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Old Series—-Vol. 25. No. 122.
SUNDAY CONSTITUTIONALIST.
The attention of advertisers is called
to the large edition of The Constitu
tionalist which will be issued to
morrow morning. We always print
nearly twice the number that morning
that we do during the week, as the de
mand requires it. The Sunday paper
goes into almost every household in
Augusta and for miles around the city.
No better day could be selected to pub
lish advertisements.
The report of the Department of Ag
riculture upon our Wheat Crop is brief
but interesting.
Spain has again resolved upon relig
ious toleration. The world cares little
about what that stupid country resolves
upon.
The Abbottsford, one of the few
American steamers flying our flag be
tween Europe and the United States,
has been wrecked. The vessel w r eut
ashore and finally, as Byron puts it—
“ Heeled to port
And settled in an instant—limp in short.”
The Cotton Brokers’ Convention did
a heavy days work yesterday. Phelps
was re-elected President, and some im
portant matters passed upon by resolu
tion aud remark. Augusta was selected
as the next place for meeting.
The British House of Commons has
a Wendell Phillips on its hands. His
name is Plimsll, and Plimsall rises
and makes demand “in the name of
God.” Whether God has delegated
Plimsall to make such a demand is
another thing. At this distance Plim
sall sounds very like a humbug.
According to an Atlanta paper Judge
McCay has actually resigned. Mr.
Bleckley has declined to take his place
on the ground that the salary is less
than his practice brings him, and the
field is now open to Mr. Hope Hull, of
Augusta, who seems to be the coming
Supreme Judge. The Governor has
made a fine selection.
It will be seen by our special from
Atlanta that the South Carolina Rail
road was yesterday forced into the
pooling system. By one construction
of an old arrangement, President Ma
grath is obliged to remain in until old
business is settled up. There is a good
deal of muddle about the whole thing,
and if the reader can see through it by
reading the matter elsewhere publish
ed we have no objection.
We deeply regret to publish the fact
that the yellow fever is ragiug in a vi
olent form at Fort Barancas. This Fort
is nine miles above Pensacola, and a
regular military place. By a special to
the Atlanta Herald, it is announced that
eleven cases prevailed there that day.
Our coast ports should redouble vigi
lance, and all points where it has pre
vailed in former years should take the
most extraordinary sanitary precau
tions.
The Charlotte Observer announces
the appearance of Gen. LongßTßEET—
there for the purpose of consulting
Gen. D. H. Hill upon some points of
matter contemplated for his forthcom
ing book. “Gen. Lonstreet’s beard,”
it says, “is now gray. Soldiers who
knew him during the war say that then
it was black and very long, extending
almost to his waist. He now wears the
Burnside whiskers, moustache a"d side
beard. He is said to be not so large as
he was during the war, and he is repre
sented as being very much changed
otherwise in his personal appearance."
We publish such selections as we
found yesterday in the Georgia papers
upon the growing crops. There has
been no rain of any consequence in the
State in ten or twelve days. Immedi
ately arouud Augusta, in Richmond
and the adjoining counties, corn is suf
fering for rain, and will be greatly cut
off unless it comes to its relief in five
or six days. Cotton has not as yet, we
think, been damaged to that extent
but it would quickly recover. Grass,
too, begins to look withered, gardens
are dying and com firing at the bottom.
At the moment of writing to-night the
heat is intense, with no indications of
rain.
The great speech of Senator Nor
wood, which we published iu full yes
terday morning, ought to be univer
sally read. It came up to the full stan
dard and measure of the truest elo
quence. Says the Covington Star: “On
Tuesday, at 4 p. m., the Alumni address
was delivered by the Hon. Thomas M.
Norwood, United States Senator from
Georgia, on the results of the late war
between the States. He spoke two
hours. It was the grandest oration we
ever heard. It was ornate and elegant,
even to the very limit of the beautiful.
To quote the language of Dr. Potter,
‘He pleased usjwith humor unique, and
thrilled us with eloquence sublime.’ It
as far excelled the frail efforts of com
mon men as the grandest circling
storms surpass in power the breath
that escapes in sighs from the lips of
disconsolate beauty. Georgia may well
be proud of her brilliant statesman;
Emory of her noble son. We wish
every true Georgian could have heard
it. It is an opportunity that comes
but once in a life time.”
ahe Yellow Fever at Fort Barancas,
Florida.
[Special Telegram to the Herald ]
Pensacola, July 22.—Two prominent
physicians who were sent to Fort Ba
rancas this morning have returned and
officially reported to the Mayor of this
city seventeen cases of yellow fever,
making eleven new cases since yester
day, one of them being black vomit.
Every avenue is guarded to prevent its
reaching Pensacola. No fears are en
tertained here. Sandy Mebtin.
ctlic Jails ffinmlifntioiialM.
THE POOL CONVENTION.
Tlie South Carolina Railroad Forced
luio It.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1875.
The Pooling Convention was to-day
concluded. Result, the South Carolina
Railroad was forced to pool both local
aud through freights. The committee
| said that President Magrath had
ground to assume the position lately
held by him, but the report of the Au
gusta committee, literally construed,
made it obligatory on him to pool. He
says he is forced to maintain pool rates
until the old business is settled, and
the Convention will unite against him
if he longer refused. Clarke.
THE COTTON BROKERS’ CONVEN
TION.
Selection of Officers.
White Sulphur Springs, Va., July 23.
There is a full attendance aud quite an
audience, including ladies. The min
utes were read and approved. The
regular business, the nominations for
President, Vice President and seven
directors, was called for. John Phelps
was elected President without a dis
senting voice, amid applause. The
nominations for Vice President were
Stephen Harrison, of New York; A. F.
Herring, of Augusta, Ga.; and Chas. A.
Wessen, of New York. Mr. Harrison
was elected on the first ballot. After
some ballotings the following were
elected directors : E. C. Stone, Galves
ton ; W. L. Trenholm, Charleston, S. C.;
Henry Hall, Mobile, Alabama; J. W.
Lathrop, Savannah, Georgia; W. A.
Goodwin, Memphis, Tennessee ; J. F.
Wheless, Nashville, Tenn.; and W. C.
Reynold, of Norfolk, Va. Addresses of
thanks were made by each successful
candidate present. A resolution that
the President appoint a committee of
three on the insecurity of bills of la
ding was adopted. The President
named Wheless, of Nashville, Whit
lock, of New York, and Pinckney, of
Charleston.
Mr. Estlin, of New Orleans, moved
tnat the Convention recommend to
Congress the early completion of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad and the ac
ceptance of the proposition made by
Col. T. A. Scott. Adopted without dis
cussion.
Mr. Pinckney, of Charleston, moved
that two grades be established in ad
dition to those adopted at the last
Convention, to be known as middling
fair and fair, aud that the Committee
on Classifications of New York be re
quested to put up the same and for
ward to the other exchanges.
Mr. Johnson, of Savannah, moved
that all Cotton Exchanges represented
in the Convention, should account as
official use figures of the next crop
statement to be compiled by the com
mittee appointed from the National Ex
change for that purpose. Adopted.
The Convention then received the re
port of the Committee upon the plan
pursued by the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange to secure correct information
and make up of official crop statement
for 1874-’5. It was favorably received,
and resolved to adopt the same plan
for National Cotton Exchange reports
in future.
The report of the committee upon
the definition of false and fraudulently
packed cotton and mixed cotton was
received. False and fraudulently
packed cotton was defined as such
bales as may contain any foreign sub
stance ; water-packed bales, or bales
containing damaged cotton in the in
terior without indication ; such dam
age upon the exterior of bales and such
bales as are plated or composed of
good cotton upon the exterior and de
cidedly inferior cotton in the interior
of the bales, in manner not to be de
tected without opening the bales. This
definition was unanimously adopted
and made official. It was moreover
resolved that reclamation upon such
cotton, to be valid, must be made within
one hundred days of arrival and be pre
sented to sellers at point of shipment
within thirty days thereafter. The
same committee reported the following
definition: Mixed packed cottons where
such bales as contaiu more than one
quality of cotton of lower quality
being so situated in the bale that no
design or false or fraudulent packing
appears, the difference, however, in
qualities must be equal at least to one
half of the grade. In the bales sold,
low middling and above, and one full
grade bales sold as below low middiiug.
This was adopted and made official.
There was an evening session at
which the subject of locating the Na
tional Cotton Convention was brought
forward.
The committee was in favor of Au
gusta, Ga., and the report was adopted,
but as no President or director was
elected from that place the possibility
of such in obtaining the charter was
pointed and by Mr. C. W. Rowland, of
Cincinnati, who made a motion that the
Executive Council authorized the
change of the domicil fixed by the
vote of the covcntion in ease such a
contingency arise. This was adopted
unanimously without discussion. Mr.
Rowland also made a motion that the
Executive Council be instructed to ob
tain the charter and provide a seal for
the National Cotton Exchange Associa
tion. Adopted unanimously.
OI R WHEAT CROP.
Report o.’ the Agricultural Depart
ment upon State Averages.
Washington, July 23. —The returns
of the Department of Agriculture for
July 1 show the condition of Spring
and Winter wheat together at about 82
per cent, of an average. Winter wheat,
including the California, averages 74
and Spring wheat 96. The Spring wheat
States in the Northeast and Northwest
are generally iu high condition. Of the
Winter wheat area the South Atlantic
and Gulf States are generally above
the average, but in the Middle States
the condition is very low, New York
ranging down to 45. West of the Alle
ghanies the prospect is better, the
State averages being between 71 iu
Ohio and 95 in lowa. California re
ports Winter wheat at 76 and Spring
wheat at 55.
FIRE EXTINGUISHER ACCIDENT.
Explosion of a Building of Burning
Oil.
Newark, Ohio, July 23.— The build
ing erected for the purpose of testing
i the fire extinguisher, while being satu
rated with oil, exploded from prema
turely taking fire, terribly burning
D. C. Winegardaer, Mayor, Hon. J. B.
Jones, Chas. Hamilton, Street Commis
sioner, a bridge constructor, and 15 or
2Q others, some thought fatally.
AUGUSTA. GiA... SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 24. 3 875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
Ur. MeCosli ou International Union-
Alliance Resolution Adopted.
London, July 23.—Dr. McCosh, Presi
dent of Princeton College, presided over
the Presbyterian Council. He made a
speech in which he eloquently traced
the progress of the idea in favor of
union. He described bis original sug
gestion at Philadelphia in regard to it,
aud the cordial reception of the scheme
in America which culminated in the
success of 1873, when a meeting of the
Evangelical Alliance, such as was only
possible in the United States, was held.
This led to a conference between dis
tinguished men who declared the ac
complishment of the scheme one of the
desires of their heart. With regard
to the Constitution he might say that
the Council had agreed to take the
consequences of the Reformed Church.
The objects of the alliance were set
tled. The Council would consider the
question of the general interest of the
communtyand seek the welfare of the
weak and oppressed churches, collect
and distribute information about the
church and entertain all subjects con
nected with the work of evangeliza
tion. Resolutions favoring an alliance
were unanimously passed.
The Constitution adopted by the
Presbyterian Council has been made
public. The name given the new Union
is Alliance of the Reformed Churches
throughout the world. All churches
are included which hold the Presbyte
rian system and creed. The preamble
of the Constitution recites that the ob
jects of the alliance which are to dem
onstrate the unity of belief among
Protestants, organize mission work to
promote educational and social reports,
and oppose infidelity and religious in
tolerance.
Great Floods in England.
London, July 23. —The waters of the
river Neva at Peterborough are from
15 to 20 feet above ordinary level, and
the current has increased in velocity
to 16 and 20 miles an hour. Last night
the rise was so sudden that bedrooms
in buildings along the river were flood
ed and sleeping inmates barely saved
their lives. Four thousand acres of
grazing land are flooded between Earith
and Denberg and 3,000 cattle are de
prived of pasturage, 'the water is three
and four feet deep on 4,000 acres of
land near Whittlesey. No such flood
has been seen in that section of country
for fifty years.
A British Wendell Phillips—Plimsall
at Full Length—The Shipping Bill
and Murder.
A protest placed by Mr. Plimsall on
the table of the House of Commons
last night is published. In it Plimsall
says: “I protest in the name of God
against the delay of the Shipping bill.
Although the bill itselt is an atrocious
shame there is enough humanity aud
knowledge in the House to change it
into a good measure.” He denounced
the present laws against breach of con
tract, which leave sailors who have un
knowingly agreed to sail in unsea
worthy ships the -alternative of the
goal or death, and continues: “I charge
the Government with willingly and un
willingly playing intu the hands of the
maritime murderers, iuside and outside
the House, to secure the continuance of
the present murderous system. I de
sire to unmask that the villains who
sit in this House are fit representatives
of the more numerous but not greater
villains outside. I demand that the
bill be proceeded with. Failing in this,
I lay upon the heads of the Premier
and his colleagues the blood of all who
perish next Winter from preventable
causes, and denounce against him and
them the wrath of God.”
The Central Press report of the
scenes in the House over the shipping
bill says it was remarked in the lob
bies that there was much method in
Mr. Plimsall’s madness. The outburst
was apparently prearranged. Mr. Plim
sall came to the House with his valise
and was prepared to go to prison. He
has been in the library of the Commons
to-day searching for precedents. He
persists in his refusal to withdraw his
remarks. A tremendous scene is ex
pected when the subject comes up again
next Thursday.
The House of Commons has passed
the Canada Copyright bill.
Alexander and William Collie.
London, July 23.—Alexander and
William Collie, who were committed to
Newgate in default of $40,000 bail on a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses, secured the necessary bonds
and were released.
Germany and tlie Centennial.
Berlin, July 23.—The list of German
exhibitors at the Philadelphia Centen
nial Exhibition has been officially
closed. The number of those who in
tend to exhibit in the art department is
800. The large manufactories on the
Rhine, and in Westphalia and Saxony,
will be specially represented. An Im
perial Commissioner has been appoint
ed to obtain more room for the German
Department in the exhibition building.
Strike of Austrian Weavers.
Vienna, July 23. —The strike of the
weavers at Brunn has ended, a com
promise having been effected between
the strikers and their employers.
Madrid, July 23.—The Constitutional
Commitiee adopted an article estab
lishing religious toleration, by a vote of
22 to 8.
London, July 23. The Horne Rule
members have abandoned the intention
of attending the Home Rule banquet at
Dublin, because the Convent Bill, which
they oppose, is expected to come up at
that time.
THE STEAMSHIP ABBOTTSFORD.
Into Seven Fathoms and a Total
Wreck.
London, July 23. —The steamship
Abbottsford, which went ashore in
Ceremmus bay, keeled over at 1 o’clock
this a. m., and her stern sunk in seven
fathome of water. The vessel is a com
plete wreck.
Philadelphia, July 23.— The Ab
bottsford was fully insured in English
and French companies. The cargop,
which was large, was insured in this
country and England. The City of
Limerick, which takes the Abbotts
ford’s place in the American line, leaves
Liverpool Wednesday next.
Philadelphia, July 23. — The agents
of the steamship Abbottsford are in re
ceipt to-day of a cable dispatch stating
that the superior Court had reversed
its decision of the lower court iruthe
collision case of the steamer Abbotts
ford vs- the steamer Indus, and had de
cided in favor of the Abbottsford.
lowa Citt, la., July 23. The cooking
tanks of Close & Sons’ paper mill ex
ploded, killing five men. Two were
blown over houses and across the
street, and two into the river or burned
up. Jjo3s, a quarter of a million.
FROM WASHINGTON.
General News from tlie Federal Cap
Hal.
Washington, July 23. —Mrs. General
Merritt is here. She is the woman who
claimed being outraged on the tug in
New York harbor. She is a notorious
confidence woman.
The Government has purchased, at
New Orleans, the steamer Planter, a
small boat drawing but four feet of wa
ter, but strongly constructed. She will
be properly armed and manned, aud
sent to the Rio Grande for duty on that
river, to prevent Mexicans crossing
into Texas and running off cattle. The
Planter has been ordered to Mobile,
and Lieutenant-Commander D. C. Kells
detached from the iron-clad Cauonicus
and sent to that city to take command
of the new vessel. It is said that one
or two other steamers of similar char
acter will be purchased and fitted out
to act with the Planter in the suppres
sion of Mexican depredations.
. The Postmaster General has adver
tised routes 30,093 between New Or
lean and Vicksburg. 30,094 between St.
Francisville and Vicksburg; bids to
close September 2, and to be opened
September 4 ; contracts to run from
October Ist, 1875, to June 30, 1878.
Information has been received at the
Indian Bureau from Fort Marion, Fla .
that Lean Bear, one of the Cheyenne
prisoners confined at that fort, has be
come insane, and an application has
been made to have him sent to the
Government Insane Asylum near this
city. This is the same Indian who
attempted suicide on the route to
Florida under the recent order to send
the families of the prisoners to them.
Directions have been given that one
wife to each prisoner and the children
under 12 years of age be forwarded.
BOLD BANK ROBBERY.
Safe Blown Open With Nitro-Glyce
rine.
Lewiston, Me., July 23. —The Nation
al Bank of Winthrop was burglarized.
Vaults and safe of savings bank open
ed. Loss unknown.
The robbery of the National Bank
was a bold operation. The safes were
blown open by nitro-glycerine, as is
supposed, there being no indications of
powder. There were three distinct ex
plosions, all of which were heard by
several persons. The robbers left
within ten minutes of the last explo
sion, which was so severe as to blow
out all the windows in the front part of
the bank and cause a general smash up
inside. The contents of the main safe
were so badly mutilated and so many
fragments were left behind that it is
thought the amount realized by the
robbers could not have been large.
The capital stock of the bank is one
hundred thousaud dollars, and the
amount of the deposits in the Savings
Bank was abouut one hundred thou
sand dollars. The safes of both insti
tutions were rifled of their entire con
tents. The standing of the bank, the
directors say, will not be impaired. A
dispatch says four men have been ar
rested on suspicion near Bethel. As
the distance from here is about forty
miles it is doubtful if they could have
got so far in the time they had.
Failure of Chicago Wheat Merchants.
Chicago, July 23. —The rapid rise in
wheat the past few days has resulted
in much excitement among commission
dealers, and a few failures of minor im
portance have been reported to-day.
Baldwin & Storie, who do an extensive
commission business both here and in
Milwaukee, have suspended. Mem
bers of the firm state that the suspen
sion is only temporary, and due entire
ly to the failure of country dealers on
the Board to meet their liabilities.
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Minor Telegrams.
Cincinnati, July 23. —A. J. Cochran
and Thomas Edmonds have been com
mitted, at Greenup, Tils., for the mur
der of engineer Eamos in the late at
tempt at express robbery.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 23.— J.
Dougherty, of Philadelphia, was drown
ed while bathing here.
New Orleans, July p.3. —Auditor Clin
ton has resigned, to take effect Decem
ber 15, 1875. Kellogg, in accepting the
resignation, declares lie never for a mo
ment believed Clinton dishonest.
Chicago, J uly 23.—The trotter Bodine
has gone lame.
Tlie Origin of tlie Sexes.
Aristophanes, the funny man of clas
sic Greece, gives tlie following myth :
“ Once upon a time a man had three
sexes aud a double nature ; besides
this, he.was perfectly round, and had
four hands and four feet, one head,
with two faces looking opposite ways,
set on a single neck. When these crea
tures pleased, they could walk as men
do now, but if they wanted to go faster,
they would roll over and over with all
their four legs in the air, like a tumbler
turning summersaults ; and their pride
and strength were suc h that they made
war upon their gods. Jupiter resented
their insolence, but hardly liked to
kill them with thunderbolts, as the
gods would then lose their sacrifices.
At last he hit upon a, plan. ‘I will cut
them in two,’ he said, ‘so that they shall
walk upon two legs instead of four.
They will then be only half as insolent,
but twice as numerous, and we shall
get twice as many sacrifices.’ This was
done, and the two halves are contin
ually going about looking for one an
other: and if we mortals (says Aristo
phanes, with a comic air of apprehen
sion.) are not obedient to the gods,
there is a danger that, we shall be split
up again, and shall hf.ve to go about in
basso-relievo, like those figures with
only half a nose which you may see.
sculptured on our columns.”
Nothing excels in wonder the bridge
system of the West, nil built up since
the war. The Missouri is bridged at
St. Charles, (6,535 feet long.) Boone
ville, Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchi
son, St. Joseph. ($1,000,000,) and Omaha.
The cost of these bridges was about
$11,000,000, or $3,000,000 less than the
single bridge and approaches at St.
Louis. The Ohio is bridged eight times
below Pittsburg, at a loost of $16,000,-
000. The Mississippi js bridged at St.
Louis, Hannibal, Keokuk, Burlington,
Clinton, Dubuque, Winona, La Crosse,
St. Paul, and other places, at a cost of
$25,000,000. It is state:! that the bridges
of the United States built since the war
have cost $150,000,000. The great
bridges at Saybrook, Albany, Havre de
Grace and Buffalo do not bear com
parison with the bridge system of the
West.
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Jt is recorded fhaf M- Thieps opce
had his hat knocked (off by some fix
, tures in front of a shop in Paris, and
he was so pleased witli the fact that he
was too tall for once in his life that he
often revisited the shop and became a
regular customer.
LETTER FROM ST. MARY’S.
Very Flattering Compliments—True
Democratic Principles—Glimpse of
St. Mary’s,
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.l
Allow me to pen a few thoughts in re
gard to your paper, subject at your
discretion to publication or deposit in
the waste basket or in the flames. Be
sides, if agreeable, your correspondent
will add some local items that will pos
sibly prove of interest to yourself and
readers in connection with some general
views, appertaining to the current
events and men of the day.
Your journal is the paper of the
South aud contains a greater variety of
interesting reading matter of a miscel
laneous nature than than any other
within the purview of the writer’s
knowledge. The editorials exhibit the
highest order of ability and display the
master hand of the celebrated author of
the celebrated Southern household song
“My Maryland.” The political princi
ples it espouses aie the only ones that
will ensure’ victory to the Democratic
standard and achieve for our manacled
Southern land emancipation from the
direst thraldom that ever befell an ill
fated and wronged people. No sacri
fioe-of principle for tlie sake of “poli
cy” will relieve the country, however
plausible and attended with* the pres
tige of distinguished civic and military
names. Your advocacy of an eternal
opposition to the odious Reconstruction
measures of Greeley, Thad. Stevens &
Cos., exalts you in the estimation of ev
ery true lover of the South, as well as
perpetuation of the system of govern
ment based upon the immutable princi
ples of genuine Democratic liberty and
the Constitution, purged of such foul
usurpations and impurities as the so
called Constitutional Amendments. —
With a “new departure” engineered
within Democratic ranks, by such
sophistical celebrities as Ben Hill,
in the Alfriend interview, to
a successful issue, such as forever stig
matized the annals of 1872, we may
bid an eternal farewell to any hopes of
a future deliverance, and the chains of
a consolidated despotism will clank in
our ears as well as those of future gen
erations. The time will have arrived
for the future Gibbon of America to
chronicle the decline and fall of the
last expiring effort of humanity for the
vindication of the right of self-govern
ment. Contest, Mr. Editor, every inch
of ground looking in the direction of an
ignominious yielding of the only true
cardinal principles of the founders of
the Government, genuine Jeffersonian
Democracy. The peerless “ Sage of
Liberty H ill ” stands an unyielding ex
ponent of Constitutional principles in
their purity, and his attenuated figure
is like a beacon star of unfading lustre
in a night of gloomy darkness and im
pending doom ! The other two noble
sods of Georgia’s proud eminence, Her
schel Y. Johnson and Charles J. Jen
kins, with him constitute an illustrious
trio, destined to an immortality of
fame for their advocacy of sound and
imperishable doctrines, as well as for
their other pre-eminent qualities and
qualifications. Ail honor to them, and
may they be spared to do valiant ser
vice in the cause of truth and oppress
ed humanity, and see the day once
more dawn auspiciously aud gloriously
upon this benighted land, as a trib
ute to their Cato-like adhesion to the
spirit that animated Carroll, JeffersoD,
and Madison and Patrick Henry and
George Washington. “Milord, of the
Ninth,” is again on the war path for
the sake of leading and beguiling
Bourbonism into another fatal ambus
cade, such as that of 1872, but the
writer of this trusts such bold defend
ers of the right as yourselves, Messrs.
Editors, and the shining galaxy of in
tellectual and political luminaries just
referred to, will be sufficiently alert
and powerful to counteract all his per
nicious influences tending to subvert
the Democratic party and debauch
Democratic integrity. The Constitu
tionalist deals the blows of tne battle
axe of Richard Coeur DeLeon upon
the walis of the Castle Deßoeuf of er
ror, aud is the cynosure of all the
watchful patriots of the State, the vigi
lant custodians of the priceless trea
sures of American freedom, as it was
transmitted to us, unimpaired, from
the hands of our immortal Revolution
ary Sires. The writer of this was a
constant subscriber for the Constitu
tionalist under the brilliant leadership
of Gardner and Nisbet, giants of “the
fourth estate of the realm,” but he
does not hesitate to declare that uuder
its present regime if has never been
surpassed, and constitutes a most glori
ous and memorable epoch in the His
tory of the Georgia press.
Some jottings in reference to St.
Mary’s and your correspondent will
draw his rarnbl ng effusion to a con
clusion. This is an antiquated aud
lovely place, reaching back into the
past century as regards its origin.
During the “late unpleasantness” it
was shelled by “the boys in blue” in
conjunction with their black allies and
is a skeleton of its former self. It, how
ever, verifies the old couplet :
“ You may break, you may shatter the
vase it you will,
“But the scent ot the roses will cling
round It still,”
Embowered in live water oaks, ce
dars and sycamores ; festooned with
the long Spanish moss, peculiar to
Southern latitudes, it presents a
picture of loveliness, seldom equalled
or surpassed. It possesses a cemetery
that contains monuments, bearing in
scriptions reaching back to 1300, and,
with its dense grove of water and live
oaks, overshadowing these venerable
monuments, defaced by the wasting
fingers of hoary time, there is a fu
nereal solemnity about it as well as
rural beauty that touches the emo
tions of the heart, at the same that it
awakens the highest sentiments of the
love of the beautiful. Wide, grassj T
streets and rustic pumps, such as
would have stirred the imgiuation
and pen of Hawthorne, are features
peculiar to this ancient place. These
pumps are shaded by large water oaks.
4 number of steam saw m,il{s keep
vessels supplied with lumber for
various points of the globe, and the
Lizzie Baker from Savannah to the St.
John’s plies regularly by this port
twice a week, going and returning. The
firm of Burns, Fox & Lippman drives
forward these enterprises and main
tains the life of St. Mary’s. In the
Winter season it is somewhat of a re
sort for Northern tourists and in
valids, and the Spencer House affords
q well provided and elegant hostelry
for the weary traveler. Mr. Boaman,
of Bergen Point, N- J-, is its proprie
tor! The salubrity of the climate of
this place is not surpassed in the Uni
ted States, the excellence of' its
water renders it a desirable resort—
Winter and Summer, Fanned by sea
breezes, tb,e hottest temperatures of
the location are and the
nights with a few exceptions are de
lightful, barring the multitude of in
sects. The river is capacious and
adapted to floating large stzed vessels.
With the completion of Raiford’s
canal, which w?s demonstrated practi
cably by Bishop’s paper boat voyage,
St. Mary’s will become a noted sea
coast town of Georgia. Fernandina,
the “Island City” of Amelia Island, is
only ten miles distant by a circuitous
navigation, and five as the bird Hies.
There is daily communication with it
by steam tug boats. “Bourbon.”
LETTER FROM LINC OLN.
Torrid Weather —Corn and Cotton Suf
fering-Sickuess—Religious Meeting’s
—A Temperate and Law-Abiding
Community —A Railroad Wanted—
The Fruit Crop.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.|
Goshen, Lincoln Cos., Ga., |
July 20, 1875. \
All of last week, and thus far iu this,
we have had some exceedingly hot
weather—the hottest of tlie season—
the thermometer standing at one time
at 101 degrees in one gentleman’s house.
We had some fine rains the first of last
week, but the hot sunshine, together
with some windy days, soon made
things look as if they had seen no rain
in many days. Crops are needing rain
now, and will suffer if it is delayed
many days. Corn needs it more than
cotton, aud the dry weather, if it con
tinues, will soon begin to tell on that
which is planted on uplands. Cotton is
doing well, but will soon need rain. In
the neighborhood of Pine Grove Church
they have had no rain of any conse
sequence for some time past; and corn,
we fear, has been materially injured.
In other places, cottou begins to show
the effects of the dry weather.
The crops in this section are compar
atively free from grass, and farmers
are beginning to “lay by.” In the up
per part of this county, and over the
line in Wilkes, not a few are consider
ably in the grass, and one man was
compelled to have a part of his crop
turned out. From a gentleman who
has just been over in South Carolina,
in the neighborhood of Abbeville, I learn
that crops over there in some sections
are very good indeed, but iu a great
many places, the grass has almost taken
possession of the farms, in some fields
being a foot high.
There has been some sickness in this
part of the country; principally chills
and bilious fever. One gentleman has
all of his hands on his place down with
the latter.
Mrs. Tillery, an old lady, aged 80
years, died recently in this county, at
her residence near Lincolnton. She had
been afflicted for some years.
The time for protracted meetings,
Sunday School celebrations, Camp
Meetings, &c., will soon be upon us.
As you know, the only leisure time the
farmers have is during the latter part
of July, ail of August and part of Sep
tember, and into this time are crowded
all these things. Pine Grove Sunday
School, the largest in the county, will
hold its annual celebration next Thurs
day, 22d, to which several Sabbath
Schools have been invited. It promises
to be quite an interesting affair. A
very large crowd is expected, and
speakers have been invited ; and if this
letter were to reach you in time, we
would say to you, Mr. Editor, and your
co-laborers, that we would be pleased
to have your company.
The Lincoln Camp Meeting (to be
held at Wheat’s Camp Ground) begins
this year on Friday night before the
first Sabbath in August. Not as large
a crowd as usual is expected, because
of the small number of tent-holders.
This county can claim to be quite a
temperate one, as well as a very law
abiding one. We have only two places
at which liquor is sold, and both of
them in the lower portion of the county.
At Lincolnton there is no liquor shop
now, the gentleman who was selling it
having given up that business, and now
it is beyond the reach of any one to get
license to sell in that village, the price
for that privilege being put up to SI,OOO
—a virtual prohibition and a great
blessing to the community and county.
While once in a while we have a frac
tious fellow breaking the law and get
ting into jail, the general rule is for
quietness to reign in this county. Our
last court lasted only three or four
days, aud I am informed that some
time the business is disposed of iu one
day.
Avery substantial and comfortable
brick Court House has been recently
erected at Lincolnton, at a cost of
about $14,000, taking the place of a
very dilapidated one, which had been
standing there for years. If we could
now get a railroad by Lincolnton, or
could allure some more settlers to that
place, we could make it a place of some
importance and interest. As long as it
remains at its present status, it will be
a small affair as a county seat. We
need some enterprising citizens with
capital to invest and build up the place,
giving it life and animation. It could
be made a place of some note iu these
parts, and all we need is go-ahead men
with the means to back them. To give
you an idea of our county seat, (and I
do it with sorrow, though' in the hope
that someone may be stimulated to
move iu building it up), there are not
many over 100 inhabitants, and with
the exception of the new Court House, a
small addition put to Mr. Blanchard’s
store, and anew one-story store house
built last year, I don’t think anew house
has been built there in several years.
A country as old as this one is, with
its population, intelligence and wealth,
should feel a greater interest in build
ing up and improving their principal
village, and should so interest them
selves as to be able to point with pride
to their county seat. Ido not mean in
anything I have said to reflect upon
the good citizens of Lincolnton—They
are ail clever people, but they have not
the means, if they had the enterprise,
to move forward in this matter. There
is a flue opening at that place for a
judicious inau to buy and build to the
advantage—both of himself and others.
The fruit crop is short in these parts.
Apples and peaohes were cut off by the
late cold weather ; pears, however, are
somewhat plentiful. Watermelons and
muskmelons are beginning to show
themselves, much to the delight of
lovers of them, who are cut off from
getting the early ones usually enjoyed
by city people. C.
Adirondack Murray’s new church in
Boston will not be occupied until it is
paid for. That is right, and if a like
system were adopted everywhere, we
would possibly have fewer palatial
churches, but a man would then be
able to attend divine worship, once a
year at least, without having an appeal
Tor mohey thrust at him by the pastor,
or a subscription paper stuck under
his nose by a trustee or deacon. — Phila
delphia Chronicle.
Embroidered stockings? No, sir.
Susan B. Anthony says that no stock
ing is so cool qnd nice as a black woolen
stocking, —Detroit Free Press.
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
Goose Egg Cotton.— We have re
ceived a sample of this cotton, raised
by Capt. John Davis, of Cherokee coun
ty, Ala. It is known as a fine species of
cottou. — Pome Commercial.
The cotton crop in this county is very
promising at. present, the plant healthy,
full of bolls, blossoms and squares, and
of a size that usually puts the planter
in a good humor with himself and the
rest of mankind.— Dalton Citizen.
Washington County.
Despite the late and unpromising
Spring, the crops in this section are
very fine at present, and gives hopes
of an abundant yield. There is also a
most gratifying * feature in the system
adopted by our planters this year,
which is the self-supporting system.
Very large grain crops have been
planted, and Providence seems to have
blessed the wisdom of our farmers by
giving fine seasons and the prospect
of a most bountiful supply of bread
for the coming year. The small grain,
which has ail been harvested, turned out
well. The wheat was excellent, and
we do not remember to have ever seen
finer oats than the crop just har
vested in this county. Up to the
present, the corn is as fine as the laud
could produce. The seasons have been
wonderfully propitious. While a drouth
now would shorten the production,
yet a fair crop will be gathered if no
more rain falls for several weeks. A
great deal of the upland corn is al
ready made, and one more ram would
make all of it. A great deal has been
planted, and it does one’s heart good to
ride over our beautiful, undulating
country and see the magnificently tall
stalks, with the blades of fodder of so
rich and dark a green as to seem almost
black, waving their tassels in triumph
from almost every hillside. Cotton is
doing superbly. A drouth may cut
this crop off very short, despite the fine
prospects, but there is this consolation
—there will be fewer debts for our peo
ple to pay this year than for many
years past, and if they do make a
short cotton crop, they will have an
abundance to live on without the cot
ton. They will thus be far better off
than at any time since the war; and
if they will only steadily pursue the
wise policy of growing everything ne
cessary for the existence of man and
beast, which they can so easily do
in this genial climate and pro
ductive soil, and make cotton a
secondary consideration, there will be
no more hard times in this country.
We deeply regret, however, to hear
that, in the midst of so much general
good fortune, there is one section of
our county,and of the adjoining county
of Talliaferro, which is suffering from
a fearful and ruinous drouth. There
has been no rain there for about a
mouth, and this at the most critical pe
riod for the crops. There will be but
short crops made in that section, no
matter how propitious tlie seasons may
be hereafter. We hope that enough
may be made all arouud that unfortu
nate section, aud throughout the coun
try generally, as to make provisions so
cheap as to be within the reach of all
who live there.— Waslington Gazette.
The Crops in Southwest Georgia.
We hear so many contradictory ac
counts from the corn and cotton crops
in this iocality, that we are disinclined
to venture a review or an opinion.
Corn—The corn crop has now reached
that stage that enables planters to esti
mate with some degree of certainty
vrhat the yield will be. Our informa
tion is pretty general from the coun
ties of Mitchell, Worth, Lee, Terrell,
Calhoun, Baker and Dougherty, and all
accounts concur in the one single,
gloomy fact that at least one-fourth
of the crop is a total failure,
while the other three-fourths will
scarcely yield above half an average
crop. We cannot venture, therefore,
to estimate the yield at more than 60
per cent, that was planted for ; but as
a larger acreage than usual was plant
ed, and as strenuous efforts have been
made to supplement the crop with peas,
potatoes and turnips, we are still hope
ful that the section designated will be
driven to purchase but little from fa
vored regions.
Cotton has also suffered to a greater
extent than was apprehended on the
Ist of this mouth. In the dry dis
tricts, the plant is too smali to
make a crop, while from ail localities
the intelligence comes up that the
fruit is falling off disastrously.—
The plauters and merchants we most
rely on for correct information sol
emnly assure us that the crop is by no
means promising, aud that the present
outlook indicates a falling off of at
least thirty per cent, from an average
yield. Many broad fields, including
some of our largest plantations and
best lands, present a sad and sickly" ap
pearance. Where the plant should be
waist high and loaded with fruit, it is
from six to ten inches and utterly bar
ren. When such a plantation as Lee
Jordan’s Fowl Town place is in this
latter condition, well may we indulge
fearful apprehensions as to the general
crop.— Albamj News.
Muscogee County.
Farmers are getting very blue. The
oomplaint is general, and comes from
almost every portion of this section,
that if rain does not soon come the corn
crop will be ruined. Even in those
quarters where showers have fallen,
the sun has been so hot as to quickly
bake and parch the earth. The same
cry comes up from Florida. Rain is
badly desired. Corn in that State is
nearly made. There are no caterpil
lars in that region, nor signs of any.
Cotton generally looks better than corn,
but even that will be greatly injured
unless rain comes in a short time. The
indication of showers grows less day
by day.— Columbus Enquirer.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
is continually breakiug out in para
graphs of admiration for “Col. Gilder
sleeve, of the American Team.” A man
might establish a big Sabbath school
and keep it going for ten years, and
that paper would never find it out, but
let a common-place person get a rifle
and go around shooting at a mark, and
it wants to make him President of the
United States right away.
Nepotism.—The British clergy are
infected with the plague of nepotism
to an extent hardly to be dreamed of.
The Church Herald , au Anglican paper
of Great Britain, relates that 8 livings
lately filled by the Archbishop of Can
terbury, and valued at nearly S3O 000
all were to his wife’s brothers,
cousins, to his own nephews, <%o,
J ump-up-and-yun-away-and-then-sit
down-agaiu is the name of a Red
Cloud Indian who has taken the war
path. He must have sat down on a
pin.
New Series— Vol. 3. Ts! o. 164-.
THE RAILROAD POOL.
The Second Meeting'in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday
has quite an extended report of the
meeting of railroad officers, which took
place in that city on the 22d. After
quoting the edicts of Joe Brown, cut
ting off relations with the South Caro
lina and the East Tennessee and Geor
gia Roads, it says:
“These documents produced their ef
fect at once and open war was begun
upon the South Carolina Railroad Com
pany, to the no little detriment and an
noyance to a large section of the com
merce of the Southeast. The road per
sists, however, in its course of opposi
tion to the pool-players, and hence this
Convention, with one of two objects,
either coax the South Carolina Rail
road into the combination or squeeze
it until it will come in of its own ac
cord.
The morning session commenced in
one of the parlors of the H. I. Kimball
House, at 11:30 a. m. yesterday, Presi
dent Joseph E. Brown in the chair,
Chas. A. Sindail, Secretary. After sta
ting the objects of the meeting and
causing the minutes, correspondence,
orders, etc., of and subsequent of the
last meeting, a committee was appoint
ed for the purpose of reporting the
object matter in hand in a shape to be
acted upon.
As the convention was held with
closed doors, and the members are su
perlatively “mum” over the proceed
ings had, we know nothing of what was
said in the meeting, though the ap
pointment of the above committee was
all the business that was done.
The evening session began at 4:30
o’clock and lasted until supper time.
The committee reported, we are in
formed, the grounds of complaint
against the South Carolina Railroad
Company, and its refusal to comply
with the terms of the pooling conven
tion.
The matter was fully and generally
discussed and several methods of reach
ing a satisfactory adjustment suggest
ed, but no semblauee of a conclusion
was reached. There would seem to bo
a division of judgments in the conven
tion, some of the members favoring a
conciliatory policy and others more in
clined to use coercion.
The representatives of the recalci
trant South Carolina railroad did not
participate in the convention, but w T ero
around keeping their wits about them
and waiting to see what would turn up.
It is understood that they came here
considerably incensed at the action of
President Brown, in issuing his edict of
ostracism against them. They seem to
hold that overtures and concessions in
the matter must come from the con
vention and not from themselves.
The present situation is, therefore,
an uneasy one all around, and no man
can tell what the result will be.
The present status of the case is very
unsatisfactory, a lack of brotherly unity
and harmony is visible among the
members.
The meeting adjourned over unt’l to
day at 9 a. m., when, it is hoped, the
caucusing may have produced harmo
ny and some definite conclusion or line
of action may be developed.
One of the representatives said the
trout la w r as one springing up out of
adverse feelings upon the part of cer
tain officials, rather than one of princi
ple, and it was believed the meeting
would result in mutual understandings
which would remove the difficulties.—
But, at this writing, the matter is liable
to any turn which may be predicted of
the final result.
Says the Herald : The convention
having met, the Georgia road was call
ed upon to unite against the South
Carolina road. At the same time the
latter road was given to understand
that while the lamp held out to burn,
the vilest sinner may return. That it
did return is certain, and now all par
ties concerned are as happy as big sun
flowers. We could not obtain an inti
mation of the terms of settlement, but
knew from what we heard that an un
derstanding was reached. The ques
tion of rates was not touched, they
remaining as fixed at the meeting on
the 30th ult.
— % m
The State of the Cotton Trade.
I Nashville Union and American.]
While the wheat market is “boom
ing,” cotton manifests more depression
that at any time within the past two
months. Notwithstanding the fact that
our crop for the year just ending has
been fully 300,000 bales less than the
preceding one, the stock of American
cotton at Liverpool is 150,000 bales lar
ger than it was a year ago, and the
Liverpool price yesterday 'was 0 15—
16d., against Bd. in 1874. The Liver
pool Economist says that the market at
Manchester is fiat, that stocks are ac
cumulating and that the raw material
is in but little demand at Liverpool.—
England wants our wheat, for. how
ever dull trade may become, her people
must have bread to eat; but as to cot
ton the case is quite different. India
is competing with her cotton manufac
turers on so formidable a scale as to
drive them almost altogether out of
the market there and in China. This
was the prime cause of the recent heavy
failures in London, Liverpool and Man
chester.
The Financial Outlook.
lExtract from Gov. Allen’s Speech.]
The Congressional pledge of resump
tion in 1879 hangs like a pail over the
business of the country. Prudent men
have been following the example of
contraction set by the Government.
They have been drawing their means
out of active business and securing it
in real property ; they are closing up
their manufactories ; they refuse to go
into new enterprises, and the result is
that the panic of 1873, which should
only have had temporary duration, has
settled down into a season of business
prostration, which will continue until
the policy of the Government is chang
ed, the continued tampering with the
currency checked, and the active men
of the country can have faith to resume
operations without fear of being over
taken by ruiu through governmental
interference. If resumption is reached
in 1879, a steady eontraetiou and a de
pt eciation in values must continue, and
what sane mau will invest his means in
business under such circumstances ?
Let us reach specie payment as speed
ily as possible, but let the laws of busi
ness and circumstances under which
we are placed govern the matter, and
not the special interest of the banker
and bondholder.
Mrs. Beecher says she has borne up
under the worry and fatigue of the
great trial by keeping “mad all the way
through.”
It’s not so extraordinary that Nebu
chadnezzar lived on grass. We know
of hundreds upon hundreds who live on
the turf.