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Old Series—Vol. 25. No. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. i'as. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, PBOPItIETOBS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally, one year $lO 00 s months 5 oo “ a months 2 6(i Tri-Weekly, one year 6 oo " ti months 2 60 Weekly, one year 2 00 " 6 months 1 oo Single copies, 5 cents, lo news dealers, 2% cents. On and after this date (April 21,1875 ) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid 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. Rejected 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. Failures in England continue. A rail mill has gone by the board to the tune of §500,000. It looks like other countries besides the United States are getting down to hard pan. m Just as the yellow fever is disappear ing from Fort Barrancas, we hear of its breaking out at Pascagoula, a town situated on the Mobile and New Or leans Railway, near the Gulf of Mexico. Know Nothingism has broken out in Connecticut. The Springfield Republi can suggests the prudence of detailing General O’Butler to head it off before it crosses the line into Massachusetts. Duncan, Sherman & Cos. make an ap proximate exhibit of their assets and liabilities. The failure is a pretty bad one, and if creditors realize twenty-five cents on the dollar we shall be agree ably surprised. — The August report of the Depart ment of Agriculture on the cotton crop shows that, in spite of local drouth and overflows, the average is still very high. Georgia, South Carolina and Florida have apparently been the greatest suf ferers. The population of Columbia, S. C., according to the census returns is about 14,445, divided as follows: White males, 2,534; white females, 2,506. Col ored males, 4,576; colored females, 4,829. Total majority of blacks over whites, 4,365. m i wii The heated term, through which we have successfully passed, has commen ced its reign in Paris. Fourteen sun strokes in one day may be considered a fair percentage of misfortune. It is a well-known fact that more persons are injured by the Summer heat iu the North than in the South. An article is going the rounds of the press advising young men to exercise their brains less and muscles more. It concludes thus: Young men can easily calculate that the cost of joining a gymnasium, or a boat club would not even require that consider able!’ percentage of the money expended for cigars, bad liquors and unprofitable pleasures. Asa general thing, the expenses of a gymnasium or boat club are plus the cigars, liquors, etc. Very few young men exercise their brains in a hurtful manner, so far as study and reading are concerned. There is consolation in all things. The better side of the recent “Venusian perturbations” is thus summed up: “While undoubted- damage has been done to the stauding crops, the des truction is not as great as was at first apprehended. Against the injuries by the floods may be set off the probable profit which all descriptions of root crops have derived from the rain, and the enriching of pastures, which pro mises a fine yield of the products of the dairy, besides holding out the pros pect that beef will be of excellent quality, as well as cheap and plentiful this year. The Indian corn crop in most sections is also evidently to be prolific.” m t —■ ■ —- The Columbia, S. C.. Register says : “In the address of Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, yesterday, before the Grangers, he spoke of the want of education among the farmers and of the great scarcity of reading among their fami lies. We know that there is great pre judice against “book learning” among agriculturists, but then we only have to compare the homes of those farm ers who take the papers and those who do not, to see the vast superiority of general information where the papers are read.” The poverty or indifference of Southern farmers must be very great when they find it hard or impossible to take a weekly paper and pay $2 per an num for it. Let them relinquish just eight drinks during the year and sub scribe for a paper. “ About one year ago Bishop Geo. F. Pierce asked that every citizen of Georgia would send him one dollar, the sum thus raised to be used for the en dowment of Emory College. In re sponse to this call, he writes that he has received about 82,000. He ought to have received 820,000 by this time.”— Atlanta Herald We think the Bishop has done pass ing well considering the stringency of the times. There are very few persons who have any surplus money, aud the vast majority are desperately striving to make two ends meet in settling rent, buying provisions and paying urgent debts. If clergymen of any denomina tion expect large contributions from their congregations or the public gen erally they are doomed to disappoint ment. The people are quite poor, and we want no better evidence of that fact than the empty appearance of the con tribution baskets passed round in one of our most generous churches. Let the good Bishop wait until the business Reason commences, and try again. (El)i' fails i (Eomtitutuimißst FROM NEW YORK. DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO’S. UN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. A Sop for Cerberus—How' the Broken Firm is Supposed to Stand—Tam many Tantrums. New York, August 13. —A statement of Duncan, Sherman & Go’s, affairs shows liabilities §4,872,128, and assets §2,112,740. They owe depositors §2,- 572,139.75; travelers credits §237,974; foreign correspondence §774,387. Mr. Duncan and Judge Shipmau explained that that statement is not official and can be taken as representing only ap proximate amounts. It has been pre pared to answer many inquiries that are daily made regarding the probable condition of the affairs of the firm, and with special care to avoid making a better showing than may be justified by final results. All doubtful assets have been reduced or entirely stricken out. The general Tammany Committee ratified the action of the committee re-organizing the districts controlled by Morrissey, Hall and Ledwith. Seizure of a Ship—The State Tax. The ship Queen of the Mersey, seized by the Brooklyn Sheriff, was complica ted with Baxter & Cos., baukrupt grain merchants. The report of the state of the finances says the whole State tax next year need not exceed 3 to 3J4 mills. Important Arrest of Bond Forgers. Arrests of parties implicated in the forgery of California and Oregon Rail road bonds prove to be extremely im portant. They comprise Geo. R. Haz well, nominally a broker, who, last year, negotiated §30,000 worth of forged Wa bash bonds ; Geo. Marshall and Wm. Rea, whom, the police state, are w T eli known dealers in forged bonds, and Edward Hal}. The latter arrest is con sidered one of the most important yet made, as he is believed to be the head of a gang of bond counterfeiters who, not long ago, endeavored to flood the city with forged Erie, City and Water Loan bonds. These are the same per sons who negotiated some New York Central Railroad real estate bonds, which are believed to be worthless. FROM WASHINGTON. A Call for Bonds—Appointment. Washington, August 13.—A call for ten million dollars’ worth of bonds will be issued by the Treasury Department to-day, the Syndicate having made an other subscription for that sum. This leaves but §38,537,550 of the new five per cent, bonds in the hands of the Secretary, and the Syndicate has until November 15th to take this amount. Dodd county, Georgia, is included in the second collection district. Robert A. Mosely has been commis sioned postmaster at Talladega, Ala. Report of tlie Cotton Crop. The returns of the Department of Agriculture for August show an im provement of the cotton crop of 4 per cent, in North Carolina, 1 in Mississip pi and 4 in Arkansas. These States were largely flavored with the same conditions of growth which had secur ed their high averages of July. Texas maintained her previous figures ; the drouth in some counties being counter balanced by fine weather in others.— Tennessee lost 2 per cent., mostly on account of injuries to bottom land crops from excessive rains. In Louisi ana the average decline is 6 per cent, on account of local drouth, though several parishes report very prom ising crops. This injurious influ ence cut down the average of Georgia 11 per cent., of South Carolina, 15 per cent., and Florida, 16 per cent. The August averages were as follows: North Carolina, 99; South Carolina, 84; Georgia, 86; Florida, 85; Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 104; Louis iana, 99; Texas, 93; Arkansas, 108; Ten nessee, 107. Lice and caterpillars are reported in two or three counties, but no damage to the crop is noted. Special River Report. 7:30 p. m.—The Mississippi has fallen seven inches at St. Louis, three inches at Cairo and risen one inch at Mem phis and Helena, and two inches at Vicksburg. The river is now nine inches* higher at Cairo, and one inch higher at Memphis then it was during the Spring flood of this year. Red river has risen five inches at Shreve port. Rains are reported from the river sheds of the lower Mississippi and the lower Missouri, the Arkansas and Red rivers. Postal Arrangement. Washington, August 13.—The Post Office Department arranged with the King Line of steamers to carry the mail between Baltimore and Rio Janeiro. The King Richard sails from Baltimore at ten o’clock on the 28th inst. FROM SPARTA. One Negro Murders Another With a Pitchfork. [Special to the Constitutionalist.! Sparta, Ga., August 13, 1875. Two negro men, employed by Mr. T. M. Turner, of this place, had a dispute over some watermelons this afternoon, and one struck the other on the head with a pitchfork, fracturing his skull. He died this evening. The other ne gro escaped. X. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Falling Down Stairs—Robbing a Bank —Mutiny—Murder aud Suicide. Cincinnati, August 13.—Frank Knorr, a delegate to the Druids’ Convention, while visiting the Central Fire Depart ment Station fell down a flight of stairs. His injuries are probably fatal. Milwaukee, August 13.—Nothing has been heard from Hobkirk, Cashier of the Corn Exchange Bank, of Waupun. He has doubtless absconded with all the available accounts. The bank is due depositors 885,000; others, 815,000. Baltimore, August 13. —The brig Harry, Captain Barnes, since Monday night for Matanzas, is at Annapolis, the crew having mutinied. Detroit, August 13. —John Hoffman, of the firm of Hoffman & Mayes, ship chandlers, shot himself and wife. Cause, jealousy. Hanging of a Murderer—An Immense Audience of Morbid Siglit-Seers. "Knoxville, August 13. —John Webb, the murderer was hauged to-day. He maintained wonderful nerve to the last and under the gallows continued to af firm his innocence. An immense crowed came from the surrounding country, estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000, to witness the execution. New Orleans, August 13. —A barrel factory at the head of Marigny street, blew down, killing two and injuring three. AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Alfonsists Crowding the Carlists —Another Failure in England—Ex cessive Heat in Paris. London, August 13.—The weather is unsettled. The Stockton Rail Mill Cos., have failed for §500,000. Madrid, August 13.—The Alfonsists at Seo d’Urgel carried the Olsana tower after a desperate struggle mounting the battery in the Olsana. It is consid ered impossible for the Carlists to hold the citadel. Paris, August 13. —Heat excessive. Fourteen sun strokes have occurred. Ten 'I housand Troops for Cuba—At tempt to Swim the English Channel- Expulsion of a Prussian Bishop—A Burial Case Settled by Decree. Madrid, August 13. —It is said the Government intends to send ten thou sand men to Cuba to enable Captain General Valmaseda to execute his plans for the reduction of the insurrection in that colony. London, August 16.—Webb, who started to swim from England to France, was picked up half way. He is confident he could have made the trip but for the roughness of the water. The Faraday sailed to renew her ef forts to repair the direct cable. Berlin, August 13.—The Bishop of Gneisie has been expelled from his dio cese by a decree of the Government. Montreal, August 13. —A long ex pected decree of the Privy Council was received from England ordering the burial of the remains of Joseph Gui bord in the consecrated portion of the Catholic cemetery. The Old Catholic Conference—More English Failures. Bonn, August 13.—The Old Catholic Conference discussed the question of processions of the Holy Ghost. The Conference has nearly agreed upon a formula concerning this doctrine, which will be submitted to-morrow. London, August 13.—The failure of Denegre & Son, of Old Jewry, and W. J. Craven, of Trenchard street, are an nounced. Prorogation of Parliament. London, August 13. —Parliament has been prorogued to the 29th. The Queen’s Address. My Lord! and Gentlemen : I am happy to be enabled to release you from attendance at Parliament. The relations between myself and foreign Powers continue to be cordial, and I look forward with hope and con fidence to the uninterrupted mainte nance of European peace. The visit paid to this country, on invitation of my Government, by the ruler of Zanzibar has led to the con clusion of a supplementary convention which I trust may be efficacious for a more complete suppression of the East African slave trade. I have learned with deep regret that the expedition dispatched by my Indian government from Burmah,with a view to open communication with the Wes tern Provinces of China has been treacherously attacked by an armed force while on Chinese Territory. This outrage, unhappily involving the death of a young aud promising member of my consular service, is the subject of careful enquiry and no effort shall be spared to secure punishment of those by whom it was instigated and com mitted. The condition of my Colonial Em pire is generally harmonious, aud I thank you for the liberal supplies you have voted for public service. My Lords and Gentlemen, it is grati fying to me to find that the lengthened consideration you have given the vari ous statutes which have from time to time been passed for the preservation of the peace in Ireland, has resulted in a measure which, while relaxing the stringency of former enactments, is calculated to maintain the tranquillity of the country. Her Majesty then refers to other principal enactments of the session. The reference to shipping bills being as follows: The state of the public business and difference of opinion naturally arising on a varied and com prehensive scheme have unfortunately prevented you from completing the consideration of the Merchant Ship ping Bill, but I rejoice that you have been able by temporary enactment to diminish considerably the dangers to which my seafaring subjects are ex posed. I have every reason to hope that the progress in the revenue system which has marked recent years will be fully sustained in the present arrangements which you have made with respect to the reduction of the national debt, and and those for the better regulation of loans for public works will lead to valuable improvements in our system of imperial and local finance. In bidding you farewell for the re cess, I pray that the blessings of Provi dence may fall on your recent labors and accompany you in the discharge of all your duties. An Ultramontane Victory. Berlin, August 13.—Herling, Ultra montane candidate, has been elected to the German Parliament for Coblenz by 8,000 majority. THE GRANGERS. Time and Place for Holding a Conven tion. Louisville, Ky., August 13.—Louis ville has been selected as the place for holding a Convention of all Grange pur chasing agents and the first of October as the time. The National Executive and all State Executive Committees will be present for the purpose of adopt ing a plan by which business can be conducted on a uniform system through out the United States. YELLOW FEYEII. A Malignant Type of the Pest Breaks Out in Pascagoula. Pascagoula, Miss., August 13.—Yel low fever broke out here on Sunday last. It is not knowm how it originated, but supposed to have been brought from Havana. Thirty cases are under treatment. The disease is of the most malignant type. There have been seven deaths, including Dr. Brackfield, a leading physician. Cornering a Defaulter. San Francisco, August 13. —The po lice surrounded and searched the rail road company’s office and found Wood ruff, alias Miller, who had been in the city jail in default of $25,000 bail. Wood ruff refused to converse with the re porters. Sporting News. Rochester, August 13.—Pools in the free to all: Goldsmith Maid, 100. The field, including Lula, American Girl and Nettle, 40. LETTER ifllOJI ATHENS.* The “Deserted VI lage.”—College Boys and Inspiring 1 Young Ladies. The Odd Fellows’! Encampment—The “Governors” (*>ne to the Agricul tural Conventi(gi—Methodist Confer ence— Superiorl Court—“ Infantry ” Tactics —“Hyd®>-S ulphuri o so” Springs. [Regular Correi >. Constitutionalist.! Athens, r A., August 12, 1875. Commencement is over, and Athens has relapsed into ler usual lethargy. The over-age g iduate has gathered up his “duds,” sb uldered his diploma, 3wung his meda around his neck, or seen it equally sa . round other necks, and has departed :,o that “dearest spot on earth.” There has bee absolutely nothing to vary the stillc ss of the “deserted village” save no and then a stray loafer who mine s the festive melon in the shade and ghs for the friends of his youth. Indeed, the yoi ig ladies of our city who are so renoybed throughout this State, have, mam] of them, left us, and the very recent fa* 3 well of three charm ing belles of Au usta, together with one of Aiken’s f; i.r beauties, has left “L.,” of the Cliroi vie and Sentinel, and your corresponde t, in complete deso lation. Owen Meredith contended that civil ized man could nc \ live without cooks, but it is equally 1 ue that they cannot live, in the full se se of the term, with out the gentler se . It is essential to poets, and it is ne ossary for that class of modern wort ;es, one of whom we are viz: m vspaper correspon dents. Nor do w; think that this will be entirely refute 1 by “Jean Valjean,” who, despite his veil known stoicism and practicality, minently showed in some of his spicj letters that he had imbibed at the sa ie exhilarating foun tain. Notwithstandin the late monotonous ordeal, we are sc uewhat refreshed at present by thesti in our city occasion ed by the Conven ion of Odd Fellows. The Grand Em mpment I. O. O. F. of Georgia conve ad here Wednesday morning. There ~re about seventy five delegates ii all from various sections of the 8 ite. These, accom panied by Oliver encampment, No. 14, and Willi ms Lodfea, No. 15, of Athens, assembled Wedn aday at 9 a. m., and under command o Grand Master F. V. Jordan, of Savann di, paraded through Broad street am filed through the College Campus to the Uuiversity Chapel. Here the were welcomed in an appropriate at i eloquent little ad dress by F. G. Fr uk Lumpkin, which was fittingly resp( tided to by the Grand Master. The offh -rs of the Grand En campment, eieetc \ for the ensuing year, are as follow \: A. T. Luckie, M. W. G. Patriarch ; R. J. Maynard, M. EgG. High Priest; J. G. Bloodworth, RfW. G. Senior War den ; John G. Deil:, R. W. G. Scribe ; T. A. Burke, R. G. Treasurer ; W. A. Prout, R. W. GlTuuior Warden ; J. S. Tyson, R. W. (i Representative G. L. U. S.; J. C. Roblrts, W. G. Marshal. The following fere the officers 0? Grand Lodge of JLeorgia, elected to day : f TANARUS, J. Simmons, 1 [aeon, M. W. G. M.; L. J. Schressler, R !W. G. M.; Samuel Levy, Augusta, R. W. G. M.; Jno. G. Deitz, Macon, li. V G. S.; T. A. Burke, Athens, R. W. G. r ;7. J. Glenn, Atlan ta , It. W. G., repre entativeG. L. U. S. Installation of c ficers this afternoon at 3p. m. Not b< ng one of the bro thers of the “ M Stic Tie,” however, we were unavoidal y absent from this interesting ceremonial. Col. A. O. Bacon from Bibb county to tig Legislature, is in attendance upon tie Grand Lodge. There are not, Is we know of, any “ Governors ” along, most of them be ing absent at till State Agricultural Society at Dalton fhowever, it is not, as yet, certain whelm. Athens favors for Gubernatorial digfity. Probably she will raise up a can idate of her own. The District COl ’erence of the M. E Church is also in s ssion. Rev. Thom as Pierce presiding Elder. The open ing sermon was pi ached this morning by Rev. Dr. Borin , However impor tant and necessar these conventions may be, some peoj 0 do say that they are death upon ri ja fruit and young pullets, which is m at unmistakably at tested to by the s lircity of peaches in market and the sh ness and suspicious anxiety of the avei ,ge fowl around our farmyards. The Honorable Superior Court of Clark county now tteth under the su pervision of Judge Rice. Col. Joel A. Billups, of Madiso , Juo. C. Reid, of Crawfordsville, an other eminent law yers are present. >0 far the time has been taken up wit) civil cases, none of them of much imj rtance. The crimi nal docket we leai is very small this term, owing to th- exceeding morality of our most exerni ary community, so we fear there is no ihanceof a hanging or any similar epis de to vary the mo notony of the tim* . Notwithstanding the peace which reigns supreme t| er our classic city, there has been, dS ring the past week, many additions tu the infantry. Sev eral recruits have! made their appear ance in different! ainilies of the com munity, and our | resent quiet neigh borhood may eonf lently look out for “squalls.” j As we have alreffly intimated, nearly every one who is | >le has departed for some springs, of ers for the falls. These fashionabl* springs in North Georgia seem to | * temporary affairs. One Summer we* ■ ear of the Sulphur Springs, arm the|; another, each one running its seasef* and finally drying up, we presume, |j>r nothing more is ever heard from if! m. This Summer it seems to bo >?Jw Holland Springs, and to this resorV jhe public generally are hastening. fTae knowing ones around here apum that twenty miles from Athens is a most delightful retre||, which iu the “good old times’l :was considered the Saratoga of the Ss|th. This was called Madison is in Madison county, Ga. They, fay that for delight ful scenery, fine and pure air it is little short of x||at a modern para dise might be. 1.4 all means then let tbis most romantiMplace be filled up, embellished and Tiiorued, and if the name is too plebdJo, why change it to the “Hydro-Snip i ffioso” Springs or something of thatg#rt, and we will pre dict for it a libeialif atronage. Athens should * j ave something of this kind for plpiure seekers after commencement, If -a kind of resting place whither me# “pilgrims” of the Lucy Cobb Institi||; and University of Georgia may hie drinking deeply, or toasting lightb|||(B the ease may be, of the Pierian waitkb. Picciola. Salt Lake, Augfp-t 13.—A part of the Indians have lefi| Oorinne for the re servations. Othe|| promise to follow. No trouble is appf|aended. HONORED HEARTS. Some Curious Histories. The romantic incidents connected with the heart of Robert Bruce, and also that of the gallant Marquis of Montrose, are pretty well known. Such incidents, however remarkable, are by no means singular, as the few following facts will show : Paul Whitehead, some time secreta ry to Medmenham Club, and a dabbler in ryhme, dying in 1774, left his heart to his noble friend and patriot, Lord Le Despencer, to be deposited in his mausoleum at West Wycombe. Lord Le Despencer accepting the bequest, had the heart wrapped in lead and placed in a marble urn, and on the 16th of May, 1775, it was carried to its resting place with much ceremony. Preceding the bier, bearing the urn, marched a grenadier officer in full uni form, nine grenadiers, two deep, the odd one last, two German flute-players, two surpliced choristers, “with notes pinned to their backs,” two nure flute players, eleven singing men in surpli ces, two French-horn players, six lifers, two bassoon players aud four drum mers with muffled drums. Lord Le Despeneer, as chief mourner, followed the Dier in his uniform as colonel of the Bucks Militia, and was succeeded by nine officers of the same corps, two lifers, two drummers and twenty sol diers with their lirelocks reversed. The musicians played the “Dead March in Saul,” Dr. Arnold, Mr. Atterbury and another gentleman beating time with scrolls of paper. The church bell tolled, and cannon were discharged every three and a half minutes. Upon reaching the mau soleum anottier hour was spent in going round and round it, singing funeral glees; then the urn was carried inside and placed upon a pedestal bearing the name of the whilom owner of the heart and the lines— “ Unhallowed hands this urn forbear; No gems, no orient spoil; Lie here concealed; but what’s more rare, A heart that knew no guile.” Spite of the injunction, some unhal lowed hand stole the urn in 1829, and the whereabouts of Whitehead’s heart remains a mystery to the present day. We are not sure that Byron’s should be reckoned among lost hearts, but we have somewhere read that when it was resolved to send his body from Misso longhi to England, the Greeks en treated that the heart of the poet, who dreamed that Greece might still be free, and wrought his best to make the dream a reality, might be left to them. Their claim was allowed, and they en closed the precious relic in a silver cas ket. When the fall of Missolonghi could no longer be averted, a party of its defenders sallied out, bearing the heart with them, to cut their way through the Turkish army. The attempt was a successful one, but the heart of the famous Englishman was left with many a brave Greek in the marshes the desperate band had passed. Napoleon’s came nigh to suffer a more ignoble fate. It had been re moved from the great Captain’s body to be put in a separate case ; and fear ing Madame Bertrand might steal it, since she had declared her determina tion to become its possessor, the doc tor in charge placed the heart in a glass upon his bed-room table. In the middle of the night the sound of break ing glass startled him out of a dose just iu time to enable him iu detecting a brown rat dragging the Emperor’s heart toward his hole. The doctor rescued it, fastened it in a silver urn, and placed it in the coffin with the body; but had he slept a little m<*e soundly the heart of “imperial Caesar dead” would have served as a titbit for a rat’s supper. Shelly’s heart defied cremation, and after his body was consumed was snatched from the subsiding flames by Capt. Trelawny and found to be entire, a circumstance commemorated by the words Cre Cor diam, inscribed on the marble slab marking where the poet’s ashes and heart lie in the Protestant burial place at Rome. Robert, Earl of Mellent and Leices ter, as famous among the crusaders of the twelfth century for his sagacity, eloquence and valor, as he was infa mous at home for his unscrupulous ra pacity, violence and cruelty, finding life slippmg away from him, assumed the monastic habit and died in the odor of sanctity at the Abbey of Dreaux.— There he was buried ; but in the fulfill ment of his dying wish, the heart of the infidel-hater was sent to the hospi tal he had founded at Brackley, to be there preserved in salt. Perhaps the old warrior thought, like Lord Wind sor, that the heart of an Englishman ought to rest in his own land. When Richard, the lion-hearted, knew he should never don armor or draw sword again, he willed that his body should be laid at his dead father’s feet at Pontevrault, in token of his sorrow for tiie many uneasinesses he had caus ed him iu his lifetime, but bequeathed his heart to Rouen, iu acknowledgment of the great truth and constancy of his Norman subjects. The bequest was gratefully accepted, and duly honored with a beautiful shrine in the Cathe dral; but its beauty did not save it from being destroyed in 1738, witli other Piantagenet memorials. In 1838 the mutilated effigy of the famous cru sader was diecovered, under the Cathe dral pavement, and near it a leaden casket that had inclosed his heart, which tiie finders replaced. Before long, however, it was taken up again, and removed to the museum of anti quities, where it remained until 1869, 1 when it found a more fitting resting place iu the choir of the Cathedral, never more, let us hope, to be dis turbed. Tne relict of John Baliol, father of Bruce’s rival, showed her affection for her dead lord in a peculiar way. She em balmed his heart, placed it in an ivory casket, “bunden with sylver brycht,” and during her twenty years of widow hood never sat down to a meal without this silent remembrancer of happier days. Upon her death, at the age of 80, in 1829, she was buried in her own abbey on the banks of the Nith. Baliol’s heart, in obedience to her instructions, being laid on her dead bosom. From that day the whilom “new abbey” was known as Sweet-Heart abbey; and never did abbey walls shelter a sweeter, truer heart than that of the lady of Barnard Castle. That nobleman died in Spain in 1574, and directed that his body should be buried iu the Cathedral Church of the noble city of Liege, and his heart, in closed in lead, laid under his father’s tomb in the chapel at Bradenham, Bucks, “in token of a true English man.” So, too, Sir Robert Peckham ordered his heart to be conveyed to Denham, in the same county, to be placed in the family vault; but his relatives do not seem to have been in a hurry to execute his behest. The worthy knight died in 1569, and the register of burials at Den ham contains this entry; “Ed- mundus Peckham, Esq., sonne of Sir George Peckham, July 18,1587. On the same day was the harte of Sir Robert Peckham, Knight, buried in the vault under the chappell;” so that it had been kept above ground for seven teen years. When George Villers, Duke of Buckingham, fell a victim to Fen ton’s knife, King James commanded that his dear Steenie should be inter red in Westminster Abby, where his tomb may be seen; but a sumptuous monument to the Duke also exists in St. Thomas’ Church, Portsmouth; and as this boats an urn, it is probable that it boasts also the possession of the heart of the once all-powerfui favorite. Chambers’ Journal. Historical Gleanings from Old Vol umes. BY DAVID CROCKET, JR. [Washington Chronicle.l History of Horse Racing. Races were known in England in very early times. Fitz Stephens, who wrote iu the days of Henry 11., mentions the great delight that the citizens of Lon don took in the diversions. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth racing was carried to such excess at that early period as to injure the fortunes of the nobility. The famous George, Earl of Sunderland, is recorded to have waste i more of his.estate than any of his an cestors by his extreme love of horse racing, tilting and other expensive di versions. In the reign of James I. races were established at various places, when the discipline and mode of preparing the horses for running, etc., were much the same as they are now. The most celebrated races at that time were called the “ Bell Courses,” the prizes of the conqueror being a bell; hence, perhaps, the phrase, “ bearing the bell,” when ap plied to excellence in speed. Racing was revived soon after the Restoration, and much encouraged by Charles 11., who appointed races for his own amusement at Dackot Mead, when he resided at Windsor. Newmar ket, however, became the principal place. The king attended in person, established a house for his own accom modation, and kept and entered horses in his own name. Instead of bells, be gave a silver cup, valued at 100 guin eas, on which cup the exploits and pedigree of the successful horse were generally engraved. William 111. not only added to the prize, but founded au academy for riding ; and Queen Anne confirmed the bounty of her an cestors, adding several plates herself. George 1., toward the end of his reign, discontinued the plates, and gave in their room 100 guineas. An act was passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of George the II for suppressing races by ponies, anil other small and weak horses, by which all matters for any prize under £lO were prohibited, under a penalty of £2OO, to be paid by the owner of each horse running, and £IOO by such as ad vertise the date aud by which each horse entitled to run, if 5 years old, was obliged to carry 10 stones; if 6, 11; and if seven, 12 stones. It was also ordained that no person shall run any horse at a course unless it be his own, nor enter more than one horse for the same plate, upon pain of forfeiting the horses; and also every horse race must be begun and ended on the same day. At New Market there were two courses, the long and the round ; the first exactly, miles aud 380 yards, i. e., 7,442 yards; the second 6,646 yards. “Childers” run the first course in seven minutes and a half; and the second course in six minutes and forty seconds, which is at the rate of more than forty-nine feet in a second. But all the other horses were seven min utes and fifty seconds in completing the longest course, which is at the rate of more than forty-seven feet in a sec ond, and it is commonly supposed that these coursers covered at every bound a space of ground iu length of about twenty-four English feet. The Origin of Card Playing. It is generally believed that cards were invented for the amusement of one of the early Kings of the line of Bourbon; but this belief is erroneous; who the man was that invented these instruments of amusement is not known, neither can we tell in what age they were first invented. Our knowledge is limited to the country whence they came—-Egypt. The colors are two, red and black, which answer to the two equinoxes. The suits are four, answering to the four seasons. Their emblems formerly were, and still are in Spain—for the heart, a cup, the emblem of Winter; the spade, an acorn, the emblem of autumn; the club, a trefoil, the emblem of Summer; the diamond, a rose, the emblem of Spring. The twelve court cards answer to the twelve months. The fifty-two cards answer to the number of weeks in a year. The thirteen cards to each suite, to the number of weeks in a lunar quar ter. The aggregate of the pips, calculated in the following manner, amount to the number of days in a year: The number in each suite 55 The number in all the suites 220 The court cards multipled by ten.. .120 The number of court carts 12 The number of each suite 13 The number of days 355 “The Tale of Two Churches and Two Railroads. —The two Methodist chur ches of Bloomington, 111., decided to give an excursion to St. Louis about the eud of July. They accordingly made a contract with the Illinois Cen tral Railroad Company, aud offered tickets at §6 for the round trip. The Chicago and Alton Railroad Company immediately offered round trip tickets at §4, which completely killed the church excursion, and it was postpon ed. Then the other road raised its rates again. This action has created a good deal of feeling among the Metho dists, who claim that the action of the Chicago and Alton Company was direct ed against the churches. The President of the road has therefore agreed to contribute toward the churches’ benefit as much as the Illinois Central will con tribute; or he will give one-half the gross receipts of au excursion train over his road, but he positively refuses to allow the Illinois Central to cut the regular rates without following suit, and the Methodists are in a very un happy frame of mind, and are not at all charitably disposed toward either road. —Ctdcago Times. If you are at church of a Sunday evening in August, without a fan, cast about your eye until it lights ou an en gaged couple, and, when you see how close they snug up together, you will lose in a great degree a sense of the heat,— Danbury New a\ SOUTH CAROLINA. Parker’s Statement of His Escape —A Card from the ex-Fugitive. [Special to the News and Courier.] Columbia, August 12.—Everything is at a dead stand-still; whether this is the calm succeeding the recent turbu lent state of the town, or whether it is but the premonitory hush which comes before some terrible outburst of the storm, which shall deal avenging jus tice with heavy hand among the trem bling, guilty accomplices in Parker’s double infamy, time alone will show. But just so sure as the night follows the dying day, so sure is a mighty judgment near at hand. It is not well to speak of matters which, to prove successful, must be conduct ed sub rosa, but this much is sure, that within one short week there will be one of the biggest legal hauls in this town that there has been for many a day. It must come; it is ridiculous to suppose that an intelligent commu nity can be gulled into the belief that a man so astute, so cunning, as Niles G. Parker should have ventured an es cape, backed simply by an ignorant ne gro, and a man who" is an acknowledged murderer. What does Parker mean when he says: “I would not have at tempted to escape if I had not been pushed up to it by my friends.” Friends, indeed, who, when he came to their doors an outcast, a fugitive, with nowhere to lay his head, drove him off and shunned him as they would a pes tilence. These advisors, these pushers up to the escape, well may they trem ble, for as dangerous as it was for them that Parker should be in jail before, it is doubly so now. Such treatment of an outcast friend is not calculated to seal the lips of the sufferer against the crimes of his accomplices. Parker to-day made the following statement, written in his own hand, concerning the manner of his escape from jail on the night of the 4th in stant : Richland County Jail, j Columbia, S. C., August 12,1875. j To the Special Reporter of the News and Courier: As there have been many rumors and conjectures in circulation as to how and by what means I made my escape, it is due Sheriff Dent and his employes that I should make the following statement : On Wednesday evening, the 4th of August, about 10 o’clock p. in., I ascended by means of the lattice iron work to the trap door leading to the roof, unlocked it and got upon the roof. From thence I de scended to the ground upon the light ning rod. I had no assistance from the Sheriff or any of his employes, aud neither he nor any of his employes had any knowledge of my plans for escape. Niles G. Parker. General State News. J. Art Russell, aged 24 years, from Lewis, Sussex county, Delaware, died at the house of his uncle, Dr. W. T. Russell, Spartanburg, ou the 6th in stant, at 4 o’clock a. m. His remains were forwarded to his home in Dela ware. His last utterance was: . “Jesus, Savior of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly.” Deatli of Mrs. Nancy Jane Bowie. We regret to announce the death of this estimable lady, at the residence of brother, Mr. James Strain, at Air Mount, Miss., on the 30th of July, in the of her age. She had been in feeble health for some time past, but sank rapidly a short time previous to her death. Born and reared in this community, she married in early life the late Wm. Bowie, and after his death spent the years of her long widowhood in devoted" attention to the education and comfort of her children, of whom only one now survives her, Robert E. Bowie, Esq., late a member to the Ab beville Bar .—Abbeville Banner. The last number of the Aiken Tri bune contains a communication in which the writer states that a strong movement is on foot to petition the Legislature to repeal the act consti tuting the county of Aiken, and to re mand it to those counties from which it was originally formed. The reason given for the movement is the exist ence of certain societies whose patent policy is to screen offenders, and thus to defeat tiie ends of justice. A Leap of a North Carolina Winona. By some great and unaccountable shock of nature one of the principal projecting rocks was split, leaving a fragment of some three or four feet of uneven surface, lying about three feet from the main body of the rock. Miss P., of North Carolina, who it will be remembered, spent the greater part of last Summer in Abbeville, and delight ed the society in which she moved with her quick repartee, beauty of person and gentleness of manners, is a lady of uncommon nerve, and did here what no lady has ever done. She leaped from the main rock to this rough crag and back again, with a fearlessness, or a want of the appreciation of danger, that perfectly horrified and made sick the heart of every beholder. A mis placed foot would have dashed the fair adventuress to pieces on the rocks a thousand feet below. — Cccsar's Head Letter to Abbeville Banner. The color line has been broken in Chester county by the election of Col. John W. Walker to the office of Sheriff. The election was spirited and the op posing candidate, one Richardson, a colored man and au ex-postmaster of “ the best government the world ever shone on,” was defeated by a majority vote of more than 200. The Truant Governor. Radical rule has been a success in South Carolina. Here the State has been running along without a hand to guide for more than thirty days and things seem to have done about as well as when the master was at home. To be sure Gleaves has been about the State House a little, has pardoned a man here and commuted a life sen tence there; but Gleaves is about as near nobody as you could find in a year’s search. During all this time — the most important crisis since his election—when banks were bursting, murderers hanging, defalcating treasu rers being tried and breaking jail, Gov. Chamberlain has been spending his time among the good people of Massa chusetts, sharing their hospitality and drinking their good health, seemingly without one good honest wish for the prosperity of the State he left behind him.— Abbeville Medium. During the past week we have had pleasant calls from Prof. C. P. Pelham, of Columbia, and who has had a long connection with the press of that city, and known as a writer of ability. He appears at home near a press, and we hope he will make our office his head | quarters whilst here. He is on his way jto Glenn Springs.— Greenville Moun- I tttinecr. JNew Series—V"ol. 3, ISJ'o. ll HAMMER AND TONGS. The Times and Ti'ibune Quarreling Over their Circulation—A Story with a Moral. [New York Times.] The nominal editor of the New York Tribune took it into his head some time ago to vary his monotonous studies of Good Tommy and Naughty Betty by what he called a “statement” about himself and his paper. If that state ment had been a true and exhaustive one, it might have been read with some little interest. There is even a faint probability that it would have formed a permanent chapter in the history of journalism. For surely it would be worth knowing how a man who came here six or seven years ago without a penny in the world should now be able to boast that he owns fifty shares of the Tribune, valued (it is said) at $500,000. A fortune like that is not made by many men in seven years— still less by “literary men” or journal ists. Asa general rule, these ill-starred mortals work hard and die poor. Even Horace Greeley was not worth more than $20,000 when he died—perhaps not so much. How, then, has his suc cessor been able to acquire, so soon, the ownership of half the entire stock of the paper ? Unfortunately the “statement” in question did not touch upon these in teresting points. Nor, indeed, was it designed to tell the truth on any point. It was intended solely to deceive the public by a series of representations which had no foundation in fact. Three advertising agents were called in to give some sort of weight to the fraud —one declined when he saw what he was expected to do ; the others fell into the trap. Then the Tribune, not satisfied with declaring that it circu lates 50,000 copies a day—whereas it does not sell 35,000 ; no, nor 30,000 — must needs drag the Times into all its low puffs and advertisements. There was no provocation for such an attack upon us. We had not mentioned the Tribune or its circulation, nor should we have cared to dispute any assertion about itself. But unless the so-called editor of the Tribune could have dragged in the Times, his puffs-would have had no value in his eyes. There fore he told one falsehood about him self, and two about us. And this we allowed to go on for some weeks, being unwilling to enter into any con troversy with a dishonored newspa per, or with an “editor” who has shown himself to be unworthy of the calling to which he belongs. At last, however, it seemed time to bring even this person to book, for the systematic attempt to injure and mis represent the business character of an other. A banker, a broker, or a store keeper does not allow his business to be willfully and maliciously slandered by a next-door rival; and a newspaper proprietor ought not to be expected to submit to it either. We, therefore, pro posed an old-fashioned sort of test by which this man Reid’s assertions could be fairly tried—not a perfectly satisfac tory test, perhaps, in all respects, but at any rate one which could not fail to thoroughly answer its purpose. For here is a sum of $25,000 ready to be paid over to any distressed person in the city—even to the Tribune stock holders—if the Tribune can prove its claims on its own behalf, or its asser tions about us. Now, a man who has not deemed it beneath him to make public statements about the business position of another ought not to be above proving his statements or else withdrawing them. We apprehend that no one will dissent from this prop osition. But from either of these two courses the libeler shrinks back. The first course is out of the question. The state ment about the Tribune's circulation is simply false; instead of 50,000 a day it does not circulate 30,000. Our offer to prove this will be found in another part of our paper. And as to with drawing his charge, would not that place Whitelaw Reid in the position of a self-convicted swindler ? For what is it but swindling to invite customers to your place of business on fraudu lent pretences, and get their money out of them under representations which you well know are altogether false ? WIT AND WISDOM. Curran was once asked by one of his brother judges : “Do you see anything ridiculous in this wig?” “Nothing but the head,” was the reply. Anew thing in the way of drinks is condensed beer, one thimbleful of which will knock over the most con firmed toper. All persons desiring to be knocked over at small expense may send in orders to Mr. John Morrissey’s club rooms. Somebody profanely challenged the godless people of Cincinnati to repeat the Lord’s Prayer, verbatim et literatim, for SIOO. One J. Smith writes to the Commercial that he is “about the size of man who can get away with that snoozer’s money.” Two American ladies who may be considered safe from the attack of British Colonels, are now making a pe destrian tour in the Highlands of Scot land. Each of them travels with a grand establishment of six chambers, and a ball in each of them. It’s a fem inine taste. “Well, Pat,” asked the doctor, “how do you feel to-day ?” “Och, doehtor, I enjoy very poor health entirely. The rheumatics is very distressin’ indade; whin I go to slape I lay a.vake all’ night, and me toes is swiled as big as a goose hen’s egg, so whin I staud u u i fall down immadiately.” Thirty-five years ago a young man pawned a blanket to a Berks county farmer for five dollars, and took Gree ley’s advice by going West. He re turned last week from California, worth a cool hundred thousand, visited the farmer and redeemed that blanket, which had been carefully put away at the time it was received. The death of the prominent Cincin natian, who recently figured conspicu ously in all the newspapers, is thus touchingly alluded to in the St. Louis Republican : “ His end has cast a shade of gloom upon the entire community ; every other Cincinnatian feels as though he had lost a brother : “ A lioness from Lybia’s desert waste. With rattling heels he boldly dared to paste. She scratched him, and the scratches mor tified ; In seventeen weeks the little jackass died, Gone to meet Sergeant Bates.” An Irishman with a had cart ran against a little man who was standing at a street corner in London, the other day, crying as if his heart would break, and tumbled him head over heels into the gutter. Pat pushed right on with this cart, but not without stopping to observe; “Bad luck to ye; and it sairves ye right to be standin’ slob berin’ an’ waystin’ yer saltpater in the publtc strates.” It was Brother Sheats man,