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Mb. Osborn, one of the County Com
missioners of Barnwell, sends us a
communication, which will be found in
our South Carolina Department, on the
third page.
We publish this morning a letter
from Barnwell county, written by an
intelligent and responsible man, who
says he is not afraid of a libel suit, and,
in ease the Commissioners really “mean
business ,” his name is at their dis
posal.
A chatty and pleasant letter from
Canada will be found in our news col
umns. The writer is of foreign birth,
but expresses himself very well indeed
in English. He is a cultivated gentle
man, and we shall be glad to hear from
him while in Europe.
The Boss Tweed of Columbia has
been captured at Camden, S. C. The
question now is whether his escape
would not have been better than his
forced detention in jail. Now that Gov.
Chamberlain has returned, however,
matters should become very lively all
arouud the ring.
According to the Courier-Journal’s
Washington correspondence, Sam Bard
has been able to start several papers by
having money furnished from the Na
tional Elective Committee, Judge Ed
munds, Chairman. It is said too that
Sammy’s leading editorials were written
at the Federal Capital by men specially
hired for that kind of literary labor.
An article on O’Connell, published
this morning, is very long, but highly
entertaining. We feel assured that it
will fully repay perusal. Just now, the
memory of the great Irishman is
brought prominently into notice by a
centenary celebration. Many of our
readers will recall with pleasure the
anecdotes illustrative uf riie Liberator's
career, and many to whom his history
is imperfectly known will get a brilliant
idea of one of the foremost men in the
tiles of time. Like Giethe, O’Connell
was a “many-sided man.” The versa
tility of his character is admirably pre
sented in the article referred to.
It again becomes our Christian duty to
remind the State, the People and the Pa
pers and the balance of creation of the lo
cal habitation of the paper yclept “The
Constitutionalist.” We feel impelled to
this by seeing the said paper referred to in
the Daily Chronicle, of Washingt >n City, as
the “ Columbus Constitutionalist." We do
now, therefore, once more inform the world
and the rest of, mankind that the Consti
tutionalist is a paper printed in this city.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
While in performance of a self im
posed “Christian duty,” pray turn your
attention to the New York Express
which refers to the “Chronicle and
Sentinel, of Columbia, S. C.” We would
inform our New York contemporary
that the Chronicle and Sentinel is a pa
per published at Augusta. Ga., and one
too that seems to regret that it does
not have an entire monopoly of the
same.
A few days ago, we published what
purported to be a touching letter said
to have been found among the papers
of Andrew Johnson. This letter breathed
a reverent and cliild-like dependence
upon a Supreme Being. The Greenville
2 'ones, pronouncing the document a
forgery, says:
The deduction to be drawn from this pa
per, that Mr. Johnson was in some degree
a religious man, is absolutely absurd, and
would be resented by Mr. Johnson were he
living. He was notoriously an unbeliever
in the Christian doctrine and methods, and
quite the reverse of what was thus at
tempted to be established. He never went
to church, and when, after his death, the
services of the village clergyman, a Protest
ant Episcopal minister, were tendered to the
family, they were declined, I am well in
formed, because it was understood such ser
vices woul i not be desired by Mr. Johns n
could he have the power to choose in the
matter.
We now know why the old man was
swathed in the star-spangled banner
and held in his dead haad a copy of
the polluted Constitution. He appears
to have had for his God a bald eagle,
for his Bible a bit of parchment, for his
religion a piece of bunting. Poor Andy !
He and Lincoln were on a par as free
thinkers.
Minor Telegrams.
Lowell, Mass., August 8. —The Mas
sachusetts mills have received an or
der for 1,200 bales of goods for China.
Great Falls, N. H., August 8. —The
Cocheco mills at East Rochester, idle
for the past month, will resume oper
ations to-morrow. A large shoe facto
ry at the same place will start up at
the same time.
Beaver, Utah, August B.—The jury
in the ease of John D. Lee, charged
with being the leader of the Beaver
Meadows massacre, disagreed. They
stood nine for acquittal and three for
conviction, the latter consisting of one
Gentile and two Mormons.
San Francisco, August B.—There was
a heavy earthquake at Holjietee this
doming. No damage reported.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Religious Services and Sectarian Riots
following the O’Connell Centenary-
More of the Schiller's Treasure Re
covered-Falling of the Waters—Con
fiscation of a British Smuggler—
Mexican News.
London, August 8. —The O’Connell
Centenary was celebrated in this city
by a banquet last night at Cannon
Street Hotel. The majority of gentle
men present were Home Rulers.
Cardinal Manning ordered a TeDeum
to be sung this evening in all churches
of the Arch-Episcopal Diocese for
blessings resulting from O’Connell’s
labors.
There was a serious riot in Glasgow
to-day between the Orangemen and
Home Rulers during the O’Connell
celebration. Five policemen were in
jured and fifty arrestswere made. The
rioting was resumed to-night.
London, August B.—Dispatches from
Central Asia report that a revolution
has broken out in Kokhand. The Khan
has fled, and his forces have joined the
insurgents.
An additional recovery of specie to
the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars has been made by the divers at
the wreck of the steamer Schiller.
Paris, August B—The waters of the
Rhine are falling, and the danger of an
inundation is averted.
London, August 9. —Win. Bayle Ber
nard, born in Boston in 1808, is dead.
There have been many fresh arrests
in consequence of the renewal of dis
turbances at Glasgow between Home
Rulers and Orangemen. Military are
held in readiness to prevent further
disorder.
Havana, August 9.—The cargo of the
British vessel Laura Price, which was
pursued in Haytien waters b.y a Span
ish gunboat, has been embargoed as
contraband of war. It will be taken to
Havana by the steamer Curraea. The
Diario thanks the British Consul Gen
eral in Hayti for good offices in the
matter.
City of Mexico, July 31.—Manuel M.
Seamacona has beeu appointed consul
of Germany, in this city.
An eathquake is reported in Jalisco.
Alexander Collie Absconds and Stops a
Great Trial—The Carlists iu a Bad
Way—Defeat of the Turks by Scla
vonians.
London, August 9. — The trial of Alex
ander and Wm. Collie for obtaining
large sums of money ou false pretences
was called. Alexander Collie absconded,
and the prosecution was unwilling to
proceed against William alone. The
case was adjourned.
A letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, from
Puyeerda, says the bombardment of
the citadel at Seo d’Urgel was not fully
progressing, because the Alfonsists are
awaiting the arrival of additional heavy
guns, which are expected daily. Unless
relieved, which is hardly possible, the
Carlists must surrender.
Accounts from Sclavonian sources
say the insurgents have defeated the
Turks iu several engagements, and
wounded Selim Pasha.
That Shipping 1 Bill.
London, August 9.—Sir Charles Ad-
Vlerly’s shipping bill to-day passed its
second reading in the House of Lords.
Warm Reception of Roughs.
Montreal, August 9.—Five young
roughs attempted to enter the house of
a respectable woman named Downs,
who fired into the crowd, killing one.
Financial Crisis in Montreal —Heavy
Losses of Grain iu Ottawa—Review
of the Corn Trade by a Great Au
thority —Reward for Collie’s Appre
hension.
Montreal, August 9. —During the
past week, twelve commercial firms,
perfectly sound as far as assets and
liabilities are concerned, have been
obliged to make special arrangements
with their creditors for extensions.
Ottawa, Canada, August 9. —Bains
last week caused heavy loss. Grain is
lodged in a thousand fields, and oats
and wheat cannot be cut with a scythe
or reaper.
London, August 9. —The Mark Lane
Express, in its review of the corn trade
for the past week says: The weather,
though broken, has been, on the whole,
tolerably fine. Crops are progressing
favorably, but it is unreasonable to ex
pect the plenty or quality of last year,
after a nearly sunless July and such
heavy rain falls. So they have found
in France, as far as they have
gone, and flour has risen four
francs per sack in Paris. The bulk of
our own harvest is yet uncut. Some
of our country markets have hesitated
about submitting to any decline,
though generally it reached 1 to 2
shillings per quarter. Large specula
tive purchases have been made in Lon
don on American account. The Lon
don market closed with an improved
aspect and an upward tendency, which
must be swayed entirely by the weather.
There certainly seems quite as much
chance of a rise as a fall.
Five thousand dollars reward has
been offered for the apprehension of
Alexander Collie.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Light House Notice—Ottmau and his
Hidden Treasure—Yellow Fever Dis
appearing at Barrancas.
Washington, August 9. — Notice is
hereby given that., on and after Septem
ber 10th 1875, a fixed white light will be
shown from the Light House recently
erected at Solomon’s Lump, in Hedge's
Strait, east side of the Chesapeake bay,
Maryland. Upon exhibition of this
light, the light at Fog Point will be dis
continued. During thick and foggy
weather a bell will be struck by ma
chinery at alternate intervals of 30 and
5 seconds.
Ottman’s counsel will appeal for re
duction of bail, which is now SIOO,OOO.
Ottman bail a specie deposit in the
Germania Savings Bank, at Alexandria.
A package was found to contain a curi
ous box, in which were twenty-nine five
hundred dollar bills. The box was ev
idently made for the purpose of bury
ing money safely. The box and money
are in the hands of detectives. The
wives of Halleck and Ottman had an
interview with their husbands to-day,
which was very affecting. Brown and
Halleck have an examination to-mor
row.
Brannon telegraphs from Barrancas
that there have been no new cases since
Saturday.
Unlimited Ottman—Postal Cards and
Postal Routes.
Washington, August 9.— Detectives
have recovered over $20,000 of Ottman’s
real aud personal property and attached
his saloon, which is in the hands of the
Marshal.
Fourteen and a quarter million post
al cards were issued in July. The Post
Office Department has finally concluded
not to place a daily mail on the route
between New Orleans and Bed river
Endings,
-AUGUSTA., GA.., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
Distinguished Arrival—More Failures
—Seizure of Grain.
New York, August B. Barry Sullivan,
the tragedian, arrived here yesterday
in the White Star steamer Germania,
which made the passage from Queens
town in eight days. He is accompanied
by his brother, Mr. A. Sullivan, and
Miss Louisa Hibbert, of the London
Gaieties Theatre. Mr. Sullivan is also
accompanied by Mr. James T. Cathcart,
the celebrated London actor, who is to
support him in his characters. He will
open the season in Booth’s Theatre on
the 30th of August, in Hamlet.
Archibald Baxter & Cos., graiu and
commission merchants, have suspend
ed. The suspension was caused by the
firm’s inability to collect the amounts
that were due them. It is supposed
that they have only suspended tempo
rarily, as the assets are thought to be
larger than the liabilities.
New York, August 9.— Two ships,
which had been laden with wheat and
corn by Archibald Baxter & Cos., the
value of which was $40,000, were seized
yesterday in Brooklyn. Archibald
Baxter & Cos. had purchased the grain,
promising to pay cash, but had failed
to do so at the time of their suspension.
Dwight, Johnson & Cos. have been ap
pointed assignees of Archibald Baxter
& Co.’s business.
Albert L. Dodge, wine and cigar
merchant, has suspended. Liabilities,
$70,000.
Bringing Canal Developers to Taw-
Liabilities of Baxter <fc Co.—Terrible
Accident at Niagara Falls.
New York, August 9. —This after
noon, on application of Mr. Fairchild,
Assistant State Attorney, Judge West
brook granted an order of attachment
against Denison, Belden & Cos., canal
contractors, for $417,000 and an order
of arrest requiring bail from each in
$200,000. Affidavits were made by At
torney General Pratt, State Eugiueer,
Sweet and Mr. Rapgar, Deputy Treasu
rer.
The liabilities of Archibald Baxter &
Cos. are estimated $300,000.
Niagara Falls, August 8. —Six citi
zens visited the Cave of the Winds
without a guide. Ethelbert Parsons,
aged 29 and Lottie C. Phillpot,
aged 25 descended to an eddy never
visited by the guides. While bathing
the lady lost her foot-hold. The gen
tleman caught her but the current car
ried both into the river and they were
drowned. They were soon to have been
married.
Regatta Postponement.
Troy, N. Y, Augustß.—National Ama
teur Regatta has been postponed to
August 31st and September Ist.
THE WESTERN FLOODS.
Terre Haute, August B.—The breaks
aud other damages on the Vandalia
Railroad have beeu repaired. The
Ohio and Mississippi trestle over the
Wabash river at Y T iucenncs is gone.
The back water of the Wabash is over
the Evansville Railroad track south of
Oaktown, breaking communication. The
weather is now favorable, and farmers
are hopeful of saving half their crops.
Memphis, August 8. —The river con
tinues to rise steadilvat- O> io T \q ?r >‘ /
ink. uocu one inch during the past
twenty-four hours. Capt. Crane, of the
Belle, reports that a crevasse formed
at Willis’ plantation, at Donaldson
Point, just above Island No. 10, on Fri
day night, which swept over that plan
tation, containing about three thous
and acres, thence to St. Francis Val
ley. This, doubtless, caused the river
to come to a stand here yesterday.
A large volume of water is now run
ning through St. Francis river, which
will afford relief to the plantations on
the Mississippi side, but will greatly
increase the danger on the Arkansas
side. The planters on that shore, be
tween here and Helena, are working on
the levees in the rear to protect their
lauds from that direction. The water
now stands four inches below the flood
of last Spring, and two feet four inches
below the great flood of 1867. Asa de
cline of an inch is reported at Cairo to
day, old steamboat men predict that
the flood will not exceed that of last
Spring.
Memphis, August B.—The river has
risen one inch since six last evening.—
Advices from St. Francis river are less
threatening.
Memphis, August 9. —The river rose
an inch and a half in the twenty-four
hours ending at six o’clock to-night. It
is within three and a half inches of the
Spring rise. No change in the situation.
The officers of the steamboat Jas.
Howard, from New Orleans, report no
further damage than heretofore re
ported.
Detroit, August 9.—The gale here
was severe. Several vessels were
wrecked and the tug Vulcau lost a raft
and two million feet of lumber.
Special River Report.
During the past twenty-four hours
the Mississippi river has fallen eighteen
inches at St. Louis and ten inches at
Cairo. At the last named station it is
now 44 feet and 11 inches or four feet
and eleven inches above the danger
line. The river has risen one inch at
Memphis and one inch at Vicksburg,
but will probably not reach the danger
lines of these stations.
THE NORTH CAROLIN A ELECTION.
Wilmington, August 8. —Beturns re
ceived during the past two days leave
the result of the election still in doubt.
Both parties claim a majority of dele
gates. and it may be several days be
fore the result is definitely known, as
several extreme western counties are
yet to be heard from. It is not proba
ble that the majority will exceed two
either way.
Baleigii, August 9.—The result of
the convention election is still doubtful.
Beturus from all counties show a rep
resentation as follows: Fifty-nine
Democrats, 59 Republicans, 1 Inde
pendent Democratic,and Cherokee coun
ty to hear from, which has heretofore
voted Democratic. The Democrats
claim four majority in the convention.
KIRKWOOD ABROAD.
Col, Boh. Alston ami Gen. Young at
the North.
Poughkeepsie, August 9. —At a sere
nade given here, Colonel R. A. Alston,
of the Atlanta Herald, and Gen. Young,
ex-member of Congress from Georgia,
made brief addresses. Their speeches
were of a friendly and conciliatory
character, both gentlemen asserting
that if the North and South had known
each other before the war, as well as
they do now, the war would never have
occurred.
A young man at Wheeling, Virginia,
got up a pic-nic, invited twenty-eight
girls, took them all himself, provided
the dinner at his own expense, and
went home to find eighteen challenges
waiting him.
LETTER FROM CANADA.
Montreal and its Improvements—Hard
Times iu the Dominion—A Stupen
dous Failure —Rents and Everything
Else Tumbling at the North—Some
Striking Illustrations—Quebec Ef
fects of Competition—42 in the Sun—
A Visit to Father Paquet—His Love
for Augusta—How Time has Treated
Him.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.!
Montreal, Canada, August 3, 1875.
When I left Augusta I certainly
thought I would take the next steam
er for Europe, but some unexpected
letters have called me to Canada and I
write you from Montreal. Montreal is
a large city, improving rapidly every
day. Since I was here, two years ago,
I found several new streets opened and
built up on both sides, also a large
church in a very peculiar style, erected
on the street St. Denis and under the
patronage of Notre Dame de Lourdes.
The city, and I may say the country,
or the whole of Canada, is in a very
bad way, for the present, financially
speaking. They have to experience a
crisis as terrible as the one we have
ourselves in the States (as they say :
dans les Elats.) The failure of “Le
Banque de Jacques Cartier,” in Mon
treal, is the topic of the hour. The
capital of that bank was two millions
of dollars (iu gold of course.) It is not
known yet what they will be able to pay °
on the dollar.
New York is not any better off than
Montreal. The day we arrived there
was the day Duncan, Sherman & Cos.,
announced that they had to suspend.
You have no idea of the bad and sad
impression marked by that event. It
was not for the importance of the
failure, but for the surprise. The house
was standing as one of the best. The
gentlemen of the firm were universally
esteemed on both sides of the Atlantic
and the news created a panic which
could not last because as I just told you
it was occasioned more by the surprise
than by the importance of the failure.
There is general complaint in New
York. They say the times are hard. I
went to see a gentleman of a large
firm in White street, and, talking with
him about trade and the present diffi
culties, he told me he had to pay SB,OOO
for the rent of his store. I thought it
was very cheap for such a large build
iug. He said lie was paying $15,000 be
fore for the same place during several
years, and that $15,000 then was a great
ileal cheaper than SB,OOO now. That
single fact is enough. Ab uno disce
omnes. That shows hard times to be
general and not for Augusta only.—
But in New York it is hard for
tenants and landlords when in
Augusta, the merchant has the whole
trouble, as no landlord has come yet
to tell him, “Your load is too heavy ; I
will charge you $8 instead of sls.
I did not intend to speak of Augusta
iu this letter, but of Canada, and so
start again.
On Saturday I went, to Quebec on the
steamer Montreal. The trip on the St.
Lawrence lasts from 12 to 14 hours,
and is as grand as that on the Hudson.
We had on board a brass baud of 22
musicians, and a large crowd of pas
sengers—Canadians, English and Auu;-
this year between two lines, the Union
Line and La Compagnie de Richelieu.
The consequence is that the fare is
nearly nothing—the price is one dollar.
I will not describe Quebec. It is the
strangest city I have ever seen iu
Europe or America. After you have
left the streets on the wharf you cannot
make ten steps without going consid
erably up or down. That does not,
however, prevent the horses from
running all the time. Any strange
driver would be greatly embar
rassed. There is no expression to give
an idea of the panorama and scenery
described from the platform, and the
best is to come for every one who can
afford it. Another point of view would
be perhaps more tempting for the Geor
gians in this season, I mean the tem
perature. Saturday evening at seven
o’clock on the deck of the steamer Mon
treal the thermometer was indicating
42 degrees ! I was ready tc complain
of the cold, but when I thought ten
days before I was enjoying 98 degrees
and even more iu Augusta, I said this
is better and if it is cold on deck let us
go inside where it is so pleasant.
Many of your Catholic readers will
be pleased to hear from Father Paquet,
who was in Augusta at the same time
with Father Ryan. I w r ent to see him
at the Seminary, where he is a teacher
of dogmatic theology. He has distin
guished himself as one of the ablest of
theologians, and he is praised in Que
bec as much as he is talented and mod
est. The scholars are now on vacation
and that allowed Father Paquet to
give me plenty of time. We spent
two hours together and he was
very glad to see a friend from Augusta.
He inquired of all, and principally
about Messrs. B. H. M., and H. D.. and
J. G., and I. P. G., and L. G., aud F. S.,
and many others, including also,
ladies and children. I found him quite
changed, although he said he was the
same. Ho is now gray or silver-head
ed, and yet thinner than when he was
amongst you. But his manners are
the same. He is always modest, gen
tlemanly, bright and kind as many
years ago with a true heart. He
showed me the rich galleries attached to
the Seminary—the gallery of pictures
(oil paintings), that of minerals and
zoology, botanies, machinery and
physic.
If I have advised any one who could
afford it to couie and see Quebec, I
will finish by saying, if you come, do
not forget to visit the Seminary, where
you will be welcomed and much inter
ested. J. B.
FROM ST. LOUIS.
Gratz Brown on the Situation—The
Railroad Squabble.
St. Louis, August 9. —The Globe pub
lishes a letter from B. Gratz Brown,
who opposes the National Bank sys
tem, contraction, etc.
The railroad fight hence to Chicago
continues. The round trip is only $lO.
Another Grasshopper Sensation.
Omaha, August 9.— Specials from the
West report grasshoppers very numer
ous. At several points immense clouds
of insects were still flying southward.
There was a good rain early this morn
in *
PECULATING PARKER.
Recapture of the Boss Robber —He
will be Brought Back in Irons.
Charleston, August 9.—Parker, the
ex-Treasurer of the State, who escaped
from jail last week, where he was con
fined awaiting trial for plundering the
State while in office, was recaptured
lin Camden last night, and will be
I brought to Columbia in irons.
O’CONNELL.
RACY RECOLLECTIONS OF THE
“GREAT COUNSELOR. 1 ’
Anecdotes of His Early and Later
Life—Pen Portraits of His Illustri
ous Contemporaries—Duel with D'Es
terre—His Surpassing Wit and Elo
quence— How He Laughed Bull Run
Russell Out of Ireland—John Ran
dolph’s Testimony to His Mighty
Power as an Orator.
[N.Y. Herald.]
Even as a child O’Connell was quick
aud persevering to a degree. He mas
tered the alphabet in an hour. In him
the terror of disgrace overcame the
natural propensity of a child to be idle.
One day he was idle, and knew his les
son imperfectly. The teacher threat
ens to beat him. The future “Libera-
tor” shrinks from the indignity. “Oh,
rbn’t beat me,” exclaims he, “for one
half hour! If I haven’t my lesson by
tiat time, beat me then.” He had the
bsson within the time allowed. He
says himself: “The first big book I
tver read was Captain Cook’s Woyage
Hound the World.’ I read it with in
tense avidity. When the other children
vould ask me to play with them I used
t> run away and take my book to the
vindow. There I used to sit, with my
ligs crossed tailor-like, devouring the
alventures of Cook. His book helped
U make me a good geographer.” O’Con
rell was also fond of old songs, tradi
tous, recitations and ballads. In 1758,
during assize time iu the town of Tra
lee, he was delighted with two ballad
singers in the streets, singing the words:
“I leaned my back against an oak,
I thought it was a trusty tree,
But first it bent and then it broke;
’Xwas my love deseited me.”
The man sang the first two lines, the
woman the third liue, and both together
the fourth. He used pleasantly to re
call these memories in his old days.
Taught by a Poor Scholar.
It was one of the poor scholars of
those days, who used to travel the
country teaching in defiance of the
penal laws, that gave O'Connell his
earliest instruction. Ho was subse
quently sent by his uncle Maurice, sur
ntimed “Hunting Cap,” to the school of
tie Rev. Mr. Harrington, at, Long
Bland, near Cork, the first school
•pened by a priest after the relaxation
a tho penal code. O’Connell used to
fill that he was the only boy in the
sdiool that did not get a threshing at
soiie time or other.
The Liberator’s Sketch of Grattan.
Of the great Irish patriot of those
da/s, O’Connell used to tell in later
dabs— I “His conversation contained
much humor of a dry, antithetical
kiad, and lie never relaxed a muscle
wAile his hearears were convulsed with
laughter. Ho abounded with anec
dotes of the men with whom he politi
cally acted, and told them very well. I
met him at dinner at the house of an
uncle of O’Connor Don, aud the con
versation turned on Lord Kingsbor
ough, grandfather to the present Earl
of Kingston, a very strange being, who
married at sixteen a cousin of his own,
aged fifteen; used to dress like a
Roundhead of Cromwell’s time, kept
MVat, witfiom.XtMUr. : 1 'l £r*ffl
this oddity, ‘He was the strangest com
pound of incongruities I ever knew ;
he combined the greatest personal in
dependence with the most crouching
political servility to ministers ; ho was
the most religious man and the most
profligate ; he systematically read
every day a portion of the Bible and
marked his place in the sacred volume
vith an obscene ballad.’” O’Connell
used to contrast Grattan’s style of
oratory with that of
The Younger William Pitt,
lie described Pitt as having a grand,
jiajestie march of language and a full,
melodious voice. He said that Grat
tan’s eloquence was full of fire, wanting,
however, the melody and dignity of
Pitt’s. Still nobody quoted the sayings
cf Pitt, while Grattan was always utter
ing sentences that everybody quoted
and held in memory. “I did not,” said
O’Connell to his friend, Mr. Daunt,
''hear Grattan make any of his famous
speeches, but I have heard him in pub
ic. He had great power aud great
cddity—he almost swept the ground
vith his odd action.”
Worship of Orators,
When a law student, in London,
O’Connell used to take pleasure in lis
tening to Pitt and Fox debating in the
Eoaso of Commons. Of Pitt he says:
‘He managed his voice admirably. It
vas from him I learned to throw out
tie lower tones at the close of my sen
tences. Most men either let their voici
Ml at the end of their sentences or
else force it into a shout or screech.—
r ihis is because they end with the up
per instead of the lower notes. Pitt
knew better. He threw his voice so
completely round the House that every
sellable he uttered was distinctly heard
by every man in the House.” Of Fox
1b says “He spoke delightfully; his
soeech was better than Pitt’s. The
forte of Pitt as an orator was majestic
declamation and an inimitable felicity
cf phrase. The word he used was
a ways the very best word that could
be got to express his idea. The only
nan I ever knew who approached Pitt
0.1 this particular excellence wa3 Char
hs Kendall Bushe, whose phrases were
a ways admirably happy.”
A Narrow Escape.
While studying in London O’Connell
oae day witnessed a strange tumult in
tie streets, in the course of which
Bing George 111. had a narrovv escape
fiom the fury of a mob, and O'Connell
limself an equally narrow one from
tie sabre of one of the troopers guard
iig the old King’s carriage. How dif
ferent in many respects might have
teen the subsequent course of human
iffairs aud history if either the obsti
nate old King or the big-brained young
I ish law student had perished on that
tby, the one meeting death at the
lands of the infuriated cockneys, the
ether cloven down by the fierce sweep
cf the English horseman’s sabre.
Not to be Humbugged.
Of the Prince of Wales, afterward
George the IV., he says; “When I saw
lim in 1794 he was a remarkably hand
some-faced man. His figure was
fiulty—narrow shoulders and enor
110us hips—yet, altogether, he was
certainly a very line looking fellow,
fut when I saw him in Dublin, in 1821,
age and the results of dissipation had
nade him a most hideous object. He
hid a flabby, tallow-colored-face, and
Ms frame was quite debilitated. He
cime to Ireland to humbug the Catho
lbs, who, he thought, would take sweet
vords instead of useful deeds. Ah !
ve were not to be humbugged.” Re
specting George IV.’s reputed conver
sational talents he makes the following
jist observation: “Why, from his rank
fie of course found ready listeners, and
lie could talk familiarly of royal per
sonages, concerning whom there is
usually some curiosity felt. That kind
of talk might have passed for agreea
ble, but his favorite conversation was
like that of a profligate, half drunken
trooper.”
Inactive During the Rebellion.
O’Connell was called to the Bar in
the Spring of ’9B, the memorable “year
of the rebellion.” He had joined the
“United Irishmen.” He was also a
member of a yeomanry corps. How
ever, during the troubles he retired to
his native Iveragh. He sailed from
Dublin to Cork in a potato boat. From
thence he hurried home across the
mountains. While at Carlien his career
was near being cut short by a violent
fever; but his powerful constitution
triumphed over the malady after a
hard struggle.
The Value of Blarney.
During this circuit he and a brother
barrister, Harry Dean Grady, had to
pass through a dangerous part of the
country, then infested by robbers. At
the crowded inn of Fermoy they had to
dine in the taproom. A corporal of
dragoons and three privates entered
and sat down to drink. O’Connell and
Grady, before passing by night through
the Kilworth Mountains (which then
bore a peculiarly evil name, the roads
being difficult and the robbers numer
ous and daring), wished to procure
some powder and ball. Having this
object iu view, Grady turned to the cor
poral and said, abruptly:
“Soldier, will you sell me some pow
der and ball ?”
“Sir, I don’t sell powder,” replied the
corporal, snappishly.
“Will you then have the goodness to
buy me some?” said Grady. “I believe
the fellows that are licensed to sell it
here are very chary of it.”
As this was immediately after ’9B, a
general feeling of distrust, even terror,
still pervaded the island.
“ Sir,” replied the corporal, more
tartly than before, “you may go your
self ; I am no man’s messenger but the
King’s.”
O’Connell seized the first opportunity
of whispering to Grady, “I wonder,
Grady, that you, who have so much
mother wit, should have been guilty of
the blunder of calling the corporal ‘sol
dier.’ Did you not see the mark of his
rank upon his sleeve ? You have
grievously wounded his pride and turn
ed him against us by thus undervalu
ing him in the eyes of his own soldiers,
whom he doubtless keeps at a distance
and among whom he plays the officer.”
Grady kept silent, and in a minute
the insinuating Daniel accosted the of
fended son of Mars.
“ Sergeant,” said the wily advocate,
“I am very glad that you and your
brave fellows here had not the trouble
of escorting the Judges this wet day.
It was excellent business for those yeo
manry chaps.”
“ Ay, indeed, sir,” said the corporal,
this time speaking quite civilly, and
manifestly highly flattered at having
been styled sergeant by the young bar
rister. “It was well for those that were
not under these torrents of rain.”
“ Perhaps, sergeant,” resumed the
bland and sly diplomatist, “you would
have the goodness to procure me some
powder and ball in town ? We are to
pass the Kilworth Mountains, and shall
want ammunition. You can, of course,
is" not to every one they’ll sell these
matters.”
This clever proceeding, by method of
sap and mine on the part of the oily
young barrister, was simply irresisti
ble. The corporal iu a moment forgot
all about his offended dignity. Dan’s
blarney went down like new milk mixed
with drops of Lethe’s water.
“Sir,” said the corporal, with the ut
most bonhomie and even effusion,“l shall
have very great pleasure in requesting
your acceptance of a small supply of
powder and ball. My balls will, I think
just fit your pistol. You’ll stand in
need of ammunition, for there are some
of those outlying rebelly rascals on the
mountains.”
Harry Grady was immensely amused
at Dan’s brilliant success in smoothing
the ruffled feelings of the warrior. “Ah!
Dan,” said he, smiling at his balmy
tongued fellow-traveller, “you’ll go
through the world fair and easy, I fore
see.”
Here we see the humor and adroit
ness which, all through his subsequent
life, so greatly contributed to O’Con
nell’s success at the Bar and in the field
of political agitation. Of course our
space does not permit us to give illus
trations of O’Oonuefl’s readiness in
cross-examination aud promptness in
seizing every advantage for his client.
Suffice it to say, he became admittedly
the first advocate of his day.
O’Connell Arraigns the English Gov
ernment.
No forensic address is more powerful
than his memorable defense of Magee,
which terrible arraignment of the Eng
lish rule in Ireland filled the civilized
world with his fame. Though he was
on that occasion technically defeated,
he was morally and virtually trium
phant. His boldness astonished alike
friends and foes.
"A Giant in Body and Mind.”
No man could be more amiable in his
private relations than O’Connell. Ho
idolized his wife, his children and his
grandchildren. His life, when at Der
ryuane Abbey, in his native Kerry, was
that of an old Irish patriarchal prince,
refined by modern civilization. It was
splendid to see him dispensing his gen
erous hospitalities. It was also mag
nificent to see the old man, with his
leaping pole, bouuding over mountain
and moor after his stag hounds.
Squelching a Cantankerous Attorney.
O’Connell was once engaged in a case
at the assizes of one of the towns on
the Munster circuit. The attorney on
the side opposed to O’Connell was the
most combative of mortals. Nothing
delighted him so much as having a
good fight. This taste he always took
care to gratify by being foremost in
whatever scenes of political excitement
occurred in his native town. His ex
ternal appearance was significant of
his moral and intellectual qualities.
His face generally wore an audacious,
threatening, contemptuous expression.
He looked like some dogged pugilist.
His hair was as contrarious as his dis
position. No amount of brushing could
smooth it. Two eccentric locks, one on
each temple, stood erect like horns, and
were far from tending to mollify the
fighting expression of his face. This
fiery, spunky, wrangling limb of the
law, whonever he addressed an audi
ence, jerked out his short sentences —
not destitute of a certain sort of abil
ity—in a hissing tone of voice.
Being an Orangeman this odd char
acter was anything but friendly to
O’Connell. On the occasion in question
he kept annoying him by every means
in his power—one moment by improp
er interruptions, at another lime by
addressing the witnesses, in short, by
all sorts of unwarrantable interference.
Vainly did the barristers associated
with O’Connell take him to task rough
ly. Vainly did the Judgo repeatedly
order him to keep quiet, Up he would
jump every other moment, interrupt
ing the proceedings, hissing out the
promptings of his bile, sometimes even
vociferating uproariously. Nobody
seemed able to keep this choleric
Orang?' attorney at rest for five conse
cutive minutes. Finally, even while
O’Connell was in the very act of argu
ing a most important question, he
leaped up once more, quite unabashed,
for the mere purpose of repeating, for
the hundredth time, his outrageous in
terruption. But this overfilled the
measure of O’Connell’s wrath ; he sud
denly lost all patience. Turning around
with the rapidity of lightning, and
with his fiercest scowl on the disturber
of the peace, he roared, in tones of
thunder: “Sit down, you audacious,
snarling, pugnacious ramcat!” Quick
as the few words, that hit off with such
happy humor the character of the
“ cankerous ” attorney, flaw from his
lips, shouts of laughter rang through
the court. Roar followed roar. Judge,
barristers and all were convulsed till
the tears ran down their cheeks. Iu
short, tho laughter was as inextinguish
able as that of old Homer’s gods when
Vulcan limped through the halls of
Olympus.
Meanwhile the pugnacious limb of the
law stood before O’Connell like one
transfixed, pale, tongue-tied, gasping
with unutterable fury. All through the
remainder of his life the nickname of
“ram-cat” stuck to him.
ihe Heir-at-Law of the Impenitent
Thief.
All the world knows that O’Connell,
in a speech iu England, called Disraeli,
the present Premier of that country,
the descendant of the impenitent thief.
He concluded his invective, amid great
laughter, with these words : “Aud with
the impression that he is, I now forgive
the heir-at-law of the blasphemous
thief who died upon the cross.” Dis
raeli was nearly driven crazy.
The London Times’ Poet ou O’Connell.
The following squib, published in the
columns of the London Times iu the
earlier years of O’Connell’s presence in
the English Parliament, gives a pretty
good idea of the prejudice and dislike
with which the Liberator was regarded.
For the publication of this wretched
doggerel and a very libelous article
which accompanied it, the printer of
the Times was called to the bar of the
House and censured.
Scum,condensed of Irish bog;
Traitor, bully, demagogue;
Boundless liar, base detractor,
Nurse of murder, treason’s factor.
What can curb thy callous jaw ?
What can fill thy Insatiate maw ?
How He Ran Russell, of the Times,
Out of Ireland.
[Chicago Tribune.]
One of the most effective weapons of
O’Connell was his wit, which was al
ways at his command. There are hun
dreds of stories detailing instances of
his power in this respect. One of these
is a story where the victim was Dr.
Russell, known in this country as “Bull
Run Russell,” the famous correspond
ent of tho London Times. On one oc
casion, when O’Connell was to address
a monster meeting in Ireland, Russell
was sent over by the Times to report
O’Connell’s speech, the purpose being
to get evidence that could be used
against him in case he should utter
language capable of being
Russell was provided with every possible
facility for his work. He was assigned a
seat near O’Connell, where he could
hear every word. O’Connell, before
beginning his speech, informed the
thousands of people present that there
was a very able Englishman present,
who came all the way from England to
report his speech; that it was to be
printed in the London Times, and that
the gentlemau was very desirous to get
an accurate report; so that he could
swear to it if necessary. He therefore
appealed to the Irish present to be
quiet and orderly; to make no noise,
to do nothing that could disturb the
the English gentleman, or cause him to
lose a word of the speech to which he
was to swear. During these remarks
he pointed out Mr. Russell personally,
who was placed so conspicuously as to
be easily seen by all. Then, turning to
Mr. Russell, he asked him if there was
anything he needed, if he was comforta
bly seated, if his pens were in order, and
if he were ready to begin. By this time
Russell had become the most interest
ing and conspicuous man in the crowd.
Again appealing to the crowd to be
come quiet and let the gentleman get
such a report as he could swear to, he
informed Russell that ho was about to
begin. Russell dipped his pen in ink,
and O’Connell began his oration—in
Irish! The multitude saw the joke,
and Russell was painfully impressed
with the knowledge that he was laugh
ed at. At intervals O’Connell would
appeal in English to the crowd to be
silent, as the English gentlemau did
not seem to get along very well, and
would not be able to swear to the accu
racy of the repoi’t. Every moment
made Russel’s position more painful,
until at last, mortified and humiliated
at the exposure of the real purpose of
his visit, and at its defeat, he rose from
his seat, left the meeting, and quitted
Ireland.
EXTRACTS FROM WENDELL PHIL
LIPS’ EULOGY.
He began his agitation by making
speeches. He said to himself: “The
hierarchy leave me; the nobles repu
diate me; the wealthy scorn me; the
educated distrust me. I will lean on
the people.” He was the first man, as
Canning said, “who summoned a race
into existence and restored the balance
of the world.” So O’Connell was the
first man in Great Britain to summon a
people into existence, and check the
advances of the oppression of the upper
classes. He taught Cobdon his method.
In a certain sense he moulded the age.
When Lincoln said: “I drift; I seek
only to know the wishes of the Ameri
can people;” when Grant went into
office, saying: “I have no policy; I
stand here to do the will of the Ameri
can people,” they were both echoes of
Daniel O’Connell. He was the first
great subject who taught the crown to
look outside the House of Com- i
mons for the dictator of its policy.
He went round making speeches,
but he had no journals—no papers
to report his speeches; they would
uot even report he had a meet
ing. But, as Lowell says ; “Patience
is the passion of great souls.” So with
Infinite patience he went over Ireland
dropping the seed. At last it was sug
gested that ho should call for a penny
a week from every Irishman the world
over. It was called “O’Connell’s Rent.”
It amounted, finally, to $250,000 a year.
He was the great beggarman of Eu
rope,” you know! This was the charge
always thrown against him —pecuniary
corruption. He noticed it once in a
letter to Bishop England, of Charleston;
South Carolina, when he said ; “My
Uncle Maurice died at 90 in the French
service, shortly after I was admitted to
the bar. He left me £5,000 a year. I
never earned less than £IO,OOO a year
at the bar ; £50,000 rent roiled into my
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hands also. Approaching 70 years,”
he said ;
“I Stand a Poorer Man than 1 Began,' l
If the guineas came into his hands
they never stopped there.
His Duel With D’Esterre.
A Major D’Esterre, Agent of the Dub
lin Corporation, visited him with con
tinuous insult. Every word that had
insult in it in the English language was
poured upon his head through the
journals. O’Connell saw the dread
alternative ; he must either give satis
faction to the gentleman or leave the
field, and at last he consented to receive
a challenge. He passed the interval
between the challenge and the day of
meeting in efforts to avoid it, which
were all attributed to cowardice. When
at last he stood opposite to his anta
gonist, he said to his second : “God for
bid that I should risk a life. Mark me.
I shall fire below the knee.” But,
you know, in early practice with
the pistol, you always lire below the
mark, and O’Connell’s pistol took effect
above the knee, and D’Esterre fell,
mortally wounded. O’Connell recorded
in the face of Europe a vow against fur
ther dueling. He settled a pension on the
widow of his antagonist, and, in a dozen
years later, when he held ten thousand
dollars’ worth of briefs in the northern
courts, he flung them away and went
to the extreme South to save for her
the last acre she owned. After this his
sons fought his duels, and when Dis
raeli, anxious to prove himself a cour
ageous man, challenged O’Connell, he
put it in his pocket. Disraeli, to get
full advantage of the matter, sent his
letter to the London Times, whereupon
Maurice O’Connell sent the man a mes
sage that there tons an O’Connell who
would fight the duel if he wanted, but
his namo was not Daniel. Disraeli did
not continue the correspondence.
His Bravery Compared with Great
Men.
O’Connell owed it to his eloquence. I
do not think I should exaggerate if I
said that God, since he made Demos
thenes, never made a man so fit for the
great work as lie did O’Connell. You
may think I am partial to my hero,
very naturally. But John Randolph,
of Roanoke, who hated an Irishman al
most as much as he did a Yankee,
when he got to London and heard
O’Connell, tho old slaveholder held up
his hand and said: “This is the man—
those are the lips, the most eloquent
that speak English in my day.” And I
think he was right. [Applause.] Web
ster could address a bench of judges;
Everett could charm a college; Choate
could delude a jury; Clay could mag
netize a Senate; Tom Corwin could
hold the mob in his right hand; but no
one of them could do more than that
one thing. The wonder of O’Connell
was that he could out-talk Corwin; he
could charm a college better than
Everott; delude a jury better than a
Choate, and leave day himself far be
hind in muguetizing a Senate. I have
heard all the majestic orators of America
who are singularly famed on the world’s
circumference. I know what was the
majesty of Webster ; I know what it
was to melt under the magnetism of
Henry Clay ; I have seen eloquence in
the iron logic of Calhoun ; but all three
of them ever equalled, the great Irish
man. [Applause.] In the first place
he had—what is half the power with a
popular orator—a majestic presence.—
God put that royal soul into a body as
royal. He had, in early youth, the
brow of Jove or Jupiter, and the stat
ure of Apollo ; a little O’Connell would
have been no O’Connell at all. [Laugh
ter.] Sydney Smith said of Lord John
Russell’s five feet, when he went down
to Yorkshire, after the reform bill had
been carried, the stalwart hunters of
Yorkshire said : “ That little shrimp I
What, he carry the reform bill ?” “No,
no,” said Sydney ; “no ; he was a large
man, but the labors of the bill shrunk
him.” [Renewed laughter.] Do you
remember the story of Webster, that
Russell Lo well tells, when we, in Mass
achusetts, were about to break up the
Whig party? Webster came home to
Faneuil Hall to protest, and 4,000
Whigs went to meet him. He lifted up
that majestic presence before the sea
of human faces, his brow charged with
thunder, and he said : “I am a Whig—
a Massachusetts Whig—a Revolution
ary Whig—a Constitutional Whig—a
Faneuil Hall Whig. And, if you break
up the Whig party, where arn I to go?”
And Russell Lowell says: “We held
our breaths, thinking where he could
go.” [Laughter.] “But if he had been
live feet five,” said Lowell, “we would
have said : “Well, hang it, who cares
where you go ?’ ” [Renewed laughter.]
Well, O’Connell had all that. Then ho
had beside what Webster never had
and what Clay had—the magnetism and
grace that melts a million souls into
his. When I saw him he was sixty-six
—lithe as a boy; his every attitude was
beauty; every gesture was grace.—
Macready or Booth never equaled him.
Why, it would have been delightful
even to look at him, if he had not
spoken at all; and all you thought of
was a greyhound. Then he had—what
so few American speakers have—a
voice that sounded the gamut.
LETTER FROM BERZELIA.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Berzelia, August 7.
It has rained some, yet, as far as my
observation goes, cotton is very much
injured. South of Berzelia for eight or
ten miles, reaching from the Pinetucky
neighborhood to Briar Creek, but few
corn crops have suffered. James Pal
mer will make about 20 bushels corn to
the acre on poor black jack ridge; Jno.
Phillips, on gopher laud, makes a fine
crop. Eb. Holly is the pattern small
farmer in this part of the world, unless
Nath. Rochel rivals him. The question,
“Does farming pay?” is at once settled
on these farms. These men, on arid
land, make everything they eat, and
some to spare.
Fodder pulling has commenced. I
propose to get a report from three or
four ef our piney woods farmers of this
year’s cropping, and furnish your read
ers.
There is no special news among us.
We are expecting to have some politics
after awhile out this way and if I am
called on to construct the platform I
shall assemble around the little monu
ment at Linwood Church and catching
inspiration from it record, I will write,
“1776—1798—1861—-‘Lost Cause,’ Jeff
Davis, Robert E. Lee, plenty of peace
but no Grants, plenty of money soft or
hard, plenty of corn, oats, wheat, rye,
potatoes, peas, hogs, and children, no
civil rights, no amendments, not even
one for back pay.
Gentlemen, I am the happy father of
my wife’s tenth child aud its a boy. I am
fifty years older than that boy—almost
to a day. I look at him and reflect
when lie numbers his half century, will
there be a Presidential campaign open
ing or will the “cause” be lost?
Pinetucky,