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Old Series—Vol. 25.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. 0. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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H. C. STEVENSON, Manager,
Augusta, Ga.
Poor Charleston, with her heart
already burned out, has had to endure
another serious conflagration. Luckily,
a large portion of the burned district
was insured.
We have seen some wonderful
ground and lofty tumbling, but the
way a poor fellow, at lowa City, was
blown, by a chemical explosion in a pa
per mill, 500 feet in the air, is the cham
pion feat of the kind so far reported.
In our South Carolina Department
will be found the speech of Gen. M. W.
Gyry, at the Hampton Legion Reunion.
It is short, sharp and decisive—an ad
mirable example of how much good
sense and eloquence can be massed
into a small compass.
The only obstacle in the way of Jeff
Davis’ triumphant election as President
of the University of Georgia is H.
Waxelbauyi Grady.
A pebble in the streamlet scant
Has turned the course of a mighty river.
A dewdrop on the tiny plant.
Has warped the giant oak forever.
“Bishop” Smith’s account of that
Mormon horror, the Mountain Meadow
massacre, is reported to have caused
much excitement among the “ Saints
and Gentiles.” The “Bishop” has
turned State’s evidence, probably be
cause he was the biggest rascal of all
concerned in that dreadful tragedy.
The story of a wreck at sea has
reached New York in a bottle. As the
name of the vessel reported lost can
not be found in the marine register, it
is highly probable that the fellow who
played this prank had emptied the
bottle of whiskey before setting it
adrift with a poor lying joke.
Lovers of the turf will be excited
over the details of the Saratoga races
which took place yesterday. The fa
vorites in the chief events of the day
were beaten, and horses but little
thought of were victorious. A notable
feature of this racing event was the
fast time made —in two instances the
fastest on record.
When reading aecounta of how the
people of Charleston are suffering for
pure drinking water, in consequence of
the cistern supply having failed, by
reason of the protracted drought, the
good folks of Augusta ought to be
thankful that, however lacking in some
respects, they have an abundance of
Adam’s Ale.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has declined
the offer of the Presidency of Bryan,
Texas. Agricultural College, with a sal
ary of s±,ooo a year and a furnished
house. It is not so expressed, but the
difficulty in the way was the meagre
salary. Suppose the Georgia Universi
ty offer twice the amount! If the
Board of Trustees ever get a first class
man at the head of their institution
they will have to pay him a decent
salary.
Ocr Chaileston correspondence, this
mOfning, is very readable indeed. The
City by the Sea is afflicted with great
mortality, especially among the chil
dren and negroes. The mortality
among the colored population is fright
fully in excess of the deaths among the
whites. The sad affliction which has
Befallen Mr. Walter, in the los3 of so
many of his children by dyptheria, will
awaken the sympathies of every parent
who peruses the letter of Qui Vive.
The crop news continues very dis
couraging. The country press received
yesterday without exception cry out for
rain, and declare corn wilting and with
ering and dying under the hot rays of
the sun. The heat throughout the mid
dle and lower tiers of counties in
Georgia has been over ninety degrees
every day during the past week. It
made an effort to rain yesterday even
ing but failed beyond a gentle shower.
There was a fine rain j ust outside of
the citv, and the clouds indicate that
we may have it before morning.
Every now and then the newspapers j
get particular fits from correspondents
and orators for the perpetration of ty
pographical blunders. The Savannah
Xews of yesterday is taken to task by
an Eatonton correspondent, and the
Charleston Xeu‘3 dtad Courier plaj ed
ducks and drakes with 8 Latin quota
tion in Gen. Gary’s speech at the
Hampton Legion Reunion. The great
metropolitan dailies at the North have
cultivated proof-readers who are re
sponsible for all errors ; and yet even
the tbuuderers of the press sometimes
take a snooze. In spite of much care,
mistakes will occur even in the best
regulated offices.
Jlere is an extract from a letter writ
ten to her lover by a Montgomery, Ala
bama girl: “For your sake, darling, I
have quit using chewing gum; would
you have quit gum for me? I would
not have quit gum for any other per
son in the world*”
(tin* fails lomtitutionalM
FROM WASHINGTON.
Revenue Receipts—The Yellow Fever
Raging at Barrancas, Fla.
Washington, July 24.—The Postmas
ter General has gone to Hartford.
Internal Revenue receipts for the
month to date are near $8,000,000. The
silver coinage for two months ending
August 30th will reach $4,000,000.
Attorney General Pierrepont decides
the Chorpenning case barred by limita
tion, unless Congress intervenes.
The Secretary of the Navy to-day re
ceived the following dispatch :
Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla., (
July 24th, 1875. j
To the Honorable Secretary of the Navy,
Washington, D. C.:
There are twenty-nine cases of yel
low fever at Barrancas. Our quar
antine is strict, but supplies have
to be furnished from this reservation.
Should the disease break out in our
vicinity, I suggest the yard be closed
and placed iu charge of acclimated
employes, and let the officers and fam
ilies all go to save themselves. No
sickness in quarantine or at Pensacola.
Women and children are stricken do wn
at Barrancas.
(Signed) G. H. Cooper,
Commandant.
To which the following reply was
sent by the Secretary of the Navy De
partment :
Commodore Geo. H. Cooper, Command
ant of Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla.:
l~our telegram in relation to yellow
fever received, l'ou are authorized to
take whatever action you may deem
proper for the security of the yard and
safety of the people under your com
mand.
[Signed] George M. Robeson,
Secretary.
Another dispatch from Commodore
Cooper states that the soldiers at Fort
Barrancas have been removed to Fort
Pickens on account of the existence of
the fever at the former place. No in
formation in regard to the fever has
been received at the War Department
of four companies of troops who
were stationed at Fort Barrancas.
War Against the Typographical
Union.
The proprietors of thirteen book and
job printing offices in this city, and
also the proprietors of four newspaper
establishments, the National Republi
can, the Weekly Sentinel, the German
Daily Journal and the Georgetown
Weekly Courier, have signed a paper
stating that from and after the 2d of
August they will not be governed by
the rules and regulations of the Colum
bia Typographical Union, deeming them
to be onerous and detrimental to the
private printing interests of this Dis
trict. The Daily Chronicle several
months ago severed its business con
nection with the Typographical Union.
More “Crooked” Whiskey.
The Revenue Department has ad
vices of the indictment of a Collector,
Deputy Collector and a number of
gaugers and store-keepers, and a large
number of distillers and rectifiers and
their abettors at Oskosh, Wis.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Serious Conflagration at Charleston-
Crooked Whiskey-Explosion of a
Paper Mill—Singular Catastrophe.
Charleston, S. C., July 7 24.—A fire oc
curred this morning in that section of
the city known as Wharf,
destroying about fifty small wooden
buildings ; also Robb’s mill and Mar
shall & Yenning’s wharves, with about
20,000 barrels of naval stores. The esti
mated loss is $250,000, of which about
one-half is believed to be covered by
insurance. It is distributed among
Charleston, Northern and foreign com
panies. The fire is still burning, and it
is impossible as yet to ascertain more
definite particulars.
Chicago, July 24. —Internal Revenue
officers have seized the entire rectify
ing establishment of the River Distil
ling Company for duplicate use of
stamps and other frauds. More seizures
will follow.
lowa City, July 24.—Six men were
killed by 7 an explosion in Close’s Paper
Mill. The sixth was a Scotchman named
Walter Linton, who was in thecupstraw
chamber, over the exploded tank. He
was seen to go up with the tank and
over it to an estimated height of 500
feet, falling he went through the roof
of a paint shop 70 yards away from
the mill, knocking a hole through the
shingles, an inch sheathing beneath
and breaking two rafters. He was found
lying on the floor of the room beneath.
The loss of Mr. Close is about $20,000.
It is decided that it was a chemical ex
plosion.
The Mountain Meadow Massacre —
Bishop Smith Confesses.
Little Rock, July 24.— There is great
excitement over the details of the
MouutainMeadow massacre narrated by
Bishop Smith, who is State’s evidence.
A nol. pros, was entered in his case. All
but the children too young to tell were
killed.
Railway Accident.
Alexandria, Ya., July 24. —Friday
morniDg the North-bound train was
thrown from the track near Bull Run.
The engine, tender and baggage car
were badly mashed. The smoking and
ladies’ cars were off the track. The
sleeper remained. A baggage master
was seriously hurt. One passenger had
an arm sprained. No other injury.
Murder and Suicide—Marine Disaster.
Cincinnati, July 24.—J. M. Bryson
shot his wife and himself. Cause un
known.
New York, July 12.—The ship Lahore,
here from Demerara, reports, July 16,
six miles south of Frying Pan Shoals
lightship, she saw the three mastheads
of a large steamer suuk.
A STORY OF THE SEA.
The Romance of a Bottle —Probably a
Sorry Joke.
New York, July 24. —Last evening a
man calied at a station bouse in Brook
lyn and reported he had found the fol
lowing letter in a bottle on Coney Island
beach:
“At Sea, July 7, 1875.—Bark R. J.
Campbell, Capt. J. H. Holden, Charles
ton for New York, foundered this
morning. Thirteen passengers lost;
seven saved, who are now in an open
boat in distress. They are Captain
Holden. E, E. Gregory, mate; J. M hite,
mate ; Thos. Whittaker, Chas. Mallory,
and H. Dyer, seamen; H. Hamilton.
'‘Miss Annie Hamilton. ’
A search of maritime registers fails
to reveal any such vessel as the R. J.
Campbell.
The Book Trade.
New York, July 24. —The Booksel
lers’ Exchange and Clearing House
closed to-day at noon as announced.
Another session will probably be called
|in October. The amount of sales this
j session was estimated at $400,00U.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Spain Borrowing Money Another
Loudon Failure—A British Blast for
the Centennial.
Madrid, July 24.—The Spanish Gov
ernment has determined to borrow
$7,000,000, to indemnify the owners of
emancipated slaves in Porto Rico.
London, July 25.—Schultze & Mohr,
general merchants, have failed for
$1,500,000.
The Times of to-day has an elaborate
and excellent article on the American
Centennial Exhibition, very gratifying
to the friends of that enterprise.
TURF NEWS.
The Fastest Time on Record.
Saratoga, July 24.—D’Artagnan won
the mile and three-quarters race. Time
3:06)4, the best recorded for three year
olds carrying full weight. Grinstead
won the mile and a quarter race. Time
2:08%, the fastest recorded. King Pin
won the selling race, a mile and three
quarters. Time 3:07)4.
Details of the Racing.
Result of to-days racing, in the first
two events, proved most disastrous to
the favorites, who, in the first, were
beaten by D’Artagnan and Milner, who
were very little fancied in the betting,
and in the sweepstakes by Grinstead,
who sold last in the pools, beat the field
in a well contested race for the Travers
stakes. The horses got off with little
difficulty, Chesapeake slightly in ad
vance of Ozark, who, however, passed
him before a quarter of a mile had
been run and was leading
fully three lengths. Coming towards
the grand stand, Ozark and Chesa
peake were running first and second,
King Bolt moving up to the third place,
Willie Burke taking fourth position
and Aristides fifth, Milner, D’Artagnau,
Warwick, Matador and Victor in a
bunch. Running down the back stretch
Ozark still led two lengths, King Bolt
half a length before Chesapeake, who
was a neck in front of Milner, the latter
having advanced to the fourth place. All
the horses were now running at full
speed and Ozark, becoming unable to
retain the front place, Aristides took
the lead closely followed by Milner and
D’Artagnan.
King Bolt and Chesapeake having
fallen back, D’Artagnan gained at every
jump, and at the furlong pole passed
Aristides, Milner running into the sec
ond position, and in this order they
passed the winning post. D’Artagnan
was a length and a half before Milner,
who was two lengths in advance of
Aristides, he three lengths before War
wick, Willie Burke fifth, Ozark, Meta
dor, Chesapeake and Viator bunched,
and King Bolt last.
In the second race for the sweep
stakes, all started well together, Spring
bok and Grinstead running side by side
down the stretch, one length in front of
Mate and Olitipa, who ran head and
neck. Passing the stand, Springbok
was let out a little, and got his neck in
front of Grinstead, but the latter being
given his head, forced the pace, and the
two ran neck and neck down the back
stretch, Mate and Olitipa two lengths
behind, as if yoked together. In this
order the last quarter was neared, the
pace having become very hot, and
turning the corner into the home
stretch, Olitipa was urged forward, but
too late to reach either of the
leaders, for Grimstead kept well to his
work and came home an easy winner
in the fastest time ever made, two
lengths before Springbok, who was
three lengths in advance of Olitipa.
Mate was beaten off.
In the third race, Kadi got off first,
closely followed by King Pin, Cariboo
and Picolo fourth, Jack Fro3t fifth and
Mattie W bringing up in the rear
Before getting out of the sectional
track, where the start was effect
ed, Cariboo had gone to the
front and passed the stand at the
end of three-quarters two lengths
before King Pin, Picolo running third,
Kadi fourth, and Jack frost sth. The
same order was preserved to the half
mile, where King Pin made a spurt and
went to the front. Kadi also passed
Cariboo ana Mattie W., who had been
running at the tail of the field and be
gan to move up towards the leaders.
At the three-quarters all horses were
receiviug whip and spur, but King Pin
retained the lead to the finish, winning
by two lengths, Mattie W, second, a
length before Kadi, who was third, he
four lengths before Cariboo, Jack
Frost fifth, and Picolo last.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A Swoop LTpon Dishonest Radical Offi
cials.
New Orleans, July 24.—Attorney
General Field filed information against
Charles Clinton, Auditor; Antoine Du
buclet, Treasurer; P. G. Desmond, Sec
retary of State, and Charles W. Lowell,
Speaker of the House, all members of
the Funding Board in 1874, charging
them with misdemeanor in office for
funding five warrants drawn by the
Auditor, amounting to $138,557.30 and
representing an illegal and invalid
claim against the State. Bail was fixed
at SIO,OOO each. The Attorney General
also filed an information against State
Senator E. F. Herwig, containing two
counts, first for obtaining money under
false pretenses, by issuing vouchers
while chairman of the Senate Committee
od Contingent Expenses, for fraudulent
claims, and obtaining a warrant from
the Auditor by representing that said
fraudulent claims were just and legal,
the warrants being endorsed by pre
tender and payees and by E. F. Herwig.
The second count is for obtaining
money under false pretenses, by issuing
while Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee fictitious vouchers, knowing at the
time that there were no such persons
as the pretended benificiaries, and that
no such claims or demands as repre
sented in these vouchers existed at the
time. Bail was fixed at $3,000.
Minor Telegrams.
Memphis, July 24.—The Paducah and
Memphis Road has been sued in be
half of the first mortgage bondholders.
Meijphjs, July 24.—Continued rains
in this section. News from the Lower
Missouri and Illinois is causing seri
ous apprehension of another inunda
tion.
Boston, July 24.—Irishmen aro pre
paring to celebrate O’Connell’s Ceaten
nial.
Montreal, July 24.—Rooney, Dolan
& Cos., dry goods merchants, have sus
pended, SIOO,OOO.
Chicago. July 24- —The receiver of
the Great Western Telegraph Cos. has
beeij granted permission to sell that
corporation at auction on the first of
October.
New York, July 24.— Eight convict*
on Blackwell o crawl through
the port holes of a vessel carrying them
from work. All but one reached shore.
Deaths this week 956, an increase of
66 over fast week.
AUGUSTA, GA.. SUNDAY MORNING, JURY 25. 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Crate City Wants a Market House
—The Vacancy on the Supreme Bench
—Other Matters.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.!
Atlanta, Ga., July 23,1875.
Atlanta now gets her back up and
squeals for a market house. Plenti
fully provided for with other public in
stitutions, she now seeks to crown her
enterprise by the building of a market
house, and thus focalize the green gro
cery, meat and fruit trade. With all
her rush and gush she does need such
a house, and she longs and pants for
it. Vegetables are strewn all over the
city in little piles and the price varies
tremendously.
But the municipal fathers complain
of too much extravagance already.
The new bridge, the water works and
the public schools, besides the police
and sundry other heavy demands on
the treasury, have given birth to a
watchfulness bordering on genuine
economy. The people want the mar
ket house, and are clamorous for it.
The question, then, .8, will we have it?
The Vacancy on the Bench.
Judge McGay having resigned his
place on the Supreme Bench, and Col.
L. E. Bieckly having been tendered
and declined the office, much curiosity
not to say anxiety, it. manifested as to
the probable successor. Col. Bieckly
says that he has outgrown the ambi
tion for office. Now I don't favor the
promiscuous tender of gold medals,
but I do hope sincerely that the Colonel
will be presented wi(h the handsomest
medal that can be raked up. To un
earth a man these degenerate days who
quietly yet finally declines an office—
especially such an office as this, de
serves especial mention and honor. It
is only one out of a thousand who can
witn Colonel Bieckly , in truth, say he
has outgrown the amoition for office.
There are several well known lawyers
itching for the place, but as yet no one
has been appointed.
Pencil Marrow.
Magee, the President of the late
Eastman College, has returned from his
trip North, and will make things lively
in finding out the whys and wherefores
of the sale of his college and fixtures
The Charleston Boat Club passed
through here yesterday, on their way
from the New Orleans regatta. They
are a jovial and fine-looking set of
men. Roanoke.
YOUNG GERMANY.
Princes Fritz and Frederic Charles
and Those Naughty Bismarck Boys.
[Berlin Correspondence of the Chicago
Times]
No sham is quite so revolting as this
of the life and deeds of princely per
sons. Nine out of ten of the intelli
gent Americans a man meets in this
country, as well as in America, speak
of Prince Fritz and Prince Frederic
Charles, his cousin, as ‘great generals.”
They believe because* the names of
theso persona were digued Lo reports
and bulletins, that they were the real
directors of the armies at whose head
they figured. There is no such delu
sion here. If the German armies had
been left to the guidance of these per
sonages, the sum total of the campaign
would have been vastly different. They
never directed a movement; not the
deploying of a corporal’s guard ;
Moltke and his staff conceived
and executed every detail of
every movement, the princes not being
trusted with the most inconsequent
point. The chief of the staff of each
army was its actual commander, the
royal princes merely serving as figure
heads to impress the people with their
dependence upon royalty for success in
battle. So it goes in nearly every de
partment of public administration;
some royal imbecile figures as the re
sponsible head, while: the work is re
ally done by brilliant, men who are,
comparatively, unknown. Bismarck
and Moltke are about the only excep
tions, with possibly the King of Saxony,
who is said to have some military tal
ent., and who handled the Saxon corps
in the late war very effectively
uDder Moitke’s plans. Everything
is done, however. to impress
the reality of the service of the
princes upon the nation. When
the late war was ended, great rewards
were given tne Prussians Princes and
the imperial cousins down to the lowest
grades. The two priuces, Frederick
William and Frederick Charles, were
created marshals of the empire, and
awarded large allowances from the
French indemnity, while the staff offi
cers who had really manoeuvred the
armies were advanced a grade and re
ceived a few empty decorations, Yon
Moltke, Yon Manteuffel and Yon Bis
marck being about the only marked
exceptions, Bismarck receiving the title
of Prince and a half million of dollars.
Moltke the dollars without the title. I
know of no princely person in Germany
who is regarded as a spotless person,
not that they are reprobated for ex
cesses. I find generally that the pub
lic make no criticism of their laxities.
The Two Bismarck Boys
are perhaps the most vicious of their
kind, and yet in the towns where they
have played their most scandalous
pranks, they are spoken of with a sort
of admiring awe. Count Herbert,who has
been in town during his Winter mission,
has introduced more than Prussian di
plomacy into the by no means grateful
Bavarian Court. There are no end to
the scandals circulating concerning that
young gentleman, the hundredth part
of which would serve to banish him
from self-respecting communities in any
other country. His younger brother,
Count John, is too young to conceal his
excesses, and too blunt, even if he
were not. He is of the impression that
his father holds Germany in fee simple,
and if that doesn’t give him the right
to do as he pleases, what can? So he
does as he pleases, and he pleases to do
exactly what the world in general
holds to be very low and very de
basing. His haunts arc more notorious
for Democratic viciousaess than aristo
cratic seclusion. His habitual state is
not one to recommend him to polite
attention, and if the face is, as Mr.
Beecher searchingly says in some of
his character analyses, an index of
man’s ruliDg passions, Count John
would be about the person to
a Brooklyn witness stand. Herbert is
rather fine looking as his race goes, but
John is dumpy, blear of eye, scorbutic
of visage, and coarse of manner gen
erally. The pair give the Prince, their
father, unceasing anxiety, not only for
their notorious profigaoies, but for the
difficulty he finds in keeping them on
terms with their army and diplomatic
associates. He has teen striving to
marry Count Herbert tg a pretty
Countess of the Protestant party, but
lam told the father refuses. The con
sent of the lady is never asked in af
fairs of this kind.
GEORGIA C ROP NEWS.
Rain Badly Wanted.
Unless we get rain before the middle
of next week crops in this section will
be nigh ruined. Corn is all shriveled
up and cotton is shedding badly. The
prospect is now very gloomy, and there
are no indications of showers.—Colum
bus Sun.
* The Cry for Rain.
The dryness in Columbus and
throughout the whole county is becom
ing distressing. From farmers all
around there comes a cry foi rain. Crops
are suffering. In many places it is fear
ed they have been materially damaged.
A good, general rain now would rem
edy the evil and probably undo the
mischief of the drought, but if it does
not come the injury to crops will be
great. Farmers say one more good
rain could make the corn, but if this
rain does not come that the crop will
be considerably short of their anticipa
tions. The melon crop is suffering con
siderably. In the city everything is
painfully dry and covered with dust.
Rain is needed all around us. The air
has grown thick and heavy. A good,
long, gentle rain would set matters all
right. It would inspire the farmers with
new hope and spirit, and would a.ld to
the city a charm of which it is now
destitute. —Columbus Times.
Tire Weather.
There is a want of rain now in many
parts of the county, and crops in places
are being considerably injured. Gar
dens too, are on the wane—for the sun
for the last week has been intensely
hot and parchiug to tender plants. One
of two good rains would place the corn
crop beyond danger. We trust we will
soon be visited by copious showers.—
Louisville Georgian.
The Crops. —Our exchanges of last
week gave encouraging accounts of the
crops ; but this week they are not so
cheering. The weather is very warm
and dry and vegetation generally is
rapidly wilting. Rain must fall soon
or the fair prospects for a good crop
will be blasted.— Wilkinson Appeal.
Hot Weather.
The weather is exceedingly oppres
sive at this time. Old Sol appears, as
if he is trying to make up for lost
time, if he has lost any, by the way in
which he blazes us. The gardens are
fainting for a shower of refreshments.
Com has commenced wilting and curl
ing in the driest places.— Wilkinson Ap
peal.
A TEST OF ENDURANCE.
A Negro Man Essays the Feat of Ro
tating Upon a Barrel Head for 24
Hours Without Food, Drink or Sleep.
[Detroit Post.]
Probably one of the most remarkable
feats of pedestrianism ever attempted
in the West is that now being essayed
in this city by a colored man who calls
himself Bob Biackhawk. This individu
al arrived in this city a tew days ago,
and while along the docks claimed that
he was able to stand upon the head of
an empty barrel and constantly turn
around for twenty-four hours without
drink, food or sleep. He asserted that
he had performed the feat in Eastern
cities, and talked so confidently that
at last he succeeded in exciting the in
terest of a few speculative parties, who
determined to test his powers of en
durance.
Biackhawk was particularly anxious
to make the trial, just to satisfy the in
credulous that he could do what he
claimed, and accordingly it was decided
to gratify him. A common liquor bar
rel was procured and placed in a small
room in the third story of the Hawley
Block, next to the Central Police Sta
tion, on Woodbridge street east, and at
precisely 6 o’clock last evening Black
hawk mounted the barrel and com :
menced the test. Two trustworthy
men were detailed to remain with him
in the room, which was kept securely
locked to avoid interruption, to see
that ho faithfully carried out his at
tempt. They are to relieve each other
for needed repose. Shortl3 r before 1
o’clock this morning a reporter of the
Post gained admission to the room
where the private exhibition was given,
and found Bob resolutely shuffling
around on the barrel head, apparently
as fresh as a daisy. At that time he
had been at it nearly seven hours;
claimed to be entirely free from fa
tigue, and was confident that he would
fill out the whole time unless some un
foreseen accident occurred.
Biackhawk is a stalwart, coal black
negro, nearly six feet high, and appar
ently possessed of remarkable strength
and endurance. He is about thirty-five
years of age, and for several years past
has been employed as a jockey and a
groom. The difficulties of the under
taking which he has so confidently at
tempted can hardly be realized unless
a person has tried it for himself. The
narrow standing room afforded tending
to tire and cramp the lower limbs, the
danger of dizziness caused by the con
stant pivotal motion, and the fact that
no sleep, food, or drink whatever is al
lowed to the “pedestrian,” all combine
to make it one of thh most fool-hardy
and apparently hopeless undertakings
ever attempted for the sake of a little
paltry gain.* His task will be completed,
if completed at all, at 6 o’clock this
evening.
The Barrel Feat Accomplished.
The Detroit Post of the 19th instant
says: “Bob Blackhawk, the colored
man who attempted the novel and diffi
cult feat of standing upon the head of
a common barrel and constantly ro
tating, or turning round, for twenty
four hours, completed his task at six
o’clock Saturday evening. He com
menced at six o’clock Friday evening,
and during the entire time was watched
by two men, who relieved each other at
intervals of six hours. They have
made affidavit that the feat was
squarely and honestly accomplished.
Blackhawk complained of a slight sore
ness in his lower limbs and in the back,
the result of his cramped position, but
otherwise felt no fatigue or inconve
nience. It must be remembered that
he was without food or drink during
the entire time that he was upon the
barrel. When Blackhawk completed
his feat, he claimed that he could just
as well have remained up twelve hours
longer, but.the parties who proposed
to back him expressed themselves as
entirely satisffed w’ith what l*o had
done.’ 1
FROM MEMPHIS.
The Freshet—Encouraging- Accounts.
Memphis, July 24.—News from above
is again encouraging this evening. It
is believed the decline at Cairo will off
set the freshet coming but of ttye Ohio.
There has been some damage to cotton
on very low lands.
Wages of sin SIOO,OOO a year.
THE RAILROAD POOL.
The South Carolina Road Forced to
Go Into the Pool.
[Atlanta Constitution, yesterday.]
After what occurred on Thursday the
session of the Railroad Convention yes
terday morniDg was looked forwurd to
with considerable interest. The com
mittee to whom was referred the con
sideration of the troubles between the
South Carolina Railroad Company and
the Convention having submitted a re
port of the status of affairs, the final
action was now to be had. That report,
signed, we believe, by Messrs. Mcßae,
Buford, McGhee and Hasell. fully ex
onerated President Magrath from any
dishonorable action or intention in as
suming the stand he did, and said he
had reasonable grounds for so doing.
But they also reported that, upon a
literal construction of the report of the
committee which met in Augusta, the
South Carolina Railroad was under ob
ligations to the Convention to pool its
business. This report was adopted by
the Convention.
Mr. Magrath insisted that he had
never made any agreement to pool the
local business of his road, and that he
had so stated to the Augusta commit
tee, to Mr. Pope, and that if such was
the position of the pool he would at
once withdraw it.
Mr. Hasell, who was present when
Mr. Magrath made this statement to
Mr. Pope, corroborated the fact to the
conventian.
After a full and animated discussion
of the subject in all its phases, the
conclusion was finally reached that the
South Carolina must come into the
pool, with both its local and through
business.
Mr. Magrath, seeing nothing else to
do, complied with the demand, and
henceforth until the back business is
settled up, the South Carolina Road
will maiutain the rates of the pool on
all its business. This is a triumph for
the pool, and one which it was easy to
win, holding as it did all the trump
cards, and having its single adversary
between the upper and nether mill
stones of its monopoly.
Until the full proceedings are pub
lished, which we learn will be in a few
days hence, the above is about all that
can be learned in the matter.
Our reporter approached Mr. Sin
dall, the Secretary of the Convention,
who said that all he could say was that
a satisfactory conclusion had been
reached. It was natural that, for the
sake of harmony, some concessions
should be made upon both sides, and
in arriving at a settlement neither had
done anything which it should not have
done. All connections would be as
heretofore, rates remain the same, and
delayed freights come on without fur
ther interference. He said it was a
mistake that the Virginia and Tennes
see air line had not supported the pool.
It had taken part in the action of the
Convention, and would, as it had al
ways done, maintain the agreement un
til it was violated somewhere else. The
difficulties had been harmoniously set
tled, and that was all he felt at liberty
to eay.
President Magrath’s Position.
From the very best authority we at e
enabled to give substantially the posi
tion held by President Magrath, of the
South Carolina Road.
He is opposed to the pool in theory
and desires to be the same in practice,
but does not feel justified in jeopardiz
ing the property of the stockholders in
the South Carolina Railroad, by a sin
gle-handed fight with twelve or four
teen other lines, who combine to cut
him off from intercourse and facilities.
He does not regard the result as satis
factory, by any means, and holds it to
be a conclusion of necessity until other
and more equitable arrangements can
be agreed upon. The original resolu
tion creating the pool, offered by Mr.
Wadley, at the Macon convention in De
cember last, lie holds to be the proper
rule for regulating the actions of the
convention,and it was distinctly directed
to through freights, and not local busi
ness. Since then the convention has
seen fit to interpret differently, and
hence the disagreement. When the
local agent of this road at, Augusta
made such return of the January busi
ness as was asked for by the pooling
agent, a dispatch was immediately for
warded declaring it. a mistaken action,
and that the road did not recognize any
obligation to pool its local business.
Mr. Magrath is understood to think
that when the business of freighting
comes to this complexion State legisla
ture ought to interpose their powers
and protect their people from the com
binations. He has always been in favor
of low rates, and for eighteen months
past has argued that the Atlanta market
was too high—in fact he is said to have
urged upon President Wadley that the
rate to this point would be fair at $1.30
per hundred pounds, instead of $1.70.
He submits to the combat, but would
have gladly made the fight had he i
been seconded and joined throughout j
by the Georgia Railroad Company, but
ho was unwilling to be considered as
drawing them, nolens volens, into it. He
is said to consider it a very grave and
unwarranted injustice that he is forced
to go into that, sort of a combination
which his judgment and feeling do not
approve, and to give up the direction
of how his road’s business shall be ma
nipulated and its earnings disposed of
by other parties, upon pain of having
the road property and franchises de
stroyed,
The non-action of the Georgia Road
in the matter of cutting off intercourse
with the South Carolina Railroad was
not discussed by the convention.
It was understood that Gov. Brown
would at once issue a recall of the non
intercourse order, and that everything
would resume its proper status under
the old pool.
Nearly all the members of the con
vention left yesterday afternoon and last
night, and the feelings of some of them
are presumed to be accurately de
scribed in the saying: -Parturiunt
montes mscetur ridiculus mus.
WHISKEY WILES.
The Minious of the Law Waltzing
Around.
Milwaukee, July 24.— J. M. Bonn,
Collector of Internal Revenue, and a
Deputy Collector, were arrested yester
day on an order issued by the Commis
sioner of a State Court, on the com
plaint of one Ferdinand W. Hartmann.
The Collector had seized a distillery
and its contents to enforce the pay
ment of an assessment. Among the
contents were 14 barrels of high wines,
of which Hartmann claims to be the
owner. The defendants were held to
bail in the sum of $17,000 each.
The other day, after up Alabama
farmer had b OeD visited by the third
tornado inside of four weeks, he nailed
up a sign bearing the words, “Now,
dum ye, blow all summer if you want
to!”
OUR ENGLISH COUSINS.
What au American Sporting Reporter
Thinks of the People, Climate and
Horses.
Mr. Joseph Elliott, the veteran sport
ing reporter of the New York Herald,
who has recently been on a visit to
England, has been interviewed by a
Graphic reporter, and expressed, in
very plain terms, his opinion of the
English climate and racing stock, as
well as of the mass of spectators of
English racing. We give so much of
the interview as bears on these points :
“Well, Elliott, what do you think of
England ?”
“I think it’s an infernal climate, in
habited by a race of heathen barba
rians. I had a letter to Tattersall, and
I delivered it just before I came away.
I had been there many days, looking at
the sales; but I didn’t want to be
coached, and I delayed presenting the
letter. Said Tattersall: ‘Mr. EiJiott,
how long do you stay iu London ?' Said
I, ‘lf my watch is correct I shall be out
of this town in about two hours.’ ‘How
do you like the country?’ ‘Well, I
haven’t seen anything in it to like. It
appears to me to be only partly civil
ized, and how in the name of God you
are going to civilize such material as
you have got here passes my compre
hension.’ ”
“But at any rate the horses exceed
yours in style, speed and strength ?”
“ No, they don’t. There are more
‘ weeds ’ running in England than I had
any idea of. I saw four hundred race
horses on Newmarket Heath ; that is
more than we have in all America, for
we have little above three hundred. I
said to Matthew Dawson, who has the
best stable there : * You won’t pretend
to race some of those scrubs ?’ ‘ Oh,
well,’ he said, ‘ we’ll work ’em all iu
during the season. There’s so much
running in England that every one of
the weeds can win something.’ ”
“ How many race horses have they
in all England ?”
“About three thousand. Their sys
tem of handicapping is vicious I don’t
believe their horses get food, climate
or growth equal to ours. They put
their winners into the stud too early,
and fail to give them the time and ex
perience our horses get. Besides, the
way racing is conducted in England is
in the highest degree corrupting to
man and horse. Every little public
housekeeper has his ‘book.’ ‘Book
making’ is the vice of the nobleman
and the roust-about. The money gets
into the hands of the rumseller at last,
the people are cheated, and still they
game from St. Giles to St. James.”
“And you don’t think the climate of
England the best for the horse?”
“I think it’s about the worst; humid,
foggy, wheezy, breeding comsumption
and affections of thethroatand nostrils.
I was ordered by my doctor to go out
of the country finally.”
“Did you find France auy better ?”
“Altogether better, both iu climate
and manners. They have taken to rac
ing there in recent years, but their
horses are sounder thau the English
and they carry off their own purses. I
went to Vincennes, Longehamps, Grand
Pre, aud Chantilly courses. The horses
of the Due d’Aumale at Chantilly were
magnificent animals. I told the editor j
of a London sporting paper when I re
turned that the best race horse iu the
world was the American, and next the
French. He said I was the most pre
judiced man he had ever seen. But I
told him then that no English horse
would win anything at ——, and I mark
ed the winner—French.”
“Why don’t our turfmen challenge on
the other side if our horses are up to
English standards?”
“Sandford is going over this year
with a large part of his stable, particu
larly yearlings. He was preceded by
Ten Broeck and Harlan. Ten Broeck
was frequently a winner.”
“Which are the favorite sires of Eng
land now?”
“I suppose they call old Cathedral,
Macaroni, and Blair-Athol the best.
The first has to be lifted up, he is so
old and broken. I attribute the decline
of English stock, as I have said, partly
to the malign influence of racing, as
conducted in England, on the stud. A
Derby winner at two years old is mag
nified into a sire.”
“Whose stable did you find the best
in England?”
“Oh, the Newmarket stables. New
market seems to be the immemorial
homes of the British horse and jockey.
The three brothers Dawson have each
about sixty horses. Ma tthew Dawson’s
stable is probably the best in England ;
it is lighted with gas and kept open
until 10 o’clock at night, when the gas
is turned out and horses and trainers
go to sleep. Ail day the horse is kept
amused by people conversing near him.
He is interested, his miud helped, and
his habits are cleaner. We shut the
stable doors, the horse remains in soli
tude, his habits grow vicious, and his
strength often subsides.”
“Still you do not like England ?”
“No. The spectators of the races
there are the lowest canaille of the
earth. Such an audience as you see at
Jerome Park, or the Branch, or at Lex
ington, Is unknown in England. At the
new track near London there was a
tariff for admission. ‘We won’t ’ave it,
you know,’ cried the mob. And they
cleared away that fence like so many
pioneers, inundated the field, and
laughed at authority. At the Durham
races the colliers came in, noisy, fight
ing, heathenish. I saw one fellow, who
held the stakes for two others, seized,
and they began to gnaw at his fist with
their teeth to make him drop the mon
ey. At the mob swept the field,
kuocked me down and ran over me,
and lastly, a man on horseback gallop
ed over me. At the heath of Newmar
ket I took a horse, afraid to go on foot
longer, and beiug pretty fat and matur
ed, I soon felt very sore; so I saw a
number of press vans on the track
with reporters inside, driving over
the course and painting as they pro
ceeded. I handed in my card to one of
the gentry, ‘Joseph Elliott, sporting
editor of the New York Herald,’ and
said : ‘ Will you permit me, sir, to ride
with your driver !’ ‘ No, I’ll be dom
med if Ido !’ Why, sir, in the House
of Lords I saw a great placard : ‘ Be
ware of pickpockets.’ Sporting houses
like Jim Shaw’s are almost inaccessible
from the thieves and ruffians around
them- Women are unable to attend
the greater part of the raoes with re
spect. I went to the tower of Eondon
in a cab ; it happened to be free day ;
a policeman said to me ; ‘ You are a
stranger, ain’t you? Well, don’t go in
there to-day ; they’ll pick everything
off your body; they’ll strip you. Come
back on a shilling day.’ \ held up mv
hands apd sajd i <Sly God ! is there
i any place on this island where a man is
safe?’
“Perhaps yoq might find that wick
edness in the sporting classes ehitfly.”
“I don’t know. The whole nation
seemed to me to be brutal. At the
hotel where I stopped a well-dressed
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man would enter and say, loud enough
to be heard by all: ‘Waiter, who’s
that old beggar?’ ‘That’s an Ameri
can, sir!’ ‘Oh, a Yankee!’ I was a
witness to four respectable looking
English women, opposite the Lord
Mayor’s residence, drinkiug succes
sively four pints of strong porter each
in a public house. It seemed to me
that the English women didn’t wash.”
BLUE BLOOD*AND BLACK.
A British. Nobleman Married to a
Colored Woman in Baltimore.
The Baltimore Gazette reports the
following singular ease of miscegena
tion : He has gone from our gaze like
the base fabric of a fleeting vision. He
was a doctor and an English F. R. C. 3.
These mystic letters did not save him
from an ignominious fate. For the
past few weeks he has been practicing
in the city, and endeavoring to prove
that his undivided attention to one
branch of the medical profession has
made him sole master of the situation.
But he has fallen. A dusky maid threw
around him the all-subduing spells, and
he fell. On Monday he visited the
office of the Clerk of the Court of Com
mon Pleas and obtained a license for
marriage with aMissEuphemosia .
He did not acquaint his fLends with
the fact that he had made up his mind
to double until the coveted document
was safely stored away in the pocket of
his linen duster. But when he had his
papers how he did let. his friends know
all about it! A colored restaurant
keeper was acquainted with the fact
to the extent of $7; his boarding house
found it in the sum of half a week’s
bill, and a confiding friend had the op
portunity to wish the happy pair
“health, wealth and happiness” to the
tune of S2B in money and the loan of a
gold watch valued at S6O. The nuptial
ceremony which joined the blue blood
of Britain with the inky fluid of Africa
took place at the residence of tho
bride’s mother, and when a consicen
tious clergyman had made this unusual
amalgamation of the two races, tho
“happy couple” started off for "tho
Pacific coast, with the Golden State as
their ultimate destination. The two
restaurant keepers and the loaner of
the money and watch last night set up
a fine supper in honor of the festive
occasion.
The worst of the pleasant matrimo
nial alliance has been experienced by a
third party, who, since the jovial event
of last night, has found himself minus
hundreds of dollars, a quantity of
valuable jewelry, aud other articles,
which make him extremely solicitous
as to the destination of the honey
mooners. It would, of course, be un
kind to speak of either of the parties
at this happy time in unkind terms, but
a member of the detective force of the
city would probably be glad to cut
short the bridal and bridegroomal fes
tivities.
As already stated, the bridegroom
has, flowing through his veins, what is
known in England as “blue-blood.” His
father, who is a half-pay Colonel in the
British army, is married to a lady of
title, and is himself in the direct suc
cession to a ducal throne coronet. The
gentleman who on Monday allied him
self in matrimony with a woman of
color was educated at the Blue-coat
school in London, and, alter finishing his
course there, was sent to Oxford, where
he subsequently graduated with hon
ors. His parents then determined that
he should follow the medical profession,
and entered him in the Middlesex hos
pital, and, afetr “walking” that institu
tion for the prescribed time, he passed
the necessary examinations, and was
subseqentiy given the degree of F. R. C.
S. Becoming tired of the medical profes
sion,he desired to join the British army,
aud, owing to the influence of his moth
er, probably more than his father, he
obtained a commission in the First,Life
Guards. In this regiment ho served
through the Crimean war with credit,
aud subsequently took part in the war
for the overturning of the Sepoy rebel
lion in India under Havelock. Here ho
committed an offense against the rules
of the British service, and, after being
condemned to death, was sentenced to
fifteen years’ banishment from the Brit
ish Empire or its Provinces. Under
this sentence he cams to this country,
aud shortly after entered the Confed
erate service, conducting himself with
much prowess, aud attaining the rank
of Colonel. Since the close of the war
he has at different times followed the
profession of a civil engineer, and at
others the practice of medicine. He is
about forty-six years of age, six feet
two inches high, aud shows in his car
riage the advantage of a military train
ing.
Some idea of the rank of his father
may be found in the fact that, when
the Princess Louise was married to the
Marquis of Lome, the newly married
couple spent their bridal night at one
of his parent’s country seats. The fam
ily to which the bridegroom of tho dus
ky maiden belongs is in full succession
from the Plantageuet. Some few years
ago, when the dissipation of the Prince
of Wales had made him unpopular
throughout Great Britaiu, a movement
was set on foot to establish the Planta
genet family on tho throne, and had
this movement succeeded, the Colonel
doctor would have been in the regular
succession. His marriage to this color
ed lady will cause more surprise among
the nobility of England thau even in
this city.
The Pew Question in the Jewish.
Church.
The Jewish Messenger objects to the
recent decision of Judge Larremore,
restoring the whole question to the ju
dicature of the Church. The point of
dissent is thus expressed:
Now what redress have the minority
in a conservative synagogue of this
State ? It is not enough that the dis
sentient members be refunded the cost
of their seats, and permitted to retire.
For very many, there are associations
connected with these old synagogues
exceedingly dear; and yet the thought
less power of a capricious majority
may sweep away remorselessly every
vestige of historical Judaism, and com
pensate the objectors with more dollars
and cents.
The time has come when two-thirds
of the Jewish congregations of New
York refuse to recognize any “judica
ture of the church.” Do the remain
ing conservative congregations care
to risk controversies like that just
oulminating in Bnai Jeshurun ? If
the civil courts are powerless to
protect the minority, and there *is no
respect for ancient or modern Jewish
ecclesiastical law, the situation may as
well be accepted. It is more difficult
now than it was twenty years since—
but not yet impossible— to institute a
Ufiion for ecclesiastical purposes among
such congregations as choose to remain
in the old school.
Certain poisons may be detected in
the hair of persons who have taken,
them,