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Old Series—Vol. 25, No. 122.
Railroad Schedules.
Revised and Corrected by B, F. Brown, Gen
eral Ticket Atrent, Planters’ Hotel.
TORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta... .4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s 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 A tJanta at 7:00, a. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Arrives in Augusta 3:30,p. ra. 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 ;15p.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 Maconat.C :40, p. m. and 7:40 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.
CHARLOTTE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves A ugusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
’■ r'-ivesin Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
BY TELEGRAPH.
[S cial to the Constitutionalist.
A DISASTROUS TORNADO.
Effects at Camak and Thomson—
Buildings Demolished—A Number
of Persons Killed.
Thomson, Ga.. March 20, 7:55 p. m.
At a quarter to one o’clock to-day,
thick clouds were seen gathering in the
northwest, which in a very few min
utes became so angry looking as to at
tract the universal attention of the
citizens of our town. Our people were
not long in determining the n iture of
tiie angry cloud, for while groups could
be seen watching its movements, the
terrible sound and murky clouds, as
driven at electric seed, bespoke de
struction. Scarcely had the awful
sight passed beyond the view when
messengers began to arrive from dif
ferent directions bringing the sad news
of devastation of property and loss of
life, and asking for help. Our citizens,
some mounted and some on foot, hur
ried towards the scene but to find dead
bodies, wrecks of houses, fences, and
for the distance measured by the hur
ricane, all the trees felled. Every
thing is excitement, as news of addi
tional disasters is brought from the
track of the angry storm.
Among the casualties reported up to
-date we report the following : John T.
Stovall’s residence blown down, and he,
it is thought, mortally wounded, his
wife also wounded ; J. W. Morgan’s
residence blown down, a daughter seri
ously injured ; James A. Benson’s resi
dence blown down, a negro man killed
and negro child mortally wounded;
John E. Smith’s houses all blown away,
except the dwelliug and gin house, two
negroes were killed and several seri
ously injured. Additional disasters are
constantly being reported.
The mail carrier brings news of
dreadful disasters at Appling and vi
cinity. The houses of S. S. Hutchin
son, Salon Reese, John Baston and
several others were destroyed or in
jured. Geo. Darcey’s houses were de
stroyed, and his mother, Mrs. Darcey,
killed. George Graves’ house blown
down, ami his mother seriously injur
ed. Dr. Bailey’s house, at Appling,
was blown down, and his sister, Miss
Maggie Bailey, killed, and Miss Malone
seriously injured. One end of the
Court House was blown awav.
W. & C.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISI^FcHES.
FOREIGN.
The French Assembly—Trouble on
the China Frontier—Austria Favors
the Centennial—Death of John
Mitchel—Oxford Wins the Univer
sity Boat Race.
Paris, March 20.—The coalition in
the Assembly which supports constitu
tional laws have a majority of 11 in the
Permanent Committee appointed to sit
during recess.
Calcutta, March 20.—The Indian
Government expedition to survey West
ern China arrived at Rongoon. An
attack was made on it by Chinese
frontier officials. Twenty chinamen
were killed and many wounded. Com
munication with China on the frontier
is stopped by large bands of armed
men. The King of Burmah is sending
4,000 troops to the Acaean frontier.
Vienna, March 20. — The Lower
House of the Reichsrath approved the
grant of $25,000 for 1875, and $50,000
for 1876, to defray expenses of the rep
resentation of Austria at the Centen
nial.
London, March 20—John Mitchel is
dead.
The annual Inter-University boat
race took placo over the usual course
on the Thames, this afternoon, and
resulted in an easy victory for the Ox
ford crow.
The Prince of Wales goes to India
the next cold season.
Havana, March 20.—Gen. Carbo and
New Segundo Gabo and 700 soldiers
arrived to-day from Spain.
London, March 20. —John Mitchel
died quietly at 8 o’clock this morning,
at Dremalaue, Ireland. *
The weather was favorable for the
boat race, though rather cold. The
betting during the morning was 3 to 1
on the Oxford crew. The banks of the
Thames were lined with a mass of peo
pie. All the morning the different av
enues leading to the river were choked
with vehicles and pedestrians, and at
noon presented a deserted appearance.
Madkid, March 20.—Calvera’s con
vention with the Alfonsists produced a
deep impression an the Carlists. sev
eral officers suspected of favoring Al
fonso were arrested at Estella.
Vienna, March 20. —Don Alfonso,
brother of Don Carlos, is residing pri
vately here.
A Genuine Bandit Hanged.
San Francisco, March 20.—The ban
dit Vasquez was executed at San Jose
yesterday. No attempt at rescue, al
though it was feared. He asserted his
innocence of the crime of murder, but
acknowledges the justice of his fate,
having been the leader of a murder
ous gang.
CINCINNATI,
Election of Railroad Officers.
Cincinnati, March 20—At the annual
Covention of the General Ticket Agents
and Passenger Agents’ Association
representatives from all the important
roads, except the Baltimore and Ohio,
were present. The following officers
were elected : President, D. M. Boyd,
Jr., of the Pennsylvania Railroad ;
Vice-President, C. P. Atware, of the
Louisville and Neshville Railroad ;
Secretary, Samuel Powell, of Chicago
of the Burlington and Quincy Railroad’
WASHINGTON.
Senatorial Squabble over Louisiana
—The Session to be Prolonged.
Washington, March 20.—1n the Sen
ate immediately after reading of the
journal, the Senate, by a vote of 28
yeas to 25 nays, took up the resolution
oPFrelinghuysen, approving of the ac
tion of the President taken in Louisi
ana, and offered the following substi
tute, agreed upon in caucus :
Resolved, That the action of the
President in protecting the govern
ment in Louisiana, of which Wm. P.
Kellogg is Executive, and the people
of that State against domestic violence
and enforcing the laws of the United
States is approved.
A motion to go into Executive ses
sion was defeated. A motion to post
pone to December was defeated. A
prolongation of the session is certain.
Christiancy and Robertson have
abaqdoned the caucus.
The Democratic Senators were in
caucus this morning and resolved not
to consent to have any time fixed for a
vote on the resolution approving of
President Grant’s action in recognizing
the Kellogg government, though they
also agreed not to offer any factious
opposition to, but insist upon debating
it to the extent they might deem prop
er.
The Senate is still in session. Ker
nan, of New York, is speaking. No
speech has been made by any Republi
can.
The Court of Claims has adjourned
to the 28 of April.
No Executive session to-day. No
Southern nominations.
The debate in the Senate was con
tinued until 11:10 p. m., when Johnson,
of Tennessee, obtained the floor, but
before proceeding witli his remarks he
yielded for an Executive session, after
which the Senate adjourned till Mon
day.
NEW JERSEY.
Failure of a Life Insurance Company
Ben Butler’s Opinion of Civil Rights.
Elizabeth, March 20.— Tiie Equita
ble Life Insurance Company has failed.
A Washington letter from Butler
says the Civil Rights bill gives negroes
no rights in drinking saloons or barber
shops. The bill only reasserts the
rights conferred by civil law, and sim
ply gives colored men easier means of
securing them.
Mining Difficulty.
Columbus, March 20.— 1 t now appears
that the troubles with the miners was
at tiie Iray Coal Company’s works,
and not with the Straitesville Mining
Company. All the colored miners left
at the Straitesville works except two,
were too badly wounded to leave. The
Straitesville Company yielded to the
demand of the miners and the men re
sumed work.
FLASHES.
The frigate Ariadne has been order
ed to Swatow to support the demand
for indemnity for plundering the bark
Furst Bismark.
At an adjourned election for Mayor
of Bangor, Me., yesterday, J. M.
noughton, Democrat, was elected by
89 majority. The Republicans have
four majority in joint council.
LOUISIANA.
Another Violation of Civil Rights.
New Orleans, March 20.—Mitchell,
captain, and Robbins, clerk of the
steamboat Seminole, are held in bail
to answer for a violation of civil
rights.
An Unsafe Railroad Bridge.
Columbia, March 20.—The bridge
must be repaired before it will be safe
for trains.
The Storm Interfering with the
Telegraph.
Philadelphia, March 20. — The storm
from Washington to New York and
from the sea coast to Petersburg is in
terfering with the telegraph.
Rhode Island’s Nonenity.
The first new member who opened
his mouth upon the floor of the Senate
was Burnside. If his future efforts do
not surpass his effort of yesterday, he
wiil verify the remark about him, made
by an acquaintance of his, who said
that there was nothing left of Burnside
now but his whiskers. The time se
lected by Burnside to launch himself
into the Senatorial arena was during
Merrimon’s speech. Merrimon was
working himself up and down in his
shad-bellied coat, talking as if for a
wager about the Piuchback case.
Burnside was busy writing at the
time, when suddenly he became seized
with a humorous idea. He arose and
asked leave to ask Merrimon a ques
tion. This was readily granted, and
then Burnside seemed much embar
rassed by the great amount of atten
tion bestowed upon him. He punc
tured the air with his pen, and stam
mered a bit, as he said, “Do you sup
pose that this Senate could, by any
possible action, during the extra ses
sion, perfect anything of a legislative
character that would involve the coun
try in a civil war ?”
This question struck Merrimon all
amidship. It was about as relevant to
his speech as a question whether he
liked his whiskey straight or well wa
tered. Burnside had to repeat the
question before Merrimon could grasp
its immensity, and then he replied that
he thought it could. Burnside sat
down at this, saying that he “had been
so informed.”
The affair was so ludicroqs that the
galleries could hardly repress a laugh.
Civil Rights in a New England
Church. —Last Suuday, Civil Rights
privileges were awarded to two colored
ladies at Trinity Episcopal church, at
Newport, li. 1., the most aristocratic
place of worship in the city, and one
visited almost exclusively by th e elite
of the place and by Summer visitors.
The ladies were shown to a vestryman’s
pew, who they represented to the sex
ton had invited them. The vestyman
was absent, and the sexton at once
showed them to the desired pew,.which
was occupied by two ladies who were
strangers, and who had previously been
shown in. The latter were highly in
dignant at what they termed an out
rage, and at once arose and indignantly
left the church. The objects of the at
tention of all present (the colored
ladies) remained. This is the topic of
conversation here, as it is the first time
a colored person was ever admitted to
a prominent seat in that church, and it
remains to be seen whether the sexton
or vestryman will be censured by the
corporation,
AUGUSTA, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 31. 1875.
[For the Constitutionalist.
GAMBLING.
A Warning to Young Men.
In my former article, in showing how
the dangerous wish to imitate the
style of life of those richer than them
selves, was frequently the cause that
led many young men to the first down
ward step, I briefly touched on gamb
ling. It is my purpose in this article
to show to the young meu of this city
gambling in its proper colors.
Gambling is a path by the side of a
very steep precipice and threatens
death at every step. At its table for
tunes are staked on the cast of the
dice. Gambling is the most exciting,
absorbing, irregular passion of which
the mind is capable ; it subdues the
whole man, body, soul and spirit; age
cannot quench the desire, nor stop the
practice, remorse which sometimes
makes the drunkard sober, appears
unable to procure a lodgment in the
practical gamester’s heart.
The vice is so utterly hateful, the
man abandoned to it so like a fiend,
without love, without pity, without
compassion, without natural affection
or domestic charity, that the first step
towards becoming such a living, walk
ing, suffering incarnation of the spirit
of hell should be shunned as we would
shun the plague. You will fiud its vic
tims in the courts of bankruptcy, in the
cellars and garrets of poverty, in the
dark dens of crime and infamy, at tiie
grave of the suicide, in the cells of our
gaols, and at the gallows itself we see
in gambling nothing but sin, danger
and ruin.
The spirit which gaming evokes and
the character it forms are both essenti
ally evil. Gambling destroys all law
ful dependence upon manly labor, upon
industry, prudence, perseverance and
honest endeavor ; it annihilates reliance
upon Divine Providence as crowning
right exertion, and begets a spirit of
fearful recklessness. A recklessness
first awakened with respect to money,
soon extends to health, life, honor,
reputation, character and morality,
consequently the gambler is prepared
to lie, to cheat, to steal, or even to
murder. Gambling is a transgression of
the Divine law. It excludes all regard
to God. It denies God utterly. It
even sets up a false God. It deifies
chance. No man then can love God—
trust in God—be obedient to God—or
endeavor to glorify God and be a gam
bler. Steele states : “ There is nothing
that wears out a fine face, like the vigils
of the card table and those cutting pas
sions which naturally attend them. Hol
low eyes, haggard looks and pale com
plexion is the natural indication of a
gambler. His morning sleeps are not
able to repay his midnight watchings.”
La Bruyere says: “ Ajcourt of justice
shows nothing so serious and grave as
a table of gamesteus playing very high,
a melancholy solicitude clouds their
looks, envy and rancour agitate their
minds while the meeting lasts, without
regard to friendship, alliances, birth,
or distinctions.” Lavater says : “It is
possible that a wise and good man may
be prevailed on to game, but it is im
possible that a professed gamester
should be a wise and good man.” The
evidence of these writers prove that
gambling causes—
“ Lingering pains and pangs intense,
lied fever, spotted pestilence.”
Look at that ship, disabled, water
logged and drifting fast on a lee shore.
With hardly room to wear, perhaps
she may get round on another tack,
and make the offing. But experience
tells us that for one ship thus saved,
thousands have missed stays and gone
to pieces. So it is with the gambler.
He is drifting fast on the rocks—the
roar of the breakers is around him—
the cold dash of the spray washes him.
If any young men who may read this
have already commenced to try and
gain money in an easier ivay than by hon
est industry, let them at once let go the
anchor, and as it plunges over the side
and their eyes follow the retreating
cable, throw with it all the shifting
sand of their weak resolutions, and
then they may ride out the storm. Be
strong in purpose, firm as adamant or
the convict’s ceil, or the grave of the
suicide may be your portion. H.
The Coming Crash in Europe.
Mr. H. M. Hosier, a student of politi
cal events and interpreter of political
portents, discusses in tiie Gentleman's
Magazine, of Loudon, the fighting ca
pacity of the nations of Europe, in view
of the general war so confidently pre
dicted by Mr. Disraeli and other Eng
lish statesmen. Beginning with France,
he thinks the government of that coun
try would hardly encourage aspirations
of the French people to rush into war
with Germany, and neither the army
organization nor the arrangement of
the commissariat is strong enough to
warrant it.
Spain may be considered as out of
the military arena of Europe, having
internal dissensions enough to keep
her occupied.
Belgium and Switzerland will not be
interfered with in any event, unless
their territory should be wanted as a
battle ground, and neutrality one has
been guaranteed and that of the other
virtually assured by the great powers.
Russia is styled the “ great mysterious
power.” By law, last November, every
Russian subject becomes liable to mil
itary service, and the consequence of
this decree is an enormous increase in
the army, and it is estimated that next
year Russia will be abie to put 1,500,-
000 strong, hardy and loyal soldiers in
the field. Sweden and Norway would
probably enter into no general Euro
pean war, though well equipped for
self-defense.
Turkey is “almost a nightmare in
every foreign office.”* England could
only maintain a position of neutrality,
being poorly prepared to become a
participant in a general war. Germany
is the first-class war power, able in any
emergency to put 1,600,000 fighting
men in the field, and throughout the
Fatherland there is-a feeling that the
only way to reduce these enormous
armaments to a footing proportionate
to the capabilities of the people, is to
force on events, and somehow or other
disarm those on account of whom
these military preparations arc neces
sary.
A young man, in New York, recently
picked up an envelope containing $70,-
000 worth of bonds, which he returned
to their owners, a firm of bankers. The
latter had just had their circulars print
ed, offering SI,OOO reward for the miss
ing bonds, but promptly cut down the
reward to SIOO.
The Cincinnati Enquirer tells of a
woman there who has triplets, and of
another who owns three pairs of twins
They disagree as which of them holds
the best hand. Schenck says three of
a kind beats two pairs, but he don’t
say how many of a kind it takes to
beat three pairs.
[Reported for the Baltimore sun.
THE GERMAN CITIZENS OF BAL
TIMORE.
Lecture by Col. J. Thomas Scharf—
Antecedents of the German Popula
tion-History in Arms and Arts in
America—Local Reminiscences.
Col. J. Thomas Scharf, delivered a
highly interesting lecture last night at
the German Orphan Asylum, Aisquith
street, for the benefit of that institu
tion, which is encumbered with debt.
Col. Scharf’s subject was “ The De
velopment of the German Element in
Baltimore.” There was a large attend
ance, the large hall of the asylum being
filled, the audience comprising some of
the most prosperous citizens of German
birth in Baltimore, and a number of
ladies. Col. Scharf was introduced by
Capt. J. R. Fellrnau, and spoke about
au hour and a half. At the conclusion
he was greeted with hearty applause.
the faults of history. •
The lecturer estimated the “German
population ” of Baltimore and their de
scendants at 100,000, which is equal to
the entire population of Baltimore in
18-40. The United States, as they
stand to-day, have had two main
sources of population—that of the col
onies as at the period of the revolu
tion and subsequent immigration. If
we are to analyze the population of
the first period we must be guided by
the State papers, colonial and British,
by local histories and memoirs. In all
our colonial memories there is the de
fect of history generally—the story of
the few told by tiie partisans of the
few. [Applause.] They go to exalt
great names, not to show the social
condition of the many. The proprieta
ry system under which colonization
began necessarily gave the turn of
panegyric to all those first accounts,
for family pride was not thrown over
board in the outer voyage.
CONVICTS AND REDEMPTIONERB.
In every history of Virginia it is easy
to find who was Colonel or who was
Councillor to the Governor. In every
history of Massachusetts it is equally
easy to fiud who was “a gentleman in
good circumstances, that came out
with Gov. Winthrop,” but it is not so
easy to find out who are the sons of
the nameless mechanics or common
cultivators, without whose presence
here there could have been no Massa
chusetts and no Virginia. [Great ap
plause. Ot two classes of our original
population, convicts and redemption
ers, it is impossible to find any record.
If family pride conceals the true or in
vents a false origin for its A.mericau
tree, it is as ignorant as it is inconsist
ent. It ought to be no disgrace to de
scend from men who were convicts un
der the barbarous English penal code
of the seventeenth century—a code
which punished over four hundred dif
ferent offenses with death—a code
which, under Cromwell, executed over
three thousand wretches for witch
craft. Those among us who claim to
be of the best families boast that their
ancestors were fugitives from British
law as it formerly existed, What ad
vantage can the fugitive claim over the
convict except the advantage of escape
over conviction. [Applause.]
GERMAN IMMIGRANTS.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century, when the French army crossed
the Rhine, many distressed Germans,,
persecuted by their heartless princes,
and plundered by a foreign enemy, fled
to America. A large class of those
early German immigrants were what
was called, in the colonial phrase, Re
demptioners. They were unable to pay
their passage on the ships, and bound
themselves by contract to serve a cer
tain period here to redeem their pas
sage money. The shipmasters sold
their time to the colonists. These im
migrants were a numerous class, and
some of the redemptioners have given
the most honored names to our history.
Charles Thompson, an Irishman, and
Secretary to the First American Con
gress ; Matthew Thornton, a signer of
the Declaration of Independence, and
the parents of Gen. Sullivan, were re
demptioners.
WHO ARE FOREIGNERS.
These honored immigrants wore for
eigners. The lecturer asked, “And
who are those who make the term
‘ foreigner ’ one of reproach ?” In one
sense we are all foreigners to America
—whites and blacks. [Applause.] The
term conveys no stigma to the well in
formed mind. The history of mankind
is a history of immigration ; mythology
is a story of immigration; discovery
and the adventure of Columbus in the
new world is a story of immigration.—
After Columbus wo came, borne on
ward by the destiny of humanity, in
obedience to the primative charter of
our race from Eden: “Go forth and fill
the earth and subdue it; and in the
sweat of your brow you shall earn your
bread.” The German immigrant stands
on this higli ground, and so standing
can look the past fearlessly in the face.
[Applause.] He has no cause to be
ashamed of his predecessors here.—
[Applause.]
The German immigration has been
no pauper immigration to be reproach
ed contemptuously only as a foreigner.
Only those are foreigners in America
who are faithless! The German im
migrants cab say they are here sub
ordinates in power but principals in
labor. [Great applause.] We can say
for them, that in no department of
American development have the Ger
man mind and the German arm been
unfelt. They can look history in the
face, and putting their hands on any
part of the fabric of state, say, as a
people, this was partly our work. —
[Cheering.]
HESSIANS AND PATRIOTS.
Justice has never been done to the
memory of the German heroes of tiie
revolution. Every school hoy lias been
taught to nurse hatred of the Hessians
hired by the king from German princes
to subdue the colonies. But we are
not told that at the close of the war
many of the Hessians remained to
form a solid portion of tiie population.
Maryland and Pennsylvania, which
bore conspicuous and heroic parts in
the struggle for liberty, executed many
gallant deeds through the German
born citizens of these States. [Ap
plause.] Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania, populated chiefly by Germans,
furnished nine complete regiments to
the American armies of the revolution.
In the stubborn battle of Long Island
they fought hand to hand against the
imported Hessians. A Hessian account
of this battie, speaking of the captured
prisoners, says “they consisted of three
battalions, for the most part Germans
enlisted in Pennsylvania.” When all
the young men had left Reading,
Berks county, Pennsylvania, for the
army, the old men enlisted to the num
ber of eighty. Their leader was 97,
aud the drummer 84 years of age.
MARYLAND GERMAN SOLDIERS.
Lieut. George Strieker, the father of
of Gen. John Sti’icker, who defended
Baltimore in 1812, commanded a Lan
caster regiment in the war of independ
ence. Frederick county, Md., which
then comprised also the territory of
Washington, Montgomery, Gari’ett, Al
leghany and part of Carroll counties,
furnished a large share of Maryland’s
quota of enlisted men to the American
armies of the revolution from German
born citizens and their descendants.
Maryland contributed one full German
regiment and ono company of German
artillery. These troops were recruited
in Baltimore, Frederick and Harford
counties, and fought under Gen. Small
wood in the famous Maryland Line.
[Great applause.] They poured out
their blood for their adopted country
at Long Island, White Plains, Harlem
Heights, Germantown, Brandywine,
Monmouth, Camden, Cowpens, Guild
ford and at Eutaw. They were among
the first to meet British and Hessian
regulars with fixed bayonets. I Ap
plause.]
THE FIRST GERMANS IN BALTIMORE.
The history of the Germans of Bal
timore is indeed aided largely by the
history of the city. The first Germans,
or descendants of Germans, in Balti
more that we have any knowledge of
were Leonard and Daniel Barnitz, who
came irom York, Pa. They were brew
ers, in 1784, at the southwest corner of
Baltimore and Hanover streets. Near
ly all the early German settlers in Bal
timore came from Lancaster, York and
Tolpehocken, in Pennsylvania. Five
years after the brothers Barnitz, and
Dr. C. F. Wissenthal, a German phy
sycian, who practiced here thirty-six
years, and died in 1789. His son was
Dr. Andrew Wissenthal, Secretary, &c.,
to the first medical society establish
ed in Baltimore, 1788. In 1753 Valen
tine Larsh, a Pennsylvania German,
built an inn at the southwest corner of
Baltimore and Gay streets. Andrew
Steiger, also a Pennsylvania German,
in 1750, bought the lot at the northeast
corner of Baltimore and Gay streets.
He bought the marsh in the bend of
falls, then on the east side of the
stream, which he drained and utilized
for pasturage of cattle. This low
ground embraced the horse-shoe curve
of the falls, long known as “ Steiger’s
meadow.” Iu 1782 the first appointed
town council, seven persons, there
were five Germans—Jas. Sterrett, Eu
glehardt Yeiser, Geo. Linden, Jesse
Hollinsworth and Peter Hoffman. En
glehardt Yeiser and others accomplish
ed a diversion of Jones’ Falls iu 1789.
The Germans owned the marsh near
the falls, and cut anew channel from a
mill at Bath street, across the meadow
to Gay street bridge. In time the old
course of the stream, near the court
house, which stood on a bluff over
looking the falls, where the battle
monument now stands, was filled up.
PIONEER MERCHANTS.
Of the early German merchants
whose energy, capital and enterprise
gave an impulse to Baltimore, may be
mentioned Frederick W. Brune and
John C. Brune, father and son, former
members of the present house of F. W.
Brune & Sons, successors to the house
of Von Kapff & Auspack, founded in
1795. They were heavy shippers of to
bacco and colonial produce, and im
porters of German linens. Their trade
was largely South American, the rival
ry in which produced the fast sailing
Baltimore clippers, which were known
the world over. Frederick W. Brune,
who died in 18G0, aged 84, lived to see
the city of his adoption grow from a
place of 30,000 to more than 200,000
inhabitants.
Peter Hoffman, Sr., of the old leading
dry goods firm of Peter Hoffman &
Sons, was born in 1742, near Frankfort
on-the-Main, and came to Baltimore
when very young. His store and
dwelling were on the site now occupied
by Hamilton Easter & Sons, iu the
same business.
In the early history of Baltimore
also are the mercantile names of Volck,
Focke, Albert, Meyer, Brautz, Schwarz,
Cohen, Bohn, Waschie, Shroeder, Lur
man, Reinicker, Frick, Benzinger, Dif
feuderffer and others, all Germans, who
have left enduring monuments of their
mercantile probity and public spirit.
There was Albert Schumacher, too, of
the more recent merchants, born in
Bremen in 1802, and settled in Balti
more in 1829. He was a President of
the Board of Trade and prime mover in
the Baltimore and Bremen line of
steamers. The great railroad Presi
dent, John W. Garrett, is also of half
German descent. His maternal grand
father, Henry Stauffer, was born in
Lancaster, Pa., and came to Baltimore
in 1783.
EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL.
Col. Scharf referred at some length
to the educational, religious, charita
ble and social foundations of the Ger
mans of Baltimore, mentioning, besides
the immense Catholic and other parish
schools, those of Prof. Knapp and Rev.
Mr. Schelb; the recently founded Eng
lish-German public schools; the many
German benevolent institutions, in
cluding the splendid Orphan Asylum
building in which he spoke, which is
an architectural ornament to the city.
In this connection* he also paid a high
tribute to the charity of the Israelites
of Baltimore, most of whom are of Ger
man birth, for their benevolent socie
ties, orphan asylum and hospitals, la
dies’ societies, educational and burial
associations, etc. Col. Scharf estima
ted that of the German population of
Baltimore and their descendants, there
are ten thousand Israelites, having ten
public synagogues. As bankers, mer
chants, professional men and other
wise, their history in Baltimore will
compare favorably with that of any
other branch of our people.
MANUFACTURERS AND ARTIFICERS.
In the list of German manufacturers
and artificers are first, the piano and
other musical instrument makers,
Knabe & Cos., C. M. Stieff & Cos.. Heine
knap & Cos., the Gaehle Manufacturing
Company, Pomplitz Organ Company,
Eisenbrandt, Schumacher and others.
John Jacob Astor came first to Balti
more from Germany iu 17G3 with musi
cal instruments to sell on commission.
He invested his profits in furs in New
York State, and died with the largest
fortune ever accumulated in America,
estimated at twenty millions. Of other
manufacturers, there is the great Ger
man tobacco firm of Gail & Ax, William
Wilkens & Cos., curled hair factors, be
gan here, and extended to all the lead
ing cities of the Union, with branches
iu Europe. Of other useful arts, the
only porcelain decoration done in Bal
timore is by a German, Bolandt; the
only glass painting by Geruhardt. Iu
wood carving are Feubner & Suds
burg ; scenic and decorative painting,
Getz; also Lankan, Kruger and Theiss;
lithography, August Hoen, and Sachse
& Cos. This art of printing from stone
was introduced here in 1830 by Endi
cott & Swet, who afterwards removed
to New York. E Weber and August
Hoen came in 1835, doing the first lith
ographic work for Congress.
LOVE OF MUSIC.
In their love for and cultivation of
music the Germans of Baltimore early
associated themselves for reciprocal
musical enjoyment. The famous Lieder
krauz was originated in 1836 by Rev. A.
Schieb, and rendered a number of musi
cal compositions for the first time in
Baltimore under the direction of Mr.
P. Welsifer. The Miennerchor, Arion,
Harmonia and other musical societies
followed. The first orchestra was that
of Steyermarker, 1848, of which Jung
nickel, the eminent violoncellist, and
Jvlaukcheck yet remain. The Concor
dia, now numbering fifteen hundred
members, was established in 1847, com
bining a theatre, club and musical
society, and owning a first-class theatre
and club house.
LAGER BEER.
Music and lager beer flow in har
monious measures with the Germans,
so it is no great step from the oue to
the other—from melody to beer.—
[Laughter and applause.] Lager is as
much an institution with the Teuton as
music. The German is born with a
taste for lager, and he never abandons
it until ho is laid on his bed. [Laugh
ter.] It is not the use, but the abuse
of any. beverage that makes an evil.
The Germans use lager rationally,
drinking it with the family restraints
of wife and children present to check
excess. The Germans have thriven on
beer. No one will dispute the fact that
they are a vigorous, sturdy, intellectual
race. Their philosophers, statesmen,
poets, artists, musicians, scholars, men
of science and genius are as numerous
as the leaves of the forest. [Applause.)
Beer has not befogged reason nor
clouded the intellect; it has not pre
vented the giant strides of Prussia to
the first place among the nations of the
world. [Applause.]
THE LYGEH BEER INTEREST.
Americans, who at first displayed the
utmost aversion to lager beer, now
consume more of the beverage than
■the Germans, from mingling in the so
cial festivities of our adopted citizens.
[Applause.] The first barrel of lager
beer was brought to Baltimore thirty
years ago by Wm. Hultzman, from
Philadelphia, where it. was made by
George Meuger and Peseta, the first
lager beer brewers in the United
States. The first lager beer brewery
in Baltimore was established by Geo.
Rosmarck. There are now here over
forty breweries, the largest of which is
that of Jacob Seeger. The .aggregate
brewing capacity is 300,000 barrels, of
1,200,000 kegs a year, giving employ
ment to over 2,000 workmen.
THE SCHUETZEN SOCIETIES.
In alluding to the beer gardens, which
constitute such great places of resort
in and around the city, Colonel Scharf
spoke at length of the Schuetzen Socie
ties, the first of which, the Baltimore
Rifle Target Shooting Company, was
founded in 1851 by Henry YVittig,
Charles Frey and a few others. The
society numbered but few members up
to 1860. Its first great festival was
held in 1863. The Belair Park was pur
chased iu 1865 for §45,000. The society
now represents thirteen hundred famf
lies. Sometimes there have been twenty
thousand people attending its festivals,
and the National Schuetzen festival in
1874 cost §34,000.
THE PRESS.
Among the agencies giving tone to
the body of German-American citizens
of Baltimore, Col. Scharf spoke of the
press, mentioning Frederick ltaine.who,
like many Americans, had founded an
influential journal on good business
principles, and Charles H, Schauffer,
who had also founded a journal print
ed iu the German language. In the
course of some remarks enforcing the
lesson that poverty and humble birth
are no obstacles in free America to the
rise and influence or worth and talent.
Col. Scharf incidentally mentioned as a
fact, the circumstance not generally
known, that Robert Fulton, inventor of
the steamboat, was a portrait painter
iu Pennsylvania, and a watchmaker in
Baltimore.
COMMON PATRIOTISM.
Identified as Germans are with Ameri
can institutions, prejudices of birth and
nationality should be sunk in the des
tiny of a homogeneous people. Native
and foreign born citizens should go
hand in hand iu the march of progress
which is to make Baltimore chief among
American communities. Politically
speaking, our German friends should
become thoroughly American. It is
natural and well enough to love the
memories of “ Faderland,” and to re
tain innocent social habits, but all
should remember that in coming here
it is to make America the home of
themselves and ther children. Ail al
legiance .to “ King and Kaiser ” has
been renounced, henceforth to become
integral parts of the great American
Republic. [Applause. I
This republic has been left us all by
the heroes of the revolution, in which
Germau ancestry as well as American
poured out precious blood; it is our
common inherit mce. Our progress to
greatness was from injuries to arms,
from arms to freedom, from freedom to
opulence. The trial of adversity was
with our ancestors; the trial of pros
perity is ours. [Applause.] If this
generation does its duty the cause of
constitutional freedom is safe. To per
petuate its inheritance and deliver it
to posterity we must possess the spirit
that gave it existence. [Great ap
plause.]
Great Storm. — Corinth, Miss., March
15. —A hard rain and hail storm passed
over this section last night. The town
of Rienzi was nearly destroyed. Four
persous were killed, namely: Poster
Walker, Miss Mattie Palmer, and Mr.
Jordan Reese and daughter. Several
were dangerously and many slightly
wounded. The waters are fast subsid
ing. The damage to the railroad and
telegraph is inconsiderable. All com
munication will be resumed to-morrow.
Minnie Myrtle Miller, wife of Joa
quin, has been lecturing the Young
Reformers’ Temperance Association of
San Francisco on “ Man,” and, accord
ing to a local scribe, she “ raked that
biped fore and aft.” It is pleasant to
know, however, that “ the gory view of
was relieved by a vein of hu
mor which made the brute man seem
not so bad after all.”
Forney says in one of his letters to
the Philadelphia Press: “ All over the
continent of Europe the water is bad,
and it would seem as if nature had pro
vided a special wine for every district
to make up the deficiency ; and yet fc
strange to say, while everybody drinks
it, I have not seen an intoxicated man
in France.”
“ You are too poor entirely, Miss,”
said a teacher to a pupil. “ Your whole
demeanor is a continuous misdemean
or.”
The stamp of civilization—The pos
tage stamp.
A GHOST IN JAIL.
Hanged in 1872 and Back Again m
1875—The Prisoners Scared and the
Keepers Puzzled.
Hackensack, in Bergen county, N. J..
has a sensation in the shape of a gen
uine ghost which haunts the county
jail and creates the utmost consterna
tion and alarm among the prisoners
and other inmates. The spirit has
been recognized as that of John W.
Avery, the young man who was hanged
iu the jail on June 28, 1872, for mur
der.
Ihe mysterious phenomena which
accompany the appearance of the spirit
were at first attributed to some plan of
escape concocted by the prisoners, but
recent developments prove t hat such is
not the case. A prisoner named Wal
lace, who was confined in the jail in
October last, and who was familiar with
Avery, solemnly affirms that his spirit
appeared ono night, and was distinctly
seen to walk around one of the tiers
and pull the bed clothing off a Germau
prisoner who was confined iu the cell
formerly occupied by Avery.
The German, who is still a prisoner,
confirms the story, and many persons
who visited Avery now remember that
he made a solemn promise before his
death to levisit the jail after his execu
tion. The story of his latest appear
ance seemed to be well authenticated,
several of the prisoners thoroughly
agreeing in their statement of all the
alleged facts. The phenomenon occur
red about midnight on Sunday, and
there is no doubt that the utmost con
sternation and alarm prevailed among
the prisoners.
As is customary in all well regulated
ghost stories, the clock had just ceased
striking 12, when a soft, unnatural light
filled the whole interior of the jail, and
awakened all the prisoners. Some of
them were terror stricken, and buried
their heads beneath the bed clothing,
while others seemed to be paralyzed so
that they could not move, and were
thus compelled to be unwilling wit
nesses of the supernatural scenes and
sounds that followed.
They solemnly aver that they heard
one of the windows raised and felt cold
air rush iu. Then the shadowy form
of a man, all plainly visible except the
legs, seemed to glide between the bars
and up the stairs to the top tier of
cells. The figure stopped in front of
the cell winch had been occupied by
Avery, and opening the door, entered.
The opening and closing of the door
was distinctly heard. After the lapse
of a few minutes the figure reap
peared, and its footfalls on the steps
as it descended again were distinctly
heard. The figure passed around all
the tiers of cells, and then floated down
to the wash room and was heard to
tum on the water. Finally, the ghost
returned to the window and disap
peared as it hnd entered, and the bluish
light gt- idii illy faded away. This is
substantially ; ;.e story as told by sev
eral of the prisoners, who claim to have
been eye-witnesses, and express their
firm belief that they saw Avery’s ghost.
[Paris Figaro.
TWO BROKEN HEARTS.
Bewitched by a Beautiful Actress. A
Loving Wife’s Terrible Death.
Iu 1870 a young Frenchman, the
Count George de Meyrac, married a
beautiful girl of his own station iu life,
Mathilde , who was very much in
love with him. All went well, and the
two were very happy in their devotion
to each other. They were fond of the
theatre, and every one just at that time
was enraptured with anew actress, Ro
sita, who took the principal roles in the
dubious drama of the Dumas school.
The newly wedded pair often w'ent to
Rosita’s theatre, until the Countess
thought her husband’s eyes lingered
too fondly on the actress, aud
began to feel pangs of jealousy.
Frou-Frou was one of Rosita’s best
impersonations, aud on her fare
well uight she appeared by request
iu that character. The Jockey Club,
of which George de Meyrac was Vice-
President, gave her a supper after the
play. George, of course, was present,
aud sat by the side of the fascinatiug
Rosita, who was surrounded with bou
quets. Wine flowed freely, and mirth
and wit enlivened the banquet until 3
o’clock in the morning. Meanwhile,
the poor wife, Mathilde, waited at the
little gate ef their park for her truant
husband. The nours passed slowly on,
aud he came not. A cold, penetrating
rain began to fall at midnight,and Ma
thilde trembled from exhaustion and
exposure. At five in the morning, when
her husband came through the little
gate, he stumbled over her inanimate
body lying on the rain-soaked ground.
She was not dead ; she lived for five
days after, but never recovered her
mind. In her delirium, she incessantly
murmured, “Frou-Frou ! Frou-Frou !”
Those were her last words.
The Count was almost crazed by his
wife’s loss. He entered the army, and
sought -death in the bloody battles of
the Franco-Prussian war. Fate was
cruel, and he returned unharmed. His
wife’s room, adjoining his own, had al
ways been kept closed since her death,
but owing to the suffocating heat one
Summer’s night, George opened the
door between the two rooms. He then
fell asleep. In about an hour he awoke;
the clock struck mid-night. As the
last stroke sounded, he heard distinct
ly from the other room the words,
“Frou-Frou.” He listened with inex
pressible anguish. “ Frou-Frou ”
seemed to be murmured from all parts
of the room.
He leaped from his bed, lighted a
candle, and crossed the threshold of
Mathilda's chamber. At that instant a
current of air extinguished the caudle,
and George felt upon his forehead, his
lips, his cheeks, something indefinable
—a breath, a caress, the contact of a
cold wing, or, perhaps, the muslin of a
peignoir. He fell unconscious. The
next morning he was fOund lying there
insane. To every interrogation he only
replied “Frou-Frou.” The country
people in the neighborhood of the Cha
teau de Meyrac think that it was the
soul of the Countess returning at mid
night to murmur iu the ear of her cruel
husband: “George, I still love thee;
but it is thou, who hast killed me!”
Mr. and Mrs. Barron, of Cincinnati,
are a strangely mated couple. Mr.
Barron is a German, and cannot speak
English. . Mrs. Barron is an American,
and cannot speak German. How their
courting was done is a matter for con
jecture. now they disagreed has been
published. The husband, after they
had lived together a mouth, whipped
his wife brutally. She understood that
well enough, the language of blows be
ing universal, and had him arrested.
In court an interpreter helped them to
converse with each other. The hus
band promised reform, the wife for
gave, and they went home together,
JNew Series— V ol. 3. ]STo. 59
! G°°d Templar Lecturer Drunk. -
Erie Pa., March 11.—The Rev. J. A.
I Davidson, recently State lecturer for
: the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
Pennsylvania, was arrested bust even
i ing for drunkenness and disorderly
I conduct, and spent the night at the
police-station. He was released tuis
morning on payment of the fine. He
has probably assisted iu organizing
more lodges of the order than any
other man in the State. This is his
second arrest in this city on the same
charge.
At the last Friday evening prayer
meeting in Plymouth Church, after
reading the story of St. Paul and Silas
singing in their prison, Beecher said :
So let us, if trouble conies, sincr our
selves out of it.” If sjuging will help
the matter, it is full time to strike up.
The Prince Imperial is to be attached
to the Fifth or Royal Irish Laucers iu
the British army.
Ice Tormed at Jerusalem this year,
much to the astonishment of the Arabs,
to whom the phenomenon was entirely
new. J
Another large class of medical stu
dents has just been graduated iu New
York, and another entrance is to be
made into Greenwood Cemetery.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, /
Saturday. March 20, 4 P. M. j
t'iiumcuii.
Gold-Buying at 113 aud selling at 115.
Silver—Buving at 102 and selling at 105.
Sight Exchange on New York, buying at
par to % premium, and selling at % to %
premium.
. Cotton:
The market was rather strung to-day
with a good demand and upward tendency
in prices. Bound lots of either grade
quoted, if put on the market to-day, would
have brought full prices and probably an
advance on the prices given.
The closing quotations were: Good Ordi
nary, 14%; Low Middling, 15%@15%; Mid
dling, 15%.
Receipts of the day, 273 and sales, 478
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 5,175 bales.
Produce :
BACON—Clear Sides, 12%; C. R. Sides,
11%; Shoulders, 10. Dry Salt—C. B. Sides,
11%@11%; Long Clear Sides, 11%; D. S.
Shoulders, 9; Bellies, 12. Tennessee
Meats—Sides, 13%; Shoulders, 10%;
Hams, 15.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%@15.
LABD—Choice, in tierce, 16; kegs and
cans, 17.
BAGGING AND TlES—Domestic bag
ging, 14%. Ties. Arrow, 5%; Pieced, 4.
BUTTEB—Goshen, 40@45; Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOUB—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, SG@GSO; family, $6.50@7/X)
and fa cy, $7.00@7.50.
COBN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.08; yellow and mixed, $1.05. Small
lots or less than car load, 3@5 higher
than car load or depot rates.
WHEAT—Light stock; choice whit**,
$1.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; red,
$1.30@1.32%.
OATS—Mixed, 83@85; white, 85.
COBN MEAL—City, $1.10; Country, sl@
1.05.
EGGS—Per dozen, 15.
Note.—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for small lots of the articles we quote are
higher in proportion
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
London, March 20—Noon.—Erie, 24%.
Paris, March 20—Noon.—Bentos, 64f. 80c.
New York, March 20 -Noon. —Stocks
dull. Money, 3. Gold, 15%. Exchange
long, 481; short, 485. Governments active
and steady. State Bonds quiet and stead v.
Gold opened at 116.
Bank statement shows: Loans decrease,
$5,000,000; specie increase, $125,000; legal
tenders increase, $375,000; deposits de
crease, $5,060,000; reserve inciease. 2,375 -
000. * ’
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 20—Noon.— Breadstufi s
quiet. Long clear middles, 48s. Gd; short
clear middles, 50s. fid.
New York, March 2o—Noon.—Flour
quiet and unchanged. Wheat shade firmer.
Gorn linn. Pork firm at $20.70@20 80. Lard
firm—steam. 14%. Spirits Turpentine firm
at 36. Bosin quiet at $2.07%@2.15 for
strained. Freights firm.
New York, March 20—P. M.—Flour
scarcely so active at $5. Wheat. %@lc.
better, with a moderate demand. Corn
firm and moderate. Pork firmer—new,
$20.80. Lard firmer—prime steam. 14%.
Coffee dull and heavy. Sugar quiet and
‘ teady. Bice quiet. Molasses quiet and
firm. Turpentine firm at 3fi. Bosin firm
at $2.10@2.15 for strained. Freights dull—
grain per sail, 6%@7; cotton per steam,
3-16.
Baltimore, March 20.—Flour quiet and
steady. Wheat quiet and firm. Corn
steady. Oats dull and unchanged. Pro
visions strong and active. Pork. $20.50@
21. Bacon active and firm—shoulders. 9.
Coffee dull and unchanged. Wiiiskev firm
at $1.15. Sugar quiet at io@lo%.
Louisville, March 20 Flour fairly ac
tive and unchanged. Corn nominally at 66
@6B. Provisions—advancing tendency and
strong. Pork, $21@21.50. Bacon—shoul
ders, 8%; clear rib aud clear, 11%, and 112%
packed. Sugar cured hams. 13@13%. Lard
steam, 14%; tierce, 14%@15; keg, 15%.
Whiskey easier at sl.ll. Bagging firm at
12%@13.
Chicago, March 20.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Com buoyant and unsettled—
No. 2 mix**!, 66%@66%; rejected, 3%@63%.
Pork active and higher at S2O. Lard in
good demand at $13.70@13.75.
Cincinnati, March 20.—Flour firm.
Corn dull at 68@69. Pork dull at s2l. Laid
strong—steam, 14 bid; kettle, 14%. Bacon
firm—shoulders, 8%; clear rib and clear,
11%@12%. Whiskey firm at sl.ll.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 20—Noon.—-Cotton
quiet and steady; middling uplands, 7%;
middling Orleans, 8@8%; sales, 8,000 ; specu
lation aud export, 2,000; sales on basis mid
dling uplands, nothing below good ordi
nary, shipped February, 7%; ditto, nothing
below low middling, shipped March, 8 1-16;
ditto, deliverable April and May, 7 15-16;
sales on basis middling Orleans, nothing
below good ordinary, 8.
Later— Sales of American, 50,000 bales;
sales on basis middling uplands, nothing
below good ordinary, shipped March aud
April, 8; ditto, nothing below low mid
dling, shipped February and March, 8;
ditto, deliverable March, 7 15-16; ditto, de
liverable May and June, 8 1-16@8%.
New York, March 20—Noon.—Cotton
firm; sales, 2,672 bales; uplands, 16%; Or
leans, 16%.
Futures opened steadier, as follows:
April, 16%, 16 11-16; May, 17 1-16; June,
17 5-16, 17%.
New York, March 20—P. M.—Cotton
firm; sales, 2,672 bales at 1C%@16%; net
receipts, 1,175 bales; gross, 3,112.
Futures closed firm; sales, 30,200 bales,
as follows: March, 16 7-1 G; April, 16 23-32;
May, 17 3-32; June, 17 7-16, 17 11-32; Julv,
17 23-32; August, 17%, 17 29-32; September,
17 11-32,17%; October, 16%. 16 13-16; Novem
ber, 16 1-16,16%; December, 16 19-32, 16'
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 20.—Arrived: City of
Montreal, Merrimac, Georgia.
Arrived out: Sa.ah, Kate Prince. Edith,
Champion. Advance, Emily, Melbourne,
Neptune, West Wind, Alfred, Scotch.