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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SATTRDAY, May 15, 1875.
This is a bad year for steamships.
Our telegraphic columns report a very
narrow escape of the “City of Brus
sels ’’from disaster, and the “Chesa
peake ” is ashore off the Northeastern
coast.
The venerable Dr. Lipscomb has ac
cepted a professorship in the NasHvilfe
Vanderbilt University. That institu
tion, the reader will remember, has
been most munificently endowed by
the old Commodore.
The boy O’Connor, who, sometime
ago, pointed a dilapidated and harm
less pistol at Queen Victoria, and was
subsequently pardoned, has been pro
nounced a homicidal lunatic and con
fined in an asylum. The insane fc-llows
who hang around the White House,
now and then, are kicked off the
grounds and seldom re-appear,
—— 1 ■
The letter from Edgefield county,
which will be found in the South Caro
lina Department, is a model produc
tion from a farmer. It is brief, terse,
to the point, and strictly confined to
planting interests—in other words, con
tains just such reading as any one in
terested in the affairs of Upper Caro
lina will like to hear. We commend it
to oui friends in the couutry, with the
hope that they will send us many such
for the good of Jhe public.
According to our European advices
by cable the attitude of Germany has
recently been of the most threatening
character. The combined effoits of
Russia and England have alone pre
vented the renewal of a gigantic wai*
So long as the Great Powers keep mil
lions of armed men, arrayed in stand
ing armies, the peace of the world
must be constantly endangered and its
prosperity seriously checked. The
■“crowned heads” and the French Presi
dent ought to clean out their camps
and let their soldiery become laborers
in another vineyard.
The London Times sings a different
tune this morning from the one the
other day. Then it said the stories of
a threatened war on the Continent were
all bosh. Now it says "there could
hardly have been a more critical period
than when the Czar arrived in Berlin,”
and it required Goetschakoff to politely
tell Bismarck that Russia would pitch
into the first party which disturbed
the peace of Europe, to settle the
matter. The Czar may have for the
moment stopped the war which Ger
many had fully intended to precipitate,
but sooner or later it is bound to come.
PERILS OF THE SEA.
’The Steamer C ity of Brussels Runs
Ashore, but Escapes Without Dam
aye—Another Steamer Aground.
London, May 14.—Agents of the In
man line of steamers received a dis
patch from the Captain of the steam
er City of Brussels confirming the re
port that that vessel was ashore. The
Captain reports she went ashore near
Carnsore Point, Ireland, at 5:15 o’clock
this morning. A dense fog prevailed
at the time. He expects the steamer
to come off by high water, which will
.be about noon. She lies on soft sand
and takes no water.
New York, May 14.—The agent of
the Inman line has received the tollow
ing dispatch from Mr. Wm. IninaD :
“The .Brussels off at 9 a. m., without
assistance aud proceeded uninjured.”
Quebec, May 14.—The steamer Che
sapeake, from Hull, for Montreal, is
ashore at Matoue.
Wreck of a Bark and Loss of All on
Board.
San Francisco, May 14.—Sydney,
New Sout h Wales,advices say the bark
Si. Magues, for Adelaide from Bris
bane, entered Moreton Bay and took a
pilot on board, when the wind ehpped
round giving her a lee shore and the
fet'rk stood out to sea again. Next day
;she‘ was discovered bottom up by a
steam'er. which searched uuavailingly
for survivors of the wreck. She was
owned and sailed by Captain Easter
ibrook, a Bostonian, and for many years
a. resident of Adelaide. His wife and
family pei ished with him.
FROM ALABAMA.
\ Kepu Postmaster Convicted
>t Stealin He wftS One of the Men
Who Elected Hpeucer.
Montgomery, A t - a
Davis, late Postmaster at Union
Springs, pleaded guilty Ju theLnlted
States Court to-day of
of funds from letters hd received. By
request of the District Attorney, who
staled that there were extenuating cir
cumstances, the lowest punishment,
which was a sentence of six months*
imprisonment and a fine to the amount
of money abstracted, was imposed.—
Davis was a Kepublican member of the
Legislature in 1872. He took his seat
at the Court House which elected
Spence*r to the Senate and voted for
Unm for Senator. Soon afterwards he
Was appointed Postmaster.
Civil Service Reform.
Detroit, May 14.—1n the American
Social Science Association this morn
ing Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, President
of the late Civil Service Commission,
read a paper on the experiment of civil
service reform in the United States,
which was extremely lengthy, but which
was listened to with marked attention
fry a large audience.
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m fails (lonsiiuniionahst.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Re-arrest of the Boy who Frightens
Queen Victoria—Russia and England
c.’oimuand the Peace of Europe —
Prince Napoleon not Ambitious.
London, May 14. —The youth O’Con
nor, who, on the day of thanksgiving
for the recovery of the Prince of Wales,
attempted to 'shoot the Queen, was
again arrested on the stl* inst. The
Queen was holding a drawing room re
ception at Buckingham Palace, and
O’Connor was found in the same place
in front of the railings, from which he,
on a former occasion, pointed a pistol
at the Queen. He was arrested quietly
and sent to Hanwell Asylum, by order
of Sir Thomas Henry, Chief Magistrate
of the Bow street Police Court, on
certificates of physicians that the pris
oner was subject to suicidal and homi
cidal impulses.
The Times, this morning, says there
could hardly have been a more critical
situation than existed in Berlin upon
the arrival of the Emperor of Russia.
The German Government may be able
to declare that a hostile movement
was never officially entertained, but a
few days since there was serious dan
ger that warlike counsels would pre
vail. We may suppose Prince Gort
schakoff courteously expressed the de
termination to treat as an enemy the
first State disturbing peace. In spite
of England’s attitude of reserve, we
believe the Government thought it a
national duty, in the present crisis,
to express its opinion very decisive
ly in regard to the maintenance of
peace. The communication was amica
bly received aud a most satisfactory
reply returned: France has expressed
acknowledgement of England’s friendly
attitude.
The Daily News reports that the Czar
has mentioned his desire to confer
with M. Thiers unofficially in relation
to European affairs.
The Telegraph is informed that Rus
sia has given England friendly and
satisfactory assurances in regard to
Central Asia.
Paris, May 14.— La Volonte Nationale,
the organ of Prince Napoleon, in a lead
ing article, declares if the Prince Im
perial should die. Prince Napoleon
would never claim the throne. The
principle of hereditary succession is
denied. A thißl empire, aiming at the
restoration of Prince NapoleoD, his
nephew, would eud in ruin. The ar
ticle concludes : “We never doubted
that France, even if consulted through
a plebeseite, would energetically pro
nounce in favor of the Republic, which
is the form of government most com
patible with universal suffrage.”
New South Wales and the Centennial
—A Saccharine Matter.
San Francisco, May 14. —The steam
ship Cyphrenus, from Sydney, brings
intelligence that the New South Wales
Parliament has included in the supply
bill recently passed, £5,000 for repre
sentation of New Soutli Wales at the
Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia.
The Commercial Advertiser, of May
Ist, says in January last, Z. S. Spald
ing arrived from San Francisco,
aud made a proposition to sugar plant
ers to enter into the contract with San
Francisco refiners for the entire crop
of the coming year at a fixed price.
The proposition was disapproved.
Ottawa, One, May 14 —The Depart
ment of Justice has been informed that
several murders have recently been
committed in the northwest territories
by while men, who have taken refuge
in Montana, United States. An effort
will be made to recover the criminals
for trial by means of the extradition
treaty.
FROM M*Yv"IORkT
Convicts Seize an Engine and Escape.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 14 —While
a freight train was passing through the
arch at Sing SiDg State prison, four
convicts jumped on the engine, pre
sented a revolver at the engineer and
firemen, compelled them to get off, cut
the engine loose and started south
ward, abandoning the engine three
miles norlh of Tally town.
The National Bank of Rio Janeiro
Suspended—Capture ofEscaped Con
victs.
The Metropolis arrived here to-day
from Dutch Island, in tow.
The suspension of the National Bank
of Rio Jeneiro is reported by a London
telegram.
The ageut of the Inman line of
steamships says that the City of Brus
sels had a pilot on board at the time
she grounded.
Tarrytown, May 14.— Three of the
convicts who escaped from Sing Sing
were captured near Sleepy Hollow.
They had stolen the clothing of the en
gineer and firemen. The fourth one is
being hotly pursued, and will be caught.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Convention of the Episcopal Church —
Discussing the Colored Brother-
Hanging of a Negro Fiend.
Charleston, May 14.—The Eighty
fifth Annual Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Diocese of South Caro
lina, which met yesterday, and includes
thirty-six clergy and eighty-nine lay
delegates, has been engaged for two
days discussing the application of St.
Mark’s Church of Charleston, a re
spectable colored congregation with a
white pastor, for admission to repre
sentation in the Convention. The is
sue was made upon a motion to
refer the application to a special com
mittee, with instructions to report next
year. This was supported by Hon. C.
G. Memmiuger, Edward McCrady, V/.
F. Colcock and others, and was warmly
opposed by Bishop Howt*, Rev. A. F.
Porter, Rev. C. C. Pinckney, Hon. Geo.
A. Trenholm and others, who advocated
immediate admission. The question
was taken this afternoon, and a mo
tion to refer was carried by a close
vote. Rev. W. O. Pieutiss then an
nounced that he was requested by St.
Mark’s cjugregation to withdraw the
application.
Josh Frazer, colored, was hanged at
Camden, in this State, to-day, for the
murder of Benj. Cooper iu "December
last. He was convicted on circumstan
tial evidence, but after conviction con
fessed the crime. On the scaffold to
day lie confessed that he had murdered
also his wife and child and a negro
woman and that he had burned many
barns and gin houses. He was per
fectly resigned. The rope slipped and
death caused by strangulation in seven
minutes. Six thousand persons were
present. There was great religious ex
citement but no disturbance,
FROM ATLANTA.
Negroes Sentenced to Death.
Atlanta, Ga., *fay 14— Three ne
groes, in two cases of were
tried and sentenced in the Superior
Court here within two days. They are
to be hanged on the 4th of June next.
AUGUSTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 15. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Arri\ al of Indians—After the Whiskey
Men—Gossip.
Washington, May 14.—The new In
ternal Revenue Commissioner will as
sume his duties to-morrow. No imme
diate changee iu his office are contem
plated.
The Black Hills Sioux will be here
to-morrow, and will be joined in a day
or two by tlifi Brule and Ogalla Indi
ans, under Spot ted Tail and Red Cloud.
In consequence of prior engagements
the President will not be able to attend
the Bunker Hill Centennial celebration.
Judge Pierrcpont will take charge of
the Department of Justice to-morrow.
There is nothing new in the whiskey
raids.
No prominent officers have yet been
dismissed and the officials of the
Treasury Department are still search
ing for crooked whiskey. A large
amount of seizures are reported daily,
and in many cases the distillers aud
sellers manifest a disposition to appeal
to the courts.
Details of Whiskey Frauds —The Gov
ernment to Prosecute the Artful
Distillers—Prediction that John Bar
leycorn will Defeat Uncle Sam.
The whiskey frauds are still receiv
ing attention by the Treasury Depart
ment, and Solicitor Wilson is continu
ally unearthing new frauds. Further
record iu evidence was discovered to
day against the Union Copper Distil
lery at Chicago, and 150 barrels of
spirits were seized at their works.—
Three hundred barrels were also
seized belonging to Bevis & Fraser, in
St. Louis, fresh proof having been ob
tained against them. Photographic
copies of internal revenue returns are
being made at the Treasury Depart
ment and forwarded to the officers
in the different cities to aid them
iu substantiating their charges.—
Among those made to-day was one
from the gauger at Cincinnati, certi
fying that a certain number of barrels
of spirits had been emptied, and the
stamps destroyed in accordance with
the law, and upon further search the
same lot of spirits was found in Chica
go in the original packages, thus con
clusively showing collusion of the
gauger with the distillers. On this
transaction alone the Government lost
$3,000. On April 30th Mr. Wilson
called upon the Collectors of the In
ternal Revenue in different local
ities to furnish certain infoima
tion concerning transactions in their
districts, but up to last night
very few of them had responded, and
to-day the Secretary of the Treasury
called upon them for an explanation of
their non-compliance and for an im
mediate reply. He is determined that
all orders of this nature shall be obey
ed, or the collectors must take the con
sequences. A large number of com
munications have been received from
different sections from parties of
ering to furnish proof of fraud,
aud the Secretary has directed
all such to furnish the proof to the
proper officers, and if found val able
and used, parties furnishing it will be
remunerated. Information has reached
here this morning that the distillers in
Milwaukee had called upon those of
St. Louis to coutiuue with them in
procuring the services of Hon. Matt
Carpenter to obtain their release.
In response to it, Secretary Bris
tow sent dispatches to the super
visors at Chicago, St. Louis and Mil
waukee, informing them that the best
iegal assistance will be furnished them
in their efforts to couvict. those under
arrest, and the government is confident
of establishing the guilt of all the
parties. It having been intimated that
the whiskey ring will be able to furnish
wealth and power enough to corrupt
some of the prosecuting officers, the
solicitor declared that it could not be
done, as the government attorneys in
those sections were 'among the most
able and reliable connected with the
government.
The nine shrewd lawyers are of
opinion that the whiskey men will beat
the Government, Secretary Bristow
has been led into a blander which, while
it prostrates for the moment an im
portant industry, will give the lawyers
some hundred thousauds and secure
nothing to the Treasury.
The Movement Against Secretary De
lano.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. ]
Washington, May 12.—1 tis said to
night that the purpose of the combina
tion which hopes to force Secretary
Delano out of the cabinet is to have
him succeeded by ex-Senator Pratt, and
Mr. Fishback, the editor of the Missou
ri Democrat, is to be made commission
er of internal, revenue. Mr. Fishbuck
has just sold out his interest iu the
Democrat. He is said to be the per
son who communicated the first inti
mation of the operations of the whis
key ring to the Treasury Department.
Secretary Bristow said to-night that he
knew nothing of this rumor, and that
although Mr. Fishback had furnished
valuable information, there were many
others who had assisted the Depart
ment. in its investigation. The Secre
tary will probably by to-morrow or in
a day or two be made acquainted with
the name of the person who has fur
nished the whiskey ring with an ac
count of the movements of the Depart
ment.
There was nothing particularly new
or striking to-day in connection with
the move on the whiskey ring. The
Treasury Department was advised of
several additional seizures of contra
band whiskey at various points. Seiz
ures will probably be made in the
course of a few days in some of the
Eastern cities. Great credit is no doubt
duo to the Secretary of the Treasury
iu this matter, but comment is already
being made among prominent Repub
licans on the very evident attempts to
turn the whole thing to the political
advantage of that officer.
The testimony before the Committee
of the Alabama Legislature, showing
the manner of Mr. Spencer’s election,
will be very apt to imperil the seat of
that pure patriot in the Senate. This
testimony will all be laid before the
Senate next winter, and go before the
Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions. As that committee report
ed in favor of the expulsion
of Mr. Caldwell, of Kansas, on pre
cisely similar-grounds, it cannot avoid
the same conclusion in Spencer’s case.
Spencer’s vote is important at this
juncture to the Republican party in the
Spring, but the critical condition of
that party before the country, aud the
Presidential election coming on, it can-
Dot afford to keep him in his seat after
this exposure.
Lo, the Poor Indian.
St. Louis, May 14.— Orders were
issued from headquarters of the army
here that the Indian prisoners now
confined at Fort Leavenworth will be
conveyed to St. Augustine, Fla., and
i confined in Fort Marion under special
guards/
THE WHISKEY WAR,
Distillers Determined to Protect
Themselves by Law.
Milwaukee, May 14. —The four distil
leries which had been released by court,
on special bonds, resumed operations
yesterday. A dispatch was received
from Washington ordering the officers
to stop them until they had given new
bonds in place of those given on the
Ist of May. Distillers here telegraph
od to distillers in Chicago, St. Louis
and elsewhere, proposing to unite with
them in testing the constitutionality
of the Internal Revenue act. A favor
ble reply was received from Chicago,
and distillers have resolved to proceed.
They have retained ex-Senator Car
penter to take the question into court.
Seizure of Western Whiskey.
Baltimore, May 14.—About 500 bar
rels of whiskey, the product of Western
distilleries recently closed by the Gov
ernment, were seized in this city. The
seizures were made at five or six dif
ferent warehouses.
Tlie Whiskey Ring.
The Tribune still continues its war on
the whiskey ring, and leaves to Com
missioner Douglass the task of ex
plaining the following facts, and of
placing the responsibility where it be
longs. We quote:
“ To excise duties collected on a gal
lon of spirits in Great Britain are ten
shillings a gallon, or more than three"
times those imposed in the U. S. The
revenue derived by Great Britain in
the year ending March 31st, 1374, was
$73,000,000 from British spirits;
$20,000,000 from foreign liquors,
$9,000,000 from foreign wines, and
$38,000,000 from malt liquors. In the
fiscal year 1874 the United States
received $44,000,000 from the gallon
tax on spirits, $9,000,000 from malt
liquors, and $3,000,000 from customs
duties on foreign wines and liquors.
From 1864 to 1874, the British revenue
from excise duties on spirits increased
more than 50 per cent., without any
change whatever in the tax per gallon.
In the fiscal year 1870 the U. S. de
rived a revenue from spirits of $55,-
581,599, including license fees, and
though the tax was raised to 70 cents
gallon August 1, 1872, the Internal
Revenue Olfico has uever succeeded iu
matching its receipts for 1870 under
the 50 cent tax!
The World is inclined to think that
Mr. Bristow will not be allowed to
write any abiding or extensive reform
in the matter of the whiskey l ing. Says
the editor:
“ If the St. Louis whiskey ling is
broken up, what will become of the
eminent Radical members, one of whom
the Republicans recently honored with
a nomination, who divide $30,000 a
week among themselves—and others ?
Till the Harper tmtl comes off it is not
safe to say that the power of the ring in
Central Illinois is destroyed. At Chi
cago it is not likely that trails will be
followed far till the discovery is made
that not alone are local officers in
terested in the stamp frauds, but that
illicit stills have been running under
very distinguished Radical permission
from Washington. In fine, it is the
same old story. The whole fabric is
rotten.”
JOHN C. BRECEKNRIDGE.
His Condition Unchanged.
Lexington, May 14.—The condition
of Gen. Breekenridga remains un
changed. Ho is still free from pain
and those in attendance upon him are
less apprehensive of his sudden death
than they were. He saw a few visitors
30-day.
SAN DOMINGO.
The Facts About the Annexation Job
Coming to Light—Disgraceful Reve
lations Before a House of Commons
Committee.
[New YOl k Sun.]
The boldest and by odds the most
infamous scheme of pillage organized
under the first administration of Grant,
was that for the annexation of San
Domingo. It was, in its very inception,
lawless and cruel aud base beyond
anything iu the history of the Western
world, since Cortez and Pizarro. Baez
had usurped the Presidency of San
Domingo without a decent pretext of
an election; aud finding that his bar
barous murders, confiscations aud
treasons would be borne no longer, he
deliberately determined to sell the
couutry and divide the price with his
accomplices. These were the camp fol
lowers and personal intimates of the
two Presidents, Grant and Baez.
Grant’s dependents, Babcock, Porter,
Ingalls, and the rest, were to have
spoils so rich aud tempting that Grant
actually stipulated terms to lobby the
scheme through Congress. But Baez
in the meantime was in evil ease. He
frankly declared that he had no popu
lar strength iu the country he propos
ed to sell, aud that he could not hold
out long enough to consummate the
sale without extraordinary aid of
money, and a ileet fiom the United
States. Thereupon Grant ran his hand
into the Treasury and seized certain
unappropriated money’s for the use of
Baez, and sent them down by Babcock,
with a fleet large enough to keep this
savage wretch in power until the tem
per of the American Congress could be
tried.
We recur to this shameful history
now only ask to how much of the pro
ceeds of the British loan which Baez
about that time put upon the London
market was used at Washington? The
Hoube of Commons has appointed a
committee to ascertain and report the
methods by which foreigu loans are
negotiated in England. One of the wit
nesses on the 15th of April last was
Mr. Edward Hertzberg Hartmont, who
negotiated in 1869 a Dominican loan
for the nominal amount of $3,788,500.
He confessed that, ho received in cash
only $1,860,445. Of this the Govern
ment of Sau Domingo received only
$250,000. and the remainder was ex
pended in England and the United
States.
Hartmont was sent to Washington
to work for annexation, where he testi
fies a large amount of the money was
expended. Who got it? For his loan
of $3,788,500, Hartmont received in cash
$1,860,445. The difference between sl,-
860,445 and $250,000 is rather startling.
“A part” of it, Mr. Hartmont swears,
was sent to “Berlin for arms but the
rest was disbursed in Washington.
It was a great sura. To whom was
it paid ? About that time several of
Gen. Grant’s military favorites became
suddenly prosperous, and invested
their money in the real estate pool
which throve so fabulously under the
two bosses, Shepherd and Grant. One
of these was Babcock. Is it possible
that Hartmont could have paid to him
any part of this vast sum as yet un
accounted for? If not, to whom? The
next Congress might profitably follow
the example of the House of Commons
and inquire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION ON
THE HYGIENE OF SCHOOLS.
Effect on the Nervous System—Too
Much Mental Exertion—Over-Eating
—Ventilation—Gymnastics—A Health
Officer in Every School.
Detroit, May 12. —This morning the
association divided into sections on the
various topics to be discussed. In the
health conference a paper was read by
Dr. D. F. Lincoln, of Boston, on the
subject of the injurious effect of school
life on the nervous system. It was full
of interesting information. Dr. Lincoln
first examined the subject of muscular
training as a branch of education, and
anived at the conclusion that while it
is most essential to the highest type of
education, it may be overdone and be
come almost useless. Happiness is es
sential to the bodily health of the
scholar. Happiness is supplemented
by an interest in their tasks, and some
times even produced by such interest.
On the .other hand overwork produces
pain, lassitude aud a train of evils.
Petty restrictions in school burden the
life of a student, make him disconten
ted, less manly and reliant. There
must not be an excess in the quantity
of work. Frequent recesses should be
granted. Long, unbroken sessions
strain the body and mind of the schol
ar. Lessons studied at home have the
single objection of being carried too
late into the night. Dr. Lincoln depre
cated the use of tea and coffee by chil
dren. He gave an exhaustive sta’c
ment of the views of a gentleman with
whom he had corresponded on the
subject of lighting, heating and
Ventilating School Rooms.
He stated that the almost universal
testimony of teachers, doctors and
scientists iu this branch was that
school rooms are not properly ven
tilated.
The paper was then discussed by the
members. Prof. Putnam, of the Nor
mal School at Ypsilanti, commenting
on the statement of Dr. Lincoln, that
students should not be permitted to
become anxious over their work, asked
whether any mental work could be ac
complished without producing anxiety,
and whether the ill-temper manifested
by scholars does not generally arise
from
Over-Eating
aud indigestion rather than from school
work? The answer to this was, that
interest is necessary, but when it be
comes so intense as to be called anxiety,
it should be checked, for then it is in
jurious. There must be some tension
to the bow, but there is a point of pres
sure beyond Which some cord will snap.
To the latter question Dr. Lincoln said
unhesitatingly, yes.
Rev. Dr. Goodwin, of Saginaw, ha,d
discovered in .his own family too groat
anxiety was manifested by children
over their lessons.
James M. Barnard, of Boston, made
some remarks on the
Physical Perfection
of scholars, which is, he said, a sine qua
non in the matter of education. He re
ferred to eminent European writers on
this subject, which has not been con
sidered iu this country.
Mr. Doty, Superintendent of the Pub
lic Schools of Detroit, repudiated the
idea that schools are poorly ventilated.
The homes of most of the children are
much less healthful than school rooms.
The doctors charged this thing indis
criminately and severely, without suf
ficient investigation. We must, not vault
from particular cases to geueral prin
ciples. He remarked incidentally that
he had uever seen a reason to vary the
method of iustruction in school exer
cises, on account of difference in intel
lect between male and female students.
Mr. Lincoln replied to Mr. Doty,
maintaining the correctness of the out
cry of the doctors against the imperfect
ventilation of school rooms.
A paper of James J. Putnam, of Bos
ton, on the subject of
Gymnastics
iu public schools was then read, dis
cussing at considerable length, as to
the most preferable system of exer
cises and the practicable objections to
their immediate introduction into the
schools. It was a strong argument for
the introduction of some kind of light
gymnastics into every educational in
stitution in the land. It was as essen
cial as the books themselves. He
could not sufficiently urge that more
attention be paid to this branch of ed
ucation. Gymnastics should be graded
and keep puce with the advancement
of scholars.
In the debate that followed this pa
per, Mr. Doty expressed the hope that
A Health Officer
would, before loDg, be appointed to
look after the welfare of the schools
aud determine questions that a physi
cian was especially fitted to decide. He
believed that the experiment of the in
troduction of military drill into high
schools, which had been tried success
fully iu Detroit, would be equally bene
ficial iu other schools, and would be
more conducive to the production of
soldiers than the military drill in more
advanced institutions, lie would say
to inventors that the invention of an
automatic system of ventilation is a
necessity of the age.
Gamaliel Bradford, of Boston, read
a paper on the “Financial Policy of
England aud the United States.”
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
More Mining Troubles—Phil. Slieri
den in Demand.
Tyrone, Pa., May 14.—Fifty men
went to work in the Sterling Mines
this morning. About 11 o’clock a
fight took place between the few po
lice and the strikers; and two of the
latter were arrested. There is no po
lice force sufficient to protect willing
workmen, and the Sheriff is dilatory.
L. G. Oontri, editor of L’ltalia, who, on
Monday, was captured by the strikers,
is at Tyrone with forty Italians, and is
determined to put them at work with
proper protection. Affairs in Clear
field county are in a bad state, and
nothing short of military force will
suppress the outrages. This is the
opinion of the most intelligent portion
of the community.
When a conductor on a Syracuse car
shouted “Ruggles street,” the other
night, a man who had been dozing in
the corner started up and said : “Bug
gies’treat? Where’s Buggies ? Show
me Ruggles, quick!”
Last year when Paul Boynton gave
an exhibition on the Delaware, Phila
delphia scarcely noticed him; but now
you ought to hear them talk about
“our noble Boynton.”— New York Com
inei'cial Advertiser. %
It is statistically computed that 100,-
000,000 nuts of various kinds are an
nually eaten in this country. Which
fact the New Orleans Picayune thinks
may account for the prodigious num
ber of colonels.
ARIEL.
He Proposes to Take the Field Against
the Scientists on Four Interesting
Biblical Questions.
It may be that our community has
resigned itself to the conclusion that
the season of enteratinments is over.
But the following correspondence as
sures us tha t we are to have a course
of lectures from the far-famed Ariel.
His efforts will be confined to subjects
connected with those which have dis
tinguished him as a thinker and rea
soner. We understand he has in manu
script another racy book, soon to be
published, in which he rejoins to the
objections raised to his first work on
the negro by a coterie of sage Phila
delphians. The correspondence rela
tive to the lectures sufficiently explains
itself:
Nashville, May 11, 1875.—T0 Ariel-
Dear Sir: Some of us who have heard
your conversations on the Book of
Genesis, and have listened with intense
delight at your vindication of its literal
truth, when the exact ideas of the origi
nal, contained in the words as used by
God, were put in the translation, show
ing that Moses’account of the creation,
flood, etc., was true; others of us who
have not hea rd these conversations, but
have heard much about your works,
believe that it would be gratifying to
the public if will deliver a course
of lectures on this aud the other books
of Moses, which have recently, and du
ring this century, been violently as
sailed by learned geologists and others.
We trust that you will consent to do
so. and if you do, please mention in
your reply some of the subjects of your
first lecture.
We are aware that you are blind and
must necessarily speak extempora
neously, but we trust you will not per
mit this to deter you from acceding to
our request.
Very respectfully, your friends. Mad
ison Stratton, F. Hogan, H. L. Clai
borne, James Hickman, B. F. Rucker,
R. L. Weakley, W. H. Atwell, L. Moses,
■Jas. A. McClure, J. W. Basker, J. W.
Bowling, B. W. McCann, S. A. Duling,
H. Metz, B. Embry.
Nashville, May 11.—Gentlemen:
Yours of the 11th inst. requesting me
to deliver a course of lectures on the
Books of Moses, and particularly that
of Genesis; and, if I accepted, to indi
cate some of the subjects of the first
lectures, is at hand.
Fully aware of the difficulties I will
have to labor under from being blind
in delivering such a course of lectures,
I will nevertheless acctdetoyour re
quest ; aud will deliver them (God
willing) at such time and place as you
may hereafter designate, and in the
best way I can. Some of the subjects
I propose to treat in these lectures will
he as follows :
1. That it is to the inaccuracies of
King James’ translation that the
learned, the scientific and religious
world are indebted for most of the dis
ensions now existing regarding the
book of Genesis, and to the misuse of
certain Hebrew words for all the at
tacks on its credibility.
2. The line of demarkation, as fixed
by God, marking the separation at the
creation of tire world between mortal
lire and immortal life, showing that all
created in the one were necessarily
mortal, and the other immortal.
3. That Moses’ account of the crea
tion and of the flood is literally and
exactly true, the assertion of scientific
geologists to the contrary potwith
staudiug.
4. Why God confounded the lan
guage at Babel as bis means for dis
persing the builders of that tower, and
to whom it was specially confined. I
trust you will permit the ministers of
the various denominations, \Vith their
wives, to attend free of cost.
Very respectfully, your friend,
Ariel.
[Hydrant Water.
| Baltimore Sun.)
Messrs. Editors : I read your recent
article headed “Death in the Pump,”
referring to the unwholesome charac
ter of the water furnished by pumps in
cities, and agree fully that city pump
water is not only filthy, but may be a
direct cause of sickness. I am sure I
cau demonstrate that tests placed in
water clusets hundreds of feet from a
pump will slowly find their way into it,
proving that those who* believe that
city pumps are little else than drains
for damp cellars, filthy pools in gut
ters and water closets, are correct in
the opinion.
But you might have added with
truth that under certain conditions we
may also find “death in the hydrant” a
subject touched upon in the report of
our water engineer to the City Council,
published yesterday. My object in
now writing is to state the fact that
about two-thirds of all the yard hy
drants in Baltimore are defective, and
that each of these permits about one
pint of the filthy water that stands in
the outside wooden box to enter the
hydrant chamber every time the hy
drant is stopped, to be given into the
cofh e pot or pitcher the moment the
hydrant is again started.
To prove this assertion let every per
son having on ordinary hydrant iu his
yard remove its wooden top and min
gle a basinful of ordinary blueiug water
with the stagnant water iu the wooden
hydrant-box, then by starting and
stopping the hydrant a few times he
can prove whether it is defective or
not. If it is defective the first few gal
lons that run will appear as blue as in
digo, proving that the water in the box
has been sucked past the gutta percha
washer into the water pipe. Alter the
running water ceases to appear blue
and looks natural, stopping the hydrant
will take in another pint of the blue
water from the outside box, which will
again blue the water wheu started. In
this way hydrants I tested a week ago
still run blue water wheu first started,
proving that filth constantly enters the
water of defective hydrants from theii
outside boxes. Of course the filth and
danger is greater wheu chamber lye,
&c., is emptied at the hydrant, as is
the custom with many families. When
a hydrant is defective I cau think of
but three expedients to which we might
resort, viz: Either to let several gal
lons of water run each time before
catching any for house use, or replace
the old hydraut or its defective parts
by new; or better still, obviate all fu
ture dauger by substituting the hy
drant by water fixtures placed where
there is no danger of freezing, and
draw the water by a stop-cock or
thumb screw. C. W. D.
Linen dusters are again an equiva
lent for coin in the Indian poker games
at. Austiu, Nevada. Some Indians
would rather win one linen duster than
three squaws.
A butcher sold a sailor a ham on
credit, but liuding in a few days he had
gone to sea lie growled, “If I’d ’a
known that lie wasn’t going to pay for
it, I’d ’a charged him three pence more
a pound for it, the rascal.”
THE PAN PRESBYTERIAN COUN
CIL.
Stirring Question for the Coming
Assembly.
[A Paper Prepared for the Constitutionalist]
The conception of a general council
of all the Presbyterian churches of this
globe originated with the distinguished
Dr. MeCosh, of Princeton, N. J.
This learned divine is a native of
Scotland, who, during his pastorate of
one of the Free churches, became re
nowned in Europe and America as the
auther of a learned and popular trea
tise on the “Divine Government,” which
was followed a few years later by his
celebrated book entitled “ Typical
Forms.” He was called from his parish
iu Scotland to the Chair of Logic and
Metaphysics in Queen’s College, Bel
fast, where he remained for the space
of fifteen years, when he was invited
to succeed Dr. John McLean, as Presi
dent of Princeton College, N. J.
Since he became a resident of these
States, Dr. MeCosh has distinguished
himself as a leader in all evangelical
movements. He is not only a man of
profound theological attainments, but
of deep evangelical piety. His reply
to Tyndall gives evidence of the fact
that he is capable of grappling witii
the most recondite problems of science.
In his efforts to bring about a union j
of all the Presbyterians of christen- j
dom, he has been much aided by the I
sympathy and counsels of such laymen '
as Geo. H. Stuart, of Philadelphia;
who, though by birth and education a
seceder, and afterwards a member of
the “Reformed Presbyterian Church,”
“ the strictest of the Presbyterian fami
ly,” yet he is a Christian gentleman of
broad views aud large heart.
It is not saying too much when we
say that his connection with the Evan
gelical Alliance, the Young Men’s
Christian Association, the American
Bible Society, aud other great organi
zations of Christian philauthophy, has
secured for him a place in the good
esteem of of all good men in all the
churches. He is reported to be the best
layman in the United States. The great
aim of the preposed Union of Presbyte
rians is not to establish any new creed,
nor claim any new jurisdiction. Its ob
ject is fraternal and social. There is a
unity of sentiment among all Presbyte
rians, so far as relates to every ques
tion essential to salvation. But Presby
teriaus have wrangled more than any
other body of Christians about trifles.
Hence, if- we glance at the Church of
Scotland, its history is simply the
record of division and sub-division,
the Reformed Presbyterians, embrac
ing the old and new school. The Sece
ders again divided into Burghers and
anti-Burghers; then the Relief Body;
then the “Auld Kirk” and the “Free
Kirk.” All these are so many bodies—
all Presbyterians—yet. differing in non
essentials. Then, till recently, in Ire
land, in Canada, in Australia and iu
these United States, all the above
named Synods or Assemblies had then
representatives.
If we glance at Presbyterianism,
here we see the spirit of division aud
alienation sadly prevailing.
The Presbyterian Church of America
was modelled ou the Scotch and Scotch-
Irish plan, both in regard to faith and
manners. The Westminster Confession
of Faith and Catechisms, Larger and
Shorter, were her subordinate'stand
ards. This body grew with the rapid
growth of our great Republie until it
became numerically one of the strong
est branches of tne Presbyterian fami
ly. In 1837, however, the Assembly
divided on two questions—one of Faith
and the other of Order, aud became
known as the
Old and New
School Assemblies. Then again, in
1862, the Old School, becoming in
tensely loyal to the Lincoln govern
ment, thrust out of their pale the
churches in the ten seceding States,
which rendered it necessary to form
the
“ Southern Assembly,”
so-called. This Assembly now em
braces twelve Synods and sixty-four
Presbyteries.
Negotiat ions were opened for a re
union of the Old and New Schools in
the North, and in May, 1870, that uniuu
was formally consummated at Phila
delphia.
Since that time several attempts
have been made for a re-union of the
Northern and Southern churches, but
as yet they remain apart. During the
last year a committee from each of
these assemblies met at Baltimore, but
separated without, accomplishing any
definite or even hopeful result.
The proposed alliance of all Presby
terians may help to bring about a bet
ter state of feeling between the
churches North and South, and many
hearts in both mourn for the aliena
tion caused by the late war.
Dr. McCosh’s plan, if carried into
effect in 1876, when the representatives
of all Presbyterian churches propose
to meet at Edinburgh, Scotland, would
embrace all the churches of Scotland,
Ireland, England, France, the valleys
of Piedmont, the Dutch-Belgic and
Swiss churches, the church in Austra
lia, the Presbyterian church of British
North America, including Manitoba
and the Islaud of Van Couver, as also
all the various branches of Presbytery
in the United States of America. *
The churches would each and all re
tain their present identity and juris
diction intact, but would recognize the
counsel and advice of the
Grand Confederation
which would be regarded as a
Pan-Presbyterian Council
when such advice might be solicited
by any or all embraced in the con
stitution of the proposed Alliance as
thus epitomized:
1. The Pau-Presbyterian Council shall
bo called “The Confederation of the
Reformed Churches holding to the
Presbyterian System.”
2. The Bond of Union shall be the
Holy Scriptures.
3. The Council shall consist of dele
gates from such churches as form the
Confederation.
4. While the Council shall have
power to determine what churches
shall join the Confederation, it shall
not interfere with the internal discip
line of any.
5. The Council shall aim at helping
weak and struggling churches. It
shall also aim at the dissemination of
useful aud denominational intelligence,
and devise means for united and eco
nomic aggression on territories not
provided with the gospel of Christ in
Christian and heathen lands.
6. It will aim at the direction and
guidance of public sentiment by pa
pers, essays, and the dissemination
of useful intelligence on missionary aud
theological subjects, and will watch the
progress of public thought, both in re
gard to Evangelistic labor and scien
tific discussion.
7. The constitution will not be dung
ed except on a motion made at one
meeting and carried by a two-thirds
vote at the following meeting.
New Series-Vol. 3. No. 95
.. Proposed to hold a meeting of
the Confederation ouoe in two years.
The proposed alliance will give
strength and power to the Presbyteri
an body, such as it has never had. In
point of intelligence, social influence,
commercial power and evangelical sen-'
timent, the Presbyterian Church is a
great body, and its strength will bo
vastly augmented by the proposed Con
federation.
REISER'S DREAM.
How Dr. Keyser Anticipated Death.
[Max Adeler.]
Last December my friend Keyser
dreamed one day that he would die on
the 13th of Januarj. So strongly was
he assured of the fact that the vision
would prove true that he began at once
to make preparations for his departure.
He got measured for a burial suit, he
drew up his will, he picked out a nice
lot in the cemetery and had it fenced in;
he joined the church, and selected six
of the Deaeons as his pall-bearers; he
also requited the choir to sing the fu
neral, ami he got them to run over a
favorite hymn of his to see how it would
sound. Then he got Toombs, the un
dertaker, to knock together a burial
casket, with silver-plated handles, and
cushions inside, and he instructed the
undertaker to rush out his bast hoarse,
aud to buy sixty pairs of black gloves
to be distributed among the mourners.
He bad some trouble deciding upon a
tombstone. The man at the marble
yard wanted to shove off on him a
second-hand one, with an angel weep
ing over a kind of flower-pot; but Key
ser finally ordered anew one, with a
design representing a rosebud with a
broken stem, and the legend, “Not lost,
but gone before.”
Then he got the village newspaper to
put a good obituary notice of him in
type, and he told his wife that he would
be gratified if she would come out in
the Spring and plant violets upon his
grave. He said it was hard to leave
Jier and tne children, but she must try
to bear up uuder it. These afflictions
are for our good, and when he was an
angel he would come and watch over
her and keep his eye ou her. He said
she might marry again if she wanted
to, for, although the mere thought of
it nearly broke his heart, he wished her
above all to be happy, and to have
someone to love her aud protect her
from the storms of the rude world.
Then he and Mrs. Keyser and the chil
dren cried, aud Keyser, as a closing
word of counsel, advised her not to
plow for corn earlier than the middle
of March.
On the night of the 12th of January
there was a flood iu the creek, and
Keyser got up at 5 o’clock in the morn
ing of the 13th, and worked until night
trying to save the building and his
woodpile. He was so busy that ho
forgot all about its being the day of
his death, and as he was very tired, he
went to bed early and slept soundly all
night.
About 6 o’clock on the morning of
the 14th thero was a ring at the door
bell. Keyser jumped out of bed, threw
up the front window, and exclaimed—
“ Who’s there?”
“It’s me—Toombs,” said the under
taker.”
“What do you want at this time of
the morning?” demanded Keyser.
“Want said Toombs, not recognizing
Keyser. “Why. I’ve brought around
the ice to pack Keyser is so’s he’ll keep
until the funeral. The corpse’d spoil
this kinder weather if we did’nt.”
Then Keyser remembered, and it
made him feel mad when he thought
how the day had p.-issed and left aim
still alive, and how he had made a fool
of himself. So the corpse said:
“Well, you cau just skeet around
home again with that ice; the corpse is
not yet dead. You’re a leetle too anx
ious, it strikes me. You’re not goin’
to chuck me into a sepulchre yet, if
you have got everything ready. So
you can haul off and unload.”
About 10:30 that morning the Dea
cons came round, with crape on their
hats aud gloom in their faces, to carry
the body to the grave, and while tbey
were on the front steps the martde
vard man drove up with a rosebud
tombstone and a shovel, aud stepped
in to ask the widow how deep she
wanted the grave dug. Just then the
choir arrived with the minister, and
the company were assembled in the
parlor, when Keyser came in from the
stable, where he had been dosing a
horse with patent medice and warm
mash for the glanders. He was sur
prised, but he proceeded to explain
that there had been a little mistake
some how. He was also pained to
find that everybody seemed to be
a good deal disappointed, particularly
the tombstone man, who went away
mad, declaring that such an old fraud
ought to be rammed iuto the ground
anyhow, dead or alive. Just as the
Deacons left in a huff, the tailor’s boy
arrived with the burial suit, and be
fore Keyser could kick him off the
steps the paper carrier fluug into the
door the Morning Argus, in which that
obituary occupied a prominent place.
Anybody who wants a good, reliable
tombstone, that has a broken rosebud
on it, aud that has never been used,
can buy one of that kind at a sacridee
for cash, from Keyser. He thinks that
bad dream must have been caused by
eating too much sausage at supper.
BOND ENDORSEMENT.
A Serious Inquiry.
To Hon. Wm. M. Reese:
In discussing the question touching
the acceptance of the enabling act of
the last Legislature of Georgia, in ex
pressing your views, you say, as pub
lished in both the city papers :
* * * * #
“ Litigation had recently been start
ed against the Georgia Road, and may
be this litigation would eventuate in
deciding all the endorsements illegal
and void. He (I) hoped to God this
would be so! [Applause.] He (I)
could not say it would result so,” &e.
*****
I was but little in the Convention,
and did not hear the above remarks,
and think surely you must have been
misunderstood or incorrectly reported.
lam interested in the Georgia Rail
road ; don’t own a bond indorsed by
it, and never did. Surely, if the above
extract be correct, never will! Hoping
that you have been misquoted, I wish
to ask you whether you have been cor
rectly printed. 1 ask the question be
cause I was startled by this annuncia
tion in a public newspaper. Tnis in
quiry I intend to be suggestive!—sug
gestive as to the authority to issue
any bonds by any corporation ! Who
authorised the Georgia Railroad bonds ?
They are in the hands many. What
do their holders think of them this
May morning ?
I am. most respectfully, truly aud
earnestly, J udge Reese’s Friend.
P. S.—Your reply is anxiously looked,
for.