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Old Series--Vol. 25, ISTo. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875.
Railroad Schedules.
lie vised and Corrected by B. F. Brown, Gen
eral Ticket Afrent, Planters’ Hotel.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta... .4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7 :25 a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port, Royal 3:00 p. m.
Leaves Port Royal 9:30 a.m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Lea ves Augusta at 8:45, a. m. andß:ls, p. m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m.and 10:30 p. m.
Ai rives 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. 10:15, 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. in. and 7 :l0 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 1:00 p. m. and 7, a.m.
OHARLOT L E COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
• ROAD.
Leaves August aat 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
Arrives in Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
The Weather.
War Department, )
OifFioE of Chief Signal Officer, ■-
Washington, March 12—1 a. m. )
Probabilities:
For the Gulf and South Atlantic
States, warm and cloudy weather, fall
ing barometer, southerly winds and
rain.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta,, March 11 — 4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 65 deg.—Gloudy.
Buffalo, 38 deg.—Fair.
Charleston, 61 deg.—Fair.
New Orleans, 63 deg.—Light rain.
New York, 42 deg.—Clear.
Washington, 45 deg.—Threatening.
BY TELEGRAPH
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Republicans Probably Carry the
Legislature. Two Democratic Con
gressmen Supposed to be Elected.
Concord, N. H., March 11.—Returns
from all but eight towns of the State
have been received at the Associated
Press office here. The footings of these
towns are as follows : 259 towns and
warcls give Cheney, Republican, 38,771;
Roberts, Democrat,' 38,688; White,
Temperance, and scattering, 678. The
same towns last year gave McCutliins,
Republican, 33,860 ; Westen,‘Democrat,
35,205; Blackman, Temperance, antfc
scattering, 2,077 ; Republican net gain,
2,817. Cheney’s minority is 595. The
towns yet to be heard from gave,
last year, McCuthins, Republican, 281;
Westen, Democrat, 313 ; scattering, 7.
Adding last year’s vote in these towns,
it makes the Republican net gain 2,788,
nnd Cheney’s minority, 634. The foot
ings from the First Congressional Dis
trict elect Jones, Democrat, by 472
plurality; Delldem, in the Second Dis
trict, by 154 plurality, and Blair, Re
publican, un the Third District, by 73,
plurality. Estimating four towns in
Coes county not returned, to give the
same vote as last year, the Republicans
have a majority in the House, but the
exact figures cannot be given. They
claim a majority of from 6 to 12.
The footings of the several Senato
rial Districts indicates that they stand
5 Republicans, 5 Democrats, and two
districts having no choice. There is no
election of Governor by the people,
and the duty of selection will devolve
upon the Legislature, which will doubt
less elect Cheney, the Republican can
didate. The Democrats claim a ma
jority in the Council, though the dis
tricts have not been figured sufficiently
to determine finally. The vote in the
State yesterday is said to have been
the largest ever polled.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings in the Senate.
Washington, March 11. — Clayton, of
Arkansas, asked for a decision on the
point of order raised against his reso
lution submitted by him a few days
ago, providing for the appointment of
a committee to visit the Indian Terri
tory during the recess, to inquire into
the condition of affairs there, etc., and
a leagtbly discussion ensued.
The Senate, after a long discussion
over Clayton’s resolution for a special
committee to inquire regarding the In
dian Territories without action went
into Executive session and adjourned.
Attorney General Williams decides
that duties accrue on the Bth of Feb
ruary, the day on which the tariff bill
was signed.
The Senate caucus resolved to make
no change in Senate employes.
Confirmations: Conant, Marshal of
the Northern District of Florida;
Woodward, Supervising Surgeon of
Marine Hospitals; Sheats, Sixth Aud
itor ; Boag, Appraiser of Merchandise
at Charleston, S. C.; Manning, Collect
or of Customs at Albemarle, N. C.; Fitz
hugh, Collector of Customs at Natchez,
Miss.; Smith, Collector of Customs at
Memphis; Belvin, Pension Agent at
Raleigh. No Southern nominations.
Clayton’s Indian Committee business
was tabled by a vote of 39 to 22.
The Senate considered the Sandwich
Islands treaty, with an amendment
that no other nation shall acquire a
naval or coaling station within those
Islands, and recommends its ratifica
tion as amended.
NEW YORK.
Meeting of the* Louisiana Congres
sional Committee—No Action.
New York, March 11.—The Congres
sional Committee to arbitrate on Lou
isiana affairs met to-day at the office
of Hon. Wm. Walter Phelps, No. 26
Exchange Place. In consequence of
the non-arrival of election returns, and
other documents relative to the issue,
and also the absence of Mr. Frye and
Mr. Hoar, the Chairman, the commit
tee adjourned.
The liabilities of Wheatley, W 7 illiams
6 Cos., sugar refiners, are $675,000; as
sets estimated at from $250,000 to $566,-
000. Outstanding notes make the to
tal $623,000.
Brigham Young’s Divorce Case.
Salt Lake, March 11.—Brigham
Young was committed for a day and
find $25 for not obeying a mandate of
the court in the matter of the Ann Eliza
divorce case.
Ilie flailn (Eonstihitumalist
. WASHINGTON.
The Macon Postmastership. Gordon
and Lamar in New Hampshire.
Washington, March 11. —There ap
pears to be quite a contest going on
over the Postmastership at Macon, Ga.
It appears that some time ago Belcher
was sent from Augusta, Ga., to be Post
master at Macon as a representative
colored man. In the opinion of the
Department and many of the patrons
of the Macon office he was not a good
Postmaster, and the Postmaster Gen
eral removed him and appointed Mr.
Henry S. Glover, who it appears does
not live at Macon, but 20 or 30 miles
away. Parties are now trying to in
duce the Senate not to confirm Glover,
because he does not live within the
delivery, and for other reasons. One
of the reasons given for the reten
tion of Belcher is that he is a colored
man. There is no prospect of his re
tention, but it may be that unless the
Republicans of Macon rally to the sup
port of Mr. Glover, the President may
be compelled to withdraw his name,
and substitute therefor some of the
other candidates, among whom are
Mr. Burney and Bond, the latter of
whom was turned out, without cause,
to give Belcher the place, on account
of his being a colored man.
The same questions are likely to
come up with regard to other offices in
the South. There appears to be two
parties in this fight, and the Postmas
ter General desires to get the best offi
cers, and is opposed in some places by
parties in the interest of those claiming
to be Republicans, because individuals
whom he thinks would make the best
officers, they claim are not always the
best Republicans—as there has been
a great deal of cutting of tickets down
there. These gentlemen keep away
from the Postmaster General, and are
apparently trying to induce the Presi
dent to listen to their political claims.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, and Rep
resentative Lamar, of Mississippi, have
returned from* New Hampshire. The
Boston Hei'ald, independent Republican
says editorally : “ The speeches made
by Messrs. Gordon and Lamar in New
Hampshire can not fail to do good.—
The Southern question has been dis
cussed too exclusively in the North by
Northern men. We welcome to New
England such representative Southern
men as Messrs. Gordon and Lamar.”
They speak the sentiments of the in
telligent white citizehs of the South.
Their evidence should quiet the appre
hensions of the North, that if the
Southern States are allowed to
govern themselves they will in
some way deprive the colored
people of their political rights, if they
do not command them to slavery.—
These gentlemen tell the people of
the North that the turbulence of the
South comes entirely from corrupt
governments, and that the political
rights of the negro can never be taken
away from him, and that the talk of a
new rebellion is absurd. Northern
men have been going through New
Hampshire preaching the danger of a
new rebellion and the reversion of the
results of the war in relation to the ne
gro.
Those who listened to Messrs. Gor
don and Lamar cannot fail to be satis
fied that what they want is local self
government. It should not be a paity
question. How long can we keep States
wrong side up by Federal bayonets ?
We wish that Messrs. Gordon and La
mar could extend their travels and
speeches in New England, and without
any party trammels whatever. They
could do much to convince our people
that the time had come to secure local
government to the South, and that we
are preparing a chalice that will surely,
sooner or later, be pressed to our own
lips. The question is vital to us as well
as to the South. We cannotsustain free
institutions in one section, while tramp
ling them down in another. We must
maintain liberty for all, or submit to a
despotism which will deny the rights
alike to all.
Gen. Sheldon, yesterday, received
the appointment as assistant counsel
for the United States before the Court
of Commissioners of Alabama Claims,
and will at once proceed to New Or
leans to take charge of the business in
that part of the country.
Paymaster Boggs is dead.
Gen. Auger has been ordered to New
Orleans to succeed Gen. Emory; Gen.
Ord to San Antonio, Tex., to succeed
Gen. Auger; Gen. Crook to the De
partment of the Platte, to succeed Gen.
Ord ; Gen. Kautz takes command in
Arizona as Gen. Crook’s successor.—
These changes indicate the retirement
of Gen. Emory, at present in command
in Louisiana.
The call for bonds for the sinking
fund was made to-day by Secretary
Bristow. It contemplates coupon bonds
of the fourth series, $24,003,750 ; regis
gistered bonds, $5,936,250. The follow
ing is the call in detail: Coupon bonds
of SSO, Nos. SIO,OOI to $15,400 ; SIOO,
$27,501 to $40,000'; SSOO, $13,601 to
$20,000 ; SI,OOO, $39,001 to $66,000 ; re
gistered bonds, SSO, $2,001 to $2,125;
SIOO, $8,651 to $9,154 ; SI,OOO, $35,701 to
$38,073; $5,000, $11,601 to $12,320;
SIO,OOO, $15,501 to $19,341. The call
mature three months from to-day,
when interest will cease. The bonds
will be paid on presentation at any time
previous to the maturity of the call.
Not a word to-day from New Hamp
shire.
South Carolina Matters.
Charleston, March 11.—For two days
past there has been an almost com
plete dead lock in the cotton market
here, owing to the general and concert
ed demand of buyers for certain con
ditions regarding re-weighing of bales
upon delivery, which the sellers decline
to concede. Efforts are making to ad
just the matter.
The movement in the Legislature
against Treasurer Cardozo is being ac
tively pressed. The Joint Committee
have framed and presented in both
Houses an address to the Governor,
demanding the removal of the Treasu
rer, who has been notified to appear
before the Joint Assembly next Tues
day with his defense, after which a
vote* will be taken on the adoption of
tLe address.
Governor Chamberlain, in an inter
view with the correspondent of the
News and Courier , warmly defends the
Treasurer, in whose honesty he re
poses unshaken faith, and treats the
movement against him as notoriously,
originating in the baffled cupidity of
those who view his public service as
mere chance to make money, and who
could not induce Cardozo to lend him
self to jobbery.
Gen. Gordon Warmly Greeted by ex-
Federal Soldiers in New Hamp
shire.
Concord, N. H., March 11.—After
Senator Gordon had finished his speech
last night many Federal soldiers who
had fought against him came up on
the stage and greeted him warmly.
AUGUSTA, GA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 12, 1875.
FOREIGN.
Bismarck Still Pushing the Pope-
Details of the New French Minis
try-Arrival of the New Captain
General at Havana.
London, March 11. — The jury found
Lady Mordaunt guilty of adultery.
A Berlin correspondent telegraphs
that Germany has asked Italy whether
she will continue to exempt the Pope
from the obligations of law, and con*-
plains that he is now abusing the lib
erty given him for the purpose of
fomenting rebellion in Germany.
London, March 11.—-The Times Paris
special says McMahon by yielding to
intrigues of the Bonapartists, and re
fusing to make the Duke D’Audiffret
Pasquier, Minister of the Interior, has
deidAa deadly blow at the reserved re
ape*which all parties previously enter
tained for the head of the State. Mc-
Mahon yesterday, wrote a letter in
sisting on Buffet. The Duke D’Au
diffret—Paquier will probably be elect
ed President of the Assembly.
Details of the fire in the match fac
tory at Tidaholm, Sweden, show that 60
women and children were working at
the time, of whom 43, mostly women,
were literally roasted death.
Vienna, March 11.—Francis Joseph
received and accepted the resignation
of Baron Schwarz-Semborn, Austro-
Hungarian Mi nister at Washington.
Berlin, March 11.— There is no
foundation for the report in the Tags
blatt that France intended to concen
trate troops in the eastern depart
ments’ experimentally and Germany
threatened to mobilize two army corps
on the Rhine, if she persisted.
Paris, March 11.—The Courier de
France • reports that M. Dufau has
drawn up a programme of policy for
the new Ministry, the leading feature
of which are as follows : The Assembly
on meeting, after the Easter holidays,
to votetheßudget; the senatorial elec
tions to be held next September ; the
dissolution of the Assembly to follow
in October; the Government to de
mand the maintenance of the present
electorial system and to raise the state
of siege in all the departments, except
the Seine, the Rhone and the Bouches
du Bhone.
Havana, Maich 11. —Count Valma
seda, newly appointed Captain General
of Cuba, arrived here to-day. He land
ed at noon and was received with the
usual ceremonies. A reinforcement of
one thousand soldiers also arrived to
day from Spain.
Cuba. Mexico. Great Britain.
Havana, March 9.—Captain-General
Valmaseda has issued a proclamation,
in which he says additional reinforce
ments will soon arrive from Spain, and
with the aid of the people, under the
battle cry of Spain, “ Religion and the
King ” Cuba will be saved. At the re
ception given to the Consuls, the Cap
tain-General said lie desired that the
grievances of foreigners should be
brought to his personal notice, that he
might be enabled, whenever possible,
to arrange such cases without a lengthy
correspondence.
The insurgents have burned several
plantations in the Sagua District, and
have defeated a small Spanish column
in the jurisdiction of Santa Clara.
City of Mexico, March 1. —Gabriel
Mancera and Vicente Saria Tones have
been appointed Commissioners to rep
resent Mexico at Philadelphia in the
Centennial Exhibition.
The church party are fomenting
troubles with a view of organizing a
revolution, using as their pretext,
“ The Expulsion of Sisters of Charity.”
The ill feeling between the Catholics
and the Protestants in Acapulco and
other places continue. Groups in the
streets of Acapulco shouts, “ Death to
the Protestants!” The latter fear
further violence, and numbers of them
are preparing to emigrate.
The American assassinated in Aca
pulco was named Henry Morris. He
was from Boston. Minister Foster is
making a collection for his destitute
family.
London, March 11.—Phyrnie, late
Kathlene, won the Bristol royal stee
ple chase.
The jury in the Mordaunt divorce
case have found Lady Mordaunt guilty
of adultery, The Judge pronounced
the decree nisi, with costs.
♦ imm
A Railroad Case.
Raleigh, March 11. — The Supreme
Court of North Carolina to-day de
cided the case involving the validity of
the lease of the North Carolina Rail
road to the Richmond and Danville
Railroad. Judge Settle delivered the
opinion regarding the lease to be valid
and affirming the right of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company
to change to the gauge of the North
Carolina Railroad between Greensboro
and Charlotte.
Fatal Explosion.
Baltimore, March 11.—George Heck,
a freight engineer on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, was instantly killed
this morning, at Mt. Airy, by the ex
plosion of the boiler of bis engine,
which he was oiling at the time, while
taking in water.
Atlanta Races.
Atlanta, March 11. — In the races at
Oglethorpe Park to-day, the first a
mile dash, between John Payne and
Century, John Payne won ; time, 1:58.
The s cond, mile heats, best two in
three, was won by Mollie Darling;
time, 1:56 <4 and 1:59.
FLASHES.
A bill has been introduced in tho
New York Senate allowing wives to tes
tify against their husbands' in civil
cases.
The Philadelphia Woman’s Medical
College lias graduated sixteen women.
Jefferson Medical College has turned
out one hundred and seventy doctors.
Good advice to the South is given in
the following paragraph from the St.
Louis Republican (Independent): “Let
the Southern people leave the Admin
istration and the Republican party to
the angry North, with nothing to di
vert or distract it in the reckoning ; let
them remain silent and passive while
the reckoning goes on—and the next
Presidential election will be to the Re
publican party simply a day of judg
ment.”
Miss Ella Chapman, of the “ Chap
man Sisters,” has joined the Lydia
Thompson troupe in London, and does
the O’Shacabac in “ Bluebeard,” with
her customary vivacity.
“ How charmingly naive she is,”
said a young beau to a crusty old gen
tleman. “ Knave!” exclaimed the lat
ter, gazing through his spectacles to
ward the coquettish beauty indicated,
“ I should say more of a fooL”
[Correspondence ef the Graphic.
A ROMANTIC CAREER.
The Life and Adventures of an Un
seated Member of Parliament De
scribed.
London, February 20.—There are few
stories more dramatic and romantic
than that of John Mitchel.
In 1848 John Mitchel was the editor
of a newspaper called the United Irish
man, published in Dublin. On the 26th
of May in that year he was tried and
convicted, at a Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, at Dublin, of having “ felonious
ly compassed to depose the Queen
from the state, honor and royal name
of the Imperial Crown of the United
Kingdom, and to levy war against the
Queen in that part of the United King
dom calied Ireland.” This “ felonious
compassing” was expressed in certain
articles published in the United Irish
man, on the 6th and 13th of May. Mr.
Mitchel, being convicted, was sen
tenced “to be transported beyond tho
seas for the term of fourteen years.”
He was sent, in company with John
Martin (who is at this moment a mem
ber of the British Parliament) and
v/ith other prisoners, to Van Dieman’s
Land. His personal description at this
time, as copied from the official re
cords, is as follows : “ Solicitor ; 5 feet
9% inches ; age thirty-seven ; complex
ion sallow ; hair dark brown ; eyes
gray ; native place, County Derry.”
When Mr. Mitchel arrived at Van
Dieman’s Land, Sir W. Denison was
the governor of that colony. He offered
to Mr. Mitchel a “ ticket-of-leave,” on
condition that he would not avail him
self of the comparative freedom thus
allowed to him for the purpose of
making his escape from the colony. Sir
William Denison, in a letter to the
Homo Government reporting this fact,
says:
He has accepted the indulgence upon
this condition, and in consequence of
the state of his health, which was rep
resented to me by the surgoon superin
tendent of the convict ship as being
such as to render him incapable not
merely of maintaining himself, but of
performing those ordinary offices which
are essential to his existence, I have
allowed him to reside in the same
police district with the prisoner John
Martin, and I trust that these arrange
ments will meet with the approval of
your lordship,
The letter was dated May 2, 1850, and
for three years and two months Mr.
Mitchel remained under these condi
tions in Van Dieman’s Land. But at
the expiration of this period he went
away. Under what circumstances he
went away the following documents
will show :
Bothwell Police Office, |
June 9, 1853—1 p. m. f
Sir— l have the honor to report, for
your information and that of his Ex
cellency the Lieutenant-Governor, that
the State prisoner named in the mar
gin (John Mitchel) has just entered my
office, and placing in my hands the en
closed communication addressed to the
Lieutenant-Governor, instantly quitted
before I could peruse the note, and
mounting a horse which he had in
waiting, galloped furiously off.
Mr. Mitchel was accompanied by a
short man, wearing a moustache, whom
I have once seen with him at this
office before, and whose name I am in
formed is Smith.
in a few minutes after this occur
rence the chief district constable was
in his saddle and in pursuit.
I feel that I cannot pass over the last
line in Mitchel’s note where he says,
“offer myself to be taken into custody,”
without stating in explanation that I
can duly characterize the expression as
a deliberate lie.
I shall instantly dispatch an express
to Launceston and Georgetown.
I have, etc.,
G. A. Davis, A. P. M.
The Chief Police Magistrate.
Bothwell, June 8, 1853.
To the Lieutenant Governor:
Sir —l hereby resign the “ compara
tive liberty,” whic is called ticket-of
leave, and revoke my parole of honor.
In pursuance of this determination I
shall forthwith present myself before
the police magistrate of Bothwell at
his police office, show him this letter,
and offer myself to be taken into cus
tody. I remain, &c.,
John Mitchel,
Received this day (Friday Juno 10,)
at forty minutes past ten a. m.
W. Nairn.
Forwarded to the Chief Police Mag
istrate, with the request that ho will
cause Mitchel to be apprehended and
lodged in custody at the prisoners’
barracks. W. Nairn.
By express I received the above
communication last night, with the As
sistant Police Magistrate’s report,
by which it appears that he presented
it to the Assistant Police Magistrate at
the police office, but before he could
read it he left the office, mounted a
horse he had ready, and with another
person, supposed Smith, and galloped
off.
He was instantly pursued by the
Chief District Constable on horseback.
Su soon as I received the report war
rants were prepared, with descriptions,
and sent to the outposts and Swanport
Districts, and two parties of constables
dispatched over to Spring Bay.
F. Burgess,
Chief Police Magistrate.
June 10, 1853.
Van Deman’s Land, )
Government House, July 9,1853. f
My Lord Duke : I have the honor to
report that the Irish State prisoner
named in the margin (John Mitchel)
has effected his escape from tho
colony.
I enclose a copy of a letter addressed
to the Chief Police Magistrate by tho
Assistant Police Magistrate of Both
well, the district in which Mitchel was
residing, detailing the circumstances
under which Mitchel left the district,
and I have only to add that the subse
quent pursuit of the men (sic. in orig.)
by the police was of no avail.
I have, &c., W. Dennison.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,
&c.
This was nearly twenty-two years
ago. - Last Tuesday night when the
White Star steamer Republic touched
at Queenstown a gray-haired, venerable
and feeble gentleman landed from her
and went quickly to a hotel. The young
editor and solicitor who had been ban
ished to Van Dieman’s Land was now
an old man of sixty-four. Before he
reached the hotel he had learned two
very interesting items of news —the
electors of the County of Tipperary had
chosen him unanimously and without
opposition to represent them in the
British Parliament; and Mr. Disraeli,
informed of this fact, had notified Par
liament that on Thursday night he
should move a resolution declaring that
John Mitchel, being a felon who had
escaped from his prison and who had
not been pardoned, was incapable of
taking a seat in Parliament.
Mr. Mitchel on Wednesday morning
went to Tipperary. He was received
there by an immense crowd of people,
who testified in every possible manner
to their delight at his return and to
their approval of the principles which
he was supposed to represent. These
principles were something more than
“Home Rule they embodied claims
for the complete independence of Ire
land.
Meanwhile his personal situation was
believed to be one full of danger. In
the eye of the law he was an escaped
convict, who had yet nine years of
exile, if not of imprisonment, to endure.
It was within the power of the govern
ment, as was supposed, to arrest him
and send him to prison. The govern
ment was urged to do this; but it hesi
tated. Various complications were
foreseen. Mr. Mitchel had become a
citizen of the United States, and per
haps the government of that country
would not calmly submit to the arrest
and imprisonment of one of its citizens
upon a purely political charge. It was
under these circumstances that the
House of Commons, on Thursday night,
undertook to decide Mr. Mitchel’s case.
The decision was made, but it was done
in a fashion that may have to be un
done.
Mr. Disraeli moved his resolution,
recapitulating the facts concerning Mr.
MitchePs conviction and escape, and
describing him as “ a convicted felon ”
who had neither endured his sentence
nor received a pardon. An Irish mem
ber complained of the haste shown in
taking these proceedings; another
member said he had grave doubts as
to the law, and he asked the law offi
cers of the Crown to state whether Mit
chel could be remitted to serve out his
original sentence, or whether he could
be punished for prison-breaking; and
if not, in what consisted his disqualifi
cation to take a seat in Parliament?
There are two law officers in the House,
and both replied to these questions,
but their answers were scarcely consis
tent with each other. The attorney
general and the solicitor general, how
ever, laid down between them the pro
positions :
First, The power to arrest a convict
found at large before the expiration of
his sentence is conferred only by stat
ute. Second, The only statute of this
kind under which Mitchel could be ar
rested is one passed in George IV’s
reign. Third, This applied, however,
only to escaped felons found at large
in England or Scotland—not in Ireland.
Fourth, Therefore, so long as Mitchel
remained in Ireland he could not be
arrested as an escaped felon. Fifth,
He might, however, be arrested there
for the misdemeanor of escaping.—
Sixth, He still, for all that, remained a
felon, and was disqualified for Parlia
ment on that account. Seventh, This
disqualification can be removed only
by his obtaining a pardon or by serv
ing out his term of imprisonment. But
he won’t ask for a pardon, and he can
not serve out his sentence, for the time
for which he was transported is ex
pired.
A long and confused debate followed,
in which every one seemed to be more
or less at sea. The Home Eulers and
some of the Liberals—the new leader,
Lord Hartington, among them, advo
cated a postponement of the decision
and a reference of the question to a
select committee, but this was rejected
by a majority of 167 votes, and Mr.
Disraeli’s motion was then adopted
without a division.
This, however, will not end the mat
ter. A writ for anew election for Tip
perary will be made out. Mr. •Mitchel
will again be a candidate, opposed, for
form’s sake, by a friend : probably his
son. Mr. Mitchel will be returned as
before, and his son will then petition
against his return. This will necessi
tate a trial of the petition before the
law courts, and then, probably, the
Judge will decide that Mr. Mitchel is
eligible to a seat. Even then, how
ever, the trouble will be only commenc
ed ; for when he comes to the bar of
the House he will not take the oath of
allegiance to the Queen, and there will
be another row about that.
THE PEOPLE AND CONGRESS.
Political Results of the Late Session
—Changes of Northern Opinion To
ward the South.
The political results of the session
which has just closed form the subject
of conversation among Congressmen of
both houses remaining here, and as the
work of the last three months was felt
to be a campaign preliminary to 1876,
its bearing upon party prospects is in
teresting and even important, when it
is considered that members of Con
gress judge of political results, not from
the narrow public opinion of Washing
ton, but from a pretty accurate knowl
edge of the feeling of the country, be
cause the opinions of the constituen
cies are well known here and thorough
ly compared. The general conclusions
in which the ablest men here agree may
be stated as follows :
1. The last two months have un
doubtedly lowered the President in the
esteem of his party, and Lessened his
influence with the Republican leaders.
His imperious conduct lost him, some
time ago, their confidence and affec
tion. The notable defeat of the Presi
dent’s Arkansas policy and a reaction
even among strong Administration
Senators against the Force bill are felt
here as so serious a blow against
Grant’s party supremacy that for the
moment the third term spectre is laugh
ed at. “So far from renominating him
self, he could not to-day even procure
the nomination of his own man,” said a
promment Republican to-day, and a
significant sign of the change is the
fact that one of the most conspicuous
Southern third-termers yesterday re
marked that Gen. Grant was not his
candidate, and suggested that he and
some other Southern men had favored
the third term idea, not because they
liked it, but “ because it was the best
way of getting whatever they wanted
from the old man.” Whatever may be
In the future, this Congress goes home
with little fear of a third term.
2. The defeat of the** administration
plan of carrying the next election by
means of the force bill and the suspen
sion of the writ of habeas corpus,
makes new calculations necessary. The
moderate Republicans go home full of
courage and determination. Two
months ago they were for the most part
demoralized and ready to give up. To
day they believe they have the people
at their back.
3. The country would rather see a
Republican than a Democratic admin
istration, if it could feel certain that
the Republicans would secure peace by
constitutional measures ; “because with
us the people would be certain that no
serious injustice would be permitted in
the South, while they are not sure how
far the Democrats would go,” said a
leading Republican. “But this assur
ance can come only from the man we
nominate, and not from any platform
promises, for it will be character and
not platform that will carrv the day in
1876.”
4. All thoughtful men feel extreme
anxiety that peace and justice shall be
maintained in the Southern States. The
Southern Democrats, who dread the
continued misgovernment of their
States and fear a third term fully as
much as any Republicans, have goue
home determined, by all means, to pre
serve peace and order, and feeling that
this is, as one of them said the other
day, “ our only salvation from Grant.”
5. It is thought by the moderate
men of both sides, that the discussion
of Southern matters through the press
and by means of investigating reports
to Congress during the last three
months, has greatly changed Northern
opinion, as it certainly has tho opinions
of the ablest Northern Republicans in
the House. The desire of the great
majority of the House was for justice,
and when it was shown that injustice
had been done or was threatened in
Louisiana and Arkansas, the reaction
set in very strongly.
(From the Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Bolink’s Amateur Fire Brigade.
Mr. Bolink owns and runs a cooper
shop near the House of Correction, and
as he keeps a dozen men at work he is
bound to have his shop run on “sys
tem.” The other day he was reading a
newspaper article in regard to the pre
vention of conflagrations. The article
advised all employers to lay out a re
gular programme of what should be
done when a fire was discovered in the
shop, and drill his hands until they un
derstood it. He bought fifty feet of
hose for the penstock, detailed a man
to use it in case of fire, and then in
structed each other man and boy just
what they should do when an alarm
was given. One was to roll out bar
rels, another to save tools, another to
throw staves through a window, and
each one knew oxactly what to jump
for.
This was all right, and Mr. Bolink
had a good mind to cancel his insur
ance policies and depend on his local
fire brigade. Before taking this step,
however, it occurred to him to give his
programme a trial. He had a little curi
osity to see if his employes would
spring to their posts according to in
structions, and he studied out a plan.
Yesterday morning he passed up stairs,
kicked a pile of shavings together on
an old piece of zinc, touched a match
to them, and next minute ran down
stairs crying out:
“ The shop is on fire! Fire! fire! fire!”
The man who was to use the hose
grabbed it up, threw it out of the win
dow, and jumped after it, shouting
“ fire !” until he was heard three blocks
off. Tho man who was to save the
tools threw an adz and hit Mr. Bolink
in the back, and then hit him again
with a draw-shave.
As Mr. Bolink was pawing around
on the floor, the man who was to save
the ready-made work rolled five pork
barrels over him, kicked in the heads
of three more, and then dug out
through the back door. One man saved
a piece of board six feet long ; another
took up a stave and broke two windows
before he fled, while a third threw a
hammer at the clock, uttered a wild
shriek, and kicked open the side door.
In two minutes the shop was clear of
every one but Mr. Bolink, and ho was
crawling out from among the barrels
when steamer No. 6 came galloping
down. The smoke was rolling up
through the roof, the boys yelling
“ fire! ” and the firemen were deter
mined to save that coopershop or per
ish in the attempt. Mr. Bolink heard
them calling to “ git them hose around
hyar,” and to “ play her up to eighty
five,” and he got to the door and
shouted: “ Hold on, gentlemen, there
is no fire here !”
“ Git out’n the way,” cried the pipe
men ; “ yere’s yer mineral water !”
“ It’s only a joke, gentlemen ; there
is no—” Mr. Bolink was shouting, when
the stream of water lifted him over the
barrels out of the back door, where he
eat down on a broken shave-horde un
til his cooper shop had been filled with
water, and the shavings had burned
out. During the afternoon yesterday
his whole force were engaged in empty
ing barrels, wringing out draw-shaves,
hanging up broad-axes to dry, and
otherwise getting the shop on a work
ing basis.
A Cure for Lockjaw.
In the course of the Cantor lectures,
recently delivered before the British
Society of Arts, by Dr. Benjamin Rich
ardson, the following deeply import
ant remarks were made upon nitrate
of amyl:
One of these specimens—l mean the
nitrate of amyl—has, within these last
few years, obtained h remarkable im
portance, owing to its extraordinary
action upon the body. A distinguished
chemist, Prof. Guthrie, while distilling
over nitrate of amyl from amylic
alcohol, observed that the vapor,
when inhaled, quickened his circu
lation and made him feel like
he had been running. There was
flushing of his face, rapid action
of his heart, and breathlessness. In
1861-’62 I made a careful and pro
longed study of the action of this sin
gular body, and discovered that it pro
duced its effect by causing an extreme
relaxation,'first of the bloodvessels,
and afterwards of the muscular fibres
of the body. To such an extent did
this agent relax, I found it would even
overcome the tetanic spasm produced
by strychnia ; arfd having thus discov
ered its action, I ventured to pro
pose its use for removing the spasm in
some of the gxtremest spasmodic dis
eases. The results have more than re
alized my expectations. Under the
influence of this one of the most
agonizing of known human maladies,
called angina pectoris, has so yielded
that the paroxysms have been regularly
prevented, and, in one instance, at least,
altogether removed. Even tetanus, or
lockjaw, has been subdued by it, and
in two instances of an extreme kind, so
effectively as to warrant the credit of
what may be truly called a cure.
No, Joe, no,” said a man of principle
and compassion, as. with his teeth
chattering, he leaned against the bar,
“flo hot Scotch foi me. I couldn’t swal
low it while hundreds of wretched peo
ple are freezing at this moment. Give
me a whiskey sour and plenty of ice.
God pity the poor ! ”
When a girl crops her front hair and
pulls it down over her forehead like a
Mexican mustang, and then ties a piece
of red velvet around her neck, who can
wonder at the number of pale-faced
young men that throw away their am
bition and pass sleepless nights ?
“ Why is it,” asks an exchange, “ that
nearly every Senator’s wife in Wash
ington is a handsome woman ?” It is
simply because nearly every Senator’s
wife who is not a handsome woman is
left at home.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, f
Thuksday. March 11, IP. J|.|
Financial.
Gold—Buying at 113 and selling at 115.
Silver—Buying at 102 and selling at 105.
Sight Exchange on New York, buying at
par to % premium, and selling at % pre
mium.
Cbtton:
The Augusta Exchange reports the
market rather more steady to-day, with
continued light offerings,.though sales re
ported were larger than any day this week.
Prices were unchanged.
The closing quotations were: Good Ordi
nary, 14%; Low Middling, 15%; Middling,
15%.
Receipts of the day, 451 and sales, 327
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 12,139 bales; same day last year
n,843 bales.
Produce;
•BACON—Strong, with an advancing
tendency; Clear Sides, 12%@12%; C. R.
sides, 12%@12%; Shoulders, 9%. Dry Salt
—C. R. Sides, 11%; Long Clear Sides,
11%; D. S. .Shoulders, 8%; Bellies, 11%.
Tennessee Meats—-Sides, 12%©12%;
Shoulders, 9%©10; Hams. 15.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%.
LARD—Choice, in tierce, 15; kegs and
cans. IG.
BAGGING |AND TlES—Domestic bag
ging, 12%; Borneo bales at 12%; Gunny
bales, 11; Ties, Arrow, 5%; Pieced, 4.
BUTTER—Goshen, 40©45; Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOUR—City Mills are $6.25@6.50 for su
perfine, $6.50@6.75 for extra; $7@7.25 for
family; and $7.50@7.75 for fancy; for Wes
tern and Country, we quote superfine, $5.50
@6.00; extra, $6©6.50; family, $G50@7.00
and fa r cy, $7.00©7.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.08@1.10; yellow and mixed, $1.05@1.07.
Small lots or less than car load, 3@5
higher than car load or depot rates.
WHEAT—Light stock; choice white,
$1.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; red,
$1.32%@1.35.
OATS—Mixed, 83@85; white, 85.
CORN MEAL—City, $1.10; Country, sl@
1.05.
EtlGS—Per dozen, 22.
Note—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for small lots of the articles we quote are
higher in proportion.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
London, March 11—Noon.—Erie, 24%.
Paris, March 11—Noon.—Rentes, 65f.
50c.
New York, March 11 —Noon.—Stocks ac
tive. Money. 4. Gold, 115%. Exchange
—long. 480; {short, 484. Governments ac
tive. State Bonds steady.
Gold opened at 115%.
New York. March 11—P. M.—Money
very easy at 2@.%. Sterling weak at 450..
Gold strong at 115%©115%. Governments
active; new s’s, 14%. States quiet and
nominal.
Paris, March 11—P. M.—Specie increased
9,000,000 francs.
New Orleans, March 11.—Exchange—
New York Sight, % premium. Sterling,
552%. Gold, 115%.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 11—Noon.--Breadstuff's
quiet. Larn, Gls. Long Clear Middles,
465. 3d.; short Clear Middles, 475. 9d.
New York, March 11—Noon.—Flour
firm. Wheat firm. Corn firm. Pork, $19.50.
Lard heavy: steam, 13 15-16. Turpentine
at 36%. Rosin steady at $2.07%©
2.12% for strained. Freights firm.
New Orleans,.March 11.—Sugar firmer;
common. 6%@6%; fair to fully fair, 7@B;
prime to choice, B@B%. Other articles un
changed.
New York, March 11—P. M.—Southern
Flour firm, with fair inquiry. Wheat less
active and lower, shippers and millers hold
ing off: $1.22@1.26 for Winter red Western;
$1.26@1.2i% for amber do.; $1.28@1.30 for
white Western. Corn lc. better; 84@85%
for Western mixed; 85@86 for yellow. Cof
fee dull and unchanged. Sugar quiet and
steady. Rice quiet and steady. Tallow
firm; country, 8 7-16@8%. Rosin and Tur
pentine steady. Pork firm; new, $19.50©
19.62%. Lard firm; prime steam, 1315-16©
14. Whiskey firm at $1.12%@1.13, inside
price cash to-day. Freights dull; cotton,
steam, %.
Cincinnati, March 11.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Com steady at G3@79. Pork
firm at sl9. Lard firm—steam, 13%; kettle,
14@14%. Bacon firm—shoulders, 8; clear
rib, 11; clear, 11%. Whiskey firm, small
sales, sl.lO, generally held at sl.ll.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 11—Noon.—Cotton
quiet and steady; middling uplands,
7%; middling Orleans, 8©8%; sales, 18,000,
including 6,000 for speculation and export;
to arrive 1-16 dearer; sales on basis mid
dling uplands, nothing below good ordi
nary, shipped February and March, 7 15-16;
do., nothintt below low middling, shipped
February and March, 8: do. delivery March
and April, 7%; do., delivery May and June,
8%.
Liverpool, March 11—2 P. M—Cotton—
of sales to-day, 3,400 were American;
sales on basis of middling Orleans, noth
ing below low middling, shipped March
and April, 8%.
New York, March 11—Noon.—Cotton
firm but nominal; sales, 426; uplands, 16%;
Orleans, 16%.
Futures opened steady, as follows: March.
16%, 16 5-16; April, 16 21-32, 16 11-16; May,
17 1-32,17 1-16; June. 17%, 17 13-fy.
New York, March 11—P. M Cotton net
receipts, 878 gross, 878.
Futures closed easy; sales, 23,000 bales,
as follows: March, 16 1-10; April, 16
21-32; Mas, 17 1-32; June, 17 11-32, 17%;
July, 17%; August, 17%, 17 25-32; Septem
ber, 17%, 17 3-16; October 16 21-32, 16 11-16;
November. 16 7-18.16%; December, 16 7-16,
16%. " #
Charleston, March 11.—Cotton | Busi
ness generally suspended in consequence I
of differences between buyers and sellers I
in reference to weighing and delivering— i
quiet and nominal; middling, 15%; net re- !
ceipts6B2; exports to Great Britain, 1f396;
to the Continent, 350; coastwise, 783.
Savannah, March 11.—Cotton—buyers
and sellers apart and nominally unchang
ed; middling, 15%; net receipts, 785;
exports coastwise, 628; sales, 718.
New Orleans, March n.—Cotton firm
and in good demand ; middling, 15%; low
middling, 15; good ordinary, 14%; net
receipts, 5.525; gross, 6,039; export coast
wise, 809; sales, 6,300.
Gai veston. March 11.—Cotton quiet and
steal! y; middling, 15%; low middling, 14%;
good ordinary, '4%; net receipts, 1,032;
gross, 1,083; exports coastwise, 2,835; sales,
1,085,'
Wilmington, March 11.—Cotton firm;
middling, 15; good ordinary, 14%; net re
ceipts, 274; exports coastwise, 383; sales.
30.
Mobile, March 11.——Cotton firm; mid
dling, 15iv@15%; low middling, 15%; good
ordinary, 14%; npt receipts, 149; gross,
151; exports coastwise, 546; sales, 1,000.
Baltimore, March 11 Cotton firmer;
middling, 16%; gross receipts. 272;exporta
coastwise. 146; sales, 656 ; spinners, 250.
Norfolk, March 11.—Cotton quiet and
firm; middling, 15net receipts, 7,3965; ex
ports coastwise, 1,590; sales, 150.
Boston, March ll.—Cotton firm; mid
dling, 16%; net receipts, 674 hales; 674;
sales, 922.
Philadelphia, March 11.-—-Cotton quiet:
middling, 16%; low miaaling, 16; net
receipts, 180; gross, 1,251.
MARINE NEWS.
New York. March ll.—Arrived: Deutsch
land, City of New York.
Arrived out: Pelham,Reende, Sarah, Hu
bert, C. Hall. Salvador. Aims, Brightest
Star, Olivia done Louisa, Atlantic, Chas. H.
Oaitin, Therwalclin, Grace E. Cann, Briml
gia, Apphrodite, Mendel.
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