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Old Series—Vol. 25, No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jaß. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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Augusta, Ga.
We will to-morrow publish the reply
of Catholico to Father Tanqueray’s last
communication.
Our letter from Montezuma gives
some interesting points about the late
visit of Mr. Stephens to Houston coun
ty and his address before the Anthon
High School.
Orange celebrations in Ireland pass
ed off quietly, but at Lawrence, Mass.,
a disgraceful riot occurred. All true,
law-abiding Irishmen condemn these
riotous displays, and men who partici
pate in them bring undeserved odium
upon their fellow countrymen.
Moods- and Sankey seem to have
captured a large elemeat of the Church
of England, the clergymen of the Es
tablishment publicly endorsing the
American evangelists far outnumber
ing those of any other sect.
The first case likely to come before
the State Press Board of Honor will
be that of Col. J. Constantinople Har
ris—whether he has a right as State
Agent of the Chicken Torpedo to pub
lish the blowing up of hen houses and
chicken lifters in advance of all other
sheets ? This gives him a tremendous
leverage over country papers.
Col. J. Castaway Harris, says: An
Aiken man, who invested in the long-fibre
Japanese corn, now has stalks fifteen feet
high, bearing five or six ears. The editors
of the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist are
the only authorized Southern agents of
this wonderful corn, to whom all orders
should be addressed.
The corn ears of the Aiken man were
pretty long, but not near so prodigious
as the flesh ones of the Torpedo Chick
en Agent.
Bishop Wittingham, of Maryland, is
In trouble. This venerable ecclesiastic
has, for many years, been in hot water
with some of his church members, and
it looks like matters were culminating
unpleasantly. He refused, not long ago,
to sanction the consecration of Bishop
Dudley, because he had been twice
married, on the ground that the Bible
ordains that a Bishop shall be the hus
band of only one wife. It was.claimed,
on the other hand, that Bishop Dudley
had but one living spouse, and there
fore did not come under Scriptural
interdict; but Bishop Wittingham
failed to see the point.
By our letter from Columbia, it will
be seen that counsel for the defense
in the Parker trial took the prosecution
completely by surprise in refusing to
introduce any testimony. They had in
timated that they had an array of wit
nesses whose examination would re
quire at least two days, but when the
State announced a halt they had no
testimony to offer. By this old and oft
repeated plan the State was probably
deprived of much valuable evidence
which was necessary no doubt to con
viction. Argument will commence this
morning. The Union-Herald ridicules
the intelligence of the jury, and inti
mates that they are incompetent to
comprehend the merits of such a case.
We believe the majority of it is com
posed of ignorant negroes.
“Blue Presbyterian” steps up and
gives us a rap upon the knucks about
our knowledge of Irish history. We
own up about being a little rusty. His
assertion that British oppression of
Ireland did’nt commence at the battle
of the Boyne but dated long anterior
only raises our Irish a little higher.
John Bull has always shown a good
deal of the hog in his treatment of the
Irish people. We say this as an out
sider, but when it comes to the religious
part of the discussion we will step down
and out with as much rapidity as the
laws of grace allow. The part we
wish to play is to welcome all parties,
Irishmen, Englishmen, Orangemen,
Catholics—to this country and fight
anything and anybody who dares to
oppress or impose upon them after
they get here.
BREAKING THE RING LINKS.
A Chance of Getting Peter B. Sweeny
—The Small Fry Disgorging.
New York, July 13.—An arrange
ment has been entered into between
counsel for the people and defendant’s
counsel in the suit of the people against
Peter B. Sweeny, by which bail is to be
reduced from $3,000,000 to $150,000.
This action has been taken to secure
Sweeny’s voluntary appearance in
court, he being at present in Paris and
beyond the reach of civil process. It
is stated that counsel for the people,
in the ring suits, says a number of
smaller ring fry have offered to pay
sums ranging from $50,000 to $500,000
to escape prosecution, and that $30,000
wouid be paid in a day or two by one
of this class.
Cincinnati, July 13.—At Huntington,
W. Va., the Ohio has risen fifteen feet
since last evening.
New York, July 13.— There is a dan
gerous counterfeit of city of Erie, Pa.,
SSOO and SI,OOO water loan coupon
bonds of 1867 due in 1887.
Ill t Jails landitnlimtalid.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
A Quiet Orange Celebration in Ire
land—Moody and Sankey’s Farewell
—Affecting Scenes —Wreck of a Span
ish Steamer—Madrid Notes.
London, July 13. —The usual Orange
celebrations occurred in Dublin and
towns throughout Ulster and at Liver
pool. Most of the meetings passed
resolutions condemning home rule. No
disturbances anywhere.
At Moody and Sankey’s farewell
meeting last night, one hundred and
eighty-eight clergymen of the Church
of England were present, far outnum
bering those of any other denomina
tion. Canon Conway, of Westminster,
occupied a seat on the platform. All
present were deeply affected. Mr.
Moody, while speaking, was so over
come by emotion that he had to stop
and was unable to conclude his ad
dress.
A dispatch to Reuter’s Telegram
Company from Vienna, says the South
ern Sclavonic party grossly exaggerate
the Herzagovina disturbances, which
are entirely of an agrarian character,
and originate in resistance to tax col
lectors. Turkey considers it unneces
sary to send reinforcements to the
scene of trouble.
Santander, July 13. The Spanish
steamer Bagones has been wrecked
near the village of Motrico, on the
Biscayan coast. The crew were saved
by Carlist fishermen, and it is said they
will be held as hostages. The Carlists
threaten to shoot them if the Royalists
bombard any more coast towns.
Madrid, July 13. —A draft of the
constitution .provides that the Senate
be composed of three classes. First, of
hereditary title; second, those elected
by popular corporations; third, those
nominated by the crown. All grandees
of Spain with incomes of SIO,OOO and
over are included in the first class.
It is reported that one thousand Car
list prisoners have arrived at Valencia,
The populace threatened to lynch some
Carlist officers and they were placed on
a man-of-war to prevent massacre.
A Russian Glrowl at Prussia—An
Erie Commissioner Coming.
London, July 13. —A Prussian war
ship has been secretly engaged in tak
ing soundings and mapping the cost of
Jutland. An explanation has been de
manded from the Berlin Government.
Sir Edward Watkins, Chairman of the
Erie Protection Commission, sails for
the United States in two weeks.
John Bull Afraid of the American
Rifle Team.
Mr. Henry Parsons, Adjutant of the
British Team, telegraphs as follows
from Wimbledon: ‘‘l regret to say
that the Council will not allow the last
proposed match for Saturday between
the Americans and the representatitfes
of the Third British eights of 1874 and
1875 to be shot. We intend to offer
the Americans a cup, which they may
take back with them and shoot for at
home.”
THE TURF.
Long Branch Races—A Favorite
Beaten.
Long Branch, July 13—The first
race at Monmouth Park to-day was for
a trial purse of S3OO for all ages, dash
of one mile. Five started. Searcher
was the favorite at two to one over the
field. The race was won by Searcher
by two Lengths; Inspiration second,
three lengths in front of Claps who
was third ; Carriboo fourth and Ve
nango last. Time 1:44%.
The second, which was the principal
event of the day, was the Ocean Hotel
stakes, value si,ooo, added to a sweep
stake of SSO each, play or pay. for
three year olds, one mile and three
quarters. Four started. McGrath’s
Aristides, Chamberlin’s Tom Ochiltree,
Puryear and Company’s Leader, and
Harney’s Ozark. Last pools sold be
fore the start were Aristides, SBOO and
$1,100; Ochiltree, SIOO and $175;
Leader, sllO and $115; Ozark, $250
and $315.
The race was won by Ozark; Leader
second; Aristides third, three lengths
behind Ozark; Tom Ochiltree last.—
Time 3:10%. Ozark took the lead at
the start and retained it to the finish.
The first three-quarters were run very
slow, but upon entering on the last mile
Ozark and Leader commenced racing
and were soon five lengths in advance
of Ochiltree and Aristides. At the half
mile, Ozark drew a head two lengths,
Aristides taking the third place.—
Down the back stretch the pace grew
very hot, but the favorite could not gain
an inch. When the horses came into
the home stretch cries of “Aristides is
beaten,” set the crowd to cheering and
McGrath’s colt was seen getting the
whip without perceptibly gaining.
Leader came very fast near the rails
and almost beat Aristides for the
second place. Ozark came in winner
by three lengths, Aristides second, a
nose before Leader. In the closing
pools Aristides was 3uch a favorite that
he was left out and Ozark sold for first
choice, Leader second, and Tom Ochil
tree third.
The third race was mile heats best
two in three, for a purse of SSOO. Six
started. It was won in two straight
heats by Bob Wooley; Vandalite sec
ond; Scratch third; Mary Long fourth;
Erastus Corning fifth; Hoaxer sixth;
the same order in both heats. Time,
1;46% and 1:45%.
The last contest of the day was a
hurdle race for a purse of SSOO, two
miles, over eight hurdles. Diavolo won
by two lengths; Trouble second; Dead
head third; Risk fourth; Minnie Me
fifth. Time, 3:53%.
“DINNA YE HEAR THE SLOGAN?”
St. Louis Makes a Magnificent Bid—A
Notable Place of Meeting for the
National Democratic Convention.
St. Louis, July 13.—At a meeting of
the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee, the following resolutions were
adopted : , . '
Resolved, That in our opinion the choice
of St. Louis as a place for holding the next
National Democratic Convention would be
an act of justice to the Democracy of the
West; that in our magnificent new Mer
chant’s Exchange, which can comfortably
seat 15,000 persons, we have a Hall amply
sufficient for the convenience of members
and spectators ; that wo urge upon the
member of the National Committee tor
this State that he use his best endeavors to
secure the selection of St. Louis, and we
authorize him in behalf of the Democracy
of our State to give assurance that they
will pay the expens e of the Convention, and
on behalf of the citizens that members will
be accommodated with as much comfort
and as little expense as they would be
auywhere else, while our citizens would
vie with each other, in tendering their gener
ous hospitalities.
Signed by all the members of the Execu
tive Committee. _
Philadelphia, July 13. —The council
of Baptist Clergymen to investigate
charges against Rev. Mr. Bott, of the
12th Baptist Church, returned a ver
dict of hot guilty. The Pastor was
altogether blameless.
AUGUSTA, GKA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUDY 14. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A SPAT WITH VENEZUELA.
Whiskey Notes—Key West Items—Re
moval of Archives—Rumored* Resig
nation of Delano.
Washington, July 13.—An extraordi
nary consultation at the State Depart
ment referred to relations with Vene
zuela. Should she not comply with a
treaty regarding payment of money
due the United States, our Minister will
be withdrawn.
Collector Carpenter, of the Third
South Carolina District, reports to the
Internal Revenue office the capture of
five illicit distilleries, the seizure of
four distilleries, and the destruction of
one still. He says within the past forty
days he has seized fifteen distilleries,
captured ten men, and destroyed a
large quantity of illicit whiskey.
A telegram from Key West reports
one death and four new cases yester
day.
The Ossippee is at Key West from
Aspinwall. All well. The Tennessee
flag ship, Rear Admiral Reynolds,
reached Gibraltar seventeen days from
Sandy Hook.
Bristow has returned.
Archives of the State Department are
being moved to the new State Depart
ment building.
H. B. James has been assigned as
Assistant Chief of the Customs Divi
sion.
On dit that ex-Governor Dennison, of
Ohio, will succeed Delano as Secretary
of the Interior.
The accounts of two of Gen. Butler’s
staff officers upon final examination
show irregularities.
Particulars of the Cabinet Council.
An extraordinary council of the Cab
inet members having been called by
Secretary Fish, they met to-day at the
Department of State, continuing in
session about three hours. All were
present excepting Secretary Belknap,
who is absent in the West. The sub
ject of Our relations with Venezuela
was laid before the council by Secreta
ry Fish, who read the latest communi
eations from our Minister to that coun
try, and stated the general facts in the
case. It may be recollected that in
December, 1872, the President an
nounced that the government of Vene
zuela had made no further payments
on account of the awards, under the
Convention of 1866, and expressed the
hope that it would lose no time in
providing for the unpaid balance
of its debt to the United States, which,
having originated in injuries to our cit
izens by the Venezuelan authorities
and having been acknowledged pursu
ant to a treaty in the most solemn form
among nations, would, the President
said, seem to deserve a preference over
other debts of a different origin and
contracted in a different manner, and
he recommended this subject to the
attention of Congress for such action
as might be deemed proper. In pursu
ance of this recommendation, Congress
in a joint resolution expressed its sense
in regard to the awards of the joint
committee under the convention, and
the Venezuelan government was furn
ished with a copy of the resolution,
which excluded all doubt of the earnest
ness of our Government in its demand
for the payment of the amount due.
But there was no satisfactory response
on the pp,rt of Venezuela. In 1873 the
President in his annual message said to
Congress : “It is apprehended that tijat
the Government does not realize the
character of its obligations under that
Convention. As there is reason to be
lieve that its hesitancy in recognizing
them springs in part at least from real
difficulty in discharging them, in con
nection with its obligations to other
Governments, the expediency of fur
ther forbearance on our part is believed
to be worthy of your consideration.”
Since then our Minister to Venezuela
has been repeatedly instructed to urge
payment of deferred instalments, until,
at last, the Venezuelan Government has
expressed a disposition to do so, but
claims the privilege of designating the
particular parties to whom money shall
be paid. To this our Government will
not consent, the proposition, apart
from other considerations, being con
trary to the terms of the Convention.
The Venezuelan Government will be
informed of the rejection of its propo
sition, and unless the money shall be
paid as the stipulation requires, our
Minister to Venezuela will probably be
withdrawn.
MOB LAW.
Row Between Irishmen and Negroes
in Tennessee—Massachusetts Irish
men Attack and Wound Orangemen
and Their Families—Disgraceful
Scenes.
Louisville, July 13. —A special from
Clarksville, Tenu., says two Irishmen
attacked a negro with a knife. Next
morning, twenty negroes attacked the
Irishmen who refugeed in a grocery
store, whence they were taken by the
police to the station for safety. The
same night the negroes assailed the
grocery witik pistols, stones and'axes,
and nearly demolished it. Several dis
reputable houses were also mobbed.
Meantime, friends of the Irishmen bat
tered down the door of the caboose,
liberating them. A general riot is
feared, but all is quiet now. None were
seriously hurt.
Columbus, 0., July 13.—Citizens of
Westviile burned Corbin’s saloon. Cor
bin is sick, but swears he will open
another saloon when he recovers.
Lawrence, Mass., July 13. —A mob
attacked the Orangemen returning
from a picnic. A dozen Orangemen,
with ladles and children, disembarked
from the steamer landing. Several
hundred Irish followed, shouting, jeer
ing and finally throwing stones. A
lady was struck three times and badly
hurt. All were more or less injured
during a half mile walk to the Station
House for refuge. Four men wore re
galia, one was severely hurt. He had
his sash torn off. The mayor with a
squad of police attempted to escort
the refugees home. Showers of stones
and bricks were hurled at the party as
soon as they appeared. With the ex
ception of the mayor, every one was
hurt, some seriously. The mob made
a furious assault. Nearly all the
Orangemen and police were knocked
down. The police commenced firing
on the Irish who cried “kill the d—d
OraDgemen.” The mob scattered be
fore the revolvers. None wero killed
outright. Two men, one woman and a
boy of twelve, were wounded. The
riot lasted two hours and extended a
mile through the most thickly settled
portion of the city.
Cincinnati, July 13.—The streams are
much swollen. Gordon ar.d McClure’s
floating elevator was struck by a tree
and sunk immediately. Four barges,
with 30,000 bushels of coal and a num
ber of other barges were torn from
their moorings. The loss is estimated
at $20,000.
A(jr*ATl( SPORTS.
The Saratoga and Cape May Regattas.
Saratoga, July 13.—1n a single scull
race between J. Kennedy, of Yale, and
W. F. Weld, of Harvard, Kennedy failed
to make his appearance, and the judge
sent Weld off alone. He came over the
course without reference to time and
was received with cheers at the grand
stand.
Saratoga Lake, July 13.—The Fresh
man race was won by Cornell by nearly
a length; Harvard second, Brown third;
four boats started- tirae, 17'9-?2% sec
onds.
Cape May, July 13.—With ebbing tide
and winds south by southwest, the re
gatta started fairly this a. m., on the
gun signal from the Tallapoosa. The
number of spectators was small as com
pared with Monday. Idler passed the flag
boat first, followed closely by the Reso
lute, Mohawk, Eva and Dreadnought.
The sloop Sadie made a pretty dash,
and the last craft out was the Sun
shine. Calculation of the start is made
from the time of passing the steamer
and flag-boat. The same tug-boats and
other passenger crafts are here as on
yesterday, and the steam yacht Eutaw
is anchored as a course stake boat
some miles out. The ocean is studded
with sails, and presents a beautiful
sight.
Opinions are freely expressed as to
the likely result, but nothing short of
the official data can settle that.
The Winners.
Cape May, July 13. The Mohawk
won the race.
Cape May, July 13.—The yachts came
in in the following order: Mohawk, 1;
Idler, 2; Resolute, 3; Rambler, 4; Made
line, 5; Eva, 6; Dreadnought, 7: Viudex,
8; Sadie, 9. Viudex won the SI,OOO
prize for sloops.
Saratoga, Julj^l3,—Brown took the
lead from the first half mile and kept it
until the second mile and a half, when
Harvard took the lead, but was passed
by Cornell.
THE COTTON STATES CONGRESS.
Meeting of the Convention—Rev. D.
E. Butler President—Gov. Brog
den’s Speech of Welcome—More
Clasping of Hands over that Chasm.
Raleigh, July 13.—At eleven o’clock,
President Butler, of Georgia, called the
Congress to order. li. TANARUS, Fulghum, J.
D. Wkitford and Johnston Jones were
elected Secretaries. Gov. Brogden wel
comed the members of the Cotton
States Congress to the capital of the
State of North Carolina. He hoped
much good would follow from the la
bors of those who had on this occasion
gathered together from different States
and from different sections of the
Union. The United States had been
peculiarly blessed in many respects,
and it only remained for our people,
and particularly our mechanical manu
facturing and farming interests, to
work together more harmoniously, ad
visedly and energetically to make this
country all that its most ardent
friends could wish, the prido of
our own people and admiration
and envy of the world. And in this
effort the people of the South, and of
the great West, had much to do, as
upon their exertions depended the suc
cess of every enterprise in this great
country. The South should depeud, to
a much greater extent, upon her own
resources, if she evei wished to become
prosperous and independent. We
needed more manufactures of every
character, and greater diversity in our
crops, and a more ha rmonious working
together of those interests which are
so identical.
Col. Butler, in behalf of the Congress,
thanked the Governor and people of
North Carolina for his welcome to the
capital of the State. He rejoiced that
this Congress was privileged to meet in
that State which first declared its inde
pendence from the rule of a foreign
government, and hoped the grand and
glorious results following that declara
tion would be but an augury of the
good results which should follow this
effort of the Southern farmer to declare
his independence of that influence
which has made him the time-server of
those who reaped the benefit of his
labors.. He believed the deliberations
of the Congress would be productive of
both profit and pleasure to all parties
interested.
F. H. Busbee on behalf of the Mayor
extended to the Congress a hearty wel
come to Raleigh and its hospitalities.
North Carolina had become fully en
titled to be called a cotton State, and
Raleigh with pride claimed a right to
have this Cotton States Congressin her
midst. As her own prosperity was due
to the growth of the cotton trade he
could also extend a hearty welcome to
the Representatives of the great West
present. Deplore it, as much as wo
may, the West was the granary and
smoke-house of the whole South, and
a commingling of the Representatives
of two sections was peculiarly appro
priate. He said the time will soon come,
nay has already come, when the child
ren of Georgia will read with glowing
admiration the matchless deeds of gal
lant McPherson, and the youth of Il
linois and lowa will learn lessons of
heroic patriotism and sacred devotion
to duty at the grave of Jackson.
Dr. Maxweii, of Tennessee, respond
ed to Mr. Busbee, in behalf of the Con
gress. He returned, in touching terms,
the thanks of the body for a hearty
welcome which had been extended to
those whom he represented. One of
the principal objects of the Congress
was to unite more thoroughly every
interest of the whole country, and the
welcome extended here to those of th e
great West, as well as those of the
South, would tend to weld together
more thoroughly the two sections.
Among the prominent gentlemen
present are Hon. R. Stankland, of Iowa;
Judge J. D. Jones, of Arkanas; Col. D.
E. Butler, of Georgia; R. M. Sims,’ of
South Carolina, Dr W. Maxwell, of
Tennessee, and many others are ex
pected to-night and jn the morning.
The morning was occupied in arrang
ing business for the Congress, which
is in session again to-night. This
afternoon by invitation delegates to
the Congress visited the State Insane
Asylum and were handsomely enter
tained by Dr. Grissom-
CHURCH TROUBLES.
Bis Lop Wittingham in the Toils.
Baltimore, July 13.— Bishop Smith
ha 9 drawn members of a preliminary
court before which charges against
Bishop Wittingham will be examined.
If the charges are sustained, he will be
tried before a court of seven bisfiops.
Whittingham refused to act upon the
presentment of a standing committee
charging two clergymen with reciting
prayers for the dead, involving the
doctrine of purgatory.
EDUCATIONAL.
ANTHON SCHOOL EXERCISES.
Speech of Hon. A. H. Stephens.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Montezuma, Ga., July 12, 1875.
The closing exercises of Mercer Uni
versity commencement left me with no
such satiety of such things as to cause
me to hesitate for a moment to avail
myself of the opportunity to go out to
Wellboru’s Mills, in Houston county, to
attend the closing exersises of Anthon
Academy, under the very efficient man
agement of H. W. Baldwin, A. M., and
to hear a speech from Hon. A. H. Ste
phens. In company with B. M. Davis,
Esq., of Perry, and U. M. Gunn, of
Byron, we went to the residence of the
latter on the Southwestern Railway,
and spent the night. The next morn
ing we started across the country to
the place of meeting, fifteen miles dis
tant. It has been a matter* of some
surprise that Mr. S., old and enfeebled
as he is, and possessing already a na
tional reputation, should go so far out
of the way to make an examination
speech at an “old field school house
at the head of a spring branch,” as
Col. Peeples says. But the fact that
Mr. Baldwin is a personal friend of Mr.
S., and his well-known benevolence and
fidelity to his friends, together with the
fact that he had not, during a career
of more than a quarter of a century,
spoken to a Houston county audience,
furnished a sufficient reason for this
extraordinary effort.
The day was fine, the audience large
and assembled under a spacious arbor,
at the door of the school house. The
school exhibition, conducted by Mr.
Baldwin, was in every sense a success.
He had employed the very excellent
Brass Band from Perry. The people
had come together from far and near,
and the citizens of the immediate
neighborhood had provided an abund
ance of the “good eating” of that fine
country. Everything went well and
the crowd were delighted, At half
past eleven Mr. B. announced a recess
of half an hour, during which time old
and new acquaintances came up to give
a hearty greeting to that old man.
whom tne world admits to be among
the first men of the age. At twelve
o’clock Mr. Baldwin, in a well timed ad
dress, introduced Mr. S. to an audience
composed of more strangers to him
than he has recently addressed.
I cannot give a synopsis of the ad
dress. lam informed that it will be
published in full, and anything I could
write here, would detract from its real
merits. I can only refer to the im
pressions made upon the audience. The
first part of the address was on the
uniform education of the “triune man,”
in body, mind and soul. During this
part of the discourse, there was a pro
found silence throughout the audience,
the crowd gave their approval in the
same respectful way, that they would
listen to a sermon. Indeed, the sol
emnity of the speaker’s manner, and
the precision with which he mar
shalled scriptures, to support his
positions, made the speech a sermon,
and a most excellent sermon at that.
Getting through with this part of his
plan, he took up the subject of poli
tics, and delighted his audience
with his expressions of hope, and his
views on the situation, and especially
pleased them with his analysis of the
centennial question, and our par
ticipation in the celebration of the
Fourth of July. When those
principles of 1776 were declared
they expressed eternal, immortal truth.
Our method of defending them in 1861
was a failure. We did Dot lose the
principles; we only lost our plan. We
need not, therefore, abandon the day
made sacred by Southern blood. The
effect of the address was to make all
that vast assembly feel something of
that deep love, and exalted admira
tion for the Sage of Liberty Hall, that
characterizes the feelings of the people
in his own county. He left Houston
witli many new friends and few ene
mies. The greatness of his thoughts,
the purity of his sentiments, and the
deep spirit of piety that pervaded his
discourse will be cherished in the mem
ories of hundreds who employed the
opportunity of hearing his speech.
The school exercises were of a most
satisfactory character. They displayed
an amount of training—laborious train
ing—that stamps the gifted instructor
as a man not afraid of work, and the
high order of the entertainment shows
him to be well worthy of his A. M.
conferred by Mercer University at its
last commencement. J. D. H.
THE ORANGEMEN.
A Presbyterian Blue Correcting Our
History.
Mr. Editor:— ln yesterday’s issue of
the Constitutionalist you make some
remarks which I think you might wish
to reconsider. Speaking of the Orange
men’s parades, you say “they celebrate
a victory by which Great Britain placed
its ‘iron heel’ upon their country, and
has kept it there ever since. And what
is most provoking, the institution is
composed of Irishmen.” Now, with
regard to that “iron heel,” if you refer
to history you will find that England
had placed it there a very long time
before the battle of the Boyne was
fought or the hero of it born. Indeed,
I am not aware that England over did
relax her hold from the day that she
seized upon Ireland in virtue of that
Bull of Adrian, which some say was
forged, and others that, whether forged
or not, it was and is to this day record
ed in the Vatican.
An ordinary reader, not intimately
acquainted with history, is very apt to
understand from your remarks that on
the 12th of July Orangemen celebrate
the victory by which their “traitor” (?)
ancestors overthrew the liberty and
nationality of their country and placed
them in the hands of the invader. Such
a view of the matter does great injus
tice to a very estimable and respectable
class of people. Orangemen celebrate
the 12th as the day which, after long
and tryiDg struggles, secured to them
the right to worship Gpd according to
the dictates of their own consci
ences without regard to the threats
and anathemas of the Pope and
bis Bishops. The struggles in Ireland
had long ceased to bear a national
character and resolved themselves into
determined efforts to maintain Roman
Catholic supremacy and to force upon
the people of the two sister countries
the rejected yoke of the faithless and
tyrannical but Catholic Stuart line.
Such was the character of their rising
when Cromwell administered to them
such a fearful castigation, and when
William of Orange marched against
them, they appeared again under the
standard 'of the Stuarts. There was
no such thing as Irish nationality at
stake in the battle of the Boyne. The
question atissue was whether the house
of Stuart or the house of Orange should
rule the three countries—Catholic su
premacy against Protestant toleration.
Presbyterian Blue.
BABY ANGELS.
“A Little Child Shall Lead Them.”
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist j
Kimball House, )
Atlanta, Ga., July sth, 1875. f
In the last issue of the Troy (Ala.)
Messenger appears a tender and beauti
ful sketch from your poetic pen, copied
from the Constitutionalist of a recent
date, in which you consider some of
the causes and effects of the death of
little children, especially those of ten
der years.
“Over anew made grave,” of an in
fant, you ask, “what father or mother
could harbor any but tender feelings
toward each other ?” And then add :
“Over the memory of a grave, un
marked, uncared for, almost unknown,
but never-to-be-forgotten, there should
still remain sacredness enough to take
even the ruins of a home and build up
anew temple of domestic happiness.”
The English poet Tennyson seems to
have entertained a similar opinion, and
out of it grew one of the most beauti
ful little lyrics contained in his poem
of “The Princess.” Although the lines
referred to are familiar to many of your
more cultivated readers, it may not be
uninteresting to them to read them
again in this communication, as it is
one of those lyric gems that never lose
their beauty or power by repetition in
connection with an appropriate subject:
“As thro’ the land at eve we went,
And pluck’d the ripen’d ears,
We fell out, my wife and I,
O we fell out, I know not why.
And kiss’d again with tears.
******
“For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years.
There above the little grave,
O, there above the little grave,
We kiss’d again with tears.”
The above may have been a poetic
fancy with the distinguished author,
still the truth set forth is one that can
not be lightly put aside. In our own
limited observation, perhaps more than
a score of times, we have seen the
powerful influence that has come from
the death of a babe, or a little mound
in the church-yard, to soften tne hearts
of embittered parents, or to re-unite
dissevered hearts, which, in all human
probability would have responded to
no other human touch or appeal. Over
the grave of -their only infant, years
ago, we saw a dissevered couple who
had had but a brief and unhappy mar
ried life, clasp, hands and renew their
marriage vows with tears of sorrow
for the past and sweeter and tenderer
hopes for the future.
You are quite right, therefore, in
claiming that “if the death of a child
can make husband and wife better and
more harmonious, the little one will not
have died in vain.” In this wide world
of sin and sorrow, from one cause and
another, there are thousands of unhap
py husbands and wive, and thousands
of disunited couples, to whom life is a
burden almost too heavy to be borne
to whom the prattle of an infant ton
gue or the presence of a little grave
would bring a domestic peace and joy
to which it is now safe to predict they
will ever remain strangers.
And of the millions of happy, harmo
nious couples, to whom life is all sun
shine and home the dearest place on
earth, oh! how many owe the
peaceful, joyous flqw of their lives to
the little children with whom God has
blessed them, and around whom the
tendrils of their loving hearts are in
separably and harmoniously entwined.
If it be not this, then it is a vacant
chair, the treasured playthings of a
sainted child, a little grassy mound in
the churchyard, a blessed memory, sad
yet sacred and sweet, from which they
can never be divorced, and which is a
heritage of grief or joy. Thank God, ye
who have thus been saved from a se
paration worse than death can bring,
and be more loving and true to each
other. Sidney Herbert.
Confederate Payments.
Editor Constitutionalist — In your
issue of this, Tuesday, morning occurs
the followiug .
Greybacks.— The Supreme Court has de
cided that Confederate money was invalid
in the settlement of debts during the war.
To allay the uneasiness which this
statement has occasioned permit me to
state that no such decision has been
rendered by the Supreme Court of the
United States. What has occurred is
this : A Yirginiau made his bond to a
Pennsylvanian April 8, 1861, for $2,366.
18, payable on or before March 1, 1863 ;
the bond was placed in the hands of a
third party for safe keeping and a
short time before its maturity the
debtor paid it off in Virginia bank notes
and Confederate money at their par
value. The creditor contends that
this is not a legal payment, and the
Supreme Court of the United States
has just sustained, this position. The
decision is simply that in making their
bargain the parties meant United States
money, and, consequently, that the
bond can only be paid in such money.
The Court has never decided “that Con
federate money was invalid in the set
tlement of debts during the war,” but,
on the contrary, has repeatedly held
that mere domestic and business acts
done in the Confederacy are perfectly
valid, only acts “in aid of the rebel
lira ” beiug illegal and void. Not long
er ago than last May the Court review
ed all its previous decisions to this ef
fect, and expressly reaffirmed them in
a case involving the validity of certain
Georgia legislation during the war.
* T.
The Italian Cure for True Inward-
ness.
• A fatal duel between two persons
well known in Italy has for some days
past engrossed all conversation in Rome.
The son of M. Mancini, a former Min
ister, and the greatest lawyer in the
country, is a captain of Borsaglierl in
garrison at Milan, where he resided with
his wife, who, as Signora Cattermoll,
had obtained some success with her
poems. Capt. Mancini obtained proof
of her intimacy with one of his
friends, M. Benati de Baylon, a young
man of good family. A hostile meet
ing with pistols was the consequence,
and the latter was shot in the breast
and died a few days after, at the ago of
29. As to the wife the husband merely
sent her to her family. Subsequently,
at the funeral of the decased, the at
tendance was remarked of a woman
dressed in black and appearing greatly
moved. After the grave had been
closed, she proceeded to a stone cross,
before which she knelt, and drawing
from her pocket a bottle of sulphurio
acid, swallowed its contents at a single
draught, and fell inanimate. It was
the guilty woman’s femme-de-chambre,
whose disclosures had led to the young
man’s death. Her remorse led her to
attempt suicide, and her recovery is
despaired of,
Long Branch, July 13. —The Presi
dent has returned from Cape May.
FRED. DOUGLASS.
His Remarkable Speech on the Color
Question—A New Declaration of In
dependence—When the North and
South Become Reconciled, the Negro
Race Must Go It Alone—Savage Hits
at the Leaders Who Have Deceived
and Plundered Them.
The followiug extracts from the
speech delivered by Fred. Douglass
near Washington, July 5, are very sug
gestive reading for both races in the
South •
Men cannot, ought not and will not
quarrel and fight forever, even though
outside parties may be benefited by
such quarreling and fighting. This is
true even of contentions among men of
different races, and much more true
where men are of the same race. The
American people are essentially of the
same race. They are of the same col
or. United by blood, by a common
origin, by a common language, by a
common literature, by a common glory,
and by the same grand historic associa
tions and achievements. So sure as the
stars shine in the heavens, and the
rivers run to the sea, so sure will the
white people North and South abandon
their quarrel and become friends. The
whole American horizon is already
fringed with the portents of this com
ing union. Boston, Lexington and
Bunker Hill have already sent forth
their silvery notes of peace and unity
to the whole nation, and next year
Philadelphia, the birthplace of the De
claration of Independence, will lift to
the sky its million voices in one grand
Centennial hosannah of peace and good
will to all the white race of this coun
try—from gulf to lakes and from sea to
sea.
Now, when this mighty quarrel has
ceased ; when all the asperities and re
sentments have gone, as they are sure
to go ; when all the clouds that a few
years ago lowered about our national
house shall be in the deep bosom of the
ocean buried ; when this great white
race has renewed its vows of patriot
ism and flowed back into its accus
tomed channels, the question for us is :
In what position will this stupendous
reconciliation leave the colored people?
What tendencies will spring out of it,
and how will they effect us ? If war
among the whites brought peace and
liberty to the blacks, what will peace
among the whites bring? Has justice
so deep a hold upon the nation; has
Reconstruction on the basis of liberty
and equality become so strong that the
rushing together of these mighty
waves will not disturb its foundations ?
These questions, my friends, make me
thoughtful. The signs of the times
are not all in our favor. There are,
even in the Republican party, indica
tions of a disposition to get rid of us.
Men are seeking new allies, and smiling
in faces upon which they never smiled
before since the war. A disposition is
seen to shake off the negro and accept
the old master’s class. Out of the eight
hundred thousand black voters of the
country we have only had about twenty
black clerks here in Washington, and
these in the last few days have been
thinned out and reduced. We have had
a few representatives abroad and a few
in Congress; the indications are that
we shall have fewer by and by. Ambi
tious candidates for the Presidency are
already casting about to see if they
cannot be elected in some way without
the aid of the black vote. Well, they
have the right to do all this, but the
thing looks bad, and we at least are
called upou to look the matter full in
the face. Our shelter in the storms of
the past has been Ulysses S. Grant.—
The question is as to who will shield
us in the future. Well indeed will it be
for us if one as true, just and able shall
come after him.
One of the most unpleasant features
of the situation for us is in ourselves.
We are a divided people, and have no
men among us, I fear, whose counsel
will be heeded in the right direction.
It has been our misfortune to be educa
ted by two hundred years of slavery
to respect white men and despise our
selves. *
Now, just this is the thing we are to
outgrow. We have got to find out that
a people to be respected and powerful
must have men among themselves and
of themselves whom they must trust
and respect. White men have their
great men, and are respected in the
scale of being because they have them.
Ireland loves O’Connell, America loves
Washington, Kentucky loves Clay, and
Massachusetts loves Webster and Sum
ner, and our whole country believes in
U. S. Grant. Now I believe that, we,
the oolored people, have men of our
oolor in whom we may well believe;
and woe to us, woe to any people, who
has no great men among its own peo
ple and of Its own people.
There is another evil to be looked at
and removed, and that is the swarm of
white teggars that sweep the country
in the name of the colored race. We
mu3t hereafter do oar own begging,
if any bogging is done at all, in ou:
own name.
While Ave were the victims of slavery,
and had no voice or vote io shaping
our destiny, we had good reason to ap
peal to the benevolence of mankind.
To ask for help in that condition in
volved no disgrace. But all is changed
now. We are no longer slaves, but
freemen; no longer subjects, but citi
zens, and have a voice and vote with
all other citizens. Anew condition has
brought new duties. A character which
might pass without censure as a slave
cannot so pass as a freeman. We must
not beg men to do for us what we
ought to do for ourselves. The pros
trate form, the uncovered head, the
cringing attitude, the bated breath, the
suppliant, outstretched hand of beg
gary does not beoome an American
freeman, and does not become us as a
class, and we will not consent to be any
longer represented in that position.
No people can make desirable progress
or have permanent welfare outside of
their own independent and earnest
efforts.
The burden of our demand upon the
American people shall simply be justice
and fair play. We utterly repudiate all
invidious distinctions, whether in our
favor or against us, and ask only for a
fair field and no favor.
In our judgment we have been in
jured more than benefited by the efforts
of so-called benevolent societies. While
they may have helped a few, they have
injured the many. They originate with
and are organized by some good men,
but they invariably fall into the hands
of a peculiar class of men—men who
combine shrewdness yrith religious
zeal, and who, whether they sing, pray
or preach, always “mean business.”
They are. ever on the lookout for just
such associations qs special coloniza
tion societies, African civilization socie
ties, African educational societies, Lin
coln and Howard universities, and
freedmen’s banks. They follow these
-New Series—Vol. 3, No. 154.
with a scent as keen as the shark’s,
which in old times followed the slave
ship to eat the flesh of
Dead and Dying: Negroes.
They are heels overhead in love with
the negro, and want to do him ever so
much good. These sharply pious men
usually manage to slip into the money
boxes of these associations.
There is no keeping them out of the
offices of honor and profit. A negro
among them stands no chance. Money
moat bo solicited in his name, but it
will not do for him to know exactly
what becomes of it. These holy men
have studied the science of begging all
their lives and they have attained the
highest perfection. They manufacture
circulars by the bushel and load down
the mails with their appeals. They
have got the names and addresses of
all the giving men of the country. This
begging class is mainly composed of
broken-down preachers without pul
pits, lawyers without clients, professors
without chairs, editors without journals
and the like men, who fail in every
thing but managing money given for
the benefit of the negro. In order to
obtain revenue to carry on what they
call their work (including, of course,
the salaries which they piously vote
themselves by the thousand) they draw
the most distressing pictures of the
black man’s character and condition.
They keep the public mind constantly
upon the poor wretched negro, and thus
damn the whole race to a large mea
sure of contempt, with a small decree
of pity which is akin to contempt.—
Hence we now and here denounce and
repudiate all such sham, and call upon
the American people to do the same.
FRANK BLAIR.
Sherman’s Tribute—Two Press Opin
ions.
[N. Y. Express.]
Among the touching tributes is that
of Gen. Sherman, who said on Friday
“ Poor Frank is gone ; poor Frank is
gone. Then adding, with some
warmth, that some expressions of his
had been distorted into reflections upon
Gen. Blair’s character as a soldier, and
that great injustice had been done to
him thereby. “ I always had a most
exalted regard for Frank Blair,” pur
sued Gen. Sherman, with much forci
bleness of manner. “ I always regard
ed him as one of the truest patriots
most honest and honorable men'
and. one of the most courageous
soldiers this country ever pro
duced. I never lost sight of the
services he rendered the country on the
outbreak of the war, and I fully con
cede and always have conceded that to
his boldness, promptitude and firm
ness more than to anything else the
country is indebted for the preserva
tion of St. Louis as a strategic point
mid for the s&lv&fcion of Missouri.
Frank Blair, was a noble, generous,
honest man. He was brave, frank sin
cere and unselfish. His virtues’ will
live forever, because they reflected
good upon others, while his faults will
be buried With him, because they
harmed none but himself.”
The General’s manner indicated that
he thought his utterances in regard to
General Blair in the “Memoirs” had
been maliciously interpreted. Being
asked If ho had any objection to the
publication of the tribute he had paid
he instantly replied— F ’
“ None! none! I will be glad to have
it published. Asa very warm eulogist
of Frank Blair I desire to go on the
record.”
l New York Herald.]
In the death of these men, states
men and soldiers, as one by one they
drop into their grave, there is cause for
much sincere regret, and none of them
deserve to be more sincerely mourned
than General Blair. As we lay him
away to. that rest which comes at last
as a welcome boon to all of us, we can
only remember his many high and no
ble qualities, and with such remem
brances we would embalm him for his
obsequies.
iFrom tne World.)
The “Blair family” is known in our
politics for its diplomatic qualities
mainly. 'Sometimes the consciousness
of being a member of that family op
pressed General Blair, and led him into
mazes of what he considered to be di
plomacy. But for the most part he
departed so far from the traditions of
the family as to boa terror to his
allies. He swung from one side to an
other in polities, carried by the impulse
of the moment, and he swung to the
extreme in whichever direction he
chanced to be going.
ISRAEL.
Annual Session of the Hebrew Con
gregation-Election of Officers.
Buffalo, July I.3.—The second ses
sion of the American Hebrew Congre
gation convened to establish a Hebrew
College. There was a large attendance
of delegates from all parts of the
United States. Joseph Cohen, of Pitts
burg, was elected President; Henry
Brock, of Buffalo, Vice President;
Lippman Levy, of- Cincinnati, Secre
tary ; S. J. Lowetstein, of Evensville,
Ind., Assistant Secretary. The annual
reports of the President, Secretary and
Treasurer were received and approved
Recess.
Minor Telegrams.
New York, July 13.—At an election of
Erie Directors at noon 236,000 shares
were voted, representing $23,600,000
stock. The only ticket in the field
was that headed by Jewett.
The Park Theatre building, with 21
years’ lease from March, 1865, was sold
at public auction for $42,003, subject
to a claim of $17,000 back rent.
Catlettsbgrg, Ky„ July 13.—The Big
Sandy is flooding. Eight steamers at
San Craven’s were swamped at the
mouth. The Thompson House and
dwelling were washed away.
mm ii i —i
Moulton, while waiting for “Beecher’s
minions” on Tuesday last, used the fol
lowing volcanic language to a Brook
lyn Revitw reporter:
“I have been to the District Attor
ney’s office to challenge an indictment,,
and I am afraid without any prospect
of it. Last night Beecher stood in the
only pu pit he can occupy in America.
He will stand in it again to-morrow.
But if I live and he lives another year,
one of us will be a convicted perjurer,
and occupy a perjurer’s cell. Tilton’s
struggle with Beecher was his own—
not mine. He had to contend with
great obstaoles. He had condoned his
wife's faults, and io this world such
magnanimity is shameful. The conse
quence was that ail his witnesses suf
fered, But this is now my battle, and
I mean to fight it to the end. Iflsay
again that either Beecher or I will
fill a perjurer’s cell before this is fin
ished.”