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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo T. Jackson,
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Augusta, (Ja.
The recognition of negro Masons by
the Grand Lodge of Germany must be
highly offensive to Fred Douglass,
however pleasing to Gens. Forrest and
Pillow.
Frank Leslie’s paper contains a
wood-cut purporting to be the picture
of Ben Hill. It looks as much like Ben
as a cold dumpling looks like a Lot
cyclone. •
They are disputing over Beecher in
Englaud. Just as the people of this
country get sick ot a thing, Great Brit
ain takes it up as an exasperating
novelty.
In New York city alone more than
$38,000,000 of church property is ex
empt from taxation. Of this vast sum,
the Episcopalians own nearly $11,000,-
000, the Catholics and Presbyterians
following with nearly $7,000,000 each.
•People laugh at the possibility of the
success of the Keely motor, just as
many persons scouted the idea of steam
transportation and the electric tele
graph. Less than forty years ago tne
Adams Express Company was a carpet
hag. B t |
We stop the press to announce that
the Chicken Torpedo is no infringment
of the Keely motor patent, and that
the Keely motor patent is no infring
ment of the Chicken Torpedo. Send for
illuminated circulars and price list to
Col. J. Craw Harris, State agent, in
care of the Savannah News office.
The success of the Chicken Torpedo
does not depend upon Austrian gun
metal, like the Keely motor. Whilst
Keely has raised the devil and cannot
bridle him, Col. J. Camperdown Harris
has the old sinner securely buckled
and strapped. All Postmasters are
duly authorized agents.
Tut. Character and Logical Method of
Political Economy. By J. E> (Jaibnes,
LL. D., Emeritus Professor of Political
Economy in University College, London.
12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
Anything written by Professor
Oairnes on political economy is sure to
command the attention of all who are
interested in tho development of a
science which,’with every advance, has
discovered some erroneous policy or
false doctrine, not only thwarting hu
man progress, but also at variance with
the particular interests of those who
are supposed to benefit by it, and who
defend and support it with all their
strength and energy. —London Specta
tor.
Messrs. Quinn & Pendleton, the en
terprising newsdealers, have our thanks
tor a copy of this valuable work.
Ix ia refreshing to learn, by cable
from Madrid, that “events of great
importance are looked for.” We have
been so long looking for Carlos to give
Alfonso the coup de grace or Alfonso
to give Carlos the death hug, that any
promise of a wind up of the Spanish
fandango is acceptable. We very much
fear, however, that the man who takes
care of the Pope is engaged on the
rival kings of Spain. That telegraphic
wag has had the Pope dead 365 times,
in the last twelvemonth, but his Holi
ness manages to survive. The other
day Carlos was reported as on top and
now he is represented as the under dog
in the fight. But we shall look for
those “great events,” with as much
patience as possible.
By telegraph from Atlanta, the sad
news comes of the death of Gen.
Henry L. Benninq. He was one of
Georgia’s most gifted and gallant
statesmen, soldiers and lawyers. In the
army he was known a9 “Old Rock,” a
familiar nickname given him by the
boys in grey to denote the possession
of that kind of courage which Stone
wall Jackson possessed. Since the war
ha has been practicing his profession
at Columbus, and was a prominent
candidate for the Senatorship during
the Hill-Stephens-Gordon campaign.
Gen. Benning was a brave, high-toned,
honorable man and bountifully gifted
with intellect. He had done his best
for Georgia, and she will tearfully lay
laurel and cypress wreaths upon his
place of rest.
The gentleman who conducts the
Liberty Hall —we beg pardon—the
State News department, of the Chroni
cle and Sentinel, labors to convince his
readers that the Constitutionalist in •
tended to slight Mr. Stephens’ speech
by alluding to the fact that the Atlanta
papers, in publishing it at second
hands, “warmed the broth.” That ex
pression was used to convey a fact and
not to asperse or make light of the
address. If the Angel Gabriel had de
livered the speech, instead of Mr. Ste
phens; and if the Atlanta journals had
published it 24 hours after another
paper had made it public—there would
have been a “warming of broth’ all the
same on the part of tardy editors, Et
tu, Beauty!
fc fails fiindihtUimaltft.
THE POWERS OF THE AIR.
A TALE OP TWO CITIES.
Portland, Maine, and Valparaiso, Chili,
Swept toy Storms.
Portland, Me, July 10.—-A tremen
dous storm of rain, thunder ana light
ning broke over the city this morning.
The Catholic Cathedral was struck, and
though but little damage was done by
lightning, the church was considerably
injured by smoke and water. The First
Baptist Church, the new Payson Memo
rial Church, and Chestnut Street Meth
odist Church all suffered more or less
injury.
Valparaiso, May 25.—A terrible Nor
ther visited this place. Many lives
were lost and vessels wrecked. Noth
ing could withstand the awful sea that
was set up by the violence of the waves.
Boats were knocked about and upset
like cockleshells. The Chilian man-of
war Valdivia did not get up steam in
time and broke from her moorings and
drove down upon the men-of-war Tha
laba and Esmeralda, causing to both
vessels great damage in their fore
parts. The Esmeralda threatening to
upset, her chains were let go, and after
drifting about the harbor and damag
ing several other vessels was finally run
ashore to prevent her from sinking.
The Chili papers give additional de
tails of the damage to lighters and
boats, the last two probably exceeding
a hundred in number. The destruc
tion of baths and other property afloat
not enumerated in the amount will be
very heavy. The railway was also
much damaged.
The Esmeralda has been got off and
is now in one of the docks. Her repairs
are estimated to cost $50,000. The
loss of life has been much greater than
on may previous occasions on which
severe Northers have prevailed, and it
is painful to say that the large sacri
fice is owing to the want of life-saving
apparatus and to the absence of those
exertions on the part of others, of which
the noble example was afforded by the
brave men of the Limena.
The West Coast Mail, of the 29th ult.,
says : “From all we have been able to
collect from most trustworthy sources,
we feel justified in stating that at least
forty boys belonging to the training
ship were drowned, between twenty
and thirty sailors, and from twelve to
fifteen boatmen, exclusive of the eight
persons who went down in the unfortu
nate Egerie. No correct estimate of
the loss has properly been arrived at.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
Treasury Changes.
. Washington, July 10.—An order will
soon be issued transferring the corps of
special agents of the Treasury, now
performing service under the Bureau
of Customs, from the official supervis
ion of the Commissioner of Customs to
that of the Solicitor of the Treasury.
This action will be for the purpose of
relieving the Commissioner of a great
amount of work which, in addition to
his other duties, would require extra
ordinary attention. The death of Mr.
Lobdell, who had exclusive chaige of
the special agents division, seriously
embarrasses the Commissioner, and he
has made the request for a change in
the supervision of the special agents,
particularly with reference to the dis
coveries and prevention of whiskey
frauds, aad it is, therefore thought ad
visable to extend bis supervision over
these officers.
THE TURF.
Long Branch Races.
Long Branch, July 10.—The second
meeting of Long Branch races com
menced to-day. First race, match for
one mile, was won by Risk by a
length and a half. The winner was
never headed in the race. Betting was
SIOO to $75 in favor of Felter. Time
1:48)4.
In the heat race for the Jersey
Jockey Club purse of S7OO, for all ages,
entrance money to second and third
horses, mile heats best three in five—
three horses started. It was woruby
Spendrift, beating B. F. Carver three
quarters of a length and Big
Fellow ten lengths behind Car
ver. Carver led until he entered
the stretch when he swerved, and
Spendrift came away easily. Spendrift
pulled up very lame after the finish ;
time, 1:45)4- In the second heat Big
Fellow took the lead, and was never
headed, winning six lengths before
Spendrift, who headed B. F. Carver by a
neck for the second place ; time, 1:46 %.
Before the third heat betting was four
to one in favor of Big Fellow. The
heat was won by Bigfellow in a length,
Carver second, forty yards before
Spendrift.
Two horses started in the fourth
heat, the bettiug was SIOO to $lO in
favor of Big Fellow. The heat and race
was won by Big Fellow in a gallop by a
length before Spendrift. Time, 1:53)4.
Third race, the Monmouth sequel
stakes, value S6OO added to sweep
stakes of SSO each p. p., for three year
olds, two miles. Eighteen entered and
three starters. Bay Fenal won the race
with the greatest ease by 50 yards be
fore Lord Zetland,who was 100 yards be
fore Misdeal. Time, 3:02)4.
Fourth race, Long Branch steeple
chase handicap, for all ages, about
three miles, over a fair hunting course.
Purse, $600; $450 to the first, SIOO to
the second, and SSO to the third. Four
started. Deadhead won the race by a
scant head, Minnie Mac second, and
Meteor third. Time, 6:28.
YELLOW FEYER.
Progress of the Pest at Pensacola and
Key West.
Washington, July 10.—Commodore G.
A. Cooper, in command of the Pensa
cola Navy Yard, telegraphs to the
Navy Department to-day that there
are no new cases of yellow fever at
quarantine there. The nine patients
from the German bark YonMoltke are
convalescent. No deaths have oc
curred since the last dispatch. There
are no cases at the Navy Yard. A
telegram received here this morning
from Key West reports three deaths
from yellow fever and two new cases of
the disease there yesterday.
POLITICAL,
Honors to Gen. Blair’s Memory.
St. Louis, July 10.—The Constitu
tional Convention, now in session at
Jefferson City, and the City Council of
St. Louis, have passed resolutions
highly complimentary to the late Gen.
Blair and deeply deploring his death.
The latter body will attend the funeral
and co-operate with other organiza
tions and individuals in showing re
spect to the deceased. Gov. Hardin
and other State officers will also at
tend.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
A Beecher Dispute in Loudon —Crowd-
ing the Carlists to the Wall—Turkisn
Students Leaving Paris.
London, July 10.—The Times, having
published some strictures on an ad
dress in favor of Henry Ward Beecher,
drawn up by congregational ministers,
Rev. Dr. Alexander Raleigh, one of the
signers, has written a letter in reply.
He vindicates the action of himself and
his friends in signing the address. He
never meant to commit any portion of
t non-conformists to his views. He then
‘proceeds to declare that it is a sound
principle to assert because a man may
be blamable in higher things,
he is not to be approached with
an expression of sympathy by those
who are unspeakably glad to believe he
has shown himself innocent of a
heavier charge with complete success.
The letter concludes as follows: “ I
never supposed that in signing the
document I was expressing any opin
ion on Mr. Beecher’s sayings or doings
in general. I believe the Christian
sentiment of England will unanimous
ly lament and condemn some things
which Mr. Beecher acknowledges in the
course of the trial. He has blamed him
self, without stint. Now, *1 believe he
has recovered himself and will stand
in honor and usefulness as formerly.”
A Times Madrid dispatch says events
of great importance are looked for.
A Times special dispatch from Paris
says that the Memorial Diplomatique
newspaper announces that the Turkish
students in Paris have been ordered
home, and that with the money hitherto
devoted to the education of these youths
Turkey will establish au institution at
Constantinople offering equal advant
ages to those of Paris.
The Dalmatian Difficult.y
A number of Italian workmen in
Dalmatia having been maltreated by
some of the Sclavonic population, the
Italian Government sent a remon
strance to the Austrian Cabinet, which
replied that the quarrel was not of a
national character, but originated from
a reduction of wages.
Rifle Team Notes.
The American Rifle Team reached
Glasgow this morniug. During the
day they visited the principal places of
interest and made trips through Loch
Lomond and the other lakes. They ar
rived in Edinburgh to-night, Mr. Robe
son, the United States Consul, met the
team on their arrival at Edinburgh,
and placed himself at their disposal.
The Americans will remair, in Scotland
until Wednesday next. The Scotch
riflemen started for Wimbledon to
night, before the arrival of the Ameri
cans.
Madrid, July 10.—The Carlist Gen
eral Dorregaray is being actively pur
sued by the Aifonsists. It is believed
he will attempt to take refuge on
French territory.
Moscow, J uly 10.—The King of Swe
den has arrived in this city.
Paris July 10.—The loss at Lisieux
and vicinity is estimated at two million
francs. The flood is subsiding.
Madrid, July 10.—Among the prison
ers taken by tne Aifonsists at Cantar
rega is a Carlist Brigadier General and
170 officers.
German Elections—Excitement in Ba
varia.
Berlin, July 10.—The electoral strug
gle is beginning in Bavaria. There is
great excitement between the Ultra
montanes and Nationalists. Much im
portance is attached to the result. The
North German Gazette denounces the
violence of the addresses of the Ultra
montanes, and warns them that a vic
tory on their side will be like the victo
ries of King Pyrrhus.
Official Details of Alfonsist Victories.
Madrid, July 10.—An official dispatch
to the Government gives the following
details of military operations: The
fighting on Wednesday, near Nan
clares, in the province of Alava, lasted
five hours. The Carlists were under
Perula and Carlos. They numbered
18 battalions of infantry, 12 guns and
450 cavalry. Their loss was 140 killed,
many wounded and a number taken
prisoners. The Alfonsist General
Contrexas twice brilliantly charged the
Navarrese with a body of 80 lancers,
showering death in their ranks and cre
ating a panic.
The railway between Vittoria and
Minaunda has been restored, and that
between Valencia and Vinaroz will
shortly be reopened.
General Jovellar is at Morelia, Pro
vince of Eastellon de la Plana. Wei
lers’s division is endeavoring to over
take Dorregaray. It has orders to im
mediately attack if it comes up with
him. All the fords of the river Galle
go in Arragon are guarded.
Retreat of the Carlists.
The Carlists have retreated in disor
der towards Amezcoas. Gens. Quesa
da, Loma and Tello are pursuing them.
Gen. Quesada’s victory at Nauclares
prevented the Carlists from invading
Santander and Astures.
FROM ATLANTA.
Death of Gen, Henning.
Atlanta, July 10. —General Henry
L. Benuing, of Columbus, died to-day.
Minor Telegrams.
Washington, July 10.—Chief clerks
Avery and Holt of the Treasury De
partment deny complicity with whis
key frauds and ask for an investiga
tion.
Lawrence, Mass., July 10.—The At
lantic Cotton Mills, 1.250 operatives,
shut down at noon to-day for eight
weeks. The operatives lose SBO,OOO in
wages by the shut down.
Chicago, July 10.—Rev. L. D. Osgood,
Secretary of the American Baptist
Missionary Union, is dead.
Boston, July 10.—The Grand Lodge
of Colored Masons, of this city, have
received official notice of its recognition
by the Lodge of Germany.
Hamilton, July 10.—The black tongue
is raging among the cattle south of this
place.
Salmon Falls, N. H., July 10. —The
Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company
closed their mill No. 2 to-day for two
months.
A Charmed Life—A German, en
gaged in collecting and shipping bones,
while in pursuit of his ccupation the
other afternoon, a few miie3 from Buf
falo, on the Kansas Pacific, was attack
ed by a small party of Indians. They
circled around him with a good deal of
ostentation, and kept up a steady
fusilade, but although there were thir
teeu bullet-holes in his hat and clothes,
he escaped without a scratch to his
skin. He was armed with a sixteen
shooter, and he thinks one or two of
the redskins carried off some of his
lead in their bodies. He never stopped
walking, except long enough to fire,
and kept up this sort of a fight for five
miles. — Denver News,
AUGUSTA, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 11. 1875.
COMMON EDUCATION.
Quarterly Report of the School Com
missioner of Richmond County.
To the President and Gentlemen of the
Board of Education:
Fifty schools—34 white, 16 colored —
were in operation under your manage
ment during the past quarter.
The average attendance was unusual
ly good, except in a few localities.
The expense per pupil was less than
one dollar per month.
The recent examinations were very
creditable to both the teachers and pu
pils.
Iu the selection of teachers to fill the
several vacancies, we would remind the
local trustees that, in addition to other
qualifications, energy is a necessary re
quisite in a good teacher. It arouses the
faculties of the scholars, secures their
attention and gives vigorous action to
their efforts.
The teacher should be an exemplar
for the scholars in whatever is neces
sary to secure proficiency and advance
ment in their studies. An indolent
teacher will make indolent pupils.
Dr. B. H. Washington,an estimable gen
tlemen and most efficient instructor,
has perfected a phonetic chart, the de
sign of which was explained to the
Trustees of the Fourth Ward. These
watchful guardians of the educational
interest of their district, recognized its
value, and under their directions an
experimental chart was constructed.
Its features and merits have been sub
mitted to the teachers assembled iu
normal class, and received their un
qualified approval. We recommend its
introduction into all primary schools,
while we consider it superior to all
other charts. It combines with its
great utility the merit of being a home
invention.
Notwithstanding the small per capita
expense, the schools have been so
located by the local trustees as to afford
to every child in the county an oppor
tunity of attendance.
The teachers were competent and
of unexceptionable character.
Outside of the city and incorporated
villages, their salaries were dependent
upon the average number of scholars
in attendance. It was, therefore, their
interest to use every exertion to make
the number as large as possible.
The terms of the local law place the
schools of the colored race uuder your
supervision. We have most carefully
observed the working of the present
system, and respectfully recommend
that the entire control of the education
of these children be transferred to a
Board composed of freeholders and a
commissioner of their own race, and
that the fund obtained from the taxa
tion of their property and polls be
placed at the disposal of such Board.
This in the. estimation of your com
missioner would be a judicious change
of the present law.
Men are slow to adopt changes which
shock long entertained opinions or
cherished prejudices. Under your
guidance the colored teachers have suc
ceeded to an extent beyond the expec
tations of the most sanguine. Confining
their attentions strictly to their duties,
they have by precept and example
striven to impress upon the people of
their race the importance and necessity
of industry, morality, order and obedi
ence to law. They have so conducted
their schools as to merit from the Jaw
giving power a recognition of the ca
pacity of their race for self-manage
ment. As the law now stands, this is
true in theory only.
They are peculiarly an imitative, sub
graded race, and uuless separated in
their practical business organization
from the white race, they will not ac
quire that self-reliance which is the
foundation of true success, and essen
tial to a proper appreciation of citizen
ship and the blessings of liberty.
For the lack of this important char
acteristic, many whoiu times of slavery
rendered valuable service in super
visory positions, have been unable to
sustain themselves when thrown upon
their own unaided mental resources.
Out of the large number who, under
the directions of their owners, were
successful managers of plantations,
but few, since their enfranchisement,
have been able to work successfully
the smallest farm.
We should strive to attain that which
is possible, and not waste time, ener
gies and capital to reach ends which
are impossible, however desirable.
Contrary to the opinions of many,
the children of the colored race have
shown a great aptitude to acquire the
primary branches, notwithstanding the
want of home assistance.
There should be an ample fund with
the means that would accrue from the
sources already suggested, to be in
creased each year, as the necessity for
self-exertion to educate their children
began to be realized. From much ob
servation we are satisfied that there is
sufficient intelligence in the colored
race to enable them to manage their
own School Board to their own satis
faction. If they are not capable of this
change, they are not deserving the
grievous contributions now made by
the whites.
This separation of the two races by
opening the avenues for their advance
ment should in the estimation of your
commissioner d<3 much for the eieva
tion of the colored, thus |securing for
the public schools the kindly elevation
and support of all classes of our people.
A full detailed report of the opera
tions of the scholastic year will be pre
pared during vacation and made to
your body ia October next.
Respectfully substituted,
A. H. McLaws,
Commissioner.
Augusta, Qa., July 10th, 1875.
How a Man Fooled His Wife—He
was an awful mean man. He carried a
SSO counterfeit bill to make a show of
it sometimes when fingering for a single
drink or a Wheeling stogy. His poor,
hard-working wife had been begging
him for a nice guld chain she had seen
in a shop window downtown. One day
he felt in a merry mood, gave her the
counterfeit bill and told her to buy the
chain. Then he left home laughing so
hard that he had to go and take a driuk
to wet it down. He may have taken
several drinks. He went home feeling
full of jokes. It appeared to be the
happiest day of his life. He made a
fool of the old woman. But the old
woman wore that gold chain at the
dinner table, and called the brute “ her
dear old darling.” This put another
face on the whole affair. It had ceased
to be a joke to him. The jeweler called
before dinner, and handing him the
base note told him to “shell out” fifty
if he wished to escape annoyance. He
shelled out, and has never been able to
see the point of his own joke. But the
poor woman enjoyed it.
A victim of circumstances in Baton
Rouge, La., is in prison because “while
whipping his wife he accidentally broke
her neck,”
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Most Remarkable Invention of
the 19th Century—A Wonderful Fly
ing Machine—A Post Office Embez
zlement—The Editors in Session and
Excursion, etc.
[From Our Regular Correspondent ]
Atlanta, Ga., J uly 9, 1875.
By the merest accident I stumbled
upon au invention which will shortly
astonish the world. It is not a patent
fraud like the Keely motor, neither is
it a mythical affair like the Memphis
Torpedo Chicken, but it is a real, genu
ine invention, hatched out from the
brains of a negro! It is the first negro
invention I ever heard of, and I can
only account for it by remembering the
wonderful gift of music of Blind Tom.
Here music unaided by the tutelage of
professors, stripped of its technicalities
and unburdened of its huge piles of
huge music books and primers, settled
all at once among the torpid fibres of a
stupid braiu, and thus endowed idiotic
Tom with an untutored mastery of the
piano many skilful performers have
envied. Hence the eccentric freak of
nature, or incomprehensible ruling of
the Almighty, bears me’out in the sup
posiriou that Green Fleming, of Clay
ton county, inventor of the flying boat,
may have been gifted, instead of being
the possessor of au acquired knowledge
of mechanism.
It is needless to relate the accident
by which I became a party to the se
cret, and as my time is limited I will
endeavor to give a brief description of
the inventor and his wonderful inven
tion. Green is about 43 years old,
thick set, black as anew widow’s dress,
and is very illiterate. He is a shoema
ker, but has not worked at his trade
for over a year, having devoted the
whole of that time to the completion of
the air-boat. He began work on his
project some fourteen years ago, aud
so quietly did he work, and so jealous
ly did he guard his secret that only
four persons ever knew of it up to the
time of my discovery. One of those
four was a Colonel in the Federal army,
who managed to steal the model while
Green was in custody on a trumped up
charge of misdemeanor, during the oc
cupancy of Georgia by the troops un
der Sherman. Green had unthought
edly exhibited the model to the officer,
who, seeing its worth, played this trick
to get possession of it. Before the
troops reached Columbia, Green made
his escape, but not without plunging
his knife into the Colonel whilst he lay
sleeping in his room at a hotel.
The three others were his old master,
his wife and son. The old man, long
since dead, never gave the matter a
thought, satisfied in his own mind that
it was piece of foolishness. His
wife and son were evidently of the
same opinion, a3 they never took any
interest in it, or gave it any attention.
As for the invention, it is of a canoe
shape, but somewhat smaller than an
ordinary boat. On either side are
wheels, which resemble the paper flut
ter-wheels of children. From the hub
radiate cone-shaped spokes made by
covering light frames with canvas,
having the underside open or hollow.
These wheels, reminding you when at
tached to the boat, of the side-wheels
of a steamship, are operated by a
crank in the centre, the speed being ac
celerated by a combination of cog or
gear wheels. Just under these toy
windmills, which are about four feet in
diameter, are fastened by fingers to the
sides of the boat, two canvas screens;
at least, they look like screens, about
three by five feet, so arranged, by
levers in the bottom of the boat, to
move up and down, in the same man
ner you raise aud lower the leaves of
your dining table. Another screen,
two by four feet, serves as a rudder.
The screens or “ moderators,” as
Green calls them, when lowered, serve
as a kind of dry dock for the boat, the
edges resting on the ground. A semi
circle is cut out of the end of the
screens attached to the boat, which
allows them to move up and down
without touching the wheels. The
opeiator climbs up by means of the
frame forming the “moderator” into
the boat. He takes his seat in the
centre, and when ready to start, turns
the crank, his feet placed on the levers
that move the moderators and rudder.
As soon as the wiud wheels are put in
motion, the boat rapidly rises from the
ground in a perpendicular line. When
the proper altitude, 80 feet, or higher,
is attained, the moderators are raised
to a horizontal position, which places
the boat in that condition that it can
neither descend or ascend. The mod
erators act as parachutes. Tne boat is
now on its track, so to speak, and the
revolving of the wind wheels drives it
forward, instead of upward, with won
derful speed. When ready to descend,
the moderators are raised to a perpen
dicular, and the descent is made slower
or faster according to the will of the
operator, by turning the crank. When
near the ground, the moderators are
lowered and form a rest for the
boat. The fall can be broken by allow
ing the moderator to fall into ajjori
zontal position.
The wonderful speed of this air
boat enables Green to go to Savannah
and return in four hours, a feat, he
says, he has accomplished several
times at night. He is afraid to venture
iu any other direction, being unac
quainted with any other route. By
calculation the boat can travel to New
York in ten hours, even allowing time
for the operator to rest.
The application for a patent has
been sent to a lawyer iu Washington.
The inventor is afraid of everybody.
My information was pumped out by
bits, and I had to beg him nearly an
hour before he allowed me an inspec
tion of the model. Whether it can be
put into practical use, I can’t say. It
beats the balloon in air-sailing, and al
most equals the telegraph in “'rapid
transit.” As soon as the patent is ob
tained Green will ascend publicly from
Savannah and steer his course to New
York. As he is as ignorant of geogra
ph v as a mule, he can only fix his rud
der in the direction of New York and
steer straightahead. What a pity this
idea didn’t strike an intelligent white
man!
The Press Convention.
The editors composing the Georgia
Press Association met in convention
here on Wednesday. They are a hale,
hearty set of men, able to grapple with
vexed political questions and free hash.
They left the city yesterday for a jaunt
among the redbuga of Toccoa Falls and
to-day they are at Tallulah. This ex
cursion was gotten up, and the expense
borne, by the proprietors of the Consti
tution, and is a handsome and graceful
At their meeting, the Clarke-Alston
affair came up and a committee ap
pointed to reconcile the belligerent gen
tlemen. The members of the commit
tee succeeded and the two clasped
hands over the bloodless chasm and
are as happy as two sunflowers. This
is to be applauded, Two such men as
Alston and Clarke cannot afford to be
at swords’ points. To be at pens’ points
is bad enough, gracious knows.
Post Office Trouble.
There is an old song, as incendiary
now-a-days in this locality as the
Marseillaise in Paris, which tells us that
“ Some folks say that nigger won’t steal
But I caught one in my corn field,
Run, nigger, run—patrol catch you.”
and the truism holds good now as
then. Somehow or other a nigger
can’t help stealing. It is just as much
of his nature as sleeping in the sun,
and a nigger who wouldn’t lose his din
ner to nap in the sun isn’t any nigger
at all. A real honest nigger is as scarce
as hen’s teeth, and if there is one iu
this free laud of ours he should be
sent to the centennial. You can find it
good many sons of Sunny Senegambia
who might accidentally go without
being caught and thus surreptitiously
lead you over the fraudulent belief
that you have really found an honest
nigger, but when you put ou your
specks and look closer, it will pan
out sooner or later that he has
been appropriating and Butleri
ziug and back-salary-grabbing right
under your nose. I give the negro
credit for all ho is worth, for his occa -
sional iudustry, his spasmodic intel
ligence and his whilom peacefulness,
applaud every effort to plaut himself a
useful citizen, but there isn’t a negro
this side of Fiddler’s Green who can
show a record that hasn’t a few lines
of stealing in it. It’s his nature—his
natural weakuess—a fundamental law
of his constitution, and education, pros
perity, right of suffrage uor the Civil
Rights bill cau wipe it out. Iu accord
ance with the above and other inter
esting statistics which I am forced to
omit, one J. H. Craig, a colored mail
carrier, is now under a SI,OOO bond to
answer the charge of stealing from the
Post Office Department. The evidence
shows that he tore open and destroyed
a letter containing a money order on
the last day of June. The evidence is
strong against him.
Pencil Marrow.
The estimated expenses of the city
government for 1875 are $385,000.
Anew secret order, “The Knights of
Honor,” has made its appearance here,
and a lodge will be instituted to-night.
One more good excuse for husbands to
go down town after supper.
A young man, one of the recent con
verts, was the other day caught in the
commission of a heinous crime. He—
well I’ll wait for further developments.
Roanoke.
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
A Heavy Thunder Storm and Disas
trous Flood—Destruction of Bridges
and Damage to Crops,
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Rutledge, Ga., July 9,1875.
This section was visited on Wednes
day afternoon, about half-past 3 o’clock,
with the heaviest rain and thunder the
oldest inhabitants remember of ever
witnessing. It lasted nearly two hours,
the heavens seemed to be opened and
the rain poured down in torrents, with
peals of thunder that shook the earth.
Lightning struck the new house of
Captain William Vining, which was
blown off of its foundation by the May
storm, and had been repaired and
nearly ready to move iu, damaging it
badly ; it seems to be in an unlucky
spot. Fencing, bridges, carways or
small gutters, were all carried away by
the flood and the growing crops badly
injured. The race and water house of
Major Ponder’s mill were all swept
away. The brick-yard of Messrs.
Ethridge & inundated, doing
considerable damage to their business.
There was no wind to do any damage,
it was just a solid old thunderstorm of
the heaviest kind, and was extensive
over the qountry as far as heard from.
Wheat is selling in this section at
$1.15 to $1.25 per bushel. Corn is
worth $1.25 per bushel. C.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
Making No Money.
1 Nashville Union and American.]
While the Eastern cotton manufac
turers are suffering seriously from the
general depression of business, the
mills here and at Augusta, Columbus
and other Southern points are also
feeling its effects to a very noticeable
degree. The Augusta Factory, which
has been paying regularly since the
war dividends of twenty per cent., and
whose stock has sold for more than
S2OO per share, has been compelled to
reduce its dividends first to sixteen per
cent., then to twelve per cent., and on
Wednesday of last week the Board
could only authorize a dividend of
eight pec cent. Its gross earnings for
the past six months are stated in the
report at $56,000, while its expense ac
count, taxes, interest, repairs and divi
dends amount to $67,000. It is true
the company has a surplus of $234,000
invested in anew mill, which really
represents the profits made by the cor
poration since it has been doing busi
ness, in addition to the enormous divi-
deuds directly paid to the stockholders,
and it is equally as true that, with a
capital stock of $600,000, the company
has a property which is valued at $838,-
000. These figures show that the
corporation is in a prosperous
condition, but they also show that
it has not found much profit iu
manufacturing during the past twelve
months. Graniteville Factory, which
has been paying quarterly dividends of
four per cent., has reduced them to
two per cent. This factory is also in a
flourishing condition as its recent re
ports have shown, but it cannot pay
dividends which it'does not earn. The
Langley Factory, the 3 T oungest of
three, but one which has been most
skilfully and successfully managed
since it commenced operations, takes
the bull by the horns and laconically
announces that “No dividend has been
declared by the Langley Manufactur
ing Company for the past quarter as
cotton manufacturing has been un
profitable.”
A Kentucky Bied Story. —The Paris
True Kentuckian says: “In the suburbs
of Paris, last Sunday, while a young
lady was sitting near the window, a
blackbird came and lighted upon the
veranda. Noticing it was in no hurry
to leave, she commenced talking to it,
and being rather of a poetic turn of
mind, recited Poe’s “Haven,” when it
flew into the window and lighted on
her foot. It sat there awhile, then
hopped into her lap, and appeared
very gentle, commenced picking at her
fingers and catching flies. Perched
upon her arm she brought it down
stairs. It showed no signs of fear, but
would eat out of her hand, or, sitting
in the window, catch flies as they came
around. After amusing the children
awhile, and seemingly being amused
by them, it hopped in the window, look
ed around a few minutes, then flew
away, and has not been seen since.”
SCIENTIFIC SQUABBLES.
A Bi*eeze Among the Doctors.
[Cincinnati Gazette.]
The Evansville Medical Society has
been administering an ethical purga
tion to itself. First it had up a mem
ber for discipline for plagiarism, in
having delivered to the graduating
class of the Evansville Medical Col
lege—of which he was a professor—an
address which was delivered ten years
ago by Dr. George B. Wood, of Phila
delphia. The iuculpated professor had
denied the plagiarism, in the papers.
But when brought to the scratch by
the society, he confessed, and asked
the society to excuse him in the follow
ing note:
TO the Evansville Medical Society:
As t > the charge of plagiarism against
me, 1 will simply acknowledge the society
to the excuse me therefore-
And so the society excused him.
What else could it do? That it called iu
question this method of making medical
addresses shows a provincial narrow
ness. Up here it is au approved way of
making prize essays.
The next case was that a member
had perpetrated the heinous offense of
advertising. The accusation and corpus
delicti was produced in this:
'To the President and Members of the Evans
ville Medical Society :
Gentlemen -Please find enelosod an ad
vertisement which appeared in several
numbers of the Evansville Daily Journal.
Believing it a violation of the code of medi
cal ethics of the society, I, thererore, bring
it before the members of that body for de
liberation. Yours, fraternally,
July 6th, 1875. E. T. Runcie, M. D.
[The advertisement]
DR. C. C. TYRRELL, 322% Upper Second
street. Specialty—Diseases of the
Stomach and Bowels, Diseases and Weak
ness of the Sexual Organs, Rheumatism,
and other Chronic Diseases.
This was a horse of another color
than the appropriation of another man’s
address and uttering it for original.
This struck at the very root of the
dignity of the medical profession, which
the stealing of medical essays hardly
scratched. This was not to be excus
ed. And what is more, the advertising
doctor did not asked to be excused. He
defied the society. He read au address
in which ha pitched into pretty much
every member of the fraternity by
name. He defended open square
advertising on principle, and then ho
went on to relate the various and indi
rect methods which doctors took to ad
vertise themselves, by getting their
cures and operations noticed by the
newspapers, by reading and publishing
essays, by seeking opportunities to de
liver medical addresses; by getting
into publie discussions; by advertising
themselves in faculties of medical
schools; by setting up unnecessary
medical schools, and to cover the land
with half-bred doctors for no other
motive than to advertise themselves,
and so on.
Indeed, the accused advertiser made
out that your doctor is the most per
sistent and cheeky advertiser of him
self, only he does it iu indirect, under
hand, and illegitimate ways. Then he
called by name a number of members
who violated the code. One sells patent
medicines. Several others had fur
nished notices of their cases and oper
ations for the newspapers. One was
guilty of gross discourtesy to two other
doctors. One was guilty of gross un
professional conduct in writing blind
prescriptions, using terms known only
to the apothecary with whom he had
an understanding, One circulated a
card photograph of his face. One had
advertised as a specialist while still
engaged in general practice. Anothbr
had advertised his cases and operations.
The members of thd faculty of the
Medical College of Evansville were
widely advertised in the papers. A
doctor requested the chance to deliver
the address, in order to advertise him
self. Several members got themselves
puffed in the papers.
One member had intrigued for the
opportunity to deliver the address to
the graduates, and had delivered one
written by Dr. George B. Wood, of
Philadelphia, thereby largely and false
ly asserting himself as a great physi
cian, and yet he was now a member in
good standing. The Evansville Medi
cal College, he said, was set up merely
to advertise the doctors belonging to
it, who knew that better schools were
graduating twice as many as could get
a living by the profession. Members
resorted to underhand ways, which he
described, to get patients from others.
He then went on to tell some particular
immoralities he was not guilty of, con
veying thereby that others were. For
their attempt to ostracize him, he
likened them to the Thugs of India and
the Molly Maguires of the mining re
gions.
Having thus tired his blunderbuss
into the whole fraternity, in general
and in particular, the advertising doc
tor took up his hat and MS. and shook
off the dust of his feet against the so
ciety, and the society proceeded to ex
pel him.
We suspect there is much fpree in
what Dr. Tyrrell said about the code of
ethics forbidding only iegular and
square advertising, while it does not
prevent, and rather promotes, all sorts
of indirect and unfair advertising, thus
giving the advantage to the most
brassy and artful.
The “Little Drummer of Manassas.’
(Staunton Vindicator.]
Geo. E. King, the fireman who was
crushed to death on Thursday evening
last under a locomotive at Staunton,
was a historic character. He was the
drummer boy of the Richmond Howit
zer Battalion, and went with the first
company to Manassas. He enlisted in
the llth Virginia Infantry, under Col.
Garland, and was familiarly known as
the “Littje Drummer Boy,” being the
youngest soldier then in the army of
Northern Virginia. After the first
Manassas, iu which he served with
great gallantry, Colonel Garland pro
cured him a cadetship in the Ala
bama Military Institute, but he resign
ed from that, and served through the
war in the llth Virginia as a sergoant.
After the war he acted as assistant en
gineer on the ships of the English and
African Steamship Company, and re
turned to his home in Norfolk last
Christmas shipwrecked. On Thursday
evening, after his accident, when told
that he had to die, he expressed no ap
prehension, telling the clergyman in
attendance, Rev. Walter Q. Hullihen,
that he had been confirmed in the
Episcopal Church four years ago, and
had tried to serve God, and trusted
altogether in Christ. He was a son of
Mr. E. King, of Portsmouth, formerly a
well known dyer of Richmond, and was
a member of a Masonic ip Scot
land. He leaves a wife an 4 two ehiidren
in Washington.
Vet have I ever heard it said that
spies and tale bearers have done more
mischief in this world than poisoned
l?owl or the assassin’s dagger,— Schillers
JNew Series—Vol. 3. No. 143.
MUSCULAR PIETY.
A Negro Layman's Prayer.
Alexander Clark in his Methodist Re
corder gives a graphic description of
“A Sabbath in Richmond,” and an ac
count of his visit to the First Africau
Baptist Church, in that city. We take
from it this specimen of characteristic
natural eloquence:
A layman being called upon to pray,
led this part of the service in a fervent
appeal to God, a plea at once eloquent
in simile and musical in utterance. It
was a pictured petition, vivid to the
eye and pleasant to the ear. With a
voice of elevated key, the pleader re
counted the mercies of God, and be
sought blessings from above. It may
have been indecorous in us, but the
prayer was unique, so like a chant, a
dream, aud yet so like a converse witli
the listening God, that we ventured to
uote down a few passages, while no
less sharing the devotional spirit of the
hour and place.
[The words spaced were prolonged
and cireumflexed in a higher key, as if
the words of a song, while the inter
vening words were uttered with a rapid
ity almost beyond the apprehension,
the Anal words of each sentence being
pronounced in a lo.v voice and with the
falling inflection.]
“Oh ! Lord, our blessed Father of
love, thou k-n-o-w-s the ’dition of the
worl’. Thou knows the p-o-r-e mis’ble
sinner deepin' dy grace who turned his
back upon dy call. Thou sees his
footsteps in the w-i-l-derness, aud you
sees de bloomin’ roses grown, all ’round
de thorns de debil’s a sharpen’ for his
feet. In this dark way of sin and death,
while de loud thunders of de wrath
r-o-1-1 in majes’ in his ears, aud de
b-l-a-z-e of dy fury flash in sudden fore
his eyes, oh s-e-n-d your broodin’ spirit
like a dove thro’ de storm and speak
peace to his wretched soul ’fore ’tis
e-v-e-r-lastin’ too late ! Show him de
slippery rocks and de miry clay Make
him see dat Satan follows fast trippin’
at his heels, and hell yawn open to
catch him when he falls. Oh, ’rest him
by de mighty p-o-w-e-r of dy grace.
Pour down your mercy like rain from
tie Summer clouds. Make him open his
blind eyes to see de b-e-a-u-t-y of dy
holiness a shinin’ in de face of your be
loved Son, like de rainbow when de
storm done gone and passed awav!
“Oh, thou great King of Glory who
rides in de gol’n chariot in de New Je
ruselem, above de sun, I ’seech an’
p-r-a-y you drive dy white horses down
diß way; and when de h-o-o-f-s of de
horses strikes die, lower worl’ and de
dashin’ wheels conies in our sight, stop
dy chariot at Washington city, and
’light in loving kindness at de door of
dy servant, de President Grant, an’ tell
him ’xactiy what to do. Souu’ de
meanin’ of your will into de C-o-n
--g-r-e-s-s halls, an’ tell de great men
’thout their own axin’ how to serve dare
country bes’. Purge de hearts of de
senators and ’sentatives from de love
of sin, an’ 1-e-a-d dare stumblin’ steps
from the snares of hell. Help them to
’member dy servants in every s-o-r
--r-o-w and temptation, as Jesus ’mem
bers them. Thin out the ’sire of honor
and the love of salary from their
s-o-u-l-s like suckers out’u corn; and
may your name be above every name,
aud d-y kingdom come into the high
places aud de low like the light of
inornin’ comes to de hills an’ de valleys
de same. Af’r leavin’ Washington city,
an’ takin’ dy time, drive your chariot
down over de fields aud reign up dy
h-o-r-s-e-s of file at the capital or Old
Yirgin’y. ’Light out at de Governor’s
door, and go into his house an’ tell him
what t’ings he ought to say, an’ show
him what things he ought to do, like a
f-a-t-h-e-r who ’structs his own chile.”
TENTING ON THE CAMP GROUND.
An Appeal to the Citizens of Augusta
to Attend the Richmond County
Camp Meeting.
Me. Editoe : It is generally known
to the citizens of Augusta that we hold
a Camp Meeting in Richmond county,
six or seven miles from the city, some
time during the Summer. We expect
to hold one this year commencing, the
Lord willing, Friday night, 13th of
August.
I suppose it is generally known, tb.e
present site was selected mainly for the
accommodation of our city friends. We
thought by locating the camp ground
at the present point, we would not only
accommodate our friends of the city,
but get their hearty co-operation in
building tents, aud assistance in making
such a camp ground as would be cred
itable to both city and county. While
we of the county have not done more
than we should have done—perhaps
not so much—we believe we have done
about all that has been done. We feel
constrained to call upon our friends of
the city to bestir themselves a little
and come to our assistance in building
a few tents, etc. We feel at perfect
liberty to call on the Methodists of Au
gusta to help ; and we say to ail others
who are interested in the great matter
of saving souls, to feel themselves at
perfect liberty to build tents, and to
join with us iu advancing the Redeem
er’s Kingdom. While we are denom
inational, we hope we are not sectarian.
Brethren of the city and county, let
us itll do our duty. Souls are con
verted at every camp meeting we have
had that we trust “will shine as the
brightness of the firmament” by and by.
Some attend our camp nmeting who,
perhaps, never attend church else
where. A word spoken on these occa
sions from the pulpit, attended by the
Holy Spirit, may awaken them und
cause them to repeat and tu.iia to
Christ. I hope, brethren and friends,
that this appeal will not pass by un
heeded. We hope the city will erect
ten or tw T elve tents; we of the
country will try to add a few more to
the number we already have. We will
then have a camp ground sufficient to
accommodate all who may attend with
out being particularly burdensome to
any. B. F. F.
Brothersville, July 7th, 1875.
An Alabama man has been trying to
lead a church and manufacture lead
nickles at the same time.
It is pride which fills the world with
so much harshness and severity. We
are rigorous to offenses as if we had
never offended.— Blair,
“It’s an ill wind,” etc. The Beecher
triai has thus far brought the Western
Union Telegraph Company three-quar
ters of a million in additional newspa
per toils.
The Mayor of Green Bay is near
sighted, and he lifts his had to the
shadow of a dray horse and reaches
out to shake hands with lamp posts. —
Detroit Free Press.
Great men are great even in little
thiugs. No matter how hot the weather
was Daniel Webster never hung his
legs out the front window to cool them.
—BrQohdyn Argus,