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Railroad Schedules.
R wised an i Corrected by B. F. Brown, Gen
eral TicketPlanters’ Hotel.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta... .4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s a. in. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port Royal 3:00p. m.
Leaves Port Royal 9:30 a.m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Lea ves Augusta at 8:45, a. m. and 8:15, p. m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Arrives in Augusta 3:30, p. m. andß:ls,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and 6:25, a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. m. and 7:50, a. m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at. 10:45, a. m.andß;lsp.m.
Leaves Macon at. .6:30, a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Augusta..2:oo, p. m.and 8:15 a.m,
Arrives at Macon at.6:40, p. m. and 7:40 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:95, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. m. and 6, a.m.
OHARLOri E COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
Arrives in Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8 :A5. a.m
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1875.
MARCHING ON.
Commenting upon the report that
the Radicals are desperate, and that
their leader, Grant, has no hope of re
nomination unless he can control the
one hundred and thirty-eight electoral
votes of the South, the Richmond
Dispatch says :
They therefore seek to put the negro
over the white man—ignorance over intel
ligence-virtue over vice. This is the issue!
Let the people of the United States con
sider it.
The Committee of Congress find that all
the charges against the whiter people are
false—they And that negroes and white
rogues are ruining the South—that intimi
dation is the means employed by Radicals
to silence the white vote; and so proclaim
to the world. Yet President Grant con
tradicts their statements made upon sworn
testimony and proclaims the South to be in
a state of rebellion, and asks for powers,
including the suspension of' the writ of
habeas corpus, which, if given him, would
make him Dictator of the land; and he
says if they are not given him he will take
them! And what for? That the negro
may be installed above the white man, and
that the one hundred and thirty-eight votes
of the South may be given to him
self—General Grant.
If any man can doubt this die is simplo
and confiding indeed. If the people of the
United States can humor General Grant
the Republic is dead as that of Rome.
There have been usurpations enough in
this world ; but never one like that from
which this land suffers; a usurpation
through the subversion of ail civilized prin
ciples and predilections; the installation of
barbarism above civilization. A people who
could subm't to so great a degradation
would deserve to be held In enduring con
tempt. Will the people of the United States
do that thing ?
Let us lot >k at this a hit. So long as
Democrats recognize the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments'as finalities,
never to be questioned or repealed,
they are no better than those Republi
cans who are conspiring against the
liberties of this country, and Grant
knows it. Every step Radicalism and
Grant have made toward absolute
power has been through and by means
of “appropriate legislation,” logically
flowing from the infamous amendments.
Upon these amendments and.their
consequential legislation the whole Re
publican fabric is based. If the De
mocracy admit the sacredness of these
amendments they virtually surrender
their cause, and have precious little
right to make war upon Grant or his
party. “Negroes and white rogues are
ruining the South,” shrieks the Dis
patch. True ; and in what way ? By
the amendments, which the Democ
racy, in great part, have agreed to
consecrate. The “negro is to be in
stalled above the white man,” again
says the Dispatch. How so ? By the
amendments, we repeat, which so-called
Democrats propose to swallow at a gulp
and promise never to disgorge. Well
may the Dispatch declare that the usur
pations in this country have been with
out parallel and have eventuated in a
subversion of civilized principles.
Whence this usurpation and subver
sion, if not through the amendments,
which are the pillar and ground of Re
publican policy and which, we grieve to
say, so many Democrats swear they
will never seek to repudiate and dis
own. The degradation of the country
can only be by the Radi
cals, through Democratic aid and sym
pathy, and the conspirators ask eR bet
ter help and no warmer commenda
tion of- their programme than the
Democratic pledge that the very
head and front of offending—the
infamous amendments—shall never
be confronted in law or disturbed in
any way. A party that deliberately
yields up the first essentials of truth
and civilization to its adversary may
gain a hypocritical victory ; but the re
sults will benefit them and the cause of
Constitutional Liberty no more than
Dead'Sea fruit appeases the hunger of
the weary wayfarer. With this view
of the case, we are forced to the belief
that Grant’s chief provocation to usur
pation is founded upon the confessions
and blunders of a pseudo-Democracy
which has subscribed to the very
dogma, through the active operation of
which the country groans, and in whose
perpetuity the people may well believe
haibors the knell of liberty or the
death of hope.
The Navy Department.— An extra
oidinary charge of malfeasance in the
Navy Department has been made pat
lie. No less than 81,000,000 are alleged
to have been loaned to Jay Cooke
McCulloch & Cos. on pledge of goods
already hypothecated to othqr credi
tors.
Perhaps that accounts for attempts
at burning the Navy Department.
A bummer whose nose was frozen
the other day remarked pathetically
that he had been drinking poor whis
key lately, and deserved, accordingly,
to be nipped in the bud.
m Mil (Constitutionalist
[New York Graphic.
THE BROOKLYN LEGAL BATTLE.
Some Racy Notes About tbe Ladies
Who Frequent the Court Room.
The heroine in the case is Mrs. Til
ton. But she is almost the least con
spicuous of all the women who attend
the trial.
Mrs. Beecher is the prominent figure.
It is to her that all eyes are directed
whenever there are unpleasant allu
sions to her husband. It is to her,
probably, that the most spmpathy is
extended, as having to undergo so
painful an experience as he is sub
jected to in her attendance at the
court.
Mrs. Tilton is almost overlooked by
the spectators. Beyond the charge
that forms the ground work of the
suit, there is nothing that should bring
her into particular notice. It is the
policy and the intention of both sides
to speak of her kindly and with com
passion. The plaintiff alludes to her
gently and with considerations as to
one who has been deeply wronged. The
defendant finds in her an object of
sympathy. The spectator, hearing
very little about her and that always
in her defense, is not moved to look
at her.
The physique and personal charac
teristics of the two women help to
place them in the same relation to each
other. Mrs. Tilton is petite and shy.
She is the yielding, compliant help
meet. Mrs. Beecher is of striking fig
ure and confident air. She could man
age a household, a school, or a con
vention. Her clear cut, classic face is
full of character. It is often remarked
of her husband that he would have
won eminence on the stage. No one
has ever referred to her wonderful his
trionic ability. She is present eveiy
day to declare her confidence in her
husband, her contempt for his ac
cusers. This she does wonderfully well.
Rachael could not better enact the
part. She seems unconscious of any one’s
presence as she sits at her husband’s
side apparently absorbed in the pro
ceedings. She must be conscious of
the interest she excites, yet there is no
kind of boldness in her manner. There
is apparently no simulation in the con
temptuous smile with which she re
ceives her share of the strokes that fall
upon her husband. Even when the
aspersions aro directed against. her as
coming from her husband the smile of
trustful incredulity with which she
looks up at his face is entirely unas
sumed. She always appears the em
bodimentjof earnestness and confidence,
and if there lingers in her breast the
faintest doubt of her husband’s final
vindication, it is never once reflected
in her face.
What the spectator sees as he catches
his first glimpse of Mrs. Beecher is a
narrow ribbon of perfectly white hair,
which the deep black of her bonnet al
lows to border her forehead. The ef
fect of this is singularly heightened by
the appearance of her eyes. Her head
is held down, and as she looks steadily
at Mr. Tilton’s face from under her
deeply lined brow, they, too, show more
of white than of color. It Is a remark
able face.
Mrs. Tilton is often described as sit
ting close to Mrs. Field, and as screen
ing herself behind her, as if to shut off
the view of the spectators as much as
possible. Although this is explained
as the result of a timid, retired nature,
it does not wholly account for the posi
tion. Mrs. T. finds in Mrs. Field much
that she lost by separation from her
husband. His guiding hand and con
trolling mind are in part supplied by
this strong-willed friend. Occasionally
she leans forward and looks for mo
ments at a time at her husband as he
sits at his counsel’s table or in the wit
ness chair, and the observer imagines
he sees a remembrance of the old affec
tion in her eyes. There is a something
in the expression of her face that hints
at a desire to rejoin her husband if the
restraint that keeps her from him were
for an instant removed. Beyond this
her face is immobile. She listens in
tently to the testimony of the witness
and to the arguments of the lawyers,
but no one can read her thoughts. She
has schooled her emotions so that they
do not reach her face. In it there is
shown only calmness and resignation,
emphasized by the sadness revealed in
her eyes. Her veil is never lifted. It
does not hide her pale, girlish features.
The centrast between Mrs. Tilton’s face
and the strong, self-reliant features of
Mrs. Field is very marked.
Mrs. Sherman is short and very fair.
Her face is youthful and well filled out.
The other ladies in the group are Mrs.
Tubbs, Mrs. Dunckley, and Mrs. Ray
mond, but they do not always attend
the trial.
Evidence of that peculiar kind of
feminine curiosity that always flies at
the approach of its full gratification is
not wanting in and about the trial.—
Gen. Butler, .in conversation with the
writer last Summer, especially depre
cated bringing the scandal into court
on account of the injury that would
necessarily follow from the publication
in full of the evidence in the case.—
“ The accounts of the trial,” said he,
" will find their way into every board
ing school in the country.” It is a
daily surprise to the average attend
ant to see so many women and girls
betraying that interest by their actual
presence in the court or in its neigh
borhood. Ladies who will discuss the
progress and probable results of the
trial all the evening in their drawing
rooms are often, indeed, unmerciful
ly critical upon the appearance in
court of other ladies. But the
same kind of interest which leads
them to discuss the scandal so
continuously leads many others of
their sex to the court room itself. Un
questionably, if Judge Neilson should
relax*his stringent rule, the seats would
be filled with early-coming ladies, to
the exclusion of the less curious sex.
Yesterday, on entering the ante-rooin
through which counsel and other per
sons having business in court are ac
customed to pass, the writer saw two
ladies. One was old and tall and held
her own in the press which blocked the
door. Tlie other was young. In the
rear of the room, about six feet from
the crowded doorway stands a desk
used by Judge Neilson in ordinary
times when he retires from the main
room. It is placed on a platform. On
one end of this was placed a pile of
two law books. On the top of this the
young lady was balancing herself with
the aid of a polite gentleman, who him
self stood on a chair behind the desk.
At times she stood on tiptoe and held
her head as far forward as possible to
look around the door-post. It was just
possible she could see from her posi
tion the witness chair and Mr. Tilton
giving his evidence. She was taste
fully dressed, and, aside from her posi
tion and the fact of her presence there
at,all, gave a favorable impression.
Are these ladies connected with the
case ?” was asked.
No, growled the disgusted Cersbus
at the door. “Somebody brought
AUGUSTA. GA., SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 21, 1875.
them in. They have no business here.”
This is only a specimen of what oc
curs daily. In the gallery and on the
main floor ladies are present daily.
But che saddest, if not the most re
markable, spectacle relating to this
subject is the gathering about the
door of bright, merry-looking school
girls, with books and satchels on their
arms. They are often present in bevies
of half a dozen, and once at least two
dozen were counted. They stand
there “ waiting for horse-cars to take
them to their homes,” from two to four
o’clock in the afternoon. It would be
just as convenient to wait belovr or
above the Court House, but they do
not do so.
[Washington Chronicle,
A JUMP INTO ETERNITY.
The Victim a Citizen of the District—
The Body Horribly Mangled. Coro
ner’s Inquest and Verdict of the
Jury.
The most frightful suicide which has
ever occurred within the District limits
took place yesterday at the Capitol
building, and, strange to say, but fow
were aware of the presence of the vic
tim, the circumstances of his taking
off, or the fatal result, until the sad
news was noised in the building and
surroundings. The only proposition
on record to jump from the dome of
the Capitol was made during the fa
mous Mason-MeCarty duel, which after
ward resulted fatally to Mason, at
Bladensburg, and wherein one of the
participants previously offered to the
other to “tie hands together and jump
from the dome of the Capitol at Wash
ington.”
Visitors crowded the dome yesterday,
as usual, and about 1:30 p. m. some of
the drivers of the numerous equipages
in waiting in front of the building saw
what they thought the form of a man
come from the top to the base of the
dome. A man passing along First
street east thought someone on the in
side of the railing encircling the base
of the statue of Liberty had thrown
over a coat, or lost some outer gar
ment, a prey to the winds. Parties in
the wings of the building, looking to
ward the center portico, saw a man
disappear from the railing above men
tioned, and the various rumors draw
ing the attention of the Capitol police,
upon an inspection of the roof over the
eastern portico the dead body of a man
was found, and it was at once removed
to the r*om of the Capitol electrician,
in the third story of the north wing of
the center building, wheru Coroner
Patterson held an inquest with the fol
lowing jury: S. S. Smoot, foreman; L.
A. Gobright, Jaimes F. Dooley, E. N.
Atherton, C. M. Ford, Charles S. Dra
per, Ho vard Frencn, F. A. Ward, C. M.
Levy, P. H. Allebach, J. W. Westfall,
and E. J. Parker.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
The body, attired in plain, but com
fortable clothing, was mangled almost
beyond recognition. The front of the
skull was crushed over the rear por
tion and tho lower jawbone jammed up
into the brain,leaving the gums with the
teeth attached, protruding. Blood and
gore covered the upper portion of the
body, which was apparently broken in
several places, although no examina
tion was made. By judicious hand
ling on the part of the physicians pres
ent the features were so arranged as to
be recognized by an acquaintance. On
his person was found fifty cents in cur
rency and a pawn-ticket signed by
Heidenheimer, corner Pennsylvania
avenue and Thirteenth street, from
whom some clue was ascertained as to
the name of the deceased. Finally
THE FATHER OF THE DECEASED,
a man about sixty years old, appeared
and recognized the body as that of his
son, and betrayed terrible mental suffer
ing. He said that his son, James
McMahon, was about twenty-five years
old, had been studying for the Catholic
ministry in Baltimore up to last August,
when he returned here on account of
his health, and has since been working
at the carpenter’s trade. He went to
work yesterday morning as usual, re
turned home at 9 o’clock, and shortly
after left with a bundle, since when
nothing was heard of Him until the fa
tal occurrence.
The testimony of the other wit
nesses, Lewis Burns, Mrs. E. Waliing
ford, and R. Walton, referred entirely
to the circumstances of
HOW THE FATAL LEAP
was made, as follows :
The deceased, who ascended the
various flights leading to the top of the
dome, was unnoticed in the general
throng, and when he reached fcfae rail
ing surrounding the tholus, on which
is the statue of Liberty, he quietly
scaled the railing looking over the east
portico, and sprang forward. In a sec
ond almost the body was lifeless on the
side of the peidment of the east portico,
one hundred and eighty-five feet below,
mangled as described above. The
course of its descent was marked with
blood, and it was so rapid that no one
who saw the occurrence could say posi
tively what balustrades, railings, or
projections the body struck, and it was
evident that the deceased intended to
clear the pediment on which he fell, in
which case, if he had succeeded, he
would have fallen about three hundred
feet, and landed in about the spot his
toric with Presidential inaugurations.
THE VERDICT.
The jury rendered a verdict that de
ceased “came to his death by jumping
from the railing surrounding the tholus
of the dome of the Capitol while labor
ing under temporary aberration of
mind,” after which the body was turned
over to relatives for burial.
Deceased was well known in this
city for the past few months as an in
dustrious mechanic, residing with his
father on N, between Fourth and Fifth
streets northwest. His two brothers,
who are Governmental depart
ments, are well known in Catholic liter
ary circles of the District, and are uni
versally respected. Deceased was of a
quiet turn of mind and 1 of perfectly
sober habits, which confirms the belief
that his tragic death was the result of
temporary insanity. His funeral will
take place to-morrow.
The Washington Chronicle has been
diving down among official statistics,
and the result is that the people of this
country do not make a very creditable
showing in their liberality towards the
ministers of the Gospel. Here are the
figures: Salaries of ministers of the
Gospel, $6,000,000 ; cost of dogs, $lO,-
000,000 ; support of criminals, $12,000,-
000; fees of litigation, $35,000,000; cost
of tobacco and cigars, $610,000,000 ; im
portation of liquor, $50,000,000 ; sup
port of grog shops, $1,500,000,000;
whole cost of liquor, $2,200,000,000.
The fashionable style of benevolence
is to keep all your money until you die,
and then leave its disposition for chari
table purposes to the better judgment
of your heirs.
A CAPITAL SKETCH.
How Old Jim Drayton “Swore Off.”
He came up town last night to drink
the old year out and the new year in.
There are men who can remember when
he had a cottage of his own ; when he
was well dressed and had a frank,
honest face ; when his children went to
Sunday school, and his wife was well
clothed and carried a happy face. Old
Jim found himself going down the hill,
and almost in a year he had changed
from a hard-working, respectable man
to a ragged, lazy sot, and no effort on
the part of those who loved him could
stop his descent. His home went, his
furniture went, good clothes and happy
faces disappeared, and wretchedness
and poverty moved into the old tene
ment house on Beaubien street with
him.
Do you remember when his child was
run over and killed? Old Jim was
dead drunk while the body lay in the
house. Were you ever ad the Central
Station Court when he was sent up for
drunkenness or for beating his wife ?
Have you never seen him sleeping his
drunken sleep in the alley? Haven’t
you heard the police speak of “Old Jim
Drayton ? A red, wicked face, having
n >t one soft line in it —red eyes, look
ing stupidly and vacantly at you—a
battered hat—ragged clothes—you
surely must have met him at some
time.
Old Jim meant to have a big drunk.
That was a good way to wind the old
year up. He had been drunk Thanks
giving—he had staggered homo drunk
Christmas night, and when his boys
were heard wishing that Santa Claus
had not passed them by the father be
came angered and beat them. The
barkeeper knew him as he entered the
saloon and called for drinks. He had
called there dozens of times before,
and his face was as familiar as the
sight of the big decanter from which
he poured his drink.
“ Wait a moment,” said tho bar
keeper, who was wiping off the bar,
and old Jim sat down at one of the
tables.
Two young men camo in and sat
down near him. Jim was in the sha
dow, and they did not know who it
was. As they drank their beer they
spoke of tho dying year, and of their
resolves to break off some of their bad
habits, and finally one of them said :
“ Someone was saying that old Jim
Drayton had cut his throat! ”
“ its good news, if true,” replied the
other. “No one will miss the old sot
—not even his family. His wife and
children are in rags, his home hasn’t a
comfort, and if he’d only die folks
would feel like helping them. He’s tho
lowest drunkard in Detroit.”
“ Yes, I’ve often wondered why he
didn’t jump into the river,” rejoined
the other. “If I ever get as low and
ragged and mean as old Jim Drayton,
I’ll shoot myself.”
Old Jim heard every word. If he had
had a glass of whiskey down he’d have
leaped up and cursed them, but he was
sober—as sober as lie had ever been
for ten years, and he made no move.
Was he low and mean ? Did everybody
feel that way toward him ? Did every
body notice his poor old house, his
ragged children, his red face and
watery eyes? Did men speak to each
other of his degradation, his neglect
of his family—would his death be good
news to the public ?
“Do you want whisky or gin ?” asked
the bar-tender, but old Jim did not hear
him. He had leaned back against tho
wall, pulled his hat over his eyes and
was thinking. Drink had robbed him
of his honest look, his frank tone and
his strength and skill, but it had not
robbed him of memory. He could go
back over the decade and remember
hi pleasant home, liis happy family
and his own honest, independent feel
ing. Shame came with memory. He
had not got so low but words could
strike him.
Two or three other men came in, and
while they were drinking one of them
asked:
“Isn’t that old Jim Drayton in the
corner?”
“Yes, that’s the old sot,” answered
another.
“Wonder if he isn’t going to swear
off—ha ! ha!” laughed the third.
The words stung old Jim again. They
called up something of his old spirit,
and he sprang out of his chair and ex
claimed :
“Yes, I am going to swear off!”
“You swear off—you—ha ! ha! ha !”
laughed the men.
“ But I will! I know I’m a drunkard,
and that I’m ragged and low, but I
can reform !”
“ That’s good !” they laughed, “ big
gest thing out! Old Jim Drayton
shearing off—ha lha !”
“ I will—with God’s help, I will /” ho
replied, striking the bar with his fist.
Their shouts o'f laughter followed
him as he went out, but they strength
ened his sudden resolution. He walked
directly home. He stopped for a mo
ment at the gate and wondered why he
had never before noticed how gloomy
and wretched andfionesome the old hov
el looked. It was a fit home for a drunk
ard and a wife-heater. He opened
the gate, paused, then turned and went
to the grocery on the comer, and with
the money he meant to get drunk on
he purchased a few little toys for tho
children and returned and entered his
desolate house. He stood in the door
for an instant and looked around at
the bare and battered walls, the bare
floors, the wretchedness and poverty.
His wife crept away, fearing his drunk
en wrath. He knew what moved her,
and it cut him like a knife.
“ Mary, come here ! ” he said, as he
closed the door and held out his hand,
* I am not drunk to-night!”
She slowly approached him, wonder
ing if drink had not crazed him.
“ Mary ! ” he said, as he clasped her
hand, “ I haven’t drank a drop to
night ! ”
“Oh, James ! ” she sobbed, breaking
right down in an instant.
“ They call me old Jim Drayton ; say
I’m a sot; wonder why I don’t die ;.say
I can’t reform,” he went on, “ but I’m
going to stop drinking liquor—l have
stopped! ”
She put her arms around his neck,
but could not speak.
“ From to-night, as long as I live, I’l
be James Drayton again—sober—
steady a kind husband and a good
father! Go and wake up the children,
Mary, and let us all pray together ! ”
“Is father going to kill us? ’’they
whispered as they were aroused from
wretched beds.
“ No—no—he s sober—he’s going to
be good again ! ” she sobbed'.
At midnight the voice of prayer,
broken by sobs, was heard in the old
hovel, and old Jim Drayton, kneeling
at his chair, said:
“ Mary—children—may Heaven help
me to be a better man ! ”
So may it!
I should call a landlord’s poor rela
tions his ten aunts.
The Religious Papers.
THE PKIME OF LIFE.
The Jewish Messenger thus fixes the
supreme period of man’s life.
From 40 to 60, a man who has pro
perly regulated himself may be con
sidered as in the prime of life. His
natural strength of constitution ren
ders him almost impervious to the at
tack of disease, and experience has
given his judgment the soundness of
almost infallibility. His mind is reso
lute, firm, and equal; all his functions
are in the highest order; he assumes
the mastery over business, building a
competence on the foundation he has
laid in early manhood, and passes
through a period of life attended by
many gratifications.
THE LENTEN FAST.
The New York Tablet says : It is the
intention of our holy mother, the
Church, to awaken hallowed memories
in the minds of her children at the
opening of her penitential time. She
wishes to remind them of the rigorous
penances of her holiest and most illus
trious sons and daughters in all the
ages of her long existence, and to ad
monish them to walk in the heaven
ward footsteps of her saints, by the
way of penance, of self-sacrifice, of
humility and mortification, and all good
works.
THE SOLEMN SEASON.
The Churchman reiterates its hopes
that Episcopalians will observe the
solemn season of Lent:
It is in the spirit of the Lord’s di
rections to His disciples concerning
their fasting. The outward course of
of the world does not change. The
prayer takes precedence over the busi
ness demand. The gayety and the
pleasure are quietly dropped. Just
because it may appear to the world to
mean so little, does it really often
mean so much. It is far more real, be
cause formal, than the most vigorous
and short-lived informality.
ACCEPTABLE BISHOPS.
Tfie Episcopalian publishes an im
portant communication in relation to
the recently elected Bishops, and their
extremely opposite views:
A comprehensive church must neces
sarily be a church embracing wide va
rieties of opinion and action. To-mor
row the range will run us into secta
rianism on the one side or into Ultra
montanism on the other, systems
which are equally intolerant of varie
ties. But if we have these varieties
present, and by the admission of all
lawfully present, among priests, dea
cons, and laity, it is an intolerable in
justice to try to exclude them from the
Episcopate. It cannot be done, except
possibly in a chance coincidence of cir
cumstance now and then, and every at
tempt to do it will work only evil, and
that continually.
TRUE ECONOMY.
The Working Church gives its econo
mical ideas thus :
It is not true economy to. reduce the
number of common private comforts
for the sake of maintaining publicly an
appearance of luxurious expenditure.
To suit the table and the wardrobe,
that one may give two or three large
parties; to provide cheap fuel and
lights in order to add tc showy furn
ishing of the parlor—this is not econo
my, but a mixture of niggardliness and
false pride.
PULPIT ATTITUDES.
The Christian at Work sensibly re
marks upou this subject as follows :
One of our contemporaries states
that “Dr. De Koven, the prominent
ritualist, comes to the front when he
preaches, folds his hands on his bosom
after the manner of a Catholic priest,
and then intones his sermon from be
ginning to end. His voice is said to be
singularly fascinating, ana he runs up
his intonations with tones as clear as a
fiute.” Why should he not fold his
hands? We have seen a great many
preachers who evidently had little idea
of what to do with their hands. 'Some
fling their hands widly in the air. Some
grasp the corners of the pulpit, as if
they expected to upset in case of relax
ing them, and nervously twitch their
fingers like school children who do not
know their lesson. Some thumb the
pulpit Bible, and we have even seen
preachers put their hands in their
pockets. But when a man can calmly
fold his hands on his bosom, and so
preach to a large and perhaps critical
congregation, it shows an amount of
self-posses3ion which is worth of imi
tation, regardless of theological views.
GERMAN IN SCHOOLS.
The Jewish Times finds fault with
the Board of Education. It says :
The Board of Educauon seems to be
composed of members who delight in
vaunting their know-nothing proclivi
ties, and who seek a mantle for their
own deficient education by depriving
the rising genention of the benefit of
which they never felt the want. We
do not know whether the gentlemen
who so strenuously advocate the abo
lition of the German in the public
schools are doing the work of the full
blooded know-nothing faction, or that
of another faction which seeks to de
grade our public schools to the lowest
level, in order to circumscribe their
usefulness as a disseminator of light,
knowledge and education.
ISRAELITISH SCHISMS.
The Jeivish Messenger warns its read
ers against modern innovations and
schisms in the body of the ancient peo
ple :
It is high time that the people show
their strength, zeal and attachment to
the principles of their ancient faith.
It may perhaps be urged that those
so-termed guides who misconceive the
object of their guidance are but con
fined to a limited number, that the
vast majority of even the reform min
isters have some conservative feeling.
The danger of silence is, nevertheless,
of importance, and it is prudent, for
the sake of the rising generation, that
the antidote should be administered
ere the poison has produced its effects.
CONGREGATIONAL INCAPACITY.
The Methodist complains of the un
fitness of the present members of Con
gress to deal with the question of the
hour.
Men whose statesmanship consists in
passing a bill to-day to meet what they
think they want, and passing another
to-morrow to correct the mistakes of
| the first, and whose foresight is limit
ed to calculating the effect of their
work upon the next party caucus or the
next election, are not fitted to deal
with this question.
PRESBYTERIAN DISUNION.
The New York Observer asks for
union in the Presbyterian Church in
America.
While there are ministers and mem
bers of the Southern Church who are
longing for union ; who feel, as we do,
that the separation is wrong; and
ought, for the interests of the Church,
North and South, to be instantly heal-
ed ; at the same time the influence of
a few leaders prevents the consumma
tion, just as similar causes long delay
ed the reunion of the Presbyterian
Church in the North.
EPISCOPAL ORDINATION.
The Church Journal discusses the
rights of the laity to be ordained.
While a man has rights in the State,
iDto which State officials may be com
pelled to put him, no man has a natur
al right to any place or office in the
church. A man may prepare himself
for the bar, and legal requirements
complied with, may demand ad
mission, and compel the demand. Or
he may prepare himself to practice
medicine, and the requirements com
plied with may compel his admission
to practice, or elected to an office may
compel the proper, functionary to in
stal him. But no man can, by certifi
cate and examination, compel his own
ordination. There is no such thing as
a right to ordination or consecration.
Neither can be compelled.
A NATIONAL FAST.
The Independent demurs to the pro
position of the Christian at Work, that
the President should appoint a na
tional fast.
No one will object to ad < y of humilia
tion and prayer ; but a good many peo
ple will object to a Presidential ap
pointment of such a day and for the
special object which the Christian at
Work believes may be gained by it.—
The Roman Catholics Would in a body
refuse to unite with the rest of the
community in the observance of the
day, as they do in respect to Thanks
giving Day. But the chief objection to
the call upon the President lies in the
vagueness of the object to be obtained
by a national fast. The Christian at
Work says it is a revival of business
that is required. But what kind of
business ? If there be really “tens of
thousands of merchant princes at their
wit’s end,” what of it ? Shall we fast
and pray that ten thousand merchant
princes may be replenished in their
wits ?
[Boston Herald.
A BIG HUMBUG EXPOSED.
The Indian Box Trick. A Noted
“ Mejum ” Comes to Grief.
For some time past a medim-sized,
black-eyed, curly-haired and rather
good-looking Frenchman, calling him
self J. Frank Martin, has been aston
ishing the natives by what appeared to
be most wonderful spiritual tests, and
until Friday evening last the sharpest
investigations were completely toiled in
their attempts to fathom the mystery,
which staggered them and almost con
verted them to the belief that Martin’s
claims were legitimate. Martin was
for some time the chief attraction at
the seances giveh at the rooms of Mrs.
Hersey, sometimes called Miss Lillie.
He and one Mace, who is pronounced
by some of the Spiritualists to boa
stupendous fraud, gave an exhibition
in Cambridge not long since, calling
themselves the Taylor brothers, and
successfully
PULLED WOOL OVER THE EYES
of their audience. So incomprehen
sible were the tests given by this adroit
mountebank that many * merchants,
bankers and professional men became
interested in his exploits, and commenc
ing on Thursday evening, January 28,
a sorios of seances at the office of Dr.
HJ B. StoPer, No. 9 Montgomery place,
and continuing them to and including
Friday evening last, when the fraud
was exposed. During this series of
seances Martin was aided and encourag
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Hersey, and by col
lusion and adroit management succeed
ed in blinding the eyes of the investiga
tors until the denouncement which
branded him as an impostor. He in
sisted on the condition of darkness to
aid him in ridding himself of bonds and
to enter a locked box. One evening
last week the conditions or something
else were wrong, and he called for more
power, which was supplied by Mrs.
Hersey, who went to the cabinet con
taining the box, and it is thought as
sisted him in removing the cords with
which he was tied. So adroitly was
this done that oven then the most scep
tical of the investigators were at their
wit’s end to give any solution of the
mystery on any other basis than that
of Spiritualism.
DETECTION OF A TRICK.
On Friday evening, several wealthy
and professional men being present at
Dr. Storer’s rooms, the box, which is
oblong, made of wood one inch thick,
five feet long, three feet wide and two
and one-half feet deep, and having
round holes about three inches in
diameter on either side, ostensibly for
the admission of air, was locked,
bound with thread or twine, and
sealed, and was then placed in a cabi
net composed of a skeleton frame cov
ered with cambric. Martin was then
tied as usual and placed in the cabinet,
n§ar the box. The light in the room
was then extinguished, and presto!
Martin gets into the box and casts the
bonds from his person. The room is
again lighted, Martin is taken out and
a searching investigation of the box is
begun by Prof. A. E. Carpenter, the
groat mesmerist; the Rev. Mr.
Kimball, from the West, and others.
At first the box appeared to be all
right, but Prof. Carpenter, happening to
think of the Indian box trick, com
menced with Rev. Mr. Kimball a rigid
scrutiny of the ends of the mysterious
receptacle. Martin vehemently ob
jected to this proceeding, saying that
the box was his; that he had given
them the test and they should not
meddle with his property. He appear
ed greatly excited and was backed up
in his protest by Mrs. Hersey alias
Miss Lillie; but protests were of no
avail. The cuuning Frenchman was
thrust into a chair and there held by
four meu while an i#vestigation of his
trap was made. The corners of the
box were bound with iron, and at first
glance seemed solid and secure. While
rapping upon the box and looking it
over, Prof. Carpenter detected a sound
similar to that made by striking upon
a loose board, and also discovered that
the seals on one end were broken and
one of the nails in the corner removed.
Other nails and screws were taken out,
and with the exception of four were
found to have been cut off so as not to
enter the end piece, which was provid
ed with a secret spring.
Two of the nails at the top, which
were not cut off, served to keep the end
in place, and the other tv*> served as
hinges and permitted the end to swing
into-the box. Martin, finding his little
game was all up, assumed a jolly mood,
said he was snort of money, and re
sorted to that trick to raise the wind.
His modus operandi was to wriggle out
of the cords wi; h which he was bound,
then remove the two top nails, push
the end of the box in, enter, spring the
end back to its place, thrust his hands
through tho opening* at the sides, re
place the nails at the top, and give the
signal for a light and release. The in
vestigators had paid an admittance fee
of one dollar each, and, having de-;
tected the fraud, demanded a return of •
their money, which demand Martin
and the Herseys thought best to com
ply with, and evidently were glad to
shake the dust of the place from their
feet; in other words, they "dusted.”
Dr. Storer, although a spiritualist, is a
hater of frauds, and exposes them
whenever he gets a chance. Much
credit is due to him for the aid which
he rendered in making this expose.
[Washington Correspondence of the New
York Sun.
SARTOKIS AS A BOXER.
A Set-to With the Cast Iron-Man.
Sports at the American
Courts.
Sartoris, accompanied by several
members of the foreign legations, paid
a visit recently to the Washington
gymnasium. At this establishment
Charley Collins, the pugilist, better
known as the Cast-Iron Man, who, in
April, 1867, fought George Cooke for
§2,000, and the middleweight cham
pionship, is the teacher of boxing. Du
ring the visit of Sartoris and his
friends Collins was teaching a pupil.
Sartoris made a remark which riled
the pugilist. The Cast-Iron Man asked
Sartoris “ if he could do any better.”
Sartoris’ friends urged him to put on
the gloves. Sartoris then took the
gloves, and pretended he did not
know how to put them on. The
pugilist smiled, and told his pu
pils that he would take the con
ceit out of his unknown opponent. The
preliminaries were quickiy arranged,
and the contest commenced. The Cast-
Iron Man rushed at his adversary’,
thinking to end the contest in one
round. Sartoris warded off the sledge
hammer blows of the pugilist, and re
turned a left-hander on the Cast-Iron
Man’s mouth, drawing the claret, and
then, rapidly changing off, delivered a
straight right hand blow on the Cast-
Iron Man’s nose and knocked him
down, much to the suprise of the-pu
gilist’s friends. In the second round,
Sartoris had the best of me sparring,
and administered a storm of blows on
the pugilist’s face, and fought him
down. In the third round the Cast-
Iron Man was again knocked down,
and declined to continue the contest.
Sartoris was borne from the scene
amid loud cheers from his friends.—
The Cast-Iron Man said that he was
sick, but would meet his unknown op
ponent again.
A second meeting was arranged, and
Sartoris was again the victor, giving
the Cast-Iron man a sound drubbing,
and making him acknowledge that
sometimes amateurs are superior to
professionals. The affair has created
quite a sensation, and the athletic
young Englishman is the lion of the
day among ti - muscular young gentle
men with wh< ; i he associates.
It is said mat Sartoris and Baron
Bousiere have undertaken to revive
boxing, and that they are trying to
persuade some of the ladies of the
Court to organize an archery club, with
a becoming uniform.
[Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser.
February 9.
The First Train Through tho Long
est Tunnel in the United States—
The Hoosac.
The train consisted of an engine,
two or three empty flat, cars, one car
loaded with coal, and one box freight
car. The passengers occupied the en
gine and tender and all the cars except
that loaded with coal, which, I believe,
was not occupied. Shortly after 3
o’clock we left the station, receiving a
feeble cheer from those present who
did not go, answered by a cheerful yell
by the lucky passengers. At ten minutes
past 3 the engine entered the dismal
hole. In the box car, where your cor
respondent enjoyed the rare luxury of
a seat on a trunk, there was as much
to be seen as could be seen any where—
that Is, nothing. By holding out one
of the two or three lanterns that cast
a sickly light over the company
one could discern the uninterest
ing and very monotonous wall of
rock, but there was nothing to excite
comment except the curious effect upon
the lungs of a mixture of the smoke
from the wood burned by the engine
with that of the countless cigars and
pipes in the mouths of passengers.—
There were but two incidents on the
route: First, when the central shaft
was passed, and it became evident to
everybody that we were on the down
grade; the othei, when, having very
nearly reached the west portal, the en
gine came to a dead stop, and the skil
ful but unlearned engineer in charge of
the machine cried out, at the top of his
lungs, “Open them doors.” As may be
known, the western end lias always
been closed by two immense wooden
doors, and the great men who stood
guard were forced to
Open the gates
As high as the sky
To let the engine
' And freight train pass by.
This was not much, but really it was
all there is to tell of the half hour’s
journey through the Hoosac mountain.
The track through the tunnel is of
steel. At present it is merely propped
up with rocks so as to make it safe for
construction trains to pass over it
without bending the rails or running
off the track. Nevertheless, the train
passed over it at a good rate of speed,
in some parts of the tunnel reaching
the rate of twenty miles an hour, and
it seemed so smooth after the
morning’s experience that one could
hardly help wishing that the State
would take out the ballasting
of its line west of Greenfield and
prop the rails on rocks. It is not ex
pected that any passenger cars will run
through the tunnel for some time yet.
In certain parts of it pieces of loose
rock have fallen—not within a month
or more, it is true, but there is still
some little risk, and the wise course
has been taken of allowing no others
but workmen—to-day was an excep
tion, of course—to pass through. A
serious accident, which is certainly
more than possible, would give the
tunnel a bad reputation, which it would
require years of successful operation
to overcome.
If twenty-seven inches of snow give
three inches of water, how much milk
will a cow give when fed upon turnips?
Multiply the flakes by the haiis on the
cow’s tail, then divide the product by a
turnip, add a pound of chalk, multiply
the whole by the pump, and the total
will be the answer.
A subscriber to a paper died a few
days ago, leaving four years’ subscrip
tion unpaid. The editor appeared at
the grave when the lid was being
screwed down the last time and put in
the coffin a palm-leaf fan, & linen coat,
and a thermometer, which ia only used
ia war* ali*atae.
JNew Series— Vol. 8. No. 85
TRUSTEE’S SALE.
By C. V. WALKER, Auctioneer.
W wfid, on the First Tuesday In
MARCH, 18 id, at the Lower Market
House, in the city of Augusta, between the
legal hours of sale, pursuant to the deed of
trust from Win. H. Goodrich to me, dated
December 3d, 1874, and ratified at tho meet
ing of creditors December 21st, 1374, the
following described property :
t- All that Lot in said city known as No.
1, on the north side of Broad street, be
tween Campbell and Jackson streets, front
i Broad street twenty-four feet, more
•Lkif/iUa lid 1 id running back of equal width
aQ d ninety feet, more or less,
hi sauna' incl . U{ } in g one-half interest
Po^^nn y V P, 0011 ? 14 * 1 b > - c - G. Goodrich.
st P re Wlll b delivered im
mediately if desired, and the purchaser to
overheni t°* tbe Btore and rooms
overhead from January Ist. 1875 This
$2 < tJOC> rty ronted above and below for
Tilw ri ?^T o v e ' 043,1; balance first of
July and November. 1875, with interest
day of sale. Titles by bond or by
deed and mortgage back to be at the op
tx!P?toe an d at tho expense of the
The property to bo insured and
the policies assigned^
This p roperty is sold at the risk of the
former purchaser.
2. All that Warehonse Lot in said city
on the north side of Reynolds street, be
tween MeCartan and Campbell trouts
having a front on Reynold street of one
hundred and thirty-one feet nine inches,
more or loss, and running back of equai
width a distance of forty feet, when it in
creases m width to one hundred and fifty
feet, and runs back of this width to a line
parallel ?x> Reynolds street, and two hun
dred and thirty-four feet six inches, more
or less, distant therefrom. At present oc
cupied by Bollard A Cos., and Robert A.
Tiemrng. ’ibis property is rented until
September 1, 1875, and rent paid to that
date.
Terms—Cash.
3. Those two Lots of Land, n ith tene
ment houses, known as Goodi ich’s Range,
below the southeast corner of MeCartan
and Reynolds streets, in the city of Au
gusta, each having a front on Reynolds
street of twenty-five feet, more or less, and
running through of equal width to Jones
B *reet. l.aeh house has eleven rooms and
attic. One of these tenements is rented at
SOOO a year, and the rental will bo the prop
erty ot tLe purchaser. Possession wifi be
delivered immediately of the tenement not
occupied.
Terms—Cash.
4. Those two Lots of Land, with tene
ment houses, on the northeast corner of
Reynolds and MeCartan streets, in the city
of Augusta, each having a front on Rey
nolds street of twenty-nine feet, more or
less, and running back of equal width one
hundred and thirty-two feet, more or less.
The houses are rented until October Ist,
1875, at s47a_ each, and the rental from Jan
uary Ist, 18/5, wili be the property of the
purchaser.
Terms—Cash.
5. Those two Lots of Land, with tene
ment houses, on the east side of MeCartan
street, between lteynolds mid 13av streets,
in the city of Augusta, each having a front
on MeCartan street of twenty-six feet,
more or less, and running back of equal
width ninety feet, more or less. These
houses are rented until October Ist, 1875. at
each. The rental from January Ist,
187 p, will be the property of the purchaser.
Terms—Cash.
6. All that, Lot, with improvement there
on, on tae north side of Reynolds street,
below McCt.rtan street, fronting forty-six
feet nine inches, more or less, and running
back of equal width one hundred and thir
ty-two leet, more or less. The house is
rented until October Ist. 1875, at S3OO. The
rental from January Ist, 1875, will be the
property of the purchaser.
Terms—Cash.
7. Ail uhat Lot,with improvements there
on, on tae north side of Reynolds street,
between MeCartan and Campbell streets,
with improvements thereon consisting of a
large three-story dwelling house and out
houses, known as the residence of William
H. Goodrich, having a front on'Reynolds
street of seventy-one feet, more or less,
and running back of equal w’idth two hun
dred and ninety feet, more or les.4.
Terms—Cash.
8. All that Lot, on the north side ef
Reynolds street, between Campbell and
Mc< arts.n streets, having a front on
Reynolds street of slxtv-four feet six
inches, more or Jess, and running back of
equal width one hundred and thirty-two
feet, more or less, when it widens fourteen
feet six inches, more or less, on the west
and extends of this additional width fifty
one feet eight inches, more or less, when It
widens ninety feet, more or less, on the
west to MeCartan street, aud thence back
with this additional width to Bay street,
widening also on the east, after proceeding
two hundred and ninety feet, more or less,
te> the rear of the lot on which the dwelling
house is, situated, seventy-one feet, more
or less, so as to have a front on Bay street
of two hunared and sixty-five feet, more or
less, together with ail the improvements,
consisting ef Machine Shops, Carpenter
Shops, £ lac.’,smith Shops, Gin Shops, Kilns,
Store Hou&3B and Servants’ Houses there
on. Also, all the Machinery, consisting of
Engine, Ru nning Gear, Ac., Ac., also, all
the stock of material on liana, to be sold
separately, and the amount determined by
experts. The plat of these premises will be
exhibited at the sale.
Terms -Cash.
9. All that Tract of Land, in Richmond
and Columbia counties, known as tae Sum
mer Residence of Wm. H. Goodrich, and
containing one hundred and fifty-four acres,
purcha&sd from Edward Perrin, February
21, 1860. ’ '
Terms—Cash.
10. AR that Tract of Land, in Richmond
county, known as the Cliett place, contain
ing one liur-dred and sixty-five acres, pur
chased from Edwin Perrin, September 1,
1860.
Terms—Cash.
11. All that Tract of Land, in Richmond
county, on the Miliedgeville and Murray’s
Mill Road, known as the Haywood place,
containing fifty-five acres, more or less,
purchased from E. W. Doughty, August
18th, 1860. &
Terms—Cash.
12. All that Tract of Land, in the county
of Richmond, on the north side of th<- Co
lumbia county road, about three miles
distant in a westerly direction from the
city of Augusta, containing about fifty
eight and three-quarter acres, purchased
fiom E. B. Goodrich, June 26th, 1871.
Terms—Cash.
13. All that tract of Land, in Richmond
county, containing forty-one acres, more
or less, bounded north and northeast by
lands oi Emma DeLaigle, now Harriss,
south by land of Hilcox, aud west by land
formerly August Kempse, deceased, and
being a portion of the estate of Charles
DeLaigle, deceased, purchased by Kempso
from the heirs of DeLaigle.
Terms—Cash.
This sale is to pass the title free from all
encumbrances or taxes, except taxes on the
city land for 1875, which the purchaser is
to pay as well as expense of conveyance to
fal “- o nk h. miller,
- feb3-tf _ Trustee.
RECEIVER’S SALE
AT COST!
BY virtue of an order of Hon. William
Gibson, Chancellor, granted January
16th, 1875,
Will be Sold at Private Sale at
COST PRICES,
In the Store of
GREECE & ROSSIGXOL,
ON BROAD STREET,
The entire Stock of Goods of said Greene A
Rossignoi, consisting of
Drugs, Druggists’ Sundries
PAINTS, OILS,
WINES, LIQUORS,
SOAPS, PERFUMERY,
Boheinianware, Statuary,
Ace., &c.
Fixtures and Furniture.
Prescriptions carefully compounded at
low priea*.
•19. A. WHITEHEAD,
ja*3o-isa Receiver.