Newspaper Page Text
Old Series —Vol. 25, No. 122.
Terms of Subscription.
Dally, one year WO oo
" li months 600
" a months 2 s<#
Ti 1-Weekly, one year 6 oo
“ 6 months.... 2 50
Weekly, one year... 2 oo
“ o months 1 (to
Single copies, 5 cents. To news dealers, 2 x / t
cents.
On and after this date ( April 21, 1875) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
free of postage. Subscriptions must in all
cases be paid in advance. The paper will be
discontinued at the expiration of the time paid
for.
Advertisements must be paid for when hand
ed in, unless otherwise stipulated.
Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
htejecte l communications will not be return
ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu
nications, or articles written on both sides.
Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex
prtss or postal order.
Twenty-Five Cents Per Week.
Persons in the city wishing to subscribe
for tho Constitutionalist, by the week,
can do so by paying twenty-live cents
either to the Carriers or at the office of
publication. It will be left regularly every
morning at any residence, office, shop, or
place designated. The money must always
be paid in advance.
Persons Leaving the City
for the Summer cam have The Daily Con
st itutionaltst sent to them for one dollar
per month, postage prepaid. The address
may be changed as often as dosired.
THW CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY, May 2<>, 1875.
We conclude the Smith Fisu-centen
nial-oath correspondence this morning.
We give the concluding chapter of
the Missionary Colored Baptist Con
vention at Washington, Ga.
A communication invites something
on the order of old-fashioned sealed
proposals for a superintendent of the
7 Georgia Kailroad. This is a first-rate
plau to biing out the candidates.
The Cuban Spaniards, in their despe
ration, are calling for the policy of
Sherman, Sheridan, Alamo & Cos.
Thanks to the cause of freedom, these
faugless vipers can now only hiss.
Mr. Aurams, of the Atlanta News, es
says to prove that the Centennial of
1876 is a gigantic humbug. Genera
Gordon, Mr. Stephens, Hon. L. Q C.
Lamar, General Joseph E. Johnston
and a host of men, good aDd true, are
of a different opinion.
Some of dur Georgia contemporaries
areJiieking against the “modified oath,”
aud think no Southern man ought to
take it. As our senators and Repre
sentatives ia Congress have taken this
oath, and violated no propriety in doing
so, surely GoV. Smith would not object
to taking it himself, if elected to suc
ceed Gordon or Norwood.
It will be seen by refening to our
city columns that the crop report of
the Augusta Cotton Exchange for the
month of May is highly encouraging.
The crop is a little later than last year,
but stands aro good, labor plentiful
and almost universal satisfaction pre
vails among the planting community.
Would it not be a good idea to have a
.report of the corn crop?
From the London Standard we copy
this morning the testimony of eye-wit
uesses conceruiug the Schiller disaster.
These narratives aie the first of the
kind that have reached us. They are
of thrilling interest, and will be, in this
■community, perused with much atten
tion, as they come like ocean knells
from the tomb of the gallant and la-
UMCted Leonhardt.
The mystery of young Casper Hau
ser at one time agitated Europe equal
ly with that of the Iron Mask. The
New York Sunday Mercury claims that
Xbe boy’s identity has at last been es
tablished, and bases its article, which
we publish this morning, upon the rev
elations of the Frankfort Gazette, which
have made an immense sensation in
Germany and caused the paper to be
prosecuted by powerful nobles, who
are interested in keeping the truth of
Casper Hauser buried in his grave. If
the statements of the Frankfort Gazette
are founded upon fact, aud the mystery
,is a mystery no more, we need not yet
♦despair of finding out who murdered
JL)r. Burdell and the authorship of
“Tunlus” ' .
rural press is ginning an inter
esting o'* tl i ar y Santa Anna. It
is sorrow*** 1 * reading, for most all the
world would regret the death of the
great Mexican; He not only kept
Mexico lively for thirty years, but from
1840 to 1861 he funftetwd indirectly a
shoal of office-holders fur the United
States who had no other merit than
they had either marched against,
fought or whipped him, aud evefl nuw
we see that old greasy deck occasion
ally shuffled in dealing out political
hands. If there is any gratitude in
a politician, which has been doubted
about as often as religion, the price of
crape should stiffen. But as old Santa
hasn’t pegged out yet, its advance
should not take place until further
notice.
The full text of the decision of Judges
Bradley and Erskine in the great Ma
con and Brunswick Railroad ease will
•be reaJ with interest. Wo now can see
.no help it>r the stockholders losing
*every dollar they put into that unfor
tunate enterprise—amounting to nearly
two million. Xt is really hard rttse.
The learned Justices make tfco Jaw per
fectly plain, however, and we therefore
suppose that it is right for the State of
Georgia to walk in and crowd out the
poor stockholders who realiy buiit the
road. And what makes the matter
still more unfortunate at this time,
these stockholders are in great part
northern men, who have thus another
proof that they cannot safely invest
their money ia Georgia. We are at
least much afraid they Wjill take this
tyiew of the case.
® Jails iondMumalid
FOREIGN NEWS.
TIIE WAR IN CUBA.
Sheridan's Tactics in Demand.
Havana, May 25.—The Voz De Cuba
publishes a strong editorial replying to
the lndependeia, of New Y*ork, which
advocated tho continuance of the burn
ing of plantations and settlements for
the purpose of driving the Spaniards
out of Cuba. Tho Voz accuses Signo
Aldama of advocating this plan, aud
says that the triumph of the Insur
surgents could only produce another
Hayti, and that notwithstanding the
quantity of African blood in Aldama’s
veins, and dark tho color of his
face, he would not be accosted
as a recruit by the negro in- aur
gent chief, Cceilio Gonzales, because
he would be considered as belonging to
another race. Tho Voz further says
the lndependeia cries “No delay, ho
hesitation.” Spaniards must do the
same. Instead of conquering this band
they must assassinate it, because it no
longer displays a political, hut a crim
inal flag, to evoke the memory of the
scenes in St. Domingo. The article has
produced a profound impression. The
sympathizers with the revolution pro
nounce the article of the lndependeia
unwise.
The Committee of Thirty.
Paris, May 25. —The Assembly to
day elected thirteen members of the
new committee of thirty. All belong
to the parties which support the pres
ent Constitution. Among them aro
Messieurs Laboulage, Cezanne, Ricard,
Ferry aud Picard. The seventeen other
members remain to be elected by a sec
ond ballot, as none of the candidates
received an absolute majority. Among
the candidates are M. Gambetta and
two Deputies of the Right. No Bona
partists offered themselves for places
ou the committee.
Austrian Affairs.
Brussels, May 25.—The Senate has
unanimously adopted a vote of confi
dence in the Government in respect to
its conduct of the correspondence with
Germany, and the Ministry has given
notice that it will introduce a bill pro
viding for the punishment of offenses
similar to that of Duchesne.
Prussia and the Catholics.
Berlin, May 25.—The Upper House
of the Prussian Diet passed bills
for the suppression of convents and
relative to the administration of Church
property.
Illness of the Pope.
Rome, May 25.—The Pope is serious
ly ill.
THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN
ASSEMBLY.
The Louisville Case Under Discussion.
St. Louis, May 25—In the Southern
Presbyterian General Assembly yester
day, about the entire session was
taken up in the discussion of what is
known as the Wilson case, being com
plaints of J. J. Cook and others to the
Louisville Presbytery regarding Rev.
S. R Wilson and his congregation of
the First Presbyterian Church, of
Louisville. Without definite action
the Assembly adjourned until to-mor
row, when the case will be taken up
again. Next to the question involving
the relations between the Northern
aud Southern churches this is the most
important case before this Assembly.
Reunion of the Northern and South
ern Churches Still at a Dead Look.
St. Louis, May 25.—1n the Presbyte
rian General Assembly to-day the
special committee, to whom vas re
ferred the matter of friendly relations
between the Northern aud Southern
churches, reported that, while they
greatly regretted the Conference at
Baltimore last January was unsuccess
ful in bringing two great bodies to
gether in friendly and cordial relations,
they heartily endoised the position of
their committee as the only ono they
could have taken under the circum
stances.
Cleveland, May 25.—1 u the Presby
terian General Assembly an unsuccess
ful effort was made to have the action
of the Assembly on the repoit of the
Conference Committee with the Pres
byterian Church reconsidered.
Franklin Telegraph Company Lines
Revert to Former Managers.
Boston, May 25.—1 t is ahthoritative
ly stated by the Evening Trave er that
the lease of the property of the Franks
lin Telegraph Company to the Atlantic
aud Pacific Telegraph Company was on
Saturday last annulled and canceled
by the agreement of the parties there
to. This action replaces the lines of
the Franklin Company, between this
city and Washington, and also the ex
tensive connection with the new ocean
cable at Rye Beach, New Haven, in the
hands of its former manager. The pe
tition of the stockholders for the ap
pointment of a receiver and a sale of
the property in consequence of alleged
frauds on the part of the Atlantic aud
Pacific Telegraph Company, which
owns a majority of its capital stock,
will bo heard before Judge Morton of
the Supreme Court Friday next.
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, May 25. —A post mortem
examination of dead horses shows that
the disease, cerebro-spinal menengitis,
is not spreading.
New York, May 25.—The real estate
of Lawrence, alleged silk smuggler, to
the amount of $125,000, has been seized.
Baltimore, May 25.—Owing to rain
the races were postponed until to
morrow,
Mauch Chunk, Pa., May 25. —Eight
hours raiu has quelched the mountain
fires throughout this region. Miners
are gradually resuming work,
Morristown, N. J., May 25.—Hon.
John Vail, formerly member of Con
gress and Consel to Glasgow, is dead.
Red Cloud’s Views of Whiskey and
Water.
JFrorn an Interview in the Chicago
Tribune.]
Reporter—Have you visited our wa
ter works? They are an interesting
sight.
Mr. Red Cloud—No. Your whiskey
is good enough for me.
Reporter—But we have a tunuel urn
der the lake for two miles, through
which wo get our water supply.
Mr. Red Cloud—White mau, Bed
Cloud hates the man who tells him a
lie. Do the people of this groat city go
two miles for water when they needn’t
go morH fflan two rods any way for
whbk^V.
Reporter—But some of our people
use water for other purposes
drinking. But few drink it as a con
stant beverage.
Mr. Red Cloud—J thought pot. It
will do for the white-winged ships,
not for the red mans drink. Ughl
Drink water where there’s whiskey!
Would Red Cloud slay the gopher Qf
the chipmunk when he could kill the
deer or the buffalo ?
-A.TTGrLTST.A-, GA... WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 26. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Marine Precautions—The Newspaper
Law Bad for Revenue —Gouging the
Gaugers.
Washington, May 25.—From this
date a bell will strike at intervals of 15
seconds, at Horn Island Light Station,
and at the head of the passes of the
light house station on the Mississippi
river, two blows, aud one blow alter
nately at intervals of ten and twenty
seconds during foggy weather.
Adolph Fhilburt is French Consul at
Charleston.
Accountants claim that the new
newspaper postage law decreases the
revenue 50 per cent.
A vinegar establishment, with a com
plete distillery apparatus, was seized
in St. Louis.
They are discharging gaugers and
arresting tradesmen everywhere.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The Confederate monument at Sa
vannah was unveiled on Monday, with
imposing ceremonies.
The Columbus Enquirer states that
Brishop Quinlan,of the Cat hollo church,
confirmed forty-eight persons duridg a
late visit to Apalachicola.
The Advertiser gives currency to a
rumor that the price of gas in Savan
nah will be reduced to four dollars per
thousand after the first of July.
The grand jury of Muscogee county
has found true bills for murder against
the two policemen—Cash and MtiEach
ren—and Cash’s brother, who killed
Cjl. Holland some weeks since.
President Estill will make another
effort to get up a Press Convention
oil the 3d day of July, whh a “probable
excursion to Tuccoa Falls.” The
President writes that the people of
Athens had plenty of dry food for the
editors but no whiskey. That’s the
reason the meeting failed.
The Columbus Times says a “rattle
snake over six feet long, aud laaving
thirteen rattles, was killed by a negro
boy iu the road a mile or two from the
Upatoie bridge, last Thursday. The
boy stepped on the snake before he
saw it, and barely escaped being Bitten.
He says that the monster was Almost
as large as a man’s thigh iu the largest
part of his body.”
Of the laying of the corner stone of
the Jewish Synagogue at. Atlanta, on
Monday, the Herald says : The design
of the Hebrew Synagogue was made
by W. H. Parkins, architect, and is
after the Moorish style. When com
pleted it will cost about $25,000. The
interior will be finished handsomely
with Moorish arches. The ark is a
beautiful design and will be made en
tirely of black walnut, handsomely
carved, with a window over it in the
shape of the tablet of Moses, with the
ten commandments painted on stained
glass. The pulpit, the reader’s desk,
the organ and the choir gallery will bo
elegantly and elaborately finished off.
The flooring of the house is such as to
give tho rear seats au elevation over
the front ones.
Macon Telegraph: Joseph Curry, who
says he is Christ, aud not long ago ivas
driven out of this State for forming a
free-love colony, has started a uew re
ligious society in Springfield, Mass. A
uegress is worshipped by him and his
few followers as queen of earth and hea
ven. He and this woman now repre
sent themselves as fastiug forty days
and forty nights, and they have nearly
starved themselves in a rigorous ob
servance of the rite. They are terribly
emaciated, and so weak that they can
hardly walk. Curry says that at the
eud of the forty days they will be
transported to heaven iu a chariot of
fire.
THE SMITH AND FISH BUSINESS,
(’losing Letter of Gov. Smith.
State of Georgia, i
Executive Department, -
Atlanta, Ga., April 6, 1874. \
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State,
Washington, 1). C.:
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication in
reply to mine of the 18th nit., returning
the oath and commission of Mr. H ill -
yer as the Commissioner to represent
Georgia in the celebration of American
Independence, at. Philadelphia, in 1876.
When I wrote iny letter of the IHtli
ult., I was not unaware of the exist
ence of the laws of 1862 and 1868, men
tioned by you ; but 1 then thought, and
am still of the opinion, that those laws
are applicable only to cases of persons
appointed to offices of honor or profit
under the Government of the United
States. Ido not consider the place of
commissioner such an office ; and it
does not, therefore, in my opinion,
come within the meauiu r of either of
the statutes referred to.
You state that it is your duty “to see
that all persons accepting the Presi
dent’s commission from this depart
ment, subscribe to oue or the other of
these oaths.” From ttiis I infer that
the commission will not bo issued to
Mr. Hillycr without requiring him to
take one of the oaths referred to.
There is nothing iu the oath prescribed
by the act of 1868 which would be ne
cessarily offensive to the feelings of
Mr. Hillycr, and there is no good rea
son, therefore, why the question of
whether he will take said oath, should
uot be referred- to him for decision.
I have the honor, therefore, to re
quest Mr. Hiilyer’s commission be re
turned to me, to be delivered to him, iu
the event he will qualify as required.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obe
dient servant,
James M. Smith.
OGLE’S COFFIN.
The Supreme Court Passes Upon a
Momentous Issue.
[Nashville Union and American, 25. j
In the Supreme Court yesterday, Jus
tice McFarland read the following brief
but very important opinion, on behalf
of Justice Freeman, by whom it
prepared, but who was absent from the
bench yesterday:
Abner Ogle vs. Coffee County.
This was an appeal from au order of
the County Court, allowing only three
dollars for making a pauper’s coffin,
when the party claimed it should have
been five dollars, it is sepu that the
sum of two dollars was involved. The
case was taken to the Circuit Court by
appeal aud there dismissed.
From the judgment au appeal is pre
sented to this court. As might.; have
reasonably been expected on so grave a
question, with suoh an amount involv
ed, the court is somewhat divided in
opinion, or rather uncertain how it
should be determined. A majority of
the Court, however, that the Cir
cuit Court was cor, ' ect , m dismissing the
appeal, apd the judgment yvill be #o en
tered with oot,
THE SCHILLER.
Melancholy Details of the Fatal Ma
rine Disaster—Statements by Per
sons Who Were Saved—The Inquest
on the Bodies of the Dead —Captain
Thomas’ “Good-By, Old Fellow —Re-
member Me to My Friends.”
[From the London Standard, May 11.]
The steamer Queen of the Day ar
rived at Penzance yesterday at two
o’clock from St. Mary’s, Sciily. She
brought seven bags of mails which
have been recovered since Sunday
from the wreck.
The Man Who Discovered the Wreck—
His Statement of the Event.
Mr. Obadiah Hicks, Trinity boat
man, of St. Agnes Island, who was the
first to discover the wreck, has made
the following statement: Between
twelve and oue o’clock on Saturday I
heard a gun, apparently from the
westward, there being a thick fog at
the time. I concluded it to be from a
vessel iu distress on account of its
being so dark and the sea so high. I
thought proper to wait till daybreak,
and about four o’clock I went off in a
boat with six men to the western
rocks. We went round most of the
rocks aud saw nothing. About two
hours afterward, when on the point of
giving it up, the fog lifted up a little,
aud we observed two masts aud the
sails of a vessel. Wo immediately
pulled toward it. We had not been ap
proaching it long when we found that
one mast was gone.
Mrs. Jones Saved.
Mrs. Jones, who was saved, was
thrown into tbe boat by her husband,
and when the boat was swamped she
was one of those rescued in the com
plete darkness by another boat.
The engineers and stokers did a very
plucky thing. After the ship had
struck they went below, shut off steam
and put out the fire, so ns to prevent
an explosion. Perhaps this goes some
way to explain how it is that no en
gineer and only one stoker is among
those saved.
The manner in which the women
clung to the captain was most heart
rending, and when duty compelled his
attendance in another part of the ship
he had to use main force to clear him
self of them. Many believed that the
chip, being uew, would hold together
till help came, but the sea was too
heavy for the strongest iron vessel. —
Several made the mistake of lashing
themselves to the iron masts and rig
ging, so that when the masts went the
people were carried to the bottom
without any chance of rising.
Mi*. Stern's Statement.
The narrative of Mr. Henry Stern,
commission agent, New York aud Ber
lin, a saloon -passenger, is exceedingly
interesting. He said, iu addition to his
statement already published iu the
cable dispatches to the Herald;
The captain fired his revolver over
the heads of the people to keep them
quiet. I think if 1 had been iu his
place I should have shot at them. I
think it might have been better. Tho
captain was on the bridge, trying to
save the women and children, who wero
lia.ll the souls ou board, when he and
the doctor and the chief engineer wore
washed overboard. This was about
2 o’clock in the morning. About mid
night, when I was in the rigging, the
fog cleared, and I saw the light at the
Bishop’s rock. During these two hours,
aud after we first struck, we bumped
several times before finally settling.
Altogether about tea guns were fired,
but then the powder became damp and
we could do nothing further iu that di
rection. The sea was breaking over
tbe vessel aud she was rapidly filling.
I assisted in launching four boats, but
there was such a crush aud such a tre
mendous sea running that they were
swamped almost immediately. Be
tween one and two o’clock in the morn
ing the pavilion over the saloon, in
which the women and children were all
huddled together, was struck by a
tremendous sea and washed away with
tbe unfortunate people.
I then took to the rigging, where
I remained until nearly daylight.
The foremast and tho jigging to which
I clung was then carried away, and all
who were on it were left struggling iu
tlie water. I commenced to swim and
succeeded iu keeping myself afloat un
til I was picked up by a fishing boat, in
which were two boys, who worked aud
pulled with a bravery which could not
be excelled. The women and children
had no chance when the sea washed
away the pavilion, and tho only wonder
to me is that Mrs. Jones was saved.
The Second Officer’s Statement.
The following is the narrative of Ed
ward Poglmauny, the second officer of
the Schiller:
It was, as near as I can say, about 10
o’clock ou Fiiday night, when, as I was
sleeping on my sola iu my cabin, I was
suddenly awoke by healing the steam
pipe whistle sharply blown. I thought
at once that the weather was very
thick. I turned round aud almost iu
the same moment heard and felt the
ship striking. I jumped up iu a mo
ment and rushed on deck, but before I
had got. up a few steps I met the first
mate, who ran down exclaiming that
we were shipwrecked. Iu a moment
we were both ou deck again, and I ran
to tho bridge, where the captain was.
When I reached him he had just tele
graphed down into the engine room to
go astern; but the water rushed over
the deck, and, seeing that the fore com
partments had filled, I told the captain
that to go astern would be of uo use.
The ship then heeled over to the
starboard and the captain ordered the
boats, of which we had eight, to be got
ready as quickly as possible. I ran to
tho quarterdeck and we lowed the two
quarterdeck boats, down to which there
was immediately a rush. I then went
to the main deck where the chief offi
cer was launching one of the boats. It
was very heavy. Of the eight boats
W© launched seven. There was very
great difficulty jn launching more of
them on account of their weight and
the way iu which the vessel Jay with
the waves dashiug over her. At lengt'i
we succeeded in launching No. 5, and
• were then ordered by tho captain to
take charge.
There also had got into the boat
three male passengers, a woman and
seven of the crew. As I went over the
side Captain Thomas called out,
“Good-bye, old fellow; remember me
to my fiieuds.” He afterward a< ain
called to me, but, although I heard, I
pould not reply, being so exhausted-
A s the boat wqs being lowered, a big
wave came and swamped her, ami we
were all eapsized. We mauaged, how*
ever, to recover the boat aud kept her
up as much as we could. She wasf
however, full of water, aud we had to
staud in her all the time. For three
hours we beat about at the mercy of
the' waves, utterly unaware where we
were, so dense whs the fog and so dark
the night, till, at length ? we saw a
gfleam of light overhead and recognized
the Bishop Light
Charles Thran’s Statement.
Charles Thran, aged twenty-one, of
Davenport, lowa, made the following
statement:
I was a passenger iu the second cabin.
At the time the vessel struck we were
playing dominoes. I heard an alarm
given and we all rushed on deck. The
Captain was on the bridge at the time
she struck. There was the greatest ex
citement, aud iu about half au hour the
water began to break over the vessel
and to sweep some of tho passengers
off. I was on board until four o’clock.
The water was then dead low. Some of
the sailors attempted to get off the
boats, and about four or five boats were
got off. One was sunk at once. I be
lieve there were some men drowned iu
her, as most of them got iu before the
bout left the vessel. There was terri
ble excitement, the women screaming
aud crying. As the tide came up, so
the sea began to break moro heavily
and wash tho people off. About four
o’clock I was washed overboard. I
swam and got hold of a plank; after
some time 1 got hold of a door. I was
for four hours in the water; then I saw
a boat, I hailed and they took me in; it
-was one of the ship’s boats, and had
ten men in her. Iu about half an hour
wo landed at Tresco Island. We saw a
house and went to it. The people gave
us every attention, and we had dry
clothes and plenty of food, &c. Many of
the men on board had life belts on, hut
the water was very cold. If it had not
been low water it. would not have been
so bad, but the water came up aud the
flood set in, and then the sea began to
break over the ship, for the tide rose
twenty or twenty-five feet. The crew
had fired cannon and sent up rockets.
My twin brother William was drowned.
We were both washed off together, and
I saw no more of him.
The Inquest on the Dead.
Ou we went, our ensign flying at half
mast, indicative of the sad evidence of
the catastrophe we had on board. Soon
it was believed two more bodies were
sighted, but the boat failed to reach
them. At Sciily we found all the masts
with their flags half-mast high, and a
heavy gloom seemed to bo settled over
the isles. St. Mary’s Pier was crowded.
Close by, in aspacious courtyard, pre
parations were being made for the de
cent interment of bodies that have come
ashore. A careful inventory of all pro
perty and other means of identification
have been taken by Mr, Hanley,
Receiver, of Wrecks. Some of the
bodies had been placed in coffins be
fore our arrival, but the closing of them
had been deferred in the hope that we
might bring further means of iudenti
ficatiou, two stewards of the Schiller
being with us, they having been brought
back for the purpose.
The Funeral.
The funeral was singularly impres
sive. All business was suspended and
the whole of the inhabitants attended.
The islands cannot boast of hearse or
mourning coach, and to have carried by
hand thirty-seven bodies would have
been more than the limited male popu
lation of St. Mary’s could have accom
plished. And yet the spectacle was
exceedingly solemn. It moved the
stoutest to tears.
The coffins were borne on little two
wheeled carts, drawn by the shaggy
ponies of the island. * ,
Each pony was led, and so slowly did
the procession move in single file that
it was long ere the thirty-seventh cart
passed out of the spacious court-yard.
All the coffins were painted black” and
every one was bestrewn with flowers
gathered from the blooming gardens of
the Scilloniaus. Though far away from
their homes the deceased were not
buried without some token of loving
care.
Where They Have Been Laid.
The place of interment was a mile
away from the pier, in the church-yard
of the former capital. The way to it
lay over a rugged road, commanding a
view of the sea all round. Iu the
church-yard two large graves had been
dug, and into them the coffius were
piled. Two interments had taken place
previously ; but, in view of the large
number of bodies to be buried, it was
found impossible to have single graves
for all.
While the funeral was proceeding a
message was received requesting that
two of the bodies should be kept uuin
terredtiil friends arrived. These bodies
were accordingly returned to the piers.
PETE M’CARTNEY’S LEAP.
How the Redoubtable Counterfeiter
Made Good His Escape.
A Houston (Texas) special to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, of Fiiday, says :
“The notorious counterfeiter, Pete Mc-
Cartney, who caused a sensation iu
April by his escapes and recaptures in
Northern Texas, had his cases con
tinued at the recent term of the United
States Court at Tyler. The trial day
was fixed for July at Austin, aud yes
terday Marshal Purnel started with
Pete from Tyler en route for Austin.
Pete was heavily shackled and placed
in charge of four guards upon
the train. At Palestine he was
hailed by some parties, who said,
“Hello, Pete; t hey have got you
at last 1” “Yes,” said Pete; “but
damn ’em, they can’t hold on to me
long.” He appeared perfectly easy,
and betrayed neither desire nor expec
tation of making an escape; but while
the train was approaching Phelps Sta
tion, at about eleven o’clock in the
night, his guards were found to be
sound asleep. McCartney was making
for the door of the car, a free man,
when one of them aroused and said :
“ George, by God, McCartney’s gone !”
They made for him, but he gained the
platform, and, backing himself, held
the door tight closed upon them. On
tbe inside they jerked the bell cord, but
it had been cutaud palled out of its
rings. They then ran to the baggage car
to signal the engineer to stop the train.
Just then the train reached tne head of
the grade and started down. There is a
heavy forest of timber at this place,
where he flew the train. The Deputy
Marshals got off at Phelps and started
back in pursuit of the slippery fugi
tive. The shackles of McCartney con
sisted of ankje bracelets and handcuffs,
joined by an iron rod at his seat. After
the escape they were found—the hand
cuffs, iron rod and part of the chain
which connected the anklets. The band
he carried away upon his legs. The
work was done with a very fine file, and
was a neat job. A party who got upon
ttye oars at Palestine sat and talked
with McCartney until .just before tho
escape, when lie, too, went to sleep It
is asserted and believed that friends of
Pete were on the train assisting, and
money was used to aid the escape.”
Dr. Brown, of Springfield, Ills., has
sold his boa-constrictor, 23 feet long,
for $2,200, It has been purchased “for
the British Museum.’’ f *
* • • 1 -*• M ” '
A moment’s thought is passion’s
passing knell.—[Keats.
C ASPER HAUSER IDENTIFIED
SOLUTION OF A MYSTERY THAT
AT ONE TIME PUZZLED ALL EU
ROPE.
An Idiotic Youth the Rightful Duke of
Badeu —A Daughter of the German
Emperor Married a Prince with the
Bar Sinister—Some Extraordinary
Developments.
[Now York Sunday Mercury.)
Tho mystery of the mysterious indi
iudividual, Casper Hauser, has puzzled
the entire world. Tho fate of the un
fortunate youth at ono time created
more excitement and eager curiosity
throughout Europe than any event of
the present century. Although his true
parentage and the names of those
through whose instrumentality he was
consigned to his bloody grave have
been established almost beyond a
doubt, a dread of the consequences of
displeasing so many illustrious per
sonages, has hitherto prevented the
affair being sifted with that regard for
facts which alone could elicit the com
plete truth. In a strange manner the
mystery has been solved, and the Mer
cury is the first American paper to lay
the solution before its readers.
Casper Hauser.
On the eveuiag of the 26th of May,
1828, a casual passenger through the
streets of Nuremberg met a youth
about fifteen or sixteen years of age,
whose singular appearance at once ar
rested his attention. Although strongly
built, he seemed scarcely able to use his
limbs, while his eyes were hardly strong
enough to bear the dim twilight of the
late summer eve. Iu his hand he held
a letter addressed to a well-known citi
zen, which he presented to every pass
er by with au uuineaning stare. When
conducted to the house of the person
to whom he appeared to be directed he
was offered food, but refused with dis
gust all except plain bread and water,
and, throwing himself down on a heap
of straw, went into a sound sleep. The
persons in whose charge he was left
did not know what to make of him,
for, on the one hand ho displayed the
mingled curiosity and stupid insensi
bility of some being to whom all is new,
but who has no perceptible appreciative
faculty, while he could repeat cer
taiu words with distinctness and in
a distiuet hand wrote down the name
of Casper Hauser. As an idiot or clever
impostor, they finally determined to
send him to prison, where a close ex
amination showed him to be incapable
of any attempt at fraud, but ou the
contrary to be a victim himself of
crime. The soles of his feet were per
fectly soft and white, proving that he
uever had been permitted to hike ex
ercise. It was clear that lie had never
seen aud never learned anything; he
was a complete stranger to the com
monest ties and duties which bind
mankind together, aud utterly igno
norant of nature or even existegee of
society or morality ; iu short, he had
evineutly vegetated in complete isola
tion, and literally in obscurity, for he
could not bear the effect of light upou
his eyes, aud neither knew at first
tho difference between night and
day, nor could he measure time.
Professor Daumer charged himself
with his education. By geutle degrees,
armed with tho umost patience he
attempted to awaken the dor
mant faculties of this extraordinary be
ing. Ho learned with rapidity, aud
vague misty recollectious of the long,
dreary purgatory in which the years of
his childhood had been spent rose be
fore his ruind. Ho would often talk
about his jailer, for whom, however, he
did not entertain any feelings of ill
will, but rather wondered, in his sim
plicity, how ho could have offended
him. The Professor, who had entirely
discontinued his researches as to the
birth or his unfortunate pupil, encour
aged him to trace back the depths of
his memory, aud hoped eventually to
collect the scattered facts he from time
to time obtained into some tangible
shape. Thus three or four years roll
ed peaceably along. The world, tired
of its nine daj's’ wonder, bad forgotten
all about Casper, and he might fondly
hope that his enemies had done the
same thing; but it was not so. They had
not let any of his movements escape
them, and probably the Professor’s
hopes had been too loudly ex-press
ed, for an attempt was made to
Assassinate the Poor Youth,
which failed, and resulted in obtaining
for him a more powerful protection
thau that of the worthy scientist, that
of tho earl of Stanhope, au English no
bleman, who at that time was residing
in Germany. Ou the 14th of December,
1833, Hauser, who had beeu left alone,
was enticed to a solitary grotto by an
unknown man, who plunged a d.igger
into his heart. Every effort was made
by the authorities to discover the as
sassiu, and Lord Stanhope offered a
large reward for his arrest, but all in
vain. Among those well acquainted
with such particulars of the case as it
was uot practicable for the strong arm
of despotism to suppress, but little
doubt will be found to exist that poor,
friendless, murdered Casper Hauser
was by birth.
A Sovereign Prince,
New developments prove beyond a
doubt that Hauser was the son of the
Grand Duke Charles, of Badeu, and his
wife Stephania, consequently the legiti
mate heir to the throuo. Charles, who
had married Stephania, the neice of
Napoleon the First, in 1806, was a man
of reckless character. Not long after
marriage he became enamored of the
Baroness Geyer von Geyerberg, whom
he raised to the rank of Countess von
Hotcliberg. This woman attempted to
poison the Grand Duchess, and when
the latter was delivered of an heir to
the crown of Baden, she caused that
child to be stolen. It was the unfortu
nate creature afterward known under
the name of (Jasper Hauser. The Grand
Duchess was assured by the physicians,
all of whom were in the pay of the
Countess that her child had died. She
believed it until her husband died,when
she secretly,caused the.
Infant’s Coffin to be Opened.
It was empty. Some time afterwards
she gave birth to another sou, but the
mother seemed to believe that her child
had been taken from her and {mother
substituted This was really the case,
the substituted baby being an illegiti
mate son to whom the Countess Hoeh
berg had given birth about the same
time. The bastard was christened Leo
pold, and became heir apnareut of
Baden. The grand duchess never
spoke to him, even after he had beoome
grand duke. She lived in seclusion
and died a few years ago. Whether
her husb.tud Charles ever discovered
(he fraud, certain it is that she finally
p. uoned him, whereupon her son Leo
pold became Grand Duke of Badeu. He
ha t no right whatever to the position;
for the rmal heir, (Jasper Hauker, was
then alivq. When Inquiries began to
be made into Casper Hauser’s fate, the
Couutess Hochberg caused him fa he
murdered. The grand Duke Leopold
died iu 1852, when his son Frederick
Louis, the present grand duke, ascended
the throne. He married in 1857, Louisa,
the only daughter of the present Em
peror of Germany, who has for a son
iu-law the grandson of a murderess,
and the son of a bastard, who, in reali
ty, has no right whatever to the crown
of Baden. The Frankfort Gazette made
public these facts, and was furnished
information by parties in possession of
the secret history. To ascertain the
names of the latter became the task of
the Prussian police, by order of the
Emperor. Unable to seize the books of
the Gazette on any direct charge, the
police took advantage of the fact that
the owner was also a partner in a job
printing establishment. From that
establishment had been issued a circu
lar reflecting on certain bankers. The
latter sued the job printing office, and
tho police, on that ground, seized all
the books of the Gazette , including the
subscription list. Throughout Germa
ny the disclosures of the Gazette and
the oppressive measures of the exas
perated Emperor have created pro
found sensation. The Emperor, who is
a stickler for legitimacy, is intensely
mortified by the disclosures about his
son-in-law. His daughter, the Grand
Duchess of Baden, refuses to appear in
public since the disclosures have been
made.
GRASSHOPPERS ON THE PLY.
Wall Street Excited Over Conflicting
Dispatches—Stocks Dropping Down
as the Grasshoppers Hop On—The
Invaders Moving Eastward.
|New York Sun, May 20tflf|
The grasshoppers are coming! Wall
street was excited yesterday afternoon
by the ominous telegrams from lowa.
The country east of Nebraska, un
touched by grasshoppers last year, is
being eaten up. The news that the
grasshoppers were eating the corn and
wheat in lowa caused a depression in
the stock of the Rock Island, Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, and Chicago
and Northwestern Railroads. These
roads run through lowa and tap the
Union Pacific at Omaha.
The first telegram received comes
from Council Bluffs, on the boundary
line between lowa and Nebraska. It
reads thus :
To Clinton B. Fisk, Treasurer Mis
souri Pacific Railroad : Council Bluffs,
lowa, May 19, 1875.—The grasshoppers
are passing over from Nebraska into
lowa. They are hatching—millions of
them—but only remain in Nebraska
till large enough to fly, then they start
for lowa. They are eating every live
thing along the Rock Island Railroad,
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and the Northwestern Railroad.
C. D. Norman.
Wliat an Eye-Witness Saw.
“ Eli Perkins,” who has just returned
from Missouri, Kansas and lowa, was
questioned by our reporter in regard
to the grasshopper. Iu reply to the
question whether much damage was
apprehended this season from their
ravages, Mr. Perkins said :
“ Yes, sir, grave apprehensions are
felt. In Parsons, Kansas, just above
the ludian Nation, the ground was cov
ered with little grasshoppers about
half an inch long. They filled tho hol
lows in the ground, lined the fences,
and bent down little twigs with their
weight. I found them hatching all up
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road, to Sedalia, Missouri.”
“ Are the people frightened ?”
“Net so much as you would expect.
They have a theory, backed by years of
experience, that the grasshopper never
does any damage where he hatches
out. They say the damage is done
where he hatches out. Then he never
eats for two years in succession in the
same place.”
“Where did they destroy the crop
last year ?”
“They ravished a section of country
seven times as large as New Eugland—
all of Nebraska, Kansas and the Indian
Nation, and a part of Texas, Arkansas
and Missouri.”
“Then, this year, the grasshoppers
will hatch out in the country which
they destroyed last year and fly into
and destroy the country beyond ?”
“Precisely so. They are now hatch
ing all over the section of country
designated by the black lines, and fly
ing across into lowa, Dakota, Illinois,
Keuucky, Indiana, Missouri and Ar
kansas.
“What do the grasshoppers eat ?”
“They eat every living thing. They
eat the corn, eat young trees, destroy
beets, turnips and every garden vege
table. They leave the country as bare
as the Desert of Sahara.”
A More Hopeful View'.
(New York Bulletin, May 20.]
The accounts are so inexplicit as to
exact locality and the extent of injury
done that it is difficult to estimate
what the damage so far amounts to.
We have nineteen counties in Kansas,
Missouri and Nebraska, iu which the
crops are reported as totally destroyed.
The total wheat crop of these three
States was, in 1870, 18,832,310 bushels;
of which quantity the counties, where
the destruction is reported to have
been complete, produced 2,349,737
bushels; so that theso counties cover
only about one-eighth of the entire
crop of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska,
the States where the pest has made its
principal ravages. Up to the present
print, therefore, no serious extent of
destruction has been accomplished.—
How long the plague may be continued
and how much further it may spread
are questions on which no opinion can
be formed at present. Opinions from
the threatened region should be care
fully received, for they are apt to be
influenced very much by exaggerated
apprehensions.
Progress of the Grasshopper Plague
in the West—Going North in a Vast
Army.
St. Louis, May 23.—The Republican's
Kansas City special says: “The grass
hoppers have penetrated into the heart
of the city. Most of them are in a
vast army, going north.
Trenches are being dug and millions
slaughtered, but nothing can stop the
red-legged pests in their march. Many
drive them from the ground with water
from hydrantH. Their depredations
are becoming very serious. Lawns are
being stripped of grass and garden
truck is being destroyed. Nothing can
be raiqed except in green-houses.
The St. Louis Republican reads the
Louisville Journal a lesson because it
uses the word rambunctious for that
good, old-fashioned word rambunc
tious. But doesn’t the Republican
know that Louisville editors must have
“rum” in nearly everytliiog they use?
It’s all iu the bringing up .—Norristown
Herald.
9 • mm p-
Chicago boasts of 1,870 Smiths, 48
Smyths, gapes, Schmidts, eto., in all
.New Series—Vol. 3. Mo. 103
THE COLORED BAPTISTS.
Continuation of the Proceeding* of the
Georgia Baptist Convention (Colored)
Third Day’s Session.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist
Springfield Colored Baptist Chi rch i
Washington, Ga.,
Saturday morning, May 22,1875. )
The Convention assembled at th ■
usual hour this morning, Rev. Frank
Quarles, President, in the Chair. The
771st hymn was sung and prayer of
fered by Rev. T. T. Tolbit. Minutes of
yesterday’s proceedings read and ap
proved.
Tbe Committee on Sabbath Sc hools
asked for aud were granted more time
to make their report.
The Committee on Communication <•?
Zion Association made- their report. A
substitute was offered by Janies Tate,
recommending that the Convention ap
point a committee of thiee to confer
with the Zion Association, and inquire
into the reasons why said Association
desired to withdraw from the Cuuven
tion, and endeavor to arrange matters
satisfactorily, and to induce them i >
retain their connection with the Con
vention; and that this committee meet
the Association iu tbe Second A* : io.au
Baptist Church, at Savannah, on the
Thursday before the third Lord’s day
in July next.
The substitute was adopted and the
following committee appointed to con
fer with Zion Association . Rev’s. Frank
Quarles, Wm. J. White, George H.
Dwelle.
Report on Sabbath Schools read and
adopted.
The Convention decided by vote, that
a substitute motion should be deba
table.
Tbe report of the Executive Board
was read and adopted.
The Collecting Agent, Rev. George
H. Dwelle, read his report, which was
rt eeived and adopted.
On motion, the door of the Conven
tion was opened for life membership.
The constitution was read. A com
munication from Benevolent Soeietv of
Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta,
with a donation of 836 was received.
A donation of 81,55 was received from
the Sabbath School of Zion Baptist
Church of Marietta.
A number of the members made re
marks upon the subject, of life mem
bership, but no action was taken aud
no suggestion of importance was made.
Donations, through the Rev. Collin
James, were received from the follow
ing churches: Salem Chureb, Mitchel
county, 8150; Weldon Spring Church,
Baker county, 81; Bethel Church,
Mitchel county, 81. All of these dona
tions were received with the thanks of
the convention.
The following were appointed as the
Executive Board for the ensuing year:
Rev. J. C. Bryan, of Americus, Chair
man; Revs. Green McArthey, Colurn
bus; J. A. James, Macon; Jerry M.
Jones, Atlanta; Jefferson Milner, Car
t e rev file; Henry Jackson, Augusta; W.
J. White, Augusta; Alexander Harris.
Savannah; T. M. Alien, Marietta; Geo.
H. Dwelle. -Awwimi*; Clarke Gilmore,
Griffin; David Hines, Albany; Henry
Williams, Macon; Robert Epps, At
lanta; Sylvanus Carter, Americus.
On motion, the Board was located at
Macon, and was allowed tho privilege
of appointing its own times for meet
ing.
Rev. Henry Williams offered a reso
lution to allow the Association to re
ceive funds for life membership and
forward the same to the Convention at
its next annual meeting. This resolu
tion was laid on the table.
On motion of Rev. Wm. J. White,
members of the Convention were re
commended to subscribe to the South
ern Christian Index, and that paper was
endorsed.
On motion of Rev. Alexander Harris,
it was resolved to instruct the Secreta
ry to precure an advertisement of Rev.
L. B. Fish, of his agency of books and
papers, to be published on the blank
leaves of the minutes of this Conven
tion, for the benefit of our people, aui
as an evidence of the appreciation of
the aid given us by the American Pub
lication Society; also, that Associations
be requested to publish a similar ad
vertisement iu their minutes.
Adjourned to three o’clock p. m..
after benediction by Rev. Jtrry M.
Jones.
Saturday Afternoon, 3 P. M.
The Convention was opened by sing
ing the 148th hymn. Prayer by Rev.
Green McArthey.
The report of the Committee on Ed
ucation was read and adopted.
The resolution of Rev. Green Mc-
Arthey, in regard to Foreign Missions,
was read aud adopted.
The resolution of W. J. White, en
dorsing tho Augusta Baptist Theologi
cal Institution, and recommending all
students for the ministry to attend it,
was read and adopted.
Report of Committee on Nomina
tions, recommending that the Conven
tion hold its next annual session in Ml.
Calvary Church, Columbus, on the
Wednesday before the fourth Lord's
day. Read and adopted.
Report of Committee on Nominations
read and adopted.
On motion,
Jhat the times and places ot
the dmerent Associations, so far as can
be ascertained, be entered on the minute*.
Rev. Wm. J. White was re-elected
Treasurer.
The following members of the Con
vention were appointed to address the
Sabbath Schools : J, H. do Lamotta,
Wm. Styles;, P. Butler, and Rev. J. S.
Johnson.
The matter of appointing missiona
ries and agents was turned over to the
Executive Board.
The time for adjournment being near
at hand, the time was extended ten
minutes, and a collection taken up to
raise funds for the purpose of assist
ing Rev. F. F. Beal to rebuild his
church, which had been destroyed by
fire. The sum of 84.85 cents was con
tributed. Adjourned to Monday morn
ing nine o’clock after benediction by
Rev. F. F. Beal.
The South at the National C emeunial.
Charleston, May 25.—A detachment
of the Washington Light Infantry un
der the command of Lieut. Gilchrist,
carrying Col. Wm. Washington’s flag
which waved at the Revolutionary bat
tles of Eutaw and Cowpen.}, will sail
for Bunker Hill June 12th. Coi. Simons
and several other prominent citizens of
Charleston are to aeoompany the de
tachment.
Decision of a Supreme Court.
New York, May 35.—A Nashville dis
patch says the Supreme Court has de
cided that a State is not bound for pay
ment of the new issue—known as the
war issue—of Tennessee money,
amounting to 8800,U00.
Innocents.
Memphis, May 25.—-Sixty one barrels
of whiskey were seized to-day from an
innocent purchaser.