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Old Series— 25. TSTo. 122.
The “ensanguined undergarment” is
what the Milwaukee News calls the
flag that. Morton waves when speaking
of Southern affairs.
The Columbia Union-Herald says
Parker’s absence will be regretted by
newspaper reporters and Democratic
lawyers, to whom he was a rich mine.
And now comes a correspondent of
the Columbus Enquirer, who delicately
hints that Joe Brown is preparing to
“run” for Governor himself. Well,
“Joe B. is sly, sir, devilish sly,” and if
he really cares to be Governor it will
be a tough thing to beat him.
Persecution is a mighty poor way to
make converts or destroy a church.—
The telegraph informs us that the Ger
man Catholics are rapidly making up a
sum of money sufficient to support
Prussian priests, whose grants have
been withdrawn by the State.
As the Montenegrins are to take a
prominent part in the war against Tur
key in Herzegovina, the description of
them and their country, which we give
in our news columns, will prove inter
esting. The article is a brilliant one,
and the people alluded to in it are
among the most singular in the world.
The Atlanta Constitution is satisfied
that Governor Smith is in the hands of
the people, and will run a second time,
if they say so. We have very little
doubt that this is true, and His Excel
lency's speech at Dalton was a much
better trump card than Mr. James’ let
ler on finance.
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The Savannah News puts the Winne
bago case, thus: “Hawley, who did
the South more injury in one cam
paign by circulating Hayes’ lies that
Jeff Davis did the North during the
entire war, is to visit Georgia, where
he will be cordially received. And
yet when President Davis is invited to
an Illinois county fair, there is a long
and loud protest. Waiter, fetch us a
couple of centennials on toast and a
jorum of “conciliation.” Aud be spry!”
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The reign of terror in a part of Illi
nois has assumed startling proportions.
The banditti, 400 strong, are marauding
with a high hand. Many murders have
been committed in Williamson county,
and now whipping is added to homi
cide. These loyal bandits have come
into collision with the authorities, and
serious trouble is apprehended. Sen
ator Morton should go to the scene of
action, wave his “bloody shirt” and
point to the South as the land of ra
pine aud lawlessness.
The Herzegovinian war with Turkey
is widening, so that it may soon em
brace the great powers of Europe. It is
a so-called religious strife, the fiercest
of all conflicts, and already bristles with
the grossest barbarity. We should not
wonder if Russia were secretly instigat
ing this Sclavonian insurrection so
as to forward the accomplishment of
her two vast designs viz; the possession
of Constantinople and the junction with
herself of all the Sclavic peoples.
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The Turks will not yield to their re
bellious subjects without a prodigious
effort to subdue them. Though by no
means the vigorous race that followed
the banners of Mohammed and his im
mediate successors, they are not cow
ardly. Any one who thinks them cra
vens should read their history. Rus
sia has fouud them very hard to han
dle, and their record, when Diebitsch
pushed them beyond the Balkan, but
halted almost at the very gates of Con
stantinople, is a splendid testimony of
valor and endurance. But the country
they are to operate in is a difficult one
to assault, and if the Khedive of Egypt
really wishes to assert his independ
ence, it would seem that no better op
portunity could well exist.
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Further details are given of the nego
conspiracy in Washington, Jefferson
aud Wilkinson counties, gotten up by
“Candy Harris, Sr., by order of Gen.
Morris from Gen. Rivers.” The peo
ple of those counties say they have
undoubted proof that this brutal and
savage conspiracy against their lives
was only too true. They have been
since last Sunday resting upon their
arms, have arrested some of the ring
leaders, and have warrants for a large
number of others. This Gen. Morris is
the same fellow who is a habitual dis
turber of the peace in Burke county,
and who has just distributed a fresh
lot of handbills, noticed in our local
columns yesterday. We have no doubt
Candy Morris and “Gen. Rivers and
staff” are in brisk demand in Washing
ton, Jefferson and Wilkinson.
Rev. and Col. D. E. Butler is th us
reported to have spoken at the Dalton
Convention :
I want to go into the stores and counting
house of the cities anl take every nice
young man who raises a bed of down on
upper lip, [laughter], and perfumes his
pocket handkerchief with the essence of
roses, [laughter], and sports his little cane
and tenderly buttons on his white hands
his soft kid gloves, [laughter], and makes
his boots so bright that a poodle dog can
see himself in them, [bursts of laughter
and applause], and turn him out from be
hind the counter, or from keeping books,
and send hiui to work like a man in field or
factory, and put our educated girls iu his
place. [Loud applause.!
Why, bless you, Colonel, the ladies
would rather shop where male clerks
are than those of their own sex. Be
sides, such a monstrosity as above de
scribed is not fit for factory or field
work. The Macon Telegraph asks this
conundrum : “ Does Col. Butler work
like a man ‘ in the field or factory ?’
Practice is worth a good deal more than
precept, in such matters.”
£br ildiln (EonsHtutionalist
FROM ATHENS.
A Grand Reunion of the Troup Artil
lery, Johnson Guards, Mell -Rifles,
Georgia Troopers and Athens
Guards.
iSpecial to the Constitutionalist i
Athens, Ga., August 18, 1875.
Sixty-two of an original company of
ninety of the Troup Artillery, A. N. V.,
were called to order in convention this
morning by Major Stanley, their
first Captain. Busiuess relative to
reorganization was transacted. To
morrow, under their old battle flag,
and attended by surviving members of
the Johnson Guards, Mell Rifles, Geor
gia Troopers and Athens Guards, the
veterans will proceed to a grand con
vivium and general reunion.
PIOCIOLA.
A CHAPTER OP ACCIDENTS.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Eastman, Ga., August 13, 1875.
The saw mill of J. C. Devaughn,
eight miles north of this place, was
blown up this morning, killing two
men and seriously wounding two
others, names not known. The boiler
was torn to pieces aud thrown one hun
dred feet away. The shoes and socks
were torn off the feet of one of the
men killed, and have not been found.
X.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
St. Joseph, Mo., August 18.—There
was an accident yesterday on the St.
Louis aud St. Joe Branch of the St.
Louis, Kansas City and Northern Rail
road. As the train was passing a tres
tle work over Dry Branch, six miles
south of Gover station, Clinton county,
the structure gave way, precipitating
the mail, express and two passenger
cars down a distance of twenty feet.
One man was killed aud over forty per
sons injured.
Dreadful Suffering on a British Ship.
San Francisco, August 18. —The Brit
ish ship Bremen, from Liverpool, was
towed into port. The crew were help
less from scurvy. Thirteen died on
the passage and three within sight of
port.
FROM NEW YORK.
Proposition from Wm. Butler Dun
can to Compromise with the Credi
tors of His Firm.
New York, August 18.—Wm. B. Dun
can, of Duncan, Sherman & Cos., has
published a circular iu which he pro
poses to creditors to pay 33*£ percent,
iu full settlement of indebtedness of the
firm, about 43 per cent, being the pro
portion of assets to liabilities as shown
by the assignee’s statement. He offers
to pay per cent, before November
27th, 1875; 5 per cent, before May 27th,
187fi; 5 per cent, before November 27th,
187 G; 5 per cent, before May 27th, 1877;
10 per cent, before November 27, 1877,
with interest at 7 per cent, per annum
until paid. As security for fulfillment
of this agreement the assets are to be
held and administered by Mr. Duncan,
under advice of a committee consisting
of Robt. Lenox Kennedy, President of
the National Bank of Commerce, and
Geo. W. Duer, President of the Na
tional Bank of the State of New York.
Mr. Duncan also says that if the secured
assets bring more than creditors
will have the benefit thereof.
Political aud Masonic Shipman’s
Bond.
New York, August 18.—The Demo
cratic State Convention meets at Syra
cuse September 6th.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
elected John W. Stebbins Grand Mas
ter.
The bond of Judge Shipman, assig
nee of Dimcan, Sherman & Cos;, was
fixed at 8500,000.
Heavy Rains'Break on the Erie
Railway.
Binghampton, N. Y., August 18.—
Heavy rains this afternoon caused a
break on the Eiie Railway at Cascade
Ravine, thirty miles east of Susque
hanna depot. The break is 300 feet
long and 150 feet deep, through which
the stream is now running. No trains
from New York have got through to
day. Eastern bound trains take the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western
Railroad from here. The storm is over
and the barometer rising.
A Salty Official—Erie Railroad Statis
tics.
Syracuse, N. Y., August 18.—Charges
have been preferred against Hon. A. C.
Powell, Salt Superintendent, for mal
feasance in office. Gov. Tilden has
cited Mr. Powell to appear before him
on Friday next and show cause why he
should uot be removed. Mr. Powell was
appointed Salt Supepintendent in the
Spring of 1874 by Gov. Dix.
New York, August 18.—Mr. .Jewett,
receiver of the Erie Railway Company,
filed his inventory in the County Clerk’s
office, showing the receipts aud dis
bursements since his appointment. To
tal receipts, dating from his appoint
ment to the last day of June, of which
he gives daily items, 83,142,008 ; total
disbursements, 82,759,605; on hand,
8432,402.
WESTERN BANDITTI.
High-Handed Proceedings of the 111 I
nois Ku-Klux —Where is Sheridan?
The Men who Don't Like Jeff. Davis.
St. Louis, August 18. — A special from
Benton, Frauklin county, Illinois, says
ten disguised meu have been whipping
and otherwise abusing the people of
Williamson and Franklin counties. J.
B. Maddox, County Commissioner, re
ceived information that the marauders
would visit his house and whip him for
not complying with one of their orders.
Maddox notified the Sheriff, who sum
moned twenty men and concealed them
iu Maddox’s house. About 2 o’clock at
night fourteen meu approached dis
guised aud mounted. The Sheriff de
manded their surrender. The leader
fired missing the Sheriff. The band
wheeled to make off and the posse fired
fatally wounding one and injuring five.
All got away but the man fatally hurt,
who gave the names of the others. A
citizens meeting resolved to rid the
country of these men. The band num
bers 400. Gov. Beveridge sent 100
stand of arms to the county. Bloody
results are expected.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
A “Crooked” Postmaster—He Decamps
with Stolen Property.
San Francisco, August 18.—A private
telegram says James S. Giles, postmas
ter at Prescott, Arizona, has absconded.
Money orders to the amount of 83,700
are unaccounted for. The Deputy Uni
ted States Marshal is in pursuit of
Giles.
AUGUSTA, GkA-, T tlij RBDAY MORNING, -A.TTGHLTST 19, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
THE HERZEGOVINIAN WAR
CLOUD.
The Insurrection Spreading—lncendi
arism and Massacre—Croats Joining
the Insurgents—March of the Turk
ish Forces.
London, August 18.—The News has a
Vienna special, which says the Bosnian
insurrection is spreading. The towns
of Berbier, Dubicza and Kostainicza
are in flames. Many Turkish nobles
have been slaughtered. Large num
bers of Croatiaus have joined the in
surgents. It is feared the outbreak
will assume the character of a religious
war.
A special dispatch from Vienna to
the Standard reports the Radicals have
been victorious in the elections iu Ser
via. The Deutsch Zeitung states the
Radicals have resolved to move on the
opening of the Skuptschina that Ser
via send an army to Herzegovina to
assist the insurgents.
Ragusa, August 18. —Turkish troops
to the number of 2,500 have been land
ed at Klek and will march for Mostar.
The insurgents are strongly posted iu
the mountain gorges on the route.
German Subscription for the Priests —
Cardinal McClosky’s Journey to
Rome.
London, August 18. —Subscriptions
throughout Germany to indemnify
Prussian priests for withdrawal of
State grants amount to 8350,000. This
amounts to half the sum withdrawn.
Rome, August 18. —The Pope instructs
Pontifical Ab-legate Roncetti to conduct
Cardinal McCiosky from Paris to Rome.
Alarming Progress of the Oldham
Strike.
London, August 18.—The strike of
cotton operatives at Oldham continues.
If not settled the consequence to the
cotton trade of Blackburn and vicinity
will be serious, as manufactories in the
latter place get their yarn and wool
from Oldham.
The Cuban War.
Havana, August 18.—The Diario of
ficially denies the rumor that Valmase
da will leave the Island. He will await
the promised reinforcements of 100,-
000 men, and provide for an active
winter campaign.
Spanish Expectations—Explosion of a
Vessel —Germany and the Centennial
—Assassination of a South American
President —Serious Character of the
Herzegovinian War.
Madrid, August 18.—The Alfonsists
expect to capture the Citadel of Seo de
Urgel on the 20th inst. A Spanish ves
sel loading materials of war at Barce
lona exploded and sunk. Fifty persons
were killed or drowned.
Gen. Jovellar lias sent two divisions
to reinforce the corps on the frontiers
of Arragon and Catalonia. The re
mainder of the army is moving towards
Seo de Urgel.
Paris, August 18. — Cardinal McClos
key has arrived iu this city where he
will probably remain several days.
Berlin, August 18.—Herr Bartels,
the architect is about to leave for Phila
delphia to arrange for distribution of
space allotted the German exhibitors
in the centennial building.
New York, August 18.—Senor Ga
briel Garcia Moreno, President of the
Republic of Ecuador, has been assassi
nated. No details.
London, August 18. — Dispatches from
Constantinople fully confirm the seri
ous character of the insurrection in the
northwestern provinces. Communica
tion with the northern frontier is cut.
The steamer Nevada, with machinery
disabled, was signaled off Astuet. She
will reach Queenstown to-morrow.
Rangoon, August 18. —The Irawaddy
is over its banks, flooding rice fields
and destroying much property.
The Queen’s Yacht Sinks A Schooner
—Three Persons Drowned.
London, August 18.—A steam yacht
carrying the Queen and royal family,
while crossing from Osborne to Ports
mouth, this p. in., collided witli and
sank the schooner yacht Mistletoe.
The latter was struck amidships and
cut in two aud sank instantly. A party
of ladies and gentlemen were on board
the Mistletoe, three of whom were
drowned and one killed. None of the
royal party were injured. Their yacht
was but slightly damaged.
Progress of the Sclavonian War—A
General Uprising—XJprregaray At
tempting to Escape.
Vienna, August 18. —The insurrec
tion in the Turkish provinces covers 200
miles of territory. It is reported that
2,500 troops, which landed at Kleck,
refused to march for Mostar on ac
count of the insurgent occupancy of
the mountain passes on the route. The
garrison at Trebigne, in Herzegovina,
made a sortie yesterday but were re
pulsed. The insurgents burned several
villages during the engagement.
London, August 18.—A letter from
Dalmatia, August 16th, says 16,000
men are ready to join the Bosnian in
surrection, and that Sclavonians from
all parts of the world were arriving to
fight for their independence and reli
gion.
Madrid, August 18. —The Epoca says
the Carlist leader Dorregaray has been
unable to resist the Royalist armies iu
Catalonia, and is endeavoring to enter
Arragon, hoping to make his way
thence to Navarre.
Paris, August 18.—French engineers
who are to assist in sounding for the
channel tunnel have left for England.
THE PATH TO PERDITION.
A Married Man Commits Robbery
and Elopes With a Woman.
Brockton, August 18. —Joseph W.
Robinson, a member of the firm of
which his father is head, eloped with
Mrs. Hall after having robbed the safe
of the firm of all valuable funds and
some 84,000 in Government bonds. He
leaves a wife and two children.
FROM MEMPHIS.
A Split in the Radical Party.
Memphis, August 18. —A special from
Senatobia to the Appeal says the Re
publican Congressional Convention in
the First Mississippi District split.
One wing numbering 24 delegates with
drew, and assembling in front of the
hotel nominated G. Wiley Wells, ex-
United States* District Attorney, for
Congress, while the other wing, num
bering 36, nominated O. R. Howe.
Minor Telegrams.
Boston August 18.—Prof. .Tool Par
ker, the eminent jurist, is dead, aged
80 years.
The State Democratic Convention
meets at Worcester September 22d.
Springfield, Mass., August 18. —
Two and a half inches of rain fell to
day, and if it continues another flood
in Mill Run Valley is feared.
THE NEGRO <|)NSPIRACY.
GREAT ALARM 111 WASHINGTON
AND JEFFERSCJI COUNTIES.
The Letter of Cand;SHarris “By Or
der of Gen. Morri* and from Gen.
Rivers” Only Too 5 rue—The Milita
ry Called Out—Ar est of the Ring
leaders. L®
We copied yesterd; y morning an ex
tra printed by the Ii ;nton Southerner,
containing a letter fc itnd in a vacated
negro military camp, iigned by “Candy
Harris, by order ol|Gen. Morns and
Gen. Rivers,” orderki the negroes of
that county to begin*, general massa
cre of the white peoAe on the 20th of
August. It said :
“ Kill every one you c*jn find. Tell Har
rison Tucker to kill allMhe whites that he
can find, and go tows Sis No. 11 station,
and there will meet yijf Gen. Morris and
his staff and Gen. Rivo and his staff.
“You do as I tell]|vOu and Captain
Tucker. This must bu j secret. You tell
Brother Jack kill everyfMiite man and get
every gun he can. Maiji out to the white
men that you are sorry Ihey think we will
hurt them and if yoii-Jknow of any man
that has got money mfoie them give it to
your Treasurer and wee ded it.
“ Have all your cou?f anies ready. Kill
with axes, hoes, pitchforks, and get gun
powder and shot as yo?: kill. So I close to
depend on you.” |f
This letter was picked up near Wil
liamson’s old stork in Washington
county, after one ol|the nightly drills
of a near company. #
The Threat $ <>o True.
From the Macon 'Jgtlegraph, of yes
terday, wo gather ,| i .titional particu
lars. Says that papqp
After the letter waj& found the white
people sent a spy to £ne of the negro
meetings, who, upo| his return, con
firmed all that was? la the villainous
document. The spyfovd no knowledge
whatever of the existence of such a
letter. * k
A lady living iu Jeg'efson county was
warned by a negro mad to seek a place
of safety, as there. vfas going to be
trouble pretty soon? The lady took
his advice and got avmt. This is fur
ther evidence that missile meant
the worst kind of mi|cliief.
A gentleman living^n; Jefferson coun
ty telegraphed to last Saturday
to ascertain if gunsgeould be had for
the uso of the whfct-y in defending
themselves. Guns |a6d ammunition
were promptly sent Sofra. A dispatch
was also sent asking j, they needed any
men, and they ansieled no. They
thought they woukl bo able to take
care of themselves |if they got the
arms. |
Iu answer to a disjaieh, Lieut. Wal
ter T. Ross, of Macoi* Volunteers, Com
pany B, received the following commu
nication yesterday : § •
Sanij]|ssYille, Ga., I
Sunday Night,7A:gust 15,1875. [
To Lieut. W. T. Rosa ?
Your dispatch just Jetaived. I am in
hopes the telegraph optfra3x>r replied imme
diately, as he did not siWidtme the telegram
until after nightfall. Vko bad considerable
excitement hero last Fcol * y night, n.s a. re
port reached us that thSf; negroes intended
taking the town and >Viljting every white
man, woman and ehiki £ they met with
any resistance. If suel£w4s their idea they
decided it would not bipa.prudent step lor
them on that occasion; "s news reached
them that the citizens] wb, re prepared for
them. Our town was gjaided through the
night by the military companies. All is
perfectly quiet now. r <
In behalt of the militkV and citizens of
Baudersvillo I must rQtdyr thanks to you
and the Macon batta'j >i? for the interest
you have manifested our welfare, and if
at any time we have thing like a riot
aud need assistance w;.: will certainly avail
ourselves of your kindhOfej, and notify you
to that effect. g *.
Very respectfully, yqgr friend, etc..
F. A.® TENBEKGER,
Lieutenant WasiYn,. ton Dragoons.
Three of the leaded af this insurrec
tionary movement foebe arrested on
Monday, and a note s■> Px merchant of
Macon, received last! Plight, says the
most intense excit<j;ji<kit prevails in
Washington couuty. Other arrests will
be made as the partly eau be found.
With the ring-leaderpjm the hands of
the legal auihoritiey the people will
probably have no cafckeyl’or further ap
prehension. s g
From the best in;yrfhation we can
get, we are satisfle<| Qjat there is no
filmy bugaboo in thigj -flatter, but that
it is an affair of real ipoheern, betoken
ing a most distressio jj rotate of society.
We have no idea offlwkat thero is to
incite the negroes teg) such a step ; but
a woeful day it will b-h to them if ever
they attempt to execute such an infer
nal scheme. We hojjd- the wnites will
act prudently in tb; j matter, and let
such of the leaders {|is have been or
may be arrested reccjil/e proper punish
ment at the hands'|)f-the law. Let
there be no unnecej ba ty violence, but
the utmost patience! jvvitUi an ignorant
and illy taught race M people.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
River Bulletin—A.’ D Banks outlie
IVar Path—Naval s —A Spat with
Tripoli. ■?! t
;•] ;U
Washington, August m— Rivers fall
ing slowly above Mjjtnjftiis, and rising
slightly below. ft
Major A. D. Bankp’of Mississippi, is
here. He is among tijji most prominent
candidates for Clerk t|ie next House
or Representatives, p He reports the
corn and cotton cropgloflMississippi as
the most promising uc| the war.
The Plymouth, at ||ie| mouth of the
Rio Grande, and Cafeanllaigua, recent
ly at the mouth oh t|o Mississippi,
have been ordered tcjthlj assistance of
the Rio Bravo. Sh|; i.-| to be iloated
and, if possible, towfd Jnto Galveston
harbor. The Seerthe Treasury
is requested to ordeibthk revenue cut
ter Dix to the scene hf t he disaster.
Owing to delay |i;i receiving tele
graphic orders to s?oceed to Tripoli,
the United States ktemner Hartford
lias not yet reached I 'u. port. Infor
mation lias been recli vt ;1 at the Navy
Department that shq is aow coaling at
the mouth of the Su|;jz * anal, aud will
proceed immediately! to [that place. It
is believed at the Department that the
Congress, of the Imroneau fleet, has
reached Tripoli by j: h time, for the
purpose of g the arrest
and punishment the Tripolitan
sailors who insulted |.h . United States
Consul and his wjpe a short time
ago. Prominent nav and fficers here ex
express the opinion 'j|iab Tripolitan au
thorities did not awivit she arrival of a
vessel of war to ck >n|.nd reparation,
but arrested the pen etlators of the in
sult when they lean ed jhat orders had
been issued for oursveasels to proceed
to that place. f |
Providence, August !3. —The Presi
dent left at six o’clock for New York.
White Hall, Mici|;, August 18.—Ar
rangements have be|n made for the dis
interment of Grimvfiod’s remains for
burial at Chicago. ?
Fitchburg, Mass., Situ -Mist 18. — Joseph
La Point, couvictedffof foape, has been
sentenced to 15 yea|;j Imprisonment.
MONTENEGRO.
A RIDE IN AN ILL-KNOWN LAND.
The Handsomest Prince in Europe-
National Traits—Public Opinion-
Singular Customs of the Women —
The Sons Educated in Paris.
A special correspondent of the Lon
don Standard writes to that journal
from Spizza as follows :
“Prince Nikita is a fine looking man.
probably the handsomest reigning
Prince in Europe. His tall, slender
figure, his marked features, (though
their expression is too fierce,) his dark
complexion, his flashing eyes, the splen
dor of his fantastic costume, aud his
inimitable loftiness of demeanor, have
struck every one who has entered the
throne-room. The latter is a moderate
ly large, elegantly furnished apartment,
with red hangings, carved arm-chairs,
velvet ottomans, chandeliers, and a
piahofort. The walls of the room
are almost covered with the portraits
of European sovereigns, mostly gifts
from the latter, but those of the Czars
Nicholas aud Alexander occur most
frequently. None have any artistical
merit, however, except those of the
reigning Prince and Princess and that
of the interesting Princess Darinka,
widow of the deceased Danilo. They
were painted by Jaroslaw Czermak, the
only Sclavonian except Matejko, the
Pole, who has attained to eminence in
paiuting. Czermak, a fanatical Selave,
presented the pictures to the Prince.
That of the Princess Darinka produces
an irresistible effect on the beholder ;
iu her countenance there is the wild
Oriental beauty of Byron’s Haidee or
Medora, refined by cultivation of mind
and heart. Princess Milena is now
about twenty-seven years old, a beau
tiful woman, with a true Tizian com
plexion, the only beautiful Montene
grin, and the only one addicted to wash
ing. These of your readers who have
traveled in Spain have certainly re
marked the dirty stripes on the necks
of the lovely senoras. This aversion
to cleanliness has come down
from the time of the anchorites
Sabin us, Rtchomins, Besarion and other
saints of the desert, and indeed whole
sects of that epoch condemned all ab
lutions as heathenish, and were lauded
because they wore their clothes so long
that they rotted to pieces and fell off
them, or because their skiu became as
‘pumice-stone’ from the crust of dirt on
it. The superstition that cleansing the
body soils the soul exists this day
among the women of those Christian
nations who have long carried on con
flicts with the Mohammedans, on whom
the Koran enjoins frequent ablutions.
A female Bulgarian is permitted to
wash only once in her life —on the day
before her wedding; aud in most South
Sclavonian families the girls are rarely
allowed to bathe, the women never. I
recall with a shudder the interior of the
Montenegrin huts. When a woman
offered me wine she always dipped her
tiugeis into it, the same fingers which
had just been engaged iu the chase on
her children’s heads, or which had been
gently scratching the pig, the pet of
the family, which is always addressed
by endearing names. The adults squat
or lie down, the children tumble about
in the liquid manure which covers the
floor of the hut, and many women are
blear-eyed, in consequence of the creo
sote caused by the smoke, which can
only escape through the door. The
Princess Milena, as I have said, forms
an exception.
The President of the Senate, M. Bozo
Petrovich, has lived eleven years in
Paris, and has become a perfect
Frenchman. This Parisian education
is the bane of these sons of the East,
for the continual contrasts between
their pretensions and their resources,
their desire for mental and physical
enjoyment, and their rough, inhospita
ble, and uncivilized country, robs them
of their mental equilibrium and is the
piincipal cause of the uninterrupted
social and political convulsions on the
Balkan P ninsula. The direct oppo
site of M. Boze Petrovich is his father,
Drago. On my first visit I came across
him in the bush, felling wood, which he
loaded on the back of the maid servant
to be carried to Cat taro for sale.
Almost all the Montenegrins are tall,
powerful men ; they would be hand
some if their massive jaws did not give
them a fierce, half-brutish appearance.
Their dress is identical with that of the
Crivoscians, except that on their black
caps—black as mourning for the defeat
at Kossovo —they have instead of the
Austrian the Monteuegriu arms in tin.
These closely resemble the Russian.—
The Montenegrins of the better class
wear a peculiar aud costly ornament on
their breast. This consists of silver
half-balls called “ Tocche.’ They are
closely strung together, and form a
sort of cuirass, which resists musket
balls. AVitli the poorer class this orna
ment is of pewter.
War with the Turks Expected.
The whole nation, uot a single Mon
tenegrin excepted,is possessed by the
conviction that war against Turkey will
soon begin, and end with the expulsion
of the Turks from Europe. Although
the love of boasting is one of the na
tional characteristics of the Montene
grins, yet the importance of this con
viction should not be underrated.—
These gigantic mountaineers, who first
refused to pay the “ liaradsh ” or trib
ute to the Turks, possess great vital
power, and they are gifted with quali
ties necessary to the formation of a
State. They are regarded by all Sclaves
as the nucleus of the future South
Slavonian Empire. At the end of the
seventeenth century Montenegro still
consisted only of the small district
from the Austrian frontier to the little
plain of Cetinje ; it afterward won, step
by step, the Beda Grahowo, iu the
Northwest. In the year 1858 a Turkish
brigade invaded that district from the
Herzegovina. They were surrounded,
and capitulated on condition of a
safe retreat. Exhausted, almost
starved, the Turks, in single file,
crawled up the steep mountains to
ward the frontier. Then the Montene
grins crept after them, and cut off the
noses of 800 of the poor wretches. The
northern and eastern districts of the
Moracha were also incorporated into
the little State, so that it is now sepa
rated from Servia only by a narrow
strip of land; it was the same with
part of the shore and a part of the
islands of Lake Scutari. To be sure,
they lost the eastern shore by the se
cession of the district of Kutska, near
the town of Podgoritza, which has been
so frequently named of late, for this
district preferred the Turkish rule to
that of the Vladika, and the islands of
Yranjina and Lesandrija were taken by
the Arnauts. This loss is a sore one to
all Montenegrins to this day, the more
so as the fortress Zabijak, on the Malo
Blato (lake), is regarded as the ances
tral home of the Montenegrin Princes,
and because the most fruitful and best
cultivated Montenegrin district,situated
on the western shore of Lake Scutari, the
Crmuicha, is also suspected of desiring
to be annexed to Turkey. It may rea
dily be conceived that the Montene
grins, so isolated by their mountains
from all the rest of the world, are
anxious to possess a port, and indeed
almost all their legends prophesy the
conquest of the White Kotov,’ Cattaro.
The adjective ‘white’ is used to express
everything brilliant, and signifies beau
tiful, rich, lofty, &c. Russia supports
their efforts to obtain a harbor, for it
would be her port also. Once even the
germ of a Montenegrin fleet existed.—
The Sultan presented the Prince with
an old man-of-war, the Silistria, which
was towed into the harbor of Cattaro,
and for the first time hoisted the Monte
negrin flag. An English marine engi
neer was engaged, at a considerable
salary, and came, with wife aud child, to
Cattaro. The Prince, surrounded by his
Montenegrin grandees, well furnished
with provisions, but above all wine,
made an excursion to Trieste in the
most cheerful moods. But as the ex
penses of his voyage came to several
thousand guldens the excursions ceased
as did the pay of the engineer, so that
the latter left the ship in the lurch and
departed. In the summer of 1868 came
the order from Vienua to remove the
vessel from the Beeche, otherwise the
flag would be struck. As this was re
fused with indignation, an Austrian
engineer was obliged to drag the old
tub out of the Beeche into the Bojana
river, and so on to Lake Scutari. Here
this Dauaean gift came to an etid, and
with it for seven years the proud Mon
tenegrin armada. The Emperor of
Russia has just sent the Prince a little
steamer, which is anchored where the
Bojana flows out of tho lake.
The efforts of the Prince to place
himself at the head of the South
Sclaves, aud to play the part of Pied
mont iu the Balkan Peninsula, might
be more successful. Russia secretly
encourages the aspirations of the
Prince to the Servian throne. The
Golos has only lately discussed this
idea, and iu Servia there is a strong
Montenegrin party. But even should
Montenegro continue isolated she will
cause Turkey great trouble. The
country has made much progress
since the last struggles. Her political
organization is excellent—iu tho coun
try itself the laws are strictly observed.
Foreigners—of course excepting Turks,
can travel on foot in tho remotest
mountains; theft and robbery have
been quite exterminated by the energy
of the Princes Danilo and Nikita ; sixty
nine schools already exist, and the
country has for some years possessed
a newspaper, which was formerly the
Turtledove, and published scarcely
anything but poems, but which has
now become a political journal, under
the title of the Montenegrin Gazette.
The army has acquired the rudiments
of discipline, without at the same time
losing by its skill in guerrilla warfare,
and is well armed. But the influence
of schools on the character of the
people has been exaggerated ; the
blood that flows in their veins tells
more upon them. For if Motenegro had
690 instead of 69 schools the Montene
grins would still be ouly cunuiug,
bloodthirsty tigers.
Montenegrins With Russian Orders.
Few people are aware that there are
Montenegrins living afar from Monte
negro. Even the best statistical and
ethnographical works on Austria ig
nore the village of Peroi, close by Pola,
opposite the Brionian Isles, on the Con
tinent of Istria. This little village is
inhabited exclusively by Montenegrins,
who fled from the plague in the year
1658, and who have faithfully preserved
the language and the customs of their
native land. Even the marriages on
trial, so common among all South
Sclaves—the living together without
being married for some months till the
priest or the police put an end to this
state of things by forcing upon them
the blessing of the church, or till the
parties separate—are frequently found
in Peroi.
The Montenegrin of whom I hired a
horse for the continuation of my jour
ney, another who saddled the horse, a
third who held my stirrup aud the fourth
who selved me as guide,all wore Russian
orders. Among the 100,000 inhabitants
there are perhaps 5,000 who wore Rus
sian or Austrian orders. The bridle
path led over a moderately high moun
tain into the valley of the Rjecka river;
which affords ?oiue pleasant scenery.
Near the village Rjecka I left the valley
aud rode along a path which only
native horses could manage, iu a south
ern direction to ‘the land of the sun.’
The district Crmnicha.which descends in
terraces to Lake Scutari, enjoys the cli
mate of Southern Italy, is fertile, and in
some places well cultivated. Sometimes
I could almost fancy myself in a civil
ized country. The inhabitants are,
therefore, looked down upon by the
rough mountaineers, and are, as I have
said, even suspected of Turkish sym
pathies. The sun set just as my horse
had climbed the mountain ridge which
forms the frontier between Montenegro
and Austria, and from which I de
scended to Spizza, the most nothern
port of Albania. To the north and
northeast the gray rocks, which for
centuries have harbored no seed, were
flooded by an unnatural light which
struck terror into the soul. But as the
sun dipped into the sea the chalk
mountains shone like an aurora bore
alis, and the clouds hovered over them
in a fiery glow, a foreboding of the
Dies Iroe, the conflagration of the uni
verse, aud Lake Scutari and the Adri
atic threw back the blood-red light, re
minding me of the streams of gore
which, during centuries, the national
hatred had poured down from the
Monteuegriu plateau through all its
valleys and ravines, down to the Anise
field and to Lake Scutari.”
A Large Tobbaco Sale.
Raleigh, August 18. —Tho largest
sale of tobacco ever made in N. C., was
from the large manufactory of VV. T.
Blackwell & Cos., Durham, this morning,
filling a Philadelphia order for 2,500
cases amounting to over 860,000.
Lieut. John C. Brain, of Confederate
Notoriety, Shot.
[Special to the Atlanta Herald.]
St. Mary’s, Ga., August 15.— Lieut.
Brain is running the “ St. Mary’s River
Brick Works,” located on the Florida
side of the St. Mary’s river. A few
days since he had a* difficulty with an
employe by the name of Pollard, and
discharged him. Pollard took advan
tage of him, shot him and fled. It was
supposed to be a fatal wound, at first,
but the physician says it is not dan
gerous.
The hay crop of the United States
for the past year was over 27,000,000
tons, valued at 850,000,000.
An old lady, hearing someone read
ing about a Congressman at large:
rushed into the kitchen door, shouting,
Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane! don’t leave
the clothes out all night. Mind, I tell
you, for there’s a Congressman at
large!
SHERMAN—PIATT.
THE SALVATION OF AUGUSTA.
The Republican Organ Goes for “Dion
Pott” With a Red-Hot Poker—A Tri
angular, Truly Loyal Jamboree.
[Washington Chronicle.]
Dunn Piatt, the greatest mischief
maker, and probably one of the most
detestable falsifiers of our country, it
would appear, is employing his time,
while in Europe, in producing sensa
tional articles for his own benefit. The
one engrossing the most attention at
present has reference to Gen. Sherman.
Sitting in Bowies’ reading room,
London, one day, a seedy Confederate
officer, now in exile, distilled into a
willing ear—that is, if Piatt tells the
truth—a cock-and-bull story, that
Sherman, on his “ March to the Sea,”
left Augusta, Ga., untouched, with all
its valuable military stores and large
deposits of cottou, being moved to the
course under the influence of a bribe
from the wealthy holders of the latter ;
also, that the whole South was amazed
at the spectacle of Sherman’s avoid
ance of so conspicuous a place. Then,
by means of a note, subsequently writ
ten. Piatt gets iu print a formal
communication from this “ distin
guished Confederate,” very guarded in
its terms, but insinuating strongly as
above stated. The reply letter, we
would remark, significantly commences,
“My dear General.” General, indeed !
This lets us into the whole secret! Dunn
Piatt, of Washington City, United
States of America, is on his travels
abroad. His simple name is not suffi
cient. Captain is not grand enough,
Colonel is too common—so, he makes a
bold strike for that of General. His
bibulous Confederate companion, we
presume, has been inveigled—if he has
any existence at all —and perchance,
puts his name to a letter to Gen. Dunn
Piatt, written by Dunn Piatt himself.
In order to have the prestige of tho
military title assured, this miserable
grapevine story must be set afloat
about Gen. Sherman, which, without
doubt, has not the least foundation in
fact, knowing full well that tho letter
ostentatiously commencing “ My dear
General,” (Dunn Piatt, understood),
would go the rounds. General Dunn
Piatt!
To swell tho sounding trump of future
fame.”
It does not require even a military
mind to discover why General Sher
man did not touch Augusta ou his way
to the sea. The same reason influenced
him as regards this place that gov
erned his action towards Macon.
Twelve miles east of the latter, very
reluctantly, he had to fight a battle—
that of Griswold Station. Victorious
as our troops were, Macon was not oc
cupied. The grand object of General
Sherman was to cut the rebellious terri
tory in two, by getting to the sea, and
establishing communication with our
fleet. In pursuing this idea, he went
between Augusta aud Macon, quite
near to both—aud, what was more, got
to the sea, thereby breaking the back
of the Confederacy. If Augusta and
Macon had been storehouses of gold,
he would have been unwise to be di
verted from his main purpose. It must
be remembered his rear communication
was torn up, and every battle encum
bered the marching army with a long
lino of ambulances containing the
wounded. Also, that his supply base
had to be sought quickly in front.
Dunn Piatt may make himself out a
very redoubtable military man in Eu
rope, where the people don’t know
much, and with the unthinking, he may
be called “General:” but the remem
brance of the people of Washington is
too fresh, as regards his skulking in
alleys to avoid Col. Frederick Grant,
to admit of any large belief in his
having shed the natural skiu of a con
temptible coward.
What the next invention will be, re
mains to be seen. If, however, it pro
duces no stronger impression on Gen.
Sherman’s character for integrity, and
is no more likely to fasten the title of
“General” except derisively, upon Dunn
Piatt, than the one we have been treat
ing of, then we would advise the au
thor, if possible, to give up lying for
ever. It may be his forte, but the prac
tice, evidently is not a success.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Sun umbrellas and parasols are no
longer hung by a chain to the side.
Really, now, ought not the girls to
get some clothes to wear over those
dresses V
“An ounce of mother,”says the Span
ish proverb, “is worth a pound of
clergy.”
An lowa hair brush has done duty
for thirteen years, and is still brushing
away.
He alone is a man who can resist the
genius of the age, the tone of fashion,
with vigorous simplicity and modest
courage.—[Lavater.
An Alexandria common scoundrelman
has been filling up three quarters of a
column of a paper there with an essay
on water. What he knows about water
could be got into an inch, we reckon.
The London Lancet says that no per
son should sit for more than half an
hour. S’poseu a fellow is sitting on (
the sofa with his girl, is he going to be
particular to a minute ?—[Detroit Free
Press.
“John McMillan and intended wife ”
were registered at the Woodman
House, Ogdensburg, the other day. The
first business after registering was to
send for a minister.
Figaro writes severely against the
use of the cat on the backs of criminals
iu England, aud Miss Alice S., of Lon
don, answers that this punishment is
more merciful than the treatment oL
girls in French boarding schools.
It was after the dinner and it was
dull; the conversation did not seem to
start in the least. Then the Cynic t'aid,
“Will nobody go home that one may
have a fine opportunity to tear him all
to pieces as soon as he leaves V”
A Georgia man who rode on to see
the coroner the other day, confiden
tially remarked to the individual that
it was astonishing to see how high, a
nigger in a watermelon patch can jump
when you fire at him from behind,—
The coroner smiled slowly, and then
proceeded to hunt up a jury.
The following advertisement appear
ed iu the Irish Times of July 2 : “ Mat
rimony—A mother, suffering from a
morbid disease, and longing to see her
two daughters suitably married before
she leaves this world, wishes to meet
two gentlemen ; respectable parentage;
minimum income 100 pounds ; age un
der forty. Girls are good humored,
trained housekeepers, very handsome
(advertiser can guarantee this), aged
twenty-two and nineteen, eldest very
sensible, youngest a little llighty; for
tunes 300 pounds each. Enclose carte,
&c. Address Y., 72, o§U;e of this pa
per,”
-New Series—Vol. 3, No. 14
BROKEN-DOWN FAMILIES.
A Call Upon the Descendants of the
Old Virginians to do to Work and
Rebuild Their Shattered Fortunes.
[From the Richmond Whig. Aug. 10.]
The Southern States are not only
strewn with the wrecks of political,
social, and industrial systems, but also
with the wrecks of the good and great
old families that came down from
colonial times and contributed so many
high, historic characters to illustrate
and adorn the annals of the New World.
Broken-down families! They are in
every city, county, and neighborhood
of the South. The descendants of
statesmen, warriors, and notable old
colonial and revolutionary patriots and
gentlemen are in numerous instances,
reduced almost to beggary. Take Vir
ginia ! It is melancholy to trace the
decadence of those many grand old
families which have made her social
life the admiration of all—the synonym
of honor, refinement, hospitality.—
Broken, scattered, impoverishedl The
descendants of many of the best people
are in absolute want.—New people—
novi homines —lord it over them, and
they feel deeply humiliated. Human
nature is human nature, and these peo
ple feel that they are in a false posi
tion; that those who are socially over
them ought to be under them. There
are young ladies, of the best blood in
the land, who have to exert their wits
and exercise all their activities and
energies to find tho means to keep up a
barely-respectable wardrobe. School
teaching and sewing-machines ! These
are what they are reduced to, and it is
noble in them to avail of those resour
ces. We should be thankful to those
occupations for giving the opportunity
of such honorable developments of
character.
But what shall we say of tho young
men ? Some of them are talented, met
tlesome, high-spirited lads, who feel
that they cannot work, and that to beg
is a shame, and so they sit down and
do nothing. They dream away the
active period of life. Fortunately there
are others who have a more practical
turn, and do not rest until they find
something to do. They start out with
the determination to find some occu
pation, and every youth who does that
will succeed sooner or later.
One thing is certain, if the broken
down families of Virginia, and indeed
of the whole South, are ever to be re
cruited and restored, that result is to
be brought about by the industry of
the young—those from fifteen to thirty.
They can do this if they will, and sure
ly there could be no higher duty
We have in Virginia a population,
old and young, male and female, rich and
poor, white and black, of more than a
million and a quarter. We have our
lands, our climate, tho memories and
traditions that have descended from
the settlement- of the country. We
have in every county of the Common
wealth families of distinction and cul
ture. True, they are poor and broken
down. The question is, how are their
fortunes to be mended ? How are they
to be restored ? One thing is certain,
railing at their hard lot is not going to
restore them. Railing at the stirring
and industrious people who have got
above them will do them no good.
Going back to the past and summon
ing up the shades of illustrious ances
tors will be of no avail. The renais
sance can only be accomplished by
work—steady, persevering work.
If a population of a million and a
quarter in an old-established Common
wealth like Virginia, who own the
lands: who have farm animals and
utensils ; who have cities to trade with,
railroads, rivers and canals to trans
port their products to market; who
have churches and schools ; who have
all the powers of government—if such
a population, with such advantages, do
not rise, they deserve, like Milton’s an
gels, to be “forever fallen.”
To the hundreds of thousands of
those descendants of high but broken
down families that are now bewailing
their hard lot, we say, go to work ! To
recruit and restore your fortunes and
your rank and prestige, do what your
ancestors did to establish them—go to
work. In these days all honest work
is respectable.
[Washington Chronicle ]
We repeat the advice, to the young
men of the nation—go to work! If you
wish to recover what has been lost —go
to work! If you want to lead in the
struggle of life—go to workl If you
want to bo respected in social circles—
go to work! If you have political am
bition, and hope to see your State grow
in all the elements of prosperity—go to
work! If you desire the blotting out
of a hateful past, go to work, and
make the present a strong founda
tion to build a glorious future upon.
Labor is honorable; labor is ennobling ;
labor will restore to the South a hun
dred fold more than she lost, if her
sons will accept the advice of the Whig,
and go to work in downright earnest.
If our Richmond neighbor would talk
as sensibly on politics, as it has on “our
broken-down families,” it would do
great good in Virginia and throughout
the South. The people of the Southern
States may continue to tinker from
now until doomsday with their State
constitutions; they may pass laws
for their better protection ; they may
restrict suffrage to the select few ;
they may drive the negro into exile ;
they may banish Republicans from
their cities and towns ; but unless they
get over their laziness, and throw aside
their false ideas of respectability, and
enter the field of industry determined
to labor for the lead, they will fall be
hind, until what little they have will be
possessed by others, and a more thrifty
race will take up the work of develop
ment. Thanks to the Whig for its time
ly advice. We are glad to endorse it
for once. It has struck the nail square
on the head; let it not stop until others
have been driven home.
Brief, but Emphatic. —The other clay
a wagon, driven by a broad-shouldered,
sad-looking youth, passed through this
city en route for Hackensack. The
cover of the wagon was adorned by
huge letters, which, spelled out, read
as follows: “Damn Texas.” He had
many touching farewells hurled at him
while in transit through our streets. —
[Waco. Tex., Examiner.
- ■ i
We take cunning for a sinister or
crooked wisdom ; and certainly there
is a great difference between a cunning
man and a wiee man, not only in point
of honesty, but in point of ability.—
Bacon.
Is it not about time for the American
eagle to scream through its mouth
piece, the great Michigander, against
the encroachment of the British lion ?
Mrs. Sartoris’ baby was born the 11th
of July instead of the 4th, his mother’s
and the nation’s birth-day. Just like
those blasted Britishers, coming to our
country and disregarding our jnosti
cherished institutions.