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Railroad Schedules.
Revised and Corrected by B. F. Brown, Gen
eral I’ii'ke Agent, Planters’Hotel.
PORT KOVAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta—4:2o a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port Royal 3:00p. m.
Leaves Port Royal 9:30 a. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD,
ijca ves Augusta atß:4s, a. m. andß:ls, p.m.
1. >a ves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Art ives in Augusta 3:30, p. m. andß:ls,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and6 :25,a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. in. and 6, p. m.
A l rives Augusta at 5:15, p. m. and 7:50, a. m.
iIACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at.10:45, a. m.andß;lsp.m.
lea ves Macon at. .6:30, a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Augusta..2:oo, p. in.and 8:15 a.m.
Arrives at Macon at.6:40, p. in. 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. in. and 7, a.m.
CHARLOTTE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves Augustaat‘9:3o, a. in. and 4:15, p.m.
Irrivosin Augusta at 8 :05, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
Reported Resignation of Bristow—
Another Louisiana Coalition.
Washington, March 20. — 1 t was Anal
ly decided iu the Cabinet to-day that
Louisiana can have no Federal Judge
until the next meeting of Congress.
Bristow’s resignation, as announced,
is premature, but it is knowingly as
serted that the announcement is only
premature.
Col. George B. MacCartee retires
from the Bureau of Printing and En
graving. This causes regret to him-'
dreds of male and female employes of
the Bureau. His generosity to .them
has gone long beyond the require
ments of technical duty in many in
stances.
Senator West and Collector Casey
are in accord listening to Major Dick
Wintersmith’s reminiscences of the
war. This is regarded as an indication
of anew Louisiana coalition. General
West leaves for home to-morrow.
News and Gossip.
The best legal opinion is that neither
the President, Mr. Justice Bradley, of
the Supreme Court, or Circuit Judge
Wood can designate a successor to
Judg9 Durell as District Judge of
Louisiana. The bench must remain
vacant uutil Congress meets.
Grant goes to New York Sunday.
It is likely the resignation of Col.
MacCartee, as Superintendent of the
Engraving and Printing Bureau, will
not be accepted.
The sloop of war Alert will carry the
Cadet engineers from Annapolis on
their Summer cruise.
The steamer Dispatch, which carries
the Mexican Senatorial excursionists,
lias reached Key West.
The President and Cabinet have ac
cepted an invitation to assist at a
frolic in Boston over the Centennial of
the battle of Lexington.
FOREIGN.
The Cuban Contest—Escape of Com
munists—Protestant Converts in
Spain—Carlists Fraternizing with.
Alfonsists.
•New York, March 26.—A Havana
letter of the 20th reports that on the
10th of March tho Insurgents attacked
a body of Spanish soldiers at San .Jose
de Yinima, with a convoy. The Span
ish commander of the column ordered
a reconnoisauce to bo made at tho
place where the rebels appeared, but
the rebels, who were in ambush, fell
upon their enemies and cut off their re
treat. The Spaniards, after a desperate
struggle, broke through the ranks of
the rebels and succeeded in reaching
tho fort, and from there kept up a
steady fire against the Insurgents, who
finally retreated. The Spanish loss was
twelve hundred men, v.ounded and
killed.
Rome, March 26. —The Observatore
Romano, referring to the manner in
which Archbishop McClosky’s appoint
ment to the Cardinalate has’* been re
ceived -in the United States and the re
ported preparations making there to
celebrate it, points to the painful con
trast afforded in Germany, where the
Cardinal Archbishop Ledochowski is
condemned to imprisonment because
he refuses to betray his sacred mis
sion at the behest *>f a despotic gov
ernment.
Melbourne, March 26.—Twenty noted
Communists, under the leadership of
l)r. Roatual, have escaped from New
Caledonia in boats built by themselves.
London, March 26. — The business men
universally observed Good Friday. The
weather was splendid, and the churches
and parks were crowded.
The parade iu honor of John Mit
chell has been postponed. A mooting
will be called shortly, at which ar
rangements will be perfected to carry
out the programme on a week day.
The brig Maria Westeudorf Ivindorf,
from Pensacola for Emden, has been
abandoned at sea. The crew arrived
at Glasgow.
Ppris, March 27. — Louis Amedee Eu
gene Achara, a French author, is dead.
Madrid, March 27.—According to
statistics obtained from Protestant
sources, 30,000 Spaniards have been
converted to Protestantism since 1808.
Protestant chapels in this city anti
elsewhere in the country continue
open.
Loma has arrived at Zuragary. The
Carlists there fraternized with .Alfons
ists, and demonstrations were made iu
favor of peaco.
Berlin, March 27.—The Ivhau of
Ivhiva has asked of Russia further as
sistance against his unruly subjects,
and also offered to become a vassal to
the Czar.
BALTIMORE.
Death, of a Prominent Confederate.
Baltimore, March 26.—The Port To
bacco Independent says Col. Richard
Thomas, generally called Madame Za
rona, died suddenly last Wednesday
night, at the residence of his brother
James Thomas, of St. Mary’s county’
Md. Col. Thomas became very con
spicuous in the early part of the late
civil war by the capture of the steam
er St. Nicholas. Ho took passage in
the steamer at Baltimore, disguised as
a French lady, and at night, assisted
by a few of his men who were on board,
arrested the Captain and officers of the
• steamer, and ran her to Fredericks
burg, Ya. After the war he resided for
some years in Paris, but returned to
this country about two years ago.
The Boston house of Simms Bros &
Cos., furnishing goods, have suspended.
NEW JERSEY.
A Civil Rights Case.
Trenton, N. J., March 26.—The pro
prietor of a billiard saloon was arrested
for refusing to allow negroes to play.
The United States Commissioner dis
charged the prisoner and dismissed tho
complaint. The Commissioner says it
is true the public may visit a billiard
saloon ; so they may go to a store ; but
every one cannot play there, as every
one cannot buy in certain stores. The
storekeeper may suit his customers,
But every place which is accessible to
all is not necessarily a place of public
amusement. To say that everybody
can go to a billiard saloon does not
determine its character, nor does the
fact that a license is required to make .
it a place of public amusement. A
license is taken out for a pedler’s
wagon, but it does not thereby become
a place of public amusement. There
i3 nothing in the license idea by which
we can determine the true nature of
the place. A licensed place may still
be so regulated as practically to ex
clude the public.
It is asked what is a brilliard saloon,
if it is not a place of amusement ? I
answer, at best, and only in a limited
sense, or in a qualified manner can it
be called a place of public amusement.
It is the private business of a private
party, conducted as it suits the keeper.
It is no more a place of public amuse
ment than a drinking saloon ; evidently
into the latter no man has a right to gq
and take a drink without having ob
tained leave of the proprietor. The
applicant may be refused and driven
away for reasons best known to the
owner, and which he is not bound to
disclose. The civil rights bill has noth
ing to do, and was intended to have
nothing to do with such places.
NORTH CAROLINA.
An Execution Postponed by the Resig
nation of County Officers.
Morriiead City, N. C., March 27.
Lawyer Bryau, to have been executed
yesterday for the murder of Michael
T. Langley, was respited until Septem
ber next. This was occasioned by the
resignation of the sheriff and all other
county officers who were responsible
for the execution of the sentence. The
reason given is that the negro belonged
to Onslow county, and not to this (Car
teret), whither the case had been re
moved and tried. The execution is
postponed till September 3d, when new
officers will have been elected.
TEXAS.
Outrages by Mexicans.
Corpus Christi, March 27.—A large
body of Mexicans attacked several
ranches seven miles from this city last
night, and robbed a store, taking
several Americans prisoner. Intense
excitement prevails, as an invasion is
apprehended.
FLASHES.
The bark J. Rhea, from Baltimore
for Queenstown, has been abandoned.
The crew were landed at Liverpool by
the Dauntless, from Galveston.
The Rhode Islaud Democrats have
nominated Clrns. F. Cutter for Gover
nor. The convention was the largest
held for years.
"in ■
East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
road.
Knoxville, March 26.—Tho recent
damage to the southern division of tho
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
was repaired yesterday, including the
bridge over the Hiawasse river, and de
layed freights with through trains are
now rapidly going forward.
Marine Disasters.
Queenstown, March 26. — The India,
from New Orleans for Liverpool, is
here damaged. She lost her mizzen
mast and rudder. She will bo towed
to Liverpool, where she will discharge
and repair.
Skavtlle, N. J., March 27.—The Ear
ly Bird, from Now York to St. Augus
tine, Fla., is ashore’ on the beach at
Townsend’s Inlet with a cargo of sun
dries.
Sunday Parades Prohibited.
Philadelphia, March 26. — The Su
perintendent of Police has notified
the Irish committee on the street pa
rade iu memory of John Mitehel, to
take place next Sunday, that it will
not bo allowed as it is a violation of
law prohibiting such demonstrations
on the Sabbath.
New York, March 27.—There is a
disposition on the part of Irish socie
ties to parade to-morrow in memory of
John Mitehel, notwithstanding the no
tice that such demonstrations are con
trary to law.
The Ice Gorge.
Macnciiunk March 26.—Two dams
here are still covered with liftoen inches
of i3e. The dam at Whitehaven, the
largest on the Lehigh river, is filled
with thousands of logs and twenty
inches of ice. It rained two hours this
afternoon.
Committed for Murder.
Boston, March 26. — George Pember
ton, the accused murdeier of Mrs.
Bingham, was arraigned in the East
Boston Municipal Court to-day, and
fully committed for murder. An im
mense crowd was iu attendance, and
the prisoner was escorted to and from
the court room by a guard of sixty
police. Intense excitement exists in
East Boston, and a strong inclination
to appeal to Lynch law seemed to per
vade the masses.
Snow Melting.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 27.—The
rain ceased last night, and to-day has
been mild. The *6llll is melting the
snow rapidly, but the river shoves no
rise. Accounts from above report no
perceptible rise, and tho gorges are
still immovable.
Movement of Trains.
Tort 'Jervis, March 27.—Through
passenger train, No. 5, going West,
was first to pass over tiie New Erie
Railway bridge, crossing at 4 o'clock.
This afternoon, No. 12 will be the first
passenger train going East, due at
Bridge about 3:30 Sunday morning.
Twenty-six freight trains, comprising
oyer 500 cars, wiil be sent East to
night.
Bridges in Danger.
i J ” March 27.—The
Compauy have offer
-Iri V lO oltl cov erod toll
bridge stockholders wiil burn it.
Its destruction is certain, and will
carry with it tue iron railroad bridge.
AUGUSTA, 6A„ SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 28. 1875
SOUTH! CAROLINA.
Another Veto—Adjournment of the
Legislature.
Charleston, March 26.—The Legisla
ture adjourned sine die to-day. Gov.
Chamberlain vetoed the bill to declare
the true intent and meaning of the
funding act of 1573. The main ground
of the veto is that the hill is not in har
mony with the settlement of the pub
lic debt and under the funding act,
which the Governor, in accordance
with his pledges, feels bound to sus
tain. The vetoed bill proposes to re
quire the interest on the old bonds and
stocks of the State to be funded up to
the date of the funding of such bonds
and stocks, while under the funding
act the interest is funded only to Janu
ary, 1874, and is paid in money from
that date. Gov. Chamberlain declares
that any such change would retard the
fuuding or consolidation of the old
debt now going on with gratifying
rapidity. The Governor also says the
duty of standing firmly by the present
settlement of the public debt is para
mount to every other consideration.
The veto was sustained after a sharp
debate, all of the Conservatives but
one voting against the bill.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Miners on a Violent Strike—Appre
hended Movement of the Ice-Gorge.
Locust Gap, March 27.—The striking
miners dumped loaded cars and burn
ed the depot and telegraph office. Po
lice from Reading and Philadelphia
have been sent to protect property.
Water Gap, March 27.—The ice
gorge, which is seven miles above the
gap, still remains the same. The
strong resistance by the ice in the gap
has been lessened by cutting a channel
through the middle. The ram last
night has made no visible impression.
The weather is warm, anil the snow is
melting rapidly. Should the weather
remain thus for two or three days the
break will bo inevitable. Several visitors
eame here to-day to witness the ex
pected break of the tremendous
gorge. This gorge consists of one
hundred and fifty miles thrown into a
space of eighteen miles, which is now
thirty feet thick.
DELAWARE.
Flanking Civil Rights.
Dover, Del., March 27. —The Legis
lature lias adjourned. The bill passed
several days ago to meet the Civil
Rights bill is a law. It does, not men
tion color, but provides that hotel
keepers, railroad companies, steam
boat owners and others may provide
separate accommodation for any class
of persons obnoxious to their custom
ers or passengers.
NEW ORLEANS.
Augur Takes Command. Judge Wood
Cuts a Gordian Knot.
New Orleans, March 27.—Gen. C. C.
Augur has arrived from Texas and takes
command to-day. He relieves Gen.
Emory who will leave for Washington
on Saturday.
Judge Woods has decided that sta
tutes give him power to select a Dis
trict Judge in his circuit to fill the
Durell vacancy. He relies on section
591 United States revised statutes for
this authority.
Chicago, March 27.—Tho Denegre-
Farweli contested eloctiou case has
been finally dropped. Farwell, who
was declared elected, remains the rep
resentative from the Third District.
(Danbury News.
Going to the Dentist.
I like to come across a man with the
toothache. There’s something so
pleasant about advising him to stuff
cotton in it, to use camphor, cresoto,
peppermint, and “ relief,” that I always
feel better after giving it.
I have been there—had an aching
snag, and I know’ just how it feels. . It
used to wake me up at night, and make
me mad at noon, and set me to swear
ing early in the morning,
I didn’t meet man or woman but
what they advised me. One said that
a hot knitting needle pushed down on
the root was excellent; another said
that opium was an excellent thing ; and
others said that it must be dug out by
the dentist.
If I sat down to dinner that old tooth
began to growl. If I went to bed, or
got up, or went to a party, or stayed at
home it growled just the sarao,
It wasn’t always a growl. Some
times it was a jump that made my hair
stand up, and again a sort of cutting
pain that made me rnako up faces at
the baby, and slam doors and break
windows. I ate cotton, peppermint,
camphor and opium until I got black
in the face, and that old snag kept
right on. I put bags of hot ashes to
my cheek, applied mustard, held my
head in the oveu, took a sweat, and the
ache still ached.
After the third week neighbors didn’t
dare to let their boys pass my house,
and hawkers and book canvassers
went raund anotiier street. I was be
coming a menagerie, and at last I de
cided to have my tooth out. I decided
to, and tlien I decided not to. I chang
ed my mind four times in ono after
noon, and at last I went.
The dentist was glad to see me. He
said that if he could not take tho tooth
out without hurting me he would give
me a million.
It got easier as he talked, and I con
cluded not to have it pulled. I started
down stairs, but a jump caught me,
and I rushed back. He said ho would
look at it; perhaps it did not need
pulling at all, but he could kill the
nerve.
By dint of flattery he got me iu the
chair. Then he softly inserted a knife,
and cut away the gums. I looked up,
aud said I would kill him, but he beg
ged mo not to —said the cutting was
all the pain there was in it. He finally
mo to lie back and open my mouth,
and then he slipped in his forceps, and
closed them round the tooth.
“Ohsordorordonbordorosoforsor !” I
cried.
he didn’t pay any attention to It.
He drew in a full breath, grasped the
.forceps tightly, and then he pulled.
Great spoons ! but didn’t it seem as
if my head was going! I tried to shout,
grasped at him, kicked, and then he
held up the old snag, and said—
“ There, I guess you won’t feel any
more aching.”
I leaped down and hugged him. I
promised him ten millions ; I told him
to make my home his house forever ; I
hugged him again. I shook hands
with everybody in the street, kissed my
wife, bought the baby a dozen rattle
boxes in a heap, and it seemed to me
as if the world was too small for me, I
was so happy,
£Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.
THE TORNADO AT ELIM CHURCH.
An Interesting 1 Sketch of its Rava
ges in the Vicinity.
Elim Church stood six miles nearly
west .of Warrenton, Ga. Although it
had been a place of worship for hearly
half a century, the house had under
gone such repairs, that for a country
church it equalled in style and beauty
any building of the kind outside of
any town or city in the State, and would
accommodate an luulience composed of
500 persons. It was surrounded by an
extensive grove of majestic oak and
hickory, interspersed with pine; and
within 300 yards, on an eminence, from
which a fine view of the surrounding
country could be taken, stood the ele
gant residence of Mrs. Virginia Hubert,
a septegenarian, aho has been noted
for hospitality to friend and stranger,
and those excellent qualities which are
characteristic of her sex. Her front
yard, with its shrubbery and flowers,
struck the eye of tho beholder with de
light, while its shade trees on the side
and in the back-ground completed the
beauty of the scene.
The church is a total wreck; tho
grove has been demolished ; the flue
mansion, with its contents and sur
roundings, has been nearly torn to
pieces; about a dozen out-houses blown
entirely down and partially away;
fences laid flat, and myriads of the
fragments have been scattered for
miles.
About noon on the 20th instant, an
irresistible tornado was seen approach
ing from the southwest, bearing down
everything before it, with a width of
about 800 yards, aud presenting an
oval appearance of white and murky
clouds, alternately rolling upon the
earth—the whole moving steadily for
ward in a whirl, the centre presenting
the most formidable front. The writer
stood in the front door of tho church
watching the movement of the tem
pest, and listening to its rumbling
earthquake sound, until about twenty
minutes past twelve, when almost sim
ultaneously it plowed its way through
the grove and church with apparently
as much ease as if they had been com
posed of straw, yet allowing the main
portion of the church, with its thou:
sand timbers, to be heaped in every
conceivable shape upon the benches
and tho floor.
The tornado was but a natural se
quence of disordered elements. Tiie
killing of but one person, the seriously
wounding of but few, and tho narrow
escape from death of so many who
were in the crash, falls but little short
of a miracle.
One who has witnessed and experi
enced to some extent “ the pestilence
that walketh in darkness, and tho de
struction that wasteth at noon-day ”
can truly assert, that for sublimity, de
structive grandeur, and the manifesta
tion.of the power of the Almighty, con
trasted with the insignificance of man
and his efforts, that occasion defies a
parallel; and presented a sight, and
made impressions upon the mind which
Can never be either wholly recalled or
entirely forgotten. Something akin to
it, brings up an involuntary shudder,
to which the recollection of a hideous
night-mare might possibly bo com
pared.
The following named persons were in
the church when it fell; tho killed,
wounded and uninjured being designat
ed. Killed, Mrs. Lewis Jones ; wound
ed, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Hawell, Mrs. T.
J. Pilcher, Miss Pilcher (slight), Mrs.
Nelson, Mrs. Y. Hubert (slight but pain
ful), Mrs. Green Collier Barksdale, S.
Turner, Doc. Atchison, Rev. Mr. Elling
ton (slight), AVm. Anderson, Win.
Shirby, Starling Ivey, Joe Dozier ; unin
jured, Lewis Jones and infant, Mrs.
Humphries, Robert Wicker, Stokes
Ivey, Mrs. Butt and child, Thos. Atchi
son, W. E. Holmes, Mrs. Doc. Atchison,
Miss Bettie Barksdale, Miss Joanna
Barksdale, Miss Allen, Dr. J. Pilcher,
Mr. Griffin, Mrs. Mary Atchisou, Robt.
Barksdale, Reddick Nelson, J. R. Hill,
and perhaps others.
At Mrs. Hubert’s place were 'the fol
lowing killed: Hannah (blown4ooyards
and horribly mangled); wounded, three
colored children blown about 200 yards
and severely crushed ; uninjured, Mrs.
Hill and two children, Mrs. Ben Lester
and child, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. C. Pemble,
Miss N. Hubert, Thos. Pemble and
several colored people.
Large timbers 18x12,* 18 feet long,
were hurled through the air 400 yards.
Ono scantling was stuck four inches
deep into the body of a live popular ;
plank sent whizzing through tho strong
facing on tho house, aud large timbers
stuck into stiff day soil live feet deep.
Rabbits were found dead in the woods,
and fowls were entirely denuded or
their feathers except on their wings.
One might as well undertake to replaoe
the numberless fragments, and rein
state in its original beauty the shat
tered, scattered and repulsive wreck
which is spread out before him, as to
attempt a minute description of tho
tornado and its consequences.
It may not be improper to add that
the adjoining premises of Mr. J. 11.
Hubert were similarly dealt with, and,
strange to say, his large family escaped
unhurt. llis house was uuroofed,
fences laid flat, llelds covered with fal
len timber aud outhouses destroyed.
He is one of the most industrious and
successful farmers in the county*.
Mr. Lewis Jones, the husband of the
lady killed, truly deserves public syru
pathy. With him, accidental misfor
tunes seem to have “ tread upon each
other’s heels.” Several years ago his
lovely r and only daughter met her death
by the accidental discharge • of a fire
arm. One of liis plantations was swept
by tho tornado, and his fireside has
been made desolate by the decease of
1 a wife, whose Christian deportment
was unexceptionable, and who feared
not to die in the sanctuary, and in the
discharge of her religious duty.
Elim Church and the school house
I should be rebuilt. Every person within
the range of this dreadful hurricane
deserves assistance, and
it does seem that tne bare mention of
the prominent features of the destruc
tion and danger which they have pass
ed through would be a sufficient ap
peal to a generous public who were
spared this dreadful ordeal. If any
such there be who are willing to con
tribute either in money or necessaries,
they can address the same to our
worthy Ordinary, Rov. It. W. Hubert,
at Warrenton, with directions as to
how it shall be applied. J. It. H.
Letter from from Glasscock County.
Mt. Zion Church Blown Down.
Casualities in Different Parts of the
County.
Gibson, Glascock County, )
March 24,1875. J
Editor Constitutionalist : I give you
a few items as far as heard from up to
date. On Saturday last about one
quarter past 1 o’clock, wo were attract
ed by a noble as of prolonged and dis
tant thunder, but on observation, it
proved to be afterwards a fearful tor
nado. In appearance it was like a
heavy smoke rising to the hight of per
haps 85 or 100 feet coming along with
one continued roar. In this county", it
struck near the line of Washington at
the Widow Kitchen’s, killing Bose
Kifchens wife and her brother, whose
name is Brooks, seriously wounding
Bose Kitchen’s, breaking his arm be
sides. other internal and external’ in
juries. There were also three chil
dren injured at this place, some
it is feared fatally". Next it came
to John Braddy’s, killing his horse and
breaking both of his arms, besides in
flicting other injuries, which it is feared
may prove fatal. Several children bore
also are injured to some extent. Next
it visited other planters, but their’s
were only slight injuries to houses in
comparison to others. Coming on in
its course it struck Mt. Zion M. E.
Church, where three families had taken
refuge, viz: Mrs. Toler, Mrs. Cooper
and Mrs. Poole, the latter but latch’
married. Mrs. Cooper was killed in
stantly, as also was Mrs. Poole. Sev
eral children were badly injured. Of
the church it may be truly said not one
vestige of it remains to point out
where the edifice stood. The blocks
serving as pillars for the foundation
were all blown out of place except oue.
The tornado next visited the place of
Ezekiel Mathis, where his wife aud
four or five others were at the time. It
blew the house away and killed his
wife, also seriously wounding Miss
Nancy Toler whose wounds are very
critical as pronounced by" Dr. G. L.
Kelly but not necessarily fatal. Mrs.
Mathis the wife of Mr. Ezekiel Mathis
son is also very much scarred up and
how any of them escaped is a great
wonder.
I understand, and it is a certainty,
that Mrs* Beckworth’s child is dead.—
This is another victiu of the Mt. Zion
disaster. It next visited the place of
Mr, Vincent Davis, killing two negroes
and wounding another very badly, also
unroofing his dwelling and till other
houses on his place. I heard to-day,
and from a gentleman of undoubted
veracity that a piece of tho car from
Cumak was found at least twenty miles
from Carnak. The doors from Mt.
Zion Church were found 9 miles from
the church, or across Rocky Comfort
Creek. At Mr. Davis a negro man
who would weigh at least 185
pounds, was blown 50 or 60 yards
from his house aud wounded, while
a lightwood pine tree, about 35
feet high, was torn up by the roots anil
carried at least 60 yards and left on the
chimney" of the negro house.
I have tried to give you a graphic
account of tho tornado. To try to por
tray it to you aud do it justice would
be simply to undertake an impossibility.
I will endeavor to send you all the
important information in regard to the
ravages of the tornado and the casual
ties resulting from it that are obtain
able. Henry P. Arlington.
A Card from Mr. Thos. L. Snead.
New York, March 22d, 1875.
To the Editor of the Consttsuiionalist,
Augusta , Ga.:
The Constitutionalist of the 16th
inst. contains an editorial wherein you
make, as to me, certain injurious mis
statements, which I hope that you will
do me the justico to correct.
1. It is not true, as you state, that I
was an agent for tho settlement of
Henry Clews’ claim., against the State
of Georgia. I have never, at any time,
or under any circumstances been,
either directly or indirectly, the agent,
attorney, or counsel of Henry Clews, or
Henry Clews & Cos., against either the
State of Georgia, or against any State,
person, or thing, or in any matter, or
thing, whatever.
2. I am not tho agent, attorney, or
counsel of any" one, as against the
State of Georgia, nor have I been for
many months, except of Messrs. J.
Boorman Johnston & Cos., whose claim
against the State is honest, and just,
and ought to be paid.
The employment referred to in your
editorial was as counsel for certain
holders of what are known as Georgia
quarterly gold bonds. The Treasurer
refused, for various reasons, to pay the
past due and maturing interest on a
large amount of these bonds. An
American agent of the English holders
of these bonds‘thereupon agreed that
they would pay me a commission of
two per cent, to procure payment of
their interest. I did procure payment
of it, by submitting to the Treasurer
abundant proofs that the holders of
these bonds had compiled with tho re
quirements of the laws of Georgia on
the subject, aud that the interest ought
to be paid. Your insinuation that his
action was influenced by corrupt in
ducements I know to be unfounded, and
it is my opinion that there is not in the
State of Georgia a more incorruptable
man than Johu Jones.
Yours very truly,
Thomas L. Snead.
(Harper’s Bazar.
Good-Bye, Chignon.
“ The reign of the chignon is over ;
its glory has dopaated ; its name is
Ichabod.” The ladies will take notice
accordingly. It seems that with this
disappearance romance has come back
—a romance before impossible, says
the writer. The chignon was the open
foa of poetry and romance, as all arti
ficial things are that have not in their
construction the elements of beauty.
It was born of a hard era, where every
thing was being reduced to tho com
monplace of money-making and the
display of money, an era that would
have assured us that money was so
omnipotent it could even purchase tiie
bloom of beauty and make it transfera
ble. But the long and silky hair itself,
in its native grace and simplicity, be
longs to poetry, js*one of its haunts,
indeed, fur it loves to linger iu its
perfumed locks and to do homage to
its compelling charm ; painters have
painted it; poets have sung it; tho cu
rious have preserved it, till one, look
ing on a golden lock of Lucrezia Bor
gia’s hair, feels all the splendor, the
temptation, the luxury, the crime, of
that Italian age that produced her ; or,
touching a silken lock of Keats’, feels
the sweet nature throbbiug with love
and beauty beyond its power to bear,
as ir some shepherd lad had met the
sun-god on the mountain side and died
of the glory; or holding a dark soft
lock of Byron’s hair, finest and most
lustrous,sees as if in a vision the pas
sion and the power that lifted him on
strong wings out of soil and slime and
among the gods themselves. “ Only a
woman’s hair,” wrote Swift upon a lock
of poor Stella’s, and the world has
ever since reviled him for a heartless
wretch, never pausing to think whether
it was not the very depth of tender
ness and sorrow mocking at itself. As
though one said, “Only a woman’s
hair ; nothing, nothing to you ; but
ones it was ail the world to me!”
Timothy Tiggs.
Tho month was November,
I can’t well remember
The date of the year; let us believe It to be
The year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
threo,
That Timothy Tiggs,
In liis neatest of gigs,
(But Tiggs, bv the way,
Always called it a shay),
Was making his way
At a pace not much faster than that of a
dray,
Over Wimbledon Common, one very dark
night.
Not a sound in the air—not a creatine in
sight;
Iwas the time and the place to make you
feel bright,
But and im was a man that was proud of liis
pluck;
He scorned to feel fear or down on his luck.
Tim was a mail wita a vory large head,
And Ills jolly, round face was remarkably
red;
On liis cheeks you might term it couleur de
rose.
It was verging on blue to the tip of his nose,
His tigure was not what the artists call fine,
It wasn’t at all in the classical line;
In fact the most perfect of statues, Apollo,
Where ho (Tiggs) bulged out was a trifle
more hollow—
But who cares for that case, with the heart
in its place!
Tiggs loved a good dinner—ho loved eau
de-vie,
He loved his own shay, and he loved Mrs.
He was ready to help a poor devil in need,
And liated your skinflints and misers in
deed,
And I hope the expression my readers won’t
shock,
All liis intimates termed him a jolly old
cock!
And now Mr. Tiggs,
In his neatest of gigs,
As he joggled along
Tried to whistle a song,
Gave the old mare a slight clip
•fust below the off hip.
Then struck her agaiu light under the
crupper,
Saying “d—n it—l’ll have something hot
for my supper! ”
Now, of all the bad habits that mortals can
follow,
There is one, in my judgment, that beats
them all hollow,
That’s cursing and swearing!
There’s really no bearing
A man who cau’t utter the commonest
phrases
Without adding “ demme,” “by Jove,” or
“like blazes.”
The star of the tavern, or table or attic,
Who thinks that lie’s clever because he’s
emphatic?
(Be this as it may).
All I now have to say
Is that, if you must rip out an oath for a
lark,
Don’t swear when you are driving alone in
tho dark.
For scarcely had Tiggs let the naughty
word slip,
And stirred up his mare with a touch of the
whip,
Than she stumbled down, tried her footing
to keep,
Slipped—and then tumbled down all of a
heap.
Tiggs was shot from his seat,
But not on his feet;
For lieeis over head ho was coming right
out,
When he clutched the mare’s tail that was
whisking about,
And grasping it tightly ho held himself
there.
His head hanging down, and his heels in
Jdie air,
While the dashboard afforded support in
the middle.
’ L’was an odd sort of fix,
But in spite of his kicks.
How to make his escape seemed a terrible
riddle;
And the mare, who kept jumping about
on the ground,
Caused 'Tiggs to ejaculate many a sound—
Not a cry nor a groan, but half grunt and
half choke,
Like what is produced
If you are t ver induced
To give a stout gontleman’s ribs a smart
poko.
In this awful dilemma,five minutes or fewer
Had passed, and poor Tiggs had got bluer
and bluer;
In fact it was really becoming no fun,
When two men with a lantern came up at a
ruu,
And as they drew noar
They thought it looked queer
For a man to be attempting such uncom
mon gymnastics,
Such sayings and doings, and such like
pletastics.
Hello! ’ere is a lark! Old shaver, I say,
Do you always when traveling ride'this
’ere way ? ”
Tiggs gave a faint grunt, and says, “ Save
me, oh, pray! ”
“In com so wo will; now, then, Jim, lend
us your tins,
And we’ll soon shove this old gemine up on
his pins.
Now give him a good pull, another like
that.
Me hye, he’s a weighty un! Ain’t he just
lat!”
After a trifle of hugging, and tussling and
pain,
Poor Tiggs, he was set on his footing again.
And then iiis lirst care was to look to his
mare.
But she jumped up all right, without graz
ing a hair.
And then all lus gratitude seemed to awaken
As he dived in his breeches
Pocket for his riches,
To pay the good men wlio’d been saving
his bacon.
The men gave a wink, and says one, with a
grin:
“ Now don’t take the trouble to count out
the tin;
We’d rather have all, hand us over the bag,
Wo could’t take less, ’pon my sould, not a
mag!
And open the driving box and make haste,
We don’t want to smash it—we can’t bear
a waste!”
Oh, ill-fated day!
Just conceive the dismay
And cry of despair
That then rent the air,
As 1 imothy Tiggs
Boars out, “ Dash my wigs!
You don’t moan to say your’e a couple of
prigs ? *’
“Not a bit of it; tip 11s the key and tho puss.
It’s Providence, ain’t it, you 101 l in with us ?
We clean out chaps, perhaps, but then we
show mercy,
While some of our sort do just visey versy.”
Poor Timothy sighed,
’Twas in vain that he tried
Tq, soften the hearts of the men by his side.
They broke open the box, took what cash
that was in it;
Purse, snuff box and watch were all gone
in a minute.
They unharnessed the mare, drove her off
with a switch ’
Of tiie the whip, and then shoved the gig
into the ditch.
“Now, old geminan, good night, and boar
us no spite,
And remember, you was in a precious queer
plight,
And ’twas mo and my pal hero that set
you all right.”
And thus having spoken Jim vanished from
sight.
Now a common is all very well in its way,
When the sun is a shining and children at
play.
Or, perhaps, when your’e riding along in
your shay;
But then to be there on a very dark night,
Not a sound in tue air, not a creature in
sight.
I own, as I read it, it makes me feel fright.
Tiggs turned to the right and he turned to
the left,
Like an innocent babe of its mother bereft.
As to which way to go he hadn’t the least
Conception in life—north, south, west or
east.
What’s that ? Its a light!
A glorious sight!
What pen can describe the delight that he
feels!
THore’s a couple of lights and tho rattle of
wheels.
It’s a ear; no, it ain’t, it’s tho coach, it’s tho
mail.
“By jingo, it is, and I’ll give her a hail.
She’s coming, she’s noar—she’s coming,
she’s hero!”
Tiggs bellowed out “ Stop! ”
Not a bit of it. Pop
Went a pistol, and whiz
Went a bullet, an incli or two off from ills
phiz;
And crack went the whip, and away went
the grays.
And Tiggs was left gaping in fear and
amaze:
“ W hat a deuce of a pace!
It’s a regular race;
That guard must be mad—
He vory near hit me! Oh, dear, if he had!”
The thought was too tender, Tiggs dried
up the tear.
And rage filled the heart that had yielded to
fear.
“ To shoot at me (Tiggs) how the deuce
oould he dare ?
I’ll have up that rascal before the Lord
Mayor.
Hark! whats tlrtt, like the screech owl’s
cry,
Or some such sound, that’s borne on high ?
To liis startled ear comes that sound of fear.
And nearer it comes, an 1 still nearer and
near.
And what grasps he? ’Tis the gallows
tree
He raises his eyes aloft ft r to see.
And the sight makes the blood trickle cold
in his veins.
An old gemman’s body is hanging in chains.
Away and away, now catch him who may—
Over ditches and brambles, and stones,
At the risk of his neck and the risk of his
bones;
And onward lie goes, and he puffs and he
blows,
And he catches his foot and he’s down on
his nose;
But, uo matter—he’s up, and running as
fast,
Until he comes to a wall that stops him at
last.
Is it a wall? Yes, it is, its the wall of an inn
And he knocks at the door, and is quickly
let iu.
Falling overabucket and breaking his shin
While he yells iu a way that the landlord
thinks odd.
Quick, quick, bolt the door! He can’t
catch me, thank God 2
When he’s rested awhile, and has got uack
iiis breath,
And is quite sure that he has escaped
death,
He gives his new landlord a list of his woes:
Bobbers, mall coach and gallows, and fali
on his nose;
And the landlord, who lists to liis string of
mishaps,
Declares him tho very unluckiest of chaps.
Tiggs began to consider it not so unpleas
ant
To sup in an ale house, as he did at present.
The fumes of the beer having got iu his
head,
The landlord just mildly suggested a bed.
Though I love to relate ouch- event with
precision,
I own I am here obliged to make an illision,
Assign any reason your fancy may please,
But imagine my hero alone in “ chemise,’
Just tying a handkerchief over his head
By way of anight cap, and stepping in bed,
W non rat, tat, tat, tat, at the door tiiere’s a
rap,
And voices are calling out, *• Now, then,
old chap! ”
The landlord goes down and lets in a large
party.
And all of them cry out “ How are you,
my hearty?”
But hark! look you here, what is there to
scare ?
Why ii it that Tiggs looks uncommonly
queer ?
That strange look of horror, that wild
glance of fright;
What makes liis knees knock, and his hair
stand upright ?
It’s the voice—yes it is of that horrible
Jim,
And heedless of grammar, Tiggs muttered
“It’s him!”
He starts and he stops, and he lists for each
sound,
“But jolly companions,” and “ pass the
Jug round,”
Is all that he hears; he’s a little less fiur’d,
And the thumps of his heart are little less
hurried;
And he ventures to hope, mid tho noise and
the din,
That the landlord won’t tell who’s up stairs
in t he inn.
But hum! what’s that? Are they silent ?
(jh, no!
They are talking in whispers so earnest
and low
That there’s certainly something uncom
mon the go;
Some strange consultation, it must be
about
Himself—the victim—there can be no doubt.
He opens the door and takes a peep out.
There’s no use standing here quaking with
fear—
No use staying there, not a word can he
hear.
He plucks up some courage and down
stairs lie goes,
Gently treading each step with the tips of
liis toes.
How they creak 1 not so fast; well, no mat
ter, they ’re past,
And he comes to the door of the parlor at
last,
And he peeps through tho keyhole and
there sees the grim,
Dark, big-wliiskered face of that horrible
Jim!
And, there’s not a doubt of it, thoy’re talk
ing of him.
Says one: “ That’s all true, but between
me and you,
This ’ere is a job I don’t like to do;
I ain’t one of these coves that will try to
shirk working,
I’ll take a chap’s purse but won’t bear a
burking.” • ’
But Jim, who displayed a kuife with a
blade
As long as ever Ilodgers or Underwood
made.
He says: “There is no use sitting here
preaching:
I know this ere cove wll be going and
’peaching,
Here’s the right sort of thing—here’s the
razor to shave him.
A good dose of this, ’taint the doctor will
save him.
I’ll send that fat codger to Old Nick or fur
ther !”
Tiggs rushed from the keyhole, and bel
lowed out “Murther!”
* * * * * * * ■#
“ Wake up, dearest Timothy, gracious dear
me! ”
Cried a lady in bed with our friend Mr. T.
“ What! in bed, and with you, what a very
ruin go!)”
“Yes, iuueed, Mr. Tiggs, and I’d just like
to know,
Faith, I would, ’pon my life,
Who on earth could be here but your own
lawful wife ? ”
“Oh, that murdering Jim, and his horrid
big knife!
I thought I was doomed, like a lamb, to the
slaughter;
And that, I suppose, made me sing out for
quarter! ”
You know, my dear Tim, ’twas that nasty
old pipe.”
“ Your’e a 1—r!” said Tiggs, “you know
well ’twas that tripe!
And if I don’t eat it you tease and you
bore,
But I’m danged if 1 ever will eat of it more!’
King Kole.
Arsne Houssave’s Paris-Letter in the New
York Tribune.
The Romance of a Waltz.
The second ball of the Elysee was
finer than tho first, because there were
more pretty women. It was the luck
of the invitations. The American col
ony was gracefully represented by Mes
dames Hoffman, Darwin, liobihson,
Stebbins, and l itli quarilL
What romances there are iu balls!
A portionless young girl—say a hund
red thousand francs —comes in with a
Greuze face, under a, forest of blondo
hair. A bored young man, with threo
hundred thousand francs income, asks
her to dance. The thunderbolt of lovo
had struck liis heart.
“Mademoiselle,” he said, “do you
like to dance ? ” “ Very much, indeed,
sir.” “ And to waltz ? ” “ Passion
ately, sir.” “ Will you make a sacri
fice for me ? ”
The young lady looked at the young
man. “Why not?”
“Very well, Mademoiselle, do not
dance nor waltz this evening.”
“And for this sacrifice TANARUS” “I offer
you ray name and fortune.”
“That is a great deal,”Bald the young
girl, more tempted by her feet than
her heart. “Do you hear the violins?”
“Mademoiselle, I am called the Count
de * * * and I have three hundred
thousand livres of income.”
The young girl doubtless reflected
that with three hundred thousand
francs income one could pay for a great
many fiddles.
“Monsieur,” sfio said, “let us com
promise. I will not waltz or dance
with any one but you.”
“No, Mademoiselle, I want a complete
sacrifice. You are the most beautiful
person at the ball; every one is gazing
at you ; we will Walk into one of the
little drawing rooms and chat together
like married people.”
“ Already!” said the young lady,
making a saucy face. But she had
New Series—-VoL 3. ISTo. 04
left her place in the quadrilie. She
leaned upon the arm of the young man
and allowed herself to be taken to the
staircase. “This is despotism, sir.”
“ Yes, mademoiselle, I wish to be mas
ter before if not after.”
The young lady mounted the stair
case, saying to herself, “Three hun
dred thousand livres of income, a ho
tel, a chateau, a racing stable, a hunt
ing equ page, travel i ke a princess,
caprices iike a queen.”
They went slowly up the steps, for
the Elysee staircase is invaded, after
the manner of Venetian fete, by a sea
of guests. The quadr lie was ended.
All at once the young girl hoars the
prelude of Oliver Metr.j’s Serenade, a
Spanish and French waltz, full of rap
ture and melancholy, full of pa-sion
and sentiment. She could resist no
longer. She withdraws her hand from
the arm which holds it, she glides like
a serpent through the human waves ;
she arrives breathless in the grand sa
loon of the orchestra. She no longer
knows what she is doing, the serenade
bus so bewitched her. A waltzer who
does not know' her seizes her on the
wing, and bears her into the whirlwind.
Meanwhile what is the three hun
dred thousand year man doing? He
is desperate ; he has had happiness in
his. very hands, and now’ he sees it
vanishing from him like a dream, all
because Waldteufel had the unlucky
idea to play that diabolical waltz. The
unhappy lover tries in vain to reason
frith himself, to curse liis folly, to swear
that he will never look at the woman
again. He lias not the courage to go
up the stairs. He descends four steps
at a time ; nothing stops him ; he fol
lows the young girl; he arrives almost
as soon as she does before the orches
tra. Alas ! She is already off for the
waltz. She is a thousand leagues away
from him. The first earner holds her
in his arias, breathes the fragrance of
her adorable blonde hair, revels in the
glances of her soft eyes, the color of
heaven.
Is not this the moment to give you
my opinion of the waltz ? I will trans
late it in these maxims, which La
Rochefoqcauld would hesitate to sigu.
The waltz is a double life.
The most reckless women are less
dangerous tliau the most platonic
waltzes.
The waltz can give love to those who
have none, as love give's wit to those
who lack it.
Love is often nothing more than the
exchange of two quadrilis and the con
tact of two waltzes.
A woman has learning enough when
she can tell the diljerance between a
two-time and a three-time waltz.
After waltzing, some women go
through a quadrille as a purgatory to
the waltz.
Women pardon to the waltz what
they would never permit to the dance.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
New York, March 27—Noon.—Stocks
active and lower. Money, 3. Gold, lit;*..
Exchange—long, 483; short, 480. Govern
ments dull State Bonds dull.
Gold opened at 116’ *.
London, March 27—Noon Erie, 26%.
127.
I Paris. March 27-Noon.—Rentes, G4f.
! 30c.
I New York, March 28-P. M.—Money
SgL Sterling, 432. Gold *1.16%@1.16%
Governments strong; New s’s, 15%. State
Bonds nominal. Stocks closed active.
New < >kleans, March 25.—Exchange-
Now York Sight, % premium.
PRODUCE.
New York. March 27.—Noon—Flour
Arm. Wheat quiet and firm. Corn tirm.
Pork heavy—mess, 520.75. Lard heavy
steam, 14%. Turpentine steady at 30. Bosin
quietat $2.fc7%@2.12% for straiiioi. Freights
steady.
Baltimore, March 28.—Flour firm—
Howard street and Western supertine, $4.25
@4.75 Wheat quiet and steady; Pennsyl
vania red. $.25@1.26; others unchanged.—
Corn a shade lower; Southern white, 85;
yellow, 83; Western, 84. Oats dull—South
ern, 63@71. Bye firm, $l@LO5. Provielons
firm. Bacon active and firm; shoulders, 9
@9%; clear rib, 12@12%. Lard quiet and
unchanged. Coffee nominally higher; ordi
nary to prime Bio—cargoes, 15%@i8. Whis
key, $1.15.
New York, March 28-P. M.—Flour
firm and in moderate demand at $4.95@5.00
for common to fair extra Southern. Wheat
about le lower and holders more disposed
to realize for Winter red Western. Corn
opened a shade firmer and closed quiet
at an advance. Pork firm ; new job, $20.75.
Laid firm at 14% for prime steam. Coffeo
firm. Sugar very tirm. Bice quiet. Mo
lasses Arm. Turpentine quiet. Rosin dull
et $2.2532.50 for straiued. Freights dull
steam cotton %.
Cincinnati, March 28.—Flour firm. Com
firmer and higher at 70. Pork lirm and
higher at s2l. Lard firm—steam. 13%@14;
kettle, 14%. Bacon steauv. Whiskev firm
at 11.
Louisville, March 28.—Flour unchanged.
Corn firm at 60@68. Provisions stronger.
Pork, $21.50. Bacon—shoulders, 8%; clear
rib and clear, 12@12%. Lard—prime steam.
1 1% ; tierce, 15: keg, 16. Whiskey firmer at
12. Bagging quiet and firm.
Chicago, slarch 28.—Flour unchanged.—
Wheat steady. Corn buoyant and unsettled;
No 2 mixed, ft) fresh. Pork unsettled and
in fair demand at $19.95@19 95%. Lard
demand light and holders Arm at 13.87%.
Whiskey, $1.12.
St. LOUIS, March 28.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn weak a fraction. Whis
key quiet at sl.lO. Pork, $20%. Bacon firm
—shoulders, 8%@8%; clear rib. ll%@12;
clear, 12%©12%. Lard firm at 13.
New Orleans, March 28 —Coffee de
clining—good to prime, 16%@17%.
COTTON.
New York, March 27.—P. M.—-Com
parative (Jbtton Statement.—Set recipta for
the week ending March 23d : Net receipts
at all the United .States ports during the
week, 49,119ba1e5; for the same w<?ek last
year, 63.-02 C; total receipts to this date,
3,159,296; to .same date last year, 3,359,790;
exports for the week, 57,528; same week
last year, 79,743; total export to this date,
2,027.373; to same date last year, 2,083,224;
st<x;k at all United States' ports, 652,411
same time last year, 661,319; stock at all
interior towns, 93,113; save time last year,
93,028; stock at Liverpool, 832,0o0: same
time last year. 701,000: stock of American
afloat for Great Britain, 260,000; same
time last year, 328,000.
Mobile, slareh 27. — Cotton — middling,
15%; net receipts, 339 baies; exports coast
wise, 630; sales, 250; stock, 43,957; weekly
net receipts, 2,542; exports coastwise, 3,925;
sales, 3,150.
New Orleans, March 27.—Cotton—holi
day—net receipts, 2,392 bales; gross, 2,469;
exports—to France, 3,991 ; sales, 615; stock,
209,444 ; weekly net receipts, 12,300; gross,
13,867 ; exports—to Great Britain, 16,890 to
France, 12,006 ; coastwise, 3,610 ; sales, 34,-
600.
Savannah, March 28.—-Cotton—-net
reee’pts,.6o3 bales; gross, 633; exports—to
Great Britain, 1,368; coastwise, 26; stock
43,101: weekly net receipts, 4,(45; exports
—to Great Britain, 10,697; to Frances 3,77c
t0 the continent, 3,684; coastwise, 1.131;
sales, 1,884.
Charleston, March 28.—Cotton— net
receipts, 665 bales; exyorts coastwise, 1,131 ;
stock, 28,407, weekly net receipts, 4,936; ex
ports to the continent, 1,520; to the channel.
L 210; coastwise, 3,831; sales, 4,200.
Galveston, March 28.—Cotton weak;
middlng, 15%; sales. 744; stock, 6,114;
weekly reeepts, 5,503; gross, 5,626; exports
—to Great Britain, 837; to the cliannell,
1,800; coastwise, 3,818; sales, 5,783.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 27.—Arrived out;
Robert A. Capman, Osteraa, Jane fcisn, Be
Nevie, Homeward, John Rutherford.