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Old Series—Vol. 25, No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY. June 24, 1875.
Mb. Davis has written a letter to
Athens, declining the invitations of the
Literary Societies to visit the Univer
sity and deliver the address at the an
nual commencement.
As will be seen by our Charleston
letter, detachments from seven milita
ry companies of that city will join in
the excursion to Augusta on the Fourth
of July. It will no doubt be the great
est galaday we have had in many years.
The scientific party exploring the
Hack Hills send back quite enough to
still further arouse the cupidity of the
country. The discovery of gold mines
will be quickly followed by the expul
sion of the worthless Indians. They
have about as much right to it as the
wild bears, buffaloes, cayotes and buz
zards which infest it.
Judge McCandless has decided that j
the United States has no right to send
one of its officers into the private de
partments of banks and make “searches
and seizures.” This strikes us as a first
rate decision. We never could exactly
see what right anybody had to go
nosing around bank vaults and ex
amine private books and papers.
We give to-day another review of the
crop situation in Georgia. The news
is glorious. There is not one positive
ly bad report from any county. Within
the last five or six days rains have
fallen generally throughout the whole
State. The crops are clean of grass,
grasshoppers and factors’ liens, and if
that ain’t good news we would like to
know what is.
The President has at last appointed
a Collector for the Port of Augusta.
The dispatch simply calls him
“Charlee.” That is all we know about
him. Whether he is a General, Colonel,
Major, Captain, Squire, or a plain
Mister is not kaowu at this offiie. He
is to be our Collector, however, and it
is hoped he will put in an early ap
pearance and prove worthy of the
place.
Our Boston Centennial correspon
pence is closed up this morning. This
is the only paper in Georgia that had a
regular correspondent on the ground.
We had advance copies of all the
speeches made, and might have pub
lished them the next morning after
their delivery, but they were so long
Governor Smith would have been
forced to order out the militia to read
them. As the melish are too busy just
now with their crops for that sort of
thing we remitted the papers to the
future historian.
Heavy failures in England continue.
The noon telegrams chr.oniele three
houses going down under a lead of $2-
400,000 liabilities. The grand aggre
gate now foots up over $63,000,000,
gone up since the beginning, a few
days since. England is perhaps the
strongest country financially in the
world, and its great bank can hold out
for an indefinite period in a monetary
revulsion such a3 we are used to in
this country, and sue! as would
bo sure to come if the above
failures bad taken place in the United
States. Whilst there is no possibility
of getting up one of our panics, there
is every reason to apprehend a serious
derangement of commerce. John Bull
wont panic worth a cent in battle, in a
storm at sea, or upon any other occa
sion. His great bank has enough cap
ital to say, at any time, “ Peace, be
still! ” _
A regular bull-dog thunder storm
passed over the city at 2 o’clock yes
terday moruiug. We heard the remark
twenty times that such reports from
heaven’s,artillery were never before
heard in Augusta. They not only shook
the earth, but shook out all the sleep
in town. The cloud seemed to have
collected into a bard knot right over
our zenith, so hard that it took fifty
efforts of a power equal to a ton
of nitro-glyceriue to explode it.
Timid Augusta got out of bed
and went down on its knees. We heard
of one rather “hard case,” who, at the
fifteenth peal, which made his furni
ture, if not his teeth, fairly rattle, who
got thoroughly scared and concluded
that he had best pray. Being totally
unused to the formula, he got off the
following: “Good Lord, you know I
never asked you for a favor before. I
know a good many rascals who are
always calling upon you for things they
don’t deserve. If you’ll just keep that
thunder from hitting me I’ll never pes
ter you again.”
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, June 23.—The rectifying
establishment of Bevis, Frazer & Cos.
was seized by orders from Washington
for non-payment of $44,000 taxes.
Hartford, June 23.—President Cum
ming, of the Wesleyan University, has
tendered his resignation.
Ujt fails (EoustitutionaM
BLACK HILLS.
Discovery of Ricli Gold Mines by the
Scientific Party.
Chicago, J une 23.—A special cor
respondent of the Inter-Ocean with the
scientific expedition in the Black Hills,
at Camp Harney, on French creek,
Custer’s gulch, sends the following tele
gram via Fort Laramie, dated June 16 :
“Gold in large quanties and of good
quality has been discovered in Custer’s
gulch, French creek, and along this
stream for a distance of upwards of
seven miles towards the source or
gulch mines. There are, scat
tered along French creek, four
different miuiDg companies, numbering
twenty-five men who have taken up
claims, on all of which good color has
been obtained. There are also several
quartz lodes which promise rich re
turns, but the greatest importance is
attached to the gulch gold diggings.
When gold was discovered the scientists
were at camp Tuttle and only arrived
here yesterday afternoon when they
were somewhat astonished at the dis
covery. Its intended to make this a
permanent camp where the command
will remain until the return of the sup
ply train from Laramie.
A dispatch received at the War De
partment to-day from Assistant Adju
tant General Whipple, of Gen. Sher
man’s staff, dated St. Louis, June 23d,
announces that a dispatch just receiv-"
ed there from Col. Dodge, dated Har
ney’s Peak, June 17th, reported that
gold was found in paying quanties on
French creek. Custai a report is con
firmed in every particular. Col. Dodge
reports the command is well and in
fine condition. He has written fully
upon the discovery, and will forward
his reports by mail.
The following dispatch has been re
ceived at the Indian Bureau from Prof.
Jaaney, dated Camp on French Creek,
near Harney’s Peak, June 17th, 1875 :
“ To Hon. E. P. Smith :
“ I have discovered gold in small
quantities ou the north bend of Castle
Creek in teiraces or bars of quartz
gravel. Arrived here yesterday. About
fifteen miners have located their camp
on the creek above here and bave com
menced working. Gobi is found from
Castle creek southwardly to French
creek at this point, and the deposits
are almost wholly in Dacotah. The
region has not been fully explored, but
the yield of gold thus far has been quite
small, and the reports of the richness
of the gravel bars are greatly exagger
ated. On French creek the deposits of
gravel are very unfavorably situated.
The water supply is small and failing,
and the grade too little to admit of the
tailings being carried off by the stream.
The prospect at present is not such a
to warrant extended explorations in
mining.
[Signed.]
W. P. Janney,
E. M. G. Expedition.”
ST. MARY’S COLLEGE.
Tlie Annual Commencement Exercises
—A Great Crowd Present.
Emmetsburg, Md., June 23— The com
mencement exercises atMt. St. Mary’s
College begun yesterday by a brilliant
exhibition of the Juniors. To-day the
graduating’ class take leave of the
Mount. Trains were loaded down
with visitors. Among the late arrivals
were Bishops Lynch and Elder, and a
great number of priests. The exercises
were brought to a close to-day ia the
presence of a great throng of visitors
from all parts of the country. In addi
tion to the friends of the students
there were present of the Alumni, Car
dinal McCloskey, nine archbishops and
bishops, about sixty priests, and a like
number of laymen. The exercises, ac
cording to programme, were to begin
at 8:30 o’clock, but it was almost ten
wheu the students marched in tbe hall
to the music of their own band, fol
lowed by the procession of the Alumni,
bishops, faculty and the cardinal The
latter was accompanied by President
McCloskey and the Roman Envoy. As
the procession of the Alumni made its
appearance at the entrance to the hall,
the whole assemblage rose and re
mained standing until the Cardinal
took his seat. Behind his chair was
placed a chaplet bearing the names of
eighteen archbishops and bishops, who
have studied in Mt. St. Mary’s College.
Exercises now promptly began and
were continued to the close with but
fifteen minutes’ recess. Eight young
men made speeches. The degree of
Doctor of Laws was conferred on three
gentlemen, Master of Arts on thirteen,
and Bachelor of arts on eight.
After several addresses the following
degrees were conferred: Doctor ot
Laws—Hon. Win. Walsh, member of
Congress for tbe Sixth District of Ma
ryland; Hon. Chas. B. Roberts, mem
ber of Congress for tbe Fifth Congres
sional District of Maryland; Chas. Wm.
Hoffman, Washington, D. C. Master of
Arts—Chas. McCoughey, Baltimore;
Daniel P. Ward, New York city; J. B.
Head, Latrobe, Pa.; Alex. Porter Morse,
Washington, D. C.; John F. Power,
Chicago; Chas. J. Gallagher, Brooklyn;
Thos. Fitzgerald, Brooklyn; James P.
McCafferty, Diocese of Mobile; Ed
ward W. Dullea, Diocese of Brooklyn;
Patrick Hayden, Diocese of Natches;
Edward M. Byrne, New York city; Pat
rick Hickey, Tipperary, Ireland, Thos.
M. Loughlin, Cortland, N. Y., and R6v.
Wm- B- Costegan. Bachelor of Arts
Richard J. Malone, Lancaster, Pa.; Al
fred Y. D. Watterson, Alleghany City,
Pa.; Jsaac 11. Stauffer, New Orleans;
Joseph Kilpatrick, Brooklyn; Owen
O’Brien, Jr.. New Haven, Connecticut;
James F. Tearney, Charlestown,
West Virginia; Ronmnees Mattingly,
Mount Savage, Maryland. The med
al men were: First class, ex segus, to
Patrick L. Duffy, Charleston, S. C.;
Richard J. Malone Lancaster, Pa.;
second class to Austin Lynch, Canton,
Ohio ; third class to Bernard J. Connel
ly, Wilmington, Dei.; fourth class to
Peter Kayser, Brooklyn. A most pleas
ing part of the whole affair was the
conferting of the degree of Doctor of
Divinity and Law on Rev. John Mc-
Closkey, President of the College, by
Cardinal McCloskey. which degree was
bestowed by the Georgetown College,
under the care of the Jesuit Fathers.
A LITTLE MORS MOODY AND
BANKET.
A Bishop Rails at Them,
London, June 28.— The Bishop of
Chichester, in a speech at Luncheon,
which followed the laying of the cor
ner stone of a chapel at Ardingley, ex
pressed regret that Moody and San key
had been allowed to hold a meeting
near Eton. He contrasted the weak
ness of the authorities of those now
with the vigor which had been shown
in former times. Moody and Sankey
might have fallen on their kuses before
such a privilege as that recently ob
tained by them would bave been
granted.
AUGUSTA, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 24. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Government Can’t Search a Bank
—New Counterfeit—A Collector Ap
pointed for Augusta.
Washington, June 23.— The Signal
Bureau telegraph is working to Fort
Sill, Indian Territory.
The President has signed the com
mission of McGrew to be Sixth Auditor,
vice Sheats. Also Miller, Postmaster
at Tuscaloosa. Charlee has been ap
pointed Supervisor of Customs at Au
gusta, Ga.
The Comptroller of tbe Currency has
received information of a decision re
cently rendered by Judge McCandless
in au action of debt brought against the
Cashier of the Monongahela National
Bank of Brownsville, Pa., to recover a
penalty of $5,000 for the refusal of the
cashier to permit the Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue to examine the
checks on file in said bank. The court
entered judgment for the defendant,
holding that the internal revenue col
lector had no right, under section 3,177
of the revised statutes, to exercise the
powers claimed by him.
Secretary Delano has returned.
Anew and dangerous counterfeit was
discovered at the National Bank Re
demption Agency of the five dollar
notes of the First National Bank of
Canton, Illinois. This is evidently
changed from the plate on which the
counterfeit on the Traders’ National
Bank of Chicago and the First Nation
al Bank of Paxton, Illinois, was printed.
fromTTewyork.
YELLOW FEVER.
It Breaks Outou au American Frigate.
New York, June 23.—The Anglo-
Brazilian Times Rio, of May 22d,
says : The American frigate Lancaster,
which lost a doctor and several seamen
here, took the yellow fever with it to
Bahia,and the other medical men and an
officer died on the passage. By permis
sion of the Minister of Marine, the frig
ate obtained a Brazilian naval doctor
to go with the vessel to tbe United
States.
The Case of Tweed.
New York, June 23.—Tweed is still in
Ludlow street jail awaiting the pro
curement of three millions bail in a
civil suit. His family and counsel
visited him there to-day.
The Beecher Trial Drawing lo a
Close.
New York, June 23.—Beach closed
and made a motion to reopen. The
Judge said he would like to hear argu
ment. Evarts said he had no objec
tion. Judge Neilson said If the affi
davits upon which the motion was
made were given him he would decide
to-morrow before beginning his charge.
Adjourned.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
The Independent Party in Convention.
San Francisco. June 23.—The Peo
ple's Independent State Convention,
after adopting a long series of resolu
tions against monopolies, placed four
gentlemen in ■nomination without com
ing to a vote, and adjourned until to
morrow.
Later.
Independent People’s Convention
nominated General Bidwell of Butto
county, for Governor, and Acting Gov
ernor Pachico for Lieutenant Gover
nor.
THAT “GIGANTIC INDIAN WAR”
AGAIN.
Spotted Tail's Tribe on the War Path,
Omaha, June 23. — Advices from Spot
ted Tail’s agency state that three large
war parties left that vicinity on the
17th instant, one each for Ponca or
Pawnee, Ute and Shoshone reservation.
It is thought among posted men that
a gigantic Indian war is about to be in
augurated. Information has been sent
to the Indian agents.
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TIIE WHISKEY REVENUE.
Examining Distillers Books.
Chicago, June 23.— The United States
authorities this morning commenced
the examination of distillers’ books seiz
ed yesterday. Those of the Lake Shore
Distillery Company were gone through
with but nothing detrimental to the
company was discovered.
Breaking Up a Gang of Counter
feiters.
Pittsburg, June 23.—A thoroughly
organized gang of counterfeiters, un
der the lead of Dr. Milton H. Frank, a
practicing physician of Allegheny City,
has been broken up, and several mem
bers, including Frank, arrested, acid
$20,000 in counterfeit money captured.
Ihe attention of the Government was
called to tbe work of these men
through letters containing consign
ments of spurious money, which, being
unstamped, went to tfie dead letter
office.
FROM ATLANTA.
Death of Col. B. Y. Sage.
Atlanta, June 23—C01. B. Y. Wage,
late Superintendent and Chief Engi
geer of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-
Lino Railroad, was found dead in hie
bed this morning.
Rumored Consolidation of Railroads.
Kansas City, June 23.— The rumor of
a proposed consolidation of the Kan
sas Pacific and Union Pacific Railways
is creating quite a stir in this city. The
managers of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Ex
press are preparing to move out, the
railroad company intending to run
their own express.
Police Stabbed by a Drunkard.
St. Louis, May 23. — Monday night
Policeman Jacob Suter, of Belleville,
Ills., was called upon to arrest Patrick
Mulligan, who was drunk and abusing
bis family. As soon as Suter laid his
hands on Mulligan the latter seized a
carpenter’s chisel and stabbed the offi
cer twice. At this juncture. City Mar
shal Charles Boon arrived on the
scene, and waa also fiercely assailed
and stabbed in the chest severely by
Mulligan.
Mr. Greeley did not invent the phrase
“Go West,” as is generally supposed.
The original of the remark was when
Ruth said (many years B. C.): “Where
thou go west I will go.”
Warm weather helps one to be good.
That is, you don’t care whether your
neighbor has a big wood-pile or a small
one.
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Freckles are getting ready for their
Summer visit.
Sheriff’s Sale continued at J. R. Arm
strong’s this morning.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
More Heavy Failures in England.
London, June 23.—J. H. Rudall &
Sons, 20 King William street, failed.
Liabilities $900,000, also William Mar
shall, of Manchester. Liabilities SSOO,
000. Wilson & Armstrong, No. 69 Aider
manbury, have failed. Liabilities one
million dollars.
The King of Burmah Apologises—The
Chinaman and Melican Consul.
London, June 23.—1 tis officially an
nounced that the King of Burmah has
given a satisfactory explanation of his
course of action to Sir Douglas For
syth, British Envoy. War is now con
sidered impossible. He has granted to
Great Britain tbe right to send forces
through his domains to western China,
if requisite for future expeditions.
Advices from China say that the
disorder in Chin Kiaug, growing out of
the arrest of two native soldiers for
insulting the American Consul and his
wife, has subsided. The Chinese have
partially satisfied the demands for
reparation.
Catholic Processions to be Prohibited
in Germany.
Berlin, June 23.—The German Gov
ernment ia preparing a parliamentary
measure prohibiting religious proces
sions. This is aimed at the Catholics.
A Stormy Debate In the Assembly.
Paris, June 23.—1n the debate on
public powers bill, Gen. Du Temple, a
Legitimist Deputy, created great con
fusion by some intemperate remarks in
the course of which he insulted Minis
ter Buffett and the Due D’Audiffrot
Pasquier, President of the Assembly.
He declared MacMahon equally guilty
with Napoleon the 111. for Sedan. The
speaker was called to order and si
lenced by tbe interposition of the
House.
Mr. Gladstone—The Contagious Dis
eases.
London, June 23.—The San says it
has undoubted authority for stating
that after repeated conferences Mr.
Gladstone has promised to resume the
leadership of the Liberal party next
year. The House of Commons to-day
at tbe close of an animated debate
rejected the bill to repeal the contagious
diseases act by a vote of 308 to 126.
The government opposed the bill on
tbe ground that the act it sought to re
peal afforded great protection.
British and American Granges—A
Proposition for Co-operation.
Washington, June 23. —Preparatory
steps are being taken to briug about a
system of international exchange be
tween Great Britain aud the United
States, through the mediums of the
co-operative societies in Great Britain
and the Patrons of Husbandry in
America. The Central Co-operative
Board of the co-operative societies has
been in correspondence with Secretary
Kelly, of the National Grange, for some
time past, relative to the project, and
at a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Grange, next
week, the subject will be formally pre
sented by a deputation from tbe co
operative societies now en route to the '
United States.
The British co-operators ask the ac
ceptance of their plan of Union and
State; that the object is to reform
commercial abuses, get rid of middle
men, restore integrity in dealing, equal
ize wealth, etc., and represents that a
much greater quantity of American
products would be sold in England
but for the extravagaut charges of
middle men, and that the same is true
of manufactured articles tent to Ameri
ca from England. They propose to
operate with the grangers on direct
trade lines, sending their own ships
freighted with their own goods to ex
change for American products, such as
wheat and cotton, on fair equitable and
economical terms. The co-operativn so
cieties of Great Britain number 500,000
members, while the number of Grangers
is estimated at about 2,000,000. As the
latter already have State agencies es
tablished for the purpose of wholesale
rates and for cash of all the articles
they desire, the plan of exchange pro
posed is believed to be feasible, since
co-operation is one of the underlying
principles of the order. Prominent
grangers now in the city, especially
those from the South aud West, are
anxious to have the proposition of the
British co-operators accepted, since
they ausert they could sell their agri
cultural products to better advantage
in European markets, and get many ar
ticles of English manufacture at cheaper
rates than in this country.
NEW YORK CRIME.
Startling Revelations of the Legisla
tive Committee Panel Houses,
Gambling Hells, and Brotliels Under
Police Protection.
[Now York Herald, June 17.]
The Assembly committee appointed
to investigate the condition of crime in
New York city, its increase and the
means to check it, met yesterday after
noon in the Alderman’s old meeting
room in the City Halt. The proceed
ings began with the examination of
Mr. William A. Martinot, who gave evi
dence substantially as follows : “Am
a private detective, having an office at
No. 320 Broadway; served some time in
the police force, and, previous to 1871,
was for three years an officer iu the
army; served iu the police under Capts.
Williamson, Matsell and Burden;
my duties were, among other things,
to suppress gambling houses and
houses of prostitution; a gambling or
panel house cannot exist forty-eight
hours in any precinct without the act
being known to the police; believe a
panel house could bo opened without
tbe protection of the police; reported
tbe location of pauel houses in the pre
cinct to Capt. Burden, yet afterward
found them running. Tfie witness here
accurately defined what a panel house
is. Panel houses, he said, have existed
within three weeks—one at No. 107
West Twenty-fourth street, kept by
John Hogan; one iu No. 128 West
Twenty-seventh street, run by Nellie
Hay; one at the corner of Twenty
fourth street and Sixth avenue, owned
by James Smith; one at No. 437 Sixth
avenue, directed by “Lover Joe,” and
others at the corner of Sixth avenue
and Twenty-seventh street, No. 104
West Twenty-seventh street, and Nos.
426 and 461 Sixth avenue. Before open
ing these houses the proprietors mus
make “arrangements” with the Capt
tain and police officers of the district
in which they are located; Captain Bur
den was well aware of the existence of
these houses in his district, as a gen
eral rule the proprietors of them paid
the Captains $75 per week, or “half of
all they could make.” The witness gave
other testimony of a similar character
in regard to sneak thieves, gambling
houses, etc.
A placard in the window of a Centre
street painter’s shop says : “ Paint
your blacked eye while you wait.”
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Resumption of Work at the Railway
Mill—A Duel in Prospective—Origin
of the Late Fires—Newsygraphs,
Etc.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, Ga., June 22d, 1875.
It is gratifying to write of the shape
the Rolling Mill affair has taken. The
creditors and stockholders held a meet
ing and appointed a receiver. Mr. Wil
liam Goodnow, agent for the Republic
Life Insurance Company, received the
appointment and, it is said, is the right
man for the place. The mill will now
resume work, and the thousand mouths
it was wont to fill will now utter praises.
The old score will hardly be settled up,
but the wages of the men will now be
paid promptly.
Prospect of Blood.
Tbe air hung heavy with rumors this
evening to the effect that Col. Alston,
of the Herald, and Col. Clarke, of the
Constitution, were exchanging those
little billets common among chivalric
gentlemen when aggrieved.
You will remember that Alston’s pa
per reported the virulent sermon of
Bishop Haven. The evening paper
read him a severe lecture on the “ in
discretion ” in publishing such ser :
mens, and further went on to say that
a certain Southern editor
Dined With Haven
in Washington aud otherwise hob
nobbed with that miscegenation-teach
ing scamp. Col. Clarke, thinking he
could lay his hand upon the “Southern
editor,” called on the evening paper to
“out with his name.” Alston, with his
characteristic kiudness, publishes a
card iu the evening paper, and says
“ecce homo!” and furthermore sprinkled
a little hot pepper in the tail end of
his card. Yesterday the evening paper
devoted a couple of columus to
Col. Clarke’s Card,
which was wrathy, red hot and ram
pant. He alluded to Alston as a “fel
low,” and gave the public to under
stand that, iu his opinion, Alston was a
coward as well as liar. He wound up
by remarking in italics that he would
meet Alston iu any way and at any
time.
This morning everybody was on tip
toe to see how Alston would take
Clarke’s card. Dame Rumor said that
a challenge bad been sedt, seconds ap
pointed, and that a duel was imminent.
Of course they will not be allowed by
their many friends to fight. Colonel
Alston came from the rich, plucky Al
stons of Carolina. would no doubt
stand up like a r* t. du?!, but- his
nature, as soft Oman’s, would
Cause him to makv y honorable sac
rifice before putting foot on lighting
grounds in the capacity of a duelist.
Clarke is of a different nature. He
is as gentle as a girl, and it takes a
great deal to make him real mad.
When his “irish” does get up, it is
more like the momentary spasm of au
ger that places the school boy in a
warlike attitude. Thus, both men be
ing non-combatants, tbe prospect for
blood is slim.
The Fires
ooatiaue, and tlmru is >ach expression
of opinion as to their origin. It is
stoutly claimed by some that the un
employed workmen about tbe city ap
ply the torch in order to bring work.
Others attribute tbe origin to a run of
accidents. My theory is that there is
a gang of negroes about town with no
visible means of earning their daily
bread, and that they burn down these
stores for the purpose of pillage. I
ground my theory on the fact that
about 99 per cent, of the fires that re
centiy occurred were stores. When it
is remembered that there is no necessi
ty whatever for fire about these stores,
especially between the hours of 12 and
4 o’clock at night, aud that the major
ity of the crowd that collect about the
tires are negroes, my suspicions are not
without foundation. Passing along a
certain negro bar-room on Ivy street,
near Decatur street, one sees a greasy
crowd of negroes sunning themselves,
and without the least frazzle of work
hanging about them.
There was a fire every night last week
save one, aud this week starts off with
two,and here it is only Tuesday. It is said
that detectives are out watching, but
they have had time enough to nab all
tbe incendiaries in the State. Some
thing ought to be done to prevent this
wholesale incendiarism, aud at once.
Newsy Graphs.
The Beethoven Society, a musical as
sociation, has disbanded, and all efforts
to resuscitate it have proved fruitless.
This society had the best talent in the
city among its members.
There is a man living here—and I
saw him yesterday—that fought for
England in the Revolutionary war. He
is over a hundred years old, and has a
memory absolutely splendid. He is a
walking Centennial. His name is Craig,
and receives a pension from the Queen.
John Purifoy, in a note, endeavors to
rob death of its terrors by ridding him
self of newspaper reporters. He says
they must get their information from
the ministers, aud he does not want to
be troubled with them any more. Poor
fellow ! He forgets that he is going
where newspaper men generally go.
He seems prepared for his doom.
The City Council passed an act last
night authorizing the issue of $75,000
in 8 per cent, bonds.
A fine rain fell yesterday, laying tbe
dust and cooling the air. Roanoke.
Suicide Idolatry.
[Philadelphia Public Lodger.]
Mr. Editor : —Blackstone (the high
est authority) defines suicide: “The
act of designedly destroying one’s own
life, committed by a person of years of
discretion and of sound mind—self
murder.” It is usual with suicides in
this, our day (with little or no merit),
to be praised anil eulogized as the em
bodiment of the virtues in human char
acter. It is and'ever has been au infa
mous and cowardly act. The press
should so characterize and denounce it,
which will do much to check its terrible
and blighting efforts.
It is every man’s duty to bear in
mind that he has no excuse and no
right to disgrace aud humiliate his
whole family by his wanton and Sa
tanic deed, so as to shirk his work and
duties in life—a black stain rests upon
his memory now, it will follow him
throughout the great hereafter.
The old English laws require all
suicides to be buried at the crossroads,
on the King’s highway, with a stake
driven over the body to disgrace the
body and the act. By the common law
suicide was held a high crime, and
caused a forfeiture of all chattels, real
or personal. Life insurance in England
is forfeited for this crime. When losses
and sickness overtake a man (and they
come to all) he should ever bear, in mind
an allwise and loving Father designs
afflictions to purify and cause His crea
tures to place confidence in no earthly
idol, but in Him alone. Has He not
promised for the comfort of all men in
their day of trial, “He whom the Lord
loveth He afflieteth ?”
Hope and Life.
LETTER FROM BOSTON.
CENTENNIAL ECHOES.
Petting’ the sth Maryland—The Crack
Regiment of the Country—The Wash
ington Light Infantry—Fitzhugh Lee
and the “ Blues ” —The Knights Tem
plar—Ancient Organizations—Vast
Throngs—How to Make Patriotism
Pay—Market Quotations for Win
dows and Stands—Adieu.
(Special Correaponde ace Constitutionalist.)
Boston, June 18,1875.
The centennial ia indeed over and
the effects are passing away, most of
the organizations having left to-day
for their homes. The sth Regiment
Marylanders, after the procession, were
entertained by the sth Massachusetts,
and to-day enjoyed a sail down the
harbor. They were great favorites and
were finely treated by everybody. On
the march yesterday, at nearly every
halt, they were showered with oranges,
cakes and other refreshments by the
ladies who thronged the windows, and,
to use their own words, they could
scarcely hear a command for the ap
plause. They are a handsome set of
men, finely officered and beautifully
uniformed in Confederate grey, trimmed
with black and gold. In the line they
wore their knapsacks and blankets,
and moved with a free, independent
swing, which continued as it had begun
during all the weary hours of tho
march. On reaching Bunker Hill many
of the regiments looked worn out, but
as the Marylanders came up Chestnut
street with their easy swing step, keep
ing step with the President’s Marine
Band, their muskets glittering in per
fect line, their faces fresh from spong
ing at every halt, and with the red
stripes of their blankets just percept
ible above their grey uniforms, they
presented perhaps the finest appear
ance iu the line. As the platoons
wheeled into Monument Square in true
unbroken lines, the crowd gave a
ringing cheer, which was repeated
again and again. These Maryland
ers, on Wednesday afternoon, were
guilty of a most generous deed.—
At 3 o’clock the regiment was quietly
mustered into line, and, without a
word to anybody, marched to Win
throp Square, Charlestown, where the
Union soldiers’ monument stands.
Here they halted, forming three
sides of a square around it, while, un
der tho commander’s directions, a
florist decorated the monument with
garlands and pla3ed Upon it a shield
of white flowers bearing the inscrip
tion, “Maryland’s Tribute to Massa
chusetts.” They then presented arms
-and marched quietly away. It was
modestly done, without any show or
pretension, but the eyes which looker!
upon them were not all dry as they
passed, and away down in the bottom
of the hearts which beat around them
the flowers of the Marylanders had
brushed aside the scum of twelve long
years, and traced again the words,
“Our Sister South.”
The Washington Light Infantry,
of Charleston, being a amallor body,
was not such a prominent feature as
the regiment last mentioned, but they
did nut suffer for a welcome. They
were everywhere cheered as they
passed. Carrying the “Eutaw Flag”
they were more easily recognized than
any other single company. When the
procession disbanded the company
marched back to the St. James Hotel,
iu Boston, where they gave a dinner to
the Boston Light Dragoons.
To-day they were conducted to the
State House, where Major Simons, in
behalf ot the company, presented the
Governor with an elegant gold-headed
palmetto cane. They next went to
the City Hall, and were received
by Mayor Cobb. Had they known
that when the Mayor heard officially
that they were coming he, fearing the
appropriation made by the city to be
insufficient for the entertainment of so
many, went out among the merchants
as a citizen and raised a large amount,
that the men of Moultrie might not in
any way be slighted. Had they known
all this perhaps the Governor would
not have been the only mau caned in
Boston. After leaving the City Hall
they marched to the armory of the
Boston Light Infantry, where a fine
dinner was given them. At 5:30 they
departed for New York with the Old
Guard of that city, who will give them
a grand banquet to-morrow.
No men have less right to complain
than the Charlestonians. Everywhere
they were welcomed with the heartiest
friendship. The delegation who car
ried the flag down to their fair some
weeks ago did everything on their re
turn to win the hearts of Massachu
setts back to South Carolina, but even
with a knowledge of this the Infantry
never looked for half such fin enter
tainment as they had.
The Norfolk Blues
followed close in the steps of the
Charlestonians. In the procession with
them rode Fitzhugh Lee, who was
heartily cheered wherever he was re
cognized. It was his desire to pass
unnoticed through all, but the Bosto
nians recognize bravery too quickly to
let such a man go quietly by. The
spirit which induced them on Wednes
day night to raise him to the platform
in Music Hall, and there applauded
him so long and wildly and which made
them cheer him by name so frequently
yesterday on the march, is the same one
which made heroes in their eyes of
Putnam, Prescott and Warren.
After the march they were conducted
to Cambridge aud there partook of a
banquet, given them by the Cambridge
City Guard. To-day they were driven
around the city and suburbs, an<j to
morrow will take the steamer for home.
There is another body of Southerners
here, but being independent or theuen
tenni il procession, they did not create
quite as much of a sensatiou on the
17th as the others. I am speaking of
the
Richmond, Virginia, Commandery
of Knights Templar, which arrived on
Wednesday afternoon. They were re
ceived by t he Boston Commanderies and
marched up Columbus Avenue, where
a formal reception was given them
The Richmond Knights numbered 100,
and those of Boston about 1,100 so that
the parade was very large and strong.
After the reception a lunch was given
them in Faaeuii Hall, and in the even
ing a dinner at the American House.
Yesterday they formed early and
marched over to Bunker Hill, where
they disbanded, taking no part in the
celebration. To-day they have been
visiting the Public Institutions down
the harbor, and to-morrow are to take
carriages over the suburbs. Sunday
the Rev. Mr. Murray (ho of race
horse notoriety) will preach to them in
Music Hall. They leave for Richmond
Monday.
Among the curious was the first
company of
Governor’s Foot Guard.
Of course this ancient organization was
chartered in 1771 and adopted a uni
form the following year, The style
throughout all these years has been
carefully preserved. It is of the old
British type, scarlet coat with black
velvet breast and white facings on the
j shirts, white duck knee pants, black
velvet leggings, and tall black fur hats
with a painted front like that of an old
fashion fire cap. The
“Minuet Men” of Lexington
attracted much attention. Their uniform
was pure Continental, blue coats faced
with buff, buff waistcoats and knee
pants, white duck leggings and three
cornered hats. They carried old style
muskets and powder horns, many'of
which had actually been in the fights
of Lexington, Concord and Bunker
XT4II
XAIII.
The quaintest sight perhaps in all
the procession was a large body of
“Chelmsford Minuet Men.*
They were men of all sizes and ages
who marched ia broken irregular pla
toons without regard either to eye or
step. They were nearly all descend
ants of men who fought at Bunker
Hill and wore the clothes of their an
cestors, which were all alike in cut
knee pants, three-cornered hats and
old Putnam coats. Like the Lexington
men, they carried flint muskets aud
powder horns, but the quaintness of
the thing was, that no two of these
uniforms were of the same color. No
amount of study could have produced
a more exact picture of the men who
marched that night one hundred years
ago to Bunker Hill. Some coats old,
and some showed that the wearers
were farmers or laborers, while others
with broad cuffs laced a little with gold
indicated plainly that rich men of the
times were among them. Here and
there a shirt ruffle or a powdered wig
told a story of better days. As one sat
watching these old costumes pass it
was more evident than ever that men
in all stations in life, all grades of so
ciety, had stood that memorable morn
ing shoulder to shoulder iu tho new
born cause.
Although the streets had not the
usual Fourth of July jam, there were
perhaps more
Visitors
than had ever gathered here before,
250,000 being the estimated number.
Of these 200,000 came iu on different
railroads. As these figures are shown
by their returns it is quite safe to count
oi* 50,000 more who came either some
days before or by boat or in their own
teams. The figures, therefore, cannot
be far out of the way. The reason of
so much room on the streets is, first,
the extreme length of the route—six
miles; and, second, every window of
both stores and dwellings on that six
miles was filled three aud four tiers
high with faces, and on every available
spot large stands holding from 100 to
1,000 people had been erected, and
these were filled. Reserved seats on
these stands had been selling for some
days before, some bringing as high as
five dollars, while few store windows,
however smail, let for less than twenty
five dollars. One old lady who had
some windows on the street let them
for more than enough to pay her year’s
rent. Many who purchased these un-
I’omfortablc ocoto Ijehl llekeiß to
Bunker Hill, and that afternoon as your
correspondent reclined comfortably on
the grassy slope of the hill, watching
the procession pass below him, he won
dered often what could have induced
them to spend their money so.
The End.
The long looked for centennial has
ended, only one particular being as it
was an hundred years ago—the
weather. Old records say that “the
16th and 17th were fine days, but the
18th it rained.” The record stands
the same this year. This alone is un
changed. All things else have passed
away for something better. The old
redoubt is now a beautiful green, with
the monument in its centre. Where
the trenches ran down to the water
fine mansions now stand. All is
changed. An hundred years ago two
countries wrestled in deadly strife.
To-day two brothers in a nation 6tand
hand in hand, and whisper each to the
other “Peace !” Harry Waldemar.
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
Thunder Storms—The Crops Flourish
ing—Sherman Versified—The Cy
clone Bugaboo—An Unlucky Bridal
Party.
[Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Rutledge, June 22d, 1875.
This section was visited on Saturday
night last, about eight o’clock, with a
regular cid fashioned thunderstorm,
wif.h heavy rain and considerable wind,
but not enough to do any damage. On
Sunday and Monday we had heavy
rains, which seemed to be a general
season in this portion of the State. To
day the ground is too wet to plow. Cot
ton is branching out and is full of
young germs. I have heard of some
blooms. The clerk of the weather seems
to have gotten straight again. It is
clear to-day, with a nice western breeze
and good signs of some settled weather
for a spell.
I see iu the papers a great deal said
about
Sherman’s Book
or memoirs of the war. There are very
few in the iiue of Sherman’s march
through Georgia who wish to remem
ber his dark deeds of villainy. The
people who lived in the black belt
at the time of his passage through
with his plundering mob of thieves
fairly shudder at the mention of his
name. I send you the following lines,
written by a Morgan county lady just
after the war, which will give you an
idea of how the ladies who happened to
be in the line of Sherman’s march to
the sea feel toward him and his “ me
moirs.” That same feeling is just as
fresh aud warm to-day as it was at the
time these lines were written :
Sherman iu Poetry.
Lines suggested by Mrs French’s “Slmr
manized.”
O strange an maly in verge, methought!
The mention or the name a shudder bro’t.
O mean conception linked but with disgrace,
To give so base a name an honored place!
O shameful theme, by Southern poet sung l
A foul pollution to the purest tongue:
A sound that demons might refuse to hear
A sound that grate i upon the Southern
ear.
But pray excuse me, for I did you wrong
Fa r Southern poetess of sweetest song ’
My mind soon changed to find your honest
muse,
Gave his “Satanic Majesty” his “dues;”
For poets have a right t > sing of evil.
And some have even immortalized tne devil.
Let Sherman, then, the same distinction
claim,
Since all the difference lies but in the name.
The Rutledge High School,
Rev. T. S. Burris, principal, has sus
pended for a few weeks vacation.
Blackberries
are getting ripe, and the girls and boys
are having a fine time blackberrying aud
' fishing, but when they hear it thunder
they all break for home in almost a
panic stampede, for all the cb.idren
and a large portion of the grown peo
ple in this section think when it thun
ders that old Mr. “Cyclone” is coming
this way.
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. 128
A Hymeneal Ducking.
On the 16th inst. Mi. J. C. Butts, of
the lower part of this county, was mar
ried to Miss Fannie Luckie, of Rut
ledge, and with a party of friends had
started to the residence of Mr. B.
When about four miles from Rutledge
that dry storm overtook them. The
wind snatched up tfceir umbrella and
carried it away. They drove on a few
hundred yards, when the rain came
down in torrents, almost drowning the
whole party. The bride and groom
having lost; their protection, were
thoroughly drenched.
That one small streak was all the
rain I have beard of in the whole course
of that storra, except a similar shower
near Atlanta. Yours, &c., R.
THE GEORGLPcROPN.
Hart County,
The crops through the county gen
erally are looking very flue. The'wheat
crop now being harvested is generally
good, and the yield will be fully equal
to that of last year, if not better, as
there is a larger area planted.
Cotton and corn crops are small, but
have good stands, look healthy
are being rapidly worked, and are in
fine condition.
Washington County.
We have never known crops to grow
so rapidly ae they do now. Since the
late raius, the corn and the cotton have
grown with a rush. All than is now
needed by those farmers who have
been industrious, is rain ia the right
season, a plenty of it, with hot sun
shine between the showers.
No Raius— The Coin Crop in Peril.
lAlbany News.]
When we wrote last week we thought
the raius had been general, and that
the corn crop had been saved. We
were mistaken. The rain fall for a
month had been exceedingly partial,
and much lighter chan we supposed.
Siuce then not a drop has fallen in our
bailiwick, and a dry, hot wind from the
South and Southwest has prevailed al
most continuously. Withal, the suu
iieat has been more intense than usual
at this point of the year, and it effects
upon vegetation more hurtful The
corn crop of the whole of Southwestern
Georgia is, at this moment, in immi
nent peril, aad without rain this week,
unprecedented disaster is inevitable.
Fortunately, the oat crop turned out
well, and it we get rains in season to
make good crops of peas and potatoes
our planters can stand a considerable
falling off in their corn expectations,
but just now the prospect is as dis
heartening as it well could be, and all
classes are more or less alarmed about
the provision crop.
Floyd County.
[Rome Commercial.]
W T e see it stated in the Dalton Citizen
that the present wheat crop in that sec
tion is very fine, being the largest since
1859, a noted year for good wheat
crops. W T e are sorry that the same re
port can not bo mntlc fIJUI ItilS SCCLIOU.
While out in the country several days
ago, just after wheat harvest, we learn
ed that tiie yield of wheat was from
thirty-three and a third to fifty per
cent. Jess than a good crop. The heads
of wheat were large and promised to be
tine, but when the wheat was cut, theso
heads were found to be poorly grained.
The other crops, cotton and corn, are
very fine.
Monticello (Jasper county) Banner:
We are sorry to see that the Buffalo
gnat, which has been playing such a
desperate game out in Alabama and
Mississippi, have made their dreaded
appearance in our county. The editor,
in returning from his plantation, over
Murder Creek, observed the ears and
face of his horse so thickly covered
with what he supposed to be flies, that
he got out of his buggy to brush them
off, when ho discovered, to his horror
(from the description he had read of
them), that they were the veritable and
genuine buffalo gnats. The pests
could scarcely be brushed from the an
imal, and left the ears in a very sore
state. Others who have soon' them
agree with us as to their being the
gnat.
\ aldosta Times : The cotton at pres
ent is doing well in this section, so far
as we can learn, while corn is begin
ning to suffer for went of rain. The
elements are propidous at this writing,
and we hope that ere this is read that
we will have had a fine shower.
Fine Yield of Wheat.
[Monroe Advertiser.]
The wheat crop has been harvested
and we are glad to report a large and
satisfactory yield. We are satisfied
that the area devoted to wheat was
larger, and the average yield per acre
was better than for ten years past. The
farmers are all in good humor over the
result and think that the better time
of which tiiey have heard so much is
coming. The reports are the same
from all sections of the country, and
for once we hear no grumbling as to
the yield. This state of affairs is very
satisfactory aud if we have good sea
sons and the corn crop comes up to ex
pectation, we predict that not one hun
dred bushels of corn need be shipped
from the West for Monroe county.
Richmond County.
Linwood, Ga., June ’22d, 1875.
The crops in this part of the country
where worked were never more prom
ising. The dry season is now over, to
all appearances, gave the opportunity
to clean the cotton and did not hurt
the corn. Spring oats alone were hurt,
and ought always to be. My informa
tion reaches parts of Columbia, Mc-
Duffie, Jefferson, Burke and Richmond.
The people are remarkably healthy,
and seem to fear nothing but cyclones,
uot one of which has ever passed
through l*inetucky or Grease Town.
But, Mr. Editor, we have some rains
here that would have excited Noah
while he was building the ark. You
can scarcely desire a lengthiy commu
nication from so aarren a country or
so poor a wrreepondent as your friend,
PjNETUCKY.
P. S. —I should Lave said that the
“mass” was very fine the past season,
and that therefore our few hogs are in
good order. p,
Northeast Georgia.
There was a splendid rain aii through
this section—from this place to the
mountains, and we don’t know how far
in the opposite direction—on Saturday
night. At the time we write (Monday)
a gentle shower is falling. The crops
were needing it badly.
New Wheat.
[Rome Gourier.l
The crop in this section threshes out
only tolerably well. On the uplands it
is generally very good,but on the river
bottoms it is less than half an average
crop. Small lots are now coming into
this market and sell from #l.lO to
$1.20.