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Old Series-—Vol. 25, No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogiu, Goo. T. Jackson,
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SUNDAY CONSTITUTIONALIST.
We will to-morrow issue an extraor
dinary edition, nearly, if not twice as
great as upon the days of the week.
The people of Augusta, rich and poor,
black and white, buy our paper Sun
day morning. It will thus present a
fine opportunity for advertisements to
be read by everybody.
Gen. Waddy Thompson, formerly a
noted man in South Carolina, is in the
hands of a St. Louis sheriri:.
Provisions are cheaper in the West
than eveF known. They are even sel
ling grasshoppers at one dollar a
bushel.
Another officee holder came to dea'h
by a do3e of arsenic in Louisville yes
terday. He bore the honored name
of Jackson, and was short thirty-five
thousand.
The British House of Commons has at
last voted to pay the expenses of the
Prince of Wales to India. We hope
that Col. Wales will pick up the cash
and clear out.
We understand that the Board of Di
rectors of the Planters Loan and Sav
ings Bank are preparing an elaborate
statement, which will be satisfactory to
all stockholders. And we are request
ed to so state.
We have another chapter in the
everlasting Barnwell-Blackw T ell war. A
few weeks ago ihe Clerk of the Court,
upon a decision of a parcel of men at
Columbia, bundled up bag and baggage
and went over to Black ville. The court
now orders him to tramp back.
A citizen makes a sensible sugges
tion, that our railway lines leading
West issue excursion tickets, good for
sixty days. This would give a great
many an opportunity which they would
doubtless avail themselves, of leaving
our hot climate and roaming over the
cool prairies of Illinois, Indiana and
Missouri, and to visit the mountains of
the Middle States.
A “School Girl” sends us a communi
cation on the subject of Science and
Religion, as developed by the Tanque
ray-Catholico controversy. No name
is given, which would of itself preclude
publication. Any further contributions
to this subject, as we announced some
weeks ago, can be made public by the
payment of advertising rates. If any
body feels disposed to accept this bus
iuess proposition, all we have to say is:
“Lay on McDcff!”
The State Press is earnestly discuss
ing the matter of the next Chancellor
of the University. It is admitted that Dr
Tucker is a failure, and that the Board
of Trustees should elect another man
to All his place. Dr. Lipscomb has been
suggested, but he is too old and worn
out, He has not the physical energy.
If the Board can get Mr. Jefferson
Davis to accept, he is the man above
all others to elect. Next to him we
would prefer L. Q. C. Lamar, an Oxford
graduate, and for many years a Profes
sor in the University of Mississippi.
Hr. Louis and Louisville are bidding
for the National Democratic Conven
tion. They are doing this by abusing
one another like pick-pockets. Unless
they are lying we are of opinion that
neither i* fit for a congregation of
prize fighters. Meantime, Atlanta is
dead asleep about this important mat
ter. Cols. H. Waxelbaum Grady and E.
Yarborough Clarke will no doubt take
up the subject as soon as they get
over the late press blow-out. We are
in favor of Stone Mountain ; it would
be a good place for the platform.
The proceedings of the ninth day of
the Parker Trial will be found under
the appropriate head. Col. Rion clearly
shows up the case, but the intelligent
reader can well imagine how much of
his facts are understood by the eight
dunderheaded negroes he was talking
to. The trial of such a case before
such a jury is a broad farce. It is
already well known by everybody in
Columbia that the jury has been
tampered with by Parker, and hence
there is little faith that he will be con
victed. It is notorious that millions of
public money were stolen by South
Carolina officials during the adminis
tration of Scott and Moses, and yet it
is nearly impossible to sustain an ac
tion against any of them for the
reason that juries can be bought as
easily as a flock of sheep in the mar
ket house, as well as judges, sheriffs,
bailiffs, constables, and bum bailiffs.
Such a scandalous state of affairs has
not existed in any country since the
dawn of civilization. There will be no
improvement until the people put in
practice the plan of Alfred the Great,
who failed to make the law respected
yntil he hung three of his judges.
m Sails (Constitutionalist.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Another Stormy Debate in the Preneh
Assembly.
Paris, July 16.—Savory made a three
hours’ speech upon the necessity of
resisting the progress of Napoleonism.
He attacked Rouber as the abettor of
the coup d’etat. Buffet said the coun
try was threatened by double danger
from Revolutionists and Bonapartists.
The danger from Revolutionists was
the more serious. The Government
would watch them. Bonapartists and
the Right cheered. The Left protested.
Du'avre said the Government would
display vigilance in regard to Bona
partists. He would not remain a
member of a Gvernmeut that neg
lected that duty. Gambetta called
attention to the divergence of two
ministers, and accused the Government
of supporting the Bonapartists by
maintaining Bonapartists in office.—
Buffet assorted that peifect agreement
prevailed in the Cabinet, especially be
tween Dufavre and himself. They were
rendering service to the country by re
taining old functionaries who were
loyal, although he had served under
the empire. The Left violently pro
tested. The Right and Bonapartists
loudly cheered. A resolution that the
Assembly, confiding in the Govern
ment’s declarations, proceed to the or
der of the day, passed by a vote of 483
to 3. The Left abstained from voting.
Dufavre subsequently affirmed there
was no divergence between the minis
ters. The Government had nothing to
add or withdraw from declarations al
ready made.
A majority of the morning papers,
including even the organs of moderate
Republicans, express the opinion that
M. Gambetta erred yesterday in attack
ing Minister Buffet in debate. All
agree that yesterday’s sitting was un
fortunate for the Left.
Versailles, July 16.--The Public
Powers bill finally passed 53 to 30. A
resolution was adopted to discuss, the
budget on Monday and then adjourn
to November 30th. This course is de
clared urgent, 356 to 319. The Left
bitterly reproached the Government
with betraying the constitution.
London, July 16. —The Paris corres
pondent of the Times summarizes the
result of yesterday’s debate in the
Assembly as follows: The Government
separated from the Left are thrown
back on the Right. The difficulty arising
is how can the Government remain iu
power supported by a majority which
is opposed to constitutional bills, as it
cannot be supposed the Government
will resign without completing its con
stitutional work. Will it rely upon the
majority of last night or upon that
from which it has violently separated
itself? The coming sittings must solve
this problem, meanwhile victory be
longs to the Bonapartists.
Tlie Slave Trade.
A treaty w r as completed while the
Sultan of Zanzibar was here for the
suppression of the slave trade on the
east coast of Africa.
The Weather and Floods in England.
The weather is unusually cold and
lowering. The rain has ceased. Dis
patches from the inundated districts
report the floods subsiding.
The American Rifle Team.
Members of the American Team com
pete individually at Wimbledon for the
Albert Cup valued at five hundred
pounds, tbe Arthur rifle worth one
hundred pounds, and in the Derby and
St. Leger sweepstakes, for which there
are numerous entries, and for a series
of extra prizes, aggregating 192. They
go to Wimbledon to-day.
The Wales' Expense.
The grant to pay the expenses of the
Prince of Wales’ Indian visit passed
the House of Commons by 338 to 16.
A London financier states that the
amount of coin bullion in the Bank of
England is the largest ever known.
The Guibord Case—A Strong Letter
From Father Roussellot.
Montreal, July 16. —Father Roussel
lot, Cure of Palish Church, iu this city,
has wiitten a long letter to Mr. Doutre,
counsel in the Guibord case, in which
he sets the latter at defiance as to the
execution of the late judgment of the
Privy Council in that matter. The gist
of the letter is as follows : “This day
I do not recognize more than in 1869
the right of the civil authorities to in
terfere iu questions which belong only
to tbe ecclesiastical domain, and not
withstanding my deep respect for our
gracious Sovereign, and my perfect
submission to her authority in every
thing that belongs to civil matters, I
am, and will always be, obliged to re
fuse sepulture to J. Guibord in conse
crated ground so long as my Bishop
forbids me to grant it.”
Tlie Spanish Situation.
Madrid, July 16.— Fresh bauds of
Carlists have refuged into France. The
French Commander at Forbes tele
graphed to Paris for instructions. The
provinces of Valencia and Castellon are
free of Carlists. The insurrection is
confined to the mountains in Navarre,
and Basque and Catalonia provinces.
Jovellar’s headquarters are at Serinera.
The Lost Vicksburg.
Liverpool, July 16.—The commission
to investigate the loss of the steamer
Vicksburg exonerates the Captain from
blame.
FROM NEW YORK.
Counterfeits on the Bank of England.
New York, J uly 16. —Leading bankers
here are advised from London to be
prepared for offering in this market of
forged bank of England and Bank of
France notes. The dispatch reads. “We
believe a large amount of forged Bank
of EDglaud and Bank of France notes
will be offered iu America. Caution
our friends.”
Steamer Ashore.
The steamer Champion from Fort
Ticonderoga for Rousses port ran
ashore after leaving West Point. 80
passengers landed safely.
The Tweed Case.
Judge Donohue has ordered a bill of
particulars in the people vs. Tweed.
Robbery and Suicide.
Louisville, July 16.—Geo. N. Jack
son, Deputy Collector and Cashier for
Collector Buckner, is forty-five thou
sand short. Jackson is sick. It is sup
posed he took arsenic.
Later.
Louisville, July 16. —Jackson, the
defaulting Deputy Collector, is dead.
He had 812.500 life insurance. The
insurance companies had a post mortem
examination ; result not stated.
The Hebrew Council.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 16.—The Hebrew
Council, after electing a Board of Gov
ernors, adjourned to Washington, in
J uly next. Several thousand dollars of
additional subscription to tbe College
\\ as received by post to-night.
AUGUSTA. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, JURY 17. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Spain and Her West India Coloiues —
Interference of the United States,
Great Britain and Germany.
Washington, D. C., July 16, 1875.
Notwithstanding certain statements
of newspapers, there are no recent de
velopments of a diplomatic character
concerning the affairs of Cuba, and no
thing whatever to give the least color
of truth to the rumor that England
and Germany are co-operating with the
United States in pressing upon the
Spanish Government the policy of
abandoning her West India possessions
with a view either to their division
among the three powers namrd, or their
organization into a republic, under the
protectorate, expressed or implied, of
said Powers.
The knowledge of such co-operation,
it is said in Washington official circles,
is confined exclusively to private par
ties and to the press that gives it pub
licity, nor has Great Britain or Ger
many ever hinted at a eo-operation of
the three powers for the purpose men
tioned. Oq the contrary, both Great
Britain and Germany have been remark
ably careful not to offend the sensi
bility of the United States, the latter
having on repeated occasions de
clared its immovable adherence to
the Monroe doctrine, and which both
Great Britain and Germany have
officially said they will respect. It will
be recollected that in 1869 our Govern
ment offered its good offices to Spain
for the purpose of bringing to a close
the civil war in Cuba ou certain desig
nated bases. These Spain declined to
accept, but offered bases of its own,
which were declined by the United
States as incompatible with any prac
ticable negotiation. In withdrawing
the offer of the good offices through
the American Minister, Spain was in
formed they would again be offered
whenever they could tend to a settle
ment upon a just and honorable
basis of the unhappy contest
that was devastating Cuba, and so
injuriously affecting the United States
and Spain. Since that time no similar
overture has been made by the United
States, nor has Spain intimated that
the repetition of the offer would be
agreeable, it has been ascertained con
fidentially and otherwise that the opin
ion of leading men in Spain is that
every day the bond that unites Cuba
with Spain becomes weaker, and that
the separation of the Island from the
mother country is merely the work of
time, independently of any action
which may be taken by the Spanish
Government. There is now no pro
bability that Spain will take any ac
tion apart from arms for the pacifica
tion of Cuba. In the meantime our
Government is passive on the question
and awaits events.
Notes About tbe Capital.
Ex-Solicitor Banfield, of the Treasu
ry, is hopelessly insane in Califomia.
Petitions are circulating for Judge
Fisher’s retention as District Attorney.
The Secretary of War returns from
his Western tour of inspection the mid
dle of August.
Francis B. Stockbridge has been ap
pointed Minister Resident at the Hague;
Christian Wellwebbe, of lowa, Minister
Resident to Ecuador ; and George H.
Owen, of Vermont, Consul at Messina.
Washington, July 16.—Tremendous
rain. A train going north at 9 o’clock
last night was thrown from the track
by a floating cross-tie. None hurt.
The passengers returned to Washing
ton, as the track was badly flooded be
tween Bladensburg aud Baltimore.
Travel resumed this a. m.
Alabama Coal.
Montgomery, July 16.—Alabama coal
operators met and resolved to offer to
ship owners in the Liverpool
and New Orleans trade and cer
certain railroads extra inducements to
use Alabama coal, coaling at Pensacola.
A committee was appointed to cor
respond with them on the subject.
The i irst New Bale at Galveston.
Galveston, July 16. —The first bale
of new cotton from Brownsville receiv
ed classed good middling, 438 pounds,
and sold for 28 cents.
Gen. Waddy Thompson in the Hands
of the Sheriff.
St. Louis, July 16.—Gen. Waddy
Thompson has been remanded to the
custody of tbe Sheriff of Memphis.
Minor Telegrams.
Baltimore, July 16.—Chatworth and
Streches runs flooded the western
portion of the city. A number of
wholesale houses in the central portion
of the city had their cellars filled.
London, July 16. —A dispatch from
Cardiff says the rivers Tuff and Ely are
flooding. The adjacent lauds for miles
are under water. A flood is reported
at Bath.
Miss de Vergas, says a Calcutta pa
per, wishes to be married—nothing
very extraordinary in that—but the
manner in which she proposes to ac
complish her design is curious. Dona
Pepa de Vergas offers herself as the
prize of a lottery for the sum of one
lac of lO.OOOrs. upon the following con
ditions : (1) Twenty-two thousand tick
ets at srs. each. (2) The takers of tick
ets are simply to send in their names,
the amount of their subscription to be
collected when the sum mentioned has
been subscribed for. (3) The lottery to
take place at a date to be hereafter an
nounced at the town hall, Calcutta, and
to be drawn and conducted by Miss de
Vergas. (4) The owner of the winning
number will have the option of one of
the following choices: (a) To marry
Miss de Vergas, and share with her —
on the principle of community of
goods—her fortune of one lac of rupees,
(b) Or, in the case of refusing the mar
riage, the sum of 50,000r5. will be paid
to him. Miss de Vergas retaining for
herself 50,000r5. (5) Miss de Vergas re
serves to herself the right of refusing
to marry the owner of the winning
number should he prove to be a per
son she would not care to espouse. In
that case the winner will be paid the
sum of 50.000r5. She is a young lady of
birth, of noble family, well educated—
she speaks Spanish, French, and a lit
tle English—clever, and a brilliant
beauty.
Byron. —The recent organized Byron
Memorial Committee in England, of
which Mr. Disraeli is the President,
and Lord Houghton, the Earl of Love
lace and the venerable Archdeacon
Trolloppe are members, has resolved
to place a marble slab, appropriately
inscribed and ornamented, over the
spot in the chancel of Hucknall Tor
kard Church, where the poet is buried.
The Greek Government is to be asked
to furnish a block of Pentelic marble
for the slab. It is proposed, also, to
erect a statue of Byron “in some pub
lic place of London.”
KASPAH HAUSER.
Tlie Mystery Still Unsolved—The Du
cal Family of Baden Clear Their
Skirts.
The “Kaspar Hauser” mystery, which
puzzled the world so much half a cen
tury ago, has once more been brought
before the public. The hypothesis of
Feuerbach never has been accepted—
nay, even as much as taken into seri
ous consideration by sensible people;
but as it is flattering to the sense of tlie
romantic, and as there is no other hy
pothesis of any worth to be opposed to
it, it found some belief, especially among
women. Since, however, this solution
of the enigma has lately again been
forced upon the public, the Grand Du
cal family of Baden—for there can be
no doubt that the documents procured
were given up by them—have thought
it right to put a stop to this idle talk
once for all by allowing the Allge
meine Zeitung to publish three docu
ments, which prove that what had
hitherto been considered as extremely
unlikely is simply an impossibility. It
was the great criminal lawyer, Feuer
bach, who first suggested the idea that
the mysterious foundling discovered in
1828, and so mysteriously murdered iu
1833, after having escaped several other
attempts, might possibly have been the
Prince of Baden, born the 29th of Sep
tember, 1812, and who was said to have
died seventeen days afterwards, on the
16th of October. His father, the Grand
Duke Charles, was then only 21, his
wife, the adopted daughter of the great
Napoleon, Grand Duchess Stephanie,
was 23, aud there was consequently
every chance of their having other
children —as was in fact the case during
the six years following, when the
Grand Duchess gave birth to several
girls ; the criminal, therefore, who in
tended kidnapping and suppressing the
young heir, aud replacing him by the
dead child of a peasant, must in conse
quence have been prepared at least to
perpetrate the same crime over and
over again. Moreover, the two brothers
of the Grand Duke Charles’ father
were still alive, and not more than 56
and 49 years of age respectively ; con
sequently the disappearance of las son
would rather have contributed to confer
the throne upon them than on the
children of his grandfather’s second
wife. Oue of these uncles, indeed, the
Margrave Ludwig, actually did become
reigning Grand Duke iu 1818, on the
untimely death of his nephew. In
spite of all this, in spite also of
the evident difficulty of introduc
ing a dying child—a dead child
would not have done—into a palace
open on all sides, vigilantly watched
through an ante-room crowded with
ladies and gentlemen in waiting—the
Imperial Countess ( Reichsgrafin ) Hoch
berg, second wife of Grand Duke
Charles’ grandfather, and grandmother
herself to the now-reigning Grand
Duke, was deliberately accused of hav
ing perpetrated the crime.
The Allgemeine Zeitung of June 3d
brings forward the official documents,
to prove that, far from having taken
place without witnesses, as the authors
of the hypothesis assumed, the chris
tening, illness and death of the Grand
Duke’s child had numerous witnesses,
and witnesses having a direct interest
not to allow themselves to be deceived.
RECEPTION OF THIRD GEORGIA
REGIMENT.
Meeting of Citizens.
[Norfolk Virginian, 13th.|
Pursuant to notice, a meeting of the
citizens of Portsmouth took place yes
terday evening at the Mayor’s office.
The inclemency of the weather pre
vented a larger attendance than would
have been under other circumstances,
but we observed seveialof our most
prominent merchants and citizens pres
ent, who took a lively interest iu the
proceedings.
On motion, the Hon. A. S. Watts,
Mayor of Portsmouth, was requested
to act as President, whilst the mem
bers of the press present were nomin
ated to act as Secretaries.
The President then called the meet
ing to order and said he was prepared
to hear any remarks from the citizens
on the question at issue, viz: the recep
tion of the Third Georgia Regiment on
the 4th of August. He said that he
need not remind the people that it was
here where these brave Georgians
made their first stand in a cause which
was then dear to us all, and that when
the call for increased troops was made
during the great struggle for Southern
independence we found these same
Georgians williug and ready to fill up
the gap. The soldiers of the Third
Georgia made many warm associations
in Portsmouth; and it becomes us to
receive them in a hospitable manner,
and them to feel and believe that time
and distance do not diminish from
the mind the remembrance of friends.
Maj. Grice then came forward and in
a few neat and opportune remarks of
fered the following resolution, which
was carried unanimously :
Whereas, the citizens of Portsmouth
have learned with much pleasure that the
veteran survivors of the Third Georgia
Regiment have decided to ce ebrate then
next annual reunion in thi-city on the 4th
of August, and remembering their pleasant
association witli our people during the first
year of the iate war, when they were sta
tioned near us, their prompt response to
the call for troops to reinforce our own in
April, 1861, and their gallant record during
that long and unfortunate struggle, we will
welcome them as becomes citizens of Vir
ginia, and do everything in our power to
make their visit an enjoyable o e, and with
the view of executing our desires, be it
Ri-soivetl, That the Chairman appoint a
committee of ten citizens, with power and
authority to appoint sub-committees, to
collect funds and make all proper and need
ful preparations for the reception and en
tertainment of our friends of the Third
Georgia Regiment during their visit and
stay in our city.
The chair then appointed the follow
ing committee in accordance with the
preceding resolution, viz: Major G.
Grice, Capt. Thos. A. Bain, Maj. W. C.
Wingfield, Capt. Joe Sam Brown, Judge
L. R. Watts, Capt. James li. Robinson,
Capt. C. W. Murdaugh, E. G. Ohio,
Esq., Capt. W. 11. Murdaugh and John
T. Hill, Esq.
On motion, the Mayor, A. S. Watts,
Esq., was added to the committee, a
meeting of which was requested to
convene at the Mayor's office this
morning at 10 o’clock. The attention
of members not present is drawn to
this announcement.
There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
Speaking of the poem, “She who
Rocks the Cradle Rules the World,”
the Memphis Avalanche says : “In this
section she is generally a colored girl,
and we don’t believe a word of it.”
If ladies could vote they would vote
against inflation : that is, if tight skirts
indicate the mind.
A female lecturer announces “Shift
less Folks” as her subject, but it has
not yet appeared whether she is to talk
about little Cupids or the Hottentots.
A FREAKE OF FORTUNE.
Tlie Career of a Loudon (Speculator
iu Real Estate.
[London Correspondence of the Philadel
phia Telegraph.
Charles J. Freake, to whose assem
blies half the aristocratic world delight
to crowd, and whose residence accom
modates somewhere about 1,000 guests,
was originally a pot boy, whose father
gained a livelihood by carrying on a
double trade in beer and building—
both on a limited scale. His youthful
inclinations led him to give a consider
able larger measure of attention to
building than to beer, and he quickly
became a small speculative builder,
trading in his own name. With him
speculation prospered; he purchased
lands, built on them, and sold the
houses. From modest houses he went
ou to build mansions, aud what is
known as Queen’s Gate, where the most
spacious and costly dwellings in the
metropolis are located, sprang into be
ing under the preserving toil of this
hero of an almost romantic story.
He now employs thousands of men iu
his various works, occasionally gives a
church (building it himself) to anew
parish, erects schools at his own ex
pense, is a millionaire, and occupies the
largest of the houses he has built,
namely Cromwell House. He did not
design to occupy that house, however.
It was built for the Duke of Rutland.
His Grace resided there some time,
aud might be residing there still,
for he liked Cromwell House ex
ceedingly well ; but, when the ad
joining mansion was finished, Freake
settled himself and family iu it, and
as a Duke, with his builder as a
neighbor, was wholly contrary to his
Grace’s ideas of propriety, and cer
tainly does seem an odd illustration of
the eternal fitness of things, negotia
tions were hurriedly completed for
handing over the larger residence to
the tradesman, while the most noble
tenant removed to Bate House, ou
Campden Hill, becoming the next
neighbor to his grace of Argyle. Other
nobles have been less punctilious, and
at the present time the Lord Chancel
-1 j and the Earl of Deubigh are the
millionaire builder’s very near neigh
bors, and Princes of the blood not un
frequently deign to make morning
calls, and even occasionally appear at
fashionable gatherings there.
BUYOGRAPIIICAL SKETCHES OF
PROMINENT GEORGIANS.
J. Buster Boobysnag.
[Franklin News.]
Hon. John Buster Boobysnag was
born in Dooly county, Ga., February
30, eighteen hundred and a sack of
guano, and is consequently two scores
and twenty-one years old next black
berry time.
Of the antecedents of Mr. Booby (for
short) we know but little except that he
was a wise man of the masculine gen
der, third person, wid singular num
ber ; but his mother wasn’t! She was
a female woman of great strength of
character and wonderful strength of
arm ; hence the subject of our sketch
was jerked up in the way he should go;
and hence, again, he rose more than
the other half of the men in the State.
But it is not of the rusty, far distant
past that we wish to speak in this short
biography. At the commencement of
the skirmish between the North and
South, Mr..Booby was a violent Union
man, and opposed secession with a zeal
and activity that was the admiration of
all the old women in the neighborhood.
But when in spite of his opposition, the
State jumped the broom-stick back
wards, he immediately became a rabid
war man, and swore he could demolish
two or thi’ee acres of yankees “himself.”
It was about this time that he gave
vent to the patriotic expression, “Give
me liberty or give me death.” With a
full determination to save his breath
and libei ty, too, he caught the mareh
ial spirit, and whistling the ever mem
orable tune,
“Green grow the bushes, O,”
(that air that struck terror to all Yan
keedom) he shouldered his knapsack
and shovel and marched to the woods,
where he dug a hole forty feet deep,
into which he crawled, pulling the hole
in behind him. He argued, and very
correctly, that this was the next best
place to a seat in the Confederate Con
gress. For, said he, he that fights and
runs away shall have protection in my
fortification, and when this cruel war
is over we will be alive and kicking.
In this lonely retreat he spent the
weary days, relieving the todium by
cursing Jeff Davis and the Confeder
acy whenever the boys in grey were
defeated in battle, but yelling “bully
for us” every time our boys threshed
the blue coats. At the close of the
war he crawled out of his hiding place
and was elected to the honorable po
sition of constable in the 11,000 th dis
trict, G. M., which position he has held
with unquestionable distinction ever
since.
It is not the object of the writer of
these memoirs to place the Hon. J.
Buster Boobysnag before the people of
Georgia as a candidate for Governor,
though it is more than probable that he
will place himself there at the proper
time; and whether nominated or not,
he proposes to run the race, for he is a
convention Democrat without reproach,
(provided he is nominated!) and he
leels assured that the people want him
in the gubernatorial chair. He is en
titled to the office of Governor or Uni
ted States Senator by reason of his
valuable services to his native State ;
for didn’t he stand in the cellar and
curse the Yankee soldiers blue on the
occasion of their visit to Georgia soon
after the war ? Say ! Brave, bold, gen
erous, eloquent, chivalrous, valorous,
steadfast, untiring, persevering (for of
fice) he will fill ttuy office about as full
as any man in the State, and the writer
modestly desires to see him elevated.
What Was in the Programme. —A
colored man employed as a deck hand
on a propeller, was rushing around
town yesterday and enquiring where
the polls were.
“Polls? Polls?” repeated a citizen,
“ why, there is no election going on
now.”
“There haiut?”
“No, sir.”
The man stood for a moment looking
greatly disappointed, and then turned
to the river with the remark :
“And now de programme is to find
dat sleek young man who said dey was
paying six dollars apiece for votes ! ”
Detroit Free Press.
A Man who was Tougher than a
Mule.— James Harding, while driving a
mule at the coal docks of the Easton
and Amboy Railroad, near Perth, Am
boy, fell off the trestle work, a distance
of nearly fifty feet, into the mud be
low. He had scarcely struck when the
mule came down upon him. The man
was slightly injured ; the mule was
killed outright.
GOSPEL GUSH.
A Remarkable Speech by tbe Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher to Friends at
Peekskill—Letters of Condolence Re
ceived by Him From BaptUt, Epis
copalian, and Catholic Clergymen.
New York, July 13. —The people and
temporary residents of Peekskill and
neighborhood, preceeded by a band of
music and company of militia, marched
to Rest Hill last evening, and serena
ded the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
After an address by Judge Wells,
giving expression to their confidence in
him as a man and as a Christian minis
ter of the gospel, Mr. Beecher spoke
for nearly an hour. Among other
things he said :
When I began my life I had no in
tention of being a great and eloquent
and wise man ; but I did moan to be a
good man and an honest man. I did
mean to spend all the strength God
gave me in making my fellow men bet
ter. This has been my ambition. This
I have done, by the help of God. 1
make, then, this assertion more em
phatic, because not a few newspapers
seem to think I have done it by the
help and permission of the newspa
pers ; but I have done it in spite of
them. I don’t ask that they should
care for my future. My future is in the
keeping of the Lord God, to whom my
mother directed me, and I should like
to know who is going to stop my mouth
with a muzzle, my hand that I cannot
write, if it is given to me to say things
which men want to hear, and to write
things which make men better. I went
through the Red Sea, but it was a long
time ago. The fact is, gentlemen, that
about 1870 and 1871, and for three or
four years, I had to go through pretty
deep waters at times, but I kept it to
myself. The revelation of it to man
kind came within a year, but I have got
through it.
I am receiving scores and hundreds
of letters, couched in the most earnest
and affectionate condolence for the fiery
trials through which I am going ; but,
bless you, the ashes of that fire were
scattered long ago. lam growing in
strength and elasticity of body. I am
all right. The letters I have received
from Baptist clergymen, from clergy
men in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church, and especially the letters and
messages from Roman Catholic priest3,
have been among the most Christian
expressions tendered me. I prize these
letters. Churches have prayed for me.
Mothers kneeling in the midst of their
littie children have prayed for me. And
I will say that these prayers have been
more to me than the plaudits of the
people on the streets. It has been this
that has made me happy. I have no
new course to take.
I am too old to change my position.
I shall go on trusting men. I have
pursued that doctrine all my life, and
only once in forty years have I made a
mistake. I shall love men. I shall not
stop to think of their faults before I
love them. I propose to go on with my
work, confident in men, not preaching
merely the difference between right and
wrong ; but this I shall preach, that
there is no justice, no severity, no
punishment, that is good unless it is
administered in the spirit of love.
The expenses of the trial have been
enormous enough to bankrupt a coun
try minister five times over, and would
have destroyed me but for Plymouth
church, and even with their help I
shall barely get through, for the ex
penses of the trial to me have been over
$>75,000. On the other side they have
been very large, but they have got no
money to pay them with.
Mr. Beecher elicited much laughter,
and was frequently warmly applauded
throughout his somewhat long ad
dress.
LADIES’ HOSE.
The Very Latest Style.
[ Jourier-Journal. 1
The latest Parisian sensation is in
stockings-—by this is not meant the
contents of the stockings but the
stockings themselves. Whereas in the
past the leader of the luiut ton was
known by the magnificence of her
jewels, she is now easily distinguished
by the grandeur of her hose. We are
told by the fashion correspondents that
the shop windows are resplendent with
displays of all the colors, but the pre
cise tint of this most necessary article
of dress is only half the question ;
for it is in the designs worked
upon them that the true glory of
the artist appears, and these de
signs are of the most varied char
acter. One pair is described as being in
lemon color, the instep of each foot
being covered with bunches of black
currants, with their twigs and leaves
most delicately embroidered in colored
silks. As if this were not sufficiently
pretty to tempt any one in the world
to a mental feast over even common
engravings, they have gone on and
built a black silk stocking, and around
it are twined, as a sort of spiral sem
blance of a garter, pink rose-buds and
leaves wrought in the most deliciously
tempting manner, rendering the
temptation to pluck a flower from
the precious pair of rare bouquets
almost irresistible. The last fash
ion is said to be very popular
now. We should think it would
be. Any otherwise elegantly-dressed
person who would complain at a pair
of hose gotteu up in that florid style
would certainly be very hard to please
with anything. But after all their
beauties, few there be who wear them,
as they are, of course, enormously dear,
and only the very rich are able to
satisfy thi3 new mania for erectiug
peripatetic barbers’ poles. Of course
weak imitations will at once be found
on this side of the ocean, which will
resemble the originals only in the exor
bitant prices that will be paid for them.
But let them come on ; they must be
pretty, aud Round About wishes to
gaze at a pair or two.
In Arkansas, when a man walks into
a house and shoots the proprietor and
others, he is styled “an intruder.”
A presiding elder from Maine—a
keen, humorous, somewhat waggish
man—was approached by a traveling
companion, as he seemed to be asleep
in the railway car. “Brother D,” said
the friend, “wake up, wake up! Do
you know where you are?” “Yes, I
know where I am,” answered the elder.
“Where are you?” “Not far from New
York.” “How do you know?” “Be
cause I have for the last hour felt like
stealing something.”
A Bloomington hen has laid an egg
marked “Grace, Mercy and Peace.”
Her nest was hidden under a pile of
trailing arbutus.
Thick glass is hereafter to be cement
ed to the walls of the London hospitals,
thus making a non-absorbent surface
which can at all times be kept clean
with ease, adding much to the sanitary
condition of the apartments.
THE SOUTHERN VOTE.
How it May Be Made to Count In the
Presidential Election.
[St. Louis ltepublican.l
Tlie South has been at peace for six
months, because it has beeu let aloue.
Louisiana is quiet, Arkansas is quiet,
Alabama is quiet, Mississippi is quiet,
and even South Carolina is quiet. Wo
no longer hear of Ku Klux iu Tennes
see ; of plantation battles between
whites and blacks iu Mississippi; of
negro mobs marching to sack towns in
Arkansas aud South Carolina; of
wholesale butcheries of harmless ne
groes by masked ruffians in Louisiana.
These things are over, for the present,
at least, and we may hope that they
are ended forever. That active agent
of disturbance, the carpet-bagger, is re
tiring from the South ; aud the native
whites aud blacks, left to themselves,
exhibit a surprising capacity for getting
along peaceably together without out
side help. All the accounts we receive
from the States on the Lower Missis
sippi represent that the largest cotton
crop, and the largest corn crop also,
ever raised there will be produced this
year—the result not so much of a fa
vorable season as of the more cordial
understanding between the two races
and improved habits of industry. The
fact is, the whites and blacks are be
ginning to address themselves to the
solution of the difficult problem of
their future relation, with a patient
and forbearing spirit; the blacks are
turning to the native whites for coun
sel and assistance, and the whites are
recognizing their obligations to the
weaker and confiding race. Both find
the new friendship a fountain of pros
perity; an immense cotton crop blesses
their reconciliation, and their land is
becoming once more tne bright home
of a prosperous and happy people.
All this means that the eutire South
is lost to the Republican party. That
party never controlled a vote of a
Southern State except through violence
and intimidation; as the Southern
States were allowed to become peaceful,
they slipped, one by one, through its
fingers. It seems strange to be told
that Texas, now Democratic by 57,000
majority; Georgia, now Democratic by
55,000 majority; Virginia, now Demo
cratic by 30,000 majority, and Ten
nesse, now Democratic by 47,000 ma
jority, were, a few years ago all
controlled by Republican Govern
ors and Legislatures, and repre
sented in Congress by Republican
senators and members. Yet, it is
true, and in ihe loss of these States
the Republican leaders may foresee the
loss of the last three Southern States
that they still control—Louisana, Mis
sissippi and South Carolina. In estima
ting the probable result of the next
election, therefore, the Republicans are
forced to consider that they will lose
the 69 electoral votes of the nine South
ern States which Grant carried in 1872 ;
aud that the 100 votes of the twelve
Reconstructed States will, probably,
be cast against them, together with the
38 votes of the other four -ex-slave
States of Delaware, Kentucky, Mary
land aud Missouri—making 138
Southern votes against the Republican
ticket to begin with, and leaving only
46 votes to be lost at the North to in
sure a Republican defeat. This is cer
tainly a dismal outlook for a Republi
can who has taught himself to believe
that the continued ascendency of his
party is necessary to the safety of the
Union; audit accounts for the tactics
decided on by the Republican leaders
of trusting not to their own strength,
but to the possible folly of their oppo
nents. Their only hope is that the De
mocracy will commit some monstrous
blunder which only the Democracy can
commit, and thus forfeit the victory
within their reach.
The Executioner of Charles I.
The Pall Mall Gazette of the 23d of
June says:
It seems probable that tho remains
of Brandon, alleged to have been the
excutioner of Charles 1., were disturbed
last week by the local authorities of
Whitechapel, who have lately been re
moving the bodies interred beneath
Whitechapel Church for the purpose of
rebuilding the edifice. In the burial
register of that church is the following
entry : “June 21, 1619-Richard Bran
don, a man out of Rosemary Lane, sup
posed to have cut off the head of
Charles I.” In “A Dialogue Between
the Hangman and Death,” published
shortly after the execution of the King,
Brandon touchingly alludes to the
prospect of his own demise, aud seems
to fear that he shall not find much re3t
in the grave. Addressing Death, he
says :
“‘When none but Brandon could be found
to do it,
1 gave the blow caused thousand hearts to
ache—
Nay, more than that it made three king
doms quake
Yet, in obedience to thy powerful call,
Down wont the cedar with some shrubs,
aud all
To satisfy thy ne’er contented lu t;
Now, for reward, thou tellest me I must
Lay down my tools, and with thee pack
from hence.
Grim Sir, you give a fearful recompense.’ ”
Brandon, however, may think himself
fortunate that he found a resting-place
in Whitechapel Church, where he has
been permitted to sleep so many years
undisturbed; for when he died, on the
20th of June, 1649, iu his house in Rose
mary lane, a large crowd assembled on
the occasion of his funeral and sug
gested that he should be buried iu a
dunghill. It was, indeed, with the
utmost difficulty that the local au
thorities of Whitechapel in that day
managed to smuggle his body to the
churchyard, where it was at last hur
ried with a bunch of rosemary at each
end of his coffin, and a rope tied across
from one end to the other.”
In Palmer, (Mass.) says a local pa
per, “ they reel off five hundred yards
of carpet daily.” That’s reel nice—
but we know fellows who reel off a bare
floor just as often and don’t think any
thing of it.— Noah’s Sunday Times.
New York sighs for three Philadel
phia ex-policemen who were discharg
ed from the force for killing a man.
New York warns them for police cap
tains.—Albany Argus.
A poet has been lacerating himself
with the query: “Where, whero are
all the birds that sang, a hundred
years ago?” We give it up; but sup
pose they are nesthiding somewhere in
eternity.
The following conundrum gained the
first prize at the charity ball at Toledo:
Why is a lady at our ball like an ar
row? Because she can’t go off without
a beau, and is in a quiver till she gets
one.
A Maine girl left her clothing in an
open boat and hid herself, and when
her parents were crying and saying
that if they only had her back they
would obey her slightest wish, she ap
peared and said she wanted to marry
Jake.
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. 157.
WIT AND WISDOM.
George Washington was not born In
the United States.
Paris papers tell of rabid dogs, rabid
horses and rabid cats.
Men are contented to be laughed at
for their wit, but not for their folly.—
[Swift.
An English paper says : “ Renting a
church pew in America doesn’t inter
fere with the privilege of cheating and
stealing.”
Lots of women condemn these “pull
back” dresses, but somehow they are
all women of ugly form.
Look out now for the first samples
of the new postal cards. They’ll be
out in a day or two.
“The conversational shriek of the
American female voice” is denounced
in a recent number of the London
Times.
The pull-back dresses are good in a
gale of wind. It is not true, however,
that they have to grease them to get
them on.
A Milwaukee lady who paid $l5O to
have a wart removed from her nose,
now wants to know what’s become of
the nose.
A Boston papa, speaking of a recent
execution, says: “The Sheriffs were
attired in black, with blue coats and
brass buttons.”
Green apples are not yet plenty
enough for cholera morbus doctors to
rely entirely upon them for an income.
The King of Burmah has an insur
rection on hand as well as a quarrel
with Great Britain. Likely enough the
insurgents are “bribed by British gold,”
as H. G. used to say.
The tidal wave of measels which has
been sweeping over New Zealand was
started by a sailor kissing a girl. She
says she’s sorry for the damage, but
she wanted to be kissed. —Detroit Free
Press.
More plagiarism. It now turns out
that the poem recited as original last
Decoration Day, at Providence, Rhode
Island, and which was highly praised,
was stolen bodily from the works of
Miss Proctor.
The sharks at Newport are getting
so particular that they won’t bite a wo
man over forty. Miss Anthony knows
it, but she says she doesn’t care to
learn how to swim.
But few women are so handsome
that they can bear to hear another
woman’s charms extolled, without look
ing around for a mirror to see if their
crimps are all right.
A young lady lectured on “ Dress
Reform,” in Springfield, recently, and
she was “ pulled back ” to such an ex
tent that when she attempted to sit
down at the conclusion of her dis
course she failed to reach the chair by
over six inches. She seemed to rest that
way, however, just as well.
Housebreaking must be very greatly
on the increase, or the bachelor who
vowed a few weeks ago that he made
it a practice to stay away from wed
dings, would not have since remarked,
“ Yes, I think I’ll get married. I’m
tired of lying awake nights for bur
glars.”
Lightning plays many strange pranks*
In Massachusetts it struck Deacon
Kimball’s house ; in New York it sent
a tract peddler on his way to the shin
ing shore. Now in Tennessee it has
been fooling with the hind feet of a
mule. The mule lost the game, for the
lightning melted his shoes off before
he could kick.
Borne fellow has invented a cane
which can be converted into a chair, or
three-legged stool, in a minute’s time.
He could sell ’em for more than fifty
cents a piece if he were to still further
improve it, so that by touching a
spring the cane would be instantly
changed into a keg of beer, though we
would not invest in one.
A blind man had been sitting o ne day
and pleasantly chatting with some
visitors for an hour, when one of them
wished the company good morning and
left the room. “What white teeth that
lady has, said the sarcastic blind man.
“How can you possibly tell that ?” said
a friend. “Because,” was the ready
answer, “for the last half hour she has
done nothing but laugh.”
There are many who are anxious for
fame; who are longing for a good office
which they will probably fill badly;
who think life wonderfully well spent
if they can amass a sum of money with
which they will not know what to do
with when they have got it. I venture
to put before them anew ambition—
that of becoming pleasant to their fel
low creatures. It is a path in which
they will not be jostled by a crowd of
competitors.— James T. Fields.
A ragged, forlorn-looking boy was
strolling around the Southern depot
yesterday, smoking the stub of a cigar,
when a philanthropist in waiting for a
train handed out ten cents and re
marked: “Take it, bub; I feel sorry
for you.” “No yer don’t,” exclaimed
the boy, drawing back. “Why, it’s a
free gift—l don’t ask anything for it,”
replied the man. “I know you,” con
tinued the boy, his eyes twinkling,
“you want me to promise to grow up
and become President, and I ain’t going
to tie myself up for any man’s ten
cents.”— Detroit Free Fress.
A Baby Romance.
This from the Leon (N. Y.) Republi
can:
A girl baby, apparently about two
weeks old, was left upon the porch of
the house of Mr. Richard Kellogg, who
lives in the north part of the town,
on the night of June 2d. Accompany
ing the child was the following note:
“Is there room for me? I have come
to the door of this house that the Lord
hath blessed in the hopes of finding it
open. My little wings are weary, seek
ing the crevices in the mountains, and
forsaken by my father and mother. I
am a little wanderer, a tiny baby girl,
and, like the dear Jesus, have
‘no place to lay my head.’ So, ‘as
not a sparrow falls to the ground
without tho Father’s notice, I
have been directed here. Take me,
love me, protect me, and hear the Gen
tle Shepherd : ‘Hungry and ye fed me,
thirsty and ye gave me drink, naked
and ye clothed me, a stranger aud ye
took me in.’ ‘lnasmuch as ye have
done it unto the least of these, ye have
done it unto me.’ Then, O turn me not
away, but let me nestle close to your
besom, and when covered by your love
I shall cease to be nobody’s child. You
can keep me ; my parents cannot. Pa
rentage respectable, healthy and not
low in moral character.”
The child was well dressed, and with
it was a good supply of infant’s cloth
ing. The child has been adopted by
Mr. aud Mrs. Kellogg, who are well
pleased with the unexpected present,