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Old Series— ~V ol. 25. No. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Gully, one year $lO 00 0 months 5 f 'i months 2 to Td-Weekly, one year 6 oo fi months 2 50 vVeekly. one year 2 oo " fi months 1 oo Single copies, 5 cents, 'lo news dealers, 2% cents. On and after this date (April 21,18751 all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Itijecte l communications will not be return ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. All letters should be addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, Ga. 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 New Series---Vol. 3. No. 7. 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,