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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Constitutional Convention Is Re
ferred to the People-The Question
of Removing- the Capital.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, Ga m January 27.
The Senate adjourned to-day with
out action.
The House spent the day on the Con
vention.
The Committee of the Whole deter
mined to call a convention, if the peo
ple wanted one, and let them vote on it.
At the same time the question of re
moving the Capital will be submitted.
H. W. G.
Associated Press'Dlsputclics.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Turkey Conciliating Servia—The
Pope and Italy.
London, January 27.—A Times Bel
grade dispatch confirms the report that
Turkey had made peace propositions
to Servia. The correspondent adds
that Servia will not dare refuse unless
Russia openly promises to support her.
This is a fine stroke of diplomacy to
force Russia’s hand. The Turkish note
to Servia concludes : “Convinced that
your Highness shares my desire to se
cure peace and terminate a regretable
and disastrous strife, I frankly invite
you personally to conciliation with the
Porte by direct negotiations.”
Rome, January 27.—The Congrega
tion of Cardinals, ordered by the Pope
to examine the clerical abuses bill,
unanimously declared it violates the
liberty of the clergy. It is stated that
the Pope will publicly protest. Audi
ences at the Vatican were suspended
yesterday because of the Pope’s indis
position.
Speech, of Mr. Gladstone on the East
ern Question.
XiOKDON, January 27.—Mr. Gladstone
made a, speech at Taunton to-day. In
the course of his remarks he said:
We ought to mind our own business,
and why we should mind the Eastern
question is because we have chosen to
make it our own question. It was
made our business under circumstan
v nes which no true-hearted Englishman
w 'll disown. The people of Eugland
are bound to resist the seductive
language of those who tell them now
the conference has met and failed and
there is no more to be done. It
is you, the people of England,
whose resources and whose actions
have maintained Turkey in the
position of power she has so abomi
nably misused.
lu conclusion, Mr. Gladstone said :
“The good Tame of England was never
more completely at stake. If the in
cessant diving into our ears of the
maintenan<4e of British interests; if the
infusion of every word of suspicion
againsr tho policy of Russia; if the
abuse of those unhappy Turkish Chris
tians, who, having been enslaved peo
ple, are necessarily in such respect
open to the demoralizing influence
of slavery; if the recent invention of
the Turkish Constitution, made to or
der, was intended to act as a bur to the
proportions of the Conference; if
by these, or by any other like
cevice, r'oi I must say tho
imagination of the Turkish press of
this country is fertile beyond auything
iu manufacturing them, if by these
things you are going to be drawn aside
from the great purpose you have in
view, then we shall leave to posterity
the melancholy lesson, that the people
of Eugland having long dwelt iu tho
apathy which was due to ignorance
that we all labored under, aud having
been once awakened to a gallant and
noble effort in favor of the principles of
humanity, justice and freedom, were
content to be lulled to sleep again.
They found the task of duty too heavy
for them. It was more convenient tor
every man to go about bis pursuits,
his own money making, bis own plea
sures, and dismiss from his mind these
painful and harrowing subjects. I
may be so, but if that be true these
are marks of a degenerated nation.
This is conduct that emphatically con
futes the doctrine of human progress.
But, gentlemen, if you reaiiy wish
be worthy of tho forefathers from
whom you are descended, of the civil
and religious iibeity you possess, and
of the religiou which it is your great
est privilege aud blessing to possess,
for heaven’s sake do not allow
yourselves to be corrupted—for cor
ruption it is—by these debasing insinu
ations, but grapple with this great
duty which is given you and leave to
those who come alter you a lessou and
example which, I will venture to say,
will neither be less noble nor less bene
ficial to mankind than the noblest of
all lessons which you have received
from a long line of ancestors.” [Great
cheering. |
The Pope Improving.
Rome, January 27. — The Pope, who
has been indisposed since Sunday last,
left his bed to-day for an hour. His
Holiness will endeavor to give audiences
on Sunday.
LOUISIANA.
Adjusting the Double-Headed Status.
New Orelans, January 27.—Cameron
directs Augur to restore the statu quo
in Natchitoches but let Quachita alone.
Washington, January 27.—The Presi
dent’s orders regarding the country
parishes in Louisiana, are: Whea
persons hold credentials from both
parties claiming to be Governor they
may take possession. Where there are
conflicting claims old functionaries
xnay hold over.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Electoral Bill Gone to the Presi
dent—-The Louisiana Returning
Board—Judge Carpenter’s Decision
—The Joint Commission.
Washington, January 27.—1n the
Senate, during the morning hour, the
Military Academy and Fortification
Appropriation bills were called up.
Amendments were agreed to and
passed without discussion.
A message was received in the Sen
ate at 11:20 from the House of Repre
sentatives announcing the passage of
the bill in relation to couuting the
electoral vote by that body. At 11:25
a second message was received from
the House of Representatives an
nouncing that the Speaker of that
body had signed the Enrolled bill in
regard to counting the electoral vote
for President and Vice President. It
was then immediately signed by the
President pro tempore of the Senate
and given to the Committee on En
rolled bills to be delivered to the
President of the United States.
The Committee of Privileges and
Powers and the full Louisiana Com
mittee met in joint session this after
noon to examine a witness whose name
is withheld.
Cassanave and Kenner were taken on
arrival to a committee room of the
House, where they are under comfort
able restraint. The entire Board were
at the bar of the House, but, owing to
the absence of Republicans iu caucus,
were temporarily withdrawn.
It is stated and believed that Judge
Carpenter, of South Carolina, will de
cide that neither Legislature is regu
lar, that neither Governor was inau
gurated under constitutional forms,
and that Chamberlain holds over un
der his old tenure until the Legisla
ture, organized under the rulings of
the court, convenes and canvasses the
vote for State officers.
The electoral bill, signed by the pre
siding officers of both Houses, is on
its way to the President.
The Republican caucus of the House
selected Garfield and Hoar as their
representatives on the grand commis
sion. The Democratic caucus will se
lect the three to which they are en
titled Monday uight.
The Senate representatives will con
sist of three Republicans and two Dem
ocrats.
The vote for second man was, Hoar,
42 ; Hale, of Maine, 40 ; Garfield was
unanimous.
The Indian Appropriation Bill
Passed—The Louisiana Returning
Board Adjudged in Contempt -The
Southern Claim Commission Bill
Passed.
Washington, * January 27. The
House has passed the Indian appropri
ation bill.
The members of the Louisiana Re
turning Board appeared at the bar of
the House iu custody of the Sergeaot
at-Arms, and requested further time
in order to frame an answer, and were
allowed hall' an hour. At the end of
that time they returned and sub
mitted a lengthy answer in writing,
based on their refusal to produce cer
tain papers before the Committee on
Louisiana affairs, on the law of Louisi
ana, and on the fact of the papers be
iug in charge of the Secretary of State.
Lynde offered a resolution adjudging
the members of the Returning Board
in contempt of the authority of the
House. Adopted—yeas 145, nays 86.
Also, a resolution ordering the wit
nesses to appear before the special
committee, of which Win. R. Morrison
is chairman, and remanding them to
the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Adopted.
Holman, of Indiana, from the Appro
priation Committee, reported a bill au
thorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay James B. Eades $500,000 for
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi
river.
Buckner offered an amendment pro
viding for the payment to be made in
United States bonds. Without action
on the bill the House adjourned.
Senate.— Dorsey and Clayton pre
sented a joint resolution asking legis
lation to prevent the removal of set
tiers from the Hot Springs reserva
tion,
Wright called up tho bill to extend
the Southern claims commission for
two years. Passed.
Tho bill ratifying tho Sioux treaty
for the Black Hills was passed. Ad
journed..
The 4.rmy—oreg&4 Telegrams—Re
publican Caucus.
The Committee on the Reorganiza
tion of the Army report to the Presi
dent that they are not at this time pre
pared to submit a plan or make proper
recommendations for the reform and
reorganization of the army. The re
port is signed by the Secretary of War
and members of the Joint Committee
of Congress,
Several Oregon telegrams, furnished
by the company, have been examined
but nothing new developed.
In the Republican caucus this uioru.-
ing, Mr. Frye insisted that no doubtful
Republican should be put on the com
mission. Mr. Hoar, being one of those
to whom thfg remark was apparently
aimed, repelled the insinuation with
earnestness, and stated that he neither
sought nor wanted an appointment on
thfl commission. The question of em
ploying counsel to present the case to
the commission was postponed to Mon
day, when another caucus will be held.
Jt is stated a number of eminent con
stitutional lawyers have already volun
teered tfi.ejr services without fee.
Ex-Governor Wejls and General An
derson are with Cassanxveftud Kenner,
in the committee room.
Senator Connover, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on engrossed bills,
carried the bill to tho White House
this morning, but finding the President
gone to Baltimore, carried it back to
the Senate. He will bear it to the
White House again Monday morning,
whea there are assurances that it will
be signed without the usual reference
to the law department. The Attorney
General, however, will be in attendance
at the White House.
Nomination -The Louisiana Com
mission.
Nomination—Henry R. Smith, Post
master at Canton, Mississippi.
Judge Campbell, of Louisiana; Trum
bull, of Illinois, and probably Mat Car
penter, of Wisconsin, will be retained
to prepare the Louisiana case for the
Grand Commission.
The Florida and Louisiana Cases.
The case of ex-Secretary Belknap for
taking bribes will be called in the
criminal court Monday.
The President went to Baltimore aud
returns to-Dight.
McDonald, who was convicted of
whisky frauds, will be pardoned short
ly. No prospect for Joyce.
Brush, the Tallahassee telegrapher,
desires it stated that he refused to
answer with regard to divulging the
contents of messages because the com
mittee would not allow him to explain.
He had only delivered messages ad
dressed to one or to any member of
the same political committee, and had
spoken of the contents of messages to
other operators equally bound with
himself to secrecy.
Kenner, of the Louisiana Returning
Board, testified before the Privileges
and Elections Committee, that three
precincts of Vernon parish had been
rejected after the Board had passed it.
He had been no party to the discussion
over the rejection and could not ex
plain how it occurred.
Some questions were asksd in con
nection with the State officers of the
parish to which Lawrence objected.
Mr. Field said he wanted to prove
that the candidates for District Judge
and District Attorney, were neighbors
and friends of Governor Wells, and
that he altered the returns to have
them elected. But in order to cover
the conspiracy, it became also neces
sary to change the votes in three pre
cincts in the parish of Vernon, which,
in this case, was the motive for altering
the electoral count. Adjourned.
NEW YORK.
Forgers Committed—Appointment of
an Indian Commission—A Correc
tion.
New York, January 27.—George W.
Chadwick, for complicity in the forgery
of a check for $64,225, on the Union
Trust Company, is held for trial, and
$50,000 bond.
Julius Keller, who was ai3o implicat
ed, was sent to the house of detention,
as a witnoss, in default of $3,000 bail.
Win. Lyon, of Brooklyu, has been
appointed one of the Indian Commis
sioners.
The announcement made here yes
terday that the Metropolitan Insur
ance Company was in the hands of a
Receiver, referred to the Metropolitan
Fire Insurance Company, and not the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
between which there is no connection.
The two should not be confused to the
detriment of the last named institu
tion.
Bank Statement—Loans increase %
million; specie decrease % million; le
gal tenders increase million; depos
its increase 3% million; reserves in
crease million.
Ex-Officers of the U. S. A. Anxious to
Fight.
New York, January 27.—The papers
here publish a statement of a number
of the officeis of the late war, some of
whom served on one side and some on
the other, have determined to offer
Iglesias their services.
At a conference held in Washington
yesterday afternoon, one of their num
ber was deputed to wait upon Iglesias
and formally tender him their services.
This gentleman, Who graduated at
West Point and was in the regular
army when the war broke out, and
later one of the principal cavalry
officers of iue Confederacy, will leave
here immediately for St. Louis, where
he hopes to meet the ex-President and
his cabinet and lay the scheme before
them. They say they can easily raise
10,000 or 15,000 men iu Louisiana and
Texas.
A Bold Diamond Robbery—Death of
an Actor.
New York, January 27.—One of the
heaviest confidence games ever played
in this city has just been successfully
accomplished. It appears that a man
uamed Heun, finding himself in waut
of a largo sum of money, but having
a valuable set of diamonds estimated
at #25,000, applied to a man
whom he met down town for
a loan. This person purported to
be a broker and steered Mr. Henn
to Belmont Hotel, Fulton street, where,
under the pretense of taking diamonds
to an expert stopping in the hotel,
placed the confiding Henn at the bar,
aud walked out of the rear door.
Master G. Paul Smith, well known as
the “Boy Actor,” died suddenly of heart
disease. He was 17 years of age.
Minor Telegrams.
Middletown, N. Y., January 27.—W.
W. Cox, merchant at DeckertowD, N.
J., made an assignment. Liabilities,
#500,000 ; assets, #25,000.
Norfolk, Va., January 27.—W. E.
Poster, Supremo Archon of Hepto
sop’as, has to-day issued an order post
poning the meeting of the Supreme
Lodge of that order in New Orleans,
from February 14th to April 11th.
Boston, January 27.—The loss by
the explosion of the oil works of Jen
ney & Cos., in South Boston, is #40,000.
The body of one of tfie employes has
been takep from the ruins.
San Francisco, January 27.—The ship
Ida Credale Anderson, hither with coal,
was burned at sea. The crew, after
great privations, reached an island of
the Marquessa group, losing a car
penter.
How Grant Has Changed.
(Washington Correspondence Cincinnati
Commercial, j
When he came into office, now nearly
eight years ago, he was the most un
civil aud inconsiderate of magistrates.
His justice was never tempered with
mercy. The hard wrinkles of the war
had hot begun to wear off, and he be
gau the presjdepcy as though it was a
military office or a diefatorshop. He
knew not politicians, and cared nof for
them. He did not hestitate to quar
rel with Sumner, Schurz, Fenton,
Trumbull, or anybody who assumed to
take a different view of things. He
treated the great office with indif
ference, and seemed to care nothing
for its responsibilities. He hated
newspaper men, and would not allow
one to come witin the charmed circle
of his vision. He would allow himself
to be misrepresented pad misunder
stood rather than say a word to that
hated class of society, the newspaper
reporter. Grant has been known for
years and years as Ulysses the Silent.
His reticence has been both criticised
and commended, and it was a theory
of the American people that our noble
president was more of a thinker than
a talker. He is no longer exclusive and
silent. He can sit down with the boys
and take his bout in drinks, and he has
suddenly developed the fact that he is
much like other men, with sympathy,
gratitude and loquacity. Not a week
passes that we do not see the views of
the President on the various public
questions, elaborated with particular
minuteness. Instead of shutting his
door against the interviewer, he courts
him, and has come to be the easiest of
victims. In addition, the President
has grown more lenient and sociable.
He pardons criminals right and left,
and begins to notice people on the
street, where he is seen every day
at about 4 ’o'clock, walking with his
son and private secretary, Ulysses, Jr.,
and he gives daily indications that he
is becoming like other men,
AUGUSTA. GA.. SUNDAY, JANUARY 28. 1877.
INTERESTING STATISTICS.
Commercial Failures. ,
(N. Y. Times.)
Since 1873 it has been reluctantly ad
mitted that the crisis of that year wa st
not a transient mishap, but the begin
ning of a commercial decline which,
like physical sickness, was the penalty
imposed for violations of laws, and
must run its course before the restora
tion of health could begin. Hence the
statistics of trade and of failures are
studied not so much with the view of
discovering proofs of actual recupera
tion as of noting the slackening of the
downward movement, for paradoxical
though it sounds to say so, as we get
worse or we get better, because we
draw nearer the time of recovery and
nearer the “hard-pan,” wherever that
is. The report for 1876 of Messrs. Dup,
Barlow & Cos. has been already reprot
duced in great part in the news column
of the Times ; it does uot call for very
extended comment, are a few
comparisons worthy of a passing no
tice.
The general fact which first appears
is a considerable increase in the num
ber of failures, combined with a large
decrease in aggregate amount. Thu3
for ten years past the figures are :
No. Amount Average
Year. Failures. Involved. Amounts.
1867 2,386 $86,218.000 $86,134
1868 2,608 63,774,000 24,432
1860 2,799 75,054,000 26,874
1870 3,551 88,242,000 24,849
1871......... 2,915 85,252,000 29,245
1872 4,069 121,056,000 29,750
1873 5,183 228,499,000 44,085
1874 5,830 155,239,000 26,627
1875 7.740 201,060,353 25,978
1876 9,092 191,117,786 21,020
The year 1857 had the largest aggre
gate, $291,750,000, and the largest
average, $59,154, of any year recorded ;
in 1876 there was the largest number
of failures ever recorded, with the
smallest average indebtedness siuce
1860. The following compares the
average liabilities, by geographical
sections, for several years past, add
ing Canada:
1876. 1875. 1874. 1873.
New England
States $78,628 $29,974 $20,000 $49,335
Middle States 24,800 34,456 40,334 73,639
Westr’n Stat’s 16,843 17,329 18,964 22,261
Southr’n Stat’s 16 960 27,215 18,468 21,466
Pacific States.. 11,261 6,700
Canada 14,766 14,657 8,122 IS 066
The average in 1872 for New Eng
land was $49,470; for the Middle States,
$29,127, and for the Western States,
$24,208. This table thus again exhibits
the general fact that a commercial cri
sis begins with the large concerns and
then expends its diminishing force
among the small ones. At the same
time, it is to be remembered that all
such records are necessarily more or
less imperfect, although they become
less so every year; hence the increase
in the reported failures during five
years past must be partly ascribed to
the broadening field which the reports
cover.
If we look at the proportion of fail
ures to the number in business we find
—subject to the modifying considera
tion just stated—that the failures wer •
1 in 127 iu 1870, 1 in 165 in 1871, 1 in
143 in 1872, 1 in 112 in 1873, 1 in 110 in
1874,1 in 94 in 1875, and lin69 in 1876;
or, comparing the geographical sec
tions for 1876.
Propor-
No. in No. of tiou— l
. T , , „ Business Failures inev’y
N. England btatos.. 77,559 1.314 59
Middle States 165,181 2,909 57
Western States 225,309 3,139 72
Southern States. ... 87,149 1,361 04
Pacific States 22,313 369 60
Canada 54,000 1,728 32
The figures are not sufficiently sepa
rated and detailed to permit some com
parisons we desired to make, particu
larly as so the movement in the large
cities. The following table gives the
proportion of failures to the number of
firms for 1876, and the average indebt
edness :
Average
, T , , One in Liability
Rnode Island 36 $44 051
Michigan 39 J 0904
Colorado 40 11 146
Texas 42 11’,38J
Jwa 45 8,165
Noith Carolina 4$ 7 8%
Georgia 48 21 |139
Massachusetts 50 32 646
South Carolina 51 16 855
Tennessee 52 14111
New York 57 2;, 881
Minnesota 60 11 103
California 62 15 63d
Connecticut 63 21 252
Kentucky 63 37!632
Indiana... 69 13,225
Mississippi 70 9 114
Illinois 72 24T20
Maine.- 79 13,888
Virginia.. 79 19,584
Maryland 83 14 514
Ohio.. 93 1M29
Louisiana 93 17,975
Wisconsin 95 20,009
Vermont 1 05 19,32s
Alabama 97 15,134
Arkansas 102 7’go4
Florida.., 103 8,836
Pennsylvania 109 21.983
New Jersey 112 14 296
ifisuovjri 143 23^301
Kansas 147 9,060
Delaware 154 11,032
New Hampshire 155 |l 659
The smallest State, as respects area,
thus shows, not only the largest num
ber of failures in proportion to the
number in business, but the largest
average liability, larger than that of
thjs city, and equaled by no other city
except Chicago. A qualifying coasia
erutlen, as regards the increasing ratio
of failure to firms in business, may
probably be found in tfia fact tfiat
while the absolute number of failures
has been increasing, the number of
firms in business has been diminishing.
And so far as human nature takes
comfort iu finding that others are
equally miserable with ourselves, we
may dwell complacently on the fact
that from Canada the extraordinary
high rate of 1 in 32 is reported, and
that the returns from England, such as
they are, indicate 1 failure in 36, in
137&. with the heavy average liability
of #87,870, against \ in 63 for the United
States, and an average liability of
#21,000.
It is an old but significant illustra
tion of the hard times that the toy
market is muoh depressed, A Brooklyn
editor, who has just failed, hgs fre
quently sold #30,000 a year, but during
the recent holiday season his trade
dwindled to almost nothing.
The Grand Duke Alexis has aroused
much enthusiasm in the mind of Mrs.
Mary Clemmer. She says that in
height, in shape, in face, he is the
consummate fiowert of a great
historic race. “His hands and feet
remind one of a Polar bear’s”—how?
“They take nothing from the golden
splendor of his head nor from the lus
ter of his large, ever-changing eyes.”
The ehap had legs like a pair of
slate pencils. Small boy yelled to
other small boy; “Say, Billy, that fel
ler’s got a heap o’ courage to rist him
self out on such legs as them this
weather.” “Why?” “Might freeze,
break off, stick in his body and bleed
him to death."
General Horace Blnney Sargent, of
Boston, is re-elected commander of tLe
Massachusetts Grand Army.
MOODY'S ADVICE.
A Word About Wogk, Addressed to
Unemployed Men.
Mr. Moody, in progress of a dis
course at Chicago, a few evening ago,
delivered the following advice to un
employed men:
“And now a word about work. Earn
the bread you eat I would rather
earn five cents than someone give me
five dollars. There is no hope of a
man’s reformation who does not go to
work. Laziness belongs to tjje old
creation, I don’t know what to do,
and I don’t see what God can do, with
a lazy man. If you can get only twen
ty-five cents a day, go to work for that.
borne one once tried to abuse a Sena
tor by saying that he used to black
boots. ‘Didn’t I black them well?’ ;he
jauswered. Work is honorable. Any
. : meat work is better than idleness.
Black boots, or carry a hod, or carry
in coal, and if you fc can only earn five
cents a day, live on five cents a day.
Don’t go in debt.
“Some of you think it is hard that
there is no work to be found; that peo
ple are so suspicious of you. Well,
they have reason for it; you are only
just out of the rum-shop; you are just
getting up to thejfirst round of the
ladder; but if they fiud that you are
really a true man, then there will be
people to trust you and give you em
ployment. It is because there are so
many hypocrites in the world that peo
ple are afraid to put confidence in you,
and predict that you will not hold out.
Don’t think that you are stooping be
cause you have to work for less than
you got before. Do your poor rough
work well, and you will find better
work to do.
“Another thing. Some of you are
in the habit of lying. I have heard of
one who professed to be. a reformed
man who has been lying; and what a
iisgrace that is to a good cause. Now,
..et me say to you, he truthful. If you
aave to tell the worst about yourself,
Ion"t lie. Own up to the truth, for it
wi better and safer that the .worst
thould be known. Here is a man just
out of the penitentiary who gets a
place of trust, and one of his old pals
Hornes in and threatens to blow on him
I’Dless ho puts up $25. But if he can
i.nswer, ‘My master knows all about
t ie/ he is a free man, in spite of his
past disgrace,
“I want you to take this J&dvioo
kindly; I give it from my heart, Jf
you don’t get on as well as you wish,
don’t go back into sin. One of the young
converts was tempted to go to selling
liquor again; but let your motto be,
‘.-rust in God,’ and you can resist
temptation, and come off victorious
o/ar the world, the flesh and the
d.wil,” _ ‘
THE PERFECT SECOND.
Tile Qualifications and Methods of a
Model Friend in Affairs of Honor.
-Mta IT
nphrased from L’Almanack Four
Riry*— £u o' Pei feet Second never lets
his principal fight. For preventii g ten
duels he should receive the medal of
the Humane Society—a hundred, at
least a statue.
11.
He has a million methods, and all of
them are effective.
“Say, old fellow, I wan’t you to berav
second in my affair with Gus. At the
club-table I called him a liar and he
threw the cards in my face. Of course
I canuot remain with the imputation
of a poker-deck on my honor.”
“Of course you can’t. I’ll arrange
everything. Let’s go down to your
lawyer’s and have your will drawn out.
Whom’ll you give your fortune to ?”
“Give it ? I intend to keep it.”
“Oh, no; you can’t. We brought
nothing into this world, and it is cer
tain that we can take nothing out of it.
You can’t fly iu the face of Scripture,
you know. It would be a graceful thing
to leave it to your betrothed, and have
her bound to plant a white rose on
your grave—Greenwood, of course?—
on every anniversary of your death,”
“You think that the duel might re
sult fatally? I can’t describe it, but I
teei a sort of fluttering here and my
legs are weak.”
“You ran up stairs too quiokly, that
is all. Think it might result fatally?—
he’s a good 6hot, and it is always well
to be prepared. Let’s hurry down and
try and catch the lawyer; then you run
home and write your farewells, and I’ll
attend to everything.”
“And yet. I should be sorry to shed
Gus’s blood. I gave him a good deal
of provocation, I admit. Perhaps if
yop wtqe to arrange for a quiet little
dinner at Delmonico’s now, and make
it up without scandal—what do you
think?” *
“Well, we’ll try it.”
He does, and that duel doesn’t come
off.
His principal’s opponent’s friend
waits on the perfect second. The p. o.
f. is a colonel, and his voice is for war.
“As you say, Colon ei, this thing can
not be stopped. They must meet. Pis
tols, of course, five paces, and if nei
ther umn falls, ipt 'them draw tfieir
bowles, and finish it ! ”
“I’m agreeable, sir,”
“Ail right, I’ll see to everything. Qf
course, sffioe the Ronnett-May affair, it
wouldn’t do to fight here ; the author
ities are an the alert ; public opinion is
excited, and in the event of a fatal is
sue—you understand ?*’
“Well, say we try Canada.”
“Agreed. We can slip away there
quietly aud have it over. We must
Jet. the dQPWI understand, however,
what the facts are before we start. He
has a family, and under the Dominion
law the attendants, surgeons aud sec
onds are all liable to indictment as ac
cessories before the fact, in a fatal
duel it’s hanging, but if nothing serious
happens, it’s only ten years.”
“Hum! And Canada justice is worse
than Jersey.”
“Tell you what—suppose we make
up a nice fittie party and slip away to
Europe. We can fight in Austria or
Switzerland and be back here by the
Ist of March.”
“And who in thupder’s going to pay
for my expenses and loss of time?”
“Among gentlemen such things
should not be mentioned. Couldn’t
you come on the estate?”
After all,” concluded the Colonel,
“we should make one more effort to
avoid effusion of blood. Your man
gave mine a blaok eye and mine stood
yours on his bead in a snow-drift. I
guess we can settle it. A nice little
dinner at Delraonico’s, plenty of wine,
and we’ll split the bill between them—
wbat say you ?”
“I cannot oppose a proposition from
a gentleman, so well versed in matters
of honor as Colonel Puffbeater.
And that duel doesn’t oome off.
iv.
“No ; It cannot be avoided. His con
duct with my wife is beginning to be
remarked, aud I have the most damn
ing proofs—”
“But, my dear fellow, don’t you see
that if you fight you will drag your
wife’s name into the affhir, and have it
discussed in every gin-mill in the coun
try, and make public a scandal that
should be quieted ?”
“I don’t care for that.”
“Besides, you will be the laughing
stock of the community, for, as you
know, it is always the deceived hus
band that is made ridiculous.”
(He seems to care for that).
“Now,” says the perfect second, “your
opponent is married, too.”
“Yes, and to a deuced pretty woman.
His want of taste aggravates the of
fense.”
“Yes, and I hear that she’s as frisky
a matron as there is in Gotham. Fiirt
with her and get square with him that
way. It’ll make him the talk of the
town and you the hero.”
“That s a good idea. You’ll manage
an introduction ?”
He promises that he will, and that
duel doesn’t take place.
v.
It is a serious affair; both principals
mean fight; the opposing soconds re
move every obstacle with fatal facility;
everything is agreed to and the case
looks hopeless.
It is under these disadvantageous
circumstances that the genius of the
perfect second displays itself. He has
been pensive; suddenly brightening up,
he takes the other seconds apart.
“What I am about to communicate
to you is in the strictest confidence.
Swear to me that it will not be revealed
to a living soul. (They swear.) This
duel cannot go on.”
“My principal—this is between us—
is too infamous a character to be en
titled to the satisfaction accorded to
gentlemen I”
“What has he done?”
“What hasn’t he? Forgeiies, em
bezzlement of trust funds—hushed up
by restitution made by his father
whose gray hairs he thus brought
down with sorrow to the grave. Why
there is a mountain of indictments
against him in the District-Attorney’s
office wich only political influence pre
vents from being tried.”
“The devil you say f”
. at was would not be so
bad. Family reasons of a delicate
character compel me to associate with
this loathsome pariah. You remember
the ikathan murder 1“
“That awful tragedy, the perpetrator
of which has never been discovered
“The same. Weil, he was the man,
Of course, you see that it is impossi
ble that this duel should go on.”
They do. The perfect second hag
made bis principal out a feiop and
sassin, but that fight doesn’t take
place.
Who will say such a man is not de
serving of honor iu his life and a statue
at his death ?
Moody And The Baby,
[Turlow W<**\ ft i:& New York ’Tribune.
Incidents which severely try the
patience of pastors and congregations
occassionally occur in all Christian
churches. They arc among the in
felcities of 'public worship. A elegy
man interrupted in tho manner re
ferred to may bo pardoned for men
tally showiugirn annoyance which he
does not feel at liberty to express. On
one occasion only have I seen a clergy
man avail himself of an interruption
of this nature to point a moral. This
occured last winter at the hippodrome
It was an evening service. The house
was densely (and when was it other
wise?) filled. Five or six thousand
faces and twice as many ears were
looking and listening to Mr. Moody.
An impassioned and eloquent portion
of his sermon was interrupted by the
loud crying of an infant. Mr. Moody
paused, and, turning to those sitting
near him, enteaed itfio conversation
with them. The mother soon succeed
ed in quieting the child, when Mr.
Moody with cheerful expression of
countenance resumed; but not more
than live minutes elapsed before a
louder wail wa3 heard: Mr. Moody
again paused and again entered into
conversation until the mother a second
time succeeded in quieting her child.
In the course of a few miuutes, how
ever the baby’s voice was heard for a
third time the mother and father
simultaneously rising, with the evident
intention to depart. That seemed al
most hopeless undertaking, for they
were seated in the oeuter of the im
mense audience. The parents succeed
ed, however, in reaching the middle
qisie. Mr. Moody, meanwhile encoura
ging them with .a benignant smile.
Their nearest way out was by a side
door, There was almost breathless
silence as they passed down the mid
dle aisle. When near the preacher he
exclaimed “God bless that mother. I
wish there were many more Christian
mothers possessing the oourage to
bring their infants to church when
they cannot leave them safely at
home." The effect was electrioa!. A
sense of relief was felt throughout the
house. That mother’s heart was not
the only one that thanked Mr. Moody
far u seasonable manifestation of sense
and sympathy, which did equal credit
to his head and heart.
Ttfla story of Charley Fisher, whom
the President has just pardoned, is a
sad illustration of the low order of
morals and justice that has oome to
prevail in the District of Columbia.
His father was Judge Fisher of the
District Supreme Court and afterward
United States attorney for the Dis
trict, but the boy was just as bad as
bad could be, getting into every sort of
disreputable and criminal scrapes, and
disgracing and impoverishing the
family. And yet the father appointed
him assistant district attorney, of
which position he took advantage to
steal a lot _f indictments, complaints
and judgments from the pi'fioc, and
sell them out at retail to the thieves,
swindlers and gamblers whom they
ran against. Charley thus got a good
deal of money, but it broke down the
administration or law ip the District.
The offense w, s so gross that the
young man was ai rested, tried and con
victed, but, because he was the son of
his father, he was sentenced to only U
mouths’ imprisonment, and now, he
fore the first month of this is over, be
cause his father is frieqd of ’ the
President and because the President is
Grant, the young man gets a full par
don.— Springfield Republican.
A New Orleans telegram of the 19th
instant says: '‘Collector Casey, who
went to Washington in the interest of
the Democrats, telegraphed to-day to
Deputy Collector Herwig that the
Packard Government is pretty sure to
be recognized, This was a atriotly pr
ivate telegram to Herwig to guide him
in his speculation in State bonds,”
The best joke is the opposition of
Senator Patterson to the eitotoral bill
on high moral grounds: “No raffling
or dice-box arrangement for me.”
GEORGIA NEWS.
They tax them $3.60 for streets in
Elberton.
Diamonds in Hall county are the
sensation now.
A grandson of John C. Calhoun is in
Dalton for his health.
A chromo is offered in Elberton for
the sight of a rainbow.
I o.stamped whisky wagons go un
molested around Dalton.
Dolton has cut and dried quite a
quantity of ice for next summer’s use.
It is now estimated that thero are
two pointer pups for every partridge
m Elbert eouuty.
Mr. Sam Cooper, of Americas, was
married to Miss Katie Oliver, of Ma
con, last Wednesday night.
The ladies of Elberton us? a com
pound of lard and molasses to make
the hair stick to whatever place they
wish it.
The poor people of Dalton are the
subject of oonoern by the ladies of that
city, who are, to a great extent, reliev
ing their distress.
Only nineteen gallons of brandy
were made in Rockdale county last year.
This is hardly enough for one average
citizen of that county.
The Sentinel says there is probably
no town of its size in Georgia in which
more permanent improvements are
going on than in Jesup.
Sydney Lanier, the Georgia poet is
out in anew book from the press of
Lippincott, Philadelphia. The New
York Herald speaks well of it,
Georgia built only forty.four miles of
railroad last year, and Jim Anderson
don t care whether any building is done
this year, as the free pass system is
played out, *
Elbeit Gazette : The question arises
' C <m _ ni *turally among our people,
will Col. Hester have the measles ?”
The air of the Gate City seems to be
conducive to that disease.
A oolored baby of Dalton came near
dying from getting a glass bottle stop
per wedged in its throat, while tho
mother was off wedging the contents
of that same bottle down her own
thorax.
Mr. William Dollar, livlngnear Snap-
Mho&ls, is in bis eighty-seventh
y ear, and his wife in her eighty-first
year, They have been married sixty
three years, and do death has occurred
in their house.
Columbus is paj Ing interest on SIOO.-
°OO of bonds of the Savannah & Mem
phis railroad, but that road does not
mu lD^? ne ba - e of c °tton to that city.
The Western road chargee more freight
from Opelika to Columbus than the en
tire route on the 8. & M. road.
Thomasville Enterprise : Last week
Mr. John btark shipped fifty thousand
cuttiDgs of grape vines to France, and
H. H. Sanford also sent a consider
able lot. Those cuttings are ordered,
as it is found that several varieties of
American grapes arrow more rapidly
and are more healthy thau the Euro
pean vines, and they are used there
mainly for grafting and budding. This
is not the first shipment of tho kind
made, as largo shipments were made
last winter, and it seems to have be
come a regular and successful business.
Coiistitution : Sidney Dell writes from
Salem, Oregon, under date or the 6th
as follows : “Beached Portland on the
3rd. Stayed a few days. Much pleas
ed with it, and will probably iocate
there. Any friends wishing to commu
nicate with me should direct to me, at
Portland. I came down here last
night, and found the Constitution of tho
19th, 20th, 22d and 23d, and fedt as if I
were face to face with a familiar friend
—indeed a host of friends, as it is a
oity and State mirror. Am looking at
the Willamette valley. It is as mild as
sprirg here.”
RICH ME.N.
Incidents Illustrating ihelr Love of
Money.
[N. Y. Correspondence Boston Post.]
You are probably aware that within
a few years many corporations here
have adopted a rule to pay five dollars
to every director, trustee or officer who
shall be punctual at any regular meet
ing of the board. The officer must be
present before the President brings
down his gavel on the stroke of the
clock. If he arrives a second late he
loses the premium offered for prompt
ness. It is remarkable what an c ffect
this has had upon directors and the
like, especially the very rioh ones. The
richer the man, the more certain he is
to be on hand before the fall of the
gavel. Before the rule was made it
was extremely difficult to get a quorum
of any board together, and now it is
very easy. The inducement of earning
five dollars has wrought a transforma
tion ; the certainty or getting a little
money has demolished procrastination.
Whenever you see millionaires like
George Law, Moses Taylor, John Jacob
Astor, Andrew V. Btout, Robert L. Cut
ting, August Belmont, 8. L. M. Barlow
Horace B. Claflin, E. 3, JalfTay, any
where about noon, dashing down
Broadway, into Wall street through
Pine street, or toward Hanover Square,
as if life and death depended on their
mission, you can be sure that they are
struggling Tor the $5. They try harder
for it tfcau most poor men would, and
really mourn when they fail to secure it.
The President of a Broadwav bank
worth several millions, with vvhom I
was crossing the Hoboken ferry lately
attracted my attention by his fidgety
manner and frequent glances at his
watch. He told me afterward that he
was afraid that he would lose his $5,
because the Delaware and Lackawanna
train had been a little late, and that
the Directors’meeting was at IQo’olock.
The rich director of a prominent in
surance company told me lately that
he had not missed punctual attendance
for two years until few weeks before,
and that his missing on that occasion
had positively made him unhappy tor
twenty-four hours.
An opulent trustee of a leading gas
company had a protracted disoussion
with tbs Prosideut* about thanksgiving
™P e * on the subject of punctuality.
Ihe former claimed that he had en
tered the room before the gavel de
scended ; the latter maintained that he
had not entered until after the gavel
had fallen. The trustee talked for two
hours, and finally proposed to give SSO
to any charity the President might
name if he were allowed to have the
five dollars,
These facts show ourioca glimpses of
human nature, especially of rioh hu
man nature. One would not suppose
that $5 would be any inducement to a
millionaire to do anything, but it moves
him as giOQ would not move a man in
ordinary circumatanoea. In moat eases
it seems to be strictly true no person
so loves money as the person who owns
a vast aenh
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Rev. Taul Derrick died at Lex
ington on the 16th inst.
Court will convene in Kiogstree on
Monday, the 29th inst.
Ihe grangers design starting a co
operative store at Abbeville.
m ,^ r - Redden Beasley, an old citizn of
SfflSfES:
Corn is selling in Marion for 65 cents
75 ceota i per°huiJSied odder ,rom 6010
>■ “ sftsrsy? ws* g
the wagon into Newberry.
Mr. J. H. Richardson died or heart
disease near Gibson’s Bridge Aiken
county, aged about 55 years.
apS“„ a ';;' V. B
Uau,ptou Trial JutlS£ tor S„m7t?° V '
r tb „ e
Tlrey coat Uie county forty cent. a'day’
lhere are but two prisoners in
Williamsburg jali atpZn? They
delivery* ‘ n 9i °“ the ** B^Jj3
The taxpayers of Greenville are d
positing their quota, but have to wado
thMjSt lkueed< * ! P‘° cccompli.it
10 *•*
S??' *• R&StaSsss
•JustlccS sSm.cr e ™uS?° toled *“
oourffv 4?®“ ® ea 0“. of Abbeville
died M a °h and and reß Pected sflzen,*
ro&^ri&ar^ 9 Ua&B
- 555S iT' and **"*'£ *%£,
tta carried off, amounting' to SSOO
r-vWej Her c±f ¥“•**. ““been
hianfc James Rodgers Jr
fetswrassSß*'
a woman. The murderer escaped.
It is reported that a negro man was
Srold r FHd U tra i n . on the Port Royal
kU ed V a h ay s D,ght ’ Januar y 19. and
Cjv ' iS‘ Bv. 8 v .^ ad , Waa severed from the
u uy. He was asleep on the track.
Louisa Hears, colored, who was acci
ifh E by M ‘ H - Crerswefl or
Abbeville, about four weeks back died
f i rol fh iD i urleß and a verdict of
death from accidental killing was ren
spedal “gout
at Chester to receive the contribution
hii le i ror £ y General Hampton, opened
his office Monday, January 22, and in
t T r ?,, day8 ’ Respite the unfavorable
weather, over SI,OOO was received.
in peof ! e of Sum ir are respond
ing promptly to the call by Governor
Hampton for ten per cent, of the
amount of taxes paid last year. Mr.
Haynesworth has received about 8900
WBS PUid ° D ° ' J “ I
TiVSfi* demand was made on Mr.
, • special tax agent ror New
berry county by ex-Auditor William*
to return the bonks nr take the conse
quences. Mr. Whites is now utkleg
the consequences in the shape of tax<s
thtough the county.
.w h l Mar u° n of says :
We haa the pleasure of visiting Chan
cellor Johnson s magnificent Donahoe
plantation, last week, which, from its
splendid arrangement, would justify
the Chancellor in writing a book on
what he knows about farming.’ ”
Someone who had no fear of the
law, or respect for the high sheriff
went into his offico on sale day and
stole his pistol from his overcoat pock
et. Ho says that if the thief will call
on him, he will present him with a box
oi cartridges that are now of no use to
him.
Sumter has recently lost several good
ci izens : Messrs. J. jd. Steedman. Wm.
xeadon and Whilden Venning have re
moved to Union county to engage in
• arming. They were also accompanied
by Mr. James Clark, formeriy of Sum
ter, but lately of Fulton, Clarendon
county.
Durant, Chamberlain’s Trial Juetico
at Marion, has been arrested by Trial
Justice Evans, for complicity in the
Emancipation riots, and though he at
first declined to recognize Evans’au
thority, he gave bond rather than go to
jail. Mai ion is strong for Hampton,
and none of the usurping gang can
ever obtain a foothold there again.
Mr. A. Wltcover, of Marion Court
house, was made the victim of a bold
burglary, on Friday night last, by
which he lost five hundred dollars’
worth of goods. The burglars entered
by forcing the front door of the store.
After getting in, they lighted candles,
rifled shelves, show-cases, &c., being
particular to carry off none but the
beat goods.
The reported duel at Fair Bluff, N.
C., between Peter Nevils, a colored
Democrat, and Wes. Moody, a colored
Radical, of Marion, never occurred.
Nevils and his friends were on the
ground, but Moody failed to come ta
time and is branded a coward. The
published aocouuts of the duel are the
purest fabrications, and are the pro
duction of some fun-loving Munchau
sen.
Lewis R. Redmond, who was cap
tured by a sheriff’s posse in Greenville
county, and subsequently effected his
escape after shooting the United States
Marshal, distinguished himself Satur
day, January 20th. Redmond, with
nine armed men, came to Barton, the
United States Marshal’s house, about
daylight and demanded the return of
the property taken. The latter was
foroed to give gIOO and two horses,
when the party rode off unmolested.
Redmond is described as a half Indian
and a very desperate character.
8, J, Lee, ooiored, who claimed to be
eleoted to the office of Probate Judge
of Sumter county, applied for the po
sition, but was refused by Mr. C. M.
Hurst, the incumbent, who acted un
der legal advice. Lee forced the lock
Friday, January 19th, and took posses
sion of the office, in company with one
Singleton, a Deputy United States
Marshal. Mr. Hurst endeavored to
enter his office some hours later, and
was resisted by Lee and fired upon. An
altercation ensued, and Mr. Hurst and
his friends cleared the office. The
Sheriff was attracted to the scene, but
could not allay the disturbance, and
Judge Shaw was forced to come from
the oomt house, where he was holding
oourt, and compel Lee to keep the
peaoe. The office was locked and turn
ed over to the Sheriff, and at tho re
quest of the Judge the crowd dijfl
persed,