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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY, July 1, 1875.
No Savannah papers were received
it this office last evening. Has the
Torpedo Chicken exploded in the For
est City and susnended the press ?
Fob the week ending June 20th, 18* 5,
the deaths in Charleston, S. C., were,
whites, 11; blacks, 24. A vast differ
ence between the two races.
A distressing case of suicide, at
Richmond, is reported this morning.
Sad indeed must be the condition of a
man of 60 years of age who can not
patiently await the regular summons
of Death.
Even in the remote East the storm
wind is creating havoc. Accounts reach
us by cable that the dreaded typhoon,
has swooped upon tne Chinese coast,
wreckiug vessels and hurling many
human beings into eternity.
The beautiful and nobler traits of
humanity are always evoked when cal
amity visits a community. The truth
of this is manifest in the handsome
contributions now pouring in all over
France for sufferers by the recent
inundation.
A writer in the Augusta CoNsriTUxroNAn-
Tmt is quoted as saying that the ordinary
lire insurance policy is vitiated by the use
t kerosene oil, for illuminating purposes,
upon the premises insured. This is a big
mistake. In ail the tire poliei s that we
have seen, such a use of kerosene is ox
piessly authorized.— News and Courier.
That is the general impression and
no doubt the correct one.
Some fellow with a weak digestion
thinks the best way to eat cucumbers
is to peel them nicely, cut regularly,
\pour on vinegar and sprinkle with pep
per and salt—then throw 7 them away.
We eat them daily, when in season, and
experience none but the best effects.
There are plenty of good things “thrown
away” on people who have hobbies. A
well regulated stomach ought to be
i able to stand anything not absolutely
unwholesome. ,
Gladstone thinks “the Church
of England worth preserving.” We
did net know it was in any danger of
dissolution. He probably said the Eng
lish Jjhtahlishment of the Church, as it
exist#, should not be disturbed. There
is at difference between the per
petufcyof the Church of Eugland as a
religfm aud the Church of England as
a State institution. The Dissenters are
of of iuion that there should be no
favored church in Great Britaiu; aud
''thors think that a disestablishment of
e Church of Euglaud would really be
iclicial to the Episcopacy.
kn of distinction have passed
y from earth amid a war of the
ients. The restless soul of Napo
n broke from its tenement and
red aw 7 ay on the pinions of the
fpesk Ex-Emperor Ferdinand, of
stria, ended his days amid the storm
lugs that desolated Buda-Pesth.
in late potentate was boru April 19,
33, and was therefore 82 years of
7 e. He succeeded his father Francis
iu 1837. His character was weak,
lhd Metternich made him a mere tool.
L'ke revolj^.-rttnugary and consequent
ti him to resign in favor
or Tils" nephew Francis Joseph. He
had tor many years resided iu Prague.
Mrs. C. A. Warfield, author of “The
Household of Bouverie,” has completed
anew novel, entitled “A Double Wed
ding ; or, How She was Won,” which
will be published by T. B. Peterson &
Brothers, Philadelphia, on the 14th of
July. She has also made an arrange
ment with this house, whereby they
have become the future publishers of
all her works, and they will issue at
once anew “Author’s” edition of all
books, in uniform style with her
Baw work, “A Double Wedding; or,
Tlow She W as Won.” Each book will
in one large duodecimo
bound in morocco cloth, price
$1.75, and the first one to be published
of the new edition will be her cele
brated work, “The Household of Bou
verie.” Mrs. Warfield is a Southern
woman, full of genius, and the best
female novelist in the United States.
A Fortune in Prospective.— Our fel
low-citizen, Capt. O. J. Murray, is happy
in the brjght prospect of a large for
tune. Hia ancestors were among the
early settlers of Baltimore, and the
owners of a hundred acres of land,
which they leased for ninety-nine years.
Said lease has expired and the heirs
are taking steps to eject the present
occupants, and reclaim their property.
The value of the property is now many
millions. Our friend Murray is a little
nervous about the matter and talks
more of his good fortune and less of
sewing machines and insurance than
formerly. — MiUedgemlle Recorder.
Many widows are entirely unmanned
by the loss of a husband. Others have
something else to fall back on.
He flail y InnstitutiDnalid.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Sam Bard's “ Cheek’’—Counting the
Treasury Cash—Revenue and Cus
toms Receipts.
Washington, June 30.—The irre
pressible Bam Bard called oil the Post
master General yesterday and presen
ted a bulky petition asking his retention
as Postmaster at Atlapta, Ga. The Post
master General informed him that it
was too late, that his resignation had
been accepted, to take effect the 30th
of this month. Sam denied that he had
ever written any letter of resignation.
When Gov. Jewell handed him his let
ter to the President begging to remain
iu ollice until the close of the fiscal
year he still denied that it was a letter
of resiguatiou, and then spoke of the
losses which he had suffered during
the war. Mr. Jewell asked him if his
losses had not been incurred on the
Confederate side and he responded in
the affirmative. Mr. Bard finally left
convinced that he could accomplish
nothing with the Postmaster General.
A committee to count the funds in
the Treasurer’s office will commence
their work to-night. The commission
will consist of the following gentlemen :
Dr. John B. Blake, formerly President
of the National Metropolitan Bank;
Mr. 8. E. Middleton, of the banking
firm of Middleton & Cos.; A. H. Liepold,
Freedman’s Bank Commissioner ; Will
H. Hervey, Special Agent of the Trea
sury ; aud Messrs. C. H. Brown, John
Patton and T. C. Dickerson, chiefs of
divisions in the Treasury Department.
Mr. J. C. Gilfillan to-day assumed the
duties of Cashier of the Treasury, aud
Maj. J. W. Power takes charge of the
warrant division. Many minor changes
were also made in reorganizing the
Treasury service. Jacob M. M. Patter
son succeeds Mr. Dutcher as pension
agent.
The Internal Revenue receipts re
ported to-da/ amount to $261,979;
total for the month, $8,476,695; amount
reported since June 30th, 1874, $109,-
353,775. Customs receipts reported to
day, $471,432; total for the month,
$10,020,218 76; amount reported since
June 30, 1874, $156,479,132.
Secretary Delano and Indian Com
missioner Smith have returned.
The Postmaster General decides the
telegraph rates shall remain as at
present.
FROM NEW YORK.
Tweed’s Bail—Foreign Dignitaries
Going to Europe —“Crooked” Crock
ery—Killed by Lightning.
New York, June 30.— Tweed with
draws indefinitely his application for
reduction of baii.
Baron W. Von Schwartz-Senborn,
late Austrian Minister at Washington,
and Count Cort.i, late Minister from
Italy, sailed for Europe to-day.
E. J. Willets has. been sued by the
Government for false classification of
crockery. Proceedings are expected
against other crockery houses.
Lightning struck Alien's school house,
killing Thomas Hewlet, trace distribu
tor. The chimney fell injuring the
scholars slightly.
The Beecher-Tilton J ury—Conviction
of a Counterfeiter —Whiskey Men iu
Trouble.
New York, Jim* 3 30. —The Beecher-
Tilton jury was again locked up for the
night.
In the United States Circuit Court
to-day, Gen. Mauk was convicted of
passing counterfeit money.
The distillery of Henry Sehoofield
was seized; also the rectifying estab
lishment of Frisch & Bildback for re
issuing stamps.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Avenging: a Sister's Wrongs—Attempt
ed Assassination at a Dinner Table.
Baltimore, June 30.—Major J. Lyle
Clarke, a well known citizen, while at
dinner at the St. Clair Hotel, iu this
city, to-day, was shot in the head by
one of two brothers named Brewer, of
Georgetown, D. C., who made a joint
attack on him. The wound is not neces
sarily fatal, but Clarke is greatly ex
hausted from loss of blood. The Brew
ers, who were arrested, say they were
avenging a sister’s wrongs.
sih(Tide!
All Old and Prominent Citizen of
Richmond. Va., Slays Himself.
Richmond, June 30.—C01. Thomas S.
DeWitt, for many years Secretary of
the Board of Public Works of Virginia,
and Chief Clerk in the Second Audi
tor’s office, suicided early this morn
ing, in the parlor of his residence, by
placing the muzzle of a rifle iu his
mouth and firing it, blowing his brains
out. Til'} deceased was about 60 years
old and much esteemed iu this com
munity. He was a native of New York
State, and long a prominent Mason
and Knight Tepiplar. The deed was
caused by general depression.
Minor Telegrams.
Key West, June 30.—The United
States steamer Plymouth, from Port
Royal, 5.0., for Rio Grande came in
here to-diy for coal.
Boston. June 30. —At Harvard Uni
versity the degree of Master of Arts
was conferred upon 131
a great miuy honorary degrees.
St. Loiss, Juue 30.— A negro ravished
a 19 yearold girl within 11 miles of the
city. * Deails are horriblo. The people
are after lim.
NorfoU, June 30. —The steamship
Seminoleaas been towed into port.
m i
,ynoh Law in lowa.
Ottumeva, lowa, June 30.—A Deputy
Marshal ias shot and killed hy one of
the Smitbboys. On the way from jail
to court ae people hung Smith to a
lamp post
Tfe Fever at Key West.
Key Wet, June 29.—One death. The
weather it pleasanter.
(Signed) J. N. Harris,
Health Officer.
Gubernatorial.
Mr. Edlor : The Chronicle and Sen
tinel speas of publishing a list of
Gubernatcial aspirants. I advise your
cotemporary to omit the name of
Smith. H has no chance wherever the
Chronicle las goue with the unfair
handling f Secretary Fish and the
Centennialiorrespondence.
Justice.
“Dan,” uid a little four-year-old,
“give me asixpence to buy a monkey?”
“We have jot one monkey in the house
now,” repltd the elder brother.” “Who
is it, “Dan' ’ asked the little fellow.”
“You,” wasthe reply. “Then give me
sixpence to 1 uy the monkey some nuts. ”
Tb > brothe) could not resist.
A.UGUST.A, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING. JULY t. 3875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Relief for French Sufferers Pouring
In—Heartrending Suffering at Tou
louse—One Hundred Thousand Peo
ple Beggared—Death of Ex-Emperor
Ferdinand, of Austria —The Danube
Yields Up the Dead of Buda-Pesth—
Spanish Fandangoes—Terrible Ty
phoon in the China Seas —Gladstone
and the Church of England.
Paris, June 30.—Subscriptions re
ceived for the sufferers by the inunda
tions are unprecedentedly large. The
total to date was $200,000. The list
opened by President Mac Mahon already
reaches $40,000. It is announced that
one hundred thousand persons will be
wholly dependent upon public charity
for months to come.
The damage at Toulouse and Acer:
exceeds $26,000,000. Relief is pouring
in from all parts.
London, June 30.—A special to tin
Daibi News says the number of men,
women and children drowned iu
Toulouse alone is roughly estimated at
two thousand.
Prague, June 30. —Ex-Emperor Fer
dinand is dead.
Pesth, June 30.—The loss of life from
the tempest exceeds the first estimate.
One hundred and twenty dead bodies
have been taken from the DanuOe.
Doubtless many floated down.
Madrid, June 30.—An ordinance lias
been issued banishing members of Car
list Juntas, and all families of which
any member is in the Carlist. service,
aud confiscating their property.
It is officially announced that den.
Martinez Campos has occupied a po
sition ou the river Ebro, in ordur to
prevent the escape of the Carlists from
Valencia and Arragon into Catalonia.
Gen. Jovellar, commander of the
Army of the Centre, with 28,000 troops,
is advancing by different routes oa the
Cariist leader Dorregeray, who com
mands 12,000 men.
Havana, June 30.—The Spanish
troops dispersed two bodies of rebels.
Eleven were killed ; five aud
summarily shot.
Hong Kong, June 30—A typhoon
visited here May 31st. The steamer
Payang was wrecked near Macao and
one hundred and twenty-five lives lost.
A hundred and fifty junks- were
destroyed and great damage done to
property in Canton, Hong Kong and
Whampoa.
Dublin, June 30—An enthusiastic
ovatiou was given to the American
Team, together with a grand banquet
at the Mansion House. The Irish ad
mit the match to have been fairly won.
London, June 30.—Gladstone, in a
magazine article, argues strongly that
the Church of England is worth pre
serving.
The King of Burmali Gets ou a Ram
page—China and Spain at Variance
—British and American Troubles
w ith the Pig-tail People.
London, June 30.—The King of Bur
mah refuses to allow British troops to
pass over his territory. It is believed
this condition will be insiste l upon by
the British.
At New Castle summer meeting to
day the Northumberland Plate was won
by Harriet Laws; Owton second and
Feve third—time, 28 and 33.
Hong Kong, June 30. —Trouble Lias
arisen between China and Spain iu con
sequence of the prohibition by the for
mer of Coolie emigration to Cuba.
The British steamship Douglass was
attacked by Chinese smugglers at Foo
Chow on May 26th. A Customs officer
named Blaeklock was shot. The
smugglers were beateu off aud four
killed.
The United States Consul General at
Shanghai recently tried an American
named Glover, in the Cninese service
as Commissioner of Customs, for dam
age caused by his action in his official
capacity under orders of the Chiuese
Government. It is claimed that the
Consular jurisdiction was improperly 7
exercised.
Another Triumph for the American
Team.
Dublin, June 30. —There was shoot
ing to-day at Dollymount for the Spenc
er cup, free to all comers. Messrs.
Bruce, Yale, Daken, Gildersleeve, Bal
lard, Coleman and Canfield of the
American team, and all the members
of the Irish team and shooting club
took part. The contest resulted in an
other victory for the Americans. R. G.
Coleman won the cup, making a score
of 47 out of a possible 50. The range
was 1,000. Gildersleeve and Yale also
won prizes during the day’s shooting.
“Another new bonnet, eh ?” said
Lieutenant General Sheridan yesterday
to Mrs. Sheridan. “Yes, Philiip,” said
Mrs. Sheridan solemnly. “I hope I
may be permitted to clothe myself in
something a little better than the rags
of a bc-ggar.” “Certainly, certainly,”
said the general. “I was merely about
to remark that before marriage I had
but a slight comprehension”—. “You
are right Phillip,” interrupted Mrs.
Sheridan ; “I may say you have uo
comprehension at all. Please assist me
to disrobe myself of this shawl.” The
general did as he was bid, remarking
to himself meanwhile, “Right flank,
left flank, front and rear, by Jove!
Whenever you overtake this person
you find she is about two minutes
ahead of you.” —Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle.
While preaching the other day, a
Roman priest turned in his discourse
to make a very tender appeal on behalf
of a poor man with a large family that
needed the immediate assistance of his
hearers. He portrayed the necessities
of this family in such pathetic strains
as to move his audience to tears, and
then said: “Such are the exigencies of
this case that I will stop hero in my
sermon and take up a collection. He
descended from the tribune and passed
the bag arouud among the people, who,
being greatly moved by his appeal,
dropped iu the lire very bountifully,
but on returning to his place, he smil
ingly said: “This poor man is the Pope!”
At a camp meeting last Summer, a
venerable sister began the hymn—
“My soul be on thy guard;
Ten thousand foes arise.”
She began in shrill quavers, but it
was pitched too high. “Ten thousand
—ten thousand,” she screeched, and
stopped. “Start her at five thousandl”
cried a converted stockbroker present.
“Whereare you going, my love?” in
quired a Rh"de Island wife of her hus
band last evening. “HI be back in
five minutes,” he replied. “Thelicense
law passed o-day, and I’m only going
over to Connecticut for a few mo
ments.”
Four silver decanter stands, present
ed by David Garrick to Hannah More,
were sold by auction at Ross, England,
recently, feir S3OO.
The estate of John C. Breckinridge
is found to amount to about $40,000.
Representative Beck is appointed as
one of the! executors.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
* *
A Fetv More Cyclones to Come Along
—Augusta J. Evans lncendiary
Caught Journalistic Other Mat
ters, etc.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.|
Atlanta, June 29,1875.
Scientific men prognosticate a deluge
of cyclones, hurricanes, storms and
other atmospheric and weatherologi
cal phenomena will occur between the
first aud teuth of July. Auxious to
lay before the readers of the Constitu
tionalist every item of interest con
nected with the subject, I approached
Dr. W. P. Harrison, well known as a
scholarly and scientific gentleman, for
the purpose of interviewing him, but
he positively declined beiDg bored by a
newspaper man and was as dumb as au
oyster. His reticence was due*, I think,
more to a desire to prevent alarming
the public mind rather than a dislike
to members of the quill.
Like him, I think there is no neces
sity for alarming the public as nothing
short of the Hand of Providence can
protect us, neither can any prevention
avert a cyclone; but it may be well
enough for the public to be aware of
its coming, as well as for the advance
ment of science.
But few men are masters of the sub
ject of Meteorology, hence observations
of any value are framed more on
loose fragments of guesswork than
actual knowledge or accurate calcula
tions. It has been a long time since we
have had such favorable opportunities
for observing these sudden freaks of
the wind. The present season is an
exceptional one. Disturbances in the
flow of the electrical currents have
taken place—by whatever cause pro
duced—and it is calculated that the
equilibrium will scarcely be restored
before next Winter. Cyclones, earth
quakes hailstorms, and similar phe
nomena may be looked for through the
Summer and Fall, and these iu extra
ordinary frequency. But beyond this
opinions are not ventured.
Dr. Harrison sees no reason to ap
prehend destructive tornadoes between
the Ist and 10th of July rather than in
the months of July and August. If
the concurrent equinoxes of Mercury
mid Venus have anything to do with
atmospheric conditions, he thinks late
in July or early iu August would be
most likely to become the season for
disturbed atmospheric influences.
I am sorry that the Doctor did not
have time to give me the rationale of
the subject as lie understands it. lam
thus prevented from giving that con
nected chain of reasoning which would
make more succinct and interesting this
very important subject.
Literary.
Mrs. L. M. Wilson nee Miss Augusta
J. Evans, accompanied by her husband
aud step-daughter, passed through this
city yesterday on their way home to
Mobile. She has just completed a
novel which will probably be her last,
as her husband frowns seriously upon
her literary pursuits.
Mrs. Wilson enjoys an enviable po
sition among tbe lierary women of the
South She hu-givou the public Ma*'
earia,” “Beulah,” “St. Elmo,” and
“Vasliti,” books iu which plots aud
characters are well studied aud por
trayed, but the fault of her works lies in
the extraordinary use of unused and
“hifalutin” words not understood by or
familiar with the novel-reading people.
The ripe scholar finds an intellectual
feast beneath the ‘ corners of Miss
Evans’ novels, but the common reader
gropes his way through long lines of
French Arabic and Sanscrit, with only
now aud then a ray of good old Eng
lish sunshine among the clouds of ital
icised, accented and hieroglyphical
quotations. Whenever I take up one
of her novels, I always think of the
line “beauty unadorned is then adorn
ed the most.” The same plot with
same cast of characters moulded into
plain and more simple language
would have given Miss Evans thous
ands more readers and as many more
admirers.
Origin of the Late Fires.
As I hinted in previous letters, incen
diarism has found to be the cause
of our recent frequent tires. One yf
Atlanta’s shrewdest detectives has been
prowling around, poking his double
smelting nose into everything that
smelt of fire, and the result is that one
P. A. Farrington is in limbo. This in
dividual is a jeweler aud occupied
rooms over Speigle’s dry goods store on
Whitehall, which was burnt the other
night. He was carefully insured for
SSOO in two Virginia Companies. When
the fire occurred he was an hour or so
ahead of time in the removal of his
goods, and other suspicious conduct
was not unnoticed and trifles light as
air have been duly followed up, result
ing ia a formal arrest for arson. This
is quite a serious charge for Farring
ton to go to court ou, but the chances
are two to one on his working out a
with the convicts. Since the de
tectives were given orders to ferret put
the incendiaries, we haven’t had a soli
tary fire !
That Attached Engine.
Some time ago I wrote you of au en
gine and train of cars belonging to tlio
Air-Line Railroad being attached for
debt by the Sheriff. lam now glad to
say that it is in a fair way to be un
chained and set at liberty. Col. Grant,
the Receiver of the road, has paid
counsel for Grant, Alexander & Cos.,
the sum of ten thousand dollars on the
account. This leaves about five thou
sand yet to be paid, when the iron horse
cau snort the blessed air of freedom.
Journalistic.
Mr. Charles Nordhoff, who gets a
salary of several hundred dollars a
week on the New York Herald, is in the
city on a tour of observation, and
search for KuKlux and other impedi
ments to the wheel of the “best Gov
ernment the world ever saw.”
Before he leaves, the noble-hearted,
enthusiastic and easily gulled Atlantese
will, no doubt, aute up a few hundred
dollars on a superb banquet aud ova
tion to the gentleman who enlarged,
distorted and otherwise garbled the
state of thiDgs in Mississippi and Lou
isiana some time ago. It is a weakness
of ours to forget or rather overlook
the attributes of misrepresentation,
etc., of our visitors from Yaukeedom.
It is the honor that steams up from
the banquet table that causes us to
ignore the true character of the bene
ficiary, aud forget that his praise for
our progression and prosperity is sur
face broth, to dissolve and pass away
with the smoke of the engine that
takes him out of the town. (
Other Matters.
Fresh, ripe, home-made fruit rolls
into town now, taking theplacebof long
traveled imported fruit. Melons and
peaches, together with all the small
fruit are here in abundant. How we
do progress! A few years ago we
never thought of seeing a watermelon
before the 4th of July. Now we have
them in May. Egad, we are a progres
sive people.
The revival interest still continues iu
the city. The meetings iu James’ Hail
f ftftve been for the last week unusually
interesting although there is a marked
decrease iu the attendance. Several
old war-horses in sin have acknowledg
ed their error and found comfort anil
sweet peace in religion. The Christian
Index has au able editorial this week,
wiitten by the editor pro tern, Mr.
James P. Harrison, which not only
gives the amount of the good work
accomplished by the revival but issug
gestive of the lcind of work, Mr. H
beiug anew convert. May the good
work continue.
The Presbyterian synod of Georgia
is in session here, and embraces among
the members in attendance many ot
the leading members of that denomi
nation in the State.
A gentle shower blessed us this
evening, giving the air a vigorous iee
creamy shake aud rendering the night
as cool as could be wished.
Roanoke.
THE BUELL-GILBERT MARRIAGE
CASE.
The Ceremony Declared Valid.
Indianapolis, June 28. —1n the Marion
Criminal Court, Judge Chapman to-day
rendered the following verdict in case
of the State vs. J. R. Buell and Susan
D. Gilbert, indicted for fornication
Regarding the various provisions of
the statute together, it seems to stand
on all-fours with the common law in
regard to the effect of the absence of
ceremonial forms upon the validity of
marriages. If either of the parties
to the marriage regard it as a
union as husband and wife, it shall
not be either void or voidable be
cause the requirements of the statute
iu regard to the license or solemni
zation have not been complied with,
and it seems probable by the proviso
to section three, that where the parties
take out a marriage license, and act
ing under that license appear before
any person and pronounce by and
through him an agreement to become
mau and wife, the marriage will be
valid and the parties held to the con
tract, without any regard to the belief
the parties may have entertained in
regard to its legality, especially if fol
lowed by cohabitation. But the de
cision of this proposition is not neces
sary to the ease in hand. The defend
ants took out a license and in the'
presence of certain witnesses them
selves solemnized a ceremony of mar
riage, and took each the other for
husband and wife, respectively, using
each the form of words hereto
fore set out, without the inter
position of any other persons,
save the persons who appeared iu
the character of witnesses. The only
portion of the formula used by the de
fendants in this portion of the cere
mony to which an exception is taken,
is that embraced iu the words: “So
long as the union of love and life shall
last.” But Ido not think these words
are very significant, nor that they or
any other words which may be em
ployed in a marriage ceremony, touch
ing duration of are of
any legal force, or in any way qualify
the contract, if the parties agree to be
husband an l wife, and presently there
after assume the statute, the law set
tles the nature and duration of the
contract aud any stipulations the party
might make in regard thereto would
be mere idle words or mawkish senti
ment.
The court is of opinion that their
agreement to dissolve the contract, by
their own Consent, in case their respec
tive love natures fail to harmonize, is
in law void and in morals vicious; that
if the parties should act under this
stipulation for the termination of the
marriage contract, and thereafter enter
into a similar contract and relationship
with other parties, they would be guilty
of bigamy, and that good morals and
sound politieai ethics, as well as the
statute law, require that they shall be
held firmly to the marriage contract
they have assumed, and to all the
duties and responsibilities the law
attaches thereto, and, therefore, the
parties are not guilty as charged in the
indictment.
His Two Widows—What Was Found
Out After an lowa Man’s Death.
[Desmoines Special to the Chicago Tribune.)
On Saturday last Louis Walker died
at West Liberty. Before his death ho
expressed the earnest desire that, if lie
died, he should be buried on the farm
where he formerly lived, near Beving
tou, a station on the Winterset Branch
of the Rock Island Road, about 18
miles from this city. The stricken wife,
filled with iove for him, and with a
heart broken with sorrow and grief,
sought to fulfill the wishes of her dead
husband. She procured a burial case,
started on her sad errand, and passed
through here ou Monday. She arrived
at Bevington a stranger to everybody.
Of a station agent she inquired as to the
location of the farm where her husband
was to be buried. The agent inquired
who it was that was to be buried, and,
on being told, be quickly foresaw a
very unpleasant affair. The widow had
come to bury her husband on the
premises of a man whose daughter,
then at home, was the wife of the de
ceased. The agent, after some con
sideration, deemed it best to inform
the widow t f the facts. She received
the story with perfect astonishment,
and could scarcely believe her late
husband guilty of such baseness ; but,
on being assured it was so, she be
came indignant, aod left the body
with citizens, to be conveyed to wife
No 1 (whose first knowledge for years
of tbe whereabouts of her husband
was his arrival in a burial casket,)
to be disposed of as she saw fit,
and, taking the first train, she re
turned to her home. Since her depar
ture, it has been discovered that
Walker had still another wife in Mis
souri.
An Impressive Sight. —There were
seventeen of them —exactly seventeen.
They marched down Michigan avenue
in double file—all but one. He march
ed alone at the head of the column.
They were noble young men. They
had high foreheads and intelligent
faces, and theie was a stern, determin
ed look on each face—a look which
said they would die at their country’s
call. Were they going forth to battle ?
Were they going to the rescue of some
kind sentiment which the wicked world
was trying to blot from the hearts of
men? Were they going to the succor
of the unfortunate aud distressed? No,
not a cent’s worth—they were going
out to play base ball. It was an itu
posing sight to see them march,
march, each form erect, each step in
time, each face bearing that look which
warriors wear when the roar of battle
isloudest. If every one of the seven
teen had been on their way to the wood
pits or the corn field the sight could
n ,j| have been more grand and thrill -
j rig.—Detroit Free Press.
BEEOHER.
He Declares that Hell aud the Devil
Cau’t Stop Him—Au Extraordiuary
Scene at Plymouth Church Prayer
Meeting 1 .
(New York Sun, June 26.)
Mr. Beecher, although he remained
sitting, had used his arms freely, fre
quently giving emphasis to his words
by slapping his hands or striking the
“Plymouth Collection” volume violently
against the table. When he reached
this point he arose, and clasping his
hands behind him, looked upon the au
dience for a moment as if collecting
his thoughts. Everybody saw that
something unusual was coming, and
the excitement was painful. Mr.
Beecher took one step forward, anti
was greeted again by a round of thun
dering applause. Several times he
tried to speak, but as often as his lips
moved the cheering began anew, and it.
was several minutes before be could
make himself heard. Ho turned almost
livid iu the face, and his left hand kept
up a continual nervous twitching. Men
and women rose in their seats, hand
kerchiefs were waved, and every neck
was stretched eagerly forward. When
perfect quiet was restored, Mr. Beecher
continued:
Defying the World to Crush Him.
“ I look with all courtesy and respect
on the right of anybody to look upon
me as he chooses. Whatever men may
think, this world is .so large that it
does not lie with you, nor with any
body on earth, to determine my future.
That’s a matter for me and God, and
me and God against the world. I don’t
propose to go down ; whoever treads
me in the ground, I’ll come up again
under his foot. By patient continuance
in well doing, nobody can be put dowu.
I know what I am, and time will dis
close it. Work will never cease with
me till tbe coffin lids are screwed down.
It may be here, or it may be some
where else ; but, under God’s provi
dence, 1 am going to wor£ out iny life.
Let me see the man who will stop me !”
Mr. Beecher raised both his arms,
and paused for several seconds.
“It lies with God aud me,” he con
tinued. “As long as there’s sympathy
for the discouraged , patience for the
impatient; love for the unloved ; a ton
gue for those who cannot speak ; so
long as there are men who need God
and can’t see him, so long I’ll do God’s
work among the poor and the needy in
this world. I never sought a high
place. I was sent here by Providence
and Providence has kept me here. I
shall stay here, or go, by God’s provi
dence —live or die when God calls me.
Living or dying I am the Lord’s.- My
question is simply this, “Lord what
wilt Thou have me to do?’ That I’ll
do, though there wore ten thousand
devils in the way. Heli and the Devil
can’t stop me.
“I wish I could have said these few
words to you with closed doors and
windows. But it could not be. One
of tbe great afflictions of this congre
gation is that it lives out of doors.
Everything it says or does is printed.
We ectu't xii-y or avua wipe our eyes, but
it is reported in all the newspapers.
Rest in Heaven.
“I admire you, I honor you, I love
you for your patient fidelity, and your
trust. 1 am your leader and your
friend. I am a manly man, and a
Christian. I live near to God, and in
the peace of the eternal world. I shall
see you there. You shall not be put to
shame there. There we will smile to
think that while on earth we were
troubled about anything. Believe, work,
aud be at rest.”
When Mr. Beecher resumed his seat
there was a storm of applause that
made the building tremble. The speaker,
who had electrified his audience while
a jury of his countrymen were decid
ing what should be the future of which
he had said so much, seemed exhausted
by the effort. He sank back in his
chair and wiped his face with a hand
kerchief. Iu a few moments he asked
the congregation to join him in singing
the 1,235 th hymn.
Arid let this feeble body fail,
And let it faint or die,
My soul shall quit this mournful vale,
And soar to worlds on high.
Shall join the disembodied saints.
And find its long-sought rest;
That only bliss for which it pants
in the Redeemer’s breast. 1
After the singing Mr. Beecher read
one or two church notices, aud then
pronounced the benediction. He had
hardly said “amen” before his friends
were swarming around him, all anxious
to grasp his baud. Pastor Haliiday,
however urged him to get home early,
and after speaking to a few of the
nearest of his hearers, Mr. Beecher
pressed his way to the door and disap
peared.
Glass as a Dress Fabric.
IChicago Times.]
The suggestion that ladies dresses
may be made of the uewly-diseovered
unbreakable and elastic glass has
thrown the fashion editors into a state
of profound agitation. Infrangible
glass dresses ! Wbat a grand innova
tion ! When the new invention shall
have been fully applied to ladies’ eos
tumes,* the dear creatures may dress
as warmly in the Winter as the laws of
health require, and yet not be forced,
and yet not be forced, as they now are,
to obscure with muftlings the fairest
portions of their persons. Pull-back
dresses will be abolished, for the ne
cessity for pulling them back will not
exist when even a greater display can
be secured without it. Colored ladies
will be dressed in mourning the year
round. The principle of refraction
might be introduced in the manufac
ture of these glass dresses, supplying
the shortcomings of nature and modify
ing its exaggerations. Thus au unduly
developed Loot might be dressed in a
refracting glass shoe which would give
it the requisite eusmallment. Scrawny
shoulders could be made full and rouhd
by means of a magnifying ch—
to say, a magnifying envelope of some
sort. Mistakes of nature throughout
the full extent of the feminine exterior
could be corrected in this simple bit
effective manner. Dainty feet would
glimmer through transparent slippers,
aud where now naught appears but
unseemly folds and wrinkles of dress,
graceful curves and rounded outlines
will everywhere come iuto view. Mo
dest women will not oppose the change,
for it will not be an exposure—it will
be simply revelation.
A well-known minister iu this city
I oars a striking resemblance to Theo
dore Tilton. While passing down
Seventh street a few evenings since he
was observed by two little girls, when
one shouted: “Oh, Katie! Katie! there
goes Theodore Beecher, I saw his pic
ture down town yesterday.” The rev
erend gentleman consciously stroked
his long hair and groaned to think of
the precocity of the average American
baby.— Cincinnati Enquirer,
-New Series—Vol. 3, No. 134.
HENRY WILSON.
THE MODERN PECKSNIFF ON HIS
TRAVELS.
The Vice President Puts Away the
Crown But Would Take it All the
Same—A Scorching Criticism of his
Life, Career and Recent Junketing.
(N. Y. World.]
It is only a little while ago that the
Tribune printed several fathoms of
Wilson’s discourse ou the condition of
the South, which he had j List visited ;
and yesterday the Bostou Advertiser
published a long letter iu which he
complains that sundry varlets, notably
the Washington Chronicle crowd, in
spired presumably from the White
House, have abused him and accused
him of swinging round the Southern
circle in his own political interest and
with a side squint from his weather
eye aforesaid on the Presidency. This,
he says, is not true. He went for his
health. But he sets off the incidents
of his journey in a shrewd way for so
lull a person. He visited the graves
of Jackson and Clay, of Taylor and
Polk, of Crittenden, Bell and Hampton.
And lest the spectacle of a Vice
President wandering through so many
Tennessee and Kentucky grave yards,
standing liatless and hairless under the
shadow of old yews and steeples,
and brushing away the silent
tear so frequently, should fall some
what short of firing the Southern heart
anew, and causiug it to bump as vio
lently for Wilson as it used to do for
secession and independence, he “visited
the bed of a dying Vice-President, and
chatted with Mrs. Jefferson Davis.”
After doing all these graceful aud im
pressive things, it is not easy to see
how the South can fail to demand him
for its President. He says it is true
that he had uo such inteution. He will
not entirely disclaim merit. Not he!
For has he not woven himself into the
fabric of Republican deeds and achieve
ments through the labors of thirty-five
diligent, platitudinous years ? Helms
made, he says, “1,500 speeches iu 27
States,” and lias been instant in season
and out of season wherever there was
a speech to be made or other perfectly
safe service to be rendered which would
tend to keep him “Vicar of Bray.”
But still conscious as he is of
his many deserviugs, he has never, oh,
uo, never—thought of the Presidency,
except to put the thought from him as
the good Sunday school boy puts aside
the sweet surmise of plum-cake and in
stitutes the moral reflection that it is
sinful aud unwholesome. “There is
not,” he says, “.one being iu all this
broad land to whom I have ever writ
ten or spoken or hinted that I desired,
hoped, expected or intended to be a
candidate. I assure them, too, that I
have been so neglectful, not to say dis
courteous, as not to reply to letters
written me upon a subject these ima
ginative ones deem me to be so inter
ested in.” Thus he clears himself of
the infamous charge of the Chronicle ,
and reassures his fellow-citizens as to
the virtuous and self-sacrificing charac
ter of his intentions. It is well enough.
Iu office or out, in session or recess,
the man will be talking, and he may
as well talk about himself, his virtues,
purposes and so on, as anything else.
Whether he wants to be President or
not, he wont be. Stupid as he is, there
might be worse ones if the country
were doomed (which it is not) to choose
another from the Republican ranks.
He is rather honest, as politicians go.
Lt is true that his baud was discovered
in Oaklfe Ames’s grab-bag, but what he
took out wasn’t much, and even that
he dropped immediately, and there is
some reason to believe that he thought
it was all a joke, and that there was no
harm in if. He couldn’t make so un
satisfactory an Executive as the pres
ent one; he would be safer than Mor
ton, for Mr tfipn is a mau of dark aud
dangero~p~V,’ Jions, of climbing, stub
born sol p uie head of grasping
Nimenes wedded to the legs of Scarron
—and he might play the devil. He
would certainly derange the currency
and let in more paper. ‘ Then there is
Blaine. Blaine is a far cleverer man
than the Vice-President, but he is noth
ing like so honest. His hand was not
exactly caught in the Ames grab-bag,
but there is a pretty general belief
throughout the country that it had been
there, but that bis ready shrewd
ness had hidden away the spoil, and
his unconquerable pluck and energy
bluffed off the interiogatpries of the in
vestigating committee. As between
Blaine and Wilson, if we were forced to
a choice, we should certainly take the
stupid one. He would write mon
strously long messages and immediate
ly reverse Grant’s policy of silence, but
tie would not be likely to do any harm.
However, the Democrats expect to give
the country its next President, and he
will not be either of the gentlemen we
have named. The Vice-President will
bo allowed to carry liis tediousoess
back to his native Natick and bestow
it as, like Dogberry, he would, we
doubt not, gladly do were it ten times
as much, on his admiring townsmen.
That is the proper field iu which to
drowse away his declining years.—
The old order chaugeth, yielding
place to new. His usefulness —
and he may have been useful,
who knows ? for everything, even
dulness, hath its appointed work and
utility—as a public man is fairly over.
He has had his full share of honors
and it is time that he passed to the
rear. It seems incredible that with his
shallow attainments and poor abilities
he should so long have represented
proud and cultured Massachusetts in
the Senate, and should finally have
climbed into the second place in the
uation. That he should aspire to the
first, if ho secretly does so, is another
evidence that against stupidity even
the gods might war in vain. We have
used plain language concerning him,
but we are not conscious of any feeling
of partisan malice towards him what
ever. Indeed, he has numbers of not
unattractive qualities. Barring the
squint, we might always say of him, as
Grtvilie said of the Pope, “He was a
squinting old twaddle, and we rather
liked him.”
The Organ Answers the Vice Presi
dent’s Letter with Bitterness.
(National Republican—Grant Organ]
The circumstances connected with
his inauguration, the awkward blun
ders he made when he first attempted
to call the Senate to order, and his as
tonishing ignorance of familiar parlia
mentary usages, which abashed his
friends and reddened their faces with
blushes of shame, are still fresh in the
memories of all. A short time after
this he was stricken with a lingering
and possibly incurable physical ailment,
one which has destroyed or partially
impaired the intellect of stronger men
than he ever could hope to be, and he
was compelled for a number of months
to remain la the charge of his physi
cians. During this time a charitable
mantle obscured his shortcomings and
longgoings, and the public were given
to understand, through frequent ex
planations, that his health of mind and
body was soon to be restored. His ab
sence was missed in the Senate more
as a source of congratulation than
anything else, because his place
was temporarily filled by a man
of acceptable if not brilliant abili
ty. When he returned to his duties,
however, his presence was hailed with
words of welcome, and the honor ex
tended to him which belonged to his
high office, if respect to the man was
withheld. He at once misunderstood
himself, and allowed his vanity to de
ceive him regarding his actual situa
tion. We do not charge that his dis
ease had in any way impaired his
mind ; but It is a well known fact that
his manner was changed, and that
while his efforts to be acknowledged as
a mediator for the settlement of party
differences were renewed with pouted
vigor, it was noticeable that ho had
lost his bold and aggressive manner of
dealing with the opposition. He fairly
cowered before the men with whom, in
times past, it was his glory to measure
swords. Among the first to be fright
ened at the continued assaults of the
so-called independent or detective
press against leading Republicans,
he was also among the first to
shiver and run away from the
third-term spectre. Whether truo
or not, it was his misfortune to have
his name connected with tales of Credit
Mobilier operations, and he became so
thin-skinned, so cringiugly cowardly,
that he trembled at the rustle of a
newspaper, and sought by the most
undignified loquacity to make friend
ships with newspaper men of every
class. Day after day and week after
week the spectacle might have been
seen, during that particular as well as
subsequent sessions of Congress, of the
Vice-President of the United States
soekiug interviews with the journalists
of high and low degree, and of good
and bad repute, who abound so fre
quently in Washington on such occa
sions. But no one believed tyim to be
corrupt. He was and is poor, so far as
money is concerned, however rich he
may be in self-appreciation of his men
tal abilities.
First Ward Public Hchool.
[Communicated.}
I attended the First Ward Common
School (Dr. Wm. Pettigrew, Principal,
and Miss M. E. Holliday, Teacher of
the Primary Department), and was so
much impressed and pleased that I
drop you a few thoughts, after telling
you about the exercises. After the
opening exercises on Monday, the 28th
iust., the Doctor announced that the
annual examination would now begin
according to the direction of Major A.
H. McLaws, the competent and inde
fatigable Commissioner of Richmond
county, and you should have seen the
faces of the children, and the simul
taneous fluttering in the room.
The class of over 20 in the 3d Reader
was called and each required to read
a portion selected by the Doctor at the
time, define each word the
stops, etc., and left the iisriftssiou on
all who heard, that they fun'.;:
stood the 3d Reader.
Then the class iu 2d Reader was
called, numbering, that day, I think 19.
They were exercised much in the same
way as the 3d, and read very well; told
the accent of the words and spelled the
important words, and explained the
pauses, all of which was very credit
able to the children and instructor. I
forgot to say, that the class iu 3d
Reader wrote 'the exercises, on the
blackboard, beautifully and rapidly, the
most of them.
Then the Doctor threw the two
classes into one, in philosophy, and for
thirty minutes and upwards, the names
and reasons of things were familiarly
spoken of; questions asked and an
swered by both teacher and pupil, but
there was not a large proportion who
seemed deeply interested in philosophy.
The Doctor told me that he was very
much discouraged in philosophy, owing
to a want of apparatus and the want .
of co-operation with parents.. By the
latter, he means the parents, guardi
ans, &c., do not see that the children
carry out the teacher’s instructions,
which is to prepare their lessons before
they come to school.
Then the whole school was thrown
into a spelling class, and for nearly 60
minutes they were exercised in or
thography, and when a word was in
correctly spelled.it was passed until it
was spelled, then all the class was re
quired to wfite it on the black-boards
and slates. •
1 am afraid my communication will
grow too long, and will only sav that
the Dr’s method of teaching arithmetic
is equally thorough, requiring the rules
and analyses, and examples on the
black-board. He uses the black-board
a great deal, though, in my opinion, not
too much. The Dr’s success, however,
does not depend upon his thoroughness,
more than upon his manner towards
his pupils. He really loves them, as well
as his work, and they seem to love
him, in return. It was affecting to see
his children bidding him “good bye,”
not one missed the sad duty, and it
looked more like the parting or parents
and children.
The Doctor tells me he is going to
teach a Summer school at the same
place— i. e. during the vacatiuu, whi
it seems, will last until the Ist of Octo
ber, and I do hope he will get suffiefsnt
patronage to pay him better than the
Trustees have Deen able to do. I under
stand they all admit he is worth more,
and they regret not having more money
to give him, and also continue the ses
sion longer. They might get a teacher
even for less money, (and yet I don’t *
know how their conscience could per
mit it,) but would he be cheaper?
The Doctor has a good school house,
and ought to have another room for
the primary class. I knew Dr. Petti
grew as a successful physician and sur
geon in Charleston, and now I find him
equally successful as an educator—not
a simple teacher, but an educator.
Old Friend.
A Griswold street fruit seller yester
day observed an old man pinching a
cocoanut and handling it as if he had
hold of an apple, and he stepped to the
door and asked : “Would you like to
buyauut?” “Waal, I thought some
of it,” replied- the old man; “but I
guess I’ll wait till they get a little softer
---it’s coming on the sickly season and
a feller ought to be caroful— Detroit
Free Press.
Anew work is soon to be published
concerning Lord Byron and his Dul
cinea the Countess Guicciloi, in
very favorable things will be told or"
this loving couple. Meantime the not
ble Lord awaits the pleasure of Judge
Neilson aud holds himself entirely ut
the disposition of the Brooklyn court,
while passing Fullerton in regard to
the infamous charge levelled against
him by ttfe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s
sister.
Mrs. McClellan, who is now in Paris
with her husband, Gen. McClellan is
iu feeble health,