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Old Series— 25, jSTo. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily, one year 00 s months 5 00 “ a months 2 Tri-Weekly, one year 6 ** 6 months 2 vVeekly, one year 2 00 " 6 months 1 00 Single copies, 5 cents, 'lo news dealers, 2% On and after this date (April 21,1875; all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Hi jecte ! communications will not be return ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. may be remitted ut our risk by de press or postal order. All letters should be addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, Ga. “Venusian Perturbations” are report ed in Canada. Where will this thing stop ? “Doctors’ broth” is not.so pleasant, as a general thing ; but those who like it can pay their money and take their choice. The long-legged Mexican ostrich is still on exhibition at the Globe Hotel. For further particulars apply to Count Thaddeus Kosciusko, at this place. Subscriptions to the Byron statue are in order. While the Beecher people are sinking in public estimation, the noble poet they attempted to dishonor has experienced a revival in his favor. We publish another communication upon the subject of the Lunatic Asy lum, correcting some errors of a corres pondent. It is from the pen of a gen tleman perfectly familiar with the sub ject. We have some very interesting cor respondence this morning, notably Paris and Atlanta letters, which will be universally read and admired. Our European correspondent gives a graph ic sketch of the French army and poli ties. The situation in the Gate City, between labor and capital, is peculiarly alarming. It was stated yesterday morning that the GeD. Waddy Thompson, who was in the hands of a St. Louis sheriff, was and is a famous man in South Caro lina. Lest this should lead to the im pression that it was old Gen. Waddy Thompson, we will state that he has been dead a .great, many years. Per haps no more honorable man ever lived, and this namesake is doubtless no relative of his. RICHMOND COUNTY GRANGERS. Organization of a Council —Election of Officers —A Harmonious Gathering— Interesting Discussions —A Compli mentary Resolution. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist ] Mr. Editor : Pursuant to appoint ment, on Saturday, lOtli instant, the Tupelo, Pine Hill and Riehmond-Vale Granges assembled at Rosini Chapel to organize a Council of Granges for Rich mond county. The Council was organized by the election of the following officers for the ensuing year: President—Dr. R. C. Griffin. First Vice President—Dr. J. F. Sego. Second Vice President—A. Sego, Sr. Secretar}' —J. Jefferson Thomae. Several officers of the State Grange, and other prominent members of the order from other localities, were ex pected to address the meetiug, but faiied to attend. Nevertheless, the meeting was harmonious, pleasant and interesting. The interchange of ideas, experimental knowledge and important facts in regard to various agricultural subjects was instructive, and calculated to produce a greater degree of sociality and brotherly love among the members of the order. The failure of the watermelon crop was thoroughly discussed. The mode of planting, manuring and cultivation, though somewhat varied among so many farmers, failed to discover the cause, and consequently suggested no remedy or preventive for the future. To give an adequate idea of the siTtnptuous feast spread upon the oc casion, so highly seasoned with the bright smiles of lovely woman, could occupy more space iu your invaluable paper than you would like. {Suffice it to say that while the most elaborate description would fall far short of its merit, most ample justice was done the rich viands, by all who participated iu the festival. Sorry we are that you were not one of them. Before the meetiug closed the follow resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That, in consideration of the courtesy shown the Granges of Richmond county by the Editor of the Conshtution- ALisr, we hereby tender him our thanks, and prove our gratitude by extending as Jar as we can, the circulation of his in valuable paper, and giving it our hearty patronage. The next meeting of the council will be at the same place, oil the second Saturday in September next, at ten o’clock, a. m. ___ J.H7M. Hioh Salaries. —The raising of Mr. Beecher’s salary to £IOO,OOO a year gives him the largest compensation in the Uuiou. But one salary in the world transcends it—that of the Viceroy of India, which is £50,000, or £250,000 a year, though it is possible the salary of Lord Dufferiu, as Governor General of Canada, is £30,000, or £150,000 a year. Toe Ambassadors of Great Britain at Paris and Vienna receive but £50,000 a year. We are told that H. B. Claflin pays his “ credits man,” formerly President of the Bank of North Amer ica, Mr. Donaldson, £IOO,OOO a year on account of his unprecedented knowl edge of credits. The firm do a business of £70,000,000 a year, and this business isjan entirely credit one; therefore a skilful knowledge of the buyers, their standing and personal habits, is of more value than ten per cent, upon this amount; in other words, it is more profitable to Claflin to pay less than two per cent, upon his sedes to Mr. Donaldson. There are rnauy salesmen in the leading housesof New York with salaries reaching as high as £30,000, while the leading journalist must con tent himself with £lo,ooo.— Troy Times. Chicago, July 17.—Lewis Schultze’s furniture factory, on Milwaukee ave nue, was burned, with a large amount of seasoned lumber and other stock. JiCSS, £60,000. ■ ; —f FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Religious Legislation in Prussia— Count Von Arnim Sick—The Ameri can Riflemen —The Byron Memorial —A Canadian Storm. London, July 17.—A special dispatch from Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette says the German Government has ordered that declarations of submission by Catholic clergymen to the new laws shall be kept strictly, the secret pur pose being to secure them from perse cution by ultramontanes. Count Von Arnim has arrived at Carlsbad. His health is in a precarious condition. The American Riflemen began shoot ing at Wimbledon to-day. In conse quence of a rain, the match for the American cup was postponed until Wednesday next. The first contest was for the St. Leger sweepstakes,2oo yards, each competitor seven shots, and a pos sible score is 35. There are several hundred competitors. Of the Ameri cans, Fulton has already scored 35; Gildersleve, 34; Yale, 33; Canfield, 31; and Dakin, 27. Shooting is still in progress. If Fulton’s score be equalled the match will be shot off next week. The meeting yesterday resolved to open public subscription for the erec tion of a statue to Lord Byron in some conspicuous place in London. Mr. Dis raeli presides. Speeches in favor of the project were made by Earl Malmes bury, Earl Stanhope and G. A. Sala.— Gen. Wilson stated, in behalf of Ameri cans, that they claimed a share in By ron and the light to contribute to the memorial. He was suie his country men would gladly furnish at least a quarter of the £IO,OOO, the estimated cost. Prussian naval authorities explain the presence of a Prussian vessel off Jutland. She was taking soundings previous to towing a dredge to Wii helmshafen. Minister Schenck has gone to Swe den and Norway for two months. Col. Hoffman remains in charge of the lega tion. Toronto, July 17. —There was a storm iu this section. At Belleville a man and boy were killed. At Harriston a steam planing mill and cabinet factory were struck and burned. Madrid, July 17.—The Carhsts, under Perula, are retreating upon the Ames cuai Mountains, toward Estella, pur sued by Generals Quesada, Tello and Lotna. Cuban News. Ha van i, July 14 ( via Key West, July 17). —The Spanish man-of-war Churriea chased a British schooner into a harbor of Hayti. The Haylien authorities found a contraband cargo on her. The British Consul, it is reported, is making an examination. Cuban insurgents have captured two forts near Baracoa, together with their guns. Capture of a Whale—German Politics. Queenstown, July 17. —The whale with which the steamship Scythia came iu contact off Rocke’s Point and dam aged her propeller has been brought in here by a tug. It was picked up off Ballycotton. Berlin, July 17.— After a close con test at Wurzburg, the Liberals have obtained a. majority in the electoral college, and it is now believed that the Liberal ticket will be victorious throughout Bavaria. FROM WASHINGTON. Fever Items—Postal Regulations for Smugglers. Washington. July 17.—A telegram re ceived at the Navy Department yester day, from Key West, reports two yellow fevet deaths, but no new cases. The Post Office regulations have been modified so that Custom House officers may examine foreign letters suspected of containing articles liable to duty ; suspected letters shall be held, the person to whom it is addressed notified, and the letter opened by him in the presence of a Custom House officer. Dispatches from various authorities deny the presence of yellow fever at Norfolk. Capt. S. T. Cushing succeeds Col. C. L. Kilburn as Commissioner of Sub sistence for the Department of the South. _ LEGAL. Suing a Newspaper for Libel—Testing tlie Amended Postal Law. Baltimore, July 17.—Suit has been brought in name of the Governor and other officers who compose the Board of Public Works against the American for libel. The American published an article reflecting on the action of the Board in the award of contract for the erection of a House of Correction. New York, July 17.—A curious case, involving the constitutionality of the amended postage law, has been brought iu the United States Circuit Court for this District. A gentleman offers a book for transmission to Phila delphia from this city, postage at old rates being affixed. Being refused, he applies for a mandamus to compel the Postmaster to receive the package. The argument of the applicant is that the Sundry Civtl Appropriation bill, into which the amendment in creasing the rate on third-class mail matter was inserted, was not a bill for raisiug revenue ; that the Senate has no constitutianal authority to provide measures for that purpose, that being the sole prerogative of the House ; and the postal amendment having originat ed with the Senate, and drafted on a bill which was not one for rev enue purposes, is unconstitutional. A Girl Elopes with a Married Man— She is Reclaimed by a Writ of Ha beas Corpus. New York, July 17.—A hearing was had in the Supreme Court, in chambers, this morning, on the writ of habeas cor pus sued out by George Allen, in the case of Miss Effie Thurston, who eloped with him from Fall River, Mass., a few days ago, and was here regained by her parents. The girl’s father testified that she was but seventeen years of age, and J. J. Hathaway, a lawyer from Fall River, proved that Allen has a wife liv ing. After a private conversation with Miss Thurston, Judge Barrett dismissed the writ, sayiug the young lady, though evidently infatuated with Alien, had agreed to return to her parents. He remarked that the taking out of the writ, under the circumstances, was one ot the most audacious acts he ever heard of. Immediately after the de cision of the Court was given, detective Thompson arrested Allen on a charge of adultery in Massachusetts, which is a criminal offense in that State. St. Louis, July 17. — The grand jury presented thirty more indictments of parties connected with the whiskey ring. Names are withheld. _A.UGUST.A_, G_A_.. SUNDAY" MORNING,, JURY 18. 1875. FROM NEW TORE. Failure—How a Race was Lost —An Invitation to Moody and Sankey. New York, July 17.—Herman Block, wholesale butcher, of Brooklyn, has failed. Liabilities £160,000. The father of Geo. D. Pamily, who rowed No. 4 in the Princeton boat race at Saratoga, states that his son did not have an epileptic fit, during the race, but fainted from exhaustion caused by the intense pailt of a bone-felon. A cable dispatch,signed by the Presi dent of the Round Lake Camp Meeting Association and other ministers, has been sent to Moody and Sankey in Lon don, inviting them to hold a ten days meetiug at Round Lake, near Troy, in September. Deaths here this week 980, an in crease of 147 over last week. lIOUP LA! Long Branch Races. Long Branch, July 17.—The second meeting at Monmouth Park termina ted to-day. The track was heavy. The first race was August stakes, value £SOO, added to sweepstakes of £SO each, p. p. for two years old, dash one mile. Three started. Parole took the lead at the start and won in a gallop, a length before Shirley who was sec ond ; Lady Clipper ten lengths away. Time 1:54. The second race was the Robins stakes, value £I,OOO added to sweep stakes of £SO each, p. p., for three year olds, two miles. Three started, Chesa peake. being the favorite over the field. The following shows the average of pools sold : Chesapeake, £I,OOO and £850; Ozark, £4OO and £350 ; Leader, £BO and £7O. Chesapeake took the lead at the start, Ozark running second and Leader Third. At the first half-mile Ozark took the lead by a half length and had increased it to three lengths at the end of the first mile, Chesapeake being second and Leader already out of the race. The second mile was run in the same order, Ozark winning, with out a touch of the whip, in three lengths, Chesapeake second and Leader third. Time, 3:52%. 3d Race —Consolation handicap, purse of £SOO, for beateu horses, all ages, mile and a half. Three started. Van dalit.e went to the front at the start, Lelaps second and Carverway behind. Coming into the homestretch the three were running on even terms, but Le laps lasted the longest and won by half a length—time, 2:47%. The fourth race was a steeplechase handicap for all ages, about three miles over a fair hunting course, purse, £6OO —£soo to the first, £75 to the second, and £25 to the third horse. Seven start ed. The race was won by Dead Head, Stanford second, Meteor third and Moonstone fourth. Audubon threw his rider in the second mile. Time, 5:54%. A match race was won by Venango over The Hoaxer, who was never head ed, by two lengths—time, 1:56%. TEMPERANCE. Settlement of a Vexed Question—A New Badge. Providence, July 17.—The thirty-first annual session of the National Division of North American Sous of Temperance closed this afternoon. A resolution was passed withdrawing the jurisdiction of the National Division'of Australia from three Grand Divisions in Victoria and South Australia, chartered under the authority of the National Division of Great Britain and Ireland, and empow ering the granting of a second National Division, the charter covering the colo nies of Victoria and South Australia and such other territory as may bo mutually recommended by the officers representing the National Divisions of North America, Great Britain and Ire land, and Australia. This was agreed to by the representative of the National Division of Great Britain and Ireland, and amicably ends a controversy which has vexed the Order for years. Anew badge to be worn in public was adopted, consisting of a triangle and star, the circle of fraternity enclos ing the world by the colors, red, white and blue, and the inscription—“ The World is Our Field.” The condition of the urder is reported excellent by the committee. Prohibition was endorsed as a living temperance issue. Minor Telegrams. Beaver, Utah, July 17. Deputy Marshal Cross Las arrived here witb P. Klingett Smith. Cross has been after him since June 25th, and found him in San Bernardino county, Cal. When found, Smith was willing to come and give all the testimony in his possession regarding the Mountain Meadow affair. Watertown, N. Y., July 17.—Jane Mulligan, nine years old,, was killed by lightning at Cape Vincent. Boston, July 17. —Fred. Floyd, chief clerk of the liquor license commission, has been arrested for forgery in obtain ing licenses. Chicago, July 17.—A balloon, with Professor Donaldson and reporter of an evening journal, was seen thirty miles north. The basket was dipping water. A schooner turned to help the balloon, which re-ascended and moved northward. New York, July 17.—The failure of T. J. Daly & Cos., tea merchants, is an nounced. Liabilities supposed to include no large amounts. Indianapolis, July 17.—Wm. Bridge man, who is supposed to be one of the men implicated in a recent attempted Express robbery and murder at Long Point, Ills., was arrested last night. The larger one of the two men is still at large. Louisville, July 17. —Col. P. B. Hunt, Supervisor of Internal Revenue, and C. W. Horton, Special Agent of the Treas ury, have arrived here, and, with Spe cial Agent Wheeler, will immediately commence a thorough examination into the affairs of the office here, which, meanwhile, has been closed. THE WAR WHOOP. Doings of the Sioux—They Make tlie Black Hills Uncomfortable. Omaha, July 17.—A Herald letter from the Red Cioud agency, dated 9th instant, states that a strong, well armed and equipped body of Uncapapa Sioux are on the war path in the Black Hills, with an avowed determination to cover the country with norses’ hoof tracks. From Indian sources we learn that they have had two encounters with white men, miners, and killed seven in one and three in another. A Religious Lock Out. Hamilton, Canada, July 17.—The trus tees of St. Andrew’s Church here have been empowered by the congregation to lock out Rev. Mr. Burnett, their pas tor, who has refused to enter the United Church along with them. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. A Commune Threatened—Wliat Too Much Puffing has Accomplished—The Cry for “ Work ’"—White vs. Black Laborers—Where is William Dugas Trammell ? —-A Phenomenon—The Rolling Mill Trouble—Odds and Ends. [Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, Ga., July 16, 1875. We are threatened with a repetition of some of the scenes that transpired in Paris during the dark days of the Commune. You remember how lavish ly the city prints reported the amount of improvements going on, the vast number of buildings being erected, the water works, etc. Well, the publication of those accounts has nearly resulted fatally. With the charming seductive ness of an immigrant agent, these high ly colored reports went through the land like a dose of salts, and the me chanic afar off bid his family good-bye, packed his tools and marked his valise to Atlanta; the young man from the country slung the plow lines over the nearest stump and scooted for Atlanta: the freedman dropped his hoe-handle and footed it to Atlanta, in fine, la borers of all kinds looked upon those accounts as a gilt-edged invitation to come and go to work, and flocked here to find plenty ahead of them and noth ing to do. Then the rolling mill diffi culty occurred as a sort of spice to the affair and labor was at a discount. If one set of hands agreed to work at £1.25 per day, another set steps in to do the work f'r£l per day. And from one dollar it was reduced to seventy-five cents, and there it stopped. Of course it was the freedman who took up the last bid, and the white man was left out in the cold. Now the cry comes wailing up from a thousand Anglo-Saxon throats, “work!” Yes, sir, there are to-day in the city of Atlanta a thousand honest, de serving skilled mechanics begging for work, whilst the bang of the hammer and the clash of the trowel iu the hands of freedmen is heard in every quarter. Avaricious contractors and builders, heeding not the cries for bread from the children of honest white mechan ics, give plenty of work to the igno rant negro because the ignorant negro will work for seventy-five cents a day ! The m gro must have a living. He is a full-blooded citizen, and to him be long all the rights and privileges of a freeman in this great and good land of ours. But for all of that he belongs on the farm. He belongs where it doesn’t require brains to handle a hoe or skill to shove a plow. He belongs where sense is not required in the performonce of labor, and not where he can by working for seventy-five cents a day take bread away from white men’s children. The negro is not wholly to blame. Hard work is his bane, his terror, his death. He sees where he can handle a trowel, shove a saw, or raise a hammer, instead of traversing the rows of a stubble field in the broil ing sun, and he goes for the trowel and hammer with a vengeance. Seventy five cents a day and ten hours work in town is heaven to him. Therefore he is not to blame for competition ootnpolo him. lu put his figures down to the lowest notch and he needs employ the cheapest (hang the skill) labor in order to make a few hundred dollars profit. The property owner is not to blame because times are too hard to pay a reasonable price to have his improvements made or his houses built, besides it is no business of his what kind of labor bis contractor puts to work. Therefore, it is the fault of the poor white man. He has no right to live, to have a wife and family, or to have, children to grow up to receive a “fancy education at the ex pense of the people.” And from this mass of starving mechanics ominous mutterings are heard, which threaten a storm. Already things are taklug a shape that forebodes trouble. A pledge signed by nearly every white mechanic in the city, refusing to trade with or deal in any manner with men who give work to negroes to the exclusion of whites, has been brought to the surface, and will perhaps open the eyes of flimy-hearted autocrats. The unemployed working man must be heard. He is speaking for his child ren and for his home. The appeal for work, work, work, ladens every breeze and pervades every quarter. It is work or starve, or something else. The time has come when the white mechan ic should act; but he must act coolly, with all fairness, and with that deter mination that springs from the respon sibility of having a family to support. The negro must go back to the corn and cotton field, where Nature intend ed him, and the white man must take his place at the forge, at the bench and at the mill. Contractors must loosen the grip of avarice, and property own ers must remember that the white man is in want of work. And all this must be done at once. Mechanics of other cities must shuu Atlanta. There isn’t half enough work for her owu mechanics, and by coming here you only make more angry a threatening, terrible, destructive cloud. A Wonderful Phenomenon. Last evening about 8 o'clock, just as the busy town became still enough to get out-doors and drink in the evening breeze, the northern sky was the the atro of beautiful and grand scenic effects. Skirting the horizon was a flaky festoon of clouds hanging be tween the blue sky and the city. Ever and anon the lightning, evidently far away, as the thunder could scarcely be heard, would flash, tinting for a second the edges of the cloud, presenting a picture truly sublime. For full a half hour did the lightning play behind the cloud, sometimes in one large flash like the burning of red fire on the stage, and sometimes with quick, jerky, forked flashes. Then the pendent fes toon began to mount higher, as if to give way to two dark clouds that sud denly loomed up, one from the north and the other from the northeast. They rose rapidly, and seemed to strug gle for supremacy. The northeast cloud was a wind cloud and the other contained lain. Rising like two giant monsters, growing blacker and more terrible in appearance at every stride, they terrified every beholder. There against the blue sky, the moon in the south throwing her bright rays full upon them, it was one of the grandest sights man ever beheld. The struggle for the mastery result ed in victory for the wind cloud, which like a full blooded race horse made one bold effort and rushed ahead. Then like a devil-fish it thrust out its many fingers as if reaching over the sky for all the bright little stars, and flattening its flat black belly over the blue vault until the whole sky seemed veiled with ’ the darkest saber of sombre night.— And as it flattened itself the air came rushing from it in great foroe, and so icy that it seemed fresh draughts from the frozen lips of old Boreas. For fif- teen minutes we were enveloped in darkness, and then the cloud with all its force spent began to roll back like a great curtaiu and then dissolved away. The rain cloud, waiting for its turn, then swiftly strode over the city and let fall its burden and seemed “like Niobe, all tears,” at the departure of its whilom companion. In half an hour from the first appearance of the clouds, the heavens were as blue as the skies of Italy, and Dian shone in all her mellow glory just as if nothing had occurred to mar her night’s pleasure or hide her face from a moonlight lov ing world. The Rolling Mill. This unfortunate institution, having gone through a regular rolling mill of trouble, is about to resume work. In deed, it is announced that work will commence Monday. The hands have been satisfied, by being paid a per centage of back pay, and are ready now to go to work with lighter hearts. There is some fear of the mill being forced into bankruptcy, which means that it will belong to the State Road.— The matter is considerably muddled, and its affairs are much entangled iu law and lawyers. Pencil Marrow. Just think of the luscious banana growing right under our uose! And yet there are several trees here iu good health and bloom. Seventy-five hands are at work on the cotton factory lot. The religious interest continues. The meetings at James’ Hall are progress ing favorably. The hum of the College Commence ment has subsided, and the girls will leave off education and put on their best looks for a long session of the domestic school. Roanoke. Josh Billings on Marriage. History holds its tongue as to who the pair wuz who first put on the silken harness, and promisod to work kind to it, thru thick and thin, up hill and down, and on the level, rain or shine, survive or perish, sink or swim, down or flute. But wotever they wuz they must have made a good thing of it, or so many of their posterity would not have harness ed up since and drove out. There is a great mcral grip to mar riage, it is the mortar that holds them together. But thar ain’t butadarn’tfew pholks who put their money in matrimony who could set down and give a good writ ten opinyuu why on earth tha come to du it. This is a grate proof that it is one uv them uatral kind of accidents that must happen, just as birds fly out ov their nests when they have feather enuff, without being able tu tell whi. Sum marry for buty aud never dis kover their mistake ; this iz lucky. Sum marry for money, and don’t see it. Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big for six months, aud then very sensibly cum to the conclusion that pedigree ain’t no better than skim milk. Sum marry because they have been histed somewhere else ; this iz a cross matefy, a bay and sorrel; pride may, in course of time, make it endurable. Sum marry for luv without a cent in their pocket, nor a friend in the world, nor a drop Of pedigree. Thia looko desperate, but it is the strength of the game. If marrying for love ain’t a success theu matrimony is a dead beat. Sum marry because they think witn men will be scarce next year, and live tew wonder how the crops holds out. Sum marry tewget rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two could play at and neither win. Sum marry the second time to get even, and find it a gambling game— the more they put down the less they take up. Sum marry to be happy, and not finding it, wonders where all the hap piness goes to when it dies. Sum marry they can’t tell why, and live tney can’t tell how. Almost everybody gets married, and it is a good joke. Sum think it over carefully fust and then set down aud marry. Both ways are light if they manage to hit the mark. Sum marry rakes to convert them. This iz a little risky, and it takes a smart missionary to do it. Sum marry coquetts. This is like busying a poor farm heavily mortgaged, and working the baluuee of your days trying to clear off the mortgage. Married life has its chances, aud this is what gives it its flavor. Every body loves to phool with the chances, because everybody expects to win. But I am authorized to state that every body don’t win. But, after all, married life is full as certain as dry goods business. No man can swear exactly where he will fetch up when he touches calico. No man can tell jist what calico has made up its mind to. do next. Calico don’t kno even herself. Dry goods of all kinds is the child of circumstances. Bum never marry, but this is just as risky ; the disease is the same with another Dame to it. The man who stands on the banks shivering and dassent, is more apt to ketdi cold than him who pitches his head fust in the river. There iz but few who never marry because they won’t —they all banker, and most of them starve with bread be fore them (spread on both sides) jist for the lack of grit. Marry young! iz my motto. I have tried it, and I know what I am talking about. If anybody asks you why you got martied (if "it needs be) teil him you don’; recollect. Mmiage is a safe way to gamble—if you win you win a pile, aud if you lose youdou’t lose anything, only the privi lege of living dismally alone, and soak ing jour own feet. Ttere is but one good excuse for a maniage late in life, and that is—a sec ond marriage. Up in a Balloon. Ceicago, July 17. —A special to the Tunis from Goshen, Ind., says, yester day morning,a balloon was seen passing ovfct that city in an easterly direction. It vuas high up iu the air and the par ties in it were cheering. Whether it was Donaldson or some other aeronaut is not known. FROM^IEMPHIH. The Waddy Thompson Case. Memphis, July 17. —Waddy Thomp son who has figured so extensively in several [habeas corpus cases in Missis sippi, arrived here in charge of the Sheriff. Owing to the illness of Thomp son, he was permitted to remain in the house of a lriend, in charge of an offi ce!, until Monday, when he will be br>ught before the Criminal Court for trill, he having forfeited his bond of £li,ooo for his appearance here some w<fcks since. LETTER FROM PARIS. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND ES TATES. The Grand Army of Paris—MacMa hon’s Review at Longchamps-Frauce Preparing for Revenge. [European Correspondence of the Constitu tionalist.] Paris, June 30, 1875. A stranger traveling from Liverpool to London is sure to observe with in terest the beautiful country that pre sents itself in every direction. Indeed, he will think that surely no country could be more beautiful. But let him not be too hasty in his conclu sions, for a trip further East and through the Northern section of La Belle France will likely convince him to the contrary. Iu England, the soil is largely devot ed to the cultivation of grasses, and at this season will be seen beautiful, broad, undulating fields, teeming with luxuriant growth. Here and there are clusters of small huts, thatched over with straw. Theso rude structures are occupied by the tillers of the soil. At intervals of great distance are to be seen the residences of the landlords— large, stately mansions, erected upon prominent localities, with handsome surroundings, and some presenting an tique appearauces. The monotony of broad fields is broken by intervening magnificent oak and elm forests. The country throughout is undulating, with how and then a range of hills of consid erable prominence and beauty. The laud, being owned by the wealthy few, is sparsely settled, aud far the greater portion of the population of England is to be found iu her manufacturing and commercial cities. In France the sceDe is different. You behold a country more beautifully di versified. Instead of broad, extensive fields, the eye is greeted on all sides with a country dotted over with num berless little cottages—some in valleys aud some beside beautiful meanderiug streams. Here you find every inch of the soil most skilfully cultivated, grow ing every variety of crops and iu the greatest abundance. Around every dwelling, too, will be seen flowers in profusion, evincing a care and atten tion not unequal to that bestowed upon the grains and grasses of the fields. All this presents a most beautiful pic ture, and, when compared with rural England, far more pleasing to behold. My early arrival in Paris enabled me to witness a most magnificent sight. The occasion was a review of tlie “Grand Army of Paris” before Presi dent MacMahon. “Longcliamps,” the famous Paris race course, lying just on the western border of Bois de Boulogne, was the place selected. The review was announced to take place at 3 p. m., but long before that hour the Avenuedes Champs Elysees, the broad and beau tiful thoroughfare leading to and from Bois de Boulogne, was literally packed with vehicles of every description, equestrians and pedestrians, on their way to witness the grand display. No less than 500,000 persons were present. The army, composed of artillery, in fantry and cavalry, and numbering near 75,000, had assembled on the vast plain at an early hour in the morning More favorable weatner for the occa sion could not have been had, the at mosphere being cool and bracing. At the appointed time a discharge of J several rounds from one of the batter ies served to announce the arrival of the President-Marshal and his staff Shouts of “Vive la Republique” were then heard from the vast multitude, that fairly shook the building in which ! I was seated. Couriers and staff offi cers were now seen, in their brilliant uniforms, galloping to and fro at light ning speed, carrying orders to the va rious commands. The President and staff having posted themselves, the re view begins. First comes the infantry iu columns of companies, marching in quick time, each regiment headed by a band, playing national airs as they pass. Their uniforms are composed of red pants, dark blue coats, and red caps trimmed with golden cord and surmounted with red pompons. This branch of the army is iu some respects inferior ; the men are nearly all young and small, and as yet with but little ex perieuee as soldiers. Their flashy uni forms and glittering chassepots, how ever, presented a most imposing spec tacle. Next comes the artillery, passing in review by batteries abreast, in full gal lop. This was truly a magnificent sight. Their movements were executed with a precision that showed long and careful training. The men are all large aud fine looking. The horses are of the celebrated Normandy breed, aud in the most excellent condition. Every thing, indeed, connected with this branch of the service appeared to be of the very best material, and presented a most formidable appearance. Three hundred of such batteries, when or ganized, will constitute the artillery of the French army—about 2,000 guns. Next, and last in order, is the cav alry, seen first away to the right, ap proaching amidst clouds of dust. On they come in columns of companies at full gailop, preserving their lines and distances with wonderful accuracy. The reflection of the sun’s rays upon the thousands of glitteriug helmets, cuirasses and drawn swords at times almost dazzles the vision. The sight is a grand one. Heading the column were the regiments of St. Cyr school, recog nized by their dark blue uniforms, bra zen helmets and crimson plumes. They are regarded by the French as “the fa vorites,” being the best drilled and finest looking body of men. Their approach is greeted with deafening cheers. Following in quick succession are the regiments of two other schools apparently equally as well drilled and making a display scarcely inferior to the former. This branch of the Grand Army, like the artillery, appeared to be wanting in nothing. The men are all fine looking, well proportioned, and their horses and equipments in the very best trim. Here ended the re view, certainly a grand sight and one, too, that seemed to gratify the French very much. The troops were marched back to their respective quarters and the vast crowd dispersed in every di rection through the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. There is no doubt but that the Mac- Mahou governmeut are bending their energies to place France upon a mili tary footing second to none. Under the present conscript law the number of her regular army exceeds that of any other nation in Europe, aud now time only is wanted within which to discipline the vast number of recruits and make of them a military force that even united Germany might well regard with no little feelings of uneasiness. In the face of such an extensive mili tary preparation it would hardly be safe to predict a long continuance of the peace of Europe. Apart from the loss of territory, it is but natural that -New Series—Vol. 3. No. 158. a country with so much national pride and with such a brilliant military re cord as that of France should avail herself of the very first opportunity to wipe out the disgrace of defeat. Upou the other hand Germany, aware of the ulterior object held iu view by France, is now desirous of inflicting" another and severer blow, in order to rid her self of any future trouble from this quarter. This wish, recent events show, was on the eve of being carried out, and was only prevented by the timely action of England, who, whether from interested motives or not, was unwilling’ to see France further shorn of her power. The action of other govern ments may, in the future as in the past, stave off temporarily the impending conflict, but that it will eventually come is hardly a question of doubt. Germany may yet find that the cost of acquiring, added to the expense of holding, Alsace and Lorraine,will more than counterbalance the profit derived from the acquisition. Duke. THE ENGLISH RAILWAY. Tlie Horrors of Close Compartments— Murder and Violence Invited—The Latest Case. As our readers generally know, our long passenger cars are not used on English or most of the continental rail ways. Instead of them they have car riages divided into compartments, each of which will hold eight or ten persons, the seats being arranged like those of a hack. This secures a certain degree of privacy, and when a first-class com partment has only one or two passen gers it is very roomy and comfort able, On the other hand, it may be very solitary and dangerous. " It is entered by doors on the side. — On the English roads the fares are col lected by stopping the train just outside of a town, while in France and other continental countries the conductor or guard, as he is called, walks along a narrow platform on the outside while the train is iu motion, collecting fares at the risk of his life. Should a pas senger in England be iu trouble of any kind, he can stop the train by pulling a cord, but a card which gives him this direction warns him that he will be se verely dealt with if he thus signals for insufficient cause. Then, too, the cord is likely to be out of order, as was the fact iu a ease which we shall describe. A few years ago, in England, a Mr. Briggs was traveling alone in a first class carriage, and was murdered aud robbed. The assassin left for this country, hut was arrested before he lauded in New York,-being iu a sailing vessel, while the police anticipated his arrival by following iu a steamer. He was taken home, tried, convicted, and hanged. Iu Hungary last year a wealthy man was assassinated nnder cir cumstances very like those which cost Mr. Briggs his life. Instances have not been wanting in Great Britain and on the Continent where insane passengers have attacked their fellow-travelers, or where ruffians have manifested great brutality. An example has late ly occurred which has created great excitement, from the high standing of the culprit. Col. Valentine Baker, of the Tenth Hussars, said to be an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales, on the 23d ult., got into a first-class carriage at Liphook, on the way to London. Only one other person was in the compartment, Miss Rebecca Kate Dickinson, a highly respectable young lady. They soon began an ordinary conversation. After a few minutes’ talk, the Colonel seated himself by Miss Dickinson, kissed her sorely against her will, and made some very insulting demonstrations, which so frightened her that she tried to ring the bell at tached to the alarm cord. It was not in working order, so that her only re course was to open the window, which she did with great difficulty, and scream for assistance. No one heard her cries. Meanwhile, her assailant was trying to pull her back. She broke from his grasp, opened the door, and stood on the small steps below the door during the rest of the journey. Her position was a very daugerous one, and her bonnet blew off. When the train stopped she was nearly ex hausted. The Colonel begged her to say nothing, as she did not know what trouble she would bring on him, and apologized for “frightening” her. She had him arrested and he was put under heavy bonds. A preliminary exami nation was held the next day, which resulted in the postponement of the case. The Colonel said that he was very sorry he had given any offense to the lady, and that she had exaggerated the facts under the influence of alarm, though he would not charge her with any intentional misrepresentation. He is evidently iu a very unpleasant situa tion, aud ie likely to pay dearly for his reckless brutality. The situation of Miss Dickinson is hardly more agreea ble, for she lias been subjected to a most undesirable publicity. The occur rence is a foroible illustration both of the dangers of the solitary carriage system and of the morals of the army. Mi. Stone aud His “Remarks.” [Christian Intelligencer.) Mr. Stone, a well-known aud excel lent Christian gentleman, belonging to one of the Murray Hill churches iu New York city, was up in tlie country one Summer, and learning that an evening prayer meeting was in progress at tlie village church, walked iu aud took a seat in the back part of the room. The brother iu the conducting the meeting, observing the stranger, left his seat and coming to Mr. Stone, said to him: “ What is your name ?” “ My name is Stone.” “ Where are you from ?” “ I am from the city of New York.” “Are you one of the Lord's people.” “I hope that I am,” answered Mr, Stone, with becoming humility. The presiding genius, satisfied with the an swer to his catechism, returned to his elevated seat, and at the end of the hymn arose and said : “Will brother Stone, from New York, favor us with a few remarks ?” Mr. Stone, willing to do what he could, made a few practical observa tions to the best of his ability. No sooner had he sat down than the presi ding elder rose and said : “Will brother Stone, of New York, ask the Lord to bless his feeble remarks ?” Undismayed by this commentary on his speech, Mr. Stone offered prayer, aud the meeting proceeded as usual. Not Guilty. A Harrison avenue woman made her appearance before the Recorder yesterday and demanded a warrant for the arrest of a neighbor for slander. “What did she say?” asked his honor. “She said I stole her fine comb.” “And you didn’t?” “As there is a sky above us I didn’t! I’ll take my solemn oath that we haven’t had a comb of that sort in our house for fourteen years!”— Detroit Free Press. TRUTH WILL OUT. Jakey, His Ma, and the Sunday School Teacher. [San Diego World.] Jakey crept up and sat down by bis mother’s side as she was looking out of the window yesterday morning. After a few minutes of silence, he broke out with— “ Ma, ain’t pa’s name Jacob ?” “ Yes, Jakey.” . “If I was called young Jacob, he’d be called old Jacob, wouldn’t he?” “ Yes, my dear ; what makes you ask such a question as that ?” r “Nothing, only I heard something about him last night.” Mrs. Watts suddenly became inter ested. “ What was it, my son ?” “Oh, nothing much; something the new Sunday school teacher said.” “ You oughn’t to have anything your mother don’t Jakey,” eoaxingly plead ed Mrs. Watts. “Well, if you must go poking into everything, I’ll tell you. The ne.v teacher says to me, ‘What’s your name, my little man ?’ and when I said Jacob, he asked me if I over heard of old Jacob, and I thought that was pa’s name, so I told him I guess I had, but I’d like to hear what he had to say about him. He said old Jacob used to be a little boy once, just like me, and had bean-shooters and stilts, and used to play hookey and get licked, and used to tend cattle—” “ Yes, I believe he said his father used to keep a cow,” interrupted Mrs. AVatts. “And he hogged his brother out of something or other, and he got struck with a young woman named Rachel, (Mrs. Watts became still more interest ed,) and was ‘going to marry her, but her old man fooled him and made him marry his other daughter; but pa said he guessed he wasn’t nobody’s fool, and married them both.” “The wretch !” ejaculated Mrs. Watts, shaking her list at Mr. Watts’ slippers. “He said old Jacob had a dozen or* two children and ” “Did I marry for this,” exclaimed Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing her self on the sofa, making ali the springs hum like a set of tuniug-forks. Jakey said he didn’t know what she married him for. butshe wouldn’t catch him telling her anything very soon again, if she was going to kick up such a row about it, and went out of the room feeling highly indignant. When Mr. AVatts came home he met Mrs. AVatts in the hall, with a very red face, who pointed her linger at him and jerked out the word “villain!” and asked him if he could look his innocent wife and infant son in the face. Mr. AVatts showed that he could by staring very hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs. AVatts. “I know where you go when you stay away from home,” continued Mrs. Watts ; “I’ve heard the story of your perfidy. Can’t you tell mo how Ra chel and that other woman is to-day ?” she asked with forced calmness. Mr. Watts confessed his inability to en lighten her on the health of the ladies about whom she was so solicitious. Mrs. AVatts said that she always knew that something like this would occur, and ended with another hysterical in terrogation after the children’s health, but not receiving any satisfactory an swer she threw herself on the floor again and sobbed and asked herself a few times why she had ever left her mother’s house, and then she called Jakey to her and told him that she would have to live alone in a little house, and be very poor and maybe not have enough to eat, which made that hopeful utter a series of most doleful howls and hasten down to the kitchen to examine the larder. Later in the day Mrs. Lewis hap pened in and Mrs. Watts confided to her the story of her husband’s villainy. Of course Mrs. Lewis was very proper ly shocked, and tried to impress upon Mrs. AVatts the necessity of being phi losophical, and left with the observa tion that she had never yet seen a man with a mole on his nose who did not, sooner or later, prove to be a rascal. Towards evening Jakey was sitting on the steps, having recovered from his grief of the morning, when the Sun day-school teacher chanced to pass by, and Jakey hailed him with: “Say, mister, I told my mother what you told about old Jacob last night, and there’s been the old scratch to pay ever since. Ma called pa a villain and a bloody thief, and tried to break her back on the sofa, and said there wouldn’t be anything to eat, and there ain’t been such a time since pa offered to kiss aunt Jane good-bye. Maybe you had better drop in and see the old lady, mister; she ain’t so bad as she was.” The teacher, after some pressing, accompanied Jakey into the house, and was presented to Mrs. AVatts in the parlor. Mrs. AVatts began to thank him for disclosing her husband’s perfidy, but he disclaimed having done anything of the kind, and after considerable talk ing, it was discovered that Jakqy had misapplied the story of the patriarch Jacob. Airs. A\ 7 atts started right out to hunt up Mr. Watts, and when she found him, astonished him again by being as loving as she had been distant. Jakey is contented in the fact that there is no immediate prospect of a lack of supplies in the family, and Airs. AVatts would be perfectly happy if she could only shut Mrs. Lewis’ mouth. The Free Press says that the follow ing rumors prevailed in Detroit just after the tornado : “That a house was moved twelve blocks and not damaged; that an old woman was blown four miles; that a boy had his ears blown off; that a horse had his tail blown off; that a cow was carried up into a tree; that a fence-post was carried ten miles; that a cat had her fur blown clear offc of her; that a man had his boots blown off, and that a brick-yard was moved a full half mile without tearing down the kiln.” A man was recently accused in Paris of having stolen a pair of trousers from a dealer in the temple. There were several witnesses, but the evi dence was meagre, and so the accused was acquitted. He was told that he might go “without a stain on his char acter;” but there he stood motionless. At length he leaned over the desk, and whispered : “The fact is, sir, Ido not like to move till the witnesses have left the court.” “Whyis that?” “Because sir, I am now wearing the trousers which I stole.” The newspapers state that a well known banker ip Paris has absconded, leaving a large deficit behind. Mrs. Partington thinks it was very good of the poor man to leave it, when he might have got off clear with everything. The First Baptist Church of San Francisoo, the oldest ecclesiastical edi fice in that city, has been sold for a Chi nese opmm den.