascal cut off the sup
ply by turning off the water from the
plugs in the centre of the yard, thus
depriving those at work of one means
of successfully fighting the flames.
Savannah, November 14.—Two thou
sand five hundred bales of qotton, and
twenty empty cars, and twenty loaded
oars of freight, were hnrned. The fire
is under oontrol. The warehouse con
tained fertilizers, v-bieh were also de
stroyed.
Savannah, November 14.- From the
best information obtainable, I.BOQ bales
of cotton were fiestroyed, find some
bales damaged. Thirty-eight cars
were totally destroyed, and 20 barrels
of whisky. A large quantity of bacon,
lumber, fertilizers, cottou ties and
buckles were destroyed. The railroad
officials cannot give positive figures
yet. Most of the cottoq was
through cot|qq.
FLORIDA’S RE i’TJRNS.
The Majority Increasing—The Demo
crats Quiet, but Determined Rot to
he eqeateq.
[Special Dispatch to the Constitution.]
Tallahassee, Fla., November 13.
Official returns have been raoeived
from twenty-five counties. Fifteen of
these five Democratic and ten are Re
publican, the latter being the only Re
publican couuties iu the State. These
ten give a Republican majority or six
thousand nine humm ed ami thirty-nine.
The fiiteen Democratic counties offi
cially reported reduce this majority to
live thousand three hundred arp.} sixty.
wipvr TME uemgcsats count on.
The remaining fourteen Democratic
counties have never yet given a large
enough majority to offset this Repub
lican majority, but tho fifcteeu Demo
cratic counties already officially re
ported show an increase of twenty per
cent, over the largest vote they "have
ever cast before, If percentage of
gain continues trough tfie other coun
ties, jt wiU
WIPE OUT THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
and give the Democrats one thousand
four hundred and thirty six to, ana re.
Nine of these coqntjqs have been heard
i’l.qm unofficially, six of them quite re
liably, aud they show an increase of
twenty-eight per cent—a much more
favorable result than wa? expected. I
am safe in ejai.ping that the Democrats
\vfil carry the State by a majority rang
ing from
EIGgT TO EIGHTEEN HUNDRED,
provided ail the precincts are counted.
The Republicans virtully admit this,
aud have a list of precincts which they
propose to contest, involving Detp.o
--j cratic majorities of 2,300,
Ifßjlfl CONTEST
will come off in less than ten days. The
canvassing board has fhfvty-five days
, in wlfioh to, examine returns and make
; its report. The Democrats are quint,
but confident au(j (determined, and do
not propose to allow themselves to be
cheated out of results.
• AN INCREASE.
Dispatches just received from the
22d Senatorial djutriut shqw a Demo
cratic majority in the two counties
comprising it—an increase over the
last vote of sixty per cent. The Dem
ocrats calculated on only 450 majority.
H. W. Grady.
Wfiv Hayes was Defeated-
First—Qoy. Tilden had too many
Y°Vas,
Second —The general dissatisfaction
with the Administration was not
quieted by the nomination of Governor
Hayes. Too many people thought that
his administration would l Jt , merely a
oontinuatioq ftf Grant V
*Up4-~ttaid times. People wanted
a change, aufi thought perhaps turn
ing out the party.m power might give it.
Foprth - The Democrats used the
best intellects in their party to address
their best argument* to the intelli
gence of la® Republican can-
more in party grooves, and
depended less on argument than on
prejudice,
T 1 ifvG Gov Hives didn't have votes
enough.— N. 17 Tribune, Rep.
Albany has received! to date 16,721
bales pr cotton.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO-
W hat a Ramblintf Southern Boy Saw
aud Heard iu the Great West.
(Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.)
Sherman House, Chicago, /
November 10,1876. [
Editor Constitutionalist : I think I
promised to let you hear from me.
Well here I am safe aud sound, but
don’t know how to talk, because I can’t
tell how the election has gone, but on
>1 venture I will give one good old rebel
yell for Tiiden and Hendricks. The
excitement in Louisville aud Cincinnati
(I left there this a. m.) and all along
the line of roads is intense, the people
are eager for the news, and the largest
i portion of hurrahs is for Tilden. Oh
I that I was iu Georgia so I could crow
like a “shanghai.” When I left Cincinnati
this a. m., Tilden was elected sure, when
I got off the train at Indianapolis for
dinner, first thing I heard was viz : De
mocrats of Florida had stole the ballot
boxes and killed Stearns,aud that South
Carolina had killed Chamberlain
and declared war against the
“wards of the nation.” Now, I would
much rather have been in Augusta to
enjoy this grand victory, aud I tell you
what I hear and what I see, the Rads,
cannot count Louisiana and Florida
out with impunity. Tho Democrats of
this section are going to see that a
“square deal” is given and they, I
moan the people whom you meet, say
that they pfopbse t<\see the South get
a fair count as there have been n* riota
I tell you things are “red hot” aud sti\
a “hotten” out hefe. There will be
(trouble if the Rads, play any strategy
on us.-, I supposeNthe thing is settled.
As 1 eatne-citst H^e\l'nte\ y Oceaji offlfie it
was n Jt illuiihnated, aud'the appVaf
ance of those who look like Hayes men
is anything but smiling. I think
we’ve got ’em, and got ’em
bad. When things get settled
and the new life, which 'Tilden’s elec
tion will instil iu the people commences
to show itself, I will feel cheerful and
write you some points of interest. All
you can hear or see now is political
discussion. I want these people to
get settled. I want to tell them all
about the immense wealth to be de
rived from the orange groves of Flor
ida and give them an idea of the genial
climate, and the nobly elected Gov
ernor, and the immense success aud
pleasure that is in store for the emi
grant and tourist to Florida, and I
want to tell them all about the best
route, via Augusta and Yemassee. Oh,
there are lots of fun in store for these
people if they will go to Florida, and
I am one of the railroad
“missionaries ’’ (we don’t take
text from the Bible) sent out here to
mlighten these good people, and if
General Wade Humpiiou js elected
Governor or South Gafffiffia, I tnink I
will try and get some qf these folks to
i'>cate qn the fine of the Ruit It qal
Railroad, and go iqtQ the lumber and
naval store business. I think by the
expiration of Tildeu’s term, these folks
will all be converted, and we will live
■n peace and harmony as one people.
I have just rQcejyed a dispatch.
Brighatp \‘oqng and his wives have
postponed fheir trip to Florida until
Aun Eliza gets done selling his effects
So I will not go out to Salt Like City
yet awhile. I passed a station last
night about midnight and wt*s waked
ip by some Indiana Uacwiev halloaing
liurrab for Ijamplon. Where he came
from i can’t tell. Just think way out
nere people hurrahs for Hampton.
Yours, Joe.
PLAIN WORDS.
fvhat Two Gallant Ex-Federal Sol
diers Sar of the Proclamation,
[New York World.]
Speaking of the President's procla
mation, yesterday, General James Mc-
Quade, who served with distinction in
me late war, said: “General Frank
Blair was a prophet whan he said that
if Grant once got iuto the White House
he would not get out again, and that
tie would not hesitate to use the army
and navy of the United States to per
petuate his authority. There is not
the slightest doubt that Louisiana and
Florida have gone Democratic by de
cisive majorities, and the trqaps nave
been sent down there to uphold the
Louisiana Returning Board and
the Board of Canvasser* iu
Florida in carrying out the intended
fraud or giving their electoral veto to
the Republicans. Now, if Louisiana
aud Florida had squarely gone Repub
lican, with the canvassing power in
their own hands, no troops would have
been sent. It is a very significant fact
that there has been qo change in the
Republican situation since Wednesday
mornlutf. As soon as Zach Chandler
and his confederates found that Mr.
Tilden had 184 votes lacking only
one of a majority, they proclaimed that
all the dQfihtiffil States, including Lou
isiana aud Florida (the |wq latter States
have never been doubtful for Mr. Til
den), had gone for Hayes, This claim,
which they made on Wednesday morn
ing, when they had not a single return
from these States, was simply a caver
to a gross outrage which they then
concocted, and are no\y endeavoring to
consummate witia tha aid of the army
“Rut,* continued the General, with
Strong emphasis, “there is one thing
which has not catered into the calcu
lations of these gentlemen, and that is
that the soldiers of the army are Dem
ocrats, and may not permit themselves
to be made the tools for maintaining
despotio power in this eountry. Let it
be remembered that during the French
revolution the troops fraternised with
the people, and, notwithstanding that
obedience U tue first duty of a sol
dier, it is not impossible that
the troops now, instead of allowing
themselves to be made the instruments
of defraudiug the people of their choice
for 1 resident, may beootnc a power to
confirm that, ofialoe. Of oourse I do
uot mean to convey that the soldiers
wifi disobey their officers, but they are
Rotting tired of being used as mercena
ries to further the ends of dishonorable
politicians. There is a point at whivh
endurauce ceases to be a virtue, and
even the discipline of y, soldier may not
be strong to withstand the
i 9tra ’o pot upon it by disreputable men
f i'b** sending of troop*, not oulv to
(control elections, but to aid iy defruud
j ing the people by protecting a false
, aouut after the votes have been cast, is
a sad commentary upon our republican
i itmtitutmua. It may be pctfsibJo that
the majority of 309..Q0M free Americans
who have voted for tyr, Tfideo may
submit to the outrage, but I very much
. doubt it. I am sure the people of
England would not. submit to it, and I
a.m positive that the people of the great
United States of America ought not
and will not. *
J dd not think there has been so
much popular excitement since the
days of 1861, and I believe the feelings
that prompted the young mwa of this
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
country to take up arms for the main
tenance of the Union would animate
them to make some effective protest
against this arbitrary act of the pa?ty
in power, which seeks to perpetuate
itself by a gross violation of the fun
damental principle of a republican
form of government, whicn declares
that the majority should rule. The
Republican party claims that it is jus
tified in resorting to keep those it calls
the “rebels” out of power. If the end
justifies the rneaus in any case, it can
not certainly be set up iu this, for, so
far from putting the rebels iu power,
the States of the North which furnish
ed the great bulk of troops for the
Union army have given large majori
ties for Tilden and Hendricks. I be
lieve that the people of the North have
determined that this outrageous at-
tempt at fraud shall not succeed. For
my own part I am not surprised at the
action of the office-holders, for I anti
-0 pattd this movement in a f- wjwords I
uttered at a meeting held a few eve
uings previous to the election. Now, if
a majority of the Presidential electors
shall bo chosen iu Mr. Tilden’s favor,
in the words of the great Democrat,
Andrew Jackson, ‘By the eternal, we’ll
put him in the Presidential chair.’ ”
Col. Federiek A. Conkling, who also
served in the Federal army during the
civil war, was very outspoken in regard
to the proclamation. “There is,” said
C >l. Conkling, “an analogy between
Grant and Louis Napoleon, who always
appealed to the votes of the people,
but took care to surround the polls
wit,h soldiers. It w.ts iu "this way be
genyally carried his plebiscites. We
havt?suffered the same degradation of
public morals, the same perversion of
the powers of government, arid ‘the
same embezzlements aud misappropri
ation of the public revenues that mark
ed the history of France under tbe
Third Napoleon, and this proclamation
would seem to indicate that Grant is
prepared to erect tho same military
despotism In this country which existed
in France before the overthrow of the
lower empire.”
The reporter asked Mr. Conkling if
he thought this a serious business.
“I have once marched at the head of
a regiment which I raised myself and
at my own expense, to defend the Cap
ital,” was the reply, “and I feel at this
moment as if I ought to raise another
regiment for the defense of constitu
tional liberty in this country.”
GEORGIA NEWS.
Diptheria is prevailing among the
children of Chattooga county.
1 here will be a hundred applicants
for the position of postmaster of Co
lumbus.
Gold v.-ins of Lumpkin county are
becoming richer as work upon them
progresses.
There are over three hundred Oolum
bus people in Atlanta. All are engag
ed iu business.
The Rome Courier regrets to learn
t hat but a short crop of wheat has been
sown In its section.
Moro than seven hundred colored
men voted the Democratic ticket in
Perry on the 7th iust.
Dr. Clarke T. Williams, one of the
oldest and best citizens of Meriwether
county, died last Sunday.
I armers in Crawford county ure
offering seed corn from their cribs at
twenty-five ©eats a bushel.
The Atlanta Times thinks that the
1 cotton factory of that city will be com
pleted by the middle of December.
The town bell in Elbertown rings
every night at ten o’clock to let the
people know ’tis time to go to bed.
The CoviDgton Star estimates that
nearly 200 oar loads of freight per dav
are now passed over the Georgia Rail
road.
The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist church will meet in Sparta
on the 6th of December, Bishop Geo
F, Pieroe, presiding.
Thomas Lashley, charged with the
murder of a negro in Meriwether, has
been arrested in Clay county, and de
livered to the proper authorities.
Go\ ernor Smith has offered a reward
of SSOO for'the arrest of the parties
who burned the gin housse of T. J.
Smith, in Telfair county, on the 23d of
October.
Major Campbell Wallace, of Atlanta
though lie is 72 years old, says he will
carry a torch in a procession" a mile if
Tilden is elected. Light up and get
ready, Major.
A negro boy went to a citizen of Co
lumbus the other day and tried to sell
himself. He thought the negroes were
to be enslaved, and he wanted to get a
good master, be said.
The father of Mr. Jeff Hines, of Stew
art oouuty, who was killed by William
Hawes last Tuesday, at Lumpkin, has
offered a reward of one thousand dol
lars for the arrest of the latter.
A case has just been decided in White
Superior Court, involving seven or
eight thousand dollars, that has been
l on the docket ten years. It was decid
ed in favor of the plaintiff, E P Wil
liams vs. McClure aud wife.
Mr. Harris beat Wash Hilliard only
7,742 votes in the Fourth district Co*
weta county covered herself with glorv
(over the left) by allowing Wash to
oome within 42 votes, of Harris We
tbe '“° VaD^
Atlanta Times; At present the proba
lullues are that Eugene Speer, of tho
Griffiu Aetos, will be the next Clerk of
the House of Representatives of the
Georgia Legislature. The honor 0011 M
be oonferred on no one more capable
for the position than the above named
gentleman.
The Lawreneeville Herald sp vs that
the farmers of Gwinnett Qotintv this
year planted a larger area in tobaSS
than for many years, and the crop will
be a large one. It is still in the hands
of the growers. The revenue law is so
[L g i‘L U|>o , D deale . rs lQ ieaf b-hac.*) that
*he people are afraid to traffic in it
We learn from the Meriwether Vin
dicate- that “Uucle’Tsaac MeGehee, a
good old darkey, died iu the county
last week, aged 120 years. He had no‘t
often seen and knew G. W„ but actu
allv turned the grindstone upon which
G. W. sharpened his little hatchet pre
paratory to going for the cherry tree
Rome Courier. We regret to learn of
the death, by burning, of three little
children of Mr. Jobu Street, of Bartow
county, which resulted from the acci
dental burning of his house, day-befom
} ester day, while Mrs. sitreet was abseut
in the cotton field. These sorely afflict
ed parents a few months ago lost *wo
other children by drowning— making
five one year that have been taken from
them Surely every Christian heart
will breathe a prayer that they may
i have strength to suffer their bereave-
BWQt with resignation. re * ve