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Old Series—Vol. 25. No. 122.
Kaiiroad Sched,ulos.
Revised and Corrected by B. P. Brown Gen
eral Ticket Agent. Planters’ Hotel.'
POUT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta... .4:20 a. in. and 8 :20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:23 a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at i ort lioyal 3:00 p. ro.
Leaves Port lioyal 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. in. 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 Maeonat. .6:30, a. in. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Augusta .2 ;00, p. m.and 8:15 a.m.
Arrives at Macon at. 6 :40, p. m. and 7 :10 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8 :10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. m. and 7, a.m.
OJAKLOTIE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
'■ n i ves in Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8 :43, a.m
The Weather.
War Department, )
Office ok Chief Btonal Officer, V
Washington, March 13—4:16 p. in. )
Probabilities:
For the Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather, followed by occasional rain
and falling temperature west of Mis
sissippi. For the South Atlantic States,
lulling barometer, wanner and partly
cloudy weather and southerly winds.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, March 13—4:16 i\ M.
Augusta, 68 deg.—Cloudy.
Buffalo, 37 deg.—Light Snow.
Charleston, 65 deg.—Fair.
New Orleans, 78 deg.—Fair.
New York, 34 deg.—Cloudy.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
Gen. Schenck Wants to Resign— More
Pinchback.
Washington, March 13.—Minister
Schenck requests his recall from Great
Britain, on account of pressing private
business.
In the Senate, Edmunds, of Vermont,
moved to amend the resolution for the
admission of Pinchback by inserting
the word “ not ’’ before the word “ ad
mitted, ’so it would read, “Resolved,
that P. B. S. Pinchback be not admit
ted, etc. He said as it was the un
derstanding that no vote would be
taken to-day, he would not call for the
vote now.
Thurman, of Ohio, then took the
floor and spuiie in opposition to the
admission of the applicant.
No nominations to-day. Confirma
tion— Boswell, Postmaster, S. C.
In the Senate, the discussion of
Pinchback occupied the day, only en
livened by Morton and Thurman ac
cusing each other of lack of legal lore.
The Macon Post Office.
J. L. Long niates that, as regarcis me
Macon (Ga.) Post Office, he has seen
Grant and Jewell. Belcher will be re
moved. Glover will not be confirmed.
The contest is between Bond, Gove and
Hanee.
NEW YORK.
| A General Railway War.
New York, March 13—A morning pa
per says tho prospects now are that
instead of an agreement between the
l’emifcjvlvania Central and Baltimore
and <‘>hio Railroads, there will be a
general railroad war in the course of a
few wjieks, in which rates will be cut to
very lpw figures.
Thd Louisiana Committee reassem
bled t|iis morning. Nothing known as
, to wlijit transpired.
A Remarkable Suicide.
* Thi*; afternoon an unknown man
walk ji into the planing mill at 163
Bank',street, and, while the machinery
was forking, suddenly jumped into it.
Before it could be stopped he was cut
up in*pieees, which were swept up and
then- alien to the station house.
I NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The fiepublicans Gain the Legisla
ture and the Democrats Two Con
gressmen.
Concord, March 13.—Latest figures :
House —191 Republicans and 179 Demo
crats ; four towns unheard from. Sen
ate*—s and 5, with no choice by the
people in two Districts. The Council
stands 3 Democrats and 2 Republicans.
In a vote of 78,000 for Governor, the
plurality did not reach 100. Neither
has a majority. Two Democrats and
one Republican have been elected to
Congress.
MONTGOMERY.
Cal Wagner Bound Over—Theatrical
Engagements Cancelled.
Montgomery, March 13. —The negroes
swore out anew warrant for Cal Wag
ner £?nd his ticket agent. The former
was discharged, but the latter was
bound over to appear at the next term
of the court —bond, 8500. This case
caused several theatrical companies to
cancel their engagements for this city.
VICKSBURG.
A Fatal Steamboat Disaster.
Vicksburg, March 13.—The steam
boat B. H. Hart, reported sunk at Is
land 10, ran against a drift. Hardy
Henton, the clerk, jumped overboard,
and was drowned. Ten to lifteen ne
groes, deck passengers, are supposed
to have been drowned.
Philadelphia Items.
Phidadelpiiia, March 13.—A. B.
Brown, formerly postmaster, and for
many years President of the Fidelity
and Safety Trust Company, is dead.
Cotton and woolen manufacturers
have resolved upon no advance of the
present rate of wages.
FLASHES.
McClure's Philadelphia paper, the
Times, successor to the Age, made a
fine appearance yesrerday a. m.
A general suspension of the Reading
wool hat factories, on account ot large
stock and dull trade, is announced.
The National Fire Insurance Com
pany proposes a settlement on the
basis of forty per cent.
There are indications of an end of
the strike at Fail River.
Oailij (Gonstihitionalist
FOREIGN.
The New French Ministry—The
American Cardinal—Havana Af
fairs.
Paris, March 13.— Buffet announced
in the Assembly the policy of the new
ministry. It wifi be distinctly conser
vative and devoid of the characteristics
of either provocation or weakness.
This statement was made to reassure
the industrious and orderly population.
The address concludes by challenging
a vote of want of confidence. The de
claration was received with icy coldness
by the Assembly, and no demonstra
tion of either satisfaction or dissent.
Tipperary Ireland, March 13.
Mitchell, 1,114; Maure Conservative
746, *
A Tipperary Row.
Tipperary, March 13.—Considerable
disorder on account of some citizens
lei using to illuminate in honor of
Mitchel’s re-election. Several houses
were sacked.
Rome, March 13. — Count Marefoskey,
of the Noble Guards serving the Pope
will start from Rome immediately for
New York, bearing the Birreta, or offi
cial notification, to Archbishop Mc-
Cloekey of his elevation to the Car
dinalship, and in a few days subse
quently the Legate, Mgr. Roncetti, will
follow with the Cardinal’s hat.
Havana, March 13. — Valmaseda as
sembled a number of the wealthiest
citizens, and requested an advance of
£IOO,OOO to pay the expenses of bring
ing reinforcements from Spain. The
sum required was subscribed.
\ almaseda has notified officers of
volunteers that they will soon be need
ed for temporary active service, bat
talions deciding by lot which shall go.
Six hundred Insurgents entered the
Sagua District and burned twelve plan
tations.
Failures in Canada and a Great Crash
in London.
Montreal, March 13.—Simpson,
whitehead & Cos., importers of sad
dlery, hardware, etc., have suspended,
and Armstrong Bros., commission mer
chants, and Green Bros., boot and shoe
manufacturers, have made assignments.
It is rumored that another large whole
sale house is much straightened
through inability to obtain relief from
certain banking houses. The commer
cial difficulties are attributed to the
stringency of the. money market and
the weakness of the monetary institu
tions on which these firms depended.
London, March 13.—Messrs. John C.
Inithurn & Cos., merchants, No. 1 East
India Avenue, have failed. Their lia
bilities are 810,000,000.
Holland and Denmark have ratified
a treaty for a postal union.
Paris, March 13.—The Assembly
passed the military reorganization bill
to-day.
Anew President of the Assembly, to
succeed M. Buffet, will be chosen on
Monday next.
DELAWARE.
Flanking Civil Rights.
Dover, March 13.—A State Senator
gave notice that he would ask permis
sion to bring in a bill entitled an act in
relation to a certain class of persons
bill ixuKfe',
taverns, etc., shall not be obliged by
law to furnish refreshments or enter
tainment to persons whose reception
or refreshment would offensive to
the major part of the customers, or in
jure business. There are similar pro
visions for places of amusement and
carriers of passengers.
Marine Disaster.
Gloucester, Mass., March 13.—The
fishing schooner Sarah H. Cressy has
been absent eleven weeks, and is given
up as lost. She had a crew of twelve
men. This makes the fourth vessel
from this port lost in the past two
months, and with an aggregate of 43
men.
Brigham’s Return from Prison.
Salt Lake, March 13. —Brigham
Young returned home from the peni
tentiary, escorted by friends.
Distillery Burned.
Stuling, 111., March 13.—Millers’ dis
tillery burned. Loss, 860,000.
[communicated. 1
Vivisection.
Editor of the Constitutionalist :
The recent horrors discovered at
Norwich, in England, have brought this
subject into much discussion, so much
so that a petition has been signed by
many prominent men in England for
the restriction and supervision of vi
visection. The opposition party de
nounce as sentimental and illegal any
restrictions which interfere with science,
losing sight of the fact that it is only
to prevent the indiscriminate torturing
of animals, often perpetrated by medi
cal students, not for the purpose of
discovering anew scientific fact, but
after such fact has been established,
from motives of mere curiosity. When
such physicians as Sir Win. Furgus
son, Drs. Cotton, Bellamy, Harvey,
Black and many others—in fact, to the
number of fifty-three—have signed the
above mentioned petition, their tes
timony should have much weight.
The London Daily News says, at the
conclusion of an article on the subject:
“ Between the similar pain of ODe man
and of one horse, no one can hesitate
to spare the man, but between the ex
quisite torture of a thousand horses
and the trifling suffering of a man, our
decision would be quite the reverse.”
The Echo mentions a case where six
teen cats had the same horrible
torture inflicted, one lingering two
weeks in agony for the illustration
of one fact! This is what we would
term wanton and unnecessary infliction
of pain. It is a well-knowm fact that
the barbarous Majendie failed to prove
the anatomy of the brain and nerves,
while Sir Charles Bell did succeed in
making this great physiological dis
covery without torturing animals,
which, as a friend and great admirer
says of him, “his gentle and kindly
nature abhorred.” Our helpless depend
ents have now found men and women
who have espoused their cause through
out the world, who demand for
them, what they are unable to ask for
themselves—justice, and regard for
the’r humble rights, and we do pro
nounce it an infringement of those
rights that the indiscriminate tortur
ing of animals should be carried on in
the name of vivisection as it is at pres
ent, by ignorant and callous boys (in
many cases),without the chance of suf
ficient knowledge being attained to jus
tify the means of obtaining it. We
therefore, most heartily coincide with
the reformers who would place this
s branch of science under proper restric
tion for tho sake of humanity and jus
f tice towards the animal creation.
Reformer.
SXJINI3A.Y MARCH 14, 1875.
TORNADO IN LOUISIANA.
j Extraordinary Freaks of the Wind-
Houses Prostrated and Gutted-M:en
and Furniture Whirled About Like
Corks—An Old Georgian’s Desola
j tion.
Bayou Choupique, )
Avoyelles Parish. Louisiana, >
Cotton Port P. 0., Feb. 22,1875. j
Charles A. Platt, Esq., Augusta, Ga.:
Gn the 2d inst., we were visited by
one of the most destructive and terri
ble liuiricanes that has ever occurred
in this section of country. It com
menced some twenty miles from here
on Bajou Boeuf, destroying two sugar
houses as we learn ; then it rose in the
air and descended again near where I
live, on Bayou Choupique, about two
miles above here, when it then com
menced its terrible work again, level
ling to the ground everything in its
course and scattering for miles in the
space of a few minutes trees, fences
dwellings, corn mills, gin houses and
their contents, which were situated on
the Bayou. The stream runs nearly
the same course the hurricane took
say from southwest to northeast. When
it reached our settlement it crossed the
Bayou, where it makes a turn north
ward, and destroyed all the buildings
fionting the Bayou, which were in
cluded within its circumference bein"
a width of nearly three acres, as fob
lows : Catholic Church, priest’s house
my dwelling and store, and Mr M V*
Planche’s house, out buildings and
corn crib. My house and store
were blown away, leaving scarcely
anything behind. They were situated
in the centre and bore the brunt of
the gale. Lumber from mv house was
broken ahd carried for miles away;
heavy sole leather trunks and stout
cedar chests, being nearly full and
locked, were lifted up, burst open and
landed 400 yards distant, and such as
broke to pieces over one mile away,
one trunk containing over one hundred
dollars, a common and light one in
weight, was lound broke in a hundred
pieces, scattered around, and all the
money lost. My bedstead, bedding,
washstand, bureay, ciiairs, library of
books, oil paintings and portraits, all
blown away. Some few pices of furniture
have been found and only one portrait
a ,^. smashed up. My store, consisting
chiefly of groceries, shared the same
fate; what was not swept away was
ruined by the rain, as the rain fell in
torrents before ami after the tornado.
It happened at 4;30 p. m., and as the
gale swept by the rain ceased for sev
eral minutes. I lost nearly all I had.
My loss in dwellings, furniture, pro
visions, and things in the house, to
gether with merchandise in store and
account books, notes, valuable papers
which can hardly be estimated correct
ly, and money, will exceed 83,000. The
total loss and damage on Bayou Chou
pique is estimated from 825,000 to
830,000. The tornado continued its
course through the woods, crossed the
Bayou again two miles and a half from
here, destroying only one building which
it met in the way. It must have risen
again, passing over Red river 15 miles
distant, as we hear of little damage
being done, except trees blown down.
One life was lost—a negro boy aged
open field 300 yards off,
and found next morning dead, with
scarcely a bruise mark on his body.
His father and a young white man were
with him at the time, all running from
stable to house for safety ; the two
latter were struck by falling timbers,
which held them to the ground. The
young nmn had his arm broken and
head badly injured, the negro man was
also struck on the head and neck. The
house they were running to was made of
three-inch thick, heavy puncheon, it
was carried away, leaving only a sill,
near by, : and three puncheons. A two
horse wagon on the same place, con
taining ono large barrel of molasses,
weighing 600 lbs., was lifted up and
carried three acres distant, landing the
barrel of molasses half way, burst
open, and breaking one wheel of the
wagon and its iron axles. A plow was
driven, so hard into a tree that it had to
be cut out. One young man was taken
by the wind, tossed about in the air,
and found in the top of a blown down
tree with the flesh torn to the bone
from both arms, and his head fearfully
cut open ; he may be injured for life.
All who were in the store were injured
more or less—a good many very se
verely—but all are doing well now and
slowly recovering.
My wife was struck by the wind, as
she came out on the gallery of the
house, and was carried in the air by
the backward whirl and landed 100
yards from where she started, and did
not recover until I found her in the
road after I had crawled out of tho
rubbish of the store, where I and a
negro boy had been buried. We were
in the store at the time, and went with
it; and as it fell both of us, as also my
wife, were a good deal hurt, but no
bones broken. We thank God that our
lives were spared. I did not
know that my house and the
other buildings were down, until I got
out, nor did my wife see anything fall,
as she was stunned by the wind, or
struck by passing limbs of trees. How
so many escaped from being killed, or
maimed for life, is a mystery. Had it
been night time, when all were in bed,
scarcely any could have escaped being
killed. The store I occupied was built
of mud walls, which probably helped
save my life. Our population consists
chiefly of French creoles, who have
been extremely kind towards us, fur
nishing us with dry clothes, bedding,
cooked food, meat, &c. We are fur
nished with a house, which happened
to be empty, containiug two rooms,
free of rent, for a quarter of a year, if
I want it, or until I am able to build
again, which I hope soon to do should
I get some assistance. I wish
also to start a store in a small way, for
if good crops are made I can soon make
up my loss. What we need now is
funds to purchase supplies. The peo
ple in this parish suffered so much by
the overflow last year that they are
illy prepared or able to help those who
suffered by this disaster. Can you give
us any help ? I would like to have you
get up a subscription for us among my
old friends in Augusta, and others who
may be willing to give aid. I know they
will all cheerfully respond. Please have
a mention of this made in your paper,
should you think best, and send me
half a dozen copies. I hope you
will pardon me in troubling you with
this matter; yet I hope myself to be
able to reciprocate er& long.
With kind regards from M., F. & M.,
I am, yours truly, J. A. Fanning.
Avoyelles Parish, La., FeS. 22, 1875.
We, the undersigned, citizens of
Avoyelles Parish, La., do certify that
the above statement of J. Fanning is
correct and true.
M. M. Matthews, S. Ducote,G. P. Voor
hies, S. Corwillin & Son, E. Greinil
lion, G. R. Bordelon,
I hereby certify that the foregoing
annexed and. subscribed signatures are
residents of this parish.
L. J. Ducote,
Parish Judge.
State of Louisiana, )
Parish of Avoyelles. [
I do hereby certify that the name of
L. J. Ducote attached to the above is
genuine, that he is the Parish Judge as
represented, and that his certificate is
entitled to full faith and credit.
Clerk’s Office, Marksville, Avovelles,
Louisiana, this the 26th day of Feb. A.
D., 1875. J. j, Gondeau,
Deputy Clerk.
The Other Side of the Question.
Mr. Editor :— I noticed in yesterday’s
Chronicle an editorial which does not,
in my opinion, give “real estate as an
investment’’ in Augusta a fair showing.
Take the Chronicle's example, for in
stance :
Let us suppose that Colonel Smith or
Colonel Jones thinks that real estate is a
good investment, and builds a house which
costs him ten thousand dollars. This, per
haps, would be a costlier house than the
majority of men occupy, but still It would
be by no means a very expensive residence.
Such a place would not rent for more than
eight hundred dollars, and the landlord
would be fortunate at this time who could
get a good tenant at these figures. Let us
see what the annual charges would bo on
such a piece of property:
City tax $133 33
State tax 5000
County tax 07 kxi
School tax , ;2 00
Water, bath tub, water closet, hy
drant and wash pave 14 00
Insurance 150 00
Repairs 100 00
$486 83
Now compare receipts with expenses:
®®“t 00
$313 17
Now, assuming that the above total
of ten thousand dollars includes the
cost of the house and lot, the insurance
would be fifty dollars instead of one
hundred and fifty, and if the cost of
repairs on anew house for the first five
years should bo exceeding twenty-five
dollars a year, it would indicate either
a badly built house or a bad tenant.
Now the only houses that I know of
that have been built in this city since
the war that have cost, together with
the lot, ten thousand dollars are now
rented, as I am informed by the parties
who built them, for the sum of one
thousand dollars a year, thus paying
their owners about seveu per cent in
stead of three. But perhaps ten thous
saud dollars is too much money to put
into a tenement house in this city.
Try a smaller amount and seo 110 v it
will work. There are houses in this
city that did not cost (newly built
within the last three years), lot and all,
exceeding 87,000, and can now be
bought for 87,500, and are now rented
for 8850 a year. Others that did not
cost over 85,000 that are renting for
8600 a year. Suppose we make this
estimate:
House costing ss,ooo—Yearly rental.s6oo 00
faxes State, city, county, Ac., wa
ter rent, insurance and repairs 170 00
Total $430 00
Or more than eight per cent. How
will this compare with Nutting bonds
wuai wouiu city oouus ue woiuT as an
investment without real estate to raise
a revenue from to redeem them ?
Mechanic.
FIRST AMERICAN CARDINAL.
Archbishob McCloskey’s Elevation to
a New Dignity—Sketch of tbe Pre
late.
The great event of the year, and in
deed of the times, in the religious
world, is the elevation of an American
to the dignity of a Cardinal by his Ho
liness Pope Pius IX. As announced
by cable telegram recently, Archbishop
John McCloskey, of New York, has had
this honor conferred upon him. Asa
Cardinal he will, therefore, have a
voice on the succession to the Papal
chair on the death of the present Pon
tiff.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED.
Tiie cable dispatch sent to Mr. Mc-
Masters, of New York, from Rome, on
Tuesday, 9tli inst., announcing the
event, says:
A pro consistory is appointed for
Monday next, March 15. At this con
sistory, along with Mgr. Ledochowski,
Archbishop of Posen and Gnieson, in
Prussia ; Mgr. Deschamps, Archbishop
of Mechlin and Primate of Belgium ;
Archbishop Manning, of Westminster ;
Mgr. Bartolini, Cousultor of the Roman
Court, and Mgr. Gianelli, Archbishop
of Sardia; his Holiness has determined
to raise to the Cardinate the Most Rev.
Archbishop of New York, Dr. McCfts
key.
WHAT THE NEW CARDINAL SAYS.
For confirmation of this news a re
porter of one of the New York news
papers visited Dr. McCloskey. The
Archbishop, when asked if the dispatch
was correct, said:
“I very much fear that it is a fact.
On last Sunday I received a cable dis
patch from a friend in Rome, who an
nounced to me that the dignity was to
be conferred upon me. The dispatch
was not from an official source, and so
I do not consider the announcement as
official, but it was from a sourco that I
am very apprehensive will be found to
be correct in this matter. I learn also
that Mr. McMasters to-day received a
cable dispatch from Rome which con
tains tho same announcement as the
dispatch which I myself have received.”
Dr. McCloskey also said his appoint
ment would not necessitate the selec
tion of anew Archbishop. The only
change would be the additional title of
Cardinal. He would be Archbishop
just the same, without any increase of
jurisdiction or powers, though in a
council of Archbishops and Bishops
one who was a Cardinal would rank
the highest no doubt. The Archbishop,
to show that the Cardinalate would not
increase his powers, referred to the case
of Archbishop Cullen, who, though he
was a Cardinal, did not for that re.is m
alone take precedence over tho Arch
bishop of Armagh, who was the Pri
mate of Ireland. In answer to a ques
tion as to what he thought the conse
quence of his appointment would be,
he smiled and shook his head good
naturedly, as much as to indicate that
the question was too indefinite a one
to be answered, but that there was
nothing in it to make anybody alarmed.
SKETCH OF THE NEW CARDINAL.
John McCloskey, the successor of the
lamented John Hughes, D. D., arch
bishop of New York, was born in
Brooklyn, N. Y., in the year 1810. He
is, consequently, years of
age. He was ordained by Bishop Du
bois in January, 1831, at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, in New York City, where he
celebrated his first mass. Ten years
later he knelt at the same altar to re
ceive from the hands of Bishop Hughes
the consecration which made him
Bishop of Axieren and coadjutor of
the officiating prelate. On the estab
lishment of the diocese of Albany in
cluding all the State of New York fying
north of forty-two degrees north and
east of the eastern line of Cayuga,
Tompkins and Tioga counties, Bishop
McCloskey was transferred to that see.
The diocese was very feeble, having
only forty churches, some of them
without clergymen.
Bishop MeCloskey’s term of service
in the Albany diocese extended over a
Period of seventeen years. He left in
the diocese one hundred and thirteen
churches, eight chapels, fifty-four
minor stations, eighty-five missionaries,
three academies for boys and one for
girls, six orphan asylums and fifteen
parochial schools.
Right Rev. Dr. McCloskey was held
very dearly in esteem by the late Arch
bishop Hughes, and from certain acts
immediately before his death, and the
testamentary papers which ho left be- 1
hind him, the inference is tlfat he de
sired to be succeeded by his former
coadjutor. At all events, he became
the selection of the Pope. The installa
tion of the Most Rev. Dr. McCloskey
as the archbishop of the Catholic dio
cese of New York took place on Sun
day August 21, 1864, at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, before a vast audience.
The diocese of New York comprises
the city and county of New York and
the counties south of the forty-second
degree of north latitude, except those
on Long Island. It is second in eccles
iastical rank to the archbishopric of
Baltimore. The Catholic province of
New York embraces the dioceses of
New York, Albany, Boston, Brooklyn,
Buffalo, Burlington, Hartford, Newark
and Portland, and includes the States
of New York, New Jersey and all New
England.
Archbishop McCloskey is a ripe
scholar. His eloquence is of the ten
der, deeply religious kind, uttered with
a fervent sincerity in language at once
of simplicity and elegance. In his man
ners ho is considerate, cordial and
kind.
The archbishop is of a well formed,
compact, erect figure. His head is of
considerable size, and his countenance,
where increasing years are just begin
ning to leave their unmistakable lines,
is strongly expressive of intelligence
and benevolence. The features are
large, while altogether uniform. About
the mouth there is always an expres
sion of the truest kindness and gentle
ness, and the eyes are not less soft and
sympathetic than they are full of in
tellectual brightness. The brow is
broad and massive, over which the hair
is parted and carefully combed on
either side.
He is just now laboring strenuously
to complete the new cathedral in New
York city, which was commenced by
Archbishop Hughes, and for which the
present prelate has given 810,000 from
his private purse.
The Religious Papers.
the centennial.
Church and State, the leading Episco
pal organ in America, suggests to the
friends of education some aetion for
the Centennial :
will be "opened. (3ur boaste’d school
systems then will come under the in
spection of many a sharp foreign eye.
Our school furniture and school books
will doubtless have to stand the test of
foreign rivalry, Our high schools and
colleges and universities will be con
fronted with their long-established con
geners of the Old World. And if we
would not come out of this competi
tion and inspection blushing at our de
ficiencies, we shall have much to do
within the year. Each State and Ter
rity should make early provision,
through its Legislature, for a credit
able exposition of its system of in
struction. Congress should enable the
Bureau of Education to engage the
needed force for the preparation of its
general summaries.
The Episcopalian, of this week, is a
eompilatian of extracts and dry com
munications. It is not even fulfilling
its self-imposed mission of represent
ing the progress of the reformed church
founded by Dr. Cummins.
REMARKABLE EMIGRANTS.
The Christian Intelligencer after sun
dry attacks on Romanism has the fol
lowing interesting piece of news :
Perhaps the most remarkable cargo
of emigrants that ever bade adieu to
Great Britain, was the one which re
cently left the Thames in the ship Tin
tern Abbey. In consisted of a party of
1,230 bipeds of the bird species, namely
blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, gold
finches, of each 100 ; hedge
sparrows, 150 ; linnets, 140; goldfinches,
160; yellow-hummers, 170 ; and par
tridges, 110. Their destination is New
Zealand, whither they are sent at the
instance of the New Zealand farmers,
whose crops are devastated by insects,
and who rely upon these feathered
friends of man for their extermination.
When the birds arrive at New Zealand,
they will be let to fly under proper au
thority, aud laws have been enacted
with a heavy penalty for their protec
tion.
EPISCOPAL LAYMEN.
The Church Journal very timely and
usefully defines the position of laymen
in the Episcopal Church :
Our church, has laid the responsibili
ty of meeting differences and discus
sions, and of acting in and under them,
equally upon the laity and clergy. We
here discuss not the wisdom of tho
course, though we believe it wLe. We
state the fact.
The laymen supplies the palish with
its ministry. He decides on the type
and the quality of the rector who is
called.
The layman sits co-ordinately in
council and sido by side with his rec
tor, votes on canon, and interprets
custom.
The layman, like the clergyman, in
standing committee, passes on the fit
ness of deacon, priest and bishop to re
ceive orders.
The layman, like the clergyman,
elects the bishop in the diocese. The
layman, like the clergyman, sits in the
church’s highest seat of law, and ac
cepts or rejects canons, rubrics, revis
ions of Prayer Book and Bible, and
candidates for the Episcopate.
The church has laid, from parish or
ganization up to the very guardian
ship of the Catholic creeds, the same
responsibility on laymen as on clergy
men.
LENTEN OBSERVANCE.
The Churchman has a few words to
say about Lent:
If Lent is not to be made a mere
formality, it should govern the whole
life of those who observe it. It should
be a period of self-discipline. This
discipline must extend to mind as well
as body. Because the usual round of
parties and amusements is given up, it
does not make it a well-spent season,
if the substitute is only a dozing over
novels and gossiping over fashion
plates. It is not that gaiety is to be
avoided, but that indulgence is to be
repressed. Not varying the form, but
changing the substance, is what is ex
pected.
FAMILY DUTIES.
The Christian at Work advocates a
better attention to family duties.
That the family is a divine institu
tion, designed for the training of chil
dren into fitness for the highest duties
of manhood and for the joys of im
mortality, no Christian cau doubt.
When the home, through wise manage
ment, becomes the abode of peace and
purity and exalted aspirations, it is the
best type of heaven this earth affords,
and its inmates grow up exhibiting the
beauty and strength of the divine
image. Aud yet, alas, how often the
family is a failure ! We do not now
speak of the home as wrecked by
strong drink, or by free-love abomina
tions, or by any of those evils summed
up aud unblushiugly excused under
the fine phrase “incompatibility of tem
perament.” It is the home of ordi
nary condition that we here refer, and
of which we assert that it doos not, by
proper education of the little ones, ex
ert half the power it ought for God and
humanity.
TRUE ISRAELITES.
The Jewish Messenger boldly de
mands repudiation of dishonest Jews :
We Israelites have again attained
the position to which wo are entitled—
we are free, claiming absolute equality
with other men before the law and in
society. Wo are now no longer con
strained to enter at nightfall the gates
of the Ghetto. All invidious distinc
tions based upon the degradation im
posed during the Middle 4ges, and pre
served by a species of feudal tenure,
must cease. If to break down the last
vestige of this miserable prejudice, we
must be merciless to men bearing tho
Jewish name and who still drag it in
the mire, we must act with decision
and without fear—it is a question of
self-defense.
FAMILY WORSHIP.
The Hebrew Leader is highly prized
by the religious Hebrews, as a family
paper. It wisely inculcates domestic
piety:
The real foundation of Judaism is
tho domestic altar. God is not to be
worshipped alone in the spacious syna
gogue or costly temple, for “in all
places where My name is remembered,
there will I come and bless thee.”
God can be worshipped at the fire
side, and there is nothing that tends to
lead us nearer to God, to unite us in
bonds of closer love, than aa altar
raised to God at home.
THE IMPOSSIBLE UNION.
The Church Union, which is seeking
to reconcile lire and water, announces
an addition to its editorial staff:
We are happy to announce that the
Rev. Kingston Goddard, formerlv the
rector of St. Paul’s Church, Philadel
phia, and now rector of old St. An
drew’s Church, Richmond, Staten Is
land, will hereafter represent the Epis
copal Church on our staff of contribut
ing editors.
w Dr. Goddard has for many “years
his marked ability as a writer, together
with his great personal influence, make
him an important accession to our
editorial force.
THE METHODIST QUARREL.
The Methodist this week says :
We and the brethren who represent
our church iu the South are at cross
purposes. We offer fraternity to
Southern Methodism, they sound the
notes of war. We are trying to avoid
litigation, they are urging it forward.
Their organ, the Atlanta Advocate, is
inflamed with anger against Southern
Methodists. Our papers iu the North
have for a long time been pacific in
their tone.
It is a strange anomaly.
PAPAL SUPREMACY.
The New York Tablet has the follow
ing:
No wealth or power on earth can ex
cuse any man from obeying the behests
of Christ, or of any one exercising
power legitimately derived from and
exercised within the limits appointed
by Christ. In the “ Ages of Faith,” all
the people, as well as governments, ac
knowledged the supreme spiritual
power in the successor of St. Peter,
the Bishop of Rome, and the governors
and governed were obliged to obey it.
Dr. Manning has shown that the gov
ernments have, within the last century,
withdrawn from their allegiance to
Christ’s law ; and on that account the
Pope does not and cannot claim to ex
ercise over them that control which
would belong to him if they were truly
Christians.
EPISCOPAL SECESSIONS.
The Episcopalan gives the largest
portion of its space to the controversies
attending recent secessions. It strongly
favors the Commuus movemenion.
HOME RULE.
The Jewish Times thinks New York
Qity should be governed at Albany.
WIIAT IS JUDAISM.
The Jewish Message exclaims :
Thank God, our Judaism is not in
conllict with modern thought. Being
essentially pure and true Judaism has
outlived misconception and persecu
tion. The Jew is now regarded, with
perfect propriety, as a man, who differs
from other men only in persisting in
the ancient form of worship, in the
practical maintenance of the Mosaic
law.
st. Andrew’s death-trap.
The New York Tablet is of course oc
cupied with this subject. It thus des
cribes the scene :
The loss of life would have been
comparatively slight if nearly the
whole congregation, not knowing what
had happened, and fearing that the
church itself was falling, had not rush
ed wildly down the stairs and over the
balustrade of the galleries, and, in the
frenzied effort to escape swift and ter
rible destruction, blocked up every pos
sible egress, trampling each other
down and becoming hopelessly entan
gled in one surging mass ! In vain did
the preacher and the pastor himself,
seeing that there was no more danger,
call on the people to remain quiet. A
few of the congregation wh'o had not
lost their presence of mind, amongst
them a roundsman of the police force,
seconded the efforts of the priests in
trying to restore order—still on and on
rushed the maddened terrified crowd,
like the waves of a raging sea, ever as
they went increasing the death-dealing
havoc already wrought, in throwing
down and trampling over those before
them!
THE REFORMED EPISCOPALIANS.
The Churchman says:
The “Reformed Episcopal Church” is
simply playing at Church. So it will
be felt more and more, and so it will be
regarded by all those dear brethren
whom it is now the Doctors joy to be
in fellowship with. They will see if
the Reformed” do not, thaUth? nr£
tence of an Episcopal ordination, which
f IDg ’ iS , iQ rcalit - v th e most
studied of insults. It implies that
which it dares not assert, " 1
WHAT IS RELIGION.
The Christian Intelligencer answers
the question.
Religion has three elements—faith
hope, and charity. Faith, the belief of
Christs hope, the confident expectation
of enjoying all the blessings Christ
ISlf* ; parity or love, which is the
fulfilling of the whole law of Christ -
And bow eminently adapted to our
wants and capacities is religion, as thus
containing these three elements. They
address themselves to our intellectual
sensitive and moral nature—our un
derstanding, heart, and will.
RAILROAD SWINDLE.
The Christian at Work has a word of
caution for rapid transit schemers It
says:
There are two ways of building a
lailway. One method, and a rather
unusual one, is to build the road by
honest contracts as economically as is
consistent with good work, conforming
the capital stock with the absolute re
quirements of the company, running
the road economically and paying fair
dividends as they are earned. Another
consists in lettingout extravagant con
tracts to favorites, and to the advant
age of certain rings, who in this way
amass fortunes. Then, when built and
1 mining, the capital stock is “ watered ”
—that is, it is doubled or trebled as
case may be which enriches the pres
ent stockholders aud gives the control
to the interest then dominant. Of
course dividends can only be made by
raising the tariff on freight and passen
gers so that in the end the public have
to pay the cost.
freemasonry.
. The Hebrew Leader devotes much of
its attention to Freemasonry, of which
it is an able advocate:
Masonry possesses an inherent worth
unknown to the outer world ; it is an
Older exhibiting one harmonious and
stupendous fabric fouudod on univeb
sal piety, unfolding its capacious por
tals to receive, without prejudice or
discrimination, the worthy professors
of e\eiy description of genuine relig
ion , concentrating in one great bod\’
just tenets unencumbered by those dis
puted points which have dissevered
e\ ery society but its own, yet storing
up the most approved scheme of ethics
adopted by the different nations of the
civilized world. The system, whether
in its present form or not, originated
in the earliest, ages among the wisest
ot men, and the fabric of speculative
Masonry rein tins fi.;n and unshaken,
and century after century has con
ducted it to maturity and perfection.
IColumbus EnQuirer.
Rev. W. W. ELicixs.
Rev. W. Watkin Hicks, late of Geor
gia, has been appointed Superintendent
a very mmi e‘ s eouise n ai a a
the Legislature. While in Georgia he
was an “ unreconstructed rebel,” but
in Florida he was the leader of three
or four Independents or Conservatives
of the Legislature, and for weeks they
held the balance of power and pre
vented the election of a Senator.
Finally Hicks led off for Jones, Demo
crat, and by the aid of his little band
Jones was elected. It has been charg
ed that the secret of the strange course
pursued by Hicks and his two or three
associates was their desire to force the
election of Gov. Stearns as United
States Senator, and the latter’s ap
pointment of Hicks as Superintendent
is not contradictory of this charge.
However, a Democratic Senator has at
least been secured, because all the
Radicals could not be rallied for
Stearns, and we hope that Hicks will
make a good Superintendent of Edu
cation. If so, “ all’s well that ends
well.”
NEW JERSEY.
A Fraudulent Bankrupt Come to
Grief.
Paterson, N. J., March 13. — Dr.
Ricardo, having applied to the Courts
for discharge as an insolvent, his appli
cation was granted to-day. His cred •
itors at once filed, undertaking to
show that he had got rid of his prop
erty in order to defraud them. The
principal creditor is Walter Schafer, a
boy to whom a jury awarded 85,000 for
alleged malpractice by Ricardo. The
defendant was committed to jail.
CHARLESTON.
DoKoven and Jagg^r—The Cotton
Controversy Settled.
Cn vrleston, March 13.—Tho Stand
ing Committee of South Carolina con
sented to Jagger’s consecration, but re- 1
fused DeKoveu’s.
The difficulty in the cotton market I
was adjusted to-day. Factors are to
sell at delivery weight, buyers taking i
cotton immediately from a sworn
weigher and reweighing it with a beam
scale. All differences to be referred to
a third weigher, whose decision is fiuai.
Woman does a great deal to dis
courage lofty sentiments of patriotism.
When a man is leaning over the back
fence telling a neighbor how he would
shed his last drop of blood for suffer
ing Louisiana, it disturbs him to have j
his wile yell from the kitchen : “Look a !
hero, are you coming with the bucket
of water, or shall I come out and see to
you V”
A dry goods clerk in an lowa city
lately dropped senseless behind the
counter while waiting on customers.
The female customer for whom he had
pulled down every yard of calico on the
shelves quietly requested the proprie
tor to remove the incumbrance and
send on a fresh clerk.
Sister Martha, tho eldest nun at the
Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown,
died Sunday night, aged 80 years. She
had been an inmate of the Convent for
58 years, having entered in 1817.
An exchange says : “ The ears of Mr.
Amos Jones, prominent in the temper
ance circles, were frozen off a short
time ago.” It is well enough that
somebody’s ears should be prominent
in temperence there are so
many noses prominent in the other
cause.
A Nebraska druggist got a boy to
take a big sniff of hartshorne as a joke.
Boy kicked over a kerosene lamp ; oil
took fire, loss on store §1,300. The
druggist is now driving a team.
JVew Series—Vol. 3.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKER
Office DAn.f Constitutionalist i
Saturday; March 13, 4 p* jj. (
Financial:
Gold—Buying' at 113 and sidling at nr,.
Silver—Buying at 102 and selling at 105.
Sight Exchange on Now York, buying at
premium. pretnium * anl afc
Ootlon.
The Augusta Exchange reports the mar
ket- quiet but firm to-day, though prices
aio quoted rather easier than yesterday.
The closing quotations were: Good
Ordinary, 1434 ; Low Middling, 15V ; Mid
dling, 15%.
Ibseei pts of the day, IG2 and sales, 153
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 7.402 bales; same day last year
10,168 bales.
Produce.
BACON—Clear Sides, 12%@i2%; e. K.
Sides, 12%@L2%; Shoulders, 9%. DktSalt
R - Side *> 11®11 %; Long Clear Shies,
UA; D. S. Shoulders, B%@s% ; Bellies,
11%. Tennessee Meats —Sides, I2%r?£i3 •
Shoulders, 0%@l(i; Hams, 15.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%.
LARD—Choice, in tierce, 15; kegs and
cans, 16.
BAGGING AND TIES.-Domestie bag
ging, 14%; Ties, Arrow, 5%; Pieced, 4.
BUT TER—Goshen, Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOUR City Mills are $C.25@6.50 for su
perfine; $6,53<g0.75 for extra; $7@7.25 for
family; and $7.50@7.75 for fancy; for
W estern and Country, we quote superfine,
$3.50@6.00; extra, S6@6 59; family, $6.50@7 00
and fancy, $7.00@7.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (now dry)
$1.08@1.10; yellow and mixed, $1.05@1.07.
bmall lots, or less than car load, 3@5
higher than car load or depot rates.
WHEAT Light stock; choice white,
51.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; ml
$1.32%@1.35.
OATS—Mixed, a3@Bs; white. 85.
< grn MEAL—-City, $1.10; Country, sl@
1.05.
EGGS—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 13—Noon—Erie, 24%@
24%.
New York, March 13—Noon.—Stocks
active and strong. Money, 3. Gold. 115%.
Exchange—long, 482; short, 486. Govern
ments dull. State Bonds quiet.
New York, March 13-P. M.—Money in
good supply at 2@2%. Sterling strong at
282. Governments dull and strong; new
s’s, 15. State Bonds dull ami nominal.
The Bank Statement shows: Loans de
creased $4,000,000; Specie decreased $6,-
250,000; Legal Tenders increased $1,125-
000; Deposits decreased $6,500,000; Reserve
decreased $3,375,000.
Stocks closed dull and steady; Central
102%; Erie, 27%; Lake Shore, 73%; Illinois
Central, 100%; Pittsburg, 91%; Northwest
er?, 45%; preferred, 58%; 'Rock Island.
10a%.
Sub-Treasury balances: Gold, $49,698,102;
Currency, $47,541,353.
Customs receipts to-day, $319,700; for
tna \poob <tO Ol) sna Imn oli ,■ -al .
principally Spanish, to Havana; remain
der silver bars.
New Orleans, March 13.—Exchange-
New York Sight, % discount; Sterling,
553%. Go.d, 114%.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 13—Noon.—Bread
stulTs quiet and steady, except Corn, which
is lirm. Long clear middies, 475. 6d; short,
495. Lard, 61s. 6d.
London, March 13—Noon —Tallow, 40s.
3d@4os. 6d,
New York. March 13—Noon—Flour quiet
and steady. Wheat quiet and firm. Corn
iirmer. Pork firm; mess,
Lax-d quiet; steam 14. Turpentine dull at
36. Rosin quiet at $2.05@2.10 for strained.
Freights heavy.
New York, March 13-P. M.—Flour
steady with moderate inquiry. Wheat
%@1 better with fair inquiry at $2.37 for
Winter red Western, $2.78% for amber dit
to, 52.53 for white. Corn steady with mod
erate demand. Pork lirmer; new job lots,
$19.87}£@20. Beef quiet. Lard firmer at
14 1-16'<514% for prime steam. Coffee quiet.
Sugar quiet and steady. Rice quiet. Mo
lasses Arm. Turpentine dull at 35%. Ro
siu dull at 5215@2.10 for strained. Freights
dull; -team, cotton, %; corn, 6@6%; wheat,
6%@7.
Wilmington, March 13.—Spirits Turpen
tine firm at 31%. Rosin firm at $155 for
strained. Crude Turpentine firm at $1.30
for hard, $2 25efor yellow dip, $2.25 for vir
gin. Tar steady at $1.40.
Cincinnati, March 13.—Flour firm.—
Corn steady. Pork firm at $19.50. Lard
firm; steam, 13%; kettle, 14%@14%. Bacon
lirm; shoulders, 8%; clear nb, 11@11%.
Weiskey lirmer at 112.
Louisville, March 13.—Flour unchang
ed. Corn firm at 68@70. Provisions active
and strong. Pork nominally S2O. Bacon
shoulders, 8%@8%; clear rib, 11%@11%;
clear, 11%; sugar-cured haras, 11%<813%.
Lard firm; prime steam, 14A£14%; tierce,
14%; keg, 15%. Whiskey firmer at 112,-
Bagging quiet and firm at 12%@13.
St. Louis, March 13.—Flour quiet and
uneb.onged. Whiskey firm; held at $1.11(13
1.12; no sales. Pork firm at $19.25. Bacon
firmer and unchanged. Lard firmer at
13% asked, 13% bid.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 13—Noon.—CoUgn
quiet and unchanged; middling upiaiFTs,
7%; middling Orleans, 8<&8%; sales, 8,-
000 bales; <qeculation and export, 1,000;
sales on basis- middling Orleans, nothing
below good ordinary, shipped March and
April, 8 3-1 G; sales to-day. 4,500 bales Amer
ican.
New’ York, March 13—Noon—Cotton
quiet and steady; sales, 27 bales; uplands,
10/4 i Orleanfc, 16%.
Mouile, March 13.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 245; exports coast
wise, 1,186; sates, 500.
Futures opined easy, as follows: April,
10%, 1G 2-32 , May, 17, 17 1-32; June, 17 5-IG.
17%; July, 1754. 17 21-32; August, 17%, 17
25-32.
New York, March 13—P. M.—Cotton
quiet and steady; sales, 27 bales at lG%(g)
165*; net receipts, 1,635; gross, 2,586.
Futures .dosed quiet and steady; sales,
15,900 bates, as follows: March, 16%, 16
13-32; April, 1C 1G 21-32, 1G 11-1 G: May, 17
1 32, 17 1-10; June, 17%; July, 17 21-32, 17
11-16; August, 15 25-32, 17 13-16; September,
17%, 17 9-32; October, 16 11-16; November,
16 7-16, 16%; December, 16%.
During the week the market for cotton
on spot has been quiet with some slight
changes in values. Liverpool accounts
have not been favorable, and fluctuations
have been influenced by report of receipts
in tho port. Business witn spinners has
been rather more liberal, but this elap> ol
buyers operate cautiously; futures nave
declined, with the general business of the
week small. The total sales were 120,3G2
bales or which 23,000 were on speculative
account,-and 336 for immediate delivery.
Baltimore, March 13.—Cotton firm;
middling, 16%; low middling, 15%; good
ordinary, ]5%; net receipts, 24 bales;
gross, 107; exports—to Great Britain, 914;
coastwise, 256; sales, 370; spinners, 106;
stock, 22,803.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 13.—Arrived out:
John Rutherford, Fraucing, Lady Russell,
Kate Troup, Edmund Richardson, J. M. B.
Charleston, March 13.—Arrived: Merce
dita, Geore;ia.
Sailed: Champion.
Port Royal, March 13.—Arrived: North
Point. , _
Cleared: B. F. Farnham, Sarah E. Doug
lass.